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- Kalimantan is a huge island with an area of ??740,000 square kilometers. The rolling green hills are covered with lush trees and various vines and weeds. As far as the eye can see, there is a green that makes people feel helpless and scared.
Lin Rui and his team arrived at night and took advantage of the high tide to land on the island. In the northwest of the island, he plunged into the dense forest.
Kalimantan Island belongs to the tropical rainforest zone. The rivers in most parts of the island are navigable and serve as an important lifeline for trade and commerce, and often the only lifeline. The northern island shape becomes narrower, and the navigable mileage of rivers rarely exceeds 160 kilometers, and 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 better now, many places are still closed and inaccessible.
The sultry climate makes everyone sweat. The special smell of vegetation in the rainforest makes people feel inexplicably depressing.
"Okay, we have gone far enough. There are too many problems in marching at night. Let's rest where we are, leaving two people to pay attention. There are many wild beasts here. Don't forget, be careful against snakes." Lin Rui waved. .
"I can finally rest for a while." Crazy Horse whispered, "My neck is almost drained of blood by mosquitoes."
¡°Didn¡¯t you use mosquito repellent?¡± Jiang An whispered.
"It is used, but it will be washed away by the sweat discharged by the body soon. 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 then his hands were covered with spots. Dots and dots, all filled with mosquitoes that have sucked blood.
"Just be patient, it will be fine soon. It will be better when it gets brighter later. Mosquitoes like darkness." Lin Rui whispered, "Actuary, confirm our location."
Jiang An looked at the mobile computer in his hand, "We have only entered the jungle for about thirteen kilometers. According to Russian intelligence, we may still have a lot of distance to go."
"Damn it, how could the Yankees establish a damn base in a place like this!" Sergey cursed in a low voice.
"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 this base. However, because it was too close to the center of the island, it was of little value and was closed for a time. Later, It was just reactivated as a special forces training base to help train soldiers to fight in specific hot rainforest areas." Jiang An said in a low voice.
"Only a madman would fight in a place like this." Sergey whispered.
"Madmen often say that there are all madmen in this world, and he is the only one who is normal." Snake Eyes patted his shoulder.
"Go away, you Yankee." Sergey muttered dissatisfied.
"Save it, Russian guy. We are all the same, how can we be any better?" Snake Eyes whispered. Snoring gradually came from the darkness, but I couldn't tell who it came from. Lin Rui wrapped his clothes tightly and tried his best to use his body temperature to dry the camouflage uniform on his body so that he could sleep more comfortably. But he soon discovered that this was a luxury.
The dew dripping from the trees and the sweat from his body made him still wet. The clothes were sticky and uncomfortable at all, but he still slept like a self-hypnosis. He had developed a habit of falling asleep when he wanted to. Like a survival instinct, only in this way can we save limited time and ensure adequate sleep.
The next morning, as soon as it got light, the birdsong in the jungle began. The o2 team started to take action. The path chosen by Lin Rui and others was also extremely remote. There was no road at all in the jungle, so they all relied on the machete in their hands to clear the way. The marching speed was pretty good, but it would still take a long time to reach their search location.
Actuary Shogan is the hardest among this group of people, not because he carries a lot of weight, but because of his physical fitness. He can be considered strong among ordinary people, but he is the worst in this team, not even comparable to women like Yelena. He is actually a think-tank type planner and commander. This high-intensity march was extremely painful for him.
"What's wrong, Americans? You guys who rely on cars and helicopters can't walk on mountain roads. Have you got any blisters on your feet?" Sergey gasped, not forgetting to scold the general next to him. Words of ridicule.
"It's actually nothing. Compared with the Sandakan Death March, it's nothing at all?" Jiang An shook his head and continued walking forward.
"What is the Sandakan Death March?" Sergey was confused.
"I'm laughing at you for not studying enough." Shogishi said as he walked. "It was a series of forced marches that the Japanese army forced the Allied prisoners of war in Sandakan Prisoner of War Camp to conduct at the end of the Pacific War. It is called in Japanese: ¥µ¥ó¥À¥«¥ó¤ÎËÀ March." The march is believed to have resulted in the deaths of 2,345 Allied prisoners of war,???Only 6 people survived. That thing happened here. "
"Right here? Kalimantan Island?" Sergey frowned.
¡°During 1943, the Japanese army transferred Australian and British prisoners of war from the Battle of Singapore to the island of Kalimantan and forced them to build a military airport. The labor conditions of the prisoners of war were extremely poor, and they often had to endure the intimidation and beatings of the Japanese army. Among the prisoners of war, The officers were transferred from Sandakan to the Batu Lintang Prisoner of War Camp in Kuching.
The living conditions of the prisoners of war who stayed in Sandakan worsened, and the ration supply was further reduced. Even those prisoners of war who were sick and injured must continue to engage in manual labor. After the airport was completed, the prisoners continued to be held in Sandakan. In 1945, there were only 1,900 surviving prisoners of war left in the camp. At this time, the Allied offensive advanced towards Kalimantan, and the military airport was bombed.
Japanese Captain Susumu Hoshidao had a premonition that the Allied forces were about to land, so he ordered the prisoners of war to be transferred to Ranau, 260 kilometers west of Sandakan. And this was the order of Lieutenant General Masaro Baba of the Japanese 37th Army. "Jiang'an whispered.
"And it's a similar route to what we took this time. Passing through wide swamps and primeval forests, and then crossing the east side of Mount Kinabalu. Almost all the prisoners of war were malnourished or seriously ill. On the way, as long as they had a little If something goes wrong or progress is slow, they will be killed.
The Japanese guards at that time used shooting to force the exhausted prisoners of war to move forward. Before the Japanese surrender, all the prisoners of war who could not walk in Sandakan died of disease, starvation or were shot by the Japanese army. Only six Australian soldiers survived the war. Later the Japanese also attempted to destroy the prisoner of war camp in Sandakan to destroy any evidence of its existence. "
Sergey was silent, shook his head and said, "This is really a sad story, and a bunch of damn bastards."
"There is one thing missing." Lin Rui looked at the jungle and said, "Besides the sad stories and damn bastards, there is also this nightmare jungle. Come on, brothers, at least you don't have a machine gun behind your butt. On."
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