Hardcore ruthless starts in the Pacific

"What is it if it's not a softie?"

Scud, holding the helmet, shrugged and said: "The army is still nestled in the country, enjoying flowers, applause, and being surrounded by beauties!"

According to him, there is no problem, because the United States Army is staying in the country at this point in time, but it has already begun planning the "Operation Torch" to land in North Africa.The problem is that since the Pearl Harbor incident, the navy has fought a lot of real battles with Japan, such as Wake Island, Coral Sea, Port Moresby, and Midway Island. You must know that Ma Run belongs to the Navy now, so the fourth class People are proud of it.

On the other hand, in the army, this gang was beaten up by Japan in the Philippines. Mai Dajuan said a harsh word and ran away with his pants in his hands, leaving a large number of troops to surrender.

Naturally, Ma Run began to question the combat effectiveness of the army and the level of commanders.

"But isn't General MacArthur leading us to counterattack the Philippines?" It seemed that the smiling tiger admired the principal of the West Point Military Academy.

"Oh, ridiculous! He is a runaway general, far worse than Patton!" Scud said stubbornly, "Let the Marine Corps go up, and I'll see if the Japanese can break through our garrisoned positions."

Anyone can brag, but it is often very difficult to achieve.

Ivan did know about the Battle of the Philippines in 41-42, but it was only because of the invincible marketing of Mai Dacrumbs.What he remembers most is the Bataan Death March, and commanding the navy as an army in order to recapture the Philippines, which is simply treasonous!

Admiral Nimitz, the current commander-in-chief of the navy, must not accept Mai Daduan-I am an admiral of the navy, why do you, a guy born in the army, join my fleet?

It can only be said that he was born under the Stars and Stripes, and he forced the President of the United States, Roosevelt Jr., to reconcile the conflict. In the end, he came up with a dumbfounding result: the Pacific battlefield was divided into two regions. Commanded the United States Navy in the Western Pacific as Commander in Chief, and Admiral Nimitz as Commander in Chief the United States Navy in the Eastern Pacific.

In terms of military duties, Nimitz is still the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Theater and concurrently the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet. He can freely choose which island to attack, but he can't help Mai Dazai to play well politically-what people care most about is when he left the Philippines. No matter how much bitterness your navy has to pour out, at least half of the power in the Pacific Fleet is focused on regaining the Philippines for strategic offensives.

Although the lower-level officers and soldiers are not interested in the internal "small conflicts" at the top level and do not want to know about it, the Army's performance is too hip.

Another reason is that as Leckie said, the soldiers who participated in the marathon were all volunteers, instead of enlisting to expand the army like the army, and entering the marines just to fight the Japanese.While chatting, I heard from Ma Run nearby that there were two young people in their hometown who failed the military service examination because of their poor physical fitness, and committed suicide directly after returning to the town.

Ivan doesn't understand the thoughts and minds of the people of the United States—young people think that the World War is an excellent opportunity. If they fail to participate in it, they will regret it for life. If they are beaten back by the army, they will become despised by the townspeople. object.

"I look down on the Army and there is another important factor." Leckie said softly, "The best thing the Army can do is to leave capable officers behind to do some safe logistics work, and then send out officers who are not capable and have no relationship with them. Throwing it to the front line, not to mention the soldiers... I believe that in the European battlefield, such a thing will happen-the logistics porter spends some money to ask the front line soldiers for something, and returns home with the spoils bought with money Show off how many Na丨zi you killed~"

"Not to mention anything else, at least the chief of the Marine Corps is with us." The smiling tiger did not deny the fact that there were a bunch of related households in the army.

Laiji and the others had a hot chat, but Ivan's mood drifted to the land of China, which is suffering now. He felt more guilty about his escape, and subconsciously took out a whole pack of Raleigh cigarettes given by Lieutenant Stone. After taking out one, he threw it to the mountain man beside him.

"WTF?"

He was obviously frightened, wiped the box and wiped his eyes: "Douglas, did you ever get this cigarette?"

"Is it difficult?" Ivan asked, lighting a cigarette.

"It's for officers!"

The meaning of this sentence is equivalent to that the chief soldier is not worthy of drawing.

"It was given by Second Lieutenant Stone." Lecky took out the coconut in the storage bag while explaining, "Look at our receipt today, thanks to our brother Douglas Ivan, we can have extra meals at noon!"

Smiling Tiger tried to open the coconut the day he first came to the island, but he didn't succeed until the departure, so everyone was not very excited.

Ivan took a coconut and took out a machete from behind, and removed the outermost layer of the peel. The proficiency of the movements stunned all Ma Run present.

The machete was stolen, the mastermind was Ivan, and the accomplice was Laiji... It is estimated that at this time a certain logistics sergeant was furious because he lost a devil-chopping knife.

As for the technique of chopping coconuts, it was naturally practiced by chopping thousands of coconuts before he suffered from stomach cancer.Yiwen's family was not bad, and his parents could eat whatever they wanted. Even a whole year of chemotherapy and drug treatment did not cause any economic crisis for the family.

Although doctors like to say to critically ill patients-don't say that you are rich in the hospital, Ivan's family can support him to live to the last moment through chemotherapy, and he will not go to the point of selling houses and cars.

"Oh my god!" Smiley Tiger was so shocked that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear, "I couldn't open it after three or ten minutes, and you solved it in half a minute?"

"Hmph, can you compete with Douglas?" Scud said with a playful smile, "Are you worthy?"

"Fuck you!" Smiling tiger scolded.

When the Ma Runs were making noise, Ivan opened a hole in the coconut and took a few mouthfuls of it. The sweet juice in the mouth relieved the pain of being pierced by thousands of arrows, and then handed the opened coconut to the mountain man .

"Douglas." The mountain man stared at him intently after taking the coconut, "I seriously doubt that you are a saint sent by God to help us get through this difficult situation!"

Ivan leaned back against the dirt slope with a cigarette in his mouth, and said indifferently, "Do you all believe in God?"

Everyone except Leckie nodded.

"Then tell me why God let the Japanese out of the Garden of Eden."

They fell silent for a moment.

"So." Leckie leaned over.

Ivan said in unison with him: "Fuck God!"

Immediately afterwards, the two laughed, and their laughter became wanton and indulgent after a few seconds.

"I remember that you used to be a devout believer." The mountain man said to Lecky very uncomfortably.

Lakey laughed and tears ran out. He wiped his tears when he heard this sentence, and asked: "If the Japanese are really allowed by God to come out of the Garden of Eden, then their cannibalism must also be allowed by God. , so...God is a hook!"

If they were devout Christians, they would probably be furious at this moment, but Ma Run's focus was on another place.

"What did you say?"

"eat human?"

"Really?"

Lecky briefly described what Ivan saw on the sixth tree, and at the same time told his comrades what they had fled.

The silence is like a clear chime, swaying to the end, and the living creatures around are condensed in it.

13. U.S. Army Traditions

"It's not an escape."

Everyone's eyes were on Ivan.

"Absolutely not!"

"Why do we have to fight uncertain battles? We are comrades-in-arms and a collective. Individual combat is just a novel."

"Douglas, you are right!"

"Even if you tell the division headquarters, the general will not blame you, but will praise you for doing a good job!"

For Yiwen, the focus is not on this place.

There are many things that cannot be described and can only be digested by oneself, but the brothers cannot be too worried, so Ivan smiled and opened the second coconut and handed it to his comrades.

"I know, because it's not an order."

Whenever Ivan is depressed or hits a bottleneck in his work, he will always make a delicious meal by himself, which distracts his attention and gives his brain enough time to 'rest'.

"Now, let's enjoy this morning's spoils!"

While talking, he split the first coconut that had been drunk, and handed half of it to Lai Ji, and enjoyed the other half for himself. After eating, he asked if Scud had uncooked rice according to his request.

"After Lao Tzu's unremitting efforts, look——!"

Scud took out a bag, which contained rice for five people, a full kilogram.

Ivan was not surprised at all.

According to the stipulations of the division headquarters, each person has 200 grams of rice per meal, but the soldiers are actually allocated only 200 grams of thick porridge. Who knows whether the logistics gang is a tradition of the US military (waste) or embezzlement and corruption.

Now that the truth is out, don't blame Ivan for being rude. It is absolutely impossible to return the machete that Lecky stole.

Yiwen, Laiji, Scud, Mountain Man, and Smiling Tiger, there are five people in total.

According to the amount of an adult, at least 250 grams of staple food per meal, so after a simple calculation, Ivan scoured 400 grams of rice, and Lai Ji and others helped to raise two fires, one of which was used for cooking and the other for non-staple food.

Eighteen eggs of different sizes were given to Lieutenant Stone two, and there were sixteen more in his hand.

Luckily, after opening, there are egg yolks and egg whites. Add some salt to prepare custard for bibimbap. Today's conditions can't make anything fancy.

What Yiwen hopes most is that someone can get him a handful of shallots, sprinkle some shallots on the custard, Xiaowei will definitely scratch him.

Looking at Ivan who was skillfully operating beside the fire, the rough embryos looked incredible.

It probably means - you can cook?

And - don't we just bake it?

Even—these rice are boiled with water, don’t they turn into the kind of white shit that we eat every day?

When the pot was boiling, Ma Run and the others were all dumbfounded.

The pot is not the sticky porridge that I ate before, but serious rice. The grains are clear, shiny and bright, which makes people full of appetite.

When the custard was mixed with a mouthful of white rice, the Ma Runs experienced the happiness that only God can experience.

Yiwen also gradually let go of the distress in his heart during this cooking process, because he thought that the real reason for his collapse was not entirely because of fear of failure, but because he was too weak now.

If he had more skills and a higher physical fitness, then he would definitely not have that kind of concern.

So he made up his mind - become stronger, become stronger, so strong that he will not have the slightest worry during that period!

Seeing Ma Run and the others devouring it, Ivan thought that his cooking skills hadn't deteriorated after a year, but when he took his first bite, he felt that these bastards were simply animals.

Bird eggs are not eggs, and have a natural fishy smell, which may also be the reason for fertilization.

The taste is average, and the taste is hard to swallow on weekdays, but here is Guadalcanal where the logistics supply line has been cut off, which is enough to be regarded as a rare delicacy.

The pot of rice was quickly settled, and Ma Run, who was full, collapsed on the slope, smoking a cigarette happily.

"I made a decision."

Lecky, who hooked Ivan's shoulders, solemnly announced one thing: "From today, I will officially hand over the nickname of 'Chef' to His Excellency Douglas Ivan!"

"..."

Ivan rolled his eyes and didn't want to speak.

"So, you're called 'Ingredient Hunter'?" Smiling Tiger asked.

"Hey, how can you insult our professor?" Scud stared.

"Professor? It's already in the past tense!"

"Yes, yes, yes, I think the professor is not as knowledgeable as our chef!"

In the boring and boring daily life on the battlefield, there will always be mutual belittlement, ridicule, complaints and complaints among comrades-in-arms.

In the afternoon, there was a "riot" in the division headquarters. The reason was that Ma Run, who was below, went to the division headquarters to file a complaint. Strictly check logistics.

But the logistics side didn't panic at all, admitted their actions, and at the same time ensured that there would be real rice for dinner, but they didn't forget to warn Ma Run, who was making trouble-I know your wasteful urine, and you must eat during non-combat periods. Come to my place to eat according to the rules.

Ma Run has not been completely prohibited from going to the deep mountains and old forests to grab wild goods from Little Japan, but it is impossible to get more rice from the logistics side, even for "relationship households" like Scud.

Yiwen didn't go into the mountain in the afternoon, and went to the temporary canteen for dinner according to the shift in the evening.

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As soon as I entered, I saw many soldiers throwing half of the rice in the lunch box into a wooden barrel, and there was a sign on the wooden barrel that said "the place where leftovers are discarded".

In fact, the rice steamed by the masters in logistics is not bad, but Ma Run is not used to eating rice, coupled with the lack of non-staple food and a wasteful eating habit, resulting in a maximum of 100 grams of rice per capita.

Ivan naturally didn't waste it, and Lai Ji and the others didn't do it either. After all, the custard bibimbap opened the door to a new world for them.

Before the night fell on August 8th, I got a piece of good news-the Navy has assembled an aircraft carrier fleet to deliver a batch of F12F Wildcat fighter jets to Guadalcanal, as well as some food and medicine.

This news relieved Yiwen a lot, but it only made him feel comfortable for two seconds.

"The bad news is that it takes at least 20 days to arrive in Guadalcanal." Leckie said.

"F丨ck!" Ivan scolded, "This is eight days, a full eight days, don't they know that we are going to starve to death on this island!?"

"But at least sooner than a month, right?" Smiling Tiger was very open-minded, "And, we also have a 'chef'~"

If he could go tomorrow, Ivan would definitely go.

However, on the second day, Lieutenant Stone told him a regrettable thing-due to the failure of a reconnaissance operation yesterday, the temporarily formed naval patrol team was in the west of the Lunga defensive circle at Cruz Point and Matanikau. The whole army was wiped out in the river, and the whole division issued an order to prohibit the soldiers from going out alone and focus on the positions of the Lunga defensive circle.

"Oh sh丨it!" Scud next to him couldn't help yelling.

The four brothers went through a competition this morning, and the king with strong mouth and quick legs won the battle to accompany Ivan into the mountain, but it came to an abrupt end with Second Lieutenant Stone.

Ivan probably knows where Scud's excitement comes from - when they were arguing this morning, Laiji told how the "chef" climbed a tree that was more than ten meters tall as if it was his own home, and directly grabbed the buddies in shock. I want to accompany this king in the tropical rainforest to see the real skills and tactics.

What they didn't know was that Ivan spent the sixth day in the reincarnation, accumulating 6 points, and at the same time came the moment when his attribute value dropped.

When I woke up in the morning, Ivan didn't feel any obvious decline in physical function, he was just a little tired, probably because he was too emotional yesterday.

14. Japanese Air Raids

If there is no accident, Yiwen and others who returned to the machine gun position will go to the temporary cafeteria to solve the problem of hunger, but accidents always occur in war.

"Boom buzz buzz—!"