Chapter 216 Diary
It must be said that Kojiro Iiguni, who was determined to treason, changed his position very quickly and started his "work" that day.
And after determining the target, he actually still had the courage of a traditional businessman to be willing to spend money. Those small pieces of gold dust and military coupons hidden in the lining of his clothes were dug out and replaced with wine and food. and small gifts.
Kojiro used wine and food to clear the way, and with a humble attitude, he called the soldiers on the ship "senpai" one by one, and quickly became familiar with seven or eight local sailors in two days.
The biggest reward was that after paying the price of a bottle of Gekkeikan (a kind of sake), he got the key news: the Tanikaze will leave port for Tokyo in four days.
On the other side, He Chi also started to take action.
After transporting supplies, the American prisoners were so tired that they collapsed in the dark bottom cabin.
Squeak~
The outer hatch was opened, and a soldier carried a basket of potatoes to the door with iron bars.
"Beautiful beasts, come and eat your pig food!" the sergeant at the door shouted, and from time to time he hit the railing outside with his saber as if to greet the animals.
The prisoners crowded to the gate and stretched out their hands, including Jack. He originally wanted to take the larger potato, but the scabbard pulled it out of his hand.
Before he could react, another potato had been stuffed into his hand.
"Go back when you get the things! Beautiful beast!" the other party shouted.
Although Jack was a little confused, he still walked back to the cabin, raised the potato in his hand and took a bite.
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Something hit the tooth.
A note, Jack looked around nervously and found that no one was paying attention to him, so he carefully moved to the other side of the cabin and read the words clearly with the little light coming from the transom.
For a moment Jack's face turned red, and he even wanted to cry with excitement.
On the front it says "Hey man, shall the story of Cybertron continue?"
May 4, 1942, in Port Mariveles, Philippines, originally scheduled to be The Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Tanikaze, which left port at noon on the same day, suddenly started operating in the middle of the night and sailed into the vast Pacific Ocean without notifying the port management. This was also the beginning of a series of events on the Pacific battlefield in the future.
Where did the Tanikaze go?
Who is the man named Sasaki Hei?
Why did no one react to pursue him in the first 8 hours?
And what is the connection between the performance of his sister ship Yukikaze and the disappearance of Tani?
Later war historians are very interested in this, but both the military history of the Japanese Combined Fleet and the internal data of the First Mine Squadron are vague and inconsistent.
But on the Victory Day of the Anti-Fascist War, at the U.S. Army’s Pacific Battlefield old cultural relics exhibition, a diary written by a junior soldier of the Japanese army revealed a corner of the secret:——
April 14< br>
When my regiment arrived in the Bataan area, the large-scale fighting was over.
I am very happy. Although I hope to be loyal to His Majesty, it is always better not to go to the battlefield. But at the same time, I felt very disappointed. Arriving here too late meant that there was little opportunity to “get rich.”
You must know that I barely knew what military pay was at that time. The vendors in the Fourth Division could still make some extra money by reselling supplies, but lower-level soldiers like me had no other options at all and could only work on the battlefield. You can earn some money by searching for loot.
When I received the order to escort the prisoners, I originally thought that the situation would turn around, but I soon discovered that all the belongings of these more than a hundred beautiful animals had been confiscated long ago, and there was no longer any "oil and water" on them. This made me sad. We were very angry, so Yamaguchi and I would often find a random prisoner of war and beat him up to vent our anger. When we discovered that Sergeant Yagyu was not stopping this behavior, we started to do it more frequently.
The escort road was boring, but fortunately it was relatively safe and not full of cold shots like other battlefields.
Senior Narita was transferred from China after being injured on the battlefield. He told us that there was a place called Qingshazhang, where local armed men were willing to hide in and shoot at the imperial army. It was at that time that he was injured. . April 16
Because we have to walk a long way, it is very hard to eat only military rations. Before departure, I plan to buy some food in the town to take away. It is annoying. It was the local residents who actually refused to accept our military rolls.
To be honest, I don’t believe that this kind of toilet paper-like thing can be used as money, but this is not the reason for them to despise the Imperial Japanese Army. After beating the opponent hard, I still got what I wanted. thing.
April 18
As I thought, none of the prisoners assigned to us were women, they were all captured American soldiers and sailors.
Although this was expected, everyone was still disappointed.
In order to relieve our loneliness, we mentioned the female guerrillas we caught last time. When the veterans complained that the other party’s skin was too rough and scratched them, as a low-level recruit, I could only watch from the sidelines. , only when everyone was finished, did they hastily solve their own problems on the unresponsive body.
April 19
Too bad, there is definitely something wrong with the food that the unscrupulous man sold me. I have been suffering from diarrhea since last night. If I see that guy next time, I must kill him. All his teeth were knocked out, and then he was hung up for bayonet practice. I really wanted everyone to stop marching and wait for my convenience, but Sergeant Yagyu was a very strict man and I didn't dare to open my mouth. As you can imagine, I got it on my pants.
As a man, this is really unspeakable. I hope others don’t notice it, but judging from the fact that people around me keep moving away from me, they already know it.
I was so embarrassed that I even thought of committing suicide. Fortunately, I finally met Sergeant Sasaki.
Sergeant Sasaki met us on the way and joined us. He is a very kind man because he used to be a doctor before joining the army and could treat common diseases. After I took the medicine he gave me, It took about two days to recover.
I am very grateful to Sergeant Sasaki, because the medicine at that time was very tight, and the commander asked us to overcome "little things" like diarrhea with willpower. Only Sergeant Sasaki is willing to use medicine on small soldiers like me.
And more importantly, he saved my self-esteem.
April 26th
Today was the day to separate from Sergeant Sasaki, because he didn’t have the airs of a commander at all, and he had treated everyone for dysentery or athlete’s foot. Everyone They were all a bit reluctant.
But in Mariveles Port, those nasty octopuses from the navy appeared. The commanders of these guys actually wanted to force us to send prisoners to help them transport supplies.
The opponent had a higher military rank, and with Sergeant Yagyu's character he would rather die than surrender. Just when the situation was tense, Sergeant Sasaki stood up and was willing to bear this humiliation on our behalf.
Four people were needed to help Chief Sasaki, and I was selected to be one of them.
April 30th
The octopuses in the navy are really too much. They almost treat us like prisoners and feed us around. Not only me, but also Chief Sasaki will eat them occasionally. Everyone was suffocating because of the other party's style, and there was no good way to do it. Fortunately, the guy in Fanguo was very smart and was able to get some wine. We had to rely on the contents of the cup to relieve our stress.
May 1
Here's your chance for revenge! Iikuni has obtained some medicine that can cause diarrhea. We plan to hold a drinking party to invite those octopuses to eat and drink together, and then let them stay together for a few days. Narita is afraid that it will make things worse. But the guy from Iiguni said, "It's just diarrhea. I can just blame the problem on the food vendors afterwards."
I think he is right.
There is only one sentence in the diary on May 2nd
I seem to be in trouble...
(End of this chapter)