Chapter Seventy-Three: A Desperate Struggle

"You heard what he said just now, right? Rujiangmen has been blocked by the 36th Division, and there is no way for us to get out of the city, what do you say? Liu Goat chose to tell the story, rather than hide it from everyone, it was better to say it all directly, Liu Goat didn't intend to help all of them make up their minds. Liu Goat's words came out, except for Tang and Jiujin, only the two veterans with flower organs were silent, and the remaining dozen or so people all shouted.

After some arguments, Liu Shanyang reluctantly made a choice, "Okay, everyone has their own ambitions, and I can't force you, then let's go our separate ways, you bring weapons and ammunition, maybe you will encounter Japanese troops on the way." Liu Goat kindly persuaded those guys who wanted to part ways to bring guns and bullets, but they were met with the other party's eyes and disdain.

"Nine pounds, take all the bullets they dropped, and we'll get out of here." Tang Cheng's sudden interjection made Liu Shanyang settle down, there are still 6 people who are willing to follow him, even if it is for the sake of his own life, he has already cheered up at this time. Take off the military uniform on his body and throw away his weapons and ammunition, this is what only those shameless people do, Liu Goat is a veteran ruffian, but he will never throw away his military uniform and weapons, even if the military uniform on his body is so dirty that he can't see the original color.

Liu Shanyang, who regained his composure, put down the gun in his hand and sat down directly against the wall, "There are only 7 people now, there are four flower traps, 5 long guns and 5 short guns, three more grenades, and some food. Huang Zhengxin's defense area is Tongji Gate, since they can come here, it means that the situation in Tongji Gate is not good, maybe the Japanese army has already entered the city along Tongji Gate, if the south of the city is occupied by the Japanese army early, then the road out of the city in the south is now in the hands of the little devils, we can only wait now, wait for it to get dark and try our luck. ”

After listening to Liu Goat's decision, Tangcheng and them all calmly accepted this reality, after Rujiangmen was blocked by the 36th Division, if they wanted to leave Nanjing, they would inevitably need to take risks, and the chance of being discovered by the Japanese army would naturally be reduced at night. Next, in a shop that looked intact, the group chatted without a word, the situation was bad, everyone's mood was not high, Tang Cheng was silent for a long time, just silently wiping his two shell guns.

Liu Goat's mood is not very good, although this battle will not change much before dark, but Liu Goat knows that there must be a lot of troops trying to break through tonight, and the Japanese army must be extra vigilant. The sky finally darkened, but Liu Goat was not in a hurry to lead Tangcheng and them to set off, he was waiting for the appearance of other breakthrough troops, there were only a dozen people in the second company, Liu Goat needed some cannon fodder to test the reality of the Japanese army first.

There was still no starlight and moonlight tonight, and after nightfall, gunshots rang out again in the slightly silent city, and soon there were bursts of explosions mixed in, and it seemed that the cannon fodder that Liu Goat was expecting began to act. Like a leopard waiting for its prey, Liu Goat waited calmly, and gradually, the sound of gunfire and explosions around them also increased, although each place was not particularly intense, but the overall sound still felt huge, as if the whole city was fighting.

"I'm the leader, Lao He, you and Da Niu are the two queens, everyone must be cautious, especially in terms of sound, when it is critical, you should rush, you must not hesitate!" Liu Goat picked up his flower machine machine gun and reminded everyone last time before leaving. After saying 10,000 words, Liu Goat asked for two grenades from Jiujin and inserted them into his belt, his eyes swept over everyone one by one, and then nodded and whispered, "Let's go!" The group left the shop in silence, and only here remained a little warmth in this cold night.

The dangerous intersection must be avoided, Liu Goat took Tang Cheng and a few of them to the north for about a kilometer, and then turned west and traveled for a while, until he saw the road in front of him, Liu Goat stopped. According to the steps that Liu Goat had said in advance, Tang Cheng and the others scattered on both sides of the street, and the muzzles of their guns were pointed at the figures that appeared on the road in front of them. Maybe it was the Japanese army, but it could also be the soldiers of the national army who also wanted to break out of the city, the sky was too dark, and Liu Goat had no way to identify the identities of those figures, so he had to wait.

A full 10 minutes passed, and the figures on the road neither chose to leave, nor did they choose to come this way, and Liu Goat, who had nothing to do, took Tang Cheng and them back and forth to the north for a while, and seeing that another intersection was just ahead, he raised his hand to signal everyone to stop. After looking carefully, there was no one on this side of the road, but Liu Goat's heart rose with a feeling of immortality.

After all, the cautious Liu Goat did not rush across the road recklessly, let alone give up, he led the group cautiously to the next street entrance, and stopped next to a completely collapsed building on the side of the road. After a while, the sound of gunfire from a distance gradually moved closer to this side, presumably another national army breakthrough force. Tang Cheng suddenly noticed that there were quite a few people moving in the ruins near the street entrance, "Prepare for battle!" After being told by Tang Cheng, Liu Goat lowered his voice and quietly unscrewed the back cover of a grenade on his belt.

The closer you get to the city walls, the more sandbag fortifications there will be on the streets, and Ozawa Jiro is lying behind the sandbag fortifications at one of the street corners and waiting quietly. His squad of Imperial soldiers had built a simple defensive position with sandbags at the corner of the street, and the light machine guns had been erected, and the Czech light machine guns equipped with the defenders of China looked mediocre, but in terms of reload speed, they far exceeded the Taisho 11 light machine guns issued by the Imperial army.

There were a number of Imperial soldiers lurking in the ruins nearby, and although their squad was not really soldiers, Ozawa Jiro had no doubt about their determination and means to strangle the Shina people. It was clear that it was a well-laid bag, a trap, a gift that Ozawa had carefully arranged for the defenders of China, where they had shot no less than 30 soldiers in one afternoon, one of whom was a second lieutenant of the China Army.

After the Japanese army outside Nanjing could not be attacked for a long time, the special high school had to use the radio to contact the special high school action team that was already lurking in Nanjing, hoping that they would create a riot in Nanjing to help the Japanese army attack the city. Jiro Ozawa was the commander of the squad that received the order later, but he was lucky enough to have the first guests after the start of the war at the pawnshop used to cover his identity, but these guests were not mortgaged with gold and silver treasures, but enough weapons and ammunition to equip a squad, and if Ozawa needed it, the guests would even be willing to mortgage their military uniforms to the pawnshop.

With weapons and ammunition, Ozawa and his assembled men occupied the street, built barricades with the help of sandbags left by the Nationalist army, and used the weapons and ammunition that the Nationalist army had forcibly mortgaged into the pawnshop to strangle the passing Shina defenders, especially officers and heralds. Liu Goat, who was hidden in the shadows, was still staring at the corner of the street, he didn't know that there were more than a dozen Japanese spies with loaded guns hidden in the shadows on the opposite side of the road, but he believed in his feelings, and he knew that there was some kind of danger hidden in the shadows on the other side of the road......

Could it be that all the arrangements I had pondered for an afternoon were in vain? Liu Goat was a little unwilling, but he had to rationally consider other routes. Following the battle sketch in my mind, I used mental arithmetic to estimate the distance of different paths and the probability of success, but the final conclusion was very damning: whether it was a detour from the north of the city, south of the city, or a breakthrough from the south of the city, we must first pass through the intersection in front of us, otherwise we would go back to the intersection where the gunmen attacked during the day.

Despite his despair, Liu kept his composure. He waited, waited patiently, one 10 minutes passed, another 10 minutes passed, and Liu Goat knew that he was quietly staring at the shadow of the opposite street and did not move. Liu Goat turned his head and glanced at Tang Cheng and them behind him, and then quietly retreated until he retreated to a place where he thought it was safe, and it could be seen that Tang Cheng was both worried and anxious, and in fact, Liu Goat himself was no exception.

The sound of gunfire and explosions in the distance seemed to hit everyone's hearts, and some people were already eager to try, but Liu Goat did not allow them to act rashly and forced their way through the street in front of them, which was not so much a risky attack as a hopeless gamble. "No matter, I'll go explore the way first, if there is no danger, you can come quickly." The silence was broken by a soldier surnamed Ma with a flower trap, this guy who was fooled by Liu Goat from the ambulance station was also a veteran who wanted to continue to live.

The vanguard who acted as the pioneer was the highest mortality rate in the battle, and Liu Goat had already served as a vanguard in the afternoon, and the soldier surnamed Ma, who wanted to gamble on his luck, recommended himself to be the vanguard this time. "Be careful" Liu Goat, who knew that he couldn't stop him, only nodded in agreement, and at the same time pulled out the grenade on his waist that had unscrewed the back cover, ready to throw cover at any time.

Removing all the extra things on his body, the soldier surnamed Ma rushed out of the corner with only a flower trap and three magazines, and with the cover of night, the soldier surnamed Ma advanced very smoothly until he was discovered by Jiro Ozawa behind the barricades. The spies of the special high school are best at cold weapon assassination, so Ozawa Jiro chose to use a bayonet to solve this sudden appearance of the Shina soldier, when the bayonet penetrated deep into his abdominal cavity, the soldier surnamed Ma has been on the trigger with his fingers heavily buckled. "There is an ambush, retreat, retreat." The blinding gunfire cut through the darkness, and Liu Goat screamed and threw a grenade.