The 36th Division was able to force its way forward with only a few armored fighting vehicles.

On the Internet of later generations, searching for 'a chariot for the Battle of Songhu' can be found on the broken streets, the chariots of the Chinese army attacked the bunker fortifications full of Japanese soldiers alone, which was posed by the Japanese army after the war, and the real chariot has been destroyed by the Japanese army, in fact, the buildings on both sides, and even in the ruins, there are Japanese soldiers hidden.

The chariots were not suitable for street fighting, but the speed of the 36th Division's advance was too slow, and if it advanced a street, it would take a large number of soldiers' lives to fill it, and the few chariots that were dispatched were completely unavoidable.

The tank has a certain propulsion ability, but the infantry can not keep up at all, the Japanese army is equipped with machine guns on the buildings on both sides of the street, the infantry after the condescending tank is too simple, the infantry can not keep up, the commander ordered the tank to attack again, and this time, the Japanese army transferred the tank defense gun, this lonely tank with a loud noise, billowing black smoke, the company commander in the tank sacrificed, the platoon commander also sacrificed.

Pitiful and sad, the main reason for this was the wrong tactical command of the commanders at that time, which was not uncommon in the entire Songhu battlefield.

And the battle for Luodian is like a flesh mill, Xia Yuan no longer pays attention to everyone, and carefully thinks about the entire process from the landing of the Japanese army to the occupation of Luodian, which can be summed up in just two words.

'Easy. ’

The landing site chosen by the Japanese army was located along the Yangtze River, and along the Yangtze River, there was only one 56th Division under the command of Liu Shangzhi, and the troops were extremely loose, while the defense army at Xiaochuan Shakou was only one company, and the resistance encountered by the Japanese army was minimal, but the Japanese army also made the mistake of being underprepared and caused itself a lot of trouble. First of all, the army mistakenly believed that the navy had completely gained air supremacy around Shanghai, and did not take any air defense measures during the landing, and as a result, the headquarters of the 11 th Division was bombed by the Nationalist Air Force on the same day, and many people, including the 11 th Division staff officer Masao Shimosaka, were killed.

Secondly, although the defense of the Nationalist army was weak and did not cause them much suffering during the offensive, the Ogawa Shakou was not a particularly good landing port, and the road traffic conditions were very poor, and the landing progress of the Japanese army was much slower than expected due to the limited road traffic, and the materials carried by the landing troops were seriously flooded, especially the large number of shells of the Japanese artillery could not be used, which directly affected the follow-up combat arrangements of the Japanese army.

In addition, the Japanese army also made a serious mistake in the geographical reconnaissance around Shanghai, and the Japanese army, according to the prior aerial reconnaissance, believed that the water network in Shanghai was dense and the surrounding rice fields were all rice fields, and in August, the rice fields should be muddy and inconvenient to transport heavy artillery, so the Japanese army did not belong to any heavy artillery and other heavy equipment in the first batch of troops, and only after the Japanese army landed did they find that due to the continuous fighting in Shanghai, the peasants around Shanghai had fled, the rice fields had dried up, and the traffic situation was actually a little better than they expected.

Of course, the Japanese army was not the one who discovered the problem of rice fields, and the Nationalist army also noticed this, and the bald head had an order about storing water in the rice fields near Shanghai in order to disrupt the Japanese military traffic, but unfortunately, the defense along the Yangtze River was too loose at that time, and no one implemented it at all.

However, if there were more troops fortified at the mouth of Ogawa Shakou, the Japanese army would suffer huge losses.

As soon as the morning dawned, the Japanese army sent the 2nd Brigade of the 44th Company and engineers to the south to take Luodian, and because the Nationalist army's strength in Luodian was very empty, the Japanese army occupied Luodian that afternoon with almost no effort.

What is more interesting is that on the night of the successful landing of the Japanese army, the Japanese troops near Ogawa Shakou encountered a night attack by a small group of Nationalist troops, but according to the information of the Nationalist army, the various units of the Nationalist Army were far away from the location of Ogawa Shakou at this time, and the divisions did not give orders to their subordinate units to attack the Japanese troops at Ogawa Shakou at night.

But later, a record of this night attack was found in the diary of a staff officer of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and it turned out that the Japanese landing was chaotic that day, the sequence was mixed together, and it was dark that it was impossible to distinguish between you and me.

After the Japanese army occupied Luodian, the response of the national army was also quite rapid, at the same time as the Japanese army attacked Luodian, reinforcements were sent to various areas, including the 33rd Brigade of the 11th Division, which arrived in Luodian at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, at this time the Japanese sappers were building fortifications, the 33rd Brigade took advantage of the Japanese army's unstable foothold, rushed into Luodian and launched a fierce battle with the Japanese army, which was the last time the national army occupied the landing point, and then the two sides launched a fierce battle in Luodian, comparable to the flesh mill.

In the course of the battle, it was mainly fought around the streets of Luodian and the urban area.

In the end, Luodian still fell, the Japanese army attacked in the direction of Dachang, and the brutal Battle of Fuzaohama broke out again.

Xia Yuan had a detailed understanding of the Battle of Songhu, no way, the impact of the Battle of Songhu was too great, so after going back, he first tutored the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and then tutored the War of Resistance against Japan, the War of Self-Defense and Counterattack, the War against India, etc., but his focus on tutoring was to resist US aggression and aid Korea and the War of Resistance against Japan, and gained a lot of useful knowledge.

I didn't expect to cross over to the Songhu battlefield this time.

Xia Yuan didn't know much about the 40th Division, let alone where the next battlefield would be, either Luodian, or Fuzaobang, or they would stick to a certain place, quietly waiting for the arrival of the Japanese army, and then they might encounter the heavy artillery of the Japanese army, and under the artillery fire and the Japanese charge, they would be wiped out.

Besides, the train stopped at the train station in a certain city for a temporary rest, everyone's bodies were wet, and it was a hazy drizzle in the sky, and the clothes were wet and sticking to the body, uncomfortable, and they were all trying to find a place to dry their clothes and shoes.

Du Guanggui walked over and raised his voice: "The superior ordered us to rest at the station for half an hour and leave in half an hour." ”

Everyone complained sadly, Du Guanggui said: "Everyone is insisting on insisting, I know that everyone is more difficult, I am also quite difficult, the open-air board car is really uncomfortable, I am also fighting for the superiors to get us a shelter from the wind and rain." ”

Hearing Du Guanggui say this, everyone's hearts are a little better, they are still more grateful to their faces, although Du Guanggui was harsh with them during the training, but they were not poisoned, on the other hand, the commanders of other recruit companies, there are not a few who use whips, so Du Guanggui's prestige in the company is still very high.

"Where is this?"

"I don't know, I shouldn't have left the province yet."

"This iron lump is running so fast, it's been running for a day, it's definitely out of the province."

"Where do you think we're going to fight?"

"The superior didn't say anything."

"Not only did I not say anything, but I didn't even have a bullet."

It can be heard that everyone's complaints are not aimed at Du Guanggui, but at the commanders above, although they are new soldiers, even if they are ridiculed as cannon fodder by veterans, they can't treat them like this, they go to the battlefield, they don't even send bullets, they sit on a flatbed train without shelter, and they are wet and cold all the way, and they shiver from the cold.

Some people have already begun to think about how to escape, but it is not realistic to escape here, there are patrols and soldiers of the national army along the railway, and there are towns around, it is not easy to run from here, it is better to find a wilderness.

However, before these people could think much about it, the half-hour rest was suddenly advanced, and the rapid whistle kept urging them to board the train, and some of them did not even sit down, and the train departed again, this time they stayed on the train for two nights, got off the train in a dilapidated town, and walked to the front.

The boot camp followed a sheep's gut trail and set off for this destination.

"It's walking again, it's taking the train again, where are we going, it's too far."

After walking for more than two hours, the monkeys were tired and couldn't help complaining.

"What are you doing with so many balls, just keep moving forward." Xu Yu patted the monkey on the shoulder, and his gaze stayed on Old Man Wang for a few more minutes.

"The squad leader looks at what I'm doing, I'm not a yellow flower girl, I have a wooden flower on my face." Old man Wang bared a mouthful of big yellow teeth.

"Hahaha!" Old man Wang's joke drew laughter from everyone.

"Look at your bear-like appearance, I can't see you yet." Xu Yu said unceremoniously.

"Silence! Concentrate on the march! ”

Du Guanggui was patrolling nearby, and when he heard everyone's laughter, he couldn't help frowning.

They are rushing day and night, and it is likely that the war on the front line is starting to tighten, and they must hurry up to the front line battlefield. I just don't know where I am now, how far we are from the front line.

The sky was dark, the rain had stopped, and there was a lot of stagnant water in the water network ditches on the side of the road, and everyone had been coming out of Yudi for several days, and they had not replenished much, and some soldiers had made the mistake of replenishing the water source in the water network ditches crisscrossing the roadside to cope with the rest of the journey.

Xia Yuan also followed the group, pressed the marching kettle into the water, poured a kettle of water, screwed the lid and hung it on his body, rolled up his sleeves again, washed his arms in the water, and then washed his face a few times, feeling a lot more relaxed.

"Xia Yuan, keep up."

Du Guanggui's voice was very loud, and the team maintained the solemnity of the march, Xia Yuan heard the sound, waved his hand at Du Guanggui, rolled down his sleeves, and walked into the team.

Quite a few people stopped to replenish the water in the marching kettle, which was almost finished.

After walking for nearly five or six hours, through villages and mountains, and getting on a troop truck from a town, the road was bumpy for a day and a night, almost day and night, and finally, the truck entered a huge town, and Du Guanggui, who had disappeared for a while, came back and told everyone that the troops were here to make a short correction, and then went directly to the front line.

Xia Yuan deduced that this place should have arrived at the border of Jiangsu, otherwise when the war was tense at the moment, he would not stop and rest when he did not arrive.

At this time, many troops had gathered in the big towns, from all over the country, including those who had retreated from the battlefield, and when they first entered the city, they saw a large number of wounded soldiers, with bandages wrapped around them, sitting in trucks, speeding past them.

Everyone scrambled to look up, some people were missing a leg, some were missing an arm, and some of them were soaked in blood with bandages wrapped around their heads.

Some people sit on the ground and simply don't look at it, and the veteran next to him will scare him: "What are you afraid of, when the shells fall, they don't know that they hurt at all, they blow you up, and there is only a piece of minced meat left, why do you cry out about pain." ”

The frightened man's face turned even paler.

"This is how many people survived, and how many people who didn't survive are just like how many people died along the way out of the village." Old man Wang took out the cigarette that had been soaked in his pocket for a long time, and looked sorry.

It's a pity that I can't smoke my cigarette after it rains.

Everyone didn't know what he was sorry for, whether he was sorry for those who stayed on the battlefield, or if he was sorry for his cigarettes.

These recruits don't have much concept of war, let alone the cruelty of war, and even after training, they still don't have much concept of war, so many of them don't show timidity on their faces.

The truck stopped on the outskirts of the city, where the 40th Division was stationed by the superiors, and there was an open space with a lot of embers left by the burning of bonfires, and a simple wooden hut with a layer of grass and leaves on it, and the superiors did not give the 40th Division anything, they needed to build their own tents to sleep at night.

Xia Yuan could also clearly feel that the treatment of the new barracks was not good, and some of the existing wooden sheds were given priority to other troops, and the new barracks needed to build their own wooden sheds.

"It's really not human, that's what it does to us."

Everyone is not stupid, who would not see that the superiors are so blatantly biased in favor of other companies.

Xia Yuan knew in his heart that the superiors completely treated them as cannon fodder battalions, and the backward local armed forces were still engaged in the previous set, no wonder the weapons and equipment given to them were such extremely backward and eliminated weapons and equipment, and when they went to the battlefield, they didn't even give them bullets, and this kind of treatment was obviously cannon fodder.

"Big one, to tell you the truth, these people just treat us as cannon fodder, and we have to build a place to live by ourselves, what are you doing for them."

When cutting wood, the old man Wang was not lightly tired, the weather was still gloomy, there were beads of sweat hanging on his forehead, holding an arm-thick tree trunk, he exhaled a long breath, and observed the surroundings.

Xia Yuan was behind him, and before he spoke, he heard Old Man Wang say again: "You said that you have a good head, but you are not as good as when you were stupid before, this is fatal, you think that fighting is child's play." ”

(End of chapter)