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Chapter 221 Westbound 4

When Li Qinglin finished organizing the entire company, it was just breakfast time. While the fifth company was having dinner, the captain whom he knew in Guide came.

The captain's surname is Luo, and he is the company commander of the 2nd Company, the 1st Battalion of the 928th Regiment of the 155th Division of the 64th Army. Company Commander Luo carefully looked at Li Qinglin's camp and saw that only a few officers and soldiers of the 5th Company were eating quietly, and some were loading bullets, guarding the simple fortifications. Company Commander Luo praised: "Commander Li, you elite troops of the national army are different. Unlike our company, even eating is noisy and not at all."

Li Qinglin said in his heart, if I hadn't been so conscientious, I might have been eaten by you at any time so that I would not even have bones left!

Although Li Qinglin thought so in his heart, he was still very polite on the surface. He quickly dropped the bowl in his hand and asked with a smile: "Captain Luo, I came to me so early in the morning. What's the point of doing?"

Corps Luo said: "Commander Li, I am here to convey an order from the war zone. The 14th Division of the Japanese army has now entered our Lanfeng area. The war zone is determined to launch a battle to eliminate this stubborn enemy. Commander Xue Yue of the war zone ordered that all the scattered troops that retreated from the front line will be rectified on the spot and reorganized into the battle sequence."

Company Commander Luo said it very tactfully, but in fact, he wanted to annex Li Qinglin's small army with the orders of his superiors.

Li Qinglin pondered for a moment and said, "Company Commander Luo, you also know the temper of our 52nd Army Commander Guan. If we are really organized into your 64th Army, he knows that he will definitely complain to the Supreme Commander in the future."

Commander Luo was a little embarrassed: "Corporate Li, I am also conveying the order to go to the top. You must understand my difficulties."

Li Qinglin thought for a while and said, "Company Commander Luo, we should do this. I will participate in your battle, but I have three conditions."

Commander Luo said: "Corre Li, you need not be polite. I will convey your meaning."

Li Qinglin said: "First, we participate in the battle, but we are not organized into the Sixty-Fourth Army; second, our company's ammunition, food and grass are all under the Sixty-Fourth Army, and our military pay is paid by the Sixty-Fourth Army; third, we must be sent back to the Fifty-Fei Army after this battle."

When Company Commander Luo heard that Li Qinglin had offered the conditions, he hurriedly said, "Corporate Li, I will report your conditions to the commander immediately." After that, he left.

An hour later, Company Commander Luo came back and he brought two more people. After Company Commander Luo introduced, Shangfeng agreed to Li Qinglin's three conditions, and these two people were the staff members who came to count the military pay and food and ammunition needed for the Fifth Company.

When the staff of the Sixty-Fourth Army came, the Fifth Company was training except for the wounded and sick.

These veterans who have been strictly trained by the 52nd Army and have experienced the war are standardized in movements, have high individual quality, and are proficient in offensive and defensive tactics in the squad and platoon teams. Company Commander Luo couldn't help but praise: "Commander Li, your 52nd Army is indeed powerful."

Li Qinglin smiled and said, "This is nothing. If you practice hard, you will be better than us."

Shortly after Company Commander Luo and his friends left, a large group of company commanders and platoon leaders from the 928th Regiment came to the training ground of the 5th Company. They came to visit friendly training.

The 64th Army had just been transferred from Guangdong to the front line, and most of the officers and soldiers had not experienced the war. When the commander of the 928th Regiment heard that Company Luo and his friends said that the Fifth Company was so powerful, he sent all the company platoon leaders to learn from their experience.

Experts will know if there is any one as soon as they take action.

As soon as the tactical drills of the soldiers of the fifth company were revealed, the lower-level officers of friendly troops were immediately convinced. When the trainees were resting, the company platoon leaders of the 928th Regiment quickly established relationships with the officers and soldiers of the fifth company and asked for battlefield experience.

When lunch started, Li Qinglin suddenly thought, since the 928th Regiment could accommodate troops, why can't my 5th Company accommodate some good soldiers?

He did what he thought of. Li Qinglin immediately ordered Xiao Liuzi to set off with a row after lunch, and set up a checkpoint on the main road in the afternoon in the name of the Fifty-two Army, and all the wandering soldiers and sporadic troops who had retreated from the front line were all contained.

As the main force of the Central Army, the Fifty-two Army was extremely famous. The officers and soldiers were well equipped and had sufficient military salaries, so they were naturally not comparable to local troops. Some soldiers who had left the original troops were willing to be sheltered by Li Qinglin's "Central Army". After a long time, Xiao Liuzi and his friends actually accommodated more than 100 people.

Li Qinglin picked more than 20 strong soldiers with certain specialties from them and supplemented Li Gouyuan's machine cannon platoon, and the others were given to the 928th Regiment.

Someone took the initiative to send troops, and the 928th Regiment was naturally very happy. They sent military pay for the entire company of the fifth company early the next morning. The military pay was based on the actual number of people, and each person was calculated in double portions. The 52nd Army had already paid this month's military pay, and all of them were collected by Xiaoliuzi after they were sent.

Li Qinglin's temporary resting period soon ended. At noon, the 928th Regiment sent a notice of departure.

At dawn on May 22, the 155th Division occupied Neihuang Station, Renheji and Huangji, and met with the 264th Brigade. At this time, the Japanese vanguard had advanced to the Jinpen and Qigang areas. The main force of the 155th Division, together with Yu Jishi, launched a counterattack and drove the Japanese army away.

On May 23, Li Qinglin's fifth company followed the 155th Division to attack and occupy Luowangzhai and Luowang Station, but the right-wing friendly forces did not keep up.

Shortly after the 155th Division occupied Luowangzhai, the 71st Army and 106th Division reported that Lanfeng had been lost. Li Hanhun ordered the 155th Division to withdraw from Luowang Station and move to Guilizhuang and Guzhai.

As soon as the 155th Division withdrew from Luowang Station, the main force of the Japanese 14th Division immediately occupied the station, and Longhai Road was cut off by the Japanese army.

Luowang Village is located on the north side of Longhai Road, one of the several large villages between Lanfeng and Kaifeng. There is Luowang Station to the south. On the one hand, the Japanese army occupied Luowang Village and Luowang Station could echo the Japanese army in Lanfeng. On the other hand, the Longhai Road was cut off. The troops east of Lanfeng would have no food, grass and ammunition, and the troops that had not yet evacuated on the Xuzhou battlefield could not withdraw quickly.

In order to regain the lifeline of the Longhai Road, the hundreds of thousands of troops, Xue Yue ordered Li Hanhun's 64th Army to regain Luowang Station. At the same time, Yu Jishi's 58th Division and Hu Zongnan's 78th Division jointly attacked the Japanese army occupying the railway station.

On the evening of May 24, Li Hanhun led Chen Gongxia, the commander of the 155th Division, to personally go to the Luowang Railway Station to observe the enemy's terrain.

After the field investigation, Li Hanhun decided: a regiment of the 155th Division attacked from the east to Luowang Station, a regiment of the 58th Division attacked from the west to the east to Luowang Station, a regiment of the 78th Division was arranged to guard the enemy of Luowang Village to the north of Luowang Station, and all front-line troops were commanded by Chen Gongxia, the commander of the 155th Division.

On the afternoon of May 25, the 155th Division concentrated all artillery fire on Luowang Station and Luowangzhai to carry out cover-type shooting of the Japanese army, and the Japanese artillery fire was completely suppressed.

After twenty minutes of artillery fire preparation, Luowang Station, which was a steel and concrete structure, also stood there, and other buildings were basically blown up. The 1st Battalion of the 926th Regiment of the 155th Division immediately launched a charge at Luowang Station.
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