The remaining seventeen men of the third battalion also took part in the battle just now, and they vented their anger at the loss of their brother and partner.

The officers and men of the 2nd Battalion did not treat them as outsiders, and they accepted the few remaining seeds of the 3rd Battalion.

It is not because the relationship between the commander of the third battalion and the commander of the second battalion is the best, nor because the second battalion is the most capable of defending and the third battalion is the most capable of attacking, but because the anger shown by the third battalion in yesterday's battle is not seen in other units except the second battalion. The soldiers of the third battalion, like their commander who jumped into the gap with the explosives pack, were always leaning up on their proud heads.

Half of the remnants of the soldiers who had been withdrawn from the outer city walls were no longer able to continue the fighting, and they were taken to the corps hospital behind.

Sun Yumin looked at the four or five hundred remnants in front of him, and didn't know how to comfort and stabilize them!

Most of the four or five hundred men had no weapons in their hands, and they threw their weapons on them when they were withdrawn from the tower.

Weapons and equipment can be recovered, but can their fighting heart be recovered?

After the brigade commander Zhou Zhenqiang was sent to the corps hospital for treatment, Gui Yongqing reported to the garrison commander Tang Shengzhi for approval, and sent a special person to Wuhan for further treatment. Before leaving, he recommended Sun Yumin to Gui Yongqing, and repeatedly emphasized that he was the greatest contributor to Guanghuamen's ability to defend until now.

Gui Yongqing had actually heard of this person's name, but he didn't expect his assistant to respect him so much, and insisted on handing over all the remaining troops of the First Brigade to this battalion commander named Sun Yumin.

So he really wanted to meet this person.

When he saw Sun Yumin on the Guanghuamen position, a scene suddenly appeared in his mind: a young soldier with a long scar on his face, holding a large knife in his hand, and a national army officer collapsed to the ground. The knife was not cut, and the young soldier motioned for the officer to hurry away. Before leaving, the officer asked him, "Why didn't you kill me?" ”

The young soldier did not look back and said: "Because you are also Chinese!" ”

The officer took off his watch and threw it at the young soldier, saying, "I know you don't love money, but this is a souvenir!" May we never be enemies again! ”

Gui Yongqing looked at the person in front of him and asked, "Have you participated in the Central Plains War?" ”

Sun Yumin nodded.

"You used to be from the Sun Lianzhong Department of the Northwest Army?"

Sun Yumin nodded again.

"During the Central Plains War in the nineteenth year of the Republic of China, did you participate in the battle against He Chengjun and Zhu Shaoliang of the national army?" Gui Yongqing asked.

Sun Yumin shook his head and said: "In the nineteenth year of the Republic of China, there was a war at the junction of Henan and Anhui, but I still don't know whose troops it fought against. ”

Gui Yongqing looked at him and shook his head, a little disappointed in his heart. But as soon as Sun Yumin's words came out, he confirmed that the young soldier he had been looking for for seven years was his subordinate in front of him.

He was still not at ease and asked, "What about the watch back then?" ”

Sun Yumin shook his left hand, which had not fully recovered, and a very well-kept Swiss watch slipped onto his wrist, this watch that had followed him for seven years, and this watch that had been carefully cared for and maintained by himself was indeed given to him by an officer seven years ago.

Gui Yongqing grabbed Sun Yumin's hand and stroked the watch in his hand.

"That's right, that's it! This watch was given to me by Qin'er when I got married! Gui Yongqing's eyes welled up with tears. Qin'er was Gui Yongqing's wife, the only woman he ever loved, who died in childbirth.

Sun Yumin also saw that the top boss in front of him was the lieutenant colonel officer who had been released on the battlefield for seven years.

Sun Yumin took off the watch in his wrist, handed it over, and said, "I will return to Zhao and help you keep it for seven years!" Although it was a nonchalant statement, the people next to him heard the reluctance.

Gui Yongqing wiped the watch in his hand and wiped it, looked at it again and again. In the end, he resolutely put the watch back on Sun Yumin's wrist and said to him: "This is what Qin'er left for me, she helped me choose you, you must not let her down." ”

Sun Yumin didn't know who Qin'er was talking about by the captain, and he didn't know that this Qin'er he said was no longer alive, but he saw that he was cautious, so he also nodded heavily and agreed.

Gui Yongqing issued a verbal order: "Sun Yumin was promoted to colonel of the Second Regiment on the same day, and acted as the commander of Zhou Zhenqiang's 1st Brigade until Brigade Commander Zhou returned from his injuries." All the remaining troops of Guanghuamen are under the command of the brigade commander of the Sun Dynasty! ”

Before leaving, Gui Yongqing said to Sun Yumin: "The swords and guns are ruthless on the battlefield, I hope you can take good care!" I'll find an opportunity to replace you and help me lead the troops in the future!" ”

Sun Yumin has no idea of becoming someone else's henchman, and his only thought now is to keep watch for a few more days to give the friendly troops and civilians more time to evacuate.

The gap in the outer wall that had been blown down was too large to be sealed with sandbags.

Sun Yumin rearranged the three fortifications, all of which leaned against the city wall, and were completely invisible from the outside of the city.

The weapons and ammunition on the outer towers were removed, including two German-made anti-tank guns and shells in the ruins of the tower.

Half of the city tower that did not collapse also allowed Sun Yumin to collapse by blasting, and one less opening to defend would save a lot of weapons, ammunition and troops, and Sun Yumin did not have many troops in his hands.

The overnight pre-war preparations made the soldiers of the newly organized second regiment tired, but fortunately, Lao Liu Tou sent supper.

The days of fighting made the soldiers physically exhausted, and Lao Liu Tou brought food and drink to the soldiers on the battlefield every night.

Looking at the tired and hunchbacked figure of Lao Liu, Sun Yumin was a little sad, he called Qian Jin, the secretary who came to deliver the meal together, and said: "There are hundreds of more mouths, is the food enough?" ”

"Enough!" Qian Jin replied: "Actually, there are not many people, and the second battalion has sacrificed more than those who have been replenished." His voice was a little choked.

Sun Yumin knew that the logistics support officer of the whole battalion was a straightforward man. He didn't comfort Qian Jin, but said to him: "Old Liu Tou is too tired, go to those remnants and choose four or five young ones, let him teach!" ”

When several little soldiers happily followed Lao Liu Tou out of the position, they got the envy of many people.

In order to enable these soldiers newly incorporated into the Second Regiment to form combat effectiveness, Sun Yumin planned to break them up and integrate them into various companies. When Zhou Hainan was asked for their opinions, he unexpectedly got the opposition of these people.

Sun Yumin asked, "Why don't you want these soldiers?" ”

The others were speechless, but Li Tiedan, a fool, stood up and said, "We don't want soldiers kneeling on the battlefield!" ”

In a word, the former lieutenant colonel of the gendarmerie and the commander of the first regiment and the first battalion who attended the meeting were red-faced, but they could not refute it.

Sun Yumin slapped the fool on the head with his strength and said, "You can bear it!" ”

Zhou Hainan and these people still didn't make Sun Yumin too embarrassed, and everyone received hundreds of remnants.

By the time all this had been arranged, it was almost midnight.

Suddenly, a flash of fire flew in the air with a long tail towards the outer city wall, and a violent explosion reached everyone's ears from above.

Immediately following more and more firelight flying from afar, the sound of explosions began to spread throughout the city of Nanjing, along the entire frontal defense line.

Many houses were hit by shells, igniting a raging fire, accompanied by the crying and scolding of the people, and the originally peaceful city of Nanjing suddenly became noisy.

Many of the city's residents who had lived in their houses all their lives were reduced to ashes in the shelling, crying and shouting to take their families to put out the fire, but they fell down in the shelling. Such things have been repeated under artillery fire.

Sun Yumin has already given up the outer city, not because he doesn't want to defend it, but because he can't defend it at all, and there are only less than 1,000 remnants left in the entire Guanghuamen position.

Zhou Hainan, who went to the headquarters to urge for ammunition, took away forty or fifty people, and he has not yet returned, and he doesn't know what the situation is over there. Therefore, Sun Yumin told his four fierce generals to control the consumption of ammunition.

In the afternoon, the improvised plank bridge built by the Japanese army over the moat had been burned by the soldiers of the 2nd Battalion.

Sun Yumin also planted a large amount of explosives in the gap in the city wall, and covered them with the corpses of many devil soldiers, making a full camouflage.

The shelling continued, and Sun Yumin heard at least four types of heavy artillery from the sound of shell explosions: 150mm heavy cannons, 150mm howitzers, 305mm heavy howitzers, and Type 98 320mm heavy mortars.

The soldiers of the 2nd Regiment sat against the barrels of the inner city walls, and several veterans of the former 2nd Battalion remained on the tower.

The soldiers newly assigned to the second battalion opened their eyes and trembled with fear as they watched the huge fires and explosions constantly rising in the city, on the positions, and on the city walls of Nanjing. The veterans of the second battalion are different, most of them are resting with their eyes closed, and some of them are directly asleep and snoring.

Sun Yumin rebuilt the third battalion with Li Tiedan and several platoon commanders of the third company, and the remaining 17 soldiers of the third battalion. Although there was only about one full company in the past, the third battalion was reborn on the battlefield.

For this reason, the remaining seventeen soldiers of the third battalion were very grateful to Sun Yumin and respected him very much.

Throughout the night, Japanese artillery shelling was intermittent and intermittent, with occasional feints by small units. The front line of the entire national army was disturbed, and many of the defenders were worried all night, and their eyes were swollen in the morning.

Sun Yumin calculated the Japanese army's tricks from the beginning of the shelling, so he slept soundly. He knew that the Japanese army was very bad at night fighting, and only the Chinese army attacked the devils at night, and no devil soldiers attacked the Chinese army at night.

Zhou Hainan only came back at dawn, and only brought back less than a base amount of ammunition.

Sun Yumin asked what was going on, Zhou Hainan shook his head and replied with a wry smile: "The ammunition depot is empty, you should understand!" ”

Sun Yumin was furious, and couldn't help but scold hatefully: "At this time, there are still people who dare to make a fortune in the country, and they are really not afraid of being thundered by the sky!" ”

"Aren't you afraid?" Zhou Hainan said with a smile.

Sun Yumin was speechless.

Lao Liu Tou was very angry, the new children didn't know how to work, and they did their best to help. By the time the steamed buns on the stove are steamed, the sun has already risen.

In fact, these children cannot be blamed entirely, the intermittent bombardment of the Japanese artillery at night scared them a lot.

So Lao Liu Tou didn't blame them too much, but kept comforting and praising these little warriors.

Fortunately, after a night of tossing, the devil's artillery fire finally stopped.

Old Liu Tou said in his heart: The brothers on the battlefield should be looking forward to themselves.

When he thought of these rabbit cubs in the second battalion fighting so well in front, he couldn't help but feel inexplicably proud in his heart.

He put on his oil-stained military shirt and straightened the rank of sergeant on his collar. A military cap, which was already so dirty that he couldn't see the color, covered his head that was already covered with frost and white.

He wiped his hand on the apron that was dirtier than his clothes, picked up a load full of steamed buns, and said in his mouth: "The little ones move, the brothers on the battlefield are waiting for our food!" ”

Lao Liu Tou was right, and the soldiers on the battlefield were indeed looking forward to it. Especially Li Tiedan, he looked at Lao Liu Tou from time to time on the way to come every day, and his mouth was chattering: "What's going on with Lao Liu Tou today?" I'm dying of hunger. ”

"You're starving? You ate at least ten steamed buns for supper last night. Zhang Xiaohu teased him on the side.

Sun Yumin stared at the watch on his wrist from time to time, his brows furrowed like twisted flowers. Zhou Hainan asked him, "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong? ”

"I can't say either! Anyway, I have a bad feeling in my heart. Sun Yumin replied.

When Lao Liu Tou appeared in everyone's sight with a few cooks swaying and picking up breakfast, Li Tie grinned, and a mouthful of big yellow teeth appeared in Sun Yumin's eyes so inopportunely. After that, every time he saw his big golden teeth smoked by inferior tobacco, Sun Yumin had no desire to eat.

Li Tie got up and greeted him from a distance.

Everyone knows that he said that he was going to pick up the burden on Lao Liu's shoulders, but in fact, he was hurrying to eat two more steamed buns in his free time while walking. Old Liu Tou wouldn't talk about him, and the people in the second battalion wouldn't say that this third company commander who had a lot of food like an ox.

Li Tie was smiling and grinning on the way to Lao Liu's head.

Sun Yumin sighed, shook his head, and said to Zhou Hainan: "In the future, I will set a meal for Li Tiedan, you see that he has more tendons and meat than the three soldiers." ”

The familiar whistling sound in the sky was heard again.

Sun Yumin's face changed, and he could tell that this burst of shelling was coming in this direction, coming towards this position!

And at this moment, the soldiers of the second regiment were waiting for the breakfast that Lao Liu Tou was close to him.

Old Liu Tou saw the battalion commander's waving hands, and he was still shouting something in his mouth.

Oh, mistakenly, he's now the head of the second regiment. This kid did not enter the Second Regiment for a long time, and was only transferred from the Northwest Army when it was expanded in twenty-four years. When he was transferred in, he was still a deputy company commander, and in just over two years, this kid was promoted from a captain and deputy company to a colonel regiment commander. also acted as the brigade commander of the first brigade, a glory that is rare in the national army. Lao Liu Tou was very happy in his heart, this kid doesn't care about people very much, and he usually doesn't know how to express some ideas. Today he is actually waving and shouting at himself, is he hungry? By the way, he didn't eat anything last night, and the little devil tossed around all night, he must be hungry. Thinking of this, Lao Liu Tou quickened his steps.

Sun Yumin shouted with all his might: "Lie down, lie down!" ”

But in the midst of this deafening shelling, his cries seemed so weak.

Li Tie Dan saw that Old Liu Tou had quickened his pace, and he had also quickened his pace.

Shells fell on the positions of the 2nd regiment and began a violent explosion.

Under the gaze of the officers and men of the whole regiment, under the gaze of the veterans of the second battalion, and in the shouts of Sun Yumin, a shell fell on Lao Liutou's side.

Lao Liu Tou felt the smell of soaring clouds and mist, and also felt the taste of being extremely relaxed. In the dazzling and dazzling sunlight in the sky, Lao Liu Tou saw Da Liu and Xiao Zhang smiling at him and opening their arms at him.

The steamed buns in the basket are scattered everywhere. Old Liu Tou was surrounded by white steamed buns.

The bright and dazzling color of blood dyed everything here red, including the steamed buns on his body and around him.