Chapter 268: Sunset (11)

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"Papapa~~~" A dense burst of gunfire rang out, and blood splattered on the bodies of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who were tied up with five flowers, and the corners of their mouths fell into the pit with a fresh smell of dirt and fresh breath at the corner of their mouths. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 At this time, there were already many corpses of Japanese soldiers who had been shot and killed in the pit.

"Your Excellency, this is the last batch." A short and stout man wearing a Japanese lieutenant's uniform, but without epaulettes, cockades and identification numbers, and only a white towel with the words 'self-defense' tied to his left arm, trotted to a Ming army jeep and saluted respectfully to a Ming army non-commissioned officer sitting in the jeep and smoking leisurely.

"Oh." Li Ling, who had a clean beard on his face, took out a pack of cigarettes from the pocket of his military uniform jacket and handed it to the Japanese lieutenant in front of him, and said with a smile: "Oda-kun has worked hard. ”

"Hey." The Japanese lieutenant known as Oda took the cigarette and saluted respectfully to thank him.

With the continuous victories of the Ming army on Kyushu Island, the number of Japanese who took the initiative to surrender to the Ming Dynasty gradually increased. This Japanese lieutenant named Masao Oda was one of them.

Masao Oda was a real Japanese soldier, not one of those improvised motley volunteers. He was born in Aizu-Wakamatsu Castle in the Tohoku region of Japan, and originally served in the 29th Wing of the 2nd Sendai Division before the war. After retiring, he opened a small restaurant in his hometown, married a wife and had a daughter, and lived a fairly good life.

However, with the outbreak of war, the Japanese army began to massively expand its army. Reservists like Oda Masao were quickly called up and re-entered the active force. He initially served in the newly formed 42nd Division, but with the continued victories of the Ming Dynasty and the imminent attack on the Japanese mainland. When the Japanese military department formulated a plan for a decisive battle on the mainland, it once again vigorously expanded its troops.

Oda Masao was transferred to the 202nd Special Division during this expansion. Because the expansion was too great, the number of officers was far from meeting the needs. The Japanese military department began to massively promote experienced veterans. Masao Oda went from being an ordinary soldier to a lieutenant officer who crossed the officer hurdle that was an eternal barrier in peacetime.

For Masao Oda, who already has his own family and children, and has witnessed the tragic situation of ordinary people in Japan at this moment, he is no longer one of those young people who is easily incited to die.

When the 202nd Special Division stationed in Oita collapsed under the powerful offensive of the Ming army, Oda Masao decided not to participate in the final decisive charge, but chose to abandon his weapons and surrender. He also has a young wife and lovely daughter waiting for him in his hometown, and he doesn't want to die in such a place far from home no matter what!

According to Zhang Cheng's order, the Ming army was relatively tolerant of the surrendered Japanese. After verifying their loyalty, they shot the prisoners of war in front of many Japanese. These surrendered Japanese troops were grouped together into a new force. After replenishing a large number of Japanese on Kyushu Island who took the initiative to take refuge in the Ming Dynasty in order to survive, this unit was personally named the Japanese Self-Defense Force by Zhang Cheng.

These Japanese who have joined the Self-Defense Forces may have suffered in one way or another, such as for their families, children, and so on. But after all, they are committing Japanese rapes, which is a fact that cannot be changed no matter what. These Japanese who have embarked on a desperate road either choose to commit suicide after eating and drinking, or they will follow the Ming army with all their hearts from then on. They had no other choice.

When the commander of the Second Front stationed on Kyushu Island, Lieutenant General Iimura Sho, and the chief of staff, Major General Watanabe Hiroshi, were killed in the battle of Kagoshima, the main battle for the entire island of Kyushu came to an end. However, the Japanese still had many scattered troops to resist stubbornly everywhere, and they also launched locals to constantly attack the Ming army.

Under these circumstances, the Ming army soon launched a huge law and order war on the island of Kyushu. The Japanese Self-Defense Forces, which were the first of the Japanese soldiers, performed well in their first appearance, and they were originally Japanese soldiers who were proficient in various Japanese tactics and intelligence, and soon achieved satisfactory results. And if those captured Japanese soldiers were unwilling to join the Self-Defense Forces and build a beautiful new Japan together with the officers and soldiers of the Self-Defense Forces under the leadership of the Ming Dynasty, they would be platooned up.

Of course, it is impossible for the Ming army to believe these Japanese unconditionally. In addition to sending troops from Korea and other dependent countries as surveillance, military advisers were also dispatched to these Japanese Self-Defense Forces. Say it's an advisor, but it's actually a commander. And Li Ling, a sergeant in the Ming Army, was an advisor who was sent to this Self-Defense Force squadron.

Masao Oda took out a cigarette and lit it, took a deep breath, and his face was full of intoxication. Because of the brutal blockade of the Ming Dynasty, cigarettes were a real luxury among ordinary Japanese people.

Oda Masao handed back the cigarette case in his hand to Li Ling, but Li Ling smiled and waved his hand to refuse. The Ming army is not short of such supplies, they are the richest army on the planet. A huge amount of materials is piled up, and it is impossible to use it at all. For this point, Oda Masao, the Japanese who took refuge in the Ming Dynasty, knew very well in their hearts.

Needless to say, the mountains of supplies in the ports are everywhere. The ordinary soldiers of the Ming army carried a large amount of equipment. In the eyes of the Japanese, many things that are simply unique in the world, such as infantry field rations or something, the Ming soldiers basically did not eat them at all and threw them away. There have even been incidents where several Japanese beat each other to death over field rations that the Ming soldiers disdained to use.

One of the things that made Oda Masao firm in his determination to join the Ming Dynasty and attack his own people without mercy was that he witnessed the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty pouring barrels of gasoline into the pit for night lighting, and even the soldiers of the Ming Army used gasoline to barbecue and dry the laundry. This kind of thing was unthinkable in the Japanese army.

The Japanese people, who are extremely scarce in materials and have almost no oil production in their own country, cherish oil unimaginable. They even cut down pine trees to make pine oil. The oil imported by Japan before the war was really bought back with blood and sweat. Anyone who dares to use precious gasoline to light a fire and dry clothes will definitely be punished as a non-national god.

Masao Oda was full of sorrow at that time. His hometown is still going into the deep mountains and old forests, cutting down pine trees to make a little bit of precious pine oil. But Daming was already using gasoline to bake the fire. What is the point of this war? The two sides are not opponents of the same level at all!

"Your Excellency, do you have any other orders?" After Oda put the cigarette case in his pocket, he asked with a smile on his face.

"The Japanese rout in this vicinity has been resolved?" Li Ling nodded to the Self-Defense Forces who were wielding shovels to fill the pit not far away, "Are there any rout troops hiding in the surrounding mountains?" ”

Li Ling: Their location is a place called Xina Village near Kagoshima in the Satsuma Domain in the southern part of Kyushu Island, Japan. This is the seat of the Satsuma Domain, which is famous in Japan, and the folk customs are very strong.

When the Ming Japanese Expeditionary Force attacked Kagoshima last month to encircle and annihilate the last remnants of the Japanese Second Front, many local villagers dared to attack the Ming mechanized troops with knives and farm tools. Of course, these ignorant peasants were eventually beaten into a sieve or crushed by the Ming army's armored vehicles. However, their bravery left a deep impression on the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

"Please rest assured." Oda Masao, who had a smile on his face, bowed his body slightly, and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter if there are still some fish that have slipped through the net. The villagers here will help us get rid of all those idiots. ”

"......" Li Ling was a little speechless when he heard Oda Masao's words. He really didn't understand what these Japanese people were thinking.

When the Ming army passed through here before, the local residents resisted desperately, and did not hesitate to resist the Ming army with huge casualties. But after the main force of the Japanese army was wiped out and the entire Kyushu Island was taken into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, the attitude of these local farmers suddenly took a 180-degree turn.

It seems that they have forgotten overnight about the fierce battle with the Ming army and the heavy losses. On the contrary, he went deep into the mountains and forests with all kinds of rudimentary weapons to help the Ming army search for those Japanese routs who were unwilling to surrender. This strange change of attitude made the Ming army completely confused.

When Li Ling told Oda Masao about the doubts in his heart, Oda Masao replied like this: "Your Excellency, the countryside of Japan is actually very closed, and many areas like southern Kyushu still have a very strong atmosphere of feudal times. They had resisted the Celestial Empire army before, and that was because their lord had ordered them to do so. However, after the Japanese army defeated the Japanese army (Oda Masao said that the Japanese army said that there was no hindrance, as if he had never served in the Japanese army). The mountain dwellers would take the side of the victor and fight the water dogs. ”

To put it simply, these mountain people who don't know anything will only stand next to the victors. Even if those losers are their previous masters, there will be no mercy. These mountain people will collect those Japanese soldiers from everywhere and send them to the Ming army in exchange for various materials, no matter whether the Japanese army is dead or alive, they can get things from the hands of the Ming army. In many cases, a Japanese prisoner of war was worth no more than a bag of salt.

In fact, this era is still a backward era. Many places are very primitive and backward existences. Different from the modern time and space of the information explosion, reading and going to school is still an unattainable thing for most people. This is particularly true in poor countries.

In this era, only people in the city had the opportunity to go to school and open their eyes to the outside world. And most of the countrymen and mountain dwellers are still primitive. (To be continued.) )