It is now the season of winter, and it is already very cold outside Nanjing. The air that was scorching from the fire half an hour ago has cooled down. In the increasingly fierce north wind, Tangcheng and the others can only hide in
Resting in the anti-artillery fortification, Jiu Jin shrank into a ball unconsciously in his sleep. There were less than 30 survivors dug out from the soil with helmets, and only 5 of them belonged to the second company. Liu Yangyang was in a coma.
Unconscious, Zhou Fu broke one of his arms, Biaozi and several other members of the Second Company died in the Japanese artillery fire, and Nianzi was the only one who could fight best.
The Japanese army did not take advantage of the shelling or attack immediately after the shelling. At least Tang Cheng poked his head out of the trench and looked around several times, but found no sign of a Japanese attack. The Japanese shelling half an hour ago was not only targeting the second company, but also Xie Chengrui.
The left-wing position at the location was also subjected to retaliatory artillery fire from the Japanese army, and the intensity was not much worse than here. The position had been completely destroyed by the Japanese artillery fire, and most of the surviving soldiers were concentrated in two sections of trenches that were still intact, and no reception was received.
Order, these helmets dare not retreat privately.
Tang Cheng thought about retreating to the city with the remaining men of the Second Company, but Nianzi stopped him. The people guarding the city gate were Xie Chengrui's troops. If they retreated privately without a warrant, they would be killed.
After hearing Nianzi's explanation, Tang Cheng gave up the idea, but looking at the unconscious Liu Yangyang and Zhou Fu who was trying his best to endure the pain, Tang Cheng's heart felt as anxious as a cat's claws scratching.
The goat didn't wake up for unknown reasons, but if Zhou Diao's injury could not be treated, the bleeding alone would kill Zhou Fu.
Weapons are the second life of soldiers. This is what Robert and Xie Bo have said many times. Therefore, whenever Tangcheng is free, he is full of trenches looking for weapons and ammunition. Since there is no order to retreat, it means that we still have to fight the Japanese army.
How could we fight the Japanese army without weapons? He and Nianzi walked around the trenches, and each came back carrying several intact Mauser rifles. The satchel on Tang Cheng's waist also contained no less than 300 rounds of rifle ammunition.
"Everyone who doesn't have a weapon can come here and get a rifle and 30 rounds of ammunition, and then everyone can find the bullets themselves. Before the Japanese army attacks us, the more weapons and ammunition you can find, the better." Nianzi is a quiet man.
Jin was sent by Tang Cheng to the left-wing position to continue asking for reinforcements. Now only Tang Cheng could represent the second company. If Zhou Fu hadn't also fainted, there would be no need for Tang Cheng to take the lead. Most of the helmets in the trenches
Ignoring Tang Cheng's words, only a few guys from the 51st Division came over to receive rifles and bullets. The people in the teaching team were still huddled together, wondering what they were thinking.
Tang Cheng rolled his eyes helplessly in his heart, checked the bodies of Liu Yangyang and Zhou Fu, and told Nianzi, who was handling the light machine gun, to keep an eye on them. Tang Cheng carried two short guns and went to other parts of the position.
There are less than 30 people left alive, and there is no shortage of weapons. Mauser rifles and Japanese-style 38 rifles are everywhere on the position. What Tangcheng is looking for are Japanese grenades and grenades. Mazi originally used Japanese grenades.
Tangcheng still remembers the way he bombarded the Japanese army with a grenade. Moreover, the position needed a powerful weapon.
Tang Cheng's search was not without purpose. Xie Bo's notes recorded that the Japanese grenade launchers had been equipped to the squad units. According to Professor Liu Yangyang's number of Japanese troops, Tang Cheng judged that the Japanese troops who just attacked the Second Company position should be a small group.
A squad of the Japanese army is the same as a platoon of the Japanese army. They have three squads, so Tangcheng will definitely be killed by the Japanese army’s own cannon fodder. Those Japanese soldiers have grenades on them, even if Tangcheng can’t find them.
The Japanese army carries grenades, and it would be good to get a few Japanese oval grenades.
Most of the people who died in the artillery fire left behind mutilated corpses. The ninja was disgusted. Tang Cheng rummaged through the corpses of the Japanese soldiers alone, looking for bullets from the magazines on their bodies and looking for hands from their waists.
Lei, looking for a grenade in the pile of Japanese corpses. Liu Yangyang is now unconscious, and his telescope has been temporarily returned to Tangcheng. Although one lens of the telescope has been completely rotted, this does not affect Tangcheng.
Observe the enemy's situation through the lens on the other side.
Putting down the telescope in his hand again, Tang Cheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief. There was no trace of Japanese troops within one mile in front of the position. This made Tang Cheng's anxious heart feel a little more at ease, at least until Liu Yangang woke up completely.
Nothing has gone wrong in the position yet. The light machine gun Nianzi found is a Japanese-style light machine gun. This kind of magazine-fed light machine gun can use Japanese 38 rifle bullets, so the rifle bullets in the magazine on the waist of the Japanese corpse also became Tang's.
The main object of the search in the city was a small leather satchel filled with Arisaka rifle ammunition that he found. It looked like it could have four to five hundred rounds.
Carrying a slow leather satchel, Tang Cheng walked back with a telescope. The hard object accidentally kicked out of the soil by his military shoes made Tang Cheng forget the pain in his toes. It was the Japanese grenade he had been looking for.
barrel. A Japanese light machine gun, 500 rounds of rifle ammunition, a Japanese grenade barrel, and 5 Japanese oval grenades. These are the sharpest weapons that can be found in Tangcheng. In addition, on the position
Many people only had rifles, bayonets and their lives.
When Tang Cheng returned to the trench where everyone rested, the guys from the teaching team gathered together and whispered something as usual. The remaining six people from the 51st Division sat with Nianzi, and a platoon was beaten.
There are only 6 people left. These guys from the 51st Division are really good enough. Every surviving soldier knows that the Japanese have to retreat this time, and the next attack they will face will be twice as crazy.
In the flames of war, the new recruits grew up very quickly, and now they look a lot like veterans, especially Tang Cheng himself.
Seeing Tang Cheng coming back with grenades and bullet packs, the soldiers in the training team began to take action. They began to clean up the corpses in the trenches. Their own corpses were arranged neatly, and the Japanese ones were thrown directly out of the trenches.
They would silently close their eyes for two or three seconds as a sign of silence for the dead brothers passing by, and salute those brothers who died in battle. Tang Cheng sat next to Nianzi and silently looked at the soldiers of the teaching team. He and Nianzi
They didn't have much energy to dig up the bodies of the brothers who died in the second company, so they could only let them rest on this ruined battlefield.
Twenty minutes later, the first soldier from the training team who came back was carrying five rifles on his back and was covered with Japanese leather ammunition bags. He ran headlong into the trench. The soldier from the training team collapsed and could hardly stand up.
One, two, one group, two groups, the people from the teaching team came back one after another, and half an hour later they all returned to the trenches; each of them had rifles and ammunition on their bodies, including Mauser rifles and Japanese soldiers.
38 rifle.
In a battle with unknown outcome, nearly a hundred soldiers on the Friendship Position, including the reinforcements coming from behind, were fully armed. Many of the surviving soldiers now owned more than a hundred rifles and a large number of bullets.
Of course, they also had a Japanese light machine gun and grenade launchers. They didn’t know when the Japanese troops would come over again. The soldiers in the trenches were all silently loading bullets into the barrels of their guns, whether it was Mauser rifles or Japanese troops.
38 rifle, as long as it can kill people, it is a weapon.
"What do you mean the Japanese planes are for? They hang around in the sky all day, scaring people, but don't rush down." At the corner of the trench, the conversation of two soldiers from the training team reached Tang Cheng's ears. About ten minutes ago
, the Japanese reconnaissance plane came, always hovering over the position but never coming down. Only veterans understand that the next Japanese attack will be like a stormy wave, and no one thinks they can still hold it.
here.
"What else can *** do? Just keep an eye on us and stop us from slipping away. Remember, when the Japanese plane rushes down, stick to the earth wall from whichever side it comes from. This way the plane
The machine gun on the machine can't hit you. If the Japanese throw bombs, don't panic. The bombs will only blow up those guys who don't have eyes to run around." The soldiers' conversation was vaguely transmitted to Tang Cheng's ears. In the trenches,
Everyone is ready to sacrifice. For this nation and country, what should he worry about? Waves of enthusiasm kept rising in Tang Cheng's heart and eyes. He was afraid that he would shed tears again, so he chose
Leave, pretending to look for grenades for grenade launchers.
Looking at the soldiers gathered in the trenches from a distance, Tang Cheng thought of the veterans of the miscellaneous company, how those veterans of the miscellaneous company risked their lives to blow up Japanese tanks with grenades, and how the last few veterans
Holding a grenade and dying together with the Japanese army. All of these seemed like what happened yesterday. Scenes appeared in Tang Cheng's mind. He didn't know if he had that kind of courage, but Tang Cheng knew that he was not a coward. Maybe he didn't.
He had the courage to attack the Japanese army with a grenade, but he would never hide alone in the rear and survive.
"The leader is here, the leader is here." The shouts of the soldiers in the teaching team interrupted Tang Cheng's reverie. He raised his telescope and looked from a distance. Xie Chengrui, who also had a gray face, was leading a group of people in.
In the right-wing position, Jiu Jin, who was sent by Tangcheng to the left wing to move reinforcements, was following Xie Chengrui, as well as Guo Tianbao, who originally belonged to the 51st Division.
Xie Chengrui is here, and there is finally someone who can make decisions on the battlefield. Tang Cheng, who is standing in the distance, secretly breathes a sigh of relief, picks up the satchel with half a bag of bullets and walks towards Jiujin and the others. Maybe Xie Chengrui will go to Jiujin and the others again.
With more troops on the right wing, maybe Xie Chengrui would reorganize these people on the right wing into his second regiment, but Tang Cheng no longer cared. There were only 5 men left in the second company, two of whom were still wounded, so Tang Cheng didn't care.