The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression Begins in Songhu

Chapter 72 Stay (Brothers! Keep going)

...Before the war, I was never afraid of my superiors and officers scolding me with dark faces, and I wouldn't even care if they kicked me a few times; as a soldier, everyone has blood and temper, and the superiors are also human beings.

But once they talk to me with a smile, or even with guilt in their eyes, then I'm doomed.

That's basically a life-or-death mission, or even a mission with no chance of survival, and it's going to fall on your head...

...Excerpt from Hu Biao's diary collection "Hu Shuo"...

What Hu Biao didn't expect was that without waiting for him to go to the second-line position a little further back to look for Captain Xiang, Captain Xiang took the initiative to go to the center line position.

After not seeing each other for more than ten hours, Captain Xiang looked quite disheveled.

His face was full of fatigue and the color of gunpowder, and there were a few spots of dried blood on his military uniform.

It seems that Commander Xiang also joined the battle on other positions today, but I don’t know whether he was fighting on their left or right wing.

What was the outcome of the battle? How many Japanese were killed?

After walking up to the position and returning a military salute to Hu Biao and others, he did not say anything to the regiment commander, but instead looked at Hu Biao with a complicated expression.

It even made Hu Biao a little confused, thinking that these young people had not performed well and had caused some trouble again.

In fact, the reason why Captain Xiang had such a reaction was not because Hu Biao and his team performed poorly, but rather that they performed too well.

You should know that last night, he sent a troop of less than half a company to defend the three positions on the left, middle and right sides of the Dunwu Temple.

After such an assignment, the regimental commander still had about a hundred mobile troops in his hands.

Everything is ready for today's battle. If any position can no longer hold, we can bring this mobile force to provide timely support.

Among them, the central position held by Hu Biao and his men was naturally the focus of his attention.

The result? As the main line of attack for the Japanese, the central position remained unmoved despite the indiscriminate bombardment that was hundreds of meters away, even under the frenzied attacks using poison gas bombs.

From beginning to end, we never asked for help from the regiment headquarters.

On the contrary, the two flank positions on the left and right, facing the Japanese attack that was much weaker than theirs, urgently requested help from the regimental headquarters several times.

If he had not personally led the mobile forces to provide support, these two positions would have been lost long ago.

Captain Xiang was naturally overjoyed by the outstanding performance of Hu Biao and the brothers of the Third Company; however, this also led to a difficult problem that he had not expected, and he didn't know how to start.

This is also the biggest reason why now that they have reached the battlefield and are facing Hu Biao and others, they don’t know how to start the conversation.

After pondering for a long time, Captain Xiang finally took action; he first took out a stack of papers from the briefcase in the orderly's hand behind him and handed it to him.

After Hu Biao took it, he flipped through it in the brighter moonlight tonight.

One can vaguely see the content above, which is the commission for his promotion to Major Battalion Commander, and AT, Uncle Bo and others’ promotion to Lieutenant Company Commander and Second Lieutenant Platoon Leader.

There is a thick stack of letters of appointment. It can be said that everyone in the original three companies has been promoted at least one level.

However, in this thick stack, many brothers had already died in battle; even the remaining brothers were facing the situation of death at any time, so the so-called promotion seemed to be meaningless.

So what’s the use of this thing? Should we burn it for them to see?
After handing these letters of authorization to Dahammer, Dahammer and other partners beside him, they took a look and showed no interest, without any excitement on their faces.

Fortunately, some good news was told to the team leader in the following time:

"Our 804th Regiment suffered heavy losses in today's battle and is currently unable to hold the position at Dunwu Temple. I just received an order from my superiors that before 9 p.m., Commander Li and his 803rd Regiment from our brother unit will arrive to relieve us.

The 6000-dollar reward has also arrived at the division headquarters, and you can collect it after you go down."

Upon hearing the news that they could finally change guard and withdraw from the Dunwu Temple position, Hu Biao and others all breathed a sigh of relief. Unfortunately, this happiness did not last for two seconds, and bad news came again.

Because a friendly smile suddenly appeared on Captain Xiang's face again, but his eyes were a little vague and he didn't dare to look them in the eye.

Hu Biao's heart skipped a beat, knowing something was amiss. Sure enough, he spoke to the regimental commander and said, "Along with the rotation notice came a personal request from Commander Li.

When he and his brothers from the 803rd Regiment left Sichuan, they had already made up their minds to sacrifice their lives for the country, so they were not afraid of death in the following battles.

But after watching today's battle from afar in the rear, I found that the Japs had too many tricks and their firepower was too strong. If I put myself in their shoes, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to hold their positions.

Once the Dunwu Temple position was lost, he and the 803 brothers of the rd Regiment would be sinners of million Chinese people.

Even if I die, I won't have the face to be buried in my ancestral grave.

So Captain Li has entrusted me to ask you in his personal capacity, Major Hu, that you elite soldiers who are familiar with the Japanese devils' tactics, could you please stay on the battlefield and help them?

At that time, you only need to hide in the anti-artillery cave and be responsible for giving instructions and commands. You don't have to lead the fight to the death like today.

Of course! Captain Li also knows that this request is a bit unreasonable, so whether you are willing to stay or not is entirely up to you to decide."

Faced with this request, Hu Biao fell silent, really not knowing how to choose.

Mainly because after a day of hard fighting, he really got to know these Sichuan Army brothers.

They were very brave, but their tactics and weapons were far behind their opponents. Given the intensity and madness of the Japanese attack today, a regiment might not be able to hold the Dunwu Temple for a whole day.

Therefore, he was naturally quite happy to stay on the position and simply impart experience to the brothers of the 803rd Regiment, command them in battle, and reduce their casualties.

But he knew one thing more clearly: things were not that simple.

When the fighting really started and the battle became the most intense and dangerous, they absolutely could not stay out of action and could only hide in the anti-artillery cave to command.

Besides! Even if they could harden their hearts and endure, the Japanese artillery, bombing, poison gas bombs, etc., if they were unlucky, they could still be killed.

Even though our luck wasn't too bad today, at least we didn't encounter any 203mm naval gun bombardment.

But what if the Japanese get angry tomorrow and call in naval artillery fire?
After a lot of hesitation, Hu Biao still couldn't make up his mind. He turned around and asked the brothers from the third company who had gathered around him after hearing the noise:
"Brothers, what do you choose? Are you willing to stay?"

A second later, Black Star gritted his teeth and was about to speak, but was immediately interrupted by AT's violent coughing, which was as loud as a tractor.

It seems that the two oral penicillin pills had no effect on the injuries to his lungs and respiratory tract caused by the poisonous gas.

A modern white-collar worker, but now he has some of the legendary "consumptive" demeanor...

*******
20 minutes later, after some discussion, Hu Biao and his team made a decision: some people would stay.

To be more specific, these time travelers, including AT, a wounded soldier who coughed all the time, and 6 brothers from the third company who were slightly injured, a total of 13 people were willing to stay.

In addition, Zhu Cong, Hu Biao's orderly, was actually willing to stay.

It's worth mentioning! This guy is really lucky.

Although he was nominally Hu Biao's orderly, he did not receive any preferential treatment and had to fight with a rifle on the battlefield all day long.

But apart from the burns on his face and hands caused by Jie Zi's poison gas, the skin on other parts of his body was not even scratched; in comparison, he was the one with the lightest injuries in the third company.

But there are 9 other brothers who are seriously injured, and they will have to go down to take over the defense with Captain Xiang and the others later.

Given the current shortage of medical staff and medicine in the field hospital, Hu Biao did not think they could survive; so he had to send Zhu Cong down with some injectable penicillin.

The doctor who oversees the hospital must use it on his own brothers.

Otherwise, he really couldn't guarantee that these penicillins would appear on the black market in Magic City early the next morning.

But what Hu Biao didn't know was that his decision would lead to some unexpected situations from Zhu Cong, who was considered his die-hard fan...

　After a day of charging, it seems to be working well. On the last day, brothers! Bayonets fixed, keep charging. Old Salted Fish is at the front. If you have diarrhea, just shoot me straight in the back...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)