Chapter 496 Bloody Dawn
The so-called closed eyes and open eyes for a day.
Opening your eyes for a day means that when a person wakes up, he starts to be busy, and the day passes without realizing it.
Close your eyes for a night means that you don’t know anything when you fall asleep and only start a new life after waking up.
Some people say that you must be energetic in the morning, because the sun is new every day.
Those who say this must have never experienced war. Only those who have experienced war know that they may never open their eyes when they close their eyes. That is not to close their eyes for a night, but to close their eyes for a lifetime.
Wang Laomao and the others were awakened by Shang Zhen, and after Shang Zhen woke them up, he left in a hurry.
"This guard is the one, alas." Qin Chuan sighed.
Qin Chuan began to miss the time when Wu Keyong was not given to him as a guard.
Although fighting the Japanese was very hard at that time, and sometimes those who were chased by the Japanese also ran away with a life-threatening escape, at least they don’t have to get up before dawn like now.
In Qin Chuan's thoughts, at least there were other Northeast Army officers and soldiers outside, so they could continue to sleep for a while.
It is often said that even if you die, you must be a full devil. The death row prisoner will have a full meal before being executed.
Then in today's battle, I am very likely to be killed, so why can't I sleep well?
But it would be impossible to be a guard for Wu Keyong. The commander of the army didn't sleep. The guards still wanted to sleep in, but there was no door!
However, before Qin Chuan's sigh was over, they heard the faint sound of gunfire from outside.
"These damn gangs, they started to toss before dawn!" Qin Chuan cursed angrily at the side of his shoes with mud-crawlers on his feet.
"Let's just be open!" Qian Chuaner, who was also wearing shoes, persuaded him, "There are tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands behind us running away. The Japanese don't want our people to run away. Both sides are fighting for time. They still care about when you will!"
The reason Qian Chuaner said was undoubtedly valid, and Qin Chuan didn't say anything.
At this time, the Chinese officers and soldiers who were retreating south from the Songhu area were still lined up on the road.
That's a force worth hundreds of thousands, and it's definitely not something that can be removed in three or two days.
In later generations, it was completely mechanized, which means that a division of a troops transport convoy would walk a day and night when passing by a village, not to mention those hundreds of thousands of troops.
And how could the Japanese army allow the Chinese army to escape from the battlefield in Songhu so easily?
In the light of the sky, the Japanese aircraft on the airports occupied by the Japanese army, the aircraft carriers at sea, and the Japanese aircraft are ready to take off. They will bombard the retreating Chinese troops again.
But how could the Japanese army be satisfied with this?
The effect of the bombing was limited after all, and the Japanese army launched another attack on Songjiang City, which lies between them and the Chinese army.
"The company commander asked us to take all the grenade launchers and grenades!" Just as Wang Laomao and his team finished their bundles, the communication soldier Hu Zi ran in.
"What are you doing with a grenade launcher? Do we also need to go to the front line? Or guard the wall?" asked Xiao Zhuoqi.
"How could I know!" Hu Zi replied.
"What else do you know?" Xiao Wuji said dissatisfied.
"I just knew how to send a message!" Hu Zi ignored Xiao Wuji's dissatisfaction.
Hu Zi and Bi Xiao Wuji are two years older, but in terms of age, they have a good relationship when they are the age of their group, because they are naturally in love and kill each other.
When Wang Laomao and his men took some soldiers to find Shang Zhen on the streets of the county town, Shang Zhen pointed out the terrain of the county town and Wang Laomao to study how to guard it.
Seeing Shang Shang Zhen like this, the faces of the soldiers under his command became solemn.
Shang Zhen's judgment has always been very accurate. It seems that today they are going to the battlefield.
And when they went to the battlefield, no one would defend the commander Wu Keyong, or in other words, no commander Wu Ke would lead them to make a last try!
The sky was getting brighter, and Shang Zhen and the others happened to be on the city wall saw Japanese planes appearing in the distance.
Shang Zhen and the others became nervous. Although the Northeast Army currently has anti-aircraft machine guns, the role of many Northeast Army's high-aircraft guns will be limited after all.
However, Shang Zhen and the others were wrong. The Japanese plane did not come to Songjiang County, but flew far to the west until it disappeared into the horizon.
They looked into the horizon and knew that the Japanese plane must have bombed the retreating Chinese army.
They seemed to see the Japanese planes dive again and again, throwing strings of bombs into the Chinese army that was eager to retreat, and that would be a scene of massacre.
I wonder if the retreating Chinese officers and soldiers had anti-aircraft machine guns?
Shang Zhen and the others thought that everything that happened next had left them with no time to take on the responsibility of friendly forces.
The sound of "bang-bang" cannons came from afar, and then shells flew into Songjiang County. This was the first time that the Japanese army had shot shells into the county, and the Japanese army became closer and closer.
And just as the explosion of the shells, Shang Zhen and the others retreated from the city. As guards, they would eventually return to Wu Keyong's side.
"Everyone listen carefully to the sound of shells. Don't be afraid of the sound of whizzing sounds. The shells flew over our heads.
But if there is such a puff sound, you will directly knock down the commander!" Zhang Zhen ordered to his soldiers.
In fact, Shang Zhen and others had never been blown up by the Japanese cannons. Shang Zhen's statement was only heard from others.
The reason why they were not bombed by Japanese cannons was because they rarely fought serious positions.
They have always fought guerrilla warfare, and the Japanese army could not use large-caliber cannons on small units like them, that is, anti-aircraft cannons to kill mosquitoes. If they knew that the Japanese army used large-caliber cannons, they would have run away long ago.
But now it is different. They must protect the commander Wu Keyong.
At this point, all of them realized that the commander's guard was not easy to be.
As the sky became brighter and the Japanese army attacked more and more fiercely around, and more shells were flying into the city.
There was smoke and dust everywhere. An explosion caused a fire and a house burned. Above the smoke and dust, there was black smoke, and the sight of the world was a scene of a doomsday.
Shang Zhen and the others guessed that in Songjiang County, they were afraid that half of the houses had been blown into broken houses by Japanese artillery shells.
However, Shang Zhen and the others were very lucky. As time came to noon, everything was fine and there was no danger.
The nearest bomb explosion site was dozens of meters away from the military headquarters, and Shang Zhen threw Wu Keyong down, but was immediately scolded by Wu Keyong.
At noon, the Chinese officers and soldiers outside Songyuan County finally returned to the county town.
Shang Zhen and others, who were beside Wu Keyong, got the latest battle situation like Wu Keyong. Most of the positions around Songjiang County were lost. There were only more than 2,000 officers and soldiers returning to the county town.
The only thing the Sixty-Seventh Army can do now is to defend the city.
"I have been idle for more than 20,000 good boys in the northeast!" Chu Tian sighed in a low voice.
But Wu Keyong heard this sentence again.
"What are you talking about when a man dies on the battlefield?" Wu Keyong said.
Chapter completed!