Chapter 3: The Morning Star (3 times)

The guerrillas have always been neat. It took only half a night and a morning. I was ready for the war. Another afternoon of rest in the camp. The next evening. Under the cover of night, he quietly descended the mountain. Like a drop of water. Disappeared into the boundless savannah.

Five days later. Seventy miles northeast of Heishi Village. Squirrel Hill hilly area.

A group of devil soldiers with a size of about five or six hundred people howled military songs. Gleefully marching westward. At this moment, the grasslands have not undergone the predatory development of later generations. The vegetation is lush. The scenery is beautiful. Both sides of a country dirt road that is completely trodden by the feet of people and livestock. Colorful flowers bloom everywhere. Yellow finches and larks are jumping and contending among the flowers. Hares and grouse, rolling and frolicking on the tips of the grass. Even if you hear the sound of a car motor. I don't know much about being afraid. Hold up the round and round oily belly. Roll crookedly to a distance of two or three feet from the dirt road. After a bunch of light blue pigeon flowers. Turned around and peeked out. Look at the big guy with the black smoke. What the hell is this monster.

"Hmm. This does not smell like coal in the air. It's intoxicating." The captain of the Kwantung Army's Eastern Mongolia Dispatch Brigade, Kawada Kuniaki Nakasa, took a few breaths of the air that exuded a floral fragrance after the rain. Loud exclamation. Due to the hasty development of modern industry. The sky of his hometown of Kyushu. There are only a few days in the year when you can see blue. Most of the time. The air was filled with the choking smell of soot and sulfur. People don't want to go back when they think about it.

"yes. Completely untouched wilderness. Right now in the world. A pure place like this. But there are fewer and fewer of them." Operational Staff Officer Shirakawa Shiro nodded. Laughing and having fun. His hometown of Nagasaki is also covered with smoke every day. The trees on both sides of the street are pale black. Like this verdant oil green in front of you. You can only see it in a dream when you go back to a very small and very small age.

"Wait for the Imperial Japanese Army to completely conquer China. I'm going to apply for early retirement. Buy fifty acres here. No. Buy a hundred acres of pasture. Be a rancher yourself." Saburo Suzuki, the leader of the first squadron, nodded. Speak out with the commanders." Over here. It's so much more spacious than my hometown. How big a house do you want to build. You can build as much as you want."

"Look at your little bit of interest. You'll have to buy at least fifty square kilometers. Fifty acres. It's a little bigger." Kuniaki Kawada reached out and slapped Saburo Suzuki on the neck. Count it with a smile.

"Fifty. Fifty square kilometers .." Saburo Suzuki's eyes immediately widened like two large light bulbs. There's a scorching glow in it." That. That's too big, isn't it? I. I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of it alone."

"Hehehehe." The devil officers on the back of the war horses around them burst into laughter. Looking at Saburo Suzuki's gaze, there was a lot of playfulness. Suzuki's ambitions are too low."" SUZUKI-kun. Can you tell the difference between fifty acres and fifty square kilometers.."" Oh, yes. Suzuki Shaosa. This isn't your hometown. There are four or five families living in one house."

In the mocking laughter of the devils. Saburo Suzuki's face was so red that he almost wanted to drip blood. He is from Tokyo, which is known for its crowding. Before being admitted to the military school, he had been living in the slums with the worst living conditions. So deep down there is an almost crazy fascination with the open land. Eat the companions laughed at it. Gritted his teeth. Stammered and retorted, "I. . . Am I telling the truth? If a family comes to take care of fifty square kilometers of pasture. That's also. It's not like you're tired from morning to night every day.."

His words caused another hysterical laugh. The surrounding devil officers rubbed their eyes. While counting out loud." A sucker. Won't you capture Chinese as slaves? They are so poor. So timid again. Just give them a bowl of sorghum rice to eat. Make sure they're grateful to you."

"yes. With a ranch. Who herds the herd themselves? People over there in the United States. It's all about catching blacks. The white man only carried the whip and worked as an overseer."

"And the French in Africa. The British in India. Which is not to capture the natives as slaves.! Our Great Japanese Empire is just too late to strike. That's why it's confined to the East."

The more you say. The officers became more excited. They all looked forward to the days when they rode on the heads of the Chinese after the end of the war. Some people are planning to buy a Chinese mine from the emperor. Others want to go to the seaside in southern China to build and develop holiday homes. There are others. Aim higher. He actually thought that the footsteps of the Imperial Japanese Army must not be stopped on its own initiative just because they conquered China. Outside of China. There is much more abundance. Wider lands are waiting for them to conquer. For example, French Indochina. For example, the Dutch and British islands of the South Seas. One of the most "heroic". I actually set my eyes on Australia, which is tens of thousands of miles away. Plan how much money and effort you have to invest to take over a gold mine there. Standing by the mine every day, the slave laborers who went down to work in the mines checked whether they had hidden gold in their ans (Notes 1 and 2)

I don't blame them for their arrogance. Since the "918 Incident". The Kwantung Army has never faced an opponent in China. Both the Battle of the Great Wall in 1933. Or the war around Peiping in the autumn of the previous year. As long as the Kwantung Army makes a move. can crush the opponent with absolute superior equipment and a strong bushido spirit. As for the several small setbacks of the Emperor ** team near Taierzhuang and Wuhan. That's just a disgrace for the North China Front and the Central China Dispatch Army. It has nothing to do with the Kwantung Army. The most elite Kwantung Army of the Great Japanese Empire. They also look down on the two accomplices of North China and Central China who are only worthy of being called second-rate troops.

is immersed in obscenity and can't extricate himself. Suddenly there was a crisp gunshot in my ears." Ping...", everyone immediately turned over and dismounted. Under the cover of the saddle. Pulled out the pistol. At the same time, he shouted orders at the soldiers under his command." Unfold. Unfold. The battle queue expands. Two o'clock in the afternoon. Machine gun preparation."

No need for the officers to give orders . Well-trained devil soldiers have followed the habit of digging deep into the bones. Defensive formations were deployed. And within a minute. He put up all the light and heavy in the team. Align in the direction of two o'clock in the afternoon. A complete sector type fire coverage area is constructed.

It's just that what makes them extremely depressed. There is no legendary ** guerrilla in sight. There are no damn prairie horse thieves either. Only they rode their horses to walk in front of the exploration team. Tethered to a Chinese with a rope . Driving more than twenty sheep. Giggling and walking back.

Note 1: French Indochina. Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia today. Plus the port of Zhanjiang in China. Nanyang Islands. Today's Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc.

Note 2: During the Pacific War. The Japanese did carry out air strikes on Australia at one time. And a small force was airborne in Melbourne . But due to the intervention of the United States and the subsequent mana. Didn't win the war.