Chapter Seventy-Six: The Fellow (Asking for Votes)
I found that I had moved up one place on the recommendation list, and the number of votes was very close to the previous one...... Thank you brothers for voting, and thank you, soldiers!
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Zhang Wangsheng is an overseas Chinese who runs a snack bar in Myanmar...... Most of the shops in Myanmar are opened by Chinese or Indians, which is not to say that Burmese people are lazy or have no business mind, Zhang Chi, who has lived in Myanmar for several years, knows that this is because Burmese people have long been influenced by Buddhism and generally have a "everything is with the fate" attitude of life that is close to the world.
It is precisely because of this attitude to life that most of the people in Myanmar are not interested in competition, business and other things, so they give immigrants a lot of room to do business.
The Chinese make up a significant proportion of this...... Myanmar has a total population of 60 million, and there are 6 million Chinese, that is, almost one in ten Burmese people is Chinese.
Zhang Chi found Zhang Wangsheng on a street called West Street in Chokpadang, and the reason why he was able to find him was because Zhang Chi saw a plaque standing in front of the door that read "Chinese snacks" on it.
Zhang Wangsheng, who opened the door, looked at Zhang Chi and his party in a daze: "You guys...... Is it Chinese? Chinese troops? ”
"Yes, fellow!" Zhang Chi replied: "We are the Chinese Expeditionary Force!" ”
"Great, come in!" Zhang Wangsheng warmly welcomed Zhang Chi and the others in.
After Zhang Chi and the others entered the house, Zhang Wangsheng closed the door at the back, and then without saying a word, he walked into the kitchen and lit the stove to prepare for cooking.
"Fellow!" Zhang Chi stopped: "We're not here to eat, let's ask for directions!" ”
"Alas!" Zhang Wangsheng sighed, and instead of answering, he asked, "Are the Japanese going to fight?" ”
After a pause, Zhang Chi nodded.
"That's right!" Zhang Wangsheng smiled bitterly: "I was still worried just now, there are so many meat and vegetables here, I don't want to leave it for the Japanese, and I don't want to give it to the British, just when you came...... Don't say anything, eat as much as you can, eat them all! ”
Hearing this, Zhang Chi and Xiao Zhejiang and the others couldn't help but look at the large number of ingredients in the kitchen in a daze.
Zhang Wangsheng's movements were very quick, and it didn't take long for a plate of dishes full of color and fragrance to be served.
This "Chinese snack" is really a Chinese specialty, such as braised pork, stewed chicken, sweet and sour fish, etc., and a few green vegetables decorated with fiery red peppers, which can be said to be full of color and flavor.
However, looking at these dishes, Zhang Chi and others couldn't get off the chopsticks.
On the one hand, the reason is that these hometown dishes arouse the homesickness of the soldiers, and on the other hand, the soldiers feel guilty: as soldiers, they can't protect their own people, so they can only watch the Japanese army coming...... Can they still eat this dish?!
"Eat, eat!" Zhang Wangsheng served another jar of rice wine, and he patted it on the jar with his hand to make the jar make a thick "boom" sound.
"The daughter brought by the family is red!" Zhang Wangsheng said proudly: "I usually have been reluctant to drink, but now I really didn't expect to meet my fellow countrymen, let's have a good drink!" ”
As he spoke, one by one, he filled the bowls in front of the warriors.
"What are you doing in a daze!" Seeing that the soldiers still didn't move their chopsticks, Zhang Chi gave an order: "Eat!" ”
"Yes!" The soldiers answered, and picked up the chopsticks one after another under Zhang Chi's lead.
"Eat!"
"Drink!"
……
The warriors screamed as they ate, and they ate and drank as if they were dealing with a table full of dishes.
Zhang Wangsheng looked at all this with relief, feeling like a matter of heart. But what he didn't see was that the warriors were silently shedding tears as they ate their bowls.
"Fellow!" Half-full, Zhang Chi asked Zhang Wangsheng: "Is there a path from here to Ren'anqiang?" ”
"Yes!" Zhang Wangsheng replied: "There is only one road a few miles downstream of the Bin River!" ”
"Far away?"
"Not far! One or two miles closer than the highway, all people come out, but cars can't get on! ”
"Oh!" Hearing this, Zhang Chi's heart was half relaxed.
Then Zhang Chi took out the map from his pocket, and put it flat in front of Zhang Wangsheng with the light coming in from the window: "Fellow, help find the location of the path!" ”
Zhang Wangsheng stared at the map for a while, and then said with some embarrassment: "This map doesn't look like it, and this path has no name, so I can't find the land......"
Zhang Chi was a little helpless, he knew that what Zhang Wangsheng said was right, most of the maps in his hand were drawn more than ten years ago, but the things marked on the map could not be found, and there were many problems such as there were no roads on the map.
"Or so!" Zhang Wangsheng said: "I'll take you after eating!" ”
"What, this ......" Zhang Chi was a little embarrassed, and the soldiers were also stunned.
This is not to say that Zhang Wangsheng's proposal is not good, on the contrary, this proposal is unbelievable by Zhang Chi and others. But at the same time, Zhang Chi knew that this was a life of nine deaths, how could they drag a person into the water like this.
"Fellow!" Zhang Chi said: "Let's go to war!" ”
"I know!"
"The battlefield is dangerous!"
"I know!"
"We may not be able to protect you!"
"I know!"
The fighters had nothing to say.
After a pause, Zhang Chi asked Zhang Wangsheng: "Fellow, do you need to bring anything to the family?" In case ......"
Zhang Wangsheng patted his ass and stood up, and said with a smile: "Don't bother, I am one person to feed the whole family and not hungry, and I am ready to go home for another two years to marry a daughter-in-law to live!" This dog-day Japanese devil, as soon as they come, they will have nothing, I will take you to find the devil to settle accounts! ”
So Zhang Wangsheng became the guide of the engineering regiment.
With Zhang Wangsheng's guide, things became much easier, he took Zhang Chi's platoon to reconnoiter all the way in front, where there are Burmese villages, where there are forks in the road, he knows it clearly, and even he noticed the traces of many people walking on the road and warned Zhang Chi, which made Zhang Chi and others discover in time that there was a Japanese squad stationed not far ahead.
Apparently, the Burmese Independence Volunteers also knew that there was this trail, perhaps because they were worried that the British army in Ringanqiang would escape from here, so they sent troops here, but because of the lack of troops, there was only a small group of Japanese troops here...... Or they thought that a small group of Japanese troops would be enough to block the path, after all, the path could only barely accommodate two people, and there was either a deep stream or a jungle next to it.
But this is trivial to Zhang Chi...... The Japanese, we are the Burmese Independence Volunteers, so we called a few "Min Ko La" (Burmese: hello) and led the troops to meet us.
Of course, the Japanese couldn't tell the real from the fake, especially Zhang Chi and others wore turbans and used Enfield, and after a while of handing out cigarettes and polite greetings, the battle ended quickly, and more than 30 Japanese fell under the guns of the soldiers.