Chapter 267: Cowhide Diary
Seeing the black notebook in Gong Ping's hand, Chen Jinting thought that he was hallucinating again, and walked forward with his feet.
It wasn't until he got closer that he saw clearly that what Gong Ping was holding in his hand was indeed an old-fashioned notebook.
The cover of the notebook is made of cowhide, and the cover is a little worn, but the cowhide texture feels quite sturdy just by looking at it.
At a glance at the appearance of this old-fashioned notebook, it was clear that it belonged to decades ago, and as expected, Chen Jinting judged that it was probably left over from the devil soldiers who came here in the first place.
The notebook is hidden in the armrest of the stone chair, so it is very well preserved, almost the same as when it was placed in the cassette.
Gong Ping looked at the notebook in her hand, then looked up at Chen Jinting and Lao Suo who came up, didn't say anything more, and gently opened the cover of the notebook
As soon as the diary was opened, Chen Jinting knew that his judgment was not wrong, and he saw a paragraph written on the first page of the notebook.
"Showa 14 year 10 month 8 day の晴れ today father は酒に酔って、路友から戦死してから、父は毎日、明日は私に戦場の日、天上の神の加護は、わたしを殺しあの野郎、brother の仇を討つ"
I don't know what it means, but the text on the first page indicates that the owner of the notebook is a Japanese.
This is exactly the same as Chen Jinting's idea just now.
Chen Jinting couldn't understand what was written in the notebook, Lao Suo was also blind, and the two of them looked at Gong Ping in unison.
Among the three, only Gong Ping has systematically studied Japanese, and for what is written in the notebook, he can only count on Gong Ping to translate it for everyone.
Gong Ping looked down at the Japanese written in the notebook, and didn't know that Chen Jinting and Lao Suo were looking at her.
However, Gong Ping read it quietly while looking at what was written in the notebook.
Gong Ping directly translated the Japanese from the diary into Chinese, which is a reading habit she developed when she was learning Japanese, which is equivalent to directly translating Chen Jinting and the others.
I saw Gong Ping pointing to the contents of the notebook with the light of Lao Suo's flashlight, and read softly word by word.
"On October 8, the 14th year of the Showa era, my father was drunk again today, since the death of my fellow Lu in battle, my father has been like this every day, tomorrow is the day I go to the battlefield, God bless, I can kill that bastard with my own hands and avenge my brother."
After listening to Gong Ping read what was written on the first page, Chen Jinting understood that this was the diary of a Japanese army that invaded China that year.
Moreover, the day when the Japanese army invaded China entered the war was relatively early.
Japan uses the emperor's era name to date the year, so the 14th year of Showa is 1939, which is only two years after Japan launched a full-scale war of aggression against China after the 77 Lugou Bridge Incident.
Gong Ping didn't linger long, and after reading the first page of the diary, she immediately flipped back.
"On October 9, the 14th year of Showa, Qing Qing didn't go directly to the battlefield, and he still had to conduct a month of combat training, but what makes people happy is that Hanako sent me to enlist in the army today, and at least I don't have to face my father's drunken appearance every day, I hope I won't be eliminated by the holy war."
"The 15th day of November in the 14th year of Showa is really exciting, after training for so long, I can finally conquer those hateful Shina people, the murderer of my brother is waiting, I am going to take your head, long live His Majesty the Emperor."
"On November 29, the 14th year of Showa, the hateful big fish head didn't want me to go to the front line to fight, but fortunately, my persistence was exchanged for the most victorious, excited, fighting, and killing"
"On April 17, Showa 15, the light rain began at 7 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and Noda's troops arrived on the other side of the Wusong River at 9 o'clock in the evening.
Today I killed the eighteenth enemy since the landing, and unfortunately killed a civilian by mistake, but Oyamaguchi said that it was war, nothing. ”
Gong Ping read most of the diaries in one breath, which basically recorded the history of the diary's owner fighting in China.
Regrettably, the diary does not mention who the owner of the diary is, but there is some useful information from the diary.
Since landing in China in 1939 to participate in the war, the owner of this diary has made many military exploits, and even served as a wing commander in the Sixth Division.
This wing commander was equivalent to the position of brigade commander of the national army at that time, with the rank of deputy division colonel.
To say that the 6th Division of the Japanese army invading China was quite notorious in the entire war of aggression against China.
It was also known as the Kumamoto Division, which was one of the seventeen standing divisions of the Japanese army before the outbreak of World War II, codenamed "Ming".
The 6th Division and the 2nd Division were the two most powerful and combat-effective divisions in the Japanese Army at that time, and the real reason for their notoriety was that during the Japanese war of aggression against China, the Kumamoto Unit of the 6th Division was the main participant and perpetrator of the Nanjing Massacre, which shocked China and the rest of the world.
And the fact that the owner of this diary was able to be promoted to the rank of wing commander in this unit within a few years of joining the war shows that he is certainly not an ordinary person.
However, in the diary that Gong Ping had just read, Chen Jinting did not hear any record of this canyon.
At this time, Chen Jinting was most concerned about the secrets in the stone chamber in front of him, and he was eager to find out if the Japanese soldiers had found anything in this stone chamber.
Therefore, Chen Jinting urged Gong Ping to read it back to see if he could make any new discoveries in the second half of the diary.
Gong Ping quickly flipped through the diary, and according to what Chen Jinting said, she simply jumped over some useless records and didn't read them.
Until the last day, Gong Ping seemed to have found something in the diary, she suddenly stopped flipping through the diary, and after reading it carefully for a long time, Gong Ping opened her mouth and whispered.
"On December 23, the eighteenth year of Showa, the sad news came, Hanako actually got married, really damn it, what did I get from this hateful war, I must go back to my homeland, I want to snatch Hanako back from that damn man! Besides, the damn thing is that I even have to take my troops to that damn mountain, just because those straw bale spies in Sakata heard the legend of the ghost gate pass from the mouth of Shina! The rice bucket above even believed his words, damn Sakata, he used such a despicable method against me, and sooner or later I will cut off your head in the same way as I did with those Shina. ”
In this diary, Chen Jinting heard useful information for the first time.
Could the "Ghost Gate Pass in the Mountains" refer to the place where they are now?
Waving his hand, Chen Jinting motioned for Gong Ping to continue reading.
Gong Ping flipped the page and read it, then read it.
"On December 25, Showa 18, Yin led the troops into the mountains today, and indeed found something very interesting, it seems that Sakata's straw bale team is still of some use, but this is obviously not a ghost gate, according to the stone statues in the canyon, this is very much like the mausoleum of the Chinese emperor."