Battlefield Contract Worker

Chapter 1971: death march

? Kalimantan is a huge island with an area of ​​740,000 square kilometers. Teana Fiction WWW. ⒉The rolling green hills are covered with lush trees and various vines and weeds. As far as the eye can see is a green that makes people feel helpless and panic.

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Lin Rui and his team arrived at night and landed on the island at high tide. In the northwest of the island plunged into the jungle.

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Kalimantan Island is a tropical rain forest belt. Rivers are navigable in most of the island and are an important and often the only lifeline for trade and commerce. The shape of the northern island is narrow, and the navigable mileage of rivers rarely exceeds 16o kilometers, and it is often shorter than this. Therefore, the northern hinterland of the island was in a closed primitive society for a long time before the 8o generation of the last century. Although the situation is better now, many places are still closed and inaccessible.

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The sultry climate made everyone sweat. The special smell of vegetation in the rainforest makes people feel inexplicably depressed.

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"Okay, we've gone far enough. There are too many problems in marching at night. Everyone rests in place and leaves the two to pay attention. There are many wild animals in this place. Don't forget, be careful to guard against snakes." Lin Rui waved his hand. .

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"Finally, I can rest for a while." Crazy Horse whispered, "My neck is almost drained of blood by mosquitoes."

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"Didn't you use mosquito repellent?" Jiangan said in a low voice.

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"I used it, but it will soon be washed away by the sweat from the body. We are all sweating a lot, and the sweat attracts a lot of mosquitoes." Crazy Horse touched the back of his neck with his hand, and then his hands were covered with spots. A little bit, it's all full of blood-sucking mosquitoes.

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"Just be patient, it will be done soon. It will be better when it's dawn. Mosquitoes like darkness." Lin Rui whispered, "Actuary, confirm our location."

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Jiangan looked at the mobile computer in his hand, "We have only entered the jungle for about 13 kilometers. According to Russian intelligence, we may still have a long way to go."

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"Damn it, how could the Yankees build a **** base in such a place!" Sergey cursed in a low voice.

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"This is a product of the period when the US military established a base group in Southeast Asia after World War II. At that time, they used some underground fortifications of the Japanese army during the Pacific War to rebuild the base. However, because it was too close to the middle of the island and was of little value, it was closed for a time. It was only reactivated as a special forces training base. To help train soldiers to fight in specific hot rainforest areas." Said Shogi in a low voice.

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"A lunatic would fight in a place like this." Sergey whispered.

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"Crazy people often say that the world is full of crazy people, and only he is normal." Snake Eyes patted his shoulder and said.

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"Go away, you Yankee." Sergey muttered in dissatisfaction.

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"Save your energy, Russian guy. We're all the same, how's it going?" Snake Eye whispered. There was a snoring sound gradually in the darkness, and it was unclear who it was. Lin Rui wrapped his clothes tightly, and tried his best to dry the camouflage clothes with his body temperature, so that he could sleep more comfortably. But he soon realized that this was an extravagant hope.

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The dew dripping from the tree and the sweat of his body made him still wet. The sticky clothes were not comfortable at all, but he still fell asleep like self-hypnosis. He has developed a habit of being able to sleep when he wants to. Like a survival instinct, the only way to save limited time and ensure adequate sleep.

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The next morning, just as the sky was bright, the birdsong in the jungle began. The o2 team started to move, and the path chosen by Lin Rui and others was also extremely remote. There was no way in the jungle at all, and they all relied on the machete in their hands to open the way. The speed of the march is good, but it will take a long time to reach their search point.

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Actuary Kangan is the hardest among this group of people, not because of his heavy load, but because of his physical fitness. He is considered strong among ordinary people, but he is the worst in this team, not even a woman like Yelena. He is actually a think tank-type planner and commander, and this high-intensity march is miserable for him.

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"What's the matter, Yankee. You guys who rely on cars and helicopters can't walk on mountain roads, right? Have blisters on your little feet?" sarcasm.

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"Actually, it's nothing. Compared with the Sandakan Death March, it's nothing at all?" Jiangan shook his head and continued walking.

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"What Sandakan Death March?" Sergey wondered.

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"I'm laughing at you for reading too little." Jiangi said as he walked, "It was a series of forced marches by the Japanese army at the end of the Pacific War forcing the Allied prisoners of war in the Sandakan POW camp. In Japanese, it is called: サンダカン Death march. The march is believed to have killed 2,345 Allied prisoners of war, of which only 6 survived. That happened here."

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"Just here? Kalimantan?" Sergey frowned.

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“During 1943, the Japanese army transferred Australian and British prisoners of war from the Singapore campaign to Kalimantan and forced them to build a military airfield. The working conditions of the prisoners of war were extremely poor, and they often endured intimidation and beatings by the Japanese army. The officers were transferred from Sandakan to Baturin in Kuching as a prisoner of war camp.

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The living conditions of the prisoners of war who stayed in Sandakan deteriorated further, and the ration supply was further reduced. Even the wounded prisoners of war had to continue to engage in manual labor. After the airport was completed, the prisoners of war continued to be held in Sandakan. In 1945, only 19oo surviving POWs remained in the POW camp. At this point, the Allied offensive pushed towards Kalimantan ~www.readwn.com~ The military airfield was blown up.

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Japanese captain Hoshishima Shin had a premonition that the Allies were about to land on the 6th, so he ordered the prisoners of war to be transferred to Ranau, 26o kilometers west of Sandakan. And this is the order of the Japanese 37th Army Lieutenant General Masao Baba. "Jiangishi whispered.

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"And the same route we took this time. Passing through the wide swamps and virgin forest, and then over the eastern side of Mount Kinabalu. Almost all the prisoners of war were malnourished or seriously ill. If there is something wrong or the progress is slow, it will be killed.

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At that time, the Japanese guards used the method of shooting to force the exhausted prisoners of war to advance. By the time Japan surrendered, all prisoners of war who remained in Sandakan and could not walk had died of disease, starvation, or shooting by the Japanese. Only six Australian soldiers survived the war. The Japanese also later tried to destroy the POW camp in Sandakan to destroy any evidence of its existence. "

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Sergey was silent, shook his head and said, "This is really a sad story, and a bunch of **** bastards."

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"There's one thing missing." Lin Rui looked at the jungle and said, "In addition to the sad stories and the **** bastards, there is this nightmarish jungle. Hurry up, brothers, at least you don't have a machine gun behind your ass. on."

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