"Boom!" A mortar shell fired by the Japanese army exploded a few meters away from Tangcheng. Tangcheng, who was shouting loudly, was knocked to the ground by the blast of air. He picked it up and dropped it in embarrassment.
With the shell gun on the ground, Tang Cheng subconsciously looked around him. The smoke after the explosion was quickly dissipating, and Tang Cheng could only see clearly a few meters away from him, those soldiers of the Second Company who were also in the same embarrassment.
It made Tang Cheng feel better.
"***Su Datong is just a bitch. There are still people in the village who have not evacuated." The news brought by Liu Shitou made Tangcheng fall into an ice cave. The Second Company fought to the death at the entrance of the village to block the Japanese attack for more than half an hour. Su Datong
They haven't evacuated the people from the village yet. I really don't know how he became the company commander. "I said that those people were not allowed to carry their luggage, but Su Datong just refused to listen. If it weren't for those people being big
Those who carry small bags have already left the village and entered the mountains with their luggage."
"We can't control that much, otherwise all our people will be trapped here." Niu Laogui, with a bloody face, also ran over dragging his rifle. The soldiers of the Second Company who followed him back were much better than when they rushed out.
A lot less. "He, Su Datong, is from the 30th Army. He can afford to pay, but our second company can't afford to pay. After the battle is over, who will replenish our troops?" Seeing Tang Cheng's silence, Niu Laogui stared.
He shouted with wide eyes.
Tang Cheng subconsciously raised his head and looked at the soldiers of the Second Company around him. Everyone's face and body were covered with blood, and a few of them were injured and could hardly stand up straight. Niu Laogui's words seemed to say
That's right. The Second Company in the 30th Army is just a guest army. He offended Song Xilian again in Wanzi. If the Second Company is really exhausted here, no one will replenish the troops of the Second Company. Then the Second Company will not
Is my number really going to be revoked?
"Let's evacuate the village." Without time to think about it, Tang Cheng inserted the shell gun into his belt, picked up a Mauser rifle on the ground, and ran along the narrow road in the village to the back of the village controlled by Su Datong and the others.
Go. Under Niu Laogui's greeting and driving, the soldiers of the second company helped the injured Paoze and evacuated to the back of the village. At the beginning, Laodongbei and the others would turn around and pick up a shuttle after running a certain distance.
Those machine gunners who act as rear guards provide cover.
Tang Cheng lowered his head, bowed his waist, and followed Liu Shitou closely as he ran toward the back of the village. Occasionally, when he turned around, he could only vaguely see a few soldiers holding flower traps, leaning against the wall and firing. Su Datong and the others were keeping the people in
This village is built on the mountain. Before Su Datong's infantry regiment evacuated the village, the idle soldiers of the 30th Army dug a simple trench near the mountain forest behind the village. At this time, the simple trench was crowded with people.
It was full of people with their families and their families carrying large and small bags.
"Come on, come on, the Japanese troops have invaded the village. I have too few people to stop them." Still more than ten meters away from the trench, Tang Cheng grabbed a platoon leader under Su Datong and shouted sharply.
With that, Niu Laogui and the men of the Second Company ran past the soldiers left behind by Su Datong. These guys who were already anxious suddenly panicked and immediately followed the people of the Second Company towards the trenches behind the village.
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The trenches built against the hills were so crude that they were only 1.5 meters deep. The mountain forest that Tangcheng and the others saw as a way to survive was still more than a hundred meters away from the trenches. Only by digging out of the trenches and crossing this hundred meters distance into the mountains and forests could they survive.
Opportunity. At this time, this place is full of people who have been forced to evacuate the village, crying children, helpless old people and women, men carrying large and small bags, as well as shoes and baggage left on the ground, all of this
All of them make people feel the desolation and sadness of losing the war.
The moment the battle started, Liu Shitou followed Tangcheng's order and led some soldiers to escort the wounded and excess ammunition of the Second Company. However, this place was full of panicked people. The wounded of the Second Company withdrew into the mountains and forests.
But the extra ammunition was blocked here. "Shitou, divide the ammunition for everyone, leave the machine guns first, and the other people will go into the woods immediately to find our wounded." Panting, Tang Cheng didn't care about anything else and just used his gun.
He smashed open one of the ammunition boxes and stuffed a grenade into his waist.
The men of the second company swarmed forward, taking the bullets and grenades and loading them on their bodies. Under the leadership of Niu Laogui, these soldiers who had received the ammunition rushed away from the crowded civilians and ran into the forest on the back hill. According to Tangcheng's regulations
The idea was that Niu Laogui and the others, who were evacuating first, needed to establish a defense line at the edge of the mountain forest. When Tangcheng and the others evacuated, Niu Laogui and the others' temporary defense line would provide fire cover for Tangcheng and the others.
Tang Cheng searched around and saw no sign of Su Datong. In desperation, he had to do it himself, "Throw it away, throw away all your things. The Japanese have already entered the village. My people can't stop them for long.
If you still carry these things, then we have to leave you here, otherwise everyone will die here." Ignoring the cannibalistic looks of the people, Tang Cheng snatched the wooden box held by a man and threw it away.
On the ground, he grabbed two bundles from a woman and threw them far away.
Maybe Tang Cheng looked a little scary now, or maybe Lao Dongbei standing behind Tang Cheng looked very tough. The panicked crowd didn't dare to resist, they just dispersed, but they moved faster.
There were a lot of them, as if there were dogs chasing behind them. "Let's go, let's go too, follow the trenches to the left, that side is closest to the mountains and forests." I just looked at the village with a telescope a few times, and Tangcheng pulled it.
Following Lao Dongbei, who was looking for a machine gun position, they moved to the left side of the trench.
The khaki figure of the Japanese army had already appeared in the middle of the village, and sporadic gunshots rang out from time to time. Tang Cheng didn't know whether the soldiers fighting the Japanese army in the village were his or Su Datong's. There was no way he could fight for a few stragglers now.
The soldiers led the second company and fought back to the village. However, Tangcheng was somewhat grateful to these stragglers. It was because of them that the Japanese soldiers who rushed into the village did not rush straight here unscrupulously. As long as they made good use of this hard-won
With the opportunity, Tangcheng and the others can safely retreat into the mountains and forests.
The long trench was winding and twisting, and from time to time there were sections with a depth of only a few tens of centimeters. Tangcheng and the others didn't care about that, so they crawled over on both hands and feet. After running like this for dozens of seconds, the group finally arrived.
The leftmost side of the entire trench. Can such a trench withstand the Japanese attack? Tangcheng felt that unless there was strong firepower and artillery support, holding on to such a position was just an unrealistic luxury hope.
Seeing Tangcheng stop, Laodongbei and the others behind them also stopped. The food they ate all day yesterday was almost the amount of a normal lunch. In a state of half starvation and long distance running,
The panting Tang Cheng felt even more exhausted. "This evil world! The evil war! The evil Japanese!" Resentment against the Japanese army swirled in Tang Cheng's mind like a revolving lantern, and his already groggy brain was even more burdened.
, he even felt that he might faint at any time.
Wearing a thick German-style steel helmet and carrying a total weight of 10 to 10 kilograms of firearms and equipment, Tang Cheng was exhausted and regretted that he had not died at the entrance of the village. Tang Cheng had been taken running by Robert since he was a child.
, and taught him to imagine his future while running. At that time, his footsteps had never been as heavy as today. The last bit of strength hidden in his body seemed to have been exhausted, and his lungs and throat were burning and uncomfortable, and his abdomen
He was in pain due to the continuous squeezing, not to mention the soreness in his legs. In the trench, Tang Cheng was so tired that he didn't even want to move his little fingers.
Looking back at Old Northeast, they all slowed down and stopped. Tang Cheng reluctantly held on to the trench and retched uncontrollably. After a minute or two of blank mind, Tang Cheng finally regained consciousness and looked at the people around him. Could it be that
After the disaster, they were weak. Some people could still carry weapons, and some simply "lay their bodies" in the trenches. They vomited only a little bit of bitter water through retching, and their tired bodies could not support the violent movements. Tang Cheng could only kneel on the ground.
Holding a gun in one hand, he leaned his head and shoulders against the earth wall and closed his eyes to meditate.
The sound of gunfire and explosions in the village gradually faded and disappeared. It seemed that the Japanese army had finished the battle and was clearing the battlefield. Tang Cheng, who had recovered a little strength, crouched in the simple trench and looked up. The khaki figure of the Japanese army had already
Appearing on the edge of the village, the people who were forced to run by Tangcheng had all retreated into the woods, but it was not known how many of them could survive the pursuit of the Japanese army.
Tangcheng ordered to move along the trenches to the left, firstly to get closer to the mountains and forests, and secondly, to actively expose himself to attract the attention of the Japanese army before the people retreated into the mountains and forests. Those people have now withdrawn.
When entering the mountains and forests, what Tang Cheng needed to consider was the safety of himself and machine gunners like Lao Dongbei. Seeing that the Japanese soldiers who appeared on the edge of the village had no intention of attacking the mountains and forests, Tang Cheng felt relieved.
Through the telescope in his hand, Tang Cheng roughly estimated the number of Japanese troops. If nothing unexpected happened, the Japanese troops attacking the village at night should be at least a squadron, maybe more than a squadron. A Japanese infantry squadron has 180 soldiers.
To 240 soldiers, Tang Cheng's Second Company only had a few dozen soldiers who could fight with guns. They could withstand the Japanese attack at the entrance of the village for more than half an hour. Tang Cheng was already burning incense in his heart. He was not arrogant.
I thought about defeating this group of Japanese troops.
"Let's go, let's go, the little devil is about to shoot." What Tang Cheng was worried about finally happened. The Japanese who appeared on the edge of the village obviously did not intend to attack the mountain forest, but they brought in mortars. Tang Cheng was holding a telescope.
Only then did I understand that it was not that the Japanese army did not want to attack the mountains and forests, but that they suspected that the enemy was hidden in this simple trench. They were about to use mortars to bombard the trench. They hiding in the trench would be bombarded by the Japanese army in the next moment.