Chapter 41: The Crisis Comes

Ma Tou, who was already the squad leader, took more than a dozen soldiers under his command to return along the mountain road to the direction of the county under the big sun, and it was Tang Cheng's new order to conduct a daily search around the county seat, and almost half of the troops of the second company were placed outside the city by Tang Cheng, and Ma Tou's squad was just another search force. With the help of the people, Tang Cheng dug trenches much faster, but he also knew that it was impossible for Lu Dao to withstand the Japanese attack by relying on the trenches alone, so he dispatched soldiers to conduct a non-stop search around the county seat.

Being able to discover the traces of the Japanese army in advance won not only time for the second company, but also the opportunity for the second company to meet the Japanese army. The telegram of the 88th Division deduced that the size of this group of Japanese troops was at the squadron level, but Tang Cheng did not dare to be careless, and he was ready to meet the attack of the Japanese brigade level. Experience tells Tang Cheng not to have illusions about the war, no matter whether the attacking Japanese army is a squadron or a brigade, Macheng is bound to usher in a bloody battle, and make all the necessary preparations, which will definitely not be in vain.

The 88th Division handed over to Tangcheng to enlist was to hold Macheng until reinforcements arrived, but almost all the troops of the 71st Army were concentrated on the front line of Fujin Mountain, and it was impossible to send troops to support Macheng now. As far as the current situation is concerned, Tang Cheng can only rely on themselves, relying on the Macheng garrison regiment in the hands of Erlian and Sun Liansheng. Tangcheng's second company only had 140 people, and Sun Liansheng not only had a 500-man Macheng garrison regiment in his hands, but he also brought a full-strength infantry company from the 71st Army, which was all the existing strength of Macheng.

"Squad leader, is our little company commander really that powerful? You're bragging, I don't believe a half-grown kid can have much ability. Yu Shuigen was talking to Matou who was walking at the end of the team, and he always heard the squad leader Matou say how powerful Tang Cheng was, and Yu Shuigen's ears were calloused. Yu Shuigen is the first batch of national army routs to enter Macheng, Yu Shui, who was originally captured as a soldier, is a bitter person who has been in the army for half a year, and the former bitter Ha Luha has now become a slick soldier, but he is somewhat convinced by a boss like Matou, but he doesn't believe that Tangcheng can be as powerful as Matou said.

Ma Tou glanced at Yu Shuigen squinted, and scolded with a casual smile, "This is just to say this in front of me, don't ask around, our company commander doesn't look very old, but he is also a veteran, and he has fought in Shanghai and Nanjing." Ma Tou didn't lower his voice like Yu Shuigen, and his voice was already loud, which led the guys who walked in front to turn around, and everyone was waiting for Ma Tou to continue.

"Since you all want to hear it, then I'll tell you, it just so happens that Lao Tzu is also tired of walking, find a place to sit down and smoke a cigarette before leaving." Yu Shuigen was very dog-legged and cleared a place to sit on the ground for Ma Tou, and next to him there was the clever guy who had already struck a match for Ma Tou. Spit out a puff of smoke, Ma Tou pretended to look around the crowd profoundly, and then continued, "Our little company commander was originally a foreign student in Shanghai, and before entering the second company, he fought with a national army unit and the Japanese army, and the entire company of that national army was killed by the Japanese army, and only our company commander survived. ”

"Later, our company commander recovered from his injuries in the hospital, and then followed the old company commander Liu Goat to retreat to Suzhou for a temporary rest, and then Shanghai was lost, and the company commander followed the old company commander to Nanjing to garrison Guanghuamen. When the city was broken, the three of them tied a wooden platoon and crossed the river all the way to Mengcheng, and it was in Mengcheng that the small company commander was appointed as a second lieutenant officer by the fifth theater. ”

"My good man, this person's life is really big enough, and even Nanjing City didn't trap him." A guy who had never fought the Battle of Nanjing opened his mouth widely, almost all the troops in the national army who could be platooned had participated in the Battle of Nanjing, and I heard that after that battle, many units of the national army were beaten into empty shelves. Tang Cheng was able to rush out of Nanjing City at a young age, which shows that this little company commander is indeed extraordinary.

"Bullshit, it's not good to fight Lao Tzu, but if you talk about the ability to escape, I don't think there are many people who are better than Lao Tzu." Yu Shuigen patted his chest vigorously, "I think our little company commander may be a person who can only flee for his life, otherwise so many brothers in the national army have been thrown in Nanjing City, but he ran out of the city as a hairy child, maybe he would have run out of the city when the Japanese army attacked the city." ”

"Snap" Yu Shuigen's words made Ma Tou angry, raised his foot, and kicked Yu Shuigen, who was about to sit down, "Yu Shuigen, you fucking want to die, Company Commander Tang's military exploits are real, and they have been carefully checked when the 88th Division came last time." It's okay if you fucking like to fart, but don't say in front of Lao Tzu, don't drag us if you fucking want to die. ”

Matou's anger came so suddenly that Yu Shuigen and a dozen of them didn't expect such a situation at all. "Squad leader, that's what I said, you see what kind of anger you're still having, oops, my ass." Yu Shuigen, who was kicked by Ma Tou, squeezed out an ugly smile and laughed carefully with Ma Tou, he didn't dare to stare at Ma Tou.

"You know what a fart, kicking you is for your good, be careful that trouble comes out of your mouth." Half of the dozen or so people in his class are acquaintances who have been in the county with him, especially Yu Shuigen, who has just been kicked by himself. Ma Tou dared to say this, obviously he had already regarded these guys as his own people, and he was not afraid that someone would sue him for his black state. "The four guys who have been following Company Commander Tang, don't look at those guys who don't show mountains and waters, they are all famous bandits around Mengcheng, if they hear you say bad things about the little company commander behind your back, Xiaoxin, the guy you eat will move."

Ma Tou's words made Yu Shuigen, who wanted to continue laughing and talking, shut his mouth, and the company commander Tang Cheng was always followed by four guys who didn't like to laugh, which was nothing new in the second company, but those four guys were actually bandits, and what came out of Ma Tou's mouth still made Yu Shuigen and his gang honest. "Why do you think those bandits always follow the little company commander, not for anything else, because those bandits were all caught by our little company commander and others, and those four bandits are called repaying kindness."

"I heard what the stone said, when our small company commander was in Mengcheng, he took a reinforced company of 200 people to sweep through more than a dozen bandits around Mengcheng, and the reinforcement company he brought at that time was just some militia members, and the weapons used were much worse than ours now." Ma Tou's words made Yu Shuigen and them open their mouths widely, and they could sweep away more than a dozen bandits with only some militia groups that looked like ordinary people, which really couldn't be done if they didn't have some real skills.

"It's just some bandits, what's that, squad leader, didn't you stab you to death with a bayonet in Shanghai, that devil soldier?" Seeing that Ma Tou always raised the prestige of others to extinguish his own prestige, Yu Shuigen, who was used to talking back to others, forgot the lesson just now, and muttered very dissatisfiedly, causing the soldiers who came over to laugh, this will Yu Shuigen does not look like a soldier of the national army who has fought with the Japanese army, to the point of being a child who has been robbed of candy by adults.

"I'm a ball." Zhou Yan's pockmarked head didn't raise his head and said, "Our little company commander is terrible when he kills devils, there are no less than 30 devil soldiers killed by himself in Nanjing City alone, and he also followed the death squad to blow up the two iron-hulled tanks of the little devils in Guanghua Gate." "More than thirty devil soldiers? And blew up two iron-hulled sub-tanks? Yu Shuigen opened his mouth and stammered, and he couldn't even speak. If it is not unusual to kill more than 30 Japanese soldiers, but if you can survive by blowing up two Japanese tanks, there seems to be no such fierce man in the national army, and this fierce man will actually be the guy in Tang Cheng who looks just a hairy child.

Ma Tou raised his head and continued: "That's nothing, when our small company commander was in Mengcheng to meet the devil soldiers, but he took his militia company to kill a Japanese squadron, before coming to Macheng, he and a group of 173 divisions of the rout killed a Japanese squadron in the middle of the road, I heard the stone say, the devil soldiers who died under our company commander were not a hundred but eighty. ”

"What, a hundred devil soldiers?" Yu Shuigen and the others were completely stupid.

Ma Tou, who threw the cigarette butt at his feet, said with a smile: "Now I know why those bandits are protecting our little company commander, that is, following our little company commander can kill devils and win the battle." Lao Tzu also wants to kill the devil soldiers and win the battle, so I joined the second company, you must keep in mind in the future, don't say bad things about the little company commander behind your back, be careful that Lao Tzu cleans you up. ”

Zhang Youquan Why are they behind their backs, Brother Shen Xing is called Brother Shen Xing 205, just because of this. ”

"Zhilu said, I promise not to speak ill of our little company commander behind my back in the future." Yu Shuigen seemed to suddenly realize that he was smiling at Matou, and then he was stunned again, and asked blankly, "What kind of sound is this?" Squad leader, did you hear that?"

"What's the sound?" Seeing that Yu Shuigen didn't seem to be joking, Matou listened carefully for a while, and then lay on the ground with his ears tightly on the ground. It doesn't mean that Shuigen also fell on the ground in the same way, and the pockmarked face suddenly changed, because he also heard the sound of horses' hooves like thunder.

Ma Tou climbed up a high slope in front of him with his hands and feet, and saw that a row of small black dots had appeared on the turquoise field, and in just a moment, those small black dots were magnified several times. Matou's pupils shrank suddenly, and what appeared in his sight would definitely not be the caravan caravan, the only explanation was the cavalry, and it was likely to be the cavalry of the Japanese army. "Go back to the city to report the news" Ma Tou didn't have any extra words, just beckoned Yu Shuigen and they ran with all their strength in the direction of the county seat, and between the heaven and earth behind them, there was only the rumbling sound of horses' hooves knocking on the ground.