Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Old Man

Albert didn't say much to reprimand Tang Cheng for shooting the Japanese soldiers who had already surrendered, their current situation did not allow for the acceptance of these Japanese prisoners of war, maybe Tang Cheng's approach was the most correct, not to mention that the British soldiers who died in the hands of the Japanese army were not a few. The victory seemed to have come too incredible, and they were originally going to fight a bloody battle to deal with these Japanese troops, but neither Tang Cheng nor Albert expected that the battle would end like this.

"Don't be too happy, these are not Japanese combat units, I look like a group of drivers who can drive." Tang Cheng poured cold water on the ecstatic crowd at the right time, and it was right for the calm crowd to think about it carefully, the Japanese army that had been facing in the past was not so easy to dismiss. Tang Cheng will regret a little that he didn't leave a living mouth just now, and there was a Japanese soldier who was still alive on the other side of the dice, but the thing was obviously shot through the lungs, and it was hard to even breathe, let alone speak.

"Check the truck in pairs, and be careful that there are Japanese soldiers hiding on the truck." Tang Cheng leaned over and took a watch from a corpse and threw it to Tan Fei, then ordered a search of the trucks parked not far away. Tang Cheng hoped that these trucks would be loaded with weapons, ammunition, or supplies, so that he and his men could replenish them on the spot, so that they would no longer have to dig up wild vegetables or loot the weapons and ammunition of the Japanese soldiers and the rice balls that had gone rancid.

As strange as the battle that ended hastily just now, there were no Japanese guards on those trucks, and the carriages were all loaded with large wooden boxes, looking at the new and old Cheng dù of the boxes, those plates were still fresh, like freshly broken plates. "Open" looked carefully around the wooden box without any words or markings, Tang Cheng ordered to open the box and check it, no matter what was inside, Tang Cheng wanted to make it clear.

Hou San and Mark inserted their bayonets into the cracks of the wooden box and vigorously pried the top cover of the box, and there was a sour sound that made everyone's teeth ache, and the top cover of the box was pried open. The half-human-high box was stuffed with a lot of soft thatch, and among the thatched were a few slightly smaller boxes, and before Tang Cheng could speak, Hou San took out a box the size of an ammunition box and used a bayonet to pry it. Tang Cheng was disappointed by the contents of the box, a porcelain vase that can be found everywhere in China, a porcelain vase that cannot be eaten or used as a weapon.

Xu saw the disappointment on Tang Cheng's face, Hou San leaned over with a smile and whispered, "Sir, this is a valuable thing, if you can bring it back to Kunming City, Guan Bao can exchange it for a mansion." "Hou San was born in a bandit, and the things he came into contact with were miscellaneous, and this porcelain vase in his hand was an old gadget at a glance, such an old gadget was not as valuable as in previous years, but not everyone could afford it. Hou San was afraid that Tang Cheng would treat this thing as an ordinary porcelain vase, so he immediately put it back in the box and carefully nailed the top cover back.

Hou San and the others opened a few boxes one after another, but the results they got made Tang Cheng even more disappointed, the boxes were either porcelain antiques or gold and jade and other things, while Hou San and the others were ecstatic, Tang Cheng went straight to the cab, trying to find something useful. "Sir, sir, come on, there's a living person here, a big-nosed foreigner." Zhao Liang shouted and ran to pull Tang Cheng away, and the top cover of the largest box had been pried open, and the big-nosed foreigner Zhao Liang said was in that box.

It could be seen that this guy who was obviously a foreigner had suffered a lot, Albert and the others were trying to help this curled guy out of the box, and Tang Cheng's presence made this bearded and smelly guy's eyes light up and shouted, "Are you Tang Cheng?" Isn't it Tang City? I'm Mike, Uncle Mike from the Rose Bar. The man in the box struggled to stand up, his words were like a lightning bolt striking the memory hidden in Tang Cheng's heart, Tang Cheng was not unfamiliar with the name Rose Bar, because the bar was in Shanghai, and the bar came Mike was a good friend of Robert's.

The person in the box claimed to be Mike, but Tang Cheng couldn't believe it when he saw it, he remembered that Mike was a big fat man, but the person in front of him was a thin guy. "I'm Tang Cheng, you said you were Mike, what do you have to prove that what you said is true?" It is naturally a happy thing to meet the old man here, but Tang Cheng has always maintained this calm and vigilance, which is also the advice that Robert gave him before his death.

Mike, who was helped out of the wooden box by Albert, was filled with the kettle handed by Mark, and then turned his face to look at Tang Cheng with a stern face, "Your name is Tang Cheng, you are Robert's adopted child, nicknamed Tiger Head, and Robert's ashes are still stored in the church in Shanghai." Mike used almost all his strength to finish these words, and when he said the word tiger head, Tang Cheng had already believed that this guy who looked like Hanako was Mike, the owner of the Rose Bar, but how could he be locked up in a box by the Japanese army and appear in northern Burma?

Half a pot of water and a can of food went down, Mike, who had been looking sluggish, finally regained some energy, and Tan Fei, who had been taking care of him and monitoring him, called Tang Cheng according to Mike's wishes. "I wonder how many soldiers you have now? Don't sue me, you're all there are to you? Tang Cheng had apparently figured out Mike's sudden appearance here, so he was just silent about Mike's questions.

Seeing this, Mike could only sigh secretly, and then told the truth, "Robert and I were originally agents under the Asia Division of the US intelligence department, and the United States remained neutral in this war between China and Japan. After Robert's death, I lost track of you, and soon after I was transferred to Chongqing as a military attaché at the embassy. After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States began to declare war on the Japanese army, and I was transferred to Kunming to serve as a liaison officer of the U.S. military observation mission, but I was unlucky and was shot down by Japanese fighters when I was flying in the air for aerial reconnaissance, so I became a prisoner of the Japanese, but fortunately I was rescued by you. ”

Listening to Mike's words, Tang Cheng opened his mouth widely, he never thought that Robert would be an intelligence agent sent by the United States, in Tang Cheng's definition, there is no difference between an agent and a spy. "No way, Luo himself is just a priest, he is definitely not an agent as you say. If he was an American agent, why didn't he see your American embassy avenge him after falling into the hands of the Japanese? Tang Cheng looked at Mike with a cold face, he would never believe that the person who had raised him since he was a child was a spy.

"Tiger head, we are intelligence agents, not what you think are spies, and some things are not as simple as you think, you can't just rely on a few words from you to find trouble with the Japanese." Mike tried to explain the stakes to Tang Cheng, but unfortunately Tang Cheng didn't listen to a word. "Tiger Head, let's not talk about this for now, I still have companions who are locked up in a military camp by the Japanese, can you help me get them out?"

Tang Cheng didn't answer Mike's words directly, but pointed at Hou San and them, who were busy around, "You may be disappointed, I only have these people, let alone help you save people, I'm afraid I won't even be able to save my own life." Tang Cheng's words completely disappointed Mike, and when he first saw Tang Cheng, Mike recognized Tang Cheng as a captain from the rank on Tang Cheng's collar. Although he didn't know what happened to Tang Cheng after he left Shanghai, and how he became a captain officer of the expeditionary force, Mike knew that the captains in the Chinese army were generally company commanders who commanded more than 100 people, but he didn't expect that Tang Cheng would only have a dozen people now.

Tang Cheng and Mike were talking, Hou San and they had already checked all the boxes on the trucks, and found that all the boxes in these trucks were filled with valuable things, but Tang Cheng needed the same things. "Sir, this is a lot of money, you can't just throw it away," Seeing that Tang Cheng was not interested in the things on the truck, Hou San was anxious, "You give me some time, I'll find a place to hide these things, and when we have a chance in the future, let's get it again." ”

Looking at Hou San and the dice looking at their expressions, and turning their heads to look at the pleading look in the eyes of Albert's big noses, Tang Cheng could only nod his head in agreement. Money was so appealing that even Mike, who had recovered a little, went to dig holes and hide things, and five trucks were enough for them to live the life of a rich man after the war, and no one would refuse this scarious wealth.

Tang Cheng didn't dig a pit, and he didn't even ask where the brothers were buried, with Hou San and Dice here, I believe that Albert and they will definitely be coaxed. "I'm not afraid to let them know that only when I have a life to go out of northern Myanmar can I come back to find these things." When asked by Tang Cheng, Dice and Hou San looked at each other and said with a gloomy smile, "There are not only Japanese soldiers intercepting them along the way, but also countless snakes and insects in the forest, whether these big noses can get out alive depends on what God means, who can say for sure now." ”

Hou San and Dice are ruthless people, and they follow Tang Cheng because Tang Cheng treats them as his own, Albert and their big noses are not their brothers, and if they want to share these wealth, it depends on Albert's ability. Tang Cheng couldn't help but glance at Albert and the others with some concern, being worried about guys like Hou San and Dice was probably not a good thing.

"I didn't say to help you save people, I just said to go and see." When they were on the road again, Tang Cheng suddenly ordered a change of direction, Hou San and they didn't ask the reason, but Mike was happy, and Mike didn't know that Tang Cheng changed his mind when he heard that those Japanese soldiers had radio stations in their hands, and he didn't know that Tang Cheng still had the telecommunications code book of the expeditionary force in his hand.