Chapter Fifty-Eight: See the Defeated Army Again
"Kill another devil officer, and the dog is still wearing a gold watch." Hou San handed Zhao Zhi a gold watch and a pack of Japanese cigarettes, and then proudly pinned the Japanese command knife to his waist, and the captured binoculars were also carried on his chest. Tang Cheng didn't look too closely at the gold watch handed over by Hou San, but just threw the gold watch to Tan Fei very casually, but he only looked through all the papers and maps with Japanese that Hou San and they had collected.
Zhou Chao and two people quickly ran back from the opposite bank, and the others who had recovered their strength raised their guns and aimed at the opposite bank in a panic, for fear that a few more Japanese soldiers would rush out on the other side of the river. "Sir, there are devils' tricycles in the woods on the other side, there are several, there must be a road around here, you can take the road by car" Zhou Chao, whose face was full of joy, pulled Tang Cheng a little incoherently to report his discovery.
All the people wept with joy, and after walking around the jungle for more than ten days, they could finally see the way. "Pack up our things, let's cross the river and follow the road." After a little silence, Tang Cheng gave the order, and everyone hurriedly cleaned up the battlefield, refusing to leave anything useful. Zhou Chao and the others found not only three-wheeled motorcycles, but also a few British-made bicycles, Tang Cheng was very surprised how these Japanese soldiers rode their bicycles into this mountain.
Motorcycles are absolutely unwanted, this thing is too quiet, and it will be heard by the surrounding Japanese troops from a long distance, but those bicycles were taken into the pocket by Tang Cheng. Take Tan Fei and a few of them back to the river and stream, and take all the Japanese water bottles that were originally discarded to the side of the road, the motorcycle can't be taken away, but the fuel in the fuel tank can be taken away. "Be careful, these oils are good things, they can help us light a fire and cook on rainy days, and they can be used as Molotov cocktails when we meet Japanese soldiers." Watching Tan Fei and them take out the oil from the mailbox and put it into those kettles, Tang Cheng's face was full of smiles.
On the road again, the female soldiers and the medic were still in the middle of the line, but this time there were a few more bicycles dragging supplies in the middle of the line. 6 bicycles pulled all the materials that could be pulled down were pushed in the middle of the queue, Zhou Chao and his people guarded the bicycles, the things on these bicycles are the guarantee for everyone to get out of the jungle, and there can be no mistakes.
After walking along the path for about two or three hours, I turned a corner, and corpses began to appear in front of everyone's eyes. The sound of flies flying on the corpses was like a muffled thunderclap, shot, stabbed, strafing, and exploding - the victorious Japanese would remove the corpses of their own men, and all that was left here were the corpses of the soldiers of the expeditionary force.
The military doctor made a simple mask with military gauze, covered his mouth and nose tightly, and squatted down to examine the corpse. "It's all the main force, there are 200 divisions, there are 22 divisions, and there are officers from the command" This path dotted with corpses was numbing, most people tried to look at the backs of the people in front of them, and hurried with their heads down, and the two female soldiers couldn't help but run to the side of the road to vomit. "Sir, the rout of our national army has been found under the hillside ahead," Yan Long, who had been serving as a scout, ran back to report.
At the bottom of the hill is a large road that can finally be driven, but this qiē is not important, the important thing is that the muddy and bad road was trampled out of the vast jungle by the routs. The people walking on the road were all defeated in twos and threes, and the exhausted and defeated expeditionary forces. Everyone stared blankly at the rout at the bottom of the hillside, and then carefully pushed their bicycles down the hill and merged into the routed army.
Tang Cheng didn't show off their spoils to these routers, in fact, they didn't need to say anything. As long as they saw the bicycles carrying large bags and small bags in their team and a large number of Japanese-style guns on everyone, the defeated soldiers knew that this small army was coming all the way with the Japanese army. Without being refused, there were constantly stragglers who consciously followed their ranks in Tang City, because they looked at them and made people trust. Compared with others, Tang Cheng and they all have weapons, and even two female soldiers are carrying Japanese-style firearms, although Tang Cheng who leads the team looks like a little white face, but this does not affect the joining of the rout.
However, not all the routs can be like this, and the more people gathered here in Tang City, the more troubles will ensue. When it was almost time to stop to rest in the evening, several officers came from the front of the group to look for Tang Cheng, and they had come to ask for food. The only way for them to obtain supplies after they left Mandalay was to grab them from the Japanese army, and the little thing they captured from the Japanese army was not much, and every day they ate gruel made with wild vegetables and fried rice and a little rice ball, where there was surplus food for these unashamed officers.
But the officers of the expeditionary force didn't care about this, they gathered some routs and prepared to grab food directly. The grumpy dice didn't care if the other party was an officer, and immediately let the brute bull set up the machine gun, and then held his sniper rifle and looked at the confrontation of the defeated soldiers, with a big sense that whoever dared to come up would shoot. "Come, fight here, if you don't dare to shoot, it's my grandfather and I raised it." An officer tore open his tattered military uniform and patted his bony chest, which was covered in scars, and looked like a battle-hardened veteran.
"Grandma's, who doesn't," the dice standing on the high place scolded, but instead of taking off his clothes, he peeled off the bull's shirt to reveal the scars all over his body. The dice stretched out his finger and pointed to the scars on the brute bull's body, and looked at the officer with disdain, "These brothers behind me are all like this, they all dare to fight to the death with the little devil with their heads, you want food, look for the little devil to go." ”
The arrogant words of the dice and the gunshot wounds all over the brute made the routs who rushed up stop their tracks, and besides, there was a machine gun next to them that was slightly raised after Tan Fei took over and was aiming at them, and no one dared to step forward. "I want to see your sir," one of the officers greeted the dice politely.
"Hey, that's right, what do you have to say" The dice, who have always eaten soft and not hard, asked Zhao Liang to take the officer to the back to see Tang Cheng, but for the other defeated soldiers, the dice did not have the good face just now.
"I can't do this, these things are what my brothers bought for their lives. We can give you some of it, it's impossible to take it all out" Tang Cheng stared at the officer in front of him with dead eyes. Those materials are life-saving things, even if the officer in front of him wears the rank of lieutenant colonel, Tang Cheng still can't agree to the other party's proposal to hand over everything and distribute it equally, which can affect the lives of the more than 20 people around him.
Hou San and Tang Cheng muttered quietly, "Sir, I think we still don't want to go with them, if we can come to eat once, we can come a second time, and we don't eat a lot." But if we don't give it to them, we will have to fight with them in the end, although we are not afraid of them, but after all, it is not a shameful thing to fight with our own people. ”
Tang Cheng squinted his eyes and thought for a while and nodded, "Then go separately, let's bypass them at night and walk in front of them" Because it was Tang Cheng's decision, although the dice and the wild bull were very reluctant, they still gave some food to those routs according to Tang Cheng's orders, although there were not many things, but after adding wild vegetables, it was enough for these routs to eat a few bites each.
According to Tang Cheng's prior arrangement, when they camped at night, Tang Cheng and they were not with these defeated soldiers. In the middle of the night, Tang Cheng, who had quietly gotten up, carefully entered the forest by the roadside with their bicycles and supplies, followed the route that Yanlong had marked, made a large circle in the forest, and finally appeared on the avenue a few miles in front of the camp. They didn't dare to stop longer after crossing the Tang City that had already broken the rout, but after a short rest, they set out on the road again, if they couldn't widen the distance between them and those routs, the little supplies they had left would also not be able to be saved.
The routs who woke up at dawn the next day found that there was no trace of Tang Cheng and them, so they would naturally chase after them in a hurry, but unfortunately they were already at least ten miles away from them in Tang City. If it was placed in normal times, the distance of more than ten miles was nothing to these routs, but they were indeed hungry and staggering now, how could they catch up with Tang Cheng and the others who wanted to avoid them, and only chased a few miles away, so these routs simply gave up.
With the road, the speed of their march in Tangcheng will naturally be much faster, but the frequency of corpses on both sides of the road is also increasing, and there are national soldiers and Japanese soldiers in the corpses, but in general, there are more corpses of the national army. Tang Cheng began to look at the corpses of the Japanese scouts on the ground with some irritation, and after they shook off the routs, they marched along the road, and had already encountered small groups of Japanese scouts twice. It seems that all the Japanese troops smelled the smell of the expeditionary force and moved closer here, and if this continues, they will be tired and exhausted to death in Tang Cheng, who are busy hiding.
"It's the 18th Division of the Japanese Army" Tang Cheng looked at the diary that Hou San found from the corpse of the Japanese army, which was written uprightly with the name of the Japanese soldier and the unit number of the 18th Division to which he belonged. "Let's leave this road and follow its direction to see if we can avoid the Japanese army" Tang Cheng immediately beckoned everyone to follow the direction of the roadbed and go into the woods, far away from the direction of the main road, towards the direction of the Nu River, and the bodies of the Japanese scouts were also thrown into the bushes.
The speed of the team was very fast, and at noon, the team entered a large area of ancient woods, the trees were very tall, and there were no long branches at all below ten meters. In this way, everyone feels that their horizons are much broader, and the brute bull and Ma Dazhuang, who are the vanguards, can also open the way without machetes. The rapid birdsong suddenly sounded, and all the people immediately lay down to hide, and Tang Cheng rushed to the front quickly. From a distance, I saw a dice holding a sniper rifle squatting motionless in a nest of long grass dozens of meters away, not knowing what it was doing.