The rout is like this, when there are few people, there is no confidence and direction, but the more people there are, the more confidence rises, after the successful ambush and annihilation of this group of Japanese troops, there are already people in the rout clamoring to find other Japanese search troops, to teach the Japanese army a good lesson. Tang Cheng has the same attitude towards this, those who dare to speak are treated the same as deserters, and most of the defeated soldiers don't understand why Tang Cheng made such a rule, but they don't dare to ask Tang Cheng face to face.

"We now have just over a hundred rifles, only one machine gun, and no heavy machine guns or mortars. Lao Ai, you also fought against the Japanese army, do you think we can go to the Japanese army to fight hard now? After only a few full meals, he dared to shout to teach the Japanese army a lesson, and he was not afraid of blowing the hole in the sky. Tang Cheng's face was full of disdain, and he did not show any mercy to Albert, who agreed to continue to search for the Japanese army.

Of course, Albert didn't dare to yell at Tang Cheng, Tan Fei and Zhao Liang always followed Tang Cheng like personal bodyguards, especially when looking at people, their eyes were always aimed at you like a knife, Albert didn't want to be carried to the field by these two goods in the middle of the night and buried alive. "The most important thing we need to do now is to scatter people to find those people of the 96th Division who were separated, the Japanese soldiers are all cheap, if we can fight and there are many people, they will not dare to come to us for trouble."

After choosing a temporary camp, groups of defeated soldiers were sent out by Tang Cheng, and their task was only to gather back the officers and soldiers of the 96th Division who were chased and scattered by the Japanese army. The rout is a group of people who have lost confidence, what Tang Cheng is doing now is to re-engage them to bring confidence, but Tang Cheng can't stop here indefinitely, so Tang Cheng gave a deadline, and he only stayed here for three days.

Three days later, the team that had swelled to more than 500 people was back on the road, and the dice and rock dragons who served as the scouts were no longer just two people, Tang Cheng selected 30 fast-legged routs and assigned them to two, and the team of 500 people could not have only two scouts. There are more scouts, and the range that can be searched is naturally much larger, and when they encounter Japanese troops along the road, Tangcheng only adheres to one principle, that is, they must not suffer. Seeing the small number of Japanese troops, they swarmed up and directly annihilated, and if they encountered a large group of Japanese troops with heavy weapons, Tang Cheng would order to bypass the Japanese army.

Stepping on the fallen leaves and weeds that had long since rotted, walking in the jungle as far as the eye could see, the defeated soldiers who had regained their confidence lined up in battle formation, gritted their teeth and moved forward step by step. When the more than 3,000 people of the 96th Division were chased and dispersed by the Japanese army, not all of them ran back, and a larger part of the rout continued to move north, so when they finally walked out of this forest in Tangcheng, the original team of 500 people swelled a little, and it had become more than 700 people.

Finally out of the jungle, under the hillside, is a road that can finally be driven. Although the road down the hillside was muddy and bad, everyone was very excited, at least everyone had made it out of the jungle alive, and it didn't matter when they would get into the next forest, at least everyone could walk a little bit of the road that people walked. Tang Cheng looked at the defeated soldiers behind him, the defeated soldiers were also looking at Tang Cheng, everyone just stared at each other blankly, and I don't know who shouted, the crowd crowded on the top of the slope instantly turned into a laughing tide and flowed downward, rushing to the muddy and bad road under the slope.

Re-embarking on the road that belongs to people, Albert's eyes already had a layer of moisture, and in a trance, he saw Tang Cheng who was laughing with his teeth bared, and Albert couldn't help but give Tang Cheng a thumbs up. This formidably young officer created a little miracle that was destined to be drowned, and after that ambush with the Japanese army, one hundred and eighty-one people survived, including the wounded, and not a single one was left behind. And this young jealous fellow is still trying to keep this little miracle from being overwhelmed, and his method is to make this miracle continue to grow, so that their number is now over 700.

The team of 700 people was many times longer than the original 100 people, and when it reached the pole, it was again hidden by the bend of the mountain, and there were constantly stragglers joining the team. Not for anything else, just because this team that also lined up when marching was trustworthy, and the more than 100 people who walked at the front of the line were carrying Japanese 38 rifles, which was announcing to everyone that this team had fought and killed Japanese soldiers.

For these routs who walked out of the mountains and forests and automatically chose to join, the guys who walked neatly in the line did not say no to them nor welcomed them, in their opinion, they were lined up in regular troops, and the guys who joined later were local miscellaneous troops. "Don, we have too many people, you can't do the same bunches of assignments as before." Once again, Albert, who was slipped by the mud under his feet, was pulled up by Tang Cheng's hand. Without a clear chain of command, the swelling team is likely to collapse again, something Albert has been worried about.

"Lao Ai, I said that you are just idle, I didn't reach out and hold on to them, they themselves want to follow up, what can I do, take one step at a time and see one step at a time, who knows what will happen next." In the face of Albert's sincere advice, Tang Cheng only shrugged his shoulders, but did not give a satisfactory answer to Albert at all. Tang Cheng knew that Albert was really for the good of these defeated soldiers, but unfortunately he didn't understand the factional battles in the national army, if Tang Cheng really knew the command of these defeated soldiers, when he returned to China, Tang Cheng would definitely be directly imprisoned by those military bigwigs and wait for death.

"Don, do you really just want to be a captain company commander?" Albert still didn't give up, and kept chasing Tang Cheng, "A company commander can only command 130 soldiers, but you see, you now have more than 700 soldiers, which is the strength of a reinforced battalion." You brought them out of the jungle, can you bear to leave them alone and let them become a rout like scattered sand again? ”

Tang Cheng still looked at Albert with a slow and methodical look, "Old Ai, do you think I've lived a long time?" I know that these people are enough to form a battalion, so what? I'm just a little logistics captain, do you want me to just take them in? When I got back to China, there wasn't the welcome scene you imagined, just that I was put in prison and waiting to die, because I did something that wasn't what I'm supposed to do as a little captain, you know? ”

Albert continued to be dumbfounded, he couldn't understand that this qiē done by Tang Cheng was a feat at all, something that should be rewarded, but why listening to Tang Cheng said that it was a different ending. "Albert, you don't know about the Chinese army, Tang is right, if he does what you say, he will be imprisoned by their commander, they are the Chinese army, unlike your British army." Mike also reached out helplessly and patted Albert's shoulder, and then Hou San, who followed up, smiled a little more when he looked at Albert.

Albert, who stood dumbfounded, looked blank for a moment, then his face was full of confusion, and he stopped talking about it afterwards, as if it had never happened. "Tang, you haven't sued me yet, what will you do when you return to China?" Mike reached out and grabbed Tang Cheng's gun belt, and there was a deep conspiracy in his deep words, Tang Cheng just glanced at Mike but didn't speak, just helped George on the stretcher to cover the military blanket, and then pulled Mike to stand on the side of the road.

"Uncle Mack, Robert gave me a passport before he died, and like you, I was an American for a long time. But I can't go to the United States or even return to Shanghai now, and when Robert died, I swore that I would kill the Japanese to avenge him, and what I am doing now is fulfilling my oath. I can't break my vow, and I hope that when I die, I can go to heaven to find Robert instead of going to hell for breaking my oath. Tang Cheng looked at Mike's eyes, and said this sentence word by word without blinking, although he didn't know Mike's true intention, but the meaning of Tang Cheng's words had been expressed very clearly.

"Don, I have to say that you are a very special child, but you do misunderstand me. I know you've grown up and have your own ideas, but as your uncle, I don't think it's a good choice for you to go back and be in the national army. "Tang Cheng didn't find any trace of conspiracy on Mike's face, only sincerity and sympathy." You know, I'm the liaison officer of the U.S. Military Observer Corps, but I have another identity, I'm an Army Observer in the Office of Coordination of Military Aid to China. ”

Tang Cheng didn't know much about the U.S. military observation mission and the Coordination Office for Military Aid to China, so he was confused about what Mike said. "The United States has declared war on the Axis Coalition led by Germany, and China is the largest battlefield in Asia, so the United States has decided to provide military assistance to China. The United States will provide weapons and ammunition to your national army, and then you will contain the Japanese army in China and win time for the United States to control the situation in the Pacific theater. And I, on the other hand, am one of the five observers in the Mission who can mobilize supplies to China, do you know what that means? ”

Tang Cheng Mumu subconsciously shook his head in a daze, he didn't even know what Mike said, how could he understand what Mike's observer status represented. "I'm going to form a joint U.S.-China force, and if you bring your people to join this force, I'll be able to provide you with the latest and greatest weapons and equipment in the U.S. military. If you still want to continue to kill Japanese soldiers to avenge Robert, I don't think you mind changing to a better, newer and more powerful weapon, right? Mike had already taken in Tang Cheng's expression, and immediately offered a lot of very tempting conditions to tempt Tang Cheng.