According to the width and thickness of the main position of the three battalions, the number of defenders required at least one company, and the previous seven companies were reinforced companies with four platoons of more than 150 people.

Now, after nearly two months of bloody fighting, the number of troops has been reduced to one-third, so the number of people is stretched thin when defending, and it is okay to not defend the forward position, but the main position has to be defended, which is related to everyone's task and life.

Niu Gu arranged for half a squad of five or six people to go to the concealed fortifications on the top of the hill, led by Xiucai, the leader of the third squad of the fourth platoon, and selected four outstanding shooters from each platoon, plus a group of light machine gun shooters, and one main and one deputy shooter.

The people who were chosen to go were as short and nimble as possible, and when they slipped through the underground passage at the top of the mountain, they had to be fast, so that a big man like a big potato was not suitable for going up, even if he was clamoring to go up.

Almost all machine gunners are willing to shoot in an open area, and are not very willing to nest in a bunker, because the field of view of the gun's eye is limited, which affects the fan fire coverage of the machine gun, although it is safer to stay in the bunker.

This security is only relative, for the infantry who did not have much firepower in that era, the bunker is indeed very safe, but if you face the Japanese artillery, the bunker is a living coffin, and it will be bombed off at any time.

Those who hide inside will be killed at any time, but fortunately, the Seventh Company has dug underground passages under each bunker and hidden bunker, and it is the main consideration to preserve their strength at any time and preserve their strength.

The other four platoon commanders each guarded the bunkers and tunnel entrances in four directions of the hill, and the redundant positions at the foot of the mountain could not be guarded by people, either to clear the shooting line or to install mines.

Despite this arrangement, there was still no reserve, and Niu Gu had to lead a few people in the cooking class as a wartime reserve.

Niu Gu also asked Lao Li Tou to open all the logistics luggage that had been packed and ready to be transported, take out all the ammunition reserves, and send the rest to everyone except for the share reserved for three days.

Niu Gu estimated that this position could only hold out for three days at most, and after three days, if the reinforcements of the 48th Army did not come, everyone would either break through in the middle of the night, or all of them would die here.

There is also a very headache problem, that is, there is no food, it turns out that the Seventh Company has a lot of food reserves, including all kinds of food that many Shanghai citizens have treated, and there is no problem to eat for half a month, not to mention that there are only one-third of the people left in the whole company.

The problem was that when the whole division retreated on the night of the 26th, most of the food was removed, mainly considering that the 48th Army would come to take over the defense the next day.

Left-behind troops like Niu Gu and them only carry three days' worth of food on each person, and they can deal with it on the way to the transfer, and there is no need to bring too much, which will cause fatigue of the soldiers, and second, cause the transfer speed to be not fast, and delay the fighters and orders.

Therefore, when the whole division was transferred, the excess ammunition and food were first pulled away by car, and no one expected that the 48th Army, which came to take over the defense the next day, was intercepted by the Japanese army on the way.

There was a wartime chaos in the national army at that time, and the normal change of defense was generally to change the defense after all the two troops arrived, so that it was the safest, and it was really impossible to meet this condition, and it was necessary to have the handover of troops one by one.

Instead of a case like the 51st Division, the troops that took over had not yet come, and their main forces ran first, not only pitting a small number of their own left-behind troops, but also possibly pitting the troops that took over later.

But the problem is that the 51st Division originally had it and didn't want to do it, mainly because the next task was too urgent, and the big field was lost, threatening the Nanxiang Railway Station and the high-level headquarters.

Almost all the troops were confronting the Japanese army, and there was no way to get away, and the 51st Division was about to change guards with the 48th Army, so the 51st Division was ordered not to go back to the rear to rest for the time being, and continued to go to Nanxiang to deploy defenses.

The military order was like a mountain, and it had to be transferred to another line of defense to carry out the task in a short time, and the 51st Division had no choice but to adopt this compromise method to deal with it.

In addition to the tense situation affecting military orders, there is another thing I learned after the war, that is, the secrecy of the use of military radio stations has not been resolved, and the codes are often deciphered by the Japanese army, and it is difficult to decipher the Japanese army's code.

What is even more infuriating is that there are many traitors in the country, especially in the war zone, and secrets such as the mobilization and deployment of Chinese troops are revealed to the enemy at any time.

The gendarmerie caught and killed all the way without much effect; In terms of integrity, the Chinese are famous in the world, and the traitors are also famous in the world, and China is such a contradictory and complicated big country.

Therefore, a few days ago, before the 48th Army was dispatched, intelligence appeared on the desk of Matsui Ishine, commander of the Japanese Shanghai Dispatch Army.

Such a good opportunity, the Japanese army will definitely not let go, as mentioned earlier, the person who got Luodian had to get Shanghai, and after a few months of fighting, Luodian has not completely succeeded, and now the opportunity has come, and the fool knows to grab it.

Therefore, the 48th Army was blocked by the Japanese army in the middle of the fierce battle and could not get out, while the defensive strength of Luodian was suddenly empty, most of the positions were occupied by the Japanese army, and only some small positions were still in the hands of the remaining troops of the 51st Division, just like the Seventh Company of Niugu.

In the early morning of the next day, except for the top of the hill and the five observation posts around it, the rest of the company hid in the tunnel, waiting for the enemy's heavy artillery bombardment, but after waiting for a long time, there was no artillery bombardment from the devils.

Instead, the sentinels sent an alarm, and the enemy infantry began to enter the attack range, and the bull shouted that everyone was ready to fight, and climbed up the hill through the dark passage.

You don't even need to look at the binoculars, the devils around are spreading, and the holding points of the various national armies in the distance are also besieged, like small islands in the turbulent waves of the ocean.

The entire Luodian house collapsed and blew up, a scorched earth, the trees were only charred with black trunks, and the surrounding fields were densely covered with deep and shallow trenches.

No wonder the devils stopped shelling this morning, it turned out that there were Japanese troops all around, and the artillery came over, and it was very likely to hurt their own troops.

The other Nationalist troops held out in the face of the Japanese tank attack, but in front of the Seventh Company, this time there were no tanks, but instead of infantry guns.

The devils have learned well, and when dealing with ground positions, they use tanks to attack, and when dealing with positions with bunkers and hills, they use artillery to bombard them.

Fortunately, at the suggestion of Sangou, Niu Gu mobilized everyone to be busy all night last night, collecting sacks and sandbags on the position, and reinforcing the periphery of the pit mouth around the hill to a thickness of three meters (meters).

This thickness of protection can almost withstand the bombardment of the 37 guns of the tank, but if you face the 70-step gun at close range, it will not be able to withstand for so long, and it is better than no protection.

There is really no manpower, and the best thing is to dig a deep and wide anti-tank trench around the hill, and then use 1-2 meters of steel reinforced cement to reinforce the protective surface on and around the hill.

This is just an ideal thing, even if there are manpower, there are not so many fortification materials, and if you do this, it will stand out too much on the entire Luodian battlefield, which is equivalent to telling the Japanese army that this is the fortress of the main position.

The Japanese planes and artillery will continue to bombard the shells, and when the time comes, it is estimated that the entire hill will be blown up by the shells.