Chapter 6 Toshiro Diary (4)

Fatigue is harder to bear than enemy bullets.A frightening wind blows through my body.Komazawa asked me for cigarettes, and the bullets went high and far.If I stand up, I will probably be hit - thinking of this, I feel a little guilty again.Impossible to advance due to heavy enemy fire.We did not advance again until the covering fire of heavy machine guns and infantry guns began.Brother Fujiwara Heitaro!If I die, please take care of mother! "Advance fifty meters!" When the enemy's shooting was interrupted, an order was issued from above.Fifty meters ahead is the potato field.I pulled out my waist knife and dug a potato and gnawed it.The enemy's bullets did not come at all.Therefore, the brigade decided to gather on the road 100 meters ahead.Crossing the yam field and advancing to twenty meters from the road, two or three more enemy bullets flew unexpectedly. "There are still enemies!" Intuition told us that we had been lying on the ground, and the captain who was already on the road also jumped into the ditch reflexively.The team was gathering, and now it was about to disperse, but the soldiers gathered together and lay down on the ground.Seconds later, bullets rained over our heads.The bullets hit fiercely, lower than before, and the bullets fired by the enemy at close range were accurate.We thought they had escaped, but we didn't expect to fall into their tricks.

There are cotton fields.We crouched under the cotton stalks.The bullets smoked and fell five or six meters behind them, and everyone tried to stay as low as possible and cling to the ground.The helmet was almost eaten into the mud.Squadron leader Moriyama, like the soldiers, did not want to scout the situation.The bullets were fired from the embankment ahead, and the enemy might be hiding in the grass, but they couldn't be seen.I smoked a cigarette.Captain Araki also lit a cigarette with my match.The soldier next to me asked me to suck him up.I looked back to the left. Lieutenant Jiang Dao and Lieutenant Xinxiang stood on the ground with one leg and looked around with binoculars.

Second Lieutenant Ejima was roaring: "The enemy's bullets didn't hit at all, shoot hard!" The infantry artillery roared.One shot, two shots... Second Lieutenant Ejima is amazing.From here, Yili admires the second lieutenant.When standing up and being sure to get hit, I simply don't have the heart of Second Lieutenant Ejima. Our squadron leader is still lying on the ground like us. The infantry guns kept firing.When I finished smoking two cigarettes leisurely, the enemy finally retreated.I thought someone must have been hit, and I looked around, but no one was killed or injured.Squadron leader Moriyama is talking to Second Lieutenant Ejima: "Hey, Ejima! Where is the enemy?"

What a fool!As a squadron leader, he doesn't look at the enemy's situation, but lies on the ground like a soldier. This is also a squadron leader, and he is simply an untrustworthy boss! I have to think so.I have no confidence in the squadron leader. This twenty-five-year-old squadron leader is not to be underestimated, he seems to be particularly strict and arrogant.His lectures made us feel miserable, and he talked for a long time, which made us feel very uncomfortable.Because he lacks the ability to fully express his thoughts into words, he has to suspend his face for a long time after speaking a sentence, bite his lips in deep thought, and then rush to pull the words out of his throat, which is very time-consuming.Every time he lectures, he has to bite his lower lip with his teeth.However, the lower lip did not function like a pen barrel that sucked ink, and he still couldn't utter a word.His lectures were so dull that they bored us, and we didn't want to listen to him, but just looked at his poor lower lip.

He is a small-minded, not detached diehard. Youth feels unreliable, unsettling.This understanding, through this battle, I feel has been clearly confirmed. The backpack seemed to be extremely heavy.As soon as we moved forward in the grass, we encountered a ditch, and crossed the ditch with a single log to continue moving forward.A soldier jumped out of the grass and called me: "Hey!" "what?" "Here's your pear." What a tempting pear. "Where did it come from?" "On the tree over there." I forgot about the fight and focused on the pear tree. For me at this moment, pears are more important than fighting.As soon as they heard about Lizi, the team members gathered together faster than they heard the team leader's call to assemble.Everyone forgot about fighting, thinking about picking many pears and eating them.

With pears that almost burst our pockets, we climbed onto the embankment.The squad leader, Warrant Officer Uchiyama, was sitting in the grass and looking around. "Captain, how about a pear?" "Well, it's delicious." He looked at it, but didn't eat it. He said he ate dates. It was time for the third team to move forward.Neither the situation nor the location of the squadron was known.Just as we were resting in the cotton field, smoking a cigarette and waiting for the reconnaissance results, violent bullets flew suddenly.That bullet was more intense than ever before, and I'm afraid it won't even happen in the future.The intensity can be described as "heavy rain".The squad leader shouted in surprise: "Get down!" Before he finished speaking, the soldiers had already got down.

How many times have I kissed the land today, and this kiss lasted for a while.The squad leader said that maybe the friendly army mistook us for the enemy.In this way, we must let the other party know that we are the Japanese army.Warrant Officer Uchiyama waved the flag tied to his gun out of the cotton field. But this approach is downright stupid.As soon as the enemy saw the flag, they fired more and more accurately.Ironically, the flag only serves the purpose of telling the enemy where we are so that the enemy can shoot adequately.The team leader hurriedly took back the national flag.Since we didn't know where the enemy was staying to shoot, we didn't shoot a single shot.Just know that the enemy is ahead.

The light machine gun came to the front.At this time, there was a sound of "ammonia", and the machine gunner fell down. Another machine gunner was replaced. It was Dashan, who was about the same age as me. A few seconds later, Dashan fell down again covering his eyes.Enemy bullets hit the machine gun, rendering it useless.There was a hollow two meters behind me, and Noguchi squatted in it alone.This guy will pick the place well!I also wanted to duck into that depression, and backed off about half a meter, which I ended up not being able to do because of the bullets falling from the front, back, left, and right.Even this distance of only one meter cannot retreat.There was no other way, and he moved forward slowly on his stomach again, hiding his body in the cotton field.I am completely hopeless.It all depends on luck.The sun slowly sank into the earth, and as night approached, the enemy's fire slowed down.The squad leader shouted: "Back fifty meters!"

We scattered and ran back, backed up again, and arrived at the location of the fourth squadron. Swarms of mosquitoes flew around the fields like tornadoes.As if to hide something ugly, darkness covers everything. We left No. 4 Squadron in search of our own squadron position.Our growing uneasiness over the location of the squadron was obliged to muster in the spacious yard of a farmhouse.The squad leader went to contact the brigade headquarters.Exhausted and hungry, we lay staggered and talked to each other about the day's battle.At nine o'clock in the evening, the sound of machine guns rang out crazily, and countless bullets hit the wall behind us, making a deafening sound. We jumped up and down as if we had a bullet mechanism, but the squadron leader and squad leader were not there. No one to direct.The first unit is in front, the second unit is on the right, and the third unit is behind. Everyone discussed this to prevent enemy attacks.

"Maybe it's our own people beating our own people!" Someone shouted. The tragedy of the 33rd Regiment and the 38th Regiment attacking each other in Taomatou Village is deeply engraved in our minds. "Try blowing the horn!" "Yes! Blow the horn." "The trumpeter! The trumpeter!" The trumpeter was not there, he was with the squadron leader. "No way. Let's sing the military song!" "Good idea!" someone yelled, and someone sang. "...This is your hometown..." Five or six people roared and sang, but the intense gunfire suppressed the singing.

We are determined to fight to the death.We no longer need a commander.Facing a common danger and having a common purpose, we have no conflict of opinion. After discussing the allocation of personnel, we wait for the enemy to attack. "Be alert to the enemies behind you!" "Is the machine gun loaded?" "Bombardier, get ready!" "Have you all loaded your bayonets?" The shouts of mutual admonition shuttled back and forth among the gunfire.We crouched among the narrow houses waiting for our chance.Bullets fly high. Amidst the uninterrupted sound of bullets, a torrential rain of bullets came from time to time.Noguchi quietly hid in the house. asshole!What an asshole! Second Lieutenant Nishihara approached, leaning against the wall on the right side of the house, staring in the darkness.After about thirty minutes, there was a shout. "Attack!" We clenched the guns in our hands. "How arrogant, dare to attack at night!" "What the fuck, shoot him five or six grenade rounds?" "It will be troublesome if you accidentally injure your allies." "How can it be? The friendly army is in the house." "Okay! Then I will." "Boom—boom—" the grenadier exploded in the dark. We searched in the dark for a while, trying to find the enemy, but we couldn't find it.Only the intense sound of bullets is deafening, stimulating our nerves.After a while, the trumpet sounded like a suona, which neither aroused courage nor inspired spirit. It was the enemy's trumpet.It strikes me as kind of funny.Gunshots, shouts, and horns swallowed each other in the darkness.It is estimated that the loud voices of five or six enemies came from the darkness. "Hey! It's the enemy! Be careful." I was standing in the left corner with my gun in hand.An enemy passed in front.I could stab him with a knife in my position, but I was really scared in my heart.It was the first time in my life that I stabbed someone with a knife.I can't help contemptuous of my timidity and want to stab.At this time, Second Lieutenant Nishihara said: "Don't stab!" Fortunately, I didn't stab, so I stopped.The enemy soldier held a gun and held a captured Japanese gas mask in his left hand, and passed by here while talking. Despite warnings, gas masks and backpacks were left by the side of the road.That gas mask is now in the hands of the enemy, and the gas mask has become a secret weapon.When the enemy soldiers passed in front of Second Lieutenant Nishihara, the second lieutenant slashed at them with the Azure Dragon Sword he picked up during the day.However, the knife did not touch the enemy's body.The enemy soldier turned around cleverly and fired indiscriminately with his automatic rifle.I shot immediately.The light machine gunner also picked up the light machine gun and fired.Missing a single shot, the enemy fled in the dark.