It was getting dark and there was a burning kerosene lamp in the house.
And the dim light of the oil-free lamp illuminated a room full of people.
These people included some soldiers brought by Shang Zhen, as well as the defeated soldiers they rescued.
The flame of the kerosene lamp kept flickering, illuminating the expressions of everyone in the room.
Shang Zhen rescued not many defeated soldiers, only seven people in total. What surprised Shang Zhen and the others was that there was a female police officer among the seven people!
It was already noon when Shang Zhen and the others finished rescuing people.
Since they not only saved the defeated soldiers this time, but also saved the people in the village, they naturally received warm hospitality from the people in the village.
They fell asleep immediately after eating and drinking, and now they only just woke up.
The place where they live now is the ancestral hall in this village.
It stands to reason that the ancestral hall is a place to worship ancestors, but together, Shang Zhen and the others are now close to 40 people. How can there be such a big place in the village for them to live?
As a result, the old people in the village told them to sleep directly in the ancestral hall.
The old man also said, there is nothing wrong with living in an ancestral hall. You have not only protected the villagers, but also protected the status of our ancestors. It is natural to live here!
After all, everyone was still young. They had eaten and slept well, and most of their energy and energy had recovered. But now Shang Zhen and the others were about to listen to a soldier telling his experience.
The reason why Shang Zhen and others wanted to listen to these soldiers talk about their experiences was because Chu Tian proposed it.
Just because Chu Tian had been rebutted by Shang Zhen, although he was speechless by Shang Zhen at the time, he felt very unconvinced afterwards.
Just because Chu Tian said that the officers and soldiers on the highway were defeated soldiers, and he and the 67th Army protected these defeated soldiers who had no fighting spirit, and then they became Peeping Screen. This is a What an irony.
At that time, Shang Zhen's retort was, how do you know that he had not fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army before he became a defeated soldier?
Now seeing that they had saved some more defeated soldiers, Chu Tian asked to hear the stories of these defeated soldiers, that is to say, how these defeated soldiers fought a bloody battle with the Japanese army before they became defeated soldiers.
In fact, Shang Zhen had no intention of arguing with Chu Tian again, but he wanted to know more about the entire Songhu battlefield, so it wouldn't hurt to come and listen to these defeated soldiers talk about their respective battle experiences.
"I am guarding the Jinshan Guard, my name is Li Chenghong." That soldier.
"What is Jinshan Guard?" Shang Zhen didn't know where Jinshan Guard was.
In fact, not only Shang Zhen didn't know, but even the Northeast Army soldiers under his command and most people didn't know either.
The three northeastern provinces do not have a long history, let alone names like "Jinshan Guard" and "Tianjin Guard".
"Just think of it as a place name. That's where the Japanese came ashore this time." Li Chenghong explained.
Shang Zhen and the others nodded, they understood what Li Chenghong said.
"It turned out that there were quite a lot of troops guarding there. I heard from the commander that there were four divisions and one reinforced brigade. But then the fighting in Shanghai became more and more fierce, so the superiors transferred all these troops." Li Chenghong spoke again, This time, no one from Shang Zhen interrupted him, they just listened quietly.
"When the Japs really start to attack from the sea, our troops there will only have one battalion, two companies, one artillery rearrangement, and some more local troops, like her." Li Chenghong stretched out his hand as he spoke. He pointed at the female police officer who was also listening.
Shang Zhen and the others took another look at the policewoman.
The female police officer looked about 23 or 23 years old and was wearing a black police uniform with four pockets. As for her hat, she didn't have one. She probably lost it during the war.
As for his appearance, he looked upright and had good features, but there was a thin scratch on his face that had become scabbed. I don't know what the scratch was.
"We are guarding a small town, with a total of twenty-three people.
After the Japanese came ashore in an assault boat, they first set off smoke bombs.
The first group of attacking Japanese soldiers numbered fifty or sixty. Our platoon leader saw that his group was too small, so he separated our platoon into small groups to fight.
I won’t go into detail about the battle process, because I didn’t know it either. I was sent by the platoon commander to go find the battalion commander to call for reinforcements.
I called in more than 300 reinforcements, and it took more than an hour for me to call for reinforcements.
But when I returned to the position, only two wounded men in our platoon were still alive, and they were both seriously injured. As for the others, they were all killed! "
Li Chenghong paused for a while after talking about this, and he was obviously a little sad.
However, Shang Zhen and the others did not comfort Li Chenghong.
This is war, especially China's war against the Japanese invaders. The enemy is strong and we are weak. It is normal for many of our own people to die. Li Fushun, Hu Biao, Lao Huotou, Wang Zhuang, and Er Hanzi have also lost many brothers now. .
Just imagine, the enemy is stronger than our own side in every aspect. Apart from not being afraid of death, what else can they use to attack the enemy?
"As soon as the reinforcements arrived, it was just in time for the second wave of Japanese attacks to begin, and this time we fought back and forth. I estimate that seventy or eighty Japanese soldiers were killed.
However, our casualties were not small. Battalion Commander Wang, who came to support us, was seriously injured.
Although he was carried away on a stretcher by his soldiers, I estimate that the man must have been killed as well. "Li Chenghong told the story again.
Although Shang Zhen and the others did not say anything, they knew in their hearts that the seriously injured Battalion Commander Wang should have been killed.
As far as the Chinese army is concerned, there are no rear hospitals, and there are very few medicines to treat gunshot wounds. As long as the soldier is seriously injured on the battlefield, he will be declared dead.
"But no matter what, our position was held and the Japanese retreated." Li Chenghong told the whole process very plainly.
Logically speaking, repelling the Japanese attack should be a happy thing, but no one could see that he looked happy at all.
“We beat the little devils away, and we had no time to rejoice just by rescuing the wounded. At this time, we heard gunfire from another village not far away.
So we people ran towards that village. We knew that more support was needed there because there were only thirteen policemen guarding that village.
By the time we got there, twelve of the thirteen police officers had been killed, and she was the only one left. "Li Chenghong pointed his finger at the policewoman again.
Shang Zhen and the others all looked at the policewoman, and then the policewoman said: "I saved my life.
The Japanese fired artillery fire at our place, and they were killed. I was buried in the earth by the shells. "
At this point, the story of Li Chenghong and this female police officer is over.
There was silence.
After a while, someone made a surprising statement, it was Mr. Wang.
"His grandma is a jerk, and I want to scold Yin (people) again!" Wang Laomao said. He didn't even notice that he was actually cursing people.
Shang Zhen and Wang Laomao knew something about the Songhu battlefield. They heard Chang En, the commander of the 108th Division, say that the Japanese troops landed at Jinshanwei in Hangzhou Bay.
Since the enemy and us were still in a stalemate in Shanghai, once the Japanese army landed in Hangzhou Bay, it was equivalent to inserting a knife from the rear of the Chinese army.
This created a situation where the Chinese army could only retreat quickly to avoid being completely surrounded and annihilated, which also caused this great rout.
The 67th Army of the Northeast Army blocked Songjiang County and fought a blocking battle just to prevent the Chinese army from being encircled and annihilated.
As a result, after three days and three nights of fighting, there were only about 400 people left in the 67th Army.
But at this time, neither Shang Zhen nor Wang Laomao knew that not only were there only about 400 people left in the Sixty-seventh Army, but even the commander Wu Yong had been killed.
And from the beginning to the end, from the time Wu Keyong fell into the Suzhou River, no one has ever found Wu Keyong's body!
