The rain poured down all night. Although the rain finally stopped at dawn, the endless virgin forest was still wet and muddy. If you are not careful, you will slip and get covered in muddy water. The muddy water alone is still wet and muddy.
It doesn't matter, the locusts knocked down from the leaves into the muddy water by the rain are deadly things. They will stick to your legs and feet when you step through the muddy water, and take the opportunity to get into your clothes and suck you hard.
Blood.
Zhao Liang, who was still frightened, looked at the meat pillars swinging back and forth on Hou San's leggings in front of him, and his throat twitched and he wanted to vomit. He knew that those were not meat pillars, but leech clinging to Hou San's leggings. In fact, Hou San's legs were
Wearing half-high-waisted British military boots and thick leggings made of old military uniforms, those locusts couldn't touch his flesh at all. But even so, when he saw those squirming locusts, Hou followed closely.
Even Zhao Liang, who was three years old, couldn't help but feel nauseous.
"If you ask me, we shouldn't leave like this. What a great opportunity. We should lie in wait and wait for the other Japanese soldiers to come back, then take the opportunity to hit them. Maybe we can capture a small cannon.
What, didn't our commander say we are short of that thing? What a great opportunity." Hou San had no intention of caring about whether Zhao Liang behind him was disgusting or not, as he was being nagged by the endless chattering of dice.
"Shut up, you are starting to fight stupid battles with your head every day. When we left, didn't the commander already tell us carefully? We are the only ones now. If there are more Japanese soldiers coming back, how will you fight?
Do we still have to fight with them head-on?" Annoyed by the nagging of the dice, Hou San smiled and reached out to hit the dice with a bang. "In the future, use your brain more when fighting. We are in a hurry to go home now.
, you are not rushing to fight the Japanese."
Regardless of whether Hou San is teaching Dice a lesson, what he just said is always good. There are indeed too few of them now. If more Japanese come, they will have no choice but to escape. In the dense forest, they have been surrounded by Japanese troops.
The small group of troops chasing and fighting other Chinese soldiers had already become frightened. The defeated Chinese soldiers, who were more numerous than them, did not have the slightest courage to turn around and fight again. The few manpower they had in Tangcheng was not enough for the Japanese army.
Teeth.
After leaving the camp of Oumi's team, Tang Cheng and the others walked desperately in the dense forest all morning. It was not until noon that Tang Cheng and the others stopped to take a break. Because the number of people was too small, a lot of loot was captured.
They were all left in the camp of Oumi's team, to the Japanese troops who might appear later. It's not that Tang Cheng didn't want to take those trophies with him, but there was really no way to do so. Traveling in the hot and humid dense forest would consume too much.
Everyone's physical strength, and besides, Tangcheng and the others are not short of food and clothing, so they can't afford to drag themselves into a desperate situation for the sake of things they shouldn't eat or drink.
In the dense jungle where Tang Cheng and the others had walked all morning, there was nothing but locusts and slippery mud. Only their group of people who were eager to go home were left. Tang Cheng, who was slightly ahead, looked up at the gray
Tian, wiped the water stains from the corner of his mouth and put the water bottle back on his waist. The two Yanlong brothers who were forward as vanguards had already set out to search. In such a jungle, they are the only Yi people who have lived in the jungles on the edge of Yunnan for generations.
Only a man will be as comfortable as a fish in water.
Suddenly there was a chirping of birds from the front. Tang Cheng stood up with a gun in his hand and raised his hands to Hou San and others to warn everyone. The chirping of birds was from the sent Yanlong brothers. They must have discovered the Japanese army in front.
Or something else. Hou San and the others immediately dispersed and lay in the bushes in twos and threes. No one could care about the locusts in the muddy water at this moment. This was the first time they heard the scout's alarm today, and everyone was very nervous.
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Tang Cheng had also ducked and hid in a bush, clutching his submachine gun tightly in his hand and looking nervously ahead. Tang Chengzhi, who was good at close combat, knew that in the face of battle, the cooperation between soldiers was crucial.
How important. Once the war starts, all the planned things will have to be discussed. Hou Sanban, who was slowly moving forward, squatted opposite Tangcheng and looked ahead hard. But in this dense forest, there was no way.
I couldn't see how far it was. After waiting for a while, Hou San couldn't help but feel anxious. He gestured to Tang Cheng. He slowly stood up and was about to touch it.
Tang Cheng wanted to stop him, but he didn't stop him. When Hou San had already stood up and moved forward, the bushes in front of him shook, and a man's head poked out. Tang Cheng took a closer look and saw that it was Yan Hu. Yan Hu raised his head and raised his hand towards
He shook his head towards Tang Cheng, signaling that it was okay. "It's okay, get up." Tang Cheng finally breathed a sigh of relief and stood up, calling to the other people who were on guard. Yanhu jumped out of the bushes and ran back quickly.
, before anyone could ask, Iwatora kept gesticulating.
"There are a lot of dead people ahead." Tang Cheng and the others have all experienced life and death many times, and no one has seen a dead person yet. But Iwatora's tone made everyone feel that something was not right. There must be something different.
. Yanhu was a clumsy person. He couldn’t explain clearly, so he stretched out his hand and dragged Tang Cheng forward. Tang Cheng couldn’t get rid of Yanhu’s drag. When he saw others following him, he had to tell Hou San and the others to be careful.
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After passing those shrubs, the ground was still muddy. Tangcheng and the others followed Yanhu and walked along the edge of the shrubs. Because only the shrubs there had developed root systems, and the branches and leaves were mixed with the mud and water, and the leaves were relatively small.
It is obviously much easier to walk through the mud and water all over the ground. Dense bushes are also good concealment. In case of emergency, they can at least be used as effective camouflage protection. Bypassing a few tall old trees and a bush, you can see in front of you
A clearing appeared. After being washed by the rain, the lush grass turned extremely green, which was very pleasing to the eye.
Tangcheng and the others entered the open space. Yanlong, who had not appeared just now, was squatting on the ground crying with his nose and tears in his hands. Looking in the direction of Yanlong's finger, the two female soldiers couldn't help but screamed out.
.I saw a pile of corpses suddenly appearing on the green carpet. The tattered expeditionary army uniforms and medium-sized rifles on the corpses proved that these corpses were national soldiers of the expeditionary force. Yanlong pointed at the corpses,
He sobbed and whispered, "At first when I saw the reflection of bayonets here, I thought there was an ambush, but later I discovered that they were all corpses."
Tang Cheng sighed and whispered with a bitter look on his face, "They are all patriots who died for the country. Bury them. You can't take them back, but at least don't let them die in the wilderness and become lonely ghosts." After saying that, Tang Cheng
He took off the steel helmet on his head and bowed deeply to the corpses. Hou San and others naturally followed suit and bowed accordingly. The two Yanlong brothers who believed in the gods even knelt on the ground and muttered something with force.
He kowtowed several times.
Tang Cheng wanted to get closer and take a look at the corpses, but before he could get closer, he had to reach out and cover his mouth and nose. Tang Cheng was also puzzled. The expeditionary force had only been chased by the Japanese army for a few days, so how could these corpses be exposed?
It was already rotten like this. Yanlong was a mountain spirit. When he saw Tang Cheng covering his mouth and nose, he explained in a low voice, "It's too humid and stuffy in the forest. As long as any living thing dies in the forest, it won't come out for two days."
Stinky and rotten, that's what these corpses are like."
After a lot of hard work, Tang Cheng and the others finally dug a big pit in the mud and buried the dead expeditionary soldiers for ten years. After gathering everyone together, Tang Cheng led them to bow three times to the corpses of the buried expeditionary soldiers.
Tang Cheng looked at his watch and waved to Hou San, "Everyone's energy is almost gone. If we keep going like this, some people will fall behind. It's not bad here. I think it's better for us to rest here."
Yes, once everyone has calmed down, it won’t be too late to start our journey again.”
There are not only leeches in the dense forest, but also many unknown insects and poisons. The open space where the bones of the expeditionary soldiers were buried does look much better than the bushes just now. Hou San nodded to Brother Yanlong,
The latter rushed towards the distant bushes with their rifles in hand. They had to have scouts while they were resting. This was a habit they had already developed when Tangcheng went south.
Looking at the sky above his head through the canopy of the trees, Tang Cheng missed Liu Shitou in Kunming even more, and of course the quirky Huang Duoduo. Although he was forced to go into the woods by the Japanese army, compared to those
The brothers who died in Myitkyina and Menggong considered themselves lucky. At least they were much closer to home now. Just when Tang Cheng was raising his head and thinking wildly, Hou San stabbed him quietly and followed his lead.
Hou San looked over. Tang Cheng originally thought that the silhouette that appeared was Brother Yanlong, but the familiar khaki top of the other party revealed his true identity.
"It's the Japanese army." Tang Cheng's eyes widened suddenly. A dozen Japanese soldiers suddenly appeared like ghosts, slowly and strangely moving in the direction of Tang Cheng and the others, but the Yanlong brothers who went out to search were still missing.
.This is a group of Japanese scouts. There are more than a dozen people. Seeing the figures getting closer and closer, they can already see their faces clearly. Tang Cheng, who is lying down, even feels that he can smell the sweat on the bodies of these Japanese scouts.
Sour. Tang Cheng and the others could no longer avoid these Japanese scouts. The only way was to fight. After signaling to Tan Fei and Man Niu who were sitting behind them, Tang Cheng raised the flower machine gun in his hand.
These Japanese scouts obviously did not know that there were more than a dozen Chinese soldiers in front of them who were ready to fire. If they knew that this group of Chinese soldiers who were waiting for them also had two light machine guns and two machine guns.
, even if they were killed, they would not show up here so arrogantly. The defeated national army with such a strong firepower configuration was not something that scouts like them could provoke.