Chapter 309: New Camp
The camp assigned by the headquarters to the direct company is not very good, it is located close to the mountain forest, but fortunately there is a winding mountain stream, at least it is very convenient to get water. The camp is located on the west side of Myitkyina, only 5 miles away from the airport, it seems that the headquarters wants to use the direct company to defend the flank of the airport, but it does not want to give the direct company a chance to turn over, so it simply placed the direct company in this place where birds do not lay eggs. It's just that they would never have thought that Zhao Zhi and they like this kind of place the most, there are mountains and water, and it is the best ideal camp for a force like Zhao Zhi who is good at mountain warfare.
"What kind of place is this" The dog who got out of the car kicked the small stone on the ground in dissatisfaction, this is obviously a discarded defensive camp. There are only a few chaotic trenches more than a meter deep, and there are not even anti-artillery holes dug in the trenches, let alone the command post hidden in the trenches, and the dogs who jumped into the trenches actually stepped on a bubble of. The embarrassment of the dog busy wiping his military boots on the ground made everyone laugh, but this place is really not good, Zhao Zhi and they still need to spend a lot of effort to take care of this place if they want to settle here.
"Okay, unload all our things, we're going to settle down here" Zhao Zhi climbed out of the carriage with his hand on the carriage board, and there was no trace of the look of death that Wallace saw just now. Zhao Zhi's injuries were originally disguised, and the bloodstained strapping gauze on his body was replaced by the old cannon, and Zhao Zhi just temporarily tied these things to his body. Zhao Zhi just wanted to show the people who came to the headquarters, he didn't know that the person who came would be Wallace, but there were still American soldiers escorting the car, so Zhao Zhi couldn't explain his intentions to Wallace.
"Okay, let's move things" Zhao Zhi looked at the surrounding environment with a telescope, "Don't forget, when we were still waiting for rescue in Grass Valley, we didn't have anything at that time, so what?" We are not the same, and we are better off than those routs" Zhao Zhi beat the dogs with a small wooden stick, urging them to unload the trucks immediately and drive the trucks away as soon as possible, so that he could open the box and find his private cigarettes.
Do-it-yourself food and clothing, this has always been the old tradition of the direct company, when Wallace brought the truck to Zhao Zhi and them to send supplies, the dogs have dug these trenches to a depth of 1.5 meters, and the width has reached nearly 2 meters, and there is an anti-artillery hole every 6 meters in the serpentine trench, and at the intersection point at the rear of the trench, the hidden bunker as Zhao Zhi's headquarters is also being roofed. After adding a layer of logs on top of the 50-centimeter solid earth and stones, and stacking them three times in this order, such a bunker was not even afraid of the 75 mountain guns of the Japanese army.
Wallace is here, and Zhao Zhi has to continue to mix the wounded with the old guns, but there are Yuan Qingqing and Linda in the ambulance team, so Zhao Zhi will not feel bored here. When Wallace found Zhao Zhi, Zhao Zhi was lying comfortably on the military blanket enjoying Linda's feeding, Linda was feeding the rice, but Zhao Zhi's head was pillowed on Yuan Qingqing's lap. "You'll enjoy it, I'm almost exhausted" Wallace casually threw his military hat aside, and he sat cross-legged on the ground regardless of the ironed straight military uniform, and it was a place where Zhao Zhi could see himself as soon as he turned his head.
The list of materials that Wallace had turned into a paper ball was thrown into Zhao Zhi's arms, Zhao Zhi was lying down enjoying Yuan Qingqing's head massage, there was still time to read the list, or Linda picked up the list and read it to Zhao Zhi. Most of the supplies sent by Wallace this time were useless things, such as insoles, razors, shoe polish and other small items, and large items like tents, and the old cannon had already begun to plan to build wooden houses, what was the use of these tents. The guns and walkie-talkies that Zhao Zhi needed were missing, and the ammunition was only a small part, so Wallace brought a whole cart of military uniforms and military boots.
"Zhao, I'm sorry, the headquarters didn't allocate new guns and walkie-talkies for you" Wallace looked at Zhao Zhi with some embarrassment. For these supplies, Wallace found several senior generals in the headquarters to mediate, but the Chinese bigwigs in the headquarters were determined to rectify Zhao Zhi and them this time, so it was not good for Wallace to find people to offend these bigwigs for Zhao Zhi. Being able to get these things is already the result of Wallace's hard work, at least until those bigwigs don't forget Zhao Zhi, it's impossible for Zhao Zhi and them to get more things.
"There are less than 100 of us, it's already very good that you got us three truckloads of things, there is no need to say sorry between friends" Zhao Zhi took the list of supplies and carefully counted the things recorded on it, except for food, ammunition and medicine, and military uniforms, the others are things that the direct company does not need now. These things are basically not used by the direct subordinates now, but it does not mean that other troops cannot use them, and Zhao Zhi and they seem to be not too far from the airport, and he is already thinking about how to transport these things back to Kunming.
The direct company is not without the interests of other troops, and the mules, horses, and cattle brought back from the mountains and forests will become a delicacy on the table of the American troops at the garrison airfield, but they need to exchange supplies for these meats. Moreover, there are inexhaustible wild things in the mountains and forests behind the camp, and these wild things will become Zhao Zhi's pass to open the gate of Myitkyina Airport, until Zhao Zhi's people can still enter and exit the airport freely like in New Pingyang.
At dinner, Kane arrived at the camp in a jeep, having been transferred to another unit as engineer commander and about to take part in the assault on Myitkyina. Kane, who came to the camp, was quite energetic, but he was still as enthusiastic as ever about Zhao Zhi and them, and when he returned to his direct company, he felt more like he was home. The shabby military uniform, the bloodstained guns, the agility that comes and goes in the mountains and forests, and the soldiers who are willing to block bullets for the robes around them, this is Kane's impression of the battalion, and he is willing to stay with such people.
"Haha, you guys look at what this is?" Kane laughed and removed a large wooden box from the back seat of the jeep containing a dozen bottles of wine and two boxes of cigars, as well as some beautiful magazines and playing cards. Kane knew what everyone wanted, in contrast, Wallace, who only brought three truckloads of supplies, fell behind, but everyone knew that they didn't say it directly, after all, Wallace still helped the direct company.
"They asked me to take a squad of sappers to the battle, but it is not known when the attack will be on Myitkyina, and my men and I can only hang out, drink, play cards and talk every day" After a few glasses of wine, Kane began to complain. There are engineers in the company who have long hair, and they basically don't need Kane and his men, and they thought that they would really have to fight the Japanese army after being transferred to other units this time, but they didn't expect to wait or wait.
"That's good, look at the stream in front of the camp" Zhao Zhi pointed to the stream on the camp, "Come when you have time, I'll take you fishing, it's very interesting" Zhao Zhi said this is obviously angry Kane, especially the smile in Zhao Zhi's eyes has betrayed him, including Edward and the others. Kane is the first officer to leave the direct company, and there will be no shortage of people who leave the direct company in the future, and it is precisely because everyone treats him as their own that they will follow Zhao Zhi to make fun of Kane.
The bunkers and bunkers were still damp, and the goats and their men had to set up tents in the open space, at least until the old guns' wooden hut plan was completed. Dinner was a reserved meal for the direct company, and the cook Wang Dabao's canned soup of wild vegetables and mushrooms, plus fresh roasted meat, for which a machete was specially slaughtered. Gathering around the bonfire to eat is Zhao Zhi's favorite, at least so that he can see everyone in his direct company while enjoying hot food, and Wang Dabao's craftsmanship is still very good.
Because of the addition of Kane and Wallace, the dinner of the direct company lasted for 2 hours, and only Wang Dabao was the happiest person tonight, because everyone had eaten all the food he had prepared, and even the soup base was scraped and drunk with a small spoon. Wang Dabao, who cleaned up the stove, couldn't help but hum a little song, the direct company has not been like this for a long time, since being pursued by the Japanese army in the mountains and forests, everyone is compressing biscuits and canned food every day, Wang Dabao uses the cauldron only a handful of times, and it is only to boil water or disinfect bandages.
The drunken Kane left, he left in Wallace's truck, and the jeep he drove was kept, but Zhao Zhi only borrowed it for a few days, as long as he contacted the wrench that worked as a technician at the airport, Zhao Zhi would have as many jeeps as he wanted. "Okay, don't pretend, get up for a meeting, let's talk about these things today" Zhao Zhi picked up the bones around him and smashed them on the guys who were lying on the ground pretending to be drunk, and only opened three bottles of wine, most of which went into Kane and Wallace's stomachs, and Uncle Guo and Edward didn't even drink half a bottle of wine together, and it looked like they were intentionally pouring wine to Kane and Wallace.
After being named one by one by the bones thrown out by Zhao Zhi, the guys, including Edward, who were lying on their stomachs or lying down, couldn't pretend to be drunk anymore, but their skins were thick enough, so they just pulled the bones off their bodies, and then got up and sat around as if nothing happened. Since Zhao Zhi was convened to hold a meeting, there must be something to discuss, so everyone still sat around with the sleepiness after a full meal, and waited for Zhao Zhi to speak with wide eyes.
"Have you noticed, Kane has been looking at Wallace with his eyes when he was talking about Myitkyina, which means that Kane didn't know that Wallace would appear in the camp at dinnertime, and Kane came here to deliver some kind of message to us, and it was only because Wallace was here that he wanted to stop talking" Zhao Zhi leaned lazily on Yuan Qingqing, and played with Linda's blonde hair with his fingers. Kane will come to the camp today, which is indeed unexpected by Zhao Zhi, Zhao Zhi and they have a lot of things to hide from Kane, it's not that Zhao Zhi doesn't believe him, but Edward doesn't believe Kane.
Edward had always thought that Kane was a utilitarian man, and for the sake of those honors, Kane did not hesitate to commit himself to his direct company at a low ebb, carrying himself to the death in the valley camp and the Japanese troops. According to what Edward learned, Kane should not be the kind of person who is determined to die, the only explanation is that Kane, who is good at speculation, took a fancy to the combat power of his direct company, and he wanted to use his direct company to achieve his goal of being promoted to the military position, and it turned out that Kane was right, and after the attack and defense of the valley camp, he was promoted.
"I don't think Kane must have come to camp for his reasons, it's just that he can't say it in front of Wallace. I guess he didn't just come to deliver cigars and wine," Edward snatched the cigar from Roger's hand and put it in his mouth. Edward just didn't agree with Kane's utilitarianism, but he didn't hate this man, at least when he met the Japanese army, Kane was still heroic.
"Anyway, Kane can remember us old brothers today, and he can still give us cigarettes and wine, I think it's a lot better than Wallace. How many good things have we given Wallace, how long has it been since I saw him, you look at him like that, what has we all been divided into" Uncle Guo used a hay branch to pick the meat scraps on his teeth, this old fellow's teeth are no longer good, and he stuffs his teeth as soon as he eats meat.
"Uncle, you just rest, I don't know you yet?" Zhao Zhi threw a box of cigarettes over, and squinted his eyes at the smug uncle. If you want to say that in Zhao Zhi's memory, the smartest person will never be Uncle Guo, but the most cunning person is none other than Uncle Guo. This old guy has experienced too many things, and this experience has also created the habit of Uncle Guo liking to think about people in private, and the first person to remind Zhao Zhi to pay attention to Kane was Uncle Guo, but at that time, Uncle Guo just felt that Kane and the doglegs were not all the way, and he didn't think that Kane would do anything to the doglegs.
"Anyway, don't care what, these days you are all optimistic about your people, you can't let them be idle, starting tomorrow, the goat and the machete will lead people to search around us to see if there is anything worthy of our attention" Zhao Zhi drew a big circle on the ground with a big bone, just enclosing the small pebble representing the camp inside, "When you search, you must pay attention to the stream in front of the camp, and see if you can find the slow bay in the secluded place upstream, if not, I am going to dig a slow bay in front of the camp, so that it will be easier for the brethren to take a bath."
"Old love, you and Roger will be driving around in the jeep that Kane left behind from tomorrow to figure out what troops are stationed around us. Then try to see if we can use our mules and horses to exchange some of the things we need with them, what exactly do you need to change, you go and discuss with the rich man" Zhao Zhi threw the big bone in his hand, stretched out his arms, "Okay, let's go back to sleep, tomorrow we will take out 30 people to follow the old cannon to cut wood, we are going to build a house"~