Craters were covered with black, scorched earth, dried blood was everywhere, and most of the villages along the road were flattened by artillery fire, and black smoke was emitting from burning wood. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Between the rubble and ruins, the Eleventh Company led by the old smokegun was advancing in formation, and there were troops in front and behind them.

The Chinese army suffered heavy losses in the fierce battle of Shanghai in March, but could not stop the fierce attack of the devils, and the retreating Chinese army lost the Kun branch line one after another, the Changshu Fushan line, and in the face of the fierce devil soldiers, the last line of defense in front of Nanjing was only the Changzhou Jiangyin defense line.

Although the Nanjing government has moved its capital to Chongqing, and a large number of party and government organs, schools, factories and ordinary people have also begun to move, Nanjing is the capital of the Republic of China after all, and if it falls, then it will not be able to account for the people.

Since the Battle of Songhu in August, a large number of warships have concentrated on the river near the Jiangyin fortress to fight with the Chinese navy, trying to attack Nanjing against the current.

At this moment, the strength of the Chinese navy was weak, and after several fierce battles, it also suffered heavy losses, and finally had to break the wrist of a strong man and sink himself in the river, plus more than 100 large and small merchant ships and fishing boats collected from all over the country sank in the Yangtze River, blocking the attempt of the devil warship to go upstream, but the Chinese navy has also been wiped out since then.

Jiangyin fortress because of the strategic location of the important government, after several years of operation has built a large number of reinforced concrete fortress fortifications, at this moment is densely covered with trench barbed wire, coupled with the fort artillery assistance, although the strength is not weak, but the strength is very scarce, only 112, 103 and other divisions.

After the devils broke through the Wufu defensive line, their 13th Division had already arrived at the outlying positions of Jiangyin Fortress and engaged in a fierce battle with the 112th Division of the Chinese defenders.

The main force of the Chinese army fought fiercely in Shanghai for three months, and most of the divisions that were withdrawn were broken, and there was a shortage of weapons and ammunition, which made it embarrassing to fight, and the Jiangyin fortress was in danger, and the theater commander's department had to mobilize reserves and supplementary regiments to go to the front line to try to block the pace of the devil's attack.

"Stop moving! Rest in place! The herald's shriveled and thin body trotted past the line, and the hoarse voice was heard far away.

The old smoker turned around and waved his hand to his company, pointed to the nearby crater and ordered, "Don't stand stupidly, go to the crater."

The 11th Company originally had more than 80 people, but when they were on the boat, they were killed by the devil's plane, and the remaining 70 or so people were all in the crater, just like driving ducks into the water, and the old smoking gun was very satisfied.

At the beginning, those student soldiers who were gearing up saw a lot of dead people along the way, and they no longer had the excitement they had at the beginning, and many people had begun to retreat in their hearts, but since they came to the battlefield, there was absolutely no reason to go back, and the old smoking gun also explained to them that if anyone dared to be a deserter without authorization, he would definitely collapse him.

In the face of the fierce old smoking gun, the student soldiers were both in awe and fear, admiring his bravery in killing the enemy and his composure at the moment, and afraid that he really shot at his own people.

Although the student soldiers were nervously holding their guns and scared to death, the veterans in the company were playing gags with different accents and didn't take it seriously, and the behavior of these veterans made the nervous student soldiers gradually less nervous.

They had been resting here for about two hours, nesting in the craters and nibbling on cold steamed buns, until it was dark before giving the order to move on.

The team flowed forward in the dark night, the rumbling artillery fire in front of them was fierce, the flashes of those explosions flashed like lightning, the air was mixed with the smell of gunsmoke, and the sky was also dark, I don't know whether it was the smoke of gunpowder or the innocent black.

Bang! A shell landed on the marching ranks, several soldiers were torn apart, and the wounded and not dead were still convulsing and screaming on the ground.

"Don't stop! Keep going! The cold-faced officer surnamed Liu saw that the team was hula and fell down again, and urged the team to continue walking, as for those who were injured and screaming, they stayed in place and waited for the stretcher team behind.

The old smoker's gaze swept over the night with the rumbling of the cannons, and went to the burning position in front of them, where the gunfire was fierce, and they were now very close to the battlefield.

The team did not stop until it was about a mile away from the battlefield, and as they lay on the ground, they could already see the tongues of fire from the devil's machine guns in the distance.

Soon there were troops in front of them, and they were all ragged as if they had been fished out of the bloody water, covered in blood, and their faces were already scorched and blackened, and they could not see clearly, but their red eyes were exposed, so that those student soldiers could see the cruelty of war for the first time.

"Brother, are there many devils in front of you?" The old smoking gun grabbed a soldier with gauze wrapped around his head and inquired about the devil's situation.

The soldier paused and replied, "There are not many of them, only a few hundred, but their fire is so strong that we have rushed several times, and the brothers are running out." His voice was a little choked as he spoke.

The old cigarette gun patted the tearless soldier on the shoulder and comforted him categorically: "Don't worry, we will take it down!" Those brethren will not die in vain. ”

"Company commander, Commander Liu asked you to go over and receive the mission." The fat man Tian Sanmao ran over to report it.

"Let the brethren not move, and I will go and return." The old smoking gun commanded the fat man, raised his leg and left.

Behind the half-broken wall, the old smoking gun found the cold-faced commander Liu, who was using a flashlight to scratch the ground with a tree branch to assign tasks to other company commanders.

"The first company cooperated with the second company to attack from the left flank and take the artillery positions of the devils."

"The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth companies from the front, the machine guns are concentrated and open a gap for me!"

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Although Regiment Commander Liu is young, he is calm and calm in the face of the fierce battlefield, and he is more calm and experienced than the old smoking gun, and seeing his orderly assignment of tasks, the old smoking gun is finally a little relieved, at least he is not a straw bale chief, otherwise he will kill many brothers.

"Old smoking gun, the task of your 11th Company is to take out these two firepower points and explode the safety of the flank of the assault force."

"Yes!" The old smoking gun glanced at the scratched ground a few more times, and after determining the mission of his company, he hurried back to his company.

The old smoking gun has fought a lot of battles over the years, and he has rich experience in both offense and defense, and he has fought with the devil soldiers when he was in Shanghai, and he knows that the devil soldiers are powerful.

And now eighty percent of the student soldiers under his command are newly replenished, and they are unreliable, so he is still counting on the more than 20 veterans, so he concentrated the only Czech light machine gun and grenade in the company into the hands of the veterans to ensure the firepower of the assault.