The situation of the battle has developed to this point, which has been extremely unfavorable to the side of the 30th Army, and the routs of the 30th Army, who have lost light and heavy machine guns, only have rifles and grenades in their hands, and such weapons are difficult to damage the Japanese tanks. In addition, the Japanese tankers who had experienced the sneak attack of the death squad were no longer stupidly rushing to the front, under the cover of the Japanese army, the remaining 6 Japanese tanks had been keeping a distance of 100 meters from the people of the 30th Army, and under the bombardment of the tank artillery, the 30th Army that escaped into the village suffered heavy casualties.

The sound of gunfire became more and more sparse until it disappeared, but all this was no longer important to Tang Cheng, who had already rushed out of the village, and the outcome of the battle was a foregone conclusion. Most of the strength of a battalion of the 30th Army's baggage team was annihilated by the Japanese, and the remaining soldiers either surrendered or fled into the fields around the village, and the Japanese army, which only paid the price of two tanks and a few soldiers, sealed the victory.

Tang Cheng, who followed the marks left by Niu Laogui and them, and rushed out of the village with his life, had become a mud monkey at this time, no place was clean from head to toe, and even the mud that had been crumbled was hung on his hair. In the brutal battlefield, appearance has taken a back seat, look at the officers and soldiers who retreated all the way from the front positions, all covered with mud, oil and even blood. For them, being able to survive is more important than anything else.

Niu Laogui They found a small river fork behind the village, although the riverside is not very high, but if people walk in the river with weeds on both sides, it is not easy to be found by the people on the riverbank. The exhausted Tang Cheng was supported by the old northeast and climbed onto the river bank, waiting for them was not Liu Shishi's happy smile, but the remains of more than a dozen soldiers of the second company scattered on the ground, thinking about the panic and despair of the journey, Tang Cheng suddenly felt like a world away.

"If you can cross the river alive, even if the brothers make money, their injuries are too serious, the ambulance soldiers were killed by the little devil's tank outside the village, we only have medicine but no one who can use it." Niu Laogui's words did not continue, but Tang Cheng already knew the meaning of his words. Throwing off Lao Dongbei's arm to support him, Tang Cheng, who was staggering, took a few steps forward and carefully looked at the faces of those dead soldiers, as if he wanted to remember the faces of these soldiers in his mind.

"The Japanese army won't chase them for the time being, so let's find a place to bury them." Tang Cheng, whose legs were weak, tried his best to stand up straight and not let himself fall, and slowly popped out a few words from his mouth. There are really not many people left in the second company, and more than a dozen have died now, Tang Cheng, who looked a little dazed, carefully counted the remaining people in the second company, and there were only 42 people left, including himself. Tang Cheng couldn't help but smile bitterly, his company commander had become a platoon commander again, and the tragedy after intercepting the Japanese army in the north mountain of Mengcheng was so similar to now.

Now digging a pit is too exhausting, Liu Shishi walked around, found a dry river fork to use as a tomb, the rest of the second company piled the corpses of those soldiers who died in battle in the river fork, covered the corpses with a layer of soil, and inserted a tree branch as a marker, a simple grave was completed. For the next direction of marching, Tang Cheng already had a plan in his heart, the front line of Xiaojieling was not far from here, and the second company, which was extremely short of ammunition, now needed to replenish ammunition and food, and going to the front line was the best choice.

According to the direction that those guys of the 30th Army said before, the second company walked out of Moyu about four or five miles along the terrain, and encountered a group of sentries on the flank position of the 30th Army. With tiredness and soreness, Tang Cheng and Niu Laogui sat on the ground outside a wooden and stone bunker, and after a while, Liu Shishi, who was still clean and tidy in military uniform, walked over with a half-sized basket in his left hand and a bucket in his right hand, and the basket contained many flatbreads cut into fist-sized sizes, and the wooden barrel contained vegetable soup.

Tang Cheng glanced at the vegetable soup in the bucket, as if there was nothing but a few vegetable leaves and a sporadic oil slick, although it was not yet noon, but for those who had been half-starved and half-fed for the past few days, had walked a long way in the morning, and were on the verge of death several times, eating a piece of flatbread soaked in hot soup was a great gift from heaven. "Eat, eat, and recover faster when you're full." Tang Cheng didn't have an appetite for himself, but he still cheered up and beckoned the people of the second company to come over for dinner.

Niu Laogui, who was already hungry and rumbling, didn't say a word, untied the lunch box with one hand, filled the soup and took a piece of cake, as if the loss of a few fingers of his left hand had no effect on him at all. But seeing Niu Laogui's move, Tang Cheng was so sad that he almost shed tears, he endured the great sadness that surged in his heart, took out the lunch box that had been knocked out of shape, silently served the soup and took the cake. Like Niu Laogui, he put the lunch box on his lap, broke the cake into small pieces and soaked them in the soup, and then swept them all into his stomach calmly, slowly and without leaving any residue as if he were enjoying a big meal.

The soldiers of the second company, who also had no appetite, saw that Tang Cheng and Niu Lao Gui had already started eating, so they all came over and more or less stuffed some food into their stomachs, and Lao Dongbei even ate three pieces of bread with a face. After eating and drinking, Tang Cheng looked up at the trench stretched out, because of the arrival of more than 40 people in the second company, the trench where some soldiers were originally stationed seemed a little crowded, and the officers and soldiers with blank faces were sitting or lying, some were closing their eyes to recuperate, and some were wiping their weapons.

After a morning of ups and downs, a moment of respite is also precious for Tang Cheng, learning from the appearance of those soldiers of the 30th Army in the trenches, Tang Cheng, who has recovered a little, leans his back against the earthen wall of the trench and closes his eyes to recuperate. After resting for about half an hour, Tang Cheng, who reopened his eyes, unloaded his shell gun and drum bag from his body, and put them beside him along with a bayonet and a grenade. It is Tang Cheng's habit to wipe the gun, as long as he has time, he will wipe and maintain his two shell guns carefully, yes, the ammunition of the second company has not yet come, Tang Chengxiang used this time to wipe his shell gun.

Seeing that Tang Cheng was about to wipe the gun, Niu Laogui took a barge gun from Tang Cheng's hand, because the lost finger of his left hand could no longer help, he used his left elbow to hold the barrel of the Mauser pistol. First, a bullet is withdrawn from the chamber, and then the bullet head is pressed against the bullet located on the magazine, and the magazine plate is pulled back, and the bullet plate and spring are removed. Then adjust the hammer and pull the hammer backwards while pushing the hammer upwards to block the iron base, and the whole pistol will be disintegrated into parts.

Even if it was operated with one hand, Niu Laogui's speed of dismantling the gun with one hand still amazed Tang Cheng, and the shell gun that Niu Laogui had removed was not gathered in front of him, and Tang Cheng handed over another shell gun. Just wiped and dismantled like this, Tang Cheng only took half the usual time to wipe and maintain the two shell guns, took the assembled shell gun from Niu Laogui's hand and inserted it back into the holster, Tang Cheng took out a cigarette and handed it to Niu Laogui.

When Niu Laogui started smoking, Tang Cheng took out the first-aid kit that the people of the 30th Army asked for, and began to change the gauze for Niu Laogui's left hand. Niu Laogui's injured left hand was still wrapped with the strip of cloth torn off by Tang Cheng, and the flesh and blood at the root of the finger had already been adhered to the strip of cloth, and if he wanted to change the gauze, he had to tear the strip of cloth off the wound. During the whole process, Niu Laogui only cared about smoking and still didn't say a word, and seeing the broken root of his finger again, Tang Cheng felt sullen and uncomfortable.

After taking care of the wound, Tang Cheng and Niu Laogui talked for a while, and then rested on the earthen wall. If you can bask in the sun until dusk, this may become the best time spent in Tang City in three days, but less than half an hour later, a terrible shout sounded, and the Japanese army came. The officer who closed his eyes in the trench led the soldiers to disperse into the trench with shouts and gestures, and Tang Cheng stretched out his hand to help Niu Lao Gui up, but he shook his hand away. Niu Laogui, who refused to admit defeat, stubbornly got up and strode forward with a flower mechanism, and Tang Cheng also followed closely behind him with a Mauser rifle.

After running for about 100 meters, they came to the northernmost end of the trench located on the entire flank position, which was not dug to a depth of more than two meters like the forward position they had stayed in before, and the trench wall was not reinforced with wooden strips, and the bottom of the trench was even covered with muddy water that did not reach the surface of their feet. found a place in the trench with less stagnant water, Niu Laogui completely ignored the muddy water on the ground and sat down. The taste of wet buttocks is not good, but the underwear is already sweat mixed with muddy water, and Tang Cheng and they don't care about "soaking" for a while.

This section of the trench was brought by Tang Cheng on his own initiative from the troops who were holding the flank position, and only in this way could the 2nd Company have a chance to get ammunition replenishment, otherwise they would have to run to the headquarters of the 30th Army in the main forward position to get the approval for replenishment of ammunition. "The ammunition is coming, the ammunition is coming." Lao Dongbei ran along the trench with a box of bullets and roared, followed by more than 20 people with shoulders and backs, which were enough for the 42 people of the second company to fight the Japanese army.

All the ammunition boxes were pried open, and Tang Cheng issued ammunition according to the ammunition ration of 150 rifle bullets and 5 grenades per person, and the remaining excess rifle bullets were all given by Tang Cheng to a few veterans in the second company with accurate marksmanship. Liu Shishi also dragged half a box of bullets, sat next to Niu Laogui and helped him fill the spare magazine, the shadow of the Japanese army had not yet appeared, but there was a tense atmosphere of armed warfare in the trenches.