"Light a fire, set off a cigarette and report to the city." The situation is urgent, Tang Cheng intends to use the last resort, and the firewood pile has already been prepared here at the Beishan Checkpoint, which is the fastest way to keep in touch with the city at the Beishan Checkpoint. According to the steps discussed by Liu Shanyang and Tang Cheng, one pillar of smoke means that the checkpoint is abnormal but the situation has been controlled, two pillars of smoke means that the checkpoint is abnormal but Ren is under control, and three pillars of smoke or more means that the checkpoint is abnormal and has been uncontrolled, which means asking for help from the city.

"Company commander, look, there's smoke in the city." Before the soldiers designated by Tang Cheng could take out matches and light torches, a platoon commander under Tang Cheng suddenly pointed in the direction of Mengcheng and shouted. Not only Tang Cheng, almost all the people in the position subconsciously turned their heads to look back in the direction of the county seat with the shouting, and the pillar of smoke rising from the ground rose from the direction of the county seat, and the fast-mouthed platoon commander stretched out his fingers and counted them one by one, until they reached four.

"Something happened in the county seat" This is the first reaction of everyone in the 1st Company, and the same signal that Tang Cheng is about to send, if the county seat also rises more than three pillars of smoke, it means that the county is under attack, according to the plan arranged by Liu Goat, the 1st Company stationed in Beishan should immediately return to the county seat or seek an opportunity to create a riot behind the Japanese army. Tang Cheng's heart was pinched at once, but his tense heart was randomly loosened again, there were more than three companies of the garrison regiment and a regiment of the 173rd Division in the county seat, plus those criss-crossing trenches and fortifications outside the county seat, the county seat was not so easy to be breached.

When Tang Cheng was fighting with the Japanese army in Shanghai, he had seen the Japanese planes and heavy artillery, although Beishan was not very close to the county seat, but if the Japanese army used heavy artillery, they could also feel the vibration here, at least they could hear the movement of the heavy artillery bombardment. There has been no movement in the county, which means that the Japanese army did not use heavy artillery or equipped with heavy artillery, if the attacking Japanese army only wants to rely on some mortars to take Mengcheng, it is obviously unrealistic, and the mortars and light and heavy machine guns of the 173rd Division are not vegetarian.

Tang Cheng would think so because he didn't know much about the weapon configuration of the 173rd Division from Liu Shanyang, but the rest of the 1st Company didn't know this, and the other people, including Jiujin, had already changed their faces, and if the county seat was lost, they would be cut off by the Japanese army. "Don't panic, the squad leader looks at his subordinates, the platoon commander is optimistic about the squad leader under his subordinates, the county town is just a smoke, it doesn't necessarily mean that it has been beaten down by the Japanese army, didn't you hear the gunfire?" Tang Cheng blackened his face and kicked the guy who was about to light the pyre, and stepped on the torch by the way.

A pillar of smoke has risen on the county side, which means that the county seat has fallen into a melee at the moment, if Tang Cheng still has to raise a pillar of smoke representing a call for help at this time, it will only add unnecessary burden to Liu Goat, so Tang Cheng decided not to light a fire, not to let off smoke, and not to ask the county for help. "Company commander, no, let's withdraw, we don't even have machine guns, and the little devils will rush over in a while, and we can't stand these rifles alone." Seeing that Tang Cheng had stopped the ignition, some of the veterans had already seen that Tang Cheng wanted to fight to the death, so they came over to persuade Tang Cheng to retreat into the mountain now.

Defeat was not uncommon in the eyes of these veterans, and Tang Cheng himself had escaped from Nanjing, although the 1st Company had repelled a three-sided encirclement by the Japanese army, but they also lost the only Czech light machine gun. The strength of the firepower between the two sides was very large, and the victory or defeat of the battle had already been decided, and the dozen or so forward soldiers of the Japanese army were still digging and advancing, if they took advantage of the situation to expand the hiding bunker, it was believed that the number of Japanese soldiers who approached and threatened the position of the 1st Company would continue to increase.

Tang Cheng straightened up and looked through his binoculars at the crater in front of the position that threw dirt from time to time, these Japanese soldiers who were digging with all their might were still less than 3 meters away from the crater they estimated, which meant that they might only need a few more minutes to reach a position less than 70 meters away from the trench, so that the 38 rifles in their hands could shoot bullets into the position of the 1st Company at any time. Tang Cheng's teeth itched with hatred for this group of guys who were digging with all their might, but he didn't have the long-range firepower in his hands that could control the enemy or threaten the opponent, so he could only watch the other party get closer to his position and could not do anything.

Like Liu Goat, Tang Cheng is not a person who can be easily frightened by adversity, and Robert has cultivated Tang Cheng's independence and ability to face adversity since he was a child. Even when Tang Cheng was only 10 years old, Robert once let Tang Cheng go on the road alone from a remote village to the county seat to deliver letters, and the 12-year-old Tang Cheng dared to follow the Shanghai Youth Gangsters to fight with people in the streets and alleys, Tang Cheng never lacked opportunities to face adversity, but the current crisis made it difficult for Tang Cheng to make a decision.

It was not difficult to withdraw the 1st Company into Beishan, but Tang Cheng was worried that the retreat of the 1st Company would give the Japanese army the way to attack the county seat, and if the Japanese troops who were confronting the 1st Company did not follow them into the mountains and turned to the county seat, Tang Cheng knew that what awaited Mengcheng was a catastrophe. He couldn't imagine what would happen if the Japanese army attacking Mengcheng got this new force, but he knew that the chances of Mengcheng being breached by the Japanese army would definitely increase greatly.

But if the 1st Company is not removed, everyone here may be killed by this group of Japanese soldiers, including his own second lieutenant company commander. Tang Cheng didn't want to die, he never even thought about death, and he didn't want to die in this wilderness. But if it is just to save his own life, he will bring more trouble to Liu Goat in the county town, Tang Cheng would rather stay here and fight for his life with this group of Japanese soldiers. It is not the character of Tang Cheng to retreat when encountering the enemy, this is not Shanghai or Nanjing, even if the Japanese army on the opposite side is strong, but if they want to annihilate the 1st company here, they are bound to pay an unimaginable price.

"Company commander, let's withdraw, the brothers are not afraid, but we don't have anything in our hands, and it is difficult to withstand the attack of the little devil with the rifles in the hands of the brothers alone." The platoon commander who suggested retreating again suggested retreating when Tang Cheng was in a dilemma, and his words obviously won the consent of most of the platoon commanders of the 1st Company. Just from their eyes, Tang Cheng could see their thoughts, these guys who had already done a rout didn't care about doing another rout, even if it was a deserter, as long as they could save their lives, these people would not hesitate to make a choice.

The squad and platoon leaders were all looking at themselves, which made Tang Cheng very uncomfortable, but everyone was just looking at Tang Cheng but didn't dare to step forward to force them, because they all found that Tang Cheng's right hand had been on the holster on his waist at some point. Tang Cheng's marksmanship may not be ranked at all in the 1st Company, but Tang Cheng's speed of shooting when using a short gun is famous in the entire garrison regiment, everyone is so close to Tang Cheng, no one can avoid Tang Cheng's close-range shooting, especially Tang's fast and slow machine can be fired continuously.

Xu was aware of the fear in everyone's eyes, and Tang Cheng's hand on the holster on his waist slowly drooped, and his action made the squad and platoon leaders in the trenches obviously relieved. When Tang Cheng didn't hold a gun, he was as harmless as the recruits in the garrison regiment, but when Tang Cheng held his two fast and slow machines, most of the veterans of the garrison regiment didn't dare to look at him, because the murderous aura exuded by the toughest of them couldn't compare to the murderous aura on Tang Cheng's body.

"Company commander, you have an idea, seeing that the little devil is about to attack, we can wait, but those injured brothers can't wait." It was the platoon commander who had just suggested retreating to speak. Tang Cheng also knew that he was right, the 1st Company had already suffered more than 80 casualties, and in addition to the more than 30 people who had been killed, less than half of the wounded soldiers had been transferred, and the remaining wounded were lying in the trenches at this time.

"Company commander, the little devil sent someone up again, but this time there are only a few people." The observation posts set up by Tang Cheng shouted, but the content of their shouts could no longer arouse Tang Cheng's nervousness, because he had adapted to the rhythm and tricks of the Japanese army. The third wave of Japanese soldiers appeared in the telescope with only seven soldiers, and like the first two groups of Japanese soldiers, they used their own corpses to dodge and move forward until they jumped into a crater that could hide their bodies.

"Company commander, let's withdraw, if we don't leave, we'll really have to fight with them." These squad and platoon leaders are all veterans, they naturally know what the 1st Company is facing now and what it is about to face, and without waiting for Tang Cheng to open his mouth to speak, they are shouting that they want to retreat into Beishan, but the decision that Tang Cheng wants to make is drowned out in their voices.

The Japanese machine guns suddenly fired, and the soldiers in the trenches subconsciously shrank their necks back into the trenches, and the squad leaders around Tang Cheng lowered their bodies in unison, but everyone was still waiting for Tang Cheng to make a decision. The telescopes showed the Japanese soldiers, one by one, following the passage they had dug with bayonets and sapper shovels into another crater, which was located less than 70 meters from the trenches of the 1st Company, which the Japanese had apparently used as a bridgehead to suppress the 1st Company.

"Snap" Tang Cheng aimed at the steel helmet that appeared on the edge of the crater and pulled the trigger of the rifle, as if a shot from Shenzhu hit the Japanese steel helmet very accurately and directly, and several 38 rifles that were about to stretch out of the crater shrank back together. The hit of this shot gave Tang Cheng great encouragement, and then he turned his head to look at Jiujin, "Now, right now, I want you to blow up that crater with a grenade, no matter how many grenades you throw, I just want you to throw the grenade into that crater." ”