Xiao Liu held the can in his hand, sniffed it, and said: "Platoon leader, you let us follow you, we will fight the little devils, you can take us to fight the little devils, when Uncle Qian was dying, he said that I and Uncle Lei must find you, find you, so that we can take us to live and take us to kill more little devils." ”

After a pause, he said: "The company commander asked us to go to the battlefield to die, and we platoon of more than 40 people, and only two of us were left." ”

Xia Yuan looked at the two of them, had a headache, and said, "Next, I will go to fight Qiao's house, and you can follow me for the time being." ”

When Lao Lei heard this, he said excitedly: "Platoon commander, where you let us fight, we will fight." ”

Xia Yuan waved his hand, "Go clean up the battlefield, besides, I haven't agreed to let you join our team, as for when to let you join, wait until the battle in Qiao's house is over before making a decision." ”

Rao is like this, Xia Yuan's relaxation made Lao Lei full of hope, at least he relieved, all this still has a chance.

The battlefield here was cleaned up, and the deputy company commander of 10,000 was late with a platoon of reinforcements.

"I didn't expect Brother Xia to lead someone to clean up the reinforcements of the Japanese devils, which opened my eyes." Deputy Company Commander Wan looked at the almost cleaned battlefield with a smile, waved his hand, and motioned to the brothers behind him to clean up the battlefield, "Brother Xia probably won't be able to use these weapons and equipment, how about selling my brother's favor, how about giving us these weapons and equipment?" ”

Xia Yuan squinted his eyes, looked at the 10,000 deputy company commanders in front of him, pondered for a moment, and said, "I can give it to you, but how can you repay this favor?" ”

"If you have any problems, just tell us." Deputy Company Commander Wan was overjoyed in his heart, with this batch of weapons and equipment, whether he took them out to sell or gave them to his superiors, it was a great achievement, and Deputy Company Commander Wan was naturally very happy in his heart.

Then he began to think about how to repay this favor.

"I'm really having some difficulties."

"Oh? Brother Xia might as well talk about it. ”

"Does Deputy Company Commander Wan know about Qiao's house?" Xia Yuan looked at the north and asked.

"You know, Qiao's house is the forward position of the Japanese army on the west side, easy to defend and difficult to attack, isn't it the idea of Brother Xia to attack Qiao's house?" Deputy Company Commander Wan groaned and said, "To tell you the truth, we have two counteroffensive tasks tonight, one is to clean up the Japanese troops on the forward position, and the other is to launch a counteroffensive against the Japanese troops in Qiao's house. ”

After a pause, he sighed, "However, the previous 401st Regiment sent a battalion of troops overnight, but it was not able to take down Qiao's house, our situation has experienced a day of tug-of-war, with heavy casualties, and it is difficult to capture Qiao's house." ”

"Even if you are added, I guess the odds won't be too great."

"There are two more people left in the fourth row." Xia Yuan pointed to Lao Lei and Xiaoliu, who were cleaning the battlefield, and said: "The fourth platoon is very powerful, but the Japanese offensive is more ferocious, they have no way to solve the grenadiers, they can only withstand the bombardment of the grenadiers to resist the Japanese attack." ”

"They failed, but they succeeded again, and the Lin family house is back in our hands after all." Deputy Company Commander Wan said: "Brother Xia, you don't have to worry too much, when it gets completely dark, we will launch a counterattack against the Japanese army." ”

"Hmm." Xia Yuan nodded and asked again, "By the way, do you know how the other people who came with me are doing?" ”

"Platoon Commander Qiu retreated with his men, and I met him on the way here, didn't he follow you all the way?" Deputy Company Commander Wan asked curiously.

"It's together, but the idea is not the same way." Xia Yuan pointed to his brain and said, "It's okay if they go, since it's not a road, they can't go together." ”

"Platoon Commander Qiu's soldiers seem to have been trained, if they can follow us, it should be even more likely to take down Qiao's house."

Deputy Company Commander Wan said.

"It's going to be bigger." Xia Yuan pursed his lips, "Is Company Commander Xu gone?" ”

"Company Commander Xu, I didn't see it." Deputy Company Commander Wan was still thinking about Platoon Commander Qiu, and said, "Platoon Commander Qiu doesn't seem to be a regular army unit. ”

Xia Yuan nodded, and did not hide it: "They are the guard platoon of the commander of the 401st Regiment. ”

"What!" When Deputy Company Commander Wan heard this, his jaw almost dropped in shock, and his eyes widened: "The guard platoon has pulled up!?" ”

"So, they're retreating now." Xia Yuan shrugged: "Actually, I don't expect them to help much. ”

Deputy Company Commander Wan thought about it carefully, this is indeed the case, this guard platoon is the elite of the elite, how can it be pulled to the front line to charge with the Japanese devils.

"Brother Xia, I'll leave a squad to cooperate with you to defend the Lin family's mansion first, and I'll take someone to bring all the equipment back first."

When the battlefield was cleaned, the deputy company commander found Xia Yuan.

"Okay." Xia Yuan nodded and said, "Let's cooperate with you in defense." ”

"It's all right, it's all right."

Deputy Company Commander Wan said with a smile, waved his hand, took the thirty people, and set off with guns and ammunition on his back.

After they left, Xia Yuan found the scholar and asked him about the grenadier canister, and the scholar took out a grenadier from his arms and said, "Just take one, eleven shells." ”

"Enough, enough for us, when we have a chance to hit the artillery positions of the Japanese devils, we don't need this thing." Xia Yuan said with a smile.

"What's that for?" The scholar asked curiously.

"With mortars, the caliber is large and the power is also great."

The "mortar" scholar had no concept of mortars, looked at the grenadier in his hand, and thought that the mortar should be larger than the grenadier.

But to what extent, the scholar scratched his head, and he didn't think of one or two.

When it got dark, the Japanese army stopped attacking, and the initiative seemed to be grasped in turn, and the offensive initiative at night returned to the hands of the national army, and the Japanese army fought for a whole day, taking over the 18th Brigade of the 401st Regiment to defend the east side, and the casualties were huge, and at night, the 18th Brigade had to shoulder the responsibility of clearing the fortifications built in the newly occupied area of the Japanese army.

The counterattack on Qiao's house is just a small battle the size of a sesame grain in the entire Luodian campaign, insignificant, or even a small battle the size of a sesame seed, and throughout the entire Luodian campaign, the national army has used three brigades, and there are also four regiments reinforced by various armies.

The Japanese army in Luodian had the 22nd Wing and the 44th Wing, with about seven or eight thousand people, firmly controlling Luodian, and the national army launched several attacks on the Japanese troops in Luodian, but they were unable to defeat Luodian.

On the road from the center of Luodian to the suburbs, the bones of thousands of soldiers of the national army were buried, and the next rain, mixed with blood, flowed to the low lying.

In the evening, a new round of fighting began.

Next to a mangled corpse on the side of the road, there was a puddle the size of a palm, and one foot stepped on the puddle, splashing and deforming the puddle.

"Hurry, hurry! Hurry up! ”

A deep voice scolded the soldiers who were hurrying, and under the cover of the vast night, they rushed quickly in the direction of Qiaojia Town.

In front of a group of houses, they stopped.

"One class, enter the house on the left. In the second shift, enter the front of the house. Three shifts, go to the right. Don't shoot, don't reveal your position, encounter Japanese troops, and avoid them as much as possible. ”

"Yes!"

Dozens of black shadows scattered and burrowed into the houses.

"Platoon commander, where are we going?" The scholar asked, holding a gun.

"We followed a squad and broke through from the left." Xia Yuan glanced at the watch on his wrist, this watch was taken off from the Japanese devil, the accuracy of the time was not bad, and it showed that it was now ten forty-three o'clock.

In order to clean up the Japanese troops on the forward position, the commander of the reinforced company Chen called for reinforcements from another company, and fought for three hours before recovering the lost positions.

The main force is the reinforced company, and the second echelon is the third company, which is the reinforcement company called by the reinforced company.

The two companies attacked Qiaojia Town, whether they could be defeated or not, they had to destroy the Japanese army as much as possible, which was an order issued by Shangfeng. The 18th Brigade had just taken over the defense area of the 401st Regiment during the day, but it encountered a Japanese counterattack, and the whole line suffered heavy casualties.

Qiao's house is one of the mission centers of the attack.

As for the 401st Regiment that came over, it was completely ignored, after all, the reinforcements of the 401st Regiment were just a gambling agreement, and after Platoon Commander Qiu went back, he announced the annulment of the gambling agreement, and Xia Yuan stayed for the sake of those dead soldiers.

It's not about the position of the Central Army.

The superiors didn't pay attention, but Company Commander Chen and Deputy Company Commander Wan were still quite concerned about this matter, after all, Xia Yuan's combat ability was embodied in the Lin family's house, so on the battlefield, Company Commander Chen also gave Xia Yuan enough face, he would not participate in the offensive tasks of each squad and platoon, but act freely, and even gave him the right to issue temporary orders when he encountered attacking soldiers on the battlefield.

Company Commander Chen is not incompetent, at least in the face of the overall situation, any prejudice needs to be put aside, and everything is based on the overall situation.

The time for the attack was set at eleven o'clock, and at a quarter past eleven, an attack on the Japanese line would be launched.

The Japanese army, which had long figured out the number of ways for the national army to attack at night, began to strengthen the firepower points and fortifications on the defensive line when the national army had the momentum of counteroffensive, and the Japanese army understood that the national army did not have the heavy firepower to attack the firepower point, and if it wanted to knock down a firepower point, it was necessary to use a large number of people to fill it.

In addition, the Japanese army also set up firing points at various street intersections in Luodian Town, used ladders to climb to the roofs of houses, ambushed soldiers, and strictly controlled each street.

As a result, the already solid Japanese positions became almost impregnable.

Street fighting once became a nightmare for the national army when it regained Luodian Town.

In the evening of the counteroffensive horn sounded, tens of thousands of soldiers of the national army, carrying backward weapons and equipment, rushed to the Japanese defense line, the Japanese mortars almost did not need to aim, the rumbling sound did not stop, the houses in the combat zone of the two sides were shattered, in the roar of artillery fire, the clatter of machine guns, the crackling of rifles intertwined, the fire of the firefight reflected half of the sky, flashing in the night, dazzling and beautiful, but with deadly danger.

The 18th Brigade attacked the Eastern Front, and the front-line combat units of the 33rd and 31st Brigades had already changed rounds and launched an offensive against the Japanese defensive line, and the progress was still slow.

The information of the Japanese army in Luodian is too one-sided, and it does not have a detailed grasp of the distribution of the Japanese troops in Luodian, the backwardness of the means of communication, and the lack of coordination between the various units, the Japanese army in Luodian is like the sea in the night, and the endless darkness is everywhere, and the situation detected during the day is limited.

The backwardness of offensive tactics, because the situation on the battlefield is not clear, the national army does not even dare to send troops that make a detour from the side, and it is completely an attack from the front, and there is neither reconnaissance nor the ability to fight in a roundabout way, and the offensive method of the national army is to set up camp and fight in a daze, and the attack at night is a long snake formation, and the troops are looking for their own direction to attack, wasting the lives of many officers and men of the national army in vain.

In the attack that night, in addition to the 18th Brigade, the 33rd Brigade and the 31st Brigade, to the east, the 584th Regiment and the 587th Regiment of the 98th Division launched an attack on the Japanese defense line from the east, and successfully launched an attack on the front line of the Panzhai of the 44th Wing of the Japanese Army.

On the west side of Luodian, the 83rd Regiment and the 79th Regiment of the 14th Division arrived at the front line of Caowangmiao, filled the gap left by the retreat of the 401st Regiment, the 397th Regiment and the 398th Regiment, and launched an attack on the 22nd Wing of the Japanese Army that held the west side that night.

The 83rd Regiment advanced all the way to the vicinity of the Shiban River, attempting to force a crossing of the river and launch an attack on the 22nd Wing, but it was hit by heavy fire from the Japanese army, the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and a large number of floating corpses floated on the river, and in just one night, the Shiban River was dyed red.

The Japanese even sent mobile units to launch a counterattack from the flank to the flank of the 83rd Regiment, which suffered huge losses due to the hasty and ill-prepared attack, abandoned a large number of soldiers' corpses and equipment, and retreated to the line of Dingjiaqiao.

The 79th Regiment bypassed the Japanese defenses, penetrated into the rear of the Japanese army, and advanced all the way, but encountered a Japanese reconnaissance detachment and besieged it in a civilian house, and then the Japanese machine gun team that supported it was also surrounded by the national army, and the battle continued until one point, and the two Japanese troops were eliminated.

However, a Japanese soldier took advantage of the darkness to run out and make contact with nearby friendly forces, and the Japanese army, who received the news, began to mobilize their forces to block the attack of the 79th Regiment.