Chapter 34: Where to Go (continued)
When the first rays of sunlight shone into the jungle through the trees, Zhao Liang, who was curled up in a ball with a rifle, also opened his eyes, he couldn't resist the sleepiness after eating two roast chickens in one go last night, he just wanted to take a nap, but he didn't want to open his eyes It was already dawn. "It's so comfortable" Zhao Liang, who had a good night's sleep, couldn't help but stretch his waist, last night he was dazed and followed these people who saved him all the way in the jungle, and now he knows that the leader of them teaches Tang Cheng, but he doesn't know anything about other people, with a hint of curiosity, Zhao Liang took his rifle and walked towards the pile of people who gathered together in the morning,
"Anyway, at least we have touched the edge of the forest, and the rock dragon has also found the right direction according to the sun just now, so let's go in the original direction next." Tang Cheng and the gang were really thinking about what to do next around the open map. Zhao Liang leaned over and listened for a while but was confused, then got up and walked outside the woodland with his rifle, and walked less than 30 meters away, Zhao Liang saw the grass where he ran wild last night.
It was here that he and those veterans encountered the Japanese army last night and were scattered, looking at the strength of those Japanese soldiers last night's search, there should be surviving companions around. Relying on himself, he can't go back home at all, although Zhao Liang has promised to follow Tang Cheng who saved him and them on the same road, but Zhao Liang still hopes to have someone who is familiar with him on the same road. Zhao Liang took off his backpack, water bottle, bayonet and steel helmet, and walked forward with all the bullets and three grenades with only his rifle.
After all, the body is limited, if he still carries some things, once he encounters the Japanese army, he may not even be able to run, so the things must be taken off his body first. The wind on the mountain was strong, it was only a half-night mountain wind, and the muddy water on the ground last night was almost dry, Zhao Liang stepped on the slightly slippery blades of grass and began to carefully search for his companion last night. Zhao Liang didn't know if he could find his companion last night, maybe he just wanted peace in his heart, so he would go out of the forest to find his companion who was scattered last night.
Zhao Liang greeted Hou San when he left, but he didn't know that when he walked out of the woodland, Tan Fei and Yanhu were already quietly following behind him. At this time, the sun had risen high, and the mosquitoes in the grass began to circulate and fly around, Zhao Liang walked through the grass according to the professors of the veterans, carefully looking for various traces left on the ground, hoping to find the traces of his companions. Thanks to the heavy rain last night, the blood stains on the grass had been washed away, and the only thing Zhao Liang could find was a few bullet casings and a broken bayonet.
Zhao Liang, who was dizzy and swollen by the sun, straightened his waist and looked left and right, he couldn't help but feel a little discouraged, if he continued to look for it like this, he was afraid that if he looked for a few days and nights, there would be no results, and even if he found it, it would be just a few corpses. "Let's go back, we've already come out to search since we got up early, and we haven't even found a ghost." is still a good heart, seeing Zhao Liang's face full of loss, he told the truth and persuaded Zhao Liang to go back.
Zhao Liang, who was depressed, had no choice but to follow Yan Hu behind the thief with his rifle on his back and walk towards their position in Tang City, knowing that this would be the case, he would not bother to turn back to them, it was better to save some strength and stay in the forest. There were only two cans of food in the backpack, and there was no medicine at all, so it was a fantasy to go home on two legs. Even if you go back from hunting all the way, you can't guarantee that you won't get lost, you won't meet the Japanese army, you won't get sick, and even if you don't have these things, just if there is no salt, your body will collapse, and you won't have to chase after you at all.
Until he got to the place where he put his things, Zhao Liang didn't think about what he should do, he sat on the ground and silently sorted out his things. With a gun in his hand, he can meet the other soldiers of the expeditionary force who have been scattered, so he will accompany them and return to China, and if he is alone, he will slowly walk back on his own. Wuhan was like that at the beginning, and he didn't hide in the cellar alone before he secretly escaped from Wuhan and survived after half a month.
"What do you kid think? How many times have I shouted at you and you haven't answered? After eating, and having a full stomach, we are about to go. A lunch box with an iron spoon appeared in front of Zhao Liang, and Hou San, who spoke, was still carrying a steaming steel helmet in his hand, and the smell of food emanating from the steel helmet caused the saliva in Zhao Liang's mouth to increase dramatically. Xu saw Zhao Liang's careful thoughts, and Hou San, who handed the lunch box, said with a smile, "What, don't you want to go with us?" I always tell you that there are no other national troops in this area except for us, and you can't get out by yourself, so you should follow us honestly. ”
Zhao Liang stretched out his hand with a wooden face to take the lunch box handed by Hou San, the food in the lunch box was not very good, but at least it could fill Zhao Liang's stomach. It's just a simple fried rice and boiled wild vegetables, and some canned chopped meat to cook the rice, but it makes Zhao Liang sweat all over. Especially when the first spoonful of food went down, Zhao Liang couldn't help but look at Hou San, who was sitting opposite him, Zhao Liang, who had been exposed to herbs since he was a child, could eat the rice porridge in the lunch box with herbs added to it. "You add a little less herbs, and if you add more, people will sweat and get rid of dampness." Zhao Liang whispered to Hou San, and then stopped talking, just concentrating on dealing with the rice porridge in the lunch box.
"You kid knows a lot, these herbal powders are all brought by us from Kunming, use a little less, the road behind is still far away, if you don't have these things, how to go down the road." Filling the last bit of rice porridge in the steel helmet into his mouth, Hou San, who was chewing it heavily, looked at Zhao Liang with a smile, this kid doesn't look very old, but he is a living baby who knows herbs, such a guy should be firmly watched, and keep him by his side.
Zhao Liang, who was on the road again, has changed, his originally slightly longer hair was cut into the same short hair as himself by Hou San with a bayonet, although it looks uneven, but with Zhao Liang's height of 1.63 meters and his sun-tanned melon seed face, it is another heroic spirit. Zhao Liang, who couldn't find his lost companion and couldn't guarantee that he would be able to return to China alone, could only follow Tang Cheng and them to the north first, but when Zhao Liang really followed Tang Cheng on the road, it was not as good as he imagined.
Even if the sweltering heat in the jungle is concerned, the main thing is loneliness, Tang Cheng and they don't speak most of the time when they march, even if the two brothers Dice and Yanlong, who came out to serve as the top soldiers, return to the brigade, they only talk with their eyes and gestures, which makes Zhao Liang very depressed. The jungles of Myanmar are endless, and walking in such a hot and humid jungle, it looks a little infiltrating, and they began to walk along the edge of the jungle when they re-embarked on the road of Tangcheng. If you find an anomaly, you can flee into the jungle at any time, and when it is time to camp at night, you can rest on the edge of the jungle where poisonous insects are scarce, and you may even encounter the scattered expeditionary soldiers.
has been walking towards the north for two days, Tang Cheng and they have not met a single living person, Zhao Liang has a lot of cans in his backpack, but there is a large piece of smoked rabbit jerky. It was a dice that picked up an injured hare at noon yesterday, used half of it to cook the soup, and the remaining half was smoked into dried meat by him with charcoal fire and put it in Zhao Liang's backpack, in case it rained, so that it could be consumed with some food. In fact, there are a lot of things that can be eaten in the jungle, wild vegetables, mushrooms, and some wild fruit bark can be eaten, Zhao Liang, who has studied Chinese herbal medicine since childhood, naturally knows which ones are poisonous and which ones are not, of course, the two brothers Yanlong also know these.
As yesterday, the sun was still hanging high, so Tang Cheng ordered to find a place to camp, and in the jungle where only these people were in the village, Tang Cheng did not intend to march in a hurry, because that would consume too much of everyone's body. Leaving Yan Hu and Tan Fei who had withdrawn from the front to tidy up the camp, Tang Cheng and the others divided into several groups and scattered around the camp to find food, and Zhao Liang, who was used to being alone, of course volunteered to dig wild vegetables.
When Zhao Liang lowered his head to look for wild vegetables, suddenly the sound of machine gun fire sounded in front of him, and Zhao Liang, who was excited in his heart, immediately hid behind a bush with his rifle. The gunfire came too suddenly, and it didn't sound too far away from him, and the machine gun fire could only explain two things, one was that there were people with their own people and the Japanese army exchanging fire, and the other was that there were Japanese troops chasing the scattered expeditionary force soldiers, although there was no difference between the two sides in these two things, but the result was different.
The exchange of fire between their own men and the Japanese army shows that at least the combat strength of the two sides is almost equal, and the soldiers of the expeditionary force may still have a way to live. But if it's the latter, it's hanging. Zhao Liang had seen more than a dozen Japanese soldiers chasing the rout of hundreds of expeditionary forces, and the Japanese soldiers who were chasing after them were still shooting at the mouth, but the soldiers of the expeditionary force who were foaming at the mouth in front of them were only running away, and there would be a matter of blocking the guns with their robes in order to save their lives. This is all a scene that Zhao Liang saw with his own eyes, so when searching for the rout of the expeditionary force, he was always careful in his heart, but he didn't die in the hands of the Japanese army, and finally died in the hands of his own people.
To go or not to go? Zhao Liang's heart was full of contradictions, how could he say that he was now with Tang Cheng and them all the way, and after struggling in his heart for a long time, Zhao Liang still decided to touch it first and take a look. Carrying a rifle in one hand, Zhao Liang took a grenade from his waist and held it in his hand, following the sound of the gunshot, Zhao Liang walked out more than 200 meters in front of him without thinking, and then suddenly turned and ran towards the place where the gunshots sounded.