Guard platoon leader Deng Baoguang was leaning against the bedside, looking at the photo in his hand and giggling. Warrant officer platoon deputy Ye Xiaoxian had just returned from the kitchen after eating. He couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this scene. The platoon leader now looked like a harmless animal.
He is like the big brother next door, which is far different from the usual villain image on the training field.
"Platoon leader, is this girl your wife?"
Ye Xiaoxian went to the side to take a look and found that there was a pretty girl in the photo.
Deng Baoguang smiled naively, shook his head and said, "No, I haven't married yet."
After that, Deng Baoguang wrapped the photo in red silk and carefully put it into his shirt pocket and hid it close to his body. Then he took out a small coarse cloth bag from the bedside, opened it, took out a pile of Guangyang from it and began to count them one by one.
While counting, he said sweetly: "When I win a few more battles and save a hundred oceans, I will go home and marry her in a grand manner with eight carriages."
Ye Xiaoxian was stunned and asked: "Platoon leader, the war is so tight now, will the regiment allow you to go back?"
"Silly boy." Deng Baoguang finished counting the money and put it away again. He turned around and said, "The Anti-Japanese War would have been won long ago, and we no longer have to live with our heads in our hands. We can rely on the bonuses and military pay we have saved to marry a wife and spend more money.
In the middle of the day, you give birth to a lot of babies, and you keep your wife and children in the hot pit, that’s how the life feels.”
Ye Xiaoxian said: "Platoon leader, it turns out you don't like fighting or killing people either?"
"Nonsense." Deng Baoguang said angrily, "Who would like to kill people if they have nothing to do? Are they sick?"
Ye Xiaoxian curled his lips and said nothing more, but he cursed in his heart: The brothers in the platoon say that you are so murderous that you even drink the blood of little devils on the battlefield. How dare you say that you don't like killing? Only a ghost can believe it!
Deng Baoguang seemed to have guessed what Ye Xiaoxian was thinking, and said, "Did someone tell you something? That I am murderous? That I am a murderer who even drinks the blood of little devils?"
Ye Xiaoxian said: "Platoon leader, have you really drank blood?"
"Drink." Deng Baoguang frowned and said, "During the most difficult days of the Battle of Jiangpu, we were trapped in a small area of less than 500 meters by the Japs. We ate all the food and drank all the water.
The brothers were really thirsty, so they went to find a Japanese who had just died and his blood was still cold, stabbed him in the neck first, and then he went up to him and sucked..."
Ye Xiaoxian's stomach suddenly began to churn violently, and he almost vomited on the spot.
Deng Baoguang laughed loudly and said: "Silly boy, the taste of Japanese blood is quite good. If you have a chance, try it. I think you will like it, hahaha..."
Ye Xiaoxian finally couldn't bear it anymore, turned over and vomited.
Deng Baoguang did not laugh at Ye Xiaoxian, nor did he reprimand him harshly. For a recruit who had just joined the army for less than two months, such behavior was not shameful. Deng Baoguang was also a recruit at that time. I remember the first time he went to the battlefield, Deng Baoguang heard the artillery fire.
I was so scared that I peed my pants!
"Di di di di..."
A shrill whistle suddenly sounded on the playground outside the station.
Deng Baoguang immediately jumped up from the bed, hurriedly tidied up his military appearance, turned around and rushed out of the barracks. Ye Xiaoxian also quickly got up and rushed out of the barracks. On the playground outside the camp, four figures had already stood upright like javelins, looking impressively at attention.
They are Baoshan Brigade Commander Yue Weihan and Chief of Staff Liu Yi.
Behind the two men stood Battalion Commander Li Yulong and Battalion Deputy Liu Fengsheng, who were chewing their whistles and blowing hard.
Amidst the piercing whistles, the officers and soldiers of the Bayonet Battalion quickly swarmed out from the surrounding barracks. In less than a moment, more than 500 officers and soldiers had arrived.
Li Yulong strode forward and stood in front of the Bayonet Battalion's queue, and said murderously: "We are..."
"Bayonet Camp, Baoshan Brigade's Bayonet Camp!"
"we are……"
"Hard bones, hard bones that cannot be broken!"
"we are……"
"Iron fist, Yue Weihan's iron fist!"
"Take a break!" Li Yulong suddenly turned around, stood at attention and saluted to Yue Weihan and Liu Yi, "Brigade seat, all 586 people of the Bayonet Battalion have been assembled. Please give me instructions!"
"Okay!" Yue Weihan took two steps forward and shouted solemnly, "What a strong-armed bayonet battalion, what a Yue Weihan's iron fist, with great momentum! Now I order..."
Li Yulong, Liu Fengsheng and the entire battalion of officers and soldiers stood up and stood at attention.
Yue Weihan paused and then said: "The bayonet battalion stationed at the train station overnight! Your battalion's mission is... to abandon the train station for three days!"
"ah?"
"What?"
Li Yulong, Liu Fengsheng and the entire battalion were dumbfounded. They abandoned the station for three days. What was this order? Did the commander say the wrong thing, or did he hear it wrong?
"I said it right, and you heard it right!" Yue Weihan seemed to have guessed what all the officers and soldiers of the Bayonet Battalion were thinking, and he shouted coldly, "The mission of your battalion is indeed to guard the train station for three days, and you are not allowed to guard it for even longer.
You are not allowed to guard one more day! Also, you are not allowed to use the tunnel!"
"Prince, what kind of order is this?" Li Yulong was a little anxious.
"This is the order." Yue Weihan said coldly, "Follow the order."
"Yes!" Li Yulong immediately closed his mouth and stood up suddenly.
…
When the Bayonet Battalion was stationed at Xuzhou Railway Station, the forward of the 114th Division of the Japanese 10th Army, the 66th Infantry Regiment, had already entered Tongshan, twenty miles south of Xuzhou.
The 114th Division is a special division formed from reserve soldiers of the 14th Division.
As mentioned earlier, the reservists of the Japanese army are actually retired soldiers in the countryside. These soldiers have been retired for many years. Most of them are already married and have children. Many of them have even developed bad habits such as smoking, alcoholism, gambling, etc., so their combat effectiveness is not high.
Even the recruits in the reserve service are far inferior.
The 114th Division participated in the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Nanjing.
In the Songhu Battlefield, by the time the 114th Division landed at Jinshanwei, the Songhu Battle was nearing its end, so basically no major battles were fought. However, during the Nanjing Defense Battle, the 114th Division was in the cruel Zijinshan Mountains.
He suffered heavy losses during the battle and was almost crippled by the National Army's elite Central Military Academy Teaching Corps.
However, the combat effectiveness of the current 114th Division has been qualitatively improved compared to when it was first formed.
In the brutal battle for Purple Mountain, almost all the local soldiers of the 114th Division were killed, and the rest were veterans with bloody hands, plus elite veterans who had just been transferred from several permanent divisions, and
Although the combat effectiveness of the newly recruited recruits is still far behind the seventeen permanent divisions, it is much stronger than the other dozen ad hoc divisions formed during the same period.
At the 66th Regiment Headquarters, Lieutenant Colonel Yamamoto strode to Colonel Yamada, suddenly put his feet back and stood at attention and said: "Your Majesty Colonel, the scouts reported that a small group of Chinese troops was found near Xuzhou Railway Station, with a strength of about one battalion."
"One battalion?" Colonel Yamada frowned and said, "Xuzhou Railway Station is closely connected to the Longhai Line and Jinpu Railway. The strategic location is so important, so the China Army only left one battalion to garrison it?"
"Hai." Lieutenant Colonel Yamamoto lowered his head suddenly and said, "This is indeed puzzling."
After saying this, Lieutenant Colonel Yamamoto added: "However, from the map, Xuzhou Railway Station is isolated outside the east gate of Xuzhou, and there is a certain distance from Xuzhou City. If the Chinese Army is heavily garrisoned, it will be easily divided by the Imperial Army.
Therefore, I think the China commander is not prepared to defend Xuzhou Railway Station."
Colonel Yamada pondered for a moment, then suddenly turned back to Major Kameda, the captain of the 3rd Infantry Brigade: "The 3rd Infantry Brigade immediately launched a tentative attack on Xuzhou Railway Station. It must be captured before dark. As long as Xuzhou Railway Station is captured, the entire
The Tiaojinpu Railway will be completely connected, which will bring great convenience to the dispatch of Imperial Army soldiers and supplies!"
"Hai!" Major Kameda lowered his head suddenly, then turned around and took the order.
Colonel Yamada then said to Lieutenant Colonel Yamamoto: "Yamamoto-kun, order the 1st Infantry Battalion and 2nd Infantry Battalion to also prepare for battle, to be ready to block possible Chinese reinforcements in Xuzhou City at any time, and to respond to the 3rd Infantry Battalion. In any case, this
Our opponent this time is the Baoshan Brigade, we cannot underestimate the enemy!"
"Hai." Lieutenant Colonel Yamamoto suddenly lowered his head and said, "His Excellency Colonel, I admire you for your wisdom."
Guard platoon leader Deng Baoguang and platoon deputy Ye Xiaoxian were leaning against each other in the trench. Not far from them was the battalion headquarters. The phones in the battalion headquarters were ringing non-stop, and the correspondents in the communications squad were sending back the latest news like a stream of water.
At the battalion headquarters, the battalion commander Li Yulong, the battalion deputy Liu Fengsheng and several combat staff were discussing the military situation around the map.
The Japanese army has already moved toward the train station, and the Chinese army is nervously preparing for war.
The chilling atmosphere before the war has filled the Bayonet Battalion's position. The new recruit Ye Xiaoxian was obviously affected by this atmosphere. His whole person began to become unresponsive, his thinking was stagnant, and he even became a little confused. He originally wanted to get up.
I was about to pee, but ended up going to the kitchen, drank a few mouthfuls of cold water, and then came back.
With Ye Xiaoxian's current mental state, he would definitely be the first to die on the battlefield!
Deng Baoguang put the flower trap in his hand at his feet, turned to Ye Xiaoxian and said, "Deputy Ye Pai, do you want to hear a story?"
"I want to." Ye Xiaoxian's dull eyes finally regained some vitality. He nodded repeatedly and said, "I want to hear it. I want to hear the story of the Sihang Warehouse Defense Battle and the Nanjing Defense Battle."
"Your grandma," Deng Baoguang scolded, "are you still picky after hearing a story?"
"Hehe." Ye Xiaoxian said with a shy smile, "then platoon leader, you can just say whatever you want, I like to hear it."
Deng Baoguang was silent and said: "That happened in December last year. At that time, we were rescued from the prisoner of war concentration camp by the brigade. We were tired and hungry, and we didn't even have the strength to speak. Then three times in a row.
After marching for three days and three nights, I was so tired that I couldn't live anymore. I thought at that time, it would be better to die than suffer this kind of torture, so I carried a bayonet and killed them back, and guess what happened?"
"What's the matter?" Ye Xiaoxian said blankly, "Platoon leader, you are not dead, are you?"
"Nonsense!" Deng Baoguang immediately slapped Ye Xiaoxian on the head and said angrily, "I'm going to die, how can I tell you a story here today?"
"Uh, that's right." Ye Xiaoxian scratched his head and said, "Platoon leader, what happened next?"