Rise From Eight Hundred

Chapter 125: Disrespecting confused military orders

The order that Captain Tang Dao stepped down from the post of commander-in-chief of the warehouse defense and transferred the concurrent post to Major Shangguan Yun, commander of the first company, was issued while the warehouse defenders were having dinner.

Tang Dao smiled bitterly. He knew that this was the lieutenant colonel's disguised expression of dissatisfaction with his arbitrary assertions, and it was also a warning.

As the supreme commander of the warehouse, the Army Lieutenant Colonel is telling everyone that he has absolute control over this army, and all military operations must be approved by him, not even Tang Dao.

Tang Dao's resignation as the commander-in-chief of defense means that the army lieutenant colonel must re-adjust the deployment of night guard troops.

Sure enough, all the sentries on the side of the concession where the warehouse was located were drawn from the second and third companies.

That is whether it is as Tang Dao said, the Army Lieutenant Colonel has decided to face it personally, instead of trying to delay it like Tang Dao did.

However, the lieutenant colonel of the army gave Tang Dao face after all, and the two guys who were **** were ignored as if they had never appeared.

 But since one or two can come, a third one will come.

At about ten o'clock in the evening, a middle-aged man wearing black night clothes sneaked across the Suzhou River and came to the outer edge of the warehouse. Because he did not know that the warehouse and the Suzhou River were actually connected, he entered the warehouse through a rope lowered from the second floor of the warehouse.

The security squad escorted him to a secret room in the building. After a careful search, the Army Lieutenant Colonel went to talk to him in person. All this was done in extreme confidentiality, and no one except the security squad knew about it.

No one knows how long they talked, and no one knows whether the man left or not.

At 12 o'clock, Tang Dao received an order that the Army Lieutenant Colonel wanted to see him. The two met in a secret room with no windows and dim lighting.

The lieutenant colonel of the army sat alone on a chair made of grenade boxes in the secret room. His face was slightly gloomy. The stubble that he had shaved with a bayonet for the flag raising yesterday morning was thick again. He had always fastened his discipline button very tightly. It was unbuttoned, revealing a stained shirt collar.

Seeing Tang Dao come in, he stood at attention and saluted. Instead of returning the salute as usual, he threw a cigarette and motioned for Tang Dao to sit opposite.

The two of them smoked cigarettes at each other. No one spoke first, until the lieutenant colonel threw the cigarette **** on the ground angrily and crushed it with his leather shoe, and then said in a dull voice:

"Tang Dao, you are right. Since the radio station cannot be contacted, someone from the Central Command came two hours ago to convey military orders to the theater headquarters. Our combat mission has been completed, and I was ordered to withdraw into the concession at 2 o'clock tonight.

At the same time, the high-level officials in the concession have negotiated and agreed to retain their armed forces. When the time is right, we can return to the army and continue fighting against the Japanese invaders. The Japanese army has also agreed to allow us to retreat into the concession. What do you think? "

Tang Dao had naturally expected it. With a flash of light in his eyes, he said directly: "Sir, you are the supreme commander of Sihang Warehouse. Everything is naturally decided by you. If you are willing to abide by the military order and evacuate to the Western Concession.

 I have nothing to say, I am just following the order. It's just that after withdrawing from the concession, I belong to the Sichuan Army. I will return to the old army. I hope that the commander will not stop me when he arrives.

The chief will be busy with affairs at that time, so I'm afraid I won't have the chance to say it. Tang Dao is very grateful to the chief for taking care of him these past few days. I would like to wish the chief a successful career with his military exploits in this battle. I hope that one day Tang Dao will be lucky enough to be able to fight with the chief on the anti-Japanese battlefield. Fight side by side. "

"Tang Dao, you." The Army Lieutenant Colonel heard Tang Dao's farewell message, and there was anger in his eyes. He suddenly stood up and wanted to get angry. After pacing back and forth several times, his face finally turned into a slump, and he sighed softly:

"Tang Dao, there are doubts about your origins, but I never doubted you from the moment you chose to enter the battlefield alone and kill more than ten Japanese invaders. Not for anything else, just because you killed the Japanese!"

I don’t care if you are from the Sichuan Army, from the Central Unification Committee, or even from the north. It doesn’t matter. You are Chinese and you fight against Japan. That is enough. Yes or no? "

"Yes!" Tang Dao nodded, but said: "But I sincerely admire you, sir, but it's not because of your trust!"

Except for Tang Dao himself, I'm afraid no one in the world knows. The reason he pointed out is that he wanted to express his gratitude to this anti-Japanese war hero on behalf of all future Chinese people.

“You and I are Pao Ze, so there is no need to mention words of praise.” The Army Lieutenant Colonel’s eyes dimmed slightly. "I understand what you meant just now, but you just said that I put the general's order above the fate of the country, and it was unwise to act foolishly and loyally, so I want to leave.

"Xie came to Sihang Warehouse this time with the original intention of using Sihang Warehouse as Xie's grave. As long as it can arouse the determination of the whole nation to resist the war, even if he is killed, that is what he wants. It has been ignited, and the people of our country are being inspired by it.

 However, the military order in the war zone has been issued, and as a soldier, Xie must obey the military order as his bounden duty. "At this point, the lieutenant colonel's eyes flashed with tears as he hissed.

“The fire of the nation’s war of resistance is as important as the military order of Mount Tai. Tang Dao, tell me, if it were you, how would you choose between the two?”

"Sir, military orders are irresistible to our generation of soldiers." Tang Dao looked at the green stubble of the Army Lieutenant Colonel that seemed to have grown overnight, respect flashed in his eyes, and he still said firmly: "But, it is in vain to look after me. The military order for the future of the country and the nation is not respected by Tang Dao!"

Tang Dao can only tell him his choice, but he is not Tang Dao.

 For this army lieutenant colonel, this is really an unsolvable multiple-choice question.

 Continue to fight, and the lone army in the warehouse can burn the anti-Japanese fire even more fiercely.

The soldier was alone outside the main army, surrounded by the Japanese invaders, with no supplies and no backup. Even though he had a way out, he still chose to fight in a hail of bullets. This blood-curdling story is enough to ignite more and more Chinese people whose blood is not yet cold. That fire in a person’s heart.

 But what are the consequences?

Standing in the position of an army lieutenant colonel, if he disrespects military orders, it is no longer a matter of him or his family bearing the consequences.

Respecting Shangfeng’s military order, even if all the members died in this battle, they died because of the national war. Even if the pensions and benefits that should be paid cannot be paid immediately, they will be paid in the future.

But if you do not respect military orders, even if you die in battle, not only will all your military achievements and pensions be lost, but the families of the officers and soldiers will also be affected, and some angry people may even be labeled as rebels.

The words "disrespecting confused military orders" can be said by Tang Dao, but the lieutenant colonel of the army cannot easily push more than 400 officers and soldiers into the abyss, including those who are already dead.

 Otherwise, such a calm and decisive soldier as the Army Lieutenant Colonel would not have suffered so much.

“What’s more, I have every reason to believe that, let alone the Westerners, they will definitely renege on their word. Once they enter the concession, our army will have no choice but to let them prey on them;

 Even, the Japanese will not let us in easily. "Tang Dao said firmly.

"The Japanese who were hurt by our beatings will let my elite army enter the battlefield again?"

 “You mean?” The Army Lieutenant Colonel raised his brows slightly, not surprised but happy.

If it is true as Tang Dao said, he gave a reason to convince himself. There may be no problem in obeying the military order and withdrawing the troops, but obeying the military order and letting more than 400 of his subordinates be massacred by the Japanese invaders is something only a fool would do.

"Over a thousand Japanese have been killed by our troops in the past two days. Their commander really hates us. If they don't attack us while we are leaving the warehouse building, then I really respect him as a man. "Tang Dao pointed at the left and right wings of the warehouse.

“I’m sure they have deployed light and heavy machine guns on one side of the Suzhou River Bridge tonight, waiting for our troops to evacuate! The Suzhou River Bridge is not within the scope of the concession.”

"Really?" The Army Lieutenant Colonel's eyes flashed, and his fists clenched slightly.

 “That’s just another fight!”

 (End of this chapter)