Chapter 66: The Sadness of the City

After dawn, Tang Cheng followed Liu Goat down the city wall, and there were only three people left in the second company, and the three people still had the number of a company, which made it a little funny, but Xie Chengrui had no right to cancel the number of the second company. Liu Goat's performance yesterday made him win another opportunity to replenish the second company from Xie Chengrui's hands, although Tang Cheng didn't understand why Liu Goat was so keen to find soldiers for himself, but Tang Cheng had to accept Liu Goat's kindness and became the sergeant squad leader of the second company, although he is still only an empty squad leader.

Xie Chengrui did not directly supplement Liu Goat with the soldiers of the second company, but asked Liu Goat to go to the ambulance station to persuade the soldiers of other units to join the second company, and the easiest way for veterans to escape the war was to hide in hospitals and ambulance stations by pretending to be wounded soldiers, Xie Chengrui needed Liu Goat to find out all such soldiers and bring them to the Guanghuamen position to participate in the battle. Tang Cheng's 38 rifle had already been thrown away, because Liu Goat said that holding a Japanese weapon in the city would be used by friendly troops as Japanese soldiers, so after Tang Cheng regained the same Mauser rifle and 50 rounds, Tang Cheng looked like a standard national soldier again.

Liu Goat and two Japanese light machine guns of nine catties were exchanged for a Czech light machine gun and 9 grenades from Xie Chengrui, Xie Chengrui could use the Japanese light machine gun to report his combat exploits, while Liu Goat only wanted to get enough firepower for the second company. With his head down, he followed Liu Goat and walked towards the city, and a team of people came and walked back with their heads down, Tang Cheng suddenly saw a group of soldiers coming towards him, and he hurriedly flashed to the side with the nine catties behind him. The extraordinarily neat pace of these people showed that they were different from the other soldiers, and the flower machine guns in the hands of these people made Tang Cheng look at them even more.

Although several of them had bandages on their arms, and their neat steps could not hide their tiredness and embarrassment, Tang Cheng had to admit that these guys were indeed very strong, and the murderous aura in their eyes also distinguished them from other soldiers. "Don't look at it, these guys are also on the teaching team, but they are elites, and those cowards under the surname Xie can't compare to them." Seeing that Tang Cheng was still staring at the back of the soldiers, Liu Goat unabashedly expressed his sourness.

Walking through long alleys, passing through private houses, entering short alleys, bypassing churches, and crawling over ruins, Tang Cheng has had a very difficult journey. The whole city trembled under the fierce sound of gunfire, and Japanese warplanes roared and circled overhead, occasionally dropping one or several powerful bombs. Tang Cheng and his party walked through Nanjing City like a labyrinth, and it turned out that Liu Goat's sense of direction was quite good.

Leaning against a wall, he was dressed in a big mouth, and looked in the direction of Liu Goat's finger, Tang Cheng found that they had finally found their target. The ambulance station that Xie Chengrui told Liu was set up in a bungalow, and there was a neat gravel path in the courtyard of the bungalow, which was supposed to be two small flower beds next to it, but now only ruins and debris remain. At the intersection not far from the bungalow, a tank with the blue sky and white sun sign was parked at random, seemingly parked randomly, but the black hole of the gun was vigilantly guarding the street in front of the bungalow.

There is no curiosity like Jiujin, Tang Cheng is just an accident and disappointment, Tang Cheng was dragged into the second company by Liu Goat's deadlift, but it has only been a little more than a month, but he has encountered the Japanese tanks several times, and he knows what he means when facing the Japanese tanks. When he had never seen the tanks of the national army, Tang Cheng always thought that the national army did not have tanks, and that day he saw the tanks of the national army being turned into scrap metal by the bombs dropped by the Japanese planes before they could make an inch.

Now this will appear in Tang Cheng's sight of the national tank but Tang Cheng has a disappointed thought, the city gate is in full swing, in order to resist the attack of the Japanese tank, the defenders have to use the death squad and the Japanese tank again and again to fight, but the national tank is swaggering to stop here to accept people's curiosity and wait-and-see. In the meaning of Liu Goat, this is probably the ** soldier commanded by the official called **.

The whole city is now full of collapsed houses and ruins, and it is not difficult to guess from the smoke columns rising from a distance that the whole of Nanjing was bombarded by Japanese artillery fire, and perhaps these smoke columns are also the credit of Japanese aircraft. Without entering the ambulance station with Liu Goat, Tang Cheng, who was carrying a rifle, got into the house in front of the house that was half underground and half on the ground, and this house was stored with a lot of furniture and sundries, Tang Cheng dragged out an old sofa from the house and put it in the yard, and then put himself flat in the old sofa.

Tang Cheng, who was lying on the old sofa, took a long breath on his back to the sky, and the sofa reminded him of the church in Shanghai, there was a sofa like this in Robert's room, Tang Cheng would often go to Robert's room to lie on the sofa and take a nap when it rained, and that feeling made Tang Cheng feel very steady. After lying on the sofa for less than a minute with his eyes closed, Tang Cheng jumped off the sofa when he opened his eyes, this was not Robert's sofa, and Tang Cheng could no longer find that feeling of being down-to-earth.

Stepping on the collapsed wall, Tang Cheng climbed up to the three-story building that collapsed in the corner on the left side of the house, and Tang Cheng, who had successfully climbed to the top of the building, looked at the place as far as his eye could see with the telescope he asked for from Liu Goat. The whole city was full of smoke, several houses that had been hit by Japanese artillery fire were burning, as if the sound of gunfire and explosions could be heard in all directions, Tang Cheng could even see the fire of shells exploding in the distance through the telescope, and those pillars of smoke rising from the ground made Nanjing more like a hellish city.

Looking back in the direction of Guanghua Gate, it may be because the distance is too far, Tang Cheng failed to see the dilapidated city gate of Guanghua Gate with a telescope, but he saw two destroyed armored vehicles in a corner that were still emitting green smoke, and around the armored vehicles there were several corpses of national soldiers lying or lying on their stomachs, these are the motorized infantry that specializes in guarding armored vehicles, the word motorized infantry comes from Liu Goat, when Tang Cheng volunteered to serve as a death squad to go out of the city to bomb Japanese tanks, Liu Shanyang, who checked his equipment, reminded him to keep an eye out for the motorized infantry guarding the Japanese tanks.

Passing the two armored vehicles that were still emitting green smoke, Tang Cheng turned his attention to the places where there were national soldiers, and there were traces of the activities of national soldiers in many places in the city, and it seemed that they were going to set up a guard position in the city, so that the Japanese army could fight with the Japanese army in the street after entering the city. His gaze swept over every area he could see, and Tang Cheng, who had put away his binoculars, went downstairs and lay down on the old sofa to squint for a while.

There are so many things that have happened these days, so that Tang Cheng's poor head is a little unbearable, without Liu Goat's preaching by his side, and without nine catties of chatter, Tang Cheng wants to be quiet by himself. Even when his eyes were closed, Tang Cheng didn't dare to be careless, his right hand was on the shell gun, and his ears were closely watching the surrounding sounds. Liu Goat and Jiujin had not yet come out of the ambulance station, but Tang Cheng in the courtyard heard a particularly fierce gunfire, but soon the fierce gunfire shifted to the east of the city, and there were explosions on the southern periphery of the city. The more this is the case, the more apprehensive Tang Cheng's mood becomes, could it be that the Japanese army really surrounded the city of Nanjing?

Some people on the Guanghuamen position have long said that the Japanese army has besieged the city, but Tang Cheng has never believed it, the positions of Yuhuatai and Shogunate Mountain outside the city are still fighting, if the Japanese army wants to encircle the entire Nanjing City, it is obviously not enough to rely on their current strength. But now Tang Cheng believed, he really believed that the Japanese army was besieging the city, Tang Cheng's heart was no longer surprised, but almost desperate loss, once the Japanese army completed the siege of Nanjing, they would be trapped here by the Japanese army.

There was a sudden sound in the courtyard, Tang Cheng subconsciously raised the shell gun in his right hand and aimed at the direction where the sound came, and what appeared in Tang Cheng's sight was Liu Goat and Jiujin, followed by more than a dozen national soldiers with rifles on their backs. "Tang Cheng, come here, meet the brothers who have newly joined our second company." Liu Goat's loud voice made Tang Cheng couldn't help frowning, but he still stuck the barge gun back into the holster on his waist and walked over with his rifle.

"This is Tang Cheng, the squad leader of our second company," Liu Goat seemed to be very proud to introduce Tang Cheng to the dozen or so national troops behind him, "Don't look at Tang Cheng's old age, but he followed us all the way from Shanghai to Nanjing, not only did he see through a dozen spies of little devils in Zhonghua Gate, but he also blew up a Japanese tank with his own hands." This kid was just a student more than a month ago, and now he is a serious sergeant squad leader, maybe if he fights with the little devil a few more times, you should call him a second lieutenant platoon leader. ”

Liu Goat's unsparing praise made Tang Cheng embarrassed for no reason, the firefight with the Japanese army after coming out of Shanghai was all a coincidence, not to mention that it was not his own credit to see through the Japanese spies at Zhonghua Gate, Liu Goat's show off made Tang Cheng a little unbearable.

"Okay, everyone knows each other, then let's go to the next ambulance station, Lao Tzu is going to recruit enough 130 people today." Liu Goat's plan to recruit 130 people startled Tang Cheng. It seems that Liu Goat is determined to restore the establishment of the second company. Tang Cheng, who was sad in his heart, was obviously a good boy, and he didn't say a word behind Liu Goat, and the dozen or so soldiers of the national army who Liu Goat flickered out of the ambulance station were also confused, as for Tang Cheng, they all felt that he was a ruthless character, at least Tang Cheng had two shell guns on his body.