Chapter 176: Exercise
The truck traveled all the way, and finally arrived at the temporary camp of the engineer regiment near the valley before dark, and the reinforcements on the truck had only eaten a canned beef for noon each, and their stomachs were already hungry.
"Let's get off," the old cannon knocked on the carriage board, while greeting the familiar American sappers. The old cannon and Edward also learned to speak some simple English, and although they couldn't speak accurately, the American sappers could barely understand it. As soon as Zhao Zhi was free, he would take the dogs and a few of them into the mountains to hunt, and then send someone to invite the leaders of these sappers to the valley to eat barbecue.
There are still about 5 miles from the temporary camp to the valley, and the old artillery can drive their trucks directly from the sappers, but this old boy firmly remembers what Zhao Zhi said, and useless people can't enter the advance camp. Therefore, after the old cannon forced the reinforcements to each carry a backpack full of miscellaneous items from the temporary camp, one by one, two, one, and the group prepared to walk back to the valley camp on foot.
"Dude, what do you say this chief is doing? This road is obviously possible to take a truck, so why do we have to walk? As soon as he walked out less than a mile, Yuanbao's question popped up, and Ye Qiyuan beside him kept asking.
In fact, Ye Qiyuan didn't know why Lao Pao let them walk, but Ye Qiyuan was smart, he didn't ask himself, but he went around the ingots to ask. Sure enough, after the ingots went to ask the old cannon, when they came back, there was an extra backpack on the ingot chest. Yuanbao, who had become much more bloated, no longer discussed in private, and took care of himself and buried himself in the march, allowing Ye Qiyuan to hook him with words, and Yuanbao just shook his head and said nothing.
As night fell, the hungry reinforcements were still nearly halfway to the valley camp, and seeing how long the line had become, the old cannon ordered to rest in place for 20 minutes. The reinforcements who heard the order sat on the ground with a whirl, and the somewhat tired and ruthless reinforcements didn't care whether there were poisonous insects on the grass, so they simply lay on the ground.
"Get up, get up, camp in the wilderness first needs to observe the surrounding environment, and then clean up the area around the camp to avoid the attack of poisonous insects. Look at yourself, what do you look like? The old cannon carried his wooden stick and drove up the reinforcements who collapsed on the ground one by one, and he was only tired after walking for an hour, if he really fought with the Japanese army, would he still be alive?
"Sir," a supplementary soldier looked at the old cannon timidly, "Sir, we're not tired, we're hungry." I didn't eat enough for breakfast, and at noon each person was just a can, and now I'm hungry and tired." The reinforcements, who were still a little timid, finished what they wanted to say in one go.
"Oh, you're hungry now. Then why don't you eat enough for breakfast? At noon, each person was given a canned meat, and you didn't have enough to eat. I think when Lao Tzu crossed the jungle, was it a canned meat for 10 people, or every day" Lao Pao became more and more angry, and finally simply chatted with his sleeves and was ready to scold.
"Shhh "There is movement ahead, all go into the grass" The old cannon saw that the situation was not right, waved his hand, and led the reinforcements into the depths of the grass, as long as the half-human tall grass squatted down, it was impossible to see that there were people inside outside.
There was a swishing sound, it was something scurrying in the grass, and the half-crouched old cannon was aiming at the front with a gun. Suddenly, a few black shadows emerged from the grass, paused slightly, and then disappeared into the grass again. The old cannon was far away from them, and there was only a faint crescent moon in the night sky, and the light was too dim for the old cannon to see what those black shadows were.
"Don't move, stay honest" A supplementary soldier beside the old cannon shook nervously like chaff, and was scolded by the old cannon fiercely. In fact, he is not the only one who is nervous, the supplementary soldiers are now bare-handed, if they come into contact with the Japanese army here, it will be absolutely impossible to save the lives of all the supplementary soldiers with only a few old artillery.
The reinforcements' breathing became heavier and heavier, and finally some of the reinforcements began to retreat deeper into the grass, hoping to take advantage of the possible chaos to escape to the temporary station of the Engineer Corps. One, three, ten, the reinforcements behind the old cannon are getting fewer and fewer, and it is already the seventeenth reinforcement to escape. Yuanbao, who had been watching, finally couldn't help but drag the old cannon's military uniform, so that the old cannon could turn back, as long as he turned around, he could see the supplementary soldiers who were escaping behind him, which was not his own informant.
Who knew that as soon as Yuanbao's hand stretched out, he was firmly grasped by the old cannon's iron tong-like hand, and the pinched ingots were about to open their mouths to call out, but they were tightly covered by the old cannon. "Don't scream, stay honest, just open your eyes and watch, don't speak" The old cannon whispered in Yuanbao's ear, and when he saw Yuanbao nodded, he slowly let go of his hand.
Yuan Bao was lying next to the old cannon, listening to the sound of Suo Suo behind him, and couldn't help but look back, just in time to see two more reinforcements turning around to escape. As soon as he opened his mouth to shout, Yuan Bao saw that the old cannon was smiling at him, and the white teeth looked particularly eerie and terrifying at night. Yuan Bao quickly covered his mouth tightly, and honestly lay on his stomach and stopped squeaking.
I don't know how long I've been lying on my stomach, but just when Yuan Bao was about to fall asleep in a daze, he suddenly heard a birdsong in the grass in front of him. ,, there's a bird there on this big night. The already confused ingots suddenly had a spirit, there was an enemy, this was all said by the instructor when he was in Ramgar, the Japanese army would use the call of birds and beasts to contact their own people, and then launch an attack.
Yuan Bao still remembered to inform the old cannon to be prepared, but when he looked sideways, there was still the shadow of the old cannon next to him. Not only the old cannons, but even the other reinforcements are gone. Mother, is it a ghost, Yuan Bao's frightened hair is upside down, and a pair of eyes involuntarily look left and right. Just when the ingots were looking left and right, a breeze suddenly blew, and the blades of grass were brushed by the wind, and the ingots, who were already suspicious, were even more frightened and their legs weakened, and they lay in the grass and closed their eyes tightly.
Yuanbao, who was paralyzed on the ground in fright, didn't know that there were several people watching him from a high place not far away. "Old Cannon, the people you got here this time can't do it, what kind of stuff are these" The blacksmith dressed in thatch lay in the grass, holding a straw pole in his mouth leisurely, laughing and teasing the old cannon.
"That's not something that Lao Tzu can decide, these are still picked out by a wrench, you haven't seen those who have been supplemented to the 38th Division, it's better to be these guys" The old cannon also looked angry. Originally, even if he came back, he still owed it, so he had to use the walkie-talkie to contact Zhao Zhi when he was still 3 miles away from the valley camp.
Originally, I wanted to show Zhao Zhixian about my hard work, but I didn't expect Zhao Zhi and them to be uncomfortable. After some discussion, a few people came up with a marching exercise, saying that they wanted to get to the bottom of these supplementary troops. The old artillery was very cooperative in bringing the reinforcements to the predetermined place, but this exercise did not matter, the 60 or so reinforcements they brought back from the old artillery ran away at that time, and a few of the remaining half were scared into soft-footed shrimp.
"Look, look, that kid moves" With the blacksmith's words, the old cannon and a few of them looked at the ingots lying on their stomachs. The light at night is very poor, and you can't see the ingots dozens of meters away at all, only a little phosphorescence in the grass. When the old cannon was leaving, he drew a circle on the back of the ingots with phosphorescent powder given by the U.S. military, but the poor ingots didn't know this.
After lying in the grass for a long time, Yuan Bao has been secretly thinking that the people who came with him are gone, and the officers who lead the team are also nowhere to be found. Yuan Bao wanted to leave, at least to return to the temporary camp of the American army engineer for help, but he was unarmed, and it was no joke once he got lost in the wild.
But staying here is not a good choice, Hengzhu is just a death, Yuan Bao thought about it in his heart for a long time, gritted his teeth or decided to leave here and then make plans. Tilting his head to listen to the lack of movement around him, he looked up for a moment, and the ingots moved, and he was slowly retreating into the denser grass.
Exited about ten meters, Yuan Bao has entered the meadow half a person high, vaguely remember the hometown old people said to see the stars at night to guide the way, Yuan Bao ran in the direction of the north. When I came, I came from the north, and there were American troops there, although I couldn't speak the language of foreigners, but I was wearing an American-style military uniform, so I should have found reinforcements.
The sound of brushing sounded, and Yuan Bao ran in the grass with all his might, and his chest was already uncomfortable as if it was about to explode, but he didn't dare to stop, and he didn't dare to stop for a moment. The mania in his body when he ran had suppressed Yuanbao's fear, and there was only one thought left in his head, running, running desperately.
"This kid in the dog day is really running, he was born by a dog in his last life, and he caught up with the four-legged one" The blacksmith who fell far behind was panting and wiping the sweat on his face, and the old cannon next to him was not much better, they were all panting heavily, and their faces were flushed.
"Don't chase, send a signal, if you chase it again, this kid will run away" In desperation, seeing that he couldn't catch up with the ingots, the old cannon had to let the blacksmith send a signal and let the goats blocking the front stop the ingots. This little guy is running, but he can't look in the direction, and if he runs any further, he may enter the woods. This forest is an overwhelming jungle in Myanmar, and it is not easy to get in or out, just with the small sample of ingots, it is estimated that you will not be able to get out.
"This will be a loss of face, go back and wait for our chief to kick your ass" The blacksmith reluctantly took out his flare gun and fired a red flare into the sky. 7 or 8 experienced veterans actually didn't look at a little soldier, and let people leave them far behind, which is really embarrassing.
A few minutes later, a red flare rose again in the direction of the ingot's escape, and the ingots had been stopped by the goats that were blocking there. The old cannon and several people breathed a sigh of relief, and finally didn't let the ingots run away, otherwise this face would really be lost home. Thinking of Zhao Zhi's fake smiling face, everyone glanced at each other, and they all looked scared. /AUT