People died, but Tangcheng and the others could not stop. After hastily burying the bodies, Tangcheng and the others continued on their way. Under attack from poisonous insects, diseases, and lack of food and water, the only Burmese guide who knew the road had already left yesterday.
They lost their footing and fell off the cliff. Now Tangcheng and the others can only march along the bones of the expeditionary army. The bones of the expeditionary army in the jungle are the best signposts for Zhao Zhi and the others. They can be seen under the big trees in the jungle, in shacks, and on the roadside.
Numbers and dead bodies abound, it's horrific and shocking.
Because the road taken by the Burmese guide was in the same direction as the corpse, as more and more corpses appeared, the expressions on Tangcheng's and others' faces became more and more solemn, because they recognized at least ten of these corpses.
Several officers were gone. Without a guide, Tangcheng and the others could only stop and go while checking the direction every day. They saw many dead bodies along the way, but Tangcheng and the others did not go in the wrong direction. Those corpses
It is the best road sign.
Occasionally, I would see a few wounded soldiers who were about to die. These wounded soldiers who could no longer be treated were either sitting against the trees or lying motionless on the roadside. Only when people passed by them, they would make a slight but slight utterance.
It's a depressing scene that makes people feel miserable. I don't know why the troops who passed by left behind so many wounded, but they in Tangcheng didn't have the ability to save them. They could only repay them with tears of sympathy or send them away early.
Besides, Tang Cheng and others had no other choice.
The disease attacks people regardless of their superiority. It will not let you go just because you are an officer. If you have no resistance or have low resistance, the disease will take the opportunity to invade your body. It has always been mentioned by Hou Sanhe Dice
Tang Cheng, who had taken good care of him, finally fell ill because he always gave his share of food to young Tan Fei and Zhao Liang. Tang Cheng was now sallow, weak, and lifeless.
However, he still relied on a wooden stick to march by himself every day.
Diseases are contagious, and more and more people are sick in the team. The marching speed has dropped from dozens of miles a day at the beginning to a few miles a day now. It has not rained for two days, and the team has marched to a
Next to the large pond formed by the rain, Tang Cheng, who was in a daze, ordered the team to rest here for two days while there was sunshine, so as to find some food.
The military doctor crushed up the only half of the cigarette, soaked it in boiling water, and fed it to Tang Cheng to drink according to the old-fashioned method he learned when he was traveling in the martial arts in his early years. After a drowsy night's sleep, Tang Cheng finally got rid of his fever, but Mike was still there.
Then he fell down. Mike was carried over by two soldiers and placed next to Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng looked sideways and was startled. Mike, who was full of energy and bright eyes at first, was now lifeless.
His breathing was uneven, and his teeth were chattering. "I may have malaria." Mike saw Tang Cheng's questioning eyes and hurriedly explained.
Tang Cheng couldn't help but take a breath, thinking that if he got this kind of disease, without special medicines like quinine or cinchona, it would basically be a dead end. What's more, he was in the jungle now. He didn't know how to comfort him.
Zhao Zhi said hesitantly, "I can only sympathize with you now. We have no medicines, and the military doctors can't do anything. You have to rely on your own will to defeat the disease like me." The sun shone warmly on Zhao Zhi, but
Tang Cheng tilted his head and looked at Mike's closed eyes, feeling cold for no reason.
Mike, who had a sallow complexion and sunken eye sockets, did not speak, but tilted the corner of his mouth to reveal a smile. Seeing Mike's appearance, Tang Cheng wiped his tears sadly. For some reason, Tang Cheng felt an inexplicable irritation in his heart. He looked up.
In the sky, Tangcheng missed Robert, Xie Bo and Liu Yangyang, and also Liu Shitou who was far away in Kunming. Maybe it was because the troops who walked through the jungle in front of them had wiped out all the wild animals, and they failed to search for the dice.
When he brought it back to eat, the few wild vegetables Yanlong held in his hand were not enough to fill his teeth.
"Don't save rations. The dried meat has been soaked in water anyway, so let's cook all the dried meat. If everyone has a full stomach, maybe we can go faster tomorrow." Filtered through socks several times.
The accumulated water was poured into a dozen steel helmets that served as rice cookers. All the dried meat and the last bit of fried rice were also thrown into the helmets. As the water boiled and the dried meat was stirred, the aroma slowly spread. The dinner was not a sumptuous one.
, everyone ate a few pieces of meat and a spoonful of broth. Although the food was a little less, everyone sitting around the campfire ate with gusto. After drinking the broth and taking the herbs, Mike fell asleep.
, Tang Cheng, who had no choice but to do anything, began to pray to God to bless Mike to be alive tomorrow.
I don’t know whether it was the spoonful of broth that worked or whether the military doctor and Zhao Liang found the right herbal medicine. Tang Cheng, who had been worried all night, was still alive the next day. This made Tang Cheng, who didn’t believe in God, praise him in his heart.
"God really works". Mike was still alive, but his mind was a little confused. Tangcheng had to arrange for four soldiers to carry him on a stretcher. The soldiers who had rested for the night were much faster on their feet after a morning of hard work.
As we trekked, the mountains ahead no longer looked very high, and the trees began to become sparse.
Everyone's mood suddenly improved, and it seemed that we were about to leave the jungle. We walked like this for another afternoon, and when it was dark and we set up camp, there were fewer poisonous insects in the jungle, and the terrain seemed to be getting better.
It was flat. Tang Cheng guessed that he was almost out of the jungle. This guess made everyone happy. After wandering in the jungle for dozens of days and nights, they were finally free. Everyone seemed to have endless power.
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Good news makes people feel happy, so when they set up camp at night, Tang Cheng and George argued hard and finally persuaded George to take out the last few boxes of cans reserved for emergencies and cook them into broth for everyone to share.
.The next day, after walking for more than half a day, the rugged mountain road disappeared under our feet, and we passed through a small forest. What appeared in front of everyone was a flat open land. The open land was full of herringbone shacks and materials for building shacks.
Most of them were made of thatch and banana leaves. Some shacks were covered with tattered raincoats. Twos and threes of soldiers from the expeditionary force in tattered clothes were scurrying around in the shacks. In the past two months, they had not come into contact with anything except
The jungle that blocks the sky and the sun, the steep mountains, and the sudden appearance of shacks and people are surprising to everyone.
"Damn it, I finally came out." Tang Cheng's legs went weak and he immediately fell to the ground. Tan Fei stretched out his hand and failed to catch him, so he also fell to the ground. The guys from the New 22nd Division even knelt down.
They cried bitterly. If they hadn't met Tang Cheng and the others on the way, these guys might have starved to death in the woods. Maybe they had seen too many expeditionary soldiers who came out of the woods. Those next to the shack
The guys who were walking or squatting didn't show much surprise, because their situation didn't look much better than that of Tang Cheng and others.
Dice, who was stumbling on his feet, pulled a defeated soldier and smiled, "Brother, where is this place? How far is it from Ledo?" The defeated soldier pulled by Dice looked at Dice, dug his nostrils, and made an angry sound.
Said, "I just arrived here yesterday. I heard that there is still more than 50 miles from here to Ledo... However, the leaders nearby send people to deliver food every morning and noon. The brothers who have just come out of the forest are all
Rest here."
I heard that there were only more than 50 miles to go, and there were people here to deliver food. Everyone was very happy. Tangcheng decided to rest for a few days and wait for everyone to regain some strength before rushing to Lieduo. "It's a pity, if we
The radio station was not thrown away, I can send a report now to ask the air force to airdrop food for us." George, who was lying on his back on the open ground, complained to Tang Cheng, if Tang Cheng had not ordered the radio station to be thrown away, which had become a burden.
, he can show off to these defeated soldiers.
"You should take a break. Everyone was hungry at that time. Who still had the strength to carry the radio station? You are an afterthought now. Then when I asked you to throw away the radio station, why didn't you say that you would carry it yourself?" Tangcheng ridiculed
George was not angry at all. He just laughed a few times and fell asleep in the sun. While waiting, the person delivering food never showed up. Dice, who couldn't afford to be hungry, took Zhao Liang and Tan Fei to see if there was anything to eat nearby.
Before evening, Dice came back with Tan Fei and Zhao Liang. They also brought back a cow leg and two chickens, which Dice exchanged with the locals for the Nanfang pistol and two watches he had captured.
Originally, the man was interested in Dice's sniper rifle and was willing to exchange it for a cow, but Dice didn't want to lose his precious baby. "Exchange, continue to exchange tomorrow, grenades, pistols, and watches. Let's exchange them."
Don’t you already have four telescopes? Let’s trade two of them for meat.” A leg of beef and two chickens were eaten up by Tang Cheng and the others, and Tang Cheng also sorted out more things that could be exchanged for meat.
.Tangcheng can no longer take care of so many things. Who cares? It’s important to fill your stomach first.
It was so damn comfortable. Tang Cheng lay on the soft military blanket that was soaked in the sun and rubbed his swollen belly. He was really full this time. "George, we are out of the woods. We can walk slowly."
When we get to Lieduo, the rest will be left to you. You need to send Mike to the hospital first, and get us some clean military uniforms." Tang Cheng, with his legs crossed, picked his teeth leisurely.
By the way, I was teasing George.
"I know, I know, you've said it many times, but I know what to do even if you don't say it." George, who was also rubbing his belly, rolled his eyes impatiently at Tang Cheng, but he didn't want to be ignored by Hou San next to him.
He looked at it. How could Hou San, who was thinking about how to digest his food, let go of this opportunity? He yelled and threw himself on George. The two of them immediately got into a ball on the lawn. Tang Cheng didn't stop him.
He acted as a spectator with a straw in his mouth, and from time to time he would reach out to help George, otherwise George would have been ravaged to death by Hou San.