Tanigawa, who had lost the strength of his arm, twisted his body like a maggot and wriggled by the river, it seemed that he didn't want to be captured alive by Tang Cheng, and he wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the river. "Bang" was another gunshot, this time it was Tanigawa's thigh that was shot, and the screaming Tanigawa paused slightly, and then squirmed into the river again regardless of it, until he was half of his body into the water and was stepped on the back by a big foot.

"The little devil of the dog day is very ruthless, he is very good to others, and he is also very fucking to himself, he has been shot three times in a row, and he still wants to drown himself." The Bazooka shooter who dragged Tanigawa up from the river was very careless and rewarded Tanigawa with another kick, which was obviously a bit heavy, and Tanigawa, who was lying on his back by the river, seemed to have begun to roll his eyes. Where could Tang Cheng let this Japanese soldier Shaozuo die so easily, and beckoned his ambulance soldiers to work for a while, and rescued Tanigawa who had fallen unconscious.

Tanigawa was a tough man, and he didn't pay attention to Tang Cheng's repeated inquiries, but he didn't know that Tang Cheng could speak Japanese and could understand Japanese, just digging through Tanigawa and those Japanese soldiers with Japanese paper and diaries, it was enough for Tang Cheng to get the information he wanted from it. "Company commander, the radio station is intact, but the codebook is blistered, and the words on it look a little blurry." The dice taught Tang Cheng the codebook, and then made a throat-slitting gesture at Tanigawa, who was lying on the ground waiting for death.

"No matter, take the prisoners and the radio, let's go back, whether the code book can be used or not depends on whether those guys in the command have the ability or not, our work has been done." After a brief cleaning of the battlefield, Tang Cheng and his party retreated back with Tanigawa, who was bent on death, and the captured Japanese radio station. Originally, I thought that Tangcheng's unscouting would not end in a few days, but I didn't expect that they would come back in half a day, and they also brought back a captured Japanese soldier Shaozo and a code book, which made Mike overjoyed.

The prisoners, radio, and codebook were immediately sent to the command, and because of Tang Cheng's reminder, Mike did not go to the headquarters in person, but assigned Lenny to escort the prisoners and things. "Don't be stupid, your commando team has actually been disabled by the Japanese army, and if it weren't for my people, the commando might have been disbanded. The new first army will be the time when the momentum is like a rainbow, and with the additional troops, it will be close to others first, without the source of troops, your commando team will be withdrawn sooner or later, so you had better rest well, anyway, this battle looks like it is about to end. ”

After listening to Tang Cheng's words, Mike, who was deeply devastated, didn't eat two meals in a row, and waited for Lanny to bring back from the command headquarters and ask the commandos to rest on the spot first, and Mike finally believed Tang Cheng's words. In the days that followed, the commandos had no task, and all the expeditionary force units, including the command, seemed to have forgotten that there was still a unit also subordinate to them stationed in the abandoned village on the slope, and of course, this force was a little too small.

The sky had been overcast, and the rains that had not been seen for many days suddenly became more frequent, and a stream behind the village that could have seen the riverbed was restored to its former life because of the continuous rain. The stream had now changed to a turbid current at least sixty yards wide, and the muddy water was filled with mud and sand and trees washed down upstream, rushing away at a rate of at least a hundred yards per minute. Looking up at the sky from the branches and foliage by the river, it was still gloomy and undulating, this scene reminded Tang Cheng and the others of the scene of the difficult trek in the jungle last year.

The expeditionary force besieging Myitkyina was still engaged in a tug-of-war with the Japanese army, and the terrain was not good for the expeditionary force, there were many small rivers on the outskirts of Myitkyina, which were mostly dry ditches in the clear season, but after being used by the Japanese army, they were a major obstacle to the attacking forces of the expeditionary force. The Japanese defense in this area was very unique and tenacious, sometimes they would form several bands of positions along the dry ditch, and sometimes they would choose special terrain to build strong strongholds.

The Japanese army was particularly fond of some long and horseshoe-shaped swamps, and the Japanese army was accustomed to using such ponds and marshes to build a circular stronghold, which had a 360-degree shooting direction, and was like a bunker in the grass, which was very capable of buying time. Even where there were no field fortifications, the Japanese still resisted in a skirmish formation, fighting and retreating, but retreating less than a hundred yards per stab.

The sight of the bushes and grasses was limited, and the blockade of the road with automatic firearms was effective, and the expeditionary force had to send troops to search if they wanted to drive the enemy away. At such times, only a part of the forces can be deployed to break the resistance of the enemy soldiers, and the troops who go out to search can only advance a few dozen yards, and then stop to consolidate their positions while sending out a search, and then deploy their forces again, and so on and so on and the disorderly cycle has exhausted the soldiers' bodies.

In such an area, the neat battle lines of the military discipline no longer exist, and the attacking and defending sides formed numerous large and small bags in the woods, and the artillery of both sides was active; Light weapons are not within ten yards, and they should never be shot lightly. Tang Cheng, who had nothing to do, once followed Mike to the so-called front line for a while, when Tang Cheng was hiding in a trench with Mike to look at the Japanese army, and a veteran soldier in the position suddenly pointed to the reeds on the opposite side and shouted.

There were two Japanese soldiers in Lucaoli who were crawling backwards, and if Tang Cheng's soldiers encountered this situation, they would at most use machine guns to sweep a shuttle, but Tang Cheng was in a position that directly used mortars to annihilate the enemy. Tang Cheng asked why they didn't shoot with a machine gun? The veteran soldier on the position replied in a quiet tone: "This kind of target, which is a hundred yards away, usually we only have light mortars to kill." ”

The veteran's answer made Tang Cheng speechless, the expeditionary force is really rich now, and it has to use a mortar to deal with two mortal targets, have they all forgotten the fact that last year, countless robes and ammunition ran out of ammunition and died in the jungle and struggled to save their lives? "Don't listen to their nonsense, mortars are used to reduce unnecessary casualties, and the rear hospitals are crowded with wounded soldiers sent down from the front line every day, and I heard that they are all casualties that occurred when fighting close combat with the Japanese army." Although Michael's persuasion was a little dry, it also made Tang Cheng's heart feel better.

Time passed like this, and on May 16, the left detachment of the 66th Regiment mixed with the American army finally reached the outskirts of Michina. When the news came, Tang Cheng and the others were still a little suspicious. For several days in a row, the news that Ranny had brought back from the headquarters was still mixed and contradictory, and on the 21st, the sixty-fifth regiment had successfully landed at the airfield, and the siege was underway. The 42nd Regiment of the 14th Division has received an order to assemble at a certain air base and is ready to take off.

"Would you like to take a plane over Myitkyina?" Mack's suggestion aroused Tang Cheng's interest, and many days of depression had made Tang Cheng extremely bored with the current war, and Tang Cheng, who was accustomed to interspersed battles with the Japanese army, was very unaccustomed to this kind of positional warfare of pure hard work and attrition. One day in late May, a C-47 brought Don and Mike over Michi, and Tang Cheng in the cabin was not very happy when the fuselage tilted to the left and the engine revved low.

Because the Irrawaddy River, which Mike said so well, was only a wide turbid current from the window, and the trees on both sides were almost submerged in the water. And the airfield where they were about to land was just a sandy field in a grove, and the streets of Myitkyina could hardly be seen in Tang City. The slowed down plane seemed to sigh and landed on the sandy ground, because it had rained heavily that morning, and the tires of the plane were splashing when they came into contact with the ground.

Tang Cheng, who jumped out of the cabin, looked carefully at the airstrip under his feet, and this yellow sand ground was actually quite large-scale. There were two other transport planes on the airfield, a pile of shells piled up around the airfield, and on the other side was a pile of supplies that had just been brought down from the transport plane. A lot of people are running around the airport, and some people are standing and wandering in the distance, all in all, the situation here is similar to the airport in Shin Pingyang, but the order looks a little chaotic.

"Let's go, I'll take you to see Naitkyina." Mike pulled Tang Cheng to the small hill near the airport, and below the hill was the airfield, and to the northeast and northwest were a vein of high mountains. At this time, the sun is dizzy, and the undried rain on the round-leaved trees of the hills is still dripping down. Directly east, less than two miles from Tang City, they were Myitkyina, but on the hills, Tang City could only see one or two white lead roofs, and American planes hovering in the sky were dive-bombing them.

This kind of mindless bombing has been going on since the joint forces of China and the United States attacked Myitkyina airport in May, and in Tang Cheng's view, the actual effect of the plane bombing was far less than the show off of force to the Japanese by the bigwigs in the command. In fact, Tang Cheng was very disappointed with this trip to Myitkyina, and did not see the whole picture of Myitkyina, nor did he see the life-and-death attack and defense between the two troops, only a few houses with white lead roofs and a meaningless show of force in the distance.

Returning to the commando station, Mike tried to persuade Tang Cheng to go to the Myitkyina front to fight for new victories, but Tang Cheng did not agree to anything, after seeing the combat methods of the new army, Tang Cheng did not want to drag his brothers into the battlefield where victory was purely based on firepower. couldn't talk about Tang Cheng, Mike went to do Hou San's work again, but without Tang Cheng's consent, not only Hou San, but even Yanlong, who followed Mike to the front line last time, did not agree.

The siege of Myitkyina continued, and all the troops of the expeditionary force suffered more or less casualties, but Tang Cheng and they were still forgotten in the village by the command, but this was exactly what Tang Cheng wanted. But whenever someone talked about the battle in private, Tang Cheng would ask the military doctor to take them to the rear ambulance station to help, and after seeing the wounded soldiers sent down from the front line, there was no longer a sound of discussion in the commando, and the angry Mike scolded Tang Cheng for not being authentic.