Yang Ling and his regiment have been attacking and advancing all morning. They have captured several Japanese strongholds and seized a lot of supplies and food. Although the brothers are very enthusiastic about fighting, after all, people are made of iron rice and steel. They can only eat and drink.
Only when you have enough can you have the strength to fight.
"Rest on the spot for two hours, bury the pot and make rice, and then we will continue to fight after eating!" Regiment leader Zhang Handuo ordered the troops to take a short rest to replenish their physical strength.
After receiving the order, the cooking squads of each company immediately gathered firewood and started cooking. Bags of uncooked rice were placed in the pots, and canned meat was pried open with bayonets. Soon the aroma of the food in the village filled the air.
"This kid's canned food is so damn delicious. It would be great if I could eat canned food every day." Some brothers looked at the eaten canned food and were still unsatisfied.
The food of the Central Army is many times better than that of the local no-name troops, but compared with the food of the Little Japs, it is a few grades behind. Now that he is eating the canned food of the Little Japs, he can't help but sigh.
"Just daydream. Do you think this canned meat fell from the sky? If you want to eat it every day, what will the devils eat? Then they have to fight you to the death."
"Just try your best, I'm not afraid of the Japanese." The brother raised his neck and said nonchalantly.
Some brothers shouted, "I wonder who was so frightened that he peed his pants when he heard the gunshot, hahaha."
The brothers around him burst into good-natured laughter, which made the brother who had been so frightened by the gunshot that he wet his pants turn red in the face. He hesitated to explain, but the brothers laughed even louder.
"Vice-Tuan Yang." While they were laughing, Yang Ling came over with the orderly Hu Zi. They stopped cheering and hurriedly stood up to salute.
Yang Ling's brothers gathered in a circle and pressed their hands downwards: "Everyone, please sit down. Don't be restrained."
"What did you just say that made you laugh so happily? I want to hear it too." Yang Ling also sat down. Outside of the battle, he put down his seriousness and became affable.
"Report to Deputy Yang, we are talking about the time when he was so frightened by the gunfire that he peed his pants." One brother said while suppressing a laugh, and the brothers around him also laughed.
Yang Ling glanced at the red-faced soldier with his head lowered, and asked with a smile, "Are what they said true?"
The brother hesitated for a long time, and then replied in a mosquito-like voice: "Vice-Tuan Yang, I... I really had an urgent need to urinate at that time. It was not because I was scared..."
"Look at you, why are you so embarrassed as a grown man? Look up." Seeing that this brother wanted to bury his head in the soil, Yang Ling ordered him to look up.
The brother blushed and raised his head. Yang Ling nodded with satisfaction and said: "Peeing your pants is not a shameful thing. I remember when I first went to the battlefield, as soon as the cannon went off, I
I was so frightened that I hid in the trench and didn't dare to move. When I dared to move, I found that the battle was over, and I was kicked by my commander."
The brothers around him laughed softly when they heard what Yang Ling had said. They didn't expect that their powerful commander was also timid at the beginning.
"Don't laugh either. You have just joined the army, so who dares to say you are not afraid? Those who say you are not afraid are all nonsense!"
These brothers have all come from recruits to today step by step, so they naturally know that Yang Ling will not tell lies. Their situation at the beginning was no better than peeing their pants. Thinking of this, they all smiled knowingly.
"So, don't laugh at others. When no one is aware of anything, take this brother as an example. He peed his pants at first, but now he doesn't. This is progress."
Yang Ling turned around and asked the blushing brother: "Tell them how many Japanese you killed this time."
"Report to Chief Yang, I'll kill three of them." This brother replied with a hint of pride.
Hearing this brother's answer, the brothers around him looked at him with admiration. They didn't expect that the man they were laughing at had killed so many Japanese. They couldn't help but feel a little ashamed. They were not as good as him.
"Okay, that's great!" Yang Ling did not hesitate to praise, making the brother puff up his chest and feel a sense of pride.
Yang Ling patted him on the shoulder and said: "I hope you will continue to kill enemies and make meritorious deeds. When the time comes, I will personally apply to the regiment for you to be rewarded!"
"Yes!" This brother replied loudly and excitedly, making the brothers around him envious.
Yang Ling turned his head and said loudly to the brothers around him: "Brothers, the little devil is already a turtle in the urn. I hope you can learn from this brother and carry forward the spirit of daring to fight and fight. Let's defeat the little devil as soon as possible and drive him out.
If we go to China, then we can go home and be reunited with our parents, wives and children!"
"Okay!" The brothers cheered loudly. They were all eager to defeat the Japanese and go home as soon as possible. Yang Ling's words touched their hearts.
Yang Ling often chats and chats with his brothers. Not only can he grasp the status and conflicts of the brothers in a timely manner, but he can also shorten the distance between them. The effect is obvious.
"Vice-President Yang, the regiment has come to see you if there is something urgent." Before finishing the meal, Yang Ling was hurriedly called back to the temporary regiment headquarters. He did not dare to delay, and went straight to the regiment headquarters after saying hello to his brothers.
go.
"Regiment leader, are there any new combat orders?" Yang Ling saw the serious-faced regiment leader Zhang Handuo and asked first.
Zhang Handuo didn't have any unnecessary nonsense and said with a solemn face: "The two Japanese soldiers we captured this morning accidentally discovered something about the wounded soldiers. The division headquarters attaches great importance to it and requires us to further confirm."
"What's going on?" Yang Ling asked.
"The Japanese prisoners were unconvinced and said that it would be disgraceful for so many of our troops to defeat two of their regiments. Therefore, the division headquarters judged that the main force of the Japanese was probably no longer in the direction of the people and the mass, and we needed to attack and test for further confirmation."
The Japanese 14th Division has 20,000 to 30,000 elite troops, while the two regiments only have a few thousand troops, so the rest of the main force is likely to move from other directions.
Yang Ling has been restless these days, feeling that their attack was too smooth. At first, he thought that the Japs were at the end of their strength. Now after being reminded, he suddenly thought of Lan Feng. Historically, the Japs seemed to have broken through Lan Feng unexpectedly, thus breaking the
Encirclement.
"No need to test, I know where the main force of the Japs has gone." Yang Ling walked quickly to the map, pointed at Lan Feng City and said, "They must have secretly attacked Lan Feng City."
Zhang Handuo also walked to the map and looked at the direction of Lanfeng City in the west. He frowned and said: "That shouldn't be the case. Even if the Japs want to break out, they should go east. If the Japs attack in the direction of Lanfeng, their reinforcements will be far away."
It’s getting further and further away.”
Yang Ling explained: "Tufeiyuan was a spy and was ruthless and cunning. He went west to capture Lanfeng, which caught us by surprise."
"We should report to the division immediately and explain the situation to Commander Xue, so that the troops in the direction of Lanfeng City should immediately prepare to block the attack, and the other armies should immediately reinforce." Yang Ling said loudly.
But Zhang Handuo hesitated: "We have no basis, even if we report it to the master, I'm afraid the master will not believe it. What's more, what if the main force of the Japs does not go to the west, but to the north or south?
Have you considered the consequences if you make a mistake in judgment?"
Yang Ling knew why Zhang Handuo was hesitating, and he was also very helpless. He couldn't say that he suddenly remembered this period of history. He could only explain patiently: "Let's report it first, and we will immediately send people to attack the testers and gather the Japs in the direction."
, if my judgment is wrong at that time, I will bear all the consequences, and I will never implicate you."
"What are you talking about? Even if we, brothers, have responsibilities, we will bear them together." Seeing that Yang Ling had said this, Zhang Handuo reluctantly agreed and immediately reported the situation to division commander Wang Yaowu, and then to Xue Yue, commander of the East Henan Corps.
The general reports.
However, for the sake of safety, Zhang Handuo, while reporting to his superiors, immediately took action and launched a new round of attacks in the direction of Renhejiu to determine whether the main force of the Japanese army had really left this place.