Chapter 108: Airdrop
"He saw us, got my signal." George shouted at Tang Cheng with a look of ecstasy, and then pointed to the fighter plane that circled over again and shouted, "You see, the plane is shaking its wings, which means that they have discovered us, and the signal I sent has worked." "Maybe they were worried that the surrounding Japanese troops would notice Tang Cheng and them, and the fighter planes hovering in the night sky finally disappeared into the night after flying over the hill again, but the joy in Tang Cheng's hearts could not be stopped.
"Wait, we'll stay here until dawn." George, who successfully used the signal sent by the flashlight to contact the fighter plane, was full of confidence at this moment, "If you send a signal, the flight team may not care, but I am different, the signal I sent has my battle number, and those guys in the flight team will not sit idly by and watch me fall into trouble." Maybe a plane will come over and drop supplies to us in a while, anyway, it's getting dark, so it's better to wait here. ”
Seeing that Mike also agreed with George's statement, Tang Cheng had to order to stay here and rest for the night, because it was absolutely impossible to light a fire, which would provoke the Japanese troops down the mountain, so everyone could only gather together to eat the canned food and compressed biscuits captured from the Japanese army. Although the food is not very enough, it is better than having an empty stomach, and everyone is looking forward to the airdrop supplies that George said, and the dice are already planning to wait for the supplies to come, and they will eat three cans in a row.
Waiting is the most painful thing, especially when you are hungry, it is even more urgent, at three o'clock in the morning, Tang Cheng, who was replaced by Hou San, could no longer sleep, and there seemed to be a hand scratching in his shriveled stomach. Tang Cheng couldn't sleep, so he simply braved the black to wipe his shell gun, and the two fast and slow machines were divided into one for the dice earlier, and Tang Cheng still had the last three bullets left. There was a sound of ropes behind him, and Tang Cheng turned his head to see that it was George, who also couldn't sleep, getting up.
"George, when will the airdrop you said come? If the plane you mentioned doesn't come by daybreak, we'll have to get out of here. Shaking his head to refuse the cigarette that George handed him, Tang Cheng pressed the last three bullets into the magazine one by one. Although there are only the last three bullets left, when it comes to the crisis, maybe he can save his life, and Tang Cheng will never neglect what can save his life.
George, who was asked by Tang Cheng, helplessly stretched out his hand and scratched his messy hair, to be honest, his heart was also bottomless, the fighter plane that left must have seen the signal he sent with the flashlight, but George, who was in the jungle, could not decide when the fighter plane would come again. Tang Cheng didn't know that most of the defeated soldiers behind him were not asleep, and like Tang Cheng, these guys who also couldn't sleep were also waiting for the expected plane to appear, because the appearance of the plane meant that there was an airdrop, and there was an airdrop, and everyone had food.
When the sky was faintly shining, George, who had already been prepared, began to command Hou San and them, using military uniforms and everything that could be used to arrange a large cross in the open space on the hill. The sky was getting brighter, and the expected plane still did not appear, and at this time, everyone's patience had been waited to the extreme, and Hou San, who had been busy with the command for a while, glared at George again and again. If it weren't for George staying by Tang Cheng's side, this big-nosed foreigner who had been dragging everyone back might have been beaten into a pig's head a long time ago.
Waiting for the plane to come, George's heart was also up and down, cautiously squinting his eyes, Hou San and a few of them were staring at him, and the dice sitting on the gun always pointed the muzzle of the gun at his side intentionally or unintentionally. George had been anxiously waiting until four o'clock in the morning when the sky was bright, and then he suddenly jumped up from the ground, "Quick, quick, the plane is coming, it's our flying team's plane." ”
Not only those rout soldiers who couldn't sleep, but even Tang Cheng, who had just fallen asleep in a daze, was made a fuss by George, and looked through the telescope in the direction of George's view, and sure enough, three small black dots appeared in the sky. The black dot grew larger and larger until it was visible to the naked eye, and there were three planes, two of which were escort fighters, and the latter was the transport plane that George was introducing to everyone. "See, this big guy is a transport plane, if the cabin is filled with food, it will be enough for us to eat for a year and a half."
George commanded Hou San and the cross they arranged on the top of the mountain did not look very large, but it was quite conspicuous under the reflection of the surrounding greenery. Probably spotting George's cross-marker, the transport plane in the sky that George said began to spiral down, until Tangcheng on the hill they could see the open hatch on the side of the wing with only the naked eye, and two boxes with white umbrella flowers were pushed out of the cabin, and then fell down the hill in a fluttering manner.
"Quick, go find the box, the Japanese soldiers are coming." The exclamation of the dice sent by Tang Cheng to guard the Japanese troops under the mountain was not only clear to them in the process of dropping the boxes, but even the Japanese soldiers in the forest under the mountain saw it. Without looking up at the plane still hovering over the hill with George, Tang Cheng led a dozen fast-legged routs to the place where the parachute had landed. The process of the airdrop seems to be very smooth, and the location where the white umbrella flower landed is not very far from the mountain, and when Tang Cheng and the others found the two boxes, the Japanese soldiers who were found by the dice were still lingering at the foot of the mountain.
"Let's go, don't look at it, I can't take care of it now, let's get rid of the Japanese army first." The box with the umbrella flower was carried up the hill, and Tang Cheng swung his knife to cut off the umbrella flower on the box and stopped George, who wanted to open the box. The Japanese soldiers who also saw the airdrop of the plane had already come up the mountain, and Tang Cheng and they had to leave the other side of the mountain now, and only as long as they entered the next forest, they had time to open the box and find out.
Tang Cheng's group carrying the boxes stumbled down the hill in a stumbling downhill, and from time to time the sun shone through the clouds, but that didn't cheer everyone up. After halfway up the mountain, the terrain gradually became relatively flat, and the dice at the front kept using an English compass to identify the direction. Everyone was already very tired, and some were already shuffling forward with their guns, kicking a small branch enough to make them fall.
The two strongest people are the dice and the rock dragon, but they have been serving as the former scouts, and they are also tired, and George has been begging Tang Cheng to stop and rest, but Tang Cheng has ignored it at all. Tang Cheng didn't care about George's empty threat on his shoulders, and it wasn't until he finally couldn't walk anymore that Tang Cheng ordered to stop and rest. "Rest in place for ten minutes!" Putting down George on his shoulder, Tang Cheng shouted at the end of the team, so the whole team instantly sat and lay down and immediately dispersed.
Stopping to rest means that there is a chance to open the box, George, who was carried all the way by Tang Cheng, was the most excited, and jumped close to the box with a bayonet, George was proud left and right, and inserted the bayonet hard along the gap between the wooden strips of the box. The boxes dropped by the airplanes were made of wood, all of which were made of fine wooden staples, and in George's words, the boxes dedicated to the airdrop of supplies were opened and flattened to make them an immediately usable stretcher.
Tang Cheng naturally didn't know what the stretcher had to do with the box in front of them, but from the moment George pried the lid of the box with a bayonet, more and more people gathered around the box. "Biscuits, biscuits, Lao Tzu saw the biscuits." A quick guy reached out and grabbed a biscuit from the box, ignoring the stains on his hands and face, directly tore the wrapping paper on the biscuit, and stuffed the biscuit into his mouth in one bite. With the first one, there will be a second, and George couldn't stop the excitement of the people around him, so he had to spill some biscuits the periphery of the pile.
Biscuits, canned food, jerky, trauma first-aid medicine, more and more things were taken out of the box, and Hou San even took out a few pairs of wool socks from the box. Tang Cheng pushed away a few guys around the box, leaned closer and looked inside the box, he had already taken out so many things, but the radio station he had been longing for was never there. Xu saw the loneliness on Tang Cheng's face, and George, who was full of joy, pushed Tang Cheng on the shoulder, "Tang, I remember that you can speak English, didn't you notice the words written in English on the other box?" ”
Sure enough, Tang Cheng saw the words "radio" and "weapon" on the other box, while the box that had been opened by George just now had the words "food" written on it. Taking the bayonet handed by George, Tang Cheng personally pried open the cover of the other box, and after lifting the few military blankets in the box, Tang Cheng finally found the radio station he had always needed. As if holding a bomb, Tang Cheng carefully took the radio out of the box, but as for the two long and short guns in the box, they had already been forgotten by Tang Cheng.
Mike is a senior intelligence agent, fiddling with the radio is naturally no problem, take out the battery and install the radio, Mike picked his fingers and turned on the switch of the radio, the sound of the current in the headset and all kinds of noise Tang Cheng smiled. "Don, it says that your first troops to enter the Savage Mountains have rushed to Ledo on the Indian border, and although they have lost a lot of people, it has been proved that the road is feasible, at least it will not be pursued and intercepted by endless Japanese soldiers." George found a few pieces of paper from the box and handed them to Tang Cheng.
"The Flying Team has marked a few points on this map, and as long as we follow this route, the Flying Team guys will provide us with airdrops along the way, which means that we will never go hungry again." As excited as Tang Cheng was George, if he hadn't heard someone and used a flashlight to contact the plane that came to reconnoitre, maybe these things in front of him could only appear in a dream.