Chapter 39: Change of Guard

"Dog, then they're not going to be a big show?" Liuzi spat and said.

Qin Chuan said: "The country has fallen to this, they are really just a group of theater watchers!" I don't want them to watch the show here, let's beat away the little devils, and we have to drive them away! With that, Qin Chuan put away the binoculars.

They will take a short rest in the abandoned houses on the north bank of the Suzhou Creek, and at dawn tomorrow, they will take advantage of the gap in Japanese artillery fire to complete the task of changing defenses with the two divisions of the Sichuan Army.

During the continuous operation for many days, seven or eight divisions have been stationed in this area of Jing'an. Each of them lasts less than a few days, and more than half of them are killed or wounded.

In this way, they have lost tens of thousands of lives in the Jing'an area.

In the private houses, the veterans have long been accustomed to the roar of Japanese artillery fire and are sleeping soundly. And the recruits all opened their eyes wide one by one, looking out of the window at the war zone with the glittering light of artillery fire.

The thought that tomorrow they would have to fight the Japanese army in such a place made them unable to sleep. Some are because of the blood gushing, and some are nervous.

Nameless is also a recruit, but she is an exception.

At this time, Nameless was already like a kitten, curled up in the corner and fell asleep. The sound of gunfire outside does not affect her, and the upcoming battle will not affect her.

Qin Chuan envied Nameless, because in his opinion, Nameless did not seem to be sensitive to changes in the external environment. Anything around her that came or left didn't seem to have any effect on her.

Psychologically speaking, the nameless is considered to have a slight autism. She will lock herself up in a world where she is alone when necessary, and no changes in the outside world can affect her.

"Nameless, if I die tomorrow, will you be sad?" Qin Chuan once asked Nameless on the road.

"Yes!" Nameless's answer at that time surprised Qin Chuan, and he once thought that getting along for many days had made Nameless and himself comrade-in-arms.

"Why?"

"Nobody gave me candy to eat." Nameless said at the time.

Qin Chuan's heart at that time was really cold.

But it was precisely because of Nameless's character that Qin Chuan felt that she was suitable to be a sniper. Because she will not be influenced by emotions in her judgment, she will only be like a machine, completing the tasks she is supposed to perform.

Not impulsive, not doing anything irrational, not even sad.

Opening the pocket watch that Lu Chengshuang gave him, Qin Chuan looked at the hour hand on it, and it happened to be three o'clock in the morning. In three hours, dawn would come, and he would need to face the fierceness of the battle.

The flares fired by the Japanese in the distance, as well as the explosions that constantly reflected the night sky red, seemed to lift the veil of dawn in advance.

"Assemble!! Gather!! ”

What woke them up was not the sound of Japanese artillery, but the whistle of the assembly. With a rush of whistles, Qin Chuan opened his eyes, and then began to gather his soldiers.

"Third battalion, you pass through this area to take over the defense of the Sichuan army in these neighborhoods. Second battalion, go this way! Han Xianyuan pointed to the map of Jing'an District, and loudly gave Qin Chuan and them a combat mission.

"Your mission is to stay the course here!" Han Xianyuan pointed to the map.

Sun Changhui, the commander of the second battalion, said: "Stick to the end, what do you mean? Didn't there be troops to change our guards? ”

Han Xianyuan snorted coldly and said: "We are the most elite troops, who do you let change our defenses!" This is the battle that will decide the survival of the country! If you don't beat it, Lao Tzu will fill it in, and when Lao Tzu finishes filling it, the brigade seat and the division seat will be filled in! Whoever the fuck is given to Lao Tzu as a seed! ”

Yang Ruifu, the commander of the first battalion, said: "If you are afraid of a ball, you can hit it!" The little devil wanted to occupy the damage, so he stepped over the corpses of one of our battalions. ”

Several battalion commanders of the 524th Regiment, except for Sun Changhui, were quite bloody. After all, it is the Imperial Forest Army of the Kuomintang, and when these officers were selected, they were all strictly evaluated.

Several other battalion commanders also echoed each other, and for a while, Sun Changhui, who was full of emotion, was quite embarrassed.

After receiving the combat mission, Yang Ruifu, the commander of the first battalion, took the initiative to walk to Qin Chuan's side and said: "Brother Qin, the defense areas of our two battalions are next to each other, and I hope to be able to help each other when the time comes!" ”

Qin Chuan said: "This is natural, our third battalion has encountered a situation here, go to Brother Yang to borrow troops, Brother Yang can't be stingy." ”

Yang Ruifu hugged Qin Chuan with a lot of anger and said, "Brother Qin, don't worry, our first battalion is not like the group of guys in the second battalion, we will leave our comrades and run away alone." ”

The first battalion is also a reinforced battalion, Qinchuan's reinforced battalion has more than 500 people, and Yang Ruifu's first battalion has 800 people, which is almost the same as the number of a compendium regiment. That's why Qin Chuan said what he said to borrow troops from him.

The reason why he was able to say such things was because Qin Chuan knew that Yang Ruifu was a person who was determined to serve the country. Later, the "Eight Hundred Heroes" in the Sixing Warehouse were not someone else's troops, but Yang Ruifu's battalion.

After a brief meeting, Qin Chuan returned to the third battalion and began to take the soldiers of the third battalion to advance from a bridge over the Suzhou Creek to the Jing'an area at dawn.

As soon as they crossed the Suzhou Creek and walked three blocks forward, Qin Chuan came to the neighborhood where their battalion needed to be stationed.

The neighborhood was originally a commercial area, but it was already in a mess by Japanese artillery and naval guns, and not a single intact building could be found.

Most of the soldiers of the Sichuan army were dressed in tatters, and their eyes were numb and dull, as if they had just escaped from hell.

They walked out of the defense area, and then walked along the dilapidated streets towards the place where Qin Chuan and they had come from.

This force will be temporarily refurbished in the rear, and then used as a supplement and reserve force, ready to be re-engaged in battle at any time.

Most of these Sichuan soldiers were wearing straw sandals, and they were covered in blood and mud, as if they had just been fished out of the muddy water.

They were in a mess, poorly equipped like Hanako. However, this group called Hanako resisted the attack of the Japanese Division A for a whole week in this area, until they had to withdraw from the battlefield after losing more than half of them.

The soldiers of the 88th Division paid attention to these evacuated Sichuan soldiers. But the soldiers of the Sichuan army just walked with their heads down, as if they wanted to seize the time to escape from this hell.

Qin Chuan's third battalion soon entered its own defense area.

They had a battalion of five hundred men, and there were three blocks to defend. Qinchuan divides the three blocks into blocks one to three. Nine companies defended Block 1, 10 companies defended Block 2, and the new Company defended Block 3. The guard platoon is used as a mobile force, ready to support the operation of the three blocks.