Chapter 3: Escape and Defeat
Following the rout all the way to Tonggu, Zhang Chi was a little out of breath.
This is more than ten miles away, which Zhang Chi would not be able to run away from in normal times, but now he is fleeing for his life, thinking that the Japanese are behind him, and thinking of them with guns in their hands...... Zhang Chi didn't know where he got the strength to run to the destination non-stop.
I don't know if I ran too quickly or if I kept thinking of the tragic situation of my comrades struggling in a pool of blood, as soon as I ran into the defensive circle of the Tonggu defenders, Zhang Chi squatted on the ground and vomited.
It took him a while to feel more comfortable, and as soon as he looked up, he saw a middle-aged officer in full armor, under the protection of several guards, walking up in a hurry, shouting at them from a distance: "What's the matter? What kind of army are you from? ”
"Reporter!" Chen Qiming hurriedly greeted him and stepped forward and said, "We are a regiment of sappers!" ”
Division...... Hearing this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but be stunned, it turned out that this young officer was Dai Anlan, the commander of the 200th Division.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but glance at Dai Anlan a few more times, but saw that Dai Anlan was a little bookish, if Zhang Chi hadn't heard of him in modern times, he really wouldn't dare to associate him with a generation of famous generals who had repeatedly defeated the Japanese army.
"A regiment of sappers?" Dai Anlan couldn't help but be shocked and anxious when he heard this: "Aren't you stationed at the airport?" Who brought you back?! ”
"The ...... of the reporter" Chen Qiming lowered his head in shame: "We ran into a devil when we were sabotaging the railway near the No. 5 high ground......
"You've run into devils?" Dai Anlan couldn't help but gasp: "What about the airport?" ”
"This ......" Chen Qiming was speechless when asked, he only cared about fleeing, and he didn't know the current situation of the airport at all.
"Reporter!" At this time, another officer ran up and said, "Division, airport...... The airport is also lost! ”
"What? You ......" Dai Anlan was angry when he heard this, and he scolded with a round glaring face and a blue face: "My 200 divisions are all fierce and not afraid of death, but I didn't expect that you were born out of this greedy breed of people who are afraid of death, and they lost the airport in just one face!" You guys...... How do you deal with those brothers who are still fighting for their lives against devils on the front line?! ”
The more Dai Anlan thought about it, the more angry he became, although he knew that the engineering regiment could not be compared with the Japanese devils in terms of equipment and quality, but at least he had to be able to block it, so that he could have a chance to send reinforcements!
But at this point, it's useless to think about it, and Dai Anlan also knows that the important thing at the moment is to see if there is a remedy.
Thinking of this, Dai Anlan turned around and walked towards the division headquarters, walked a few steps as if he remembered something, and when he turned around, he ordered angrily: "What about Li Shuzheng?" Tell him to come to the division headquarters to see me immediately! ”
"Yes!"
Under the order of the division, where did the soldiers dare to slack off, and immediately a few people rushed to find the regiment commander.
After a while, Chen Qiming and a large number of disheveled deserters were left in a daze, and after a while, Chen Qiming took off his hat, sat on the ground and sighed, and spit out two words: "Nest!" ”
"Staff Officer Liang!" The fellow townsman grabbed an officer who was walking towards the division headquarters and said, "Staff Officer Liang, for the sake of my fellow countrymen, can you say a few kind words in front of the division seat......
"Dude!" Staff Officer Liang interrupted his fellow villagers and said, "Do you know how important the airport is to us? Originally, this airfield could be used as a supply base for the British and Yankees to provide us with military supplies, and it could also be used to provide us with air reinforcements if necessary. It's good now, the airport is lost...... Not only are these reinforcements and supplies gone, but they have become a place to provide support and supplies for little Japan, and more seriously, our back roads have also been cut off by little Japan...... I said brother, don't say it's a fellow countryman, even if it's the king of heaven, there's no way to do it! ”
As he spoke, Staff Officer Liang shook his head and sighed and left.
After listening to Staff Officer Liang's words, the soldiers couldn't help but look at each other, they had just simply regarded the garrison at the airport as a task, and did not think about it deeply...... In fact, this is not to blame them, the place where the engineer regiment is stationed has never been an important position, where would they have thought that the airport stationed this time has such an important position.
Of course, Dai Anlan would hand over such an important airport to the engineer regiment to garrison, firstly, because he did not expect the Japanese devils to bypass the frontal defense line and rush to the rear, and secondly, because the frontal battlefield was too fierce, you must know that the 200th Division faced a division of the Japanese army with the strength of one division, that is, more than 9,000 people faced more than 20,000 Japanese troops, and Dai Anlan really couldn't spare extra troops to defend the airport. Again, Dai Anlan always thought that even if there was an enemy situation at the airport, the engineer regiment would block it, and then draw troops to reinforce it, who would have thought that the engineer regiment would collapse at the touch of a button.
Zhang Chi thought about it and felt that it was also the same, in modern times, he knew that Chiang Kai-shek originally wanted to fight a battle with the Japanese army in Tonggu, that is, to use 200 divisions to resist the Japanese attack first, so that the main force of the Fifth Army could rush to Tonggu to block the momentum of the Japanese attack. And now the airport is gone...... On the small side, the 200th Division was encircled by the Japanese army, and on the large side, it disrupted the entire expeditionary force, and it can even be said that the strategic plan of the Allied forces, no wonder Dai Anlan was so angry.
And the engineer regiment is the main culprit of all this...... After the news got out, even the soldiers who ran past the engineering regiment cast a look of contempt and even hatred.
The reason for this is that the soldiers on the front line are fighting bloody battles against the Japanese army without hesitation, and the engineer regiment is so vulnerable.
The hatred is because the retreat of the engineer regiment has caused the whole division and even the whole army to be in a passive position strategically, and the most direct thing is to put the 200th Division in danger of being surrounded and annihilated by the Japanese army.
The soldiers of the Engineer Regiment were in this situation, of course, they did not feel good in their hearts, and they all sat on the ground with their guns in their hands and did not speak.
Zhang Chi believed that if he could, the soldiers of the engineering regiment would be eager to go to the battlefield immediately to fight the Japanese devils in shame, but unfortunately they did not have this opportunity.
What the soldiers of the Engineer Regiment did not expect was that worse news was yet to come......
"Platoon commander!" In the evening, Xiao Zhejiang, who had just come back from untying his hands, ran to Chen Qiming and said, "Have you heard? The division commander wants to shoot the regiment commander! ”
"What?!" Chen Qiming jumped up from the ground like a spring, but after thinking about it, he sighed heavily and sat down.
Although there were various reasons for the defeat of the engineer regiment at the hands of the Japanese army, the battlefield is the battlefield, and the battlefield is a place where the results are not talked about but the reasons.
Now, it's time for the engineering regiment to pay for the defeat.