Chapter 62: Joy

It's been a long time since I've had enough to eat, and in this kind of rout of hundreds or even thousands of kilometers, everyone knows what it means to have a good body. Although everyone is much better than the other defeated soldiers, and there are at least two meals of wild vegetable soup every day, half a month of jungle life has already exhausted everyone's body.

Today it was Li Fu's turn to look for wild vegetables, but they had already walked a long way along the grassy slope, and Li Fu and the others were able to find a few wild vegetables. A "pop" gunshot, and a bloody hole appeared in the waist and abdomen of a rout soldier beside Li Fu. The soldier who was still talking to Li Fu just now looked at the bullet hole on his body in horror, the bullet hole that was spraying blood.

"Enemy attack, concealment" Li Fu raised his gun, in a vain attempt to find the person who fired the shot. A series of huge explosions shook the mountains and forests, and the already deafening sound waves were once again amplified in the mountains, and the routs who had already dispersed were lying down in the explosions to avoid the falling stones and broken trees. Large clouds of smoke flew into the sky with stumps and severed arms, and then fell with a crackle and smashed on the rout's lying body.

Li Fu, who was pushed a few meters away by the air wave, got up with a dirty face, and he aimed at the mountains and forests on both sides with the rifle in his hand, but before he could shoot, the rain of bullets that came back almost covered him. Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Fu tried his best to quickly burrow into the bushes on the side of the road with the steps of a martial arts practitioner. Japanese soldiers appeared in the woods on both sides of the road, and Japanese soldiers with Japanese flags on their bayonets were shooting at the routed soldiers who were still in place, and I don't know who was shouting: "Run! The routs were in disarray.

The routs, who were originally scattered, were huddled together at this time, which was just right for the Japanese to shoot. Platoon Commander Hai Dashan stretched out his hand and dragged a rifle on the corpse next to him, opened fire on the Japanese soldiers who rushed out of the woods, and shouted at the fleeing soldiers: "Come and help!" After shouting a few times and no one could help, he looked left and right, and except for a few corpses, the other rout soldiers were busy fleeing.

The routs fled like snow in succession, especially after Hai Dashan was also killed by Japanese guns, and these routs who went out to look for wild vegetables had no courage to turn back and fight back. "Run, the Japanese are coming." The routs in the camp also began to run, being pushed and pushed by others, and being pulled by others when they pulled others away. The bullets fired by the Japanese in the woods were piled up among them, and although some of them could only be regarded as stray bullets, some of the routs that had gathered all the way were still shot and fell to the ground from time to time. Even so, the routs were still fleeing senselessly, and no one turned back to fight back, just fled.

The Japanese troops who poured out of the woods finally collided with the routers, but the Japanese soldiers were here to kill, and the routers were busy fleeing. The purpose was different, but of course the result was also different, more than 200 expeditionary force routs were wiped out by less than a small group of Japanese troops in less than half an hour. More than a dozen intact prisoners, according to the requirements of the Japanese army, hid the corpses, dug up clean mountain soil, covered the blood and bullet craters all over the ground, and turned the place into a mountain road again.

The Japanese army also hid in the mountains and forests again, waiting for the arrival of the next wave of expeditionary force routs. As the night passed, the mountain breeze blew, taking away the smoke and smell of blood in the valley, and it seemed that the place was calm again. The Japanese soldiers hiding in the mountains and forests tightened their rifles and slowly pulled the bolts, because there was another group of routs in front of them, and the prey they were waiting for had arrived.

"Huh, huh" Li Fu, who threw himself on the ground, gasped for breath, and the Japanese soldiers behind him were still chasing, and he had already run far away. The rifle that was running out of bullets had also been thrown away by him, and Li Fu, who had no choice, got into the bushes, hoping to escape the pursuit of the Japanese army. In the direction of the Japanese troops who were chasing behind the "Da Da", there was a sudden rush of gunfire. The crisp sound of the 38 rifle was suddenly interrupted, and Li Fu, who was hiding in the bushes, waited for a long time, but did not see the Japanese army chasing after him. He didn't dare to go out rashly, he was afraid that this was a trick of the Japanese army.

About three to five minutes later, Li Fu, who had not seen the movement of the Japanese soldiers, quietly felt out of the bushes, and he was ready to bypass this place and go back the way he came from in his memory. Just when Li Fu passed by a bush, a man covered in weeds suddenly popped out of the grass, and only one tiger pounced and pressed Li Fu who was caught off guard. Li Fugang wanted to struggle, but a bright dagger was placed around his neck, revealing a young face in the mess. "Shhhhh

Three Japanese soldiers carefully searched the grass with their guns raised, and the Japanese soldiers were very cunning, they did not disperse, but huddled together. There is a man in each direction who is on guard, and no matter which direction you attack them from, they will be beaten into a sieve at the first opportunity. "Whoa" The grass on the left side of the Japanese army moved, and the attention of the three Japanese soldiers was attracted, and they all turned their eyes in that direction.

The submachine gun bullets that burst out of the grass swept across, and the three attention was diverted to the Japanese soldier next to him, and he fell down with a bloody arrow. Li Fu, who was in the grass, stared at Hou San with a long nosebleed, his nose was given by Hou San, if it wasn't for Hou San's excessive action when he pulled the bolt, Li Fu's nose would not have been hit by Hou San's hand and bled out.

Li Fu glared at Hou San and the others who had already stood up, and the ones who could use weapons were not savages or Burmese locals. "Which unit are you from?" Li Fuweng, who was bleeding from his nose, asked in a voice the group of guys in front of him who were covered in thatch, but who were clearly expeditionary forces. No one paid attention to Li Fu, and Hou San, who walked out of the bushes, first searched the way these Japanese soldiers came for a while, and then only cared about checking the weapons, ammunition and some sundries on the corpses of the Japanese soldiers.

"Hurry up and keep up, what are you doing there? I have to ask Lao Tzu to please you. Li Fu, who was stunned, was kicked, and then he came to his senses and followed Hou San and the others, who had already cleaned up, and hid into the forest. An hour later, Li Fu, who was already exhausted, had a chance to stop and rest, and vaguely, Li Fu seemed to smell a smell of meat. Li Fu's sense of smell was not problematic, not far from the temporary camp, Tang Cheng and they were cooking meat, a wild boar that was unlucky enough to come home met the dice, and wasted a bullet, and this wild boar became Tang Cheng's ration for them tonight.

Half of the wild boar was chopped into small pieces of stewed wild vegetables, and the remaining half was roasted on the thick branches by the dice and Zhou Chao, and the more than 30 people in Tang Cheng ate them one by one. As the sun set, everyone rubbed their swollen bellies, drank stewed wild vegetable and pig soup, and laughed comfortably. Since the withdrawal of troops from Mandalay, such days have not passed for a long time, especially the two female soldiers took advantage of the camp to lean on the stream, boiled hot water early and even washed their heads.

Li Fu was also drinking soup, and at the same time looked at Tang Cheng and the others who were talking together in the distance, and after a full meal, Li Fu felt more and more the magic of this team. They weren't like the other routs Li Fu had seen along the way, everyone here had guns, and there seemed to be plenty of bullets, including the two female soldiers' magazines full of bullets.

Tang Cheng and Dong Liancheng were discussing the next route of their journey, and after walking out of the forest, Tang Cheng and they began to encounter more or less national routs along the way, plus the maps and some text information they captured from the Japanese army, Tang Cheng and they can now determine their approximate location. After listening to Hou San's report that the rout army was ambushed by the Japanese army, Tang Cheng discussed with everyone to see if they could ambush and defeat this group of Japanese soldiers, because Tang Cheng also needed to pass through the mountain pass.

Tang Cheng noticed the questioning expression on Dong Liancheng's face, and he didn't think so, and said slowly, "Our manpower designation is not enough, but the third brother also said that according to the intensity of the gunfire they heard, there should be no large Japanese troops on the mountain pass, and it is likely to be a small force like us." We are also a small force, but all of us have weapons, no shortage of ammunition, no shortage of food, as long as we gather enough rout helpers, it will not be difficult to take down that mountain pass. ”

Not everyone agreed with Tang Cheng's suggestion, and they were not sure to do what Tang Cheng mentioned until the number of Japanese troops in Yamaguchi was really determined. "We still have a long way to go home, and there are many Japanese soldiers chasing us, if we encounter the Japanese army, we can only take a detour, then we may not be able to do anything else for the rest of our lives, so we can only play in this forest." Seeing the worries in Dong Liancheng and Zhou Chao's hearts, Tang Cheng took out cigarettes and distributed them to everyone, and carefully explained to them the steps he had deduced.

"Are you alright?" Hou San pointed to Li Fu's nose and asked with concern. Looking at Li Fu who was stunned in front of him, Hou San touched his nose and introduced himself, "We are the logistics department of the Fifth Army, my name is Hou San, you can also call me third brother." Hou Sanjian Li Fu was staring at Tang Cheng not far away, so he pointed at Tang Cheng and said, "That one over there is our chief, and we all listen to him." ”

Xu is noticed Li Fu's gaze staring at him, and Tang Cheng, who had taken a route with Dong Liancheng and the Yanlong brothers, walked over, "I heard that you are from the Ninety-Sixth Division, and I also have more than a dozen people from your Ninety-Sixth Division here, you can talk to them in a while." Tang Cheng didn't intend to waste Li Fu in vain, so he thought that Li Fu would take Hou San and them out to collect the routed troops scattered in the forest, as long as there were enough manpower, it would not be a problem to rush through the mountain pass blocked by the Japanese army.