Chapter 266 The Red Dragon Breathes Flame
"You...what do you want me to do?" Sergeant Gu Wu asked in a trembling voice. His psychological defense was almost broken at this time.
"My men and I came from North China. Many of them don't have enough to eat and want to get a little more. This doesn't seem to be a difficult thing for you, right?" He Chi patted The sergeant's shoulder continued.
“You want to steal supplies?!” Sergeant Gu Wu knew that there were small underground supply transactions within the army, but he didn’t expect that the other party was so bold.
"Don't be like this, Gu Wusang, aren't we doing the same job?" the other party said nonchalantly, and then motioned to the soldiers on the side. The second-class soldier who had been submissive before came up and skillfully lifted a small thing. It was stuffed into the hands of Sergeant Gu Wu.
Sergeant Taniwu was surprised to find that what he held in his hand turned out to be a full-colored sea pearl. Since his mother was once a haenyeo, he knew the value of this pearl very well.
As long as he accepts it, at least this year his parents and younger siblings will no longer have to work so hard, nor will they have to continue fishing in dangerous seas.
Thinking about his poor and impoverished family, Gu Wu gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind, "What should I do?"
"Smart!" He Chi snapped his fingers, "I will I like to talk to smart people, and I won’t make things difficult for smart people.”
“Don’t lock the door when you leave tonight. When it’s your men’s turn to stand guard, please disappear for 5 minutes. What happens after that. It has nothing to do with you." The other party said diplomatically.
"Too much material has been lost, the commander will check it!" Sergeant Gu Wu reminded.
"It doesn't matter. In such bad weather, isn't it normal for some supplies to get moldy and lose some?" The person opposite smiled. It was obviously not the first time he had done this kind of thing.
"Okay, just this time." Gu Wu nodded gloomily.
"Oh, by the way, there is a lot of water in our camp. Lend me this, and I will return it together in the evening." He Chishun pointed to the water pump on the side, and before Gu Wu agreed, Just took the things away.
That night, Gu Wu unlocked the warehouse door and took away the guard at the door, saying that he wanted to "teach him a lesson"
"It's only five minutes. You won't lose much. The commander won't notice." At this time, Sergeant Gu Wu was still comforting himself like this until he heard a certain sound.
Hua Hua Hua~~~~
"Huh? The sound of water? How come there is the sound of water?" The sergeant looked at the clear starry sky suspiciously, and then couldn't help but curiously asked Walking in the direction of the warehouse, a pungent smell hit my face after just a few steps.
“It’s gasoline?! Why is it here?”
The liquid that has turned into a river on the ground is not water at all, but a large amount of fuel flowing along the ground, and then through the open The door smoothly entered the low-lying food warehouse.
In the "upstream" of the creek, a water pump was humming, and a hole was opened in the fuel depot higher up.
A terrifying thought arose in Gu Wu's heart. He turned around and shouted, "Here comes someone! There is..."
Hoo! ! ! ! !
The sky-high fire ignited upstream, and a line of fire quickly rushed down along the traces of gasoline, and plunged into the warehouse full of food!
The fire broke out, and a dozen warehouses storing food for 20,000 people were instantly surrounded by flames. The camp became extremely chaotic, with soldiers everywhere.
When Hyakutake Harukichi came out of his tent, all he could see were rising fires, burning everything in front of him like a red dragon.
Boom! ! ! ! ! ! In the light of the fire, the oil depot began to explode, and burning sparks continued to fall from the sky.
"It's over! The Empire's Guadalcanal Strategy is completely over!" This was what Hyakutake Haruyoshi thought at the time.
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In early October 1942, a fire broke out at the Japanese military base on Guadalcanal. The fuel stored in the base was pumped out by US military lurkers, and a large amount of stored food was ignited in the material warehouse.
While causing casualties, the fire also burned half of the Japanese army's supplies, especially food, which suffered heavy losses.
This caused the already tight supply line of the Japanese army to collapse directly. Those soldiers had to endure rice balls made of sand mixed with the smell of gasoline. At the same time, due to long-term lack of vitamins, a large number of Japanese soldiers suffered from night blindness and beriberi. and malaria, some even become disabled as a result.
Hakutake Haruyoshi had no choice but to launch a forced attack, but the US military, which was waiting for work, killed and wounded a large number of effective forces. After that, it had no choice but to turn to the defensive.
As of February 1943, more than 15,000 soldiers in Hyakutake Haruyoshi's unit had died of starvation and illness, which was far greater than the number of Japanese soldiers who died on the battlefield. This battle became his A lifelong nightmare.
In 1947, Hyakutake Haruyoshi died in a war criminal prison in Japan. Before his death, he kept muttering "Red dragon...fire...such a big fire..."
In the spring of 1943, the Japanese army withdrew from the Guadalcanal area in desperation. , the entire melon campaign ended, and the U.S.-Australian coalition gained absolute advantage in the Solomon region.
But the greater gain for the US military is in politics.
The New Japan National Founding Army officially entered the international stage after this war. Not only did it become a flag against the Japanese military government in the Asia-Pacific region, it also gained stable soldiers - some Americans of Japanese descent in order to avoid 9066 Executive Order No. 1, to protect his private property and choose to join the New Japan Founding Army.
By the end of 1943, the number of this unit, which was regarded by the outside world as a servant army of the US military, had expanded to 6,800, with five regiments under its jurisdiction, and it had become an armed force that could fight independently.
Knowing that they were regarded as traitors within Japan and would definitely be worse off than dead if captured, the soldiers of the New Japan Founding Army showed an extremely tenacious fighting will on the battlefield. They once stood firm even when surrounded by enemies several times their size. If you don't surrender, you will eventually cooperate with reinforcements to counterattack the opponent.
In the same year, a series of trading companies with names with strong Osaka characteristics sprung up in various regions of Southeast Asia.
They are generally small in scale, usually with only five or six people, but they have sufficient funds and the operators are flexible, and they quickly take root in various places.
In fact, these trading companies are the hiding places of Osaka intelligence agents under Kojiro Iiguni, and the code name of their organization is "Straw".
As for why it was called such a strange name, Kojiro just explained, "This is what the adult meant."
In April 1943, due to their outstanding performance, a series of senior commanders in the Guadalcanal Campaign were promoted. Even the soybean John F. Kennedy was promoted to the second level. However, he was promoted immediately after returning to China. Expressed his desire to enter politics.
In August 1944, his brother Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. died on the battlefield in Germany. At this point, all the political resources of the family began to be tilted towards him, and John F. Kennedy's political career began to enter the fast lane.
In June 1943, President Roosevelt personally awarded medals to those who had meritorious service on the White House lawn, but as expected, a certain Silver Star recipient disappeared again.
(End of this chapter)