my bright sword career

Chapter 718 Met Your Excellency
Expeditionary Force Prisoner of War Camp Temporary Camp
Li Linqiaolong, who was tied up by five flowers, still looked at the person in front of him with unbelievable eyes, but there was still unparalleled anger in these two eyes. To apply a cliché from later generations, if eyes can kill people, the person opposite would have already died. He was shot and riddled with holes.

"Kensaku Sonoda...you...you traitor to the empire!"

Li Linqiaolong felt this hatred in his heart. He expected that the journey of escorting the prisoners of war would not be peaceful, and he also considered that there would definitely be Chinese people who might attack them halfway.

He even made several sets of plans. Once things cannot be violated, he will not hesitate to shoot and kill all the more than 1 prisoners of war.

But he never dreamed that the other party would sneak into the escort team in such a way, and would use such a despicable method to attack them.

Yes, in Libayashi Qiaolong's view, the opponent used the most despicable method, which made him and the soldiers of the garrison battalion all fall for the trick.

It stands to reason that, as an experienced officer, Kuribayashi Bridge Dragon naturally maintains enough vigilance, especially when performing missions, but the problem is that no matter how vigilant he is, it is difficult to block backstabs from his companions. Especially the backstabs are a group of young and lively women.

Just yesterday, Kensaku Sonoda suddenly made a suggestion that the troops would continue to set off tomorrow, so why not hold a bonfire party that night. On the day of the party, he would let the female nurses who came with the baggage team perform songs and dances for everyone.

Kuribayashi Hashiryu admitted that when he heard this proposal, he was really moved, but out of the vigilance of soldiers, he felt that it was inappropriate to carry out such activities during the mission. If the matter got to the ears of his superiors, He, the person in charge, will have to be reprimanded if he fails.

When he was about to refuse, he couldn't help but shudder when he saw the eager eyes of the squadron leaders and squad leaders below.

At this time, the all-out war between China and Japan has entered its sixth year, and the war has expanded to the Pacific Ocean and Southeast Asia.

On the surface, the Japanese army is constantly attacking cities and plundering land throughout Asia, but people of insight understand that the seemingly powerful Japan is actually at the end of its strength.

The Japanese people began to taste the bitter fruit of the war, because the war required a large number of soldiers and high war costs, which caused the Japanese people's living standards to decline sharply, and the domestic people's hearts were particularly unstable.

These domestic situations spread to foreign battlefields through various channels, which had an immeasurable impact on the psychology of Japanese soldiers participating in the war.

Years of expeditions to foreign countries and witnessing various tragedies of war made soldiers and grassroots officers feel extremely pessimistic about war.

Dominated by such emotions, the discipline of the Japanese army began to relax, and incidents of disobedience and even vicious accidents occurred from time to time.

According to the statistics of the Japanese Chinese Front Army, in 1941 and 1942 alone, there were 74 incidents of soldiers beating and scolding officers, 61 incidents of dereliction of duty, 85 desertions, and 18 people participated in the Eighth Route Army.

In November this year, the Fifth Squadron stationed in Guantao County, Shandong Province will transfer 6 soldiers.

In the afternoon of that day, squadron leader Fukuda notified the six soldiers who had been transferred.

This also caused the six soldiers to be very dissatisfied with the transfer from Guantao. During dinner, they overturned the dining table on the grounds that there was too little baijiu, and went to the kitchen to drink six or seven bottles of baijiu to vent their dissatisfaction with the transfer.

After dinner, the six soldiers forced Warrant Officer Asano, who had beaten, scolded and insulted them, to drink in a restaurant outside the camp, waiting for an opportunity to retaliate.

The officer on duty, Mr. Cao, knew about their conflict and stepped forward to dissuade them, but was beaten by six soldiers. Captain Futian's dissuasion was ineffective, and he could only watch helplessly as the six soldiers took Warrant Officer Asano out of the camp.

It was night, Asano was beaten badly, and he dared not go back to the camp, so he had to stay overnight on the street.

The next day, the six soldiers went to the street to drink again. The squadron leader Futian sent the squadron leader Suzuki to tell the six soldiers to go back to the camp to check their weapons and equipment. Suzuki was also beaten badly.

At noon, the six drunken soldiers returned to the squadron headquarters drunkenly, and beat Warrant Officer Asano again in front of Fukuda.

Even if it was a cover-up, the rioting soldiers still refused to let it go. Finally, Fukuda ordered the guards to stop them. The six soldiers actually shot at the guards and threw grenades.

Now, things finally got serious.

The six soldiers escaped from Guantao after sobering up, and all were detained in Linqing that night.

Afterwards, the six soldiers were tried by a military court, and two were sentenced to death, one to life and three to fixed-term imprisonment.

The squadron leader Fukuda committed suicide by caesarean section in shame, and Second Lieutenant Suzuki and Kusaka Cao were sentenced to imprisonment for dereliction of duty.

You thought this was the end of the matter?

It would be naive to think so.

A month later, Lieutenant General Shiqiao, commander of the 12th Army stationed in Shandong, Lieutenant General Yanagikawa Tei, head of the 59th Division, Major General Xiong Zhenxiong, head of the 53rd Brigade, and Naohiko Ishikun, captain of the 42nd Brigade, were dismissed from their posts.

(The above events are not fabricated by the author, but happened in real history, which shows that reality is more outrageous than fiction.)
Because the impact of the incident was too bad, it quickly spread to all units of the Japanese Army. For a time, incidents of beating, scolding, corporal punishment and insults by officers in various units of the Japanese Army to soldiers at the bottom dropped sharply.

Although Li Linqiaolong is far away in Myanmar, he has heard about this incident.

Seeing the eager emotions of the various squadron leaders under him, he was afraid of becoming the second Futian squadron leader, so he could only agree to this matter.

Sure enough, when the officers conveyed the news to the soldiers below, the whole brigade burst into cheers.

That night, the dozens of nurses put on their costumes, and Sonoda Kensaku and others asked the soldiers of the transportation team to bring dozens of jars of sake.

Then... most of the soldiers in the garrison, including Hashiryu Kuribayashi, were knocked down by the spiked sake.

When they woke up, they found that everyone was disarmed and locked in several fences, surrounded by soldiers of the [-]th Division with live ammunition.

"Why... why do you do this? Everyone is Japanese, why do you want to do such a murderous hand to your compatriots?"

Until now, Kuribayashi Bridge Dragon still can't figure it out.

He is not a fool to be the captain. Kensaku Sonoda and his more than 800 soldiers all speak fluent Japanese, and they also have a strong local accent. The problem is, no matter who looks at it, they will think that this is a pure Japanese army. To say that they are all Chinese is simply an insult to his IQ.

But it happened that such a friendly army actually attacked them, which made him unable to figure it out anyway.

In Kuribayashiryu's puzzled gaze, Major Sonoda Kensaku on the opposite side smiled lightly, and then said seriously: "Now, please allow me to re-introduce myself... Ihara Hira Hachimi, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese National Defense Army Pass your Excellency."

(End of this chapter)