Chapter 17 Gains and Losses
Tang Cheng had newly acquired the American-style ordnance that Mike had brought with him from Ramgarh, and he spent the whole day training the more than 100 Nationalist troops he had assembled under his command, either taking people out to shoot targets for days in a row, or hiding in his new camp to ponder the thing called Bazooka. Mike wished that Tang Cheng would train his soldiers well, but some people couldn't sit still, and the batteries on the other side of the river were still in the hands of the Japanese army.
"Mike, did Don go out to train soldiers again?" Wallace got up early in the morning, and drove the jeep to find Tang Cheng, but was told by Mike that Tang Cheng had gone out for training with the whole training soldiers before dawn. Ledo said that it was not big or small, and Wallace drove the jeep to look for a long circle, but he never found where Tang Cheng was, so he had no choice but to go back to Mike to find a way.
"Mike, you must help me this time." Wallace's first sentence made Mike froze, this guy usually speaks very hard, but what's wrong today? "You know, our British troops have been forced to withdraw from Burma, and General Alexander has taken on most of the responsibility, and I have heard that the House of Representatives has sent a new British commander to take over General Alexander's command. There were a lot of Japanese troops outside of Keledo, and those batteries were also in their hands, and if the new commander knew about this, then I would have to be sent back with General Alexander. ”
Wallace's restless appearance made Mike laugh secretly, when the expeditionary force headquarters sent someone, he didn't see this thing talking to Tang Cheng, and now he knows that he has come to ask for someone, so he has to really come out with some blood. The two people with evil intentions got together, waiting for the other party to reply first, but they didn't see Wallace promising benefits, but Mike was flickering with words, but he didn't have an idea, and Wallace, who was making trouble, couldn't sit still more and more.
It was until noon, when Wallace cheekily ate his lunch, and then Tang Cheng returned to the camp with the soldiers who had gone out on patrol. In one morning's work, Tang Cheng personally test-fired three Bazooka rockets, and combined with his own experience and thinking, Tang Cheng concluded that Bazooka had a great role in the Burmese battlefield. Tang Cheng, who returned to the camp, was about to go to the U.S. military equipment instructor brought by Mike to ask about Bazooka, but Mike called him to the war room, saying that Wallace had come to look for him.
Tang Cheng naturally didn't know what Wallace was doing when he came to him, the original cooperation with Wallace was just a one-shot deal, and the military merits that should have been given to Wallace had already been given, and Tang Cheng didn't know what else he had at stake with those British big noses. "Don, great, you're finally back, I've been waiting for you all morning." Tang Cheng's appearance made Wallace overjoyed, but Tang Cheng could only secretly look at Mike and ask Mike about Wallace's intentions.
Wallace told Tang Cheng Balabala about the predicament he was facing, and Tang Cheng, who suddenly realized, secretly glanced at Mike, and then talked to Mike about other things. Wallace, who was deliberately hung aside by the two, was not stupid, he understood what Tang Cheng and Mike meant after a little thought, and after weighing it in his heart for a long time, Wallace finally brought in a box in the jeep, and the moment Wallace opened the box, Tang Cheng and Mike, who were squinting and peeking at each other, were dumbfounded.
The box Wallace took down from the jeep was nothing more than an ordinary heavy machine gun bullet box, but the moment the box was opened, Tang Cheng and Mike both saw that the box contained several pieces of fine jade. "This was given to me by a Burmese head when I was in Myanmar, and I heard him say that the quality of these jade stones is very good, and it can be regarded as a rare boutique." Wallace couldn't bear to reach out and take out a fist-sized jade from the box and play with it, and the green that came out of the jade made Wallace's face green.
Mike quietly kicked Tang Cheng, signaling Tang Cheng to accept Wallace's request, these pieces of jade are obviously not ordinary goods, not to mention bringing them back to the United States, even if they are brought to Kunming, they are worth a lot of money. When it comes to the ability to partner with people and get money, Tang Cheng didn't have much knowledge when he was a child and was messing around in Beiping City, and he understood that Mike had taken a fancy to these pieces of jade that Wallace had brought, so Tang Cheng responded to Mike with his eyes in understanding. However, he didn't take the initiative to mention what happened just now, the person who spoke first was passive, and Tang Cheng waited for Wallace to speak first about what happened just now.
"Don, if I can't solve the problem of recapturing the forts by the Japanese troops on the periphery of Ledo, I will be in trouble, can you help me." As he spoke, Wallace, who had already made up his mind, put the jade in his hand in front of Tang Cheng. Tang Cheng didn't refuse, but he didn't agree, but he didn't say that the ammunition was insufficient, or that the soldiers under him had not finished training, and the angry Wallace had a headache, so he had to take out the remaining jadeite in the box and put it in front of Tang Cheng one by one.
The jade has arrived, but Tang Cheng is still a little embarrassed and replied to Wallace while playing with the jade on the table, "I'm afraid this is not easy to do, I am now a member of the Sino-US joint forces, even the soldiers under my command, we are all under the control of the joint forces." Originally, it was nothing to cross the river to clear the Japanese army, but now you have to listen to the orders of the combined forces before you can send troops, and you will make me get into trouble like this. ”
Wallace followed Tang Cheng's line of sight and saw Mike's face, and then suddenly realized, knowing that the box of jade he brought was given away for free, and it was Mike who finally returned the idea. He deceived a gold watch from Wallace again, and Mike nodded and agreed according to Tang Cheng's instructions, and sent Wallace away, and Mike and Tang Cheng laughed together, it was not easy to get benefits from Wallace, a miser, and today it was earned by the two of them.
"I have taken the benefits of others, of course, I have to do what I promised, you don't have to worry about the matter of clearing the Japanese army, I just used it to train my fellows who have changed their equipment. Originally, even if he didn't come to you, I was going to tell you about the elimination of the Japanese army in the past two days, but now he took the lead. Tang Cheng's words once again made McHaha, who had just won a big bargain, laugh, and said with a smile that if Wallace knew Tang Cheng's plans, he might not be angry.
Tang Cheng never forgot that there were still remnants of Japanese troops on the periphery of Ledo, and the shells from the batteries outside the town from time to time also reminded Tang Cheng that the reason why he was busy training his soldiers in the past few days was to let them quickly adapt to the trap American ordnance that Mike brought back. After summing up with Mike, after dinner, under the cover of night, Tang Cheng quietly left Ledo and entered the mountain with all the more than 100 of his more than 100 defeated soldiers who had been replaced with American-style ordnance.
Xie Bo told Tang Cheng that a soldier is the courage of a general, and a gun is the courage of a soldier, and Tang Cheng was convinced of this, and the defeated soldiers under his command, who had been replaced by American-style ordnance, had long since lost the twilight of the previous one, and were replaced by arrogant confidence. Quietly leaving Ledo, Tang Cheng completely handed over Ledo's defense to Mike, who still had 200 American troops in his hands, plus hundreds of British soldiers under Wallace, Ledo would not be broken by the remnants of the Japanese army.
The dozen or so scouts carried by the dice have been speeding 2 miles in front of the team, Tang Cheng and they are busy adapting to the new weapons these days, but the dice have not missed the river to reconnoiter the enemy. After crossing the river and rushing out in the direction of due west, some of the scouts who led the way in front came back to report that the first battery that was locked not far from the front, and after receiving the report of the scouts, Tang Cheng immediately ordered the team to stop and standby, but he only took Tan Fei and Zhao Liang to follow the scouts who came back to report the news all the way forward.
A small hill could be seen faintly in front of them, and the dice were lying in the field not far from the hill, Tang Cheng didn't dare to ask out loud, but just gestured with the dice for a while. Sign language was taught to Tang Cheng by the U.S. military instructors brought by Mike, and it was the most suitable for transmitting news when it was inconvenient to speak, and they originally thought that Mike was deliberately making things difficult for them, but they didn't expect that the sign language they had just learned was used here.
It was pitch black everywhere, whether it was Tang Cheng or the dice, they were all familiar with the small hill that was faintly visible in front of them, but the dice were bitten to death, and there were Japanese soldiers on this hill. Since there were Japanese soldiers, and it was not suitable for scouts to go out to scout closely, Tang Cheng decided to lurk first, and then wait for dawn to make more decisions. Tang Cheng wanted to wait until dawn, but the dice disagreed, "I'll take someone to touch it first, in case it is empty, the brothers who are still harmed will spend the night in the field." The insistence of the dice made Tang Cheng change his mind, and he had to agree to let the scout touch and investigate first.
There are Japanese soldiers on this hill, which they determined yesterday by the dice, and the scouts who knew it well crawled and touched it for a while, and the position of the halfway up the mountain was ping-pong. "Rush forward and kill all the Japanese soldiers you can see." Tang Cheng didn't dare to delay this time, and directly beckoned his routs to rush forward like a swarm, the advantages and disadvantages between American semi-automatic guns and Japanese-style bolt-action rifles were immediately high, relying on the American ordnance in their hands, Tang Cheng They only took less than ten minutes to solve the remaining 20 or so Japanese soldiers on the hill, and even helped Wallace recapture the fort on the hill.
At the end of the battle, Tang Cheng didn't think about breaking the dice, but felt that his courage was not as good as before. Looking at the defeated soldiers cleaning the battlefield, Tang Cheng, who was suddenly in a trance in his heart, felt quite bored, and even felt that there were some gains and losses. Just after the meeting when they went south to the south, they dared to take the dice and disguise themselves as Japanese soldiers to sneak into the other party's military station to make trouble.