This is the first time Liu Xiaoyong shed tears on the battlefield, and it is also the last time, the cruelty of the Songhu battlefield far exceeds his understanding of the war, the entire Zhabei is scorched earth, there is no complete house, the war dead are in tens of thousands, a large number of comrades-in-arms are killed every day, no matter how weak the heart is also honed like iron and stone.

He and his comrades-in-arms were crawling back after nightfall, in order to rescue the pilot, the company died more than 30 people, almost consumed a platoon, most of them were killed by the Japanese grenadiers, this thing ballistic curved without dead ends, the rate of fire is fast, can not be prevented, the rest were killed by guns, the little Japanese marksmanship is really good, a few hundred meters apart, guns and guns shot heads, which is terrifying.

The next day. The Japanese side handed over the remains of the pilots, and they still respected the martyrs, and placed the body in the middle of the position with a white cloth, with a bouquet of flowers on it, and a piece of paper with words written on it, which could be roughly understood, which meant paying tribute to the martyrs and praising the victims as a real "samurai". The signature is Senior Lieutenant Jio Yamada of the Imperial Naval Aviation.

This is the only humane thing in the war that Liu Xiaoyong experienced, followed by endless battles, bombing, shelling, attacking, no hot food on the battlefield, cooking smoke will attract shelling, can only eat dry food and drink cold water, fortunately, it is summer, you can deal with it without eating hot rice and soup, but the corpse rots quickly, the nose is full of rancid smell, and the head of the smoked person is dizzy.

Three days later, the platoon commander was killed by a stray bullet, and Liu Xiaoyong became the platoon commander, but there were only eight GIs under his command, and the platoon leader was about the same as the squad leader.

A heavy rain, the weather was much cooler, the trenches were full of mud, the brothers sat in the mud, eating pastries sent from the rear, drinking orange soda, smoking cigarettes from the three batteries, one by one satisfied burps, fighting in Shanghai is just this advantage, the Japanese shells did not dare to hit the concession, and the concession was inhabited by Chinese, and all kinds of comfort goods were sent to the front one after another, so that the big-headed soldiers from Jiangdong were addicted to foreign goods.

Suddenly, the herald ran over and conveyed the battalion commander's order, asking Liu Xiaoyong to go to the nearby 88th Division for a meeting to learn from experience.

Liu Xiaoyong wondered: "What kind of experience do I learn from a small platoon leader." ”

The herald said: "The battalion commander said, you are a cadet, who will you go if you don't go." ”

Liu Xiaoyong had no choice but to go, the 88th Division was the elite of the Central Army, and had fought several tough battles with the Japanese, and the dress was also extraordinary, even the military uniform materials were imported from Germany, and the pride of the descendants was all over the body.

A lieutenant colonel told a lot of useful experiences, such as heavy machine guns must often change positions, otherwise they will be destroyed by Japanese mortars, the enemy will prepare for fire before attacking, at this time should retreat to the second line of defense, and wait for the end of the artillery bombardment before entering the position, and another point is that the Japanese soldiers have very strong white-knuckle combat skills, and they must not be taken lightly.

"No matter how powerful it is, our Jiangdong Army will have to take a break." There was a murmur from the crowd.

The main lieutenant colonel was furious: "Whoever speaks, stand up." ”

Liu Xiaoyong stood up: "Report to the chief, it's me." ”

The lieutenant colonel glanced at his warrant officer badge and said, "Say what you said, say it again." ”

Liu Xiaoyong straightened his waist and said: "Report to the chief, I said that no matter how powerful Little Japan is, we Jiangdong Army will have to take a break." ”

The lieutenant colonel said: "You are a model seventeenth division, young man, confidence is good, but not arrogant, although the Japanese soldiers are short, but the physique is very strong, rifles and bayonets are longer than ours, fight bayonets, we need three people to fight him one, this is the statistics of dozens of battles." ”

Liu Xiaoyong said: "That's because our Jiangdong Army didn't arrive, so we allowed them to go wild." ”

The lieutenant colonel was so angry that he couldn't say anything, and he held his glasses and said: "Okay, the Japanese are very quiet during this time, presumably holding back a big attack, whether it's a mule or a horse, let's wait and see." ”

The officers of the other troops also looked at Liu Xiaoyong like stunned young people, and they were unimpressed by his arrogant words.

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Three days later, the Japanese began a large-scale attack, first fierce artillery bombardment and bombardment, the Jiangdong Army this time learned to be obedient, retreated to the second line of defense, hidden in the trenches with corrugated steel plates on top of their heads, and then covered with a layer of soil, to withstand heavy artillery bombardment, this is still the experience of the 128 War of Resistance five years ago.

At the end of the shelling, a loud rumbling sound came, and Liu Xiaoyong exclaimed: "Tank! "Hurriedly led his men into the position, prepared cluster grenades and Molotov cocktails.

Imitation German M24 long-handled grenade, ten bundled together, powerful, can blow up the tank's tracks, Molotov cocktail is a Molotov cocktail, yellow phosphorus is put in the gasoline, after the yellow phosphorus spontaneously ignites the gasoline when it is broken into the air, the fire is very lethal, thrown on the engine cover, can make the tank break down, this thing was invented in the Spanish Civil War, has proven to work very well.

Three obscene-looking Type 92 tanks drove over with green smoke, Liu Xiaoyong stretched out his hand and pressed it, stopping the brothers' urge to shoot, this iron turtle is not afraid of bullets, and now the shooting has exposed the point of fire.

The tank paused and continued to move forward, the vehicle-mounted machine guns kept strafing, conducting fire reconnaissance, until the faces of the infantry following the tank could be seen, the battalion commander gave the order to open fire, and suddenly the fire snake fired indiscriminately, smoke grenades were thrown, and the assaulters jumped out of the trench with cluster grenades, and only one of the ten assault men rushed to the tank, stuffed the grenade down, and with a loud bang, the tank track broke.

The tank in the back pushed away the broken down companion in front and continued to move forward, suddenly there was another loud bang, and the wounded lying on the ground and dying pulled a grenade, blowing up the second tank, the tank crew lifted the lid and crawled out, Liu Xiaoyong raised his rifle and hit with a shot, which was the first Japanese he killed.

Taking advantage of the enemy's confusion, the battalion commander waved the box cannon, and the brothers jumped out of the trench to kill him, and threw Molotov cocktails on the hood of the third tank, which immediately ignited a raging fire, and the tank was also scrapped.

The Japanese troops, who had lost the cover of their tanks, not only did not retreat, but instead met them, brushing and pulling the bolts to withdraw the bullets at the sound of the officers' commands, which was to fight with bayonets.

I have to admit that the tactical literacy of the Japanese infantry far surpassed that of the Chinese soldiers, whether it was shooting or stabbing. They all have the confidence to outfight an enemy three times their size.

But this time they met the Jiangdong Army, Liu Xiaoyong's arrogance was not without reason, as early as when the Northwest Army was not called the Northwest Army, Chen Zikun got a big sword book from Feng Yuxiang, and since then the Jiangdong Army has also practiced knife skills as a supplement when the weapons are insufficient.

The knives of the Jiangdong Army and the knives of the Northwest Army are much the same, they are all thick-backed machetes, extremely powerful, and the knife techniques are in the same vein, the moves are simple and effective, and the enemy's bayonets are knocked off and then cut down, which is invincible.

A tragic white-knuckle battle began, Liu Xiaoyong first hit with a pistol, and only after running out of bullets did he pull out the big knife behind his back, and rushed into the enemy formation with a roar, where the knife fell, blood splashed everywhere, and he was confused.

After many years, he still remembers that the blood of Japanese devils is stinky.

In this battle, the model division and the Japanese army played a one-to-one exchange ratio, winning the respect of friendly troops, the company commander of Liu Xiaoyong's company was also killed, the deputy company commander became the company commander, and Liu Xiaoyong was promoted to the deputy company commander.

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In the base camp of Nanjing, Chen Zikun silently watched the sand table, on which the small red and blue flags marked both sides of the enemy and us, and the small blue flags representing our side were constantly taken down by the adjutant, which meant that the troops had been disabled and withdrawn from the battle.

The Songhu battlefield is like a huge meat grinder, every day with a bloody mouth, devouring young lives, the elite of the Chinese army is exhausted, almost all the German armor divisions are put into battle, and a large number of Sichuan army, Gui army, Yunnan army, Guangdong army continue to come, without hesitation into the battle, for the country and the nation to shed blood and sacrifice.

China has already invested 300,000 troops to reach a tie with the 100,000 Japanese army, and the Japanese army still has a strong reserve that has not been mobilized, and it only takes two or three days to transport troops from the mainland to Shanghai, and taking the Guangxi reinforcements as an example, it will take several months to get to Shanghai.

This is only a material gap, and what is even more distressing is that some shameless traitors and traitors sold intelligence for their own selfish interests, and Huang Jun, the confidential secretary of the Executive Yuan, leaked the intelligence of the base camp to gather and destroy the Japanese warships, resulting in the failure of the plan, and the Japanese merchant ships in Hankou were withdrawn overnight.

Suddenly, a staff officer came in with a happy face and said: "Good news, the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army defeated the Japanese army at Pingxingguan in northern Jinbei, defeated more than 10,000 Japanese elite Itagaki Divisions, killed and wounded many prisoners, and captured countless baggage!" ”

The Eighth Route Army was the former Red Army of Northern Shaanxi, and now it was reorganized into the National Revolutionary Army.

The next day's newspapers published the specific results of the battle: the Eighth Route Army destroyed 5,000 enemies, captured 1,000 prisoners, destroyed 100 automobiles, 200 carts, captured 74 tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles, carriages, and other vehicles, as well as one artillery piece and 2,000 shells.

Chen Zikun returned to the mansion and threw the Central Daily in his hand on the coffee table, and the sound of firecrackers came from outside, which was the citizens spontaneously celebrating the victory of Pingxingguan.

Liu Ting walked over and picked up the newspaper, and the front page was printed in red, which was also the words Pingxing Guan Dajie.

"The results are outstanding, do you believe it?" Liu Ting said.

"The tactics of the national army are dull, hard and fierce, and the repeated suppression of the Communist Party has been defeated in the hands of the Red Army, and the *** people still have a very good set of wars, but the annihilation of the enemy is 5,000, which is slightly exaggerated, but the water will not be too big, presumably the *** people have not learned the ability of the national army to falsely report their military exploits, besides, we need a victory too much." Chan said.

Liu Ting nodded: "It takes a victory to boost the morale of the army and the people." ”