Section 53

Zhang Lingfu was carried back to the position, and the officers and men on the front line knew that the regiment commander had been injured because of the previous movements, but after a while, they heard the regiment commander's usual calm and calm command again, and they couldn't help but feel relieved in their hearts, and their arrogance suddenly became arrogant, and there was a burst of cheers on the battlefield.

From the instinctive reactions and cheers of the officers and men, it can also be seen that Zhang Lingfu's prestige in the regiment is very high, and it is really far from being comparable to others.

The Japanese troops who were preparing to launch an offensive again in the distance listened to this cheer, and suddenly stopped the attack, they didn't know whether the reinforcements of the people had arrived, or if there were any other changes, but when they didn't find out the situation, the Japanese commander did not dare to act rashly, and after a few artillery shots from afar, they retreated.

The battlefield that calmed down was filled with a scorching stench, and the stones and others shrouded in this peculiar smell, seeing that the position was still stable for the time being, were also sleepy, and they hurried to take a nap one by one, after all, they had not rested well in the past few days from Fangshan here, and the bloody battles one after another and several rapid marches today had already hollowed out their bodies, making their eyelids also become extremely heavy, and in this case, they almost closed their eyes, They fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took in this confusion, the stone was shaken awake by the pillar on the side, and when he opened his eyes and saw the white sky, the stone was suddenly taken aback, obviously not expecting that it was already dawn after such a slight rest.

"Stone, get up quickly, it's time to retreat!" The pillar reminded from the side.

"Retreat?" Hearing this, the stone was horrified, and instinctively looked towards the front of the position, because the sky was white, and the light was much better than the night, and the result was a blue sky and white sun battle flag floating in front of the position, the flag was dilapidated, and the holes on the flag were even more shocking, and the thin flagpole looked extremely fragile in the smoke and flames everywhere, and it could break at any time, but anyway, the battle flag was still there, indicating that the position had not been lost, which made the stone slightly relieved.

Zheng Pusheng didn't know where he jumped from, there was no nonsense, he just directly beckoned them to evacuate, because he had been preparing to replace the friendly troops of the 305th regiment, so all the equipment and equipment had been packed up, and there was no need to prepare at all, and he could leave with his legs.

Before the stone woke up, he was already following the team in a daze, and along the way, Zheng Pusheng seemed to see his confusion, but took the initiative to tell him about the situation here.

The devil's attack this night was really crazy, there were as many as fifteen or sixteen charges alone, not to mention the shells raging above the position, there was no need to look closely at all, just from the bombardment one after another, it can be judged that there was shrapnel in almost every inch of land on the forward position, and one can imagine the casualties of the friendly troops stationed on this line.

But the 305th Regiment was really brave, in such a situation, it did not retreat even half a step, and as many as seven or eight tanks of the devils were destroyed in front of the position, and the corpses of the devils almost covered the space in front of the position, so that after a night of dark land, at a glance, it was an earthy yellow.

It is said that after the fight, the more than 100 daredevils selected by Commander Zhang have not even arrived in a squad, they use such waves of fearless counterattacks, constantly counterattacking the position of the devils, and constantly winning time for the team behind them to rearrange, in such a consumption and tug-of-war, the whole night, the 305th Regiment did not transfer a reserve from the back, you must know that in Dongshantun, in order to guard the flank of the defense line, the 305th Regiment also left the entire 2nd Battalion, It's barely half the force here.

Listening to the explanation of the battalion commander Zheng on the way to retreat, the stone only felt extremely ashamed, in such a fierce battle, he didn't even feel the slightest feeling, this sleep can really be regarded as sleeping to death, fortunately, the 305th regiment did not recruit them to go up, otherwise in that kind of situation where the eyes can't be opened, I don't know what is going to happen.

No one expected that their evacuation this time would take a whole morning, from the time the sky just began to light up, until they stopped, it was already noon on December 9th, and it was only five days before they came into contact with the Japanese invaders, but in everyone's feelings, it seemed that many months had passed.

The people of the battalion who stopped were scattered around, looking at the neat houses around them, and then looking at the faintly visible city wall in the distance, they were a little confused for a while, what kind of place is this? Looking at the close proximity of the city wall, no one can figure out whether to enter the city or not. And seeing the tall and abnormal appearance of the city wall, they also have some confidence, if they can rely on such a tall city wall to resist the enemy, the situation should be much better than before, after all, looking at the steep appearance of the city wall, the devil should not be able to climb up.

The doubts in their hearts did not last long, after arriving here, Zheng Pusheng was summoned to the regimental headquarters for military discussion, and the first battalion is now only left with part of the three companies commanded by Shi and the first company that broke through with the commander of the Zheng battalion, but with the death of the commander of the Chu company and others, the only remaining platoon commander has become the highest officer of the first company, and in order to facilitate command and management, Zheng Pusheng also simply asked Shi to merge the first company before leaving, and temporarily gather everyone into one company.

The time of the military discussion was very short, it seemed to be the time of a few words, Zheng Pusheng rushed back with a solemn look on his face, and the first sentence after seeing the stone was to split his head and ask: "Have the personnel been deployed?" ”

There are less than a hundred people in total, and the general framework of the third company is still there, this kind of personnel adjustment, naturally there will not be much trouble, Shi thought of the familiar faces that would stay in Fangshan and other places forever, and his mood was very depressed and responded: "Battalion commander, the first battalion plus you and the communicators of the battalion headquarters and one and a half assault groups, a total of 96 people, basically everyone is injured, and there are 5 seriously injured people who need timely treatment." ”

Zheng Pusheng nodded, then pulled the stone aside with an ugly expression and said, "Just now at the regiment headquarters, I got two pieces of news, one good and one bad, which one do you want to hear first?" ”

Shi didn't expect that the battalion commander would still have the heart to ask such a question at this time, and suddenly smiled bitterly: "Is there any difference between good news and bad news now?" Maybe one shell will come down and we'll all be finished. ”

Zheng Pusheng also shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Listening to what Tuanzuo said at the meeting, we basically have no chance to enter the city alive, Tuanzuo said, the positions on the periphery have basically fallen into the hands of devils, and our 74th Army should have withdrawn into the city to rest and recuperate in the bloody battles on the periphery, but the current situation is tense, there is no such opportunity, we will work with the Teaching Brigade, the 87th Division, the 88th Division and other friendly troops to protect the last line of defense in Kyoto, the city is in the people, and the city is dead......"

Shi Shi seemed to have expected such a situation a long time ago, and there was no reaction on his face, but he just sighed for a while and asked, "Battalion commander, where are we now?" ”

"Saihongqiao! In the southwest corner of the capital, from here we used to be Jiqing Gate and Shuixi Gate. Saying that, Zheng Pusheng shook his head and said: "But the city gate is under martial law at this time, and only allowed to go out and not allowed to enter, no one can enter, whether it is the common people or us soldiers." ”

When the stone heard this, he had no other thoughts at all, and after thinking about it, he could still grin and say, "Is this bad news?" ”

Zheng Pusheng couldn't help but glance at him, seeing that this kid had no expression on his face, knowing that his brothers had experienced so many things, and they didn't care about life and death for a long time, so he also took a long breath and scolded with a smile: "Of course, if this is all good news, then we will be finished a long time ago, the good news is that a security regiment from Fengcheng County is about to be transferred to our regiment to be dispersed and replenished, if the establishment is refilled, this is not the front of the devil's attack, we should still have the strength to fight." ”

"Battalion commander, it's useless for us to hold here, such a long line of defense, as long as any place is broken through, the entire defense line will collapse." Shi seemed to think of the battle on the front line of Chunhua Fangshan, and said with palpitations, such a passive defense seemed to leave all the unbearable memories in his heart.

Zheng Pusheng sighed, stretched out his hand and patted the stone on the shoulder and said, "Do your best, let it be the fate of heaven, this kind of thing is not something that we cannon fodder can control, and naturally there are headaches from the peaks." ”

As soon as Shi Shi heard the word "Shangfeng", he immediately pursed his lips dissatisfied, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he swallowed the words that came to his mouth, because he knew that these dissatisfied words were useless, it was just a waste of words.

In this quiet waiting and resting, half an hour later, a messy team entered Saihongqiao from the north, making the position of the 302nd regiment lively, this team is the security regiment that Zheng Pusheng said earlier is about to be added to their regiment, the number seems to be quite a lot, but looking at the uneasy expressions on the faces of these people and the look of shock when they look at them, the experienced people can see at a glance that this is a team that has not been on the battlefield, and they are also extremely disappointed in the rectification. Because they know very well that such a group of people hastily pulling them to the battlefield is just sending them to death.

Under such circumstances, the first battalion was re-equipped with three companies, a machine gun platoon, a supply platoon, and the reconnaissance squad engineer platoon battalion headquarters and other standard configurations, and the team of 96 people was also rapidly expanded to more than 600 people, rebuilding a complete structure, and the first battalion was attached to the regiment of the original security regiment, a major officer named Xu Jingming.

However, there was no expression on the face of the stone from beginning to end, and he looked ignorant of all this.