"Old Yan, are you trying to pull the mountain over?”
Pulling the mountain was a more obscure way of saying it. To put it more clearly, it was asking Yan Wenbin if he wanted to be a warlord.
This was because he actually felt like he was going to be a warlord.
"Pull the mountain? If I wanted to pull the mountain, I would have returned to Sichuan a long time ago. I wouldn't have to fight to the death here. I wouldn't have saved you yesterday!"
Yan Wenbin sneered. Wang Mingzhi no longer doubted him. Yan Wenbin was right. If he really wanted to pull the mountain, he wouldn't do it here.
"Actually, I still can't figure it out. Why did you choose to gather the scattered soldiers outside Nanjing to fight the devils and enter Nanjing? Isn't it better to defend Nanjing together? It's said that there's strength in numbers. I'm afraid it'll be a little difficult for us to do it alone!”
Wang Mingzhi's face was still wrinkled. He still couldn't understand this question.
"You will know later. And do you think Nanjing can be defended? A group of defeated soldiers had retreated from Shanghai. How could they take them back? Even the Nanjing government itself did not have the confidence to move the government to Chongqing.”
What Yan Wenbin said was the truth, and it was also one of the reasons why the Nanjing Defense War failed in history.
"Good! I believe you, and I hope you're doing the right thing!”
Wang Mingzhi thought for a moment and gritted his teeth. His performance in the past two days made him choose to believe in Yan Wenbin.
If you said that, it would be strange if others didn't treat you as a lunatic!
Yan Wenbin sat there alone, quietly looking at the wounded in the distance. Last night, his troops had suffered a lot of casualties. Yu Fei's 2nd Battalion was almost wiped out.
The 2nd Battalion had 360 people, but only 120 of them were able to break out of the encirclement alive. The remaining 240 or so had all died.
Among the remaining 120 or so people, more than half of them were injured. The remaining dozens were barely intact.
As for the other battalions, be it the 1st or 2nd, they all suffered heavy casualties.
Originally, including the injured, his regiment still had about 1,300 people, but now there were only about 800 people left. Among the remaining people, nearly half of them were injured.
Wang Mingzhi's army was about the same. After last night's battle, only about 300 of his last few hundred men were left. Among them, there were about 100 who could still fight, and the rest were injured.
It could be said that the casualties from last night's battle were very high. Although they had eaten more than 1,200 Japanese soldiers and injured countless of them, they had also lost 800 of their own.
However, there were some things that could not be helped. The soldiers of the Sichuan Army could not keep up with their physical strength and training. Their combat skills were much worse than the Japanese, and their numbers were much worse than the Japanese. Their only advantage was that their firepower was stronger than the Japanese.
Otherwise, they wouldn't even be able to walk out alive, let alone eat the Japanese's regiment last night.
"Guild Leader, our casualties last night were too great. Is it worth it for us to help them like this?"
Yu Fei walked to Yan Wenbin's side and said with a pained expression. Last night, his Second Battalion suffered the most casualties. If Yan Wenbin had arrived a little later, they would have been eaten by the Japanese.
"It's all for the sake of fighting the Japanese. It's not worth it. Have you forgotten the oath we made when we left Sichuan?“
Yan Wenbin said softly.
Yu Fei didn't say anything. He just sat beside him.
"Alright! Don't be angry. Everything is for the sake of fighting the Japanese. Don't care about the factions. We are all soldiers. We are the national defense force of China. We are all Chinese. If we all have such thoughts, sooner or later, the Japanese will still attack our Sichuan!”
Yan Wenbin patted Yu Fei's shoulder and said softly. After so many years of warlords fighting, these people had a strong sense of belonging. In fact, it was not because of the warlords fighting. China had always had a sense of belonging.
Just like the chairman's central army, the German Machinists had the best treatment and equipment in China. As for the other warlords, although they were nominally his subordinates, would he be willing to give them the excellent weapons and equipment in his hands? It was obviously impossible, so it was normal for Yu Fei to have such thoughts.
"Guild Leader, we are only a dozen kilometers away from Niutang Town. Should we leave this place as soon as possible? If they waited here for too long, the Japanese would probably catch up!”
At this moment, He Jie brought people to carry the ammunition boxes back one by one. He walked in front of Yan Wenbin and asked.
"Don't worry! At this time, if the Japanese caught up, they would be alone. Moreover, our people are all fleeing around here. They are also afraid of encountering troops like us again. Moreover, the Japanese suffered no less casualties than us last night. At this time, they should be defending Niutan Town and waiting for their main force to arrive!”
After Yan Wenbin finished speaking, he looked into the distance. Their future was still very uncertain! He didn't know what kind of unexpected situation he would encounter next.
In the next few days, Yan Wenbin and Wang Mingzhi led their troops to move around Changzhou. They gathered and persuaded any scattered soldiers they encountered. If they encountered any organized national army, they would dodge.
As time passed, their team began to gradually grow, although the composition was very complicated. During this period, they met the soldiers of the Sichuan Army, the National Army, the Gui Army, and so on. They even met some local security guards.
Yan Wenbin did not reject these people. He would first recruit them. These people had received military training, so they were better than those farmers.
At the same time, Yan Wenbin was also buying weapons and equipment bit by bit to arm his troops.
Yan Wenbin was still training the soldiers who had just been gathered. At the same time, the soldiers who were injured in the battle began to slowly recover as time passed.
Yan Wenbin brought his troops to stay near Changzhou for a few days. When he felt that it was about time, he began to move closer to Nanjing. At the same time, if they encountered the Japanese's small vanguard troops along the way, they would take them down. If there were large troops behind them, they would retreat with the troops.
At the same time, in order to solve the food problem, Yan Wenbin could only bring people to the nearby towns or villages to buy food at a lower price.
As for the money, don't ask. It's the Japanese's.
The Japanese that they had killed earlier had already stolen a lot of money from them. Originally, these Japanese had robbed along the way and had a lot of money on them. Now, all this money belonged to Yan Wenbin. However, this money would not be able to support Yan Wenbin's troops for long. He knew that if he wanted his troops to continue to expand and develop, he could only use war to nurture war until he could reorganize and have a stable territory.
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