At the time of the landing, the Japanese army's materials were seriously flooded, especially the shells were seriously flooded, and the firepower was blocked, and the road from Chuansha Town to Luodian was not a road, but a dirt road only more than one meter wide, and the speed of travel was even inferior to that of ox carts.

In order to wait for supplies and artillery support, the Japanese had to postpone the date of attacking Luodian again and again, and finally decided to attack Luodian on August 28.

On the Nationalist side, the 98th Division belatedly took over the defense of the 11th Division, while the 11th Division shrank its position and confronted the 2nd and 3rd Brigades of the 44th Wing of the Japanese Army, and the 3rd Brigade of the 22nd Company.

The 397th Regiment of the 67th Division was responsible for the western flank, the 398th Regiment was responsible for the eastern flank, and the 401st Regiment was in reserve.

The 79th Regiment of the 14th Division came to support from the direction of Liuhe, cooperated with the 39th Air Regiment to defend the west side and extend the defensive line, and other units of the Nationalist Army were also arriving and assembled at Luodian.

When a large number of troops were gathered, the national army decided to launch a counterattack, and set the time for the counterattack operation on the 28th, after all, many troops were still gathered.

Fate once again hung over Luodian.

The troops from Yudi have just arrived, the Chinese and Japanese sides have launched a fierce attack, the battle has been going on for a whole day, the troops on both sides have suffered heavy casualties, Luodian was captured by the Japanese army, the 398th Regiment and the 401st Regiment launched a final attack on Luodian before sunset, and the hard fighting for several hours was not able to recover Luodian, and had no choice but to retreat.

That night, the 398th Regiment withdrew from the battle because of heavy casualties.

In the early hours of the morning, the order from Shangfeng finally came.

The new barracks assembled, followed the 397th Regiment and the 401st Regiment into the south side of Luodian, counterattacked the enemy in Luodian that night, and recovered Luodian.

The sky was raining.

Zhao Shiguo's face in the second platoon was ugly, the third squad was one person, only four people remained, and the remaining seven were all deserters.

"What's going on!"

"At night, I asked Chen Jiansheng to go to take over the guard post of Old Man Wang, after Chen Jiansheng arrived, he did not find the figure of Old Man Wang and others, after some searching, I found that they took off and threw their military uniforms on the ground, I immediately realized that they may have become deserters, and they will come to you immediately."

Xu Yu maintained a upright posture, this was indeed what he found out at night, in fact, Old Man Wang took the initiative to find him and Xia Yuan, who were responsible for tonight's vigilance, and the two of them had already realized that Old Man Wang was preparing to be a deserter, so they had already prepared in their hearts.

Xia Yuan responded: "Platoon commander, it's all my fault, they found me when it was almost dark, and said that they were doing tonight's guard post, and Old Man Wang didn't have a proper shape all day long, I thought that when he arrived at the battlefield, he changed his ways, but I didn't expect that this was to become a deserter." ”

"Eleven people! All seven of them became deserters! Zhao Shiguo was furious, this was the first time he had met so many people in a class as deserters, Du Teniang ran out, and there were only four people left in a class.

The scholar and Niu Hai lowered their heads and were silent, Niu Hai had just joined in for a day, and the scholar had followed them from the beginning, and it was not a day or two for Old Man Wang to plan to be a deserter, Xia Yuan didn't care, Xu Yu didn't care, he couldn't care about it.

Listening to the platoon commander's angry scolding, the scholar knew that Xia Yuan and Xu Yu had lied, but he would not debunk them.

Zhao Shiguo asked people to look for it, and the scouts sent by Lian Li disrupted his plan, and then they received an order to go to the front line, and Zhao Shiguo couldn't help but curse secretly when he heard it.

"Do you treat us like monkeys, this special mother started tossing us on the first day she came." ’

There is no doubt that the boot camp has no human rights.

The sky was hazy with rain, and before everyone set off, they were looking for materials to make hats on the spot, and fortunately they could find hats hanging on the walls in some houses, and a group of more than 30 people stepped on puddles, quickly out of the village, and disappeared in the hazy rain curtain.

"Pay attention to the first and second classes, if anyone becomes a deserter, don't blame me for being unkind to him."

Old man Wang and a few people became deserters, which brought a lot of shock to the people in all classes, and also aroused the careful thinking of many people, at this time there was chaos, it was the time to escape, and no one would want to rush to the battlefield as cannon fodder.

The team was a little silent, and everyone had a little Jiujiu in their hearts.

Xia Yuan whispered to Xu Yu: "The platoon commander's mistake is that he shouldn't have said this in front of everyone. ”

Xu Yu was a little puzzled: "Why do you say that?" ”

Xia Yuan said: "These people, few of them are willing to go to the battlefield, saying in front of them, isn't it just setting a precedent for them to be deserters?" The platoon commander wants to deter them, but you must know that people are like springs, and the harder you press, the stronger the rebound. ”

"Spring? That's an apt description. ”

The scholar said on the side.

"I can't understand what I say." Xu Yu shook his head.

What is the spring, and what is the strength of the rebound, why Xia Yuan speaks like a scholar, and always jumps out some words that people can't understand.

"Squad leader, Brother Xia's general meaning is that if you suppress them, the more they resist."

The scholar gave him an easy-to-understand explanation, and Xu Yu understood what Xia Yuan meant, "I understand, I know what you mean, what you said is right, the more you press them, the greater their heart to resist, that's what it means." ”

"Yes." The scholar nodded.

Xu Yu also had his own thoughts: "Scholar, Xia Yuan told us that everyone came out of the village, and they were often oppressed by the landlord on weekdays, so why didn't they resist at that time." ”

"This"

The scholar couldn't answer a little, somewhat beyond the boundaries of his thinking. So much so that he also thought that what Xu Yu said was right, but he also thought that what Xia Yuan said was reasonable.

He turned his head to look at Xia Yuan, wanting to get the answer he wanted from him.

Xia Yuan said: "Because their home is in the village, not in the army. ”

The scholar immediately thought of Xia Yuan's meaning, and then his words said: "The family is in the village, and the relatives are also in the village, if they resist, their relatives will suffer, but their home is not in the army, so if they escape from the army, they will have no relatives, and they only need to worry about whether they will be caught." ”

He turned his head to look at Xia Yuan, and said excitedly: "Brother Yuan, what you said is right, people are like a spring, the harder the oppression, the harder the rebound." ”

The scholar was as happy as if he had learned a new vocabulary.

Xu Yu wiped the rain from his face: "Okay, I agree with what you said, the platoon commander shouldn't talk about this matter in front of them, we should think about what they think." ”

Thinking of this, Xu Yu became worried, and when he arrived on the battlefield, he didn't know how many people would choose to be deserters. After all, these people are not regular soldiers, but a bunch of recruits, and they know that they are sent to the battlefield to be cannon fodder.

It was the first time to go to the battlefield, and it is estimated that many people will be scared away as deserters.

Back to the company, Company Commander Du has been waiting for a long time, because it is too dark, and it is raining, he can't see clearly that there are some people in the second platoon, and Platoon Commander Zhao didn't tell Company Commander Du about it, saying that it was the dereliction of duty of Xia Yuan and Xu Yu, in fact, he also had dereliction of duty, it was not easy to be a platoon commander, so it was better not to mention it to Company Commander Du.

"Let's go!"

Company Commander Du glanced at the more than 100 people standing in front of him, and with a wave of his hand, everyone got into the rain curtain and disappeared into the hazy wilderness.

The rain gradually became heavier.

The bean-sized raindrops smashed on the ground, splashing muddy water on the trouser legs, making the already wet trouser legs dirty, and the hats could not completely cover the pouring rain, and soon the whole person was also drenched, and the wet military uniform turned gray and black, blending into the night.

The order issued by the superiors was to ask them to arrive before ten o'clock, but it was already eight o'clock in the evening, and it was frighteningly dark, and Company Commander Du urged them to speed up the march.

There were several veterans at the back of the line watching to prevent some from escaping in the dark.

So much so that the line stretched long, long.

The team was very quiet, only the sound of wet shoes stepping on the stagnant water in the mud puddle, someone stepped on the muddy puddle, fell to the ground with a stroke of their feet, and then was helped up by the people behind and continued to move forward.

The place where the recruit battalion assembled was at the Jin family house, and the frontal enemy was the 2nd Brigade of the 22nd Company of the Japanese Army, with about half a regiment of troops, and the 401st Regiment of the 67th Division of the National Army was attacking together with the recruit battalion, which would launch an attack on the enemy's position in the early morning.

The courtyard of the Jin family house is very deep, and it has been converted into a military fortress by the 401st Regiment, and there are bunkers built with sacks of mud at the corners and alleys.

The new barracks entered the village near Luodian, where houses were shelled, broken walls everywhere, broken brick and rubble on the roads, and bullet impact points all over the streets.

At eleven o'clock, they arrived at the line of defense of the 401st Regiment, and their superiors gave them the order to grope forward. The recruit battalion is basically used as cannon fodder, that is, to attract the firepower of the Japanese army to the main force and consume the enemy's ammunition, so after the arrival of the recruit battalion, he was directly thrown on the battlefield without even resting.

Responsible for searching for and clearing obstacles in the path of the attack.

There were a lot of people in the second platoon and the third squad, only Xu Yu, Xia Yuan, Shusheng and Niu Hai were left, responsible for the right flank of the second platoon, the raindrops smashed on the broken wall, making a crisp sound, Xia Yuan put five bullets in the magazine, turned on night vision and looked around, this was once a combat zone, and now it is silent, you might as well have sporadic troops of the Japanese army here, you must be careful enough.

"Corpses!" Niu Hai was shocked.

The three of them turned their heads and saw a corpse lying on the ground next to Niu Hai, half of his body was gone, his intestines were pulled out of his broken stomach, and he was miserable and white, and the blood flowed through the rain, and his face was pale, which scared Niu Hai so much that he sat on the ground.

It's scary to see such a thing at night.

"Be quiet!"

Xu Yu made a silent gesture, and the further he went, the closer he got to the Japanese position, and he couldn't be sure that the Japanese army was waiting somewhere.

"There are more and more corpses."

After turning on the night vision, Xia Yuan saw the surroundings clearly, there were corpses of the national army and Japanese soldiers everywhere, and they were not among the bricks and rubble of the ruins.

"Squad leader, I'll touch the corpse and see if there's anything we can use." Xia Yuan held the gun in his arms and whispered to Xu Yu.

"Be careful." Xu Yu said.

"Well, you guys are staring here, scholars, Niu Hai, stay vigilant, don't make a noise when you see someone, first judge if it's your own person, if it's not your own person, don't shoot indiscriminately, once you shoot, your location will be exposed, and the Japanese devils will come closer with the gunshot."

When Xia Yuan left, he didn't forget to tell the two.

He himself has been on the battlefield, in the words of the future, it is to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, but the scholar and Niu Hai are real recruits, the scholar was a student before, and he has never even touched a gun, Niu Hai is an authentic farmer, except for a little more strength, nothing else.

The time of the day was too tight, Niu Hai couldn't learn anything at all, so he was pulled to the battlefield, and the battle on the Luodian side was already very tight, especially after the Japanese army occupied Luodian, the national army was eager to organize enough troops to fight for Luodian.

In fact, the Hu Lian Division of the 66th Regiment of the 33rd Brigade killed more than 100 enemies and successfully recovered Luodian, which was also the only time that the national army recovered Luodian, and the next battle was like a flesh mill around Luodian.

Xia Yuan stared cautiously around, turned out of the bunker, stepped on the stagnant water on the ground, and as the gradually decreasing and hazy rain curtain penetrated into the gate on the side, the wooden gate was destroyed, the walls in the courtyard had fallen, there were many corpses of national soldiers, and many of them were Japanese corpses, and the guns were all looted, but it was not possible to touch grenades or bullets that had not been touched from these corpses.

Xia Yuan held the gun, observed around, and did not find the secret post arranged by the enemy, so he immediately opened a stiff corpse, first touched the bullet bag, then the grenade bag, and finally the pocket.

I found a hard object in my trouser pocket, and when I took it out, it was actually a silver dollar.

"On this battlefield, this thing is useless." Xia Yuan muttered, casually threw the silver dollar in the mud, and continued to touch the corpse.

There are a lot of corpses here, but he also has to hurry up, the second platoon is groping for the front, if the vanguard and the enemy collide, the flanks are not covered, it is easy to suffer from the Japanese attack. And the second platoon is the left flank of the entire Ninth Company, and the Ninth Company is the left flank of the entire battalion headquarters, once a flank unit is eliminated by the Japanese devils, then it will threaten the main forces in the center.

"A new battalion that has been used as cannon fodder is still so complicated, once it is attacked by the Japanese army, it will most likely become very chaotic."

Xia Yuan touched it for a while, but didn't touch anything, it seemed that the soldiers of the national army had touched the bodies of the Japanese devils and their own people very cleanly, except for the silver dollar.

(End of chapter)