"This brother!"

When I was about to turn back to my trenches with the soldiers, an officer with blood and mud climbed up from the trenches and ran to grab me and stretched out his hand and said, "Thank you, thank you!" "You're welcome, it's you." Only then did I recognize him as the officer who had ridiculed me before, thinking that the world is really small. We were still fighting a few hours ago, but I didn't expect that we would bump into each other again.

However, the officer seemed to have recognized me a long time ago. He nodded with shame and said, "It's me, I am the battalion commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 33rd Regiment of the 11th Division of the 18th Army, with my surname Zhou!"

"Hello, sir!" I did not salute him. It was not that I was disrespectful to him, but that it was known that it was very dangerous to do so on the front line.

Battalion Commander Zhang nodded in understanding and asked, "I dare to ask my brother, yes."

"Report to the commander!" I quickly replied, "I am the commander of the 15th Regiment, the direction of the company commander of the 15th Battalion!" "Well, you are the direction?" Battalion Commander Zhou looked at me as if he had heard of my name for a long time, and then patted my shoulder with some embarrassment: "Brother Fang, it's really thanks to you this time, otherwise my brothers and I will not be able to save them. I will thank you very much. If I can survive on the battlefield by chance, I will do whatever it takes to do if I can do it." "Battery Commander Zhou is so serious!" I replied, "You and I are brothers on the same front line, and we are all comrades in the fight against the Japanese. Helping you is just helping myself, so how can we talk about thanking me? Battalion Commander Zhou is too disgusting."

"It's rare that Company Commander Fang is very wise, so I'm so despicable..." "Battlefield Commander Zhou!" I interrupted Captain Zhou in a hurry and said, "You're welcome to talk about it later. I'm just afraid... the Japanese are going to start bombing again!"

"Um!" Hearing this, Battalion Commander Zhou glanced at the soldiers around me, nodded in his dreams and said, "Look at me, I am so confused, please take my brothers back!" As he said that, he bowed to me and the soldiers openly and said, "Thank you brothers for your help, I, Mr. Zhou, will never forget it!"

Seeing this, I could only smile bitterly in my heart. Actually, I know that the reason why Battalion Commander Zhou was so disgusted was entirely because I was a Miscellaneous Army and they were the Central Army. To put it nicely, we are united in fighting against Japan. To put it bluntly, the Central Army and Miscellaneous Army actually have their own heart to weaken the strength of each other with the Japanese. So, when we saved the 18th Army this time, they would feel that they owed me a favor. Otherwise, it would be normal for them to save the brothers who lived and died on the battlefield.

Therefore, Battalion Commander Zhou's performance seemed to be that they and us "turned war into jade" actually showed that the suspicion and concern between the Central Army and the Miscellaneous Army was not a day's cold.

We had just run back to the trench and the howling of shells sounded in the air, and this time the bombing seemed to be different from the last one... The explosion was not as dense as the previous one but lasted for a long time, and the shells were not only blown near our position but also to the rear.

After the bombing lasted for more than an hour and it did not stop, I finally understood the intention of the Japanese bombing. One of their bombing was to destroy our will to resist, and the other was to block the reinforcements coming from behind our army.

Sure enough, a communication soldier ran to me and pointed me in a harsh manner and notified me to go to the meeting.

The regiment headquarters was located about a mile behind the trenches. I followed the communications soldiers to run along the traffic trench in a fire. After more than ten minutes, I got into a fortification built with wooden shelves and earth and stones.

Several battalion commanders and education commanders were already waiting inside. When I saw that I was the only company commander who attended the meeting, I couldn't help but feel a storm. I used my light to sweep the Battalion Commander Li who was sitting aside smoking a cigarette. Sure enough, I saw that the god on his face was a little unnatural.

"Everyone!" The cannons outside were very loud, and the Education Chief had to raise the volume and said to us: "Just just got the news of the upsurge. The Japanese had already blocked all the follow-up troops of the 15th Army, the main traffic artery leading to Luodian, could no longer come up, and our mission changed from the original reinforcement to the garrison..." The Education Chief said this and his tone was a little difficult. It was obvious that he also knew that this task was too heavy for us, and the battalions looked at each other and didn't know what to say.

After pausing for a while, the education director continued, "Shangfeng ordered us to guard Luodian at all costs. We must not let the Japanese break through Luodian. Otherwise, our troops in Shanghai will be in danger of being wiped out. Do you understand?"

At this time, we had to answer cleanly and neatly, "I understand!" However, no one spoke at this time. It was not until the Education Director frowned and asked for the second time that an officer hesitated and replied: "Education Director, there are Japanese planes and cannons everywhere on this. This,..." "If you can't defend, you must guard!" The Education Director interrupted the officer with a dark face and said: "How can you get the eggs under the collapse of the nest? 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, all our troops in Shanghai will be cut off and have no way of retreat? That is, our hundreds of thousands of troops will be stayed in Shanghai and the Japanese will bomb as long as they want!"

The education chief became more and more active. In the end, he shouted at us as if he was yelling: "If the war reaches this point, do you know what the result will be? The Party and the country have sent three-fifths of the troops to the Songhu area. If these hundreds of thousands of troops are eaten by the Japanese, then we have to wait for the country to be destroyed. Brothers, it is better to fight with the Japanese! In a word, even if the last person left has to guard Luodian, do you understand?"

"I understand!" The officers seemed to have let the education chief vent their blood, so they responded without any hesitation.

Education is right, and the plan implemented by Chiang Kai-shek is never wrong. It is of course of great strategic significance to attract the Japanese army to Shanghai, which is densely populated by water. However, behind this significance are many dangers. For example, what we are facing now is that three-fifths of the country's troops may make small.

Is there any way out after surrounding Japan? Xiao Japanese could have said that he had completely controlled the sea. If another division of Japanese troops blocked our retreat, we could almost be said to be trapped in an iron barrel.

"After going back, I'll convey this news to my brothers!" The Education Director nodded with satisfaction and said, "Also, the Japanese bombing may last for a long time. All troops must do a good job in the ideological work of their brothers, so that their brothers must keep calm and persevere!"

"Yes!" The officers responded and saluted the chief of education and retreated. I was about to follow them but was stopped by the chief of education.

"Company Commander Fang!" The Education Chief looked at me with a complimentary look and said, "The battle just now was good, and I also saw that your leadership was good. In such a short time, he trained his company into a very combative force. But... I hope you can follow orders in the next action, do you understand?"

"Yes!" I responded.

In fact, there are many times when I don’t want to act, but because time does not allow it.

Just imagine, I, the company commander, didn't even have a phone call. If I had gone to the situation at that time, like the Education Chief report and waited for his agreement before taking action, I was afraid that the Japanese would have rushed in front of me.

But I also know that a unit cannot act without orders. What if my decision is wrong? Or if every company commander fights like me in the way he thinks it is right? That unit will no longer be a unit.

It was not until this time that I realized how important advanced communication equipment is to a force. It can enable a force to have high-efficiency and dynamic activities and fight under the unified command of superiors, so as to achieve the effect of cooperating with each other and ultimately exerting the maximum combat effectiveness.

The sky gradually darkened, but the sound of cannons did not stop.

It has been more than ten hours since the bombing of Japanese and Japanese. Sometimes I really don’t understand where the bombings from Japanese and Japanese can last for so long. Later, I thought about it... I also felt that my idea was too naive. The Japanese army drove warships, right? The shells were not transported by ships by ship? And long-term shooting of artillery may not be common to us, but it should be a very common thing for developed countries. After all, it was very common for a few days or even dozens of days in World War I.

Now that World War II has not begun, it is common sense for Japanese to continue using some of the tactics used in World War I to deal with us.

It should be said that the tactics of "Japan" are still very effective, because all we have are simple field fortifications. As long as any shell is shot into our trenches, we can kill us. If it is hit by the trenches, it may even collapse the trenches and bury the people inside alive.

This is not to say that those shells will cause us much casualties, but that this feeling of potential death at any time will cause us a lot of psychological pressure, coupled with the humidity in the trenches.

The filth, the strong smell of blood in the air, the smell of gunpowder... In this environment, people with poor psychological qualities will go crazy without a few hours.

I have seen several soldiers rushing out of the trenches regardless of attention when others are not paying attention. Some even cursed in the direction of the Japanese invasion!
Chapter completed!