Chapter 2 Family Background
Tang Cheng gave a thumbs up to Mike, the yellow-haired guy was too cunning and had already figured out Stilwell's psychology very thoroughly. As Mike said, what the direct company needs to do now is to stay away from the center of power, and it is best to minimize the sense of existence of the direct company, so as not to attract the attention of the bigwigs in the headquarters, so that everyone can live peacefully until the end of the war.
Returning to the station, Tang Cheng gathered Hou San and them together, and told Hou San and them all the things that Mike told him, and everyone decided to do what Mike said, and stay here quietly and honestly, it is best not to attract the attention of others. The military doctor is the person who Tang Cheng focuses on, and all the wounded soldiers of the direct company are not allowed to expose their injuries to the outside world without Tang Cheng's order, in other words, as long as there is no Tang Cheng's order, the military doctor cannot declare that the wounded have recovered.
Under the arrangement of Tang Cheng, on the large area of clearing land on the top of the mountain that has been leveled, Hou San and his people have buried a lot of wooden pillars. The thatch, which can be found everywhere in northern Myanmar, has become a good thing for the soldiers of the direct company to harvest, and after the thatch is simply bundled to dry, it is the best material for building thatched huts. When the soldiers of the direct company, who had been idle all day, heard that they were building huts for themselves, they wished to build them stronger and stronger than Ramgar's headquarters.
Now that he had decided to avoid right and wrong, Tang Cheng didn't mind doing things thoroughly, and for a few days in a row, the open space on the top of the mountain was always full of people. On the twine pulled from east to west, the washed gauze was dried, and the pungent smell of formalin filled the air, and the direct company had turned this place into a field hospital. The hut that Mike had been sick with was quickly completed, and despite Mike's repeated protests, Donton occupied the hut next to Mike.
Not everyone had the opportunity to live in the huts, most of them were ordered by Tang Cheng to be used as wards, and a large number of idlers were busy clumsily under the command of the military doctor. In order to let the 112th Regiment know that the direct company suffered heavy casualties, Tang Cheng's next step was to use the excuse that there was a shortage of medicines and ambulances, and it was best to let the military doctors and ambulances of the 112th Regiment come to the station of the direct company to see what was going on, and Tang Cheng was ready to use the mouth of the 112th Regiment to publicize the tragic situation of the direct company.
Two days later, Michaela lived up to expectations, and suddenly several ambulances and doctors from the 112th Regiment of the Engineer Regiment gave a comprehensive examination and treatment to the wounded of the company under his command. At Tang Cheng's request, Lao Jiangtou, the firehead army of the company directly under him, let several American doctors who eat canned food all day long see the breadth and profundity of Chinese cuisine. When they left, they were each given a gift from Tang Cheng, and it was indeed a pleasure for these non-combatants to get a Japanese samurai sword!
Stimulated by the American style and the command knife, several American doctors from the engineering regiment repeatedly said that if time permitted, they would come back in a few days to re-examine the wounded of the company under their command. However, in Tang Cheng's impression, the doctors of the Engineer Corps seemed to have time every day. Because there are really few wounded in the camp of the US Engineer Corps, their main job is to bandage the American sappers who were injured in drunken brawls, not to mention that there are not many American troops in Xinpingyang now.
Easily won the friendship of the doctors of the U.S. Army Engineer Corps, the direct company that was dormant on the periphery of the New Plains began to calm down, and the necessary training every day was also deliberately reduced by Tang Cheng, not when he was hungry and wanted to eat meat, Tang Cheng would not put the scouts into the surrounding woods. There are more and more people who sleep lazily, and there are more and more people who only care about basking in the sun all day long, and if they want to test military discipline with the 112th Regiment stationed in Xinpingyang, they may have to be whipped by the military judge from top to bottom.
Of course, not everyone in the direct company is idle, Cai Jincheng, who has not been valued by Tang Cheng, has been busy all day long, Hou San and their more than 20 Burmese soldiers who were captured by the pursuit of the remnants of the enemy that day were all received by Cai Jincheng under the banner of Tang Cheng, and every day when the sky was bright, he took those Burmese prisoners who were much more honest to wander around the ravine, and the dice responsible for monitoring Cai Jincheng came back and said that this goods may be looking for jade veins or gold mines.
Tang Cheng didn't have time to continue to pay attention to Cai Jincheng's bullshit trivialities, he was now gathering with Mike and Hou San to take stock of the family background of his direct company. In front of Tang Cheng was the roster of the directly subordinate company, and Tan Fei, who was the most literate, had always played the role of Mr. Bookkeeper, and Tan Fei was recording the number of casualties after each battle. When the direct company left Ledo, there were more than 300 people, and it held out until the 112th Regiment went south to seize Xinpingyang, and there were less than 140 people left in the direct company, including the wounded, and half of the soldiers died in the mountains and forests of northern Burma, but fortunately, the remaining soldiers were veterans who had experienced bloody battles.
When it came to the casualty figures of the direct company, Tang Cheng was full of loneliness, and it was only when Tan Fei mentioned the existing materials of the direct company that Tang Cheng's face had some expression. The existing material situation of the direct company is the only good news for Tang Cheng at present, although the command headquarters only allocated 70% of the amount of materials according to the inventory content requested by Mike, it is enough for the truck of the engineer regiment to help pull back and forth four times.
The food that Mike and his people got from Xinpingyang was enough for the consumption of more than 100 people in the company directly under him for three months, and in addition to the canned food and bacon transferred by the headquarters, the various kinds of food that the company now had in reserve were roughly calculated to be enough for more than 100 people for half a year. There is food in his hand and he is not panicking, only by ensuring that everyone will not go hungry, Tang Cheng can think about other things, otherwise Tang Cheng will go to the 112 regiment early in exchange for food and come back to save the emergency.
"We only have less than 140 people left, what about those extra weapons and ammunition? The U.S.-style equipment I'm talking about, and the loot we've captured from the Japanese army several times is almost out of stock, and if it rains a few more times, the Japanese weapons piled up outside will rust and be useless. Tan Fei's words attracted everyone's attention, the other troops of the expeditionary force may not dare to resell weapons, but here in Tang City, reselling weapons is commonplace, as early as when he first arrived in Kunming in the south, Tang Cheng resold excess weapons and ammunition into the black market.
Tang Cheng looked through the account books carefully recorded by Tan Fei, hundreds of Japanese-style 38 rifles, four intact Japanese-style light machine guns, a fairly sufficient supply of Japanese-style ammunition, and some Japanese tents and miscellaneous things. If it's just some gadgets with Japanese characteristics, it's better to say, after all, Tang Cheng can use these things to befriend the people of the US Army Engineer Corps, but these Japanese-style weapons and ammunition are useless in the hands of his direct company.
Since it is useless to the direct company, then these things should go to the place where they should go to play a role, Tang Cheng doesn't care who these weapons that were transported back to Kunming are sold to, once these things are sold in the Kunming black market, they will no longer have anything to do with the direct company. has been messing with Tang Cheng for a long time, and Mike has always turned a deaf ear to the fact that Tang Cheng and them are reselling weapons and ammunition on such a large scale, anyway, he can have a share when they divide the accounts afterwards.
After solving the matter of the trophies, Tang Cheng was pondering the extra American-style weapons in the direct company, and now there are more than 100 people in the direct company, of which there are less than 80 combatants. In Tang Cheng's view, a company with less than 80 combat effectiveness has mastered this American-style weapon that is enough to equip more than 200 people, and once the command is informed of the situation, it may transfer additional troops to the direct subordinate company, and then force the directly subordinate company to join the southward operation.
Selling a weapon is also selling, Tang Cheng simply had the courage to mention that the extra American-style weapons were also transported back to Kunming through Guò George to sell, but his mention was dissuaded by Hou San and others. It was still Hou San Lao Cheng who was serious, coughed a few times and opened the conversation, "Sir, I understand that you are working hard for your brothers, but this matter is too big, more than a hundred American-style weapons will be sold if they are sold, and if they are checked by the peak, they will lose their heads." Besides, there will be no spies of the national army on the black market in Kunming, and it is impossible to hide such a blatant resale of American-style weapons! ”
"Yes! Sir, what the third brother said is right. Tan Fei came to his senses and took over, "With so many American-style weapons flowing into the black market, the Military Commission will not be unaware, if it is really carefully investigated, maybe it will affect the Huang family." It's a big deal, let's directly hand it over to the troops who come to take over the defense, so that after we go back, we can explain the past to Shangfeng, and we don't have a lot of money, and we won't get into trouble when the time comes. ”
Everyone else was silent and didn't speak, in fact, everyone's hearts were also up and down, and the courage of the self-owned officials was too great, although the army resold supplies and ate empty salaries from time to time. But they are still unheard of in such a big way of reselling hundreds of American-style weapons. Even if there is, it is only the legendary bigwigs who can do such a thing, if they do, it will be okay if they don't return to China, and they will definitely be exposed when they go back. When the time comes, if you don't wait for you to go to your door, the all-pervasive military commander will come to your door.
Tang Cheng, who turned the corner, looked at everyone with great satisfaction, and was full of emotion in his heart, in his own opinion, this decision was so simple, but it was not easy for Hou San and them. "Then forget it, then those extra American-style weapons should be kept, and when the time comes, they will be handed over to the troops who come to change defenses." In the end, Tang Cheng, who couldn't resist everyone, changed his mind very neatly, if he really dragged down these brothers in life and death for a few dollars, Tang Cheng felt that he would be responsible for dying a hundred times by then.