Chapter 146: Skydiving

However, Zhang Chi quickly found a solution to these headaches...... He made a request to Stilwell and transferred the staff officer who served in the new 38th Division.

Speaking of this Liang staff officer, he used to be a right-hand man under Dai Anlan, and he was also a fellow villager of the country, as early as the first Burma campaign, Zhang Chi heard that this Liang staff officer had no other skills, and his biggest ability was to handle these trivial matters clearly and in an orderly manner.

Of course, the "trivial matters" mentioned here are no longer trivial matters in the actual sense of the word in the military, but a question of whether or not logistics can be managed well so that the troops can fight wars with peace of mind.

This staff officer was later lost because the 200th Division was separated in the First Burma Campaign. It was only recently that Zhang Chi heard from his fellow villagers that Staff Officer Liang had returned to the battlefield in Burma and had joined the new 38th Division.

Staff Officer Liang flew to Yangon by liaison plane.

Speaking of Yankee's liaison plane...... It's small, but it's useful.

It is so small that it can only seat two people, one for the driver and the other for the passenger, with little extra space in front of the other behind it.

Its advantage is that the cost is low, it is convenient to take off and land, the cost is so low that the price of only two jeeps is needed, and the take-off and landing can be done as long as it is an open space or even on the grass.

Because of these advantages, it is suitable for emergency communication of correspondents at critical times...... For example, some strategic plans are not suitable for talking on the phone or radio, and the land passage is blocked by the enemy and is too slow, so the liaison plane can carry a communicator to the target location as quickly as possible.

However, this staff officer did not fly to Rangoon, but jumped to Rangoon.

This was mainly due to the fact that Staff Officer Liang did not understand English, and it was an American pilot who flew the liaison plane...... On the other hand, because this kind of plane is small, light and does not use weapons, once it encounters the interception of enemy fighters in the air, there is basically no chance of survival, in order to be safe, everyone who gets on this plane has to carry a parachute on their backs and learn the basic knowledge of parachuting.

At first everything worked fine. Although Staff Officer Liang did not understand the language of the American pilot, he could basically understand what he meant from his hand, and even if he didn't understand it, it didn't matter, he only needed to sit behind him and blow the wind.

When it was over Yangon, the shadows of two fighter jets suddenly appeared in the sun ahead......

In fact, these two fighters were patrol planes of the US military, and the pilots recognized them at a glance, so they didn't take it seriously at all.

But unexpectedly, Staff Officer Liang became nervous, he patted the American pilot in front of him, and shouted loudly: "Whose plane is that?" He gestured as he spoke.

The American pilot did not understand what Staff Officer Liang meant, and thought that he was asking how long it would take to reach his destination. So I put pen to paper and patted it on the shoulder...... What the American pilot meant was that Rangoon was down there, and the plane was about to land, so let the staff officer sit down.

However, the staff officer was mistaken, thinking that the American pilot was asking him to parachute, so he jumped out of the plane without saying a word, unbuckled his seat belt...... Before the American pilot could come to his senses, Staff Officer Liang had already jumped out of the plane.

This frightened the American pilots on the plane and shouted, "What the, what the hell is going on?" ”

Fortunately, Staff Officer Liang's parachute opened smoothly in the air. The US airplane circled around Staff Officer Liang's parachute several times in the air, and then reported Staff Officer Liang's position to the airfield before continuing to fly forward.

When Zhang Chi and a few guards drove the jeep to find the staff officer who was covered in mud, he was so smiling that his face was about to cramp.

"I said......" Staff Officer Liang saw Zhang Chi smile like this. couldn't help but look at the muddy water on his body with some embarrassment: "What are you laughing at?" Isn't it just a wrestling? Don't you soldiers who fight on the front lines do the same? ”

"That's ......," Zhang Chi replied, "Wrestling is common, but skydiving is not common!" ”

"What do you mean?" Staff Officer Liang still didn't understand.

"Alas!" Zhang Chi sighed and explained, "Staff Officer Liang, the American pilot explained it to me. He doesn't give you a jump, but tells you that the plane is about to land, so sit down! ”

"What?" Hearing this, Staff Officer Liang couldn't help but open his mouth wide, and he couldn't close it for a long time.

I was stunned for a while. Staff Officer Liang scolded: "****** Yankees...... Is there such a toss?! ”

"It's not a toss-up!" Zhang Chi said: "It's good to let you experience the taste of skydiving, we haven't skipped yet!" ”

"Don't mention it!" Staff Officer Liang smiled bitterly: "It's the first time I've jumped back, and I'm so scared that my feet are weak!" I didn't get up a few times when I first landed......"

These words caused Zhang Chi and the guards to laugh again.

Because Staff Officer Liang was an old man, after arriving in Yangon, Zhang Chi called several acquaintances from the former 200th Division Engineer Regiment, such as Wang Mazi and fellow villagers, to get together.

At this time, everyone knew that Staff Officer Liang had returned home with the 200th Division through the Savage Mountain, and it was not until two months ago that he followed the recruits to supplement the new 38th Division.

Before this, the soldiers had already heard about the situation of the 200th Division, and knew that after the 200th Division broke through, it entered the Savage Mountain according to the order, and when they walked in, there were more than 7,000 people, and when they came out, there were less than 2,000, and all of them did not look like people and ghosts. At this time, Staff Officer Liang talked about his experience in the Savage Mountain, and he was still afraid for a while.

Staff Officer Liang drank a few sips of stuffy wine, and said with a heavy heart: "Don't say that the battlefield is terrible, the battlefield is terrible, it is a matter of a blink of an eye, whether it is life or death, it is a pleasure." The kind of death in Savage Mountain is a kind of torture, and you never know who will die next, whether it will be your turn, or how to die...... There are those who have been bitten to death by locusts, starved to death, sick to death, poisoned, and those who fell into ant nests and were bitten to death alive......"

I have heard more or less about these tensions, and even the new 1st Division itself has experienced it when fighting the Japanese army in the jungle, especially falling into an ant's nest...... The ant was a king-sized ant, its nest was underground, and it didn't seem to be dangerous on the surface, but in fact it had been hollowed out by the ants, and it fell into it when it stepped on it, followed by a hoarse scream...... No one could save it, because it was full of black-pressed ants.

The screams would last for a few minutes, then they would be completely silent, and when you looked down, there were only bones left inside.

(To be continued.) )