Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 256 Give You My Last Card

The soldiers carrying the remains and the seriously wounded came back carrying ammunition boxes.

The head of the 644 regiment and his regiment guard company also came together.

Seeing that there were more than 200 people under his command lying down and returning in just one evening and half of the night, this Colonel Wang's resolute character could not help but make his eyes red immediately.

In a turbulent mood, this man simply broke his heart and pulled out his regiment's direct guard company, and followed him to Cangcheng in the dark.

He wanted to see his first battalion of officers and soldiers, and he also wanted to inspect the battlefield to see whether the commander Tang Dao was competent or not.

After all, more than 300 people were killed and seriously injured in the First World War, but they were all his soldiers.

Those soldiers came to this bloody battlefield because of his initiative to ask for a fight.

It is the fate of soldiers to die on the battlefield, and there is nothing to say about it.

But if the commander Tang Dao made a mistake and caused too much battle damage, then the army colonel, whose eyes were full of sorrow, would not be polite to Tang Dao, even if he was the famous commander of the Four Elements Battalion.

However, the first time he saw Tang Dao, the Colonel was actually relieved.

The gunpowder smoke and mud that have not faded away on the face and body can be faked, but the little holes burned by splashing sparks on Tang Dao's uniform cannot be faked, which is a feature that only soldiers who have stayed in the front line know.

Moreover, the infantry company commander who was in charge of transporting the remains also reported to him that Tang Dao, the supreme commander, personally controlled the Oerlikon cannon of the fire support company to kill a Type 89 tank when the battle was at its most critical.

For a commander who can lead by example, no matter how poor his command ability is, he will not be so bad.

Accompanied by Tang Dao, the tall and burly army colonel, who was not inferior to Tang Dao, walked around every position around Cangcheng. It was fried until the ground was soft, and if you touched it casually, you might touch shrapnel, which showed the army colonel the cruelty of the previous two battles.

The horrific battle damage that was cut in half in World War I was not because of a problem with Tang Dao's command, but because the Japanese army's artillery fire intensity exceeded ordinary people's imagination.

The 127mm naval gun and the 105 howitzer are too powerful, a shell falls, with a radius of 50 meters, almost everything is wiped out.

There is even a bomb shelter as deep as 127 meters underground. The falling [-]mm naval gun shells exploded just above it and caused the collapse. An infantry squad of seven or eight people was in it. When the artillery fire was a little looser, Tang Dao immediately ordered people to dig, and among the people who were finally dug out, only one was still alive.

This is because there are bullet holes. If all the people are on the ground and encounter such shelling, it is estimated that few people in the Cangcheng defenders will survive.

And if it wasn't for Tang Dao's risk of only sending out observation posts and ordering the rest of the people to hide in the bullet holes and wait, it is still unknown whether the hundreds of people in Cangcheng can survive the second battle.

Observation posts have also become the arms with the highest death rate, and often six observation posts are sent out, only one or two can survive.

But it is this almost cruel order that has preserved a lot of vitality.

Tang Dao's caution also greatly surprised the colonel.

Even though it was late at night and a brutal battle had just ended, the Japanese army retreated to the field trenches 800 meters away, and the defenders in Cangcheng never let up.

At least one infantry platoon on each wall served as sentinel to guard against night raids by the Japanese.

At this point, the colonel's doubts were all gone.

Of course, Tang Dao knew the purpose of this army colonel taking huge risks to go out of the city to inspect Cangcheng, but he also understood that after all, these officers and soldiers came to this Jedi under his order, and he must care.

At this time, the full moon is in the sky.

There was silence inside and outside Cangcheng.

Following the colonel waving his hand to push back the guards following behind, the two randomly found a stone by the city wall and sat down.

A colonel and a lieutenant colonel each lit a cigarette and smoked silently.

"Battalion Commander Tang, I don't know if you have done anything that you regret very much in your life?" The army colonel suddenly asked with a bit of regret.

"Regret?" Tang Dao narrowed his eyes slightly. "If I have to say I regret it, it's probably because I didn't persuade Captain Xie to let him bring more than two hundred brothers into the concession. At least so far, the Westerners have not kept their promises as they seem on the surface."

Xie Jinyuan has been in touch with the Four Elements Camp for the past two days. Just like in time and space, they were almost imprisoned by the concession, and they couldn't even step out of the dilapidated barracks.

"I've also heard about your Xie regiment leader. He is a real soldier, but he is a bit too square, but you don't need to worry too much. They are the Central Army. No matter what you say, that one will not let this happen." If the tiger generals and a group of elites fall into the hands of the Japanese, sooner or later some means will be used to make them leave the concession." The army colonel comforted Tang Dao.

The corner of Tang Dao's mouth showed bitterness.

In this world, only he knows the direction of history.

That one initially wanted to save hundreds of elites, but after Jinling was conquered by the Japanese army and the entire southeast fell into the enemy's hands, he was already devastated. How could he still remember those hundreds of people?

In the past time and space, that group of elites became a group of forgotten people. Finally, three years later, they were captured by the Japanese army who captured the concession and transported to a small island in the Pacific Ocean to work as coolies. Only a few hundred people returned alive.

Fortunately, he has already left behind a shadow. In this time and space, he will never let a hero become a tragedy.

Seeing Tang Dao's silence, the Colonel didn't say much about this issue, but instead asked: "Then does Battalion Commander Tang know what I regret the most?"

Tang Dao shook his head, he knew that it would be good for him to be an audience at this time.

"I'm regretting what happened yesterday." The colonel slowly stood up, staring at the devastated Cangcheng, and touched the mottled city wall.

"It's just that what I regret is not that I received the military order to let my first battalion be stationed here, but that I, Wang Xirui, regret that I didn't fight with you, Battalion Commander Tang, to be the commander of this Cangcheng position. "The colonel's eyes flashed with pain.

"When I sent them away, there were more than 500 men who were alive and well. They only spent one day and one night! Just give me half of the rest. How much does it hurt in my heart as the head of the regiment?
If I could be here, although my heart still hurts, I would feel better if I stood with them. "

Tang Dao looked at the colonel of the Northeast Army who was tearing under the moonlight, and his heart was greatly moved.

Love soldiers like sons is easy to say, but in this era, there are not many who can do this.With such a chief, the soldiers of the 67th Army who are still going to fight bloody, will be somewhat relieved.

"Commander Wang, I don't know if you believe me or not, but before the Japanese take the lives of all the defenders in Cangcheng, I will make them pay three times the price of me. You hurt me, and I will make their division commander's heart It hurts even more." Tang Dao said bluntly.

The colonel suddenly turned his head and stared at Tang Dao who stood up with firm eyes for a long time.

"I believe you!"

"but."

"Three times is not enough. There are nearly 800 Chinese men in Cangcheng. If you want to conquer this place, what can you do without killing them? The guard company that came with me is handed over to you."

Without waiting for Tang Dao to reply, the colonel put away the sorrow in his eyes and became resolute again, beckoning to the guards in the distance: "Go and tell the guard company to gather, Battalion Commander Tang will give them a lecture."

It turned out that the guard company of the 644 regiment who accompanied the colonel to Cangcheng was not to protect his safety, but to hand it over to Tang Dao.

The 644 regiment guard company, a total of 150 people, four platoons, each platoon 36 people, company headquarters 6 people, one platoon three infantry squads, each squad 11 people, two machine gun shooters with a Czech light machine gun, two Each grenadier is equipped with a grenadier, the squad leader is equipped with a shell gun, and the other 6 infantry are equipped with two Liao-made [-]-style rifles, two shell guns, and two submachine guns.

That also means that this guard company alone has 12 light machine guns, 12 grenadiers, 36 shell guns, and 24 submachine guns. Such a light firepower configuration is far inferior to an infantry squadron of the Japanese army.

And those who can join the guard company must have at least 2 years of service experience. This is a dead rule.

Because the guard company is actually the last elite of the 644 Regiment, the last card in the hands of this sad army colonel, and it is usually not used lightly until the last moment.

Unexpectedly, before the real Songjiang war started, Colonel Wang played his last card, and it was handed over to Tang Dao.

That also means that Songjiang's deployment of troops in Cangcheng has reached 1000 people.

The Guoqi detachment, which is still repairing on the bank of the Huangpu River, will probably have a toothache when they fight Cangcheng again tomorrow morning.

(End of this chapter)