Maybe it is more appropriate to use the old saying that you don't know each other if you don't know each other, when the U.S. troops who have not arrived for a long time finally rushed to the river to join them in Tangcheng, they were still entangled just now and hated to eat each other's dice and Duke The two have already passed me a cigarette and I lit the fire like a pair of good friends, and people who don't know what happened just now will definitely regard these two as friends who have not seen each other for many years. Duke, who has lived in Peking for more than 6 years, speaks fluent Beijing Chinese, and with this convenience, Duke, who has a fierce face but a bold nature, quickly mingles with the others.

The first batch of troops of the Mai detachment to cross the jungle had three detachments, with a total number of about 1,400 people, and two of them had already arrived at the Ghost Gate Pass to wait, and Tang Cheng was only waiting for the third detachment that fell into Ledo in the end. "We're here, now we're ready to go." Several U.S. officers commanding this U.S. detachment just saluted Mike, but they ignored Tang Cheng, who was standing beside Mike, and even nodded his head.

Tang Cheng didn't take the unreasonableness of these US military officers seriously at all, he didn't even look at these guys, they were all the same captain rank as himself, Tang Cheng could naturally ignore the other party. Tang Cheng didn't bother with these trivial matters with the other party, and Mike didn't want to take advantage of this to get mad, but he just said a few words without pain, and the two teams formed a team, roared across the Ledo River, and galloped all the way to the Ghost Gate.

Instead of being with his fellow Americans, Duke got into their truck in Dontown, and with his explanation, he was a liaison officer sent by the U.S. military because he spoke the best Chinese. "Don't tell him what you shouldn't say, I guess this thing should have been sent by those Yankees to give us a fight, but unfortunately this guy is not a fool, he should know who to follow to get out of the woods alive." Tang Cheng whispered to Hou San, looking at Duke who was hooking shoulders with the dice from a distance, Tang Cheng was embarrassed by Duke's familiarity.

If you want to go south to Hukang Valley, you must first enter the Savage Mountain from Ledo, and when you enter the Savage Mountain, you must first enter the Ghost Gate Pass, and the Ghost Gate Pass, which is talked about by the locals, is just an entrance to a mountain road more than 20 kilometers away from Ledo. As the bandits' guide Tang Cheng, when they drove to the Ghost Gate Pass, a vanguard unit belonging to the 114th Regiment of the 38th Division had already entered the mountain, and the other main forces of the 114th Regiment were preparing to enter the mountain. Getting out of the truck, Mike went to the commander of the 114th Regiment to inquire about the road ahead, while Tang Cheng took people to stand by.

The soldiers of the 114th Regiment looked at Tang Cheng who jumped out of the carriage one after another in surprise, and some of them came up with curiosity to smoke and talk. "Which part?" One was obviously a student soldier squatting down next to Tan Fei and handing over a paper cigarette. Tan Fei, who was only wearing a shirt on his upper body, smiled and reached out to take the cigarette handed by the student soldier, and skillfully took out the lighter to help the other party light the cigarette.

helped the other party light a cigarette, and Tan Fei replied, "The company directly under the General Headquarters." ”

"Drink! Directly under the troops, your brother is developed. The student soldiers were interested, looked at Tan Fei carefully, and their eyes fell on the telescope that Tan Fei was carrying in his left hand, and the other party hurriedly got up and saluted Tan Fei. Whether it is in the troops of the national army or the reorganized expeditionary force troops, those who can use binoculars will definitely not be ordinary soldiers, Tan Fei still smiled and just glanced up at the gloomy and dense jungle on the surrounding mountains a few times, and then squatted down beside the other party.

The student soldier who was secretly guessing Tan Fei's identity was a little flustered, but he still held on to himself and did not move his position, looking at the face of this student, Tan Fei guessed that he should not have experienced a battle, nor had he entered Savage Mountain. "How did you become a soldier?" Tan Fei looked at the other party's slightly white face, and suddenly became interested and asked.

"In response to Chairman Chiang's call, 100,000 young people and 100,000 troops! In September last year, he was airlifted from Kunming to Lamga for training, and then he was assigned to the 114th Regiment. The students who were asked by Tan Fei were a little excited, paused for a moment, and then asked Tan Fei, "Sir, what about you?" How did you become a soldier? How did he get selected for the company directly under the command? ”

Looking at the other party's Xiyi's eyes, Tan Fei replied with a smile, "I, I was originally a student, and then I met my current chief when I ran south, and then followed him all the way south from Hubei to Kunming. Tan Fei proudly mentioned Tang Cheng, and pointed to Tang Cheng who was observing the terrain with a telescope in the distance to show the student soldiers around him. That's my chief, who was also a student before joining the army, and he was about the same age as us, but now he is a veteran who has been a soldier for several years and killed hundreds of devils. ”

After listening to Tan Fei's introduction, when the students looked at Tang Cheng, their eyes were full of heat. "Go, stay where it's cool!" The dice who came on the side were a little impatient, and they pushed and kicked the student soldier away, squatted down next to Tan Fei, and pointed at the student soldier and scolded, "You student babies, don't go to school well, what kind of excitement are you coming here." I want to have a son, and I can't let him be a soldier when I die! ”

"We are contributing to the country, this is what Chairman Jiang said." Although the students who were pushed away by the dice were a little afraid of the dice, they still replied forcefully. "The chairman of the committee said that there is no distinction between north and south, and there is no distinction between young and old, all of them have the responsibility of defending the land and resisting the war, and they should all have the determination to sacrifice a qiē. I am also Chinese, since I am Chinese, I should contribute to the country, even if I die in battle, I am willing. If all the people go into hiding, and turn their ears to what is going on outside the window, when will the pirates who have insulted us be driven out of our country?"

Although the students who were pushed away by the dice were small, his words attracted the approval and shouts of some soldiers around him, and also made Tang Cheng, who had been observing the terrain, turn around and look over here. The dice are not very literate, and he is not a person who is good at words, but he can't get off the stage when this student says this, seeing that the dice are about to go crazy, Tan Fei, who is squatting next to him, hurriedly holds down the dice. "This classmate, what you just said is right, what my brother said is not what you think, he means that you don't understand the dangers on the battlefield, don't go to the battlefield to die in vain."

Tan Fei smiled again and took out a pack of cigarettes and distributed it to the soldiers of the 114th Regiment around him, these guys who had already gotten up and were ready to fight for their robes were scattered, but they were a little unhappy by the dice that Tan Fei had been pressing. The crowd gathered around dispersed, and seeing that there was no excitement, the veterans who were crowded in the crowd also dispersed when they saw this, and Tang Cheng immediately refocused his attention on the surrounding terrain.

The ghost gate has already completely changed, I can't tell whether it is a big construction site or a big barracks, there is the roar of various mechanical engines everywhere, and the yellow dust that is choked by the vehicles looks gray everywhere. The arrival of the engineering troops and the main force of the 114th Regiment made it a lot of soldiers of different colors and colors, huge roller coasters running by, feet and eardrums trembling, and almost everyone here had a stern expression.

Tang Cheng, who was standing on the side of the road, plucked hard in his ear with his little finger, and asked Cai Jincheng beside him with a twisted brow: "These people are here to build roads?" ”

Cai Jincheng replied with a smile, "Yes, these guys should be the Sino-US joint engineering troops, I heard that there are two American engineering regiments and two Chinese engineering regiments." There is even more powerful, you don't see, the British also plan to transfer 100,000 Indian laborers from India to participate in the road construction project, and the number of people will catch up with our expeditionary force. ”

"Lao Tzu believes in the evil of the Yankees!" A veteran who had been standing behind the two of them interjected, "We've all walked through Savage Mountain a few times, and the forest in this Savage Mountain is so dense that people can't even walk, and you can still drive a car road?" "Tang Cheng and Cai Jincheng naturally knew that the headquarters of the expeditionary force had made up their minds to build the road first, and the two looked at each other but did not speak, but the matter of building the road made such a big move, it was impossible to hide the Japanese troops scattered in the forest.

Mike, who went to look for the 114th regiment to inquire about the road ahead, disappeared for a long time before coming back, looking at Mike's face instead of being very good, Tang Cheng waved away the soldiers around him, stepped forward and asked a few words in a low voice. "The troops of the 114th Regiment are about to enter the mountain, saying that the British army in the direction of Tangjiaka has been attacked by a large number of Japanese troops, and the British army is about to be unable to hold it, and the 114th Regiment is going to rush to the rescue." took the cigarette handed by Tang Cheng and lit it and smoked, Mike scolded in a low voice, "I don't know what illness is committed by the command department, and I want to ask us to go to Tangjiaka to rescue, there are only 300 of us, what can we do when we go, and I directly refused." ”

Listening to Mike's words, Tang Cheng stopped lighting a cigarette for himself and looked at Mike with a frown, "Does the command just want us to rescue the British army?" The U.S. detachment doesn't go? Mike nodded heavily, signaling that Tang Cheng guessed correctly, not only Mike couldn't figure out such an order, but Tang Cheng was also confused. His direct company was ordered to guide the direction of the more than 1,000 American troops behind him and serve as a guide, but before he entered the forest, why did he change his order again?

"Then let's go to Tangjiaka, what should these American troops do? There is no way for them to get out of the Savage Mountain on their own, and these masters probably don't even know where Ma Gao is, so they haven't considered this problem? Tang Cheng, who suddenly figured out something, immediately calmed down, Stilwell valued the movement of the Mai detachment to the south so much, and he would never sit idly by and watch the vanguard of the Mai detachment die before they succeeded. Transfer your company to Tangjiaka, then let these more than 1,000 American GIs cross the Savage Mountain by themselves, but I don't know how many people will finally get out of the jungle of the Savage Mountain alive.