Tang Cheng took nine catties in Nanjing City for a morning, Tang Cheng is not going to lose money, while his pocket still has money, he took nine catties to find a place to have a good meal, but after walking all the way, most of the restaurants and restaurants along the road are closed. The few who opened their doors to do business only had porridge and flatbread and the like, which made Tang Cheng feel a little disappointed, but Jiujin didn't care what he ate.

There were not many pedestrians on the street, and Tang Cheng suddenly returned to Shanghai before the Great War, when it was rumored that the Japanese soldiers were going to attack Shanghai, most of the Shanghai citizens who ran to tell each other were also cowering at home, but they didn't know that their home was not a safe place. "Oh, Xiaocheng, it's really you." A black sedan slowly stopped beside Tang Cheng, and the one who got out of the car was Yan Mei, the daughter-in-law of the old man surnamed Wu, "Wearing the military uniform of the national army, I almost didn't dare to recognize it, what a handsome young man." ”

Tang Cheng, who was thick-skinned enough, was blushed by Yan Mei's praise, which caused Yan Mei to laugh uncontrollably. "Sister Mei, aren't you working in the German consulate? How do you have time to come out and hang out? Tang Cheng only heard from the old man surnamed Wu that Yan Mei was a translator and doctor in the German Consulate, and Yan Mei, who was in both professions, should stay in the consulate at this time.

Seeing that there was no one left and right, Yan Mei pulled Tang Cheng aside and whispered, "Germany and Japan are allies, the Japanese army will not attack the German consulate, and a few foreigners in Nanjing City are ready to organize an international zone to accommodate those Nanjing citizens who have been affected by the war." I am also one of the organizers, and this time I came out to buy food and medicine, in case Nanjing is really broken by the Japanese army, food and medicine will become a big problem, so we have to prepare in advance. ”

Tang Cheng naturally didn't know what the so-called international zone was doing, and this was just listening to Yan Mei's words, in Tang Cheng's subconscious, he didn't think that the ferocious Japanese soldiers would let go of the refugees after the city was broken. When he was in Shanghai, didn't those Japanese soldiers almost burn Sister Emma to death, if he hadn't acted in time, maybe Sister Emma would have been burned to black ashes, so Tang Cheng didn't think that Yan Mei and their international zone were of any use, if he could, Tang Cheng was still willing to choose to take up arms and fight to the death with the Japanese army.

After being transferred to Guanghuamen, Tang Cheng has seen too many refugees fleeing to Nanjing in the past few days, and these refugees who dragged their families without exception pinned their hopes on the tall walls of Nanjing City, where they would think that the Japanese army not only had aircraft and artillery, but also tanks and armored vehicles like battering rams. The city wall is only a product of the era of cold weapons, in the face of powerful thermal weapons, the tall city wall of Nanjing City may not be able to withstand the attack and bombing of the Japanese army, Tang Cheng has seen the crater left by the Japanese naval artillery bombardment in Shanghai, the crater is large enough to fit a car.

"By the way, didn't you say you were going to Sichuan? Why did you stay in the second company again? After talking to Tang Cheng for a while, Yan Mei remembered that Tang Cheng and Jiujin were now wearing the uniforms of the national army. When Tang Cheng left her house that day, he swore that he was going to Sichuan, why not only did he not leave, but he also put on the uniform of the national army.

"You also know that I have been in the Second Company for a while, and there are only a dozen people left in the Second Company who have been beaten in Shanghai, and I have gotten along with them for a while, and I can be regarded as having a fate with the Second Company." Tang Cheng only explained a few words roughly, and seeing that Yan Mei was a little anxious, he continued, "I have agreed with them, just wait for the replenishment of troops to come, and Jiujin and I will leave the second company and go to Sichuan, the second company is now serving as a guard in Guanghuamen, and it is when we need people, we can't leave for the time being." ”

After a few more greetings with Tang Cheng, Yan Mei, who was in a hurry to do something, left first, but before leaving, Yan Mei repeatedly told Tang Cheng to take Jiujin to see the old couple and Xiaoguoer when he was free, and said that the day Tang Cheng left her house, Xiaoguoer cried for a day. In the face of Yan Mei's invitation, Tang Cheng just nodded perfunctorily and agreed, but he himself knew that there would no longer be days like today, and as the war approached, the Second Company would only be taught to be called around by the corps, and the people of the Second Company would not have the opportunity and time to be idle at all.

Turning a street, Tang Cheng met a few students who were giving speeches and fundraising on the street corner, looking at the students who were screaming with tears for a long time, Tang Cheng's heart was already about to be numb, wasn't he like this a few months ago and Xiao Yalan and their street speeches in Shanghai to raise donations. took out two pieces of ocean and handed them to Jiujin, and asked Jiujin to throw the two oceans into the donation box, ignoring the question of the female student, Tang Cheng pulled Jiujin out of the crowd and disappeared into the corner of the street.

Sure enough, as Tang Cheng expected, he took nine catties to find a restaurant and returned to the courtyard of the second company, and he heard Liu Goat lose his temper in the house, saying that Xie Chengrui asked the second company to take up the task of garrisoning the temporary position outside the city. It's December now, and most of the people in the Second Company are still wearing single clothes, and they were driven out of the city to be stationed in the field on such a day, and I don't know if Lu Dao is really because of the urgency of the temporary position, or Xie Chengrui is deliberately tossing the Second Company.

"Let's find a way to get some cotton clothes first, stationed outside the city on such a cold day, there is not even a place to sleep, if everyone is still wearing single clothes, it is estimated that it will not take three days, and there will be no more people left in our second company." Seeing Liu Goat's hysteria, Tang Cheng felt a burst of annoyance for no reason, the original Liu Goat was not such a person, how could he become a person who was easy to get angry when he arrived in Nanjing.

I don't know what Liu Goat said when he went to Xie Chengrui, Tiandou was completely dark, and Liu Goat returned to the station with the mill and the cow baby, and there was a cart that came back with them, and on the cart was the winter clothes issued by Xie Chengrui to Erlian. Tang Cheng took a winter coat from the cart, reached out and touched the thin layer of cotton wool, and said in his heart that this kind of winter coat may not be much stronger than the single clothes that everyone is wearing now.

"Damn, the teaching corps really doesn't take our second company as their own, you look at Lao Tzu's cotton pants, the dog's day can be shortened." The cook Lao Hai put a pair of cotton pants on his legs, and found that the crotch and waist were just right, but the trouser legs were cut off, and the cotton pants were worn on Lao Hai's legs, looking like a hanged ghost.

"Shut up and stop for a while, some of them are already good, Lao Tzu saw a few guys who heard that it was the Sichuan Army yesterday, this cold day, these goods are still wearing straw sandals, although we are not as good as the teaching corps, but it is also much stronger than the Sichuan Army." Seeing that they were all fat and thin guys, Liu Goat had no reason to scold again, so he temporarily suppressed the frolicking and scrambling guys, and when it was Liu Goat's turn, his cotton jacket was actually two sleeves with different lengths, so that the scolded people laughed at him once.

"Grinder, go get ammunition, this time there is a batch of light machine guns for us, remember to ask for more machine gun bullets and grenades, these things can be used at night." The matter of winter clothes is already like this, Liu Goat shifted his energy to the matter of receiving ammunition, and the cigarettes contributed by Tang Cheng last time played a role, so this time he went back to get ammunition, and Liu Goat wanted to take Tang Cheng with him.

"You don't see a gun in the second company, but this ammunition is diligent, and I don't know if you took all the ammunition and sold it for money." The quartermaster who was scolded by Liu Goat as a pig's head was really majestic, and in Tang Cheng's opinion, the waistline of this gang could already catch up with the height. Seeing that Nian Zi and Tang Cheng didn't care about their own bad words, the fat quartermaster looked down at the ammunition supply list brought by Grinder, "One Czech light machine gun, three boxes of light machine gun bullets, three boxes of grenades, and one box of Mauser pistol bullets, your second company opened an arsenal when we taught the corps, and the ammunition was given to you, what should we do with the troops of the teaching corps?" ”

Reaching out and grabbing the arm of the mill, Tang Cheng motioned to the mill with his eyes not to get angry, Tang Cheng squatted down and picked up the ammunition requisition form that was thrown on the ground by the fat man's quartermaster, and then said with a smile, "Sir, our second company was sent to defend the outpost position outside the city, and this ammunition supply list was signed by Regiment Commander Xie himself, could it be that you want us to go back empty-handed and tell Regiment Commander Xie that because we didn't get the ammunition supplied, our second company could not perform the task, I don't know if the responsibility of Lu Dao is counted as our second company or yours as a commander?" ”

Tang Cheng took out a few fiat bills from his pocket and put them in the ammunition supply list and handed them to the fat quartermaster, who had disappeared from the supply list with the twist of his fingers. "Okay, you kid is quite good at coming to things, I don't care about you today, things will be sent to you, but you have to lose one box of machine gun bullets, and you can only give you one box of grenades, but there are pistol bullets, it doesn't matter if you give you one more box." With a stroke of his pen, the fat quartermaster signed his name on the supply list.

The quartermaster has already signed, and he can get things with this list, and the mill who pressed his temperament kept a gloomy face until he loaded all the things they received on the cart, and the grinder grinned his teeth and laughed, "I also said that it would be good if we could get thirty percent of the things, now it's okay, more than half of the full collar will come back, and our 20 rounds will be used well, and we can use several light machine guns." ”

The ammunition was brought back to the small courtyard, and Liu Goat was also quite happy, but he didn't expect the quartermaster to be an open-eyed man, and Liu Goat was even wondering if he wanted Tang Cheng to find the fat quartermaster again, and maybe he could deduct something from the old boy's hand again. The outpost position assigned to the second company by the teaching corps was 6 or 7 miles away from the city gate, and the cook who didn't want to go to the battlefield couldn't escape this time, and everyone couldn't wait for him to deliver food from the city every day, so Liu Goat directly loaded all the people and materials of the second company with a truck, and pulled them all out of the city in one go.