Chapter Twenty-Five: The Praying Mantis Flutters on the Cicada

"Now that we have discovered the traces of the Japanese army, let's keep following them and see what they dare to do, and you must not exchange fire with them without my order." Tang Cheng didn't give Yanlong a clear military order, just asked him to take the scouts and fall far behind the Japanese army. Yan Long didn't have the brains of the dice to turn fast, Tang Cheng's true intentions were not understood by Yan Long, although the order had been conveyed, but Yan Long still wanted to chase Tang Cheng to ask for clarification.

"Are you stupid? The chief has already said it so clearly, why don't you understand the meaning? "The dice pretended to give the rock dragon a bullet, but in fact he reached out and grabbed the rock dragon to chase the scouts who had already left." What does it have to do with us if the Japanese want to slaughter the village, anyway, it is not our Chinese people who die. Do you think we still have something to eat? I know that there must be food in that village, and when the Japanese start to slaughter the village, let's take action again, we can not only save people but also get food, what a good thing, what a good thing, what are you still asking? ”

Yanlong's head still couldn't turn around, he didn't understand why the Japanese army's slaughter of the village had something to do with food, but since this was Tang Cheng's meaning, Yanlong should abide by it. What's more, there is a dice squatting beside him. Desperate to get to the Burmese village, the soldiers of the Rice Field Brigade staggered through the mud one foot at a time, not expecting a group of heavily armed men behind them, and behind them they had already regarded themselves as prey that had been bitten into their mouths.

The Burmese village discovered by the soldiers of the rice field brigade is actually only a small village with only about 50 households, because it is located in the middle of nowhere, but it is quite like a paradise in this war era, and a group of simple Burmese people live a poor and contented life here. But in this era when the earth is sinking and the lives of the people are in dire straits, who can stay out of the situation without being affected, and now this paradise has become a hell on earth, and the bloody wind and rain are enveloping this small mountain village.

The soldiers of the rice field brigade, who had arrived at the entrance of the village all the way, rushed into the village under the command of the rice field guards, and killed people when they saw them, and burned them when they saw them. The sound of gunfire, cries, the screams of livestock and the shouts and laughter of the Japanese soldiers mingled. "Don't rush yet, wait a little longer, wait for the commander's order." The dice stopped Yanlong and the others who wanted to rush into the village, there was no worry or anxiety on their faces, and the dead in the village were all Burmese, and they didn't seem to have anything to do with the Chinese.

Tang Cheng with the rear team had also arrived not far from the village at this time, and the Japanese army's massacre of the village had already been seen by Tang Cheng, but Tang Cheng had no intention of taking action for these Burmese. When the Burmese were evacuated from Mandalay, countless Burmese were busy ventilating the pursuing Japanese army, and followed the Japanese army around to capture the fallen expeditionary force soldiers, the Burmese have always regarded the Japanese army as their great savior, so now is the time for the Burmese to atone for their sins.

Tang Cheng had been quietly watching the village with a telescope and thick smoke, until he saw in the telescope that Japanese soldiers were already slaughtering cattle and skinning them, and then he ordered to besiege and kill the Japanese soldiers in the village. The Japanese army has done all the screening work before the banquet, and now it is time for them to go to the banquet, if it is any later, they will only have to eat the leftovers of the Japanese army. After receiving Tang Cheng's order, the anxious soldiers who had been waiting for a long time dispersed according to the formation of the squad, and in just a few minutes, they had already surrounded this small village.

The Japanese soldiers in the village were either busy lighting a fire and boiling water to prepare to cook beef, or pulling the Burmese women for fun, not noticing that the village was surrounded by Tangcheng and them. "Nani?" Finally, a Japanese soldier accidentally spotted the rock dragon sneaking into the village, but his reaction was fast, but his movements were slower than the rock dragon. Before the Japanese soldier raised his gun, Yan Long had already raised his gun and pulled the trigger, "snapped" and aimed and fired, and Yan Long killed the unlucky Japanese soldier with one shot.

The sound of gunfire was not noticeable in the village, which was full of cries and screams, but when the other Japanese soldiers in the village realized that something was wrong, these frightened Japanese soldiers suddenly realized that they didn't know when, the black Chinese soldiers had rushed out of the village. After being shot in the chest, Kojiro shuddered and pulled out a grenade and threw it at his crowd, and after a few seconds, Kojiro, who kept pouring blood from his mouth, did not hear the expected explosion, and could only mutter, 'Damn the grenade is damp,' and then tilted his head to the side.

A large number of Chinese soldiers howled and rushed into the village through the thick fog, the rest positions of the Japanese soldiers were very scattered, and in addition to Tangcheng, they had surrounded the entire village, and the frightened Japanese soldiers found that there were human figures all around, and they could not distinguish between friend and foe. If it had been in the past, I am afraid that some soldiers would have deserted a long time ago, but this time no one left, not because they couldn't but because they didn't dare, in this primeval forest like the sea of death, leaving the large army would be tantamount to suicide.

By shouting at each other, more and more Japanese soldiers gathered together and met the Nationalist soldiers under Tang Cheng with bayonets, trying to make a final fight. "Da, da! Da-da-da-da! The rainstorm of machine-gun fire instantly overturned more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, and at the same time suppressed the counterattack formation that the Japanese army had barely assembled.

However, the stubborn resistance of the Japanese soldiers surprised the reinforcements under Tang Cheng, first the Japanese soldiers were desperate white-knuckle assaults, and in the face of the rifle shooting of the replenishment soldiers, often several Japanese soldiers dared to rush over with bayonets, and the rhythm of the attack was frequently interrupted. When the machine guns rang out, the rice field guards already knew that they might be in danger this time, and just listening to the gunfire in the village, the number of troops besieging them would not be small.

Naturally, Inada Bingwei didn't want to sit still, he still wanted to continue to live, and he was almost out of the jungle after coming here, as long as he held on a little longer, maybe he would have a chance to return to the wing. In the screams and shouts of the rice field guards, the remaining Japanese soldiers in the village began a new round of assembly, and the Japanese soldiers who no longer wanted to save bullets tried to re-burst their original combat strength, but unfortunately they had been hungry for too long, and under the fire of machine guns and hundreds of American rifles on the Tangcheng side, the Japanese troops who had been assembled in a hurry did not last long and fell apart.

The battle came and ended very suddenly, and when the shouts of the last few Japanese soldiers died down to the whistling of machine guns, the battle stretched out the whole village, and the curtain finally came to an end. After the fierce battle, more than 10 people were killed and nearly 100 wounded on the Tangcheng side, while the Japanese rice field brigade left more than 200 corpses and more than a dozen prisoners, including the rice field guards who wanted to disembowelment but failed to succeed.

It was just a small siege and annihilation, in the face of more than 200 Japanese soldiers who were about to starve to death, there were more than a dozen dead soldiers under his own command, and even more than 100 wounded, such a record was really difficult to satisfy Tang Cheng. This time, the rice field brigade was actually similar to a rout, and if it encountered the whole formed unit of the Japanese army in northern Burma, he might not know how many soldiers under his command would die. The ambulance soldiers were already treating the wounded, Tang Cheng took a look at the wounded, and then gathered all the officers under his command together, and in front of them were the bodies of the dozen or so dead soldiers.

"I know that everyone is tired and hungry, so I won't say much, just to ask you to take a good look at these corpses. When you were in the training camp, you didn't look down on the instructors sent by the U.S. military, and you always thought that what they taught you was not practical. When I said, I don't care what tricks you teach your soldiers, as long as you can save your own life and kill the enemy, I thought that you are all veterans and veterans, and you still know it in your heart, but do you want me to see this now? ”

Tang Cheng, who was full of rage, stretched out his hand and pointed to the dozen or so corpses lined up on the ground, "They are replenishment, but they have entered my detachment, and they are our Brother Paoze." This time, just in the face of a group of hungry Japanese soldiers who were almost unable to raise their hands, so many brothers were killed and wounded, if I met the elite troops of the Japanese army next time, you say, how many of your own brothers' corpses are you going to see for me? Say it? Tang Cheng's fury made the officers present speechless, although they wanted to say that there were no dead in the war, but the battle just now was a mess, which everyone could see, and the death of these dozen people was not unrelated to the chaos just now.

"Out of the jungle, even if we are more than halfway through our mission, we may have months to wait for the big force to enter northern Myanmar. I don't want you to waste these months, I hand over the soldiers to you, and you will return to me a group of elites who can fight and run, and if anyone can't do it, then take off the rank and become a soldier. Tang Cheng's words were not without threat, his relationship with Mike alone was enough to make these officers tremble, and no one wanted to be stripped of their rank and become an ordinary soldier again.

The village is already small, with a population of just over 200 people, and most of the people who are still alive after the rice field brigade burned them are women and children. Tan Fei, who speaks Burmese, has become the busiest person, not only communicating with the surviving Burmese, but also arranging for soldiers to help fight fires and clean up corpses. After successfully gaining the favor of the Burmese, Tangcheng and they also took over the three ploughing cattle that had been washed and peeled by the Japanese army and were about to be put into the pot, and cut the beef into large pieces into the pot, which attracted the busy soldiers to look sideways frequently.

"Haha, the praying mantis fluttering cicada and the yellow finch are behind, these little devils never thought that we had secretly followed them all the way, if our movements were slower, maybe we could eat the boiled beef directly now." Hou Sansan, who was busy adding firewood to the pot stove, said with a smile, laughing that the preparations of the rice field brigade were good, and Liu Shishi and Zhao Liang couldn't straighten their waists with a smile.