War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 823 The First Day of Savage Mountain

"Report to Squad Leader Liang!"

On the forest mountain road, Zhou Guochang paid a non-standard military salute in a dignified manner, and said loudly, "The material situation has been counted."

"Tell me about it"

Squad leader Liang took a sip of his cigarette through the interview mask, and responded casually while puffing.

"A total of two hundred catties of rice"

Zhou Guochang took two quick steps and continued, "In addition, there is a barrel of gasoline recovered by Brother Wei. Just before entering the mountain, he also removed a roll of tarpaulin from the American truck that fell into the ditch."

"Where's the water?" Squad leader Liang casually asked while tapping his cigarette pouch, even though these questions had been checked before departure.

"Each person brings two jugs of water," Zhou Guochang replied immediately, "Each donkey has six jugs filled with water."

"Quinine" Squad Leader Liang became a little more serious.

"I'm carrying it"

Wei Ran and Tan Shouzheng replied in unison, such important things are all in their two back baskets.

Squad leader Liang nodded, and subconsciously looked at the donkey that Tan Shouzheng was leading.

Today, the donkey no longer has the two iconic 20-inch large iron pots on its back. Instead, it is replaced by a small pot borrowed from an old monk in the temple and a British pot found in those abandoned trucks. enamel pot.Fortunately, although the cauldron was gone, the kitchen utensils and seasonings were still there. There was even a casserole for boiling medicine and a large bunch of dried chilies in the donkey basket of the little monk Sehao.

Qin Shouzheng undoubtedly paid more attention to the storage of weapons and ammunition than the chef squad leader always paid attention to eating and drinking.It's a pity that although they have three submachine guns, each submachine gun has only three spare magazines, and there are no extra bullets.

After encountering those fake expeditionary soldiers on the way to Mo's village, they got three additional Enfield rifles and enough ammunition.But with so few people and so many guns in total, if they really encountered an enemy, I'm afraid they wouldn't be enough to fit between their teeth.

Thinking of this, Tan Shouzheng sighed, and after a little hesitation, he took off the leather holster on his waist, and handed all of them, together with the Webley revolver inside and the two boxes of ammunition that he searched together, to the same Thoughtful businessman Luke.

"For me?" The businessman Luke asked in surprise in out-of-tune Chinese.

"take it"

Tan Shouzheng patted the Browning pistol on his waist that originally belonged to the other party, "In this barren mountain, if you encounter a tiger, you will always have a weapon for self-defense, but this pistol is mine, I don't want it Will pay you back."

"This gun is already good"

Luke took the Webley revolver without even thinking about it, and kept saying, "That Browning was given to you, so why didn't you abandon me in the first place."

"If it wasn't for Squad Leader Liang, I would have thrown you into the flood." Tan Shouzheng walked a few quick steps as he spoke, obviously not wanting to have too much communication with Luke.

Compared with these few people, the quietest ones in this team are the little master named Se Hao and Wei Ran who walks at the end.

Apart from the personality of the former, the main problem is the language barrier, and every time he wants to say something, he has to rely on Zhou Guochang to translate it.

As for the latter, he was secretly vigilant about whether he would encounter any trouble, or what kind of trouble he would encounter.After all, he clearly remembered that one of the returning tasks this time was to survive until the burial of the squad leader of the cooking class.

Looking regretfully at Squad Leader Liang who was walking in front, Wei Ran sighed silently, feeling a sense of powerlessness all over his body.This kind of torment of knowing that the other party will die and being helpless, made him want to persuade Squad Leader Liang not to enter Savage Mountain again and again since yesterday - even though he knew clearly that he could not change history at all.

"Ugh"

Wei Ran sighed again, tightened the bamboo basket on his back, and stepped up to shorten the distance from the people in front.

From morning to noon, from noon to afternoon, they walked down the whole day, and they just followed the footprints left by the troops that entered Savage Mountain before, and jumped over two mountains.

However, as the sun was about to set, the roar of the plane could be faintly heard from the sky above the dense forest!
"hidden!"

At the front of the team, Tan Shouzheng, who had just climbed to the top of the mountain, let out a loud cry, dragged the donkey and burrowed into the woods by the side of the road.

As soon as he yelled, the businessman Luke grabbed the rein of the little monk Sehao's donkey and followed Tan Shouzheng into the forest by the roadside. At the same time, squad leader Liang and Wei Ran were in no particular order. He grabbed Zhou Guochang, who subconsciously wanted to raise his gun to aim in the air, and led him into the woods.

A moment later, several planes circled overhead, and one of them even dropped two aerial bombs at the hill they had already turned over.

Amidst the rumbling explosions, after some circling, the planes finally flew in the direction of Mo's village.

It wasn't until the movement of the plane completely disappeared that everyone returned to the path in the mountains again. The little monk Sehao also tiptoed to look in the direction of Mo's village. In the end, he put his hands together and lowered his head to mutter something .

Squad leader Liang picked up the British army water bottle that was slung across his body, pulled out the stopper and poured it into his mouth. Seeing that there was no water, he replaced it with another one.

After drinking the last sip of water in the kettle, Squad Leader Liang spat and said, "Go down the mountain and find a place to spend the night halfway up the mountain."

Hearing this, Zhou Guochang immediately translated the original words to the young monk Sehao, and when he finished speaking, the latter also immediately raised his finger and pointed to what he said in front of him.

"Little master said that it is better to continue walking forward. There is a cave halfway up the mountain ahead, which is enough for all of us to rest." Before Zhou Guochang finished speaking, the little monk said something else.

Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Zhou Guochang immediately explained, "Little master also said that you can find mountain spring water not far from that cave."

"Then listen to little master Sehao." Squad leader Liang waved his hand, "Everyone, go a few steps and try to find that cave before it gets completely dark."

This time, without Zhou Guochang's translation at all, the young monk Sehao, who was still barefoot, took the initiative to lead the donkey and walked in the front.

Under the leadership of the little monk, the crowd also accelerated their pace down the mountain in the rising fog.Enduring exhaustion again, in the increasingly dim sight, he left the path stepped by the troops in front, turned onto another mountain road, and finally stopped at the entrance of a cave.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, although the entrance of this cave is not big, the area inside is really not small. Not to mention the six of them and two donkeys, it may be more than enough to park two trucks.

Not only that, there is actually a half-carved Buddha statue inside the cave. Not only are there a few straw futons placed in front of the Buddha statue, there are even a lot of chopped firewood piled up near the rock wall.

These unexpected things also caused a trace of surprise to appear on the faces of everyone who had walked all day.

(End of this chapter)