Chapter XV: Reserves
"Company commander, the teaching team has sent a message, saying that Commander Xie wants to see you" As soon as Liu Goat, who was carrying the trophies, returned to Guanghua Gate, he saw the pockmarked face waiting at the city gate. Tang Cheng, who was covered in blood, couldn't help but raise his eyebrows when he heard this, the second company and the teaching team are not very good at dealing with each other, could it be that the teaching team is trying to find the stubble of the second company, and wants to rectify the second company in the name of escaping from the battle. Liu Shango, who didn't think much about it at all, settled Qiu Jiangong and them and the booty, and he took some letters and diaries found from the corpses of Japanese soldiers and followed the heralds sent by the Second Regiment into the city.
The teaching corps stationed at Guanghuamen belonged to the Second Regiment of the First Brigade, and the regiment commander was Xie Chengrui. Xie Chengrui, who has a sickly face, is of medium height, his face looks thin, and his short hairstyle looks very much like Chiang Kai-shek, the chairman of the committee when he was young.
"Report, Liu Fengtang, commander of the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 524th Regiment of the 88th Division of the National Revolutionary Army, was ordered to come "Liu Goat, who entered the regimental headquarters of the 2nd Regiment, stood straight with a calm face, saluted Xie Chengrui, who was working on the map, and turned a blind eye to other officers wearing German-style steel helmets and riding boots in the regiment headquarters. Xie Chengrui, who was studying the map with those officers, glanced at Liu Goat with some surprise, he always thought that Liu Goat was the tuba of the commander of the second company, but he didn't want the tuba of others to sound a little imposing.
Xie Chengrui smiled and put down the magnifying glass and pencil in his hand, and joked with a mysterious look at the straight Liu goat who stood in a serious position, "You are the Liu goat who took over as the commander of the second company because of his military exploits and the recommendation of the previous company commander?" Xie Chengrui deliberately mentioned Liu Goat's bandit, just to see if the commander of the second company could still maintain the current state, I heard that this person is a smooth donkey who eats soft and not hard, Xie Chengrui wants to try Liu Goat's concentration in person.
"Yes, Liu Goat is a joke of those old brothers in the regiment, and it can't be true." Liu Goat still had a straight face, and his body was standing straight. After all, the 88th Division is the descendant of the National Army, although the 1st Battalion has all fallen in Shanghai, but as long as the 88th Division is not withdrawn, the 1st Battalion will still have the day of reconstruction.
"I see, I said, why haven't I seen you? Then I ask you, aren't you afraid of death? Answer truthfully, my second group is not for someone like you who has a backstage to mess around" Xie Chengrui's eyes narrowed, with a hint of scrutiny in his eyes. The second company is temporarily under the command of the second regiment of the teaching corps, which is an order directly pressed down by the Nanjing garrison headquarters.
"The chairman of the committee said that it is the responsibility of the head of the national crisis, although there are only a dozen people left in our second company, there has never been a person in the second company who is afraid of death." Liu Goat didn't know why Xie Chengrui would have such a face, so Liu Goat still answered the question with a straight face. It's just that the dialogue between Xie Chengrui and Liu Goat made several other officers in the Second Regiment a little sideways, and the teaching corps is also a descendant of the national army.
"You are good" Liu Goat's humility and arrogance made Xie Chengrui's eyes light up, Xu took a fancy to Liu Goat, his face had always been a little cold, and he picked up a piece of paper from the table and handed it to several other officers to circulate. "It's very good to block a sharp squad of the Japanese army with a squad of troops, repel the sneak attack of the Japanese army with the death of one person, and kill and wound more than ten Japanese soldiers" Xie Chengrui said two good things in a row, which calmed Liu Goat's heart a little, and hurriedly handed over the Japanese army document bag captured on the avenue and put it on the table.
"After we repelled the Japanese spearhead squad, we fought with the Japanese army twice, our platoon suffered 6 casualties, two were seriously wounded, killed and wounded more than 30 Japanese soldiers, killed a Japanese second lieutenant, captured two Japanese light machine guns, more than 20 rifles, this is the document package we found from the Japanese corpse, there are some papers and notebooks written in Japanese, but I don't know if the things in this are useful" Liu Goat thought about it, and still didn't say anything about the capture of the Japanese grenadier. Just took out the captured southern pistol and the document bag.
"Yo, this is a good thing" As soon as Liu Goat put the southern pistol and the document bag on the table, the officers of the regiment headquarters all gathered around, and Zhou Shiquan, the commander of the first battalion with a loud voice, grabbed the pistol in his hand first. "Why does this pistol look like a German Ruger?" Zhou Shiquan, who was looking at the southern pistol, noticed the unkind gazes of others looking at him, and quickly changed the topic and talked about the shape of the southern pistol.
"That, in addition, we also happened to save more than a dozen stragglers of the 51st Division who went out to investigate from Chunhua Town, led by a sergeant, named Guo Tianbao, from the reconnaissance company of the 51st Division." Liu Goat took advantage of the opportunity of the officers to play with the southern pistol, organized the language in his heart, took a step forward towards Xie Chengrui, and told the story of rescuing Guo Tianbao.
"Oh" Xie Chengrui, who was looking through the Japanese army's document bag, looked at Liu Goat with some surprise, and the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned and showed a smile, "This makes the 51st Division owe us a favor, and all the key points outside Nanjing have been fought very badly, according to the current intelligence, Chunhua Town was attacked by the Japanese army in the past two days." The Japanese troops who took the goods encountered by the reconnaissance company of the 51st Division should be the forward unit of the Japanese army, but the Japanese army did not expect that the second company would just stay at that intersection."
Xie Chengrui's analysis made Liu Goat a little discouraged, his second company now has 9 brothers who can shoot guns, and if it continues like this, I am afraid that he will not be able to wait for a face-to-face fight with the Japanese army, and the encounter with the Japanese army alone will consume his second company. Thinking of this, Liu Shanyang suddenly raised his voice and said loudly, "Then I ask that the captured Japanese weapons be used by us, and by the way, we will add some manpower to our second company, we only have 9 people left who can still fight, which can't even stop an infantry squad of the Japanese army." ”
Liu Goat's words made Xie Chengrui and the officers laugh, like this in the regiment headquarters to bargain with the regiment commander, they were all the first time to see, and they couldn't help but remember this guy who had been keeping a straight face in their hearts. Xie Chengrui also couldn't laugh, and then Da Lu agreed to Liu Goat's request with a smile, "It's okay to say that the weapons and ammunition you have captured can be brought back as they are, and in the future, all the weapons and ammunition captured by your second company will be picked by you first, this condition is generous enough." But I don't even have a reserve now, and where is there any manpower to replenish your second company. ”
Xie Chengrui's answer made Liu Goat dumbfounded, if there was no source of soldiers to replenish it, wouldn't the second company not even have the qualifications for an infantry squad now? Xu saw Liu Goat's worry and hesitation, Xie Chengrui sighed secretly, "In this way, there are only 11 people left in your second company, and there are still 2 seriously wounded among them, otherwise, your second company can be counted as an independent reserve for us to teach the second regiment." First of all, pull to the barracks assigned to you for rest, and once the battle at the city gate is tense, your second company will also be pulled up at any time to fight the Japanese army. ”
Liu Goat grinded in Xie Chengrui's headquarters for a long time, and finally relieved Xie Chengrui, and promised Liu Goat's second company to give priority to integrating those routs who entered Nanjing, as long as they were broken up with the original army, Liu Goat was allowed to integrate them into the second company, but Xie Chengrui only gave Liu Goat 150 supplementary places. Although there are hundreds of thousands of national troops stationed in Nanjing, the Japanese army is menacing and the army is pressing, and Liu Goat is not the only one who has the idea of fighting those routs, not to mention that Liu Goat is just a small captain and company commander, in the face of those military bosses, Liu Goat is not even a small shrimp, and it is not bad to give 150 places to the second company.
After receiving Xie Chengrui's verbal promise, Liu Goat, who was very happy in his heart, felt that there was joy in the cracks of his bones, and the second company struggled hard to Nanjing, but was told that it was under the command of the teaching corps, and the 88th Division did not replenish the source of troops to the second company. Liu Goat is not as orthodox as Xie Bo, who was born in Huangpu, he only knows the truth that the big fist of the Dao is the master, Liu Goat, who took over as the company commander, was bent on how to strengthen the second company, Xie Chengrui relieved this, and let Liu Goat see the hope of the second company to resume the establishment.
The barracks of the Second Company in Guanghuamen are the same as those in Zhonghua Gate, but the Second Company now counts only 11 seriously wounded people, and the private houses in the small courtyard of the independent gate seem to be a little empty. After separating from Liu Goat at the city gate, Tang Cheng and the others had been taken into the courtyard, and when Liu Goat came back, the military doctor of the Second Regiment had already checked the injuries of Nian Zi and Zhang Chuang, saying that the injuries of these two people were not very serious, and they only needed to recuperate for a while to recover as before.
As soon as Liu Goat entered the door, Erlian and these people noticed the smile hidden in Liu Goat's eyes, and even the old scar on Liu Goat's forehead was full of joy. The unknown cow baby relied on the old man who was also a second company, so he went up to find out one or two, but he didn't want to be directly rewarded by Liu goat, and everyone realized that Liu goat was still the original Liu goat, and what everyone saw just now was just an illusion.
"Tang Cheng, take this money, take the two brothers to get some food back, let's have a good meal at night, even if it is for us to worship those brothers who died in battle." The cook died, and there were no two people who were cooking now, but fortunately, when Liu Goat left the regiment headquarters, Xie Chengrui gave 100 pieces of fiat currency as a reward, and Liu Goat, who was not good at financial management, directly gave the 100 pieces of fiat currency to Tang Cheng.