It was finally dark, and the Japanese army finally stopped attacking, Liu Goat came to the position of the second company with a full body of exhaustion, and the original position of more than 20 people sat on Tangcheng and a few of them, and Liu Goat's eyes were foggy. Zhou Fuzheng was bragging to the veterans of a battalion beside him, and when he saw Liu Goat coming, he hurriedly got up and asked Liu Goat: "Camp, the Japanese army has withdrawn, and when it didn't say anything, replenish the source of troops for our second company?" ”

snatched the cigarette that Zhou Fu held in his hand, Liu Goat replied with some weakness, "Lao Tzu hasn't returned to the city either, where do you know how the arrangements will be made on the road, hold the position well, and look at that kid by the way." Zhou Fu followed Liu Goat's line of sight to look at a sandbag bunker, and Tang Cheng, who was leaning behind the sandbag, was disassembling his shell gun on a spread rag, as if he had not seen Liu Goat's arrival.

Secretly laughing to himself, Zhou Fu then asked, "The above doesn't say that we will send some reinforcements to help, the second company has been beaten like this, and the first battalion is probably not having a good time, what about the casualties?" What about the loss of equipment? Zhou Fu asked this just to change the topic, he could see the anger hidden in Liu Goat's eyes, if he didn't find a topic that could be talked about, I was afraid that Liu Goat would go to the Second Regiment Headquarters in the city to make a fuss.

If you change to an officer of another department, the first question after repelling the Japanese army must be to ask how many devils your troops have killed and how much equipment they have captured, because this directly determines the merits of the war. However, Liu Goat was not concerned about the number of kills, but about the casualties of his officers and soldiers, and Liu Goat was obviously more concerned about the casualties of his brothers than the number of enemies killed and captured. Although Liu Goat was just a temporary helper appointed by Xie Chengrui, he couldn't watch the first battalion being crippled and wiped out, and the casualty figures of the first battalion had long been deeply imprinted in his mind.

Liu Goat threw the cigarette butt at his feet and sighed, "More than fifty people died, nine were seriously injured, and it is estimated that they will not be saved, and the rest of the guys have also suffered minor injuries of varying degrees, and it is estimated that it is not a big problem to bandage them." After a pause, Liu Shanyang said again, "The two heavy machine guns and the Si Ting imitation Czech light machine gun allocated to the first battalion by the regiment headquarters have all been scrapped, and Ma Han is leading people to dismantle those machine guns to see if they can fight a light machine gun." ”

Facing Zhou Fu's inquiring eyes, Liu Goat sighed again, "No problem, the little devil is ruthless this time, rushing forward wave after wave without stopping, those machine guns can't stop if they want to, they can only keep strafing." Liu Goat said with a little guilt, "The barrels of those machine guns are burned red, and they can't be cold when they pee on them, and they are all fucking blown up after the worst of the time, but fortunately the little devils are retreating, if they attack again, the position of the first battalion will have already returned to the little devils." ”

After that, Liu Goat sighed again, and said gloomily: "Originally, I thought that this battle was a good opportunity, maybe our second company could come back to life and refill the source of troops and return to the 88th Division, but now it seems to be difficult, whether we can hold this place is enough, if the above does not order us to withdraw to the city, maybe tomorrow we will all be finished." Looking at the little fire on the position, Liu Goat leaned on the trench and smoked a cigarette, and then staggered to the position of the first battalion.

The regimental headquarters of the 2nd Regiment was set up in a residential house in Guanghua Gate to the north, and a door had been pulled out of the partition wall in front of the small courtyard and the next courtyard, so that once the regimental headquarters was shelled or attacked by the Japanese army, the people of the headquarters could move to other places through this newly opened gate to avoid bombing. When Liu Goat, who received the order, walked into the regimental headquarters of the Second Regiment non-stop, the regiment commander Xie Chengrui had just finished talking to the teaching team on the phone, and he didn't know what the teaching corps had said to Xie Chengrui on the phone, and after hanging up the phone, Xie Chengrui's expression was very serious, and he frowned and looked at the map without saying a word, until Liu Goat walked into the regiment headquarters and reported loudly, and Xie Chengrui, who was concentrated, was awakened.

Seeing the embarrassed Liu Goat standing in front of him, Xie Chengrui's expression eased a little and said, "You're here?" I heard that your first battalion is playing well today, how is the situation in the forward position now? I have already returned to you the three companies that were taken from your first battalion, how long do you estimate that the first battalion can hold its position? ”

Liu Goat took two steps forward and walked to Xie Chengrui's side and stood still, and asked in a low voice: "Tuanzao, the current situation of the first battalion is not optimistic?" The casualties of the brothers were too great, and the losses of our heavy weapons and equipment were not small, and if the Japanese army continued to attack the position of the first battalion, I am afraid that it would not be able to hold it for even an hour. Liu Goat stopped talking and looked at Xie Chengrui's expression for a while, and when he saw that there was nothing unusual, he continued, "I want to apply for the allocation of some weapons and ammunition to the first battalion, there are enough weapons and ammunition, I will guard it for as long as you want me to defend." ”

Xie Chengrui didn't seem to hear Liu Goat's application for weapons and ammunition, but nodded solemnly, and said in a deep voice: "The current battle situation is indeed not optimistic, the 51st Division has been fighting with the Japanese army in Chunhua Town, although the 51st Division was forced to recapture Chunhua Town from above, but their defense line is full of loopholes, and the Japanese troops attacking your battalion's position are leaking from their defense line." It's just that the forward battalion will be like this, if Chunhua Town is really lost, Guanghuamen will face tens of thousands of Japanese troops, and your first battalion must defend the forward position for me. ”

Seeing that Xie Chengrui only said some things, but never mentioned the matter of allocating weapons and ammunition to the first battalion, Liu Goat couldn't help but feel a little anxious and wanted to mention the matter of applying for ammunition again, but was stopped by Xie Chengrui's cough and stopped him from wanting to speak, especially the orderly who brought Chinese medicine soup for Xie Chengrui glared at Liu Goat viciously, as if Xie Chengrui's cough was immediately related to Liu Goat's appearance.

Xie Chengrui, who had been coughing for a while, poured all the warm Chinese medicine soup into his stomach, and then said with a wry smile, "I'm **sick, and I haven't been cured." Waving his hand and signaling to follow his orderly soldiers out of the army, Xie Chengrui, who looked better with a better face, said slowly, "I know your intentions, but the family of the second regiment has almost been hollowed out, and the reserves are reserved for the last use, and the remaining ammunition is also to be left for the reserves, so you don't even want to take a hair from me today." ”

"But I still want to praise you, your battalion fought well today, your people have already reported the number of enemy killings, I really didn't expect you to kill more than 50 devils, the Zhonghua Gate side lost almost 200 hundred people, but only killed and wounded more than 100 Japanese soldiers. When this battle is over, I will give you credit, and by the way, I will take off the word acting on your head, and you will be the major battalion commander of our teaching corps in the future. ”

Liu Goat didn't expect to ask for merit, but since Xie Chengrui had already refused to replenish weapons and ammunition, he took the boat and said, "Tuanzao, can you send a report to Commander-in-Chief Tang, please ask for meritorious awards, commendations, medals or something, forget about our battalion, don't want those things, but you can give some pensions to the fallen soldiers and injured brothers, right?" Let the brother not die before he can see the first hot money, and he can't watch the brother who died in battle go to the underworld and be a poor ghost who is a cow and a horse. ”

Since the founding of the Nationalist Government, military expenditures have remained high, and after the full-scale outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, military expenditures have increased several times. If they are unable to issue pensions, they can only send an official letter and ask the families of the officers and soldiers who have died in battle to ask the local government for money with this official letter stamped with the seal of the Ministry of Military Affairs. Therefore, the so-called pensions issued by the government are actually all blank slips that cannot be cashed.

Liu Goat was born in the 88th Division, the 88th Division is the elite of the national army, and it is also one of the few national army units that do not owe salaries, but the second company is now temporarily under the command of the teaching team, and the pension problem of the dead in the war must also be solved by the teaching team. Of course, Xie Chengrui knew that the families of the officers and soldiers who died in battle could not receive pensions at all with official letters, but now was a time of national crisis, and he was helpless about this matter, and sighed, "Then I will try my best, but you don't have too much hope, and even if Commander-in-Chief Tang agrees, I am afraid that the amount of money will not be too much." ”

"It's better to have a little than nothing." Liu Goat pretended to sigh sadly and said, "To be honest, it is really not easy for the brothers, they abandoned their wives and children, left their parents and parents, and handed over their lives to the party-state, the party-state doesn't care about them, but those of us who are governors can't ignore it, right?" Besides, the first battalion has been beaten like that now, and if they don't even pay out pensions on the road, I'm afraid it will be a problem for the morale and morale of the army. ”

Xie Chengrui, who has been in the line of the national army, can know what is going on with the troubles, even if he has heard other people talk about them, Xie Chengrui will regard the troubles as a trivial matter that is not worth mentioning. But before Liu Goat entered the 88th Division, he had been mixed in with the local troops, and once those troops who were regarded as second-rate and third-rate by his descendants made a fuss, the scene was no less than a grand gathering. If the 1st Battalion had learned that there was no hope of relief when they were engaged with the Japanese army, Liu had no doubt that those guys would abandon their positions and flee.

After talking to Xie Chengrui about some other things in the regiment headquarters, Liu Goat said goodbye and left, and Xie Chengrui, who was ashamed, still ordered the quartermaster to issue a light machine gun, two boxes of ammunition and two boxes of grenades to the first battalion, although this bit of weapons and ammunition was like a drop in the bucket for the first battalion, but it was also a placation for the first battalion. "Tell the brothers to be more attentive to themselves, this battle can be fought, don't lose your life early." After moving half a box of grenades to the second company, Liu Goat threw another sentence to Zhou Fu, and then quietly left.