Glorious Mission 1937

China is on fire, and both the North and the South have achieved great victories. This has caused the United States, Britain and other countries to doubt China's positioning. Is such a country really willing to be their cannon fodder?

Obviously, this answer is still open to debate. They still remember the attitude of China’s leader Jiang when he attended the Washington Conference. He clearly disagreed with the strategic arrangement of Europe first and then Asia. It must have been very unsatisfactory.As for the general Chen in China, he disagreed with such an arrangement and called them many times, thinking that the strategy of first Europe and then Asia was inappropriate.

Now the Chinese government has achieved major victories in both the north and the south. This is not a small pressure for the United States and the United Kingdom. China's international status must be re-examined. China must not be regarded as a simple cannon fodder country, which will only make each other The relationship between them became worse.

However, before the high-level officials of the United States and Britain responded, a report suddenly published by the Washington Post completely ignited the anger of the American people.

This report was published on October 10, and it was published as the headline on the front page of the Washington Post. The title was "The Death March of American Soldiers", and the writer was Claire Morgan.

This report is very long, mainly reporting that the US-Philippines surrendered to the Japanese army after the failure of the Battle of Bataan, but after the surrender, they were not treated well by the Japanese army, but embarked on a march of no return.

At the top of the article is an American general. Many people know him. He is Kim, the lieutenant general of the US Army and the commander-in-chief of the Bataan garrison.However, this photo is far inferior to the photos published in the newspapers before.Because the lieutenant general is depressed, his clothes are torn and dirty.The most important thing is the environment. I saw a Japanese officer holding a command knife next to His Excellency General. From the military rank, he seemed to be a Japanese lieutenant general. People who followed the news recognized it at a glance. The Japanese lieutenant general was called Honma. Yaqing was a senior general of the Japanese Southern Army and the supreme commander of the attack on Bataan.

"...the general finally gave the order to surrender. He was thinking of all the soldiers who had lost reinforcements and consumed their last bullet. He didn't want his soldiers to make unnecessary resistance. More than 5 people His death has been worthy of all the taxpayers of the United States of America. Soldiers gathered gloomily, some with tears of shame in their eyes, awaited the conqueror restlessly..."

After a paragraph of text is another photo, the second longest photo is a US military captain.In the photo there is a protagonist besides the captain.It was a Japanese soldier.I saw the captain lying on the ground with blood on his face, and the Japanese soldier was hitting him on the head with the butt of his rifle.

"...Army Air Corps Captain Mark Wolffield saw the Japanese soldiers first. They were carrying a mountain cannon, smiling and soft-spoken. He was relieved and thought to himself that they weren't so bad after all. But when these conquerors walked in front of them, they changed their appearance. Their faces were iron, and they were busy searching for their belongings as soon as they arrived at the scene, sweeping away the captives' blankets, watches, jewelry, blades, tableware, food and even toothbrushes. A Japanese soldier found twenty rounds of [-] pistol bullets on Walfield, and slammed him on the head with the butt of his gun while roaring..."

After the text is another photo, the third photo is a US lieutenant colonel with a severed finger, and of course a smiling Japanese soldier.

"... Lieutenant Colonel Jack Sewell was caught by the Japanese soldiers and asked for the gold ring on his hand. But it was his wedding ring, and Sewell drew back his hand, not wanting to hand it over Get out. The Japanese soldier pulled out the bayonet from the gun with a bang, cut off Sewell's finger cruelly with his own hands, and took the ring away..."

These are just the beginning. Although it is annoying, it is not enough to make everyone angry. After all, as conquerors, they have reason to enjoy the pleasure of conquerors.However, the next photo made all Americans angry.

This time the protagonist is still an American soldier, whose position can no longer be seen from his tattered military uniform, or an officer, or an ordinary soldier, but these are not important. He is a prisoner in the photo, and he is also a The prisoner who was brutally murdered saw the soldier lying on the ground with one arm stretched high, but there were seven or eight shining bayonets stuck on his body, and there were several Japanese soldiers grinning grinningly beside him.

"...he is an American soldier, we don't know his name, he and all the American and Philippine prisoners will be sent to a prison camp 100 kilometers away. Under the scorching sun, the prisoners are parched , dragging their weak bodies and stumbling forward. They don't know how far the road ahead is, and they don't know what the future holds...Suddenly, this soldier slipped and fell into the bushes on the side of the road , he tried to struggle to get up, but he couldn't do what he wanted. Several Japanese soldiers ran towards him, and one Japanese soldier fiercely stabbed Hank's weak body four or five times, and then several Japanese soldiers were on top of him After being stabbed a few times, blood flowed from his jacket, he struggled to get back to the team, but he didn't lose too much blood and fell on the marching road..."

The photo below is even more appalling. The photo is very clear. From above, it is a pond with a large area, but what is unbearable to look at is that there are dead people everywhere on the edge of the pond. Judging from the clothes on the dead people, they They are all American soldiers, and there are at least hundreds of corpses in the small area shown in the photo.

"...the Japanese army did not treat prisoners of war preferentially in accordance with international conventions. Just before the start of the march, the commander of the Japanese Philippine Expeditionary Force Masaharu Honma ordered the Japanese soldiers under escort to treat any Japanese soldiers who could not persist until they reached the end of the march. The Bataan prisoners of war in the prisoner-of-war camp must be wiped out. This is the third day of the march, and the prisoners still have no water and food. There are many springs and artesian wells on the Bataan Peninsula, but the Japanese just don’t let the prisoners drink Marching day and night made the prisoners exhausted, hungry and thirsty. Almost every water source, there will be a stampede. Under the high temperature, people are extremely thirsty and suffer more. When they see water, The prisoners of war were still mad, and more and more corpses fell by the pond, some were trampled to death, and some were stabbed to death by Japanese gun butts and bayonets..."

The last photo made everyone vomit immediately after seeing it. Judging from the photo, the scene should be a not-so-deep ditch, but inside the ditch were corpses that were swollen and swelled one after another.The crows were pecking at the corpses, piles of big-headed green flies were crawling on every wound, and dozens of corpses had been beheaded. This scene was so horrible that it seemed to be in hell.

"...this is a death march of no return. Although American soldiers have surrendered, their enemies will not give them any treatment due to their captives. This march is organized by the Japanese High Command. They wanted to execute all the captives for a plausible reason. Therefore, more Filipino and American soldiers died on the way to the concentration camp than on the Bataan battlefield. The captured 8 U.S. and Filipino prisoners arrived at There were only 4000 people in the O'Donnell Concentration Camp, and between 3 and 6000 people died of malaria, starvation, beatings, or killings while walking, and about [-] of them were Americans..... .It is not that after arriving at the prisoner-of-war camp, they were free from death. The Japanese army abused prisoners of war in the camp, including torture, forcing coolies to work, and deliberately starving them. The prisoners who entered the concentration camp only delayed the time of death by several months, even It's a few days, that's all."

There are pictures and facts, and a large number of detailed text and pictures directly make the whole report very convincing. Soon this report caused a great shock in American society, no less than a national earthquake. On the streets, demanding that the government launch an immediate counterattack against Japan and rescue those poor prisoners.

Originally, the U.S. government was skeptical about the authenticity of this report, especially when it learned that the writer Claire had an extraordinary relationship with a Chinese general, so at first the U.S. government thought it was a Chinese general That is to say, Chen Feng was playing tricks from it.

But when Clare handed over more information and photos to President Roosevelt's desk, everyone was stunned. They didn't expect that the heroic American soldiers were suffering such abuse.The US government immediately convened a high-level military meeting to discuss how to deal with this matter.

In fact, there is one point that the American high-level officials guessed correctly. This incident was all caused by Chen Feng from the beginning to the end, but everything is true and there is no fraud.

Chen Feng had heard about Bataan's death march for a long time. It was an extremely cruel and terrifying death march, and it was also another unforgivable crime committed by Japanese soldiers. Although Chen Feng could not and was unable to rescue them, he But they can report the truth to change their fate, and at the same time, it can make the US government reconsider China's strategic position.

So after the Bataan defenders surrendered, a 30-member special operations team was urgently sent to the island. In addition to the necessary self-defense weapons, Chen Feng also gave each of them a camera.

Of course, all the cameras are high-end products that Chen Feng exchanged from the system. They not only have high resolution, but also don't need film, which can hold more content.

The main task of the special operations team is to take pictures and record every bit of the Bataan death march.Then Chen Feng provided these specially processed photos to Krall, and asked her to report them on the Washington Post, which ignited the anger of American society. (To be continued..)