Li Youcai came again and gave two completely different orders, and after informing Xia Yuan of the order, Li Youcai sat on the ground.

"Throw away your identity, I respect you as a man, when the Sitang River, the front line has been broken by Japanese devils, you can still kill so many Japanese devils, and withdraw safely, it's really powerful."

sighed and continued: "It's a pity, this battlefield is not just about fighting and killing, if you disobey the order, you will inevitably have to re-issue an order to you, to tell you the truth, the situation in Qiaoping is complicated, the rout and the regular army are everywhere, there is the last line of defense of the Eighteenth Brigade, the Seventh Company has been given the order to defend the position, you go over, the probability of survival is not high." ”

Xia Yuan's face was calm, and he waved his hand casually: "You don't have to say anything about this matter, since it is an order, I will follow it, Sitang River, I can come back alive, Qiaoping, I can also come back alive." ”

"Xia Yuan, everything else is fine, but it's a little arrogant." Li Youcai said: "Supporting Baoshan is an order issued by the Shangfeng Command, if it is completed, your career will be smooth sailing, but you did not grasp the opportunity." ”

"Before dawn, support Baoshan, I can't do it, I take them with me, it's nothing more than sending them to death, since I can refuse this order, why not refuse." Xia Yuan shook his head and said: "Let's not mention this matter for the time being, the battle situation in Baoshan is becoming more and more critical day by day, even if I am promised to support the past during the day, the current war in Wusong has reached this level, whether Baoshan can hold on for a day is still a huge problem, even if I support the past, how many people are left in a platoon, what is the difference between this and one person supporting the past." ”

He looked at a few people and said, "Pack up and get ready to go." ”

"Where are you going?" Li Youcai stood up.

"We were originally soldiers of the new battalion in Yudi, and we were taken in by Company Commander Lu all the way, and now Company Commander Lu died in battle, I should go to find my troops, the 18th Brigade, not my troops." Xia Yuan looked at Li Youcai and said, "Your order is useless to me. ”

"Stop!" Li Youcai was angry and said, "I'll leave the medicine to you." ”

"I respect you, I don't respect Zhang Guangqi, Zhang Guangqi tried my marksmanship, don't talk about it for the time being, I don't care about the devil, the Japanese devil is the enemy of the nation, I will punish him, but Zhang Guangqi asked me to send him to death, Adjutant Li, you say, such a person, how can I follow."

Xia Yuan's eyes were calm: "For the act of giving medicine, I will repay you in the future, but let me go to the front line to die, I can't do such an order." ”

I thought Zhang Guangqi was a capable general, but I didn't expect it to be a marten with other commanders of the national army, which made his heart feel a little chilly, such a person is a standard smiling tiger, one set on the surface, one set behind the scenes.

It's Li Youcai who is good.

"I might as well go and find my troops."

Hearing this, Li Youcai's eyes drooped, and he could only watch Xia Yuan and them leave.

The sky was glowing, the rain stopped, the grass on the road was hanging with a drop of water, the eaves of the ruins were dripping, Li Youcai stood in the ruins, looking at the distant back before retracting his gaze, after going back, he reported to Zhang Guangqi:

"Xia Yuan has already gone to Qiaoping, I'm afraid."

"I don't care if it's life or death, the support team has already set off, you go and report this matter to the group." Zhang Guangqi took out a document and handed it to Li Youcai, and after Li Youcai left, Zhang Guangqi had a smile on his face.

"Einsatzgruppen, this is a great achievement."

For Zhang Guangqi, whether it is Xia Yuan or the order issued by Shangfeng, for him, it is a great achievement, how to expand the credit is what he cares about the most, as for the life and death of other people, he doesn't care.

There is a platoon of the special task force, but it is stated in the document that the special task force has a company, with luxurious weapons and equipment, which was collected by the 160th Battalion after a long period of rearmament. After all, this matter has attracted the attention of the theater commander, so he has to be asked to retract and pay more attention, the dispatch of the special task force is a great achievement, and his position and unit are clearly marked in the document, as long as his name appears in front of the theater commander's eyes, it is difficult to think of not being promoted.

No matter what the 160th Battalion did, since Xia Yuan left, the 160th Battalion had nothing to do with him.

The next battle of Baoshan also anticipated what Xia Yuan said.

At 8 a.m. on the 6th, the day after the Japanese captured Baoshan West Street, the Japanese army gathered a large number of troops at Baoshan West Street and Sitang River Bridge and began to attack Baoshan City.

The fifth brigade of the Japanese independent siege heavy artillery and the artillery of the third division began to shell Baoshan City, the ancient Baoshan city wall is a five-meter-high brick and stone structure, the thickness is pitiful, relying on such a city wall to build a bunker fortification, it is simply impossible to resist the modern heavy artillery of the Japanese army, the Japanese army only took an hour, and the many walls of Baoshan City were destroyed.

At nine o'clock, the Japanese army began to approach the south of Baoshan City, and the soldiers of the national army shot stubbornly from the ruins and broken walls in the city to block the attacking Japanese army, but the Japanese sappers still quickly arrived at the city of Baoshan City, and further blasted the southeast corner of Baoshan City.

At 9:20, it took only 20 minutes for the Japanese army to climb the Baoshan city wall, and the national army in the city immediately launched a resistance against the Japanese army and tried to repel the Japanese army, but the Japanese army relied on the superiority of troops to continuously expand the breakthrough, and at the same time sent chariots to assist in attacking Baoshan and destroyed the wall southwest of Baoshan.

The counterattacking Nationalist troops suffered heavy casualties and had to retreat continuously.

At 10 o'clock in the morning of the same day, the Japanese army captured most of the southern part of Baoshan City, and at the same time, the Japanese chariots captured the east gate of Baoshan City, and the Tiangu detachment stationed in Baoshan West Street also advanced to the northwest of Baoshan City, blocking the last retreat of the national army in Baoshan City from the rear.

At 12:30 a.m., the Japanese army occupied Baoshan City.

Xia Yuan underestimated the combat ability of the Japanese army, he expected the Japanese army to fight for a day, but he never thought that the Japanese army on the Wusong side began to attack, and it took only a day and a half to the fall of Baoshan City, and the fall of Baoshan City took only half a day.

In fact, the defenders in Baoshan City had already resisted for many days, the number of wounded increased, and the consumption of guns and ammunition was serious, and the Japanese attack on the 6th was larger, stronger, and more ferocious.

Subsequently, according to the records of the Japanese army, the commando team composed of a small number of national troops finally broke through from the northwest to the vicinity of the Tiangu detachment. In the records of the Nationalist Army, the Nationalist Army in the city was completely annihilated, and in the end, only one soldier contacted the 98th Division and reported the battle situation in Baoshan City to the 98th Division.

Probably influenced by some film and television dramas, there are some on the Internet, such as the Japanese army is very moved, the body is collected, the gun is saluted and so on, but in the records of the Japanese army, the Japanese army has not done such a thing, it is just wishful thinking on the part of the Chinese people, and they are just moved by themselves.

However, there is such a passage in the diary of the commander-in-chief of the dispatch army that day, Matsui Ishone.

In this battle, about 500 enemy troops surrendered, but when it became clear that they were trying to resist, they were all shot. ’

As for whether there is an attempt to resist, or the rhetoric of the Japanese army, the benevolent see the benevolent, the wise see the wise, the Jinling City fell, hundreds of thousands of unarmed civilians, they can wantonly slaughter, burn, kill and plunder, only 500 people, to the Japanese devils, just like an ant on the ground.

War is war, and there is no warmth in the vein, the Battle of Baoshan, Yao Ziqing and Baoshan City coexisted and died, the determination and will of the War of Resistance is not high, this matter was later reported by newspapers and periodicals in Shanghai, Yao Ziqing also became the representative of the heroic resistance of the national army.

Yao Ziqing also wrote at the end of his famous telegram: "The lonely city has no help, it is difficult to support it for a long time, the people and the city are all dead, and there is no way to make up for the overall situation." ”

It is enough to see how helpless Yao Ziqing was at that time.

Xia Yuan left, because he did not participate in any war in Baoshan City, just like a bystander, watching a trivial thing in the long river of history, but this matter, in the long river of history, is like a star flashing, guiding the direction to countless anti-Japanese heroes.

And he, like a passerby, came and went in a hurry.

With the loss of Baoshan, the connection between the 11th Division and the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army was finally opened, and the anti-landing operation of the Nationalist Army basically failed, and the 15th Group Army of the Nationalist Army was still struggling to attack the Japanese army, and the 98th Division was still holding out in Yuepu.

In the war zone between China and Japan, among the ruins, there are the corpses of the soldiers of the national army everywhere, every ten steps, you can see a corpse among the ruins, some of the corpses have withered faces, rotten skin and flesh, mosquitoes flying, and some have just died not long ago, and their bodies are still complete.

After the retreat of the 18th Brigade, the Japanese Asama detachment attacked from the Shishilin Battery, in an attempt to open up the connection between the 11th Division and the 3rd Division, and the strength of the Nationalist Army in Luodian also began to move.

After the withdrawal of the 18th Brigade, the 18th Brigade was replaced by the 301st Regiment of the 51st Division, which had just arrived at the front line not long ago.

The 584th and 587th Regiments of the 98th Division left the east side of Luodian and assembled towards Yuepu, while the gaps left by the 98th Division were handed over to the 14th Division, which was in better condition.

The 14th Division was originally held on the west side of Luodian, but after the 14th Division was transferred, it was Wang Yaowu's 51st Division that took over from the 14th Division to defend the front line of Caowangmiao.

After the end of the change of defense, the Nationalist army prepared to besiege Luodian with the strength of the 11th, 14th, and 51st divisions, but the movement of the Nationalist troops was discovered by the Japanese reconnaissance planes, and the Japanese army learned in advance the direction of the main force of the Nationalist army.

That night, the Nationalist army concentrated three divisions of troops to launch a night attack on the Japanese army, and the battle was extremely fierce, with the two sides fighting between towns several miles deep.

An attack was not enough, and every night after that, the national army would gather troops, like the tide of the sea, to wash the Japanese positions over and over again, and the positions were repeatedly contested, and the dead bodies were everywhere in the alleys, especially at the front end of the Japanese defense line, the number of dead soldiers of the national army was as high as 10,000, and the corpses were scattered everywhere.

Every night of the attack, the soldiers of the national army are stepping on the corpses of their own people, charging at the positions of the Japanese army, again and again, blood in the low-lying area of Luodian Street, dried up, the ground turned black, the weather is hot, a layer of pungent stench floats in the air.

There are still many corpses of the soldiers of the national army, and there are many corpses of the Japanese army, but most of them have been collected by the Japanese army, leaving behind the corpses of the soldiers of the national army, because they are too close to the front of the Japanese position, and in the daytime, it is the time of the Japanese army, and the national army does not dare to go to the front line to collect the remains of the national soldiers, so that the corpses have rotted in front of the Japanese positions and stink.

On 4 September, the main force of the 11th Wing of the Japanese Army had just landed, making up for the gap between the 2nd Brigade of the 43rd Wing of the Japanese Army and the 22nd Wing of the Japanese Army due to the elongation of the defensive line.

During the day, the two sides were still in a tug-of-war, and the Japanese began to strengthen the forces of the two wings in order to cope with the increasing number of Nationalist troops facing the two flanks, and tried to push forward, but also failed, and since the end of August, the beginning of September, the two sides seem to have reached a stalemate.

During the day, the Japanese could not fight.

At night, the national army could not enter.

Since the 98th Division had turned to Tsukipo with all its might to intercept the Japanese detachment of Asama, there were no more troops available in the rear.

The 397th Regiment of the 67th Division, which had initially fought a bloody battle in Luodian and suffered heavy casualties, and had retreated to Jiading for recuperation, was transferred to Yuepu as a reserve.

That night, the national army launched another general attack on Luodian.

The Nationalist army transferred 15 centimeter howitzers and began to shell the area around Luodian Changjie, causing considerable damage to the Japanese positions, and the Japanese troops determined the location of the Nationalist positions according to the shelling situation and the firelight observed at night, and although the Japanese artillery tried to return fire, they were not able to successfully suppress the artillery of the Nationalist army.

The fifteen-centimeter howitzer has an extremely terrifying range, even if the Japanese army observes the position of the artillery positions of the national army, but limited by the range of its artillery, it is not able to deal much damage to the artillery positions of the national army.

However, due to the fear of the gap in the Japanese army, the artillery of the national army was only able to support the battle on the front line at night, and did not dare to open fire during the day.

On 6 September, with the fall of Baoshan, the 11th Division and the 3rd Division opened up contact with each other, the anti-landing operation basically failed, the overall situation in the Battle of Songhu began to deteriorate, and the flank of the 15th Group Army was seriously threatened.

General Headquarters of the 15th Army.

Chen Cheng looked at the combat situation transmitted from various areas on the table, the casualties were summarized, and he didn't say a word, the knock on the door kept ringing, the adjutant kept going in and out, and the documents fell one after another like snowflakes.

The deterioration of the situation, the most uncomfortable is Chen Cheng.

At this time, the total casualties of the commander of the Songhu meeting had been as high as three divisions, and the casualties were still increasing, the defenders of Baoshan City were completely annihilated, and the reinforcements were all wiped out by the Japanese army, which was undoubtedly a tragic news.

What is real is that an inch of mountains and rivers, an inch of blood.

(End of chapter)