The illuminating bullets appeared above the position, which meant that the Japanese shooters on the opposite side could hide in the darkness and hunt down targets. Where could one find a moving figure outside the position? If only a few minutes ago, Tang Cheng was crawling close to the ground.
He could only huddle in a ball and look more like a nest of bushes, but now he was sitting in a fortification. Although the fortification was simple, it was better than staying in the wild.
They had just experienced a bloody and cruel close-quarters melee. The fields around the fortifications were now filled with corpses. The still alive people were also sitting next to Tang Cheng, gasping for air. This was what they had done after dark.
The second Japanese peripheral fortification was destroyed. Tang Cheng, who was eager to return to the county seat, selected 14 soldiers from the surviving soldiers of the 1st company. Not far away from the county seat along the Beishan Mountain, they encountered the first fortification under construction.
The Japanese army's fortifications, without mentioning them, were simply destroyed. For this, Tangcheng paid the price of one death and two injuries, but they also gained a Japanese light machine gun and a grenade launcher.
This was the second Japanese fortification they encountered. Fortunately, Heizi and the others were born night owls, otherwise they would not have discovered this fortification in the dark night. The two soldiers who were injured again died here. Tang
They also killed 7 Japanese soldiers in the fortifications, and also seized a lot of bullets, a grenade launcher and a Japanese grenade. As they got closer to the county seat, the sparse gunfire gradually became clearer, and the sound of gunfire rose from time to time.
The flares also allowed Tang Cheng and the others to clearly see the situation on the battlefield. Seeing that the positions outside the county seat had not been lost, the anxious Tang Cheng felt relieved.
"We won't enter the city. According to the original plan, we will find the Japs' artillery position on the flank, and then find a way to destroy it." After thinking quietly for a while, Tangcheng made a bold decision. In Beishan
Several wrong decisions Guan Guan made in succession made Tang Cheng doubt his commanding ability. However, the people who followed him back to the county seat were obviously not the ones who made the decision. The final decision had to be taken by himself. 1st Company
Having been beaten like this, Tang Cheng didn't know what else he couldn't bear to part with.
"What?" You want to find the Japs' artillery position? Do you want to take it away? Do you know how many of us are left?" Sun He, who has always been on Tang Cheng's side, questioned Tang Cheng's decision for the first time."
The gunners we heard earlier definitely contained Japanese 75-meter mountain artillery. That kind of mountain artillery can hit from several miles away. If you want to find it in this dark sky and midnight, it will be harder than climbing to the sky. What's more, the little Japanese must be there.
They have troops deployed outside their artillery positions for defense. We, a dozen of us, don’t even have a chance to bite someone’s teeth, so what are you going to do to attack their artillery positions?”
Tang Cheng also knew that Sun He was not targeting him intentionally, so he just smiled and didn't care much, "It's because the Japanese army will deploy defensive troops outside their artillery positions, so they didn't expect that we would sneak attack their artillery positions.
This is called catching someone by surprise and concealing their unpreparedness." Sun He didn't have time to listen to Tang Cheng's talk about ancient times. In his opinion, Tang Cheng's actions would undoubtedly send the dozen of them into the tiger's mouth. He, the platoon leader, must
blocked.
No matter how Tang Cheng explained, Sun He just did not agree with them to sneak attack the Japanese artillery positions at night. Tang Cheng could not persuade Sun He to agree with him, but Sun He could not persuade Tang Cheng to give up the sneak attack on the Japanese artillery positions. The battlefield had been cleared.
The remaining 10 people did not make a sound, just looking at Tang Cheng and Sun He in the confrontation. "There are only 12 of us. The Japanese army has already surrounded the county. We can't go back directly to the county anyway, so we might as well take a gamble."
Well, maybe we can win."
Although Sun He disagreed with his plan, Tang Cheng was still making his final efforts to persuade him. Tang Cheng was no stranger to night attacks, and I believe Sun He, who had fought in the Battle of Nanjing, was no stranger to it either. Tang Cheng did not want to
Seeing such a good opportunity being wasted like this. Sun He was unwilling at first, but couldn't stand Tang Cheng's constant persuasion. Thinking about it, Tang Cheng was right. They couldn't go back to the county seat for the time being. If
Instead of looking for Japanese artillery positions, all they could do was return to Beishan or become deserters.
"Okay, it's all about death. I never thought about being a deserter, so I might as well just throw my life away in Mengcheng." Sun He, who had escaped from Nanjing in embarrassment, kept holding his breath, just wanting to give life to those who died in Nanjing.
This is why he agreed to Liu Yangyang's recruitment and stayed in the Mengcheng Garrison. Taking the grenade handed over by the soldiers around him, Sun He stood up and put the two grenades into his uniform pocket.
Here, Sun He's actions that seemed to express his stance made Tang Cheng laugh, and he finally convinced this stubborn guy.
Tangcheng and the others did not know where the Japanese artillery positions were. Tangcheng and Sun He were both infantrymen. They only knew the principles of artillery fire, but they could not figure out the distance and direction of the Japanese artillery positions from the gunfire they heard.
Therefore, they must search and search little by little around the periphery of the Japanese encirclement. Searching at night is not a good job. At least no one in the Japanese army is willing to attack at night, but they in Tangcheng have no choice now.
, unless they are willing to become deserters again.
"Old Liu, you are a local, you lead the way." Tang Cheng pulled out his shell gun and wanted to take the first position, but Sun He held him back and placed him at the end. "You are the company commander, don't do it every day."
Everything is done at the front." Sun He pouted at the two people walking at the front in the night. In the ** army, the vanguards are usually novices. Veterans never do this. Not only
Because they are afraid of death. The most important thing is that veterans can fight and should not be wasted on such trivial matters.
Far away from the battlefield full of bloody killings, Tang Cheng and his group walked in the wilderness outside the city at night. Tang Cheng, who was the last one walking, looked helplessly at the 11 guys in front of him. Look at these guys in front of them, they are so tall.
Some are skinny, some are short, some are fat. They don't look like they are here to fight at all, but more like those day laborers that Tangcheng saw in the countryside when he was a child.
With his mind full of random thoughts, Tang Cheng, who was at the end, followed them into a forest of miscellaneous trees. These trees did not have straight trunks but had long teeth and claws. The woods at night seemed like a big maze, except for the feet under their feet.
The crunching sounds on the fallen branches seemed to be the only strange sound of wind in Tang Cheng's ears. After following Lao Liu for a long distance, Tang Cheng and the others finally stopped, because a pile of bonfires and bonfires appeared in their sights.
Several Japanese soldiers gathered around a campfire.
After carefully lying in the forest and observing for a while, Tang Cheng and Sun He slowly retreated. This was probably just a peripheral warning point for the Japanese army. There was no Japanese artillery position as Tang Cheng expected, so he planned to give up attacking here.
, so as not to attract the attention of the Japanese army. "Click" Although they were careful, they still made a mistake in Tangcheng in the woods. Just when they were about to turn around and leave, a soldier walking in the middle of the team accidentally stepped on a tree.
The cracking sound of the dead branches, which were not too thin, was like a thunder in the silent night. They all squatted down.
"Let's go, let's get out of here." Tang Cheng, who didn't dare to express his anger, subconsciously turned to look at the bonfire outside the woods. The Japanese soldiers gathered around the bonfire had already stood up and were looking into the woods.
While they were still there, Tang Cheng also saw them raising their rifles. After receiving the order, Lao Liu was the first to run, followed closely by Tang Cheng and the others. The movement of more than a dozen people running in the woods was not counted.
Xiao, Tang Cheng's recklessness attracted the attention and bullets of the Japanese army for them.
"Pa", "pa", "pa" the bullets fired from the barrels of the Japanese guns flew into the forest. Tang Cheng and the others, who were already running dizzy, had to bend down to make themselves look smaller. At least this would make them look smaller.
The chance of being shot himself was also smaller. With the help of the cover of trees, Tang Cheng and his party were able to escape. However, Lao Liu, who was leading the way, had lost his way, and he could no longer tell where their current location was.
"Keep walking, go in the opposite direction of the gunfire. At least we won't encounter Japanese soldiers." The people in front had stopped, but Tang Cheng who was following behind did not give them a chance to stop, almost chasing them away.
He led them to continue moving forward. Under Tang Cheng's compulsion, Lao Liu led them forward a little further. The trees along the way became increasingly sparse, until an open space appeared in their sight. Tang Cheng then
Ordered to stop advancing.
The open space outside the woodland was dark, and Tang Cheng could see nothing unusual. However, he had no intention of walking out of the woodland immediately because he always felt that there was something strange in this open space. He gestured to everyone and stepped back, and Tang Cheng asked the old man
Liu taught his side and asked in a low voice, "Old Liu, you are a local, tell me what the terrain is like outside?" Tangcheng had been to this forest outside the city, but he had never gone too deep.
Liu is a local, and Tang Cheng guessed that he should know the terrain here.
Tang Cheng pinned his hopes on Lao Liu, but unfortunately the answer he got was not ideal, because Lao Liu had never been here. He only knew the general area, but was not familiar with the terrain. "Okay, let's do it now.
I just know that this direction is the direction of Bengbu, which is the direction where the Japanese army appeared." Before Tang Cheng could finish his words, Sun He beside him reached out and covered his mouth.
There was a noise not far from Tangcheng, and the reflection of a bayonet under the hazy moonlight appeared more than ten meters away. Tangcheng's men were all around, and the figure that appeared now should be the Japanese soldiers chasing after them.
Sun He covered his mouth while Tang Cheng gestured for everyone to squat down to hide their figures. He also signaled Sun He to release the hand covering his own, and then pulled out the shell gun from his waist with extremely slow movements.