After Zhou Wu received the desperate telegram, he was so anxious that he immediately ordered the second regiment, which was closest to the broken rear troops, to send troops to rescue them.
In his order, he asked Ge Sanmin to personally lead people to the rescue, and he must not let a soldier fall into the hands of devils.
After receiving the order, Ge Sanmin immediately organized a capable detachment of more than 100 people and hurried to the place where the gun was fired.
Since all the devils had been dispatched and had reoccupied all the positions, Ge Sanmin and his squad broke through the first and second line positions of the devils after losing nearly 40 people, and finally arrived at the position of the broken rear troops at more than four o'clock in the morning.
The tragic situation on the battlefield made Ge Sanmin, a battle-hardened man, sigh.
Of the more than forty people, only four were alive, and all of them were scarred, flesh and blood were blurred, and none of them were intact.
Fortunately, the battalion commander was still there, but his eyes were blinded by shells, and he was groping around the ground looking for something.
Seeing the receiving troops sent by Zhou Wu, these four people cried with joy, to be honest, who doesn't want to live, as long as there is a little hope of life, it will immediately arouse people's endless fighting spirit.
Ge Sanmin ordered people to carry these four warriors on stretchers, and at the same time saluted the martyrs scattered around the position, and said: "Brothers, I originally wanted to take you home, but now I can't do it, wait for us to drive away the little devils, and then come back to bury you well." ” After speaking, Ge Sanmin asked people to quickly break through the siege, break through the blockade of the Japanese army, and catch up with the large army.
The road back was also full of difficulties and obstacles, and Ge Sanmin and his sisters paid the price of more than twenty brothers before they broke out of the enemy's blockade, got rid of the pursuit of the devils, and finally caught up with the large army before dawn.
Zhou Wu received the news of Ge Sanmin's return, and immediately rushed to the second regiment with Ding Ning, he saw Ge Sanmin's bloodshot eyes and tired expression, and said: "Old Ge, thank you, the brothers are all good, two in and two out of the enemy's position, excellent completion of the task, worthy of our independent brigade soldiers." ” Looking at the four brothers who were rescued, Zhou Wu held the blind battalion commander and said, "You fought very well, and played the momentum of our independent brigade, I am proud of you." ” Although the battalion commander couldn't see Zhou Wu, he was excited when he heard Zhou Wu's voice, and he trembled and saluted with a hand tied with gauze: "Report to the brigade, the commander of the third battalion of the fourth regiment is on duty, after the break, thirty-nine people in the detachment were killed, and four people returned, please instruct" At this time, Zhou Wu only felt that something was stuffed in his throat, and he wanted to say something to comfort the blind battalion commander with his arms hanging on his arms, but after working hard for a long time, he couldn't say a word, and finally had to return him a military salute.
The four of them were quickly connected by the sanitary, and Zhou Wu sighed and said: "Lao Ding, our veterans have died one by one like this, and the new soldiers can't be replenished, it seems that the battle in Nanjing is even more difficult to fight." ” "Yes, there are many national army units like ours now, and some of them have been scattered, collapsed, and embarrassed.
Like that battalion commander, he will definitely not be able to fight in the future, and if he is blind, it will be inconvenient for his life in the future. ” Hearing this, Zhou Wu said: "Lao Ding, inform me that in addition to the normal pension, each of the soldiers who were responsible for the death of the break will be given an additional subsidy of one hundred oceans.
For the four surviving brothers, each of whom will receive a subsidy of 500 oceans, maybe that's all we can do. ” Ding Ning nodded, then turned to leave, Zhou Wu looked at his distant back, full of thoughts.
The future battles will become more and more cruel, seeing the old subordinates dying on the battlefield one by one, he suddenly has an indescribable desolation, a kind of desolation like the end of a hero.
This bleak thought soon reminded Zhou Wu of his wife and children in Nanjing.
In the past few days, the Japanese army has been bombing Nanjing indiscriminately, and news has been constantly coming from the front that many houses in Nanjing have been blown up and ordinary people have been killed.
Zhou Wu was very worried about what happened to Xiuying and them, whether there was something wrong and life was okay Although the Japanese discovered the retreat attempt of the independent brigade, they did not catch up with it with all their might, and it is estimated that they were also to prevent Zhou Wu from putting them halfway.
In this way, the retreat of the independent brigade was relatively smooth, and Zhou Wu ordered the troops to march during the day, but each of them had an extra hat on their heads, a kind of camouflage made of tree branches.
In the sky, the Japanese reconnaissance planes were still circling around like big flies, and Zhou Wu looked up at these nasty things, eager for Zhang Ercheng to use anti-aircraft guns to kill them.
As a result, Zhang Ercheng said that it was no fun, and the shells of the anti-aircraft guns were used up during the feint.
Two days later, the Independent Brigade finally arrived in Nanjing, and it is most appropriate to describe her with the words Qinglong and Qin Huai.
The most important thing is that there is an airport here, and the safe passage that maintains the evacuation of Nanjing government officials is in the southwest of the Zhou Wufang District, which is only ten miles away, and is now guarded by a regiment under the Teaching Corps.
Under the city of Nanjing, the situation that Zhou Wu saw could be summed up in only one word, that is, chaos.
All kinds of formations, all kinds of national army troops, you come and go, bustling, as if they are not here to fight, just like rushing to the market.
These troops were like headless flies bumping everywhere, the battalion could not find the regiment, the regiment could not find the division, and the division could not find the army.
The Independent Brigade was about to arrive in Jiangning when it was blocked by a group of stragglers who retreated from Wujin, and it was useless for them to say all their good words, and finally Zhou Wu was furious, and asked the fat man to lead people to disarm all the other party, and forcibly drove them to the side of the road, and the Independent Brigade passed smoothly and arrived at the designated place.
At this time, an officer with a team of five or six hundred people rushed over, and they told the sentry that they wanted to see the commander, and Zhou Wu received the news and immediately rushed over, and when he asked, he learned that these people had been withdrawn from Baoshan, Shanghai.
It had been more than a month since they arrived in Nanjing, and they had already lost contact with their superiors when they broke through and retreated.
They were originally subordinate to the Gui army of Bai Changguan, and when the battle in Songhu was at its fiercest, they were engaged in the battle of counterattacking Baoshan.
More than 10,000 people in a division were thrown in, and only a few hundred people were left in one afternoon, and they were the last to be put into the battlefield, and they fought for less than a day, and there were so many people left in a division.
Later, they could not find the military headquarters, the division commander was also martyred in the battle, and other troops refused to take them in, so they had to come to Nanjing under the leadership of a deputy regiment commander.
I thought that when I arrived in Nanjing, someone would take them in and resettle them, but they still ran into walls everywhere and had nowhere to stay, so anxious that the deputy head of the regiment who led the team threatened that if they were not resettled, they would go up the mountain to become bandits.
Today, on the road, they saw that although the independent brigade was ragged and wounded, the ranks marched in an orderly manner, and the fighting spirit of the soldiers was high, and some of them were singing the March of the Volunteers and slashing at the devil's head with great enthusiasm, and there was no laziness and indulgence in withdrawing from the front line.
Therefore, they thought that this was a different kind of army, and they were helpless now anyway, so they simply took their brothers to try their luck with the independent brigade. t1706231537: