Chapter Twenty-Six: The Barrel Narrow Room (II)

At the U.S. front-line field hospital located on the ancient battlefield of Barrel Sama, Marshal MacArthur with a large entourage was comforting the wounded American soldiers who were hospitalized. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

This time, Marshal MacArthur did not come to the front line empty-handed, but prepared a large number of chocolate candy, camel brand cigarettes, whiskey, and pictorial magazines for the wounded soldiers, and cheered up the wounded soldiers with a smile, confidently announcing that he would end this "damn war" before Christmas! It won a cheer from all the wounded soldiers and medical personnel.

In addition, Marshal MacArthur brought a condolence performance troupe with the army, and played very authentic American country music in the hospital.

For a time, everyone was happy, and the accompanying news reporters took the opportunity to write many articles praising the marshal and loving the soldier like a son.

At the instigation of several journalists, Marshal MacArthur also gave an impromptu speech through a microphone and a loudspeaker:

“…… Dear warriors, citizens of the entire free world, cheering for your feat of landing on the Japanese archipelago! All are paying tribute to you! Four years of brutal war are about to be won, and you are the greatest contributors to this supreme honor for your country!

Your profession requires you to have the courage to dedicate yourself in this life-or-death situation, and nothing else. Your profession is to fight, to fight in the arena filled with gunpowder. In the past four years, you have endured so much suffering, walking through the scorching deserts where sand can bake eggs, the swarthy filthy foxholes, the eerie stinking trenches, the drenched and filthy tunnels, the scorching sunshine, the violent downpour, the deserted jungle paths, the ruined ruined cities, and the roar of shells and bullets every day!

You have endured the agony of long separations from loved ones, the rampant spread of tropical diseases, the horrific killings in troubled areas, hunger, thirst and embarrassment in the absence of provisions. You have made a firm and resolute defense, attacked swiftly and accurately, and done your best for the happiness of our people and the peace of the world. You have always been indomitable and persevered in the battle in a pool of blood, only to defeat the powerful and ferocious enemy and win a total and complete victory! The triumph of freedom over tyranny!

I don't know what words to put to express my gratitude to you! It's just an honor to be able to lead you to the battlefield!

Now, the darkest nightmare has passed, and the dawn of victory has finally arrived! It turns out that no one can defeat you, the defenders of the free world. For a century and a half, you have defended, guarded, and protected the sacred traditions of liberation and freedom, rights and justice.

From Pearl Harbor, where the war raged four years ago, to the Japanese archipelago that we are treading on now, there is a long, blood-soaked road in between. God helped us to achieve today's victory. But we will never forget Pearl Harbor. The crimes committed by the Japanese warlords cannot be repared or forgotten. We must completely deprive them of the power to destroy and slaughter. Although we have destroyed Tokyo and reduced most of the Japanese war criminals to dust in a mushroom cloud, the remnants of the enemy are still not defeated, and continue to fight against the righteous forces of the United States on land and sea!

So, I hope you can continue to fight hard and fill in the last shovel of dirt for the final funeral of the Japanese fascist army! ……”

However, when Marshal MacArthur was talking so eloquently, he did not know that there was a special audience under his feet......

- As a frontier battlefield where the Oda family and the Imagawa family fought for many years during the Warring States period, the barrel narrow room was surrounded by mountains, and the field hospital of the U.S. army, just like Imagawa Yoshimoto's main camp back then, was set up in a flat depression with convenient transportation.

Of course, this does not mean that the US military has neglected to be vigilant against the surrounding mountains, and barbed wire fences have also been set up around the field hospitals. Moreover, the importance of a unit like a field hospital is, after all, not comparable to that of an arsenal and a command headquarters, and it is almost the same if there is a certain degree of arming.

What they didn't know, however, was that just under the dense vegetation of Mt. Tsukasasa, the Japanese Navy had built a huge underground warehouse here a few years earlier to store arms and ammunition. Although the underground warehouse was abandoned shortly after it was put into use, due to serious water seepage and landslide problems due to improper construction, the main structure remained intact and was reported to the defenders of Nagoya by those in the know.

What the U.S. military didn't know was that there was an escape tunnel in this underground warehouse, which happened to pass directly under their field hospital...... Even better, although the warehouse itself is largely abandoned, for some reason, several boxes of engineering explosives and a batch of mines are still left inside......

As a result, a Japanese commando force of nearly 1,000 people successfully evaded the US sentry posts and patrols and quietly approached this place from underground.

When Lieutenant Kasai, who originally belonged to the Japanese Navy, wore a miner's hat and drilled his head out of the tunnel, Rear Admiral Masanobu Tsuji dragged him out.

“…… Good work, Kasai-kun, how is the explosives installed? Didn't the Yankees notice anything unusual, did they? ”

“…… All the best! Both the detonator ♂ and the detonator were installed. Absolutely did not alarm the Yankees. ”

Lieutenant Kasai said, patting the dust off his body, and at the same time pulled out several sappers who were following him, who were obviously very tired, and as soon as they crawled out, they lay on the ground panting, and then shivered from the cold rain on the blades of grass, "...... The Yankees were playing music on the ground, and my ears were buzzing in the tunnel, and we weren't digging a temporary tunnel to get out, but just installing something inside, how could they possibly find out? Hey, it's just that the location of the tunnel is a little off, and the amount of explosives is a little too small, so it's likely that the explosion is not powerful enough to kill all those Yankees at once, and I don't know if the American marshal is still in it, or if it's ......already gone."

“…… It doesn't matter, you're good enough to be able to do this. We'll take care of the rest! ”

Major General Masanobu Tsuji comforted, "...... As for the presence of Marshal MacArthur of the United States...... You can only pray to the gods for this. ”

As everyone knows, there was an extremely deep estrangement and contradiction between the navy and the army of the old Japanese empire, and it even went so far that the army built aircraft carriers, the navy built tanks, and the same weapon technology of the same country and the same company had to be purchased and introduced by the Japanese navy and army at one time, and there was no internal exchange. But this is more of a power struggle between the upper strata, specifically between the officers and soldiers at the lower strata, but it has not yet reached the level of treating them as enemies, otherwise they would not be able to cooperate in the war in Nanyang at all. And at a moment when the empire itself has collapsed, these old feuds in the past are even more useless.

At present, the rabble under Rear Admiral Masanobu Tsuji is the Navy and Army, retired and active. At present, the extremists who have infiltrated the Red Guards of the Japanese Communist Party and the gangsters and violent gangs, of course, are more homeless refugees whose homes have been burned down by the US military. If it were under normal circumstances, such a group of people would probably have started killing each other a long time ago, but under the banner of "destroying the country and saving the country", they can still stand together for the time being.

“…… May Atsuta Damyojin bless you and win this battle! ”

Like Oda Nobunaga, who fought here four centuries ago, Major General Masanobu Tsuji muttered and then waved his hand: "Detonate!" ”

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Thundered!

The earth shakes the mountains, and the rocks are shocked!

About two tons of explosives exploded in the ground, causing the entire U.S. military field hospital to tremble as if jumping. A huge shock wave swept across the depression, flying the field hospital's tents everywhere like scraps of paper in a storm. It also brought Marshal MacArthur's speech to an abrupt halt in an instant.

When Marshal MacArthur woke up from his vertigo, he could scarcely believe what he saw: mutilated bodies everywhere. All sorts of stumps were scattered everywhere with bloody pieces of flesh. The ground and the collapsed tent were covered with large patches of black blood.

“…… Damn it! Could it be the Japanese? If you are attacked at this time......"

The next moment, his crow's beak was fulfilled: before the smoke and dust of the explosion had completely fallen, a dense burst of gunfire and explosions rang out in all directions.

On the slopes of the Barrel Narrow Mountain, all kinds of light rockets, mortars, bazookas and grenadiers fired like a torrential downpour, and red-hot shrapnel whistled in the air. The ground shook violently like a never-ending earthquake. Several heavy machine guns spewed blood-red flames, pouring the fiery molten iron down. The US patrols arranged on the mountain were killed by snipers at the first time, and groups of Japanese soldiers came out of the mouths of various underground tunnels hidden by bushes, shouting all kinds of slogans, and slaughtered the US field hospital that had just been blown up.

“…… Kill give!! ”“…… Assault! ”“…… Banzai! ”

“…… Shoot, shoot! Kill these Japs! ”

It was not until this life-threatening moment that the US troops, who had been blown up and lost their minds, finally returned to their normal reactions, and under the kicking and scolding of several officers, they picked up the collapsed machine guns and fired back violently. The continuous chain of bullets hit some of the Japanese, but the successors stepped on the corpses of their comrades and continued to advance. Some of those who fell struggled to climb forward, and were knocked down again. The piercing howls were mixed with the sound of gunfire, and it was unusually poignant.

The barbed wire fence that had been blown away by the underground blasting did not delay the footsteps of the Japanese army in the slightest, who had been galloping and living here since childhood, and were the real masters of this land. Earth. The trembling rhythm cheered them on, and the rolling heat wave made Americans' hearts suddenly cold......

Eventually, a few Japanese soldiers threw themselves into the chaos of the American troops, fighting them with bayonets, sabers, and submachine guns, or dropping grenades. Some Japanese soldiers were killed. Some U.S. soldiers were cut down and knocked down. But on this local battlefield, the Japanese outnumbered the Americans. In particular, a group of Japanese samurai wielding swords with both hands seemed to have made up their minds to die, and they rushed into the US positions like a tide, breaking the crumbling defense line in an instant. Then, with murderous two-handed swords, they slashed, slashed, stabbed, and slaughtered unarmed wounded soldiers and medical personnel in a lightning-fast manner. The Japanese slaughtered and cut without humanity. The American army, which was in a state of disarray, broke its tendons and fractured its bones, and its head was divided into two parts: the war had reached this point, and both the Japanese army and the American army no longer took the Geneva Conventions seriously, but slaughtered wherever they went.

“…… Your Excellency, Marshal! I can't stand it anymore! You're on board! ”

In the chaos of bullets, MacArthur's Filipino valet and Australian lieutenant got a jeep out of nowhere, pushed MacArthur into the passenger seat, and then tried to drive away from the field hospital, which had been turned into a slaughterhouse.

However, the jeep carrying MacArthur did not have long to drive before a screeching rocket swooped in.

Immediately after, with the frightened shouts of the driver, a gray smoke was dragged by a portable individual killer and smashed into the rear of the car!

“…… Rumble! ”

Countless fiery debris and bright flames engulfed the entire jeep in an instant, and the occupants of the car were either blown into a sieve on the spot, or into a flaming fireball. Marshal MacArthur himself was lucky enough to be swept out and landed in a dense bush. Relying on the cushioning of vegetation, the marshal only suffered some flesh and skin injuries, but he was also shocked by the shock wave and vomited blood, became deaf, and was in a trance for a while before coming back to his senses.

After taking a few breaths, MacArthur tried to stand up, but found that he was dizzy and had no strength at all, so he had to turn over on the spot, from lying on the ground to facing the sky on his back, and then he saw a Japanese major general wearing round eyes and carrying a blood-dripping saber, smiling towards him.

It was only then that MacArthur remembered that he was still wearing a rather conspicuous admiral's gown......

Then, I saw the Japanese major general take out a photo from his pocket and look at it, and then opened his mouth in fluent English:

“…… General MacArthur, it's a pleasure to meet you. You may have heard my name, my name is Masanobu Tsuji! In the Philippines, in New Guinea, in Australia, you have escaped from the hands of the Imperial Army again and again, but this time you can't escape again! ”

Hearing the name of this "jackal counselor", MacArthur's eyes suddenly widened with anger and he wanted to open his mouth to scold, but immediately a mouthful of dirty blood gushed out of his throat, choking him so that he couldn't speak at all...... At this time, another Japanese soldier came up with a knife and wanted to behead Marshal MacArthur, but was stopped by Masanobu Tsuji: "...... No, don't behead him yet, capturing a living MacArthur is more useful than taking the head of a marshal......"

-- A few days later, a legend that "the Masanobu Gong attacked the barrel narrowly, broke through the enemy's main formation, and captured Amiriga's name Mai alive", as well as a photo leaflet of Marshal MacArthur who was put into an iron cage and exhibited, spread all over the prefectures and prefectures of the Japanese archipelago, igniting the fighting passion of the entire island nation.

And Major General Masanobu Tsuji, who captured MacArthur alive, also shook the world in an instant as a "generation of anti-American heroes" and was well-known in the world......