Being a soldier under Tang Cheng is the best welfare, and it is also the highest casualty rate, several times through the jungle of Savage Mountain, the casualty rate of Tang Cheng's soldiers is very high, including the day of the Ledo River to block the Japanese army. But most of the battles commanded by Tang Cheng ended with a large number of Japanese casualties, and the soldiers under him were also the troops with the most trophies, and these trophies did not need to be handed over to the commander, whoever captured them belonged to whom, and those who dared to rob them would definitely be punished by Tang Cheng.

After catching up with Mike and them again, those arrogant American soldiers had to admit that Tang Cheng's soldiers were indeed powerful after seeing the large amount of loot on the soldiers. "NO/NO, it's not 1 yuan, I'm talking about 4 dollars, give me 4 dollars, and this Japanese watch is yours." Zhao Liang was trading with an American soldier with a Japanese watch he asked for from Tan Fei, but the language of the two was not smooth, which made this originally simple transaction a little complicated.

The American soldier who took a fancy to this Japanese watch was obviously not very satisfied with Zhao Liang's asking price, and reached out and pressed back two of Zhao Liang's four outstretched fingers, indicating that he could only bid 2 US dollars, but the stubborn Zhao Liang still stubbornly believed that four US dollars was the most reasonable price. Tan Fei, who heard the shouts of the two from afar, leaned up, and after a burst of grunting to help translate, the American soldier had no choice but to shake his head and complete the transaction with Zhao Liang for three dollars.

The American soldiers who had been recruited to the Mai detachment were paid US dollars, and Tang Cheng's soldiers had Indian rupees, kyats, pounds, and dollars in their pockets. This is also something that cannot be helped, since they left Mandalay, they have not received military salaries in Tangcheng, and the military salaries of their soldiers mainly come from capture. The Burmese came from the Japanese soldiers they killed, the Indian rupee was the proceeds of selling the booty to the Indian toasts, and the pound sterling was obtained by the soldiers with some valuable booty that the soldiers traded with Wallace's British soldiers.

Tang Cheng never forbade his soldiers to sell their booty, but he himself sold a large number of captured weapons to the Indian toast chiefs, and the money he obtained had been used by him to buy daily necessities in the barracks. "Don, your soldiers look more like businessmen than soldiers, that's not good, you should take care of them, their money has been emptied of by them." Lieutenant Colonel Rick, who commanded the U.S. detachment, came to Tang Cheng and Mike with a bitter face, and he himself bought a saber from Tan Fei that was said to belong to a Japanese army.

Rick's expression made Don Cheng and Mike laugh when they saw it, they wouldn't care about the soldiers' private deals, and it was better if the spoils of war would go to the American troops under Rick's hands, so that their soldiers could move forward lightly. "Rick, you're just in time, and we're getting ready to find you." Mike stopped Rick's continued grumbling first, beckoned the other party to sit down, and then opened the map that he and Don City had carefully studied.

"It's been our sixth day in the jungle, and according to our last experience when we returned to Ledo through the jungle, there is a river forty miles southeast of here. We will go south along the river, and in just a few more days, we will be able to reach the red soil slope where there has already been an airdrop of supplies, where the terrain is open, which is very suitable for you to receive the airdrop of supplies, you see how this route is, after all, it will be very likely to meet the Japanese army along the river and the river south. Mike patiently recounted the route he and Tang Cheng had chosen, and then asked what Rick meant. After all, it was Rick who was in command of the American soldiers.

After carefully looking at the map that Mike opened, Rick pondered for a while before speaking, "Mike, you know what our mission is, since you said that this red soil slope is suitable for airdropping, can you be sure how many Japanese troops we will encounter when we go south along the river?" I'm responsible for my boys. Rick's question was difficult for Mike to answer, no one could guarantee how many Japanese troops he would encounter on the way, and he might encounter a lot of Japanese troops along the river and stream, and maybe he wouldn't see a single Japanese soldier.

"Rick, I can't answer you this question, but you have to understand that we are at war, this is in a war zone, and it is impossible to be safe all the time like you are in the rear." Mike took out a cigarette and lit one for himself, then looked at Rick and said slowly, "You can't always fail to meet the Japanese army, since you are here to fight, you must be prepared for a bloody battle with the Japanese army, are you waiting for the war to end like this?" ”

Mike's rhetorical question made Rick blush, he didn't mean what Mike asked, he just hated the damn damp and stuffy jungle, he just thought that his soldiers' combat power should be used on the real battlefield, not in this jungle where even mosquitoes can kill people. "Mike, you know, I'm not what you mean, okay, since you've already discussed, let's take the route you have determined, and when we meet the Japanese army, my people and I won't retreat."

Both Mack and Don City were relieved to be able to convince Rick to agree to take the route he had devised to go south, and they had come up with such a route for no other reason, except because it would be easy to find the sealed Emerald Mine by going around the Red Clay Slope around the outer perimeter of Magao. The news that the 114th Regiment had taken Tangjiaka and cleared the 126-kilometer section of the Japanese army from Liedo to the Nanrong River, Mike had already known all about the radio station of the U.S. army, but he did not expect that the combat effectiveness of the 114th Regiment was so strong, and Tang Cheng and Mike had to negotiate such a route.

Traveling south along the river stream might encounter Japanese troops halfway, but this would increase their speed southward by a third, and only by getting out of the jungle could Tang Cheng and Mike part ways with the more than 1,000 American troops commanded by Rick. Probably because of the trading of loot, Tang Cheng's soldiers and the arrogant American soldiers had a lot of harmony, and when they went on the road again the next day, the originally long queue became much shorter, and the American troops and Tang Cheng's men were mixed together and buried in the march.

Mike was overjoyed by this sudden change, and at this rate, they could have walked out of the jungle about two days earlier, which was indeed good news for Cai Jincheng, who was eager to see the Emerald Mine. Although before deciding to go south along the river, Tang Cheng and Mike rehearsed the unexpected situation of encountering the Japanese army halfway over and over again, but the actual situation made the two finally breathe a sigh of relief, and the scouts who came out searched along the river and creek for dozens of miles, and found no trace of the Japanese army, in general, this road should be safe.

There was no road suitable for more than 1,000 people to go south by the river, and Tangcheng they had to beware of the Japanese army that might appear at any time, so after the scouts made sure that there was no trace of the Japanese army, Tangcheng still carefully let the troops march along the edge of the jungle by the river. After sending the scouts farther and sending scouts again, Tang Cheng and Mike's life began to become more leisurely, and in the days when there were no Japanese troops, their affairs seemed to be only left with marching on foot and marching on foot.

There were no Japanese troops for two days in a row, and Tang Cheng and Mike also looked for the answer when they were idle, and in the end, it was Rick who uncovered the mystery for them. Due to the strong combat effectiveness of the 114th Regiment and the retreat of the Japanese troops on the front line of the Nam Rong River, the Japanese troops deployed in the northern Burma region have already focused their attention on the 114th Regiment. When there was no way to continue to block the engineering units of the expeditionary force rushing to the Savage Mountains to open the mountain to pave the road, the Japanese troops in northern Burma could only transfer troops to strengthen the defense line on the other side of the Nam Rong River, and be vigilant against the sudden crossing of the Nam Rong River by the expeditionary force on the opposite side.

It was precisely because of the strength of the 114th Regiment that many Japanese troops originally scattered in the jungle were regrouped and waited for mobilization. "In this way, the 114th Regiment has done us a great favor, and when the 114th Regiment goes south, we must thank them well." Tang Cheng and Mike looked at each other and smiled, thinking that it would be best if the Japanese troops around Ma Gao were also transferred by the 114th Regiment.

The nervous Rick didn't see the strangeness in Tang Cheng and Mike's eyes, he just thought that these two people were happy about the change in the battle situation, but he didn't know that the two guys in front of him were thinking about how to part ways with the American detachment under his command when the time came. The attention of the Japanese army in northern Burma was attracted to the line of the Nanrong River, and the pressure and danger they faced in Tangcheng were much less, but Tang Cheng and Mike, who knew well that the jungle was dangerous and the Japanese army was dangerous, did not dare to take it lightly.

"Company commander, no, this can't work, there are many soldiers whose feet are ulcerated, and they have to stop and rest for two days, and if they continue like this, everyone's feet will be wasted." It was not far from the red soil slope, but the person who jumped out to oppose Tang Cheng was a military doctor. Because it was down the river and stream, the humidity of the air was greater than in the jungle, and the soldiers wore leather boots on their feet, and many people did not know to dry their insoles and socks when they stopped camping, and some soldiers even slept without taking off their shoes, and it was too normal for their feet to ulcerate in such a hot place.

"Stop and recuperate? It's impossible, it's about to get out of the woods, now is not the time to stop and rest, just two more days, just two days, and when you get out of the woods, it doesn't matter if you want to rest for a few days. Listening to the reason given by the military doctor, Tang Cheng shook his head vigorously. He is now short of heavy weapons, and only when he walks out of the forest to the red soil slope can he have the opportunity to receive the materials and heavy weapons and equipment dropped by air. If there are not enough heavy weapons, no matter how good the soldiers are, when they encounter a large number of Japanese troops, it is not impossible to be defeated by the other side.