Just a few minutes ago, Tang Cheng, who had his helmet blown off by a cold gun, could only huddle in the crater with his head in his hands, but now the 1st Company has completely controlled the battlefield. Except for Sun He, there are also sporadic gunshots.
There were no more living Japanese soldiers on the corpses and blood-stained battlefield. Having just experienced a bloody and brutal close-quarters melee, Tang Cheng, who was exhausted, could not find any manpower to support Sun He's side, because almost all the soldiers who were still alive were
The soldiers were helping each other bandage their wounds, otherwise, just bleeding would turn them into another corpse in the position.
The position was now covered with corpses, and the living could find firearms, ammunition and various valuable or worthless belongings here. When Tangcheng was in the second company, he was often led by veterans to clean the battlefield, because the veterans
All the money I spent on drinking and smoking on weekdays was from cleaning the battlefield. If I was lucky, I might be able to find one or two valuable items, and maybe I could get enough money to find a woman to drink with him.
Tang Cheng, who was staggering, found his own helmet on the battlefield. Regardless of the blood stains on the helmet, he directly buckled the helmet that saved his life on his head. There were only three such German-style helmets in the entire garrison.
, Liu Yangyang, Tang Cheng and Jiujin each had one. Unfortunately, Jiujin didn’t like wearing this heavy thing all day long, so he gave the helmet to Lao Xu. At first, Tang Cheng also thought that this German-style helmet was too heavy.
, but now it seems that it is better to be more serious. The key is that it can save lives.
He took out a few bullet bridges from several dead soldiers of the 1st Company, and picked up a Mauser rifle that had been drained of bullets. Tang Cheng, who was staggering, loaded bullets into the rifle while pointing towards Sun He and the others.
As he walked, his head was dizzy from the strong smell of blood on the battlefield, and his stomach was churning. However, he still carried the loaded Mauser rifle, shouldered his own shell gun, and bowed towards Sun He.
Run over there in small steps.
Many corpses on the battlefield were lying face down. Lin Tangcheng did not have the courage to look at the corpses. After stumbling for a while, he finally arrived at the Japanese position where sporadic gunshots were heard. The ambushed party
The Japanese army did not have trenches like the 1st Company. Their positions were simply to dig out some shallow pits with engineering shovels, and then build a layer of earth and stone outside the shallow pits or directly pile up the corpses of their own people. But now there are many
craters left after some explosions.
Tang Cheng saw the corpses of Japanese soldiers, but there were not as many as he had imagined, and there were no corpses everywhere. Most of the corpses that appeared in Tang Cheng's sight maintained their physical integrity. Tang Cheng identified the military uniforms of these corpses, but
He also did not turn over the corpses because he did not want to find faces he knew among them. He stepped over a bayonet and entered the Japanese position in Tangcheng where he saw Sun He.
"We killed all these damn little devils." Tang Cheng, who entered the Japanese position, saw Sun He sitting on a wooden pile. The other party also saw Tang Cheng and shouted. It could be heard,
Sun He's voice was filled with excitement. Tang Cheng walked forward quickly. Sun He had a band of cloth tied around his left arm. Strips of blood were seeping out of the cloth on the outside of his arm. It looked like he had been injured.
Wounded by Japanese bayonets.
Sun He, who was sitting on a wooden stake, looked at Tang Cheng with a half-smile but not a smile. Although this expression looked very awkward, it was the truest expression of emotions in the aftermath of the disaster. It was a pity that Tang Cheng could not hear it clearly.
Sun He could only pretend to smile relaxedly as he muttered those words behind him. But Sun He's eyes were filled with tears that a man least wanted to shed. Death would be the end of the world. He was wandering on the edge of life and death, hesitating, suffering, and helpless.
Watching familiar faces lose their color one after another is perhaps the greatest pain in the world.
After sitting down next to Sun He, Tang Cheng looked around and realized why there were still sporadic gunshots here. It was the surviving soldiers of the 1st company who were refilling the corpses of the Japanese soldiers. If it were normal times,
Tang Cheng might have stopped this waste of bullets, but now Tang Cheng doesn't want to do that. He is willing to give those soldiers a chance to vent, and he himself also wants to draw his gun and shoot at the corpses of the Japanese soldiers.
A shuttle.
Two 1st Company soldiers wrapped in cloth strips carried a seriously wounded man from the front trench. The seriously wounded man who was dying was covered in blood. Apart from the low cry of blood, he did not scream for death. Such a scene
It also brought out the sadness and heaviness after the tragic battle. Tangcheng didn't know whether this seriously wounded man had the possibility to survive, and the two soldiers who carried him out of the pile of dead people also didn't know. They just didn't want their robes and
Japanese soldiers died together, even if they died, they also hoped that their companions would die cleanly and not have anything to do with the Japs.
Tang Cheng carefully counted and found that only 12 of the 50 1st Company soldiers who followed Sun He were still alive. These 12 people also included three seriously injured people, and the others were all injured. "We killed two Japanese officers.
, I’ll give you this command knife, I’ll keep the other one for myself.” Sun He, who had been muttering in a low voice, handed over a Japanese command knife from his side. The blood-stained command knife was held in Tang Cheng’s hand for a few seconds.
, and then was pulled out of the scabbard vigorously by Tang Cheng.
Although he has never really dealt with the Japanese, Tang Cheng saw a lot of Japanese ronin fighting with people on the streets when he was in Shanghai. This sword is not so much a command sword, but it is similar to the samurai sword that the Japanese ronin wears all year round.
Similar. The two Chinese characters "Qiushui" carved on the knife handle made Tang Cheng couldn't help but read them out. It seems that the elders are right. The Japanese not only stole a lot of things from China, they even stole Chinese characters.
.
Putting the long knife back into its scabbard, Tang Cheng took the cigarette handed by Sun He and stood up, "Tell the brothers to clean up the battlefield. Maybe Japanese troops will appear. We have to prepare in advance." No.
After lighting the cigarette, Tang Cheng just held it in his mouth, and then walked around the battlefield with the Mauser rifle and the command knife. After about half a cigarette, Sun He, who was sitting with his head bowed, finally stood up and said hello
His few soldiers swept the battlefield to collect weapons and ammunition.
7 vs. 3, Tang Cheng exchanged 7 lives of the 1st company for the lives of 3 Japanese soldiers. The result was that the 1st company was crippled, and he only had less than 40 wounded soldiers left. If not
The shells stacked on the Japanese mortar position exploded. If these shells had not killed more than 30 Japanese soldiers for Sun He, perhaps this tragic victory could not belong to the 1st company.: What should we do next?
I'm afraid people won't be able to defend this place." After regaining consciousness, Sun He spoke to Tang Cheng in a low voice, with worry and sadness in his words.
"If we don't defend, we will separate the wounded first and send them to the tunnels. Then we will hide some of the captured weapons and ammunition. Let's go back to the county seat." Tangcheng has come out of the regret of repeated mistakes. Only the remaining
The 1st Company with less than 40 people could not defend this place no matter what. Instead of having to fight head-on with the possible Japanese troops, it would be better to return directly to the county town to help in the battle. However, Tangcheng somehow ordered to hide some weapons and weapons.
Ammunition, even he couldn't understand why he suddenly had such an idea.
"We won, but we were also maimed by the Japanese army. The county town should also be at war with the Japanese army. I know everyone is tired and still injured. But we can't let these brothers who died in the battle
He died in vain. We have to return to the county to help in the battle. I need people to return to the county with me, but I don’t want to force you. Those who are willing to stay must take care of the seriously wounded." Tang gathered the remaining soldiers together and looked calm.
The city asked these soldiers to choose to stay or return to the county seat.
Jiujin, who had been listed as a seriously injured person in Tangcheng, struggled to stand up, but Sun He stretched out his hand to hold him down, "I am your platoon leader, and I am also the only platoon leader who survived. How can I miss it when I return to the county town?"
Me." After Sun He, the few bandits who were still alive in Qingyun Village also followed Heizi. Excluding the guys whose legs were injured and affected their mobility, Tang Cheng finally chose only 14 people, plus he was exactly 15
He formed a combat squad individually, and he, the company commander, has now become the squad leader.
"You are injured. It's not troublesome enough to take you back to the county seat. I still have important things for you to handle." Jiu Jin made a fuss and insisted on returning to the county seat with Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng had no choice but to make up an excuse to stabilize himself first.
Zhu Jiujin. "I want to keep some of the weapons and ammunition we seized in Beishan. You are one of our own, so I leave this matter to you. You have to keep an eye on these weapons and ammunition. Maybe we can
We will need them in the future." Tang Cheng's reasons made Jiu Jin dumbfounded, and he finally agreed that Tang Cheng and the wounded soldiers would stay in Beishan first.
In fact, the 15 people in Tangcheng carried the same weapons and ammunition as before. They just added two Japanese light machine guns and three Japanese grenade launchers. The remaining Japanese rifles and ammunition were all used by Tangcheng.
The city was left in Beishan. They needed to rush back to the county seat as soon as possible. They could not carry so many weapons and ammunition back to the county seat. "This thing is my lifeblood. You must keep it. Never give it to others or lose it."
." Before Tang Cheng left, he also handed Jiujin his passport and gold bars that he had kept close to him.
The passport is not just a pass for Tang Cheng to go to the United States. It is the only thing that he misses about Robert. Those gold bars are the life-saving money that Tang Cheng has prepared. These two things are no different from Tang Cheng's lifeblood. Knowing that returning to the county seat is the same as Tang Cheng's.
It was no different to entering the tiger's den in Longtan, but Tang Cheng had no choice but to go back, because Liu Yangyang was still in the county, but he also knew that he might not be able to protect his passport and gold bars well, so it was safest to leave them to Jiujin who stayed away.