The battle that followed the day can be described as uneventful.

A counterattack directed by Wang Changyun completely wiped out the last bit of morale of the combined remnants of the Tiangu Detachment and the Kunisaki Detachment. Although the remnants of this Japanese army still retained an establishment of about 3,000 people, in fact, whether it was Ouyang Yun, Li Hansoul and other generals of the Scholar Army, or Japanese generals such as Naojiro Amaya and Matsui Ishone, they all knew that the final fate of this army would definitely be completely annihilated.

As for why the Cadet Army suddenly stopped when the situation was very good, the Cadet Army had its own plans, and the Japanese army also knew what the opponent wanted to do. However, the pity is that even though the Zhilu Dao Scholar Army was digging traps and wanted to kill more imperial troops, Matsui Ishine and Naojiro Amaya did not dare to give up lightly. The war of aggression against China has been fought since 1931, and the Japanese army has been annihilated in a number of units, as if only the 108th Division was formed. If the Tiangu detachment and the Kunisaki detachment were completely annihilated, what kind of bad impact would it have on the entire battle situation? Not to mention the so-called plan to destroy China in three months, it will definitely become a joke at that time - after all, with the elimination of the Japanese army along the way, the encirclement of Nanjing will definitely not be formed, and at that time, the plan formulated at the beginning of the war to annihilate the enemy's main force in the suburbs of Nanjing will definitely come to naught, let alone completely destroy the morale of the Chinese people. Not to mention these strategic ones, even from the perspective of personal future, they do not dare to do so.

At this time, Matsui Shigen already vaguely felt that it was inappropriate to fill the 18th Division in the direction of Zhenjiang, because according to the information provided by the reconnaissance plane, the main force of the Cadet Army had already crossed the Xiushui River, and it was very likely that the Xiushui Bridge would be used as a sniper line again to encircle and annihilate the 18th Division. As for Naojiro Amaya, he actually wanted to have a jade shatter and fight to the death with the Cadet Army, but, considering the strong combat power shown by the 604th Regiment, thinking of the bad impact of his own army once the whole army was wiped out, he thought about it and finally didn't dare to make this decision.

The battle situation is moving in the direction that Ouyang Yun and Li Hansoul originally envisioned, which made Ouyang Yun more or less out of the shadow of the first battle in Zhenjiang, and his self-confidence also swelled again.

Time slipped away little by little, and after the main force of the Cadet Army detoured along the Xiushui River for a period of time, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, it finally broke away from the monitoring of the Japanese reconnaissance plane and disappeared.

At this time, the 18th Division, dominated by the 23rd Infantry Brigade, slaughtered all the way to Xiaxiushui Bridge. Among them, the vanguard was the 1st Brigade under the 56th Infantry Wing led by Shunichi Teramachi.

Matsui Ishone, an old devil, was really determined to rescue Tenya and the Kunisaki detachment, so he specially requisitioned six fighters to help Ushijima Sadao attack the Hashidashi.

At that time, Wang Changyun had already grasped the enemy's situation early, and he squatted at the mouth of an air-raid shelter near the bridge dug in his heart, followed the roar of the plane's engine and looked into the sky with a telescope, and soon caught a Japanese plane flying in the front. Looking at the cold face of the Japanese pilot, he put down his binoculars and gave the order for air defense. Then, retracting into the bomb shelter, he shouted loudly: "Ball! This wave of little devils is a bit of a trick, and they actually got planes to support. Grandma's, it would be nice if Lao Tzu had an anti-aircraft artillery battalion, only six Japanese planes, and he would definitely be able to beat them all. ”

Tu Dai squatted in an air-raid shelter opposite him, and when he heard this, he said: "There are air defense soldiers at the regimental level of the first, second, and third armies. Speaking of which, we also came from Guangdong......"

Before he finished speaking, the sound of "Woo-" suddenly sounded in the sky, Wang Changyun immediately buckled his helmet, and then scolded: "The bomb has fallen, hurry up and retract your black **!" ”

"Ball, you're the black **!"

"Boom-" The explosions came and went, Wang Changyun opened his mouth wide, and his ears fluttered, but he wanted to hear if there was a ** sound.

The bombing by the Japanese planes made the trenches that the officers and men of the 604th Regiment had worked so hard to dig become full of holes, and many places were filled in due to the accumulation of mud. After dropping all the bombs, the six Japanese planes plowed the position with machine guns, and at this time, the Japanese attack was launched.

Shunichi Teramachi rode on a tall horse and waved his command knife: "Forward!" "A brigade of more than 1,000 devils of the Japanese army lined up in a dense formation and pressed up.

"Tuanza, the little devils are attacking!" The lookout post immediately reported this information to Wang Changyun.

Wang Changyun: "No hurry! Wait for the devil's iron bird to fly away. Xiao Min! ”

"Here!" Xiao Min poked his head out of a bomb shelter not far away.

"How many brothers are there in your company?"

Xiao Min frowned, looking sad, and said, "There are seventy-six!" ”

"Hurry up and get the grenade, and later, you will blow up the little devil back with the grenade!"

"Yes!"

"The reconnaissance company has assembled! Brothers, go to the Quartermaster's Office! ”

"Yes!"

Xiao Min took all the surviving brothers of the reconnaissance company to run in the trenches in the strafing fire of devil fighters, and by the time they ran over the death line of more than 100 meters to the air-raid shelter group where the quartermaster department was located, there were only sixty-three of the seventy-six people left.

At this time, Shunichi Teramachi's brigade had already come to the opposite side of the bridge.

Xiaxiu Bridge is a stone bridge with a length of more than 50 meters and a deck width of only 5 meters, and up to eight people can pass through it at the same time if you walk side by side. Teramachi ordered the fifth squadron to take the lead in the attack, and the devils of the three squadrons lay down along the river, assuming mortars and guns, ready to suppress the enemy's fire on the other side of the bridge.

The Japanese planes and ground forces cooperated tacitly, focusing on the third line of trenches that the third battalion was responsible for defending. The rain of bullets made the officers and men of the third battalion dare not come out of the bomb shelter at all. However, Xiao Min's reconnaissance company was fearless, and the fighters held the grenade in their arms, and the cat ran over, and in the process, twenty-one people fell again.

After about five minutes, the Japanese plane finally ran out of bullets, and then circled over the battlefield for a week before flying away. At this time, the Japanese troops who rushed forward had already run across the bridge, and they were only about twenty meters away from the third trench. The soldier in charge of the lookout saw Xiao Min and immediately reported to him the location of the enemy, Xiao Min picked up a grenade, put his thumb in the pull ring, and suddenly shouted: "Brothers, beat the devil of the dog day, avenge the brothers!" Pull the ring - one, two, three! Cast! ”

"Cast!" "Fuck the dog!" …… With the shouts of the soldiers, dozens of grenades were thrown at the devil's head, and then exploded in the air at a distance of about five meters from the ground, shooting thousands of shrapnel in all directions like a goddess scattering flowers.

The squadron leader of the fifth squadron of the Japanese army is named Yamada Yoshinobu, he walked in the middle of the team, and was glad that his troops had passed the bridge and passed the most dangerous area. Lie down! ”

It's still late, or it doesn't work. Dozens of grenades, more than two-thirds of which bloomed in the air, in this case, unless there was cover, there was nothing to hide in the kill range.

On this side of Xiaxiu Bridge, crops were still growing, but when the 604th Regiment established its position, it had already pulled out all the crops, and even leveled the ground. Therefore, except for some potholes created by the bombing heart of the Japanese planes, the little devils had no place to hide, and suddenly, in a miserable howl, the devils of the fifth squadron fell down more than 30 people.

As soon as the strafing sound of the Japanese machine guns stopped, Wang Changyun lay on the trench, and when he saw the tragedy caused by Xiao Min and them, he grinned and said, "Well bombed!" Then he hissed in his own unique loud voice: "The rabbit cubs of the third battalion, start work!" Give Lao Tzu a hard beating! Damn, isn't there more planes than us, and you have been bombing them with planes! As he spoke, he had already snatched a machine gun and was the first to shoot fiercely at the devil.

Immediately afterwards, a dense gunfire rang out, and the Japanese army rushed across the bridge deck for a squad of devils who were all reimbursed, while the devils who stayed on the bridge deck all fell to the ground, and they were so suppressed that they didn't dare to raise their heads.

Almost at the same time, the Japanese troops on the opposite side also began to fire fiercely, and as the guns rang out, the third battalion soon suffered casualties. The two sides faced each other across the Xiushui River, which was about 60 meters wide, and the range and accuracy advantages of the 38 Dagai were fully displayed. Seeing that there were soldiers falling from time to time around him, Wang Changyun's eyes were so anxious that his eyes widened, and the cursing in his mouth never stopped.

Twenty minutes later, the first wave of the Japanese attack was repulsed, but the third battalion also suffered more than 50 casualties.

After the gunfire was sparse, Tu Dai found Wang Changyun and suggested: "The battle line is too long, and the devils have a numerical advantage." Lao Wang, I suggest that the defensive line be narrowed, focus on the defense of Qiaokou, and arrange a little less in other places, and use them as sentry posts to prevent Japanese troops from smuggling from other places. ”

Wang Changyun nodded: "Listen to you!" You arrange it, I need to send a telegram to the headquarters. ”

"What? Calling for help so quickly? ”

"There's no way, you have to guard against that little bastard of Naojiro Amatani later, the strength of our regiment is too small."

"Lao Wang, it's rare for you to be like this."

"I'm worried that the devil is smuggling from somewhere else! I don't need mortars for what I don't know, I'm just worried about this, and I'll keep it as a killer feature. ”

"The commander said that he held on for two hours, looking at the situation of the devils on the other side, it should be the vanguard force, once the main force of the Japanese army comes up, supplemented by artillery, we will definitely not be able to fight, and it is correct to ask for help early. If we lose our position, we will be guilty. ”

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In fact, there is no need for Wang Changyun to ask for help, Ouyang Yun has already taken this into account. When he learned that the Japanese army had actually dispatched aviation, he knew that the life of the 604th Regiment was sad. So, while ordering Zhang Changsheng and Niu Yide to immediately launch a fierce attack on the Tiangu Detachment and the Kunisaki Detachment, he asked the armored troops to gallop along the Xiushui River in the direction of Xiaxiuqiao to support the 604th Regiment as soon as possible, and at the same time, he took the main force of the 60th Division and the 5th Division from Xiuzhen and went directly to the back of the 18th Division.