Chapter 260: Flesh Mill

At this time, the little devil next to him suddenly woke up, mustered up the last courage, let out a terrible roar, and stabbed Cai Bingyan fiercely with a bayonet. Cai Bingyan wanted to draw his knife to dodge, but after a long effort, he found that the little devil who was stabbed by himself was holding the rifle in his hand with both hands, Cai Bingyan couldn't pull it out for a while, and at this time, the cold and shining bayonet was in front of him, Cai Bingyan had to let go decisively, and then dodged to the side.

But Cai Bingyan's dodging action was still a little slower, and the bayonet cut a long cut from Cai Bingyan's ribs, and the blood instantly stained the battle robe. Cai Bingyan didn't care, stretched out his big hand and grabbed the little devil's rifle fiercely, and then pulled hard, the little devil suddenly lost his center of gravity and rushed towards Cai Bingyan, Cai Bingyan immediately flew up and kicked directly under the little devil's chest, and the little devil let out a scream and flew out directly.

Cai Bingyan naturally wouldn't let go of this little devil, turned the muzzle of the gun, stepped forward, stepped on the little devil's stomach, and stabbed him fiercely. The little devil let out a miserable scream again, his eyes suddenly widened, and he stared straight at Cai Bingyan in front of him, his eyes were full of despair and remorse.

Cai Bingyan drew his bayonet and once again threw himself into the bloody battle with the Yue army. Under the heroic struggle of our defending troops, hundreds of attacking troops were completely annihilated, and the positions were once again secured, but everything was far from over, and the Japanese army, which was unwilling to be defeated, once again mobilized superior firepower and carried out a more fierce bombardment of our army's position, and our army's position once again fell into a sea of fire.

On the morning of August 26, the Yue army launched a fierce attack on Luodian again, and due to heavy casualties among our defending troops, the position was broken through by the Yue army, and Luodian fell into the hands of the Yue army again.

Seeing this, Cai Bingyan personally led a battalion and a platoon of spies to rush towards Luodian, hoping to recover Luodian. The artillery fire of the Yue army was quite fierce, the shells kept exploding around him, and the bullets flew by like raindrops, Cai Bingyan was not afraid and led his troops to rush all the way.

"Brothers, rush!" Cai Bingyan shouted loudly while desperately charging towards the position occupied by the enemy. Under the encouragement of the brigade commander, the officers and men of the Cai Brigade marched forward more courageously. There are constantly comrades falling under the enemy's bullets, they have no time to grieve, only to charge forward more desperately, because everyone knows that only by destroying the enemy as soon as possible can other comrades and themselves survive this tragic battle.

"Da Da Da!" One of the firing points of the Japanese army suddenly opened fire, and a dense rain of bullets swept towards our attacking troops. A sinful bullet ruthlessly pierced General Cai Bingyan's body, blasting a bloody hole in the general's body, and blood sprayed out like a spring. The general's charging body suddenly stopped, and the general held his gun on the ground, looked viciously at the position of the army in front of him, and shouted, "Brothers! Offensive! Offensive! "After speaking, he fell to the ground and died, sacrificing his life for the country, at the age of thirty-five! Cai Bingyan is the second general of our army to die on the battlefield of Songhu after Huang Meixing.

After General Cai Bingyan was killed, the officers and soldiers of the Cai Brigade shouted, "Avenge the brigade!" Without hesitation, he rushed to the position of the army one after another. After two hours of heroic fighting by our officers and soldiers, Luodian was finally recaptured again. However, our army also paid a heavy price, with Brigade Commander Cai Bingyan and two regiment commanders dying heroically, and the battalion and company commanders of the 11th and 67th Divisions suffering heavy casualties, and countless casualties among the soldiers. Of course, the army also paid a heavy price for this, at this time Luodian has turned into a bloody purgatory, and the corpses of the small Luodian are all over the field, and the blood is flowing like a river.

But then the army launched a large-scale counteroffensive again, Luodian was lost again, and the old Jiang Wen in Nanjing lost Luodian, and directly ordered Luo Zhuoying, the commander of the 18th Army:

1. Luodian must be recovered tonight, and after Luodian is occupied, field fortifications will be built near Luodian, and stronghold fortifications will be built at Shuli Bridge, Nanchanggou, and Fengjiagou on the other hand;

2. The 11th and 98th Divisions were still attacking and advancing as intended;

3. The 14th Division left one regiment in Taicang, and one regiment to build fortifications at Fushankou, and the main force should advance to Jiading and Luodian tonight;

Fourth, the 61st Division rushed to build fortifications in the vicinity of Dachang and Yanghang.

On August 27, the fighting situation became even more tragic. That night, Luo Zhuoying mobilized troops from the line of Yuepu, Xinzhen, Luodian, and Pujiamiao to continue to attack the landing army, and the 11th Division, the main force of the army, responded with artillery and tanks. During the day, when the army was in a hurry, artillery and tanks went into battle, turning the front of our army's position into a sea of fire, and the defenders had to withdraw from their positions. At night, it is a good time for our army to counterattack, taking advantage of the enemy's superior equipment to exert its power, and to drive out the enemy army in a fierce attack and regain the positions lost during the day.

The attack of the army often begins at dawn, first with aircraft bombing as the prelude, then retreats, and then raises manned observation balloons from their own positions to guide the navy and artillery to carry out secondary artillery bombardment, and finally tanks cover the infantry advance. Our troops hid in the cotton fields during the day, cut off the road at night, laid mines and bundled grenades, set up obstacles and lay down on both sides, and when the enemy tanks came out and were blocked by the obstacles, they engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the infantry behind. This tactic is not to be regarded as clever, and it has repeatedly yielded miraculous results. In this way, the two sides fought for each other in the small Luodian, and fierce battles were staged every day. The small Luodian became a flesh mill, constantly consuming the lives of soldiers on both sides.

He knows that although Luodian is a small town by the river, with an area of only 2 square kilometers, it is the intersection and hub of several highways leading to Baoshan, downtown Shanghai, Jiading and Songshan. So Lao Jiang ordered several times: Luodian is an important relationship, and it must be conquered within a time limit, all soldiers have advanced and retreated, there is an enemy without me, and if it is not successful, it will become benevolent. Chen Chengxin vows: do whatever it takes to ensure the completion of the task.

As the war continued to expand, in order to stabilize the situation, Chiang was forced to urgently mobilize troops from all over the country to support Shanghai. After receiving the order, Jin Zhao immediately appointed Zhang Junsong as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, and led the 203rd Division and the 206th Division to reinforce Shanghai as soon as possible.

As the army gradually seized the initiative on the battlefield, the highest level of the army decided to shift the main operational direction of the invasion of China from North China to Shanghai, and demanded that the process of the Shanghai campaign be accelerated and the decision to increase troops was made again. The 9th, 13th, and 101st Divisions of the North China Front Army were transferred to the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and in addition, the Infantry Brigade, the Shigeto Detachment, the 1st Reserve Infantry Regiment, and the 1st Brigade of the puppet Jing'an Army, the puppet Li Chunshan Brigade, and the puppet Yu Zhishan Brigade were also transferred from Taiwan.