"Xia Yuan, a new order has been issued, we are going to Wusongkou!" As soon as Xia Yuan walked to the door, he saw Lu Jingguang coming in a hurry.

"What's going on?"

Xia Yuan frowned, the Eighteenth Brigade arrived in Luodian on the twenty-ninth day, and it has only been two days since the new order of the Eighteenth Brigade was issued.

"Wusongkou was captured by the Japanese army, and the troops holding Wusongkou suffered heavy casualties, and they were unable to participate in the next battle, so they could only retreat to the vicinity of the road for defense."

Lu Jingguang got straight to the point, and made a long story short: "The superiors asked us to reinforce Wusongkou, and our task is to hold the Sitang River and prevent the Japanese army from crossing the river." ”

"Time is pressing, so we'll go now."

After speaking, Lu Jingguang left in a hurry, and then heard the company's assembly whistle sound.

After they were assembled, Xia Yuan found that the fifth company that was holding Qiao's house had also retreated back, obviously, the retreat of the 18th Brigade was on the whole line, and the defense line here had to be abandoned.

Wu Songkou fell.

Wusong is very close to Baoshan, and after the fall of Wusongkou, the focus of the next Japanese attack is Baoshan.

The tragic Battle of Baoshan is about to begin.

Xia Yuan's breath froze, Baoshan was finally surrounded by the Japanese army, all the defenders were sacrificed, and only one escaped.

The time to support Wusongkou was tight, they did not have much time, they took a truck to Wusongkou on the same day, and when they arrived at the combat zone, they heard a fierce artillery sound from the direction of Wusong from a long distance.

The rumbling roar, like thunder, drifted from a long distance, rumbling and rumbling.

"Get out of the car, quick!"

The order of the heralds was given, and they stopped in the ruins of the town, marched to Wusong, and in the afternoon, they reached the vicinity of the Sitang River.

The area allocated by the three companies is only three rooms, the front is the river beach, across the rolling river, the opposite bank is the Japanese army, the distance between each other is two kilometers, the Japanese army has not yet launched an attack on the Sitang River, the original defenders of the Sitang River also have a regiment, although this regiment has suffered heavy casualties, but relying on the buildings along the Sitang River, it can still form an impregnable defense.

If the Japanese army wants to attack, it needs to be prepared to pay a huge price.

When reinforcements from the 18th Brigade arrived, the situation changed again.

"We're going to scout the Japanese troops on the other side." Xia Yuan knew that the efficiency of the national army scouts in detecting the enemy situation was very low, and he could reflect it when he was in Luodian.

"The battalion headquarters has sent scouts to the Japanese positions on the opposite bank to conduct reconnaissance, and it is estimated that they will come out after the reconnaissance." Lu Jingguang said helplessly: "The casualties of the third company are relatively large, and the superiors will not send us an important position, and it is estimated that it is the same as the situation of the Lin family's house, a marginal position." ”

It can be seen that Lu Jingguang wants to achieve a career, but unfortunately it backfires and he is unsuccessful.

The superiors did not send a mission to the three companies, but told them to look at the three houses, and the wilderness was all around, and the Japanese army would not be stupid enough to attack them from the plains, so their defensive position was relatively easy, and nothing major would happen in the future.

Xia Yuan didn't say anything, turned on his night vision and eagle eye to observe the Japanese position, affected by the ruins on the other side, he observed for a while, but he didn't see anything, so he had to withdraw his gaze and discuss countermeasures with Lu Jingguang.

Not long after the 18th Brigade entered Wusong, the 37th Brigade also arrived in Wusong, and was subsequently transferred to Liu Xing as a reserve. During the change of defense of the Nationalist troops, the first security regiment located at the Wusong Fort withdrew from its position yesterday night due to heavy casualties, and the Japanese army had not yet discovered the withdrawal of the Nationalist troops, so they bombed the Wusong Fort the next day, and on the morning of the same day, the first brigade of the 68th Wing of the Japanese Army seized the empty Wusong Fort.

The 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Army also launched an attack on the 1st Brigade of the 68th Wing, and then began to advance to the position of the Nationalist Army, and the advance process was very smooth, and it did not take long to reach the rear defense line where the Nationalist Army had retreated, and engaged in a fierce battle with the Nationalist Army.

The Nationalist army relied on the powder magazine to resist the Japanese attack, and the wall of the powder magazine was very strong, and the Japanese artillery shells failed to destroy the outer wall of the powder magazine, and the battle was in a stalemate.

The 37th Brigade, which served as a reserve in Liu Xing, sent the 710th Regiment to join the battle and counterattack the Japanese 3rd Wing, which attacked the powder magazine.

Just when the rumbling sound of artillery was heard from a long distance, the vanguard of the 18th Brigade, which had just entered the Sitang River, discovered the Japanese army's move, and the gunfire suddenly passed from the east side of the 3rd Company.

The scholar ran fast and rushed into the room: "Brother Yuan, there is a fight ahead." ”

Hearing the gunshots that rang out nearby, Xia Yuan raised his eyebrows, "What's the matter?" ”

"The Japanese devils began to cross the river, and they waded through the water." The scholar's voice was a little hurried, "We have also found Japanese devils on our defense line, there are quite a few people, and the fourth company has fought with them." ”

"Let's go, go over and have a look."

Xia Yuan got up quickly, and as soon as he came outside, Lu Jingguang hurried over with someone.

"I'm looking for you, let's go first." Lu Jingguang took Xia Yuan and immediately rushed to the place of the incident.

"Three times in a row?" Xia Yuan asked again while following Lu Jingguang.

"If the three companies don't gather, they want to stay here and watch the little Japanese devils." Lu Jingguang said: "The attack of the Japanese devils is not with us, but from the fourth company. ”

When they arrived at the house of the fourth company, the house was empty, and the sound of gunfire came from the banks of the Sitang River, and they went to the banks of the Sitang River non-stop, passing through a ruin, and saw from a distance that the Japanese devils were hiding in the ruins on the other side of the Sitang River and shooting at them, the machine gun fire of the Japanese devils swept from afar, and the bullets hit everywhere, and the walls of the ruins were full of bullet holes.

As soon as Xia Yuan and the others arrived, a series of bullets swept on the broken pillars of the ruins beside them, startling several people to quickly squat down.

Lu Jingguang didn't bring many people, with scholars, Xia Yuan, and a platoon commander and three companies of scouts, a group of five people, they squatted on the ground, hiding behind bunkers, Lu Jingguang took out a telescope to observe the situation of the Japanese position, a large number of Japanese troops are gathering, there must be a squad of Japanese troops, the strength is between 50 and 70 people.

There are only more than 100 people in the fourth company, and the water surface of the defensive area is narrow, which is an ideal offensive position, and the three platoons of the fourth company have been distributed along the Sitang River, and the focus of the defensive position is in the position where the width of the Sitang River is narrow, because the river is very narrow, and the river is not deep, the Japanese army will most likely cross the river from here.

Xia Yuan only glanced at it, and he knew quite well in his heart that the Japanese devil's plan was to forcibly cross the river from this position.

He looked at the defensive formation of the national army again, and the commander of the fourth company knew in his heart that the Japanese army was going to cross the river from this narrow pass, so he put the only two light machine guns in the company in the narrow position and watched by the strong platoon, while the second and third platoons covered left and right.

Before the Japanese army began to cross the river, the two sides began to fire at each other at a width of 300 meters, and the amount of bullets fired by the Japanese devils was very large, and the four companies were defeated, so they could only hide in bunkers, and only a few veterans with good marksmanship and sharp eyes returned fire to the Japanese troops.

"The little Japanese devil started to go crazy early in the morning, and he wanted to shoot all the bullets." The scholar held the gun, only daring to show half of his head, and a bullet grazed over his head, and there was still some distance away from him, so he immediately retracted his head.

In today's words, the Japanese devils are indeed crazy, they don't even want their lives, just to invade us, kill our relatives, burn our villages, and invade our land.

The soldiers of the national army did not have any concept of the state, and there were many soldiers in their forties and fifties, all of whom had experienced the Qing Dynasty and the Nationalist Government, and the rapid change of the country, where was the concept of the state, and even what life was, was not clear, because there were too many dead.

The scholar has learned knowledge and knows what life is, so he will say that the Japanese devils are crazy, and they don't want their lives, and they want to attack.

No one else will say that, they subconsciously think that it is normal for the Japanese devils to beat them, after all, the country is rotten.

Lu Jingguang stared at the Japanese devils: "They are not crazy, they want to destroy us, this is a premeditated attack, the rise and fall of the world, the husband is responsible, how do we fight ourselves, Huaxia is still Huaxia, but the Japanese devils are coming, Huaxia is no longer Huaxia." ”

There was a hint of coldness in his big eyes: "They want to destroy our roots." ”

Rumble!

The Japanese devils are coming over.

This was the first time that the scholar experienced the sensation of being bombarded by Japanese devils, a shell fell behind him, and in an instant, it was as if the sky had collapsed, and the rubble rubbed off the top of his head, if he was not wearing a steel helmet, he would have broken his head and bled out.

At this moment, he understood what Xia Yuan was talking about with a large caliber cannon.

The scholar turned around, and the ruins behind him suddenly appeared a huge impact point, much larger than the crater blown out by the grenadier in his arms, and when he saw that the soldiers of the fourth company were blown up by the mortar of the Japanese devils, it was like a leaf in a storm, and everywhere there were painful wails and splashes of red mud.

He swore in his heart that he must build a large-caliber cannon.

"They're coming!"

Xia Yuan suddenly shouted, the shelling of the Japanese devils had not stopped, in the explosion of the shells, the rising gunsmoke, a large number of Japanese troops rushed to the river from the shore, and then, the machine guns on the other side of the river also rang out, and the sound of da-da-da-da, was quickly engulfed by the rumbling cannon.

The bullets puffed into the rising smoke and swirled through the curtain of mud and sand that had been lifted open by the shells, and struck the four companies of rudimentary bunker fortifications, or on some of the soldiers who had been flattened by the shells and their bodies exposed.

The machine gun of the fourth company rang out, and it stopped after a while, the Japanese devils pulled the flat-firing gun, a shell dragged the arc, boom, and plunged into a machine gun position in a row of the fourth company, with a muffled sound, Xia Yuan only saw the black soil swallowing the position, and some soldiers were blown up by the huge shock wave, and their bodies were broken.

"Xia Yuan!"

Lu Jingguang underestimated the determination of the Japanese devils to cross the river, and shouted: "You are staring here, I'll call the third company over." ”

The Japanese devils did not have many troops, but the offensive was fierce. And their artillery is not different from the carpet bombing of the US army, as long as a range is marked, it is like a cow ploughing the land, and every inch of land has to be lifted.

The artillery of the Japanese devils is completely accurate, especially the flat-fire guns, a flat-fire cannon can paralyze the machine gun positions of the fourth company, and the artillery of the Japanese devils has also been trained to carry out precise strikes on targets, and the shells are almost bombarded around the positions of the fourth company.

Most of the positions near the river are full of mud and sand, where can they build relatively strong fortifications, the Japanese devils in the short and rapid artillery bombardment, the casualties of the fourth company are very huge, the Japanese devils are really a difficult opponent, if they are given the weapons and equipment of the US army, maybe they can really eat the whole of China.

Of course, these only exist in the imagination, Japan's islands limit Japan's development, foreign expansion is inevitable, even now, we must always be vigilant against Japanese devils, a wolf that lives in the wild and has hunted prey is difficult to be tamed, even if you break its limbs, so that it shows a harmless appearance of humans and animals, but what is in the bones can never be changed.

Ai Gong once said that it is better to carry the infamy of aggression than to let the descendants enjoy the happiness of all generations, which is called sin in the present and merit in the future.

In modern times, the Japanese have never admitted that they had launched a war of aggression or that they had caused the Jinling Massacre, because it was not themselves who launched the war of aggression, but people in the past.

Maybe in a hundred years, when the sea is polluted, the Japanese will still be able to admit that they have discharged things into the ocean, because it was not done by people in the past, not by people now.

Lu Jingguang left, walked very fast, with the scouts, the Japanese devil's artillery came over, and began to attack, the fourth company absolutely could not hold it, he wanted to pull the third company over, the scholar would use the cannon, and immediately found an open position to support the only grenadier canister, and after eliminating the Japanese army in Qiao's house, they also captured a lot of grenadier shells.

The scholar's pockets were abundant again.

A platoon of leaders put their rifles on the bunker, and the shells of the Japanese devils fell again, blowing him up and forcing him to shrink up to avoid the Japanese shelling.

Xia Yuan asked the scholar to prop up the grenadier and told him to pay attention to avoiding the Japanese shelling, and he concluded that the Japanese shelling would not last long, and that the shelling might stop when the Japanese crossed to the center of the river.

He changed his position, took out five bullets from his pocket, stuffed them into the magazine, poked them into the magazine, looked at the position of the fourth company, and shook his head.

"The commander of the fourth company was too composed, and let the machine gunner shoot so early."

If the Japanese devils want to forcibly cross the river, the best position is to wait for the Japanese devils to reach the center of the river, the river is deep, and the current is turbulent, the Japanese devils are short, in the center of the river, it is difficult to stand firm and shoot, that is their chance. (End of chapter)