Section 51

The people of the third company in the woods and the brothers left behind by the 347th regiment did not wait here for too long, but it was about two quarters of an hour, and the messenger of the battalion headquarters brought the order to retreat, and the stone naturally did not want to stay here longer, the devil's strength far exceeded them, once they turned back, the grim situation they faced could be imagined, after getting the order to retreat, he seemed a little impatient to take everyone all the way west.

Zheng Pusheng was already waiting in the small village on the other side of the river with several brothers from the second company, and when he saw Shi and others appear in the wilderness from a distance, he hurried out to meet them, with a look of deep concern.

"How's the stone? You're in trouble with the devils? Zheng Pusheng sent them out of the stone before, but it was also a helpless move, and then he heard from the people who withdrew from the 347 regiment that they had a firefight with the devil in the woods, and the whole body was cold, the situation of the third company, he knew too well, the old old, the small one, added up to only a dozen people, even if the stone was brave, the role it could play in this kind of fight was limited, so he instinctively thought that the third company was almost finished, which made him deeply blame himself, and uncharacteristically greeted such a long distance.

Looking at Zheng Pusheng's concerned expression, Shishi's heart was also full of gratitude, and a rare smile appeared on his face, and he replied sonorously: "Battalion commander, the little devil was repelled by us." ”

Zheng Pusheng was not concerned about this, and continued to ask: "How many brothers have you broken?" ”

When he said this, Zheng Pusheng instinctively looked at the people behind the stone, and to his surprise, Lao Meng, Zhuzi, Xiao Shandong and others appeared in his sight one by one, which also relaxed most of his previous eagerness.

"Battalion commander, except for Zhang Donkey's skin being scratched by a bayonet and Wu Tou twisting his foot, there are no other losses." Shi also replied with a long sigh, he thought of Xiao Shandong, the enemy's close shot, but it was too scary, if it wasn't for a coincidence, I am afraid that their mood at the moment would be diametrically opposite.

"Good! Good! Good! Zheng Pusheng happily said three good words in a row, and his eyes looked at the back of the stone seriously, this time he looked in more detail, a dark and familiar face, full of fatigue after the bloody battle, but this was enough to satisfy Zheng Pusheng.

"Let's go, let's hurry up and cross the bridge, next, there is still a lot of way to go!" The stone hanging in Zheng Pusheng's heart at this moment was finally put down, and the whole person returned to his usual free and easy, and even when he spoke, he seemed to have strength.

Hearing this, Shi Shi felt strange, and couldn't help asking, "Battalion commander, are you going to withdraw?" Shen Jingtang doesn't want it here? We're retreating again? ”

Hearing this, the faces of the people around him also became ugly, some time ago it was a constant retreat, and today there was just a battle here and you want to retreat? This kind of day of running away with their legs is really unbearable for them, but as the lowest-level soldiers, their words will not have the slightest effect and effect at all, and it is useless to say it.

Zheng Pusheng replied while hurrying: "We can't hold it at all!" Commander Zhong, who withdrew from the 347th Regiment in front, said that the devils attacking from this direction are the main force of the 6th Division, and the 11th Brigade is the first, which is the follow-up force of the devils landing from Hangzhou Bay, and it is a new force, and there are more than 10,000 people in only one brigade, what can we do with this little person? ”

"More than 10,000 people?" Stone was taken aback, in the woods before, a squadron of devils made him feel a little difficult to deal with, at this time the number swelled sharply, more than 10,000 people, what kind of concept is this? Shi involuntarily swallowed a mouthful of spit and asked, "Battalion commander, are there still so many troops defending in our direction?" ”

Zheng Pusheng was also uncertain and said: "If you want to say Qingpu, there should be more than 20,000 people in the two divisions of our 74th Army, counting the shortage, plus the losses during this time, there should be more than 10,000 people, but the number of people alone is useless, and now the follow-up ammunition can no longer keep up with the supply, and it is worse than the devil in terms of firepower, so this battle is even more difficult to fight!" ”

"Battalion commander, we are such a river-by-river blockade, village by village, taking human lives in exchange, and the devil will always have a time to finish fighting!" Lao Meng finally couldn't help the doubts in his heart and said.

Zheng Pusheng didn't stop, looked at the wooden bridge that was already not far in front of him, and said with a long breath: "The devil has an airplane cannon!" The face-to-face bloody battle is not the same thing as your previous ambush! I heard Commander Wu say that when the follow-up devils attacked, they all started with tanks, we don't have heavy weapons, a company has a heavy machine gun, what do you spend with the devils? Before the devils charged, there was a volley of artillery fire, and under the overwhelming shells, the brothers finished together with the position. And what about us? Bullets can't penetrate the devil's tank, and they are blindly beaten, how can this battle be fought? From Luodian to here, we have really eaten enough of this hardship! ”

Shi Shi was puzzled and asked, "Battalion commander, then why can't we ambush devils everywhere?" Behind the detour to attack the devil? Can't you fight the front, can't you change the way? ”

Zheng Pusheng didn't expect that Shi Shi already had such thinking ability and ideas at this moment, so he asked approvingly: "Do you want to fight guerrillas with devils?" This is the way to go. ”

Stone doesn't know what * is, but after so many battles, he can be regarded as understanding many things, the victory he won in the Xiaoliu River, and the victory he won in the grove today, were all through surprise attacks to defeat the devil, and his own losses after the two battles were not large, on the contrary, in several bloody battles ordered to hold their positions, even if they repelled the devil's attack, it was a huge loss of personnel, which made him have ideas.

"Battalion commander, this is our land, in terms of understanding the terrain and environment, the devils can't compare with us at all, can't we outflank and keep ambushing the devils?" Shi heard the encouragement in Camp Commander Zheng's tone, so he plucked up his courage and said.

Zheng Pusheng also nodded when he heard this: "Stone, you are right, if we fight like this, our losses can indeed be minimized, the advantage of the devil is that the firepower is strong, and if they don't give them a place to play, they will be short-handed, who is afraid of whom!" ”

These words made Shi even more puzzled, and he immediately asked: "Battalion commander, then why are we still fighting with devils one by one?" Didn't the governors think about these things? ”

Zheng Pusheng shook his head and asked rhetorically, "Stone, do you think Captain Zhang is powerful?" ”

I don't know why the battalion commander asked like this, but Shi nodded instinctively, Commander Zhang commanded them in Luodian to kill the devils very easily, and in the extremely difficult situation of Xiaoliuhe, there was also the courage to eat the devils who crossed the river in one go, not to mention anything else, just this kind of arrogance, which made Shi extremely admired.

"Commander Zhang graduated from the fourth phase of the Huangpu Military Academy, he is decisive in killing, courageous, and can be regarded as a fierce general, but in our 51st Division, if you pick a regiment commander or brigade commander at random, you will not be worse than Commander Zhang in terms of the ability to fight, from this can also be seen, those division commanders, army commanders and other commanders, how powerful, we can all see things, they will not understand?"

Shi suddenly nodded a little distractedly, what the battalion commander said was not unreasonable, thinking about those high-ranking officers, he was even more dazed, and he couldn't figure out what was going on.

"In fact, there is no way to fight like this." After all, Zheng Pusheng has been in the army for a much longer time than a stone, and his insight is also extraordinary, so he broke this silence and said: "No one can afford this responsibility." ”

"Responsibility?" The stone asked strangely, and Lao Meng and the others on the side completely closed their mouths.

"A huge Shanghai is here, if you don't withdraw without a fight and let the devils occupy it, how many ordinary people will fall into the hands of the devils? If this land is given up in order to care about the death and injury of the army, then it is the sinner of the entire Chinese nation, and who can afford this kind of sin that bears the infamy of eternity? Zheng Pusheng said helplessly, as if he was deeply distressed by the situation in front of him.

Unconsciously, they had already come to the wooden bridge, Zheng Pusheng rushed over without the slightest hesitation, and the stone and the others were also a little overwhelmed by the heavy topic before, and followed closely.

And it wasn't until they crossed the bridge that they found that the position was already empty, and the trench that had been dug in a desperate hurry to get rid of them was abandoned in this way.

"Battalion commander, Commander Zhong of the 347th Regiment, they also withdrew?" Shi Shi looked at the empty trench and said with mixed feelings.

"Gone, all withdrawn, the 58th Division suffered heavy losses, and we are in a hurry to go to Qingpu to replenish, let's move faster, the company is still waiting for us in the Shenjingtang area!" Zheng Pusheng was urging, and he also quickened his pace, but Shi Lao Meng and the others looked back at this neighborhood a little reluctantly, this position, has not experienced a bloody battle, so they gave up so easily?

Thinking of the devils who attacked them, they were part of the 100,000 reinforcements of the devils who landed from Jinshanwei as Battalion Commander Zheng said, and the mood of Shi and the others was even worse, two days ago, the battalion commander also said that a friendly army had rushed to Songjiang City to defend, how could it only be killed in front of them in a few days, is this battle really over?

This kind of result that just swelled up a little hope and was extinguished immediately made everyone around very depressed, especially the platoon left behind by the 347th Regiment, seeing that all the troops were retreating all the way, they all looked ugly and almost wrung out of water.