Half an hour later, Liu Cheng appeared in the trenches of the first line of defense.

Frightened young faces, broken and cold corpses, and moans of pain;

Liu Cheng couldn't bear it, but his expression was cold, and he didn't seem to feel anything about it.

Hao Dabao, who had a bandage on his head and an arm hanging from his head, walked up to Liu Cheng with a bitter face, and called out "battalion commander" in a low voice.

Liu Cheng responded lightly, raised his hand and patted Hao Dabao on the shoulder.

What can he say? What kind of words can calm the fears and physical pains of these young warriors?

He couldn't even show a hint of grief, because that would make the already fearful recruits even more afraid of war.

Iron and blood forge loyal souls, and refine elite soldiers in a hundred battles.

The independent battalion has grown to its current size, and it is simply unrealistic to have enough time to train those recruits.

The only way to make these warriors grow up quickly is to fight.

Nine dogs and one mastiff, the winner is king.

Liu Cheng, accompanied by Hao Dabao, walked along the trench to the position of the fourth company, and heard Tang Zhenhu's voice with a trembling voice from a distance:

"Remember, if you want to live, you can't just huddle in the trenches and wait for death! We only have one life, and the enemy has only one life, and only if you don't want to die with them, you will have a greater chance to live!

Everyone remembered to me that when shooting, you must let the gap in the crosshair, aim at the enemy's head or body, and try to kill with one shot!

We have limited ammunition, and if you shoot indiscriminately and waste bullets, you will inevitably die in the end! I won't talk nonsense, tomorrow morning as soon as the enemy will attack at dawn, everyone hurry up to eat, and then hurry up and take turns to sleep, and continue to fight with the enemy tomorrow morning!

Whether you live to see victory or not, at least while you still have to breathe, you must destroy as many enemies as possible! In this way, even if you die, you can still leave a chance for your comrades-in-arms to live!

Do you remember it?! ”

"Remember!" The remaining less than three hundred soldiers of the fourth company replied in unison.

After Tang Zhenhu finished speaking, he saw Liu Cheng and Hao Dabao standing not far away.

He hurriedly walked up to Liu Cheng and saluted:

"Report to the battalion commander! The four companies have all assembled, please instruct! ”

Tang Zhenhu originally wanted to report to Liu Cheng about the casualties of the Fourth Company, but when the words came to his lips, he temporarily changed them to such a sentence.

He already knew the situation of the cavalry company, and there were only more than 80 people left in the cavalry company of 500 people, and almost all of them were wounded, so what was the casualty of his fourth company?

Liu Cheng's gaze slowly swept over the faces of the soldiers of the Fourth Company, and finally returned to Tang Zhenhu:

"What about the instructor?"

When the attack of the 11th Regiment had just begun, Tian Liuwa rushed over to command the battle with Tang Zhenhu, but now he was not seen, and Liu Cheng couldn't help but be a little worried.

Tang Zhenhu hurriedly replied:

"The instructor went to the machine gun company, not here."

After listening to Tang Zhenhu's answer, Liu Cheng's already hung heart could be regarded as falling.

Tian Liuwa was brought out by him, she is down-to-earth and steady, and since he became an instructor, the ideological consciousness of the independent battalion has been significantly improved.

It's not that Liu Cheng doesn't know the importance of ideological work, but if he is asked to do ideological education work for everyone, he knows that he doesn't have that kind of ability.

More than half of Duan Jinghe's machine gun company was replenished to the defensive position, and it would definitely not work if there was no one in charge of command.

Gao Yuan went to the other side before the battle began, and was responsible for coordinating the defensive movement of the soldiers of the engineer company and part of the machine gun company, and only the soldiers of the fourth company and another part of the machine gun company were left on this side.

The Fourth Company was originally to defend on the front with the cavalry company, but Liu Cheng temporarily transferred them to the left side of the defense before the battle began.

Because he felt that the enemy would not attack from the front as soon as he came up, and that it was more likely to be on both sides.

After all, most people will think that the defender's frontal position must be the most defensive, and attacking from the flank is the way that most commanders will use.

It didn't take long for Tian Liuwa to come back with the people sent by Tang Zhenhu.

Seeing Liu Cheng, Tian Liuwa's face showed a hint of excitement:

"Battalion commander, we're really happy in this battle!"

Tian Liuwa's headless words stunned Liu Cheng.

In contrast, the number of casualties of the independent battalion was indeed much smaller than that of the enemy on the opposite side, but in proportion, it was comparable.

Liu Cheng never thought that he could win more with less, but he definitely didn't want to die together.

Such a casualty ratio was barely achieved on the premise of occupying the terrain advantage, and if the battle lasted for ten days and half a month, I am afraid that the independent battalion would be defeated.

First of all, they have limited ammunition, especially shells.

So far, more than half of the shells brought from the ammunition base and the ten mortars sent together have been consumed, and even if the ammunition consumption can be reduced after entering the positional battle, it will last for two days at most.

As soon as the shells are finished, the independent battalion will lose its original advantage in an instant.

The huge disparity in strength is always an insurmountable chasm, especially when more than eighty percent of the soldiers in the independent battalion are new recruits.

If it really didn't work, Liu Chengcheng could only order a retreat.

Otherwise, even if you can win the final victory in the end, it will have no meaning for the independent battalion.

Seeing Liu Cheng looking at him with strange eyes, Tian Liuwa asked with a smile:

"Battalion commander, why are you looking at me like this? Am I not right? ”

Hao Dabao looked at Tian Liuwa with a calm face, and his tone was obviously a little cold:

"Instructor, do you mean that we should be like our cavalry company, fighting the enemy and losing both?"

Tian Liuwa was not the slightest dissatisfied because of Hao Dabao's tone, and still had a smile on her face:

"Don't you think that now we are qualified to negotiate with the enemy?"

After Tian Liuwa said this, several people, including Liu Cheng, were stunned.

In fact, the negotiation was really not in Liu Cheng's plan, and he had no intention of negotiating with a traitor who was a puppet army.

Tian Liuwa saw his thoughts from Liu Cheng's expression, and said with some surprise:

"Battalion commander, you probably never thought about negotiating with the other party, did you?"

Liu Cheng frowned and looked at Tian Liuwa:

"What are you talking about? What is there to talk about? Since they have chosen to be traitors, can they still realize their enlightenment and abandon the darkness because of your few words? ”

Tian Liuwa's expression gradually became serious:

"Battalion commanders, it seems to me that they are also Chinese; Since it is Chinese, negotiations are not impossible......"