"Pa" A gunshot suddenly came from the jungle, causing Tang Cheng and others who were marching to squat down, leveling the carbines in their hands and looking around warily. "Where to shoot?" Tang Cheng asked quietly.
The rock dragon crouched beside him. The jungle was so big that every sound had an echo. Inexperienced people couldn't tell the source of the sound at all. The rock dragon closed his eyes as if an old monk was in trance. Suddenly he opened his eyes and whispered, "Yes."
Something is coming towards us." Tang Cheng waved his hand and got behind a section of rotten trees.
There was a sound of ropes, and a half-sized wild boar suddenly emerged from the trees in the southeast direction of Tangcheng. The wild boar was obviously injured, and blood was bleeding from its back. Zhao Liang was about to head towards the emerging tree.
The wild boar opened fire, but Hou San glared and stopped him in time. Following the wild boar, a group of people appeared, led by a man in Burmese attire. The man was using a long knife to chop branches and vines to provide food for the people behind him.
Driving on the road. Tang Cheng gestured to the others, preparing to wipe out the group at once. Just when everyone was about to shoot, Dice, who heard the sound of gunshots coming back from the front, blew his whistle.
Instead of one long and one short for alarm, three long and two short are used to indicate safety.
The sudden whistle sounded, making the Burmese man who followed the wild boar froze at a loss. The Burmese man carrying a machete quickly got into the bushes. "Hide, hide" at this time the group of people
Someone shouted inside, and the group of people who had not yet revealed their bodies dispersed in panic. Damn, they were speaking Mandarin. They were the defeated troops of the national army who fled into the woods. They looked at the clumsy concealment actions of those guys.
, Tang Cheng, crouching behind the dead trees, was happy.
"Hey, which unit is the one on the other side from?" Tang Cheng, who was hiding behind the dead wood, shouted leisurely. Following the words, Tang Cheng saw clearly the guy standing up on the opposite side. Hey, he's still a major. "You guys.
Are they also the national army?" The major who was waiting to get up saw the person in front of him clearly and shouted happily. Looking at the major with joy on his face, Tang Cheng, who stood up slowly, couldn't help but frowned, this guy is too
There is no need to be vigilant anymore. If my group of people were pretending to be Japanese soldiers, then they would all die here.
Tang Cheng looked at the guys in the team carefully, with a smile on his face, "Which army are you from? How come there are only these few people left?" Tang Cheng always said the same thing in front of Hou San and the others, but he still had it.
He had some momentum, so he didn't have so many scruples when speaking. The guys on the other side were too embarrassed. Just the US military uniforms on Tang Cheng and the carbines in his hands were enough to surprise them, so no one would pay attention.
Tang Cheng’s tone when speaking.
After learning that these guys were all from the New 22nd Division, Tang Cheng didn't act too strange, but just blew a few whistles. Hou San and others, also wearing American military uniforms with carbines in their hands, ducked out of the branches of the tree.
, but it shocked these guys from the New 22nd Division. They didn’t expect that there would be so many people in Tangcheng. “We have been chased by the Japanese army. The commander was killed, and we are the only ones left.”
The haggard-looking major said with some difficulty, glancing at George and Mike standing behind Hou San from the corner of his eyes.
"Do you have anything to eat? Do you still have bullets in your guns?" After learning that the other party also found a Burmese to take him to Lieduo, Tang Cheng rolled his eyes, narrowed his eyes and smiled. The major was embarrassed this quarter.
In reply, Tang Cheng continued, "We all have these things. We have food and bullets. Do you want to come with us? We are also going to Lieduo." Tang Cheng is like a liar who coaxes children with candy.
, he was going to take these guys out and the Burmese who was leading the way coaxed them into his own team.
Naturally, the other party had no choice but to agree to join forces with Tang Cheng and the others. But when they were actually on the road, the Major Cao of the New 22nd Division realized that he seemed to have been fooled. Tang Cheng and the others had more bullets than anything else.
, there wasn’t much food at all, and they didn’t know the way at all. They were so happy when they arrived in Tangcheng, and when they were dozing off, they found a pillow. Just when they lost their way, they found a Burmese man who knew the way, and he also got a few rides.
If more than one expeditionary force is defeated, it would be great if such a good thing happens a few more times. Maybe when the time comes, I can gather the strength of a company.
These stupid Burmese people are very good at it. After walking in the jungle with Tang Cheng and the others for only one day, they could already see the corpses of the expeditionary army in twos and threes in the forest. These corpses are different from the corpses on the battlefield.
The corpses on the battlefield are all upright, either covered in blood, or with intestines and stomachs pierced, or with mutilated limbs. But the corpses in the jungle are different, some are sitting or lying on their sides.
, or lying on their backs. However, these corpses all have one thing in common, they all have their eyes open and they die with their eyes open.
Tangcheng and the others walked down the road guided by the corpses, and the more they walked, the more corpses there were. In some places, there were even piles of corpses. When these broken soldiers of the expeditionary force retreated here after trudging all the way from Mandalay, or
Due to hunger or illness, they stayed here forever and could never return home. Tangcheng knew that this was the correct route that the Burmese said, but this road was paved with the corpses of countless expeditionary soldiers.
When you come out, as long as you follow the corpse, you will definitely reach Lieduo.
Another day of walking ushered in another rainy day. Wearing raincoats while marching in the rain, not only did not let the cool air pass through, but instead felt stuffy all over. The jungle was wet everywhere, and the clothes soaked by the rain exuded a rancid smell. Some of the soldiers collapsed.
Gray spots appeared on their faces, and the hair of a few long-haired soldiers was stuck together like felt. The rainy season not only consumes the physical strength of the soldiers, but also makes it increasingly difficult to find food in the rainforest. Even
The dried meat they usually store in Tangcheng was soaked in rain and deteriorated.
In this world of mountains and trees, every step is difficult. Tangcheng has lost count of how many mountains he has climbed, how many dense and dark jungles he has passed through, and how many rivers formed by rain he has crossed. At the beginning
At that time, everyone could still walk in the rain with the raincoat on their body. Later, after the physical strength dropped sharply, everyone could only hide in the raincoat shed on the triangular fork to take shelter from the rain. However, the rain in the jungle often lasts for three or two days at a time, so everyone
I had no choice but to survive by cooking some wild vegetables and mushrooms.
"Tang, it seems that the food we have prepared is not enough." George, who was temporarily in charge of logistics, and Tang Cheng sat huddled in a shed, shivering and whispering to Tang Cheng. If they wanted to get out of the jungle of Savage Mountain alive,
, food is a big problem, followed by medicine. With the presence of military doctors and Zhao Liang, Tangcheng and the others will not be short of medicine, but after suddenly having a few new 22nd Division guys, Tangcheng and the others have obviously consumed their food too quickly.
, it seems that there is not enough to eat.
"There is no way. There are too many troops passing by, and the search for food is too clean. Now even digging for wild vegetables can't be found. Let everyone stick to it and reduce the two meals to one. If we persist for a few more days, maybe we can
Get out of this damn forest." He stuffed the box of cans that George secretly gave him into George's backpack. Tang Cheng, who was also trembling, wrapped his military uniform tightly around his body, "Let Hou San and the others who are following behind
Be careful and don't let anyone fall behind."
Although there was no order to restrain them, in the vast and boundless mountains and jungles, the defeated soldiers did not dare to fall behind, because falling behind meant that you were not far from death. Everyone just followed the Burmese guide in the jungle, fainting.
As he walked in a daze, Tang Cheng couldn't figure out whether he was marching or fleeing. Fortunately, the rain did not fall all the time. Occasionally, the sun would shine in in the jungle, but when the sun shined on people,
, it will feel hot and uncomfortable.
As the rain stops and the sun shines, the temperature in the jungle also rises. However, the hot and humid climate provides the best conditions for the breeding of poisonous insects. There are swarms of them in low-lying muddy water or humid places.
The longest locusts can be five or six inches long. They will take advantage of your feet in the mud to climb up your body, burrow into your skin and suck your flesh and blood. If a leech burrows into your heart
Or if you don't discover it in time, such as the crotch, or other vital parts, then you will only die from pain.
There are other things in the jungle that can kill people: inch-long mosquitoes, ants that can chew people into bones, and poisonous snakes, centipedes, scorpions and the like. These have been breeding in the jungle for a long time, and they have fended for themselves from generation to generation.
The multiplying poisonous insects are the biggest enemies of the defeated soldiers. Once the defeated soldiers step into their territory, they will attack you day and night, viciously sucking the blood and flesh of the defeated soldiers, and giving them
The germs were left behind. The soldiers without medicine were tortured by the germs left by the poisonous insects due to long-term lack of nutrition. Therefore, edema, relapsing fever, malaria, and tetanus were always with the soldiers, and they would have symptoms every morning.
Several, or even dozens of defeated soldiers could never get up again.
After persisting for two more days, a defeated soldier who couldn't help but secretly drank dead water died quietly while camping at night. When everyone was preparing to set off at dawn, they found that this guy's body was already hard. With no way out, he was forced to retreat into the jungle.
The defeated soldiers inside wore half-dry and half-wet tattered military uniforms, and ate rancid food, sometimes even wild vegetables and banana roots, but they never frowned.
They fell and climbed on the steep animal path for no other reason than to return to their homeland alive. It was not only the war that could kill people, but the rainy season had already tortured the soldiers' physiques and made them indifferent to diseases.
Without resistance, just a mouthful of water from the stagnant pool can kill them.