Article 1 of the Japanese Infantry Manual clearly states! You must not be a prisoner, and the last bullet on your body should be kept for yourself, otherwise you will not only harm yourself but also shame your family. This rule is written like this, and the "day" himself does the same, if there is a "day" soldier who is taken prisoner alive, not only will he himself be spit on and punished, but even his family will be abandoned by the entire "day" society.

Since the establishment of the new army in Japan during the Meiji Restoration, there have been almost no Japanese soldiers captured in foreign wars. During the war of aggression against China, the Chinese army could capture very few Japanese soldiers, not to mention that there would be Japanese soldiers and officers who would take the initiative to surrender, so Nakamura Taro did not know how incredible and crazy his idea was in the eyes of the Japanese soldiers who had been brainwashed by the spirit of bushido.

Looking at Ueno Hongichi's somewhat trance-like expression and still a little trembling hands, Nakamura knew that although this military commander was forced to agree to himself under his "Wangba's anger" and the threat of life and death, he was actually very scared in his heart, but Nakamura Taro also understood that this was diametrically opposed to the education he had received for decades, and if Ueno Hongichi showed that he was not afraid at all, it would be worthy of his doubts.

After thinking about it, Nakamura took the lead and sat down, took out a cigarette from his arms, lit it, and threw a cigarette to him, waved his hand and signaled Ueno Hongichi to sit down before comforting: "Ueno-kun, you don't have to panic, I have thought about this matter repeatedly, the certainty of success is great, as long as we can succeed, then we can return to Ueno-kun in a beautiful way, you can have endless tickets, endless rice and the farm you dreamed of owning, Ueno-kun, what are you hesitating about......"

I have to say that Taro Nakamura, who had just come out of the University of Tokyo and had taken a course in psychology, still has a very good grasp of human nature, and he knows that for a middle-rate person like Ueno, who is nearly forty years old and has his own fixed outlook on life at the bottom of society, jihad or something is false, and only what can be seen is real. Therefore, it is nothing more than land and wealth that he uses to confuse Ueno Hongichi, and it is precisely these practical things that most touch the heart of this veteran Yazuko.

"Think about it, after you have these things, your descendants can also become a decent family in the [Riben]. You know, money can be spent and drunk as much as possible, but land can be passed down from generation to generation. At this time, Nakamura was like a poisonous snake running out of the Garden of Eden, and he was the first subordinate in the true sense of the word.

"Chief Nakamura...... Can we really succeed? Branch...... No, can the Chinese accept our surrender? Will we be able to successfully return to Japan in the future and buy dozens of acres of land? Ueno's voice trembled a little, and he asked several questions in a row.

Nakamura, who has done some research on human nature, doesn't know that this subordinate has really moved his heart, and all he missed is just a kick in the door, and said with great certainty at the moment: "Of course, although the Chinese people hate us very much, they are very generous and generous to those who take the initiative to surrender. Ueno-kun, if you don't decide now, do you have to wait until after the defeat of the Japanese to surrender? I'm afraid I won't be able to get you in line by then! Are you still hesitating? Or do you want your future grandchildren to run away to make cattle and horses for those old men, and granddaughters are forced to be sold into brothels to work as prostitutes because of poverty? Ueno Hongyi's eyes turned around several times like a cloudy sunny, and finally showed a trace of fierceness, and he slammed the cigarette butt in his hand on the ground and said fiercely: "Okay, I, Ueno, will sell this cheap life to Chief Nakamura today." …，

"Yo Si! Ueno-kun: From today onwards, we will be comrades-in-arms who are fighting side by side for a common goal. Taro Nakamura was overjoyed to see this, and he knew that he had finally taken the first step towards his goal......

On February 24, 1942, it began to rain heavily in the sky, and the February rain still carried a hint of chill, and the rain washed everything in the sugar cane forest in a sugar cane forest that had been flattened by bomb fragments, and the water in the ridges of the fields took on a dark red color. Countless corpses lay in the far side of the field. Some of the grass huts burned in the rain, and the sound of gunfire and explosions broke the silence of the world, and even the heavy rain in the air could not suppress the thick smoke in the air.

This sudden heavy rain suddenly disrupted the schedule originally prepared by the Taiwan Attack Command, and subtropical storms always came very suddenly. Nature will not always favor a certain camp, this heavy rain made Bai Chongxi, who was sitting on the battleship "Zhenyuan", angry, but as the saying goes, some people are happy and some are sad, and while Bai Chongxi was angry, Tanaka Nobuyoshi, the commander of the 20th Division of the Japanese Army, was very happy.

This sudden rainstorm caused all the carrier-based aircraft to stay obediently on the aircraft carrier, and due to the lack of clear vision, the artillery fire also lost its accuracy and power, and there was no threat of the plane's wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of heavy artillery, which suddenly made Tanaka Nobuyoshi overjoyed. He immediately ordered the two intact wings that had been cowering in Taoyuan City to launch a counter-charge against the position of the 2nd Marine Division at night.

The heavy rain covered all traces of the Japanese army very well, and when the sentry discovered the traces of the Japanese army, the Japanese army was already less than two hundred meters away from the position of the second division, so an unusually fierce gunfire resounded in the heavy rain. The Japanese attack came very fiercely, and the speed of the troops' follow-up was also very fast, because the attack was relatively smooth these days, and the heavy rain had washed down many fortifications of the marines' offensive, and the marines' resistance was very passive, although the five or six semi-automatic rifles in the hands of the marines gave the Japanese a lot of damage, but because the distance between the two sides was too close when they first engaged, they had to engage in a rare large-scale white-knuckle battle with the Japanese army on this night.

In this tragic night battle, the Type 56 rifle in the hands of the Marines proved not to be a weapon suitable for close combat, at least compared with the Type 38 rifle of the "Day" himself, it was 25 centimeters shorter than the Type 38 rifle, and the body of the gun was very disadvantageous when fighting with bayonets, and the Marines often did not stab the bayonets into the enemy, and the "Day" soldiers' bayonets had already stabbed over. Later, despite the darkness of the night, heavy rain, and blurred vision, many soldiers took the risk of counterattacking the Japanese with the M1911 large-caliber Browning pistol hanging from their waists, but the situation was still very dangerous. It wasn't until later that the armored troops in the back also arrived to reinforce them, and it was not until dawn that the Japanese army was finally wiped out.

Six hundred and forty-five Japanese officers of the two Japanese wings that came to attack at dawn were wiped out 7,953 and more than 220 captured, and the 2nd Marine Division also paid the price of 2,678 dead and wounded in last night's battle.

After the daylight was dark, the soldiers found that in the rice fields, beside the roads, and in the rivers were a mountain of corpses, with severed limbs, crumbling brains, and scattered internal organs everywhere, and the air was filled with a thick smell of blood and fish.

At this time, a group of captives came from not far away, looking at these Japanese captives with scarves wrapped in scarves on their heads, crutches, ragged clothes, and tired and meek as sheep, the marines still couldn't believe that it was these captives who looked lifeless and slaughtered like sheep who had been disarmed and looked like sheep, and they were the same as the "Ri" himself who was holding a bayonet and shouting "Long live" last night, desperately rushing forward regardless of life and death.

Just last night, they were charging desperately at the Marines' positions in dense stormtroop formations with bayonets in hand, and at least three would be replaced when one fell. Regardless of the bullets and shrapnel, they could not stop them even after they had been shot, and as long as they had a breath of air, they would never stop attacking, and it was with this courage to charge to the death that they were able to rush into the positions of the Marines and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Marines.

On a high ground about 1,000 meters away from the battlefield, Nobuyoshi Tanaka, commander of the 20th Division, held a high-powered telescope and looked intently at the battlefield ahead. In addition to corpses and corpses, there was a small river at the foot of the mountain, the water of this small river had long turned red, and countless corpses were floating on the surface of the river. This corpse is so dense that it dazzles Nobuyoshi Tanaka.

"Did it finally fail?" The corners of Tanaka Nobuyoshi's mouth slowly squirmed, and he gently spit out these words.

"Your Excellency the division commander, the 68th and 39th Wings have all been shattered, and we must make plans early." The chief of staff on the side, Bunbu Zhengnan, persuaded: "Now that our remaining troops can't even gather a wing, let's retreat to Taipei, otherwise we won't be able to leave if we want to wait for the people of China to attack." Tanaka Nobuyoshi did not reply to Bunbu Masanami's words, but muttered to himself in despair: "I can rush in, but the people of Shina are about to collapse, if their chariot hadn't caught up so quickly, maybe we would have won the victory." "Your Excellency, Division Commander!" "Now is not the time to talk about this, the most important problem now is that since last night's sneak attack was unsuccessful, then we should retreat." "Retreat?" Tanaka Nobuyoshi smiled bitterly: "Where to retreat, can we still go?" Bunbu-kun, you take a few people and the military flag to retreat to Taipei, remember to bring the military flag back to Japan. "Tanaka-kun, what about you?" Surprised, Bunto Masanan called out Tanaka Nobuyoshi's name on the battlefield without regard to politeness.

"Bunbe-kun." Tanaka Nobuyoshi finally turned around and said to Bunbu Masan: "Now that the 20th Division is gone, I don't have the need to go back to Japan, even if I go back to the base camp, I can't spare me." And you're not the same as you're just the chief of staff, even if you go back, they won't be too harsh on you, so hurry up and leave before the people launch an offensive. Bunbu Zhengnan looked at Tanaka Nobuyoshi's pale face, and his heart was sad. He knew very well that the 20th Division was completely annihilated, and Tanaka Nobuyoshi, as the commander of the division, would not be able to run away no matter what, but out of the care of his friends, he was still a little difficult to let go.

Tanaka-kun............ I ...... "Bastard, you go quickly, you can't leave any more mother-in-law!" Tanaka Nobuyoshi suddenly became furious and shouted and ordered Bunbu Zhengnan to retreat first with the flag squadron.

Looking at the figure of the Ministry of Education and the departure of the flag squadron, Tanaka Nobuyoshi once again led the remnants of less than a wing to rush towards the battlefield of the Chinese army............

In the evening, in a pool of blood and corpses, a figure staggered to his feet, and Tanaka, covered in blood, looked at the hellish position in front of him, and looked at the sunset not far away that was covered by dark clouds, and his eyes were full of exhaustion. Now the entire 20th Division is left with itself. Nobuyoshi Tanaka seems to see his mother, wife, and daughter in the continuous rain.

"......Boom", a cannonball that exploded not far away woke Tanaka Nobuyoshi from his trance, and he looked around to find that there were corpses of his own soldiers all around, and his captain of the guard was lying on his back in a mud puddle, his empty eyes staring straight at the sky. The captain of his escort had been killed instantly by two machine-gun bullets last night in order to protect him.

Tanaka stumbled to a small puddle, and in his reflection in the puddle he saw a man in rags with a command knife and a beggar. Tanaka Nobuyoshi Lu had a smile that was more ugly than crying, his tired and tormented face without a trace of energy, looking at the Japanese soldiers in the distance, raising their hands in twos and threes to surrender to the Chinese soldiers, he couldn't help but think of the oath he had taught loudly when he first entered the non-commissioned officer school, and the instructor held the book "Battle Formation Training" and taught loudly: "I will never be ashamed of being captured!" And, "I will show the loyalty and courage of the spirit, and calmly and righteously according to the principle of eternal life." ”

Tanaka Nobuyoshi took a deep breath, walked to the puddle in front of him, put the command knife aside, bent down and lowered his head, picked up the muddy rain in the puddle with both hands, and washed his face carefully.

There were a little tears in his eyes that had already lost their luster and vitality, and Nobuyoshi Tanaka knew that he couldn't go back and had no reason to go back, he had failed! If he returned home as a prisoner, his father and siblings would never forgive him, and he would be a disgrace to the entire Tanaka family, who was not a family of lowly traders and farmers, but a samurai family.

An atmosphere of despair and humiliation surrounded the heart of the once high-spirited lieutenant general, and after taking a deep breath, he slowly pulled out his command sword, the snow-white and sharp "Hichimoto katana" was still so cold and shining even after several generations of inheritance. Thinking of the scene when he received the admission letter from the Army University, his father solemnly handed over the command knife to him, Nakata's heart seemed to be broken. Now is the time to leave, to avoid the humiliation of being captured, and to keep the glory of an emperor ** from being trampled on. It's time to make good on your promise............

Nakata knew he had to, and he knelt down in the direction of Tokyo and aimed his blade at the artery in his neck, since he couldn't bring back the glory, let this be over.

"Mom!" The command knife on Nakata's neck trembled a little, and suddenly his life experience of more than 40 years was like a movie in his mind, and he realized that he could no longer see his old mother, and he would never return to his hometown again.

When Nakata's hands dragged the command knife down fiercely, a stream of blood rushed to the sky, Nakata knelt on the ground, and slowly went down to the puddle beside him, and his whole head slowly pounced on the dirty puddle, and finally the blood gushing out of his neck dyed the entire puddle red, and when Nakata was dying, what he hummed in his mouth was the military song he had learned when he was in the army university: "......

Half an hour later, when several Marines came to clean up the battlefield, they found this corpse, and when they saw the two gold stars on the shoulders of this corpse, the young private who first found this corpse only felt a burst of golden light shining in front of him.

"Sir, I'm going to get rich, I'm going to get rich, I'm going to get the command knife of the devil lieutenant general!" A platoon commander wearing a beanie came from behind, and he slapped the head of the wealthy recruit, and scolded and scolded, "Good luck little rabbit, I know you're lucky, why did my mother even let you meet such a good thing." Okay, the command knife is yours, but the rest of the little devil's belongings will have to be given to the brothers.

"That's that," the recruit holding the lieutenant general's command knife smiled so hard that his mouth couldn't close his mouth, anyway, the most valuable thing was already in his hands, and it didn't matter if he wanted the rest or not. I have already eaten the largest piece of meat, so I must give the brothers a cup of soup.

After a while, except for a crotch cloth on Tanaka Nobuyoshi's body, all the other things were searched by the soldiers, and according to the platoon commander's words, these rabbit cubs were more ruthless than the landlord's old wealth.

"Bah, damn the day, this dog, you have today." After the search, the platoon commander kicked Nakata Nobuyoshi's almost complete corpse with his right foot in black leather military shoes, kicked him into a nearby ditch, and then beckoned his brothers to swagger back.

The rain continued to fall, and the dead eyes of Tanaka Nobuyoshi, who was almost all luǒ, looked at the sky blankly, and no one could see that this corpse lying on the ground was once the commander of the famous 20th Division, and now he has become a pile of stinky meat, and may soon be eaten by wild dogs on the side of the road and turned into a pile of bones.