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Chapter 224 Westbound 7

It was just two o'clock in the afternoon when the fifth company arrived at the battlefield, and the Kuomintang army was carrying out a new attack.

Under the strict order of the Supreme Command, Chen Gongxia, the front-line commander, took a desperate stance. The 155th Division transported large-caliber artillery to a kilometer away from the station and launched direct fire at the station. After a burst of artillery bombardment, the National Army infantry launched another charge.

Just like the last time, the Japanese army still stood firmly, and another wave of fire came out of the active fortress on the railway, and the national army troops retreated one after another.

This time, the offense and defense were about forty minutes. Li Qinglin carefully observed the whole process with a telescope in his hand. When the national army began to retreat, he immediately found the commander of the 928th Regiment and made some suggestions.

Li Qinglin's suggestions are three: First, the Luowang Station front is narrow and short, and large troops will rush up and cause major sacrifices. Therefore, during the daytime attack, we can only use troops one after another, but the best way is to attack at night; second, when our army's cannons fired, they escaped from the building and evacuated the cannons in the wild. Therefore, while heavy artillery bombardment, it is best to use mortars to bombard the Japanese evasion areas. Third, the Japanese army used trains as active fortresses, and our army could also drive a train to transform it into an active fortress to attack it, and fight back against the person's body.

Li Qinglin's suggestion was immediately reported to the front line command center, which was redeployed based on this suggestion.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the Kuomintang army's heavy artillery began to fire; later, the mortars began to fire, and the Japanese army who ran to the field to avoid howitzers suffered heavy casualties.

The shelling stopped and the infantry began to attack again. At the same time, a locomotive drove over from the eastern railway with five-piece tank carriages. The sides of the train were filled with sacks of sand and soil to form fortifications to block the enemy's bullets. A machine gun was set up at the doors and windows. The black muzzle was heart-pounding.

The fifth company was assigned to one of the cars, and all eleven machine guns were arranged in place. Behind each machine gun were several bombardment soldiers with great arms, and boxes of grenades with the back cover were placed in their most convenient place.

In a blink of an eye, the train rushed to the front of the station. The light and heavy machine guns on the train fired violently, swept across the platform fortifications. The grenades of the bombers flew out like hail. The Japanese army on the platform were in dismay and left their weapons and fled into the station.

The train ran to the west of the station under inertia. The driver immediately reversed and the train started to head to the station platform again.

The fire-breathing train of the National Army frightened the Japanese army. They sent suicide squads to rush onto the railway with explosives, preparing to blow off the railway tracks to prevent the train from entering the station again. But it was too late now. The infantry of the 155th Division and the 58th Division had firmly occupied the railway line under the cover of the fortress. All the suicide squads sent by the Japanese army were wiped out under the roadbed.

The fortress kept firing bullets of death at the Japanese army. The Japanese army in the station and box office were completely suppressed. The infantry of the 155th Division and the 58th Division bravely moved forward, and the front troops had already rushed into the station.

At dusk, the Japanese army in the station saw that the situation was hopeless, so they fled to Luowangzhai. The station was finally taken back by the national army.

On the 27th, while Luowangzhai was recaptured, the 71st Army on the eastern line captured Lanfeng and the Longhai Line was opened. After the engineering troops along the way urgently maintained and repaired the railway line overnight, the forty-two trains stranded east of Lanfeng and the trains carrying materials were safely withdrawn.

The Japanese army in Luowangzhai were also suffering. At this time, an artillery battalion of the 17th Legion of Hu Zongnan, who was urgently transferred, joined the battle formation. Under the powerful artillery fire of the national army, all the buildings in Luowangzhai were destroyed, and the Japanese army inside had no danger to defend, and they were facing the situation of being completely annihilated.

In the early morning of the 28th, various troops of the National Army launched a night attack on Luowangzhai.

In the dark night, Japanese planes were unable to bomb and support, and artillery could not determine the target. The Japanese army, who had lost these two magic weapons, finally couldn't support them and began to retreat to the north.

Chen Gongxia, the commander of the 155th Division, found that the lights on the north avenue of Luowangzhai were shining, and the sound of people and horses could be heard faintly, so he immediately ordered the artillery to cut off the fire.

After these days of battle, all the targets near Luowangzhai were marked by artillery soldiers. After the division commander's order, the artillery soldiers who were waiting for the battle immediately loaded their bullets. The retreating Japanese army was hit by this and the retreat turned into a retreat.

At 5 a.m. on the 28th, the 155th Division cleared the remaining enemies of Luowangzhai. When searching for spoils, they found that Kenji Doihara wore a saber, which proved that the commander of the 14th Division was in charge of command in Luowangzhai. The command knife of Kenji Doihara wore by Kenji Doihara was made of fine steel, and its blade was extremely sharp. The soldiers of the 155th Division stood up with twenty large copper circles and then swung their swords to cut them down. The twenty stacked copper circles were cut in half.

After the 155th Division and 58th Division regained the station, the 5th Company withdrew from the railway station and returned to the station to stand by.

Because there were thick sandbags on both sides of the train, no one of the Fifth Company was injured by the enemy during the battle at the station. Only two were slightly injured because of the scorching shells that were withdrawn by their own machine guns.

A clean and neat battle made everyone excited, especially the soldiers of the miscellaneous army who had just been taken in, were even more proud of their chests and belly folding in front of friendly troops.

In the early morning of the 28th, the Fifth Company was urgently ordered to pursue the remaining enemies. Before leaving, Li Qinglin asked the 155th Division to replenish ammunition and food and release evidence to prove that his troops delayed their trip because they participated in the battle.

After everything was ready, the Wu Lian accompanied two large carts and two captured Japanese horses, and the entire company chased the Japanese troops in the north.

The morale of the troops who won the battle was high. The fifth company rushed to the scene and finally caught up with a few Japanese soldiers who had fallen out of the team. This time, the soldiers who added in a few days ago were the most active, and they rushed to the front.

After a burst of spears, all the Japanese soldiers returned to the west. When Li Qinglin rushed over, the battlefield had been cleared and the spoils were placed next to him.

These Japanese soldiers looked thin, with dark faces and hands, dirty military uniforms as rags, and smelled like foul smells on their bodies. These Japanese soldiers seemed to have not taken a shower for many days, and looked extremely weak and dirty. Looking at their backpacks and lunch boxes, there was no grain in them, only some raw sweet potatoes or raw vegetables. Judging from the tooth marks on them, these Japanese soldiers rely on these things to maintain their combat effectiveness these days.

Let’s look at the Japanese guns and equipment. Although they were running for life, they basically had a lot of equipment and all wiped cleanly.

Xiao Liuzi had sharp eyes, and he suddenly saw an iron box in the trophy. Xiao Liuzi had been in charge of collecting and trading the trophy, but he had never seen this thing before, so he picked it up and asked Li Qinglin and said, "Boss, look at what strange thing this is?"
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