Xia Yuan arrived at the position, and with his individual combat ability, in such a street battle, it was almost unstoppable.

As long as the enemy's forces are not too much, there is basically no way to take him.

In the house, a pot of salty soup was boiling with a helmet, and Niu Qian sat on the ground and watched, "Company commander, you are back, come and taste it, it tastes good." ”

"Hey, I'm asking about this fragrance outside." Xia Yuan smiled and said, "Veteran, find three empty canned food boxes and scoop some to taste." ”

"Hey."

The wind outside poured from the broken roof into the house, blowing the flames under the helmet, swaying.

"The rain won't stop tonight." The veteran filled the empty can, filled some hot soup, and held it in his hand and drank it.

"It's not going to stop for two days." Xia Yuan took a small sip and drank it, listening to the crackling raindrops outside, which soaked half of the room, and the three of them hid in a relatively dry place on the other side, using the clothes that the little Japanese devil took off to spread out a bed that was formed.

After dinner, I lay down on it and prepared to sleep.

The second stunned man ran back and said excitedly: "Company commander, Master Wang, they are here!" ”

When Xia Yuan heard this, he sat up from the ground, Wang Yaowu, who was wearing a raincoat, and the head of the 301st Regiment walked in from outside, took off his hat, and saw the remaining three people in the room, Wang Yaowu said:

"Brother Xia Yuan, you guys are working hard, what about the others?"

"I let them stay in the south, if the Japanese devils can't open a breakthrough from here, I estimate that they will open a breakthrough from the south, as long as the breakthrough in the south is opened, they can threaten this side."

"Reason, reason." Wang Yaowu nodded, turned back to the head of the 301st Regiment and said, "You are sending some people over to help Brother Xia Yuan guard the Du family house." ”

"Yes!" The commander of the 301st Regiment looked at Xia Yuan and said happily: "Brother Xia Yuan is really powerful, I have been fighting with the Japanese devils for so long, and it is the first time I have seen them deflated. ”

The commander of the 301st Regiment sincerely admired Xia Yuan, the combat situation of Du's house, they were in the rear, and they received the situation of the front line at all times, and the Japanese army entered Du's house twice, but they were all beaten out by these people in front of them, and their combat ability is obvious to all.

When I see them now, I especially admire them in my heart, a team of four people who have been fighting with Japanese devils for so long.

This is something that their own soldiers can't do, let alone four people, even forty people, they may not be able to fight it.

The combat capability of the Japanese devils is very terrible, and the training of the Central Army is good enough, and the battle loss ratio still reaches a terrible eight to one.

This shows how terrible the combat capability of these people is.

"Master Wang, I need some supplies." Xia Yuan was not polite to them, "Raincoats, grenades, Czech light machine guns." More grenades, two Czech, and a little more machine-gun ammunition. ”

"No problem."

Wang Yaowu patted his chest, Xia Yuan's combat ability is strong, he likes this kind of soldier very much, even if he sends him supplies and more, he is willing.

Those who are not strong in combat ability, and they still want these and those, and send them supplies, not to mention how uncomfortable he is. When many companies arrived on the battlefield, they were mixed, and when they fought with the Japanese devils, they also resisted passively.

Why did the 301st Regiment set up the regiment headquarters very close to the front line, it was nothing more than staring at the battle situation in front, which company could not fight, and opened its mouth and closed its mouth, it was just for supplies, and it was natural to be unhappy to give them supplies, but it was not okay if they didn't give it, after all, they were all fighting on the front line, whether they were concentrating on fighting or not, but when they arrived at the front line, the Japanese devils rushed over, and if they didn't want to fight, they had to follow them.

A soldier like Xia Yuan, Master Wang Yaowu naturally likes it very much.

The 51st Division is a division-level combat unit under the 74th Army, and when the 74th Army was first established in 1937 for the Songhu Campaign, the 51st Division was one of its branches, with Wang Yaowu as the division commander. Although the 51st Division was a unit of the Central Army at that time, because many of its soldiers were soldiers of the former Northwest Army, it did not belong to the core lineage of Lao Chiang.

But even in the 51st Division, many of them were the Northwest Army, and there were also some soldiers who were indiscriminately filled.

The commander of the 301st Regiment is surnamed Qiu, and the commander of the 401st Regiment has a surname, named Qiu Weida, this is also a general, he has just received military education from Germany, and after returning to China, he followed the 51st Division to the front line.

The most important thing in fighting against a small group of Japanese troops is to see the combat capability of a small group of troops.

Xia Yuan's combat ability is beyond doubt, and Wang Yaowu and Qiu Weida like such soldiers very much.

Qiu Weida immediately said: "I will send another company of soldiers to you to command, and in addition, I will equip you with three mortars, three Czech, and one 24 water-cooled heavy machine gun." ”

Three Czech-type and one Type 24 water-cooled heavy machine gun, which was very surprising to Xia Yuan. However, fighting in the street is not just about investing more troops and luxurious weapons and equipment, on the contrary, the more you invest, the greater the casualties will be.

Compared with the Japanese army, in order to take the Du family house, in the afternoon time, a large number of troops were invested in the battle, not only did the Du family house down, but caused huge casualties to themselves, Xia Yuan did not count in detail, but today, the Japanese casualties who attacked the Du family house reached at least about 100 people.

More than 100 people, which seems to be a small number, but this is a very terrifying number, and the average number of casualties per day of several infantry brigades within a division is between 100 and 300, and sometimes it will be less.

And this brigade, sometimes attacking multiple positions of the national army, is the sum of most casualties on all fronts.

At present, the casualties of just one Du family house have reached more than 100 people, and the number of casualties on the whole line may be even more. It is precisely because of this that Wang Yaowu and Qiu Weida are so optimistic about Xia Yuan, there are many people who can lead troops to fight, but there are very few who can really win the enemy, not to mention that they took three people to defend their positions for an afternoon, and they fought more difficult street battles.

Xia Yuan shook his head and said, "Commander Qiu, there are not so many things to fight in the streets, mainly grenades, the more the better." ”

The Japanese devils also used grenades during the attack, and they eliminated the Japanese army, and the number of grenades touched from the Japanese army was really limited.

Today, an infantry squad of the Japanese army was recruited, and only five grenades were found, which is not as many as the previous hunting.

"Grenades are good, I'll have someone get you a few boxes of grenades, and put them in the back for supplies." Qiu Weida nodded, and said, "Do you still need to replenish your manpower?" ”

"The battle casualties in the south are not small, let's make up another platoon." Xia Yuan thought for a while and continued: "I estimate that the Japanese devil suffered such a big loss here in the Du family house today, and he will definitely return it tomorrow." ”

Wang Yaowu thought secretly, nodded and said: "The Japanese devil's heart is small, and the Du family house has been bombed like this by the Japanese devil, and there is no need to stop the enemy here." The second line of defense is basically ready, abandon the Du family's house, and retreat some distance. ”

After the establishment of the 51st Division, Wang Yaowu had three full-fledged combat regiments and a large number of troops directly under the division, which could be called a strong army.

There was no need to hold this position, and the main thing was to block the positions in the rear.

Most of the positions in the rear were defensive positions built on the stone walls and trenches on the periphery of the village, and he even dug a large number of tunnels underground for the transfer of troops.

This kind of tunnel warfare was proposed by Qiu Weida, and it is much more flexible than the rigid defense of the national army. In addition, the Japanese army's offensive mode is very rigid, and it only needs to withstand a round of Japanese artillery fire and wait for the Japanese devil's infantry to rush up.

"It takes a lot of time to dig the tunnel, and the soldiers on the front line have won it for us."

Wang Yaowu walked up to Xia Yuan and looked at him: "Now follow me to the rear to block the Japanese army." ”

Wang Yaowu was a famous anti-Japanese general, especially his 51st Division, which held out on the Songhu battlefield for two months, and did not suffer serious losses himself, and was an absolute leader among the participating troops at that time.

The defensive strategy adopted by the 51st Division was also very advanced among the Nationalist Army, which had a rigid combat mode at that time.

After the battle of Luodian, the national army retreated and began to defend, Wang Yaowu organized troops to improve the relatively rigid positional defense system of the national army, and first strengthened the protection intensity of the forward positions to cope with the bombardment of Japanese naval artillery.

In addition, a three-dimensional tunnel defense system was established through the construction of communication trenches, and there were mutual passages between the various positions, which was convenient for the transfer of troops.

Second, the concealment of the positions and the allocation of troops have also been relatively strengthened, and the soldiers have been deployed in various forward positions in the form of combat groups, and firing points have been rationally set up.

The equipment level of the 51st Division is already good, and such an improvement can completely allow the Chinese army to form a local advantage over the Japanese army in terms of unit firepower.

In the ensuing battle, Wang Yaowu continuously commanded the troops to attack the Japanese army at night, lured the Japanese pursuing troops to the killing area set up in front of the Chinese army's position, and then attacked the Japanese infantry with intensive firepower.

Due to the rigidity of the Japanese army's tactics, the 51st Division won many successes, not only reaping fruitful results, but also making the 51st Division famous on the entire Songhu front and participating in the follow-up defense of Jinling.

Xia Yuan also agreed with Wang Yaowu's method, building a second line of defense, in the case of a lot of time, it is indeed necessary to send a small force to block the Japanese army, in order to gain time for the construction of the second line of defense.

Sun's house.

After a day of fighting, the new company, under the leadership of Platoon Commander Li, held the Sun family's house, but also suffered huge casualties, and one of Platoon Commander Li's platoons was wiped out, he was disgraced, covered in blood, and his clothes were soaked in heavy rain, and the whole person looked like he had been splashed with a layer of ink.

"Brother Xia, I'm sorry, team, I brought you a mistake."

The newly formed company has more than 80 people, nearly 90 people, only 10 people are deployed on the north side, there are more than 20 people in the middle, and the south side is the most tightly defended force of nearly two platoons.

"Company commander, Platoon Commander Li's platoon has all been sacrificed, don't blame him, it's the little Japanese devil who is too powerful."

"Yes, company commander, the little Japanese devils bombarded our positions with artillery bombardment, and many people died.

When a group of soldiers saw Xia Yuan coming in a hurry, they thought that they were going to punish Platoon Commander Li, and they exonerated Platoon Commander Li one after another.

Platoon Commander Li divided them into combat units and occupied a piece of ruins around them, resisting the Japanese attack in this way.

Platoon Commander Li put his platoon in the first place, and the Japanese army was the first to defeat his platoon.

Then, the Japanese devils entered the courtyard, and it was Platoon Commander Li who led the death squad to fight bayonets with the Japanese devils to beat the Japanese devils back.

Everyone agreed very much with the platoon commander of the 51st Division.

"How do you see that I want to punish Platoon Commander Li?" Xia Yuan felt sorry for those sacrificed soldiers, and he also knew very well in his heart that fighting with the Japanese devils like this would inevitably cost heavy sacrifices.

It's just that Xia Yuangao looked at the soldiers in the newly formed company, and he thought that after following him to fight a few night attacks, the cooperation and combat ability of these soldiers have improved, but he was wrong, the Japanese army still spent a day to cripple the new company, and only one platoon remained.

There were also more than a dozen wounded, and Xia Yuan found Wang Yaowu and asked him to make proper arrangements.

Wang Yaowu placed Xia Yuan's new company in the rear of the second line of defense to rest, and Xia Yuan retreated to the second line of defense with the new company.

The second line of defense, mostly relying on the fortifications built by several villages around the town, is surrounded by a dwarf wall made of stones, more than half a person high, and the road is flanked by mounds of dirt, and it has rained, the dirt road has become muddy, and you have to be extra careful when walking, it is very easy to slip.

The surface fortifications have been basically completed, the underground tunnels are still being dug, and in the middle of the night, the soldiers can still be seen transporting the earth, and they must hurry up and build fortifications.

The position in front is not completely abandoned, the new company is down, and a new company is going up, Xia Yuan's new company is tasked with holding the last position, holding on for a day, and changing to other companies may not be able to hold on. Secondly, Wang Yaowu is also very optimistic about Xia Yuan's combat ability.

This kind of combat ability, leading the company is the most suitable, and leading the battalion cannot bring Xia Yuan's combat ability into play.

Wang Yaowu, Adjutant Sun, and Chief of Staff carefully discussed the next battle plan, basically centering on the second line of defense to block the enemy Japanese army, and the forward position was the contact area with the Japanese army.

It was impossible to retreat without a fight, and it was easy for the Japanese army to suspect it.

(End of chapter)