Ten days after the war broke out on Iwo Jima, the remnants of the Japanese garrison on the island are still struggling to survive in the tunnels.

And the people who have been able to survive until now are like big waves, they all understand the meaning of life, and no one is looking for death by themselves, but this has not changed the various tragedies in the limit state.

Honda Shimoki is still on the edge of the observation hole in the passage, and the inside of the tunnel is noticeably different from the previous days.

Half of the soldiers in the tunnel were wounded, and the seriously wounded soldiers were wrapped around their bodies. Around the bandages, on the feet, hands, and body, there were dirty bandages, and many of the wounded soldiers were in a coma.

Most of these wounded soldiers were burned, and the Red Guard's attack on Iwo Jima did not stop, and the bunkers and tunnels built as an enemy ten times their size were instead killed by the garrison.

From the very beginning of the battle, the Japanese imagined that the enemies outside seemed to have a natural clairvoyant eye, and were able to find the hidden tunnels with great precision, and they were able to find the mud bunkers that were sealed with mud.

The enemy's armored vehicles and tanks were all equipped with flamethrowers, or with direct artillery fire, to directly destroy the Japanese soldiers hiding in the dirt.

So far, I have basically not heard any kills to kill the enemy, but there are scorching flames everywhere, and the soldiers who have been burned to rot all over their bodies have groaned. Groaning the seriously wounded who had no strength.

Especially after the airfield on Iwo Jima was occupied by the enemy, the enemy would arrive every day with a large number of supply planes, and the attack became more efficient.

However, this was not the most tragic for most of the soldiers of the Japanese garrison.

The tunnel where Honda is located under the tree, the soldiers in it are considered to be a relatively sound part of the combat effectiveness, and the soldiers also have a certain number of bullets in their hands.

However, to everyone, their commander is a devil, even if it is just a lieutenant.

Honda Shimoki watched this devil-like lieutenant with his own eyes, and asked all the wounded soldiers who could move, in groups of three, to leave the pit and launch a sneak attack on the nearby enemy camp.

Although the basic operational command system in the tunnel has long since collapsed, the dignity and inferiority generated by military rank have not disappeared, and the orders of the commander still have the effect of obeying the junior officers and soldiers.

The fact that officers abuse their power has long been common, treating their subordinates like slaves, even if it is just a small lieutenant, but because the officers with higher military ranks than the lieutenant have died in battle one after another, this lieutenant has become a tyrant-like existence in this tunnel, constantly giving all kinds of orders.

If it is normal to send soldiers to attack the enemy's camp, this is a legitimate battle order.

But sending a group of wounded soldiers, not to mention, not equipping these wounded soldiers with bullets, only weapons, and rusty bayonets, not even a single grenade, this kind of behavior is completely to let these wounded soldiers die.

What Honda remembered the most was that when this team of wounded soldiers set off, the lieutenant even said the words of not coming back.

Such brutal words are difficult for Honda Shimoki to accept, and if it weren't for reason to stop him, he would have wanted to kill this lieutenant with one shot.

Letting the wounded soldiers go on a sneak attack and not let them come back is actually to reduce the number of soldiers fighting for food.

In order to hold on to the limited food and drinking water in the tunnel for a longer period of time, the fewer people in the tunnel the better, and in order to be able to live a few more days, the people in power find a way to get rid of the weak people in the tunnel, the wounded soldiers, this behavior is even more hateful than the surrenderer.

The most hateful thing is that the lieutenant's tyranny is not the only one, after learning that dozens of planes will be present at the airport every day, the lieutenant even gave the order to steal the planes back.

The lieutenant's attempt to get the soldiers to attack the airfield and then fly back to the Japanese mainland was a ridiculous plan.

Not to mention approaching the airport, even if you walk out of the tunnel 100 meters, the probability of surviving will not exceed five percent.

The enemy was on Iwo Jima, a large number of detection equipment and snipers were deployed everywhere, and almost none of the soldiers who came out of the pit with weapons came back.

And even if you are lucky enough to be able to advance to the airfield and successfully steal the plane, how can the enemy plane be able to fly, and how can you take off without the experience of piloting the enemy's plane?

It is also quite normal that not a single soldier wants to take such an order.

However, the lieutenant did not give up, but felt more and more that this method could be acted, but in fact, the extreme environment had already made people crazy unconsciously.

The lieutenant pulled five soldiers, loaded with weapons and ammunition, and left the tunnel.

Without the ruling group, there is a mixture of selfish ideas, where the strong and the weak are mixed, and the most powerful can become the dominant in the group, and can run rampant in it.

The six people who left the trench immediately returned in a panic, and the five soldiers who went out together were all killed, only the lieutenant quickly fled back, but when he was about to enter the tunnel, he was desperate to find that the exit of the tunnel had already been blocked.

He shouted three times, but the people blocking the tunnel not only did not let go of the tunnel door, but blocked it even more tightly.

In the end, the lieutenant's fate can be imagined, and he was soon killed by the sniper.

Honda Shimoki just watched all this very calmly, he was just a private of the upper class, although his status was a bit special, the officers in the pit could not order him, he could also go to all the pits freely, and it was for this reason that he knew something about the hegemony in each pit situation.

Things like this lieutenant are very common in other tunnels, where the officer dominates all his subordinates, and for his own survival, many decisions are planned.

In a long limit state, these dominators will soon be like this lieutenant, and the rights will become meaningless.

Opening the notebook he was carrying and taking out a pencil, Honda Shimoki wrote: "I see more and more clearly that the order in the Japanese army is very fragile, and the soldiers strictly follow the superficial phenomenon of orders, and in the end they still do not go up and down.

The soldiers lurking in the tunnels were naked. body, because of the extreme heat in the trenches, and the military uniform is full of lice, there is no way to wear it on the body.

And in this tunnel, hopeless warfare has taken everything from everyone, including humanity, and at the limit of enduring hunger and thirst, even the slightest thing can lead to conflict, which is often accompanied by disability.

Inside the tunnel, a veritable hell. ”