Chapter 81: Crossfire
"What unknown army? That's a friendly army, a friendly unit of the 500th Army! It's reinforcements invited by the military seat! Now reinforcements have arrived. Immediately lead your troops to attack the Thirteenth Wing and assist your allies in the fight against the enemy! The regiment commander didn't know, of course Zhang Lingfu knew that this was a reinforcement from the 500 Army, and it was the helper invited by the army commander Wang Yaowu who was cheeky and said a lot of good things. The military seat told him all in the telegram.
At the beginning, Zhang Lingfu and his subordinates were talking and laughing, and Master Zhang became excited as he spoke. What situation the troops are facing now, Zhang Lingfu, as the division commander, of course, knows very well what this battle can look like in the end, but he has no bottom in his heart, and the only thing he can know is: He can't retreat without an order! Zhang Lingfu is now directing the battle with the mentality that the whole army will die and he will die in battle.
In fact, on the battlefield of resistance against Japan, Zhang Lingfu fought with this mentality most of the time. In the letter he wrote to his eldest brother, he said: "In this war of resistance, fighting for the survival of the country and the nation, the soldiers are in danger, life and death are uncertain, my family is dead, do not think that I am still alive, and I will die. Marry your wife and let it be natural. The image of a dignified soldier who stands up to the sky and is ready to die for the country and the people flashes between the lines. Now, just when he and his 58th Division were in a desperate situation and preparing to die for their country, a support force suddenly appeared, and this feeling was really wonderful!
"Staff Officer Qiu, I will draw a platoon for you from the special agent battalion, and you can take it with you to find the brothers of the 500th Army to pick up the head and express our respect. In addition, we also need to figure out how they are going to fight and what we want us to do. If it's inconvenient for you to come back, stay in the 500th Army for the time being, and use the 500th Army's radio to contact me if there is any situation. "People came to help, and I sent someone over to show politeness, which is the posture that the main force of the Central Army should have, Zhang Lingfu saw this very clearly.
"Yes!" Staff Officer Qiu is a descendant of Deputy Division Commander Zhang, and of course he can understand Deputy Division Commander's proud heart. Salute, straighten out the uniform, turn around, and go to the special battalion to select people.
"Inform all the officers leading the troops on the front line: Reinforcements have arrived, and when the friendly forces are launched, all units of our division will immediately launch a counterattack on the whole line, and strive to defeat the Japanese invaders in one fell swoop!" After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Lingfu felt that the news of the arrival of reinforcements should still be known to all the officers and men of the division, and only in this way could everyone cheer up, and if the 500 Army launched a large-scale attack on the Japanese, he would be able to cooperate forcefully.
Chief of Staff Qiu led the platoon of the special service battalion cautiously bypassing the main battlefield where the two sides exchanged fire, and although they were doubly cautious along the way, small clashes were inevitable. Tens of thousands of devils are surrounding outside, and it is not so easy to bypass them quietly. After all, there were few people and the target was small, and the squad adhered to the spirit of never falling in love with war and leaving when it was touched, and at the cost of the lives of nearly 20 soldiers, it finally escorted Staff Officer Qiu out of the line of fire.
It was already dark, and in the dark forest, a team of more than a dozen people was walking forward one foot at a time. It took nearly four hours to cross the line of fire, during which time there were three small battles, and the number of enemies destroyed did not need to be calculated, but a platoon on his side had lost nearly two-thirds. There is nothing to say about the hard work, Chief of Staff Qiu thinks that he is not a pampered young master, but at this time, his toes began to be ground and hurt when he walked, and it is estimated that he either broke or blistered.
Can't stop! It doesn't matter if it's blistering or not, you can't stop! Staff Officer Qiu didn't know if he would be able to muster up the courage to follow the team after seeing the injury on his foot. Now, although my toes hurt terribly with every step I take, and I am a little limp when I walk, I can still walk with everyone and I can't fall behind. It has already come out, and it seems that it will not be long before it will be able to join the brethren of the 500th Army. There must be a military doctor in the 500 army, and when the time comes, you can take medicine and bandage, and your injured foot can rest for a while, but now you don't dare to stop a step!
"Stop! Who? With a shout, there was a strange sound of "bang, bang, bang" in the darkness ahead, the sound was familiar, it was the sound of pulling the bolt. The shouting voice is Chinese, and although it has an accent, it is a standard Chinese language. The Japanese can't speak this accented Chinese, Chinese!
"Don't get me wrong! We are of the Seventy-Fourth Army! When the soldiers on his side were also pulling the bolts, Staff Officer Qiu hurriedly reported the number of his unit loudly. This tense moment is again in the dark woods where the moonlight does not shine, and if one of them does not control it and fire first, it will be a tragedy!
"Of the Seventy-Fourth Army? Don't fire! Don't shoot, everyone! A voice on the other side called out to the soldiers on the other side, and then a pillar of light shone through, the light of a flashlight.
Knowing that there were friendly troops on the other side, Staff Officer Qiu and the others didn't make any drastic movements, at most they blocked their eyes when the light hit their faces. The flashlight turned around on the people of the 74th Army one by one, and the grass leaves "rattled" for a while, and dozens of soldiers emerged from all around, looking at the clothes on their bodies, they were indeed the national army.
"Are you really from the Seventy-Fourth Army? Why are the clothes different from ours? "The 500 Army is still the kind of old-fashioned blue cloth military uniform, and the 74th Army has changed into dark green American military uniforms, and the 500 Army, these native soldiers who have never seen the world, of course, feel strange when they look at it. However, the other party is definitely not a devil, and the soldiers of the 500 Army can still be sure of this, so the soldiers just looked back and forth, and there were no other impolite movements.
"What's so strange, the 74th Army is the Central Army, it is the ace army, and of course the clothes are different from ours!" The tone of the statement is not very good.
"I'm Wang Dexiang of the 500 Army Reconnaissance Regiment, may I ask who is in charge of your army?" A lieutenant officer stepped out of the crowd and looked at these soldiers of the Seventy-fourth Army and asked very solemnly.
"The contemptible person is Qiu Hongbin, the staff officer of the 58th Division of the 74th Army." Staff Officer Qiu smiled and walked over to the lieutenant officer and stretched out his hand.
The officer of the 500th Army is a lieutenant, but Staff Officer Qiu has the rank of lieutenant colonel, several levels apart. However, in this situation, Staff Officer Qiu has no intention of paying attention to the level of military rank. Wang Dexiang obviously didn't know the American-style military rank, and glanced at the flowers on Staff Officer Qiu's collar and shoulders in a daze, the staff officer of the division headquarters, presumably the military rank would not be lower. Seeing that the other party's hand was stretched out, he quickly held it.
"We are also about to contact the 74th Division, and it is just in time that Staff Officer Qiu is here! Come on, everybody, come with me to our chief. As Wang Dexiang spoke, he pulled Staff Officer Qiu and left, almost pulling Staff Officer Qiu to his head. Hey? Staff Officer Qiu was injured? "In the end, it's a scout, just from the foot of Staff Officer Qiu, I know that this one is injured.