Indiana Jones

Chapter 20 Survival in the Jungle (04)

"We...we...can't go back. It's not that we don't want to go back. If we go back, we're going to die. It's estimated that the head of the regiment has put us on the death list. He also knows that we are separated from the large army in the war zone. , Ten deaths and no life." Ma Zhong tried his best to find a reason for himself to be a deserter.

"Cut, what kind of show are you doing here? Go back if you have the guts!" Li Guoshou said with a sullen face, "If it weren't for us, you would have died a long time ago."

Liang Rong didn't speak, but just stared blankly into the distance. Si Xuanyi leaned against the tree trunk and was speechless. In comparison, he could understand Liang Rong's mood better. He was an educated person and knew what a guardian was The country, who knows what is the crisis of the country, is completely different from these big-headed soldiers who serve as soldiers and eat food. If he can control this team, he will definitely find a way to go back, but there are probably no more than two people who can go back with him.

"Death is the most unwise choice. Only by living can we have more opportunities." Li Siming said, "I admit that I am a deserter and I don't make excuses, but I will not do the thing of sending death knowing that the devil's blockade is there. "

Liang Rong stopped talking, she knew very well that what she said just now would make everyone reject her, but she didn't know why she said it desperately, it was obvious that these people were leading her to escape, why did she want to provoke them?

"I just want to live. Everything else is bullshit." Li Guoshou said impatiently. His words basically represented the attitude of Ma Zhong and A Gui. Zhongliang Rong obviously didn't approve of everyone's behavior, but she didn't dare to speak too much. She didn't want to die, let alone face this forest alone. Li Siming was a qualified soldier, but he couldn't live alone in the jungle If we go on, we can only follow the crowd. It can be seen that he doesn't want to be a deserter, but he has no choice. On the contrary, he is similar to Si Xuanyi in this point. He cannot help himself when he gets into this situation, even if the two of them go together The possibility of returning to find the team's success is infinitely close to zero. Maybe they have the same thoughts as others deep in their hearts, but they don't want to admit it, let alone change this status quo.

After the heavy rain lasted for more than three hours, it began to subside. The water level was close to five meters at the highest point. A few people could only squat on the tree and watch the torrent rushing past their feet. They knew very well that even if the rain stopped, they would not be able to Let’s go now, it will take some time for the flood to recede, and the muddy ground will take time to get down, so spending the night in the tree has become an inevitable choice. After learning the lesson of last night, Agui climbed to a higher canopy , using branches, rattan and their raincoats to build a simple tree house, which is considered a paradise for them, and Agui went down to get a big ball of mud and made a simple stove on the platform , a bonfire was raised, and the wet branches and leaves smoked for a while before it was considered to be burning. Several people sat together and no one spoke. Liang Rong was very uncomfortable with the feeling of being close together, but in this situation She had no other choice, but she tried to avoid physical contact with other people.

"When the hell is it going to rain?" Li Guoshou muttered in a low voice while chewing dried sweet potatoes. The dried sweet potatoes were captured when he attacked the devils last time. There is no shortage of food in the forest, especially with Agui who is born For the hunters, Ma Zhong is still a cook, so their food is slightly better than that of the expeditionary army. At least they have meat every day, and they pick wild fruits at random. It can be said that they have never worried about food, so that they are in The things that the devil seized were basically untouched. If it weren't for the difficulty of finding food in the trees, he wouldn't think of eating this dry thing.

The little devil fought bravely, but lacked in supplies, and sometimes he couldn't even compare with the expeditionary army in terms of combat rations, so this dried sweet potato was already considered a good combat level. They were all plundered from the people in the war zone, especially in 1941, with the beginning of the so-called "Great East Asian War", the Japanese army's naval and air supply lines were stretched and the war situation deteriorated.The Japanese warships gave priority to loading weapons and ammunition, but for the food and fodder supplies of their troops, they could only advocate the so-called "living on the ground", which is to put it bluntly, survival in the field.

During the war of aggression against China, the Japanese army had such a combat order: "We will fight for 10 days today...carry rations for 7 days, and then replenish them on the spot." This sentence means: the food after 7 days will be processed on the spot.In fact, before the launch of the Pacific War, not only in the Chinese battlefield, but in all battlefields, if someone mentioned logistics issues, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters had only one established policy - "replenishment on the spot".

The RB Southern Army's "live on the ground" can only be maintained temporarily. Once the war breaks out and the dispersed officers and soldiers flee into the jungle, the field survival will really begin.An RB military reporter recalled: "RB soldiers ate everything to satisfy their hunger, such as twigs, grass roots, and even mud. These things greatly damaged their stomachs. When they were taken to the field hospital, any food I couldn’t digest it anymore, and many soldiers vomited blood and died.” In fact, many RB officers and soldiers in Imphal and Nanyang Islands were even more miserable than this.It was their hell there, and there were even tragedies of cannibalism.

The Japanese army "trained soldiers to eat grass" during the Imphal operation in India. The RB Army attached great importance to the products in the combat area, and conducted investigations on man and horse fodder and alternative herb plants in order to supplement the army's shortage of fodder during the war.

When the logistics supply was timely, the Japanese army could eat some delicious things, such as canned food, biscuits, sugar, prunes, dried fish, and rice balls, but during the war, especially in the field state, the Japanese army’s logistics could not guarantee food supply at all. Most of the time it is completely resolved by themselves, and at this time the plundering of the war zone has become their main source of food. In addition, they also hunt wild animals, collect some usable weeds and vegetables, hunt frogs and fish, catch insects and collect food. Honey to fill the hunger.

So the last time they raided the village, the most they got was ammunition, and the food was much worse. They only found a few cans, some compressed biscuits that were harder than stones, a small amount of dried meat, dried fruit, and enough salt. Even if these are already very rare, the Japanese army fighting in Southeast Asia is too long, the logistics can't keep up, and the resources are scarce, so basically all the frontline troops need to solve their own food problems. Canned food and biscuits have become In addition to scarce food, dried meat made from animals hunted locally has become a delicacy.

(End of this chapter)