Chapter 37: Encounter with the Enemy (3)
"Bang" Just when Ma Dazhuang understood Tang Cheng's intention and raised his rifle, Zhao Liang's rifle on the branch suddenly fired, and a Japanese soldier who happened to walk under the tree screamed and fell straight to the ground, and the remaining three people with him knew that they had been attacked, but they couldn't figure out where the bullet came from. "On the tree, the attacker is on the tree" A Japanese soldier with glasses suddenly pointed to the big tree where Zhao Liang was hiding and shouted, Zhao Liang pulled the bolt very little, but he forgot that the bullet casing that popped out of the chamber after pulling the bolt was pulled, and the bullet casing that was still hot fell right in front of the Japanese soldier's feet.
"Pop" was another gunshot, and the bespectacled Japanese soldier fell to the ground, a bullet hole appeared in his back, and the other two Japanese soldiers who didn't care about looking up turned around and looked at the big tree where Ma Dazhuang was hiding. "Pap" "Pap" "Pap" Before Zhao Liang, who was in a hurry on the branch, fired the second shot, the remaining two Japanese soldiers who were about to shoot had been knocked to the ground by the bullets fired from all directions.
Although there were no Japanese soldiers under the tree who could still stand, Zhao Liang, who had quickly pulled the bolt on the branch and had already pushed the bullet, still fired the second bullet, but the bullet that shot out of the muzzle did not know where to go, and it was not even next to the corpse of the Japanese soldier under the tree. Regardless of the lives of the Japanese soldiers under the tree, Zhao Liang continued to pull the bolt of the gun and replenished three bullets into the magazine, and then pushed the bullets flat and squatted on the tree to guard the surroundings.
This is also what Zhao Liang learned from those veterans in the military hospital, to keep enough ammunition in his magazine at all times, only in this way, when he suddenly encounters the enemy, he will not lose his life in a hurry. It's just that Zhao Liang, who was squatting on the branch, didn't know that his early shooting just now had caused Tang Cheng's anger, and he opened fire in advance without getting an order, no matter who it was, I am afraid that he would not want to have such a guy by his side.
Ma Dazhuang under the tree saw that the four Japanese soldiers who were chasing him had been shot and fell, so he also stabilized his mind and carefully guarded the surroundings with his rifles. "Come down" Zhao Liang, who was sitting on the branch of the tree safely, did not know that Tang Cheng had come to the fire, and ordered Ma Dazhuang to clean up the battlefield and clean up the corpse, Tang Cheng looked up at Zhao Liang on the branch, and then held back the anger in his heart and shouted Zhao Liang on the branch to come down.
Seeing that there was no movement in the four corners, Zhao Liang, who was carrying a rifle on his back, slipped down the trunk of the tree, and Tang Cheng only said lightly that he wanted him to follow the order next time, and then did not pay attention to Zhao Liang. Since these Japanese soldiers can find this place along the bloodstains, it means that this place is no longer safe, Tang Cheng is ready to move as soon as he finishes looting things, and if he stays here, he may encounter many Japanese soldiers. Ma Dazhuang saw Zhao Liang slipping down from the branch, so he handed over the two grenades he had recruited from the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, "Take the things and leave quickly" Zhao Liang just put the looted things in an empty backpack, bullets, food and grenades, he put them into the backpack without falling.
"Shall we go back and see the medics?" Ma Dazhuang, who was carrying the green wolf again, asked Tang Cheng angrily, they had already left the woods just now, and seeing that Tang Cheng didn't have the slightest intention of stopping, Ma Dazhuang couldn't help but ask. Ma Dazhuang asked, not because of how deep his friendship with the military doctor was, but because he felt that only when everyone formed a group could he have a chance to get out of the jungle, and he was afraid that he would not be able to rely on these people in front of him.
"You are stupid, you know that there is a Japanese search team behind, what is the use of relying on us to go back?" Tang Cheng, who had been calm, didn't speak, but raised his hand to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and Tan Fei, who was panting and leaning on his rifle, opened his mouth. I fought two battles with the Japanese army in a row, and I ran for several miles in one go, and Tengfei, who was not very strong, felt a little unbearable. A few rice balls turned out from the four Japanese soldiers had already been divided and stuffed into their stomachs, and they would have been almost digested.
Ma Dazhuang was speechless by Tengfei's words, but he didn't say anything, so he had to carry the green wolf and follow the people in front of him to continue walking through the jungle, and there were no other words. The sky gradually darkened, Tang Cheng and they walked along the edge of the jungle for a long time, and found a clear spring in a rock, "Rest, I can't walk" Tang Cheng with a calm face sat on the ground and beat his two legs, he was indeed very tired after readjusting to the battlefield.
Ma Dazhuang threw the green wolf he was carrying on his shoulder, lying in the puddle of water and drinking desperately, he didn't prepare a kettle like Tang Cheng and them, and his thirsty throat was about to burst all the way. Hou San, who rested for a while, came back with a bayonet to chop some dry firewood, and Ma Dazhuang began to use stones to make a fire pit out, it was too easy to expose the target when lighting the fire at night, and the learned military doctor taught everyone to use this kind of fire pit with a small mouth and a big belly, once the fire pit was covered with stone chips or branches, it was impossible to see the fire from a distance, and Ma Dazhuang just used the stones on the fire pit to bake wolf meat.
The mountain spring water was carefully preserved by Ma Dazhuang in a stone pit, the depth of the stone pit was just enough for him to clean the wolf meat well, Hou San used the dry firewood he picked up to light it in a slender earthen pit, and a few thick wooden stakes were thrown into the fire. Once the stakes have been dried by the flame and the water has become a fiery red charcoal, they will be the best material for roasting wolf meat, which will not smoke and will be very hot, as long as the charcoal is smoothly put into the fire with a bayonet, the place where the food is baked is completed.
The first fire pit of Ma Da Zhuang's base was already filled with red and red charcoal, and he was building the second fire pit, and the wolf meat could not be stored in such weather, and if he could not finish it tonight, tomorrow morning, these wolf meat with the smell of blood would become food for flies. The cleaned wolf meat was neatly placed on the slate, and the sizzling sound and the enticing aroma of grease on the hot slate roasted by the charcoal section caused everyone sitting around the fire to swallow their saliva vigorously.
"Have you tasted this meat?" The thin slices of meat that Hou San had cut with a bayonet had already rolled, but Hou San and Ma Dazhuang were not sure whether they were cooked, so Hou San picked a slightly larger piece of meat with a bayonet and handed it to Ma Dazhuang. The scalding heat of the meat slices made Ma Dazhuang gasp vigorously, and he swallowed it directly into his stomach before he had time to taste the taste carefully, and the hunger made Ma Dazhuang forget everything, and there was nothing else in his eyes except the squeaky wolf meat on the stone chips.
After getting Ma Dazhuang's affirmation, Hou San, who was suspicious, stabbed away two pieces of meat that looked the most tender with a bayonet in a row and handed them to Zhao Liang, regardless of the hot mouth of the meat slices, Zhao Liang also tore and swallowed them into his stomach like Ma Dazhuang just now. Zhao Liang's body was about to dry up after a few days of wild vegetable life, although wild vegetables could not be eaten, but lacking salt and meat supplements, Zhao Liang found that his hands had trembled slightly from time to time, which was a precursor to the weakness of the body due to lack of nutrition.
If it weren't for the two roast chickens last night and this morning's rice porridge, Zhao Liang even thought that he would fall into the jungle and never get up again. If you want to cross the jungle and return to China, it won't work without a good body, so Zhao Liang endured his disgust for wolf meat, endured the inevitable fishy smell of wolf meat because of the lack of seasoning and salt, and desperately swallowed the wolf meat in his mouth into his stomach.
A green wolf more than one meter long actually didn't have much meat, Tang Cheng and they only ate a few pieces of meat to satisfy their hunger, and the rest of the meat was cut off by Hou San and Ma Dazhuang with bayonets and prepared to be baked into jerky, which would be their food for a period of time in the future. The charcoal in the fire pit was still sufficient, Hou San asked Ma Dazhuang to remove all the shredded meat on the bones with a bayonet, and he used the Japanese army's steel helmet to fill it with water and put it on the fire pit, ready to use the wild vegetables dug up when collecting firewood before to cook some broth to drink.
Tang Cheng they were not Ma Dazhuang and they were pursued and routed by the Japanese army halfway, they were fully prepared when they left Mandalay, not only weapons, ammunition and medicines, but also the necessary salt and spices, and the brute bull also brought some according to Tang Cheng's orders. The broth in the two steel helmets had already boiled, and under the direct gaze of everyone, Hou San first added salt to the broth, then the wild vegetables he found, and finally put some spices.
The long-lost taste began to spread as the broth boiled again, and everyone sitting around the fire pit unconsciously sat tighter, and everyone, including Tang Cheng, fell on the two steel helmets in the fire pit. If their gaze could shoot through the steel helmets like bullets at this time, I am afraid that the two steel helmets on the fire pit would already be full of holes. No one cared how much broth the steel helmet used as an iron pot could cook, even if each of them only got a few mouthfuls of broth that still had a faint fishy smell, but all of them already had moisture in their eyes.
Zhao Liang, Ma Dazhuang and the two female soldiers had already burst into tears, and the lunch boxes seized from the corpses of the Japanese soldiers were in their hands at this time, and the hot broth made their bodies warm up. This is the taste of home, which cannot be replaced by anything, Zhao Liang and Ma Dazhuang, who were drinking the broth, looked at each other and did not speak, and the two female soldiers from the call class of the military department had already cried quietly.
The night in the jungle is very cold, after resting, Ma Dazhuang dug two shallow pits on the ground with bayonets under the command of Hou San and the dice, and the hot ashes burned in the fire pit will be poured into the shallow pit, covered with a thin layer of soil to become a simple fire kang, and the person sleeping in it can hide the whole body in the shallow pit, which can not only keep warm but also reduce the exposure of the target. Tang Cheng and they have been sleeping and resting like this for the past few nights, of course, the indispensable thing is the insect repellent powder that Mu Lianshan used Chinese herbal medicine.