Sonoda Kensaku said in surprise: "Don't you know that Shan State is currently building roads and railways?
There was an urgent need for a large number of manpower there, and the commander of the Mutaguchi Division repeatedly asked that the prisoners must be safely escorted to Shan State.
If the railway cannot be completed in time due to the death of a large number of prisoners, then will the division commander kill me, right?"
"Uh!" Ribayashi Qiaolong was speechless for a moment.
No way, even if it's the same thing, aren't there many cases where people have completely different opinions just because of their different personal standpoints?
After seeing that Kuribayashi Kashiryu had nothing to say, Sonoda Kensaku showed a proud expression: "Since Kuribayashi-kun has no objection, then this matter is settled."
After saying that, Sonoda Kensaku strode away without waiting for Ribayashi Hashiryu to speak, but as soon as he turned around, he bumped into someone.
Unprepared, Sonoda Kensaku stumbled and almost fell to the ground. The person who collided with him took a few steps back and sat on the ground, letting out a cry of pain.
"idiot!"
Sonoda Kensaku glared unhappily, blurted out a national curse, and habitually pressed his right hand on the handle of the command sword at his waist.
When he looked at the ground, he realized that the person who collided with him was actually a blond and blue-eyed prisoner.
The prisoner looked haggard and had chapped lips. He was sitting on the ground looking at him in horror.
The faces of the surrounding prisoners also darkened when they saw this, and many couldn't bear to close their eyes.
Along the way, the Japanese guards did not treat them as human beings at all. A disagreement or even an unintentional look could arouse the murderous intentions of the Japanese. Too many prisoners died in their hands for various reasons.
It seems that this bad guy will not be able to escape today.
The prisoner also realized what would happen to him next. He took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes, quietly waiting for the last moment to come.
But after waiting for a long time, he still didn't wait for the butcher knife to fall. Instead, he heard a voice ringing in his ears.
"You... get up..."
Well, the American prisoner couldn't understand this kind of Japanese-Chinese, but what he couldn't believe was that this officer with the rank of Japanese Major actually extended his right hand to him.
This...what's going on?
Although his heart was full of mysteries, he did not dare to neglect, and quickly grabbed the other person's hand and stood up using his strength.
Then, Sonoda Kensaku first took off the water bottle from his waist and handed it to him, then took out a pack of biscuits from his waist and handed it to him, and then patted his arm.
"You have to eat enough to have the strength to walk."
Although the British, American and Chinese prisoners of war present could not understand Japanese, it did not prevent them from understanding Sonoda Kensaku's movements.
And what Sonoda Kensaku did made everyone wide-eyed.
What on earth is going on? How did those brutal Japanese soldiers change their gender?
Moreover, this arrogant-looking Japanese officer did not seem to be a good person. How could he be so kind in distributing food and water to the prisoners? Could it be that the sun was rising in the west?
In fact, not to mention the prisoners who were watching, even the surrounding Japanese soldiers from the original garrison almost thought they had seen a ghost.
A second lieutenant of the garrison brigade could not help but stand up and accused in a somewhat unkind tone:
"Your Majesty, Major, how can you distribute precious food and water to those lowly prisoners? Have you forgotten your identity?"
"idiot!"
Unexpectedly, the second lieutenant's words immediately angered Sonoda Kensaku. He strode up to the second lieutenant and slapped him both positive and negative without saying a word.
"Papa..."
The force of these two slaps was extremely strong, and the second lieutenant's cheeks immediately became red and swollen at a speed visible to the naked eye.
After beating the person, Sonoda Kensaku did not give up. Instead, he took a step forward and walked up to the second lieutenant and shouted:
"I don't know how your garrison brigade usually takes care of the prisoners, but the order I received is to bring these prisoners to Shan State intact.
They want to build railways, roads, airports, and houses. If they all starve to death, who are you going to let do these jobs?
Is it you? Or you...or is it you?"
Every time Sonoda Kensaku pointed at someone, that person would take two steps back.
Looking at the second lieutenant who lowered his head and dared not speak, Sonoda Kensaku sneered, "I know that you people like to torture prisoners of war for fun.
I think these captives are lowly, worthless animals that only waste food, but in my opinion you are even worse than those captives.
At least these prisoners have fought with us. And since you came to Burma, have you ever fought with the China Expeditionary Force or the American and British armies?
Commanding the torture and massacre of prisoners, what kind of ability is that? If you have the ability to go to the front line to fight with the expeditionary force, you are a bunch of cowards!"
Sonoda Kensaku snorted and walked away, leaving only a group of soldiers looking at each other.
"General Qi, I know you understand Japanese, can you tell me what is going on?"
Colonel Royce, who was not far away and saw all this, walked up to General Qi Xueqi and asked in a low voice.
"I don't know either." Qi Xueqi shook his head.
Although he could understand Japanese, he was confused by Sonoda Kensaku's operation.
"Then tell me what you know." Colonel Royce, who did not understand Japanese, asked anxiously.
"All right."
"The newly arrived Japanese army belongs to the 18th Division and was ordered to assist the garrison in escorting us to Shan State.
I listened to the quarrel between them. It seemed that the people of the 18th Division had received orders to let us build railways and roads.
The Japanese troops in the garrison were not allowed to abuse us, and at least our lives were to be kept safe. They were arguing over this matter, and I don’t know why."
Royce's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he kept making the sign of the cross on his chest with his right hand, "God, we are finally saved."
Seeing the excited look of Colonel Royce, who was in ragged clothes and had a sallow face and skinny muscles, Qi Xueqi secretly sighed in his heart. The atrocities of the Japanese guards who brutally tortured and killed prisoners of war these days had almost made the British colonel unbearable.
In fact, it’s not just him, it’s not just him.
It has been three days since we set off from the prisoner of war camp. During these three days, the prisoners have not eaten a meal at all.
The Japanese let the prisoners roam for an hour every morning and evening, and the prisoners took advantage of this time to search for wild fruits, earthworms, and even anything edible in the surrounding woods.
Many prisoners of war suffered from diarrhea or even death because of eating poisonous wild fruits, and for those prisoners of war whose stomachs were so full that they could not walk.
The soldiers in the garrison can only deal with it in one way, which is to stab him to death with a bayonet and throw it to the roadside.
Qi Xueqi even pessimistically believed that it would be good if only one-tenth of them could go to Shan State.
But now it seems that the situation has turned for the better.