At the end of 1941, the Pacific War broke out, and the Japanese army invaded Burma in an attempt to cut off the Yunnan-Burma highway and prevent the delivery of strategic materials to China.
In order to defend the Yunnan-Burma Highway, in March 1942, the Nationalist Government dispatched 100,000 elite soldiers to form an expeditionary force to Burma to join hands with the British and American allies to resist Japan.
But later, due to the poor cooperation of the Allied forces, the battle was lost, and the expeditionary force had to retreat inland.
The Japanese army cut off the expeditionary force's return channel, and Chief Du Yuming chose an extremely dangerous return road through a primeval forest called Savage Mountain to enter the country.
At that time, only the 38th Division led by General Sun Liren refused to carry out this absurd order, and led its troops to break through in the direction of India, saving a part of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
Colonel Lu Taiguan was sent by the general to Du Yuming's headquarters to explain the intentions of the 38th Division, but he was unexpectedly detained by Du Yuming and walked into Savage Mountain together.
The northern part of Myanmar is a tropical primeval rainforest, often infested with savages, and is called the savage mountain, stretching for thousands of miles, more than 200 kilometers in depth, the trees on the mountain cover the sky, the sun is not seen all the year round, the beasts are swarmed, the locusts are everywhere, the large army is difficult to supply, at the end of May, the Chinese expeditionary force abandoned all the baggage, retreated to the north of Myitkyina.
In June 1942, tens of thousands of exhausted expeditionary troops marched into this primeval forest and began their "death journey".
Tens of thousands of soldiers lost their way in the vast forest, and soon they ran out of food and fell into starvation, where the wounded commander of the 200th Division, General Dai Anlan, died.
The primeval forest is damp and suffocating, gnats and all kinds of strange insects fly in clusters, especially cloud miasma, malaria, relapsing fever, tetanus and other epidemics.
Some soldiers have a high fever, once they faint, they fall to the ground and are sucked by locusts, gnawed by ants, and eroded by heavy rain, turning into white bones in a few short hours.
Just when it was finally cornered, a U.S. patrol plane spotted these desperate Chinese troops in the primeval rainforest, so it sent many sorties of C47 transport planes to drop a large number of medicines, food, clothing, etc., and even razors and wooden combs, and the most important thing was to airdrop a few brave liaison officers, and in the end, it was these liaison officers who took these surviving Chinese expeditionary forces out of the Savage Mountain, crossed the Nu River, and returned to Yunnan, with only more than 3,000 people left.
There is a sacrificial song that sings: Under the shady trees, at the water's edge of the rapids, The passing of June and July, in the deserted mountains, Your bodies are still struggling to return, And the nameless wildflowers are already blooming overhead.
The hunger, the impact of the torrent, The night of the bite of the poisonous insect and the pain, You can't stand to tell people, Now it is the trees of the thriving that have forgotten everything.
What was past was your struggle to death, You died for the survival of those who want to live, The white-hot strife has not ceased, But you will hear no more in the cycle of the forest.
Quietly, on the slopes of the forgotten hills, It's still raining, and there's a gentle wind, No one knows that history has walked here, Leaving the heroic spirit to grow into the trunk of the tree.
This is the sad experience of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, but who still remembers them today Most of the soldiers are from Hunan, and there are many of them in my hometown. ” Speaking of this, Lu Taiguan was already whimpering and sobbing.
"Your bodies are still struggling to return, and the nameless wildflowers are already blooming all over your heads," Mingyue repeated the two words, and crystal tears poured down her face.
Lu Taiguan silently rolled up his sleeves, revealing his two arms, but saw that his forearms were covered with scars, and some places were sunken, and his skin was black.
"You are," Granny Wang said in surprise.
"When a person is so hungry that it is unbearable and his mind is in a trance, he can only gnaw on his own flesh" Lu Taiguan twisted the muscles on his face in pain, and his body trembled slightly.
Granny Wang was silent.
"I died on a dark night in June, lying alone in the damp jungle, leeches and ants biting me, the tattered military uniform could not hide my naked body, I would become an obscure white skeleton, before I died, there was no war in my mind, no killing, only the clear peach blossom river water in my hometown and the beautiful girl in mallet clothes by the river," Lu Taiguan muttered.
"Later," Mingyue asked, her eyes wide.
Lu Taiguan continued: "In that reckless primeval dense forest, there came a person who had nothing to do with the war, who came to the Savage Mountain from the distant Hunan Mountains to collect medicine, and she was a bald old woman by the Peach Blossom River.
She found my uncooled body, recognized me, said that the descendants of the Wu family should not die like this, and then poured a herb for me, and from then on, Wu Taiguan, the colonel of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, became a bloody corpse. ” "Blood corpse" Mingyue looked at Taiguan Lu in surprise.
"You are from the Wu family of Shame Mountain," Granny Wang asked.
"The ancestor is the commander of the Yangtze River Navy and the first-class member Wu Jiabang."
Mrs.
Lu replied.
"Well, no wonder the bald old woman wants to save you, after all, you are still relatives."
Granny Wang said.
"She's my aunt."
Lu Taiguan said.
Granny Wang said: "I see, the bald old woman is my junior sister, we are three junior sisters, she is the second, the youngest third married an officer of the Kuomintang, and went to Taiwan in 49 years, it should be the so-called Hakka grandmother." ” "I'm sorry, I should call you aunt, it's rude."
Lu Taiguan said respectfully.
Granny Wang said slowly: "The old woman has long forgotten the red tape in the world, in the year of liberation, the bald old woman had a premonition that she would die soon, so she asked someone to bring me a letter, which said that a few years ago, she had changed her family surnamed Wu in the primitive jungle of Myitkyina to Zhu Youshu corpse, and after her death, she would ask that person to bring her bones to Poyang Lake Valley and bury them next to the master's grave, and that person would be you." ” Lu Taiguan's face turned red, looking extremely embarrassed, and he said: "After my corpse turned into a bloody corpse, I lived in seclusion in my hometown until 49 years, and my aunt found me before she died, and asked me to open the coffin and collect the bones three years after her death, and send them to Poyang Lake Valley in northern Jiangxi, but in order to escape the national suppression of the counterrevolutionary movement, I fled overnight, and never returned to my hometown in Hunan again." ” Mrs.
Lu's mood gradually calmed down, and told Mrs.
Wang that after fleeing from her hometown, she came to Hong Kong, changed her name to Mrs.
Lu, and engaged in the jade and jade trade produced in Myanmar.
Granny Wang nodded and said: "Blood corpses can live like normal people, but they can't marry wives and have children, and there is a massive hemorrhage once a month, and then they have to replenish fresh blood, how did you get fresh human blood, and you won't do things that hurt the heavens and reason."
"Lu doesn't dare, another reason why Lu has been staying in Hong Kong is that he can buy fresh blood in the hospital, and I am afraid he will not be able to do it when he returns to the mainland."
Lu Taiguan hurriedly explained.
"People have seven tricks, how can my mother-in-law say that they have nine tricks," Mingyue wondered on the side.
Pointing to his head, he said, "Two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, and a mouth," and then pointed to his body and said, "The anus and urethra are two holes, and together they are nine holes, while women have one more point, which is ten." ” Mingyue's face flushed when she heard this, and she stopped making a sound.
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Granny Wang glanced at Taiguan Lu and said, "You have been to the side first, and I will talk to Mingyue alone." ” "Yes, auntie."
Taiguan Lu respectfully stepped back.
Granny Wang looked at Mingyue and said sincerely: "Mingyue, life is short, some things can't be delayed, mother-in-law is willing to go with you to meet the man who makes you restless, is it good to end this relationship" Mingyue pondered for a long time, and finally seemed to have finally made up her mind, raised her head and said: "I am already the apprentice of the nameless master, if I change to my mother-in-law as a teacher, I must get the master's consent." ” "This is easy to do, she is Wu Daoming's daughter-in-law, I'll tell her."
Granny Wang said happily.
"I want to go back to Wuyuan, he will come back in the wax moon before the Spring Festival."
Mingyue lowered her head and said softly.
"Okay, I'll take you away tomorrow."
Granny Wang said with a smile
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