Volume 1 Deserter's Bloodbath Chapter 25: Half a multi-grain cake!
The capture of a position does not mean the end of the battle. As the Japanese invaders landed, the vast areas of Luodian, Chuansha and Baoshan became battlefields everywhere. Once the battle started, it meant a decisive battle.
At this point, the National Army's intentions were obvious, and the Japs had nowhere to retreat, unless they wanted to withdraw to the sea and admit defeat, which was something that the Japanese warmongers would not allow.
“Boom, boom, boom…”
The position that had just been captured was flooded by the Japanese mortar shells. At this distance, the Japanese could not use large-caliber heavy artillery and naval guns, but they had a considerable number of mortars and infantry guns.
"Get down! Find cover on the spot!"
"Er Gouzi, go back and report to the commander. We have encountered enemies near Zhou's residence. Please give us further instructions!"
The officer shouted loudly, asking his brothers not to charge any further and to find cover on the spot, as their mission was accomplished anyway.
The 61st Regiment of the 31st Brigade encountered the enemy near Zhouzhai, while the 33rd Brigade and the 11th Division Headquarters advancing northeast from Luodian did not encounter the enemy. The 11th Division Headquarters and the 62nd Regiment occupied Xinzhen. In order to cover attack of the troops, Peng Shan placed the only artillery company, the 9th Company, in Xinzhen to provide firepower for the attacking troops.
The 33rd Brigade is now searching towards the Lion Grove Fort and the entrance of the stone cave. The 98th Division occupied Baoshan in the daytime fighting. The remaining Japanese troops are fleeing towards the Lion Grove and the entrance of the stone cave. In order to ensure the safety of Baoshan, these Japanese troops must be eliminated.
After a round of artillery bombardment, the 61st Regiment stopped. The order from the division headquarters asked them to consolidate their defenses on the spot and wait for news from the 33rd Brigade. The 11th Division could not fight on two fronts. Peng Shan's plan was to concentrate troops to deal with the Japanese on one side. If they fought on two fronts, the 11th Division might have problems even defending.
At this time, at the Chuansha landing site, after two days of hard work, the Japanese finally had the 11th Division landed completely and all the heavy equipment was unloaded from the fleet.
Since landing in Chuansha, the Japanese had been fighting against the National Army with the 22nd Brigade of the 11th Division, and they had basically no heavy equipment; now the 10th Brigade has also landed, and the 22nd Brigade has handed over the defense mission around the landing site. Colonel Yoshio Asama of the 43rd Regiment was furious at the failure in Luodian, and after receiving support from tanks and artillery, he came in with the strength of a regiment. They wanted to cooperate with the 44th Regiment to surround the National Army in the Luodian area and annihilate them all on this plain.
Xinzhen was occupied back and forth by the National Army and the Japanese invaders. There was no intact house in the town. There were scattered sandbags, messy trenches, and ruins. Of course, there were more National Army brothers who died here. The messy corpses were piled on the town, emitting a strong smell of blood.
"Dig deeper and let our brothers rest in peace!"
The brothers from the logistics camp found some tools in the ruins, dug a big hole in the ground outside the town, and buried their brothers in it; Chinese people believe in resting in peace, and now it is wartime, so being able to be buried is good enough, and the rest is not that important!
"Hurry up, dig deeper trenches and pound the soil more firmly."
On the other side, Lin Yuan was directing the death squad to build a position. Under the pale moonlight, the brothers were holding a mess of tools and repairing the broken trenches.
“Ding ding ding…”
Inside the new town, the engineering battalion has built a complete semi-underground shelter for the division headquarters, and the radio station has been set up. Peng Shan and the staff of the division headquarters are nervously marking according to the battle situation reports.
Without the order to attack, it wouldn’t take that long to repair the trenches. The moon was gradually hiding in the clouds and daybreak was about to begin!
“Hoo, hoo…”
There was a lot of snoring in the trenches; all the brothers who were not on guard duty had fallen asleep.
Of course, there were also people who didn't sleep. Not everyone has strong nerves. Although the brothers were very tired after running around all night, some of them just couldn't sleep.
"Zz!"
Someone struck a match, and the smell of cigarettes filled the trench.
"Don't close your eyes if you can't sleep. The more you want to sleep, the harder it will be. You can smoke a cigarette at this time, and maybe you will fall asleep!"
Li Chenglin yawned and spoke softly to Feng E beside him.
"It's even more uncomfortable to smoke that thing!" Feng E said with a frown.
He still remembers that he coughed for more than ten minutes after taking a puff and almost died from coughing. The key point was that his head was still dizzy. He didn't understand what was good about that thing?
There were snoring sounds all around. Feng E stood up holding his gun, climbed out of the trench, and walked slowly forward on the field...
"Brother, don't go any further, there are no sentry posts ahead!"
The sentry's reminder came in the dark. Feng E looked back and found that he was already very far away from the trench, so far that he was out of the shooting range of the machine gun!
"Oh! I'm just taking a walk!"
The three words "Suicide Battalion" were still on the armband. Although there was no Suicide Battalion now and only the Suicide Company was left, the military uniform was still the same. Feng E knew that if he dared to move forward again, the sentries would probably regard him as a deserter and execute him on the spot. Almost all the sentries tonight were from Peng Shan's guard battalion.
"That's it!"
Feng E finally found where he wanted to stay, a bomb crater nearly a hundred meters away from the defense line.
"ah!"
Feng E lay down in the bomb crater with his eyes closed. Although he couldn't sleep, it was more comfortable than staying awake.
Why couldn't Feng E sleep? Because he had a constant feeling of uneasiness in his heart. In the trenches, as soon as he closed his eyes, he felt palpitations; this feeling only got better when he was away from the trenches!
"call!"
Lying in the bomb crater, Feng E held his breath hard, and then let out a long breath. He was trying to relieve his nervousness. He thought he was just being nervous.
The night was hard to bear, especially when he was lying alone in the bomb crater. In order to kill time and make himself less bored, Feng E began to recall with his eyes closed. He recalled everything he could remember from his childhood until he slowly fell asleep...
“Hoo, hoo, hoo…”
I felt like I had just fallen asleep, but then I saw the Japanese bayonet stabbing at my chest, and I couldn't even move...
Feng E touched his forehead with his hand and found that his head was covered with cold sweat. He didn't want to die, so he was afraid! He still couldn't learn how to treat himself as a dead person. He couldn't treat death as nothing like the veterans!
“Crack!”
Feng E opened the gun chamber and began to take out the bullets one by one, and then slowly put them back in one by one. He was using this method to calm himself!
“Gurgle, gurgle…”
The sky was slowly turning pale. I picked up the water bottle behind me and took two gulps. There was a multi-grain cake in my pocket. I took it out carefully, broke it in half, put half of it back into my pocket, and then slowly put half of the cake into my mouth and chewed it!
