Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Deserted Village in the Valley

August is the rainiest season of the year in Myanmar, the night is already deep, but Zhao Zhi does not have the slightest sleep, Rowling has already fallen asleep, while Zhao Zhi is standing in front of the window looking at the rain outside the house has not stopped. Zhao Zhi was worried about Ye Kong and Zhang Jinquan, and Mo Lun, who stayed in Kunming, carefully selected 1,500 people from among the progressive students and refugees in Kunming as early as May according to Zhao Zhi's instructions, and sent them to Yangon in a truck transporting the refugees back.

Zhao Zhi never really believed in the Jewish army under him, and since Zhao Zhi returned to Burma, Mo Lun, who had left Kunming, was secretly gathering Chinese refugees and progressive students. 1,500 Chinese who were sent to Yangon by truck, after Yu Dazhi and their selection, Zhao Zhi left only 1,300 people, and after Rowling returned from Mandalay, Ye Kong, who had nothing to do, followed Zhang Jinquan into the mountain with the newly selected 300 reserve snipers, saying that it was a two-month mountain training, but a week had already passed, and Zhao Zhi had not seen Ye Kong and Zhang Jinquan their shadows.

When Zhao Zhi was worried about Ye Kong and them on a rainy night, Ye Kong and Zhang Jinquan were hiding in a mountain col with their reserve snipers to avoid the rain. Moza is a small village southeast of Mandalay, with only a few dozen households, and outside the village is a large area of farmland and criss-crossed rivers, since Zhao Zhi's Jewish First Army came to guard the Yunnan-Burma Highway, all the indigenous residents of the villages near the Yunnan-Burma Highway have also fled, and even in a village like Moza, which is located deep in the mountains, only empty houses are left.

Ye Kong's place to take shelter from the rain is outside Mozha Village, and the guide who entered the mountain with the sniper training team told Ye Kong that this wild village called Mozha is inhabited by Burmese locals, and looking at the current situation, there should be no one in Mozha Village. According to Ye Kong's usual practice, he had already brought his snipers into the village, but today Ye Kong's heart was strange, he always felt that something was wrong with this seemingly deserted village, so after discussing with Zhang Jinquan, Ye Kong decided to stay outside the village and do reconnaissance before making a decision.

The rain is still very strong, it seems that it will not stop for a while, Ye Kong and his snipers are wrapped in raincoats and hiding in the bushes, the thatch outside the bushes is blown by the wind mixed with the rain, and the thatch is like a Lang flower on the seaside with the wind. The rainy season in Myanmar is coming, and the sky is still clear just now, as long as there are dark clouds in the sky, it will not be long before the rain falls. Ye Kong was hanging a thick dark cloud over their heads at this time, and it seemed that the rain would not stop for a while.

The raindrops, which were denser than the rain of bullets, fell with lightning and thunder, and the huge thunder and dazzling lightning caused the snipers to curl up like quails, and although they were wearing raincoats, they were still drenched by the pouring rain. Ye Kong and Zhang Jinquan, who had undergone Zhao Zhi's hellish training, lay motionless on the grass, and the binoculars in their hands also moved around, their eyes were on the deserted village at the bottom of the mountain, Zhang Jinquan also thought that this village was strange.

The heavy rain is pouring very violently, and there is a meaning that it is getting bigger and bigger, except for the movement of the hands and feet with a certain range, the body does not dare to move regardless of the wind and rain. The training of the mercenary unit is rigorous, and these guys who have been tortured by Mo Lun in Kunming have already learned it, and in the face of Ye Kong, who is not smiling, and Zhang Jinquan, who has sharp eyes, the reserve snipers dare not relax in the slightest. If you really want to think about Ye Kong's suspicions, if there are really weirdness in the village, then a slightly too big move by them will expose everyone's location and cause trouble to everyone.

The rain in Myanmar came and went quickly, and the downpour lasted for more than an hour in the lightning and thunder, and then slowly subsided, and the dense raindrops made the trees have no dry place, and the 200 people scattered in the bushes have already become soup chickens. The dark clouds slowly dispersed, with the wind, the moisture on everyone's body was blown away by the wind little by little, Ye Kong stretched out his hand to wipe the water stains on his face, and the rain that slipped into the collar along his neck made him very uncomfortable, Ye Kong, who has always paid attention to appearance, felt that his whole person was about to go rancid.

Zhang Jinquan next to him was still lying on the ground like a stone without moving, the telescope in his hand had not moved his position, Ye Kong, who was very patient, looked at a thatch in front of him, a thatch leaf shone with a round and full rain dew, the rain and dew hung in front of Ye Kong's eyes, with the wind kept shaking, Ye Kong counted silently in his heart, he wanted to see when this rain dew would fall. "Whew" Zhang Jinquan, who tilted his head slightly, blew a breath and artificially blew down the rain and dew that Ye Kong had been staring at, and the angry Ye Kong rolled his eyes at Zhang Jinquan.

"Stop playing, there's movement down there, you're right, this village is indeed weird" Zhang Jinquan nodded at Ye Kong, Ye Kong picked up his binoculars and looked towards the village, but he didn't seem to find anything unusual. "There is smoke, look carefully at the roofs of those houses" Ye Kong's reaction second only to the idiot made Zhang Jinquan very disdainful, and simply stretched out his hand to point out the direction for Ye Kong.

Looking in the direction pointed by Zhang Jinquan, Ye Kong had a little surprise in his heart, and he had been walking around the mountains and forests with the reserve snipers, at most, the professor gave them some mountain concealment and survival training, Ye Kong thought that what they lacked the most should be actual combat training, and now that there was such an opportunity, Ye Kong's heart could not be happy. Indeed, as Zhang Jinquan discovered, a faint smoke appeared on a thatched hut on the west side of the village, Ye Kong knew that it was not the fog after the rain, it was cooking smoke, and there were people in the village.

When the rain stopped, the direction of the wind changed, and the smoke wafting over the village drifted with the wind to the bushes where they were hiding, and many people lying on the ground smelled the smoke, and the smell of burning firewood was mixed with a slight smell of rice. "These foodies" Ye Kong scolded secretly in his heart, and stuffed another piece of jerky into his mouth, they are lurking, they can't make a fire, the jerky they eat is the trophy of hunting in the mountains and forests the day before yesterday, after Zhang Jinquan's processing, it is much more delicious than those canned foods and biscuits, but they are a little too hard now, and Ye Kong's cheeks are a little sore.

"Come out, let's get ready" Zhang Jinquan put down his binoculars and removed the oilcloth on the barrel of his gun, in which he had already spotted the swaying figures in the village. One by one, the orders were relayed, and the snipers, like Zhang Jinquan, uncovered the oilcloth that covered the barrel of the gun and carefully examined their sniper rifles. When Huang Jiachuan came to Myanmar by boat from the United States, he used the relationship of the Rockman family to pack a full 200 new sniper rifles into luggage.

In order to ensure its range, Huang Jiachuan lengthened its barrel, so this new sniper rifle is almost half a pound heavier than the original Mauser sniper rifle. However, after using the magazine, the Snipers carried a lot more ammo, with ten fixed magazine pouches on their bodies, and with the addition of their backpacks, the amount of ammo carried by each Sniper increased to 200 rounds.

The smell of smoke became stronger and stronger, and the snipers found through their scopes that the people who were cooking on the fire in the village were a group of Burmese locals dressed as guys, but Ye Kong and Zhang Jinquan, who had fought with the Japanese army, recognized at a glance that these guys wearing Burmese costumes were all disguised by the Japanese army. The weather after the rain is sweltering, especially in the mountains and forests in August, and those Burmese who have lived in the mountains and forests rarely wear hats and headbands when they walk around their homes. Only the Japanese army trained in strict accordance with the infantry drill will have a hat on his head all the time, Zhao Zhi once told them that untidy clothing is a taboo in the Japanese infantry drill.

"Haha, it's time for the food" Ye Kong and Zhang Jinquan glanced at each other, they both found the antenna that had just been set up in the village, these Japanese soldiers disguised as Burmese had a radio in their hands, as long as there was a radio, they could contact Zhao Zhi who was far away in Yangon. As soon as he thought of the radio, Zhang Jinquan wanted to beat up the radio soldier under him, if it wasn't for this guy's slipping and slipping, their radio station would not have been broken, I don't know if his own husband would reprimand himself and Ye Kong for breaking the radio station after going back this time.

"How many?" Ye Kong stretched out his right hand clenched into a fist to Zhang Jinquan, this is a common method among mercenaries, according to Zhao Zhi's tactical training requirements, when facing the enemy, the attacking side must reserve covering fire before acting. Ye Kong's right hand was holding the bullet that had just been unloaded from the spare magazine, Zhang Jinquan needed to guess the number of bullets in Ye Kong's hand before he had the opportunity to take on the offensive mission, otherwise the work of this attack would be Ye Kong's.

"Two" Zhang Jinquan looked at Ye Kong's hand, and then looked at Ye Kong's expression, and after a pause of more than ten seconds, he reported his answer, but there was nothing in Ye Kong's slowly opened right hand, Ye Kong's right hand clenched into a fist had no bullets at all, Zhang Jinquan was fooled, and Ye Kong successfully deceived Zhang Jinquan with the change in the expression on his face.

"Provide me with fire cover well" Ye Kong patted Zhang Jinquan's steel helmet twice, and crawled away with his team clinging to the ground, "Fool Jinquan, guess when he won me" Thinking of Zhang Jinquan's depressed expression, Ye Kong, who was struggling to crawl with a sniper rifle, couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth.