Taicang is sixty kilometers away from Kunshan, a marching distance of one afternoon and one night.

The Reserve Replenishment Regiment was moving very slowly. The road was filled with troops from the 74th Army retreating to the west. There were formed units and small units that had broken up. The soldiers exchanged information with each other and looked at the unit that was still marching towards the battlefield.

, but all are full of respect.

The troops withdrawing from Taicang confirmed that Taicang had been lost, that the 109th Division had not received an order to retreat, and that there were no officers and soldiers of the 109th Division among the defeated troops.

Immediately afterwards, the messenger sent an order to camp on the spot. After six hours of marching from Kunshan to the northeast, the reserve regiment under the leadership of the supervising team marched less than thirty kilometers eastward before the troops stopped.

More importantly, the supplementary regiment did not have a radio station and could not directly contact the 109th Division headquarters. All the way, orders were forwarded by the Military and Political Department.

Fortunately, the naval guns couldn't hit here, and the retreating troops commanded by Chen Cheng were blocking the left road along the river. Li Yuan muttered.

There were vague gunshots in the distance that were not too dense, and the sound of retreating footsteps could be heard on the road all night long. After all, it was the middle of the night, and the little Japanese did not rush in.

The troops did not receive new orders until dawn.

It started to turn white in the east. Li Yuan got out of the military tent and looked at the surrounding terrain habitually. In the morning fog, the troops were stationed in a forest on the high ground. The high ground was actually only a mound of about 20 meters.

The mounds are covered with trees, and the shrubs in the woods are not very tall. They are full of green and vitality, unlike in the northeast where the land is dark and brown and looming in the mist.

On both sides of the simple road are paddy fields after the rice has been harvested. There are neat rows of rice stubbles of different heights. The regenerated second crop has also been harvested. The paddy fields are surrounded by woods forming an irregular circle, east and west.

There is a gap in each, about one kilometer apart, with a road in the middle. The troops are located at the mouth of the mountain in the west. Looking to the west, the terrain is basically the same as that in the east. There are ordinary people's houses at the mouth of the mountain in the distance to the east.

It was looming in the morning mist and couldn't be seen clearly. It was probably a mud and wood structure.

Soldiers from the national army kept helping each other walking westward on the highway, mixed with a few civilians. Judging from the clothes, most of the people who followed the troops were gentry. Ordinary civilians still couldn't let go of the two acres of land at home. Maybe they still rented it.

Maybe it's the bits and pieces from the shops in the city.

To put it simply, the terrain is a forest about 100 meters wide surrounded by paddy fields. Looking down from the sky, it looks like a candied haws strung along a road, which is interesting.

The land under our feet is about to be humiliated by foreigners.

The messenger sent an order from the regiment headquarters: build fortifications on the spot to defend against possible incoming enemies from the east. Taicang was lost, and the supervising team did not have a radio. The source of the news was unknown. Anyway, the Ministry of Military Affairs had its own system. Most of the soldiers

They don't even know where they are, and they have no concept of geography.

The ministries immediately began to build fortifications along both sides of the simple road. The outpost had reached a pass in front last night. The terrain there was the same as that of the supplementary group. There were also woods on both sides of the road. There was a road directly in front, and further away there was another

At a pass, there are still paddy fields on both sides of the road.

The leading soldiers should march more than five kilometers and have horses.

This kind of terrain is very advantageous for blocking operations. If the Japanese army wants to attack, it will not be able to deploy its troops at all. The attackers can only attack from the road or along the mountain pass through the woods on both sides. The water in the paddy fields is not deep, but they cannot maneuver.

, once you enter, it is basically a moving "fixed target", suitable for defensive blocking.

Facing the east is a gentle slope downward. Fortunately, the ground in the south of the Yangtze River is full of soil, which is very soft. The fortifications were dug very quickly. The first platoon did not participate in the trench digging. Under the command of the regimental commander, the brothers from the second and third battalions started.

Dig, the 1st Battalion is the main battalion and is the first to go to the battlefield. Now the priority is to ensure physical strength, but the 1st Battalion is not just watching, the idle soldiers are also constantly helping.

Different from the depthless one-line trenches often dug by the national army, four trenches were dug, three horizontally from the slope facing the east, and a communication trench diagonally vertically, in the shape of a slanting king, or to be precise, a lowercase Z shape, with a horizontal line in the middle, half a man deep

, about 200 meters on both sides from the highway.

The excavated soil was piled on the edge of the trench in front of the first ditch and compacted with a shovel. The bottom was nearly one meter thick and trapezoidal. The trench was deep and the height of the pile was just about 1.4 meters for shooting, and it was all covered with shrubs and bushes.

The Japanese machine gun will definitely not be able to penetrate the branch camouflage. Chapter 1

The five trenches were dug deep into the woods, beyond the ridge. In fact, it should be called a slope. Behind the slope, there is no machine gun base for artillery protection. The supplementary regiment deployed a rear defense line of about 400 meters. The second battalion stayed behind in the woods.

, the Third Battalion and Logistics were camouflaged at the edge of the forest.

Now the first platoons of the three companies of the first battalion are all piled in the first trench, choosing shooting positions, and beating the soil to a comfortable shape. Each battalion takes turns acting as a forward or going out to carry out small-scale battles, which expands to

When fighting as a battalion, the first battalion will use the first and second companies as the forward to resist the enemy head-on, and the third company will maneuver. Depending on the scale, the regiment headquarters will let the second and third battalions take turns to change defenses in two-hour units.

The supplementary regiment consists of a company from the Munitions Department, which is actually logistics plus a cooking platoon. A special agent company includes a guard platoon, an artillery platoon, and a communications squad. The reserve regiment itself is a temporary establishment, and there is another one that was just added in Kunshan.

The platoon's combat supervision team, these guys are specifically designed to prevent deserters.

There were still retreating national soldiers on the simple road. All their heavy weapons had been thrown away a long time ago. There was still a small queue at the front. By noon, it was basically a small force.

No one dared to collect the defeated troops without receiving orders.

By one o'clock in the afternoon, the gunshots from the east became more intensive and got closer and closer. The sound of the "Bang Gou'er" of the 38-year-old gunmen began to become clearer, which was particularly nervous when mixed with the sound of the National Army's 79-year-old gunshots.

The fifth group of the supplementary regiment's outpost marched five kilometers, ten men and ten horses, and news continued to come back.

The furthest group connected with the retreating 49th Army Supervisory Team after three o'clock and sent back the news.

The troops of the 109th Division blocked the Japanese army behind the supervising team. They were divided into two lines, one along the Yangtze River in the north to block the Japanese army, two regiment combat troops and division headquarters, one along the Taicang-Kunshan line, and one combat regiment, fighting and fighting.

If you retreat, you are just being chased by the Japanese, who are about to arrive.

Judging from the not too fierce gunshots from Hanyang outside the mountain pass in the distance, Li Yuan's judgment made Li Yuan nervous.

As time continued to pass, the sound of gunfire became closer and closer, mixed in with the vague sound of artillery farther away.

There are no retreating national soldiers on the road, only a small group of ordinary people are still staggering around.

The first to appear from the pass was the supervisory team, wearing eye-catching white armbands on their arms. The retreating people on the road quickened their pace. The light rain in the past few days left large areas of mud on the simple road. The gunshots behind them had been ringing for a long time.

Alright, the people from the supervising team are carrying a person on a stretcher. It seems to be a senior officer. Earlier, ordinary soldiers could have medical soldiers send them to the rear on a stretcher, but now it is basically impossible. Being injured means that

...

A shabby blue sky and white sun flag appeared at the entrance of Dongshan Pass, and the soldiers of the national army who had been cut off appeared. The atmosphere in the supplementary regiment became tense. The Japanese devils who had fought in the Northeast appeared again 3,000 kilometers away. They even killed the Soviet Russian army.

The soldiers in the supplementary regiment have been fighting all the time. Although they say that the Japanese are powerful, the reserve regiments are mostly veterans who have come from the Northeast and have recovered from injuries. They have no panic when facing the little Japanese devils again.

The first gunshot rang out at the entrance of the mountain pass, and then the unclear gunshots became denser. The soldiers who kept appearing and firing back did not lower their bodies, but ran forward while turning back and shooting.

The anti-aircraft shooting area was wide open. He pulled the bolt again and fired a shot. He climbed over the pass. Behind him were the helmets of the brothers. He could no longer shoot. Where the bullets went was not his concern. He saw it.

There is a blue sky at the mouth of the west

Bairiqi suddenly became energetic. After running for more than 1,000 meters, he was out of breath for nearly ten minutes. More than 200 people came to the front of the position one after another, and did not continue to the west. All the more than 200 people also retreated to the back of the fortifications.

In the forest, Li Yuan knew why all these people could run away, and those who couldn't ran were driven away for the country. Maybe they were left behind to cover their comrades, and they only brought a grenade to find the enemy to repay the enemy. It was simple hatred.

The supervisory team wearing white sleeve bands mingled with the soldiers in the rear, covered in mud and in a state of embarrassment.

Li Yuan's sharp eyes discovered that the unit that was reduced to about one company after the break actually had more than a dozen Czech ZB26 machine guns, more than a dozen ZH29 semi-automatic rifles, and a radio station!

The additional regimental commander and staff officer met the group of people and said that Li Yuan didn't care much. Of course, a small platoon leader didn't have the opportunity to care. He was several levels behind and just carried out the order. All the soldiers came from the first platoon.

When the last soldier on the road passed the fortifications, of course he was not the last one. The outposts and vanguard soldiers passed through the fortifications from the front.

He got into the forest. The explosives that had been buried on the road went off. Two explosion points, 100 meters and 200 meters, were also used as rulers. The entire road was blown into three sections. Li Yuan arranged for the brothers from the third battalion to

The road was dug and connected with the trenches of the Second Company to the north. Only the objects dropped by the people were scattered on the road...

There was only one company left in the 526 regiment, which suffered heavy casualties. The regiment leader Zhao Qihui was seriously injured, but Chen Bing was not seriously injured. The command was temporarily taken over, and of course the radio station...

One of the two regiment leaders of 526 was standing and the other was lying down. The one standing was the deputy regiment leader Chen Bing.

Supplement the Youth League Department.

The cooking platoon went to prepare food for the 109th Division troops that were cut off from the rear. The reserve regiment had just been supplied and there was no shortage of food.

"Report to the leader, we have discovered the Japanese. The 526th regiment is returning, with a total of 238 people. The leader, Zhao Qihui, is injured and unconscious."

"How many people have come from the devil?"

"have no idea,"

"I don't know what you're reporting! Send the order: Let the war supervisor arrange four soldiers to send the commander of the third regiment back to Kunshan. The first battalion enters the trench from the front, the second battalion and the first company quickly enter the woods on the left, and the third battalion and the first company enter the woods on the right to set up defenses. All other troops retreat

Go to the woods behind the next pass to the west and build fortifications. Replenish ammunition for the brother troops of the 109th Division. Those who are willing to stay will serve as reserve forces, and those who are not willing to stay will get out and dig fortifications behind them."

"Captain, the little devil can see about 220 people. There are woods behind and there is rain and fog, so I can't see clearly. Anyway, there are many more. I can't see clearly. There are three mortars, six crooked handles, and grenade launchers.

Qing, when I came back I was 300 meters away from the mountain pass." The messengers were of high quality and their number was very careful.

"You say you don't know? Get out of here"

"Yes!" The messenger spread out his legs and disappeared with the regimental commander's order.

If you look at the supplementary regiment position from an airplane, you can only see one platoon of the two companies, and the others are all in the woods. It feels like the company that just retreated.

Li Yuan still admires the arrangement of the group leader.

I finally received the order from the division headquarters through the radio. The regimental commander burst into tears. For many days, no one cared about my father and my mother, and I still missed him a little.

The order forwarded by Commander-in-Chief Chen Cheng from the division headquarters was: The Japanese troops pursuing on this road must not be allowed to cross Kunshan within three days.
Chapter completed!