Chapter 48: The Boundless Savage Mountain (1)
With a series of wrong judgments and commands from the Expeditionary Force Command, the war situation in Myanmar continued to deteriorate. The main force of the Japanese army remained in the direction of Mandalay, while the other Japanese army rushed in a car to capture Relem, Bangketu, occupied Nancang and Xibao, captured Lashio, the expeditionary force's logistics base, and cut off the Myanmar highway. Then the Japanese army led to Bamo and Myitkyina, completely isolated the route for the Chinese Expeditionary Force to retreat to the country.
At the critical moment of withdrawal, the Chinese Expeditionary Force stationed most of its forces near Mandalay, and was unstable in advance and retreating, and automatically gave up the precious time to transfer to northern Myanmar.
The chief of the Expeditionary Force, who was in a dilemma, finally issued a retreat order, ordering the troops concentrated in Mandalay to retreat. However, because the order did not clarify the retreat routes of each department or specify the coordinated action plan, the retreat of each department was actually doing its own affairs, and eventually it inevitably turned into a major retreat.
Wild man mountain is located in the border area between China, Myanmar and India, stretches for thousands of miles, with a depth of 200 kilometers, with an average height of more than 2,600 meters. The mountains cover the sky, vines and grass are everywhere, and the sun is gone all year round. There are flocks of beasts, poisonous snakes, mosquitoes, and leeches everywhere.
"Even if you die, you must climb to the land of your motherland and die!" Countless soldiers of the national army held this belief and dragged their tired bodies to trek in this green demon cave.
The mountains and fields were filled with escaped scattered soldiers and bravely stumbled, trying hard to support their heavier bodies. They didn't know when they would fall to the ground and never get up again.
In the tide of defeated soldiers, a team of fifty or sixty people maintained a strict formation. They carried their luggage and were equipped with all their equipment, and their pace was fast and firm, constantly surpassing the retreating small team of the national army.
The deeper you go into the jungle, the more dead bodies you see. Some of them swell like ten months of pregnancy, their belly is raised high, maggots crawl around in their mouths, noses, and ears. A foul odor makes people dizzy. Whenever they see dead bodies with their eyes open, there are always members of the Rangers who come forward and wipe off their double eyelids with their hands. Silently pray that they can return to their hometown.
Wu Ming walked quickly in front of the team with a gloomy face, as if he had seen nothing, and he didn't know what he was thinking. None of the team members dared to ask, and they followed his footsteps tightly.
After the 200-year breakup between Tang Ji and Dai Anlan, Wu Ming led the Rangers to hurry up, but it was still one step late. Du Yuming still obeyed Chiang Kai-shek's orders and led his troops into the Wild Man Mountain, and wanted to step out a way back to China from here.
Wu Ming quickly stepped onto the small highland, with a tumbling stream below, about thirty meters away from the other side, and there was a dense jungle on the other side.
The dense branches and leaves on the shore tilted towards the stream, setting up a natural green canopy for the stream bank, and white mist dyed green appeared and appeared.
Wu Ming raised the telescope and observed carefully for a while. He put down the telescope, stood silently on the high ground, and thought for a long time. He said slowly: "I won't leave, let's stop here!"
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"Let's go, sisters, hold on."
"It's great if you enter the mountains. There are wild fruits everywhere, so you won't be hungry."
"No matter how capable the Japanese are, they can't catch up with them."
"Yes! Just retreat to Wild Man Mountain. It's a natural barrier. No matter how capable the little Japanese devils are, they can't do anything. There are endless wild fruits and game in the mountains, which is so beautiful!"
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Among the defeated team, several female soldiers from the nurse class of the New 22nd Division were walking with innocence. Their feet were covered with blood bubbles. The old bubbles broke and the new bubbles rose again, bubbles continued to bubbles, and bubbles stacked bubbles. If they were accidentally, the sand fell into the shoes and embedded them into the blood bubbles, which was so painful that they were heart-wrenching.
Several female soldiers took one by one, gritting their teeth one by one. The breasts were wrapped in a cloth used as a bra, which was soaked in sweat and stuck to their bodies, making them very uncomfortable. They were soaked in sweat all day long, and their heads were covered with lice without bathing. The gray-black lice were the size of rice grains, and the white lice were scattered with white sesame seeds. There were also pubic lice in the armpits, which made the female soldiers suffer so much that they caught them while walking. The female soldiers were tortured to the point of being human.
The retreating team crept in the black forest for three days and advanced less than ten miles. The troops soon ran out of food and began to starve people to death in groups of three or three. From then on, the troops began to fight hunger - they were cooked with leather shoes and belts, and even the pistol holster became a thing of the stomach. Later, from the commander to the soldiers, they could only rely on the bark and grass roots to survive. Because the troops had not conducted jungle survival training, many officers and soldiers died after eating poisons. Some comrades suddenly fell to the ground with a "thump" and could never get up again.
The Wild Man Mountain is full of leeches, and the female soldiers have to catch some of them from their bodies every day. The legs, stomach, and breasts are all covered with leeches at some point. It was not until the head nurse He Shan invented the "fire method" that she suffered less flesh and blood.
The mosquitoes in Wild Man Mountain were also surprisingly large. When their wings spread out like dragonflies, they bite them all over their bodies, and they were red and swollen. The female soldiers with fine skin and tender flesh were the focus of the mosquitoes attacking. The female soldiers were all blushing and swollen. Sometimes when they walked to low-lying places, the mosquitoes were covered in black and covered with the sky, and they could only run away with their heads in their arms.
"I can't walk anymore, don't worry about me." Chen Na, the youngest, sat down on the ground crying, "Just throw me here!" She was bitten by a snake on the first day she entered the Wild Man Mountain. Although she did not have an attack in time for rescue, she always felt depressed and uncomfortable, and she was extremely mentally ill. Everyone also cared for her. Everyone rushed to carry her things and encouraged her to comfort her.
"Nana, what stupid things are you saying?" He Shan walked up to her and whispered: "You forgot to follow the two monsters. If they were caught, it would be over. Let's hold on! Come on, I'll help you go."
Perhaps to verify He Shan's words, a gust of wind suddenly broke out in the forest, and the leaves were clattering loudly, which made several female soldiers tremble and raised their guns at the same time, aiming around.
"It's there." Wu Guiying pointed at the black shadow on a big tree. I don't know if it was because she was dazzled or if it was really there. Anyway, she raised her gun and fired it.
Chapter completed!