The Japanese surrounded the 62nd Regiment under the cover of artillery, and the timely return of the 61st Regiment opened a gap from the south of Xinzhen and counterattacked the Japanese. After several hours of bloody fighting, the 31 Brigade suffered heavy casualties. Division commander Peng Shan ordered the 33rd Brigade to reinforce, the 33rd Brigade entered the battle in the afternoon, its 66th Regiment attacked the enemy's left back from Yuepu to Xiqian Bridge, and the 65th Regiment advanced to Xinzhen, flanking the Japanese army on both sides, fighting until dusk, the Japanese army was afraid of being raided by the 11th Division at night, and retreated back to the starting position to wait for dawn before attacking.

The twilight sun witnessed the bloody day in the Songhu area, and the sea level could not wait to fall, and the positions of Xinzhen were full of screams, and the brothers who were still alive were busy working.

Mending the positions, collecting the bodies of the brothers who had died in battle, and, of course, sending the wounded alive back to the town to wait for the men in the rear to transport them back to the wounded barracks.

"Lao Luo, your task has been completed, and I have reported it to you! You're not a sinner anymore! Go all the way! ”

Feng Ye squatted in the crater, sorting out Luo Dacheng's body, and when he and another brother carried Luo Dacheng out, Feng Ye found that Luo Dacheng's entire back was rotten, and shmelel and rubble were everywhere......

The sky finally darkened completely, the screams on the positions were gone, the makeshift fortifications were almost gone, and the new town that had been bombed into ruins had nothing to repair, and the fortifications on the positions relied on large and small craters, which were connected by trenches to become the fastest field fortifications.

The respective officers were tidying up their brothers, Lin Yuan gathered the brothers of the Death Company together, there were not many people left in the entire Death Company, and there were only two officers left from the division headquarters again, including Lin Yuan, who was hanging from his neck with his left hand.

"The division headquarters will not give us any more officers, and the rest of the brothers are here, less than fifty in all; Choose your own squad leaders! ”

Lin Yuan frowned and said to the ragged remnants.

No one said anything, to say that any of these veterans here can become qualified squad leaders, but their identity determines that they can only be ordinary soldiers now, and they have not yet exonerated themselves.

"Don't want to do it? Let's count today's kills first! If you have a brother by your side, let them report that they are dead, but their deeds should not be forgotten. ”

"I killed two ......"

"I hit three devils, but I don't know if I'm dead or not......"

"The big man next to me, the machine gunner, killed more than a dozen devils......"

"Luo Dacheng, kill fifteen devils."

"Feng Yi, Luo Dacheng is not a machine gunner, how can he kill so many? Can you confirm? Lin Yuan raised his head and asked in surprise.

It is understandable that the machine gunner killed more than a dozen, and the machine gun is a large piece when it is swept away, and when the devil charges, a few magazines go down, I'm afraid dozens of them are not a problem, but this data has to be rested on the rifleman, it is bragging!

"That's right, right next to me, I saw it with my own eyes!" Feng Yi insisted and said,

"And how many did you kill? We all know your marksmanship! Lin Yuan asked,

"Eight! You can confirm the killing! Feng Yi replied with a blank face and a mechanical expression.

"You said that everyone would believe that you killed fifteen, Luo Dacheng is a veteran, everyone knows what level he is, and no one will believe fifteen!"

Lin Yuan didn't know how to write, the ledger in front of him clearly showed that Luo Dacheng was only fifteen enemies killed before he could get away with it, and now that the person is dead, some people say that he killed fifteen, then this is a martyr.

"You're counting the devil you killed on his head! Luo Dacheng died in battle, do you want to help him get rid of his crimes? Lin Yuan asked,

"Company commander, Lao Luo is dead, he has fifteen, I have eight; This number is definitely not too much, don't let Lao Luo close his eyes! Feng Yi gritted his teeth and said,

"Well, okay, I'm in the labor book; Immediately send Luo Dacheng's exoneration back to the division headquarters, and his family's pension will not be less than his! ”

Lin Yuan thought for a while, and was about to refuse to report, but he saw the eyes of more than forty remnants of the surrounding soldiers staring at him, and knew that this was not the time to say this, none of these sinners had escaped their crimes so far, if he wiped out Luo Dacheng alive, I was afraid that he would be shot black, for this group of remnants, this would definitely not be a difficult thing.

"Report on the ammunition situation, if there is not much ammunition, let's balance it with each other first, the brain replenishment is still on the way, and I will replenish it for everyone when it arrives!" Lin Yuan stopped the record and closed the notebook.

"I have twenty-three bullets, two grenades."

"Fifty rounds, four grenades."

"Twelve bullets, no grenades."

……

On and off, the brethren reported the amount of ammunition they had left, and as they cleaned up the battlefield, they replenished some bullets and grenades from the fallen brethren.

Feng Yi's grenades were useless, and there were more bullets, the two hundred bullets he received, plus the more than sixty bullets left by Luo Dacheng, he still had more than one hundred and sixty rounds, and he divided one hundred rounds to the other brothers, Feng Yi half lay on the edge of the trench, closed his eyes, a day's fighting, he had long been exhausted, and he couldn't feel it on the battlefield where the war was raging, but once he stopped, his body couldn't support it immediately, and even his hungry rumbling stomach couldn't stop him from sleeping.

"Whew, Whew, Whew......"

Not only Feng Yi, but also the brothers who were not on duty were asleep in the trenches, and the sound of snoring sounded rhythmlessly from the ruined positions......

Behind them were a few soldiers who were carrying a few large buckets with great difficulty, and walked cautiously all the way, and behind them were a few people dressed in people's clothes, carrying baskets on their backs, and the slightly curved spine showed that the things they were carrying were not light!

"Brothers, it's time to eat!"

The brethren of the logistics battalion stopped in the trenches, and they split into several groups and sent them to different companies.

The soldiers who were sleeping woke up, opened their blood-red eyes, and surrounded them, and no one wanted to sleep hungry.

"Brothers, there are a lot of things to prepare today, so eat them all! When you're full, I'll send you something to eat before dawn, and I won't let you go hungry during the day tomorrow! ”

The brothers in the logistics battalion shouted loudly, watching the brothers gobble up, they felt very sorry for these brothers, the shelling during the day was so fierce that they did not dare to send anything up.

"Gollum, Gollum......"

Inside the wooden barrel was vegetable soup, and in the white moonlight, only a few unknown wild vegetables could be seen floating on the barrel, and the slightly salty taste showed that a little salt was placed in it.

As long as it was soup, it was better than cold water, and the brothers nibbled on multigrain cakes and drank a mouthful of vegetable soup from time to time.

"Company Commander Lin, tell the brothers to come over!"

There were not even fifty brothers sitting around eating and drinking, and the brothers in the logistics battalion reminded Lin Yuan that they had prepared for the Death Company according to the share of one hundred and fifty people, even if there were those who died in battle, in their impression, it was impossible to die so much!

"It's gone, all the living are here!"

Lin Yuan's words did not have a trace of emotion, and he was also trying to deal with the multigrain cake in his hand.

"Hey! Damn little devils! ”

The logistics brothers crouched on the ground, pounding the ground.

"Take more, and be a snack when you can't sleep at night!"

The two brothers carried a basket of multigrain cakes that no one moved, and began to distribute them to the brothers in the trenches one by one.