Tang Cheng, who was stumbling and stumbling, rubbed his sour eyes that were smoked by gunpowder, and moved his gaze from the pockmarked face to the depths of the trench, where there were several pairs of feet arranged in a row, which were the feet of the brothers who died in the second company. At the end of the battle, as soon as the Japanese army retreated, Mazi led people to snatch back the 6 brothers who died in the first trench, and the death was great, these brothers lost their lives for the city of Nanjing, and the second company could not let them be in the wilderness again. Once the order to retreat was received, the second company would take them back to the city, and if conditions permitted, Liu Shanyang also wanted to ask the great monks in the monastery to recite scriptures for them.

I don't know what's wrong, Tang Cheng, who was rubbing his eyes, didn't put his hand down, there was already a layer of moisture in his eyes, he was afraid that after he put his hand down, he would be discovered by Liu Goat and Mazi. Tang Cheng wasn't afraid, he just looked at the few dead brothers lying in the trench, and his heart felt pantothenic acid for no reason. If it weren't for this war, young people of their age would have stayed with their families, or they would have been sitting in the school like themselves, but when the Japanese came, all this changed, Tang Cheng sighed secretly, got up and ran towards the pockmarked face.

Seeing Tang Cheng's cat waist rushing over, Mazi and Liu Goat, who were "sharing the spoils", were somewhat embarrassed, and Mazi Face, who had always been accustomed to looking at people's eyes, hurriedly picked up a pack of cigarettes that were still intact and a box of matches from the pockets of the Japanese soldiers and handed them over. "Don't be discovered by the Japanese army when you smoke" Liu Goat just said lightly, and took the pack of cigarettes and the bloodstained lighter from Mazi's hand in front of Tang Cheng, Tang Cheng and Mazi looked at Liu Goat's back in disbelief, when did Liu Goat become so picky? I even had to grab the cigarettes that pockmarked my face gave to Tang Cheng.

"Our company commander is a thoughtful person, don't have anything to provoke him" Qiu Jiangong, who has always been at odds with pockmarked faces, took out half a pack of cigarettes and threw them to Tang Cheng, which was something that other veterans did not expect. At first, the veterans thought that Qiu Jiangong was talking back, but after seeing Liu Goat give three cigarettes to each of the brothers who died in the war, the veterans' faces showed a hint of discoloration. The brothers who had been killed in the battle dragged them back and laid them out in the ditches, and then they were taken back to the city when they were given the order to retreat.

When the veterans got together to share the spoils, none of them looked at the few brothers who died in battle, in their consciousness, it was a matter of course to carry a gun and die on the battlefield, and what the dead still seemed to do, and the living were the most important. But when they watched Liu Goat light three cigarettes in front of the heads of each brother who died in battle, everyone's hearts suddenly sank, if they died here, would anyone be able to light three cigarettes for themselves, or take a closer look at themselves.

"I will, he will, you will" The veterans were silent in unison, making the pockmarked face who likes to be lively a little frustrated, silently looking at the back of Liu Goat squatting, and the pockmarked face suddenly muttered, but it attracted the angry eyes of the veterans. After smoking the brothers who died in the war, Liu Goat, who had been expressionless, called Qiu Jiangong to get together and didn't know what Lu Dao was discussing, Tang Cheng didn't have the heart to listen to what they were saying, just casually sat in the trench and smoked with his pockmarked face.

Here it is again, looking at the German-style steel helmet held in Qiu Jiangong's hand, Tang Cheng couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, this plane is going to draw a lot of life and death. Sure enough, Qiu Jiangong shook back and forth with his hands holding the clothed steel helmet, and the sound of beans rolling came from the steel helmet. "Our second company is running out of ammunition, so the company commander is thinking about sending a few brothers to touch it before dawn to get the ammunition back from the corpse. Tang Cheng had never hated Qiu Jiangong's voice like this, and he was so tired that he couldn't stuff his mouth with a rag.

Mazi They have already picked up all the corpses of Japanese soldiers in the first trench, what Qiu Jiangong said in his mouth must not be the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in the first trench, but the corpses of the Japanese soldiers who died outside the second company's defense line. Tang Cheng subconsciously glanced outside the position, under the cover of the firelight, the earthy yellow outside the position was still more than ten meters away from the trench, and the people who went out to search for ammunition would be exposed to the gunfire of the Japanese army on the opposite side if they were not careful.

The second company has thrown several rounds of grenades, and now there are only the Japanese army's oval grenades left on everyone's body, although the power of this grenade is not small, but it is not only far from the American long-handled grenade thrown, but also the Japanese grenade must be thrown on a hard object after the safety pull ring is opened, so the people of the second company do not like to use this kind of thing. But the grenade is still a grenade after all, and before the follow-up material supply can not be sent to the defense line, the only choice for the second company can only be to use these Japanese-style grenades that have been fouled by everyone, after all, in suppressing the Japanese charge, the role of grenades is unmatched.

In the distance, artillery fire rumbled, and from time to time orange-red flames rose in the smoke, and it seemed that all the light was obscured by the smoke and smoke in the sky. The gunfire on the positions outside the city has not stopped, and from time to time there will be wounded soldiers who are carried down by ambulances or their own comrades and sent back to the ambulance station in the city, many of them are still bleeding and the wounded soldiers seem to be hopeless, but everyone still will not leave him behind, and even the bodies of those soldiers and soldiers have been carried back by them.

Qiu Jiangong's lottery could not continue in the end, because the second company received an order from the regiment headquarters, and Xie Chengrui finally ordered the second company to be transferred back to the city to rest. Because it was the first unit to be withdrawn to the city to rest, and the casualties of the second company were not very large, Xie Chengrui only gave Liu Goat three hours to rest and recuperate. Xie Chengrui arranged for Liu Goat and them to set up an empty room next to a field medical station in Guanghua Gate, which could not only allow the people of the second company to rest and recuperate, but also facilitate them to heal their wounds nearby.

Tang Cheng, who had thick blood scabs on his military uniform, sat at the door in a daze, and the wounded soldiers who were scorched black by the war and groggy all over, the wounded soldiers who couldn't help but scream in pain and the white bones exposed in the rotten flesh, and the wounded soldiers who were helplessly given up by the military doctors, passed back and forth in front of his eyes.

The medical station was small, with two temporarily requisitioned shops used as operating rooms, and the wounded soldiers were lying in the open space outside the ambulance station, while some young people in the city of Nanjing helped to care for the wounded soldiers who were on the verge of death. Tang Cheng looked at the wounded soldiers waiting for treatment or waiting for death in the open space without blinking, Tang Cheng, who had seen too many deaths, should not be surprised, to be exact, he was numb to death. War is life and death, regardless of the nationality of the soldiers on both sides, the Japanese army and the soldiers killed in the national army are no different, Tang Cheng is just not so obsessed with death, from the time he killed the first Japanese soldier, it was destined to be like this.

If it weren't for the war, if it weren't for the fact that there was so much blood and death in front of our eyes, this would be a good place. Tang Cheng's gaze changed to a different position, and he was still staring blankly at the small tree in front of the store opposite, and the green that appeared in the dim morning made Tang Cheng's heart feel much more comfortable. Although the "Datongpu" temporarily built with bricks and wooden planks is harder, there is no need to watch out for the Japanese troops who may rush up at any time here, and it is much more comfortable here than the cold and hard trench.

"Second company, Regiment Commander Xie told your company commander to go to him immediately, immediately" Just as Tang Cheng was leaning on the doorpost and was about to fall asleep, the herald of the regiment headquarters came over panting and woke him up. The tone of the little herald was a little impatient, I don't know if it was because it took him too much time to find the second company, or because of something else, anyway, he looked at Tang Cheng with a trace of anger in his eyes, yes, just not angry. Tang Cheng didn't know what to say, but silently got up and carried his rifle and steel helmet, carefully walked past the wounded soldiers lying on the ground, and woke up Liu Goat who was lying in the crowd softly.

For the sake of Xie Chengrui's face when he transferred the second company back to the city to rest, Liu Goat, who was woken up by Tang Cheng, did not drag, but just wiped his face with a cloth towel soaked in water, and followed the little herald to Xie Chengrui's headquarters staggeringly. "You came just in time" There were not too many people in the headquarters of the second regiment, only the regiment commander Xie Chengrui himself was looking at the map. Xie Chengrui, who was calculating something on the map, saw that Liu Goat was coming, and hurriedly waved his hand and beckoned Liu Goat to sit down first.

"You fought well in the second company, and only a few people were killed or injured in three exchanges of fire with the Japanese army, which is not as serious as the dozens of casualties on other positions." After taking the whole pack of cigarettes thrown by Xie Chengrui, Liu Goat, who had not yet woken up from his sleep, was a little confused, he didn't know when he had such a face in Xie Chengrui, and Xie Chengrui would talk to him so politely.

"The commander of the first battalion of my second regiment was injured by a Japanese shell, and I want you to act as the commander of the first battalion, but the second company cannot be left without a command, so the commander of the second company who takes over is recommended by you, and from now on, your military rank will be raised to at least colonel" If Xie Chengrui's previous words made Liu Goat a little puzzled, then what he said now made Liu Goat stunned.

Xie Chengrui's words made Liu Goat extremely stunned, since he came to the teaching team, his relationship with Xie Chengrui was not very good, how could he recommend himself to take over the position of battalion commander of the teaching team. The stunned look on Xu is Liu Goat's face was too obvious, and Xie Chengrui said a little coldly, "In yesterday's battle, your second company was not the platoon with the largest casualties, but you were the position with the greatest results, and the second company only had the strength of two squads. The teaching corps doesn't need cowards, it needs people who can bring everyone to kill the Japanese army as much as possible, so you're the most suitable."