After the Japanese attacked three times in a row and were repulsed, the main force of the 23rd Brigade led by Sadao Ushijima arrived on the battlefield. Seeing the bodies of the Japanese soldiers killed in battle densely packed up and down the Shimoxiu Bridge, the horizontal flesh on Ushijima's face jumped twice, and he shouted Teramachi Shunichi over and scolded: This is the shame of the imperial army, and the garrison of the people of China is only one regiment, so why can't they take it?

Shunichi Teramachi was scolded so that he had no temper at all, but he was always respectful and respectful.

Ushijima cursed while observing the situation around the battlefield, and soon, he ordered the first and third brigades under the 56th Wing to cross the river from the upper and lower reaches of the Xiaxiu Bridge respectively, so as to form a three-sided attack on the Xuebing Army on the other side of the bridge. Then, in order to cover the actions of these two brigades, he ordered all the artillery of the brigade to be concentrated and the positions of the 604th regiment were continuously shelled.

The cannon roared, and Wang Changyun leaned against the trench with a cigarette in his mouth. Next to him, Tu Dai and the others also sat with their backs to the trenches. Suddenly, he shouted to Wang Changyun: "Lao Cao, give Lao Tzu a sip." ”

"What about your own?" Wang Changyun hurriedly tightened.

"Hehe, I sent it back to my hometown before the war, you know, my old man is an old smoker, the old man has never smoked such a high-end cigarette, and he has enjoyed it."

"Cut, be a filial son! Okay, but if you suck more, Lao Tzu will confiscate your bullets. ”

"Gotta get it!" Tu Dai took the cigarette, took a beautiful puff, and was saying, "Comfort! Suddenly, the lookout post reported that two teams of devils were heading upstream, apparently trying to find a place to cross the river.

"What should I do?" Tudaiyan didn't care about smoking, and looked at Wang Changyun.

Wang Changyun smiled: "It's okay, you forgot the iron watermelons that the commander prepared for us, it's time for them to play their role." ”

It was written earlier that in order to strengthen the combat capability of the 604th Regiment, Ouyang Yun specially asked the engineer unit to help them lay a minefield. And Wang Changyun, the ghost thing, did not lay mines on the frontal battlefield, but on both wings. His original idea was to prevent the Japanese army from attacking from three sides, before that, because the Japanese army had repeatedly attacked only from the front, he was still a little puzzled, and said that his painstaking design would not take a long time, and now he saw that the Japanese army finally began to divide his troops to cross the river, to be honest, it was too late for him to be happy.

At the residence of Matsui Ishone, the headquarters of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, he sat on a tatami mat in a kimono, and opposite him, two middle-aged men in military uniforms sat on him.

Matsui Ishone: "Your proposal just now is very good, but I want to know how sure you are?" ”

"Eighty percent!" A man bowed his head and said.

"Eighty?! Then give it a try. Now the battle situation in Nanjing is very difficult, I can't provide you with more fighters, just twelve, if you divide it into three waves, you should be able to seize the opportunity. ”

Another said, "Twelve should be enough, we've prepared enough gas bombs." ”

"Ouyang Yun's existence is too much of a threat to the empire, so let's decide. For the specific execution time, you can contact Sadao Ushijima. ”

"Hello!"

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Under Xiuqiao, the battle has been in full swing for more than an hour. The 1st and 3rd Brigades of the 56th Wing, under the leadership of Brigade Commanders Okabe and Shimokawa Yoshiichi, have successfully crossed the river respectively. Among them, the crossing point of the 1st Brigade is about 10 kilometers from Xiaxiu Bridge, and the crossing point of the 3rd Brigade is only 3 kilometers from Xiaxiu Bridge. So, it was the 3rd Brigade that took the lead in the attack.

In the process of crossing the river with the devils of the two brigades, because of the fear that the 604th Regiment would send troops to snipe, Ushijima Sadao ordered the 55th Wing to launch a continuous offensive after the shelling stopped.

In the face of the tidal wave of Japanese attacks, the 604th Regiment soon fell into a situation of lack of troops. Among them, the third battalion is almost exhausted, and now it is a mixed force of the first battalion and the third battalion that are holding the position, and the second battalion is also ready to replace it. If it weren't for Niu Yide and Zhang Changsheng who had been maintaining pressure on Tiangu and Kunisaki's detachments, so that they could not attack the 604th Regiment, presumably the position of the 604th Regiment would have been captured.

"Brothers! Hold on! ”

"Killing one is enough, killing two earns one!" In the third trench, amid the shouts one after another, the soldiers of the first and third battalions of the 604th Regiment gritted their teeth and persevered, and under the leadership of Wang Changyun, they repelled wave after wave of Japanese attacks with a strong will.

Xiao Min's reconnaissance company had only six people left at this time. Three of them were also seriously wounded, Xiao Min himself, who had a piece of his scalp stripped off by a bullet on his head, and if he lifted his helmet and ripped off the gauze bandage, he would now look like an ancient Khitan.

Miraculously, Wang Changyun has always been fighting at the forefront, but he didn't even have abrasions.

Tudai and Ding ran the school did not have such good luck, among them, Tudai had the most luck, and two shrapnel were embedded in his buttocks, so now he could only lie on the position, and it was impossible to sit down with his back to the trench. As for Ding Ran, he was scratched by shrapnel in many places all over his body, and his body was covered with bandages at this time, like a mummy.

"Little devil! Come on! Grandpa is not afraid of you! "When the battle was at its most dangerous, a group of more than a dozen devils rushed to a place less than twenty meters in front of the trench. Wang Changyun saw that once they rushed in, this line of defense might be breached, so he shouted loudly, picked up a stick and jumped onto the ammunition box sickly, and shot at the group of devils.

"Poof!" Bullets flew past him from time to time, and one of them left a scratch on his helmet, but none of them touched his flesh. On the other hand, the group of devils on the other side are not so lucky. Without exception, they were knocked down by the bullets fired by the disease, and one of the captains holding a pistol was even knocked off half of his head by a shot, and then the whole person rushed forward two steps, and then fell like a straw.

Wang Changyun smiled: "Ha Luha! Dog's day, come again! Pulling the trigger even harder, however, on the bridge deck fifty meters away on the opposite side, several devils suddenly half-squatted down and aimed at him.

Ding Xuexue lay on the side and saw it clearly, seeing that Wang Changyun was blind, and he didn't know where the strength came from, he rushed over and grabbed Wang Changyun's leg and dragged him down, and shouted in his ear: "Old Wang! You don't want to die! ”

Falling to the ground, Wang Changyun came to his senses at this time, and when he saw Ding Ran's grinning face, he smiled and said, "Don't worry, this is our Chinese's land, and the land master will naturally bless us Chinese——"

", if you hang up, this battle won't be able to be fought!" Tu Dai rubbed his teeth on the side.

This wave of attacks was finally repulsed, but the bad news came one after another, first Xiao Min ran over and said: "Tuanza, there are Japanese troops rushing over below, there is a brigade of them." Then the telegraph operator ran over and whispered into his ear: "Regimental seat, the general headquarters is calling, reinforcements will arrive in half an hour at the latest, let us prepare for retreat......

"What? Fall back?! Lao Tzu's team is almost exhausted, in exchange for this? Wang Changyun jumped like thunder when he boarded.

The telegraph operator shaved his face and shoved the telegram into his hand: "See for yourself." ”

Wang Changyun glanced at it, and the body that had just sat up snorted and sat down again, which made Ding Benxue under him scream.

Tu Dai saw that something was wrong, crawled over and grabbed the telegram and looked at it, and then the whole person was stunned. The telegram read: The General Headquarters was attacked by Japanese poison gas bombs, and the commander and Commander Li were poisoned and their lives were in danger...... Resolutely carry out orders to your department, and if there is a violation, military law will be carried out.

After a while, Ding ran and muttered, "Why is this happening?" ”

On the right-hand side of the 604th Regiment, the 3rd Brigade of the 56th Wing of the Japanese Army under the command of the captain Shimokawa Yoshiichi Shozo had already pounced on it with great momentum. And they just broke through to a distance of about 500 meters from here, and one of the devils in front stepped on a mine, and with a loud "boom", the devil was blown up into the sky along with the three people behind him, and at the same time, more than a dozen devils behind were all shot by shrapnel, and two of them died on the spot because the major artery was pierced, and the others lost their ability to fight.

"What a sharp lethality!" On the position of the 604th regiment, some soldiers witnessed this scene and couldn't help but sigh excitedly.

The offensive of the 3rd Japanese Brigade was immediately delayed due to the presence of minefields. In the temporary headquarters of the 18th Division on the other side of Shimohide Bridge, after receiving the information from the air force, Sadao Ushijima lifted his spirits and shouted the slogan of annihilating the opposing army to the devil officer next to him.

At the same time, Niu Yide and Zhang Changsheng had also received the same telegram as the 604 regiment. The two men were immediately dumbfounded. At this time, the Tiangu detachment and the Kunisaki detachment had been suppressed into the rearmost line of defense, and the troops of the two of them also suffered heavy casualties, among which Zhang Changsheng's troops had three companies that had been defeated in the formation alone. And the casualties of the fighters have been rewarded, and now there are only more than 800 combatable soldiers left in the Tiangu and Kunizaki detachments, and there is a shortage of ammunition.

The appearance of this telegram forced Zhang Changsheng and Niu Yide to suspend the offensive and temporarily collect the front.

There was a temporary lull on the battlefield, with the difference that the Japanese began to become ambitious, while the three regiments of the Cadet Corps looked somewhat depressed.

Zhang Changsheng and Niu got together for the first time, and the former asked the latter: "Old Niu, what should we do now?" The strength of the Tiangu detachment and the Kunisaki detachment was not much left. ”

"You mean to disobey?"

"Yes. Outside the generals, the military order is not subject to it. I have a mature idea. ”

"Tell me about it."

"Put on a defensive posture for the time being, and then when the reinforcements on the other side arrive, together with Wang Changyun, devote all your forces to launch an attack, and you must destroy all the Tiangu detachment and the Kunisaki detachment - it can be regarded as revenge for the commander and Commander Li."

"Let's ask for the opinion of Head Wang."

"Of course, but I'm sure he'll support it, this kid fights much harder than you and me."

"I'm a little worried now, once the main force of the Japanese army takes the opportunity to cross the bridge, we won't be able to leave if we want to go then."

"It's a big deal to die here in battle - the head has fallen off the bowl and the big scar, and we will be a good man again in twenty years!"

"Ha, how does this feel like Wang Changyun said!"

"So it's decided?!"

"I'll accompany you!"

As a result, a slightly crazy battle plan was just made.