Chapter 113: The fierce battle between the Battle of Shanghai (I)

"There are only so many brothers left in the first battalion. Huang Likui was also injured in order to save me." Cheng Dean, covered in blood, stood in front of Shen Xiuwen and said in annoyance.

The 1st Battalion of the 38th Regiment was only half of the company with the front line, and almost everyone was injured. More than 400 brothers died with half of the gang of Japanese soldiers on the position. Chen Xiuwen felt extremely uncomfortable. Although the troops were mixed, the 1st Battalion was the army he started.

"Hurry up and take the brothers down and bandage them. Leave a company on the second-tier position, and all the troops will withdraw into the town. Tell the company on the second-tier position not to fight against the Japanese and put them into the town to fight. I will ask the Japanese for their blood debts twice." The Japanese were still attacking and were not sad, Chen Xiuwen said gritting his teeth.

Because Cheng Dean was injured, Chen Xiuwen personally advised the second and third battalions of the 38th Regiment in the town. At this time, Chen Zui rushed over with a nervous look on his face. Since he had been engaged in spies for a long time, Chen Zui has always been a very calm person. Seeing him acting like this, Chen Xiuwen suddenly had an ominous premonition.

Sure enough, Chen Zui walked to Chen Xiuwen and whispered: "I just received the news that the 44th Regiment of the Neon Army has occupied Yuepu. At present, their two brigades are opening to Luodian along Yueluo Highway."

"Didn't a regiment of the 98th Division rushed to reinforce? Why did it fall so quickly?" Chen Xiuwen was also shocked. It was just after noon. According to the calculations of time, the Forty-fourth Regiment took only two hours to capture Yuepu.

"There were many casualties among the divisions of the Neon Army besieged Jiangwan Town and Yangshupu. The 98th Division reinforced Yuepu in name was one regiment, but in fact there were only two battalions. And just arrived at Yuepu and before they had time to set up defenses, the 44th Regiment began to attack. The Neon Army's firepower was very strong. The regiment of the 98th Division and the one battalion of the 56th Division originally stationed Yuepu did not have any heavy firepower. They broke through the outer defense line in one attack, and the entire defense line collapsed." Chen Zui sighed and said.

"Go back to the command center immediately." Half a day passed, and Luodian was about to face two-sided attacks from the Neon Army. Chen Xiuwen felt a headache.

Go back to the brigade department quickly, Qiao Zhen was also nervously drawing on the map. When he saw Chen Xiuwen coming in, he quickly looked up and said, "Brig Commander, Yuepu's neon army is here."

Chen Xiuwen waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "No need to say, tell me how to deal with it."

"At present, the Neon Army in Yuepu has just set off, and I want to send a spy company to attack."

The spy company was a good player in street fighting. Chen Xiuwen was preparing to put the frontal Japanese in the future and play the role of the spy company to give the Japanese a heavy blow. Hearing Qiao Zhen said he wanted to send the spy company to attack, he couldn't help but frowned slightly.

"Look at this place, Shuli Bridge, it is the only bridge on Yueluo Highway. If you can blow up Shuli Bridge before the Neon Army arrives, at least it will be able to delay the Neon Army of these two brigades for half a day." Qiao Zhen pointed to the map and tried to explain.

"Just do it like this, send a spy company immediately, and then take a platoon of engineers to set off immediately." Chen Xiuwen's eyes lit up immediately, and he no longer hesitated, and then immediately said: "Now the Japanese in front are about to attack the town. The command center and the wounded personnel immediately retreated to the Gong family's house. I will leave the command."

Qiao Zhen immediately objected again when he heard this. Before he could speak, Chen Xiuwen's face sank, "Now is not the time to fight, obey the order."

This was the first time Chen Xiuwen was so strict with Qiao Zhen. After Qiao Zhen was stunned, he also realized that once the street fighting began, the command center was indeed not suitable to stay in the town. He was not pretentious at the moment, and nodded and said, "Okay, I will organize the retreat immediately." After saying that, he looked at Chen Xiuwen and said, "But you have to be careful."

"Brig Commander, the enemy situation is basically clear now. We can only stick to the support. I will not help you with the Chief of Staff to retreat to the Gong family home. I should stay." At this time, he said intoxicatedly.

Chen Xiuwen thought for a moment and nodded, "Okay. The troops directly under the brigade department are unified under your command."

As soon as Chen Xiuwen finished speaking, the sound of shell explosions came from the outer positions north of the town.

"The Japanese have started attacking. Everyone should hurry up and take the time. If you need to evacuate, everyone will take your place." Chen Xiuwen ordered loudly.

More than a thousand Japanese in the third battalion of the 43rd Regiment lined up in ten rows of scattered soldiers with twenty meters apart, grenade launchers and light and heavy machine guns mixed together to provide direct fire support. The formation was exactly the same as the wave formation when the second battalion attacked. Asama Yoshio ordered the artillery to launch artillery bombardment on the second defense line. Although the indiscriminate artillery bombardment had lost nearly one and a half squadrons, only a few of the Chinese national teams on the front line retreated to the second line, most of which were destroyed by artillery fire, and also destroyed the opponent's mortar position. This was worth it for Asama Yoshio who was eager to take down Luodian.

All the 75th Field Cannons and 92 Infantry Cannons on the Neon Army artillery positions roared at the same time. The Japanese artillery soldiers who received the order to shoot at full speed kept firing, and group of bullets covered the second-line positions over and over again. The Japanese spared no effort to bombard the second-line positions, and soon leveled the second-line positions.

As the group of bullets moved forward, the Japanese in the second brigade rushed to the second trench frantically. Ding Sanmin, the commander of the 6th Company of the Second Battalion who was responsible for blocking the Neon Army on the second line, took off the soil at the entrance of the anti-aircraft gun hole and drilled out, and loudly crawled out of the anti-aircraft gun hole just now and crawled out of the anti-aircraft gun hole and shouted loudly: "Everyone, please be careful, don't fight with the Japanese, pay attention to your safety. Let's lead the Japanese to the town before you fight with them."

This time, the Japanese attack was very smooth, and there was no resistance at all when they attacked the frontier positions with corpses everywhere. When they rushed towards the second-line positions, with Ding Sanmin's order, gunshots suddenly sounded on the positions.

Although the gunshots are very dense, it can be heard that there are no heavy machine guns, and the number of light machine guns is limited, mainly the sound of rifles.

"Your Excellency the regiment commander, it seems that the Chinese army is almost unable to resist it. The Imperial Army is about to break through their positions and occupy Luodian." The major next to Yoshio Asama said with a smile.

Asama Yoshio nodded proudly, raised his hand to look at his watch, and said, "Yoxi, it's less than two hours."

At this time, another captain next to him holding a telescope shouted excitedly: "The Chinese army has begun to retreat."

Asama Yoshio immediately picked up his telescope and looked at the opponent's second-line defensive position. Sure enough, a group of soldiers wearing grass green uniforms were probably retreating into the town. The Neon Army suddenly crossed the second line of defense and was chasing the town.

The telescope moved to Luodian Town, which was trembling in the roar of artillery fire. Asama Yoshio suddenly discovered several tall two-story buildings standing on both sides of the main road at the entrance of the town. It seemed that there was no movement at the moment, but it still made Asama Yoshio, who had rich combat experience, alerted him.

Judging from the attack just now, the Chinese army guarding Luodian has strong combat power, and the opponent's commander is also very cunning. The Chinese army will not be unused by such a few buildings at the entrance of the town. As long as a few heavy machine guns are arranged on the houses at the entrance of the town, the cross-fire will cause huge losses to their soldiers on the road without any hidden objects.

Thinking of this, Yoshio Asama was frightened in a cold sweat and quickly ordered: "Order the artillery to destroy the buildings at the entrance of the town immediately."

Seeing the signal from the communications army, the Japanese artillery commander immediately ordered the group of guns that were scattering and firing, aiming at several buildings at the entrance of the town to conduct two test shots.

Wang Yonggui, the second platoon leader of the first company of the machine gun battalion, personally thrust an m2. The black muzzle was facing the main road from the closed window shooting hole, and there was a Maxim in the next room. There was also a Maxim in the opposite building. The brothers from the 6th Company of the Second Battalion of the 38th Regiment were retreating into the town from the main road downstairs, and the Japanese were rushing towards the main road. Once the Japanese approached, the crossfire power of the four heavy machine guns was not sure how many Japanese were strangled.

Wang Yonggui held his breath and waited for the Japanese to approach. When he stopped the Japanese from attacking on the outer positions, he had lost two m2s and three 60 mortars in a row, and more than a dozen brothers were killed, one of which was his younger brother. Wang Yonggui held the m2's grip tightly, and even felt sweating in his hands. He was silently muttering: "Yongsheng, look at how brother will avenge you later."

At this time, a sudden "rumbling" occurred, and two shells exploded close to the house at the same time. The dust falling from the roof filled the room. Wang Yonggui and several other soldiers coughed violently.

A soldier coughed and cursed loudly: "Cough, the Japanese gun shells are coming to us! Cough."

"What did you say?" Wang Yonggui suddenly felt a bad feeling in his heart. Before the soldier could repeat, two more shells exploded at the same time. The explosion point was closer. One of the shells hit a house next to him and directly exploded the roof. The two-story building where Wang Yonggui and others were ambushing him shaking violently with the explosion.

"No, retreat quickly." Wang Yonggui roared. At this time, he had already understood that the two shellings just now were test shots by the Japanese, and their target was the buildings at the entrance of the town.

Wang Yonggui first picked up the barrel of the m2. The deputy shooter quickly put away the bracket and the ammunition hand picked up the bullet box. At the same time, he shouted to the Maxim team in the room next to him, rolled and crawled downstairs, and retreated to the town.

Just now, more than a dozen shells hit the buildings at the entrance of the town. A violent explosion sounded, and several shells hit the building where Wang Yonggui and the others were just here. The building shook twice and collapsed in an instant. The shrapnel splashed even concentrated the ammunition hands of the Maxiqin team running at the back.

"Boom." The Japanese still bombarded the buildings at the entrance of the town. The two heavy machine gun teams in the opposite building did not withdraw in time. Looking at the buildings that had turned into ruins, Wang Yonggui endured his grief and ordered the Maxim team he commanded to be temporarily transferred to the opposite street, and he went to the attic of a street-side building set up in the second firepower network in the town.

Peng Hui, with his spy company and the engineer platoon, rushed to Shuli Bridge, which was only three kilometers away from Luodian. Fortunately, the Japanese reinforcements from Yuepu had not arrived yet.

Shuli Bridge is a highway bridge on the Hengjing River. Blowing up the bridge means cutting off the Yueluo Highway. If the Japanese want to enter Luodian, they either take a detour or build a bridge again, which can delay them for at least half a day.

"Quick, lay the explosives immediately." Peng Hui stood at the bridge while observing the terrain on the other side, and ordered the engineer platoon leader.

"By the way, how long does it take to bury explosives?" Peng Hui then turned around and asked the engineer platoon leader who was preparing.

"It takes twenty minutes." The engineer platoon leader looked at the size of the not-so-small highway bridge, and then said after estimating it in his mind.

"Twenty minutes?" Peng Hui couldn't help but frown when he heard this.

"Company Commander Peng, I guess it would take at least 100 kilograms of explosives to blow up the bridge, and I had to punch the holes and lay wires on the bridge pier," the engineer platoon leader quickly explained.

Peng Hui waved his hand and interrupted the platoon leader's explanation, saying, "In this way, you try to hurry up. I will take the spy company to the other side to block the Japanese."

"Company Commander Peng, what if you cross the river?" The engineer platoon leader hurriedly said.

"Don't worry, our spy company has some way to cross the river." Peng Hui said with a smile and patted the engineer platoon leader on the shoulder.

There is a small earth slope on the right side of the road opposite Shuli Bridge, and there is a large bamboo forest below the earth slope. A blocking position is set up on the small earth slope. If the Japanese arrive in advance, it is no problem to drag the Japanese for more than ten or twenty minutes. And it is not necessary to prevent them from successfully drilling into the bamboo forest. Even if the two Japanese brigades chase each other, they will not be able to do anything to them.

When Peng Hui led the spy company to climb the small earth slope just after passing through Shuli Bridge, a row of long-time Mao Benhao who was scouting out hurriedly ran back and reported: "The vanguard troops were in the car and were about to arrive."

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of the car's motor came from the road. Peng Hui couldn't help but take a deep breath of air conditioning. It was so mysterious.
Chapter completed!