Chapter 19 The militaristic Japanese army, no innocent souls are killed by the atomic bomb
"Can you imagine the scene of broken meat and blood everywhere?" the scholar added.
The monkey remained silent, obviously frightened. He felt that his previous thoughts were too naive.
"You brat, you think war is all about shooting. People will die, and they will die miserably. Learn more from your brother Chen, and don't make yourself stupid by farming."
Old Man Wang suddenly felt that the scholar was not so nerdy anymore, and he looked much more pleasing to the eye.
"Where are they going to take us?" Xia Yuan stared at the surrounding land, the mountains and rivers swaying in the wind and rain, and the vegetation swaying left and right under the heavy rain.
"I don't know. Captain Du didn't tell us about the mission. We will be on the battlefield so soon." Xu Liu frowned and felt a little incomprehensible. He sent them out without saying anything.
Xu Liu concluded that they were going straight to the battlefield.
The bullets have been fired, and there is a high probability that we will go to the battlefield.
"The other troops of the Forty Division did not set off, only our new barracks set off. I feel that we are not going to the battlefield." Xia Yuan stood up and looked at the town behind the convoy. It became gray in the rain, and gradually
The view is not clear.
"You are right. If the main force is not dispatched, it will be meaningless for us to go to the battlefield. We should not go to the battlefield." Xu Liu agreed with Xia Yuan's opinion. He thought what Xia Yuan said was reasonable.
Although the cannon fodder battalion is cannon fodder, it also has a role, that is, to block bullets for the main force. If the cannon fodder battalion is just sent to the battlefield, then it is completely meaningless.
If it makes sense, it will most likely be used to consume the enemy's vitality.
The truck bumped along the muddy road, and the sky gradually darkened. A car rushed into a muddy puddle, and the front wheel suddenly fell into it. The people in the car were huddled together, and the weapons were painful.
It hurt, and the angry curses kept coming and going.
The driver got out of the car and said to the battalion commander of the recruit camp: "Sir, the wheels are stuck in the mud."
The battalion commander immediately waved people down to push the cart, and asked some people to find stones to put under the wheels. After a lot of trouble, they pulled the cart out of the muddy puddle. At this time, the rain was getting heavier, and Douzi
The heavy raindrops fell very densely, and everyone's clothes were wet and clinging tightly to their bodies, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.
The car was still bumping on the road, and trucks would sink into the ground from time to time, which delayed a lot of time.
We walked all the way until midnight, and there were actually some fleeing people on the road, dragging their families with them, running to the west in the rain. Some were pulling wooden carts, with skinny old people and children sitting behind them, with luggage under them.
Those who didn't have wooden carts had to be carried by people, and some people even brought the furniture with them. They were wealthy landlords with a prosperous family. They were accompanied by some people holding guns, followed by more than a dozen ox carts.
The carriages were pulling items as large as cabinets and as small as dishes and chopsticks, and the female family members were sitting on the carriages.
Some wooden carts were completely pulled by manpower. Xia Yuan looked at it with emotion. The collision between feudalism and modernity was shown in the Republic of China. On one side was the feudal Qing Dynasty, on the other side was the advanced capitalist society, and even
socialism.
"Everyone who has fled has come here. I'm afraid they are getting closer to the battlefield."
It was getting darker and darker, and Old Man Wang began to feel anxious. He thought, how about jumping out of the car with others and blending into the fleeing crowd.
But there are trucks in front and behind, and their car is in the middle. The truck lights behind are turned on brightly, shining on the butt of the car. If you jump out of the car, you will definitely be discovered. After thinking about it, Old Man Wang finally
I held back and ran away at this point. If I were discovered, I would probably be shot to death by the commander.
The commander said before departure that deserters would be shot and killed. However, there is still a certain risk in escaping now.
Xia Yuan noticed Old Man Wang's little movements and glanced at the other people in the class. Niu Hai was holding a gun and sitting quietly on the ground. The scholar was dozing off. Monkey was holding the gun hard and seemed a little nervous. Others
People's eyes were focused on Old Man Wang vaguely.
Unexpectedly, so many people in the class were persuaded by Old Man Wang. It is estimated that these people are people who want to escape.
Xia Yuan said nothing.
The existence of the cannon fodder camp makes Xia Yuan somewhat incomprehensible. Even if the entire cannon fodder camp runs away, he will not stop him. The national army is full of unfairness. Most of the people in the recruit camp are from rural areas.
Among the farmers brought in, few like Niu Hai joined the new army camp.
Therefore, it would be better for them to run away and survive, at least it would be better than taking bullets from the main force.
This war is doomed to fail. The micromanager master can defeat Tianhu at the beginning, let alone this big melee.
The Songhu battlefield was a little quiet at night. The Japanese army stopped attacking at night. Without flares like those used by the US military, aircraft could not operate at night, and artillery could not locate targets. Therefore, the Japanese army stopped attacking at night. This gave
This gave the national troops who were blocking the enemy a chance to catch their breath.
Were the Japanese troops on the Songhu battlefield ferocious? They were ferocious. The quality of individual soldiers of the Japanese army during this period was one of the best, even surpassing that of the US military.
Influenced by militaristic ideas, Japan has spent decades training soldiers. Men are trained from an early age to prepare for future military service. Militarism has penetrated into every aspect of Japanese boys’ daily life. Japanese toy stores have almost become
There are war shrines, toy soldiers, tanks, helmets, military uniforms, rifles, anti-aircraft guns, bugles and grenades and other military toys. Japanese boys use bamboo poles as rifles and play war games in the streets. Some children even tie the sticks behind their backs.
, and then think of yourself as a 'human bomb' on a suicide mission, and think of yourself as a hero who sacrificed his life for the country.
A Japanese teacher named Genfumi Mateda once recalled that during the war, I repeatedly taught boys to study hard, exercise, pass the draft examination and strive to pass Class A, then rush to the battlefield as a magic soldier, shouting "Long live His Majesty the Emperor", and fight gloriously.
Die and have your soul enshrined in the Yasukuni Shrine. This is the true nature of Japanese men.
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The sacred mission is the responsibility of every student.
They taught younger boys how to operate wooden model guns and older boys how to use real guns. School textbooks became tools of military propaganda, and one geography book even used Japan's territory as a reason for expansion: "We look like
Just like the vanguard of Asia, we bravely advance towards the Pacific. At the same time, we are always ready to defend the Asian continent from external aggression."
Japan's education system has become quite militarized, and has even penetrated into elementary schools. Starting from elementary school, Japanese elementary school students must line up in perfect formation and march in unison waving flags. The Japanese are also very cruel to their own people. In order to make elementary school students
If teachers are not obedient, it is common for teachers to slap students, punch and kick them, or beat them with bamboo sticks or wooden swords like instructors with sadistic tendencies.
They punish students corporally, making them kneel on the ground with heavy objects on their backs, stand barefoot in the snow, or run around the playground until they collapse from exhaustion. They treat primary school students so cruelly. They treat aspiring military officers.
In other words, training is even more demanding.
All military academy cadets must complete all the military cadet courses in Ichigaya. The barracks there are crowded, food is scarce, and the classrooms are unheated. It is more like a prison than a school.
In the UK, an officer can be commissioned after 1,372 hours of classroom study and 2,445 hours of extracurricular self-study.
In Japan, the standard requirement is 3,382 hours of classroom study and 2,765 hours of extracurricular self-study. Military academy cadets not only have to complete extremely demanding physical training every day, but also learn history.
, field, foreign language, mathematics, science, logic, painting and calligraphy courses, and require all their courses to be perfect to win.
The most important thing is that all military cadets must determine the "faith of never giving up."
This is no longer learning, but brainwashing.
When Japanese soldiers were recruited to participate in the "holy war", they were regarded as loyal to the emperor. They often had to line up on the main streets of the city and receive warm farewells from ordinary people. Some soldiers found relatives in the crowd and went up.
Say goodbye to each other, and then put on a piece of "Thousand People's Seam" carefully sewn by the family, and enjoy the protection and glory of the entire family.
Therefore, it is said that there are no innocent souls under the atomic bomb.
It was this kind of madness that made the Japanese army particularly ferocious on the battlefield.
The difference between the US military and the Japanese army is that the Japanese army is not afraid of death and has a certain amount of firepower, while the US military is afraid of death, but has super powerful firepower. However, the US military during World War II was still very good. Those US troops who are not afraid of death are all here.
In World War II, all casualties were exhausted, or they were injured and retired. Most of the people who joined the army in the Korean battlefield were students, and they were pulled onto the battlefield after simple training.
Compared with the Japanese, they pale into insignificance.
But even for such a ferocious Japanese army, the Japanese army paid an extremely heavy price on the Songhu battlefield.
In order to brainwash the Japanese people, all the photos of the Japanese army on the Songhu battlefield were staged. The "Illustrated Chinese Incident" published by the Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo published a large number of frontline battle reports and news pictures during Japan's war of aggression against China.
, under the lens of Japanese reporters, their soldiers were neatly dressed, high in fighting spirit, and all of them were unstoppable.
However, the diary of an ordinary Japanese soldier named Shizuo Ogishima revealed the fig leaf of the Japanese army.
'Most of the cadres below the battalion captain, squadron captain, squad leader and below were killed or wounded in battle, and the force was reduced to half of its original strength. The spirit of the entire company was sluggish, and it completely lost the original charm of the Japanese army, because
It rained, and the planes were unable to carry out air strikes for two or three days in a row. As for the artillery, they were unable to fire because the ammunition was soaked in water.'
The Japanese army also suffered heavy casualties on the Songhu battlefield, and many Japanese recruits were even afraid of fighting. This was completely different from the "holy war" they imagined, and completely different from how weak the Chinese people were as claimed in the newspapers.
The truck bumped all night. When the sky in the distance shimmered, the truck drove into a ruined town. It was bombed by the Japanese air force and was devastated. There were broken walls and collapsed houses and roads everywhere.
The top was covered with the remains of ruins, and among the ruins, corpses pressed under the broken walls could be seen, emitting a foul stench.
It was the first time for many people to come to such a battlefield, and they were full of curiosity about everything around them.
Captain Du came back from the front and said: "We will be stationed in that building. Our company will be assigned a mission later. Everyone must be prepared at any time."
When the three companies are fully loaded, there are more than 130 people. There are three squads in each platoon, with more than 40 people. There are only 12 people in their third squad. They are stationed in the barn in the backyard. The room is not big, and it is a bit damp and stuffy, and the bedding is soaked.
It was very wet, and everyone had no intention of sleeping. They found a relatively dry place and sat on the ground.
The scholar put his bedding on a wooden stick, sat next to the wooden stick, holding the gun in his hand, and polished the rifle in his hand brightly with a dirty cloth.
"Brother Chen, you are so familiar with guns, have you ever been on the battlefield before?" Niu Hai grabbed a piece of dry food and stuffed it into his mouth, whining.
"I have never been on the battlefield. Brother Xia taught me these things. He is very familiar with guns and can take them apart and put them back together again." The scholar wiped the gun, looked up at Niu Hai's gun, and held the gun in his hand.
The dirty cloth was handed to him: "You should also wipe your gun. Brother Xia said that the gun should be wiped well so that it won't jam on the battlefield."
"Brother Chen, what is jamming?" Niu Hai put his butt next to the scholar and put a dirty cloth on the gun to wipe it.
"The gun just won't fire."
"oh oh."
On the other side, Xia Yuan, Old Man Niu, and Xu Liu sat together, took out the few dry rations they had left, unscrewed the marching kettle, drank water, ate dry rations, and chatted.
"Xia Yuan, how did you get caught? In my opinion, your ability to fight with a bayonet is outstanding. Logically speaking, someone like you shouldn't be caught."
Xu Liu was particularly curious about Xia Yuan's identity. He didn't hear much about their past during training. He only knew that these people were farmers and strong men captured by landlords.
"Hei, monitor, you still don't know, the big guy used to be stupid." Old Man Wang said.
"Silly, what do you mean?" Xu Liu drank some water, swallowed the coarse grains into his stomach, and carefully packed the remaining dry grains with grain cloth strips and put them in his pocket.
The superiors did not allocate that much food to the new recruit camp. They ate a little of this food and a little less.
Hearing what Old Man Wang said, Xu Liu was a little confused.
Stupid?
"Big Guy's head didn't work well before. We called him Silly Big Guy. When he walked to the Liangkou, Big Guy fainted, and then the people from the receiving unit hit him on the head and healed his head."
Old man Wang nodded his head and happily talked about Xia Yuan's past events.
Xu Liu opened his mouth and looked at Xia Yuan in disbelief.