Chapter 636: Great Northeast Strategy - Chen Feng's Conspiracy
China is on fire, and the two battlefields of the north and the south have achieved great victories, which makes the United States and Britain and other countries doubt China's positioning, is such a country really willing to be their cannon fodder?
Obviously, this answer is still to be discussed, and the attitude of Chinese leader Chiang when he attended the Washington Conference is still remembered that he clearly disagreed with the strategic arrangement of Europe first and then Asia, and at the end he was forced to agree to it out of reluctance, and he was certainly very dissatisfied with this move of the United States and Britain in his heart. As for the Admiral Chen in China, he did not agree to such an arrangement, and called them many times, believing that the strategy of putting Europe first and then Asia was inappropriate.
Now that the Chinese government has won major victories in both the north and the south, this is a lot of pressure on the United States and Britain to re-examine China's international status, and absolutely not to regard China as a simple cannon fodder country, which will only make relations between them worse.
However, before the top leaders of the United States and Britain could react, a report suddenly published by the Washington Post completely ignited the anger of the American people.
The story was published on October 9 and was published on the front page of the Washington Post, under the headline "American GI's Death March." Morgan.
This report is very long, mainly reporting that the American and Philippine troops surrendered to the Japanese army after the defeat in the Battle of Bataan, but after the surrender, they were not treated well by the Japanese army, but embarked on a road of no return.
At the top of the article is an American general, many people know him, he is Kim, a lieutenant general in the US Army, commander-in-chief of the Bataan garrison. However, this photo is far inferior to the previous photos published in the newspapers. Because His Excellency the lieutenant general was in a state of limbo, his clothes were torn and dirty. The most important thing is the environment, I saw that next to His Excellency the General was a Japanese officer with a command knife, from the rank it seems to be a Japanese lieutenant general, and people who pay attention to the news can recognize it at a glance, the Japanese lieutenant general is called Honma Masaharu, a senior general of the Japanese Southern Army, and also the supreme commander of the attack on Bataan.
The general finally gave the order to surrender, for the sake of all the soldiers who had lost their reinforcements and consumed the last bullet. He didn't want his soldiers to put up a senseless resistance. More than 50,000 deaths have been worth all taxpayers in the United States of America. The soldiers gathered together gloomily, some with tears of shame in their eyes, and they waited uneasily for the conqueror"
A paragraph of text is followed by another photo, and the second longest photo is of a U.S. Army captain. In addition to the captain, there is a main character in the photo. It was a Japanese soldier. I saw the captain lying on the ground, his face covered in blood, and the Japanese soldier was slamming him in the head with the butt of his gun.
"Army Air Corps Captain Mark Murphy. Wolfield was the first to see the Japanese soldiers. They carried a mountain cannon, smiled and spoke softly. He breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to himself that they weren't that bad after all. But when these conquerors came up to them, they changed their appearance, and as soon as they arrived at the scene, they were busy searching for belongings, sweeping away the blankets, watches, jewelry, blades, cutlery, food, and even toothbrushes of the captives. A Japanese soldier found twenty rounds of four or five pistol bullets on Wolffield's body, and he screamed and slammed him on the head with the butt of his rifle."
The text was followed by another photograph, and the third was a U.S. lieutenant colonel with a severed finger, and, of course, a smiling Japanese soldier.
"Lieutenant Colonel Jack. Sewell was seen by the Japanese soldier with the gold ring on his hand and reached out to ask for it. But it was his wedding ring, and Sewell withdrew his hand, not wanting to hand it over. The Japanese soldier pulled the bayonet from the gun with a swipe, brutally cut off Sewell's finger with his own hands, and took the ring away."
These are just the beginning, and while they are infuriating, they are not enough to make everyone angry, after all, as conquerors, they have reason to enjoy the pleasures of conquerors. However, the next photo made all Americans angry.
This time, the protagonist is still an American soldier, his position is no longer visible in tattered military uniforms, or an officer, or an ordinary soldier, but these are not important, he is a prisoner in the photo, and he is also a prisoner who was brutally killed, I saw this soldier fall to the ground, one arm stretched high, and there were seven or eight bright bayonets stuck in his body, and next to him were a few smiling Japanese soldiers.
"He was an American soldier, we don't know his name, and he was going to be sent to a prisoner camp 100 kilometers away, along with all the American and Filipino prisoners. Under the scorching sun, the prisoners of war had dry mouths and dragged their weak bodies to stagger. They didn't know how far the road ahead of them was, and they didn't know what the road would hold in the future, and suddenly, the soldier slipped and fell in the bushes by the side of the road, and he tried to struggle to get up, but he couldn't do it. Several Japanese soldiers ran towards him, one Japanese soldier viciously stabbed Hank's weakened body four or five times, and then several Japanese soldiers stabbed him several times, blood flowed out of his shirt, and he struggled to get back into the group, but he did not fall on the march due to excessive blood loss"
The following photo is even more miserable, the photo is very clear, from above it is a pond, the area is very large, but what is unbearable is that the pond is full of dead people, judging from the clothes on the dead people, they are all American soldiers, just a small area exposed in the photo, there are at least hundreds of corpses.
"The Japanese did not treat prisoners of war favorably, as stipulated in international conventions, and just before the march began, the commander of the Japanese Filipino Dispatch Force, Masaharu Honma, had ordered the escorted Japanese soldiers to exterminate any Bataan prisoners of war who could not make it to the prisoner of war camp. It was the third day of the march, and the captives were still without water or food. There were many springs and artesian wells on the Bataan Peninsula, but the Japanese just didn't allow the prisoners of war to drink it. The day and night march made the prisoners tired and hungry and thirsty. Almost everywhere there is a water source, there is a stampede, and in the heat, people are extremely thirsty and suffer more. As soon as they saw the water, the prisoners of war still went crazy, and more and more corpses fell on the edge of the pond, some trampled to death, and some were stabbed to death by the butts and bayonets of Japanese soldiers."
Judging from the photos, the scene should be a ditch that is not too deep, but inside the ditch are one after another corpses that have been exposed to the sun and are abnormally swollen. The crow pecked at the corpses to the point that the flesh was peeled open, piles of big-headed green flies crawled on every wound, and dozens of corpses were beheaded, the scene was so horrific that it seemed like they were in hell.
"This is a march of no return, and although the American soldiers have surrendered, their enemies will not give them any of the prisoners the treatment they deserve, and this march is a poisonous ploy of the Japanese High Command, who want to execute all the prisoners for a plausible reason. Of the 80,000 American and Filipino prisoners captured, only 54,000 arrived at Odonal, and between 15,000 and 30,000 died of malaria, starvation, beating, or killing on foot, and about 6,000 of them were Americans who did not get rid of their deaths after arriving at the camp, and the Japanese tortured prisoners of war in the camp, including torture, forced labor, and deliberately starved them, and the prisoners who entered the camp only postponed their death by a few months, even a few days, that's all. ”
There are pictures and truths, and a large number of detailed text and pictures directly make the whole report very convincing, and soon this report caused a great shock in American society, no less than a great earthquake of national thought, and the American people took to the streets one after another, demanding that the government immediately launch a counteroffensive against Japan and rescue those poor prisoners.
Originally, the U.S. government was still skeptical about the veracity of this report, especially when it was learned that the relationship between the writer Claire and which Chinese general was extraordinary, so at first the U.S. government thought that the Chinese general, Chen Feng, was playing tricks.
But when Claire handed over more information and photos to President Roosevelt's desk, everyone was stunned, they didn't expect that the heroic American soldiers were being subjected to such abuse. The U.S. government immediately convened a high-level military conference to discuss how to deal with the matter.
In fact, there is one thing that the top level of the United States did not guess wrong, this incident was done by Chen Feng from beginning to end, but everything is true and there is no fraud.
Chen Feng had long heard about Bataan's death march, it was an extremely cruel and terrifying journey to death, and it was also another unforgivable sin committed by the Japanese soldiers, although Chen Feng could not and could not save them, but he was able to report the truth, so as to change their fate, and at the same time make the US government reconsider China's strategic position.
Therefore, after the Bataan defenders surrendered, a 30-member special combat team was urgently sent to the island, and in addition to the necessary self-defense weapons, Chen Feng also sent a camera to each of them.
Of course, all the cameras are high-end goods that Chen Feng redeemed from the system, not only with high pixels, but also without film, which can hold more content.
The main task of the special operations team is to take pictures and record every bit of Bataan's death march. Chen Feng then gave these specially processed photos to Claire for her to report in the Washington Post, thus igniting the fire of anger in American society. (To be continued......)