Originally, they were all living soldiers, and the terrifying executioners on the battlefield turned into skeletons and maggots' nests one by one because of food and medicine.

The forest was silent, and there was not even the sound of birds.

Kiyoshi Nagakawaguchi tried to calm himself, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw a note on a tree stump on the side of the road, pressed by a stone.

Brushed off the stone and picked up the note, which read:

I haven't had anything to eat for a month, and I haven't seen rice for a month.

The ships carrying grain are all sunk in the bay, and a grain is a drop of blood.

O friends who have passed by me, please put a handful of rice at my grave.

How grateful I am to you, I think of sushi, glutinous rice balls and sashimi.

……

Nagakawaguchi Kiyoshi looked at the contents of the note, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his stomach began to churn again, his eyes were black, and he was about to throw away the piece of paper in his hand, and found that on the other side of the paper, there were still some words:

We landed in Guadalcanal, full of fighting pride.

No one retreated, no one wavered, no one complained.

But in the end, it is up to us to end our young lives.

War is the worst of all, my comrades, think carefully before you commit suicide, your mind will gradually cool down.

Although we cannot see the future, the future without war will be beautiful......

Kiyoshi Nagakawaguchi was furious, tore the strips to shreds, and trampled the scraps into the dirt with his military boots, while scolding: "Shameful traitor, Yaga ......"

The nervous impulses of mental and physical strength, combined with the overdrawn body, made him dizzy and stumbled through the dense forest.

In the distance, there was the sound of gunfire, and around them, wounded soldiers were constantly being carried down and passing by, and no one said a word.

It was overcast, and the obnoxious torrential rain was falling again.

The rain rustled against the leaves, and then the cool raindrops seeped through the uniforms, and the rain grew heavier and heavier, and the treetops of the rainforest poured down like countless waterfalls.

The living were soaking wet, and the road was a little muddy.

Kiyoshi Nagakawaguchi was trembling, his hungry body was becoming more and more unable to support it, and he was unable to continue walking, he leaned on the edge of a big tree, and subconsciously remembered the note in his mind: I thought about sushi, glutinous rice balls, sashimi......

The trees in the rainforest are unable to resist the onslaught of moisture for many years, and many of them are actually rotting in their hearts.

A muffled thunder fell, a rotten tree was chopped down, a large number of rotten trees crashed against each other and fell, and the rumbling sound overwhelmed the sound of the rain, which was thrilling.

Nagakawaguchi Kiyoshi wanted to dodge, but his legs were weak and he didn't obey the call. This is how one of his subordinates was stoned to death by a fallen log. The top of the tree he was leaning on was struck and his waist snapped.

The snap of the broken tree ejected him and slammed into another tree, and he fainted all at once.

Nagakawaguchi Kiyoshi is undoubtedly lucky, at least he is not like those foul-smelling corpses on the side of the road, he still has a chance to wake up again.

A captain officer who was also part of the Sendai Division saved him, and the two had fought together in Shenzhou and had several encounters.

Nagakawaguchi Kiyoshi was very lightly injured, mainly because of hunger, and the captain gave a rice ball, even in the face of a captain, in front of food, Nagakawaguchi Kiyoshi was a thousand thanks.

He survived, returned to the combat unit, found Lieutenant General Maruyama Masao, who succeeded Hyakutake Harukoshi, and remained in the combat unit.

Kiyoshi Nagakawaguchi has always been the chief officer of the interrogation of prisoners, whether it is in the Shenzhou battlefield or in the Pacific theater, the prisoners in his hands can always provide information that will be of interest to the Japanese.

But on Guadalcanal, the Japanese army faced an opponent who, from beginning to end, simply could not capture half a prisoner.

The Japanese army helplessly found that it was true that they were crazy, but the enemy was even more crazy than themselves, and this war was also called a contest between madmen.

This also led to the fact that after Nagakawaguchi Kiyoshi returned to the combat unit, he had nothing to do.

Moreover, the so-called ration supply of front-line combat units is also extremely small, and no one has less than two taels of rice every day, so they swallow wild vegetables.

Although the Japanese Army at Rabaul had kept the Navy at full capacity to transport grain, most of the grain ships were sunk in the bay.

Even in the general headquarters on the island, there was no food for three days.

Many soldiers can only look for the creatures on the island to satisfy their hunger, snakes, rats, insects and birds, everything that can be eaten will not be spared, even cockroaches, have become food.

This also led to the fact that almost every soldier was replaced with enteritis, and the number of Japanese soldiers who died of starvation and disease was more than the number of people who died in battle.

Even if he returned to the front-line combat unit, Nagakawaguchi Qing was still so hungry that his eyes were dizzy, and his tall figure was already rickety, and it was almost difficult to struggle once he lay down.

In such a situation, any desire. Hope, any arrogance, any bullshit emperor is gone, only hope to eat a full meal, even if he dies, he is willing.

During this period, Nagakawaguchi Kiyoshi heard about cannibalism and cannibalism in order to grab rice.

Under hunger, the stomach knows its own needs better than the head, and the animal instincts of man make them lose their minds.

Until one day, Maruyama Masao personally told him that the troops of the Nagoya Division would go all out to rescue Guadalcanal, and the navy would also come to his aid, and then food and ammunition would not be a problem.

"The main force of the 17th Army, plus the Sendai Division and the Nagoya Division combined, will definitely be able to crush the enemy's resistance and occupy the airfield, and everything will not be a problem at that time."

"If you hold on a little longer, everything will change after the Nagoya Division lands, and there will be so many prisoners that you can't even interrogate at that time......"

Nagakawaguchi Kiyoshi naturally believed in the words of his commander, because at such a time, he had to believe that he pinned all his hopes on the Nagoya Division, that is, the 38th Division.

He waited patiently, not thinking about the cheeks and the long beard, not thinking about the delicious food he had eaten in the past. Hunger caused him to hallucinate several times, believing that the large convoy carrying the 38th Division had reached Guadalcanal.

However, the Red Guard Corps naturally could not make it so easy for the Japanese troops on the island, although the 1st Marine Division, having completely abandoned the active attack, did not intend to consume such an enemy in the rainforest, but the necessary attack did not stop almost every day.

The island's 155-mm howitzer swarms visit the Japanese station's base on the island every day, and the bomber base in Australia visits whenever the sky clears.

Such a day is naturally difficult for the Japanese army.