Standing on the top of the mountain, the high mountain on the opposite side is like a green sea, Zhao Zhi and the others are now standing on the opposite side of the green sea, on a small hill. After resting for a day in an abandoned Burmese village, Zhao Zhi decided to march along the outer side of the mountain based on Wang Dabao's intelligence, in order to collect the routs scattered out of the jungle.

The team walked up the hill for two hours, climbed over a small hill, and in front of a ditch at the bottom of the mountain, the scouts brought back a group of routs who had just gathered. The routs exchanged words in groups under the trees, and they didn't know that the gang of guys in British uniforms with loaded guns and ammunition in front of them belonged to that unit. encountered the rout, the team stopped, and then Zhao Zhi, who caught up from behind, nodded slightly, and didn't want to listen to the steamed buns they exchanged ears and went up a few steps. Holding the rifle in his hand, Mantou said, "We are an expeditionary force that broke through from the Miwa Highway, and I heard that you were scattered by the Japanese army, so we came here to collect you" The doglegs surrounded them in unison and surrounded this group of routers. "Officer, stand up" Mantou majestically stuck the pistol in his waist and looked around at the rout.

"I'm Cao Benchuan from the Political Department of the 22nd Division, with the rank of second lieutenant" A guy with glasses stood up. With a frowning face, compared to the other routs, he only had an extra document bag and a blue paint kettle on his back.

"Damn, the guys in the Political Department are always tidying up their own people, it's really fucking bad luck" Uncle Guo didn't have the joy of meeting the defeated soldiers of the 22nd Division, and spat on the ground to show his anger.

In front of more than 50 routs, only Cao Benchuan stood alone, an officer, and some unrelenting steamed buns said again: "Are there any more officers?" Are there any military doctors? ”

Uncle Guo inspected the rifles of the defeated soldiers, looking at the rifles and bayonets covered with rust stains, and the angry Uncle Guo only scolded the loser. "Sir, give me something to eat, the brothers haven't eaten for two days, we even boiled the belt" Cao Benchuan, who was hungry and dizzy, looked at Zhao Zhi with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

The rich man took out an iron tea jar, dug out three tea jars of rice, handed it to Cao Benchuan, and asked the defeated soldiers to boil porridge and drink it by themselves. "Don't you still have canned food and compressed biscuits?" Cao Benchuan pointed to the canned food box and the compressed biscuit box carried by the wrench, and asked the rich man. "That's reserved for the wounded, and those who can walk on their own are not qualified to eat," Cai Bao blushed and tightened the rice bag.

"What are the injured people eating all this for? Why don't you let us eat?" a bearded rout squeezed over, reaching for something on the wrench's back. The wrench took a few steps back and hid behind the machete. The "stand back" machete still had a cold face, and he was disgusted by these insatiable guys.

"Brothers, they have canned food and compressed biscuits, don't give them to us, one piece on them. If you are bold, you will have food, and whoever grabs it will be whoever" The bearded beard who became crazy because of hunger encouraged the rout soldiers to grab Zhao Zhi and their food with him. He thought that Zhao Zhi and the others only had more than 20 people appearing, even if Zhao Zhi was a lieutenant colonel, but everyone went together, Zhao Zhi would let them go because of the law.

"Bah" a bullet hit the foot of the beard, or the cold voice of the machete "Stand back, or the military law will be engaged" The beard that still does not give up continues to clamore "They don't dare to shoot, get on" The crazy rout soldiers rushed to the wrench, and they aimed at the box on the back of the wrench.

"Ah" was kicked out a few meters away by a machete at the front beard, lying on the ground with white eyes, and had fainted. "Do you want to die?" Maotou, who had been hiding behind, pressed up with the machine gunners and forced the rout back.

The sudden appearance of dozens of people made the routs begin to panic, they didn't expect Zhao Zhi and them to have so many people, and there were actually machine guns. Zhao Zhi has been observing the second lieutenant named Cao Benchuan, from the beginning of the cuffle to the rout, to the machete, the look on Cao Benchuan's face has not changed. It wasn't until Maotou and their appearance that Cao Benchuan's face fluctuated slightly, but then it returned to normal, and Zhao Zhi felt that this second lieutenant was not simple.

Smiling slightly, the corners of his mouth curled, Zhao Zhi cleared his throat and said, "Everyone is very hungry, I know, but the stored food is reserved for the wounded, and whoever grabs the food is my enemy." For the sake of my brethren and for yourselves, don't let me be this wicked man, I don't want to waste bullets"

Zhao Zhi's bloody words made the defeated soldiers take a few steps back in unison. In fact, what Zhao Zhi said is not wrong, food is everything in the jungle. It was not uncommon for the rout to snatch food among the routs in the jungle, but the officer leading the team didn't want to take care of it.

Looking at Zhao Zhi's cold eyes, none of the routs dared to doubt this lieutenant colonel, once they really grabbed the food, this lieutenant colonel would definitely kill them, and not with a gun. The routs who had been given rice scattered in search of dry wood to make a fire, and the bearded people lying on the ground were ignored, including Cao Benchuan.

The routs used their steel helmets to fetch water from the nearby creek, and they cooked porridge in the steel helmets, and for a time curling smoke rose in the open space, and dozens of rout soldiers sat around a dozen campfires, waiting for the porridge to be cooked.

Zhao Zhi looked at his watch, it was 4 o'clock in the afternoon, called the goats, and ordered to set up camp. The goat looked at the sunlight shining through the canopy and asked Zhao Zhi, "Sir, why did you set up camp so early?" Zhao Zhi pointed to the routs who were waiting to drink porridge, "Do you think they can leave now?" ”

Perhaps it was because they had set up camp early today, and with plenty of time, the scouts expanded their vigilance and search, and actually found a mountain spring behind a cliff not far to the north. After leaving Ma Gao, everyone had not taken a bath for a long time, and they actually found a mountain spring here, which made the female soldiers very happy.

The only two cauldrons were set up in the camp, and the old cannon carried back two pots of spring water with the dogs and legs to provide convenience for the female soldiers to bathe. The inexhaustible collection of fallen leaves and dead branches around the ditch made it easy for people looking for firewood to light a fire early to burn the spring water. The female soldiers took a bath in the tent that was erected, and Zhao Zhi, who was not at ease, also placed sentries on the periphery to prevent those routs from peeking at the female soldiers taking a bath.

Compared with the strict defense of female soldiers when bathing, male soldiers bathing is relatively simple, and male soldiers are just behind a ditch, with steel helmets loaded with water for special washing. The smell of sweat in the jungle attracts a lot of insects and flies, which can bring typhoid fever and malaria to the soldiers, which is the main reason for the abnormal attrition of the soldiers.

Washed military uniforms were dried on the hillside, and the male soldiers, wearing only big pants, sat around the campfire and chatted. The doglegs will take a bath whenever they have the opportunity, and they are naturally used to it. But the defeated soldiers are different, they can't eat enough in the jungle, and there are still forces to toss these things that are not important. The goats who came back from the search brought back some wild vegetables and mice, plus the cattle left behind the day before, and the doglegs each shared a lunch box full of vegetable and meat porridge. The few mountain rats and some wild vegetables that had been left alone were distributed among the routs, and the rich man was not obliged to help them cook porridge.

"Chief Zhao, it's very leisurely" Cao Benchuan, who drank the porridge and had a rosy face, sat next to Zhao Zhi, looked at Yuan Qingqing, who was feeding Zhao Zhi, and joked about Zhao Zhi in his mouth.

"This is our medical officer Yuan Qingqing, I have an injury, she is here to take care of me" Zhao Zhi lifted his military uniform and showed Cao Benchuan the medicinal cloth on his wound.

"Chief Zhao is young and promising, and he is a lieutenant colonel at a young age, it's not simple" Cao Benchuan looked at Zhao Zhi with a smile. Under the flickering bonfire, Zhao Zhi felt that Cao Benchuan's eyes behind the lenses revealed an unusual smell. Raising his eyebrows, Zhao Zhi was just about to speak, but Yuan Qingqing's spoonful of meat porridge blocked Zhao Zhi's mouth. Glancing at Zhao Zhi fiercely, Yuan Qingqing looked at Cao Benchuan, and called the steamed bun that was gobbling up next to him, "Steamed bun, help your chief to go for a walk, and then call Uncle Guo over"

"Girl, what's the matter? The old man is eating" Uncle Guo shook over with the lunch box, in fact, he had been paying attention to Cao Benchuan. Yuan Qingqing gave Uncle Guo a look, lowered his head and drank the meat porridge that Zhao Zhi had not finished, and said quietly, "Uncle Guo, this Second Lieutenant Cao seems to be very interested in our chief." You were the first to follow the chief, so let's talk to him."

Uncle Guo drank the porridge and said vaguely, "Second Lieutenant Cao, right?" What do you want to know? The old man told you" "Senior, you misunderstood, we just have nothing to talk about, chat" Looking at the uncle who relied on the old man and sold the old, Cao Benchuan chose to leave. Cao Benchuan, who had just stood up, was stopped by Uncle Guo, who stared at Cao Benchuan tightly with his eagle-eyed sharp eyes, and said slowly, "Second Lieutenant Cao, there is also a difference between a rout and a rout, and taking you with you is what our chief meant." Since you want to go with us, don't ask if you shouldn't ask, those boys over there don't have a good temper" Uncle Guo whistled, and the dogs around the bonfire stood up in unison, glaring at Cao Benchuan in unison.

This formation of the dog's legs did not scare Cao Benchuan, he just smiled slightly and turned to leave. Uncle Guo squinted at Cao Benchuan's back, and secretly muttered to himself that this Cao Benchuan is not simple, not an ordinary person. called the dog, Uncle Guo commanded, "I've watched that Cao Benchuan these days, this person is not simple" The dog immediately stretched his face and gritted his teeth, "Uncle Guo, or kill him, why are you so troublesome?" "Slap" Uncle Guo slapped the dog dotingly, "You said it lightly, can the little white face agree?" There are too many things in the heart of our sir, and you still don't think he is annoying enough."