The heavens start from Changjin Lake

Chapter 597 Arrival
The shortcomings of the Japanese No.11 Division’s choice to land at Xiaochuanshakou began to be exposed. During the landing, the Japanese army’s supplies were severely flooded, especially the artillery shells were seriously flooded, and the firepower was blocked. However, the road from Chuansha Town to Luodian was not The road is a dirt road only one meter wide, and the speed is not even as fast as a bullock cart.

In order to wait for the support of supplies and artillery, the Japanese army had to push back the date of attacking Luodian, and finally decided to attack Luodian on August 28.

In terms of the national army, the No.90 Eighth Division came late and took over the defense of the No.11 Division. .11 The third battalion of the second company faced off.

The 60th Regiment of the No. [-] Seventh Division is in charge of the west side, the [-]th Regiment is in charge of the east side, and the [-]st Regiment is the reserve team.

The 14th Regiment of the No.79 Division came to support from the direction of Liuhe, and cooperated with the Sanjiu Air Group to defend the west side and extend the line of defense. Other troops of the National Army also rushed to gather at Luodian.

When a large number of troops gathered, the national army decided to launch a counterattack, and set the time for the counterattack on the 28th. After all, many troops are still gathering.

Fate hangs over Luodian again.

The troops from Yudi had just arrived, and the Chinese and Japanese sides had launched a fierce attack. The battle lasted for a whole day, and the troops on both sides suffered heavy casualties. Luodian was captured by the Japanese army. Before launching the final attack on Luodian, he fought hard for several hours and failed to recover Luodian, so he had no choice but to retreat.

That night, the [-]th Regiment withdrew from the battle due to heavy casualties.

In the early morning, the order from Shangfeng finally came.

The recruit battalion assembled and followed the [-]th and [-]st regiments into the south side of Luodian. They counterattacked the enemies of Luodian that night and recovered Luodian.

It was raining.

Zhao Shiguo in the second platoon had a bad face, and the third squad was alone, only four people remained, and the other seven were all deserters.

"what happened!"

"At night, I asked Chen Jiansheng to take over from old man Wang's guard post. After Chen Jiansheng arrived, he didn't find old man Wang and others. After searching, I found the military uniforms they had taken off and left on the ground. I've found deserters, and I'll come to you right away."

Xu Liu maintained a posture of standing at attention, which was indeed what he discovered at night. In fact, old man Wang took the initiative to find him and Xia Yuan, and was responsible for the security tonight. There is preparation.

Xia Yuan replied: "Platoon leader, it's all my fault. They found me when it was getting dark, saying that they were serving as a guard post tonight, and old man Wang was out of shape all day. I thought he would correct himself when he arrived at the battlefield. , I didn’t expect this to be a deserter.”

"Eleven people! Seven of them have become deserters!" Zhao Shiguo was furious. This was the first time he encountered so many deserters in a squad. Du Teniang ran away, leaving only four people in a squad.

The scholar and Niu Hai lowered their heads and remained silent. Niu Hai had just joined for a day, but the scholar had been following them since the beginning. Old man Wang planned to become a deserter for a day or two. Xia Yuan didn't care, Xu Liu didn't care, It's even more impossible for him to control it.

Hearing the platoon leader's scolding voice, the scholar knew that Xia Yuan and Xu Liu were lying, but he wouldn't expose them either.

Zhao Shiguo asked people to look for it, but the scouts sent by the company disrupted his plan, and then they received an order to go to the front line, Zhao Shiguo couldn't help but curse secretly.

'Are you treating us like monkeys? This motherfucker started to torment us on her first day. '

There is no doubt that the boot camp has no human rights.

The sky was hazy and rainy. Before we set off, we all searched for materials to make bamboo hats. Fortunately, we could find bamboo hats hanging on the walls in some houses. A group of thirty or so people walked out of the village quickly and disappeared in In the hazy rain.

"Squad [-] and Squad [-], please pay attention to me. If anyone becomes a deserter, don't blame me for being rude to him."

The old man Wang and the others became deserters, which brought a lot of shock to the people in all classes, and at the same time aroused the small thoughts of many people. At this time, there was chaos, and it was the time to escape, and no one would be willing to rush. To the battlefield as cannon fodder.

The team was a little silent, and everyone had Xiao Jiujiu in their hearts.

Xia Yuan whispered to Xu Liu: "The platoon leader's mistake is that he shouldn't have said this in front of everyone."

Xu Liu was a little puzzled: "Why do you say that?"

Xia Yuan said: "Few of these people are willing to go to the battlefield. If you tell them in front of them, isn't it a precedent for them to become deserters? The platoon leader wants to deter them, but you must know that people are like springs. , the harder you press, the stronger the rebound.”

"Spring? This description is really apt."

The scholar said from the side.

"The words are so polite that I don't understand." Xu Liu shook his head.

What's the spring, what's the strength of the rebound, why Xia Yuan speaks like a scholar, always jumping out some incomprehensible words.

"Squad leader, Brother Xia's general meaning is that if you suppress them, their resistance will be stronger."

The scholar gave him an easy-to-understand explanation, and Xu Liu finally understood Xia Yuan's meaning, "I understand, I understand what you mean. You are right. The more you suppress them, the more they will resist." Big, that’s what it means.”

"Yes." The scholar nodded.

But Xu Liu also had his own thoughts: "Scholar, Xia Yuan told us that everyone came out of the village and was often oppressed by the landlords on weekdays. Why didn't they resist at that time."

"This"

The scholar was a little bit at a loss for an answer, which was somewhat beyond the limits of his thinking.So much so that he also thought that what Xu Liu said was right, but he also thought that what Xia Yuan said was reasonable.

He turned his head to look at Xia Yuan, trying to get the answer he wanted from him.

Xia Yuan said: "Because their home is in the village, not in the army."

The scholar immediately thought of Xia Yuan's meaning, and then he said: "The family is in the village, and the relatives are also in the village. If they resist, their relatives will suffer, but their family is not in the army, so they flee from the army. With no relatives, I only need to worry about whether I will be caught."

He turned his head to look at Xia Yuan, and said excitedly: "Brother Yuan, what you said is right, a person is like a spring, the harder it is pressed, the harder it rebounds."

The scholar was happy for a while as if he had learned a new vocabulary.

Xu Liu wiped the rain from his face: "Well, I agree with what you said. The platoon leader shouldn't talk about this in front of them. We should think about what they think."

Thinking of this, Xu Liu became worried. When he was on the battlefield, he didn't know how many people would choose to be deserters.After all, these people are not regular soldiers, but a bunch of recruits, and they know that they are sent to the battlefield to be cannon fodder.

It is the first time to go to the battlefield again, and it is estimated that many people will be scared off and become deserters.

Back in the company, Commander Du had been waiting for a long time. Since it was too dark and it was raining, he couldn't see that there were some people missing in the second row. Yuan and Xu Liu's dereliction of duty, in fact, he also has dereliction of duty, it is not easy to be a platoon leader, it is better not to mention it to Company Commander Du.

"set off!"

Company Commander Du glanced at the more than 100 people standing in front of him, and with a wave of his hand, everyone got into the rain and disappeared into the hazy wilderness.

The rain gradually became heavier.

Bean-sized raindrops hit the ground, splashing muddy water on the trousers, making the already wet trousers dirty. The bamboo hat could not completely cover the torrential rain, and soon the whole body was soaked through The see-through, wet military uniform turned gray-black, blending into the night.

The superior ordered them to arrive before ten o'clock, but now it was eight o'clock in the evening, and it was frighteningly dark, Du Lianchang kept urging them to speed up their marching pace.

A few veterans watched from behind the line, preventing some from escaping in the dark.

So that the line was very long.

Crackling, crackling, the team was very quiet, only the clacking sound of wet shoes stepping on the puddles of water, someone stepped on the muddy puddles, fell to the ground with a slap, and was helped up by the people behind ,keep going.

The new barracks gathered at Jinjiazhai. The frontal enemy was the No.20 No. 67 Company No. [-] Brigade of the Japanese Army, which had about half the strength of the regiment. Together with the new barracks, it was the [-]st Division of the [-]th Division of the National Army. The regiment will launch an attack on the enemy's position in the early hours of the morning.

The courtyard of Jin's house was very deep, and it was transformed into a military fortress by the [-]st Regiment. There were bunkers built with sacks filled with soil at the street corners and alleys.

The new barracks entered the village near Luodian. The houses here were bombarded. There were broken walls everywhere. The roads were full of broken bricks and tiles, and the impact points were scattered all over the streets.

At eleven o'clock, they reached the defense line of the [-]st Regiment, and their superiors gave them the order to move forward.The recruit battalion was basically used as cannon fodder to attract the Japanese army's firepower and consume the enemy's ammunition for the main force. Therefore, after the recruit battalion arrived, they were thrown on the battlefield without even taking a break.

Responsible for searching and clearing obstacles in the way of attack.

Quite a few people left in the second row and third shift, only Xu Liu, Xia Yuan, Shusheng and Niu Hai were left to take charge of the right wing of the second row. The bullet is stuck in the magazine, and the night vision is turned on to look around. This place used to be a war zone, but now it has fallen into silence. There may be sporadic Japanese troops here, so we must be careful enough.

"Corpse!" Niu Hai was startled.

The three of them turned their heads and saw a corpse lying on the ground next to Niuhai. Half of his body was gone, and the intestines were pulled out from the broken belly. Hai was so frightened that he sat down on the ground.

How scary to see such a thing at night.

"Keep your voice down!"

Xu Liu made a silent gesture, and the further he walked, the closer he was to the Japanese army's position. There was no guarantee that the Japanese army was waiting somewhere.

"There are more and more dead bodies."

After turning on the night vision, Xia Yuan could see his surroundings clearly. There were corpses of the national army and Japanese army everywhere, not among the rubble of the ruins.

"Squad leader, let me touch the corpse and see if there is anything we can use." Xia Yuan held the gun in his arms and whispered to Xu Liu.

"Be careful." Xu Liu said.

"Come on, you guys are staring here, scholar, Niu Hai, stay alert, don't say anything when you see someone, first judge whether it is your own person, if not your own person, don't shoot indiscriminately, once you shoot, you will reveal your position , the Japanese devils will approach with the gunshots."

When Xia Yuan left, he didn't forget to tell the two of them.

He himself has been on the battlefield. In the words of the future, he pretends to be a pig and eats a tiger, but the scholar and Niu Hai are real recruits. The scholar was a student before and has never even touched a gun. Niu Hai is an out-and-out farmer , except for a little more strength, nothing else.

The time of the day was too tense, Niu Hai couldn't learn anything at all, so he was dragged to the battlefield. The battle in Luodian was very tight, especially after the Japanese army occupied Luodian, the national army urgently needed to organize enough troops. The troops competed for Luodian.

In fact, the Hu Lian Department of the 33th Regiment of the 66rd Brigade killed more than a hundred enemies and successfully recovered Luodian.

Xia Yuan cautiously stared at the surroundings, turned out of the bunker, stepped on the accumulated water on the ground, as the gradually diminishing and hazy rain curtain penetrated into the gate on the side, the wooden gate was destroyed, and the wall in the yard had collapsed , There are many corpses of national soldiers, and many of them are Japanese soldiers. The guns have been searched away, but it is not guaranteed to be able to touch grenades or bullets that have not been touched from these corpses.

Holding the gun, Xia Yuan looked around, but found no secret sentinel set up by the enemy, so he immediately opened a stiff corpse, first touched the bullet bag, then the grenade bag, and finally the pocket.

He felt a hard object in his trouser pocket, took it out and saw it was a silver dollar.

"On this battlefield, this thing is useless." Xia Yuan muttered, threw the silver dollar in the mud, and continued to touch the corpse.

There are a lot of corpses here, but he has to hurry up. The second row is groping forward. If the vanguard meets the enemy, there is no cover on the flanks, and it is easy to be attacked by the Japanese army.The second row is the left wing of the entire Ninth Company, and the Ninth Company is the left wing of the entire battalion. Once a flank force is wiped out by the Japanese devils, it will threaten the main force in the center.

"A new barracks that was used as cannon fodder is so complicated. Once it is attacked by the Japanese army, it will most likely become very chaotic."

Xia Yuan touched for a while, but found nothing. It seemed that the soldiers of the national army touched the corpses of the Japanese devils and their own people very clean, except for the silver dollar.

(End of this chapter)