Chapter 28: The Battle of the Defending the City II

Several test-fired artillery fires rang out, followed by overwhelming artillery fire towards the Japanese camp and position.

"What's wrong?"

Ma Xiaobao thought it was a ghost shelling, so he jumped up and asked Zhang Ziwen.

"Go and tell the brethren that it was our artillery bombardment that covered the retreat of the friendly forces, and let the brethren pay attention to the fact that there will be devils who will touch it tonight."

When Xiaobao conveyed the news to the brothers, Lao Shen came out of the city gate tower and walked towards Zhang Ziwen.

"The Eighty-seventh Division is beginning to retreat."

"Hmm"

Zhang Ziwen still didn't talk, although Lao Shen arranged the guard platoon he brought over in the bridgehead of the city gate instead of the Ninth Company, Zhang Ziwen still had a pimple in his heart.

The two of them did not speak, and watched the artillery fire outside the city for nearly ten minutes.

"Let the brothers rest, tomorrow may not be easy."

Lao Shen patted Zhang Ziwen on the shoulder and went back to the city gate, but Zhang Ziwen still continued to remain silent.

The artillery sound continued throughout the night, probably because the Japanese soldiers bit too hard, and the artillery sound also extended from east to west, and the artillery sound was not heard until the early hours of the morning.

I got up in the morning and drank two bowls of millet porridge to prepare for the attack of the devils, but the Japanese devils never attacked to the east of Zhenjiang, but the gunfire and artillery continued in the direction of the south gate. The devil is determined to attack from the south gate, thus cutting off the entire Zhenjiang City.

"Isn't this devil going to hit the East Gate?"

Xiaobao asked Zhang Ziwen, and Zhang Ziwen told Xiaobao what he thought.

"This little devil, so vicious, entered the south gate and quickly cut it off, so won't we and the security guards be surrounded? Shall we tell Brother Shen? ”

"There's no need, he also has the ability to be a staff officer of the division."

Lao Shen can't even see this, so he can go home and farm.

"Come With Me to See the Brothers"

Without looking at Zhang Ziwen, I felt unsure, and looked at the situation of each row on the city wall.

"March, what are you doing here?"

When Zhang Ziwen walked to the third row, Ma Qi was holding a jar and just came up.

"Company commander, are you talking about this?"

Holding the jar to show Zhang Ziwen, with some smug looks.

"It's oil in this jar."

"Can't you get enough to eat? And get oil up, this is to cook your own meal? ”

"No, no, it's for defending the city."

"Like the ancient city guards?"

Zhang Ziwen thought he was doing something, it turned out to be this idea, but the gun was better than this.

"Well, yes, if the devil wants to climb up with a ladder, I will burn him with oil, and when a can of oil goes down, the devil's ladder will be burned out, and it will also detonate the ammunition on the devil's body."

"Oh? Is it so powerful? ”

Zhang Ziwen really doesn't know these things if he hasn't experienced the battle of defending the city.

"If the petrol is stronger, but we don't have the money to buy it."

"And the oil in your hand?"

This guy isn't going to rob the people.

"The night before yesterday we put out the fire, and then the villagers said they wanted to repay us, yesterday we came to the city wall, today we heard about us, they sent us some food, there is a family selling grain and oil next to the fire, so they sent us some grain and oil, I told the Wang squad leader for a long time before I gave me four cans." No wonder I said how to have millet porridge this morning, and I ate white rice at noon.

"Oh, I see, what the hell is this power?" Zhang Ziwen pointed to the oil tank and said that Ma Qi was originally guarding Jiangyin City, and he said whether the oil tank was useful or not.

"Company commander, don't worry, you can't make a wrong decision."

Seeing that Ma Qi swore and said, Zhang Ziwen decided to discuss with Lao Shen, but he was a little unsure, and asked again, Ma Qi said that they had used it in Jiangyin City, and Zhang Ziwen put his mind at ease.

"Lao Shen, Lao Shen" The two guards at the gate knew Zhang Ziwen and naturally would not stop him.

"What's the matter? In such a hurry? Old Shen was studying the map.

Zhang Ziwen told him about Ma Qi carefully, and he said that he had not studied it, since there were cities in China, our ancestors began to study the offensive and defensive tactics of cities. However, there was no preparation in advance, the cars in the city still had to run, and the people still had to eat. I told him that he could go to the grain and oil store in the city, there were many merchant ships coming and going from the Yangtze River in the north of Zhenjiang, there must be still a lot of goods that had not been withdrawn, and there were some merchants who were ready to be traitors who were not in a hurry at all.

"That's it, I'm now taking the Eighth Company to the east of the city to find it, and at the same time going to the division commander to report, anyway, if I don't get it, the devil will take it, and besides, everyone is responsible for protecting the family and the country."

Everyone has the responsibility to protect the family and the country, and the hearts of the people are separated from the belly, and I don't know how many black hands use the name of protecting the family and the country to seek benefits for themselves.

"By the way, you pay attention to the situation, the telescope is for you, and someone will notify me immediately if there is any situation." After saying that, he went out with a gun.

Zhang Ziwen looked at the south of the city with a telescope, some of the brothers were busy carrying ammunition, and some were resting while the devils were not coming up, it seemed that the brothers in the south gate were still holding on.

There are four batteries in Zhenjiang, which can give artillery support to the entire Zhenjiang. Although the 87th Division and the 83rd Army were withdrawn to Nanjing, and the 112th Division fled, there are still more than 10,000 people in the city, including the 1st and 2nd Security Regiments, the Zhenjiang Garrison Battalion and the 103rd Division, and the three batteries still have their own garrison troops.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the Eighth Company began to move oil cans to the city wall, but there were only more than 100 cans.

"The division commander asked me to be in charge of this matter, and I sent the reserves and the eighth company to all the units defending the city, which is why I came back so late."

Lao Shen was sweating profusely in the winter.

"You'd better hurry into your office, or the river breeze will blow and freeze you to death."

Zhang Ziwen saw that Lao Shen was sweating profusely and was still standing in a daze, it was easy to get sick if he did this in winter, so he reminded Lao Shen.

"By the way, your binoculars, give it back to you."

Zhang Ziwen handed the telescope to Lao Shen, and Lao Shen took it with a smile, not knowing what he was laughing at.

Zhang Ziwen went directly back to the enemy tower on the city wall, and there was an enemy tower three or four hundred meters away from the city gate tower on the city. The enemy towers of the city wall are all two-storey buildings with heavy eaves of the mountain type. As a building built along the city wall, the enemy tower is used for defending the city in wartime, for the city defense troops of each section to command, lookout, give orders, place equipment and materials, etc., and in peacetime it is used for the patrol officers and patrolmen of the city to shelter from the wind and rain and rest, which belongs to a kind of facility to strengthen the defense of the city wall. The enemy building of each dynasty is different, and the enemy building of these two days was built in the Ming Dynasty.

"Squad leader, I'm not doing it, I'm an artilleryman, I should be like the brothers in the battery, let the Japanese positions ignite artillery fire, not burn fire here." Sun Liang said to Wang Xinping.

"You don't burn well, you won't have anything to eat later, you see how the company commander cleans you up."

Wang Xinping was cutting the vegetables, and returned to Sun Liang without raising his head.

"Boy, what are you howling, you have shouted no less than eight times since the company commander asked you to come over to help, you have the ability to go to the company commander, and besides, the company commander sees you as precious and doesn't want you to die."

Qu Yi had been listening to Sun Liang's chatter for a long time, and he shouted twice every few hours, and he was almost annoyed to death.

"Yes, yes."

Hao Shou followed, expressing his approval of Qu Yi.

Zhang Qing changed the stone dressing in the house, and after a few days of cultivation, the stone has woken up, and if he cultivates steadily for more than ten days, he can go to the ground.

Sun Liang didn't argue, but just snorted twice unconvinced.

"Don't believe it, all of you here are from Guizhou, do you say that the company commander is protecting you?"

Qu Yi broke the fish with a knife, and looked up at Sun Liang according to the fish.

"Believe it or not, let him go."

Lao Wang added, Sun Liang lowered his head and continued to add firewood to the stove.