When he was in Luodian, the decision of the national army was already wrong.

The forces of five divisions were concentrated, but they launched an attack on the Japanese troops in Luodian Town from three directions, and the forces could not be concentrated on a single breakthrough, but the forces were scattered and exerted on three sides, and as a result, there were not enough forces to break through the Japanese defense line.

Even if some troops entered it, they were eventually beaten out by the Japanese army because of the lack of cooperation between the various units.

The five divisions are not like joint operations, but more like fighting separately, you fight yours, I fight mine.

The equipment was already backward, the intelligence against Japan was seriously insufficient, and the command class of the national army had committed such a taboo in terms of tactical arrangements.

Dachang is the target of the second phase of the attack when Japanese reinforcements arrive.

Since the Japanese army landed from Wusongkou and along the Yangtze River, the Chinese army gathered heavily in Dachang, here is Zhabei in the south, Jiangwan in the east, across the Fuzaobang in the north, can pass through Liuhang, Luodian, west is Nanxiang and Jiading, it is like a round center shop, starting from here, you can radiate every stronghold of the Songhu battlefield.

It is only a few miles away from the Japanese positions in Jiangwan and Hongkou.

It was the last strategic point for the Chinese army to resist the Japanese army and prevent the Japanese army from meeting in the urban area.

Once the Japanese occupied Dachang, the Chinese army's front would be split in half by the Japanese army.

The Japanese troops in Shanghai were able to join forces with the 9th, 101st, and 3rd Divisions of the Japanese army on the outskirts, and the situation on the battlefield could be reversed.

The 36th Division, which was the first to defend Dachang, was the commander of the 36th Division, which was one of the strongest combat units of the National Army.

However, the fierceness of the battle is still beyond imagination.

When the 101st Division of the Japanese Army launched an attack on Fuzaobang, the Japanese army in Shanghai did not stop attacking Dachang, and after dozens of days of offensive and defensive battles in the urban area, by the time of the Dachang defensive battle, Song Xilian's entire division had already suffered heavy casualties, so it had to be withdrawn and replaced by other troops.

Not only Song Xilian's troops, after two months of fierce fighting, the entire Central Army suffered heavy casualties.

It was no longer possible to organize the desired offensive, and they all gritted their teeth and struggled to support it.

Every day, every hour, every minute, every second.

The troops sent to fight in the city were all beaten by the Japanese and suffered heavy casualties.

On August 3, 1937, the Battle of Songhu began, Li Zongren ordered the 7th Army and the 48th Army of the Gui Army to go north to resist Japan, and the 172nd Division of the 7th Army assembled in Wuzhou on August 22, took the lead in setting off, took the boat to Guangzhou, and took the train to Wuhan to transfer to Xuzhou to assemble.

The 170th and 171st Divisions of the Seventh Army set off from Liuzhou, and the 173rd, 174th, and 176th Divisions of the 48th Army set off from Guilin, walked lightly to Hengyang City, Hunan Province, took a train in Hengyang, arrived at Hankou along the Guangdong-Hankou Line, transferred to the Pinghan Road train through Wushengguan into Henan, along Xinyang to Zhengzhou, and then transferred to the Longhai Road train from Zhengzhou to Xuzhou via Kaifeng.

In early October, received an order to rush to aid the Songhu battlefield, on October 11, Jiang Zhongzheng ordered the 7th Army and the 48th Army to form the 21st Group Army, Liao Lei served as the commander, the 21st Group Army set off by train in Xuzhou on the same day, passed through Nanjing through Jinpu and got off at Zhenjiang, arrived in Changzhou on foot to assemble and mobilize, and set off immediately the next morning, the 48th Army went first, and the 7th Army marched to Shanghai on foot.

From October 16 to 19, 1938, the 48th Army and the 171st Division of the 7th Army arrived in Shanghai one after another. The 170th and 172nd Divisions received an order to be on standby in Wuxi before entering the downtown area of Shanghai, and then transferred to Wuxing to carry out the blocking mission.

On the 15th, the Sichuan army fought with the Japanese army for so long from the south of Fuzaohama, but instead of penetrating, the 101st Division of the Japanese army had already crossed Fuzaobang and occupied the defenders' positions on the south bank of Fuzaohama.

All units of the Nationalist army defending the Fumohama defense line had already suffered heavy casualties and were unable to stop the counterattack.

This mission naturally fell into the hands of the wolf soldier Gui Jun, who had just arrived in Songhu.

At this time, the Sichuan army had just withdrawn, and the Gui army arrived at Fuzaobang and entered the position.

The soldiers of the Gui Army were born with a desire not to admit defeat, and the first time Xia Yuan saw them, he decided that this was a tiger and wolf army.

When the Sichuan army was leaving, they told the Gui army, who had taken over their defense, that the god of war would stay in the position.

Therefore, not long after the Gui Army arrived at the front line, Xia Yuan was taken to the headquarters and met with the commanders of the various divisions of the Gui Army, as well as the commander-in-chief of the 21st Group Army of the Gui Army, Liao Lei.

The blood stains on Xia Yuan's body have not been washed off, the military uniform is ragged, and he is wrapped in a layer of blood cloth, and there are grenades captured from the Japanese army hanging on his body, and the two boxes of magazines are full, and the yellow-orange-orange bullets are particularly eye-catching.

"The name of the god of war, when I saw it today, it really deserved its name."

Anyone who saw Xia Yuan could feel an almost condensed killing intent from Xia Yuan, cold, heavy, and palpitating.

This is the breath of veterans who often fight on the battlefield.

"Is there something the commander-in-chief is looking for me?"

Xia Yuan was not stage frightened at all, his eyes swept over the commanders of the various divisions in the command headquarters, and then fell on the slightly burly man.

Many of these people can only be seen in history.

When I really appeared in front of me, it felt a little different.

"I heard from the brothers of the Sichuan army that you killed a lot of Japanese devils on the battlefield, and it is difficult for the Japanese army to capture your position, so I want you to join my command and fight against the Japanese army."

It's a pity that such a god of war wandering on the battlefield is not under his command.

"I'm not going to join any troops." Xia Yuan shook his head and said, "But it's not a big problem to fight with your troops. ”

Leading troops to fight, there are too many dead, whether it is in Luodian or Yangxing, as long as there is a team led by him, they will be placed on high hopes and sent to the front line to fight with the Japanese army.

This was true in the 51st Division, and it was also true to go to reinforce the 90th Division.

Yang Xing, Fuzaobang is his guerrilla warfare, unrestrained, and the most free time.

With soldiers, I don't feel very comfortable.

After pondering for a moment, Liao Lei nodded: "It's okay, since the God of War said so, then I will follow you, and you will follow the 173rd Division." Lao He, it's okay to let the God of War follow your team. ”

He Weizhen, commander of the 173rd Division, was subordinate to the 21st Army of the 48th Group Army.

Master He had a smile on his face: "No problem, hahahaha, everyone, I picked up a bargain." ”

He was very happy in his heart, having such a general, whether it was a positional battle or a tough battle, it was a great help.

The name of the god of war is known to everyone, and no one knows it.

The commanders of each division looked at Lao He's expression, and they were really envious in their hearts, and they had nothing to say about the commander-in-chief's arrangement.

Whoever the god of war follows is to fight Japanese devils, as long as he fights Japanese devils, that's right.

On the 16th, the 101st Division of the Japanese Army crossed Fumohama.

In order to defeat Fumohama, the Japanese 101st Division paid heavy casualties, the Ghana Wing was basically annihilated, the entire 101st Division was disabled, and nearly two-thirds of its personnel were reduced.

Matsui Ishine had no choice but to take out the 3rd Division as a reserve and continue to march towards Oba.

According to Matsui Ishone's deployment, the Japanese army will attack the 3rd Division, the 9th Division, and the 101st Division as the main attack, and the 11th Division, the 3rd Division, and the Shigedo Detachment as the assists, and attack Zoumatang and Dachang Town.

In the face of the menacing Japanese army, in the face of a large unfavorable situation.

On October 19, after urgent study, Bai Chongxi, Chen Cheng and others decided to reorganize the army and launch a counteroffensive against the Japanese army entrenched on the south bank of Fuzaobang.

Strike back time, the night of October 21.

During this period, Japanese bombers and fighters did not carry out missions at night.

The Gui army had just arrived in Songhu, and the soldiers were strong and strong, and all the officers and men of the troops participating in the battle had high confidence.

In order to support this counterattack, the bald head also poured out his pockets and pulled up all the artillery that could be mobilized.

The 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 10th, and 16th Artillery Regiments, the Artillery Battalion of the Teaching Corps, and the Central Artillery School Training Team were bound to smash the Japanese army's battle plan and drive the Japanese troops on the south bank of Fumohama to the north bank of Fumohama in one fell swoop, and even to a great extent wipe out the Japanese troops on the south bank of Fumohama.

On the evening of the 20th.

It was dark.

There is only one day left until the time for the counteroffensive.

Xia Yuan looked at the position of the 173rd Division, there was a rumbling sound of guns from the front line, leaned on the ground, looked at the bandages wrapped around his arms, since participating in the Battle of Songhu, this is the first time he has been injured and hung the lottery, his arm was bitten by a bullet from the Japanese devil, fortunately, his physical fitness is hard enough, Master He ordered someone to give him medicine, and he was already able to move in two days.

"At nine o'clock tomorrow evening, it is the time for the counterattack, and the 173rd Division will attack Hujiazhuang." Division Commander He walked up to Xia Yuan and sat down, looked at the gray sky in the distance, and continued: "It is very difficult to attack the fortification, Xia Yuan, the task of attacking the forward position of the Japanese army is entrusted to you." ”

"No problem, just leave it to me." Xia Yuan asked again: "How many troops will attack tomorrow?" ”

"Six divisions."

Xia Yuan smacked his tongue.

Six divisions, at least 50,000 men, counterattacked the southern bank of Fumohama, and it seems that the current battle in Fumohama is quite urgent.

After having been fighting in Fumohama for so long, he can see the current situation a little more clearly.

The Japanese army wanted to attack Dachang through Fuzaohama, so they invested a lot of troops for the Fumohama operation.

From the end of September to the 15th, the bloody battle lasted for more than 20 days, with more than 100,000 troops and an average of 5,000 casualties per day.

The Gui army invested six divisions, and I am afraid that tomorrow night, they will all be exhausted.

It's not that the Japanese devils have been fighting for so long and can still maintain high-intensity operations, but when the national army counterattacked, the 3rd Division, a division that happened to be a reserve, arrived at the front line from the rear, and the 3rd Division of the Japanese army was the reserve of the Japanese army dispatched in Shanghai, and when it was put into the battlefield, it had not participated in any operations.

No doubt.

The collision between the Gui Army and the 3rd Division of the Japanese Army was like a needle against a wheat.

Seeing that Xia Yuan was preoccupied, Division Commander He asked the reason: "We have gathered the strength of six divisions to counterattack the Japanese army in Fuzaobang, and we have a considerable grasp, why do you sigh." ”

"If we had encountered the Japanese army's Class A division, this battle would not have been so easy to fight."

The Japanese 101st Division suffered heavy casualties and was unable to support the heavy task of attacking, so it was inevitable to send reinforcements, and the reinforcements were none other than the Japanese Army's Class A Division, the 3rd Division.

Divisions, basic tactical corps, are the highest level of fixed establishment units in the Japanese Army.

When the "77 Incident" broke out in 1937, the Japanese Army had 17 "permanent" divisions and regiments, and during the War of Aggression against China and the Pacific War, 156 divisions and regiments were formed one after another, with a total of 173 divisions and regiments.

The so-called standing divisions, also known as permanent divisions, are 17 standing divisions retained by the Imperial Japanese Army after the "Ugaki Disarmament" in 1925, and are the standing armies of the Japanese Army, with the numbers of Konoe, 1st to 20th (the 13th, 15th, 17th, and 18th divisions are owed).

The permanent division has jurisdiction over two brigades and four infantry wings (two infantry wings per brigade and regiment), and one wing each of cavalry, artillery, engineer and baggage, with a total of eight wings.

At that time, the infantry divisions of the Chinese army also mostly adopted the two-brigade and four-regiment system, which China called the "two-two" establishment as the "square system", but the direct units (special forces) of the Chinese infantry divisions were far less than the Japanese divisions, usually only two or three battalions, and some American armor divisions had artillery regiments in the later stage of the Anti-Japanese War. The Japanese division and regiment "Special Branch" unit (cavalry, artillery, engineer, baggage, etc.) has four wings, accounting for half of the division. Generally, the standing main army divisions of the Japanese army are fully manned, often with 24,000 to 28,000 troops, and have 7,630 war horses, 14,900 rifles, 144 grenadiers, 288 light machine guns, 54 heavy machine guns, 16 mountain artillery, 36 field artillery, and other weapons and equipment. This type of division is divided into two types: the horse-pulling system (field combat type) and the pack horse system (mountain combat type).

It is not impossible for a force of 25,000 men to engulf six divisions of the national army in one night.

However, there is a kind of blind optimism in the current combat units.

Division Commander He is the same, "Six divisions, with more than 50,000 troops, even if it is a division of the Japanese army, we may not have the strength to fight, for this counterattack operation, several artillery regiments have been invested above to assist us in attacking the Japanese army." ”

Xia Yuan didn't speak again.

He was standing in God's sight to see this counterattack.

And they are just standing from the perspective of the current era.

"What kind of combat strategy are you taking?"

"Central Breakthrough."

At this time, the national army has also reacted, in the fight against Wusong, Luodian, Yangxing, although the investment of several divisions of troops, but these divisions are scattered in various important places to hold, there is no cooperation between each other, even if it is a counteroffensive, it is also their own profit, each fights its own, if the superior forces are concentrated earlier, attack the Japanese army in Luodian, may not be able to break through the Japanese defense.

And now, concentrating superior forces and attacking a little, Xia Yuan pondered for a moment, and finally didn't say anything.

The central breakthrough is to concentrate superior forces, attack the Japanese army's iron wall at a point, open a hole to drill into, and then blossom inside.

Twenty-one.

Night falls.

There were only a few hours left before the counteroffensive, and the six divisions of the Gui Army were advancing in an orderly manner, and Xia Yuan followed the vanguard of the 173rd Division, advancing slowly and preparing to go to the established combat location.

There were no obstacles along the way, and they arrived at a village smoothly, and the troops entered the village, quietly waiting for the time to counterattack.

A quarter past nine.

Thundered!

From behind them, the roar of artillery fire was heard from all directions, the firing pins collided with the shells, making a dull metallic sound, and the shells dragged a long arc, flying rapidly from behind them, landing on the Japanese positions, and in an instant earth-colored flowers bloomed.

A deafening roar surrounded the troops participating in the battle.

Behind the wilderness, among the ruins, in the villages.

A large number of troops of the national army have already been assembled.

With the heavy artillery bombardment, the vanguard charge began, and the Gui army hit the strength of six divisions and attacked the Hujiazhuang line.

Xia Yuan was the first batch of troops to charge, his left and right, front and back, all carrying guns, rushing forward the Gui army soldiers, black and pressing, like a roll of drinking water in the dark night, coarse breathing, the sound of equipment collision constantly sounded, and the steel helmet was glowing under the flickering artillery fire.

"Keep up, keep up, don't fall behind, the brothers behind are watching us pull the jackpot, the position of the little Japanese devils must be defeated!"

Da-da-da-da!

When it was four or five hundred meters close to the Japanese position.

In an instant, in the dark wilderness, the light and heavy machine guns of the Japanese army sprayed out tracer ballistics that were long enough to tear everything apart, and the tracer ballistics formed by bullet light were like long whips, whipping on the attacking Gui soldiers like a black wave.

The terrible thing is that the shores of Fumohama are not the undulating buildings that were in the past.

It's a lonely wilderness.

The Shanghai area is not a mountainous area in the first place, as far as the eye can see, it is an endless plain, and the dark shadow of the ruins of the village can be faintly seen. The light and heavy machine guns set up by the Japanese devils were like scythes for cutting wheat, and the slender tracer ballistics struck the soldiers, and the soldiers in front fell down one by one.

The whooshing sound of a bullet rubbing against the air exploded in my ears.

The artillery fire flickered, the roar was deafening, and the soldiers of the Gui army could not see where the enemy was at all, and could only hear a large number of bullets rubbing the air, flying over their heads or beside them, and they felt that most of their bodies were unconscious, and they wanted to stand up, but they could not stand up, and they fell to the ground not long after, and they were gone.

Many of the fallen soldiers, without even seeing the shadow of the Japanese devils, fell halfway to the charge.

This did not in any way frighten the officers and men of the 173rd Division in the rear, who stepped on the carcasses in their possession and continued to charge.

The Gui army rushed to the shore like waves of waves, the waves in front broke on the shore, and the ones behind continued to rush up.

They used their flesh and blood to resist the guns and bullets of the Japanese army.

Xia Yuan participated in it, and personally felt the cruelty of the war, there were too many people who fell, and the soldiers of a company that charged beside him, in just a few minutes, were all gone.

He lay on the ground, bullets flying overhead, not daring to move at all, and the soldiers behind him were still charging, but more and more people died.

In this kind of plain warfare, the Gui army did not tear apart the weapons and equipment of the Japanese machine-gun fire points, and could only rely on human lives to pile up, rush, and tear apart the defense line of the Japanese devils. But what they encountered was a well-equipped one, the Japanese Army's Class A Division, the 3rd Division.

This division has light and heavy artillery of various calibers, has armored vehicles, tanks, has fighters.

It occupies an absolute amphibious advantage on land, sea and air.

On the other hand, Gui Jun.

It is said that several artillery regiments have come for reinforcements, and the artillery regimental equipment of the national army is just like that.

It was already quite good to be able to fight two rounds, but after the first round of shelling, it was basically dumb, at least during the time that Xia Yuan was rushing forward, their cannons did not go off.

On the contrary, the artillery of the Japanese devils intensified.

On the flat plain, one after another cannonballs fell among the charging Guijun brothers, and the flowers that bloomed were all bloody.

"Kill, kill me."

Xia Yuan crawled forward, and met several Guijun brothers who did not lose their breath, their bodies were torn apart by the heavy machine gun bullets of the Japanese devils, and they were not dead, hanging on their breath, their spirit and body were under great torture, and they knew that they could not live, so they wanted to go faster.

When they saw Xia Yuan, they were like seeing a life-saving straw, not begging Xia Yuan to save them, but to make up for him and let them go faster.

These soldiers are not afraid of death.

"Brother, can you hold on?"

"Hold on, don't stop, kill me."

"I'm sorry."

"Thank you."

After a brief conversation, with the sound of a gunshot, Xia Yuan's eyes became a little colder.

War is bloody and cruel, even if it is not the first time to experience it, his heart is still pounded hard.

The soldiers of this era do not see the hope of victory, but they are still full of energy.

The greatness of life is vividly displayed in this moment.

What the high-level of the national army looks like, Xia Yuan himself looks down on it, but these soldiers, even if they stand in other positions, these soldiers absolutely don't say anything about fighting foreign enemies.

"I'll avenge you."

"Thank you."

Killing a soldier of the national army again, Xia Yuan's heart was like iron and stone, his eyes were glowing with coldness, and he was prostrate on the ground with his hands and feet.

The counterattack of the Nationalist army alarmed the Japanese 3rd Division, not only light and heavy machine guns, but also tanks, including the heavy machine guns on the tanks, and fired indiscriminately at the plain of the vast night, the temperature of the muzzles was rising, and the blood was boiling.

Xia Yuan sniffed the smell of blood floating in the air, and his face did not change.

He couldn't save the soldiers who fell to the ground, so he could only rely on himself and knock out a few Japanese firepower points to reduce the Japanese muzzle bullets he was encountered.

In the face of the Japanese devil's shrinking defense, even he may not be able to break in.

The attack lasted for half an hour, and there were constantly Gui soldiers rushing past him, but they soon fell, and under the night vision, Xia Yuan could clearly see the soldiers who rushed forward, and the time to fall to the ground was only more than ten seconds.

And in the past ten seconds, it was not one person who fell, but a group of people.

This is the first few companies.

Xia Yuan didn't know.

He only knew that in his field of vision, more and more Gui soldiers had fallen, and the road crawling forward was full of corpses.

A corpse covered with bullet holes and a horrific appearance.