Chapter XVI
"Sir, you'd better stay away from these trucks, I'm afraid my brothers will miss their guns and hurt you." Hou San, who was sitting in the jeep, shouted with a smile, and the captain officer who was standing behind the truck in front of him who tried to lift the tarpaulin immediately stiffened his outstretched arm, and with Hou San's words, the captain officer bandit who tried to lift the truck tarpaulin and looked inside found that the machine gun on the jeep on his side was still turning the muzzle, and the muzzle of the black hole seemed to be pointing at him.
The captain, who was pointed at the machine gun, swallowed a mouthful of saliva and reluctantly stepped away, failing to see the inside of the truck until the end. The captain officer who retreated was asked the reason by the soldiers who searched behind, and the captain, who was forced to retreat by the machine gun, immediately became angry, "Why are you so fucking cowardly?" You don't look at the face of the guy standing behind the machine gun in the jeep, it looks like a hairy boy who has just come of age, such a guy will go off when fiddling with a machine gun, and I haven't lived enough. ”
It was Liu Shishi who turned the muzzle of the machine gun on the jeep, and since he began to meet the troops of the expeditionary force along the road, Tang Cheng ordered the machine guns to be installed on all four jeeps, and in the face of Liu Shishi, a machine gunner who looked like a raw melon egg, Tang Cheng didn't believe that those guys who secretly peeked into the convoy would not be afraid. Successfully drove away a guy who tried to lift the tarpaulin of the truck, Liu Shishi gestured at Hou San, meaning that this was the fifth he had taken away.
"Tell the brothers, just put on a show, don't really go too far, if you hurt someone, we will be in big trouble." How could the little confrontation just now escape Tang Cheng's eyes, when he left Myitkyina, Tang Cheng had already asserted that the road would not be very peaceful, and it was less than a day after leaving Myitkyina, and things like that just now had happened more than a dozen times, I really don't know if the machine gun on the jeep would really be fired when he arrived at Wan Town.
Although they have always hung the banner of the direct command or the independent action team of the US military observation mission, in the final analysis, they are also Chinese, and it is their mission to safely escort these Japanese prisoners of war back to China. But if for these Japanese prisoners of war clashed with the expeditionary force troops along the road, Tang Cheng was ruthless, after all, they were all Chinese, and they were all brothers who had fought to the death with the Japanese army.
But no Chinese could kill a Japanese soldier with his own hands, almost all the soldiers of the expeditionary force had a blood feud with the Japanese army, and their convoy in Tangcheng held more than 200 Japanese prisoners of war, and when they passed through Nankan and Yubang, they had to receive at least 100 prisoners of war from the local garrison. A convoy of 300 Japanese prisoners of war was about to return from Wan Town, and the news had already been secretly spread by someone when they left Myitkyina, and this was exactly what Tang Cheng was worried about.
Tang Cheng has not been able to come up with a safe countermeasure, and in the end it was Mike who took the initiative to ask Ying to propose a proposal, there were more than 30 American soldiers in the action team, and along the way, they encountered those expeditionary force troops who pretended to encounter inadvertently, so Mike and Ranny took those American soldiers to greet them, and Tang Cheng and Hou San and the rest of their former national soldiers were only responsible for watching the Japanese prisoners of war in the truck when the convoy stopped to rest. Tang Cheng agreed to Mike's suggestion without even thinking about it, it was a good thing to avoid clashes with the troops of the expeditionary force, and it was very easy for their more than a hundred armed men to watch the prisoners tied with ropes and chains.
Tang Cheng watched very closely along the way, although there were many expeditionary force troops encountered along the way, but there were no problems with the Japanese prisoners of war in the truck, in order to avoid trouble, Tang Cheng even asked the staff officers sent by the headquarters to follow the car to only give these Japanese prisoners of war one meal a day. "They just ride in a car every day, they don't have to fight or march, they only give us trouble if they eat too much, and they just don't starve to death if they eat a meal." The staff officer sent by the command looked at Tang Cheng with some sloppiness, and the meal Tang Cheng said was just a spoonful of porridge that could be seen at the bottom of the lunch box.
"Some of them are good enough to eat, but at this time last year, dozens of us were chased into the jungle by them, and we survived by eating wild vegetables and plantain roots every day. If you ask these brothers under my command, when they mention that experience, which of them did not hate these Japanese soldiers and grit their teeth. The staff officers sent by the command were originally a little hesitant, but after listening to Tang Cheng's words, they agreed to provide only one meal a day for these Japanese prisoners of war.
The Japanese prisoners of war they escorted in Tangcheng were already very lucky that they were not killed by the soldiers of the expeditionary force that day, and when they were imprisoned in the prisoner of war camp, they were already only given one meal a day, and when they took over Tangcheng, these Japanese prisoners of war were already hungry and weak, and they could not lift their spirits. If Tang Cheng continues to starve like this, let alone want to escape halfway, even if Tang Cheng really lets them leave, these Japanese prisoners of war will not leave, because leaving means starving to death in the woods along the road.
When passing through Nankan, Tangcheng's convoy received more than 40 Japanese prisoners of war from the local garrison, and the Japanese soldiers, who were originally arrogant and domineering, had already collapsed at this time, and all that was left on their faces full of vegetables was numbness and confusion. "Originally, we had more than 80 Japanese prisoners of war held here, but the brothers who guarded this place a few days ago accidentally escaped some of them, and now these are the only ones left." The garrison officer in charge of the transfer of prisoners of war spoke cheerfully, but the fierce color hidden in his eyes had already told him the truth of the matter.
Tang Cheng just smiled and didn't speak, but Hou San smiled and took out a cigarette and threw it to the officer, "Sir, in fact, you don't have to tell us this, if it weren't for the convoy and a few staff officers sent by the command from Myitkyina, these pickled goods would have been slaughtered by us halfway through." There is no way, it is our task to escort these prisoners of war back to Kunming, you can bear more, tell your brothers, and don't embarrass us who are suffering from life, it is not easy for everyone. ”
After taking Hou San's cigarette, the officer in charge of handing over the prisoners of war was already a little embarrassed, and after hearing Hou San's words again, he turned around and whispered a few words to one of his soldiers. "It's not easy to know you, I've already explained everything to my brothers, but out of the Nankan realm, I can't guarantee it." Neither Tang Cheng nor this officer wanted to fall out with his own people for a few Japanese prisoners of war, although he had a strong warning in his words, but the meaning had already been understood by Hou San.
Within 10 miles of leaving Nankan, the convoy was shot twice, and the gunmen who simply hid in the shadows only shot at the truck bed escorting the prisoners of war, and the soldiers under Tang Cheng who were riding in the truck did not suffer any casualties. Four Japanese prisoners of war were killed in the attack, and many Japanese prisoners of war were wounded, and the evasive attack forced Tangcheng to dare not stop, so they could only speed up and rush to Yubang.
"A few of you have seen it, will this say that we are alarmist, our expeditionary force and the Japanese army have a blood feud, and all the brothers of the expeditionary force have no idea of giving these Japanese soldiers a way to live. Besides, I have such a small number of men, I want to release the scouts, and I have to leave the broken guards, and in the end there are only these 40 brothers who take care of the convoy, and a few of them discuss and see if we can wait until we arrive in Yubang, and then borrow some troops from the local garrison to join the convoy? "If Tang Cheng wants to free the team from this troublesome task, he has to find a way to fool these staff officers who accompany the team to add manpower to the team.
The few staff officers who had been in a hurry about the shooting had long since lost their rules, and they originally thought that the words that Tang Cheng had reminded them when they left Myitkyina were superfluous, but now it seems that they have thought about it. It is naturally a great achievement to successfully escort these Japanese prisoners of war to Kunming, but if they are dragged and injured by these damned Japanese prisoners of war or killed by stray bullets, then they deserve it, and no one wants to end up like that.
After receiving more than 30 Japanese prisoners of war from the local garrison, several staff officers of the team did not leave Yubang in a hurry, but borrowed their radio station in Tangcheng and began to contact the Myitkyina headquarters. The headquarters was also furious when they learned that there had been a shooting of prisoners of war along the road, but unfortunately they were now beyond the reach of the whip commander, so they could only comfort the staff officers who accompanied the team and find a way to add manpower to the convoy according to their requirements.
"Don, you're so bad that you let the dice secretly pretend to be gunmen to attack our own convoy." After being told the truth by Tang Cheng, when Mike and Ranny, who were originally in the dark, looked at Tang Cheng again, their eyes were full of disdain and vigilance. I don't know how the command was arranged, on the third day of Tang Cheng's arrival in Yubang, a company with a staff of less than 100 people was transferred to join the convoy, and when he learned that this company was from the 2nd Division, Tang Cheng immediately handed over the command of the convoy to the other company's company commander, and the action team only served as the vanguard reconnaissance task of the convoy.
"Look, how good this is, we don't have to go all the way with those damn Japanese prisoners of war anymore, we set off half a day earlier than them, it's enough for us to travel all the way." No longer have to worry about the Japanese prisoners of war in the truck, Tang Cheng, who was nested in the back seat of the jeep, took out the sunglasses belt that George gave him, but he looked a little high-spirited.