Chapter 201: The Current Situation of the National Army
The meaning of Qin Feng's words was already very clear, he asked Liu Dazhuang and the others to leave all the Mauser rifle cartridges, which was to show that he would not return to the safe zone together. Liu Dazhuang originally only needed to act according to Qin Feng's orders, but now that the sky was about to get dark, Qin Feng insisted on staying alone, so Liu Dazhuang had to ask. "Boss, do you want to stay alone? It's getting dark this day, and it's too dangerous for you to stay alone, or I'll take a few people to stay, at least you can have a few more helpers to help clean up the battlefield. ”
Liu Dazhuang did not agree with Qin Feng to stay alone, and said that there were not many Mauser rifle bullets on their bodies, and Qin Feng was actually exhausted, so he took advantage of the situation to get off the donkey and promised to go back to the safe area with Liu Dazhuang and them. After a short rest, Qin Feng ordered to return to the safe zone, there were more than 50 people when they came out, but when they returned now, Liu Dazhuang's defeated army was less than 30 people.
In Liu Dazhuang's opinion, since these guys chose to pick up arms and come out with themselves, they had already thought of the moment when they would die in battle. There was still a long way to go back, everyone was silent and just buried their heads in the road, and when the routs occasionally smashed open the roadside shops to search for wine, food and cigarettes, Qin Feng only pretended not to see.
"Leave them alone, even if they don't take it, it will only cheapen the Japanese soldiers who enter the city." Stopping Liu Dazhuang, who wanted to reprimand his subordinates, Qin Feng smiled. "I don't know if there is a life to live until tomorrow, I can't reprimand them for these worthless little things, we are not an army, they are no longer pure soldiers now, you can't use the set in the army to restrain them, think about those who are dead, they are actually not easy."
Qin Feng, who said these words, himself was also gloomy, and many so-called war history experts in later generations would always say that it was because of the erosion and low combat effectiveness of the national army that the Japanese army invaded most of China on a large scale. But when Qin Feng came to this era and really came into contact with the soldiers of the national army, the memory of the national army, which had been deeply engraved in his mind, had changed slightly. It is a fact that the national army is weak, but it is not only the erosion of the management of the national army that has caused all this, the continuous wars after the Republic of China have not only greatly restricted the development of people's livelihood, but also made the army unable to recruit strong soldiers.
Although the Kuomintang occupied the righteous and established the Nationalist Government, there were many factions in the country, and if they had soldiers in their hands, they were warlords, and warlords at all levels, large and small, not only looked at their own acres and threes of land, but only disobeyed the orders of the central government. It is said that Chiang Kai-shek misled the country, but in fact, there were many times when the decrees of the Nationalist Government left Nanjing, and no one paid attention to them. The weakness of the national power could not be changed overnight, and the lack of unity within the Nationalist Government gave Japan an opportunity to take advantage of it.
The Nationalist army lost the Battle of Songhu, not because the Japanese army was excellent, but because Chiang Kai-shek believed the arguments of some people in the Nationalist Government and waited for the mediation of the so-called international community. The Nationalist Army lost its troops in the Songhu Battlefield, and then it was the extremely tragic Battle of Nanjing, which made a large number of Nationalist troops who dared to fight crippled, which also made the already low combat effectiveness of the Nationalist Army even more unbearable.
There was no stable source of troops, and there was no weapons and equipment of the same level as the opponent, and among the hundreds of thousands of troops of the national army when defending Nanjing, recruits who had been wearing military uniforms for less than three months accounted for a large part, and even the descendants of the national army, such as the German armament division, joined the defense of Nanjing only after replenishing the recruits. Under such conditions, the defending troops could still withstand the Japanese planes and artillery for so many days, and Qin Feng thought that these national troops had done their best.
Of course, Qin Feng would not think that all the soldiers of the national army were considered men, and on the way back to the safety zone, Qin Feng and the others not only encountered a large number of refugees, but also constantly encountered fleeing soldiers along the way. These soldiers threw down their weapons as they ran, and also took off their military uniforms and changed into the clothes of the people who had been robbed. Walking all the way to contain, when there was still about half an hour left from the safe zone, Qin Feng and them were already followed by no less than 300 civilians in the city.
When they marched to the safety zone and 2 streets, about a platoon of the national army's rout team suddenly emerged from a sloping alley, and when these routs who looked like they had lost their way passed by Qin Feng and them, Liu Dazhuang's rout casually asked the other party a few words, but the leading second lieutenant officer didn't know anything. Qin Feng, who was mixed in the middle of the team, didn't care about it at the time, but after the national army broke out, Qin Feng suddenly felt that something was wrong. With a flash of inspiration in his mind, Qin Feng remembered that the accent of the second lieutenant of the national army who was talking to his rout just now sounded a little weird, and then recalled that although the rout just now was dressed disheveled, the marching team was neat and the equipment was neat, and what was even more suspicious was that their morale was also very high.
How can a small army that has just retreated maintain such high morale? Qin Feng secretly screamed in his heart! This may have been an infiltration force of the Japanese army. Thinking of this, in line with the principle of preferring to kill by mistake rather than let go, Qin Feng, who had come back to his senses, immediately ordered to surround this group of routs and ordered them to lay down their weapons. The routs, who had not had time to react correctly, opened fire first, but because they responded in a hurry, most of them were quickly annihilated, and the remaining few were also captured, including the leading second lieutenant officer.
The refugees who followed Qin Feng all the way suddenly saw Qin Feng in civilian clothes, and they suddenly surrounded a small group of national troops, and the two sides exchanged fire, so they all stopped, and gradually surrounded them. Seeing that there were more and more people around the side, several of the captured soldiers suddenly shouted: "Fellow countrymen! You're going to be our masters! We didn't know how to offend them when we retreated here, so they surrounded us and killed so many of our brothers! You're going to have to be fair! ”
The refugees who were watching were furious when they heard these words, and some people were already pointing at Qin Feng and scolding them. Qin Feng shouted loudly with a calm face: "Fellow villagers, don't listen to his nonsense!" They were Japanese soldiers who had infiltrated the city! "The refugees began to hesitate again, many of them were still saved by Qin Feng and them! As for the devil soldiers, everyone hates them even more! It's just that these people in front of them can prove that they killed the devil soldiers?