CHAPTER XIX

"Gentlemen, we have surrendered. According to the Geneva Conventions, you can't hurt us," Henry, who knew Japanese, protested loudly.

"It's okay not to hurt you, but we need food and supplies," Xiucai said with the arrogance of a Japanese officer, holding the command knife on his waist, pointing at Henry.

Seeing that this Japanese officer was so talkative, Henry immediately nodded desperately in response, "We are just a small unit responsible for retreating from the broken back, and there is our material warehouse in Magao, I can take you there" "Idiot, you can't say" James shouted loudly, desperately struggling to beat Henry. "Why can't you say that it's going to blow up anyway," Henry retorted to James with a straight face.

With a wave of his hand, the scouts took the Japanese-speaking guy and headed straight for the warehouse. The material warehouse was actually not far away, and Henry and James were assigned the task of blowing up the warehouse, so they did not leave with the British troops. Of course, their mission hadn't started yet, because the explosives were still on the jeep. Fortunately, the dog's shot didn't hit the jeep directly, otherwise Henry and James would have been dead by now.

"Damn, I've made a fortune" Xiucai looked at the full warehouse, and his heart was ecstatic. As soon as Xiucai made a look, the dog who had been waiting for a long time punched Henry's ear, looking at Henry, who was unconscious and collapsed to the ground. Xiucai grinned and said to the scouts, "Inform the chief and the rich man to come and take over the warehouse"

When Zhao Zhi arrived at the warehouse with a large team of people, Xiucai took a box of canned meat and squatted at the door to eat Zhenghuan. Seeing Zhao Zhi, Xiucai hurriedly stood up and wiped the oil stains on his mouth with the tattered sleeves of his military uniform, "Report to the chief, the warehouse has been controlled by us, if we come a little later, the British army will blow up here." This warehouse is too big, there is food, military uniforms, guns and ammunition, medicines and everything."

"Get out of the way, get out of the way" The rich man squeezed into the warehouse with a sweat, "put it down for the fuck" The rich man punched and kicked and pushed aside the doglegs who were robbing the cans. "You're too ruthless" The long hair that was punched by the rich man covered his blue eyes, and looked at the crazy rich man aggrievedly.

"Get out of here, no one is allowed to come in until the inventory is finished," the rich man crossed his waist viciously, pointing at the dogs who were huddled together. Even the innocent Zhao Zhi did not escape, and was still kicked in the ass by the rich man and thrown out.

Half of the doglegs were arranged by Zhao Zhi to go to the guard, and the remaining doglegs helped the rich man count the supplies. Changmao diligently moved a chair for Zhao Zhi, and by the way, instructed Da Confused to take two female soldiers to fan Zhao Zhi with banana leaves. Zhao Zhi, who was cross-legged by Erlang, drank water very leisurely, and things went so smoothly, but it was Zhao Zhi's surprise. With these supplies, the brothers have more hope of returning home. Although the road ahead was very slim and difficult, after two months of escaping, Zhao Zhi felt that he had the confidence to bring his brothers home. The most difficult jungle has already come out, and all that remains is to bypass the Japanese army in Sunbrabang and then cross the Gaoligong Mountain. Zhao Zhi felt that their small force, as long as there were supplies, would definitely return to China.

Zhao Zhi didn't have a specific plan in his heart. With his pitiful military qualities, he really didn't have any good plans, so he could only take one step at a time. But fortunately, the doglegs are very obedient to Zhao Zhi's orders, and Uncle Guo and several of their veterans are also very protective of Zhao Zhi, at least in front of people. After a few battles in the jungle, Zhao Zhi was no longer the quartermaster who was waiting to die, and the brothers were now pointing at him. He has to learn to be strong on his own, and he wants to take his brothers home, which is a promise made by Zhao Zhi to everyone, and it is also a promise made by Zhao Zhi to himself.

The amount of material counted in the warehouses of the British army was huge, and the abundance of materials made everyone overjoyed. Thousands of new uniforms have given the doglegs a new look, and the cans and compressed biscuits in the warehouse fill everyone's new backpacks. The old cannon who did not give up actually found a batch of nationally made expeditionary force ordnance in the corner of the warehouse. The brand-new Zhongzheng rifle filled the doglegs with the national weapons full of joy, and the old cannon naturally held a few mortars and looked for his men.

"Uncle Guo" Zhao Zhi stood on a stack of ammunition boxes, shouting loudly for Uncle Guo, holding a Lee-Enfield sniper rifle in his hand. This kind of rifle with a small mirror was used by a veteran instructor of the Central Army when Zhao Zhi was in the officer training class. However, the one they have is a German-made sniper rifle, which is much stronger than the British rifle in terms of performance. This British-made sniper rifle was found by the rich man in a pile of rifles, but the butt was cracked. However, after being repaired by the blacksmith, the sniper rifle became a little weird, but it still worked.

Uncle Guo is the guy with the best marksmanship in the team except for goats, and this slightly weird sniper rifle is naturally given to him. "Uncle Guo" Zhao Zhi shouted again, and in the laughter of the dogs, Uncle Guo proudly arched his hand and took the gun in Zhao Zhi's hand. Uncle Guo flipped his wrist, pulled the bolt neatly, loaded the bullet, and used the scope to observe the hypothetical target in front of him. "This dog's day is a good messenger, mother, the meat residue on the teeth of the old cannon, Lao Tzu has seen it" Uncle Guo cherished the gun in his arms. "Goat" Zhao Zhi continued to shout, holding an American-made Thomson submachine gun in his hand. More than 20 Thomson submachine guns and bullets were also found in the firearms of the expeditionary force, and Zhao Zhi decided to give them to the goat's scouts for use.

Zhao Zhi looked at the goat and uncle Guo who were standing beside him, and he was afraid to hit them on the shoulder, "You are veterans among veterans, and the best weapons have been handed over to you, I hope you will protect the safety of your brothers." It's not an order, it's just a request," Zhao Zhi saluted the doglegs with a standard military salute, "I know everyone is tired and wants to rest here." But I can't promise, our northeast direction is Sunbrabang, where Japanese troops have already appeared. This was still a week ago, and the Japanese army occupied Sunbrabang in order to cut off our way home. Now the British troops in all parts of Burma are retreating towards India, and our expeditionary force has been abandoned by the British and dragged down by them. Our strength is too small, so we can only take care of ourselves first. ”

"Sir, just say your arrangement, the brothers believe in you" The red-faced goat glared at Zhao Zhi stared at him. "That's it, what kind of calf are you pretending, hurry up, Lao Tzu is still busy" The anxious old cannon waved his arm at Zhao Zhi very annoyingly. "You shut up Lao Tzu" Uncle Guo grabbed a pair of military boots and smashed them at the old cannon.

Zhao Zhi looked around at the doglegs, paused, and then said, "Since everyone is willing to believe me, then let's quickly pack up our things and bring all the useful things that we can take away." Let's ,,," Before Zhao Zhi's words were finished, he was interrupted by Xiucai, who suddenly rushed in. "Sir, sir, this is Mr. Ma who escaped from Tengchong" Xiucai pulled an old man wearing a white hat.

"This is Mr. Ma, they are Hui, who fled from Tengchong to Magao. There are many Hui people from China in Magao, and the old gentleman heard that we are an expeditionary force, so he wanted to come and meet you."

"Tengchong has been occupied by little devils, there is no home, no people, no more" The old man shouted, his hands kept beating Zhao Zhi, and his eyes were already full of old tears. The old man's gray hair reminded Zhao Zhi of his father, when his home was burned down by the Japanese army, his old father knelt in front of his mother's corpse and cried like this. Zhao Zhi waved his hand to let the dogs who came over scatter and helped the old man to sit down. Zhao Zhi took off his steel helmet, knelt straight in front of the old man, and said in a choked voice: "Old man, I am not a good soldier, but I am a Chinese, a Chinese man." Zhao Zhi pulled out the bayonet on his waist and made a cut on his hand, and the blood dripped down his arm to the ground, and soon it was a puddle. Old man, I swear by my blood that I will drive away the devils and take you home in my lifetime."

The dog-legged men behind Zhao Zhi knelt down one after another, took out daggers or bayonets, and slashed them on their hands. Soon, there were many more pools of blood on the ground. A dull voice sounded in the open space in front of the warehouse, "I swear with my blood that I will drive out the devils and take you home in my lifetime"

The tearful old man Ma stretched out his trembling hand, pulled Zhao Zhi up tremblingly, and looked at everyone carefully, as if he wanted to remember everyone's faces. "I know you are all good, you are all good" Old Man Ma touched the scars on everyone's hands and faces, and the tears that had just been wiped clean flowed down again. Old Man Ma stomped his feet as if he had made an important decision, "Sir, I know you are going back to China. I have a grandson of my own family, he is familiar with the road from Tengchong to here, let him take you back to China"

"Sir, Mr. Ma only has such a grandson, and his son and daughter-in-law died at the hands of devils" Xiucai and Zhao Zhi bit their ears and said small words. "Old man, this can't be done, we can't take your lone seedling" Zhao Zhi hurriedly grabbed the old man. But the stubborn old man ignored Zhao Zhi's objections at all, and called a young man who came with him and pulled him in front of Zhao Zhi, "Gava, you follow this chief and take them back." You just follow them to fight devils, don't embarrass our old Ma family" The young man knelt on the ground and hugged the old man's leg, "Baba, I'm leaving, what should you do?" "Get out, it's useless, when I was your age, I came to Yunnan from Ningxia by myself" The old man kicked over the young man, and walked away with his hands behind his back despite everyone's dissuasion.

With tears in his eyes, the young man fell to his knees, kowtowed three times, and shouted loudly, "Baba, don't worry, I won't embarrass our old Ma family." You have to wait for me, I will come back to pick you up"

The old man continued to walk without looking back, just waved his hand a few times, and sang melodious flowers in his mouth:

Go up to a high mountain,

Ho yo ---- yes,

Hope--Pingyo River,

ouch

Wangping Yo Chuan,

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