Chapter 4 Stubborn Defense
The defeated soldiers who were scolded by Hou San bowed their heads and remained silent, and then someone finally reacted, "Sir, we are not afraid of the little devils, but the brothers are all wounded and have no food in their stomachs, and many brothers have bought guns in order to fill their stomachs." We also want to kill those devils to avenge the brothers who died in battle, but we can't beat the devils with burning sticks, right? "There are no guns or bullets, and many people don't even have their uniforms, and that's the current situation of these routs.
"I know it's not easy for everyone, and my commander knows it, so my commander asked for a warehouse from the British army, and what you need, we don't have, the warehouse has it. Guns will be issued to you, and there will be plenty of food to fill your stomach, and there will be uniforms and medicines, but if you want these things, you must hold Ledor with us. Hou San didn't know what was going on in Tang Cheng, and his words began to be a little upside down, but fortunately, most of these routs were muddy people, and he didn't hear the flaws in Hou San's words.
More than 200 soldiers gathered in the courtyard of the brothel, and it was impossible for the doctors and nurses in the hospital to not see it, and those who understood Chinese could not help but call God when they learned that these guys who looked like Hanako were ready to defend Liedo. "Children, you are all good soldiers, but you should all be wounded now, the troops stationed here are about to be evacuated, your mission should be over, you should follow the troops to retreat, don't make unnecessary sacrifices." The courtyard of the hospital, which was robbed of the jeep by Tang Cheng, wanted to persuade Hou San and them to retreat with the hospital, but they were put aside by several rout soldiers with guns.
"Mr. Dean, I also want to retreat with them, but you can also see the current state of most of them. Those who are still wounded will not be able to walk far, and besides, you only have three trucks in the hospital, and you will not be able to take all the wounded with them, so instead of letting them die on the way, it is better for me to take them to stay and hold Liedo, and maybe fewer people will die by then. Hou San was eagerly awaited that Tang Cheng finally rushed back in time.
"My name is Tang Cheng, but I'm a little captain, I don't know what your name is, and I don't know which unit you used to belong to. There may be some of you with higher ranks than I am, but I will say that you can only obey my command for now. Tang Cheng, who replaced Hou San on the stone, took the lead, but it caused a new round of riots among these forcibly assembled routs. Looking at the routs who began to riot in front of him, Tang Cheng's face showed a sneer, and with Tang Cheng's gesture, Tan Fei, who jumped out of the jeep, brought a box and slammed it on the open space at Tang Cheng's feet.
The wooden box was shattered as soon as it fell, and the few defeated soldiers who were closest to Tang Cheng subconsciously dodged, but their eyes focused on the wooden box that had been broken in the next moment. "It's canned, it's canned." The few routs in front began to shout, and crouched down to pick up the cans that had rolled out of the wooden crate. Papapa, Hou San and the people who had already been issued carbines fired their guns into the sky, except for the few rout soldiers who were coaxing the cans, the other rout soldiers who heard the gunshots immediately stood up straight.
"Look at your unproductive appearance, it's shameful." Tang Cheng took a can from the hand of a rout soldier and held it high above his head, "I still have a whole warehouse of such things, new military uniforms, weapons and enough bullets for you to fight, I still have a lot of them, so many that you don't dare to think about it." After looking around at these routs, Tang Cheng said, "I only ask one thing now, I want to hold Liedo, who among you is willing to follow me to fight the Japanese army?" ”
The cans and biscuits brought down from the jeep were quickly distributed to the routers, and Tang Cheng took the opportunity to divide the more than 200 soldiers into squads for every 30 men.
"Which of you can drive?" Tang Cheng looked at the three trucks parked in the courtyard of the hospital and shouted loudly to the routs. As soon as Tang Cheng's words fell, Hulala stood up with more than a dozen soldiers who claimed to be able to drive, and Tang Cheng randomly selected a few people from among them.
"Glasses, you take them to get all the cars here, take some brothers to the warehouse, empty the warehouse for me, and bring the things back to the hospital." Tang Cheng asked Tan Fei to quickly take people to the warehouse, he was afraid that the Japanese army would really enter Ledolai, and he was also afraid that the British troops who had been frightened would really go back and burn the warehouse, he didn't want his brothers to start fleeing again with ragged clothes and empty stomachs.
The doctors and nurses at Ledo Hospital are ready to evacuate, and all the medicines and equipment they can take with them have been packed and ready to go as long as they are loaded into the car. But by the time they heard the roar of the truck, the convoy had already pulled away from the hospital. "You robber, why did you drive our truck?" The director of the hospital with a mustache grabbed Tang Cheng and asked. Although he was a little afraid of the carbine in Hou San's hands, this upright dean could not tolerate Tang Cheng's repeated snatching of vehicles, and without the truck, what would these doctors and nurses under him do.
"Mr. Dean, your trucks have been requisitioned by me, and the Japanese army can enter the town at any time, for your sake and for us, I must requisition these trucks to carry weapons and ammunition to arm these soldiers of mine." Tang Cheng had no intention of entanglement with this stubborn old man, just explained vaguely, and was about to turn around and leave. According to the military doctor's report, there were a large number of equipment and medicines for trauma in this hospital, and since the hospital and the British army were going to retreat, Tang Cheng decided to detain these medicines for his own use.
"Nono, that's not a reason for you to snatch a truck. Those trucks are for the evacuation of hospital personnel, you can't order them to be driven away, these doctors and nurses are non-combatants, if the Japanese come in, do you want them to fight with guns too? The dean grabbed Tang Cheng tightly, and the pair of beautiful mustaches also turned up in anger. was caught by the stubborn dean and didn't let go, Tang Cheng couldn't act hard, he could only be appeased with good words, but no matter what he said, the dean who was stubborn to the extreme just didn't let Tang Cheng go.
"Well, since you don't let go, then I can only leave you alone. Anyway, there will be casualties when the battle starts, and you can stay just in time to help me treat the wounded. Tang Cheng, who had nothing to do, simply played a scoundrel, and simply ordered Hou San to take those rout soldiers equipped with carbines to directly block the entire hospital, and the doctors and nurses who were originally waiting to be evacuated were driven back to the ward and his office again.
"You robber, you warlord, I will accuse you, you will regret all these things you have done." The dean, who was pushed back to his office by the defeated soldiers, shouted relentlessly, but unfortunately his protest sounded far less threatening in Tangcheng than the shouts of the Japanese army. Tang Cheng didn't plan to defend the hospital, he just used this place as a stronghold for the time being, after all, the doctors and nurses he detained were here, and the location of the hospital had not been bombarded by artillery fire, which meant that it was safe compared to many other places.
The only way out of the Savage Mountain and into Ledo was the bridge they had walked on that day, so after Tang Cheng ordered all the doctors and nurses to be detained, he sent Dice and Rock Dragon to guard the bridge with 20 carbines-issued routs. Hou San and the more than 200 defeated soldiers gathered together looked like a lot of people, but in fact, excluding those who were still wounded, there would not be more than 160 defeated soldiers who could really participate in the battle, that is to say, Tang Cheng could only rely on these 160 defeated soldiers to hold Liduo.
Tan Fei, who returned with the truck, not only brought a large number of weapons, ammunition and supplies, but also brought back to Tang Cheng a map of the location of the forts on the periphery of Leduo, which George had found in his spare time. Relying on the large number of cans and cigarettes that Tan Fei brought back, Hou San and the defeated soldiers became a mess, and the defeated soldiers who stayed in the hospital only had two meals a day. As for some of the routs who were in Ledo, they were even more miserable, anyway, they were so dead and alive that they were consuming, Hou San and they were carrying boxes of cans and cigarettes, and the routs had never seen this formation, they were all desperate to eat, for fear that there would be no store in this village.
However, Hou San did not let him hide and take it away, but he just gave up a few boxes of canned food and a few cigarettes, and Hou San and they gathered all the hearts of the defeated soldiers. Isn't everyone a soldier just for stuttering, now that they have food for everyone in Tangcheng, of course they will follow them first, if not, they will leave. This is the real idea of the veteran oilers among the defeated soldiers, most of these veterans have changed a lot of troops, carrying and selling soldiers for others, and they have not done such things less. Now it's just a change of place to eat, so most people have no objection to joining Tang City, it is natural to be a soldier to fight, anyway, if you don't defend the lie, you have to fight devils.
Tang Cheng didn't go to hang out with the routs, not because he wasn't interested, but because he didn't have time, he was still studying the map that George had found. According to George's news from the British army, the caliber of the artillery on the forts built by the British army on the periphery of Ledo was not very large, which means that the Japanese troops who occupied the forts could not cover the entire Ledo with those artillery fire. In this way, if these Japanese troops want to take more of the following, they will have to carry out a ground attack in the end, and this is exactly what Tang Cheng is worried about, he has no idea how many Japanese troops have come to the periphery of Ledo.
However, Tang Cheng is sure that the Japanese soldiers who came out of the jungle would not have heavy firepower weapons in their hands, at most they would carry light machine guns or grenadiers, and more small-caliber light mortars. Tang Cheng, which has a whole warehouse of weapons and ammunition, is not afraid of light machine guns or light mortars from the Japanese army, as long as the Japanese army does not attack at night, after dawn, Tang Chengbao will attack Leduo and die as many as the Japanese army comes.