"Batalion Commander, I have something to say!" Lei Xiong glanced at Tang Dao.
"You said that the military meeting itself allows everyone to speak freely." Tang Dao smiled lightly and looked sideways at Zhou Dunhou over there.
"But Battalion Commander Zhou, it really surprises me that you still have a pack of private cigarettes hidden away! I remember I went to your place last night, and when I smoked a cigarette, your body ached so much, I thought you had run out of all the inventory.
In the end, you should all take it from my pocket!"
"Haha, sir, you only know this! Lao Zhou is the most stingy person. Usually when he meets us, he grabs our cigarettes and smokes them to death, but he is reluctant to take any of his own out." Jian Tang Dao teased.
Zhou Dunhou, the school officials laughed till their teeth burst into laughter.
“No, I strongly recommend that rich old Zhou smoke. Damn it, I had to smoke half of my cigarettes during that meeting. I kept counting the cigarettes I smoked when I got back.” Someone was also beating drums.
"Bah, you guys are so shameless. You just like to worry about what's in other people's pockets. During the last battle in Songjiang, I saw you putting Japanese cigarettes in your pockets. I ask you, where are the cigarettes? Let the dogs do it.
Did you smoke it?" Zhou Dunhou, who was annoyed by the ridicule, jumped up to fight back.
“Woo!” Hammer lying beside him whined twice, staring at Zhou Dunhou with a pair of dog eyes that looked extremely unkind.
Four fangs are exposed from the lips.
What, the dog offended you? People in Jiangnan are gentle by nature, but that doesn’t mean dogs are too. Hammer has a bad temper.
"Hey, little hammer, I didn't mean to scold you. Come on, come on, get some dried meat to eat. Don't show your teeth, don't show your teeth." Zhou Dunhou was startled, and he took out the inner pocket of his military uniform with some pain.
He took out a piece of dried meat and threw it over.
Originally, the hammer wearing a military uniform and vest was a joke to the officers and soldiers of the 67th Army and 43rd Army who joined the advance regiment. Commander Tang just kept a guard dog as a military dog, and even gave the dog a private collar badge.
But in the battle against the Japanese bombing formation a few days ago, Hammer was the first to hear the roar of the enemy planes and issued a warning, which at least bought the entire army an extra minute.
No one dares to underestimate that minute. Maybe in just that minute, hundreds of people will die less.
Moreover, even when Tang Dao led his team to harass the main force of the Japanese army, he had to bring the "Hammer" scout with him. That was a battlefield that would be doomed if anything went wrong, which fully demonstrated that the "Hammer" was a special force.
Different dogs.
It is not surprising that it can understand human speech now, even if it understands Japanese.
"My God, Lao Zhou, you are so thrifty that you still have meat!" A school official looked at it and forgave Zhou Dunhou for chewing the "hammer" without the moral integrity of a dog.
, the eyes are a little straight.
In order to allow the Songjiang army to have enough strength to fight, the Songjiang headquarters also made great efforts to cook all the meat that could be collected in Songjiang, including the Japanese war horses killed in the Songjiang wilderness that day, with boiling water and salt.
Then the water was drained using earthen methods. The soldiers and officers treated them equally, and each person took one pound of dried meat and five pieces of bread to carry with them.
In the event of an emergency, these are their energy supplements, enough for an adult to survive for three days and still have enough physical strength.
Ten days have passed since the Battle of Songjiang. Most of the soldiers, with the thought of not starving to death, had already eaten up all the meat and cakes.
Even if I saved a little, I still ate everything after these six days of extremely energy-consuming rapid march. To replenish energy during the journey, I really had to rely on the broth made from the meat of all the horses and pack horses that Tang Dao ordered at that time.
Otherwise, we may not always be able to stay ahead of the 36th Infantry Brigade, which has canned meat to eat.
Unexpectedly, stingy old Zhou also had a piece of bacon hidden close to his body.
However, no matter how stingy the major battalion commander was who had accidentally scolded the dog, he could only use the dried meat that was given to everyone by the command to supplement nutrition before the war to appease the most special 'soldier' of the advance group.
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“Nonsense, why can’t I have it? I’ve been relying on this piece of meat to make a living these days.” Zhou Dunhou replied angrily to his colleague.
“The meat is still there! How did you prepare the meal?” The school officer was stunned.
“Watch it! If you really can’t smell it, if it doesn’t work, I’ll just lick it! It smells so good!” Zhou Dunhou replied matter-of-factly.
‘Uh’ Tang Dao couldn’t help but grin.
It seems that Zhenteliang is a good method and worthy of promotion throughout the army. The only drawback is that it is a bit disgusting.
‘hammer’
It seems that the bacon is not so fragrant anymore!
But we are dogs, so we are afraid of balls! Isn’t it just the spit of an old man?
This is probably a not too complicated psychological struggle deep in the heart of Hammer, who first froze in his meat-eating movements but then quickly went on to enjoy the meal.
“Haha!” Everyone laughed.
Invisibly, it relieved the somewhat glaring atmosphere of the two majors.
At the same time, the tension aroused by the 18th Division's transfer of an infantry regiment was not as strong as before.
The general is the courage of the soldiers. If they do not panic, the soldiers will naturally not be afraid.
These battlefield veterans are using their own methods to relieve the fear caused by the rope slowly being put around their necks.
“Come on, Lei Xiong, tell me.” Tang Dao patted the map with his hand and pulled a bunch of off-topic school officials back into the military meeting.
“What I just said about Old Zhou Tianzhen was of course a joke.” Lei Xiong’s face straightened. “However, we can know from the map that our current location is not far from the Jiashan Defense Line, doesn’t the Japanese army know that?”
“Of course they know, and I can even conclude that after they continuously monitored my marching route through reconnaissance aircraft in the sky two days ago, they came to the conclusion that our unit is approaching the main force of our unit.”
"Of course I know this, but the open space is so big. Unless someone deliberately leaks the whereabouts of our troops, how can the Japanese block us at night?" Zhou Dunhou frowned and said.
Eighty percent of the reason why the Japanese army was able to cling to the advance group was due to the reconnaissance planes of the Japanese Navy twice a day. But that was only during the day. If the advance group continued to march at night, the Japanese would never know it.
of their movements.
"If we can abandon all our baggage, including the wounded, and travel lightly without any traitors, the Japanese will certainly be unable to do anything to us." Lei Xiong sighed softly. "Not only do we know this, but even the Japanese do.
You know, we won’t.”
Zhou Dunhou was stunned.
What Lei Xiong said is exactly the weakness of the advance regiment. Although the advance regiment is composed of elite troops, it is not a strong force used as a forward force. Their original mission is just to be abandoned, attracting Japanese bombing formations and the Tenth Army.
The abandoned son of the army.
Their mission has been completed and they are now fighting for their own survival, but this does not mean that they can abandon all the baggage, especially the seriously wounded casualties produced in continuous battles.
Not only are there new seriously injured people, there are also the original medical team of the 43rd Army and hundreds of wounded people in the team.
As Lei Xiong said, they can run into the wilderness with light equipment, bypass the main battlefield in one night, and join the main force after entering the defense line. But can they abandon these wounded and baggage? Obviously not.
"Moreover, Lao Zhou, you said that you hope that the headquarters will send an infantry regiment to respond to our ideas." Lei Xiong's expression became more serious. "Don't even expect it. If I were Japanese, I would attack with all my strength and force
My main force dare not remove a single soldier."
“If I’m not wrong, the Japanese 18th Division must have been attacking with all their strength in the past two days, so that the main force of our army was able to defend the line with all its strength.”
"The headquarters sent me a telegram at noon. The 18th Division has deployed reserves for the first time in the past two days. Not counting cavalry, artillery, engineers and other auxiliary arms, the infantry alone has reached 11 infantry brigades. Our defense line has been forced to retreat.
Four kilometers away, we are currently guarding the second line of defense." Tang Dao's voice was low.
The school officials all had sad expressions in their eyes.
It's not because they know that the main force under such heavy pressure is unable to send even one soldier to meet them, but that the Jiashan defense line only has a few lines of defense. Now that the first line of defense has been broken, the entire army retreats to the second line.
Dao, how long can the entire defense line last?
As for the Japanese army, although they only had one division of 30,000 men, they also had a heavy artillery brigade and the assistance of Japanese bombers in the sky. Without six infantry divisions or even more troops, they would not be able to stop them.
Now, the Songhu army has retreated frantically. The Chinese army located at the gateway to Jiangsu and Zhejiang only has these three infantry divisions, with no backup.
Even if the two or three thousand of them return desperately, facing such a corrupt war situation, not only will they not be able to help, they may even have counterproductive effects.
Behind them, they were chasing an infantry brigade with a strength of eight thousand troops, which was almost half the strength of a division.
