Rao Chong was a native of northern Shaanxi, and originally participated in the sixth town of the Beiyang Army, and was subordinate to the soldiers under Lu Jianzhang. Later, the Shaanxi warlord Chen Shufan expelled Lu Jianzhang, and the sixth town of Beiyang, where Rao Chong was located, became Chen Shufan's four brigades of the Shaanxi army. After Jing ** launched an uprising in Shaanxi, Rao Chong followed the Shaanxi army to quell the rebellion, and the two sides fought several times, and Rao Chong also made a lot of contributions.

Chen Shufan asked Zhang Zuolin to lead the Feng army into Shaanxi to assist in quelling the rebellion, Zhang Zuolin took the opportunity to occupy Shaanxi, and Rao Chong became a member of Zhang Zuolin's Northwest Army. After Wang Maoru's National Defense Army unified China, Rao Chong wanted to retire and go home to a mother-in-law, but when he returned home, he found that his home was long gone, and he stayed in the army with nowhere to go. He was old in seniority and brave in battle, but his temper was too impulsive, and he had the stubbornness peculiar to the Northwesterners, so much so that he could have served as a battalion commander in the main army, but he was sent to the engineer battalion with three hundred recruits carrying shovels.

After the reorganization of the National Defense Force, the training regiments were abolished in various units, and those recruits were to be trained under the unified management of the Ministry of National Defense and then distributed to various units. But these recruits must first be eliminated, and the worst is to throw them into the engineer battalion, digging pits and burying soil all day long, and the engineer battalion can be said to be the most tired and glorious unit in the army.

Rao Chong was angry in his heart and wanted to resign, but as a battalion commander, he is now a captain, with a salary of thirty yuan a month, how can there be such a beautiful difference when he leaves the army? The military salary of 30 yuan a month is not an ordinary amount, why the Northwest Army can't do the National Defense Army, except for the difference in weapons, it is a matter of money. In Zhang Zuolin's Northwest Army. A battalion commander only has 12 oceans a month, and he is often in arrears, but in Wang Maoru's national defense army, the battalion commander is 30 oceans. And under normal circumstances, half of it is in the hands of the parents, and half is kept for themselves. Rao Chong has no family, and all this money goes into his pocket, and he is happy to be free.

Zou Fen, the chief of staff of the brigade, looked at Rao Chong, nodded at him, and said, "Good man, go." Follow me. ”

This section supported by Zou Fen was the frontal defense line, that is, the section of the west city wall, and the 255th Regiment of the 84th Brigade was responsible for defending this section of the west city wall, and this regiment suffered heavy losses in the defense. The artillery of the Soviet army focused on taking care of the defensive positions of the 255th Regiment, and the regiment commander Ji Conghuai loudly scolded Lao Maozi for not dying well, and there were 253 and 254 regiments next to him, and the bastard thing fell more than twice as much as them here.

"Tuanza. Is it because you're unlucky? So our group is particularly unlucky? The commander of the third battalion, Gan Chunsheng, was happy in his suffering.

"It's your uncle!" Ji Conghuai gave him a kick, "Go!" Talk to Staff Officer Zhang and count the number of soldiers. ”

"I'm the battalion commander, how can I do this?"

"Get out! If it weren't for the death of my communications soldier, I wouldn't have let you do it. ”

"Yes, you're the biggest." Gan Chunsheng hurriedly looked for someone to find Staff Officer Zhang, but the news he got made Gan Chunsheng unhappy, and a Russian shell exploded just now. Staff Officer Zhang, who was visiting the wounded soldiers in the trenches under the city wall, was hit in the neck by a piece of shrapnel, and immediately bled profusely. Seeing that it can't be done, it's being rescued.

Gan Chunsheng hurriedly ran over to tell Ji Conghuai, Ji Conghuai's eyes widened and he hurriedly asked, "Where is it?" ”

"On the position of a battalion of Wang Hui."

The two bent down along the traffic trench and hurriedly ran to the position of Wang Hui's first battalion, but when they saw the military doctor walking out, Ji Conghuai asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"I'm out of breath, and I haven't even explained my last words." After the military doctor said regretfully, he hurried away to help the others.

"Alas......" Ji Conghuai sighed, tremblingly took out a half-extinguished peony cigarette from his pocket, and continued to light it, lighting it for a long time without striking a match. Gan Chunsheng lit it for him, Ji Conghuai took a vicious sip, looked at the attacking Russian soldiers in the distance, spat at the ground, and said to himself: "When will I be the same as Staff Officer Zhang, one more puff is a mouthful." He didn't mention anything else, Gan Chunsheng saw his sadness, and didn't say anything.

"Boom!" A shell exploded not far away, and the two hurriedly lay down in the trench, shook the sand off their heads, and continued to monitor the enemy.

There were only a few soldiers around Staff Officer Zhang, namely squad leader Ye Hucheng, submachine gunner Ma Quanbu, howitzer Ji Chengan, rifleman Zhang Tingfang, rifleman Wang Shi, machine gunner Shi Tiecheng, the rest of the people died, and now even the regimental staff officers died here, and several people silently covered Staff Officer Zhang's face with a white cloth, and continued to use their weapons to shoot in the trenches.

The Soviet artillery fire was much weaker than it was three days ago, but the artillery fire of our army was also weak, and both our artillery and Soviet artillery were damaged in mutual fire. Comparatively speaking, the damage of the Soviet army was greater.

"It's all dead." Shi Tiecheng, the machine gunner of the 84th Brigade, foamed at the mouth, licked his dry lips, and suddenly asked, "Which of you still has water?" ”

"What?" In the midst of the banging gunshots, Wang Shi, who was one meter away from him, asked loudly.

"Water!"

"What?"

"I'm talking about water or not?"

"You louder, I can't hear you!" Wang Shi roared.

Shi Tiecheng was suspicious in his heart, put down the machine gun, and quickly pulled a handful of Wang Shi, only to see that Wang Shi's two ears were bleeding, he hurriedly said: "Squad leader, squad leader, Wang Shi's ears are ......."

Ye Hucheng put the submachine gun behind his back, jumped over in a stride, held Wang Shi's head and looked left and right, gritted his teeth and said, "Deaf." ”

"Deaf?" Not only Shi Tiecheng was surprised, but Ma Quanbu and Ji Chengan also exclaimed, and a bullet almost hit Ji Chengan, making him eat a mouthful of sand.

"Deaf." Ye Hucheng repeated.

Wang Shi asked loudly, "What's wrong with me?" Why can't I hear the sound anymore? ”

"You're deaf!" Shi Tiecheng shouted.

"What?"

"You're deaf!"

"What?"

Ye Hucheng scolded Shi Tiecheng: "You melon skin! He is deaf, can he listen? He pointed to his ear at Wang Shi, then shook his head. Wang Shi understood and shouted, "I won't be able to hear it again in the future?" Ye Hucheng was sure of the answer in his heart, but shook his head comfortingly at Wang Shi, Wang Shi was happy and shouted: "That's it, it'll be fine in a few days, the cannon is too loud these days, it really hurts my ears all the time." It's all right, big rock, you don't fucking like your machine gun? ”

There are two stones in their class, one is Shi Tiecheng and one is Wang Shi, according to age, Shi Tiecheng has become a big stone, and Wang Shi is two years younger than him is called a small stone. Hearing that Wang Shi was still thinking about scolding himself, Shi Tiecheng smiled bitterly, returned to his position and picked up the machine gun to continue shooting, Wang Shi also picked up his rifle, aimed at a Russian soldier, and knocked him down with a bang.

Ye Hucheng sighed and said to Ji Cheng'an: "Xiao Anzi, come over and press the bullet on the big stone." ”

"Okay." Ji Cheng'an's grenade gun had no grenades, and now he was using the gun of Hu Bing, who was a fallen comrade-in-arms, and he pressed the machine gun bullets one by one and handed them to Shi Tiecheng.

"Barrel." Shi Tiecheng said.

"Huh? Where? ”

"Hu Bing's pocket."

"Okay." Ji Cheng'an bent down, moved Hu Bing's body, took out two barrels from his pocket, handed one to Shi Tiecheng, and put the other in his pocket. Shi Tiecheng skillfully replaced the barrel of the machine gun that had been reddened, pressed the barrel of Ji Cheng's gun to himself, and continued to shoot. Ji Chengan also took the opportunity to shoot at the enemy, but he didn't want a Soviet soldier to aim at Shi Tiecheng, Ji Chengan blocked the bullet when he showed his head, and the bullet hit Ji Chengan's rifle, and the huge force made Ji Chengan's left index finger and middle finger knocked out and he didn't know where to go, and he fell to the ground. Shi Tiecheng immediately shouted: "Xiao Anzi, Xiao Anzi, are you dead?" ”

"It's not dead,, I lost two fingers." Ji Cheng'an broke out in a cold sweat, he quickly bandaged it, and said, "It seems that I can only press the bullet for you." ”

"It's okay." Shi Tiecheng swept over the place where the cold gun was, and beat the Soviet soldier who fired the gun so that he couldn't raise his head, but he didn't know whether he was dead or not.

In addition to the sound of gunfire on the battlefield, it is an echo of each other, in fact, everyone does not talk much, and the people in the northwest especially do not like to talk, and have been burying their heads in battle.

Suddenly, a scream came, and Ma Quanbu was hit in his right arm, and his entire right hand couldn't move. Zhang Tingfang, who was beside Ma Quanbu, hurriedly tore off the strip of cloth from his shirt to stop the bleeding for Ma Quanbu first. After stopping the bleeding, Ma Quanbu twisted the muscles on his face and scolded: "The bullet of the old man with melon skin bites the flesh." He couldn't shoot with his right hand, so he took control of the submachine gun with his left hand, but with one hand he operated the submachine gun, and it was obvious that the bullets flew into the sky.

Ma Quanbu had to raise his injured right hand and firmly grasp the magazine of the C2 submachine gun, which made the accuracy of the submachine gun increase a lot. But the recoil of the bullet put a tremendous amount of pressure on the right arm that held the gun in place, and blood poured out of his right arm, and the makeshift bandage was already covered with blood.

Under the sunset, a group of Chinese soldiers covered in blood were defending hard, and they had retreated to the city, and they could no longer retreat, so they would die under the city.

Rao Chong's engineer battalion rushed up in time, and after the recruits jumped into the trenches one by one, they immediately beat the approaching Soviet troops back again, leaving behind more than 20 corpses. Rao Chong asked, "What about your sir?" ”

"The company commander is dead." Ye Hucheng said, "I am the class leader of this class. ”

"How many people are left in your class?"

"Count!" Ye Hucheng shouted, "One! ”

Ma Quanbu shouted: "Two! ”

Shi Tiecheng shouted: "Three! ”

"Four!"

"Five!"

Ye Hucheng glanced at Wang Shi, who couldn't be heard, and said, "It was originally ten, but now it's six, and it also includes one deaf person." ”

"Rest and rest." Rao Chong sighed and said, four of the ten people in a squad died, and the rest were all wounded, and they fought too badly in this battle.

"Are you okay?" Ye Hucheng looked at a group of guys with the engineer battalion written on their right arm and asked hesitantly.

When Rao Chong heard this, he said angrily: "When Lao Tzu was playing with guns, you were still wearing open crotch pants!" ”

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