The dark night was shrouded in a thick layer of black clouds, which were not black clouds, but the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield, drifting to the sky, mixed with the smell of blood, the wind could not disperse, and the rain could not penetrate it.

After several days of fighting, Luodian had become a ruin, and the rotten bones between the ruins could be faintly seen, emitting a strong stench of choking, and the bent guns that had been blown up were scattered everywhere, mixed with the dirt on the ground.

After Xia Yuan killed Qiu Zhengfu, he took the veteran soldiers to the direction of Jiading.

As for how Head Qiu will judge himself, all this has nothing to do with him.

Whew.

Carrying seven or eight guns on his back, he ran so far that the veteran was tired enough, sat on the ground, and said, "You are carrying so many guns just to pick up and sell?" ”

"In addition to guns, there are watches, cigarettes." Xia Yuan smiled and said, "I still have to thank you, otherwise, I wouldn't have found Qiu Zhengfu so quickly, this watch is enough for you to ask for a few wives." ”

"Not so much." The veteran waved his hand, took out a cigarette, lit it beautifully, and said, "You are fighting so hard, why don't you stay on the front line." ”

"No one took it in." Xia Yuan also took out a cigarette, lit it, and thought back to what he had done during this time, like a brick, tossing back and forth, and did not toss to understand that the task given by the system was to participate in the Battle of Songhu, and he had already participated in the Battle of Songhu, so it didn't matter what kind of battle it was.

"No one takes it in, how can it be!" The veteran's eyes widened, "If I were a commander, I would definitely give you an official, fighting is so powerful, and it is not worthwhile to lead troops to fight." ”

"Then you have to be a commander, if the commander within the national army is not a relative, or the same family, the same division, or from the same school, if you want to climb from a soldier to a commander, not only do you have strong combat effectiveness, but you also have to know the world."

When the veteran thinks about it, it's really like that.

"Even the platoon commander and the battalion commander have to have something to do with it."

The veteran smoked a cigarette and asked Xia Yuan which unit came out, he had never heard of such a person before. After thinking about it, I felt that it shouldn't be, Xia Yuan's combat effectiveness, in the battle not long ago, showed very strong combat effectiveness, such a talent should be valued wherever it is placed.

But Xia Yuan didn't even want it, and no one even used it.

Xia Yuan waved his hand: "Yudi new battalion, the first time I went to the battlefield, the recruit battalion is basically dead, and my cheap battalion commander doesn't know what is going on now, if it weren't for the platoon commander to give me the platoon commander, I would still be an ordinary soldier now." ”

"Where are you, you are so powerful, there are definitely many followers around you." The veteran was impressed by Xia Yuan's strong combat effectiveness, even if he was a deserter, he had to follow Xia Yuan.

The veteran said that it was indeed good, and so far, there are really a few people who are desperate to follow him.

It's a pity that the dead are dead, the wounded are wounded.

The scholar is also in the hospital, I don't know what his condition is now, this time he seized a lot of good things from the position of the Japanese devils and went back to bring them to the scholar.

It's a pity that there is no medicine, and the little Japanese devil's control of medicine is also quite strict.

In fact, from the fact that he entered the position and found that the seriously wounded of the Japanese devils had not retreated, it could be seen that the current situation of the Japanese devils was not good, and the seriously wounded were all thrown into the trenches by them, and when they arrived at the position, some of the seriously wounded Japanese devils had committed suicide by seppuku.

The medicine was not seized, but I got some food, as well as cheap gold and silver jewelry, which was placed in Jiading, and it was also worth some money, and it was absolutely no problem to ask for a wife in the countryside.

All the way, to the logistics of the wounded soldier transport, there are already a large number of wounded waiting here, there is a strange smell floating in the air, many wounded are not clothed, lying on the ground, bloody wounds are shocking, those wounds have no medicine, only with rough bandages simply bandaged, transported by the convoy to the hospital in the rear of Jiading.

The veteran looked at it and said, "We're not hurt, we might be treated as deserters." ”

"So you have so many guns on your back, just to get through the relationship." Xia Yuan smiled, if he was a deserter on the battlefield and was caught, something would definitely happen, but in logistics, this is very common, yesterday, Xia Yuan took Zheng Da to use them, and it was in this way that he returned to Jiading.

The veteran really didn't know that.

After a while, a convoy of trucks came from afar, the headlights were covered with a net, exuding a dim halo, and I could only see the road ahead, so that the Japanese devil plane flew over, and if I didn't look carefully, I really couldn't see it.

In addition to transporting wounded soldiers, they will also transport guns and ammunition captured from the battlefield, some of which will be confiscated, and the other part will flow into private hands, be slightly renovated, and sold to the national army at a high price.

Similarly, the black market in Jiading buys weapons from the soldiers of the national army at a low price, and after simple renovations, they sell them to the national army at a high price to earn the military renewal fee of the national army.

It was an old acquaintance who came, the captain who came from the direction of Wusong also pulled them last night, Xia Yuan smiled, patted the veteran's shoulder, and then took out a box of cigarettes from his pocket and stepped forward, "Captain Chen." ”

When Commander Chen heard someone call him, he looked back, and the person who came was a little familiar, but some couldn't remember where he had seen it, so he asked, "Are you?"

"Captain Chen, a noble person, forgets a lot of things." Xia Yuan took out one of the cigarettes from the box, put it on his mouth, and stuffed the rest into Captain Chen's hand, mentioning a place name: "Wu Song." ”

"Oh oh, it's you, what a coincidence, how did you end up here?" When Commander Chen saw the cigarette in his hand, he immediately understood it and snorted, but he didn't recognize it at all, these days, he picked up a lot of people in Wusong, where do you remember everyone.

Xia Yuan naturally saw through it and didn't say anything, and said to the veteran Nunu behind him, "It's all three-eight style, half of it, send me to Jiading, occupy two positions, and don't occupy much." ”

Captain Chen shook the cigarette in his hand and thought for a while.

Xia Yuan smiled, "This battle won't end for a while, I'll come back then." ”

When Captain Chen heard this, he looked at Xia Yuan carefully: "Specializing in this?" ”

Xia Yuan smiled: "Extract teeth from the tiger's mouth and make a little money." ”

"Where's this little money."

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Xia Yuan asked, "This matter." ”

"I want guns, I want bullets, I don't want the rest, I'll bring you wherever you go when the time comes." Commander Chen thought for a while, and directly opened his mouth: "One person, three guns, this is a friendship price, and it is also for the sake of the two of us being old acquaintances." ”

"You also know that the people who pulled the wounded were all broken arms and legs, and the two of you who pulled the limbs were not good, so you have to cover it up."

Xia Yuan scolded in his heart, this dog thing, three guns per person, that can be sold for three oceans, grandma, it is really dark on dog days.

But he can't help it, there are still a lot of officials on top of this Captain Chen, and it's good to be able to earn a few dollars of ocean on a trip, and if you don't make a little black, you can't make money at all.

As for killing this Commander Chen, there is one less route to retreat, after the Japanese devils stabilize Luodian, they will not be stable, they will attack all the way south from Luodian, and go straight to Dachang, Dachang is the only way for the retreat of the Shanghai National Army, and the Japanese army will occupy Dachang, which will cut off the retreat route of the Shanghai National Army.

At the moment, no one can say what the next battle situation will become.

Xia Yuan glanced at the veteran behind him, and the veteran took out six guns and put them in front of Commander Chen, who looked at them briefly and said with a smile: "Brother is really refreshing, I will leave two places close to the front of the car for my brother." ”

The road is muddy, potholes, puddles everywhere, the degree of bumps is terrible, the position near the front of the car is more comfortable, and the bump feeling is relatively small, just like sitting in the car in front of the car is not much motion sickness.

"There's Captain Lao Chen." Xia Yuan arched his hand, and then followed Captain Chen's arrangement and got on the truck.

There were also some soldiers who didn't lack arms and legs, obviously they all bought Captain Chen's parking space, and those wounded soldiers couldn't afford to shoot, so they all sat on the butt of the car.

A convoy of eight trucks, after a short stop on the side of Luodian, drove towards Jiading.

The sky shimmered.

The battle in the direction of Luodian gradually subsided.

The last wave of the offensive launched by General Chen Cheng ended in failure, and the Nationalist army was unable to capture Luodian in the end, so it had to stop the attack.

At this point, although the national army has surrounded Luodian on three sides, and even cut off the road between Luodian and Liuhe, Luodian and Chuanshakou for a time, but finally failed to complete the encirclement, nor did it occupy Luodian, as the national army stopped attacking, the Japanese 11th Division began to repair.

The 3rd Division of the Japanese Army was attacking the front line of Yanghang and Yuepu.

The flanks of the 15th Group Army were unstable, and the frontal troops were extremely tired, and the Japanese troops in Luodian began to counterattack with the help of the air force and the power of artillery, and the Nationalist troops began to retreat.

At the same time, at the Qiujiang wharf, China and Japan also launched a fierce battle, the scale of the battle was not large, but the fight was extremely tragic. Prior to this, the Japanese army had built a temporary airfield near the Gongda Yarn Mill, which was later occupied by the Nationalist army, and in order to strengthen the air force in Shanghai, the Japanese army wanted to take this airfield and engage in a fierce battle with the Nationalist army at the Qiujiang wharf.

The Nationalist army resisted and fought fiercely for several days, but the Japanese still captured the Qiujiang wharf, and its Gongda airfield began normal operation on 8 September, and the Japanese air force near Shanghai was further strengthened.

With the failure of the siege of Luodian and the successive loss of Wusong Baoshan, the anti-landing operations of the Nationalist army on the Songhu battlefield were no longer sustainable, and it became a foregone conclusion that the Nationalist army would turn into a comprehensive defense.

On the Japanese side, after the capture of Baoshan, although the connection between the two divisions was opened, Yuepu and Yanghang were still controlled by the national army, and these two strongholds, like two nails, were deeply embedded between the two divisions of the Japanese army, so the next goal of the Japanese army's operation was to capture these two strongholds and completely open up the connection between the two divisions.

The sky was bright, and on the horizon, a fiery red sun slowly rose, reflecting the devastated land, the trucks jolted, and the faces of the soldiers in the red sun were flushed.

The veteran sat on the ground with two guns on his back, his eyes looking around.

Xia Yuan closed his eyes and pretended to sleep.

"Airplanes! Plane! ”

A series of hurried shouts suddenly plunged the convoy, which was relatively calm and only accompanied by car engines, into a huge panic.

There was a sharp bomb whistling in the sky, boom, boom, falling to the ground, like a blooming flower, a car was hit by a bomb dropped by the Japanese devil's plane, in an instant, it was torn apart, in the billowing smoke, I saw the soldier who was burning with flames all over his body, not yet dead, struggling in the smoke, his body was burned like dry wood, and he struggled for a while.

"Get out of the car!"

Xia Yuan saw that the situation was wrong, and when he looked up, there were three Japanese planes in the sky, and he immediately beckoned the veteran to follow him.

The back of the truck is already in a mess, those with good legs and feet are jumping under the car, and those with bad legs and feet no matter how they call for help, no one pays attention, they are all running for their lives frantically, who cares about this.

Xia Yuan didn't care, he jumped out of the car with the veteran, and the car behind him rolled with the air wave in a violent explosion, blowing the two away and falling heavily to the ground.

Two of the eight trucks behind him turned into a pile of wreckage, their charred bones burning with flames, and the Japanese planes dropped only a few bombs before they burst into the sky and disappeared.

A group of grizzled soldiers stood up from the ground, staring blankly at the wreckage of the car bombed by the Japanese plane, and at the thick black smoke emitting from the charred bones in the wreckage.

Commander Chen straightened his hat, stood on the road, and yelled at the Japanese devil's plane: "Dog's Japanese Yankees, Lao Tzu is a special mother's eight trucks, and you have two special mother's trucks, and sooner or later one day you will be knocked down!" ”

After catharsis for a while, Captain Chen said, "Get in the car and continue to go!" Squeeze it all, it's almost there, hold on. ”

All the people in the car died, and none of them jumped off, and more than a dozen people escaped from the truck where Xia Yuan was, each with an expression on their faces that they would have survived.

After sitting in the car, their expressions were a little dazed.

The truck jolted all the way.

"Look!" Someone suddenly pointed into the distance.

Xia Yuan stood up, raised his head and looked in the direction that the man was pointing, a city appeared at the end of his sight, thick smoke rose from the city, and when he entered the city, a large area of ruins came into view, and the gray-faced soldiers rummaged through the ruins.

"The Japanese devil's plane is heading for Jiading." The veteran looked at the ruins in front of him and his heart sank.

"yes, what does that mean."

"What?"

The veteran turned his head to look at him.

"The battle in the direction of Luodian has failed, and the Japanese devils can already send redundant planes to bomb our rear."

The veteran's heart sank until the truck stopped, and he did not speak.

(End of chapter)