On August 29, the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China (1937), Sangou ushered in the first battle of his life, on this day, the 306th Regiment, as the vanguard of the 51st Division, rushed to the vicinity of Luodian, not far from the forward position of the Japanese army, before stopping.

Qiu Weida, the commander of the 306th Regiment, immediately ordered all the troops to disperse and build a defensive position on their own.

Sangou threw down his backpack, immediately picked up the sapper shovel, and taught the fourth platoon to start digging fortifications, these fellows and comrades-in-arms had hardly fought a big battle, thinking that it would be enough to dig a few times and make a foxhole kneeling bunker.

Unexpectedly, the three dogs still showed no signs of stopping, kept digging, dug foxholes, and then dug trenches, although Niu Gu was light on the enemy, but also respected the meaning of the three dogs, and ordered the whole platoon to follow the three dogs to dig.

Sangou was not polite, so he commanded everyone to dig together, taught everyone to dig drainage ditches and bomb avoidance slots, and dug six light machine gun bunkers for the whole platoon of three light machine guns, leaving some mobile bunkers and camouflage.

The time of the day is indeed very urgent, fortunately, the enemy has no intention of fighting, it is estimated that the 11th Division of Wagyu B has fought badly in the past few days, and it is considered a while to rest for a while.

The three dogs ran to the company headquarters with the horned flea, borrowed a pickaxe and a big shovel, and beckoned everyone to do it together; He also took people to a nearby house that had been destroyed by bombs, demolished the door panels, beams, and took almost all the wood, such as stools and tables.

It would be better if there were steel bars, but unfortunately there was not even a shadow; The people here have all run out, and some iron tools have been taken away from the house, so they can only move these logs over first to strengthen the support of the position.

He was busy until the evening, and after dinner, Sangou looked at the small hill behind him, thinking, later, he would report to the company commander, dig out two more lines of defense, and connect the defensive position all the way to the hill behind him.

Then ask everyone to dig under this hill, hollow it out, and make a tunnel, it is estimated that it will be better; It's just that this project is too big to be completed in a while.

After dinner, Sangou told Niu Gu about this, Niu Gu couldn't call the shots, so he took Sangou to find Hu Hao, Hu Hao knew Sangou, and he had met on the train, and today he also saw the fortifications of the four platoons, which was very good, and he also brought the other three platoon commanders to study.

Hu Hao praised Sangou, but in the end he still did not agree with Sangou's suggestion, and said some difficulties, first, the soldiers are too tired, and there may be a difficult combat mission tomorrow.

Second, the soldiers' physical fitness is average, and the food is average (this Sangou did realize that although the food at school is average, it is passable, and it is really average here), and they are barely fed, and they still do less physical work such as hollowing out the mountain.

The third is that there is no clear order from above, is it stuck here? Or continue to attack forward? Normally, our troops came here to support the 11th Division, mainly to drive Japan out of China, so it must be offensive, so there is little point in defending the position.

If it is a firm position, then Sangou's suggestion is very good, but it is best for the whole army to do this, otherwise, there is only one point, and the meaning of defense is not great, and when the Japanese army is attacking, it can easily bypass this point and attack directly to the rear, which is still equivalent to not being able to hold it.

Moreover, here in Luodian, the positions in the past few days have changed hands with each other, which is very frequent, and it is estimated that there is not so much time and manpower to build such a huge fortification.

Although the method is not feasible, the beard (Hu Hao) did not despise Sangou, and it is estimated that other bosses will think that this is just talk on paper, and it is an old problem from a professional background.

Hu Zi still affirmed Sangou's suggestion, a deputy platoon midshipman, it is already very good to be able to stand at the height of the company commander and above.

People are indeed very practical and powerful, this is the actual combat experience, Sangou admired it, so he had to give up, but he still felt a little faintly worried.

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Before I started to sleep at night, I received a notice that all the combatants of the 7th Company, except for daily necessities, only brought weapons and ammunition, and prepared to attack the devils on the opposite side at night with the 8th Company.

Hearing the news, everyone was overjoyed, this operation was unified under the command of Hu Hao, the commander of the 3rd battalion, Hu Hao was promoted to battalion commander, and the original battalion commander was sick in the rear and has not been well.

The 3rd Battalion had brought a lot of time to Hu Hao's agent, and now that the battle was about to start, the regimental headquarters decided to promote Hu Hao, the deputy battalion commander, as the main battalion commander to command the night attack.

Promotion before the battle is a way to boost morale, the tide rises, Hu Hao will no longer concurrently serve as the commander of the 7th company, and directly apply for Niu Gu as the commander of the 7th company.

In this way, although Sangou is still the deputy platoon commander of the trainee officer, he is already the actual leader of the platoon commander, and there is no platoon commander in the fourth platoon, so Sangou will act as the agent.

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The assault team composed of the 7th and 8th companies, after dark, took advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and crawled forward, and Niu Gu took the three dogs with him and crawled forward together.

The weather at the end of August is still a little hot in Shanghai, but at night, it is not far from the seaside, and the evening breeze is still very comfortable.

At this time, the textile industry in Shanghai and the surrounding areas was particularly developed, so most of the fields in the suburbs were planted with cotton, and some were rice, which were harvested between September and October.

But in this battle, it was impossible to see what was planted in the field, and many fields were ploughed with shells, and even if they were prostrate on them, it was still difficult to feel what was planted.

The field was full of loose soil, and the soil was full of the smell of gunsmoke, and when you climbed on it, you could still feel shrapnel bumps, resting your legs and feet.

Everyone crawled carefully, trying not to make a sound, so they climbed very slowly, and the three dogs could not be seen in the distance in the dark night, and in the near distance, these hundreds of people slowly crawled forward, looking weird and terrifying.

Sangou felt like a group of life-reeling ghosts with everyone, crawling in the dark night, and hundreds of life-reaperning ghosts slowly approached the front of the Japanese position.

Perhaps it was too contemptuous of the Chinese army, and the Japanese had only two sentries on the position, and they were still sitting there back to back, dozing off.

The Japanese army may think that a new Chinese unit is coming from the opposite position, and they will not dare to come and attack in the middle of the night, or it may be that they are too tired from fighting with the 11th Division in the past few days.

I fought day and night for several days, and finally seized a chance to rest, and I didn't have a good night's sleep, and the devil is also a human being, so he also has to sleep.

To despise the Chinese army is certain, and when Sangou crosses the trench of the devil's position, he will know that such a kneeling trench can only protect against rifle and machine gun bullets, but not artillery shells.

However, people have calculated that the Chinese army does not have a few cannons, and even if they do, they are old-fashioned, and they are still regarded as baby bumps, and they are reluctant to use them, and they are afraid to use them.