"Is this the damn gold you're talking about?" Dice standing in the stream glared at Cai Jincheng with dissatisfaction, and vigorously threw the gold pan in his hand towards Cai Jincheng, who had a sneer on his face, and the latter hurriedly avoided it.
, but accidentally stepped on Liu Shitou behind him. Liu Shitou screamed after being stepped on, and Cai Jincheng immediately ran up the river bank like a rabbit, unwilling to take another step closer to the dice.
Cai Jincheng's men discovered alluvial gold in the upper reaches of the stream. Originally, Cai Jincheng planned to hide it from most of Tang Cheng's men, but Tang Cheng did not want to hide it from anyone. Instead, the day after the supplies were airdropped, Cai Jincheng
This good news was told to all the soldiers under his command. The extremely excited soldiers took matters into their own hands and used crude methods to make crude gold mining tools, and then they swarmed to the upper reaches of the river to pan for gold.
Tang Cheng ignored Cai Jincheng's complaints at all. When Mike came to ask about the matter, Tang Cheng explained a few words. "I don't know what the situation is like with the US military, but I know these guys are thousands of people."
We must not let them idle, otherwise something will happen. Anyway, we are the only ones here, and the headquarters only told us to stay where we are, so we simply let them run wild, lest they drive people crazy."
With the acquiescence of Mike and Tang Cheng, Dice and his gang also joined the gold mining army. However, Dice was too impatient and could not find any gold even though he used the best gold pan. No wonder he would go for it.
Cai Jincheng got angry. Tang Cheng did not join in blindly, but took Liu Shitou and Cai Jincheng's guys to wander around the valley all day long, talking too much and not knowing what they were doing.
They had food and drink, but no Japanese soldiers. When they were free, they could play cards and pan for gold. The originally impetuous soldiers finally calmed down. The things that Tang Cheng had been worried about did not happen, which made Tang Cheng finally able to relax. Compared with the direct company
The weather was calm, but the 38th Division, which was confronting the Japanese army on the Nanrong River line, was having a very bad life. When the rainy season came, the Nanrong River line was full of mud. The soldiers could only squat in the position full of mud and water, and they couldn't even dry their bodies.
There was no place left, and many people had ulcers on their feet and crotches.
The Japanese troops confronting the 38th Division were also having a hard time, but they never retreated even a step against the 38th Division. They even used rainy nights to carry out sneak attacks on the 38th Division's defense line on the other side of the river several times. The battle on the front line of the Nanrong River was fierce, and the battle in northern Myanmar
However, the Japanese army had already completely forgotten about Tangcheng and the others. Originally, when Tangcheng and the others defeated Kawada's brigade on Hongtupo, Ma Gao's Japanese army was still preparing to continue dispatching troops to the north for a clearing campaign. However, when their reinforcements arrived at Hongtupo,
But they had already left Tangcheng long ago.
Before this group of Japanese troops could follow the tracks left by Tangcheng and the others, the American detachment heading south frequently attacked the Japanese defense line. Thinking of the heavy firepower and heavy machine gun salvos that the Kawada Brigade encountered that day, Ma Gao's Japanese troops finally came up with an idea.
The vague conclusion is that the ones who ambushed the Kawada Brigade on Hongtu Slope may be American troops. The Chinese army does not have such powerful heavy machine gun firepower. Tang Cheng and others who have temporarily settled in the valley do not know that the Japanese troops who were supposed to pursue them are now being attacked.
Rick and the others were lured away. To a certain extent, it was Rick and the others who shared the pressure faced by the direct company.
There is absolutely nothing to do. When the weather is bad, Tang Cheng will take Mike and Tan Fei to play poker together, and the bets are mostly cigarettes dropped from airplanes. If the weather is good, Cai Jincheng will take people
Go down to the river to pan for gold, while Tang Cheng will take Liu Shitou out in the grass in the valley, holding the crossbow of Yanlong, hunting birds and beasts in the grass. Usually it is Tang Cheng who shoots an arrow with a basket on his back.
Liu Shitou rushed towards the place where Tang Cheng had just shot - but usually missed, so the two of them had a great time playing in the grass.
As the old saying goes, practice makes perfect. Although Tangcheng's archery is accurate, he can't stop him from getting tired of it. After wandering around the valley for a long time, there will always be a time when he hits the prey. No matter what kind of wild animal it is, as long as it is caught by Tangcheng
Cheng thought they were edible, so they would become the targets of Tang Cheng and Liu Shitou. All kinds of poisonous and non-venomous snakes that Mike had always avoided were almost killed by Tang Cheng. Compared with hares, pheasants and the like,
The agile wild animals and various snakes in the valley are excellent targets for Tangcheng.
After hunting for a long time, Tang Cheng would occasionally feel bored. If he hadn't been idle and had nothing to do, he would have thrown his crossbow to Liu Shitou to play with. As Tang Cheng became more proficient in hunting, Liu Shitou became more proficient in hunting.
The basket on the back of the stone finally returned with a full load. With more prey, there was more time to eat meat. With the presence of Zhao Liang and the military doctor, Tangcheng would not be short of local seasonings, so it was just a matter of playing around with the food.
Another hobby of Tangcheng.
Boiled wild vegetables, stewed snake meat, roasted birds and beasts, battered plantains, everything that the military doctor thought was edible was brought to the table by Tang Cheng. Poor Cai Jincheng and Mike became the best candidates to taste the dishes for everyone. In general
Generally speaking, Tang Cheng's craftsmanship is not very bad, but Mike can't accept that Tang Cheng always makes some weird food. Even once, Tang Cheng simply beat back a monkey and stewed it in the soup. The hungry dice
They still care about the similarities between monkeys and humans. As long as they can fill their bellies, they can fill their bellies with anything except human flesh.
There are only more than 200 people like Tang Cheng and others in the entire valley. There is no one else. Many soldiers have become accustomed to wandering shirtless in the valley, going down to the river to pan for gold, shirtless.
They gathered together and chatted. In just one month, everyone including Tang Cheng and Mike had become almost like the Burmese natives in the mountains. If Mike hadn't forced everyone to keep their hair and beards,
As for the neatness of their fingernails and teeth, they in Tangcheng have long been indistinguishable from savages.
Everyone in the valley is busy every day. While enjoying their leisure time, Tangcheng has not forgotten to be vigilant. There are still guard posts placed on the hills on both sides of the valley, and there are also rotating scouts coming out of the valley to search the surroundings.
Tangcheng did not want to be stuck in the valley making dumplings by the sudden appearance of the Japanese army. Mike, who also had nothing to do, had already transformed into an engineer. Under his pressure, a large number of idle soldiers were driven to cut down trees.
After tidying up the hillside, the original cluttered shrubs on the hillside have been cleared away. Mike plans to build a row of wooden houses here. He said that he has had enough of living in a bunker as a country mouse and wants to sleep in wooden houses and enjoy a better life.
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Tang Cheng was not very optimistic about Mike's ambitions, but when Mike led people to build the first wooden house using the simple wooden boards chopped with machetes, everyone, including Tang Cheng, went crazy. Everything
All the bayonets, machetes, and axes were sold out, and soldiers went up to the mountains in groups to cut down trees. With wooden houses, who would want to continue living in a steamy bunker? The trees on the slopes on both sides of the valley were cut down one after another.
In fact, smart guys no longer even use machetes to cut down those trees, but just use bowl-sized trees plus rattan and loose soil to build a wooden wall on the slope.
With four walls and a thatched roof made of wooden slats, an extremely simple wooden house is completed. Some impatient guys even forget to leave space for doors and windows in their wooden houses, waiting.
After the roof was down, we had to use an ax to open the doors and windows on the wooden wall. Finally, there were no idle people in the valley. Everyone was busy building their own wooden houses, and those who were ingenious could even carve out tenon connections on the wood.
As for the frame of the wooden house, those who are clumsy can only use more rattan to strengthen their wooden house, but in any case, such a wooden house is indeed much better than sleeping in a bunker.
"Let's see, it's much more meaningful for them to learn to build houses than to go down the river to pan for gold." Mike was very satisfied with the activity he initiated. When talking to Tang Cheng, there was always a look in his eyes.
He looked like he was imitating you, and Tang Cheng was so angry that he kept grinding his teeth. In order to show the difference between himself and Mike, Tang Cheng did not follow the trend of building wooden houses, but led Liu Shitou to carry stones all over the valley, and carried stones with his men.
When the soldiers built half of the wooden houses, Tang Cheng and Liu Shitou also picked up several large piles of stones.
"That's right, I don't like your wooden houses. I'm going to build a stone house here, a stone house that is truly warm in winter and cool in summer." Tang Cheng used a bayonet to mark a place on the hillside, and took Liu Shitou with him.
He put his buttocks on his butt and started digging. In Tang Cheng's words, he was digging the foundation of the house. Tang Cheng and Liu Shitou, who had engineering shovels, dug quickly, but after the foundation was dug, Tang Cheng discovered a big problem.
There were just enough stones on top, but no cement to bind them together.
Under everyone's laughter, Tang Cheng's stone house plan finally failed. Fortunately, with the help of Hou San and others, the wooden house belonging to Tang Cheng was quickly completed. Although the shape of the wooden house looked a bit weird, Tang Cheng himself felt that
Very good. After the wooden house was built, there was a new round of decoration activities for the wooden house. The furs of various animals became popular goods, and the slightly square stones were also sold out. Mike even used a red-hot bayonet.
He branded his family's emblem on the door of his wooden house.
There were no furs to hunt, and no beds to cut wood and process planks to build on your own. The creativity of the soldiers seemed to burst out suddenly in this valley. In short, everything in this valley was used by everyone. The wooden houses on the slopes became more and more popular.
There are many, and they are getting more and more sophisticated. Mike once thought that if he had the right tools, the direct company could build a small town in this valley.