Code Name: Flame

Chapter 23
In the early hours of the morning, Chen Jia and Shen Hongyan entered the position under the cover of night.This is a building that has been half bombarded by cannons. It lies on the floor of the second floor, just enough to cover the Japanese attack line in front.

"Chen Jia, the devils have learned badly. The machine gunners are more than 100 meters away from the skirmish line, and they can't reach them."

Chen Jia lay behind Duanqiang, squinting his eyes and dozed off. Listening to Shen Hongyan's nagging, he said, "Machine gunners are the most useless in street fighting. There is really no need to fight them again. It's a pity, their mortarmen want to Can't do it."

"Then we go around?"

"Don't go. The soldiers of the national army don't know how to recognize the enemy by looking at their clothes. If they are killed by one of their own people, it would be too wronged."

Chen Jia and Shen Hongyan were wearing the dark gray military uniforms of the national army. In order to hide, Chen Jia painted dyes on the clothes to make black, gray and white camouflage clothes.

Why black and white?Because the dwellings in Zhabei are all shanty houses, all of which are of brick and wood structure.The wood has turned black over time.The walls are painted with white lime water, so most of them are white.

There is a squad behind them to protect them, which was specially arranged by Cai Yankai.Chen Jia didn't refuse, only the fool did.With them here, in case of any accident, there will be someone to help.

The squad leader is a veteran who followed Jiang Guangding from Guangdong to the north and south.Because he was illiterate, he became a squad leader in Jiang Guangding's guard company.

He sneaked behind Chen Jia's ambush point, and asked with his head, "Mr. Chen, Mr. Shen, the lunch is here, do you want to eat it?"

Chen Jia turned around and shook her hand, "I don't want to eat, you guys can eat, we will eat at night."

The squad leader hesitated for a moment, and then asked: "I haven't fired all morning, so I can't find the target? Shall we lure them out?"

Chen Jia laughed, the squad leader was a little slippery, "No need, they will always show their heads."

The squad leader was relieved, grinned and shrank back.

The fighting was fierce, and the place where Chen Jia was lying in ambush was hit by several mortar rounds, but luckily they didn't directly hit Xiaolou.Not to mention stray bullets, they have always been there.

Having survived the discomfort of the past few days, Chen and Chen are now veterans, completely indifferent to these, just lying on the floor and taking turns to observe.

The so-called veterans are afraid of numbers, and recruits are afraid of guns.These days they have also learned to listen to the cannon, which was taught by the old squad leader.The scream of the shells passing through the air can tell the approximate point of impact by listening to the sound.

Why are you afraid of numbers?Charge, then we can only see if God will give us food.No matter how rich the combat experience is, it is useless at this time. A person who can hide from a gun is not a human being.

In Chen Jia's eyes, the army at this time was actually quite backward, even the [-]th Route Army, known as the Iron Army.

Soldiers are generally illiterate, which means that slightly complicated tactics are useless, and their understanding is not enough.Once the tactics are simple, the combat effectiveness will not increase. It all depends on the officers to supervise the battle and the soldiers are brave.

More than 3 people beat 4000 people, and the beatings became stalemate.You must know that the Japanese Marine Corps in Hongkou is not the US Marine Corps. One is the fighting scum in the Japanese army, and the other is the elite of the American army. They are two different things.

If it encountered the Japanese elite divisions, the Nineteenth Route Army would have collapsed long ago.That is to say, it was a stalemate with the Japanese Marine Corps. Many people thought that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army was no more than that, which indirectly caused the troops to make mistakes in the second Songhu battle and suffered a big loss.

The so-called know yourself and know the enemy, and you will win every battle.The Japanese navy looked down on the army, thinking that the army was nothing but fighting scum, and even the Japanese marines felt that they were foolish.When it spread to the ears of the Chinese army, it turned out that the Marine Corps is better than the Army.

How did they know that the navy is awesome, and the marines who are not helping the navy guard the warehouse are also awesome.

As a result, they were beaten black and blue by the Japanese army. The last small group of Japanese soldiers could defeat a regiment of the national army, and one Japanese soldier could guard a thousand prisoners without daring to move.why?I was afraid of fighting, and after the failure, I regarded the Japanese soldiers as gods.

"Chen Jia, here we come, can a small captain do it?"

Shen Hongyan, who was in charge of the lookout, suddenly called out in a low voice, and he saw a man who looked like a small captain rushing to the front line.

"Dry, small fish are also fish."

Chen Jiali turned over, climbed to the sniper position, and raised his gun to aim.

"Directly in front, behind the broken wall, there are a few Japanese soldiers by the side."

Chen Jia saw the devil captain from the door cover, talking to the soldiers.

Without hesitation, he pulled the trigger, and his shoulder was hit by the butt of the gun. Chen Jia immediately retracted the gun and crawled back, hiding behind the broken wall.

"Hit."

Shen Hongyan also put away the binoculars, shrank behind the broken wall on the other side, and took out a small notebook to record it.

The squad leader's head poked out from behind, "Another one?"

Chen Jia didn't speak, Shen Hongyan replied: "A small captain, hit the head, hahahaha."

The squad leader looked envious, "Mr. Chen is powerful. If the fight continues like this, the little devil's officer will die."

Shen Hongyan laughed aloud, "That's right, didn't you dare to go to the front line without seeing them?"

Seeing that Shen Hongyan had put away his notebook, Chen Jia got up and bent over to walk to the back, "Change your position."

"Okay." Shen Hongyan agreed, and as soon as he got up, a gunshot fired, and he fell to the floor.

Chen Jia was taken aback, and quickly lay down. Looking over in a blink of an eye, she saw that Shen Hongyan had already hid behind the wall.

"injured?"

"Shot in the shoulder."

Chen Jia regretted for a while, she should have moved a long time ago, and waited for Shen Hongyan to finish writing before leaving, but was followed by someone.

"Can you climb? You go down first, and I will draw their attention away."

Enduring the pain, Shen Hongyan crawled back on the floor, and the squad leader also climbed up, stretched out his hand and grabbed Shen Hongyan, and with a cry of pain, the squad leader pulled her down.

Just as Chen Jia wanted to poke his head to take a look, he immediately felt a very bad feeling, and immediately retracted.

"Snapped……"

Bricks and stones flew, and a bullet hit the brick, missing it by a few centimeters, and Chen Jia's head exploded.

Grass mud horse, there are snipers on the opposite side.

Chen Jia felt cold, and climbed downstairs with hands and feet, "Walk, walk, 100 meters to the south, hurry up."

Under Chen Jia's urging, two soldiers supported Shen Hongyan, and the group hid behind a small building in the south.

"Look at the injury, how is it?"

Shen Hongyan was placed on the ground with a blood hole in his shoulder blade, which looked very scary.

At this time, the small building where they stayed before was hit by several mortars and collapsed instantly, and the faces of several soldiers turned pale.

"Send him to the hospital quickly, squad leader, you take his place."

The squad leader agreed, took the binoculars from Shen Hongyan's body, and ordered the hygienist to bandage him first.

A soldier called for a stretcher, followed by a young man.

Chen Jia took a closer look and couldn't help exclaiming, "Seven officials..."

Zhu Xuefan was also very pleasantly surprised when he heard the sound, and ran over and hugged Chen Jia: "Nong deserves to be alive! Oh my god, I was scared to death. We were driven away by the devils that day and we didn't pick you up, so I kept going Worrying too much. It's all right now, you're alive, that's great."

Maybe he really felt guilty for a long time, and he couldn't help but shed tears.

The big hooligans of the Qing gang shed tears for Chen Jia, and people would not believe what they said, but it was the truth.

Chen Jia patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "I found out that there were devils fighting there when I got to the river, so we took a detour to go back. I was also worried about you. Now it's all right, everything is fine."

Zhu Xuefan wiped away his tears, feeling a little embarrassed, turned his head to look at the injured Shen Hongyan and asked, "Then what's the matter?"

"We are being targeted by devils, and snipers are attacking us. Brother Zhu, why are you here?"

"Mr. Du said that you are fighting a war, and we must do our best, so we organized a group of people to help. The stretcher team is all workers from the post and telecommunications union, and the textile union organized people to cook and deliver meals to the army."

Seeing that the hygienist had finished bandaging Shen Hongyan, Chen Jia held Zhu Xuefan's hand and begged, "Brother Zhu, he is Shen Hongyan, the military staff officer, and my watchman. Please send him to the hospital."

Zhu Xuefan punched him, and said unhappily: "What are you talking about, your brother is my brother, don't worry, I will send him to the best hospital right away."

Chen Jia nodded vigorously, grateful in her heart.

Seeing the stretcher gradually go away, Chen Jia was furious, right?I won’t kill you today, my surname is not Chen.

"Squad leader, let's change places, and you will be my lookout."

(End of this chapter)