After seeing the tragic situation on the battlefield, Tang Cheng turned his head to look at the position of the 173rd Division, the position of the 173rd Division was completely silent, except for some bushes that had not yet burned out, and the soldiers of the 173rd Division could not be seen in Tang Cheng's sight at all. Could it be that the 173rd Division retreated? Having experienced being used as cannon fodder in Nanjing, Tang Cheng has learned to be as vigilant against his allies as Liu Goat, and Tang Cheng's first reaction to being used as cannon fodder is that the troops of the 173rd Division have withdrawn at night.

"Isn't that what I thought it would be?" Without waiting for Tang Cheng to find Liu Goat, Lao Xu, who came out of the county town to deliver food, brought Liu Goat's order. "You mean let's go back to the city? What about that position? What to do with the Japanese army? Tang Cheng, who was chewing the flatbread, obviously did not understand Liu Goat's order, and a series of questions made Lao Xu, the herald, unable to answer.

"Go back to the city now, and take all the weapons and ammunition that you can still use." Ignoring Tang Cheng anymore, Lao Xu, who brought someone to help, gave the order on behalf of Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng, who evacuated backwards along the long traffic trench, was still a hundred meters away from the city gate, and finally met Liu Goat who had withdrawn from the position, looking at the gauze wrapped around Liu Goat's waist and the more than 20 garrison soldiers behind him, Tang Cheng, who had already spoken to his lips, could not speak.

"Don't ask anything, go back to the barracks." Tang Cheng found that the 173rd Division, which was supposed to appear in the main position outside the city, had already returned to the city, but Liu Goat did not give Tang Cheng the time and opportunity to ask questions, and urged Tang Cheng to return to the barracks. When the garrison regiment went out of the city, it was 800 people, but now there are less than 100 people brought back from outside the city by Liu Goat, and the soldiers who are covered in the smell of gunpowder are full of exhaustion, and the two days and two nights of fighting have consumed almost all of their bodies and spirits.

Tang Cheng was put into the carriage by Lao Xu's legs in a daze, and followed Liu Goat back to the barracks of the garrison regiment in a daze, "Stone, follow your old Uncle Xu to prepare things, and we will go over later." "Send Liu Shishi, who followed him, to find Lao Xu, and there are only two people left in Liu Goat's house, him and Tang Cheng." There is a tunnel in the courtyard on the west side of the barracks, which leads directly to the outside of the city, and we will go out of the city by tunnel, and a battalion of the 173rd Division has already taken the tunnel out of the city last night. ”

Liu Goat's words made Tang Cheng instantly dumbfounded, did he hear it wrong or Liu Goat was talking nonsense, the military camp of the garrison regiment was not close to the city wall, where did Liu Goat come out of a tunnel? "When you suppressed the bandits, Lao Tzu was not idle, and Lao Tzu personally led people to dig up the tunnel for more than half a month. Originally, I thought that if the Japanese army suddenly besieged the city, we would have a chance to escape, but I didn't expect to be used to sneak attack the back of the little devil now. ”

After listening to Liu Goat's explanation, Tang Cheng suddenly realized that it was no wonder that when he took the 1st Company to suppress the bandits, the barracks and courtyard walls would suddenly be built in the barracks, which turned out to be a trick to deal with the soil excavated from the tunnel. Tang Cheng naturally still had questions to ask, but he was urged by Liu Goat to go back and pack his things, looking at Liu Goat's posture, he didn't plan to come back after leaving the county seat through the tunnel. The Japanese army is overwhelming, of course Liu Goat will not follow the 173rd Division to defend Mengcheng, staying is a death, leaving may still have a chance to live, of course Liu Goat, who is lively, will choose to leave.

Tang Cheng didn't want to be a deserter anymore, but he understood the intention of Liu Goat's meaning, and besides, he could only obey Liu Goat's arrangement now, because the injured nine catties were still waiting on the North Mountain. The tunnel dug by Liu Goat was in the backyard of the barracks, and after Tang Cheng followed Liu Shi into the backyard with his packed things, the first person he saw was actually the strange old man who had been nesting in the library all day. "Boy, are you leaving? It's okay to go, stay in the green mountains without worrying about running out of firewood, and only by saving your life first can you have the opportunity to do what you want to do. ”

The strange old man handed Tang Cheng a thread-bound book, and then left with his hands behind his back, the old man's departure was as sudden as when he appeared, and the whole process did not leave Tang Cheng time to speak. "He is the one who instructed us to dig the tunnel, this was originally his family's ancestral property, and the tunnel was also dug by his ancestors, I just took someone to dig the tunnel wider." Liu Goat, who came with a flower machine, solved the mystery for Tang Cheng, making Tang Cheng even more curious about this strange old man.

"This old man's ancestor is the emperor's Hanlin, it is said that he returned to his hometown Mengcheng because he was offended, and he has lived here for generations, and when his father's generation went to the middle of the road, now he is the only one left to guard the ancestral tomb." Seeing that Tang Cheng had been staring at the old man's back, Liu Goat told everything he knew. "If it weren't for this damn era, such a person would have been a powerful person."

Liu Goat's garrison has been completely disabled, and only a dozen of the dozens of soldiers who came back were willing to follow Liu Goat out of the city through the tunnel, and the rest were arranged by Liu Goat to go to the city gate to assist in defense. "Leave them alone, their homes and relatives are in Mengcheng, if you want to take them with you, it's impossible, it's better to take care of yourself first." Walking in the dark tunnel, Liu Goat's voice had an echo, which made Tang Cheng, who was walking in front of him, very difficult to hear.

The tortuous tunnel seemed to have no end at all, Tang Cheng didn't know how much soil Liu Goat had dug up with people at that time, but he had to sigh that the old man's ancestor was too capable to make such a long tunnel as the family's back road. The narrow tunnels took them an hour to Tangcheng, and by the time they got out of the exit outside the city, fierce gunfire had already sounded from the city gate, and it seemed that the Japanese had discovered that all the defenders facing them outside the city had retreated into the city.

"Commander Liu, our battalion commander asked me to pick up your garrison regiment here." A commander of the 173rd Division with a grass ring on his head came out of hiding place, and judging by his appearance, he should have been waiting for a long time in a dirt hole. When the soldiers of the 173rd Division said that they were responding to the garrison regiment, Tang Cheng subconsciously turned around and looked at the soldiers who followed Liu Goat out of the tunnel, and now only about 20 of them left in the 800-person garrison regiment to continue fighting, and the difference between before and after is too great.

The battalion of the 173rd Division, which had withdrawn from its position in advance to the city, had been hiding on the flank of the position outside the city, and when the position of Tangcheng fought desperately with the Japanese army last night, it was when they left the city that the battlefield of guns and bullets had attracted all the attention of the Japanese army, and the battalion of the 173rd Division out of the city was able to quietly lurk on the flank of the position. "Commander Liu, the Japanese army has begun to attack the city, and the deputy division commander wants us to wait for his signal before attacking, but the scouts I sent out have not yet found the location of the Japanese artillery position."

Listening to the words of the battalion commander of the 173rd Division, Liu Goat couldn't help but worry in his heart, didn't this kid mean that he wanted his subordinates to help them search for the location of the Japanese artillery position. Almost all the 800 people of the garrison regiment have been thrown on the battlefield where they are fighting with the Japanese army, and it is impossible for Liu Goat to pull the 20 or so around him to seek death, so Liu Goat can only pretend not to hear the meaning of the battalion commander's words.

Tang Cheng did not join Liu Goat's conversation, but crouched on the edge of the cave where he was hiding and watched the Japanese siege with a telescope. The 173rd Division, which also experienced two days and two nights of defensive battles, looked at it and hid its strength outside the city, at this time they were alone to meet the Japanese army besieging the city, and the 173rd Division at this time showed its real ability, and the Japanese army and the 173rd Division fought back and forth across the city wall, and with the addition of artillery on both sides, the battle became more and more intense.

"Battalion commander, the flag is waving on the head of the city." Waving the flag on the top of the city is a signal that Zhou Yuan and the battalion commander have made an appointment with their eyes, as long as the hidden troops outside the city see the flag waving on the top of the city, it means that Zhou Yuan has issued an order for the troops outside the city to attack at any time. "Battalion Commander Yang, you just have to rush, and leave the rest to our garrison regiment." Without waiting for the battalion commander surnamed Yang to speak, Liu Goat opened his mouth first.

More than 400 soldiers of the 173rd Division with grass circles on their heads walked down the slope in concealment, each of them was issued 100 rounds of rifle ammunition and four grenades, and four light machine guns were arranged by Battalion Commander Yang on both flanks to hold down the position. "Kill" was only a simple word, and 400 fresh troops who had rested all night went down the slope and rushed straight to the rear of the Japanese army. The target they chose was not the flanks of the Japanese or their attacking troops, but the Japanese baggage troops who were occupying the trenches outside the city.

Zhou Yuan's plan was to take advantage of the Japanese army to attack the city, send his own fresh army to occupy the trenches captured by the Japanese army before and after the Japanese siege troops, the total strength of the Japanese army attacking Mengcheng is a brigade of more than 1,000 people, even if it is a desperate fight with the Japanese army one by one, Zhou Yuan also feels that it is cost-effective. The 400 soldiers of the 173rd Division rushed into the lost position and rushed left and right, and the Japanese were caught off guard by the sudden enemy attack, and the Japanese troops, who were blindfolded by a grenade, had an initial rout, but under the command of the officers who appeared later, they were occupying a trench and forming a confrontation with their enemy.

Zhou Yuan, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, obviously saw the rout on the old site of the position outside the city, and immediately ordered his artillery to open fire and bombard the Japanese troops who were besieging the city, trying to cause continuous disturbances to the Japanese army, and had achieved his goal of trying to flank the Japanese army in front and rear. "Let's go, let's go, go to Beishan, no one can go if it's too late." Liu Goat, who stayed on the slope to watch the battle, suddenly pulled up Tang Cheng in the hole and left, Tang Cheng, who didn't know anything, looked at Liu Goat's line of sight, and two Japanese tanks appeared in a corner of the battlefield, and behind the two Japanese tanks was a large area of black and earthy yellow.