Chapter 54 Using Special Food Reserves
The little Japanese on Guadalcanal are indeed hungry and ready to eat people. With the strengthening of the Cactus Air Force, the Japanese soldiers on the island are getting less and less supplies, and with the increase in night combat torpedo aircraft, even if
Using destroyers to transport supplies at night is quite dangerous. Since November, several destroyers have been damaged or even sunk.
The Navy is no longer interested in fighting on Guadalcanal, and it is simply uneconomical to lose precious warships to it. In order to reduce the losses of warships, in late November, the 8th Fleet of the Japanese Army invented and experimented with a so-called "iron barrel"
"Transportation" means loading food, medicine and other materials into iron drums, but only half of them so that the iron drums can float in the water, then sealing them, connecting them with ropes, fixing them on the deck of the ship, and putting them into designated sea areas.
In the water, the tide is used to float to Guadalcanal, and then the troops on the island use small boats to recover it. In this way, the warship does not need to stop to unload, and the safety is naturally greatly improved. In order to further ensure safety, the Navy also moves the warship transporting cargo
The destroyers were changed to submarines. In this way, there is basically no risk of losing warships. Of course, the transportation volume has also dropped a lot. However, how can the Army and the others on a tropical island rich in products?
Can’t you just do it yourself and have enough food and clothing? There are so many coconut trees on Guadalcanal, so why don’t you climb the trees and pick coconuts to eat?
If Staff Officer Tsuji Masanobu, who is currently starving on Guadalcanal, hears the Navy's remarks, he will probably faint from anger. Is our Army so stupid? If there are coconuts to eat, so many people can starve to death?
No matter what time it is, are there coconuts on the trees? Even if there are, where can there be enough for more than 30,000 people to eat every day?
Do it yourself and have enough food and clothing? The imperial army has proven time and time again on Guadalcanal that humans are definitely the predators with the widest variety of diets, the highest level, and are at the top of the food chain. Various animals on the island first crawl on the ground.
Yes, everything that swims in the water, and then flies in the sky, were all eaten to extinction by the imperial army. Later, even bugs of all colors, and even flying mosquitoes and flies, were almost wiped out by the army. Even offshore
Almost all the fish were caught by the imperial army. Later, those Japanese soldiers who survived Guadalcanal basically became masters of night fishing. What bait should be used? Earthworms or lugworms? But these of us have never been hungry.
Yes, how could you be willing to use such a good thing and not eat it quickly! Our imperial army used some things borrowed from teammates who starved to death.
Although all methods have been exhausted, 30,000 mouths are not so easy to deal with. The number of Japanese Imperial Army starving to death is increasing day by day. Now it is time to use the special food reserves brought to them by Staff Officer Tsuji Masanobu.
These days, Jin Shuji always feels a little uneasy, as if something terrible is about to happen. Recently, the soldiers have looked at them strangely, obviously with a kind of greedy desire. Similar looks
Jin Shuji has actually seen it a lot. In the past, every soldier who came to the comfort station had similar eyes. But this time it was different. This time their eyes were colder, as cold as a knife. This look also reminded Jin Shuji of
When she was only thirteen or fourteen years old, she met a hungry wolf at the foot of a mountain. The wolf was never far away from her and wanted to eat her flesh. She was so frightened that she almost died, but luckily her hand
There was a hatchet in her pocket, which gave her the courage to reach the village; but she would always remember the wolf's eyes, fierce and timid, shining like two will-o'-the-wisps, which seemed to penetrate her flesh from afar.
.Now, the eyes of those soldiers are exactly the same as that of the hungry wolf.
The Guadalcanal Comfort Station received a special order: in order to boost morale, all comfort women were sent to various units to provide door-to-door services to the soldiers. Kim Sook-hee was sent to a certain unit together with another North Korean comfort woman who was two years younger than her.
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Early in the morning, the people sent by the army to pick them up arrived. There were four people who came to pick them up, and the leader was a lieutenant - they were all extremely thin. Of course, Jin Shuji and the others were also skinny and skinny.
.Does a person like this still need "comfort"?
According to the military order, Jin Shuji and them set out on the road. Along the way, except for the one who led the way, the other three of the four people fell behind them. Their posture seemed to prevent them from escaping. Moreover, these Japanese soldiers
The look in their eyes is also very special, as if they are both greedy and happy.
The road was not very far, but because everyone had no strength, it took almost an hour and a half to walk there. Four people took them through the camp and walked to a corner. Along the way, all the Japanese soldiers: Can walk?
Some can't walk, some can still stand up, some can't stand up anymore and some can still sit, some can't even sit up anymore, some can only open their eyes and stare at them with those wolf-like eyes.
This situation made all the hairs on Jin Shuji's body stand up.
The northeast corner of the camp is where the kitchen is. Iron pots and other things are piled here, but these things have not been used for a long time. But now, the big iron pot has been set up again, and everyone in the pot has
It's boiling and steaming.
"Sister, they brought us here to ask us to help cook?"
Jin Shuji did not answer, but the feeling of uneasiness became stronger and stronger. Her body began to tremble, and her heart seemed to beat out of her chest.
The officer who had been leading them turned around. He first bowed to each of them at a ninety-degree angle. Then, he said in a panicked tone, "I'm sorry. I'm really sorry."
I'm sorry... we don't want to... but... everyone is so hungry... so... I can only ask you... thank you... I really appreciate it."
"But, what exactly do we want us to do?" The younger one still didn't understand. She turned around to look at Jin Shuji, only to find her standing there blankly, her whole body shaking like a leaf in a storm.
Now Jin Shuji fully understood that those Japanese people wanted to eat her just like the wolf. She wanted to run, but fear prevented her from moving her legs. She wanted to shout loudly, but she could not open her mouth.
Open. She exhausted all her strength and finally shouted to the half-grown child who called her sister:
"Run!, they are going to eat you!"
It took almost all her strength to shout this sentence. Jin Shuji felt her legs go weak, her vision went dark, and she fainted.
I don’t know how long it took, but Jin Shuji slowly woke up. It was dark all around and she couldn’t see anything. Maybe she had reached the vagina. But she immediately felt that she seemed to be tied to a big tree, and her mouth was also covered.
It's blocked. Except for the fact that I can still turn my head, I can't move my whole body. Is it possible that I will have to suffer something terrible when I get to the vagina?
At this time, the moon emerged from the clouds, and her cold light passed through the woods, illuminating the small clearing in the woods. It also let Jin Shuji know that she was not dead yet.
The first thing that caught Jin Shuji's eyes was the big pot. The lid of the pot was open, but there was no steam coming out. The dark pot looked like a bottomless abyss, as if it was about to swallow her in one gulp.
"Why am I not dead yet?" Finding out that she was not dead yet did not bring any comfort to Jin Shuji. In fact, this discovery made her even more frightened. She struggled desperately, but they were tied so tightly that she could not struggle at all.
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Just as she was twisting her body hard, she saw the reason why she was not dead yet:
A pair of pale arms were hanging not far from her, swaying in the smelly evening breeze in the jungle. She recognized those arms. Just this morning, those arms helped her on the way here.
, the owner of those arms sweetly called her sister...
In addition to the arms, there are many other things: thighs, ribs... all were rubbed with salt by the Japanese and hung up. It seems that maybe they can't eat so much at one time, or maybe the imperial army has learned how to save
food.
The next day, Jin Shuji was still tied here. She saw with her own eyes how the soldiers chopped the hanging arms into small pieces and put them into the big pot. She wanted to shout to those people, but her mouth
She was blocked, and none of those people turned to look at her. Sometimes someone would come, remove the rag that blocked her mouth, and give her some water. But once the watering was completed, they
He would immediately shut her mouth, turn around and leave. He would never talk to her or even look into her eyes.
The third day... the fourth day... As the half-grown girl had fewer and fewer parts left, Jin Shuji understood that death was getting closer and closer to her. And Jin Shuji herself was constantly looking forward to even...
Looking forward to the arrival of that day.
The time was approaching, and the last bit of flesh left by the half-grown girl was eaten. That evening, several people came to her side, bringing knives and wooden basins - which were used to collect her blood.
——Blood is also a precious food and must not be wasted. Because there is life in the blood, life is in the blood, blood symbolizes life, and blood is life! (Refer to "400 Years of Shock")
Those people took turns bowing to her, and then they didn't know what they said, but she no longer had the energy to listen. She was taken down from the tree, and one person took off her top and pulled her hair.
Stretching her neck as far as possible to the top of the tub, another person held a sharp knife in one hand and groped for the location of the carotid artery on her neck with the other hand, while the others pressed firmly
Live her.
Jin Shuji felt that the man's hand paused somewhere on her neck, and then a cold sharp knife was pressed there. Jin Shuji silently closed her eyes.
However, the expected severe pain did not come as expected. On the contrary, with the sound of a gunshot, many hot things splashed onto her body...
Since the end of November, Vandegrift's 1st Marine Division has fully launched a counterattack. Not only have they continuously compressed the Japanese positions, they have also sent many elite squads to continuously attack the Japanese. Sometimes, in bold
Under the leadership of their captain, they would even cross the battle line to attack the Japanese troops behind the battle line.
Tom and Jerry are in such a team, and Sergeant Tom is the leader of the team. His team consists of 8 soldiers: a machine gunner equipped with a Browning automatic rifle, and a deputy equipped with an M1 carbine
, 5 infantrymen armed with Springfield rifles (Jerry was the sniper among them), plus himself with a Chicago typewriter.
It had been four days since they penetrated the enemy's front line. This was the second Japanese army camp they attacked. During the reconnaissance, they found that the Japanese army's condition in this camp seemed to be much better than that of the camp they attacked earlier. It seemed that they still had
Something to eat. Close observation brought them a shocking discovery: the Japanese army was cannibalizing! They had already eaten a woman, and there was another woman tied next to her. Maybe she should be eaten in the next meal.
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Tom has always felt that he is not a good person. He has been in the underworld, bought marijuana, and done things like forcing girls into prostitution. He even used a Chicago typewriter to fight with Italians in New York. But this is the first time he has seen such a terrible thing.
If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes and someone had told him such a story, he would have kicked that guy to Hollywood to become a third-rate bad screenwriter.
Time was running out, Sergeant Tom and his subordinates hurriedly discussed and launched the attack, just in time to save Jin Shuji. Then machine gunner Stam carried her while Tom and others took cover. A large number of well-fed Ri
I was chasing closely behind, with the sound of gunfire and the explosion of grenades. In the fierce exchange of fire, one after another malnourished and slow-moving Japanese soldiers (drinking broth for a few days was not enough to make them recover immediately)
) was knocked to the ground, but the team went deep into the enemy lines and was in danger of being surrounded. At the critical moment, Tom ordered Jerry to take the team back, while he grabbed Stam's Browning automatic rifle and fired continuously, attracting Ri
The army's attention was drawn to them in the opposite direction.
Under the leadership of Jerry, they took the woman they rescued and ran towards the direction of the US military. The gunshots were getting farther and farther away from them. It seemed that Tom had successfully lured them away. The team returned to the US military camp a day later.
, but Tom did not come back. Everyone was worried about him. The next day, he still did not come back. Until four days later, everyone thought he had been sacrificed, and even General Vandergrift
He was ready to write a letter to his parents. In the evening, Tom, who was injured in many places and dying, returned to the camp.
Because of Tom's bravery, tenacity, self-sacrifice, and fearless spirit in the face of danger, he became the first Marine Division soldier to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, the highest honor in the United States. He was also the youngest Marine in the entire war.
Some soldiers were alive and received such medals. The rescued Kim Shu-hee became living evidence of the atrocities committed by the Japanese army. Her interview caused a sensation in the United States, and she later participated as a witness.
Chapter completed!