The story begins in the early morning of September 12, 40. As usual, the Japanese soldiers, who had been battling the terrible mosquitoes all night, were awakened from their dreams by the loud wake-up call. Relying on the habits cultivated by years of training, the soldiers quickly put on their uniforms, put on short leather shoes, and carefully tied their leggings. According to the practice of the Japanese army, after getting up in the morning, you should first do some morning training, usually do a set of morning exercises, then run around the camp a few times, wait for all your bodies to move, and then line up to go to the canteen to get breakfast.

Most of these soldiers are veterans who have served for three years, and they have long learned how to survive in the army, and the long-term battlefield fighting has also honed their tenacious nerves, but even such a strong elite soldier has been exhausted by the terrible jungle at this moment. Beginning in late August, there was a marked decline in the morale of the troops, and not only did military discipline change somewhat loosely, but even some remarks of dissatisfaction with the superiors and even the commanders of the wing began to appear among the officers and men at the lower levels.

The 3rd Brigade of the 21st Wing of the 5th Division of the Imperial Japanese Army was stationed in a place called Ershan Village, close to the Sino-Vietnamese border, and only half an hour's walk from Zhennan Pass. This unit is now part of the Miki Unit, which is formed as the backbone of the 21st Wing, and the commander is the Wing Commander of the 21st Wing, Mitsunosuke Osamiki. In addition to the infantry units to which the original wing belonged, this mixed unit was also incorporated into a squadron of chariots and a part of the baggage and water supply units, and its task was to block the national border along the Zhennanguan line and make every effort to block the material communication line from French Indochina to our country.

This was a strategically important action for Japan, because there was an idea circulating in the Japanese General Staff Headquarters at that time that as long as the communication of foreign goods from China was cut off, the Chinese government in Chongqing would lose the capital to continue fighting, and would help Japan win this protracted war as soon as possible.

So when the Japanese army launched the Nanning Campaign, they once again shouted the slogan "This is the last battle" that they had shouted under the city of Nanjing. At this moment, the Japanese army believed that as long as the Yunnan-Burma Highway and the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway were cut off, Japan could win the war.

Of course, history proves that this was just wishful thinking on the part of the Japanese, but at that time, the Japanese military department did place great expectations on this, and even did not hesitate to bow to those old enemies in order to gain naval and air support. But after the Japanese army captured Nanning. However, he found that the change in the situation was a little different from what he originally imagined, and although he successfully took Zhennan Pass, the Japanese military department suddenly found that it seemed that it was his side that was currently trapped and killed.

As a front-line commander, Morimoto Otaku 2 Nakasa is most touched by this. This Morimoto Nakasa was forty-five years old at this time, and he was the most standard young Zhuang officer in the Japanese army, graduated from the 28th phase of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and the famous Changyong and Ichiki Kiyonao were classmates at the same time, and there was a Chinese student who was very famous in that period, that is, He Yingqin, who served as the chief of staff of the Republic of China at this time. To be honest, this Nakasa's official luck is not particularly outstanding. Relying on the standard military seniority progression, many of the classmates in the same period had already become Nakasa or wing commander two or three years ago, while Morimoto was not promoted until September last year and was appointed commander of the third brigade of the 21st Wing, and finally blended into the middle ranks of the Japanese Army.

After being promoted, before he could warm his buttocks, the Fifth Division was transferred from the comfortable and prosperous South China to the reckless Guangxi battlefield, landing from Qinzhou, and Morimoto led the Third Brigade all the way to burn and loot into Nanning City. Just when he wanted to take a break, he was transferred by the division headquarters to the periphery of Nanning to take on the security task. When he climbed to the destination and looked at the map, the place was called Kunlun Pass.

There are too many historical materials about what the Battle of Kunlun Pass was like, so there is no need to elaborate here. It's just that one thing must be explained, if according to the **** battle report, this Morimoto Nakasa should have died in Kunlun Pass at this time. The corpses were rotten. (There was a time when the author also believed in the **** record of the Kunlun Pass victory, so when I found the name Morimoto Zhai II when I looked through the historical materials, I thought it was about two people.) Later, after checking his resume, he found out that it was really this guy who took the third team to support Kunlun Pass. And instead of dying there, this person eventually retired in North Korea as Dazuo. ）

In the chaotic Kunlun Pass battlefield, the 3rd Brigade had actually been wandering between Batang and Qitang and had not been placed on the first line, and had not suffered much damage compared to the hapless 1st and 2nd Brigades. In the end, because of the largest number of veterans in the army, they were pulled out separately and placed on the outside to carry out the task of blocking the border.

But since the 3rd Brigade took on this task, it has been like falling into a nightmare. At this time, the Sino-Vietnamese border was full of dense primeval jungle, and the climate was hot and humid, with the highest temperature reaching more than 40 degrees during the day. It was extremely difficult for the troops to supply supplies, and it was impossible to even get fresh vegetables from the nearby mountain people, and the garrison was surrounded by dense forests, full of poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, and no one dared to go inside if they were not familiar with the roads. The nearby villagers were full of indifference in their eyes, and the language was completely incomprehensible, and no matter how the officers who could speak Chinese compared them, they just shook their heads to indicate that they did not understand. As soon as night fell, the jungle outside the camp began to make all kinds of strange noises, and in addition to the howling of tigers and wolves, there were all kinds of strange howls, so that the Japanese soldiers did not dare to go out of the barracks alone at night.

At this time, not only the 3rd Brigade was a unit, but the entire 5th Division was in a difficult situation. At that time, the local villages in Guangxi were very poor, and the civilians were extremely hostile to the Japanese invading army, and the two Gui giants, Bai and Li, had long been the best in Guangxi's governance, and under their long-term propaganda and agitation, the people of Guangxi became very xenophobic, not to mention the Japanese invaders, even if the Central Army came in, it would also embarrass you.

The Japanese simply can't get food from the locals, let alone the dishes to accompany their meals. The troops of the Fifth Division had to ship rice, white flour, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar every day by sea, and the grain was unloaded at Qinzhou Port and then transported by truck to Nanning. The supply line of more than 100 kilometers from Nanning to Qinzhou needs to cross countless mountain ranges, and the mountains are full of armed mountain people, and when they encounter the baggage team of the Japanese army, they are happy to make a cameo appearance as a bandit, relying on the troops in the hands of the Fifth Division, they cannot protect the safety of the entire line at all, so each supply can only rely on heavy troops to escort them in a centralized manner, and only then can they barely complete the basic material support of the division.

The original Fifth Division was a mechanized division, but because most of the area in this operation was mountainous and jungle, the division replaced the original mechanized equipment before departure, and the Fifth Division became a mule and horse at this moment, and the transport vehicles in their hands could only ensure the delivery of daily food rations in addition to the necessary ammunition and oil, and there was no excess capacity to transport any meat and vegetables and other non-staple foods, but the materials and supplies of the division's command organs were completely guaranteed, after all, Nanning was a big city.

If the subordinate troops were unlucky enough to be unable to get vegetables and non-staple food nearby, they had to eat with miso and soy sauce, especially those stationed in the mountain passes, such as Morimoto's 3rd Brigade, which had a miserable time. It's just that it's not good to eat, and the soldiers of the Great Japanese Empire shouldn't be greedy for enjoyment, Morimoto Nakasa said so, rice and soy sauce is a kind of training, and it can better reflect the Yamato soul of the monarchs. Moreover, the wing will sometimes be gracious, and occasionally give out a few cans of emergency reserve Yamato boiled cans for them to open meat, because the local climate is too humid and hot, and even canned food is not easy to preserve.

In the eyes of the Japanese soldiers, this is indeed not the greatest suffering, and what makes them talk about it is the endless army of various insects in the jungle. The most widespread insects during the day are flies, which are so ubiquitous and incredibly numerous that Morimoto once ordered the entire camp to be cleaned according to domestic custom, only to find that in order to get rid of flies, he had to sweep the entire forest outside. And when night falls, all kinds of mosquitoes of different sizes and varieties come out of the woods like dark clouds, and they fly into the Japanese barracks through the gaps in the bamboo strips of the doors and windows, and then find a thick and bloody guy to feast on. The Japanese soldiers had tried to resist and used various methods, but they were of little use in the face of such a staggering jungle imp. And because of the virus carried by mosquitoes, a large number of diseases have been caused, the most common being dysentery and malaria, and even two soldiers even had jaundice.

What made Morimoto even more mad was that the officers and soldiers had endured so much hardship, but the tasks assigned by their superiors could not be completed at all. Between the mountains along the Zhennan Pass, the villagers and hunters have opened up countless passable paths, making this border look like a colander, just holding the road can not block the delivery of materials, countless smuggling caravans, driving the local peculiar dwarf horses, carrying important supplies from those trails across the border, familiar with the road, they can easily bypass the Japanese defense line, over the mountains and mountains to transport goods to the control area of the Chinese government.

The Japanese side once lodged a solemn protest to the French about this, and the French immediately said that they would strengthen the management of the border, and at the same time agreed that the Japanese army would send an observation group to supervise it, so as to completely put an end to this kind of behavior that undermines the friendship between France and Japan. As a result, before the Japanese could celebrate a great diplomatic victory, the French turned their heads and dismissed it all, and the federal authorities of French Indochina refused to recognize the agreement that had been reached, claiming that it was only the personal act of the then governor Carut and had no legal effect at all. The special envoys of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of War angrily asked to meet with Carut, and the Japanese were surprised by a scene appeared, and the French responded directly that Carut had been removed from his post and investigated, and that there were any diplomatic problems, please wait for the arrival of the new governor to discuss them.

As the days of suffering passed, Morimoto Nakasa's mood became more and more depressed day by day, and after his daily work, he would sit in the bamboo bedroom and wipe his ancestral sword, and often let out an oozing wail in the middle of the night. Nakasa Morimoto was already holding back the fire in his belly, and he was anxious to find a place to vent. And this captain will not know that there are many people who are more anxious than him, and the staff officers of the Army General Staff Headquarters have become ants on the lid of the pot, because they are horrified to find that with the change of the world situation, their wishful thinking is falling short step by step.

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