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Volume 2: Battle of Songhu Chapter 32: Bloody Battle at Luodian (3)

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    "This brother!"

    When I was about to turn around and return to my trench with the soldiers, an officer covered in blood and mud crawled up from the trench on hands and knees, ran up to me, stretched out his hand and said: "  Thank you, thank you!" "You're welcome, it's you." Only then did I recognize that he was the officer who had laughed at me before. I thought to myself that this world is really small, and we were still fighting each other a few hours ago.  Well, I didn¡¯t expect to bump into each other again now.

    But the officer seemed to have recognized me a long time ago. He nodded with a shameful expression and said, "It's me. I am the commander of the second battalion of the 33rd Regiment of the 11th Division of the 18th Army. My surname is Zhou!"

    "Hello, sir!" I did not salute him. This was not because I was disrespectful to him, but because I knew that doing so on the front line was very dangerous.

    Battalion Commander Zhang nodded in understanding and asked, "Dare you ask me, brother?"

    "Report to the commander!" I quickly replied: "My subordinate is the commander of the 1st Battalion and the 1st Company of the 15th Regiment." "Well, you are the commander?" Battalion Commander Zhou looked at me as if he had heard my name a long time ago.  I glanced at it, and then patted my shoulder with some embarrassment: "Brother Fang, it's really thanks to you this time, otherwise I and my brothers would not be able to survive. I cannot thank you enough for your kindness. If I can, brother,  I'm lucky enough to survive on the battlefield. If you can find any use for it, just do it!" "Battle Commander Zhou is serious!" I replied: "You and I are brothers on the same front, and we are all comrades fighting against the Japanese.  , helping you means helping myself, there is no need to talk about thanking you! Battalion Commander Zhou is too unreasonable. "

    "It's rare that Company Commander Fang understands justice well, so I" "Battle Commander Zhou!" I interrupted Battalion Commander Zhou anxiously and said, "Let's talk about the polite words later. I'm afraid the little devil will do it again.  The bombing begins!¡±

    "Hmm!" After hearing this, Battalion Commander Zhou glanced at the soldiers beside me, nodded as if waking up from a dream, and said, "Look at how confused I am, take the brothers back quickly!" He said openly and generously.  He raised his hands to me and the soldiers and said, "Thank you brothers for your help. I will never forget it!"

    Seeing this, I could only smile bitterly in my heart. In fact, I knew that the reason why Battalion Commander Zhou was so outspoken was entirely because I was a miscellaneous army and they were the Central Army.  It sounds good to say that we are united to fight against Japan, but it sounds bad to say that the [Central] Central Army and the miscellaneous army actually each have the intention of weakening the other side's strength by using the hands of the small [Japanese] army, so this time we saved them from the 18th Army.  Shouhui feels that he owes me a favor, otherwise it would not be too common for brothers who live and die together on the battlefield to save each other.

    Therefore, Battalion Commander Zhou¡¯s behavior may seem like they are ¡°turning hostilities into friendship¡± with us, but in fact it shows that the suspicion and scruples between the Central Army and the miscellaneous army did not grow overnight.

    Not long after we ran back to the trenches, the whistling sound of artillery shells rang in the air, and this time's bombing seemed to be different from the last time The explosions were not as intensive as the previous bombing, but they lasted for a long time, and the shells were not only  It exploded near our position and also to the rear.

    After the bombing continued for more than an hour without stopping, I finally understood the intentions of the Japanese army. One of their bombings was to destroy our will to resist, and the other was to block the reinforcements coming from behind.

    Sure enough, after a while, a communications soldier ran up to me and told me to go to a meeting.

    The regiment headquarters was located about a mile behind the trench. I followed the communications soldiers and ran along the communication trench under artillery fire. After ten minutes, I got into a fortification built with wooden frames and earth and rocks.

    Several battalion commanders and education directors were already waiting inside. When I saw that I was the only one attending the meeting who was the company commander, I couldn't help but feel shuddered. I glanced at Battalion Commander Li who was sitting next to him smoking a cigarette with his peripheral vision.  , and sure enough, the look on his face was a bit unnatural.

    "Everyone!" The sound of artillery outside was very loud, and the education director had to raise his voice and said to us: "I just got the news from the top. The 15th Army has blocked all the traffic arteries leading to Luodian with artillery fire.  The follow-up troops are no longer able to come up, and our mission has also changed from reinforcement to garrison" The Chief of Education said with a somewhat difficult tone. It was obvious that he also knew that this mission was too heavy for us.  The commanders of each battalion also looked at each other in confusion, not knowing what to say.

    After a pause, the superintendent continued: "The superior ordered us to defend Luodian at all costs, and we must not let the Japanese break through Luodian, otherwise our troops in Shanghai will be in danger of being annihilated.  ,do you understand?"

    At this time, we all wanted to answer neatly and neatly, "I understand!" However, no one spoke at this time.  It wasn't until the director of education frowned and asked the question a second time that an officer hesitated and replied: "Chief of Education, there are devils everywhere here.Aircraft cannon.  This" "You have to keep it even if you can't!  "The director of education interrupted the officer with a dark face and said: "There are no eggs left after the nest is overturned. You are all my old subordinates who have been with me for several years. You know the consequences of not being able to defend Luodian. At that time, we were in  All the troops in Shanghai will be cut off. What will happen if there is no way out?  That is, our hundreds of thousands of troops will stay in Shanghai and the devils can bomb them as long as they want!  "

    The director of education became more and more excited as he spoke, and in the end he shouted at us as if he was roaring: "If the war reaches this point, do you know what the result will be? The party-state will send three-fifths of the troops to  After surrendering to the Songhu area, if these hundreds of thousands of troops are eaten by the devils, then we will have to sit back and wait for the country to perish. Brothers, no matter what, we will die, it is better to fight with the devils! In a word, even if there is only the last person left  We must also guard Luodian, do you understand?"

    "Understood!" The officers seemed to have made the director of education excited, so they responded without any hesitation.

    The superintendent of education was right. The plan implemented by Chiang Kai-shek was never wrong. It certainly had great strategic significance to attract Japanese troops to Shanghai, a city with dense water networks. However, behind this significance were many dangers. For example, we are now  What we have to face is that three-fifths of the country's military strength may make the small

    ¡¼Japan¡½Is there any way out after Japan is surrounded?  Little [Japan] could have been said to have complete control of the sea. If another division of Japanese troops blocked our retreat, we could almost be said to be trapped in an iron barrel.

    "After you go back, convey this news to the brothers!" The superintendent nodded with satisfaction and said: "Also, the Japanese bombing may last for a long time. Each unit must do a good job in the ideological work of the brothers, so that  Brothers, you must stay calm and hold on!"

    "Yes!" The officers responded, saluted the director of education, and then left.  I was about to leave with them but was stopped by the principal.

    "Company Commander Fang!" The Chief of Education looked at me with approval and said, "The battle just now was fought well, and I also saw that you were a good leader, and you managed your company in such a short period of time.  Forged into a very capable force. But I hope you can obey orders in the next operation, do you understand?"

    "Yes!" I leaned forward in response.

    In fact, there are many times when I don¡¯t want to obey orders, but because time does not allow me to do so.

    ¡°Just imagine, I, the company commander, don¡¯t even have a phone call. In that situation, if I had gone to report to the chief of education and waited for his approval before taking action, I¡¯m afraid the little devils would have already rushed in front of me.

    But I also know that an army cannot act without orders. What if my decision is wrong?  Or should every company commander, like me, fight according to what they think is the right method?  That unit will no longer be an army.

    Only then did I realize how important advanced communication equipment is to a force. It allows a force to have high-efficiency mobility and to fight under the unified command of superiors, so as to achieve the effect of mutual coordination and ultimately maximum combat effectiveness.  .

    The sky gradually darkened, but the sound of cannons never stopped.

    It has been more than ten hours since the bombing began in Japan. Sometimes I really don¡¯t understand how Japan got so many shells to continue bombing us for such a long time.  Thinking about it later I also felt that my idea was too naive. The Japanese troops were all warships, weren't they?  Aren't the cannonballs shipped ship by ship?  And such long-term artillery fire may not be common for us, but it should be a very common thing for developed countries. After all, during World War I, artillery fire lasted for several days or even more than ten days.  The days are normal.

    The Second World War has not yet begun, so it is common sense that Japan will continue to use some of the tactics used in the First World War to deal with us.

    It should be said that Japan's tactics are still very effective, because all we have are simple field fortifications. As long as a random shell hits our trenches, it can kill us, even if it is a  If you are next to a trench, it is possible that the trench will collapse and the people inside will be buried alive.

    This is not to say that those shells will cause us many casualties, but the feeling that we may die at any time will cause us a lot of psychological pressure, coupled with the humidity and humidity in the trenches,

    Dirty and the strong smell of blood and gunpowder smoke in the air In this environment, a person with poor mental quality will go crazy in a few hours.

    I have seen several soldiers rushing out of the trenches while others were not paying attention. Some of them even yelled in the direction of the Japs during the shelling!

    There is only one ending for being exposed outside, and that is death.  What makes me feel even more horrified is that sometimes even I??You may also have this thought: Why should you suffer like this again?  Might as well die!  !  .
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