There was no sound on the position, everyone wrapped up in their cotton uniforms, curled up together to keep each other warm, and it didn't take much effort to hear someone snoring, these days everyone is eating and living in the trenches, eating is okay, but sleeping is not steady, including Liu Goat, has not slept a solid night. The night is getting deeper and deeper, accompanied by the snoring of the cook around him, Liu Goat, who is nesting in the machine gun nest, also slowly closes his eyes, and the first half of the night is responsible for guarding Niu Wazi and a veteran ruffian named Biaozi, so Liu Goat, as a company commander, is still very relieved.

It was another peaceful night, and the early cook boiled a big pot of porridge, and the viscous hot porridge went down to the stomach, driving away all the cold on everyone's body. Such an idle dry position, no one can stand it, but the rest of these people in the second company don't care, no hostile situation means peace, the world is peaceful, everyone's lives are temporarily saved. Saving a small life is better than anything else, only a fool will find a battle with the Japanese army, there are no fools in the second company, so everyone is quite satisfied with this so-called outpost.

Two meals a day, one thin and one dry, drink porridge in the morning, and in the evening is vegetable soup flatbread, only the sauce and pickles made by the cook himself are used to eat, and the food is really good, but it is too salty, and the person who has finished eating has to drink water vigorously, and the cook has to boil a large pot of water every day after dinner. The well-fed guys like to lie in the trench and bask in the sun and brag about the bulls, this outpost position is in an open field, as long as you look far away, there is a telescope in front of the position 2 miles that can't escape the guard post, so the people of the second company are very relieved to stay in the trench.

Tang Cheng had an experience in the second company, and he also knew the habits of these guys, but nine catties were different, he stayed in the second company to kill the Japanese soldiers and avenge the villagers in the village, but after putting on a military uniform, he was brought here to eat, sleep, sleep and eat every day, or just watch those guys brag and smoke every day, and fight like this, what years can he avenge the villagers in the village? Jiujin asked Tang Cheng secretly, but Tang Cheng just asked him to stay with those veterans for a long time, but he didn't tell him the answer.

Tang Cheng himself was also very confused, he was originally going to Sichuan, why did he stay in the second company in a daze, was it to promote himself to the rank of corporal? Tang Cheng, who was confused in his heart, took a good look at the battlefield notes left by Xie Bo these days, although he didn't find the answer he wanted, he had a different understanding of fighting. Tang Cheng has always believed that a good soldier must move forward bravely, like Robert said that the western cowboy is as happy as the enmity and hatred, but whether it is Xie Bo or Liu Goat, most of the impressions brought to Tang Cheng are helpless and numb.

Xie Bo and Liu Goat can definitely be regarded as qualified soldiers, Tang Cheng will never say that Liu Goat, who seems to be a bastard, is not a soldier, but they are indeed different from the image of soldiers in Tang Cheng's heart. In the battlefield notes left by Xie Bo, fighting a war is not a one-person business, war does not need lone heroes, and war requires the cooperation of soldiers. If there is a lone hero in a company who constantly puts himself in danger, then the company will be quickly annihilated by the enemy, because that lone hero will put the whole company in danger.

The most mentioned in Xie Bo's notes is cooperation, the coordination of various tactics, even if it is only a small analysis of combat examples, Xie Bo has also formulated several corresponding tactics, these tactics without exception require the tacit cooperation of the soldiers participating in the battle. Tang Cheng didn't know how to know so much Xie Bo for Lu Why would he fight the second company with only a dozen or so living people, he didn't ask when he was in Qiandeng Town, and now he wants to ask, but Xie Bo has already left.

Tang Cheng is very idle, he has read the notes left by Xie Bo several times, if he can understand it, he will figure it out by himself, and if he can't understand it, he will ask Liu Goat, if Liu Goat can't say it clearly, Tang Cheng will ask other veterans in the company, if he still doesn't understand, he will make a mark, and if he has the opportunity, he will find someone who understands and ask clearly. Time seemed to slip away unconsciously, and in the long wait and boredom and loneliness, the second company, with only a dozen people, had already ushered in December in this so-called outpost, and the most they had seen were the routed troops and the confused refugees who had withdrawn from the direction of Shanghai.

The routers filled the road from Chunhua Town to Nanjing, the officers could not find the soldiers under their command, and the soldiers could not find the officers who commanded them. "The dog's day teaching team kicked us out to guard this field, and if the Japanese spies were mixed in, it would be enough for the teaching team to drink a pot." The cynical Liu Goat squatted on the trench with a cigarette butt and watched the crowd on the highway from afar with a telescope.

"Fatty, how much food do we have? How much more cigarettes and alcohol are there? Liu Goat suddenly turned around and jumped into the trench, shouting at the top of his throat, and the cook who was called by Liu Goat came out of his cooking shed in a panic with his big horse spoon, this guy who had never really been on the battlefield didn't hear what Liu Goat just said, he thought it was the Japanese soldiers who came over.

"Boy, come with me, something good is coming." Although Liu Goat tried his best to get ammunition and weapons from the teaching corps, it was still not enough to add all the ammunition of the second company together. The second company has 2 light machine guns, but the bullets are only 2 boxes, and the grenades are flat to the point that there are only three on each person, fortunately, the teaching corps gave a lot of shell gun bullets, otherwise with 100 rifle bullets on everyone, the second company would have already become a Huazi unit, and Liu Shanyang received this kind of treatment when he was in the 88th Division.

When Liu Goat looked at the routs on the highway with a telescope just now, he found that some of the guys were carrying weapons, and some of the routs looked like they were full of bullets, if they were not filled with stones and sticks, then they could only be bullets. The teaching corps can say that the shortage of materials has reduced the ammunition supply to the second company, and then he uses food to get ammunition from the hands of the defeated soldiers, which is not a violation of military regulations, Liu Shanyang does not believe that those defeated soldiers are withdrawn from the battlefield with a full stomach.

Liu Chan took Tang Cheng and Nianzi's class, carrying bags containing flatbread on the road, and the passing refugees and routs just glanced at Liu Shantian and them a little strangely, but there was no intention to stop at their feet. "Brother, brother, take a step to speak." Liu Goat dragged out a major officer from the rout, and without waiting for the other party to stare, Liu Goat had already stuffed a cigarette into the officer's mouth, "We are teaching the outpost of the corps to be stationed at Guanghua Gate, we don't mean anything else, we just want to ask if there are many troops withdrawn from the back?" ”

How much friendship can a cigarette have, it still depends on the face of the piece of cake that Liu Goat took out, and the major of the rout who wanted to get angry devoured the piece of cake before he patiently chatted with Liu Goat. "Do any of your soldiers have machine guns? Machine gun bullets or grenades, we'll trade food for you. A whole pack of cigarettes was stuffed by Liu Goat to the major officer, who looked at Tang Cheng's Mauser rifle in surprise and the 20-round barge gun hanging diagonally from their waists, and a trace of inexplicable gleam flashed in their eyes.

A palm-sized two-finger-thick cake for a grenade or 20 Mauser rifle rounds, and a pack of cigarettes for a grenade or 20 rifle rounds, seemed to the rout to be a robbery. But everyone had no food in their stomachs, and it was not easy to survive until now when they were cold and hungry, but fortunately, the other party only asked for bullets and grenades, and did not ask for the weapons they had worked so hard to carry all the way. The routs with weapons on their bodies were separated by the major officer and the men, and after the terms of exchange were clarified, the second company itself negotiated with the routs.

The defeated soldiers did not dare to exchange their weapons with the second company for food, so the light machine gun that Liu Goat expected was still not landed, and the three bags of flatbread they carried were only exchanged for more than 50 grenades and a telescope, and the rest was less than 300 rifle rounds. "Company Commander Liu, you wait." The major of the rout who was the first to be accosted by Liu Goat stopped Liu Goat, who was about to leave, "Don't you still need a light machine gun?" I have not only light machine guns here, but also two grenadiers captured by my brothers from the little devils, do you want them? ”

Liu Goat's great joy meant that the cook's fortune was ruined, and after learning that it was only 7 or 8 miles away from the city of Nanjing, the major changed his mind and changed from changing food to asking for cigarettes and money. Liu Goat didn't ask for a reason, but just turned around and asked the mill for money, a light machine gun and these two grenadiers, he was determined to bring back the second company. The increase in firepower means that the chances of these brothers to survive will also be greatly increased, and Liu Goat does not want to lose his lives because of the pity of money.

To say that the richest person in the second company must be Tang Cheng, the gold bar he brought on his body has never had a chance to spend, after some bargaining, in front of Liu Goat and Mill, Tang Cheng took out a gold bar from the mezzanine of his belt and handed it to the major of the rout. The purchasing power of gold bars was much beyond Tang Cheng's imagination, and the major of the defeated army, who said that he would not take advantage of it, asked his soldiers to search the road for a while, and the second company's stock ammunition was more than 20 grenades and 300 Mauser rifle rounds.

"This is the gold bar that Robert left me, I was going to use it to live in Sichuan, but now I don't have it." Ignoring Liu Goat and Nianzi's surprised eyes, Tang Cheng grabbed two rifle bullets from his bag, and said with a smile that he couldn't suffer too much. Tang Cheng didn't know how much he could buy with that gold bar, he just couldn't pretend not to see the trace of longing in Liu Goat's eyes, what the weapon meant, Tang Cheng was the best person who had close contact with the Japanese army.