The land was shrouded in darkness, and the chaotic station was crowded with soldiers from various units, and the recruits all looked nervous and excited at the place where the rumbling cannons were fired. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"The 302nd Regiment is here to assemble!"

"This side of the first battalion, hurry up!"

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Soon, the commanders of the various units began to shout in the darkness of the night, and the brethren crowded in the station rushed to their respective commanders to assemble with the shouts.

From time to time, the sky flashed like lightning, illuminating the dark outlines of the houses like ghosts.

The old smoking gun, the deputy battalion commander, had a dry smoking gun in his waist and stood on the platform to rectify the troops, while Yang Ling ran to the regiment commander Zhang Handuo, and the two walked into the temporary division headquarters of the station together to receive orders.

The temporary headquarters of the 51st Division was set up in a low house next to the station, and in the faint light, the staff officers of the division headquarters were busy carrying out map work, and the originally neat map had been densely drawn with red and blue lines.

Although the troops of the 153rd Brigade arrived a day ahead of schedule, the division commander Wang Yaowu no longer had the red glow he had when he was in Wuhan, but his face was a little haggard because of lack of sleep.

"The 301st Regiment has been ordered to arrive, please instruct the division!" Zhang Handuo and Yang Ling saluted Master Wang Yaowu.

When Wang Yaowu saw them coming, his frowning brows finally eased, he pulled them to the map, pointed to a place on the map called Huilongji, and said: "The 305th Regiment has been blocking here for a day, and the casualties are very large, you went over overnight and replaced them, is there a problem?"

Zhang Handuo and Yang Ling replied in unison: "No problem!"

"Okay, then I'll wait for your good news." Division Commander Wang Yaowu was very satisfied when he saw the two young officers, although he won the second place in the review in Huangpi, Hubei, but his combat effectiveness was not weak.

"Division, which unit of the Japanese army is opposite us?" Yang Ling has always understood that knowing himself and knowing that the other side will not be defeated in a hundred battles, so before saying goodbye, he asked Wang Yaowu this question.

Wang Yaowu replied: "It is the 14th Division under the First Army of the North China Front of the Japanese Army, and the commander of the division is Kenji Dohihara, and now it is the troops of the 28th Brigade under the command of the 14th Division that are fighting with us in Huilongji."

"This is a very combat-ready force, and you must not take it lightly." Wang Yaowu added.

Yang Ling heard that it was the 14th Division of Kenji Dohihara, and he immediately had a bottom in his heart, this from a spy colonel, in just four years, climbed to the high position of division commander general, definitely not good stubble, not only cunning but also fierce, it seems that this time they have met an opponent.

"The 14th Division wants to cut off the Longhai Line, control the area west of Xuzhou, and cut off the troops in our Fifth Theater, so we must block the 14th Division here, otherwise our 600,000 troops in Xuzhou will be finished, so the task is arduous, and you must be clear about your responsibilities."

"Please rest assured, the little devil wants to copy the back road of our brother troops, and we are not vegetarians! Guaranteed to block them! The regiment commander Zhang Handuo made a guarantee to the division commander Wang Yaowu.

At present, the Japanese army uses part of the elite to contain the main Chinese force in the Xuzhou area, and secretly dispatches the elite troops to advance in seven directions and attack centripetally, while the rest annihilates the main force of the Chinese army in the Xuzhou area.

Now the 14th Division is responsible for cutting off the retreat of the Chinese defenders, as long as the 74th Army can block them, then the Chinese troops in the Xuzhou area can be withdrawn safely, otherwise there will be a danger of annihilation.

You must know that ninety percent of the army's army strength in the whole country has been transferred to the North China battlefield, and more than one million elite Japanese troops are enough to crush everything, and once the Chinese army loses these 600,000 troops, the situation in the war will be extremely unfavorable.

Zhang Handuo and Yang Ling both understood the importance of this blockade, and after bidding farewell to Wang Yaowu, they immediately led their troops to advance in the direction of Huilongji.

There was still light near the station, but after leaving the station, it went into darkness, and in order to prevent the brothers from falling behind in the night, Yang Ling ordered the brothers to move forward hand in hand.

The fighting has made the Xuzhou area desolate, and the roads have been potholed by bombs, but it is already May, the air is warmer, and the corpses on the roadside that have not had time to be buried emit a foul smell.

On the way to Huilongji, I encountered four or five villages that were all on fire, many houses had collapsed and turned into rubble, and the fire was particularly dazzling in the dark night, so that those recruits who went to the battlefield for the first time realized that the battlefield was not a play, but a cruel.

"There's a situation ahead!"

The third battalion led by Yang Ling walked in front of the whole regiment, and just past a burning village, the reconnaissance platoon led by the deputy battalion commander sent people back to report that there was a situation ahead.

"Stop advancing, hide in place, and prepare for battle!" Yang Ling didn't dare to be careless, and immediately ordered the third battalion to stop.

The brothers had already trained during the winter training, and before Yang Ling's words fell, the team that had been advancing along the road had already spread out to both sides of the road to find shelter.

"Machine guns stand up, quick!" Wang Meng, the commander of the first company, even urged to seize a mound and set up the machine gun in the black hole.

Seeing that the brothers reacted quickly, Yang Ling was also very satisfied, and after waiting for a long time, the reconnaissance platoon sent someone back again to report, it turned out to be a false alarm.

What they found was not the enemy, but the wounded soldiers sent down from Huilongji, all of whom had arrived earlier from the 305th Regiment.

Zhang Handuo, the commander of the regiment in the center, saw that the team stopped, and also ran to the front with the guard platoon to inquire about the situation, and was relieved to see that it was a false alarm, and after inquiring about the situation in front of some wounded soldiers, he ordered the troops to continue to advance in the direction of Huilongji.

The sound of cannons rolled over the earth like summer thunder, and the yellow and charred earth trembled from time to time, and strings of firelight appeared from time to time on the distant horizon, rushing into the smoke that covered half of the sky, which looked magnificent and terrifying.

The troops of the 301st Regiment were like a dragon in the dark, winding their way past bombed-out villages and getting closer and closer to the fierce battleground.

The strong smell of gunsmoke reached the mouths and noses of the brothers, and many of the recruits choked and coughed, and some of them vomited at the decomposing corpses on the side of the road.

These recruits screamed on the training ground not to lose to the veterans, but at this moment, when they saw the real battlefield, they felt that their feet were weak and their faces were pale.

Seeing the embarrassed appearance of the recruits, the veterans laughed, and finally regained a little face, and the calm and calm of the veterans made the depressed team finally find a little vitality.