"What did Commander Qiao do wrong? Commander Qiao is a hero. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info" Meng Qingfu said strangely.

"It's no wonder that Commander Qiao, no one thought that the little devil was so cunning." Lao Ma gritted his teeth and said that in the two shelling yesterday morning and evening, the Japanese Navy did not fire with all its strength, and even when it landed, it did not fire with all its strength, which made Qiao Zhen and all the Chinese defenders misestimate the power and scale of the Japanese Navy's naval guns.

The Japanese used the first wave of landings to attract all the firepower points of the Chinese defenders, and then after the Japanese received the first wave of landing troops, they began to bombard the fixed points. The Japanese naval guns were accurate and ruthless, destroying almost all the firepower points of the garrison, and most of the Chinese defenders were killed and wounded. Qiao Zhen realized that guarding the river, the Chinese defenders were the target of the enemy's naval artillery, so he had no choice but to order the defenders to stay away from the river and deploy defenses under Nantong City again. But the defenders had already lost three-quarters of their losses, and if it weren't for the defense of the country, I'm afraid the soldiers would have run away long ago.

Meng Qingfu stopped, everyone stopped, and Lao Ma asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"Something is wrong."

"What's wrong?"

"If we abandon the defensive positions on the shore, won't the Japanese land too easily? Didn't our 10th Regiment die in vain last night? ”

"How can that be?" Lao Ma smiled bitterly, "Their naval guns are too powerful, and we don't have any artillery to hit them, so ......"

Meng Qingfu thought for a while and suddenly said, "Brothers, our large army can't snipe, but we can harass it with small troops, so I want to go back." If the Japanese land, I'm going to have them die at least a dozen before they come up. Little devil of dog day, my brother can't die in vain. As he spoke, he walked to the shore with his gun in his hand, regardless of the objections of the others.

"Meng Qingfu, stop for me." The old horse shouted, "If you go, you will be sent to death." ”

"If you are a soldier, you will probably die, sooner or later, I don't die in the morning, maybe I will die in the evening." Meng Qingfu said with a smile and strode back.

The old horse was stunned to look at this Chinese warrior who rushed to the Japanese landing force with a single horse, and his heart was full of feelings, of course he envied Meng Qingfu's determination and courage, but he couldn't be as impulsive as him, he had to be responsible for this team of more than a dozen people.

At this time, the little tartar suddenly said, "Old horse, I will accompany him, so that he will not be lonely." ”

"Fart! Are you crazy too? The old horse said angrily, "What are you messing around with?" ”

"I'm not crazy." The little tartar grinned and said, "Didn't you tell me to follow him?" I'll just follow him. ”

"Fuck off! Die far away! The old horse scolded.

"Huh." The little Tartar ran to the shore with a smile, followed Meng Qingfu side by side, and said, "Master Meng, I'll learn from you." ”

"What if you die?"

"If I die, then I'll die, if I'm afraid of death, what kind of soldier will I be."

"There is a kind, it's different from the Eight Banners."

"I'm not the kind of Eight Banners soldiers."

The two of them said and walked away, the others were eager to try, and the old horse said angrily: "You guys stop for me, the two of them shoot accurately, what will you do?" Do you have guns? Will you shoot? Everyone thought about it and thought that they didn't have this ability, so they had to stand still, and watched the warriors go away, and the old horse suddenly expanded his hands to his mouth, and shouted loudly: "Meng Qingfu, little Tartar!" You two remember, you fucking come back alive for me. ”

Meng Qingfu turned around and stretched out his thumb to him, and the little tartar saluted a non-standard military salute, as if sniping the Japanese was going to the mountains to pick mushrooms.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of April 8, the first brigade of the first division of the Jiangbei Army finally arrived in Nantong City, and the brigade commander Gao Zhaokui replaced Qiao Zhen as the temporary garrison commander of Nantong.

Gao Zhaokui rode a horse and was tired enough to choke all the way, and at this time he gasped for breath and drank cold water to ask about the local situation, and after learning that the Japanese naval guns were arrogant, Gao Zhaokui also expressed deep helplessness. The Jiangbei Army was already short of artillery, and when it fought against the Beiyang Army, it suffered a lot of losses in artillery.

"Attract them to me from the shore, if the Japanese attack Nantong City, we must not beat them away, but stick them under Nantong City." Gao Zhaokui said to the four regiment commanders under him.

Qiao Zhen sat on the side, thinking of his dead brother in his heart, and couldn't help but cry sadly, Gao Zhaokui walked over, patted him on the shoulder, and asked, "How many people do you still have now?" ”

"There are more than 800 people who can fight." Qiao Zhen said.

"Are they all Nantong locals?"

"There are Nantong, there are start-ups, there are Rugao, there are Chongming, and there are Haimen."

"You guys now retreat to Rugao County to rest, and leave it to us here." Gao Zhaokui said, "I have seen your equipment, you can block the Japanese for a day and a night, you have done your best, I will give you credit." ”

"I don't need to ask for credit, I just want to kill the enemy and avenge my brother." Qiao Zhen said excitedly.

Gao Zhaokui smiled and said: "Don't think about revenge now, you better go home and persuade your family to leave Nantong, Yun Shuai said, Nantong, Haimen and Qidong County may become a big battlefield, I advise you to let your father-in-law's family go." ”

"Didn't they leave?"

"Didn't go."

"Then I'll go back."

Qiao Zhen hurriedly said goodbye to Gao Zhaokui and returned home, but saw his father-in-law, Old Man Tang, put a Taishi chair in the middle of the courtyard, holding a crutch in his hand, basking in the sun gracefully, the sons and daughters-in-law, granddaughters-in-law, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law, granddaughters, and granddaughters around him were all persuading Old Man Tang to move, and Old Man Tang pouted and said: "I won't move away, why do I have to move when Little Japan comes, I just don't move, I want to see, what can Little Japan do with my old man?" ”

Qiao Zhen couldn't cry or laugh, and walked over, and now the eldest son-in-law of the Tang family is the hero of Nantong, the brother-in-law and brother-in-law hurriedly got out of the way, and the nephews and nieces also looked at the past with admiration. Qiao Zhen walked up to the old man and said, "Dad, let's go, if you don't leave, our Tang family will be finished." ”

"What do you mean by that? Can't you beat the little devil? Old Man Tang said angrily.

Qiao Zhen sighed and said, "Dad, to tell you the truth, it's not that I can't beat it, but if I want to beat the little devil, I need the support of the whole country." I have just handed over the post of commander of the Nantong garrison to Brigade Commander Gao, and now I am the commander of the Nantong supplement, and I am going to take my regiment to Rugao County to rest and recuperate. ”

"You're going to run?" Old Man Tang said angrily.