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Chapter 26: Be Prepared to Succeed

No." Ji Caifeng shook her head honestly, then said: Fighting on the flat ground, you won’t be able to penetrate the forest, and there is nearly a hundred thousand troops!"

Wu Ming's brows frowned tightly, his face was solemn, and he followed the carriage thoughtfully and stopped talking.

"By the way, Brother Liu." Ji Caifeng changed the topic and said with a smile: "Zhenying has also come to our division. He is an interpreter for the American consultant in the division headquarters. If he knew you were here, he would definitely be very happy."

"Is that true?" Wu Ming forced a smile, "He came for you, don't know where he is now?"

"It should be in Chengdu." Ji Caifeng said embarrassedly: "He set out earlier than us. We may stay for two days after we arrive in Chengdu before we set out towards Kunming."

"I will go see him." Wu Ming nodded slightly, his mood not too high.

"Brother Liu, Dorothy, I have to get out of the car and catch the team. This carriage is too slow." Ji Caifeng jumped out of the carriage and waved, "See you in Chengdu."

"See you in Chengdu." Duoluoxi waved his hand and shouted happily. Wu Ming just waved his hand gently, got on the carriage, and began to fall into deep thought.

"What's wrong? I don't feel good when I meet an acquaintance?" Dorothy handed Wu Ming a piece of lantern-shaped beef jerky and asked strangely.

Wu Ming took it, chewed a few times, pointed to the marching team and frowned and said, "They don't know the dangers of the tropical jungle. Where, the environment is sometimes your biggest enemy. The degree of preparation before the battle determines whether you are alive or dead. You need to know the environment where you are going. You must practice basic skills suitable for that environment. Without the basic skills training of survival and battlefield survival, the chance of survival on the battlefield is slim."

"It's not that serious!" Dorothy looked at Wu Ming's solemn expression, stopped chewing, and comforted in a low voice: "After all, there are so many of them."

"There are more people and many people die." Wu Ming leaned back with his hands. Looking at the blue sky, he said quietly: "I was fortunate to have been to the Golden Triangle. If I had not been trained for a month in advance and had prepared well, and there were several locals as guides, I would have become a pile of bones in that terrifying jungle. Not to mention those poisonous snakes and beasts, even water, ants, and mosquitoes may have killed your life. Once a person faints, he will be sucked by blood, ants eroded, and the heavy rain washed away, it will become bones within a few hours."

"It's really that, so terrifying." Duoloxi grinned, looking a little scared.

Wu Ming smiled bitterly, "What do you think? Be careful in the tropical jungle, even the branches blocking the road are said. I am a little scared like me, not to mention these soldiers who don't know what the tropical jungle is, and the war is going smoothly. Once..., hehe, entering the jungle will be a life-threatening life."

"What should I do?" Dorothy asked anxiously now without appetite.

"Let me be quiet for a while." Wu Ming gently patted Dorothy's hand, "Look at what can I do."

After a while, Wu Ming opened his eyes and sat up, "Get the notebook and I want to write something. No matter whether I have time or not, I will feel less guilty and less uncomfortable when I try my best."

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Wu Ming's concerns were not redundant. In the original history, the Chinese Expeditionary Force entered Myanmar to fight. Due to the numerous contradictions between China, Britain and the United States, it was an extremely complicated process, but the result was a crushing defeat.

Since the Pearl Harbor Incident on December 8, 1941, the first mobilization order was issued on the 11th of the same month; to the 16th of February 1942, the Expeditionary Force was officially mobilized. During the past two months, sometimes mobilized to Myanmar, sometimes stopped standing by, sometimes prepared for the East Transfer, repeatedly and unpredictable, and had lost the fundamental purpose of preserving Yangon's international transportation line. After the army entered Myanmar, its command changed many times, the system was disordered, its authority was unclear, each had its own personalities, and its command was incompetent.

The troops' combat power disparity, etc., were unable to concentrate their main force to fight the enemy in a timely and appropriate manner, in order to recover Yangon, and failed to retreat, and they almost fought for a protracted battle with the enemy and preserved the supplies of Lashio. They talked about everything and achieved nothing, and only caused the soldiers to die in blood. Therefore, although the Chinese Expeditionary Force made frequent reports of victory on the battlefield in Myanmar and many famous generals emerged, the defeat was decided and irreversible. In the tropical jungle, 100,000 Expeditionary Forces wrote an extremely tragic record in the history of World War II with the sacrifice of 6 people.

Moreover, the vast majority of casualties were not caused by fighting with the Japanese army, but when they retreated and crossed the Wild Ren Mountain. The 5th largest unit fell into trouble in the Wild Ren Mountain. The food was exhausted, the army was scattered, and the disease was prevalent, and a large number of officers and soldiers died of illness and starved to death. The corpses were everywhere along the way, one after another, and were tragic. There were only more than 3,000 people left. Among them, the 200th Division Commander Dai Anlan, the regiment commander Liu Shuren, the deputy division commander Hu Yibin, and the regiment commander Ling Zemin died for their country.

In addition, the 5th Army, the 28th Division of the 66th Army, who followed the 5th Army into the Wild Man Mountain, had eaten all the bark, grass roots, banana leaves, etc., and the situation was even worse, and only more than a hundred people were left to survive.

The general was incompetent and exhausted the army. Later generations' sighs Wu Ming could not hear them, nor did he know that he was just based on his feelings, not wanting to see the vivid life leaving regretfully, so he scattered his brains, wrote quickly, and recorded all the common sense, precautions, necessary equipment and materials in the tropical jungle he remembered. As for how much effect this could play, he had no time to consider it. Until it was dark, he unwilling to put down his pen and lay back with a little discouraged look.

"Don't be discouraged, I'll be in Chengdu ahead." Dorothy rubbed Wu Ming's head with heartache, "When you enter the city, you can find a place to write quickly. I'll go to Stu Leiden, go to the newspaper office, print out this thing as soon as possible and send it to the soldiers on the expedition."

"Thank you, Qingxia." Wu Ming sighed, "In fact, I don't know how effective this tropical jungle's survival knowledge can play. Maybe the war goes well and there is no need for it."

"It will always be useful to write it out." Duoloxi turned his head and looked at the vaguely identifiable city wall in front of him, "I believe that success is reserved for those who are prepared."
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