Chapter 32: Retreat

At twelve o'clock on November 7, the Ninth Company had already had lunch, but the gunfire at the south gate still did not stop, and it had been fighting for four or five hours, but there was no movement on the northeast line.

"Today's Japanese offensive intensity is much smaller than yesterday's, why is it not as good as a few days ago with the support of the 13th Division?" Lao Shen continued to frown, and Lao Shen couldn't judge the devil's actions at all.

"Japs aren't people? Fighting all the way from Shanghai to Zhenjiang, they had to get tired of riding in the car, not to mention the resistance of brother troops along the way. "No matter how strong the Japanese army is, they are still people, they will be tired, and they will be beaten to death with guns.

"That's it, the soldiers will come to block it, and the water will cover it." Lao Shen threw away the pen and sat on the chair.

"I'm too lazy to talk to you, I'll go and see how the brothers are doing." Zhang Ziwen wanted to see if Zhang Qing had come back, and he didn't see him come to look for him at noon.

"You go and get busy with you, I didn't have a good rest last night, I took advantage of the devil's absence to rest."

Lao Shen leaned back in his chair with his eyes closed, beaten from Jiangyin by little devils to Zhenjiang, and now he was powerlessly waiting for the city to break, Zhang Ziwen sighed when his generation of soldiers could fulfill their responsibilities to protect their families and defend the country.

"Okay, you rest first, I'll watch." I'm going to see if Zhang Qing has come back.

Zhang Ziwen went to the room and saw Zhang Qing sitting at the door of the stove room covered in blood, holding a big bowl and eating.

"Company commander, why are you here?" Lao Wang saw Zhang Ziwen coming, then looked at Zhang Qing again, wiped his hands and handed the stool to Zhang Ziwen.

Zhang Qing heard Lao Wang call me, and immediately put down the bowl and looked up at Zhang Ziwen, probably because he was afraid of being punished, and he didn't stand or sit for a while, and he was directly stunned.

"How do you know you're back? What about the stones? Zhang Ziwen took the stool handed over by Lao Wang and sat down, this is Qu Yi They also came out when they heard the movement, but they didn't dare to come over when they saw Zhang Ziwen talking to Zhang Qing.

"Sit, I won't eat you again, what the hell is going on to say something." Zhang Ziwen saw that Zhang Qing didn't speak, and continued to be stunned, so he had to let him sit down first.

"Company commander, you punish me, I took it upon myself to send them away." Zhang Qingyi sat on a stool, as if he believed that he would be dealt with by military law, after all, leaving the team without approval in wartime was dealt with as a deserter, and he would be shot.

"Punish you? Do you know what it is to leave the team without permission during wartime? Deserters, to be shot. "Zhang Ziwen wants him to have a long memory, otherwise everyone will be like this, don't bring this soldier, and if you fight any devils, you can break up the team yourself.

"Shoot it, the company commander can't do it." Lao Wang was so frightened when he heard the word "shot" that the spatula fell, and hurriedly interceded for Zhang Qing.

"Company commander, do you think Zhang Qing is not coming back? Don't shoot it. Hao Shou pleaded on the side, Zhang Qing's popularity is quite good.

"Am I the company commander, or are you the company commander?" The more people plead, the more they want to kill this atmosphere, otherwise they will let it go if they make a mistake and ask for it, what is the military order for? Write for people to see?

"Zhang Qing, what is going on yourself." Lao Wang heard Zhang Ziwen's order and didn't speak again.

Zhang Qing said that he went to the quartermaster office yesterday to get medicine, and when he came back, he happened to see his classmates from medical school, so he stepped forward to say hello. His classmates now work for the Red Cross and are now on the front lines for humanitarian relief. Then Zhang Qing remembered the stone, so he discussed with his classmates to see if his brother could be treated, but they said they didn't know, they mainly wanted to help the people, and they were going to Wuhan at noon the next day.

Early this morning, Zhang Qing took a few people to send them the stones, but they didn't help us to be soldiers, saying that being a soldier did not belong to the scope of their humanitarian rescue. Zhang Qing was in a hurry, this person had brought it, the seriously injured person could only die if he didn't know how to operate, and the stone couldn't rest without a safe place, and Zhenjiang City didn't know when it would be hit by the devil. For the sake of the two brothers, Zhang Qing said in a hurry that he would help them with the Red Cross in exchange for the Red Cross to help them save them, and the leading foreign devil agreed to him when he saw that Zhang Qing was affectionate. So he followed the Red Cross to help the people who were injured by the devil's shelling by the riverside, and the rush came to twelve o'clock, and he didn't come back until the foreign devils left.

"Then why didn't you report to me in advance yesterday?" After listening to it, Zhang Ziwen understood what this Red Cross representative meant, even if the old pole on the Phoenix Mountain position violated international practice, they didn't have this heart for the little devil Zhang Ziwen.

"I came back too late yesterday, and I started a fight with the devil when I came back for a while, and it will be almost dawn when I finish cleaning up and bandaging my brothers." Hearing Zhang Ziwen ask this, Zhang Qing said it confidently.

Zhang Ziwen thought to himself, yes, this has become his own fault.

"Okay, if I really shoot you, the reason can't be justified, but you still violated the military order, and the excess is greater than the merit, I will let Xiaobao remember it for you, and they will send the stones over, it will be fine, right?"

"As long as I don't die, I can contact them through my classmates." Zhang Qing was afraid that I would shoot him, so he used this trick.

Zhang Ziwen climbed the city wall, and the gunshots at the south gate began to clear into my ears again, the devil is trying to grind us to death.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the devil seemed to have eased up, and began to storm the south gate and the north gate, but thanks to the brothers of the security regiment, otherwise we didn't even have time to react, the division headquarters had just arrived at half of the reserves composed of the 615 regiment, and ordered the fourth battalion and the garrison battalion on Jingxian Mountain to prepare for retreat, as long as the north gate fell, the Zhenjiang defenders retreated to the front line of the Dutianmiao Fort and fought with the devils in the streets. Street fighting is always something that soldiers are unwilling to face, and every street will be a meat grinding machine, and the national army has only one role since the Japanese army invaded the land of China, and that is meat.

The north gate or the south gate was breached, and the fourth battalion would inevitably be surrounded by the Japanese army in the east of the city, and then it could only retreat to Jingxian Mountain and become a lone army, so the three companies and two platoons of the fourth battalion were ready to receive the garrison battalion to evacuate the east of the city under the arrangement of Lao Shen. Zhang Ziwen hurriedly asked Lao Wang to distribute dry food and grain to the brothers, and asked the brothers to add a few catties of weight each.

Zhang Ziwen and Lao Shen waited on the women's wall, waiting for the north gate or the south gate to stop, if the gunshots rang out in the city, then the fourth battalion had to withdraw to Dutai immediately. The two hoped that the gunfire would stop but didn't want it to stop, and if they stopped the four battalions, they didn't have to worry about it anymore, but after stopping the four battalions, they had to start working hard, Zhang Ziwen and Lao Shen waited on the women's wall until they ate.

When the gunfire at the north gate stopped, Zhang Ziwen almost ordered a retreat, and later heard that it was the devil who stopped attacking, and the thirteenth division was not iron-clad, and they would be afraid in the face of artillery fire and bullets, but the Tiangu brigade at the south gate seemed to not need to rest, and the attack was wave after wave, if it weren't for the artillery support of Dutai, it is estimated that the south gate would have been beaten down I don't know how many times, the devil's heavy artillery did not dare to fire, and the artillery fire of the three batteries hit directly at the devil's artillery position.

"The division headquarters urgently ordered that the temporary fourth battalion of the 618th Regiment immediately withdraw to Zhenjiang Station, and must arrive before nine o'clock." Zhang Ziwen thought he had heard the order wrongly, station? Isn't it Dutai?

"Yes, please reply to the division headquarters, my battalion will arrive on time." When Zhang Ziwen was still stunned, Lao Shen had already returned to the order of the division headquarters.

"Why are you still stunned, let's retreat immediately." Lao Shen called his orderlies and began to pack his things.

"We have withdrawn, what will happen to the brothers in the garrison camp on the mountain?" Zhang Ziwen pointed to Jingxian Mountain outside the door and said.

"There will definitely be arrangements at the division headquarters, you hurry back to prepare, and notify the Sixth Company by the way." Lao Shen drove Zhang Ziwen out of the city tower as he spoke, since he could retreat, who would want to continue fighting.