Lost and Spy

Chapter 3349 The Walking Dead
The 39th Engineer Regiment in the jungle fell into despair.

People kept falling.

At first, they were rescued by their companions.

But soon, the companions discovered that such a rescue would also drag them down and put them in disaster.

So, they chose to give up.

There are all kinds of unknown dangers lurking in the jungle.

And the most terrifying thing is malaria that appears out of nowhere.

This is the biggest enemy of this Japanese army.

Malaria began to take hold.

The jungle is the birthplace of malaria!

More and more Japanese soldiers are struggling with illness.

They don't have any medicine.

Lack of food means chewing tree bark and eating weeds, but lack of medicine means chronic death.

In a densely populated camp, as long as one person is infected with malaria, then everyone in the camp will not be able to escape the clutches of the disease. People infected with malaria are lucky enough to be able to continue living after they resist themselves, but let alone the sequelae of the disease. I continue to fight, and being able to take care of myself is already a blessing among misfortunes.

Kitazawa Nobuhiro is quite decisive.

After discovering the first case of malaria, he immediately ordered all patients to be abandoned!
This, to some extent, reduced large-scale malaria outbreaks.

However, at least one-third of the Japanese troops were infected with malaria.

A man fell, and the people around him fled away.

However, no matter how fast they move, how can they avoid the attack of malaria parasites?

Just half a month later, Nobuhiro Kitazawa was horrified to find that there were only 39 people left in the 200th Engineer Regiment.

Those 400 people died and disappeared!

Kitazawa Nobuhiro fell into complete despair.

……

"Later, we finally discovered the city, which was Manila."

Ichikawa Kusaka said with a cry: "We don't know how long we walked in the jungle, let alone how we got to the vicinity of Manila.

Your Majesty the General made a decision to surrender to the US military. This is our only chance to survive.But we dare not walk out of the jungle rashly for fear of being attacked by you.

I can speak English, so the general gave me an important task to contact the US military and discuss surrender matters. "

"How many more of you are there?" Captain William asked.

"520 per person."

The people listening were in disbelief.

A team of 2600 people lost more than 2000 people in less than a month without encountering a battle!

Meng Shaoyuan didn't find it strange at all.

what is this?
In the Battle of Luzon Island, the Japanese 26th Division had 1 men. After the battle, only more than 3 people survived.

Among them, the number of battlefield attrition is far lower than the non-combat attrition including malaria!

The 39th Engineer Regiment was relatively lucky.

After all, they only walked in the jungle for less than a month before they were lucky enough to reach near Manila.

And their commander wisely chose to surrender.

Otherwise, maybe no one in the entire regiment can survive.

"Your Excellency, please accept our surrender." Ichikawa stood up tremblingly: "We really can't hold on any longer."

Meng Shaoyuan did not make an immediate decision.

He cannot decide this kind of thing alone.

"Give power to General MacArthur!"

……

General MacArthur's call back came quickly.

Agree to accept the surrender of the Japanese 39th Engineer Regiment.

Charles Meng was appointed as the demoted officer, with full authority to handle all matters.

At the same time, MacArthur mobilized a 30-man medical unit, led by military doctor Lieutenant Colonel Max Maran, carrying a large amount of medicine and is on its way to Manila and is expected to arrive tomorrow.

"Agree to accept the surrender of the Japanese 39th Engineer Regiment."

Meng Shaoyuan pondered for a moment: "The day to accept the surrender is set at 10 a.m. the day after tomorrow. At that time, all Japanese troops must abandon all weapons, walk out of the jungle in an orderly manner, and surrender at the designated location.

The surrender site was cordoned off to prevent people from becoming emotional.Set up machine guns, and if any misbehavior is discovered among the surrendered Japanese troops, they will be strangled immediately.William, you are personally responsible for site security. "

"Yes, Colonel!"

Meng Shaoyuan took out a cigarette but did not light it.

Since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, this is the first time he has accepted the surrender of the Japanese army.

This may be something you will remember for a lifetime.

……

Dr. Mesmaran and his medical team arrived early in the morning.

He immediately asked Meng Shaoyuan to take him to see the place where the Japanese soldiers were imprisoned.

That was a concentration camp used by the Japanese army to detain American prisoners of war.

Even the infamous "Ward Zero" is there.

"Here, everything is set up as an isolation area."

Mesmaran immediately said: "The soldiers guarding the Japanese troops must wear professional equipment under our guidance to ensure that they will not be infected by the disease.

Colonel, as long as there is one case among the surrendered Japanese troops, there is the possibility of a large-scale outbreak.And I am sure that among these five hundred Japanese soldiers, many are suffering from malaria. In fact, all of them may have been infected with malaria. "

Meng Shaoyuan thought so too.

Despite the measures Kitazawa Nobuhiro took, there was nothing he could do to avoid the ravages of malaria.

"This time, I brought a lot of quinine." Mesmaran said immediately: "These quinines will be kept and used by me. Once our people find a case of malaria infection, they will immediately carry out the next door attack and the first Time to take quinine.”

As he spoke, he specifically added: "It's real quinine, not Ah's Ping!"

Meng Shaoyuan is also a doctor, so of course he understands the meaning of Max Malan's words.

Come on, the quinine has finally arrived.

There is also an outbreak of malaria in Manila, but because the locals have lived in this environment all year round, their bodies have already developed antibodies, so it is not that serious yet.

However, the US military does not have antibodies in their bodies.

Moreover, even for the powerful United States, quinine is still a very precious and scarce medicine.

In 1826, scientists extracted quinine from the bark of Cinchona, and quinine made its debut on the human stage. Since then, humans have been extracting quinine from the bark of Cinchona.

It was not until the 20th century that humans invented the method of artificially synthesizing quinine, which was the only weapon humans had against malaria for hundreds of years until the advent of artemisinin!

The East Indies have long been the only source of cinchona. When the Japanese took control of the islands during World War II, quinine became a precious wartime resource and was no longer available to the U.S. military.Under this situation, the US military had to invest in developing a new drug for malaria.

Therefore, the artificial quinine Atabrin was born. Although this substance is effective, soldiers will have great physiological reactions.

Therefore, it can be said that the U.S. military lacked almost everything during World War II, but it only lacked quinine!

Quinine therefore became one of the most strictly controlled strategic materials in the United States during the war!

In Manila, let alone quinine, even adipine was severely lacking in quantity.

This forced the US military to use aircraft to spray DDT to curb the spread of malaria.

However, using this method, once humans come into contact with air full of DDT, it will be very harmful to the human body.

As the US military gradually took the initiative on the battlefield, more and more East Indies areas were recovered, and the source of cinchona was restored.

The United States immediately dispatched a large number of doctors from the country and rushed to the front line to extract quinine on the spot and provide it to the front line for use as soon as possible.

The US military also faced this problem after landing in Luzon. The Japanese army was not their biggest enemy, malaria was!
Meng Shaoyuan, who personally participated in the entire battle in the Philippines, finally knew how unrealistic the later film and television dramas, including those filmed by Americans, were.

In these film and television dramas, the enemy of the US military has no other enemy except the ferocious Japanese army.

In fact, in real battles, US military casualties were not many.

Non-combat attrition, like the Japanese army, accounts for the largest proportion.

Fortunately, the US military is not as seriously lacking in medicine as the Japanese army. At least they still have Ah Deping!
Therefore, almost all of these U.S. troops infected with malaria survived.

However, due to the side effects of Adiping, their bodies were inevitably damaged to a certain extent.

Now, Max Maran is here with real quinine!
This is Manila’s savior!
"There is also DDT, and I also brought a lot of it." Masmaran continued: "I suggest that after the Japanese troops come out of the jungle, my people wear professional equipment to disinfect the Japanese troops! After three days of isolation, ensure that malaria is not After the infection spreads on a large scale, it will be up to you to surrender!"

This broke the surrender time previously planned by Meng Shaoyuan.

However, this is also the safest way.

Meng Shaoyuan knew what Maismaran meant by disinfection.

What else is there besides DDT?

Spray DDT directly?
Those who surrendered to the Japanese troops would suffer great physical damage, but at least most of them could survive!
"I agree, Lieutenant Colonel." Meng Shaoyuan no longer hesitated: "I will dispatch two platoons of US troops to assist you, but are the protective equipment you brought enough?"

……

Soon, Meng Shaoyuan knew that his worries were completely unnecessary.

The U.S. military’s logistical support is strong.Here you can see everything at a glance.

Mesmaran brought an entire battalion of protective equipment.

This was called in from a chemical mortar battalion under MacArthur's personal order.

Protective clothing and M2A3 gas masks are all available.

Every protective equipment you can think of is available here.

You know, the budget of the Chemical Warfare Service, a permanent agency of the U.S. Army, in 1943 had exceeded one billion U.S. dollars!

What kind of concept is this!

On the night after Ichikawa walked out of the jungle, he went back to report to Kitazawa Nobuhiro.

I believe that the 39th Engineer Regiment is now coming out of the jungle.

"Colonel, please put on protective clothing and a gas mask." Mesmaran came over and said, "Our disinfection work has been completed."

This was Meng Shaoyuan's request. He must see those Japanese troops as soon as possible.

This is a memorable moment in his life, and he will not let go of such an opportunity.

He must be there, must be!
……

10 o'clock in the morning.

Surrounded by a large number of machine guns and two mortars.

All U.S. troops are wearing protective clothing.

There was finally movement in the jungle.

Then, Japanese troops appeared one after another.

Japanese army?

No, we can’t call them Japanese troops anymore.

They are like... a group of zombies!
Yes, a bunch of zombies, a bunch of walking dead.

They moved forward slowly, their steps stiff, almost mechanically dragging their bodies with their feet.

Meng Shaoyuan also found that his previous request to order the Japanese troops to lay down their weapons was a bit ridiculous.

Now, even if guns were thrust into their hands, they would not have the strength to shoot.

Meng Shaoyuan thought again, had these Japanese soldiers eaten "monkey meat"?

In order to survive, some Japanese soldiers would obtain "monkey meat" to satisfy their hunger. These so-called "monkey meat" were the meat cut from the bodies of their comrades who had killed them. In the later stages of the campaign, their hunting targets had changed from animals to humans. It can no longer be called "human" if we continue to live.

"Stop moving forward!"

A U.S. Army sergeant shouted loudly in Japanese with a bullhorn.

The "zombies" stopped.

Not long after, another group of "zombies" appeared.

Among this group of "zombies", there is only one human:
Ichikawa grass mustard.

He was supporting a "zombie" who seemed to be unable to stand firmly.

That must be Nobuhiro Kitazawa!
According to Ichikawa's previous explanation, Nobuhiro Kitazawa was a very famous geological exploration scientist in Japan, and was later recruited by the Japanese army as a technical major general and transferred to Luzon.

"Colonel, you can start." Mesmaran came over and said.

Meng Shaoyuan nodded.

Disinfection begins!
DDT was sprayed on the "zombies".

The pungent smell finally made these "zombies" react.

But they didn't dare to move.

To survive until now, they have done their best.

They will not give up hope of living at this time!
"None of these people will live long." Mesmaran sighed: "Some people will even die in one minute."

As soon as he finished speaking, a "zombie" fell to the ground with a "pop".

"This is for propaganda purposes." Meng Shaoyuan said coldly: "When the surrender is truly accepted, a large number of reporters will appear, take pictures of this scene, and then start to report on Luzon Island, on any battlefield, and even on It was widely distributed by aircraft in Japan, thereby shaking the determination of the Japanese army and the Japanese people."

No one knows better than him how tenacious the Japanese army's resistance on Luzon Island is despite successive defeats.

They have been deceiving themselves all the time. As long as they persist, the country will definitely not sit idly by.

But they were wrong. Japan had no time to take care of itself and had already given up on these people long ago.

"Kitazawa Nobuhiro must be allowed to live, no matter the cost!" Meng Shaoyuan ordered: "Also, the clothes he is wearing must be disinfected, but not burned. On the day of surrender, let him wear these clothes and surrender to me! "

"Yes, Colonel." Captain William said: "These monkeys are lucky. I really wanted to pull the trigger just now."

"Bear it, Captain." Meng Shaoyuan smiled and said, "It's easy to kill them, but it means more to accept their surrender!"

(End of this chapter)