Lao Lei also touched a watch from his body and handed it to Xia Yuan: "That dog thing also touched a watch, and it can walk." ”

"Good stuff." Xia Yuan's eyes moved slightly, he took the watch as it should be, put it on his hand, observed the time, looked at the sky outside, and said, "It's not bad, the time is accurate." ”

He took another cigarette from the cigarette case and put it to his mouth.

Xiao Liu took out a match, wiped out the fire, and carefully lit it for Xia Yuan.

"Nothing to do, say, there is something to find me." Xia Yuan took a puff of cigarette, and the smoke mixed with nicotine made his whole body feel a little more relaxed.

"Platoon commander, look at the fact that the two of us are staying in the queue." Lao Lei rubbed his hands.

"You have even retreated, it is estimated that you have retreated to the rear, it doesn't matter if you stay or not." Xia Yuan took a deep breath, let out a long breath, and after playing for two days in a row, he felt a little tired mentally.

Since the day before yesterday, I have not had much rest until last night, and nicotine has dispelled the tiredness of the body.

Xia Yuan's words were already quite straightforward, Lao Lei heard the meaning, and nodded happily: "Yes, yes, platoon commander!" ”

Zhao Shiguo looked at Lao Lei sitting beside him, and said with a smile: "Look at what I say, the platoon commander will definitely agree." ”

"Lao Zhao, we have to take care of each other in the future." Xia Yuan agreed to stay in the team with Xiao Liu, Lao Lei was relaxed, leaned against the wall, and jokingly said with Zhao Shiguo.

"Okay, okay, you can take care of me." Zhao Shiguo said with a smile.

Just now, he followed Lao Lei all the way, this guy's combat effectiveness is not weak, much stronger than him, he is a platoon commander, he is still a soldier.

It can only be said that there are too many capable people in the Central Army.

In this battle, he saw a lot of very capable people, but unfortunately many of them died on the battlefield.

There are still many powerful people in the Central Army.

After taking a break and finishing a cigarette, Xia Yuan said, "The commander of the third company wants us to stay, what are your plans?" ”

Zhao Shiguo, who was wiping the gun, was slightly stunned and asked, "Stay?" Platoon commander, if we don't stay, are we still ready to leave? ”

Zhao Shiguo subconsciously thought that they would stay here.

Xia Yuan said: "I was going to take you out of Luodian. ”

"Leave Luodian, platoon leader, where can we go without it? Now the situation is much better, Company Commander Lu is different from other commanders, and he doesn't mean to underestimate us. Zhao Shiguo said again: "Then Company Commander Lu still calls you a brother and a brother, I think it's a good thing to stay." ”

The scholar nodded, agreeing with Zhao Shiguo's opinion: "This is really leaving, let's come down from the battlefield, it is estimated that many people will be regarded as deserters again." ”

Along the way, they met two people who treated them well.

One is Company Commander Xu, Company Commander Xu also saved them once, and retreated from the battlefield with them, but I don't know why Company Commander Xu left without saying a word, he left very suddenly, and he didn't even greet them.

The other is Lu Jingguang.

Unlike Company Commander Xu, Company Commander Xu experienced the rout of the battlefield, and his heart was haggard, like a stone that had been smoothed out of the edges and corners, giving people a feeling of being very tired and sleepy.

Lu Jingguang, on the other hand, was full of energy, enthusiastic about them, and hoped for victory in the battle, and personally led the troops on the battlefield. They have a lot of good feelings about this Lu Lianchang, and it seems that it is a good choice to stay in the third company.

At least it's much, much better than being treated like a rout.

Zheng Dayong agreed with the scholar's words, Xiaoliu also agreed, and even Zhao Shiguo agreed, who would want to be looked at coldly if he can live an upright life.

The scholars saw the squad leader Xu Yu die beside him, and when they retreated from the battlefield, they were doomed to have no human rights, and they would be slaughtered like cattle.

Maybe it's like cannon fodder, quietly dying.

They don't want to choose either.

They want to be treated as human beings and live uprightly, even if they die, at least they live with dignity.

"Okay, since it's decided, then I'll go and give an answer to Company Commander Lu." Xia Yuan's eyes moved slightly, threw the cigarette butt on the ground and extinguished it, got up and left the room.

When Lu Jingguang received Xia Yuan's reply, he was extremely excited, and immediately summoned the few remaining people in the second and third platoons, and held a brief short meeting, the content of which was the appointment of Xia Yuan, appointing Xia Yuan as the deputy commander of the third company.

Zhao Shiguo They also participated in the meeting, due to the death of the first squad leader of the third platoon, Zhao Shiguo naturally became the squad leader, Lao Lei became the deputy squad leader with his rich combat experience, and the scholars, Xiaoliu and Zheng Dayong became the soldiers of the first squad.

At this point, they completely got rid of the identity of deserters and recruits and became a member of the Central Army.

There is still a certain gap between the military uniforms of the central army and the local warlords, which cannot be changed in essence, and at the moment they have died a lot of people, where are the military uniforms for them.

"After receiving the order from my superiors to retreat, I will go to logistics and get you a few new sets of military uniforms."

As a company commander, Lu Jingguang naturally knows the way of recruits, and the treatment of recruits in the Central Army is quite good, but the treatment of local warlords is not good, they are poor, and the commanders above have to squeeze and deduct military salaries, food, military uniforms, equipment costs, and empty salaries, which are all common things.

He also did it himself, so he was naturally familiar with this set.

If nothing else, let's just say that most of the shabby military uniforms on Xia Yuan's body were taken from the battlefield and the corpses of their own people, and the weapons and equipment were all eliminated from the top and reimbursed.

Don't say anything about taking off your own people's clothes, some don't even bury the corpses at all, take off their clothes and throw them into the wild, waiting for birds and beasts, wild dogs to gnaw and become white bones. For the sake of money, those people never regard human life as their life, or even as human beings.

"Okay." Xia Yuan nodded, and asked again: "By the way, what about a row, why don't you see a row?" ”

"The platoon has gone to the long street to the east, and the battle is over, and a soldier has just been sent over to tell me that the battle is basically over."

Officer Lu paused, and then said: "The order from the superior should come over later, and there will be troops who will receive us to come over to change the guard, let's go back and have a good rest." ”

Lu Jingguang could see that Xia Yuan's mental outlook looked a little tired, thinking that he was tired, Xia Yuan had mentioned to him that they were a recruit camp from Yudi, and he had some understanding of the situation of the recruit camp, the recruit camp joined the battle the night before yesterday, and it was defeated not long after arriving on the battlefield, and many recruits fled from the battlefield.

As far as he knew, when the 401st Regiment was still there, a company commander in the front line of the national army shot more than a dozen people in one night, all of whom were recruits who had fled from the battlefield.

Participated in a battle with Xia Yuan, Xia Yuan didn't seem to have fled from the battlefield, especially in their team, there were two light machine guns, so it was certain that Xia Yuan did not escape from the battlefield, and their team was very different from the team of the rout.

Xia Yuan responded, he really wanted to have a good rest.

Soon, Lu Jingguang's superiors sent a company into Qiao's house, Lu Jingguang took them to change guards, and it was the fifth company that came, and the commander of the fifth company said: "Old Lu, you can, we fought with the Japanese devils for one night, and your side has successfully broken through." ”

Lu Jingguang took his hand, and he was in a good mood after receiving Xia Yuan, "What's the matter, there is no progress on other lines?" ”

The commander of the fifth company sighed and said: "There is no progress at all, the resistance of the Japanese devils is quite tenacious, they only entered the forward position, and they had to retreat again, you are good, you actually opened the situation from this side." ”

"Don't say it, our casualties are not light, we have to go back to rest and rest."

"Okay, you guys retreat first, and leave the Qiao family house to us."

The third company is the 160th Battalion of the 52nd Regiment belonging to the 18th Brigade, which is stationed in the rear, and after the reinforcement company retreats, the defense of the Lin family house is also handed over to the third company, and the Japanese army will not attack the Lin family house in a short time, at least not today.

Xia Yuan and the others also got time to rest, leaned against the cold walls of the house one by one, and fell asleep.

Since the Japanese occupied Luodian on the 28th, the Nationalist army hastily organized several attacks against Luodian, but they failed to make effective progress due to hasty attacks and coordination between troops.

Even though the 79th Regiment successfully attacked and successfully hit the rear of the 22nd Wing of the Japanese Army, due to the lack of friendly coordination, the Japanese concentrated their forces and still beat the 79th Regiment back.

Qiao's house is currently occupied by the 18th Brigade, like a nail pierced in the forward position of the Japanese army, the emergence of the 6th Division, can be regarded as stabilizing the situation in the front of Luodian, the Japanese army launched a counterattack on the 6th Division, the 18th Brigade defense line during the day, in the stubborn resistance of the soldiers of the National Army, it failed to work.

On the east side, the two regiments of the 98th Division successfully penetrated deep into Luodian and stabilized the situation in the eastern part of Luodian, although the Japanese army successfully occupied Luodian, its strategic intention could not be achieved, and the situation between China and Japan in Luodian was still in a stalemate.

At the same time, Wang Yaowu's 51st Division and Yu Jishi's 58th Division also received orders and were rushing to Luodian for reinforcements, and the 15th Army in Luodian was still able to fight the Japanese army.

Due to the difficulty and fierce fighting of Luodian, the 11th Division of the Japanese Army decided to temporarily abandon the attack on Liuhe, leaving only the 2nd Brigade of the 43rd Wing to protect the flank of the division.

Xia Yuan is still resting, Luodian has not stopped, the troops of the national army are still fighting bloody battles with the Japanese army, there are people who shed blood and sacrificed every moment, on the streets of Luodian, the corpses of both China and Japan are superimposed, the smell is smoky, and flies are flying.

The corpses of the soldiers who died a few days ago were already decomposing, and the corpses were flowing everywhere, and the smoke of gunpowder and the pungent smell of corpses were floating in the air, mixed together to form a strong, pungent smell.

When the soldiers of the Nationalist Army charged, they even had to use the corpses as cover to shoot at the Japanese soldiers. The shells fell on the piles of corpses, the dirt was red, and the walls of the ruins were always covered with glare of minced flesh and intestines, internal organs, and so on.

The blood dried up, and it was exposed to the sun and the wind, and it turned into jerky.

The Flesh Mill is also concentrated on the front of the midline.

When the bloody battle of Luodian was not stopped, the Nationalist Government and the Japanese side were also mobilizing troops.

The weather in August was hot and humid, like a huge melting pot, shrouded the entire Jinling territory, and the smoke of gunpowder shrouded the sky over Jinling City, since the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu, Jinling City was often bombed by Japanese planes.

At that time, there were so many Japanese spies in Jinling that the Japanese command organs were always able to grasp the whereabouts of the bald heads, so their bombers always followed the whereabouts of the bald heads, and the bald heads hid in Tibet every day.

For a while, he hid in Qingliang Mountain, and for a while he lived near the Sifang City of Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, and for a while he changed to Zhonghuamen Castle.

Every day is spent in such a hiding place, and sometimes he even has to change several positions a day, and his bald head is disturbed by spies every day.

In consideration of the safety of the office environment, an emergency meeting of the leaders of various ministries was held on August 20, and a decision was made on the relocation issue.

The first decision: The first step is to evacuate the offices of the various organs, that is, assuming that when enemy planes bomb or open fire, each agency will prepare private houses inside or outside the city to work secretly, and register the person in charge and the number of telephone numbers in order to facilitate communication.

The second decision: as a last resort, move to other offices (such as Hengyang). All important documents that need to be kept permanently shall be kept in the place of relocation in advance, and the relocation of various organs shall be implemented.

These two resolutions do not mention the relocation of the capital, but only the relocation of the office. The root of this is that it was disturbed by the Japanese spies and bombers, and there was no way, and if it was not relocated, even the office would become a huge problem every day.

Since the September 18 Incident, all organs, schools, and schools in Jinling have begun to dig air-raid shelters and educate cadres, workers, citizens, and students on air defense knowledge.

Therefore, after the decision to relocate the bald head began, various organs and schools implemented the resolution, which was actually to enter the air-raid shelter to work and attend classes.

Even now, there are still many air-raid shelters in Jinling.

On 29 August, Falkenhausen, head of the German military advisory group, submitted a written report to the bald head, which had a tremendous impact on the bald head, and it can even be said that the defense of Jinling after the Battle of Songhu and the many battles after the Battle of Taiyuan were all present in this report.

The Battle of Songhu lasted for three months from August 13 to November 12, 1937.

The Jinling Nationalist Government, represented by the bald head, has been paying close attention to the war in Shanghai since the first shot was fired at the Bazi Bridge in Shanghai during the Battle of Songhu.