Chapter II Anti-Tank Trenches

The sky is calm, the river wind with reeds to the surface of the water, although the weather in November is south, but also the frozen people shiver, fortunately the position at the foot of the mountain has firewood, the brothers of the ninth company will not freeze to death.

"Bang~" A gunshot came from the east of the position.

"Stop, that part?"

The sentry looked at a group of routed soldiers dressed in tatters with guns on their backs, and the sentry immediately fired a warning shot, and when he heard the gunshots, Zhang Ziwen immediately ran over from the trench with a gun. Today is the 20th, and since the day before yesterday, Zhang Ziwen has asked the sentries to fire a warning if something happens, because the brothers who have retired from Shanghai are scattered, and without the restraint of the commander, some people will directly become bandits, and Zhang Ziwen has to guard against it.

Wherever Zhang Ziwen ran, the people in the first platoon of the Ninth Company had already shot the dozen or so people.

"Brother Wen, I asked them about that part, but they wouldn't say."

The first platoon leader Li Zhi (the first squad leader when Zhang Ziwen was in the first row) carried a statue to lead the leader and explained to Zhang Ziwen.

"What do you tell him, and he'll understand?"

Li Zhi was holding the back collar and kneeling on the ground, just burly, not like a southerner, and he understood Guizhou dialect when he told him, so Zhang Ziwen patted Li Zhi's hand away and asked his troops.

"Brother, what part of yours?"

The lieutenant of the rout looked up at Zhang Ziwen, although he was wearing a bandage, he still had a military temperament that refused to admit defeat, he was a soldier, not a bandit.

"My brothers and I are the 116th Division, are you the 112th Division or the 156th Division?"

"Zhang Ziwen, commander of the 9th Company of the 3rd Battalion of the 613th Regiment of the 103rd Division, the 156th Division is ahead, haven't you touched it? Where did you come from? ”

Zhang Ziwen was a little anxious, the 156th Division was deployed in Changshu, the Wuxi generation, from Shanghai to Jiangyin, but Changshu had to pass through Wuxi and didn't touch the 156th Division, so the 156th Division went? The Phoenix Mountain area didn't hear any big movement ahead.

"Lin Xiang, the second lieutenant platoon commander of the 116th Brigade and the 1st Regiment of the 116th Division, was ordered to evacuate Shanghai to Nanjing for reconstruction."

When he said about Guijian, his eyes began to turn red, and the brothers in the back also sobbed.

Lin Xiang turned around and yelled what are you crying about, the division commander is not dead, the 116th Division will start anew, what are you crying about, are you a girl?

Seeing this, Zhang Ziwen's heart felt uncomfortable from nowhere, and patted Lin Xiang's shoulder.

"Brother, you go west, go to Lujiazhuang to find Wang Yi, the commander of the eighth company of the 615th regiment, and say, Zhang Ziwen asked you to go, where to get some food and clothes, and then go back to Nanjing to find your troops, I have seen that we are going to fight in two days. If you have the life to go back to Nanjing, I will go to you for a drink. ”

Lin Xiang did not encounter the 156th Division, the worst result was that Changshu was gone, and it was estimated that Wuxi would lose its barrier as soon as Changshu was lost, and the Japanese army would be able to approach Jiangyin.

"Brother Zhang, thank you for your great kindness, I will repay you if I have the opportunity. Your 103rd Division is from Guizhou, right? The 102nd Division retreated to Wuxi a few days ago after fighting side by side with us in the Battle of Songhu some time ago. ”

The 102nd Division was reorganized from the 2nd Division of the 25th Army and was a brother unit of the 103rd Division. The 102nd Division began to retreat on November 12, and after arriving in Wuxi, it was ordered to deploy defenses on the spot to cover the retreat of the main force. After a day and night of fierce fighting with the pursuing Japanese troops, they withdrew to Pukou, at which time the division had only about 3,000 officers and men.

"Brother Lin, why do you say this? Could it be ......"

Zhang Ziwen knew that the team withdrawn from Songhu was still intact, just to see how the situation of the 102nd Division was.

"Our army fought with the Japanese army in Hongqiao and other places for a month, almost everyone was wounded, and I am afraid that there are only a few people left in the 103rd Division......"

Lin Xiang listened to Zhang Ziwen's tone, it seemed that the 103rd Division and the 102nd Division had a good relationship, but Zhang Ziwen thought that the more than 9,000 brothers of the 102nd Division who went out of Guizhou together actually faced the elite Japanese with the old sleeve for a month, how should they get it.

"Ma Xiaobao, you go to Lujiazhuang with Brother Lin and tell the head of the regiment about this, the regiment headquarters will definitely not know about it."

After sending Lin Zhiyi away, Zhang Ziwen immediately summoned the squad platoon leader to study how to deal with the tank under the regiment.

"This was sent by the regiment headquarters, and it is estimated that the regiment commander made it himself, you see that the 618 regiment next door has not moved."

Anyway, a group of people had never even seen a tank, and they knew that they should have left Lin Zhi behind just now to ask them how they dealt with tanks, and it should be good to survive.

"Company commander, are you going to dig a pit again?"

Li Zhi complained that the 103rd Division had only one task in the past three months, to build a position, digging all the way from Zhajia to Phoenix Mountain, and the brothers below would inevitably be a little disgusted.

"I don't want to dig a hole, when the tank comes up, you are the first to rush up with an explosives bag, now you sweat more, and there is less bleeding in the back."

Li Zhiyu has a wisdom character in his name, and he doesn't do things with a brain, if it weren't for a row of brothers who obeyed him, a platoon leader wouldn't have his turn. said that Li Zhi was scolded by Zhang Ziwen and bowed his head and did not speak, and lowered his head to look at the fortification drawings on the table, the key is that he understands it?

"I'll tell you how to dig this trench............

The trench against the tank is not a foxhole, the trench should be deep enough, add a certain amount of soil in front of the trench, and with the help of the tank's own gravity, he will not be able to climb out of the ditch.

"Remember to get explosives bags in the ditch, if the devil dares to hide inside and do something with us, he will blow up his shit, okay, go back and prepare."

Zhang Ziwen has only seen his subordinates kill bandits when he has been a soldier until now, and he has vomited a mess, and he is now used to seeing the brothers being blown up on the Jiangyin position, and he is far more calm than before. Zhang Ziwen lit a cigarette and sat in the trenches, and the habit of smoking was also learned after coming to Jiangyin, because smoking can suppress the feeling of vomiting.

Thinking of Lin Xiang and their 116th division, it seemed that the entire division was gone, Zhang Ziwen began to think about what he should do, in addition to the unlucky company commander who was killed and the other twelve brothers and the injured brothers, there are now two hundred and nine brothers, and if the two hundred brothers really fight only Lin Xiang and a few of them, Zhang Ziwen will go crazy. The 102nd Division heard Lin Xiang say that even the establishment was about to run out, what would happen to the 103rd Division, after thinking about it, Zhang Ziwen couldn't think of a way, so he had to say what the hell, and then resign himself to fate, God really wants to accept his brother's life.

It's night, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, looking at the starless sky, dark as ink.

"Brother Wen, Brother Wen"

Zhang Ziwen opened his eyes and saw Ma Xiaobao's underbeaten face, and when he raised his foot, he kicked him to the opposite pillar.

"Brother Wen, what are you doing, come back early in the morning to tell you the news, who knew that you would wake up and give me a kick."

Ma Xiaobao's face was twisted and rubbing his stomach, and Zhang Ziwen felt that his feet were a little heavy.

"Say, what's the news?"

"Brother Wen, can you give me a rest haha, you just ran back and you gave me another kick, can you tell me?"

Ma Xiaobao took a sip of water from the kettle on the table before telling Zhang Ziwen that the 154th Division entered Jiangyin and went to the fortress last night.

"I heard that the division commander lost his temper at noon, it seems that it was because the 112th Division insisted on fighting the Japanese here, and you said that they threw the northeast at the beginning and did not let go of a single shot. Now that we are in front of them, they will fight to the death, what do you mean? ”

At the beginning, Zhang Xueliang gave the Northeast to the Japanese without letting go of a shot, but there was no way to do it, and Lao Jiang did not let him fight.

"Don't chatter, hurry up and notify the platoon commanders to come over." Ma Xiaobao immediately ran out of the pit and into the traffic trench to call someone.

"Have you dug your anti-tank trenches?"

In response to Zhang Ziwen's inquiry, each platoon replied that the task had been completed, and it had only been a long time, and it was almost the same as digging a ditch.

"Don't be sloppy, how much you dug up."

After each platoon answered honestly, Zhang Ziwen almost died of anger, and none of the three platoons dug a trench.

"Company commander, why is this ditch really deep? No one can climb out. ”

In Guizhou dialect, Li Zhi is a simple bag, and in Northeast dialect, he is a mountain cannon.

"Li Zhi, do you still want to dig shallow?"

None of the three people is easy to deal with, Li Zhi is stupid, forget it, the second platoon and third platoon commander are planning to fight against Zhang Ziwen, it is estimated that it is because Zhang Ziwen, a latecomer, robbed the acting company commander and they felt uncomfortable.

"Go back and at least make a trench for me before twelve o'clock today, that platoon is not done, the tank comes up and the platoon will be out of the demolition team, don't take your brother's life seriously, Li Zhi, you go."

Li Zhi was on the bench, looked down at the bowl, and estimated that Zhang Ziwen could see the flowers if he didn't speak.

"Li Zhi, did you want to dig shallow just now? Are you going to dig trenches for the Japanese? ”

"Ah, Brother Wen, how can I dig trenches for the Japanese?"

Zhang Ziwen looked at him with an innocent look, and really wanted to kill himself with one shot, he was blind to let him be a platoon leader, and it took ten minutes to explain to him the difference between trenches and anti-tank trenches.

"Brother Wen, the devil plane is here again, there are many planes in the sky, he didn't come to bomb us, he went west."

West? To the west is Jiangyin. Zhang Ziwen thought of it and hurriedly ran out to see more than forty planes flying in the sky like Jiangyin, Jiangyin was going to suffer again.

"Xiaobao went and told the two of them that if the anti-tank trench was not dug again, they would wait to carry the explosive bag."

The planes began to bomb Jiangyin City, and Zhang Ziwen knew that the devils were about to start attacking Jiangyin, and the 103rd Division of the eastern defense line bore the brunt.