Chapter Seventy-One: Untitled
The rice wine brewed by the villagers will not be intoxicating, but at this time, Hou San and they have already looked a little drunk, in terms of personal behavior, Tang Cheng will rarely interfere with Hou San and them, as long as it is not a very excessive move, Tang Cheng has always turned a blind eye. "Don, I admit that you are a very powerful commander, and most of your soldiers are also very good soldiers, but you can't let them get drunk, in case they come to the Japanese Robtou, we people will be in danger." Almost everyone was enjoying the joy, except for George, who insisted on wearing a flight jacket, who made a small accusation against Don City.
"George, don't you see that everyone is going to be happy? Why do you have to deprive everyone of this joy? Tang Cheng smiled and handed George a bowl of rice wine, but he grabbed a piece of meat and bone and lowered his head to nibble on it. Seeing that George was still glaring at him, Tang Cheng had no choice but to put down his flesh and bones, "George, you are a pilot, and you are a layman at all when it comes to ground combat, haven't my people been able to prove their own strength?" Or do you really think they're drunk? ”
Tang Cheng's words were a little fast, and George, who was not very proficient in Chinese, pondered for a while, and then turned his head to look at Hou San, who was already crooked, and then nodded heavily at Tang Cheng. "I think your soldiers are all drunk, and look at what they look like on the streets of London." The expression on George's face made Tang Cheng smile a little, but he was moved by the seriousness of this American's bones.
took out a cigarette and forcibly stuffed it into George's mouth, Tang Cheng reached out and grabbed George's shoulder, helping George, who still had a straight face, to light the cigarette. "George, you are a pilot who dares to fight against Japanese planes, didn't your teacher teach you mathematics? Have you never counted how many soldiers I have, and you don't see that there are fewer soldiers here, and I have at least five sentry posts around the village where we are staying, and of course, I can't tell you where they are. ”
"Don, you're a bad person, and God won't forgive you for teasing a gentleman like me." Knowing that he had made a joke with good intentions, George, who felt a little embarrassed, simply turned his head and stopped paying attention to Tang Cheng, but muttered that God would punish Tang Cheng, the bad-hearted commander.
"George, God will not blame me, but I have been watched by God since I was a child, and there is no more devout believer in the world than me." Tang Cheng felt that it was easy to chat with George, and it was a bit of a quarrel with Robert when he was young, but he and Robert spoke English at the beginning, but now he and George speak Chinese. Knowing that Tang Cheng still had such an unknown side, George, who had already made up his mind not to pay attention to Tang Cheng, immediately became interested, and he didn't care about what happened just now, so he asked again and again.
"I was abandoned by my parents when I was very young, and it was my adoptive father who raised me, and unfortunately, my adoptive father was a priest from the United States, and I was raised by a priest, so I naturally had to live in the church, so I said that I grew up under God's watch." Seeing that George didn't seem to believe his words very much, Tang Cheng recited several passages from Matthew's Gospel to him one after another, and George, who was completely dumbfounded, had to admit that what the "nasty" guy in front of him said was true.
"I was adopted by my adoptive father as an infant, and we lived in the church until I was almost nineteen years old, until the day before the Battle of Songhu in '37." Tang Cheng took out a cigarette and lit it, and he didn't know why, but he was a little reluctant to mention Robert's death. This memory is no less than the sky falling apart for Tang Cheng, since Liu Goat also left him, Tang Cheng has buried these memories deep in his heart, and every mention of it is like uncovering a scar that makes Tang Cheng miserable.
Fortunately, George didn't ask Robert about it, and Tang Cheng continued, "Later, I became a soldier by chance, a soldier of the 88th Division of the National Army, and in the later stage of the Songhu Campaign, my wing and I were ordered to retreat to collect the wounded, and then we went to Nanjing to assist in the defense. In Nanjing, we never retreated in the face of the tide of Japanese troops, and if it weren't for the fact that the troops in Nanjing were fighting separately and there were no reinforcements, I would not have been forced to evacuate with my commander. ”
George didn't expect that the young boy in front of him was still a veteran who had fought in Songhu and Nanjing, although Tang Cheng only mentioned these wars with a few words, but George knew the cruelty of the battlefield, and the soldiers who could survive such a big war were not simple people, no wonder this guy was already a captain officer at such a young age. "Then what about later, I know about the Battle of Nanjing, and I heard that when the Battle of Nanjing retreated, most of the troops of your national army were out of order?"
"Yes, you are right, when you crossed the river and retreated, because there were few ferries on the riverside, most of the soldiers were trapped in the city and the riverside, and most of the troops who could withdraw across the river were also disorganized." Asked by George about crossing the river at that time, Tang Cheng's eyes seemed to have a ballistic trajectory and blooming blood on the surface of the river, and his ears were also filled with piercing shouts and the screams of cannonballs breaking through the air, Tang Cheng couldn't help but show a weird smile on the corner of his mouth, if it weren't for Liu Goat and Jiujin at that time, maybe he would have become a floating corpse on the river.
"Let's not talk about that, let's talk about you, it seems that I only know your name and the identity of the pilot, but I don't know anything else about you, this is not the politeness of making friends." Tang Cheng subconsciously shook his head, shook off all the scenes that came to mind in his mind, and then pretended to easily shift the topic to George. George is not very smart, but at least he is not stupid, it can be seen that the young Tang Cheng is a person with a story, seeing that Tang Cheng does not seem to want to mention it, George has to follow Tang Cheng's topic and talk about some of his own things.
"My family has a farm in California, and I have an older brother and two older sisters, but I moved to Los Angeles on my own when I was 18 years old, and you know that Los Angeles is a free city, especially with a lot of beautiful women." George brags about the benefits of Los Angeles to Don Town, but he doesn't know that Don City is not interested in them, he wants to know how George, a playboy-like guy, became a fighter pilot.
"You mean flying?" George paused, as if to make some reminiscence, "My father had a small plane that sprayed pesticides on the farm, and he had already taken me on a plane when I was very young. After I was 16 years old, I was in charge of all the pesticide spraying on the farm, and it was probably at that time that I fell in love with the feeling of flying in the blue sky, and then moved to Los Angeles because I longed for freedom. ”
"Into the Flying Tigers? It was a coincidence, I was working for a film company in Los Angeles. General Chennault gave speeches in many cities in the United States in order to recruit enough pilots, and of course I admit that it was General Chennault's salary that attracted me, and I was able to travel to the amazing China for free, so I came, you know, I like to fly airplanes. George's answer made Tang Cheng pout, this thing dared to be a pilot for money.
"Damn the Japanese Rob Tou ruined my Qiē, you know, this is the first time I've actually taken to the air in a fighter jet." George suddenly said angrily, he didn't expect that his first real battle would be beaten down by the Japanese pilots, if he returned to the Flying Tigers, he would not have to laugh at those old pilots, maybe he would not have the opportunity to fight in the future and be transferred to be an obscure ground crew.
George's complaint was in English, but he forgot that Tang Cheng had spoken English since he was a child, and Tang Cheng didn't expect that this immortal guy would actually fight against Japanese fighters for the first time. "George, you are a lucky man, God is with you." Regardless of whether George understood what he meant or not, Tang Cheng reached out and patted George's shoulder comfortingly, then got up and went to the entrance of the village, where there was a sentry arranged by Tang Cheng.
Guarding the entrance of the village is Zhao Liang, this novice who joins in the middle of the road has become more and more dice their shadows, whether it is on the march or in his leisure time, Zhao Liang always looks cautious. "Go back and rest, Ma Dazhuang left the broth for you, drink it and then go to sleep." Taking the rifle and flashlight handed by Zhao Liang, Tang Cheng carefully admonished a few words, and then drove Zhao Liang and another rout away. A few minutes later, Hou San, who George thought was drunk, also came to the entrance of the village with a rifle, and he was also going to stand guard with Tang Cheng at the entrance of the village for three hours.
"Tell the brothers in private, this George doesn't need to be too careful, this guy is also a money-recognizing guy, maybe when we can use him in the future, we can give him some sweetness at the right time." Knowing that George had a dream of setting up a film company to make movies, Tang Cheng had a new idea in his heart. Robert told Tang Cheng that Los Angeles is an immigrant city, and if he really wants to take the Huang family to the United States, Los Angeles may be a good place to go.
Hou San doesn't care about those, as long as it is something that Tang Cheng decides, he just needs to do it, it turns out that since following Tang Cheng, he and the dice don't know how much more comfortable and majestic than when he was a bandit. Tonight's night seems to be exceptionally bright, there is no wind, no rain, and no fog, Tang Cheng held his rifle and looked up at the starlight in the night sky, but the thoughts in his mind suddenly flew back to the situation when he was a child and followed Robert to look up at the starry sky, and the night sky at that time seemed to be so clear.