Chapter 179: The Soul of the Expeditionary Force

Silverback King Kong limped back, one thigh of flesh and blood blurred, which was shot by a bee sting.

"Ho-ho-ho-ho-"

The silver-backed King Kong who came back let out a ho-ho excited sound at Ge Zhen, his lips turned outward hard, revealing his inner teeth, and even said that there was a happy smile in his eyes.

When it saw the corpse of the bee sting, it instantly became excited, and swung its hands and smashed it on the chest.

"Roar! ——”

"Bang bang bang! ……”

"Shut up!" Ge Zhen scolded: "As long as Lao Tzu fights with people, you will give me the first run without a trace, aren't you very hung when you are in the iron cage?" ”

As if he understood what he said, the silverback King Kong stopped smashing his chest, and it grabbed the bird at the corpse of the bee sting, and soaked the urine on it.

"Boom la la ......"

Ge Zhen was a little unbearable to watch this scene, the bee sting was also the number one person before his death, and he had to be urinated on by a gorilla after he died.

After soaking in urine, the silver-backed King Kong was satisfied, and Chong Ge Zhen stretched out his hand and made a smoking motion.

"It's gone!" Ge Zhen glared at it and said, "Which orangutan still smokes like you?" You're also a fighter among the orangutans! ”

The silver-backed King Kong rolled his lips, spread out his left hand to reveal the cigarette inside, quickly pulled out one with his right hand and hung it on his mouth, and then skillfully lit it with a lighter, looked at Ge Zhen triumphantly, opened his mouth wide, and seemed to be laughing.

This King Kong has the most powerful temperament of its kind, and it has completely become a comic among orangutans.

"Sit down, I'll take care of your wounds." Ge Zhen pointed to the bloody thighs of the silver-backed King Kong.

This was blasted by a rifle bullet, but Silverback King Kong dodged quickly, only to be blown off a large piece of flesh.

If it hits the leg, the steel-core bullet will instantly form a penetration, breaking its leg bones and making it a cripple among the orangutans.

"Poof!"

The silver-backed King Kong spewed smoke and sat there dragging his injured leg, letting Ge Zhen help him deal with the wound, even if he grinned in pain.

After a while, the wound was treated.

"Huhu...... Whew......"

The beast blew at Ge Zhen and handed him a cigarette.

"Damn!" Ge Zhen rolled his eyes and scolded, and sat on the ground and smoked.

"Click! Click! ……”

As he sat down, there was a crisp cracking sound and gray-white powder coming out from below.

Ge Zhen grabbed a handful of powder with a puzzled face, he got up and pulled aside the weeds under his buttocks, and saw that there were all human bones underneath.

These dry bones lay there one by one, because of their age, the bones are loose and will shatter at the slightest touch.

Staring at the dry bones that suddenly appeared, Ge Zhen frowned.

"These bones have weathered like this, I'm afraid it will take decades...... One body is lined up side by side, and there doesn't seem to be a wound on the body......"

Suddenly, he crouched down and stared at the few clothes that remained on the dry bones.

These people who don't know how many years have been dead were originally wearing clothes, but after so many years of weathering and insect bites, most of the clothes have decayed and disappeared.

"Hoo ......"

Ge Zhen blew a breath, saw the words on his clothes, and his eyes were shocked: "The new 22nd Division of the Fifth Army!" ”

Many people may not know what the new 22nd Division of the Fifth Army is, but they must know the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

In March 1942, the expeditionary force entered Burma to launch the Yunnan-Burma Road operation, and retreated after the defeat.

Among them, Sun Liren's new 38th Division went and chose to retreat to India first, while Du Yanming led the 5th Army Commander's Department and more than 20,000 people of the new 22nd Division to choose to take the Hukang River Valley and climb the Savage Mountain to retreat to Yunnan.

It's a no-brainer, but it's a tragic journey to death.

Savage Mountain is located at the junction of China, India and Myanmar, stretching for thousands of miles, more than 200 kilometers in depth, the trees on the mountain cover the sky, the sun is not seen all the year round, the beasts are swarmed, the locusts are everywhere.

Only the Kochin people, known as the "Savages", are here, and the locals refer to this uninhabited area for hundreds of miles as the Savage Mountains.

It's the rainy season, and there are countless mosquitoes, leeches and ants.

The mosquitoes in Savage Mountain are almost the size of dragonflies, and after being bitten by this mosquito, their whole body swells until the blood is sucked dry all over their bodies.

The jungle in the rainy season is also the world of leeches, small leeches will burrow into people's skin through the gaps in their clothes, and large leeches can suck a pound of blood at a time.

The place where the soldiers walked was soon stained red with blood.

"Here it is...... Savage Mountain? ”

There is no doubt that these corpses are the officers and soldiers of the new 22nd Division of the 5th Army, lying here in squads and platoons, not killed in battle at all, but killed by the harsh environment here.

It is said that veterans of the expeditionary force who returned said that the troops ran out of ammunition and food, and in the end they did not even have the bark and plantain leaves to eat, and many soldiers fell to the ground while walking, and could not get up again.

They will also often see platoons sleeping in formations on both sides of the road, and at first some people thought they were just asleep, and when they called out, they found that they were all dead.

For the domestic anti-Japanese battlefield, 100,000 soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force stepped out of the country, and the total number of casualties reached more than 61,000.

Nearly 50,000 of them died or disappeared on their way home, and Savage Mountain is a tragic place for the expeditionary force.

When the new 22nd Division entered Burma, there were 9,000 people, and only 3,000 people returned to China; 9,000 people from the 96th Division of the 5th Army entered Burma, and less than 3,000 people returned to the Nujiang River; Of the 5,000 people in the 66th Division of the 28th Army, only about 100 people walked out of Savage Mountain alive; Dai Anlan, commander of the 200th Division of the 5th Army, was martyred, and before he died, he asked when he would be able to enter the country......

The Chinese Expeditionary Force used the tragedy of life to compose an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood.

"Salute! ——”

Ge Zhen stood straight in front of the dry bones and saluted these soldiers of the expeditionary force who did not know their names to salute a new China.

There have been several generations between them, but it doesn't matter, they are all for the luck of the country and the great rivers and mountains of China.

"Predecessors, New China has long been founded, and we have long been included in the forest of nations in the world. We will never be bullied again, our families, our brothers and sisters will never be displaced again-" Ge Zhen reported loudly to these dry bones: "The page of humiliation of the Chinese nation has been completely turned over, all unequal treaties will never be repeated, the Chinese nation has completely raised its eyebrows, and we have finally stood up straight!" Seniors, you can rest in peace, because our motherland has never been rich and strong, and our people have never been happy! ”

This is the report, Ge Zhen has 10,000 reasons to report the current situation of the motherland to these anti-Japanese warriors who will never return home.

He seemed to see the smoke of artillery fire nearly a century ago, and the Great Wall of flesh and blood piled up without giving an inch.

Every inch of mountains and rivers and every inch of blood are all magnificent poems filled by these people with their lives!

These are anti-Japanese heroes, who may never be named, but will not be forgotten after all.

Ge Zhen began to dig the grave, collecting the dry bones piece by piece, and carefully placing them in the grave.

After burying it, he made a tombstone out of wood, on which was written "The Soul of the Expeditionary Force".

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(End of chapter)