There is an old saying in China that you cannot avoid what is coming. This is the mood of Tangcheng now. The things that he has been wary of have happened. More and more troops are defeated in the county. Finally, there are troops and locals in the county.
There was a conflict between people. Originally, these soldiers were just doing petty theft or grabbing a few steamed buns, but today in the county town, soldiers were robbing shops in the street. Tangcheng knew that this matter could not be solved easily.
When the door of the inn was banged violently, Tang Cheng was already sitting in the inn lobby wearing military uniform. Only Liu Shitou and Tan Fei were beside him. The others followed Lao Dongbei and were on guard on the second floor of the inn.
The innkeeper followed Tang Cheng's instructions and removed the latch of the door. Several soldiers in military uniforms poured in from the outside. Seeing these soldiers holding rifles in their hands and an officer following behind them, Tang Cheng was finally able to let go.
To my heart, it was not the defeated soldiers at the scene.
Without even asking the officer who came in, Tang Cheng handed over his ID, and the route Zhang Leshan gave him. Tang Cheng did not ask Lao Dongbei and the others on the second floor to come down.
He also wanted to see who was coming and what his intentions were. The identity of the other party seemed easy to guess, because after getting close to the other party, Tang Cheng had already seen the words "National Revolutionary Army 20th Army" on the chest strip of the other party's officer's shirt.
Tang Cheng's ID failed to scare the other party, and it seemed that the other party was illiterate. The second lieutenant of the 20th Army rejected the cigarettes handed over by Tang Cheng with a sullen face. "There is not much peace in the county. There are rioters from the north who are looting."
We opened a few shops. Our 20th Army has the responsibility of guarding the countryside. Therefore, you stragglers who came from the north must register at the liaison office of our 20th Army in the county. Otherwise, you will be regarded as a rebel army and engaged in military law.
"The irritable second lieutenant didn't care at all about Liu Shitou's glare at him. He just said this in a rigid manner and then left with his soldiers.
"What is this? Are you going to reorganize us?" Although Lao Dongbei was guarding the second floor with a light machine gun, it did not prevent him from hearing what the second lieutenant of the Sichuan Army just said, because the voice of the second lieutenant of the Sichuan Army was not much lower than that of Lao Dongbei.
Other troops gathered and reorganized. Old Northeast had experienced such things frequently after leaving Baishan Heishui. However, every time after being reorganized, they would be used as cannon fodder and sent to the front line to fight bloody battles with the Japanese army. Old Northeast had already had enough days of being used as cannon fodder. I heard that
If you mean something like this, you will get angry.
"They didn't say they would reorganize us, nor did they say they would drag you to be cannon fodder. They only said they would register." Tang Cheng glanced sideways at Old Northeast, who was coming down the stairs. Although he said this, Tang Cheng actually felt that
The other party wanted to recruit the defeated soldiers in the county, and the registration was just a trick played by the 20th Army. Old Northeast was furious, but under the suppression of Tangcheng, Old Northeast could only express his hatred by cursing a few words in the inn.
"What did you think of? Tell me." After finally convincing Lao Dongbei, Tang Cheng saw Tan Fei's eyes flashing as if he had something to say, so he simply asked Tan Fei to say it. Tan Fei had been acting very weird these days.
Tang Cheng also wanted to know the reason. Suddenly being questioned by Tang Cheng, Tan Fei, who was deep in thought, woke up suddenly. He suddenly stood up and almost knocked Liu Shitou, who was sitting on the same bench with him, to the ground. Tang Cheng shook his head and laughed.
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"I think we should leave here. The other party is obviously trying to reorganize the defeated troops in the county. When I went out a few days ago, I met a clerk from the 20th Army. Judging from the meaning of the man's words,
The 20th Army was stationed in Xiushui only because of the heavy casualties after the continuous wars. Besides, the Sichuan Army has always been unpopular with the Ministry of Military Affairs. It would be good to replenish them with some weapons and ammunition, but there will definitely be no supply of troops. Not to mention the number of defeated troops in the county.
, there are still more than 200 people. As long as the 20th Army uses these defeated troops as the backbone and strong men as supplements, it may be able to pull out a regiment immediately. The 20th Army will not give up such a good thing."
Although Tan Fei's words were stuttered, Tang Cheng nodded frequently. Tan Fei's idea coincided with his own. If the 20th Army collected all the defeated troops in the county and recruited some strong men, there was no guarantee that they would not
A temporary regiment will be formed. Isn't that how the original Mengcheng garrison came to be? Seeing Tang Cheng nodding frequently to what he said, Tan Fei became more courageous, and his subsequent words became much more fluent.
"If we can't leave, we must take the initiative and take the lead when the 20th Army reorganizes the defeated troops in the county town. We have been wandering around the county town in the past few days and have seen many defeated troops. The highest rank among them is just a second lieutenant. You are
Captain of the 88th Division, as long as you take action, these defeated troops will definitely listen to us. No matter why the 20th Army recruited these defeated troops, we have already taken the lead." Tan Fei, who was eloquent, did not notice that Tangcheng had changed.
His face became pale, and he just discussed the matter, but forgot that there were only a few dozen people on his side, while the 20th Army had nearly ten thousand people.
Not wanting to dampen Tan Fei's enthusiasm, Tang Cheng said calmly, "You think well, but you have ignored the 20th Army itself. As you just said, after integrating all the defeated troops in the county, plus the strong men,
, the 20th Army can only pull out a temporary regiment. We can command all the defeated troops in the county, or we can control this temporary regiment, so do you think this temporary regiment has the ability to fight against the 20th Army?"
"Boy, don't think about things in the clouds all day long, and be at ease. People like us are just holding guns in front and fighting to the death with the little devils. Those good things that can reach the sky in one step will not be our turn."
This time, it was not Lao Dongbei who scolded Tan Fei, but Hou San, which made Tan Fei very ashamed. Hou San, a gangster, could see his thoughts and instigation, and he was already a ** at a young age
How could Captain Tang Cheng not see it? No wonder Tang Cheng said that just now.
"It's a good thing to have ideas, but you have to remember that when you have such ideas, you have to think more about the brothers around you who have lived and died together. A person who doesn't even have brothers will climb higher.
So what, I'm not alone in the end." Tang Cheng's words made Tan Fei break into a cold sweat. He subconsciously raised his head and glanced at Lao Dongbei. The short gun in Lao Dongbei's hand made Tan Fei's legs shake involuntarily. If it weren't for the person beside him,
Liu Shitou stretched out his hand to hold on, and Tan Fei was so soft that he fell to the ground.
With Tang Cheng here, things were not that bad. After Tang Cheng glanced sideways, Old Northeast took back the short gun he had drawn out angrily. In fact, he was just trying to scare Tan Fei. If he really wanted to shoot him,
Tan Fei, Old Northeast seemed a little reluctant too. Tan Fei is not as good at reading people's words as Liu Shitou, but Tan Fei is very smart. "Okay, let's all go back and have a rest. Let's go there tomorrow."
Visit that liaison office and see what the 20th Army wants to do."
After a good night's sleep, Tang Cheng took Lao Dongbei and the others out of the inn early the next morning and went straight to the liaison office of the 20th Army in the county. As expected, the Sichuan Army colonel who had been to the inn a few days ago was there.
At the contact point. "Hey, isn't this Company Commander Tang? He's here to register, come with me." Tang Cheng and the others were the only strangers in the entire contact point. The other party made such a big show of force that Old Dongbei showed anger on his face and voice.
Making it so big is nothing more than making fun of yourself. People like these come to your door automatically and submit to you.
Tang Cheng, however, followed the Sichuan Army colonel into the courtyard without caring, handed him the list of people like him, and then watched as the other party entered their names into the list one by one. "Company Commander Tang, we plain people don't tell secrets.
Our 20th Army gathered the defeated troops in the county. On the one hand, it is for the sake of stability in the county. The other is to form a temporary regiment to supplement our lack of troops. We very much welcome veterans like you, but I am afraid that we cannot guarantee
I can’t give you a higher military rank.”
"It doesn't matter, we are all soldiers. As long as we can fight the Japanese, I don't care. My brothers won't say anything." Tang Cheng answered with a smile, but the Sichuan Army colonel who was choked secretly cursed Tang Cheng in his heart.
, thinking about finding opportunities in the future to slowly deal with this thorny boy. In just one day, under the force of a large number of 20th Army soldiers' fists, belts and bayonets, more than 200 broken soldiers scattered in and around the county were gathered together.
Together with more than 300 strong men who were forcibly brought here, a temporary regiment affiliated to the 20th Army was established with a strength of 580 people.
"Are these bastards deliberately trying to mess with us? Why did that guy with the bad nose become the battalion commander, but you are still the company commander?" Looking around at the soldiers standing beside him, Lao Dongbei glared with dissatisfaction.
Looking at it, Tangcheng's infantry company did not replenish a defeated soldier, and even the newly recruited strong men were only given to a sparsely more than 30 people. The entire temporary regiment of 580 people was divided into 6 infantry companies. Tangcheng
The battalion and company I belonged to had the smallest number of people. If these people went to fight the Japanese army, they would either die or not.
"You forgot what I said. The advantage of having fewer people is that they can't let us hold the position, right? As long as we are allowed to go out to fight, we will have the final say on everything.
Veterans, they are afraid of us, afraid that we will run away with our people." Tang Cheng's explanation made the anger on Lao Dongbei's face gradually fade away. On the way after leaving Nanshan Village, they relied on more than a dozen people to kill all the way.
Came here.
"Okay, don't worry about those things. I heard that there will be an order to leave tomorrow. Let's go back and pack our things. Don't leave everything missing by then." Perhaps because of the upcoming war, Tangcheng began to change.
He became stern, and there was an air of unquestionable demeanor in his words. Old Dongbei walked back with the last remaining anger. The newly assigned young men stood there at a loss. In the end, Tang Cheng asked Hou San
He and Tan Fei temporarily took over the affairs of the old Northeast, so that these strong men would not be ignored like motherless children.