"You are from the Ninety-Sixth Division?" Tang Cheng was very surprised to look at the dozen or so defeated soldiers in front of him, Tang Cheng, who had been cowering in the shelter outside Mandalay, knew that the Fifth Army had the 96th Division, but he didn't know that when Huang Hanju left Burma, the 96th Division was resisting the attack of the two main divisions of the Japanese army alone. The 96th Division suffered heavy casualties in the Battle of Pyongmanna, with 8 officers killed and 77 wounded; Soldiers were killed 2,570 and wounded 1,346.

What was really strange about Tang Cheng was not that these routs belonged to the 96th Division, but that he was very curious about why these people from the 96th Division did not retreat with the army headquarters, but instead scattered in the mountains and forests like other routs. "You also know that our 96th Division suffered many casualties in Pingmanna, and received an order for the troops to retreat. As we fought, our troops behind the palace were scattered, and we were chased into the forest and had no direction, so we could only ask the locals for directions as we walked. ”

Tang Chengxin said that the locals you found didn't have any good intentions, otherwise you wouldn't have gone back, if it weren't for the fact that your group of people happened to appear behind the Japanese army, you people would have all been explained here. The veteran who sat and talked with Tang Cheng was called Dong Liancheng, but Dong Liancheng, who had the rank of sergeant, was a veteran who had been a soldier for more than 6 years, otherwise when he broke away from the large army, these stragglers would not be able to willingly follow him around the forest.

"Since that's the case, you should follow us, anyway, they are all people who are going back to China, it is better to go all the way, there are more people, and when you meet Japanese soldiers again, you can take care of them." Tang Cheng could see that Dong Liancheng and them were different from ordinary routs, and Dong Liancheng could also see that Tang Cheng's gang was not simple, and the battle just now was a good proof. Although it is impossible to follow such a person all the time, after all, he has a little more certainty of living, Dong Liancheng did not discuss it with his companions, so he directly agreed.

"This gun is indeed a good thing, more than 40 devil soldiers, I killed a third of it alone. If this is still using the previous Mauser rifle, I am afraid that it can only kill more than 6 devil soldiers at most. After agreeing with Dong Liancheng to join forces, Tang Cheng immediately went to Hou San's side, and by the way, asked the military doctor who came down from the gentle slope to re-examine the wound on his chin. The big voice of the dice was very conspicuous under the gentle slope, Dong Liancheng and the group looked over one after another, and Yan Long, who was not bad at marksmanship, stared at the sniper rifle in the arms of the dice without blinking.

"Okay, just stop for a while, know that you are powerful, you are the best in the world." Hou San, who finally couldn't see it, stuffed the steel helmet full of bullets into the arms of the dice, and the arrogant face of the dice made people really disturbed. Hou Sansai's steel helmet to the dice was full of Han rifle bullets, which were ammunition to supplement the dice, and more than 40 Japanese soldiers were killed so that Hou San captured a lot, and Hou San simply gave the dice more than 100 rounds of ammunition at one time.

The number of captured Japanese-style 38 rifles was too much, and Tang Cheng obviously couldn't take them away, Tang Cheng called Dong Liancheng and Hou San to discuss, and decided to let more than half of the people replace the Japanese army's 38 rifles, at least when they encounter a small group of Japanese troops, their ammunition replenishment will have a source. "Evenize all the grenades, make sure everyone has grenades, take away raincoats, military blankets and water bottles, concentrate Mauser rifle ammunition in the hands of those who are good at marksmanship, and switch to 38 rifles for the rest."

Tang Cheng was the commander, and he was the only one among them who could use the Japanese grenadiers, so the grenadiers captured from the Japanese army went to Tang Cheng, and Ma Dazhuang was fortunate to become Tang Cheng's gun rack and ammunition man, he was not only responsible for helping Tang Cheng carry the grenadiers, but also carried the captured 4 grenadier grenades and 6 grenades. "Let's go, divide the stuff and bring a little with everyone." Bicycles with deflated tires can't be wanted, but fortunately, there are more Dong Liancheng and them, everyone brings some, and the materials that were originally tied to the bicycle can also be taken away.

Once again, they returned to the state of marching on foot, and their speed began to slow down slightly, and they found several traces of the battlefield where the national army and the Japanese army had fought in succession, and Tang Cheng and they were finally sure that there was no mistake in the direction they were marching now. It had been a whole day since they left the open field where the 40 or so Japanese soldiers were killed, and Tang Cheng had not met a single living person, this situation had been accustomed to Dong Liancheng and them on the way to escape, but in Tang Cheng's opinion, there was a big problem, and a wave of uneasiness and restlessness began to rise from the bottom of Tang Cheng's heart.

Finally, after turning over a mountain, Tang Cheng understood what was going on with the restlessness and restlessness in his heart, and the rock dragon and dice, who had come out to serve as scouts, found corpses again, a large number of corpses. Behind a not-so-flat slope, hundreds of corpses were scattered among weeds and shrubs, and the damp heat of northern Burma had left them highly decomposed, but they could still identify them from the color of their military uniforms on the dead bodies.

"Backwards, retreat, you guys are fucking slow, aren't you?" As soon as the military doctor who came up from behind saw these decomposing corpses, his first reaction was to take out a homemade mask from his medicine box and attach it to his mouth and nose, and then waved his arms to drive Tang Cheng and them backwards. Although the military doctor is a half-hung doctor, he also knows the truth of germ infection, so many corpses are rotten here, if they are accidentally contaminated with germs, none of them may survive.

It has been retreating for more than 200 meters, and the military doctor has taken off the mask covering his mouth and nose and breathed a sigh of relief. "Can't we do something for them? Just watch them rot here, and finally mix with the loess here? "Tang Cheng has seen thousands of corpses, but he has also seen even more tragic scenes than just now, he just can't bear the corpses of these national soldiers in the wilderness like that.

"What's the solution, what if you don't throw it like that." There was also moisture in the eyes of the military doctors, they were only about 30 people now, and there were at least three or four hundred corpses just now, and it would take at least a whole day to bury the corpses by relying on them. It is not difficult to bury the corpse, the military doctor is mainly afraid of the germs carried on the corpse, if it is really contaminated on the body, it is a trivial matter to die a person, but that thing will be contagious.

Everyone was looking at Tang Cheng, and many people's eyes were as much moisture as military doctors, Tang Cheng lowered his head and took out a cigarette and lit it, and threw the cigarette on the ground after only taking a puff. "Those who died were all brothers of our national army, and since they had encountered them, they couldn't be ignored. One day we will die in the wilderness like them, and I think you will also hope to have someone to help collect the corpses. Tang Cheng had already made a decision, and the others could only obey, and besides, Tang Cheng's words just now also hit what they thought in their hearts.

Without sapper shovels, they had to use gas masks captured from the Japanese army as masks, first digging trenches in the field with bayonets, then blowing up pits on the ground with grenades, and finally slowly expanding the pits with bayonets. The two female soldiers standing in the distance had already cried silently, because all the corpses were rotten, and Tang Cheng, who had thick cloth wrapped around their arms and hands, couldn't even move those corpses, because as long as the force on their hands was slightly greater, the corpses full of corpse water and maggots would scatter into rotten flesh and skeletons.

"That's not going to work, just set it on fire, and finally put the ashes in the pit." Everyone knew that there was no way to move all these corpses into the earthen pit, but Tang Cheng didn't speak, and none of them dared to say that they would set fire to the corpses, and in the end, the military doctor couldn't see it, so he went to tell Tang Cheng about burning the corpses. "It's better to burn it, even if it is to collect the corpses for them, these brothers should not blame us on the Huangquan Road."

Tang Cheng thought for a moment and nodded in agreement, and the oil he pulled out of the motorcycle was spilled on the corpses, and with just a match, the corpses turned into a raging charcoal fire. Standing upwind in Tang Cheng, they watched the corpses finally burned to ashes by the fire, and Hou San, who had a calm face, took the bull into the forest to cut back a tree, and worked hard for a while, and finally made a very simple tombstone for these corpses that did not leave their names.

The words on the tombstone were carved by Tang Cheng himself, there was no ink, and the final coloring was blood, the rock dragon caught a snake from the forest, the snake meat was used as lunch, and the snake blood was used by Tang Cheng to color the words on the tombstone. The words on the tombstone of "The Tomb of the 300 Martyrs of the New 22nd Division" make Tang Cheng carved very neatly, and the white wooden stubble with the red font looks shabby, but in the eyes of Hou San and others, such a tombstone is better than the stone tombstone obtained by the old wealth in the countryside.

Tang Cheng couldn't confirm the identity of these corpses, he just confirmed that there were people from the New 22nd Division from a document that fell between the corpses, so he simply regarded these corpses as belonging to the New 22nd Division. The bullet holes on the corpses have been confirmed to be left by Japanese bullets, but most of the corpses have their arms tied behind their backs, which makes it somewhat difficult for Tang Cheng to accept it. 300 people, this is the number of two companies, so willingly being killed by the Japanese army with their hands tied in the wilderness, in the case of Tang Cheng, they will never be able to do such a brainless thing.

It is speculated that these corpses were all killed after surrendering to the Japanese army, Hou San and they are not very comfortable, since they have surrendered to the Japanese army, they can be regarded as dead in vain. "Forget it, everyone is already dead, don't say those angry words." Tang Cheng's heart was also very uncomfortable, but as a commander, he couldn't let this kind of love spread, so he could only stop it.