Chapter Forty-Eight: The Unexpected
"Wait, Lao Tzu lost so much blood, this thing can't fall." Wang Fugui, who was bitten by a poisonous snake, shook his head, which was still a little dizzy, snatched the machete in Yanhu's hand and cut off the string of plantains he found. "It's something that can be eaten anyway, but I don't dare to waste it, take it back and cook it, it's enough for those brothers to eat beautifully." Picking up the banana and holding it in his arms, Wang Fugui grinned and followed closely behind Yanhu, and Hou San, who was watching, shook his head again and again, this is another fool who knows how to eat.
Just like Ma Changsheng and Wang Fugui said, Tang Cheng They walked for about three or four miles, and they saw a stream, and they walked upstream along the stream not far away, and Tang Cheng saw the people of the new 22nd Division that Ma Changsheng said. Tang Cheng couldn't think of the fact that it was only a few days before the retreat from Mandalay, how could these people of the new 22nd Division be like this, and they all looked like beggars in Wuhan City at the beginning.
"It's all hungry, plus they're all more or less wounded, it's good to be able to touch it here with a breath." Hou San's eyes were poisonous, and he only glanced at it from a distance, and he understood why these guys from the new 22nd Division would spread and collapse on the bank of the river regardless of it. Of course, Tang Cheng didn't want to bring these burdens, but after all, these people were also national soldiers, and Tang Cheng couldn't ignore them, so he had to nod to Hou San and the others, and ordered to stop and rest here temporarily, and by the way, get some food for these guys from the new 22nd Division.
The use of the steel helmet has long been no longer a single protective gear to protect the head, in Tang Cheng's hands, the steel helmet can also be used as a pot, although it can't cook much at a time, but it is better than eating cold food in the forest. The hot fried rice boiled jerky with plantain and a unique fragrance exuded a unique fragrance, and the two female soldiers in charge of cooking the porridge were very busy for a while, but they couldn't support the speed of the guys of the new 22nd Division pouring rice porridge into their stomachs. More than a dozen hungry guys poured rice porridge cooked with four steel helmets into their stomachs in succession, and their originally pale faces finally became a little angry, and these guys who had already ignored life and death finally moved their eyes from the steel helmets to Tang Cheng and them.
Seeing that Ma Changsheng's companions were angry, Tang Cheng turned his head to look at Ma Changsheng, "Where is the radio station you are talking about?" And the operator with the radio. Seeing that these guys from the new 22nd Division only cared about muttering to their own people but ignoring their own people, Tang Cheng's heart immediately became angry, so he thought about finding the operator and the radio station and leaving here immediately.
"Mazi, who is this person? Talking so bullish, give my brother a few introductions. Before Ma Changsheng could answer, a guy who stood up slowly was not happy. Although Tang Cheng's military uniforms were also full of mud and stains, after all, they were not as tattered and unbearable as these people in the new 22nd Division, especially the weapons they carried in Tang Cheng made these guys of the New 22nd Division envious.
Envy to the extreme will become jealousy, sometimes jealousy has no purpose at all, it is just a mood that bursts out for no reason, this guy who shouts that Ma Changsheng is pockmarked is like this. Ma Changsheng is a veteran, but he is only a veteran, he is not an officer like Tang Cheng, so naturally he does not have the momentum of Tang Cheng, he secretly glared at Cao Hua who came to him, Ma Changsheng turned his face and pointed at the soldier who was still licking his steel helmet, and told Tang Cheng that the person was the operator who ran away and did not forget to take the radio with him.
"Third brother, bring people over, let Gao Ling and them ask about the radio, if the radio station can still work, take the people and the radio station and leave with us all the way." Tang Cheng was not interested in gossiping with Cao Hua, but just ordered Hou San to bring people over. Cao Hua saw that Tang Cheng didn't care about him, and wanted to come up and say a few more words, but Ma Changsheng stretched out his hand to pull it away, and hinted with his eyes that Cao Hua carefully looked at the weapons in Tang Cheng's hands.
Among the more than ten people in Tang Cheng, only Tang Cheng and Hou San used state-made weapons, while Ma Dazhuang and Zhao Liang and the two female soldiers used authentic Japanese-style weapons, especially the light machine gun in Manniu's arms was also Japanese-style. The Japanese weapons in the forest were all snatched from the Japanese army, and when they looked carefully, Cao Hua, who was originally hippie and smiling, couldn't help but gasp, this group of people is not simple, they can also snatch light machine guns from the Japanese army, and it means that they can snatch weapons from the Japanese army.
When Wang Chuan was picked up by Hou San and slipped out of the pile, he was still tightly carrying the steel helmet that had cooked rice porridge in his hand, and he couldn't snatch those veterans, so he had to carefully lick the little rice porridge left in the steel helmet after everyone had eaten it. "Wang Chuan, this is Chief Tang, he wants to know if the radio station you carry with you can still be used?" Ma Changsheng didn't want to lose the opportunity to climb Tang City, so he didn't wait for the two female soldiers to come over, and even asked Wang Chuan, who looked embarrassed.
Wang Chuan glanced up at Tang Cheng when he heard this, and then continued to buckle the steel helmet on his face and continue to lick the remaining rice porridge, before Hou San reached out to grab the steel helmet in his hand, Wang Chuan threw the steel helmet on the ground, and pointed at Cao Hua and their veterans and shouted, "I knew it, I knew that the radio station could come in handy, but you fools smashed the radio station, now it's okay, it's okay." Hearing Wang Chuan say that the radio station was smashed by these veterans of the new 22nd Division, Tang Cheng still didn't believe it, and when Wang Chuan took the brute bull to find out the smashed radio station, Tang Cheng's face immediately turned cold.
The barge gun on his waist was pulled out by Tang Cheng and inserted back into the holster, he had the intention to kill these guys who were not successful enough to defeat more than anything, but he still couldn't do it, after all, these people were also national soldiers. "Pack up your things, let's go, take this guy with you, leave him behind, sooner or later he will be tossed to death by these idiots." Tang Cheng whispered to Hou San, and then stopped raising his eyes to look at Cao Hua and the dozen or so people of the new 22nd Division, Tang Cheng was not willing to take such people on the same road.
When he was a defeated soldier, he really couldn't blame the people who were soldiers below, and Tang Cheng didn't mean to look down on Cao Hua, but if he smashed the radio station that could still be used for no reason, Tang Cheng looked down on these guys who called themselves veterans. Tang Cheng has seen thousands of veterans, but he has never seen any veteran who would destroy his equipment for no reason in order to be angry or have fun, such a person can no longer be regarded as a soldier in Tang Cheng's heart, and he is even more angry than a mountain bandit.
Wang Chuan couldn't wait to leave Cao Hua and them, and Tang Cheng, who heard it, wanted to leave with him, so he hurriedly went to find his backpack and stood beside the two female soldiers early. "Sir, sir, you can take us with you, we are all brothers of the national army, you can't watch the brothers trapped in this forest and not get out." Seeing that Tang Cheng was about to leave, Ma Changsheng was anxious, not only stretched out his hand to stop Tang Cheng, but even bent his legs to kneel down for Tang Cheng.
"Ma Changsheng, you don't have to be like this, from the beginning, I didn't say that I would take you with me, and these brothers of yours can no longer be regarded as soldiers in my opinion, I don't want to have such people around me." Tang Cheng stretched out his hand and pulled out Ma Changsheng, who was about to kneel down for him, and turned around and pointed at Zhao Liang behind Hou San, "Zhao Liang is only 19 years old, and he dares to follow us to kill Japanese soldiers in the forest, you go and ask these brothers of yours to see if they have the courage to kill Japanese soldiers." ”
Tang Cheng's words were actually clear, Ma Changsheng had the intention to follow Tang Cheng and them on the same road, but listening to Tang Cheng's meaning, he didn't want to take Cao Hua and them, and in the end, Ma Changsheng had no choice but to stand aside and get out of the way, between Tang Cheng and Cao Hua, Ma Changsheng finally chose Cao Hua and them, who knew the roots. "Sir, are you really not taking them away? I look like a couple of guys who have fought a tough battle. Not a few steps away, Hou San chased after him from behind.
"They just want to be unaccustomed to Wang Chuan, so they can smash the radio station that can still be used, if they can't get used to our people, maybe they will rely on more people to rob our supplies, such people staying around will only be bad, and it will not be good for us." Tang Cheng glanced at Hou San, and then he didn't speak, Tang Cheng knew that Hou San came to persuade him just with good intentions, but there were some things that Tang Cheng didn't want to say too clearly to Hou San.
"You guys, I told you what you are doing." Seeing Tang Cheng and his party slowly disappearing into the forest, Ma Changsheng stomped his feet and scolded Cao Hua and the others. "Wang Chuan is just a radio soldier, and it's not Wang Chuan's responsibility that we lost the battle, why do you have to smash the radio station, Wang Chuan doesn't know how to send a report, but the two female soldiers under Chief Tang can, if we use the radio to contact the military department, we may be able to find a way back to China."
Cao Hua, who was full of anger, was also dumbfounded, he didn't expect the other party to say that he would leave, and besides, that Wang Chuan was not a radio soldier at all, that kid was just an engineer who set up a telephone line in the division headquarters, otherwise when everyone was coaxing before, he would not have used the radio station to vent his anger. If I had known that there would be a group of people coming for the radio, then I couldn't have smashed the radio station, "Or let's follow them, they won't take us, but it doesn't mean that we can't follow behind." Cao Hua's eyes rolled and he had an idea, and Ma Changsheng thought about it, and this was the only way.
Of course, they would not have thought that Wang Chuan was not actually a so-called radio soldier, and Wang Chuan, who was still a little apprehensive at first, saw that no one asked about the radio station, so he put his mind at ease and talked to the two female soldiers as he walked, but he learned a lot about Tang Cheng and them. Knowing that Tangcheng was here with the Japanese army all the way, Wang Chuan's desire to return to China alive became heavier and heavier, although it was very tiring to march in the jungle, but Wang Chuan walked with taste.