Chapter 65: Recuperation
Everyone felt that this battle was not interesting, Tang Cheng's military uniform was already soaked, and after relaxing, he felt so cold that he shivered vigorously, and secretly cursed in his heart that he knew that it would be like this, it was better to leave half of the people to rest, and not to have all of them suffer. I thought that there would be a vicious battle, and I had a big fight, but who would have thought that the Japanese troops stationed in the mountain pass would be so fragile and couldn't help fighting. Tang Cheng even had a deep disappointment, and ignored Hou San and them, who were cleaning the battlefield, but just found a box of canned Japanese food and opened it and swallowed it.
Tang Cheng was still worried about the battle just now, it was not that he had not fought with the Japanese army, whether it was a large Japanese army or a small Japanese army, it should not be such a combat effectiveness, Tang Cheng had two words of trap in his mind. If you think about it carefully, but it's not right, the Japanese army will not be generous enough to take out a small squad of troops to set a trap at a time, but if this is not a trap, why is the combat effectiveness of these Japanese soldiers so weak?
"Don't be foolish, you can go and look at the corpses of those Japanese soldiers and find out why." Hou San, who walked over slowly, happened to hear Tang Cheng's self-talk, so he smiled and picked up the conversation. "There are no less than 10 Heavy killed by the dice, and they are all veterans of the little devils, and the few you killed with the grenadier are also veterans. Those veterans have almost been killed by the two of you, and the rest of the little cubs don't turn around and run away, but I just looked at the corpses of Japanese cubs about the size of a stone. ”
Hou San's words found the answer for Tang Cheng, when he was in Kunming, he heard Huang Hanju say that the Japanese army's strength was already stretched, and many of the defending troops in the enemy-occupied areas had long been replaced by child soldiers. Tang Cheng gave Hou San the canned food that he hadn't eaten a few bites, turned around and went to the place where the corpses of the Japanese soldiers were stacked, and carefully examined the corpses of the Japanese soldiers one by one. The results of Tang Cheng's inspection were indeed not bad with what Hou San said, and at least 30 of the 52 Japanese soldiers were recruits.
After making trouble for a long time, it was not because of his own people who were powerful, but because the little devil had become weaker, Tang Cheng, who had finally found the answer, was relieved, and he no longer thought about the word trap in his head. After solving the doubts in his heart, Tang Cheng's mood was much better, Hou San and a few of the guys who had been paying attention to Tang Cheng were relieved, as long as Tang Cheng was okay, the hope of them going home was a little bigger.
Wiped out the Japanese troops guarding the mountain pass, except for the corpses of the Japanese soldiers on this half of the mountain, the rest of the things became their trophies in Tangcheng, not to mention those weapons and ammunition, just the two marching pots found by Ma Dazhuang made everyone happy for a while. "It's a good thing, with this, we don't have to cook with a steel helmet to eat." Ma Dazhuang, who was tall and long-legged, carried two marching pots to the stream to clean, this kind of cauldron was enough to cook food for more than 30 people in Tang Cheng to fill their stomachs.
"And when they boiled all this, they won the battle, and the brethren ate well." Tang Cheng raised his foot and kicked over a box, and rolled out a few cans distributed by the Japanese army from the box. With Dong Liancheng and Zhou Chao and their people, the dry food prepared by Tang Cheng was already not enough, but Tang Cheng had no intention of saving rations, he only knew that if everyone was hungry to fight, maybe the next time they encountered the Japanese army's interception, their small force would be scattered in the forest by the Japanese army.
Of the 13 casualties, only 7 were actually killed, and the other 6 wounded soldiers groaned, but they were not fatal. The wounded who had been treated by the military doctor did not look very good, and even Dong Liancheng and Zhou Chao were reluctant to speak in front of Tang Cheng. If this is a domestic battlefield, it is easy to say, but this is in northern Myanmar, let alone with so many wounded soldiers, even if they are all alive, it may not be easy to get out of this jungle......
"Sue those wounded things, rest and recuperate, don't think about other things, under my hands, I have never left a brother who can still live." Tang Cheng could see Dong Liancheng and Zhou Chao's thoughts, and immediately said a few words of comfort, and with Tang Cheng's assurance, the wounded soldier's face finally turned bloody. "Let's rest here for a day, let the wounded brothers breathe a sigh of relief, and let's guard this mountain pass to see if we can intercept some of the routs for our use." Finally took this mountain pass, Tang Cheng had no reason to withdraw like this, he was in great need of some strong helpers now.
"Sir, the seized things have been counted, there are more than 30 rifles that can be used, and one machine gun is good, there are almost more than 3,000 bullets, and there are some grenades, enough for each of us to divide two or three." Tan Fei approached Tang Cheng with a notebook recording the loot and whispered, "We also found some gold and silver jewelry and jade, which should be the property looted by this group of little devils, the third brother means to take it away, but we have too many things, I'm afraid there won't be enough manpower." ”
"Don't worry, as long as we control this mountain pass, we will definitely send it to the door automatically, the things here are our trophies, and it is impossible to leave them to the Japanese army, especially these belongings, which are the expenses of the brothers to settle down after returning to China, and they must be taken away." Tang Cheng already had a plan in his heart, Tan Fei didn't say much, just told Tang Cheng about the remaining seized materials one by one, and learned that there were still some clean underwear in the loot, Tang Cheng immediately summoned everyone over.
"It's only morning, I'm ready to stay here for a day to rest, everyone should be tired after so many days of wandering around the woods. The little devil prepared a lot of clean clothes for us here, there is a stream halfway down the mountain, while it will be fine, everyone goes to the stream to wash well, and we can't waste the little devil to prepare such a good place for us. ”
The Japanese troops stationed here not only have canned food, but also rice, and Tang Cheng is still discussing things, and the two female soldiers have been busy with the wild cow for a while, and the fragrant canned meat stewed wild vegetables and rice have already come out of the pot. "Start eating" Tang Cheng gave an order, the fragrant wild vegetables were stewed in cans, and the rice was eaten vigorously, and everyone ate more than three bowls of rice. "Damn, this will be considered full, it's really comfortable" Ma Dazhuang patted his bulging belly with great satisfaction, and the two female soldiers couldn't stop snickering.
The meal that was enough for forty or fifty people was eaten by Tang Cheng and more than thirty of them, and Tang Cheng himself had to secretly loosen the belt buckle. "Let's go, take a shower." The people who had filled their stomachs were idle, and they took the clean underwear they had been distributed and poured down the mountain to take a bath in the stream, and then Tang Cheng, the initiator, was left behind. found a suitable place, Tang Cheng, who had taken off their essence, and they jumped into the stream together, "It's really fucking happy" large pieces of soap were kneaded into small pieces, and everyone in the stream kneaded themselves red, like shrimp just out of the pot.
"Sir, what are we going to do next? Dong Liancheng and Zhou Chao glanced at each other, and they came to Tang Cheng's side together, although it was good here, they couldn't stay for a long time. The food consumed by more than 30 of them every day is not a small amount, otherwise they would not have been attacked by the Japanese army, and just food would have dragged them down.
Taking the cigarette handed by Dong Liancheng and putting it in his mouth, Tang Cheng, who was immersed in the stream, stretched out his hand to rub his short hair, and replied with a smile, "Naturally, go on, go to the Nu River, and after the Nu River, you will return to China." The Nu River is so long, it is impossible for the Japanese army to defend all the rivers, as long as we can walk to the Nu River, we will definitely find a place to cross the river. Dong Liancheng and Zhou Chao didn't expect that the route Tang Cheng chose would be to cross the Nu River all the way north and return to China.
Tang Cheng lit the cigarette on his mouth and took a few puffs, ignoring the surprise of Dong Liancheng and Zhou Chao, just picking up a stone by the stream and carving a simple map on the ground. "You see, when our national army retreated from Mandalay, the Japanese army from the north had already attacked Lashio, and the Japanese army took Lashio and blocked the passage back to Wan Town from Mandalay. The way back to China is gone, and I don't want to go to India through the old forests of the Savage Mountains like the military department, so we only have one way left, go north to Gaoligong Mountain and then cross the Nu River to return home. ”
Throwing away the stones in his hand, Tang Cheng turned over and looked up at the white clouds in the sky, as if saying to himself, "I know that it will be very dangerous to go north to take the road of Gaoligong Mountain, and the road is not too close, and there will be countless Japanese soldiers intercepting it on the way, but this is the only safe route at present." Savage Mountain is not easy to walk, just the poisonous insects, snakes and ants in the forest are enough for us to deal with, not to mention the Japanese soldiers who are still following behind us. ”
"Otherwise, let's stop here for a few more days, didn't that Li Fu say that there are a lot of brothers from our national army going north here, maybe we can wait for a large army to come." Dong Liancheng obviously did not approve of the plan to go north to Gaoligong Mountain, and after taking the mountain pass position, Dong Liancheng did not feel how powerful the Japanese soldiers were, so he thought that he had gathered a large number of national soldiers to retreat in groups.
After listening to Dong Liancheng's words, Tang Cheng, whose face was as usual, did not raise his head, "After wandering around in the forest for so many days, I have never met the big army you said, especially now that we don't even know where we are going, how can we find the big army?" Didn't you spend days in the jungle too? Did you find it? Besides, with us as people, if we meet the Japanese army again, do you think we will have such good luck? I don't want my brothers to die in vain. ”