Chapter 20: A Chance Encounter with a Deceased
"Although it is for you to command a battalion, don't think that I can replenish your troops, there is no one. But I can give you some weapons and ammunition, and you need to figure out how to do the rest, don't your second companies carry two guns on their backs, I think this method is good, the Japanese army's guns can also kill people" Xie Chengrui smiled and handed over a weapon transfer form, which had Xie Chengrui's signature on it, Liu Goat didn't look at it at all, but subconsciously received it in his hand.
"Okay, organize your people to get ammunition supplies, from now on, the main position of your first battalion is Guanghuamen, no matter what the Japanese offensive is, you have to firmly defend Guanghuamen for me, otherwise don't blame me Xie Chengrui for not being emotional" The drum still needs to be hammered, although Xie Chengrui said that he understood the results of the second company, but he still couldn't completely rest assured of Liu Goat, he still needed to remind him not to be careless, the safety of Guanghuamen was the focus of their second regiment's defense.
"What am I for?" Liu Goat didn't know how he got out of the battalion headquarters, but he unconsciously squatted on a wall not far from the regiment headquarters and lowered his head to think. He doesn't have a very good relationship with Xie Chengrui, especially an officer like Xie Chengrui who was born in Whampoa, and he can't look down on an officer like himself who has climbed up a little bit after a bad battle, but why would Xie Chengrui let him command a battalion, Liu Goat couldn't think of a reason even if he broke his head.
"Why can't it be you?" Xie Chengrui, who came out, showed a smile in his eyes, slapped the whole pack of cigarettes in Liu Goat's hand, and turned his head away with the little herald, not giving Liu Goat a chance to continue to ask questions. From the first day when the second company was temporarily under the command of the second regiment, Xie Chengrui was quietly observing this guy who was full of ruffians, and he admitted that he looked down on Liu Goat, who was like a ruffian, but the changes in the second company still made Xie Chengrui very satisfied, especially the exchange of fire between the second company and the Japanese army at the crossing position, which was even more pleasant.
Looking at Xie Chengrui's distant back, Liu Goat took out the match given to him by pockmarked face from his pocket and lit the cigarette on his mouth, the taste of tobacco was very strange, and it was not as wonderful and mellow as Liu Goat imagined. Almost all the veterans smoked, and after a day of hard fighting, the battlefield was littered with the smell of stench and blood, and the veterans smoked just to hide the bad smell and dispel the boredom and loneliness.
There were soldiers coming and going outside the regiment headquarters, Liu Goat was standing at a street corner in a little confusion, Xie Chengrui asked him to take someone to get ammunition supplies when he was leaving, but his appointment as a battalion commander was decided in just two minutes, and he didn't even have time to meet with other officers to report at least, Liu Goat didn't know how to communicate with other officer platoons. Shaking his head vigorously, Liu Goat carried his rifle and decided to find the people in his company first, with them, his confidence would be more or less.
"The company commander is back" watched the Liu goat, who was in a trance, appear at the corner of the street where the ambulance station was located, and Shuangxi, who had been squatting at the door, reported loudly to the veterans in the house, and the veterans who were rummaging through the boxes and cabinets looking for food in the supplies hurriedly lay back on the Chase shop. They were woken up by hunger after a short rest, but they couldn't find the shadow of Liu Goat, so the veterans had to try to find some food in the house.
"Qiu Jiangong, from now on, you will act as the company commander, and before we leave Nanjing, you have the right to command everyone in the second company." Liu Goat took out a few packets of biscuits from the regiment headquarters from his pocket and threw them to Shuangxi, but what he just said made the veterans including Qiu Jiangong stunned. What is the situation, why did Qiu Jiangong take over Liu Shanyang's position as acting company commander, could it be that Liu Shanyang was called to the regiment headquarters to remove him from his post?
"I don't do it, it's just a fucking twenty people, and what kind of fucking company commander, but the squad leader is quite suitable, you better keep it to play by yourself" Qiu Jiangong only froze for a few seconds, and then showed an expression of extreme disgust, and his mouth was full of ridicule. Qiu Jiangong didn't deliberately shirk, he was a veteran, but he knew how good he was, he was good at carrying guns and eating food, if he survived on the battlefield with so many brothers, he would never be this piece of material.
The pockmarked faces had such expressions, although they didn't say anything, but the look of pity when they looked at Liu Goat revealed their mood at this time. If there were no Liu goats, there would not be so few brothers who were killed and injured in the first battle and two companies at Daokou alone, and if you count the defensive battle outside the city gate, everyone would have already become corpses.
"Don't say it, it's so decided, Qiu Jiangong will replace me as your platoon commander, I was appointed by Regiment Commander Xie as the acting battalion commander of the first battalion, and I will take you to garrison Guanghuamen, and now I will go with me to get ammunition supplies." Liu Goat looked around the messy house that had been turned over by the veterans, but he didn't see Tang Cheng.
"I didn't hear it wrong, Lianza is now the battalion commander, so what did the original battalion commander do? Isn't he dead? If Lianza became the battalion commander of the teaching team, are we also members of the teaching team? The veterans who followed Liu Goat out of the house gathered together and muttered quietly, carrying their weapons and steel helmets. The sound of cannons outside the city from time to time could not interrupt their discussions, Liu Goat was still looking for Tang Cheng in the crowd, and he had no time to deal with these guys who were afraid that the world would not be chaotic.
"Where did Tang Cheng go? Who of you knows the way? Liu Goat looked around and didn't find Tang Cheng, and he couldn't help but feel a burst of fire in his heart, that kid couldn't stand it, maybe he deserted again, could it be that the second company was so unpopular with him. Liu Goat thought that Tang Cheng had run away again, but this had wronged Tang Cheng, and the nine catties that were injured and sent down were in the ambulance station next door to them, and Tang Cheng, who was idle and had nothing to do, ran to the ambulance station to visit Jiujin after Liu Goat left with the herald of the regiment headquarters.
The wounded soldiers who Tang Cheng saw lying outside the ambulance station were just people waiting to die and waiting for treatment, and the wounded soldiers who had already received treatment were all in the backyard of the ambulance station, and the nine catties in their arms that had been shot by a bullet from the Japanese army were in the backyard. "I regret it now, being a soldier and fighting is not as simple as you think, do you see those dead people outside? They are all the same recruits as you, and recruits are the fastest to die. Seeing that Jiujin was in good spirits with one arm hanging, Tang Cheng, who was still very worried, began to make fun of him.
"Actually, it's nothing, it's just that the pain will pass, last year when I helped Uncle Zhang's family set up a car, I was kicked by his mule and it hurt, the doctor said that I was okay with this injury for ten days and a half months, and it was not in the way." In order to show Tang Cheng that he was fine, Jiujin gritted his teeth and took off the gauze hanging from his arm, and then gestured to Tang Cheng with his injured hand. Jiujin wanted to show his integrity, but Tang Cheng saw it, but he became Jiujin's hard head gritting his teeth.
"Anyway, bullets don't have long eyes, since you were sent to the ambulance station, a few more people died in the company, a recruit like you is the favorite snack of the Japanese army, and you are also the material to lie outside sooner or later." Tang Cheng was the only one in the second company who called the Japanese army the Japanese army, unlike other people who called the Japanese army devils, Jiujin was useless to react after listening to it too much, but a passing nurse stared at Tang Cheng, making Tang Cheng a little inexplicable.
"God, Don, it's really you, I thought I was wrong." The nurse who watched Tang Cheng stunned put down the tray in her hand and took off the mask on her face, revealing a familiar face of Tang Cheng, who was Emma, a nun who had taken care of Tang Cheng in Shanghai. "Thank you Lord for letting me see you again, I thought you would have left Shanghai after you left the hospital, but I didn't expect you to become a soldier." Knowing that Tang Cheng is now a corporal, Sister Emma also joked about Tang Cheng's fear of injections when he was seeking medical treatment in Shanghai.
"Nunnery, aren't you supposed to be in Shanghai? How did you get to Nanjing? The Chinese Red Cross office where Mother Emma served was located in the French Concession in Shanghai, and the Tang City, where Robert grew up, naturally knew that the clergy in the Taoist diocese could not go to other dioceses without instructions from the higher church.
"Brave Tang, have you forgotten that I am a member of the Red Cross, the Red Cross office in China is in Nanjing, and the one in Shanghai is just one of our offices." Sister Emma's words made Tang Cheng blush, and he grew up with the clergy so much, he didn't know that the headquarters of the Red Cross Society in China was in Nanjing, and Robert received a certain amount of supplies from the Red Cross every year for the families of poor believers.
"Sister Emma, don't you have any men in the Red Cross? You must know that there is a war going on here, and women should not appear here. Apparently influenced by Robert, Don City has always believed that women must stay away from war, especially Mother Emma who once took care of herself. The bullets on the battlefield are not long-sighted, and the Japanese aircraft and artillery are not long-sighted, and Tang Cheng does not want to see Sister Emma suffer accidents.
"Brave Don, are you worried about me?" Sister Emma winked playfully at Tang Cheng, making the latter blush again. didn't have time to say goodbye to Sister Emma and Jiujin, Tang Cheng lowered his head and carried his rifle and ran away from the backyard of the ambulance station without a trace, but Sister Emma's beautiful laughter was deeply imprinted in Tang Cheng's mind.
Jiujin, who couldn't believe that Tang Cheng still knew a foreign woman, opened his mouth widely, and until Sister Emma finished examining his wounds, Jiujin hadn't woken up from the shock. "It doesn't matter if you hurt you, remember not to let the wound get wet, and you will be fine after a few days of rest." For Tang Cheng's sake, Sister Emma said a few words to Jiujin, and then disappeared into Jiujin's sight with the tray, making the eyes of several wounded soldiers next to her envious and full of jealousy.