Rise From Eight Hundred

The soldiers who carried the bodies and the seriously injured came back carrying the ammunition boxes.

The commander of the 644th Regiment and his regiment guard company also came with them.

Seeing that more than 200 of his men returned lying down in just one evening and half a night, even though Colonel Wang was a resolute person, his eyes immediately turned red.

With his emotions agitated, he simply made up his mind and directly pulled out his regiment's direct guard company to accompany him to Cangcheng in the dark.

He wanted to come and see his first battalion of officers and soldiers, and also wanted to inspect the battlefield to see whether Tang Dao, the commander, was competent or not.

After all, more than 300 people were killed and seriously injured in the first battle, but they were all his soldiers.

Those soldiers came to this bloody battlefield because of his initiative to fight.

It is the fate of soldiers to die on the battlefield, there is nothing to say about it.

But if the loss of the war was too great because of the mistake of Tang Dao, the commander, the army colonel with grief in his eyes would not be polite to Tang Dao, even if he was the famous commander of the Fourth Battalion.

However, the army colonel was relieved at the first sight of Tang Dao.

The smoke and dirt on his face and body could be faked, but the holes on Tang Dao's uniforms burned by flying sparks could not be faked. That was a feature that only soldiers who had been on the front line knew.

Moreover, the infantry company commander in charge of carrying the remains also reported to him that Tang Dao, the highest commander, personally controlled the Oerlikon machine gun of the fire support company to kill a Type 89 tank at the most critical moment of the battle.

A commander who can lead by example will not be too bad in command no matter how poor his command ability is.

Accompanied by Tang Dao, the tall and burly army colonel, who was as tall as Tang Dao, walked through every position around Cangcheng. The countless hideous craters left on the walls and the ground of Cangcheng and the ground that had been almost soft by various artillery fire, could be touched with shrapnel, showing the cruelty of the previous two battles to the army colonel.

The terrible loss of half in one battle was not because of Tang Dao's command problem, but because the intensity of the Japanese artillery fire exceeded the imagination of ordinary people.

The 127mm naval gun and 105 howitzer were too powerful. When a shell fell, almost everything within a radius of 50 meters was destroyed.

There was even a bullet shelter that was two and a half meters deep underground. The shell of the 127mm naval gun exploded just above it and caused it to collapse. An infantry squad of seven or eight people were all in it. When the artillery fire was slightly sparse, Tang Dao immediately ordered people to dig. In the end, only one of the people dug out was still breathing.

This is because there are shelters. If all the people were on the ground and encountered such bombardment, it is estimated that few of the defenders of Cangcheng would survive.

And if Tang Dao had not risked sending out only observation posts and ordered the rest to hide in the shelters and wait, it is still unknown whether the hundreds of people in Cangcheng could survive the second battle.

Observation posts have also become the type of soldiers with the highest mortality rate. Often, only one or two of the six observation posts can survive.

But it was this almost cruel order that saved a large number of living forces.

Tang Dao's caution was also greatly unexpected by the army colonel.

Even though it was late at night and a brutal battle had just ended, the Japanese army retreated to the field trenches 800 meters away, and the defenders in Cangcheng did not relax.

There was at least one infantry platoon on each wall serving as sentry to prevent the Japanese army from attacking at night.

At this point, the army colonel's doubts were gone.

Tang Dao certainly knew the purpose of the army colonel taking a huge risk to go out of the city to inspect Cangcheng, but he also understood that after all, these officers and soldiers came to this desperate place because of his order, and he must care about them.

At this time, the moon was full in the sky.

There was silence inside and outside Cangcheng.

As the army colonel waved his hand to dismiss the guards behind him, the two of them found a stone to sit down at random by the city wall.

An army colonel and an army lieutenant colonel each lit a cigarette and smoked silently.

"Captain Tang, I wonder if you have ever done anything in your life that makes you regret it?" The army colonel suddenly asked with some sighs.

"Regret?" Tang Dao narrowed his eyes slightly. "If I have to say regret, it may be that I did not persuade Captain Xie to let him take more than 200 brothers into the concession. At least so far, it seems that the Westerners are not as good as they seem to keep their promises."

Xie Jinyuan has been in contact with the Four-line Camp for the past two days. Just like in the past time and space, they are almost detained by the concession and cannot step out of the dilapidated military camp.

"I've also heard about your commander Xie. He's a real soldier, but he's a little too square. But you don't need to worry too much. They are the Central Army. No matter what, they will never let such a great general and a group of elite soldiers fall into the hands of the Japanese. Sooner or later, they will use some means to make them leave the concession." The army colonel comforted Tang Dao.

Tang Dao's mouth showed bitterness.

In this world, only he knows the direction of history.

At the beginning, he wanted to save hundreds of elite soldiers, but as Nanjing was conquered by the Japanese army, the entire southeast fell into the hands of the enemy. He was already exhausted. How could he remember those few hundred people?

In the past time and space, that group of elite soldiers completely became a group of forgotten people. Finally, three years later, they were captured by the Japanese army that captured the concession and transported to a small island in the Pacific to work as coolies. Only a hundred people were able to return alive.

Fortunately, he has left a hidden card. In this time and space, he will never let the hero become a tragedy.

Seeing Tang Dao's silence, the Army Colonel did not say much on this issue and asked instead: "Then Battalion Commander Tang knows what I regret most?"

Tang Dao shook his head. He knew that he could just be a listener at this time.

"I regret what happened yesterday." The Army Colonel stood up slowly, stared at the devastated Cangcheng City, and touched the mottled city walls.

"It's just that what I regret is not that I received the military order to station my battalion here, but that I, Wang Xirui, regretted not having a serious fight with you, Commander Tang, to be the commander of this Cangcheng position. "Pain flashed in the Army Colonel's eyes.

"When I sent them away, there were more than 500 vigorous men who had only lived for one day and one night! I was left with half of them. How painful do you think it felt for me as the leader of the group?

If I could be here, although my heart still hurts, I would feel better if I stood with them. "

Tang Dao looked at the colonel of the Northeast Army with tears glistening under the moonlight, and was deeply moved.

It is easy to say that you love your soldiers as your sons, but in this era, not many can do this. With such a commander, the officers and soldiers of the 67th Army who still have to fight bloody battles will be somewhat relieved.

"Captain Wang, I don't know if you believe me or not. Before the Japanese take the lives of all the defenders of Cangcheng, I will make them pay three times the price of mine. You hurt, I will make their division commander's heart It hurts more." Tang Dao said directly.

The army colonel suddenly looked back and stared at Tang Dao, who stood up with determination in his eyes for a long time.

"I believe you!"

"but"

"Three times is not enough. I have nearly 800 Chinese men in Cangcheng. If we want to conquer this place, how can we do it without killing them and bleeding them all? I'll leave the guard company that came with me to you."

Without waiting for Tang Dao to reply, the army colonel put away the sadness in his eyes and became resolute again, waving to the guards in the distance: "Go and notify the guard company to assemble. Battalion Commander Tang will give them a lecture."

It turned out that the guard company of the 644th Regiment that accompanied the Army Colonel to Cangcheng was not to protect his safety, but to hand it over to Tang Dao.

The guard company of the 644th regiment has a total of 150 people, four platoons, each platoon has 36 people, a company headquarters of 6 people, one platoon and three infantry squads, each squad has 11 people, two machine gun shooters equipped with a Czech light machine gun, two Each grenadier is equipped with a grenade, the squad leader is equipped with a shell gun, and the other six infantry are equipped with two Liao-made Type 13 rifles, two shell guns, and two submachine guns.

That means that this guard company alone has 12 light machine guns, 12 grenade launchers, 36 shell guns, and 24 submachine guns. Such a light firepower configuration is far inferior to even a Japanese infantry squadron.

Those who can join the guard company must have at least 2 years of military service. This is a strict rule.

Because the guard company is actually the last elite of the 644th Regiment. It is the last card in the hand of this sad-faced army colonel. It is usually not used lightly until the last moment.

Unexpectedly, before the real Songjiang battle began, Colonel Wang played his last card and handed it to Tang Dao.

That also means that Songjiang's troop deployment in Cangcheng has reached 1,000 people.

The Guoqi detachment, which is still repairing on the bank of the Huangpu River, will probably have a toothache when it fights Cangcheng again tomorrow morning.