It can be seen that Xie Bo's situation is not very good, although Xie Bo is an officer, but there are at least seven or eight beds in his ward, probably because of Tang Cheng's arrival, there is no one on those beds that are obviously filled with bits and pieces. Liu Goat had already taken Niu Wazi out of the ward, and there were only two people in the ward, Tang Cheng and Xie Bo, who seemed to be much empty, "Let Uncle Liu call you, there is something I want you to help with, since you have already dealt with the Japanese army, then I will say it directly." Xie Bo was the first to break the deadlock.

"You know, my company has been disabled, but the division headquarters and the regiment mean to rebuild our second company, and the second company will be directly under the command of the division headquarters in the future." Speaking of rebuilding the Second Company, Xie Bo's already extremely haggard face had a hint of brilliance, "But my current situation is already like this, and the rebuilding of the Second Company may not be able to catch up, so I recommended a platoon commander Liu Goat to the division headquarters to replace me as the company commander, and a dozen brothers who were slightly injured will return to the newly built Second Company as platoon commanders and non-commissioned officers." ”

"But what does all this have to do with me?" Xie Bo babbled a lot, but Tang Cheng was a little confused, he didn't know what these things had to do with him, and what Xie Bo meant by helping.

"Liu Goat is a veteran of the regiment, if it weren't for his character, he might have been a company commander a long time ago, and the appointment of him to replace me was carried down by the regiment commander, if something happened to Liu Goat during his tenure as company commander, he would not be able to step down as a regiment commander." Xie Bo's speed of speech slowed down, and there was a sense of loneliness in his expression, "Liu Goat is impulsive, and he has a very heavy habit in the rivers and lakes, so he won't treat things calmly, so I'm afraid that handing over the newly built Second Company to him will hurt him, but now I can't find a more suitable person to take over the Second Company except him." ”

"So I asked Liu Goat to come to you," Xie Bo waved his hand to signal Tang Cheng not to interrupt him, "Although you are only 19 years old this year, you are the only one I know who can read and write Japanese, and you are very good at observing details and making correct analysis. Sooner or later, a full-scale war between China and Japan will break out, and Liu Goat lacks a person like you to help him. ”

Seeing that Tang Cheng didn't seem to understand what he meant, Xie Bo smiled, "I was just a student when I was your age, and I only knew that Lu Dao read and studied in school, but when the Battle of Shanghai broke out, many of our classmates in our school joined the army, and I was naturally one of them." But at that time, I didn't have the courage to fight with the Japanese army as you did, we were just incorporated into the labor army, helping the army transport ammunition and carry the wounded, and then I didn't know what was going on, I entered the Whampoa Military Academy in a daze, and then I became the company commander of the second company. ”

Xie Bo's narration surprised Tang Cheng, he never thought that Xie Bo was actually from Shanghai, and he was also a student of the same school as Xiao Yalan. "Do you regret doing this now? If you didn't join the military, you might not be like this. Ignoring Xie Bo's status as an officer, Tang Cheng told the truth, if it weren't for Xie Bo joining the army, maybe he would still be alive and well.

"Do you regret it?" Xie Bo frowned and thought for a while before he said slowly, "There is a point of regret, I regret that I am not a battalion commander or a regiment commander, if I can command more troops, maybe we will have a better chance of winning against the Japanese army, so that my brothers will have fewer casualties." I regret that I may never be able to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy in the future, if my arm is still good, even if I lose an eye, I can still kill the devil, but unfortunately I only have one left hand and can only throw grenades, and I can't shoot a gun. ”

"If you can survive the battle for two days and two nights, it shows that you are also a lucky person, and fighting a war depends not only on tactics and tactics, but also on luck and experience." Xie Bo took out a black notebook from under the pillow with his remaining left hand and handed it to Tang Cheng, "This is some of the command experience recorded since I commanded the second company, after each battle, I will gather the officers in the company to sum up the experience, there are some experience in saving life on the battlefield, I think you should be able to use it in the future." ”

No matter how Tang Cheng refused, Xie Bo still stubbornly asked Tang Cheng to put away the notebook, "The life-saving things in here are all the experience summed up by veterans like Liu Goat, and battlefield newcomers like you need it the most." Don't worry, whether you agree to help Liu Goat or not, this notebook of mine is going to be given to you, and we have a fate to sleep. Xie Bo kept saying that he would not force Tang Cheng to help Liu Goat, but he kept hinting at Tang Cheng in and out of his words, which made Tang Cheng not know what to say for a while.

"This pistol has been with me for three years, and it is an authentic German 20-round shell gun, which is much better than the one you snatched from the Japanese officer. Anyway, it's useless for me to keep it, so I'll just give it to you together, just leave it as a thought, and make the best use of it. What Xie Bo took out this time was an 8 percent new shell gun and two 20-round magazines, Tang Cheng may still be a little difficult to accept Xie Bo's notebook, but he liked Xie Bo's pistol at once.

The roasted blue on the body of the barge gun is still there, indicating that Xie Bo has maintained this gun very well, and Tang Cheng unconsciously turned the barge gun handed over by Xie Bo, and disassembled the entire barge gun into a pile of parts in front of Xie Bo. Although Tang Cheng's method of dismantling the gun was still a little jerky, it made Xie Bo look very hot, he himself used to disassemble and wipe this shell gun at the airport, but unfortunately now he has one less hand, let alone dismantling this pistol, even if he wants to carefully wipe it, it may be difficult.

"Alright, it's getting late, I'll send you back first, but I hope you'll consider what I'm saying, I'm sure you understand." Quietly watching Tang Cheng reassemble the barge gun, Xie Bo refused Tang Cheng to return the gun to him, and called Liu Goat and asked him to arrange for someone to send the confused Tang Cheng back to the church.

On the way back to the church, Tang Cheng kept his head down, he was still thinking about what Xie Bo said, Xie Bo said that it was a matter of time before the Japanese army attacked Shanghai on a large scale, and the Nationalist Government sent troops from all over the country to rush to the Shanghai battlefield, but most of the troops were very poorly armed and equipped, just like those Sichuan troops in a ward in the hospital in Tang Cheng, they were actually wearing straw sandals to fight with the Japanese army, not to mention that they did not have heavy weapons, and even the weapons they were using were thrown on the ground and even the bandits would not pick up the rags.

Tang Cheng had exchanged fire with the Japanese army, and had seen the Japanese army's strong firepower and accurate shooting level, if the Nationalist troops participating in the Battle of Shanghai were really like Xie Bo said, this battle with the Japanese army would probably really be lost. Robert is dead, Mike can't be found, and now Shanghai is about to be lost again, Tang Cheng doesn't know where else he can go, is he really going to the United States, to a place he is not familiar with?

"I know that you must have experienced something that I don't know, a person who has only been on the battlefield for two days will not and dare not attack 5 Japanese soldiers alone." When Xie Bo said this, there were only two people in the ward, him and Tang Cheng. "You are a natural soldier, and I originally thought that I would come to you when the war in Shanghai was over, and you can speak Japanese and understand Japanese, which is what we need. But now the battle has become like this, since you said that you already have an American passport, if you are not willing to help Liu Goat, then it is better to leave quickly, Shanghai is not a place to stay for a long time. ”

It was Niu Wazi and another guy who hung his arms to send Tang Cheng to the church, compared with Niu Wazi's chatter, the guy called Grinder was really like a stone grinder who didn't say a word. "Let me tell you, our company commander said, don't look at our company has been wiped out, as long as the recruits assigned from above arrive, our company will be the best company in the entire 88th Division." Niu Wazi remembered what Liu Goat had explained when he was leaving, so he seemed to be familiar with Tang Cheng's shoulders and vigorously advocated the many advantages of their company, but Tang Cheng was as silent as the miller.

Sending Tang Cheng to the door of the church, the mill, who had not spoken, took out a note and handed it to Tang Cheng, "The company commander looks up to you very much, I believe in the company commander's eyes, if you want to come to us, someone will pick you up if you call this number." Holding the note handed over by the mill, Tang Cheng, who was standing at the door of the church, looked at the military vehicle in the distance with a gloomy face, when he was in the ward, Tang Cheng almost told Xie Bo about his assassination of the Japanese, he could see that Xie Bo still wanted to pull him into the national army, and he could also see that Xie Bo was sincerely persuading him to leave Shanghai.

We should go in the future, Tang Cheng has no bottom in his heart, but Shanghai, which is now full of war, is indeed not a place to stay in the future, Xie Bo is right, Shanghai can't stay, and only if you leave can you live. Tang Cheng, who returned to his room, found the iron box left by Robert from under the bed, the barge gun obtained from the Japanese army was in the box, and there were three bullets in the gun, which was the last bullet left in Tang Cheng. With the experience of killing the Japanese army in close quarters, this shell gun is no longer just a pistol for Tang Cheng.

Compared with the 20 rings that Xie Bo gave him, Tang Cheng's gun looked much uglier, but Tang Cheng would not have discarded it, because if it hadn't been for it, Tang Cheng might have been buried with Emma and the others. Tang Cheng, who put both pistols under his pillow and turned over to bed, couldn't sleep for a long time, he was still thinking about what Xie Bo said to him tonight, he knew that it was cruel for him to reject Xie Bo, but he really didn't have much confidence in joining the army to fight, and he didn't want to be like Xie Bo.