Chapter Forty-Six: Interception Again
"Do you regret it?" Tang Cheng asked Wu Shan like this, the latter just shook his head but did not speak, in Wu Shan's heart, he had already regarded the Japanese soldiers as a blood feud, as long as he still had a breath, he would kill the Japanese soldiers to avenge the villagers in the village. The dead have been buried in the ground, and the living will continue to live, so after cleaning the battlefield and burying the dead in battle, Tang Cheng and his party continued to follow Wushan and they began to go north with difficulty.
They were intercepted by the Japanese army three times in a row, and although the Tangcheng side suffered no less than 100 casualties, the Japanese troops who intercepted them were also not happy. The Sagawa squadron, which was the first to intercept them in Tangcheng, has been completely disabled, and the entire Sagawa squadron has 180 people, including squadron leader Sagawa Motomoto, and several officers have been killed. In the end, less than 60 soldiers fled the battlefield, and the highest rank was only Cao Chang, and all the light machine guns and grenadiers of the Sagawa squadron were lost, and the combined ammunition of more than 50 Japanese soldiers was less than 300 rounds, and the number of grenades was less than 20.
Later, the Nakajima squadron that came into contact with Tang Cheng was lucky, when they were repelled by Tang Cheng for the first time, Nakajima Squadron only suffered more than 30 casualties, but all the heavy weapons were not lost, if it were not, Nakajima Squadron would not have intercepted Tang Cheng again. However, this time the battle ended with the victory of Tang Cheng's side, and the squadron that caused dozens of casualties on Tang Cheng's side was almost completely killed and wounded, not only all the heavy weapons were left on the battlefield, but even the 6 grenadiers they gathered and organized by the entire squadron were all captured by Tan Fei's team.
"Send a report to the command that our interception failed, the squadron suffered all casualties, and I am afraid that we will not be able to continue to intercept the other side, and request to return to Magao to replenish troops and supplies." Squadron Leader Shinobu Nakajima, who was shot in the arm, was full of loneliness. He was the only officer left alive in the entire squadron, and there were less than 40 of the original 200 men under his command, and half of them were wounded. Before yesterday, he was still laughing at the uselessness of the Sagawa squadron, but a day later, his own squadron followed in the footsteps of the Sagawa squadron, and his remaining troops were not as large as the Sagawa squadron.
Tang Cheng, who was in a hurry to go north, didn't know this, and he didn't have the energy to pursue the retreating Japanese army, so he only thought about how to avoid the interception of the Japanese army along the way, so as to return to Ledo as much as possible. Tang Cheng, who captured two Japanese light machine guns and a large number of bullets, arranged the light machine guns at the front and rear ends of the team, and all the grenadiers and Bazooka were placed in the middle of the team, and once they were intercepted by the Japanese again, the grenadiers and Bazooka could immediately return fire.
In the next two days, everyone spent time in a state of high tension, Tang Cheng, who did not dare to sleep at night and was highly nervous during the day, and their energy was quite overdrawn, they walked through the jungle completely with the persistence in their hearts. The fog was thick, the humidity in the forest was even greater, and the air in the forest was exceptionally cool. The white mist pressed down on the side of everyone in the forest, and taking advantage of the thick fog, Tang Cheng and them, under the leadership of Wu Shan, raised a fire in a valley cave deep in the forest sea, and also took the opportunity to take a break.
There was a lot of fog in the forest, so the dead branches that were picked up were wet, and the smoke was very strong after the fire, but fortunately there was a thick fog here as a cover, and everyone was not worried that it would be discovered by the Japanese troops who might be in zĂ i. Grass grew outside the entrance of the cave, and white mist kept pouring in. Tang Cheng looked out and said, "Okay, don't just gossip anymore, take turns to dry your clothes, and then hurry up and rest for a while, the fog will disperse, and we will set off." â
Sitting around the campfire, everyone rested for a while, ate and baked their uniforms, and when the fog cleared a little, they came out of their holes and walked up the valley in the reckless jungle. Not far away, Tang Cheng found that the fog in front of them was still very large, and by more than three o'clock in the afternoon, they still did not encounter the enemy, and they stopped and stopped, and passed most of the day safely. The fog once dispersed for a while, but soon it rose again, after going up a slope, the forest was deep and foggy, and the sight was not good, and even Wu Mountain, who was out to explore the way, did not know where to go.
The dice that had been following them in Wushan told everyone to stand by, looked at the compass with Yanlong, and climbed a tree to check the direction. But in such a foggy weather, where can the dice that climb the big tree see anything, after coming down from the tree, the two discussed it in a low voice, and decided to go back and inform Tang Cheng of the situation. After following the dice, Tang Cheng also had no idea, the fog was so big, he would lose his way if he was not careful, and taking the wrong path in such a jungle would mean paying several times or even dozens of times the amount of body.
Looking back, everyone else looked tired, some were sitting, some were standing, some were leaning against trees, some were resting with guns, some were on guard. Fortunately, although I am in the rainforest, these days are not very hot, the jungle is shady, the fog is very high, it is cool in the morning and evening, and even in the forest it is still very cold at night. If it is a sunny and hot day, sweating like rain and there is no water to drink, the person may not be able to die, and the wound of the injured person is easy to become inflamed and suppurated. Seeing this scene, Tang Cheng could only order to rest in place and wait for the fog to clear before determining the direction.
They now occupy a slope and a broken ridge, and below the eastern section is an open field, everyone is drenched and tired at this time, and they are in a foreign jungle, no matter what you say at both ends of life and death, everyone is still a little worried in their hearts. The dice that stepped forward slightly were half-crouched in the grass, and a pair of eyes were extremely vigilant to pay attention to the movements around them. Through the crack in the forest not far in front of him, the dice suddenly saw a striking cluster of red flowers in the fog under the ridge swaying. He suddenly became nervous, and subconsciously picked up the sniper rifle in his hand.
Later, Yan Long and the dice who followed up had been together for a long time, and they already had a bit of a tacit understanding, seeing that the dice suddenly flattened the gun in their hands, Yan Long didn't need to think about it to know that there was a situation, so he immediately conveyed the enemy situation to Tang Cheng behind him in a deep voice, "There is a situation!" "The word "situation" is enough to make everyone nervous for a second, and immediately switch to a state of imminent battle.
Without Tang Cheng's orders, everyone quickly dispersed the terrain and cover to seize the advantage, Tang Cheng glanced at the rock dragon, and then moved forward to the dice with his carbine on his waist. Tang Cheng narrowed his eyes and tried to look forward but saw nothing, and the dice holding the gun had to point to the red flower in front of Tang Cheng with his left hand, and then made a dangerous gesture, Tang Cheng then fell on the position of the red flower.
A gust of wind blew, and the fog in front of the two of them was slightly blown away, and the red flowers mixed in the grass swayed in the wind, showing a different kind of weirdness. Tang Cheng stretched out his hand and patted the dice on the shoulder, and the two of them, along with the rock dragon behind them, slowly retreated until they retreated into the depths of the fog that Tang Cheng thought was hidden enough, "Whether there are Japanese troops or not, we won't fight, wait first, it's best to get around here." Tang Cheng whispered, and Hou San and the others who had gathered over were stunned at first, and then nodded again and again.
Time passed little by little, and before they turned to Wu Shan to go to the flank, they didn't come back, Tang Cheng and his soldiers were quietly squatting in the mist, but everyone's guns and eyes were all facing one direction. Finally, the fog that had been obscuring people's vision began to dissipate, and everyone's vision began to become clear, and with Tang Cheng's continuous gestures, Hou San and the others began to hide their figures with their soldiers.
Fighting is not only ferocious, sometimes it is also patience, this is a sentence in Xie Bo's war notebook, it is precisely because he suddenly remembered this sentence just now that Tang Cheng decided to die and wait here. If the dice didn't make a mistake in their hunch, it would be better to see who had the better patience between themselves and the Japanese army. The fog dispersed, and the long-lost sunlight shone into the forest, and the sun was really good today, and Tang Cheng's body, which had been cold, was getting more and more heated.
Like everyone else, Tang Cheng's clothes also began to steam out under the sun, if it was noon, if it had been this kind of sun, maybe soon the military uniform would have been able to be dried. Under the illumination of the sun, the entire valley seemed to be rising mist, and the white silk evaporated, breaking away from the forest tops and rising into the sky. The sky in the gap of the white fog also became a clear blue, which made people look particularly lovely.
Tang Cheng, who had been squatting and not moving, suddenly seemed to think of something and began to get excited, picked up the telescope and looked in the direction where the dice had found a strange movement, and the grass with many red flowers also rose a lot of moisture, but Tang Cheng, who was thoughtful, saw a slight difference from those humidity. That's right, the moisture that rises from the human body under the sun will be different from the moisture that rises from plants, and in the telescope of Tang City, more than a dozen places where the moisture is significantly different.
There were really Japanese soldiers in front, and Hou San and the others, who took turns looking forward with binoculars, opened their mouths for a while, and were afraid that if they really took advantage of the fog to move forward just now, they would definitely fall into the gunfire of the Japanese army, but fortunately they stopped. Tang Cheng just concluded that there was a Japanese ambush in front of him, but he didn't know how many Japanese soldiers would be hiding in front of him, and after thinking about it quickly, Tang Cheng decided to continue to wait here to see if the Japanese soldiers in front of him would take the initiative to show their figures.
Tang Cheng made up his mind to die and wait for the Japanese army to show his feet first, but the Japanese army who had already discovered Tang Cheng was sitting on wax, and received an order from the command headquarters, this Japanese army team that was supposed to move to the Indian border turned around and went south, and it was good to meet Tang Cheng and them here. The Japanese strikers had already discovered Tangcheng and them, but they didn't want Tangcheng but they suddenly stopped and shrank back, and they didn't see the other party's movement for a long time, and the Japanese soldiers who were ambushed here thought that this group of Zhina troops had found themselves and then turned around and left.