Chapter X

The few remaining male soldiers of the Fifth Army can ride tricycles, and when they are usually in the headquarters, they play with these things, which makes the dogs very envious. The female soldiers and 6 tricycles were pushed in the middle of the queue with all the supplies, and the doglegs protected them, and everyone was guaranteed to get out of the jungle without any mistakes.

After walking along a path for an hour, turning a corner, corpses began to appear in front of me. The sound of flies flying on the corpses was like a muffled thunder, shot, stabbed, strafing, and exploding - the victorious Japanese would remove the corpses of their own people, and all that was left here were the corpses of the expeditionary force.

Lang Zhong made a simple mask with military gauze, covered his mouth and nose tightly, and examined the corpse. "It's all the main force, there are 200 divisions, there are 22 divisions, and there are officers from the headquarters" This path dotted with corpses was numbing, most people tried to look at the backs of the people in front of them, and hurried with their heads down, and the female soldiers couldn't help but run to the side of the road to vomit.

"Sir, the rout of the expeditionary force has been found under the hillside ahead," the scout ran back to report.

Below the hill was a large road that was finally ready for traffic, and all this was not important, but the important thing was that the muddy and bad road had been trodden out of the vast jungle by the rout. On the road were the defeated troops of the expeditionary force, tired and down.

Everyone looked blankly at the routs below the hillside, carefully pushing the tricycles down the hillside and merging into the routed army.

Zhao Zhi's doglegs showed off their trophies to the defeated soldiers, but they didn't need to say anything. As long as they saw the motorcycles in their team and a large number of Japanese-style guns on everyone, the routs knew that this small unit was coming all the way against the Japanese army. There are constantly stragglers joining Zhao Zhi's small army, because they look at it and make people trust. Compared with others, Zhao Zhi and the others all have weapons, and even the female soldiers are Japanese-style firearms, as well as 6 three-wheeled motorcycles. Although Zhao Zhi, who led the team, looked like a little white face, this did not affect the joining of the rout.

In just half a day's effort, Zhao Zhi's team had more than 400 people, and his doglegs had more than doubled. And Uncle Guo seems to be still pulling people into the team, and the team is expanding at any time. Although there are officers with higher ranks than him in the rout, no one has guns and food like Zhao Zhi, and there are hundreds of dogs under him.

When I slept at night, I could see that Zhao Zhi was different from the ordinary defeated soldiers, most of the defeated soldiers were accustomed to lying on the ground, and they slept with tattered military uniforms. Zhao Zhi and the others hoisted everything to the tree, including the wounded, and everyone slept on the tree, and also arranged for sentries. A defeated soldier is also a soldier, and as long as someone sets an example, there will be someone who will follow suit. By the time Zhao Zhi changed the guard in the middle of the night, the defeated soldiers on the ground were all sleeping on the trees, and no one wanted to be attacked by poisonous insects and beasts in the middle of the night.

The next day, the routs began to march in a queue, much faster. Zhao Zhi and the others still walked behind, but the scouts were still far away, monitoring the movements of the two wings. As soon as there are more people, there will be more troubles. During the lunch break the next day, several officers came from the front of the team to look for Zhao Zhi, and they were here to ask for food. Zhao Zhi and the others did not bring much food from the Japanese army's supply point, and every day they used wild vegetables and leaves to put a little rice ball and boiled gruel, where there was surplus food for the officers.

But the officers of the expeditionary force didn't care about this, they gathered some routs and prepared to grab food directly. The grumpy old cannon didn't care if you were an officer or not, and immediately set up a machine gun, looking at the confrontational routs with fierce eyes, and he had the intention of shooting whoever dared to come up.

"Come, fight here" An officer tore open his tattered military uniform and patted his bony chest, which was covered in scars, and it seemed that he was also a battle-hardened veteran. "Grandma's, who doesn't" The old cannon standing on the three-wheeled motorcycle took off his clothes, and the scars all over his body were exposed. The old cannon pointed to a good gunshot wound in Shanghai on his collarbone, and looked at the officer with disdain, "This is the injury he suffered when he robbed the little devil of food, and these brothers behind me are all like this." You want food, look for the little devils to go"

The old artillery's arrogant speech and gunshot wounds all over his body stopped the routs who rushed up. Besides, there are also muzzles raised by the doglegs next to them, which are aimed at them, and no one dares to step forward. "I want to see your sir," an officer wearing gold-rimmed glasses greeted the old cannon politely.

"Hey, that's right. What do you have to say?" has always been an old cannon who eats soft and not hard, and the officer wearing glasses found Zhao Zhi who was behind.

"I'm Zhao Yuanzhi, the colonel liaison officer of the Expeditionary Force Headquarters, may I ask which unit you are?" Zhao Yuanzhi, who had a kind face, spoke very politely. "Hello sir, I am Zhao Zhi, the captain quartermaster of the Fifth Army, temporarily commanding this small army" Zhao Zhi hurriedly saluted Zhao Yuanzhi, there is no way, the official of the family is big.

"Captain Zhao is worthy of being a pillar of the party-state, young and promising," Zhao Yuanzhi praised Zhao Zhi.

Zhao Zhi's face turned red, and he humbly said, "It's all the brothers' lives, Zhao Zhi doesn't have any great skills, it's not worth mentioning."

Zhao Yuanzhi changed his words and directly stated the purpose, "The soldiers in front haven't eaten properly for several days. Look, are we going to centralize all the food and manage and distribute it in a unified manner?"

"Take out some food, I have no problem. But who manages the food and how is it distributed? Zhao Zhi stopped the old cannon and Uncle Guo who were about to get angry, and talked about his own considerations.

"We have a number of senior officers in front of us from the Expeditionary Force Command, and we are ready to set up a temporary command. All the food is distributed uniformly, each officer is half a catty per day, and the soldier is 3 taels, what do you think? Zhao Yuanzhi looked at the full canned food and rice balls on the tricycle, and didn't look at Zhao Zhi's expression at all.

"I can't do that, my brothers bought these things for their lives. We can hand over some of you to you, it's impossible to take out all of them" Zhao Zhi stared at Zhao Yuanzhi with dead eyes.

Zhao Yuanzhi saw that his goal had been achieved, he smiled, and then waved his hand to call his people to move things. "Sir, Lang Zhong is looking for you for something" Zhao Qin, who had been following Lang Zhong to take care of the wounded, came to find Zhao Zhi.

"Aren't you Zhao Qin? What about the evening sunshine? Zhao Yuanzhi, who just wanted to leave, happened to face to face with Zhao Qin, hurriedly reached out and grabbed Zhao Qin, and asked loudly.

"Ah, you should ask Chief Zhao about this, he knows better" Zhao Qin lowered his head and shirked.

"I don't know if Captain Zhao knows, a female colonel named Zhao Wanqing" Looking at the abnormal Zhao Qin, Zhao Yuanzhi asked about Zhao Zhi.

When Zhao Zhi heard this, he chuckled in his heart, and hurriedly asked, "I don't know what your relationship is with her?" ”

"That's my sister, I haven't seen each other for a while."

"Ah, this, we did save Sister Ling. But in yesterday's battle, Ling Mei had been shot and died," Zhao Zhi said to Zhao Yuanzhi with a sad face. "What? He's dead? Zhao Yuanzhi's eyes widened violently, "What about Dong Bi?" ”

"Dong Bi also died when he was fighting"

Zhao Yuanzhi looked at Zhao Zhi's expression suspiciously, hoping to find any clues. Zhao Yan next to her lowered her head nervously, and her little head was a mess. Zhao Wanqing and Dong Bi and Zhao Zhi knew about the unhappiness between them. Although everyone disagrees with what Zhao Wanqing and Dong Bi did to Zhao Zhi, the deaths of Zhao Wanqing and Dong Bi are indeed suspicious. One of the two people was shot while retreating, and one was shot while attacking, and both were shot from behind, which shows that at least one of them was killed by his own people. Zhao Yan really didn't dare to think about it, she was afraid of knowing the answer.

"Zhao Qin, you come with me, I'll ask you something" Zhao Yuanzhi, who had a gloomy face, motioned to his guards to pull Zhao Qin away, he no longer had the excitement of asking for food, he wanted to get a clear answer from Zhao Qin. The frightened Zhao Qin raised her head and looked at Zhao Zhi, she hoped that Zhao Zhi could speak for her. Zhao Zhi stretched out his hand to stop the soldier who was going to pull Zhao Qin, and looked up at Zhao Yuanzhi, "Sir, Zhao Qin is already a soldier of my team, if you have anything to say, just ask here, don't be so laborious, right?" ”

Zhao Yuanzhi said in a weird manner, "What, you little captain still want to stop me?" ”

Zhao Zhi also replied-for-tat, "Sir, you are not our direct commander, I'm afraid you can't control us, right?" ”

"It's just pretending to be a calf", "It's just, what's it?" "Damn, I just took our things, and I turned my face, what the hell" The dogs who came up around talked about it. Even the soldiers brought by Zhao Yuanzhi himself looked at their commander with disdain.

"Okay, Zhao Zhi, you are amazing, let's see" Zhao Yuanzhi, who was flushed with anger, left, of course, with the indignation of eating.

"What's the origin of that Zhao Yuanzhi?" Looking at Zhao Yuanzhi who was far away, Zhao Zhi asked Zhao Qin leisurely. Since things are already like this, there is no use in rushing. Let's first understand Zhao Yuanzhi's background and make plans.

"He is the eldest brother of Sister Wanqing, and he is the liaison officer between the expeditionary force and the British army. Sister Wanqing also has a second brother in Kunming, who is also an officer. Their Zhao family has a lot of power in the army, and many people from the Zhao family are officers in the national army" Zhao Qin looked at Zhao Zhi worriedly, and said everything she knew, hoping to help Zhao Zhi.

"No, we have to find a way to kill him, otherwise we will be in trouble when we go back" The old cannon who touched his chin said thoughtfully, turning his face to look at Uncle Guo, "Hey, old man, think of a quick move to kill him"

"Get out of the way, I think you are the one who owes the most to death" kicked on the old cannon's buttocks, and Zhao Zhi pulled Uncle Guo to the side. The two muttered in a low voice, "Why don't we go with them, if we can come and ask for food once, we can come back a second time, and we don't eat a lot"

Uncle Guo squinted his eyes and thought for a while, "Let's go separately, let's go around them at night and go in front of them" The rich man who heard them came up and asked, "What about our motorcycle?" There's still a lot of oil in it, and the brothers pushed it all the way, so don't you want it? ”

"It's all going to be done, and I can still take care of those, and separate things for everyone to carry. It might come in handy to get all the gasoline out of the motorcycle and take it away in an empty kettle. In the middle of the night tonight, let's quietly go around to the front," Zhao Zhi patted the rich man's shoulder and made arrangements.