Wang Mazi looked at the order on the telegram for a while, looked at the map for a while, and finally sighed, and reluctantly ordered: "Give up Lashio!" ”

"Tuanzao ......" Meng Lezeng wanted to say something, but was quickly interrupted by Wang Mazi.

"Camp Commander Meng!" Wang Mazi said: "Now the situation is like this, we have to do this. Your unit is quite special, and in principle, you do not belong to the 1st Engineer Regiment. So...... If you don't plan to follow the sappers to Myitkyina, then I have no right to stop you! ”

Wang Mazi's words are actually clear, and the commander of the Meng battalion will either obey Wang Mazi's orders, or please take care of himself.

Meng Lezeng and Gao Yushu glanced at each other, both of them were silent, and finally Meng Lezeng sighed and replied: "Tuanzao, we obey the order and fight devils with the engineer corps!" ”

"We're not unreasonable!" Gao Yushu said: "If the family and the country are in a dilemma, it is natural to give up the family for the country!" At least, we can save this life and fight a few more devils to avenge our families! ”

Zhang Chi couldn't help but be silent, because he knew what Meng Lezeng, Gao Yushu and the others were giving up at this moment, thinking about the parents, wife, and children at home...... How many people can really leave them desperate to fight devils on the battlefield?!

If you put yourself in their shoes, Zhang Chi will definitely choose to go back with his family as far as he can when he encounters this situation.

But fortunately, Wang Mazi found a way to do both.

"So be it!" Wang Mazi thought for a while and said, "You can pick a few trustworthy brothers, leave them an address, and let them rush back as quickly as possible to inform your family to evacuate!" If possible, bring the situation here back to China, and say that the devil is coming, and give Shangfeng a wake-up call! ”

Wang Mazi's second half of this sentence may make people wonder why, so many routs fled back, how could the country not know that the Japanese army was coming? !

But this is indeed the case, this is because the rout itself doesn't know where the devils have hit, for example, Lin Wei and his people, they ran away without even seeing the shadow of the devil, let them report what?

The second is that the transmission of information in this era is very inconvenient, there is neither a telephone nor a channel for transmitting information, but a few deserters shouting on the street "The devil is coming" and no one believes it.

Another very important reason is that in order to appease people's hearts, the country has been exaggerating the achievements of the expeditionary force, which has caused the people in China to have a false impression that the devil is still far away, and even thinks that the devil is being beaten miserably by the Sino-British coalition army!

This made the entire western Yunnan unprepared, and even when the devils entered the city, the police were still directing traffic...... In the end, it was Chennault's Flying Tigers who watched in surprise as the Japanese army below chased the Chinese as they flew in the sky, and then reported the situation to Chiang Kai-shek.

As soon as Meng Lezeng and the others heard Wang Mazi's suggestion, they would not agree, so they immediately arranged for people and wrote their respective addresses and messages to be brought back.

At this time, the engineer regiment was lively, and the soldiers heard that they were going to send a few people back to China to carry the letter, so it was not only Meng Lezeng's headquarters, but all the soldiers who wanted to stay and fight were trying their best to send a message home.

The soldiers who were about to return home were righteous enough, and when they were too busy, they simply stood on the shell box and said: "Brothers, if you want to bring anything to your family, just write down the address and the words you want to carry, and as long as a few of us are still alive, we will definitely bring the letter for you!" Your family is our family, so you can rest assured to stay and fight the devil! We can't stay and live and die with you, but we have to protect our families with all our lives!"

Before the words were finished, several soldiers couldn't help but shed tears, Zhang Chi couldn't help but have a sour nose and almost couldn't help it, but in the end he took a deep breath and held back the tears.

They are all good, Zhang Chi sighed in his heart, being able to fight with them as comrades-in-arms, even if they die on the battlefield, there is nothing to regret.

"Aren't you going to bring some news to your family?" Wang Mazi saw that Zhang Chi was stunned from sitting in the armored car, so he asked.

"Hmm! I ......" Zhang Chi replied with some embarrassment: "I, I don't know who to send a message, and my family doesn't know where it is!" ”

Zhang Chi was honest, he really didn't know where his family was.

Wang Mazi nodded, handed Zhang Chi a cigarette casually, sighed and said, "This army is in chaos, there are a lot of people who can't find their families!" ”

Obviously, Wang Mazi misunderstood Zhang Chi's meaning, but Zhang Chi is not easy to say.

Wang Mazi struck the match, lit the cigarette and took a few puffs greedily, then spit out a long puff of smoke and said, "I'm the same as you, my family can't find it!" ”

Speaking of this, Wang Mazi smiled miserably, and said thoughtfully: "When the devil entered the city, my wife was pregnant with a child at home, and I was away on a business trip...... When I came back, my house was gone, and I was left with a pile of ashes. A neighbor told me that my wife committed suicide because of the humiliation, and the family fled without knowing where to go, and did not know whether they were alive or dead...... I don't even know who the enemy is. ”

Saying that, Wang Mazi sighed heavily, paused for a while and continued: "So, I tried my best to kill devils on the battlefield, and I was thinking about every time I killed one...... This is the enemy, but when he saw the next devil, he felt that he was the enemy, so he killed one after another, and kept killing. But...... No matter how you kill it, you can't get rid of this hatred in your heart! ”

Listening to Wang Mazi's words, Zhang Chi couldn't help but be stunned.

Originally, he thought that Wang Mazi could be a regiment leader, so it should be a rich child or a second-generation official, but he didn't expect it to be such a miserable background.

"Brother!" Wang Mazi patted Zhang Chi's shoulder and said: "In the future, the army will be our home, and our comrades-in-arms will be our family, let's go together to recover the blood debt from the devil!" ”

Zhang Chi nodded, looking at the back of Wang Mazi leaving, Zhang Chi felt like he had just met him.

Half an hour later, the letters that the soldiers were going to bring back were finally arranged.

Wang Mazi provided two side three-wheelers and a car full of gasoline for several soldiers who were going to return to China...... Originally, I wanted to equip them with an armored car, but the armored car was too conspicuous, and I was afraid that the red-eyed rout would be robbed halfway, so I finally gave up.

After a brief farewell, several fighters started their motors and slowly walked along the road. The soldiers who remained watched from behind, and did not want to leave until they were gone, just as their souls followed those warriors back to their loved ones.