The islands of the Irrawaddy Delta are intricately intertwined, with large islands and small islands that are so large that the terrain changes every day after the tide rises and falls, making it easy to get lost.

And the jungle is full of dangers, and there are expeditionary planes hovering in the sky.

Thus began their journey, avoiding threats from the air during the day and enduring hunger and cold at night.

Before they knew it, three days had passed, and on the way they met a dying comrade-in-arms, who also said something to Ono Tsukashi... The weather was so nice today that I detonated a grenade.

With an explosion, the soldier was instantly blown to the point that only one foot and half of his head were left, without any pain.

The scene was extremely disgusting, making the already timid Konozuka almost vomit, but the other companions in the team seemed to be used to it.

But as time went on, Hitoshi Ono didn't get surprised.

Because the further they went, they saw more Japanese soldiers, all of them like zombies, either following the team mechanically forward, or falling on the side of the road waiting for death to come, or picking up the weapons in their hands and ending themselves.

The jungle was full of such tragic scenes, and slowly it began to rain heavily, and the sweet potatoes were eaten, but the team continued to move forward, as if there was no end to the road to the meeting point.

Jun Cao always walks in the front without saying a word, and when he encounters other people's doubts, he is always the same: it's almost there, and he will work harder...

When encountering stragglers from other troops, Jun Cao would walk up with a grin and use his three-inch tongue to fool more people into joining the team.

In this way, the original seven-person team has been gathered by Jun Cao twenty or thirty now, but everyone's situation is not very optimistic, and from time to time someone will fall unable to support it, and the result of falling behind is self-evident.

No one will be kind enough to help, and to fall is death.

Ono Tsukashi couldn't help but wonder if it was right or wrong for him to follow them? It's just that now that he has embarked on this road, he can't afford to regret it.

Unconsciously, perhaps Ono Tsukashi himself didn't realize it, his state of mind was also beginning to change slowly.

Just today, another corpse was found on the road, his eyes were wide open with a frightened expression, and a large area of pale skin was exposed under his tattered clothes, which were crawling with maggots with white flowers.

And Onozuka was not afraid at all, he was used to seeing it all the way, and he didn't feel disgusted.

Even when he saw the arm that was still intact, he whispered, it should be delicious to eat roasted...

The terrible hunger pangs can make people go crazy, as if looking at anything can be imagined as food.

Finally, in the afternoon, they walked through the obscured jungle.

Ahead is a depression with indescribable tall reeds, swaying with the breeze, and you can smell the salty sea breeze in the distance, proving that this is not far from its destination.

The comrades-in-arms all accelerated their pace excitedly, but Hitoshi Onozuka, who had inconvenient legs and feet, was left behind.

"Feet are sacks! Please wait for me! ”

No matter how he shouted, his comrades-in-arms ran forward as if they couldn't hear it.

Ono Tsuka could only limp after him, for fear of being left behind by his comrades, but soon the figure of his companion disappeared from view.

It was about ten minutes before Onozuka dragged his heavy steps through the reed forest, but the scene that caught his eye at this moment set off a huge wave in his heart.

The open area in front was full of stumps and dried corpses of Japanese soldiers, densely packed with a large area, and the disgusting and rancid smell was disgusting.

Further ahead, there is an endless coastline, and the sea water separated from the island in the middle gradually reveals the shallow depression at the bottom due to the low tide, and the water is less than ankle deep, and if you run faster, you can reach the opposite shore in less than ten minutes, but this distance of 100 meters seems to have become a Shura hell at this time.

This... Where is this what is south of the sea... There is no so-called naval warship waiting to take them home.

Hitoshi Ono was stunned by the scene in front of him, it turned out that the meeting point that the chief said... It's actually the northern part of the archipelago, where they landed on the island in the first place!

Afraid of being discovered by the enemy troops on the opposite side, he quickly retreated into the reeds and ran away without thinking too much.

"Hey! Ahren! Over here! ”

Before he had gone far, he heard a shout from the reed forest, and Ono Hitoshi looked to the side for the sound, only to see a head sticking out of the bushes beckoning to him.

Onozuka was stunned for a moment, hesitated for a moment, but ran over, and with the help of his companions, he struggled to pull away the reeds more than two meters high and get in.

It turned out that there were several teammates who had just gone missing.

"Over there... Over there..."Hitoshi Onozuka pointed behind him in shock.

The soldier was lying lazily on the edge of the stump, and he was not too surprised to see Ono Tsukasa Ren appear, but just glanced at it and said lightly: "Be quiet, find a place to rest, and wait until the evening to go out." ”

"Get out? Where to go? On the other side is the encirclement of the Chinese people, how can they get out? ”

Ono asked angrily, he really couldn't figure out why the chief had brought them to this hellish place.

"Yaga! If you want to go out and die without anyone stopping you, if you want to shout again, I will fulfill you now! ”

At this moment, Jun Cao put away his usual amiable disguise, glared at Onozuka with angry eyes, and his expression was hideous like a beast.

The veteran who had just helped hurriedly pulled Ono Tsuka Ren to sit down, signaling him not to talk anymore, so as not to cause trouble.

And the movement here quickly attracted the attention of the others, and they all popped up to see what was going on.

It doesn't matter, good guys... In the reeds on the edge of the jungle, there were many Japanese soldiers hidden, and they gathered here in twos and threes, not to mention hundreds of people.

Ono Tsukashi, who had calmed down, learned the truth from the veteran, and it turned out that the meeting point that the officers said was the place where they began to land on the island. The reason why I came here was purely because there was no way back and I couldn't live on the island.

The squadron leader mentioned by the military commander was actually not the commander of their 13th squadron, but seemed to be a lieutenant staff officer of the Honda Wing.

He gathered all the available soldiers around him, and said that he had contacted the top brass through the radio station of the wing headquarters, and the higher authorities agreed to send some warships to pick them up and retreat.

However, the evacuation point was not set in the southern waters of the Irrawaddy Delta Islands, because there were British submarines and destroyer units cruising there, and it was easy for the other side to bite them, and the gains outweighed the losses.

The evacuation plan can only be carried out in the area along the Tonggatun border between Yangon and Ayeyarwady provinces.

This also meant that the Japanese soldiers trapped in the Delta Islands had to pass through the enemy's layers of defense, break out of the encirclement, and then march east to Tongdun.

This information was only told to a few trustworthy soldiers, and he also warned them not to divulge it, and no more than a few of the hundreds of people knew the inside information.

Ono Tsukashi was so shocked that he couldn't speak, not to mention the authenticity of these news, whether there were any naval warships waiting to pick them up and retreat, this crazy plan alone sounded like sending them to death.

But ordinary soldiers don't know so much at all, or they don't want to think about it so much, they only know that the commander said that the warship is coming, break through the enemy blockade and go east to go home.

If you don't, then staying on the island is no different from waiting for death, so why not give it a go. It was by taking advantage of this psychology that the officers succeeded in assembling a large number of demoralized soldiers.

In fact, in the final analysis, they are just cannon fodder for breaking through the siege, and Ono Tsuka Ren is also one of them.