Chapter Ninety-Four: The Position of Three (2)
Liu Goat often said that he was a lucky person, Tang Cheng always thought that this was a means for Liu Goat to change the topic whenever he wanted to, but now he had to say that Liu Goat was indeed a guy with good luck. Although Liu Goat did not succeed in leaving those defeated soldiers to help hold here, he got a lot of ammunition and food, and Jiujin has even begun to use ammunition boxes to fill excess ammunition, and Tang Cheng also has four flower magazine full of bullets.
"See, we're not just for ourselves, we're for them." Pointing to the people of Nanjing who passed here one after another, Liu Goat's expression was not very good, so they had seen a lot of refugees in Shanghai when they were in Shanghai, and on the way from Shanghai to Nanjing, there were countless refugees who met him. They lost the battle all the way and couldn't do anything for these refugees, because they couldn't protect themselves, but now, Liu Goat's heart has confidence, at least they are still here to hold their positions to intercept the Japanese army in order to Rujiangmen.
Tang Cheng in the street fort was chewing the eggs and biscuits brought back by Liu Goat with a blank face, China has a population of 450 million, and the Japanese army is just a small island country, why can't the national army stop the Japanese attack? If it is just a gap in weapons, but last night they just relied on ruins to kill two Japanese squads with ruins, is it true that the national army can't fight? However, the national army troops encountered in Tangcheng were all fighting to the end with the Japanese army, whether it was the mixed company at the street entrance position or the second company that was defeated all the way.
Tang Cheng didn't really pay attention to how many Japanese soldiers the Second Company had shot, but he knew that the number of Japanese soldiers killed by the Second Company would definitely not be less than the number of soldiers they killed, and if the troops of the Nationalist Army could have the same combat power as the Second Company, maybe the Japanese troops in China would have been repulsed and retreated to their island country. Xu saw the meaning in Tang Cheng's eyes, Liu Goat lit a cigarette and explained in a low voice, "Our battle last night was just a bargain, if it weren't for the lack of ammunition of the Japanese army, even if we couldn't attack a few hundred more people." ”
Seeing that Tang Cheng didn't believe his words, Liu Goat smiled and threw over a cigarette roll, "How many battles have you just fought?" If you had to go through a few big scenes, you wouldn't think so. Fighting a war is not only about blood, but also about fighting weapons and equipment, our shells are not as far as the little devils, and they are not as ruthless as the little devils, then our people will deserve to be pressed and beaten by the little devils with artillery fire. Liu Goat's words reminded Tang Cheng of the scene of being subjected to Japanese artillery fire at Guanghuamen, and the overwhelming explosion made Tang Cheng still palpitate until now.
"It's not just artillery fire, our machine guns are not as numerous as the Japanese army, what does the intensity of firepower mean, I think you should also know how much chance you can win with rifles and machine guns?" Liu Goat stretched out his hand and slapped the Czech machine gun in the barricade, with a faint sadness in his tone. When the 2nd Company exchanged fire with the Japanese army in Shanghai, it was because of the poor supply of ammunition that many people died under the gunfire of the Japanese army, and if the 2nd Company had sufficient ammunition and weapons at that time, maybe the 2nd Company would not have only three people left as it is now.
"Little Japan still has planes and warships, and if they didn't rely on planes and warships when they were in Shanghai, they wouldn't have been enough to kill twice as many little devils." Liu Goat's words were full of unwillingness, but what could he do if he was unwilling, the national army was still defeated in the end, and was driven into Nanjing City by the Japanese army like a rabbit.
Perhaps it was too much to say, Liu Goat suddenly fell silent, and then took out the unopened cigarette from his pocket, for any soldier, cigarettes are a good thing. Liu Goat stretched out his right hand and tore a hole directly above the cigarette pack, shook it skillfully, shook out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, then threw the rest of the whole pack of cigarettes to Tang Cheng, and motioned Tang Cheng to keep the cigarette for smoking. First the sulphur, then the tobacco, and the lighting of matches and cigarettes gave Tang Cheng two very light smells in his mouth, which were much softer than the choking smoke produced by the explosion of the cannonballs.
Seeing that Tang Cheng had already lit a cigarette, Liu Goat lit a cigarette and extinguished the unfinished matches, took two puffs in a row, and asked, "If you don't fight, what do you want to do?" Do you want to go back to that church in Shanghai? Tang Cheng, who was asked by Liu Shangot, shook his head silently, of course he wanted to go back to the church in Shanghai, but he only went back to get Robert's ashes, he was just an orphan adopted by Robert and not a clergyman of the church, and the church would not allow him to stay in that church.
"When I go to the United States, my adoptive father is an American, I want to see the places where he lived, and then I will travel around the world, Robert said that the world outside is very big, and I want to see it." After a few puffs of cigarettes, Tang Cheng's mood improved slightly. Tang Cheng, who has followed Robert since he was a child, can speak fluent English, and I believe that he will not be blind when he goes to the United States, not to mention that he is a person with a US passport, in a sense, Tang Cheng is actually an American.
"I can't, I don't have such a big ideal as you, if I hadn't been arrested and joined the army, maybe I wouldn't have even been to our county. I thought that I would disarm and return to the field as soon as the war was over, go home and sell a cow, build a big house, get a few acres of land, and then marry a daughter-in-law and give birth to a few children, and there would be no pity in this day. Liu Goat's voice was full of yearning, so Tang Cheng couldn't help but flash a picture of Liu Goat holding a child in his mind, maybe having a family and a field is indeed a good idea for Liu Goat.
"Be careful, there's shelling." Tang Cheng was still lying on his back in the street fort and was intoxicated by Liu Goat's words just now, but Liu Goat next to him suddenly pulled him and Jiujin and ran towards the building on the street. The whistling sound in mid-air came quickly, and just as Liu Goat pulled Tang Cheng and Jiujin into the streets and alleys, a violent and shocking explosion had already begun to shake the ground. In Tang Cheng in the alley, they could all feel the trembling of the roof and wall, and the three people who didn't have time to talk at all slammed open a door and rushed in, no need to look at it at all, Liu Goat went straight to the back window of the house and raised his hand to smash it, and climbed out of the house along the smashed back window, Liu Goat breathed a sigh of relief.
The three people who turned out of the house were already a row of rooms away from the street fort just now, and even if the Japanese artillery fire was fierce, they could not pose much of a threat to them hiding under the eaves. "Go, go, you can't stop yet, keep walking." Liu Goat suddenly realized that it was not very safe here, and immediately urged Tang Cheng and Jiujin to continue to transfer with him. As soon as the three of them rushed onto the street, a shell landed not far away, and the gas formed by the explosion flew with bricks and mud, and the smoke rose several meters high.
Tang Cheng subconsciously bowed his head and bent over, but he was still unstable under this strong impact, and when the gas of the explosion dissipated, Liu Goat pulled Tang Cheng and Jiujin and continued to run forward, the most fatal mistake that recruits are most likely to make is to panic or stay in place when the enemy is bombarded by large-scale shelling, you must know that the continuous shelling of the road will form a flake-like killing area, and the people hiding in this area may even be killed by the shrapnel generated by the shells that fall dozens of meters away.
"Boom...... Rumble...... More and more shells ...... landed on Zhongshan Road, and in a short period of time, a blazing storm of flames was formed, and under the dual action of the blast wave and shrapnel, the buildings engulfed in smoke collapsed or burst into flames. Under such circumstances, Liu Goat still did not forget his new position, even though the loud sound of the cannonball stunned his mind, the thick smoke of gunpowder confused his eyes, and the mad anger swayed him left and right, but Liu Goat still took Tang Cheng and Jiujin and two people around the position of the street fort in a circle.
The ferocious artillery fire of the Japanese army continued to ravage the dilapidated city of Nanjing, the running Tang City gasped for breath, the original blue sky was dyed with a layer of bright blood red, and the mud that was splashed with the explosion everywhere was like a bird constantly flying in front of him, and the bursts of gunpowder smoke that drifted past were like clouds but never as elegant as clouds. Of course, the Japanese bombardment of Zhongshan Road was also aimless, and after the initial bombardment of a few shells, Liu Goat took Tang Cheng and Jiujin and finally returned to the street fort they had worked so hard to build, but the sandbags and machine guns had become scattered all over the place.
It was only a few seconds after falling into the crater, and Tang Cheng, who was out of breath, suddenly felt that the dizziness in his head, the nausea in his abdomen, and the weakness of his limbs were all reduced, and as his mind cleared, he suddenly realized that the act of following Liu Goat through the artillery fire just now was simply suicide, so that he himself felt incomprehensible now. I don't know how long it took, but the explosion finally weakened, and although Tang Cheng's hearing was temporarily reduced by the sound waves, this change could also be detected from the tremor on the ground.
Liu Goat, who was also panting heavily, coughed a few times in succession without warning, so that Tang Cheng's consciousness was finally completely awake, and Jiujin, who had palpitations on his face, also recovered from his panic. The three people in the bomb crater checked each other's bodies, but fortunately, everyone was not injured, and then saw that the street fort that had been built with nine catties of hard work had become ruins, and if they wanted to continue to hold on here, they had to rebuild the fortifications.
"Don't move" Jiujin just wanted to climb out of the crater to restore the sandbag of the fortifications of the street fortifications, but was pulled by Liu Goat with a solemn face, and the sound of trucks driving through the street came not far from them, and listening to the movement, there should be more than one truck. "Let's go, let's go to the main street and take a look, there should be troops withdrawn." Liu Shanyang, who climbed out of the crater, ran to the street fort to check out a working light machine gun, grabbed a few more magazines and threw them to Jiujin, and then ran towards Zhongshan Road with Tang Cheng and Jiujin who were confused.