The rain poured down all night, and although the rain finally stopped at dawn, the endless primeval forest was still wet and muddy, and if you were not careful, you would slip and fall on your body covered in muddy water. It doesn't matter if it's muddy water, but the grasshoppers that have been knocked down from the leaves by the rain are deadly things, they will stick to your legs and feet when you step on the muddy water, and take the opportunity to burrow into your clothes and suck your blood desperately.

Zhao Liang, who had palpitations, looked at the meat pillar swaying back and forth on Hou San's leggings in front of him, and his throat couldn't help but twitch and wanted to vomit, he knew that those were not meat pillars, but grasshoppers attached to Hou San's leggings. In fact, Hou San was wearing half-high-waisted British military boots on his feet, and his legs were thickly leggings with old military uniforms, and those locusts couldn't stick to his flesh at all. But even so, seeing those wriggling locusts, Zhao Liang, who was following Hou San, couldn't help but feel nauseous.

"If you want me to say, we shouldn't have gone like this, what a good opportunity. We should set up an ambush and wait for the rest of the devil soldiers to come back, and then take the opportunity to beat them, maybe we can capture a small cannon or something, didn't our commander say that there is a shortage of that thing, what a good opportunity. "Hou San doesn't have the heart to care about Zhao Liang behind him, whether he is disgusting or not, he will be entangled in chattering dice.

"Shut up, day by day you know that you are stupid to fight those foolish battles, and when we leave, isn't the chief already careful. Let's just these people now, if there are more devil soldiers who come back, how can you fight, why do you still have to fight with them? Annoyed by the nagging of the dice, Hou San smiled and reached out to knock on the dice and hit a chestnut. Use your brains more when we fight in the future, we are in a hurry to go home now, not to rush to fight the devils. ”

Regardless of whether Hou San was teaching the dice or not, what he said just now was always good, they really have too few people now, and if there are more people in Japan, they can only escape. The other soldiers of the Nationalist Army, who had been chased and beaten by a small group of Japanese troops in the dense forest, had already become frightened birds, and the Nationalist troops who were more numerous than them did not have the slightest courage to turn around and fight again.

After leaving the camp of the Oshi team, Tang Cheng and the others walked in the dense forest all morning, and it was not until noon that Tang Cheng stopped to rest for a while. Due to the small number of people, many of the captured trophies were dropped in the camp of the Osumi team, and lost to the Japanese troops who might appear later. It's not that Tang Cheng doesn't want to take those spoils with him, but there is really no way to take them, marching in the humid and hot dense forest will consume too much of everyone's body, and Tang Cheng is not short of clothes and food now, so they can't afford to drag themselves into a desperate situation for those things that are not suitable for eating and drinking.

Tang Cheng had been walking all morning in the dense jungle, and there was nothing but locusts and slippery mud, except for their group of people who were anxious to go home. Tang Cheng, who was a little at the front, looked up at the gray sky, wiped the water stains from the corner of his mouth, and pinned the kettle back to his waist. The Yanlong brothers, who had served as spearheads in the past, had already set out to search, and in such a jungle, only Yi men like them, who had lived in the jungle on the edge of Yunnan for generations, would be as comfortable as fish in water.

There was a sudden burst of birdsong in front of him, Tang Cheng turned over and stood up, carrying a gun in his hand and raised his hand to Hou San and them to signal everyone to be on guard, the birdsong was sent by the Yanlong brothers, they must have found the Japanese army in front or something else. Hou San and the others immediately scattered and lay in the bushes in twos and threes, no one can care about the locusts in the muddy water, this is the first time today to hear the siren of the scout, everyone is very nervous.

Tang Cheng had also dodged and hid in a nest of bushes, his hand tightly grasping his flower machine gun, and his eyes were nervously looking ahead. Tang Chengzhi, who is good at hand-to-hand combat, knows how important the cooperation between soldiers is when facing battle. Once the war starts, everything that has been planned will have to be said twice. Hou Sanhan, who was slowly moving forward, squatted opposite Tang Cheng, also looking hard ahead. But in this kind of dense forest, you can't see far at all. Hou San waited for a while, couldn't help but feel anxious, and gestured to Tang Cheng, he slowly got up and stood up and was about to touch it.

Tang Cheng wanted to stop it, but when Hou San had already gotten up and moved forward, the bushes in front of him shook, and a person poked his head out, Tang Cheng took a closer look, it was a rock tiger. The rock tiger who came out raised his hand and shook it towards Tang Cheng, signaling that it was okay. "It's okay, get up" Tang Cheng finally let out a sigh of relief, got up and stood up, beckoning the others who were on guard. The rock tiger ran back from the bushes quickly, and before everyone could ask, the rock tiger gestured vigorously.

"Ahead, there are a lot of dead people" Tang Cheng They are all people who have experienced life and death many times, and who has not seen a dead person. But Yan Hu's tone made everyone feel that something was not right, there must be something different. Yanhu was stupid, he couldn't speak clearly, so he stretched out his hand and dragged Tang Cheng to the front, Tang Cheng couldn't shake off Yanhu's drag, and saw that the others also followed him, so he had to tell Hou San to be careful first.

After those bushes, the ground was still muddy, and Tang Cheng and the others followed Yan Hu deep and shallow along the edge of the bushes. Because only the roots of the shrubs there are developed, and the branches and leaves are mixed with muddy water and leaves, which is obviously much easier to walk than the muddy water that is all over the ground. Dense bushes are also good concealment, and in case of emergencies, at least they can be effectively camouflaged. Bypassing a few tall old trees and a bush, a clearing appeared in front of me, and the lush long grass was washed by the rain, and the color was extremely green, which was very pleasing to the eye.

Tang Cheng and the others entered the open space, and Yan Long, who had not appeared just now, was squatting on the ground with his head in his eyes and crying, and looked in the direction of Yan Long's finger, and the two female soldiers couldn't help but cry out. I saw a pile of corpses appear very abruptly in the green carpet, and the tattered military uniforms and medium-sized rifles of the expeditionary force on the corpses prove that these corpses are some national soldiers of the expeditionary force. The rock dragon pointed to the corpse, whimpered and whispered, "At first, when I saw the reflection of bayonets here, I thought there was an ambush, but later I found out that they were all corpses."

Tang Cheng sighed, and said in a low voice with a bitter face, "They are all heroes who died for the country, bury them, you can't take them back, but at least don't let them become lonely ghosts in the wilderness" After speaking, Tang Cheng took off the steel helmet on his head and bowed deeply to these corpses, and Hou San and the others naturally bowed in the same way. The two Rock Dragon brothers, who believed in the gods, even knelt on the ground, kowtowing a few times with words in their mouths.

Tang Cheng also wanted to get closer to see those corpses, but before he could get closer, he had to reach out and cover his mouth and nose, Tang Cheng also wondered, the expeditionary force was pursued by the Japanese army, but it was just these days, how could these corpses have rotted like this. Yanlong was a mountain spirit, and when he saw Tang Cheng stretching out his hand to cover his mouth and nose, he explained in a low voice, "The forest is too wet and stuffy, as long as the living creatures die in the forest, they will stink and rot in two days if they can't come out, and these corpses are like this." ”

After some tossing, Tang Cheng finally dug a big pit in the muddy water and buried these dead expeditionary forces for ten years. Gathering everyone together, Tang Cheng took the corpse of the expeditionary force soldier who had been buried in the ground with them collectively bowing three times. Tang Cheng looked at his watch and waved his hand to Hou San, "Everyone's body is almost gone, if you continue like this, someone will be left behind." It's not bad here, I think we might as well rest here for a while, and when everyone has eased up, it's not too late to hurry. ”

There were not only locusts in the dense forest, but also many unknown insects and poisons, and the clearing where the bones of the soldiers of the expeditionary force were buried did look much better than the bushes just now. Hou San nodded to the Yanlong brothers, who were carrying rifles and running towards the trees in the distance, there must be scouts when they rested, this was a habit that Tang Cheng had already developed when they went south.

Looking at the sky above his head through the canopy, Tang Cheng missed Liu Shishi in Kunming even more, and of course, the eccentric Huang Duoduo. Although he was now forced by the Japanese army to go into the woods, he was lucky compared to those brothers who died in Myitkyina and Meng Xian, at least he was much closer to home now. Just when Tang Cheng was looking up and thinking nonsense, Hou San quietly stabbed him, and looked at Hou San's line of sight, Tang Cheng originally thought that the figure that appeared was the Yanlong brothers, but the familiar earthy yellow shirt of the other party revealed the true identity of the other party.

"It's the Japanese army" Tang Cheng's eyes widened violently, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who suddenly appeared were like ghosts, slowly and strangely touching in the direction of Tang Cheng, but the Yanlong brothers who went out to search were never nowhere to be seen. This is a group of Japanese scouts, there are more than a dozen people, seeing the figures getting closer and closer, they can already see their faces clearly, Tang Cheng, who is lying on his stomach, even thinks that he can smell the sour smell of sweat on the bodies of these Japanese scouts. Tang Cheng and they can't avoid these Japanese scouts now, the only way is to fight, and they gestured to Tan Fei and Manniu, who were in the back, and Tang Cheng picked up the flower machine gun in his hand.

These Japanese scouts obviously didn't know that there were more than a dozen national soldiers in front of them who were ready to open fire, if they knew that this group was waiting for their national army, there were two light machine guns and two flower machine guns, even if they were killed, they would not appear here with such a swagger, and the rout of the national army with such a strong firepower configuration was not something they scouts could provoke.