Chapter 445: On the Road

"I actually lost...... How is that really possible? ”

An unbelievable voice sounded in the office, and Gu Shoufu's round fat face showed expressions of surprise, anger and incomprehension on his face in a short period of time, making people wonder if this guy grew up in Sichuan, otherwise how could he learn the stunt of changing faces so well.

"Are you sure you're not wrong?" Gu Shoufu asked Takashi Murata in front of him with a blushing face, "There are more than 50 destroyers and more than 30 bombers, just to bomb a small county town and a tank unit with no air defense, and you actually told me that they were almost completely wiped out, do you know what you are talking about?" ”

"Your Excellency, I am telling the truth." Takashi Murata calmly looked at the new commander in front of him, "Commander Tanaka told me before leaving, you must be cautious and cautious in the battle with the 202nd Army, but you did not follow his advice, and used all the aviation forces to try to destroy the opponent's forward forces, but forgot that the other side also has an air force that is not inferior to us in terms of quantity, and even better than the Empire's fighters in terms of quality, which led to this defeat, so I am not surprised by this result." ”

"Yaga!"

Gu Shoufu was furious, and pointed at Murata Takashi's nose and scolded: "Murata-kun, you are too presumptuous, I am the commander of the 23rd Army, and it is not your turn to point fingers on how I want to command the battle!" ”

Murata Takao did not argue with Gu Shoufu, he silently saluted Gu Shoufu and then turned to leave, looking at the back of Murata Takao leaving, Gu Shoufu did not speak, just clenched his fists hard, and even his nails pierced into the flesh without knowing it. The development of things has been beyond his expectations, originally he still thought that he could entrap the chief of staff to serve himself well, but the development of things was beyond his expectations, this chief of staff is not as easy to encircle as he imagined, although on the surface he always carries out his orders without discount, but Gu Shoufu always feels that the former commander's right-hand man is always looking at him with cold eyes behind his back, waiting for himself to make a mistake, which makes Gu Shoufu feel like a man's back.

In order to defeat Su Jin, Gu Shoufu has racked his brains these days, he wants to prove that he is more suitable for this position than the predecessor, so he quietly mobilized more than 80 planes to try to carry out a surprise bombardment of the vanguard of the 202nd Army, and used powerful firepower to raze the front troops and Yiwu County to the ground, as long as the momentum of the 202nd Army's offensive was stopped to buy time for himself, as long as the time was delayed for a week, then the reinforcements from the mainland could log in from Ningbo Taizhou in a steady stream, With the support from the mainland, Zhejiang can be saved, and even further counterattacks can be launched to drive Su Jin out of Zhejiang, so that his name Gu Shoufu will really resound in the Japanese military circles.

If Gu Shoufu comes from the next generation, he will naturally understand an old saying, which is called the ideal is very plump and the reality is very skinny. Soon, his ambitions were like bubbles and vanished with the air battle over Yiwu. Now he no longer dares to expect to launch a counteroffensive to drive Su Jin out of Zhejiang, and for him now, as long as he can maintain his current situation, he will be satisfied. At this time, he remembered the words of Kuichi Tanaka before leaving, which Takao Murata had conveyed a few days ago.

"Can I really only withdraw from Zhejiang in disgrace and become the first commander in the history of the imperial army to lose the city and land?" Gu Shoufu thought unwillingly, and the expression on his face was sometimes hideous......

With the arrival of winter, the originally vibrant land has also fallen into a deep sleep, and the withered yellow fields are desolate. At some point, a drizzle fell from the sky, and on a dirt road near the mountain road, a long steel dragon was speeding north, and the road that should have been dusty was also a little muddy because of the winter rain, so that the tires of every passing car were covered with a thick layer of mud.

Dong Hongyun, who was wearing a fur hat, leaned half of his body out of the turret, holding a telescope to observe the movement ahead, although he could only see some sparsely populated villages and wilderness along the way, there was no other scenery outside, but he still watched silently.

In fact, not only Dong Hongyun, the entire battalion has been shrouded in a strange atmosphere in the past few days, everyone can feel that an evil fire is spreading in the hearts of all the soldiers, and the soldiers of the first battalion have even spoken a lot less in the past two days, and the reason why it has become like this is because their battalion commander, the beautiful German woman who always teaches them very rigidly, was injured by the Japanese plane, and there is no news so far.

Although many soldiers always jokingly said on weekdays that they hoped that someone would take their battalion commander away, so that they could change to a commander, but when this day really came, these soldiers felt that they were not used to it, and they were used to the beautiful figure with blonde hair and a strong figure dangling in front of them, and now they felt unaccustomed to it after suddenly not seeing this figure.

"Head...... It's raining outside, so get down here! The voice of the loader Feng Ziqiang came from the tank cap.

It wasn't until this voice sounded a second time that Dong Hongyun sat down again and closed the lid above his head.

"Come on...... Drink a little to refresh yourself, but you've been standing outside for a long time, and you're not too tired to panic. After Dong Hongyun sat down, Feng Ziqiang behind him handed over a ceramic cup.

Dong Hongyun frowned after taking two sips of the cup, and said with some dissatisfaction: "This thing is black, bitter and astringent, I don't know what is delicious, I really don't understand why you guys still love to drink so much." ”

When Su Jin cashed in the food from the weapon store, the coffee thing also came out with other food, in line with the principle of not wanting nothing in vain, Su Jin naturally sent this thing out of the army, although the Chinese people prefer to drink tea, but these years the materials are scarce, ordinary people can't even eat enough to drink, and it's good to drink, plus coffee This thing does have a refreshing effect, so after a few years, many soldiers have slowly accepted this black and bitter drink.

However, Dong Hongyun is not in this case, for him, it is better to give him half a catty and two pots to refresh himself, if it were not for the strict prohibition of drinking alcohol during the war, he would not drink this bitter and astringent thing.

Although he doesn't like the taste of coffee very much, Dong Hongyun has to admit that this thing does have an effect, a hot flow quickly comes from the stomach after a cup of hot coffee, drinking such a cup of coffee on this cold day does make people feel warm and comfortable.

After drinking this cup of coffee, Dong Hongyun casually returned the cup to Feng Ziqiang. Feng Ziqiang poured another cup of coffee from the kettle behind him, and after he drank it all, he leaned back on the seat and said, "Alas...... I don't know when the battalion commander will come back, and I always feel uncomfortable without her yelling in my ears for the past two days. ”

"You pull it down, in the old days, you always said from time to time that if a man could take her away, would we be able to be quiet?" Jiang Nengyun, a communications soldier on the side, unceremoniously exposed his lies.

Feng Ziqiang, who was exposed, was not angry, and said haha: "This time and that time, in the past, it was because she was always annoyed by her, but now I miss her when I don't see her." ”

It's just that after finishing speaking, Feng Ziqiang was greeted with a few pairs of disdainful eyes.

Time passed slowly in the chatting and farting of everyone, and when the convoy came to a village on the side of the road, it stopped, which had been detected by the passing knife platoon, so everyone jumped out of the car with confidence, and moved their hands and feet, and the drivers ran to the well with buckets to carry water to fill the water tank. After more than half an hour, three or four tankers arrived in a line in the grain field in the middle of the village, and the drivers drove the tanks to the tankers, while the commanders hurriedly pulled out the pipes from the tankers to refuel their cars.

Looking at the busy scene, the deputy battalion commander Bu Chengqing lit a cigarette and leaned on the track to smoke, since Adele was injured, he temporarily took the position of battalion commander.

When a cigarette was about to run out, a cigarette was handed over from the narrator, he turned his head, it turned out to be Yu Haowei, the commander of the first company, only to see him ask with a smile: "Battalion deputy, how does it feel to be a battalion commander for the first time, it's very good, right?" ”

"Fuck off!" Bu Chengqing glanced at him, "If you like the two of us, you will be the battalion commander." ”

"I would like to, but my own family knows my own affairs, and it is already very reluctant to command a company at my level, and it will be chaotic for me to command a battalion." Yu Haowei waved his hand again and again.

"yes!" Bu Chengqing sighed lightly: "Before, I always felt that it was nothing big when I watched that little German lady commanding the whole battalion, and I could do it if I changed it, but it was really my turn to command to understand how difficult things were, so many things in the whole battalion were all pressed on my body, and I thought that the lives of the seventy or eighty tanks and hundreds of brothers in the battalion were in your hands, if the brothers suffered unnecessary losses because of myself, I am afraid that I will not forgive myself in this life!" ”

Yu Haowei patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "Don't think so much, since that German ...... Since the battalion commander is injured, you have to pick up this burden for her, you can't be pressed under a girl for the rest of your life, the military seat said, our armored regiment will have to be expanded in the future, if you don't even have this guts, how can you be a battalion commander, regiment commander or even division commander in the future! ”

"you, Lao Tzu should even be worried about the battalion commander now, and the regiment commander and division commander, dream about you!" The time passed slowly between the two of them, and after everyone had rested, Xiao Chengqing ordered the troops to continue to advance, and dozens of miles ahead was the city of Hangzhou, where a tough battle would await them...... (To be continued.) )