Although the military doctor's advice is not untargeted, the military doctor is just a military doctor, and the commander is Tang Cheng. It was already very close to the red soil slope, and at this time, Tang Cheng would never agree to stop the troops to rest for a while, and staying in the forest for one more day would increase the danger for one day. The military doctor who was rejected by Tang Cheng did not give up, and went to Mike and Rick to say the same reason, but Mike and Rick did not say anything about stopping to recuperate, but discussed with Tang Cheng to stop first and let the military doctor take someone to check the ulcers on the feet of those soldiers.

"No, absolutely not, what are you kidding. We are going south along the stream, and the scouts I sent out have found traces of people taking water by the stream more than once, and you dare to assure me that those traces will not be left by the Japanese army? Tang Cheng glared at Mike and the two with his eyes, but his tone did not mean to accommodate the two at all. I can't risk so many people's lives, and the medic can examine the feet of those guys when I camp tonight, and it must not be funny to stop and recuperate, and don't let me hear those words again. ”

Tang Cheng finally did not agree to take a short rest, and the soldiers, whose feet had already festered, could only limp and continue to march, but secretly regretted their laziness in their hearts. The scout who came out called Tang Cheng again with a walkie-talkie, saying that he had found a trace left by someone not far ahead, and motioned for Hou San to take over his control of the company, Tang Cheng took Tan Fei and Liu Shi to the front to check the traces left by the scout.

The scouts sent by Tang Cheng did not gather together to act in unison, but Wu Shan, Yan Long and Dice each led a team of scouts, divided into three ways to search and advance on the front road, and used the walkie-talkie to call Tang Cheng with the dice walking in the middle lane. When Tang Cheng found the dice, the dice were digging something in a flat field with one of his scouts, and when Tang Cheng and the three of them walked in front of him, the dice had already dug out a few pieces of paper and a cigarette case from the dirt pit. There was no handwriting on the piece of paper dug out by the dice, but the cigarette case was no stranger to Tang Cheng, as long as the veterans who had fought in the Japanese army recognized that it was a Japanese cigarette case.

"The devils of the dog day have really been here, but I don't know if they came here to get water or something else, so we have to be careful." The dice dug a few more times with the sapper shovel, but found nothing of value, and then stopped. "I don't think we can go down the water anymore, if it's just our own people, we can do anything, but we still have a big nose to help the United States, in case we are surrounded by the Japanese army in the woods, even if we don't suffer a loss, the Americans are afraid that they will give us small shoes, as long as we don't give us supplies according to time and space, the brothers will have to drink the northwest wind."

Tang Cheng didn't speak, but took the pieces of paper and looked at them over and over, although there was no handwriting on them, Tang Cheng could already determine that this was the paper in the diary used by Japanese soldiers. "Then don't go along the water, find a place to go directly across the stream to the direction of the red clay slope, as long as you rush to the red clay slope, it doesn't matter if you meet the Japanese army, the terrain there will only be beneficial to us." After a moment of silence, Tang Cheng finally made a decision, in order to be able to rush to the red soil slope as soon as possible, he planned to no longer follow the winding path of the stream, but to take a straight line to intersperse the past.

Walking in a straight line, although the distance is shortened, the hardships and dangers in it have increased a lot, but at this time, Tang Cheng can no longer take care of so much. Using walkie-talkies to recall the two scout squads of Wu Shan and Yanlong, Tang Cheng told his decision in front of a group of officers. Tang Cheng's words came out, but everyone's reaction was very different, some agreed with it, and some opposed it. Most of the people who agreed with Tang Cheng's decision were the veterans of the national army who followed Tang Cheng back and forth through the Savage Mountain, and almost all the opponents were the American troops of the Mai detachment.

"Don, I know that your decision may be correct, but you must know that the continuous march has consumed too much of everyone's body, and it is better to walk along the way south of the stream, but if you march across the stream into the forest, I am afraid that many soldiers will not be able to keep up with the speed and fall behind." The worry on Rick's face had already been seen by Tang Cheng, this was an obvious problem, and it could not be solved by ambiguous prevarication.

The body of the American soldiers is obviously better than that of the national soldiers under Tang Cheng, but they are not adapted to the climate and environment in the jungle of the Savage Mountain, and they also have problems sleeping when they camp at night. "Captain Rick, I know what you said is true, but you have to know that if we have to go south along the stream, we will definitely encounter the Japanese army, how many Japanese soldiers do you think your soldiers can meet the siege of the Japanese army?"

Tang Cheng's rhetorical question left Rick speechless, when he was training in the mountains in Ramgarh, these soldiers under him were not in the current state. Rick couldn't answer Tang Cheng's rhetorical question, it didn't mean that those American officers would agree with Tang Cheng's decision, as a peacemaker, Mike could only convince them one by one, these American officers could ignore Tang Cheng, but they couldn't also ignore Mike's survival, after all, Mike was still a member of the U.S. Military Observer Group.

"These big American noses are really annoying, if I say that I shouldn't have agreed to take them in the first place, if it were just us, I am afraid that we would have rushed to the red soil slope a long time ago." I don't care at all that Duke is still standing next to him, the hot temper of the dice has exploded again, looking at his posture, if Tang Cheng is not still standing here, maybe the dice will open up and fight with those stubborn American officers.

"Okay, you just stop for a while, and say that the Americans are not in front of Duke, you are really capable." Tang Cheng scolded the dice with a calm face, asked for a pack of cigarettes from Liu Shishi and threw it to Duke with an expressionless face. Duke is an outlier in this group of American troops, since the troops left Ledo, this thing has been mixed in the company of Tangcheng whether it is marching or camping, and can speak fluent Chinese, so that Duke is like a fish in water among the soldiers of the national army.

Duke didn't refuse the cigarettes that Tang Cheng threw to him in order to apologize, and first put the cigarettes into his military uniform pocket, and Duke said to Tang Cheng expressionlessly, "You don't have to worry about me, to be precise, I'm not really American." Although my name sounds very American, my ancestors were actually Irish, and my ancestors settled in the United States after building the railroad during the development of the western United States. I hate the Yankees as much as you do, who paid my grandparents a small salary and made them do a lot of work. ”

Duke's words made Tang Cheng dumbfounded, this thing is not an authentic American, and the dice are even more interested in this matter, and before Tang Cheng comes back to his senses, the dice and a few of them have already dragged Duke to the side, and are whispering about the things Duke just said. Just as Westerners are quite curious about the mystery of China, after spending a long time with American soldiers, Tang Cheng's men are also very curious about American affairs.

Tang Cheng didn't think much of it, and after a short pause, Michael finally convinced Rick and the others that the troops were back on the road but they plunged headlong across the stream into the overwhelmed forest. The soldiers mourned again and again but had to drag their tired bodies through the jungle, in order to worry about the fact that the soldiers were left behind, Tang Cheng had to arrange for Hou San and Tan Fei to take people to the end again, and all the soldiers who fell behind would be contained by them.

Wu Shan and their Burmese natives have never been to the red clay slope, but they live in the mountains and forests at that time, they have a good sense of direction, and after eliminating the danger of getting lost, Tang Cheng now only needs to worry about whether he will encounter the Japanese army. The scouts were sent out one after another, relying on the efforts of the scouts and the contact of walkie-talkies, Tang Cheng already knew the situation in the surrounding radius of 2 miles, even if he encountered the Japanese army that might survive, relying on the mastery of the terrain, Tang Cheng had every chance to strike first instead of passively defending.

I don't know if it's God's favor, after crossing the stream, walking in the jungle in Tangcheng, not only did they not meet the Japanese army, but few soldiers fell behind because of their physical strength. In order to save some body, Tang Cheng finally gave the order to stop camping when he estimated that he was more than 30 miles away from the stream. Bonfires are lit one after another, the water in the cauldron is also boiled, and canned meat and dried vegetables are tumbling in the cauldron, releasing mouth-watering aromas. Exhausted soldiers sat around the campfire and roasted their insoles and socks, and this time no one dared to laze off.

"If we don't deviate from the direction we are traveling, I think we can reach the red clay slope before dark as long as we pick up a little speed tomorrow." After crossing the stream, they have not encountered the Japanese army, so that Tang Cheng's tense nerves have relaxed slightly, although the route they are taking now is not the same as when they entered the jungle from the red soil slope, but with Wu Shan's guidance, Tang Cheng has already made a rough decision about the rest of the journey.

"It's great to finally be able to get out of the woods, my feet hurt so badly, if I walk like this for a few more days, I think my feet will rot." Mike kept complaining that if it weren't for Don Cheng urging him to bake his socks and insoles every time he camped, he might have limped on the march a long time ago. Rick and several other U.S. officers were also very happy to learn that they were about to walk out of the woods, and Rick also took out a small bottle of whiskey that he had been reluctant to drink to celebrate.