The dense tropical rainforest made Song Yuhang feel the crisis for the first time, and regardless of the pursuers behind him, he was worried that Chinese soldiers generally lacked experience, training and equipment to fight in tropical jungles and mountains.
On the first day of entering the primeval forest, Song Yuhang issued a puzzling order: All officers and men are not allowed to drink unboiled water, even if they receive rainwater that has not yet landed, they must wash their hands before eating, they are not allowed to eat any wild fruits and vegetables outside of the second meal, and when they are picked, they must be sent to the logistics of all companies for identification and classification, and those who violate them will be punished by military law.
However, Song Yuhang still underestimated the power of the tropical rainforest, and on the sixth day of entering the jungle, the radio station was damaged due to dampness in the vast primeval jungle where it is difficult to identify the direction.
The dreaded months of April and May are the cold rainy seasons in the rainforests of Myanmar In the afternoon, the pouring rain brought a rare chill to the Chinese soldiers walking through the tropical jungle, but the rain became heavier and heavier, and there was no intention of stopping, as if the sky was leaking, not raining, but splashing water, and in desperation, Song Yuhang had to order the troops to rest in place.
The high-intensity march and the shrinking rations of food rations tortured the Chinese soldiers, who had been like a pack of tigers to exhaustion, and they leaned together in groups to keep each other warm.
After Song Yuhang dragged heavy steps to check around, when he returned, he found that Xu Yuanhang had already led someone to build a shed with banana leaves.
Song Yuhang silently looked at Xu Tuan's busy back, and smiled helplessly, Xu Tuan, the acting chief of staff he picked up, was more like his adjutant general, and took care of Song Yuhang's life.
When Xu Tuan commanded the regimental guard company to build the second shed, he suddenly found that Song Yuhang was standing behind him and hurriedly walked a few steps to Song Yuhang's side and said: "Tuanzao, hurry up and enter the shed, don't catch a cold." ” Xu Tu'an's words woke up Song Yuhang, after this heavy rain, I am afraid that many soldiers will suffer from colds, in this primeval jungle where there is a lack of medical treatment, a small cold is very easy to cause various complications, once the illness is equivalent to the death sentence.
Song Yuhang hurriedly ordered Xu Tu'an to let all the wounded go into the shed, and was seeing if he could find some way to ward off the cold Song Yuhang looked at the ginger water handed to him by Mengzi in confusion, and Mengzi explained: "Minister Xiao organized the boiling" The iron jar covered with a banana leaf brought Song Yuhang a trace of warmth, and Song Yuhang handed the jar back to Mengzi and said: "Pass my order, the wounded drink first, then the soldiers, and finally the officers." ” Mengzi was stunned for a moment, and then turned his eyes to Xu Tuan, Xu Tuan looked at Song Yuhang's pale lips and resolute expression, and closed his open mouth again.
Luo Jiaxiang smiled helplessly, he was a little reluctant to this rare ginger water, and watched Mengzi take away all the ginger water, thinking that there is really a regiment commander and a soldier, this second or fifth guard company commander is as dead as their regiment commander, and it is not good to leave two cylinders Where did Luo Jiaxiang know, Mengzi's attitude was very clear, the head of the regiment didn't drink, you still want to drink, there was no door At this moment, there is a more fierce inner struggle than Luo Jiaxiang, that is, Xiao Guodong, these three sacks of ginger and some Hongtang chocolates were exchanged for two gold bars during his retreat, and today he had to take out some ginger soup to ward off the cold for everyone, which was already very painful.
The most painful thing is that standing in the rain, he commanded and supervised the distribution of ginger water, and he himself could not drink it, because the regiment commander had an order, first the wounded and then the soldiers, and finally the officers.
After learning that all the soldiers, including the British, had drunk hot ginger water, Song Yuhang finally took a vat of hot ginger water from Mengzi's hand, and with a stream of heat flowing down his stomach, a trace of ruddy appeared on Song Yuhang's lips.
Song Yuhang did not know which map should be used as the map should be used for the two maps of Burma printed by the Nationalist Government in 1934 and the British Empire in 1929, but neither of the two maps had the same data in terms of latitude, longitude and altitude.
Faced with the map of one in 100,000, Song Yuhang sighed, this scale of the map is only suitable for staff officers to formulate strategic objectives, the map is only the size of a matchbox Savage Mountain has been walking for fifteen days, according to the progress should catch up with the military headquarters and the rear guard But judging by the scattered remains of wounded soldiers and discards, they seem to have deviated from the predetermined route.
The scouts sent brought bad news to Song Yuhang, there were a large number of corpses of our soldiers and a small number of corpses of Japanese soldiers by a pond in front, and there were traces of hand-to-hand combat.
Song Yuhang didn't say a word, and immediately led a platoon of guards to rush over, and at a pond one kilometer away from the camp of the 200th Regiment, hundreds of corpses were lying on the sidelines, and the corpses that were already highly decomposed showed that this was a few days ago.
Song Yuhang first checked the corpses of the Japanese soldiers and found that these Japanese scouts were actually subordinate to the Sixth Division, and the scouts of the Japanese Sixth Division appeared near him, which was not good news for Song Yuhang.
When looking at the number on the clothes of the corpse of the national army, Song Yuhang was surprised to find that it was the team directly under the military department, and he remembered that when he was leaving, he handed over 80 of the food looted by the British to Du Yuming, and thought that the tragedy of Savage Mountain could be avoided as much as possible, but what he didn't expect was that the tragedy still happened.
Where did Song Yuhang think that Du Yuming led an army of more than 50,000 people, and he was inexperienced and poorly prepared for the expeditionary force to cross the tropical primeval rainforest, and dozens of truckloads of food were just a drop in the bucket for an army of 50,000, which was like his 200th regiment, but more than 2,000 people, and it was relatively well prepared.
"There is still a group seat, here," the scout who had made a new discovery hurriedly called out to Song Yuhang.
In a low bush, hundreds of Chinese soldiers, mostly lightly wounded, formed a camp, leaning on their backs or leaning on tree poles, their weapons set up in brackets, all as if they were asleep, dead silence, only the sound of the rushing rain.
In this camp with the smell of death, Song Yuhang's heart was extremely painful and sad, these battle-hardened divisions failed to realize their long-cherished wish of fighting for the country and the nation, and were quietly swallowed up by this damn primeval forest.
"It is intolerable to abandon the wounded," Song Yuhang was so angry that his lips turned blue.
Not far away, the scout found a group of dead people who were still alive, and in Song Yuhang's opinion, people who had lost their will to live were no different from dead people.
When he walked into the camp, he found that most of the camp of nearly 100 people was composed of female soldiers, and the glazed female soldiers found that someone was approaching them, and thought that they were hallucinating due to hunger.
The red cross armband hanging on the arm of the female soldier who was already so thin that she couldn't distinguish the color made Song Yuhang feel shocked "Is Wang Wen here" Song Yuhang pulled a female officer sitting under the tree, the female officer slowly raised her godless eyes and glanced at Song Yuhang, then slowly lowered her head, and gently touched the pale face of a girl lying in her arms.
Song Yuhang stretched out his hand and opened the pale girl's eyelids, and the pupils that had spread seemed so unwilling.
Not a few steps inside, Song Yuhang met an old acquaintance, Su Na, director of the secret telecommunications department of the military department, and Su Na, who was standing in the heavy rain, also recognized Song Yuhang, she rushed over with an excited expression, opened her arms and hugged Song Yuhang tightly, and groped around Song Yuhang's body with both hands.
Song Yuhang was stunned for Suna's extraordinary reaction, and his outstretched arms hesitated for a moment before closing them, gently brushing Suna's wet hair.
Suddenly, Song Yuhang found that Suna was crying in his arms in a low voice Song Yuhang was confused, is this still Director Su who is confident and strong and regards death as nothing When Suna calmed down, she found that her behavior seemed to be a little inappropriate, and she struggled out of Song Yuhang's arms with a red face, and Song Yuhang, who was slightly embarrassed, asked patiently: "Director Su, what happened to why the secret telegraph office and the field hospital are left behind, didn't you follow the military department to act together?"
Song Yuhang didn't ask, but when he asked, he aroused Suna's anger, Suna gritted her teeth and said hatefully: "After the military seat entered the forest, he suffered from jungle fever, and most of the time he was in a coma, and we have already killed all the mules and horses that have run out of food four days ago, because our secret telegram and field hospital are all women, and the speed of travel is slow, Wang Jinming, the turtle bastard, lied to us that Chief of Staff Luo sent someone to pick us up, and notified the 200th Regiment behind the palace to take care of us, so we transferred our guard troops and let us wait here, But we've all been here for a few days, and there's no one to be seen. ” As soon as Song Yuhang heard what Suna said and explained to let the 200th Regiment contain these female soldiers, his face couldn't help but change slightly, he knew that his army's food was running out, and it was probably not enough to have more than 100 mouths.
If Suna had ordered the radio station of the 200th Regiment to be reimbursed by the damp primeval forest for the sake of her life, she would have been unable to contact the military headquarters at all, but Song Yuhang had already made up her mind that no matter whether Suna's words were true or false, he would never abandon his comrades, especially women.
As she spoke, Suna's tears flowed, and this time Song Yuhang finally understood that some people suspected the female soldiers of slowing down their speed, and abandoned them all under the pretense of order.
In the ruthless vast primeval forest, in the face of life and death, the ugliest dark side of human nature is exposed, and he does not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of others for his own survival, if this happens to ordinary people, Song Yuhang will not even complain, after all, the ancestors of the Chinese once said thousands of years ago that people do not destroy for themselves.
Anyone can, but Song Yuhang clearly remembers the heroic slogan of the year: never abandon and never give up Song Yuhang looked around, he knew that he couldn't tell Suna the truth, and he had to give these poor women an excuse to live, so he said gloomily: "Not far from you, there are two small troops that have been wiped out because they drank unboiled water, and they may be the troops who came to meet you." ” "Really" Suna looked at Song Yuhang with an unbelievable gaze Song Yuhang nodded seriously, the duties they failed to complete will be taken over by us, we are here to look for you, as long as there is a bite to eat in our 200th regiment, you will not be hungry, I will definitely bring you all back to China.
Knowing that she was not actually abandoned by Shangfeng, the excited Suna had already lost her usual calmness and wisdom, and she failed to see through Song Yuhang's many and huge flaws
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