Chapter 1934: Death march

Kalimantan is a huge island with an area of ​​740,000 square kilometers. The rolling green hills, covered with lush trees, vines and weeds, are green that makes people feel helpless and panic as far as they can look.
Lin Rui and his team arrived at night and landed on the island at high tide. In the northwest part of the island plunged into the jungle.
Kalimantan is a tropical rain forest belt. Rivers in most areas of the island are navigable and are important lifelines for trade and commercial activities, and often the only lifeline. The shape of the northern island is narrowing, and the navigable mileage of rivers rarely exceeds 160 kilometers, which is often shorter than this. Therefore, the northern hinterland of the island was in a closed primitive society for a long time before the 1980s. Although the situation is a little better now, many places are still closed and off the beaten track.
The sultry weather made everyone sweat all over. The special smell of vegetation in the rainforest makes people feel inexplicably depressed.
"Okay, we have gone far enough. There are too many problems with marching at night. Everyone rests in place and keeps the two of them on guard. There are many beasts in this place. Don't forget, watch out for snakes." Lin Rui waved his hand. .
"Finally, I can rest for a while." Crazy Horse whispered, "My neck is almost sucked dry by mosquitoes."
"Is there no use of mosquito repellent?" Jiang An whispered.
"It's used, but it will soon be washed away by the sweat discharged from the body. We are all sweating a lot, and the sweat will attract a lot of mosquitoes." Crazy Horse touched the back of his neck with his hand, and his hands were covered with spots. Little by little, it's all mosquitoes full of blood.
"Just be patient, it will be done soon. After dawn, it will be better. Mosquitoes like the dark." Lin Rui whispered, "Actuarial, confirm our location."
Jiang Jian 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 lot of distance to travel."
"Damn it, how could Yankees build a base in such a place!" Sergey cursed in a low voice.
"This is a product of the establishment of a Southeast Asian base group by the US army after World War II. At that time they used some underground fortifications of the Japanese army during the Pacific War to rebuild this base. But because it was too close to the middle of the island, it was of little value. It was once closed. It was re-opened as a special forces training base to help train soldiers to fight in specific hot rain forest areas." Jiang An said in a low voice.
"A madman will fight in such a place." Sergey whispered.
"Mad men often say that there are all crazy men in this world, and only he is normal." Snake eyes patted his shoulder.
"Go away, you Yankee," Sergey muttered dissatisfiedly.
"Save your energy, Russians. We are all the same, so how good is it?" Snake Eye whispered. Snoring gradually came in the darkness, and I couldn't hear who it was. Lin Rui wrapped her clothes tightly and tried her best to dry her camouflage uniform with her body temperature, so that she could sleep more comfortably. But he soon discovered that this was a luxury.
The dripping dew on the tree and the sweat from his body made him still wet. The clothes were sticky and uncomfortable at all, but he still slept like self-hypnosis. He has formed a habit of being able to fall asleep when he wants to. Like a survival instinct, only in this way can we save limited time and ensure adequate sleep.
In the early morning of the next day, as soon as the sky lighted up, the birdsong in the jungle began. The o2 team started to move, and the path chosen by Lin Rui and the others was also extremely remote. The speed of the march is pretty good, but it will take a long time to reach their search location.
Actuary Jiang An 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.
"What's wrong, Yankee. You guys who rely on cars and helicopters can't walk the mountain roads, are there any blisters on your little feet?" Sergey panted, not forgetting to be evil to the generals next to him. Yan mocks.
"In fact, it's nothing. Compared with Sandakan's death march, it's nothing at all?" Jiang An shook his head and continued to walk forward.
"What Sandakan Death March?" Sergey was inexplicable.
"I'm laughing at you for studying too little." Jiang Jian said as he walked, "It is a series of forced marches by the Japanese forces forcing allied prisoners of the Sandakan POW camp at the end of the Pacific War. Japanese is called: サンダカン死の March. It is believed that this march caused the deaths of 2,345 Allied prisoners of war, and only six survived. That happened here."
"It's here? Kalimantan?" Sergey frowned.
"During 1943, the Japanese army transferred Australian and British prisoners of war from the Battle of Singapore to Kalimantan and forced them to build military airfields. The working conditions of the prisoners were extremely bad, and they often had to endure the intimidation and beatings of the Japanese. The officers were transferred from Sandakan to Batulin as a prison camp in Kuching.
The living conditions of the prisoners in Sandakan have deteriorated and the ration supply has been further reduced. Even the injured prisoners must continue to engage in manual labor. After the completion of the airport, the prisoners of war continued to be held in Sandakan. In 1945, only 1,900 surviving prisoners of war were left in the camp. At this time, the Allied offensive advanced towards Kalimantan and the military airport was bombed.
Japanese Captain Sing Dao Jin felt that the Allied forces were about to land, so he ordered the prisoners to be transferred to Ranau, 260 kilometers west of Sandakan. And this is the order of the Japanese 37th Army Lieutenant General Masao Baba. "Jiangan whispered.
"And it's the same route we took this time. Pass the wide swamps and virgin forests, and then cross the east side of Mount Kinabalu. Almost all the prisoners of war are malnourished or seriously ill. On the way, as long as they are slightly If there is trouble or slow progress, you will be killed.
The Japanese guards used guns to force the tired prisoners to advance. Before the Japanese surrender, all prisoners of war who remained in Sandakan unable to walk had died of disease, starvation, or shooting by the Japanese. Only 6 Australian soldiers survived the war. Later, the Japanese army tried to destroy the POW camp in Sandakan to destroy any evidence of its existence. "
Sergey was silent, and shook his head, "This is really a sad story with a bunch of bastards."
"There is still something missing." Lin Rui looked at the jungle and said, "Besides the sad story and the bastard, there is also this nightmarish jungle. Go ahead, brothers, at least you don’t have a machine gun behind your ass. Now."