Iwo Jima Campaign Records (VII)
Chapter 353:Iwo Jima Campaign Records (VII)
“Night into the night, hungry soldiers targeted the Red Guard Imperial positions.The soldiers who successfully sneaked into the position returned excitedly with the cans of green peas and beef and mutton, but many soldiers died because they stepped on the trap on the way.
Around the position, there are belts connecting bombs and flares, and the guards who lost their lives are continuously found when they touch the lead.
However, going out is life, which also stimulates a lot of people, and more and more people are going to extremes.”
"The war lasted until the 20th day, and today I walked all the trenches and pits, and found that the remaining guards were still there, I am afraid not even a thousand, how much money was there when I came?"There were eighteen thousand, and how many people died in the battle a few days before the war began?
I do not know this question, but I know one thing: on the fifth day of the war, when the number of troops is summed up, there are tens of thousands of people, only half a month, and there are still a thousand, maybe even less.”
"Today I went to the trenches of the Soglin Forest, inquired about General Sour Lin Zhongdao, and found two surviving soldiers of the Second Mixed Brigade, and through their telling, I knew the course of the battle.
There were only ten of the enemies who attacked the trenches of the Soglin Forest, but everyone could not see clearly, and the equipment on them had never been seen before, and even these two post-war soldiers suspected that they were not fighting against humans.
"They're so terrible, the bullets seem to turn, no matter how we shoot, we can't hit each other, and every shot of the other side, we're shot, we're killed."
"Large Soulin Zhongdao, just in time to send a farewell message to the country, the nearby defensive forces have not yet arrived, they killed the Sumlin general, with the body of the squadron quickly left, we want to intercept, but there is no way."
Later, I learned that the enemy had launched an attack on the second brigade that night, and that the remaining two soldiers were left after the second brigade.
Famous in the army, he was well-versed in infantry operations, and a handful of them in the Imperial Army, was called Major General Chisoda, who was killed with all his troops, and the opponent was only a hundred people in the district.
The news was completely blocked, and it would not have been heard by such shocking news, if not for my familiarity with many of the people in the Sumaregs, that the enemy was powerful and invincible.”
Putting down less than a third of the pencils in his hand, Honda turned the notebook on the notebook and page of content.
He is well aware that much of what is recorded above cannot be made public.
In particular, the news in the tunnel, once known in the country, will be unprecedentedly severe in the blows to the people, especially against the families of all the soldiers on the island.
It’s just that he can’t manage that much now, and Honda got up from the tree and headed deep into the trenches to start the food search for today.
Digging trenches from the soil, searching for water and food that can be drunk, and people who can be found hiding with the bodies of their comrades can often be seen.
In the trenches, those who can survive are considering how to survive, even if they are comrades-in-arms, there is no mutual help and friendship.
Honda under the tree in the hand of the rifle, always opened the insurance, because yesterday, he saw two soldiers, because of a kettle, and then one of them shot and killed the other, just for the very few drinking water inside the kettle.
When he was found by Honda under the tree, the man walked away with a kettle without expression.
There will also be a shot in the back, which is normal.
Only today, nothing came of it, returned to the observation mouth of the Honda tree, picked up the pen and paper again, and continued to write, as if only in this way, can forget the environment, forget hunger and thirst, but also know that they have thoughts, or a person.
"The commander of the army told us that even if we voluntarily surrender to become a prisoner, we can only live for a few days, and after their investigation, we will definitely be shot."We all think that surrender cannot survive, and in the end it will be killed.In any case, Iwo Jima could not leave Iwo Jima alive, so instead of becoming a prisoner, it would be better to persist until the end.
The enemy may have been aware of our idea that they had made a strategy to get those who surrendered to the soldiers, calling for our surrender lurking in the underground trenches.
Today I saw one, hovering on the edge of the trench, saying his name, wandering around the trenches where he lurked with his comrades.After finding the entrance to the trench, they will say, ‘Is Cao, a certain soldier?’Is there a soldier in charge?The war is over, Japan is defeated, come out.”This calls for the surrender of our comrades in the trenches.
These capitulators not only shouted the names of their comrades, but also took out a lot of food and drinking water from the enemy and showed that they were treated preferentially.
Today, the capitrator who was shouting outside, entered the trenches, who was persuaded by the enemy to surrender, who handed me a pack of chocolates and cigarettes and advised me to leave with him, as long as he surrendered, water and food were not a problem.
In communicating with him, I believed what he said, and everything outside of him, was not that I had no doubt, but that there was no need for the enemy.
According to his account, I know that those who take the initiative to surrender will not be abused, although they are also staying in a prisoner-of-war camp, but three meals a day will not be interrupted, there is water to bathe, receive medical treatment, every day there is a can of meat, cigarettes, and juice can be drunk.
I believe that he is telling these words, the sincere eyes projected from his eyes, and I believe his words.
That morning, many people followed him out to surrender, and I could only silently bless them in my heart."
Putting down the pen in his hand, Honda down the tree took out the pack of cigarettes, and a lighter, lit himself a cigarette, and then ate the chocolate, looked at the scenery outside, and did not know where to drift.
Cigarettes attracted a lot of wandering ghosts to come, Honda under the tree will be the hand of all the cigarettes out, 19 cigarettes, late people, can only helplessly leave.
Looking at the people in the corner who smoked cigarettes, Honda looked at the cracking cigarette butts in his hand without expression.
From this small cigarette, Honda under the tree has seen the gap between the two sides, such a beautiful cigarette, actually casually handed over to a captive, casually distributed, can see this thing in the enemy, is nothing at all.
And Japanese cigarettes, where there is such a beautiful packaging and ingenious filter.
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