At this point in the war, the 30th Army was extremely disadvantageous. The defeated soldiers of the 30th Army, who had lost their light and heavy machine guns, only had rifles and grenades in their hands. It was difficult for such weapons to cause damage to the Japanese tanks. In addition, they had experienced suicide squad sneak attacks.
The Japanese tank crews no longer rushed ahead stupidly. Under the cover of the Japanese escort, the remaining six Japanese tanks kept a hundred meters away from the 30th Army. Under the bombardment of the tank guns, they escaped
The 30th Army that entered the village was defeated and suffered heavy casualties.
The sound of gunfire became increasingly sparse until it disappeared. However, this was no longer important to Tang Cheng and others who had already rushed out of the village. The outcome of the battle was a foregone conclusion. Most of the troops of a battalion of the 30th Army's baggage team were wiped out by the Japanese.
The remaining soldiers either raised their hands and surrendered or fled into the wild fields around the village and dispersed. The Japanese army secured victory at the cost of only two tanks and a few soldiers.
Following the marks left by Niu Laogui and the others, Tang Cheng, who rushed out of the village with all his might, had become a mud monkey. Nowhere from head to toe was clean, and even his hair was hung with knotted hair.
Mud, if you jump casually, you will see mud falling down. On the cruel battlefield, appearance has been relegated to a very secondary position. Look at the officers and soldiers retreating all the way from the front positions.
The soldiers' bodies were covered with mud, oil, and even blood stains. For them, being able to survive was more important than anything else.
Niu Laogui and the others found a fork of a small river behind the village. Although the riverside was not very high, if a person walked in the fork of the river with weeds on both sides, it would not be easy to be discovered by people on the river bank. Tangcheng and the others were because
It was only by following the river all the way down that we ended up in this situation. The exhausted Tang Cheng was helped by Lao Dongbei to climb up the river bank. What awaited them was not Liu Shitou's delighted smile, but the scattered things on the ground.
Dozens of corpses of soldiers from the Second Company were scattered around. Thinking about the panic and despair of the journey, Tangcheng suddenly felt like it was a world away.
"If you can cross the river alive, your brothers will be considered a profit. Their injuries were too serious. The rescuers were killed by the Japanese tanks outside the village. We only have medicine but no one who knows how to use it." Mr. Niu
Gui did not continue what he said, but Tang Cheng already knew the meaning of his words. He threw away Lao Dongbei's arm holding him, and Tang Cheng, who was staggering, took a few steps forward and looked carefully at the faces of the dead soldiers.
, as if he wanted to remember the faces of these soldiers in his mind.
"The Japanese troops won't be chasing them for the time being. Find a place to bury them." Tang Cheng, whose legs were weak, tried his best to stand upright to prevent himself from falling, and slowly came out a few words from his mouth. Erlian left.
There were really not many people left, and now more than a dozen people died. Tang Cheng, who looked a little dazed, carefully counted the number of people left in the second company, and there were only 42 people left, including himself. Tang Cheng couldn't help but smile bitterly.
, I, as a company commander, have become a platoon leader again. The tragedy after intercepting the Japanese army in Beishan, Mengcheng was so similar to now.
Now that digging a pit was too exhausting, Liu Shitou wandered around and found a dry fork of the river to serve as a grave. The remaining men of the second company scrambled to pile the bodies of the dead soldiers at the fork of the river.
Inside, the corpse was covered with a layer of soil, and a tree branch was inserted as a mark, and a simple grave mound was completed. Tang Cheng had already made a plan in mind for the next marching direction.
The front line of Jie Ridge is not far from here. The Second Company, which is extremely short of ammunition, now needs to replenish ammunition and food. Going to the front line is the best choice.
Following the direction mentioned earlier by the guys from the 30th Army, the Second Company followed the terrain for about four or five miles and met a group of sentries on the flanks of the 30th Army. After an interrogation, Tangcheng and the others were allowed to enter the 30th Army.
The flank positions were temporarily rested. With their bodies full of fatigue and aches, Tang Cheng and Niu Laogui sat on the ground outside a wooden and stone bunker. After a while, Liu Shitou, whose military uniform was relatively clean and tidy, picked up a half-sized basket in his left hand.
, walked over with a bucket in his right hand. The basket contained many flatbreads cut into fist sizes, and the wooden bucket contained vegetable soup.
Tang Cheng took a look at the vegetable soup in the bucket. It seemed that there was nothing else except a few vegetable leaves and scattered oil slicks. Although it was not yet noon, he was still half hungry and half full for the past few days.
, for those who have walked a long way in the morning and have been on the verge of death several times, eating a piece of flatbread soaked in hot soup is a great gift from God. "Eat, eat, and recover your strength after eating.
It can be faster." Tang Cheng had no appetite, but he still cheered up and invited the people from the Second Company to come over for dinner.
Niu Laogui, whose stomach was already growling from hunger, said nothing. He untied his lunch box with one hand, poured soup and took a piece of cake, as if losing a few fingers on his left hand had no effect on him at all. But looking at Niu Laogui
This move of Lao Gui made Tang Cheng so sad that he almost shed tears. He endured the great sadness in his heart, took out the lunch box that had been knocked out of shape, silently filled the soup and took the cake. He followed the example of Niu Lao
Gui put the lunch box on his knees, broke the cake into small pieces and soaked them in the soup. Then he slowly and carefully swept them all into his belly as if he were enjoying a big meal.
The soldiers of the Second Company, who also had no appetite, saw that Tang Cheng and Niu Laogui had already begun to eat, so they all gathered around and stuffed their stomachs with more or less food. Lao Dongbei even ate three pieces of cake with a look on his face. Eat.
After drinking enough, Tang Cheng looked up at the protruding trench. Due to the arrival of more than 40 people from the Second Company, the trench where some soldiers were originally stationed seemed a bit crowded. The officers and soldiers with confused faces were sitting or lying down.
Some were closing their eyes and concentrating, and some were wiping their weapons.
After a morning of ups and downs, a moment of respite was precious to Tang Cheng. Following the behavior of the soldiers of the 30th Army in the trenches, Tang Cheng, who had regained some energy, leaned against the earth wall of the trench and closed his eyes to rest.
After resting for about half an hour, Tang Cheng opened his eyes again and then took off his shell gun and drum bag from his body, and put them beside him along with the bayonet and grenades. It was Tang Cheng's habit to clean the gun. As long as he had time,
He would clean and maintain his two shell guns carefully. Fortunately, the ammunition for the second company had not arrived yet, so Tang Chengxiang used this time to clean his shell guns.
Seeing that Tang Cheng was about to clean the gun, Niu Laogui took a rifle from Tang Cheng. Since the missing fingers on his left hand could no longer help, he held the barrel of the Mauser pistol between his left elbow and his left hand.
.First, eject a bullet from the gun chamber, then use the head of the bullet to push the latch on the gun case, pull the magazine support plate back, and remove the bullet support plate and support spring. Then adjust the hammer
, push the block iron block upward and pull out the hammer backward, and the entire pistol will be broken down into parts.
Even with one hand operation, Niu Laogui's speed of dismantling the gun with one hand still amazed Tang Cheng. After Niu Laogui took off the shell gun, he moved it in front of him, and Tang Cheng handed over the other shell gun.
Just like this, one by one, Tang Cheng wiped and maintained the two shell guns in half of the usual time. He took the assembled shell guns from Niu Laogui and inserted them back into the holsters. Tang Cheng took out a cigarette and took one.
Send it to Niu Laogui.
When Niu Laogui started to smoke, Tang Cheng took out the first aid kit he had asked for from the 30th Army and began to replace the gauze on Niu Laogui's left hand. Niu Laogui's injured left hand was still wrapped with the strip of cloth torn off by Tang Cheng, and his fingers
The flesh and blood at the broken root had already adhered to the cloth strip. To replace the gauze, the cloth strip had to be torn off from the wound. During the whole process, Niu Laogui just smoked and remained silent, and saw his fingers again.
When the roots were broken, Tang Cheng felt depressed and uncomfortable.
After treating the wound, Tang Cheng and Niu Laogui chatted for a while, then sat on the earth wall to rest. If he could just bask in the sun until dusk, this might be the most beautiful time Tang Cheng had spent in the past three days. However,
Less than half an hour later, shrill shouts rang out, indicating that the Japanese troops were coming. The officer, who was resting in the trench with his eyes closed, used shouts and gestures to guide the soldiers to disperse into the trenches. Tang Cheng stretched out his hand to help Niu Laogui up, but failed.
He shook his hand away. Niu Laogui, who refused to admit defeat, stood up stubbornly and strode forward with a flower machine. Tang Cheng also followed closely behind him, carrying a Mauser rifle.
After running about a hundred meters, they came to the end of the northernmost trench of the entire flank position. It was not dug to a depth of more than two meters like the forward positions they had stayed in before in Tangcheng, and the trench walls were not made of wooden strips.
After reinforcement, there was even muddy water that covered the bottom of the trench. After finding a section of the trench with less water, Niu Laogui squatted down completely ignoring the muddy water on the ground. The feeling of getting his butt wet was not good.
, but their underwear was already mixed with sweat and mud, so Tangcheng and the others didn't care to "soak" for a while longer.
This section of the trench was obtained by Tang Cheng on his own initiative from the troops holding the flank positions. Only in this way could the Second Company have the opportunity to obtain ammunition supplies. Otherwise, they would have to go to the headquarters of the 30th Army at the main forward position to obtain ammunition supplies.
Approval note. "The ammunition is here, the ammunition is here." Lao Dongbei rushed along the trench carrying a box of bullets. Behind him were more than 20 civilians carrying backpacks. These ammunition were enough for the second company.
42 people had a good fight with the Japanese army.
All the ammunition boxes were pried open. Tang Cheng distributed ammunition according to the amount of 150 rifle bullets and 5 grenades per person. The remaining rifle bullets were all given by Tang Cheng to several accurate marksmen from the second company.
Liu Shitou, a veteran, also dragged half a box of machine-gun ammunition and sat next to Niu Laogui to help him load bullets into the spare magazine. The shadow of the Japanese army had not yet appeared, but there was a tense atmosphere in the trenches as the army was preparing for war.