The so-called closing your eyes for a night and opening your eyes for a day.
Opening your eyes for a day means that when people wake up, they start to be busy, and the day passes by unknowingly.
And closing your eyes for a night means that you don’t know anything when you fall asleep, and you start a new life after you wake up.
Some people say that you must be energetic in the morning, because the sun is new every day.
The person who said this must have never experienced war. Only those who have experienced war know that if you close your eyes, you may never be able to open them again. That means closing your eyes not just for a night, but for a lifetime.
Wang Laomao and the others were awakened by Shang Zhen, and Shang Zhen left in a hurry after waking them up.
"This is a guard, alas." Qin Chuan sighed.
Qin Chuan began to miss the time when he was not a guard for Wu Keyong.
Although it was very hard to fight the Japanese at that time, and sometimes those who were chased by the Japanese would have to run away desperately, but at least they didn't have to get up before dawn like now.
In Qin Chuan's mind, at least there were other Northeastern officers and soldiers blocking the way outside, so they could continue to sleep for a while.
Everyone often says that even if you die, you must be a ghost. Death row prisoners are even given a full meal before being executed.
Then, since he is very likely to be killed in today's battle, why can't he get enough sleep?
But being a guard for Wu Keyong is not enough. The commander of the army doesn't even sleep, and these guards want to sleep in, but there is no way!
But before Qin Chuan's sigh was over, they heard the faint sound of gunfire coming from outside.
"These idiots started making trouble before dawn!" Qin Chuan cursed angrily while putting on the shoes with muddy crutches on his feet.
"Be more open-minded!" Qian Chuan'er, who was also wearing shoes, advised, "There are hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people behind us running away. The little devil doesn't want our people to run away. Both sides are competing for time. When do people still care about you?"
What Qian Chuan'er said was undoubtedly true, and Qin Chuan remained silent.
At this time, the Chinese officers and soldiers who were retreating southward from the Songhu area were still lined up in a long queue on the road.
That's hundreds of thousands of troops, and they can't all be withdrawn in three or two days.
In later generations, it will be fully mechanized, which means that a division with a troop transport convoy will walk for a day and a night when passing a village, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of troops.
And how could the Japanese army allow the Chinese army to leave the Songhu battlefield so easily?
In the dim light of the sky, at the airport occupied by the Japanese army and on the aircraft carrier at sea, Japanese aircraft were ready to take off. They would again bombard the retreating Chinese army indiscriminately.
But how can the Japanese army be satisfied with this?
After all, the effect of the bombing was limited, and the Japanese army launched another attack on Songjiang City, which stood between them and the Chinese army.
"The company commander asked us to take all the grenades and grenades!" Just when Mr. Wang and the others had just finished sorting the bunches, the communications soldier Huzi ran in.
"What are you doing with a grenade? Do we also want to go to the front line? Or guard the wall?" Little Dustpan asked.
"How could I know!" Huzi replied.
"What else do you know?" Little Dustpan said dissatisfied.
"I know how to send messages!" Huzi ignored Little Dustpan's dissatisfaction.
Hu Zi and Bi Xiao Dustpan are two years older, but in terms of age, they have a good relationship when they are the oldest among their group but the most in love, because a good relationship will naturally lead to love and death.
When Wang Lao Mao and others found Shang Zhen who was on the streets of the county town with some soldiers, Shang Zhen pointed out the terrain of the county and Wang Lao Mao studied how to guard it.
Seeing Shang Zhen like this, the faces of his soldiers also became solemn.
Shang Zhen's judgment has always been accurate, and it seems that the guards will also go to the battlefield today.
And when they go to the battlefield, Commander Wu Keyong will have no one to defend him. In other words, Commander Wu Keyong will lead them to the last fight!
The sky was getting brighter, and Shang Zhen and the others, who happened to be on the city wall, saw Japanese aircraft appearing on the horizon in the distance.
Shang Zhen and the others became nervous. Although the Northeast Army currently still has anti-aircraft machine guns, if the Japanese army comes with many aircraft, the effect of the Northeast Army's anti-aircraft guns will be limited after all.
However, Shang Zhen and the others were wrong. The Japanese aircraft did not come to Songjiang County, but flew far to the west until they disappeared from the horizon.
They looked at the horizon and knew that the Japanese planes must have bombed the retreating Chinese troops.
They seemed to see those Japanese planes swooping down again and again, dropping strings of bombs into the Chinese army that was eager to retreat, and it would be a scene of massacre.
I wonder if the retreating Chinese officers and soldiers have anti-aircraft machine guns?
Shang Zhen and the others thought, but everything that happened next left them no time to shoulder the responsibility for their friendly forces.
"Boom-boom" gunfire sounded in the distance, and then artillery shells flew into Songjiang County. This was the first time the Japanese army fired artillery shells into the county town, and the Japanese army got closer and closer.
And amid the explosion of the shells, Shang Zhen and the others withdrew from the city. As guards, they would eventually return to Wu Keyong.
"Listen carefully to the sound of the artillery shells. Don't be afraid of that whooshing sound. It's the artillery shells flying over our heads.
But if there is that popping sound, just throw the commander down! "Zhang Zhen ordered to his soldiers.
In fact, people like Shang Zhen had never been bombed by Japanese artillery. Shang Zhen's statement was only what he heard from others.
The reason why they have not been bombed by Japanese artillery is because they rarely engage in serious positional warfare.
They have always fought guerrilla warfare, and it is impossible for the Japanese army to use large-caliber artillery against a small force like theirs. That is to say, anti-aircraft artillery is used to fight mosquitoes. If they knew that the Japanese army used large-caliber artillery, they would have run away long ago.
But now it's different. They must protect Army Commander Wu Keyong.
At this time, all of them realized that the commander's guard was not easy to serve as.
As the sky dawned, the Japanese army attacked the surrounding areas more and more fiercely, and more and more artillery shells flew into the city.
There was smoke and dust everywhere. There were explosions that caused fires, and houses burned down. Above the smoke and dust was diffuse black smoke. Everywhere you looked, there was a scene of the end of the world.
Shang Zhen and others guessed that half of the houses in Songjiang County had been blown into ruins by Japanese artillery shells.
However, Shang Zhen and the others were lucky. As the time reached noon, everything went fine, with no near misses.
The explosion point of the nearest shell was dozens of meters away from the military headquarters, and Shang Zhen knocked Wu Keyong down, but was immediately reprimanded by Wu Keyong.
By noon, the Chinese officers and soldiers outside Songyuan County finally returned to the county.
Shang Zhen and the others who were right next to Wu Keyong also got the latest battle situation like Wu Keyong. Most of the positions around Songjiang County had been lost. There were only more than 2,000 officers and soldiers who returned to the county.
Now the only thing the 67th Army can do is defend the city.
"I have blinded the twenty thousand good men in the Northeast for nothing!" Chu Tian sighed in a low voice.
But Wu Keyong heard this sentence again.
"A man died on the battlefield, so why talk about it in vain?" Wu Keyong said.
As a result, the talkative Chu Tian was glared at by Mr. Wang.
