December 12, 1937, after the Purple Mountain

Zhang Wei led people into the bombed regiment headquarters, the soldiers around him extinguished the debris that was still burning, the command post was in a mess, several dead bodies were lying on the ground, Li Xikai fell in the corner, his face was covered with blood, his body was hit by shrapnel A huge Xuedong, and the other bodies were the deputy regiment commander and guards.

"Carry it down, find a place to bury it." Zhang Wei looked at Li Xikai's corpse, and felt sad in his heart, after all, he was an old commander, and he was promoted to company commander after breaking through on the high ground, Li Xikai did give Zhang Wei enough trust, but unfortunately this good commander, he should have lived well.

"Old regiment commander, I'm sorry, I can't do anything, I can only bury you now, and I can only repay you by killing more enemies in the future" Zhang Wei said silently in his heart, and walked out of the regiment headquarters with the soldiers who moved the corpses.

Outside the tunnel, the wounded soldiers were stabilized under the treatment of the reinforced company, and those soldiers who were not injured sat in place, waiting for Zhang Wei's order, now they were all stragglers, hoping that someone would take the lead, otherwise they would become a rout sooner or later. Some of them were armed, some were unarmed, and some were carrying artillery gear and white doctor's armbands.

Zhang Wei looked at their clothes, and also understood their identities, they were all personnel of the regiment headquarters and the troops directly under the regiment, Zhang Wei walked towards a second lieutenant, and the second lieutenant saw Zhang Wei coming, and hurriedly saluted Zhang Wei.

Zhang Wei waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down, "Brother, what's going on with the regimental headquarters" The second lieutenant replied after sitting down: "I am the platoon commander of the infantry artillery company, the shells in front are gone, I came back with half a platoon of people to ask for shells, and there was also artillery bombardment from the regimental headquarters to the position. ”

Zhang Wei patted him on the shoulder: "Then why is it so messy, no one comes out to take care of things?"

There was a hint of resentment in the second lieutenant's eyes: "The regiment commander was originally talking to Liu Zitong, the commander of the sixth regiment, but the head of the regiment was blown up as soon as he left the regiment headquarters on the back foot, and the deputy regiment commander and several staff officers also died. The second lieutenant was already gritting his teeth at the end.

Zhang Wei thought of Tuanfu, the Tuanfu who reminded himself on the mountain to "think more about himself", and it was only now that he really understood the meaning of this sentence. The second lieutenant then said: "Sir, the front has collapsed and become a pot of porridge, these brothers are ownerless, you can take us away." ”

Zhang Wei said: "They are all their own brothers, let's go together, you bring your people together, you take them." The rest of the people are made together, and the excess is added to my reinforcement company. "Even if the second lieutenant doesn't say so, Zhang Wei will do it, and there are all the defeated soldiers and regiments along the way.

Zhang Wei can't control them at all, and these people in front of him are all brothers of the Third Regiment, they know the roots, and they are easy to manage, so why don't Zhang Wei do it?

"Brothers, help the handles, bring the wounded on the ground, and help them all, and the other brothers who are not injured gather together and take their weapons."

With Zhang Wei's order, the stragglers around the regimental headquarters were quickly organized. The second lieutenant who was talking to Zhang Wei just now was called Lu Dingyi, who graduated from the Huangpu Artillery Department and served as a platoon commander in the 75th Infantry Artillery Company of the Third Regiment.

Lu Dingyi's men were organized into a platoon by Zhang Wei and equipped with infantry weapons. The remaining intact more than 20 people, more than a dozen people were supplemented by Zhang Wei into the three infantry platoons of the reinforced company, in addition to the combat soldiers, there were five or six medical stretchers and military doctors, Zhang Wei temporarily organized them into a medical squad, responsible for taking care of the wounded soldiers in the team, fortunately, those who can survive until now are lightly wounded soldiers, which will not affect the marching speed of the team.

As for Zhang Wei, the seriously wounded soldiers they saw when they first came, there were no more alive.

If they live until now, Zhang Wei doesn't know what to do with them, this is war, cruel, and ruthless.

More than 100 people were quickly prepared, and Zhang Wei now has four infantry platoons that can be directly used in combat, plus the search squad, communication squad, mortar squad, and medical squad under his direct supervision, and the entire reinforced company has a total strength of more than 160 people.

Qiu Wei and He Kun collected scattered ammunition around the regiment headquarters, except for the Japanese grenadiers of the mortar squad that could not replenish the ammunition, the other infantry weapons could be said to be very sufficient.

Under the command of Zhang Wei, the reorganized reinforced company continued to search south, and the current direction of the regimental headquarters is the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, and further south it will get closer and closer to the area of Fugui Mountain, where the battle is fiercest, that is, the location of the teaching headquarters, and everyone is in good spirits.

There were more and fewer routs around, and the sound of guns and cannons became more and more intense, Zhang Wei ordered to He Kun: "Go and catch two routs to ask which part it is."

He Kun walked out of the team with people, and soon brought back two routs, the steel helmets on their heads were crooked, one was holding a rifle in his hand, and the other simply lost his weapons. Zhang Wei glanced at the two of them and asked, "Where did the two brothers come from, how did they become such virtuous?"

The rout soldier with the gun replied boldly: "Sir, we are the people of the Sixth Regiment, and the people on the big ditch are dead and running, and we can't help it" Zhang Wei listened to his answer, and called the fortification Dagou, it seems that this is a new soldier, and he doesn't even know the position.

"How are you a soldier?"

The defeated soldier straightened the steel helmet: "Let's work at home, the security chief will be arrested, and the car will be pulled to Nanjing for us, and we will be assigned to the teaching corps, our regiment is all soldiers like me, don't believe you ask him." After speaking, he pointed to the gunless rout soldiers beside him. The gunless rout nodded hurriedly.

Zhang Wei waved his hand and motioned for his men to let them go. The three regiments that were expanded before the war were all new recruits and lacked training, how could this be used, from the retreat to the present, almost all the defeated soldiers encountered were these people.

After letting go of the deserter, Zhang Wei made a small calculation in his heart, according to the description of the deserter, the main position in the area of Fugui Mountain is probably more auspicious, that is to say, there will be not only a rout in front, but also the Japanese troops, according to the memory of the previous life, Tang Shengzhi should have issued a retreat order at this time, and the collapse of the Nanjing defenders began at this time.

"A few platoon commanders are here." Zhang Wei called Qiu Wei, Hao Zhong, He Kun and Lu Dingyi to explain the current situation.

"The main position and the Fugui Mountain side should have collapsed, otherwise these routs would not be able to come down so quickly, Qiu Wei's first platoon, Hao Zhong's second platoon is in front, He Kun's third platoon and Lu Dingyi's fourth platoon are postponed, you must pay attention to vigilance, the front is likely to encounter Japanese troops, everyone must be ready for battle, understand?"

"Understand, rest assured, the company commander can rest assured" After the four of them accepted the order, they immediately went down to arrange Zhang Wei's marching formation, Zhang Wei is most worried about Lu Dingyi's four platoons, most of them are original artillerymen, although they have mastered the basic skills of infantry, but they may not be used when they really fight, so they let He Kun help them, and put them at the end of the team to protect.

"Forward, with Zhang Wei's order, the reinforced company began to move slowly in the direction of the headquarters headquarters."