"Although you are asked to command a battalion, don't think that I can replenish your troops. There is no one. However, I can give you some weapons and ammunition. You need to figure out the rest by yourself. Your second
You even carry two guns on your back. I think this is a good idea. The Japanese gun can also kill people." Xie Chengrui smiled and handed over a weapons allocation sheet. It had Xie Chengrui's signature on it. Liu Yangyang didn't look at it carefully at all.
, I just subconsciously took it into my hands.
"Okay, organize your people to get ammunition supplies. From now on, the main position of your battalion is Guanghua Gate. No matter what the Japanese offensive is, you must guard Guanghua Gate for me, otherwise don't blame me, Xie Chengrui, for not being able to
The drum of "showing mercy" still needs a heavy hammer. Although Xie Chengrui understood the results of the second company, he still could not completely trust Liu Yangyang. He still needed to remind him not to be careless. The safety of Guanghua Gate was the key to their second company's defense.
the key of.
"Why me?" Liu Yangyang didn't know how he got out of the battalion headquarters. He just unconsciously squatted on a wall not far from the regiment headquarters and lowered his head and thought. He didn't think he had a good relationship with Xie Chengrui, especially as Xie Chengrui's background
The officers in Huangpu looked down upon an officer like him who fought bad battles and climbed up the ranks little by little. But why did Xie Chengrui let him command the first battalion? Liu Yangyang thought hard and couldn't figure out the reason.
"Why can't it be you?" Xie Chengrui, who followed him out, had a smile in his eyes and slapped the whole pack of cigarettes into Liu Yangang's hand. He turned around and walked away with the little messenger, not giving it to Liu Yangang at all.
Opportunity to continue asking questions. From the first day when the Second Company was temporarily under the command of the Second Regiment, Xie Chengrui had been quietly observing this guy who smelled like a soldier. He admitted that he looked down on the soldier-like Liu Yangyang, but the changes in the Second Company were still surprising.
Xie Chengrui was very satisfied, especially the exchange of fire between the Second Company and the Japanese army at the Daokou position.
Looking at Xie Chengrui's retreating back, Liu Yangyang took out the pockmarked match he gave to himself from his pocket and lit the cigarette in his mouth. The taste of tobacco was very strange, not as wonderful and mellow as Liu Yangang imagined. Almost all veterans know this
Smoking. After a day of hard fighting, the battlefield was full of corpses that smelled of stench and blood. The veterans smoked just to cover up the unpleasant smell and dispel the boredom and loneliness.
There were soldiers coming and going outside the regiment headquarters. Liu Yangyang stood at a street corner in confusion. Before Xie Chengrui left, he asked him to take people to collect ammunition supplies, but his appointment as battalion commander only lasted two minutes.
The decision was made. Liu Yangyang didn't even have time to meet and report to other officers at the very least. Liu Yangyang didn't know how to communicate with other officer platoons. Shaking his head vigorously, Liu Yangyang picked up his rifle and decided to go find it first.
With the people in my company, I will have more confidence.
"The company commander is back." Liu Yangyang, who was in a daze, appeared at the street corner where the rescue station was. Shuangxi, who had been squatting at the door, loudly reported to the veterans in the room. The veterans who were rummaging through boxes and cabinets looking for food hurriedly lay down again.
After returning to Datongbu, they had just rested for a short time and were woken up by hunger. However, Liu Yangyang could not be found, so the veterans had no choice but to try to find some food in the house.
"Qiu Jiangong, from now on, you will act as the company commander. Before we leave Nanjing, you have the right to command everyone in the second company." Liu Yangyang took out a few packets of biscuits from the regiment headquarters from his pocket.
It was a double happiness, but what he just said made the veterans including Qiu Jiangong stunned. What is going on? Why did Qiu Jiangong take over Liu Yangyang's position and become the acting company commander? Could it be that Liu Yangyang was called to the regiment?
Is the Ministry trying to remove him from his post?
"If I don't do it, there are only twenty or so fucking people, why should I be the fucking company commander? The squad leader is quite suitable. You'd better keep it to yourself." Qiu Jiangong was just stunned for a few seconds, then he showed a look
His expression was extremely disgusting, and his words were full of ridicule. Qiu Jiangong didn't mean to shirk it. It's true that he was a veteran, but he knew how capable he was. He was good at carrying a gun and eating food. If he brought such brothers
If he could survive on the battlefield, he would never be this good.
The pockmarked faces had the same expressions as they should have. Although they didn't say anything, the look of pity when they looked at Liu Yangyang revealed their mood at this time. If it weren't for Liu Yangyang, just
The number of brothers killed and wounded in the First and Second Company in the battle at Daokou would not have been that few. Counting the defensive battle outside the city gate, everyone would have been turned into corpses long ago.
"Stop talking, it's settled. Qiu Jiangong takes over from me as your platoon leader. I was appointed by Commander Xie to act as the commander of the 1st Battalion and will lead you to garrison at Guanghua Gate. Now all of you are coming with me to get ammunition supplies."
Liu Yangyang looked around at the messy house that had been turned over by the veterans, but did not see Tang Cheng.
"Did I hear wrongly? Lieutenant Colonel is now the battalion commander. So what did the original battalion commander do? Is he dead? Then Lieutenant Colonel has become the battalion commander of the teaching team. Are we also considered to be members of the teaching team?
Are you here?" The veterans who followed Liu Yangyang out of the house carried their weapons and helmets, and gathered together to murmur quietly. The sound of cannons that rang out from time to time outside the city could not interrupt their discussion, and Liu Yangyang was still in the crowd.
While looking for Tangcheng, I had no time to deal with these guys who were worried about the world being in chaos.
"Where has Tangcheng gone? Who of you knows?" Liu Yangyang searched around but couldn't find Tangcheng. He couldn't help but feel angry in his heart. That boy was unstoppable. He might have deserted again.
Could it be that the Second Company was so unpopular with him? Liu Yangyang thought that Tang Cheng had run away again, which was an injustice to Tang Cheng. The injured Jiu Jin who was sent down was in the ambulance station next door to them. Tang Cheng was idle and had nothing to do.
After Liu Yangyang left with the messenger from the regiment headquarters, he ran to the aid station to visit Jiujin.
The wounded soldiers lying outside the ambulance station that Tangcheng saw were just waiting to die and waiting for treatment. The wounded soldiers who had received treatment were all in the backyard of the ambulance station. The nine-pound soldier had a hole in his arm from a Japanese bullet.
In the backyard. "Now you regret it. Fighting as a soldier is not as simple as you thought. Have you seen the dead people outside? They are the same recruits as you, and recruits die the fastest." See you.
Jiujin, who was hanging by one arm, was in good spirits. Tang Cheng, who was still worried at first, started to tease him.
"Actually, it's nothing. It just hurts and goes away. Last year, when I was helping Uncle Zhang's family hitch a car, I was kicked by his mule and it only hurt. The doctor said that I would have to recover from this injury for ten and a half months.
That's fine, it won't be a problem." In order to show Tang Cheng that he was fine, Jiu Jin gritted his teeth and took off the gauze hanging from his arm, and then used his injured hand to gesture to Tang Cheng. Jiu Jin wanted to show that he was fine.
It was intact, but in the eyes of Tang Cheng, it became a big head that was gnashing its teeth.
"Anyway, bullets don't have eyes. Since you were sent to the rescue station, several people in the company have died. Recruits like you are the Japanese army's favorite snack. You are also lying outside morning and night.
." Tang Cheng was the only one in the second company who called the Japanese soldiers Japanese soldiers, unlike others who called the Japanese soldiers devils. Jiu Jin had heard too much and didn't respond. However, a passing nurse glared at Tang Cheng and said
Tangcheng is a bit baffled.
"Oh my god, Tang, it's really you. I thought I had recognized the wrong person." The nurse who looked at Tangcheng blankly put down the tray in her hand and took off the mask on her face, revealing a face that was familiar to Tangcheng.
Emma, a nun in Shanghai who took care of Tang Cheng. "Thank you Lord for allowing me to see you again. I thought you had left Shanghai after leaving the hospital, but I didn't expect you to be a soldier." I learned that Tang Cheng is now a corporal.
, Sister Emma also teased Tang Cheng about his fear of injections when he was seeking medical treatment in Shanghai.
"Sister, aren't you supposed to be in Shanghai? Why did you end up in Nanjing?" The Chinese Red Cross office that Sister Emma serves is located in the French Concession in Shanghai. Tang Cheng, who grew up with Robert, naturally knows that if the clergy in the diocese do not go to school,
The orders of the first-level church cannot be used to serve in other dioceses at will.
"Brave Tang, have you forgotten that I am from the Red Cross Society? The Red Cross Society's office in China is in Nanjing. The one in Shanghai is just one of our offices." Sister Emma's words made Tang Cheng blush.
Growing up with the clergy, he actually didn't know that the headquarters of the Red Cross Society in China was in Nanjing. Robert received a certain amount of supplies from the Red Cross Society for free to poor believer families every year.
"Sister Emma, there are no men in your Red Cross Society? You must know that there is a war here, and women should not appear here." Obviously influenced by Robert, Tangcheng has always believed that women must stay away from war.
In particular, Sister Emma had taken care of herself. Bullets on the battlefield had no eyes, and the Japanese aircraft and artillery had no eyes. Tangcheng did not want to see Sister Emma encounter any mishaps.
"Brave Tang, are you worried about me?" Sister Emma winked at Tang Cheng playfully, making the latter blush again. She didn't even have time to say goodbye to Sister Emma and Jiu Jin, Tang Cheng
He lowered his head and carried his rifle and ran away from the backyard of the ambulance station without a trace, but Sister Emma's pleasant laughter was deeply imprinted in Tang Cheng's mind.
Jiujin, who couldn't believe that Tangcheng knew a foreign woman, opened his mouth. Until Sister Emma checked his wound, Jiujin still didn't wake up from the shock. "It doesn't matter your injury. Remember not to let the wound get stained."
Get water, rest for a few days and you'll be fine." For the sake of Tang Cheng, Sister Emma gave Jiujin a few words, and then disappeared from Jiujin's sight with the tray, making the wounded soldiers next to her envious.