Chapter 20: Night Rise

The sky darkened little by little, and Tangcheng repelled two more attacks by the Japanese army on the opposite side, but their position became even more dilapidated, and there were less than 40 people on the position who survived, and all of them were exhausted, and everyone really did not have the extra strength to strengthen the bunker. The mortar position that the company had placed in the church was hit by the enemy's shells during the last Japanese attack in the afternoon, and the only light machine gun left on the position was also muted, and the company commander, who was shirtless and covered in gauze, was fiddling with the light machine gun.

Tang Cheng, who was not good at fighting, vomited when he saw the corpse, now became the ammunition hand in the company, when the Japanese army attacked, he had to help the veterans to fill the rifle with bullets, after the Japanese army stopped attacking, he held the steel helmet to check the ammunition, but he only looked for it on his own position, and he did not dare to touch the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in front of the position. The casualties of more than 6 percent made Tang Cheng's directly subordinate brigade a big injury, but they also left more than 50 corpses of Japanese soldiers in front of their position, whether it was the Japanese expatriate self-defense force mentioned by the company commander, after all, this was a Japanese wearing a Japanese army's khaki military uniform and holding a weapon, so Tang Cheng was still very happy.

At the last o'clock, the sun slowly disappeared on the horizon, and Tang Cheng, who was busy moving hamsters, finally stopped, and all the ammunition that could be found on his own position was moved back to the trenches by him, but this ammunition was only enough for each of the remaining people to divide a dozen bullets and two grenades, and if the Japanese troops on the opposite side attacked at night, maybe they would not even be able to hold the day. Taking out a biscuit from his pocket and stuffing it into his mouth, Tang Cheng looked left and right and fell on the earthy yellow corpses in front of the position, the veterans on the position did not give the Japanese a chance to collect the corpses, and those Japanese corpses must have enough ammunition on them.

For rummaging through the ammunition and food from the corpse, Tang Cheng no longer vomited and felt frightened, his life might be lost here, where is there still the heart to think about those things. Following behind the two veterans, Tang Cheng took the rope tied to his waist and slowly turned out of the dilapidated trench, and after listening to Tang Cheng's suggestion, the decadent company commander agreed to take advantage of the night to touch some Japanese ammunition and weapons to come back, and Tang Cheng, who was slightly injured, and two other veterans became the executors of collecting ammunition.

The leg wound has long been no longer bleeding, but the stinging pain from the wound still makes Tang Cheng's body tense for a while, after the first day of battlefield career, in the face of the torment and struggle of dying at any time, Tang Cheng has learned to endure, learned the basic skills of battlefield survival, learned to shoot guns, learned to starve and now risk great danger in the pile of dead people to check weapons, ammunition and everything available, but when facing the dead corpse, it still makes him feel strange and afraid.

The two veterans were very skilled, and they took advantage of the night to move their positions quickly, but Tang Cheng, who was following them, had already raised his heart to his throat. The weapons, bullets, grenades, water, and first-aid kits on the corpses of the Japanese soldiers were all things that Tang Chuan needed, and Tang Cheng even found a pair of well-fitting Japanese military shoes for himself. "Tong" shot into the air with a flare of white cold light, and the two veterans who were checking the ammunition in the pile of corpses were directly exposed to the cold light, and only Tang Cheng, who was squatting by the rubble and preparing to change his shoes, escaped.

"Da Da" two tongues of fire from the Japanese position knocked down a veteran who couldn't dodge to the ground, and the other veteran kept rolling on the ground to avoid the rain of bullets, but the Japanese extended machine gun fire still hit him, and under the white cold light of the flares, Tang Cheng saw several clouds of blood mist rising from the veteran's body. The sound of gunfire and flares widened the eyes of the soldiers on both sides, but the Japanese side was cheering, while the Nationalist side was silent.

Although Tang Cheng, who was lying on his stomach in the rubble, escaped the catastrophe, his mind was still in chaos, and only his vague subconscious told him that continuing to shrink here would be a dead end - either he would be swept into a sieve by the enemy's machine guns, or he would wait to be pierced into a hornet's nest by the bayonets of the Japanese soldiers who came to take a look. I couldn't stay here, and then there was a glimmer of light before the flare went out, and two earthy yellow figures had already appeared in Tang Cheng's sight, which were the Japanese soldiers who came to check the situation.

Walk! The strong sense of survival made Tang Cheng like a spring pressed to the lowest point, and instantly burst out of the potential of his whole body, and he vigorously dragged the rope tied to the rifle and a few bullet boxes and shook a few times, Tang Cheng's cat waist quickly ran to the few Japanese corpses on the left. Shaking the rope tied to the rifle and bullet box is to signal the people in their own position, and the people on the position only need to pull the rope back, and the Japanese rifle and those bullet boxes tied to the rope can be quickly dragged back to the position. However, Tang Cheng did not want to lighten his burden, he wanted to use the movement of the rope to attract the two Japanese soldiers who came to investigate, so that he could run back alive.

The rifle and bullet box were dragged by ropes and kept jumping between the rubble, how could such obvious arrogance not attract the attention of the Japanese army, but Tang Cheng obviously underestimated the ability of the Japanese army. "Tong" was another flare that was shot into the air, and the rope that had been dragged out a few meters away was exposed to the cold light, and the two Japanese soldiers who heard the movement and hid rushed towards the rope, obviously trying to cut the rope and snatch these weapons and ammunition that Tang Cheng had worked so hard to collect.

No, we can't let them grab things, the position is already running out of ammunition and food, if there is no ammunition and weapons these collected, with the dozens of wounded soldiers on the position, I am afraid that even a Japanese attack will not be able to hold. Tang Cheng, who was hiding in the shadows, was red-eyed, but unfortunately he was not good at fighting, even if he gave him a gun, it was estimated that he would be helpless to take these two Japanese soldiers. Tang Cheng half-closed his eyes and wondered how he would escape alive, if he was discovered by the Japanese soldiers, he should become one of these many corpses like the two veterans who were shot.

"Grenade?" Tang Cheng's hand inadvertently touched a hard object, and when he touched it carefully, it was a grenade hanging on the waist of the Japanese corpse, Tang Cheng slowly took the grenade off the corpse and held it in his hand. While paying attention to the distance between the two Japanese and himself, he stretched out his hand and quickly rubbed on several corpses around him, fortunately, Tang Cheng found another grenade, two grenades in his hand, Tang Cheng's mind had a thought, maybe he could use the grenade to kill these two Japanese soldiers.

During the daytime battle, Tang Cheng, who helped collect weapons and ammunition, saw the company commander use this kind of grenade from the Japanese army, first pulled the pull ring and then threw it out of his steel helmet in his hand and exploded, Tang Cheng didn't know what the company commander had to knock the grenade on his steel helmet and then throw it out, but he knew that the two things in his hand were extremely powerful. The Japanese soldiers with rifles had already touched a place less than 5 meters away from the rope at this moment, and if they weren't afraid of being shot by the national army on the opposite side, maybe the stumbling rope would have been cut by them a long time ago.

"When" Tang Cheng got up violently and threw the grenade that had been knocked on the steel helmet out of the air, and then threw out the second one, the interval between the two explosions of "boom" and "boom" was not very long, through the rising fireball, Tang Cheng, who was lying on the ground, watched the two Japanese soldiers fall upside down. "It's done" Tang Cheng, who was a little carried away, completely forgot that he was now in the middle of the battle between the two armies, and the fire of the grenade explosion allowed him to see the fate of the two Japanese soldiers, and at the same time exposed himself to the Japanese army on the opposite side, who was only 10 meters away from the fire.

A string of bullets shot at Tang Cheng, but fortunately, the explosion of the grenade caused it to flash twice, and the Japanese machine gunner did not accurately lock the location of Tang Cheng, otherwise he must have become a dead corpse at this moment. The bullets from the Japanese army hit the two corpses on Tang Cheng's side, and the bloody arrows that burst from the corpses made Tang Cheng's body full of blood, and he couldn't care about nausea and nausea, Tang Cheng turned around and crawled back with both hands and feet. When suppressed by the opponent's machine gun fire, if you can't find a suitable cover, you must not stand up and retreat, the smaller the target exposed to the opponent, the greater the chance of survival, this is the life-saving method taught to Tang Cheng by several veterans in their spare time.

This time, the Japanese army fired two flares in a row, and Tang Cheng, who was covered in blood, lay on the ground tightly and pretended to be dead, don't come to the Japanese soldiers again, Tang Cheng secretly prayed in his heart. Pretending to be dead is also one of the rules of the battlefield, although pretending to be dead doesn't sound very good, but it can keep you alive, in the face of life and death, I believe that all people will choose life over death, Tang Cheng at this moment is unarmed, what can he do if he doesn't pretend to be dead, do you want him to run back to his own position in a daze, the Japanese machine gun is not an ornament for eating leisurely.

It took Tang Cheng half an hour to climb back to his position safely, and when everyone thought he was dead, Tang Cheng was covered in blood and turned into the dilapidated trenches. "The kid is good, he got back 6 rifles and more than 200 rounds of ammunition, as well as food and water, which is good." The gauze wrapped around the upper body had turned black and red, and the company commander threw Tang Cheng a military uniform, "Change the rags on your body, this is the military uniform of the communications soldier, you two are about the same height, you should be able to wear it." ”

"Isn't it" Tang Cheng walked around this time, and he couldn't see that his black clothes were rotten by the rubble, if it weren't for the leggings and elbow pads that the squad leader had made for himself, I was afraid that even his knees and elbows would be worn out. In the laughter of several wounded veterans, Tang Cheng was a little clumsy and changed into the military uniform given to him by the company commander, the military uniform was not new, but there was no unpleasant smell of blood, and the leggings were made according to the method taught by the squad leader.