Liu Zheliang's worries are not unreasonable.

The area of defense is too large. Not to mention that the 301st Regiment and the 303rd Regiment are all disabled, even the two complete regiments cannot take care of the defensive line with a width of about 3,000 meters.

Just after four o'clock, Bai Tassel received an alarm from the upper and lower levels, and the officers and soldiers of a company of the 301st Regiment responsible for defending there finally gave up after withstanding three attacks by two Japanese brigades in a row.

At that time, Bai Tassel had just commanded his subordinates to repel an attack by the Japanese army, and everyone except for the student soldiers who served as lookouts were resting on their positions. Suddenly, several cadets from the brigade's reconnaissance company came with the help of a person.

When Ma Xiaotian first saw the white tassel, his face was guilty, and he choked up and said: "Traveler, I lost it back and forth!" ”

"What?" The white tassel sat up in shock.

Not far away, a pile of residual fires caused by the explosion was still burning, and the fire shone on Ma Xiaotian's face and body, and this student soldier, who was covered in blood, suddenly fell to the ground, "woo" and cried bitterly: "One of our brothers in the company is dead, and the company commander is full of grenades and little devils in order to cover my evacuation...... There are two thousand Japanese, Ryoza, there are too few of us, little devils, little devils-"

Bai Tassel's face was pale, and she immediately said to a company commander named Yu Liangcheng: "Company Commander Yu, hurry up and order all the men and horses of your company to go to Xigeng, bring a walkie-talkie, and call for help immediately if the situation is not right." ”

"Yes!" Yu Liangcheng responded and ran to the position where his company was located.

The white tassel turned his head to look for the hygienist and said, "Hurry up and bandage him - Xuebing, what's your name." ”

Ma Xiaotian raised his head, and he said with tears on his face: "Brigade, I have nothing to do. Brigade seat, it's not that I'm afraid of death, our company's battle flag and the company commander's suicide note are all on me, the company commander said, the battle flag can't fall into the hands of the enemy, and the words that the brothers wrote to their families should also be brought to the brigade, can you help me keep it? As he spoke, he first took out a squarely folded military flag, and then a stack of letters.

Bai Tassel looked at the letters, looked at the battle flag that was very well kept, his heart was sore, but his expression became warm, and Wen Yan said: "The battle flag of your company will be kept by you, and on the day when your company is rebuilt, you will raise it in front of those recruits." Those letters, of course, are still your responsibility. Your brethren believe in you and give you this difficult task, why, do you want to fail them? ”

"No, Brigade, I'm the only one left in the whole company, I, I want to accompany the company commander and them."

"Bastard!" Bai Tassel's voice suddenly raised, and she shouted: "It's not easy to die, you only need to stand up to a high place now, I promise, at most ten seconds, you can get what you want." Live, live to avenge your brother who died in battle, that's what you should be doing now! ”

"Traveler!"

Bai Tassel didn't pay attention to him anymore, but glanced around at the students around him and said, "Brothers, do you remember the speech of the commander-in-chief at the memorial meeting not long ago? Brothers, what a wonderful thing it is to live, and if I could, I would like to live to be 100 years old. Well, I just kill one devil every year, you calculate, how many devils can I kill? So, don't give up easily, you have to think like this - as long as I live, our country will have one more devil killer, this is the right idea! In short, I don't approve of your approach to death with the enemy until the last resort—do you hear me? ”

"Yes!"

"Can't hear me, what? After only a while, you can't speak? ”

"Yes!"

The voice of the reply was still not loud, of course, it was actually due to the hearing damage of the white tassel, a grenade exploded very close to her, although it only wiped off a piece of her skin, but it damaged her hearing. She was about to continue the questioning, when Qian Tai suddenly shouted in a big victory: "The little devil has attacked again, at least two brigades!" ”

The battle began again, and this time, the Japanese attack was wider. The devils of the two brigades lined up in five rows of stragglers and attacked again in a loose formation.

Flares rose into the sky one after another, and then the sound of grenades bursting through the air rang out one after another, and a few seconds later, there was one violent explosion after another. The guns of the Type 92 and the crooked-neck machine guns hissed, and from time to time there was a palpitating sound of bullets entering the earth and dust flying from the mound in front of the defenders.

The white tassel was lying with his back against the mound, his eyes fixed on the direction of the upward and downward movements, with a worried face. The Northbound Corps originally had five divisions, plus the troops directly under the corps, for a total of nearly six divisions. If all these six divisions were in Pengze, then there would be no problems at all in the Madang defensive battle. However, Ouyang Yun seemed to be afraid that the Japanese would not dare to fight Madang, so he sent the three divisions that could be called the main force to Jiangbei. The absolute main force, you must know that all the chariot troops of the Northbound Legion are with you.

One thing is very strange, before breaking with Ouyang Yun, almost everything Ouyang Yun did was correct and necessary in the eyes of Bai Tassel. However, since she broke with him, she couldn't understand some of Ouyang Yun's practices at once. It's really incomprehensible, Bai Tassel is extremely incomprehensible, is the life of a student soldier so worthless? Yes, this could have the effect of weakening the Japanese army, but only if it was a considerable or even more sacrifice of cadets - no matter what others thought, she didn't think it was worth it. After all, China has not yet reached the point of extinction without the Cadet Army.

The serious shortage of troops led to the defense of the entire Mianchuan Island having to rely on minefields and other means of defense to meet the emergency. From the top to the bottom of the water, nearly four kilometers of land are minefields and man-made swamps. This method is good, but how much of a real effect it can make, White Tassel expressed serious doubts.

The mines brought by the Northbound Corps were limited, and the so-called minefield was only more than 30 meters deep, and the Japanese only needed to spend a certain amount of time to complete it - could it be that when Ouyang Yun set up the minefield, he also calculated it based on the time limit of two hours?

A new battle was about to start, but the shadow of Ouyang Yun appeared in the mind of the commander Bai Tassel. Although she thinks about Ouyang Yun's bad side, who knows if this is from love to hate?

She was thinking about Ouyang Yun, but Ouyang Yun didn't have time to take care of her.

In the direction of Hukou, the battle between the remaining troops of the 12th Division and the 106th Division also began. The latest information came that after the Japanese Yangtze River Fleet was forced to retreat by the artillery army of the Xuebing Army, some of the gunboats did not completely evacuate, but escorted more than a dozen landing ships upstream.

The 106th Division continued to storm Hukou, and its troops were seriously damaged, and in fact, since the retreat of the 35th Brigade in Duchang, the Japanese army no longer had an advantage in terms of strength. Moreover, the Japanese army gave up landing from the direction of Peng Langyu, so Ouyang Yun was not at all worried that the 106th Division might break through the Hukou defense line.

As for the possible landing of the Yangtze River Fleet on the south bank, it was Ouyang Yun who was worried. In order to ensure that the fortress had sufficient troops to defend, the artillery unit that went to Chenjiawan this time even sent only one engineer battalion to be responsible for escorting. Because it is not clear how many infantry the Yangtze River fleet has, and there is only one artillery regiment left in Chenjiawan, it is not enough to form an overwhelming firepower. Therefore, whether to separate part of the army from the fortress and take the initiative to meet the Japanese army in the fortress has become a question that makes him hesitate.

This information was inadvertently detected by the military commander's people in Wangjiang County, because he was alarmed by the sound of guns and cannons on Mianchuan Island, this military commander agent realized that the matter was serious, and immediately reported it to his superiors, and his superiors immediately reported it to the corresponding departments, and they reacted to Chen Cheng layer by layer. Chen Cheng didn't hide his secrets, and immediately telegraphed to Ouyang Yun. Because it was not the intelligence detected by his own people, it was impossible to obtain more detailed information, Ouyang Yun after some calculations, and finally transferred a regiment of women's troops from his own guard regiment to set up a defensive line in the flower house about two kilometers away from Madang Fort.

After the Niangzi Yun Guard Regiment acted as Ouyang Yun's guard unit, this was the first time to fight, thinking of some evil deeds of the little devils, Ouyang Yun was actually reluctant to let a group of big girls face the extremely vicious devils. However, now what he has at his disposal is the Niangzi Yunwei Group, which is also a last resort. For the sake of safety, he directly assigned Liu Kui to command them, and took special care of Liu Kui: "If you can't do anything, you will withdraw, I hope that when they go, how many people will come back!" You know what I mean? ”

When Liu Kui first received this order, he realized the difficulty of this trip, and when he heard him say this, he couldn't help but beat a drum in his heart. However, he knew the situation of the fortress's troop allocation, and he knew that this was really a last resort. He gritted his teeth and said, "I'll do my best!" ”

Liu Kui's words were obviously lacking in confidence, Ouyang Yun became more and more uneasy when he heard it, he thought for a while and said: "You go to Chen Shichang and find the encrypted phone number of the fortress artillery that he wants, and I allow you to call the fortress artillery for support." ”

Since the beginning of the war, the fortress artillery has not been in full play. Ouyang Yun was originally kept as a surprise soldier to prevent accidents, but now, he had to use it in advance.

Liu Kui asked his deputy to gather the fighting women's group, and he went to find Chen Shichang.

After the battle began, Chief of Staff Chen Shichang became the busiest person in the headquarters. Because he wanted to be familiar with the dynamics of every moment on the battlefield, he would make a round of phone calls to the front line almost every five minutes, and when Liu Kui found him, he found that he was holding a phone in his left hand, a phone between his neck, and his right hand marking something on the map.

Chen Shichang's face was very bad at the moment, because He Zhengchuan, who was talking to him at the moment, reported to him a bad news: he was lost back and forth.