Xia Yuan's new company was no longer capable of fighting, so he was recuperating in the rear and replenishing the source of troops at the same time, so Wang Yaowu sent a new company to Xia Yuan, which was commanded by him.

The grassroots commanders of the company are all in the newly formed company, such as the platoon commander Li who was withdrawn with them, served as the leader of the first platoon, and the veteran served as the commander of the second platoon.

The battlefield situation is more complicated, Xia Yuan does not set up more positions for the company, it is complicated and difficult to manage in a unified manner, one company commander and three platoon commanders are enough.

As for the squad in the platoon, they are appointed by the platoon commander himself, and Xia Yuan is only responsible for transferring the platoon commander.

Besides, he likes to fight alone, so it is not possible for him to take a company to fight guerrillas. Positional resistance warfare is suitable for single guerrillas and group guerrillas, Xia Yuan's combat ability has far exceeded the level of a combat group, and taking soldiers with soldiers has affected his performance.

The night passed in torrential rain, and it rained for two days in a row, the shells got into the water, and the aircraft was affected by the weather and could not carry out its mission. The Japanese offensive was affected by heavy rain and had to slow down the pace, so one company, which had previously replaced the newly formed company, held out for two days.

The daily gunfire seemed very lazy and fragmented, as if the Japanese army on the entire front had entered a passive offensive.

Heavy rains also had an impact on the national army.

First of all, the impact on the trenches, the torrential rain caused many bomb craters and tunnels to be impounded, up to the knees, some of the soft soil tunnels directly collapsed a section, and had to be repaired by the sappers in time, which consumed a lot of time.

The trenches on the surface positions, where water and soil are mixed into mud, greatly affect movement.

In addition, in the past few days, the weather was hot and dry, the corpses were piled up and decomposed, and all kinds of bacteria increased suddenly, and many soldiers of the national army were sick, some of them were very serious, and Wang Yaowu had to take isolation measures to gather the sick soldiers together and manage them in a unified manner.

Wang Yaowu's coercive measures were not without effect, centralized isolation, cut off the spread of pathogens, and he ordered that soldiers and hot water should not be used to use untreated rainwater, stagnant water, etc.

On the side of the Japanese army.

On 19 September, after handing over to the 11th Wing of the Japanese Cavalry, the 22nd Wing began to move along Majiazhai, Liuhuaqiao, Luzhai, and Zhujiacun all the way to the east of Luodian. The time was delayed for several days, and the wing commander of the 22nd Wing of the Japanese Army, Yongjin Zuobi, was also very helpless.

In the continuous operation, the soldiers of the 22nd Wing were quite tired, and the troops assembled slowly, and did not begin to move eastward until 10 o'clock at noon, and because of the heavy rain for several days, the roads were muddy, and the river was rising slowly, and the movement of the troops was extremely slow, especially the artillery units and the baggage troops, which were even more difficult.

There are diaries of Japanese soldiers, and the roads they traveled were full of corpses and graves, not only the corpses of the soldiers of the National Army, but also the corpses of the soldiers of the Japanese Tiangu Detachment, which were abandoned on the side of the road.

After the high temperature, the corpses after the heavy rain were seriously decomposed, bacteria breeded, and the outbreak of infectious diseases such as cholera and red dysentery in Yuepu caused many sick soldiers to leave the team, and most of these soldiers carried infectious diseases, so the Japanese troops also forbade the soldiers to come into contact, let alone bury the corpses of the Tiangu detachment encountered on the march.

Having experienced brutal wars, diseases, and the indifference of superior commanders, many soldiers were seriously lacking in fighting momentum.

After a full day of marching, the 22nd Wing and the Amagani Detachment converged and were reassigned to the command of Naojiro Amaya's 10th Infantry Brigade.

Interestingly, on the same day, the commander of the 10th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army, Naojiro Amaya, was hospitalized for treatment of dysentery.

It can be seen that among the units of the Japanese army, the spread of infectious diseases is quite serious.

According to Matsui Ishone's diary, the number of dysentery patients in the Japanese army had increased to the point where they could not afford to take care of them.

On the contrary, since the 51st Division arrived at the Songhu battlefield, it entered the battle for Luodian, and the number of soldiers infected with this type of infectious disease was very small, and the national army's internal methods of dealing with such infectious diseases were tough, so it did not have much impact.

Due to the heavy rain that hindered the build-up of the Japanese artillery, the outbreak of infectious diseases, the sharp reduction in combat effectiveness, the inability of the air force to carry out its mission, and the fatigue of the soldiers after the march, and other factors were entangled, it was obviously unrealistic to launch a general offensive on 20 September, and the 11 th Division of the Japanese Army finally decided to postpone the general attack by one day to 21 September.

At the same time as the Japanese army was deploying troops, the 175th Brigade, the vanguard of the 59th Division of the Nationalist Army, had already entered the south of Luodian, and the 59th Division had two brigades and four regiments, the 175th Brigade and the 177th Brigade. The 175th Brigade has the 39th Regiment and the 350th Regiment under its jurisdiction. The 177th Brigade has the 353rd Regiment and the 354th Regiment under its jurisdiction.

The Nationalist Army took over the defense line of the 14th Division with this brigade, and transferred the 14th Division, which had suffered heavy losses, to Taicang for consolidation, and when the 14th Division retreated, only more than 2,000 people remained. When they came, 12,000 people, when they went, they entered the remaining 2,000 people, and the remaining 10,000 people, died on the battlefield, and stayed in Luodian and on the position.

The Chinese and Japanese troops in the south of Luodian were relatively large.

The 51st Division on the west side of Luodian was as calm as usual.

However, the torrential rain has shrouded the heads of many officers and men guarding the front line with a lingering haze, and many tunnels have collapsed, so they can only rely on bomb craters to reconstruct tunnels, and the reconstructed tunnels are not only short, but also very narrow, and the narrow tunnels can effectively prevent them from collapsing.

Some of the larger tunnels were reinforced with sticks and planks inside, especially where they looked like they were about to collapse.

Afternoon.

The divisional headquarters of the 51st Division moved to the rear of the second line of defense.

Xia Yuan and Wang Yaowu are also old acquaintances, coupled with Xia Yuan's combat ability, Wang Yaowu asked Xia Yuan to come to the division headquarters for tea and talk about his views on the Japanese army.

What can Xia Yuan think, the Japanese devil's combat tactics are dull, if the tactics are used well, they can hit the Japanese devils hard, and Qiu Weida has conducted military education in Germany, and there must be a unique method in the use of tactics, and he knows that the 51st Division will participate in the Battle of Jinling in the future, and in the Battle of Songhu, the 51st Division is famous, and it is participating in the Battle of Songhu, and among all the units of the national army, only the one has made a record.

Some of the plans he had in mind were only suitable for small units and division-level troops, and they were still commanded by professional people.

However, he has a lot of combat experience, which Wang Yaowu and they can't compare, especially his combat experience is in the face of particularly ferocious firepower of the US army, but the attack of the US army is the same as that of the Japanese devils, and their method of dealing with the US army is to withstand the artillery bombardment, put the US soldiers into the fight, first hit a round of rapid fire, throw grenades, quickly reduce the strength of the US attack, and then fight with the US army with bayonets.

This trick is still useful for the Japanese devils, the Japanese devils have strong combat ability, strong fighting ability, the only advantage of the national army is the numerical advantage, the combat capability is far inferior to the Japanese army, this way can greatly reduce casualties, if you really want to shoot against the Japanese devils, it must not be the opponent of the Japanese devils.

The gap in training between the two sides is particularly obvious, the Japanese army has live ammunition to shoot targets every day, and the Nationalist army units have been quite impressive to shoot three times a month, and the few troops can shoot three times a month, and it is quite good to shoot once.

The shooting was not the opponent of the Japanese army, so it was only by relying on the superiority in numbers to fight with the Japanese devils with bayonets.

Wang Yaowu drank tea, listened to what Xia Yuan said, and nodded from time to time.

Qiu Weida is also there, he studied at the German Military Academy, he is very good at the application of tactics, and he knows very well in his heart where the gap between the national army and the Japanese army is, Xia Yuan's plan, he has also considered it before, but the previous battles were all street battles, encounters of small units, this kind of tactical application is a lot, and he can only rely on the soldier's own combat ability to fight with the Japanese devils.

There is no doubt that the casualties are enormous.

When they first entered the war, they were caught off guard and caused huge casualties to the Japanese devils.

Since then, the battle has become more and more difficult.

"Entering positional warfare is actually advantageous to us, we can rely on strong bunker fortifications, tunnels, and defense, and the Japanese heavy artillery has no way to take us, as long as their heavy artillery is not used, our chances of victory are still very large."

After Xia Yuan finished speaking, Qiu Weida nodded, very satisfied with this plan.

In his opinion, he could not find any fault, which was very suitable for the use of the current national army, and it was also the most effective means to reduce casualties and deal with the Japanese army.

Wang Yaowu put down the teacup, pondered for a moment, and said: "Positional blocking battle, we can not use many tactics, use the tunnel to avoid the bombardment of Japanese naval guns and heavy artillery, reduce the casualties caused by Japanese artillery, and fight with Japanese devils, we still have to rely on the soldier's individual combat ability, Xia Yuan is right, our only advantage is that there are many people." ”

The strength of a standing division of the Japanese army was around 28,000, close to 30,000, and a division of the Nationalist army was 12,000.

The strength of the five divisions in the vicinity of Luodian was about 60,000, and the strength of the Japanese army entering Luodian was less than 20,000, and the strength of the attacking national army on all lines was basically maintained in one wing, and the usual strength of a Japanese company was between 2,500 and 3,800 people, and the strength of the national army was several times that of the Japanese army.

Fighting with the Japanese army with bayonets is a clear advantage.

Taking advantage of the pouring rain in the outside world, in the division headquarters, several people determined the next way of fighting the positional blockade battle, which relied on Wang Yaowu's tunnel system, which would preserve the vital strength of the national army, and when the Japanese army entered the position, it would turn into an overwhelming force.

The 11th Wing of the Japanese Cavalry is not yet aware of the changes in the national army, they sent a small force to attack Du's house and Sun's house as usual, but it was not as good as a few days ago, the casualties were huge, it was obvious that the ghost of the people of China had retreated, but no one knew where they had retreated.

The reason why the Japanese army is so interested in the Ghost is entirely because the Ghost's combat ability is the strongest opponent they have ever encountered, and one person is enough to be worthy of a combat force.

Even far more than the casualties inflicted on them by an ordinary combat unit.

They can't afford not to take it seriously.

The 11th Cavalry Wing of the Japanese Army also held an internal meeting about postponing the general attack for one day.

In particular, the ghost is mentioned, his presence is a huge hidden danger to the attacking Japanese troops, especially when the attacking force increases, correspondingly, the casualties will also increase, which is a very good opportunity for the ghost.

At the same time, this is also a headache for the wing commander, he learned about the ghost during the internal meeting of the division.

Marksmanship, bomb throwing, and hand-to-hand combat are all top-notch, and when the battle in Luodian fell into peace, he led a platoon of troops to attack the defenders' positions many times, causing huge casualties to the defenders. The surviving defenders mentioned the fierce ghost, the machine gun fire points they had constructed were all knocked out by a grenade, and then the position was inexplicably knocked down by the enemy, and the soldiers who rushed forward to fight back were killed in the indiscriminate fire.

One of them, who was more than 1.8 meters tall and a head taller than them, was very capable of fighting, especially his bayonet, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers beat him one by one, killing one by one, and there was almost no room for resistance.

This scene had an indelible impact on the surviving Japanese soldiers, and even made their squad leaders unanimously believe that these soldiers were scared by the Chinese people.

How can there be a person in the world who beats more than a dozen people and kills more than a dozen people.

But a soldier said that he might think he was lying and was afraid of war, but the soldiers who survived were saying that it was not as simple as lying, but true.

The top brass of the Japanese army really wanted to divide the ghost into several people, after all, so many powerful combat capabilities, gathered in one person, it is an impossible thing in itself, but it is still their opponent, the Zhi Na people, which makes it even more incredible.

But as the ghost confronts them head-on, they discover that these abilities converge on one person, and it's real.

In one day, the Chinese people, who had less than one squad of troops, inflicted more than 100 casualties on them, which reached the total casualties of the attack on the national army's position in one day.

That is, after that day, the commander of the 11th Cavalry Wing had to start paying attention to this one enemy.

They were faced with the strength of a division of the national army, more than 10,000 people, three times the strength of their own, defending the west side of Luodian, once the offensive began, they had to disperse their forces and start a full-front attack on the positions of the 51st Division, some of the attacking troops had very few troops, and if they were facing a ghost, the consequences could be imagined by everyone present.

The meeting focused on ghosts, and it was enough to see how much these Japanese devils were interested in Xia Yuan.

It can't be helped, they're really messed up by this ghost.

(End of chapter)