Chapter 105: Collapse
In the end, it was an intelligence agent who had been lurking in China for many years, and Mike was very familiar with some of the activities in the national army, and when he saw that Tang Cheng had already made some moves, he continued, "Tang, you must know that if your expeditionary force is forced to retreat this time, Hans will definitely reorganize his troops, and a captain officer like you who has no foundation may not be able to take charge of the entire company again." Join our Sino-American joint force, I will give you a company commander, and I will not only ensure that your soldiers' salaries are paid on time, but also that weapons and ammunition will be given priority to your company. ”
Weapons are a prerequisite for war, and Mack's words have already aroused Tang Cheng's interest, as long as he can continue to kill the Japanese, Tang Cheng will not care about the nature of the troops. But just as Tang Cheng was about to make a statement, gunshots suddenly rang out on the slope in the distance, the gunshots were not very dense, but there were several explosions mixed with the gunshots. "Sir, the scout said that there were Japanese soldiers in the front, about 300 in number, machine guns and small cannons." Tan Fei hurried back from the front, bringing a piece of news that was obviously not very good.
Tang Cheng, who hurried to the front, observed the terrain in front of him with a telescope from a distance, and suddenly there was a strange sound of "hissing, hissing" in the sky, "Shelling, shelling, concealment." Tang Cheng, whose face changed greatly, immediately shouted, although most of the defeated soldiers didn't know what was happening, but many people still felt that the situation was not good, and some people fell to the ground in a panic. Rumble! "Boom!" There was a loud bang, and the scorching heat in the dazzling firelight swept the mud and sand and tore the whole team away.
"Shelling! Run. "The routs who were suddenly shelled began to cry and scream, and everyone threw their rifles everywhere like headless flies, and threw their rifles to the ground." Bang! Boom, boom ......" artillery fire struck one after another, and the marching procession that had been blown up and scattered was instantly covered in smoke and dust, and the human body that was blown up in the air and torn into several pieces could be seen in the sudden flash of the explosion fire. "It's 75 mountain artillery, 75 mountain artillery." Enduring the suffocating sensation of the scorching air forcing into his lungs and the scorching pain caused by the hot mud and sand hitting his body, Tang Cheng, who was buzzing in his ears, screamed in despair in his heart.
The shelling only lasted for a short time before it stopped, and in the muddy nightmares, in the hot pain all over his body, Tang Cheng, who gradually came to his senses, finally realized that the shelling had stopped. Although he still couldn't hear anything in his buzzing ears, the smoke of gunpowder after the shelling had gradually dissipated, and Tang Cheng, who had turned over and sat up, coughed loudly and loudly, and it became louder and louder, because this would restore his ears that had been buzzing to normal.
Through the dust that began to thin out, Tang Cheng saw corpses all over the ground, and the staggered craters were burning with dancing flames, which looked like the ghost fire in the legendary hell. Finally, Tang Cheng saw Mike lying on the ground and didn't know whether he was alive or dead, "Uncle Mac! Uncle Mack! Tang Cheng shook Mike vigorously, hoping that there would be a miracle, and suddenly, the gray-faced Mike seemed to move his mouth, first spurting out a mouthful of black blood with a wow, and then opened his eyes......
"Japanese army, Japanese army is coming." A scream sounded, Tang Cheng subconsciously looked in the direction of the sound, the surviving rout soldiers of the front team were crowding together and retreating this way, and an earthy yellow surged from a hundred meters away from them. "Sir, the devil is here, what should we do?" Hou San came over with a rifle in one hand and a military doctor in the other, followed by Tan Fei and George. Tang Cheng could only see the only 6 of his own people, the dice and rock dragon who went out to investigate were nowhere to be seen, and Zhao Liang and Albert and their big noses were also gone.
"Lao Ai was killed, and the big noses under him, I looked like they were drilling into the forest, and I didn't see it." Tang Cheng picked up his rifle and looked left and right. At that time, Tan Fei saw Tang Cheng's thoughts, told everything he saw, and learned that Albert was killed by a shell, Tang Cheng was not only not surprised, but secretly relieved, and also reacted to Mike, who had just woken up.
"Stop, defend in place, defend." There were more and more retreating routs, and Tang Cheng got up and kicked and tried to make these routs stop, but unfortunately, the routs who had only regained their confidence were frightened by the Japanese artillery bombardment, and they would rather continue to drill into the forest than stop defending according to Tang Cheng's orders. "Fire, fire." Tang Cheng, who was hiding under the roadbed, raised his gun to shoot, Hou San and the others also pulled the trigger, and even more desperate routs began to throw grenades.
"Sir, sir, it's the dice and the rock dragon, and they're in the forest to our left." When the sharp-eyed Tan Fei was loading the rifle, he accidentally saw the dice and the rock dragon retreating from the front along the edge of the woodland, so he shouted to Tang Cheng with great joy. Tang Cheng looked in the direction of Tan Fei's finger, it was not the dice and the rock dragon, and the sound of cannonballs breaking through the air sounded in the sky again, "Run!" Tang Cheng, whose face changed drastically, shouted, picked up George and ran towards the forest on the left.
Before Hou San and the others could react, Mike followed first, and the routs had already collapsed, so Hou San and the others had to carry their rifles to catch up. No one paid attention to the number of Japanese soldiers chasing behind them, and when they heard the sound of shells breaking through the air again in the dawn, everyone chose to disperse. There were scattered soldiers everywhere, everyone wishing they wouldn't be the last one, and some had even begun to drop weapons and ammunition so that they could run faster.
"Boom! Boom, boom, ......boom" The artillery fire came again one after another, and Tang Cheng, who had already rushed into the forest, only paused slightly with George on his shoulder, shouted at the dice and the rock dragon, and continued to run towards the depths of the woodland. It seemed that Tang Cheng had never been able to run so fast, Hou San and Tan Fei glanced at each other, and then sped up, and on one side, a panting military doctor ran behind Tang Cheng. "Chinese! (Japanese) "Shoot! (Japanese)" Such shouts reverberated one after another behind them in Tangcheng, and the Japanese began to shoot, and the last few routs fell one after another, and those who had already rushed into the forest began to drill diagonally into the forest.
Tang Cheng had already lost his way, there were trees swaying in front of him everywhere, Tang Cheng's legs hurt as if they were about to explode, the sweat on his forehead was blurred, Hou San who was following closely behind them was already panting like a cow, Tang Cheng's body was simply unbearable to run like this. Tang Cheng, who was in a panic, suddenly tripped over something, and when he flew out, he threw himself into black eyes, and George, who was resisting on his shoulder, screamed and rolled out of the distance. Tang Cheng, who was dizzy from the fall, was helped up by a man, it was Mike, and at the same time, Tang Cheng looked at the thing that tripped over him with a drowsy gaze: a stump that could be exposed to the soil.
Mike, who was also running with a pale face and lungs about to explode, asked Tang Cheng, "What should I do?" I can't run, you're the commander, what do you say? Tang Cheng was stunned, looking at Mike's face of absolute six gods and no master, around the two of them, it was Hou San and a few of them and more than a dozen 96th Division routs who followed, all the people who couldn't run were paralyzed here waiting for Tang Cheng to make an idea. Tang Cheng originally wanted to say that he ran separately from these dozen guys from the 96th Division, but when the words came to his lips, he suddenly changed his mind, a small army of more than 20 people was the most suitable to fight guerrilla tactics with the Japanese army, and without these dozen guys from the 96th Division, he would be left with Hou San and less than 10 people.
Tang Cheng looked at them and said, "Either fight or keep running, you can choose for yourself." The Japanese fought in front of the infantry and behind the fire support. Here again, the forest is dominated by shrubs, and the machine guns and grenadiers of the little devils are not easy to fight. Kill them, take what they have and leave, or we'll starve to death in the woods. Everyone didn't speak, Tang Cheng secretly kicked Hou San, who hurriedly agreed with Tang Cheng's words.
Now that they had chosen to teach the pursuing Japanese soldiers a lesson, the routers with their rifles flat began to look for a place to hide in the dense branches. Tang Cheng pulled Hou San and hinted with his eyes that Hou San and his people would get together and not run away. "Pap" "Pap" "Pap" "Pap" The Japanese troops pursuing behind them kept firing, and the bullets that flew into the forest brought a lot of trouble to Tangcheng, and three more soldiers of the 96th Division were shot and fell.
As Tang Cheng deduced from previous experience, the Japanese army still pulled the old triangular formation, and Tang Cheng lost his relatives and abandoned his school to join the army when the gun rang out in Songhu. But the scene in front of him made Tang Cheng very angry, the Japanese soldiers who pursued into the forest were stabbing those who were wounded by bullets and did not die with bayonets, and the rout of the 96th Division gathered from more than 100 people to more than 700 people, Tang Cheng originally thought that he already had the capital and possibility to fight against the Japanese army, but he never thought that he would still be defeated. Tang Cheng began to think that he had killed those routed soldiers, and there was no need to put them into this temporary team, and the two rounds of artillery bombardment just now would not have killed those people. The Japanese soldiers at the head of the line still adhered to a triangular formation between the narrow trees, and the trees and shrubs that bothered Tang Cheng also bothered them, the rattan wrapped around their feet and made a noise on the branches and leaves, and so on The sound was getting closer and closer, and Tang Cheng's hand holding the rifle began to gradually become stronger.
In the distance, in the branches that were almost obscured by the fog, their support fire finally took on a blurred shadow. My attention was drawn to the blood dripping from the tip of the bayonet of the Japanese army at the head of the platoon, apparently from one of my lagging colleague who had been killed. Tang Cheng glanced back at George and Mike, who were squatting in the branches in a cold sweat, and began to move their positions slowly, and Hou San and the others, who were on the front line, followed and moved slowly with Tang Cheng, until they found a suitable cover before stopping.