Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 421 Despair!

"Battalion Commander, I can say it!" Lei Xiong glanced at Tang Dao.

"You said, the military meeting itself is to let everyone speak freely." Tang Dao smiled indifferently, and looked sideways at Zhou Dunhou over there.

"However, Commander Zhou, you still have a pack of illegal cigarettes in your possession. It really surprised me! I remember I went to your place last night and smoked you to see that your flesh was hurting. I thought you were out of stock. In the end, it’s all in my purse!”

"Haha, sir, you just know! Old Zhou is the most stingy person. Usually when he meets us, he catches our cigarettes and smokes them to death, but he is reluctant to take out one of his own." Tang Dao teased Zhou Dunhou, the school officials laughed until their teeth burst out.

"No, it is strongly recommended that the local tyrant Lao Zhou smoke. Damn, I must have half of the cigarettes in that meeting? I will count the cigarettes when I go back." Someone was also beating and drumming.

"Hey, you guys are shameless, but Teliang likes to think about what is in other people's pockets. Last time in the Songjiang battle, I saw that you often carried Japanese cigarettes in your purses. I asked you, where are the cigarettes? Let the dog Smoked?" Zhou Dunhou jumped up to fight back after being ridiculed anxiously.

"Woooo!" The hammer lying on the side groaned twice, and stared at Zhou Dunhou with a pair of dog eyes in an extremely unfriendly manner.

Four fangs protrude from the lips.

What, the dog messed with you?People in Jiangnan are gentle by nature, but that doesn't mean dogs are too. Hammer has a short temper.

"Hey, little hammer, I didn't mean to scold you, come, come, get a piece of jerky to eat. Don't show your teeth, don't show your teeth." Zhou Dunhou was startled, and he slipped into his military uniform with a bit of pain He took out a piece of jerky and threw it over.

Originally, the hammer wearing the military uniform vest was a joke to the officers and soldiers of the 67th Army and the 43rd Army who joined the advance regiment. It was fine for Chief Tang to raise a watchdog as a military dog, but even pinned the dog with a second-class collar badge.

But in the battle against the Japanese bombing formation a few days ago, Hammer was the first to hear the roar of the enemy plane and issued a warning, at least buying an extra minute for the whole army.

No one dares to underestimate those 1 minutes, maybe just that 1 minutes will save hundreds of people from dying.

Moreover, even if Tang Dao led a small team to harass the main force of the Japanese army, he still had to bring the scout 'Hammer'. It was a battlefield where a slight mistake would be irreversible, and it fully demonstrated that 'Hammer' was unique. different dogs.

Not to mention that it can understand human speech now, it is not uncommon to understand Japanese.

"My day, Lao Zhou, you are so frugal, you still have meat!" A school official looked at Zhou Dunhou's 'hammer', who didn't even hear it, and forgave his lack of a dog's integrity, chewing heartily. , the eyes are a little straight.

In order to let the Songjiang army have enough strength to fight, the Songjiang headquarters also made great efforts to cook all the meat that could be collected in Songjiang, including the Japanese horses that were killed in the Songjiang wilderness that day. Then drain the water with earthen methods. Soldiers and officers are treated equally, and each person carries five pieces of bread with one catty of dried meat.

In case of an emergency, these are their energy supplements, enough for an adult to survive for three days and still have enough physical strength.

Ten days have passed since the Battle of Songjiang, and most of the soldiers have already eaten all the meat and bread with the intention of not being a starving ghost.

Even if we saved a little, after the six days of fast marching, which was extremely energy-intensive, we still ate nothing. To replenish energy on the way, we really had to rely on the broth made from the horse meat of all the dead war horses and pack horses ordered by Tang Dao at that time. Otherwise, it is really not necessarily possible to stay ahead of the 36th Infantry Brigade with canned meat.

Unexpectedly, the stingy old Zhou had a piece of bacon hidden under his body.

However, no matter how stingy the major battalion commander who accidentally scolded the dog at this moment, he can only take the jerky that the headquarters issued before the war to supplement the nutrition of the big guys to appease the most special 'soldier' ​​of the advance regiment .

"Nonsense, why can't I have it? I've been relying on this piece of meat for dinner these days." Zhou Dunhou answered his colleague angrily.

"Isn't the meat still there? How did you serve the meal?" The school officer was taken aback.

"Look at it! If you can't do it, smell it. If you can't, I'll lick it! It smells delicious!" Zhou Dunhou replied naturally.

'Uh' Tang Dao couldn't help grinning.

It seems that Zhenteliang is a good method, worthy of promotion by the whole army, the only drawback is that it is a bit disgusting.

'hammer'.
It seems that the bacon is not so fragrant anymore!

But we are dogs, afraid of a ball!Isn't it just the saliva of an old man?
This was probably a not-too-complicated psychological struggle in the heart of Hammer, who froze while eating meat at that moment, but then quickly went on to feast on it.

"Haha!" Everyone laughed.

Invisibly, it relieved the atmosphere of the two majors who had been bearded and stared before.

At the same time, the tension over the removal of an infantry regiment from the 18th Division was less intense than it had been before.

The general is the courage of the soldiers. They don't panic, and the soldiers will naturally not be afraid.

These battlefield veterans are using their way to ease the fear caused by the rope that is slowly wrapped around the neck.

"Come on, Lei Xiong, tell me." Tang Dao patted the map with his hand, and pulled a group of school officials who got off topic into the military meeting again.

"I just said that old Zhou was innocent, so I must have been joking." Lei Xiong straightened his face. "However, we can know from the map that our current location is not far from the Jiashan defense line. Doesn't the Japanese army know?"

"Of course they know, even, I dare to conclude, after they continuously monitored my marching route through the reconnaissance plane in the sky two days ago, they came to the judgment that our department is approaching the main force of our department."

"Of course I know this, but the wild space is so large, unless someone deliberately leaked our army's whereabouts, how could the Japanese block us at night?" Zhou Dunhou frowned.

80.00% of the reason why the Japanese army can hold on to the advance group is due to the reconnaissance planes of the Japanese Navy twice a day, but that is only during the day. If the advance group insists on marching at night, the Japanese will never know their movements of.

"If we can give up all our supplies, including the wounded, and travel lightly, as long as there are no traitors, the Japanese will certainly have nothing to do with us." Lei Xiong sighed softly. "But not only we know it, even the Japanese know it, we won't."

Zhou Dunhou was stunned.

What Lei Xiong said was the weakness of the advance group.Although the advance regiment was composed of an elite army, it was not a strong army for attacking the vanguard. Their original mission was just to be abandoned sons, attracting abandoned sons from the Japanese bombing formation and the Tenth Army.

Their mission has been completed, and they are now fighting for their own survival, but it does not mean that they can abandon all supplies, especially the seriously wounded in continuous battles.

Not only are the newly injured seriously wounded, but now there are also medical teams from the original 43rd Army and hundreds of wounded in the team.

As Lei Xiong said, they can run into the wilderness with light equipment, bypass the main battlefield overnight, and join the main force after entering the defense line, but can they abandon the wounded and the baggage?Obviously not.

"Also, what you said, Lao Zhou, is that you want the headquarters to send an infantry regiment to meet us." Lei Xiong's expression became more serious. "Don't count on it. If I were Japanese, I would definitely attack with all my strength, forcing my main force not to move away from a single soldier."

"If I'm not mistaken, the Japanese No. 18 Division must have been attacking with all its strength in the past two days, so that the main force of our army will be able to defend the line of defense with all its strength."

"The command sent me a telegram at noon. The No. 18 division was put into the reserve for the first time in the past two days. Not counting the auxiliary arms such as cavalry, artillery, and engineers, the infantry alone reached 11 infantry brigades. Our defense line was forced to retreat. Four kilometers, currently defending the second line of defense." Tang Dao's voice was low.

The school officials all showed sadness in their eyes.

It's not because they know that the main force under such heavy pressure is unable to send even a single soldier to meet them, but because there are only a few lines of defense in Jiashan's defense line. Now the first line of defense has been broken, and the whole army retreats to the second line. Dao, how long can the whole line of defense last?

On the Japanese side, although there is only one division with 30,000 people, they still have a heavy artillery brigade and the assistance of Japanese bombers in the sky. Without six infantry divisions or even more troops, they are absolutely unstoppable.

Now, the Songhu army has retreated crazily, and the Chinese army on this gateway in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has only these three infantry divisions, and there is no backup.

Even if the two or three thousand of them return desperately, facing such a rotten battle situation, not to mention not being able to get help, it might be counterproductive.

Behind them, there is still an infantry brigade with a strength of [-] troops, which is almost half the strength of a division.

It's just hopeless!
(End of this chapter)