"At this point, what else can we say? As warriors of the Great Sun Empire, have we been prepared to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor?"

Yoshiki Saito smiled miserably, and then said with infinite loneliness and shame, "It's just a pity that we finally failed His Majesty's high hopes, and we still did not defend Saipan Island. The Japanese Empire's local area will no longer be peaceful!"

"Yes, I am ashamed of His Majesty's high hopes and the people of the Great Sun Empire!"

"Alas! The great dream of the Yamato nation for thousands of years cannot be realized in our hands. It is the greatest regret in life!"

Saito Yoshiji's words resonated with the crowd, and everyone felt more and more uncomfortable. To this extent, death was no longer terrible for them, but such a frustrated way of death made them feel extremely uncomfortable.

"You guys, don't blame yourself too much. It's really bad luck and is definitely not a crime of war!"

Natsuichi Nagamoto comforted himself, and then said in a deep voice, "Since everyone has nothing to say, then make preparations. Let's do our best to His Majesty the Emperor tonight!"

After saying that, Tadaichi Nagamoto walked to his position silently, knelt down in the direction of Japan, and then took out paper and pen to write the last suicide note, intending to write the decisive telegram sent to the base camp.

At the same time, Saito Yoshiji and Iki Keiji were all the same, and began to write suicide notes, sort out relics, and prepare for suicide by separating the stomach.

Some people even took off their military uniforms, held the little Tai sword that committed suicide by snatching the abdomen with both hands, and pointed it at the abdomen, and made loyalty to His Majesty the Emperor one step ahead.

At this time, Nagashiyama and others had reached a desperate situation of running out of ammunition and food. On the surface, the only thing in front of them was suicide, death in battle and surrender.

But in fact, they only have one way to go, that is to commit suicide by separatism.

There is no choice but to that.

Because only in this way can they completely avoid the possibility of being seriously injured while following the troops but not being able to die, thus being captured by the US military.

For Japanese soldiers, it is absolutely unacceptable for soldiers, especially officers, to be captured.

For example, in the Battle of Nomenkan, several Japanese officers were captured.

After the Soviet army released them, the Kwantung Army prepared a table of wine and food, and asked them to commit suicide after eating.

If the officers disobey, the Kwantung Army will kill them directly and declare that they committed suicide.

These lieutenant-level officers had no choice but to commit suicide one after another.

Even if the lieutenant-level officers are like this, how can we talk about these generals?

Later, in 1941, the "battle formation training" issued by General Hideki Tojo, the Japanese Army Province, became a death talisman for Japanese soldiers.

The battle formation training is divided into three parts, roughly all of which are the words "Imperial Kingdom, Imperial Army, unity, cooperation, attack, and victory". Articles 7 and 8 of the second part: the view of life and death and cherishing reputation. It clearly warns the Japanese soldiers: they cannot be captured, otherwise they will be humiliated by themselves and their families, and they would rather commit suicide!

When Japanese Navy General Tadichi Nagamoto committed suicide by committing suicide in Saipan, he left a suicide note, which read: "The battle formation preaches that you cannot accept the insult of being captured and imprisoned while alive. It is necessary to move forward bravely with a loyal, filial and sincere heart, and live even if you die."

In more battles, the "battle formation training" directly led to a large number of soldiers who were obviously exhausted from energy and food and were completely hungry, and completely lost their combat effectiveness. They did not choose to surrender, starve to death, or commit suicide.

It can be said that countless Japanese soldiers were forced to death by "The Battle Formation Training".

In fact, not only the Japanese who were poisoned by militarism and the Bushido spirit would fight to the end when they were out of ammunition and food. The same is true for the Chinese nation.

Looking at various wars in human history, some people have concluded this conclusion: when the war situation is also desperate for wars with exhausted ammunition and food, Easterners often fight to the end, while Westerners often surrender.

The reason is entirely due to the cultural and value differences formed over thousands of years in the East and the West.

Since ancient times, Orientals have had an extremely strong sense of "nationality", and they regard the death to the battlefield as great glory.

For thousands of years, Oriental people have always adhered to the life values ​​of 'rather than to break up jade', "leaving the loyalty to shine in history", and "if you fail, you will be virtuous."

Therefore, the Eastern people looked down on the soldiers who kneeled down and surrendered at all. When they encountered a situation where they were out of ammunition and food in the war, they would often burn their boats and look at them as if they were home.

On the other hand, those soldiers who escaped and surrendered on the spot rarely heard of preferential treatment. Even if these people are lucky enough to seek temporary peace, they will end up being infamous for thousands of years.

Therefore, "surrender" is not a good choice for most Easterners.

In ancient West, most countries implemented a mercenary system. These soldiers who spent money to hire war would not really do their best from beginning to end. Since winning or losing has nothing to do, surrender has become commonplace.

In modern times, Western ideas of human rights supremacy dominated the mainstream, promoting "people are the core" and emphasizing "life first", "individual", and "human nature".

The influence of thousands of years of culture has made the attitudes of Eastern and Western countries towards surrender similar.

Just as General Eisenhower formulated the Code of Conduct for U.S. Military Military Personnel, there are the following provisions:

First, for the commander, as long as the subordinates think there is still reason to resist the enemy, and as long as the troops can still fight and escape, they must not order surrender;

Second, for soldiers, surrender can only be considered if they use up all reasonable resistance actions and continue to resist without any choice but to die.

Therefore, if we become serious, it is not that the Westerners' fighting will be worse than that of the Easterners. For example, during World War I and World War II, Western countries fought to the end and shed their last drop of blood.

Just as Tadaichi Nagamoto and others committed suicide collectively, more than 5,000 Japanese troops had already ambushed in front of the US military positions using the night to prepare for the final charge the next morning.

The direction of attack chosen by these Japanese troops was the defensive position of the 27th Division of the US Army.

In the past nearly a month of bloody battles, the Japanese army naturally saw that compared with the US Marine Corps, the US Army is much inferior in terms of combat effectiveness and fighting will.

Although they were determined to make a desperate wave and launch a final long live charge, they did not go crazy and naturally understood that persimmons had to pick up soft ones.

In fact, the final attack plan formulated by Yoshiji Saito was not just a gift to someone, and he really chose the right direction of the attack.

Just when more than 5,000 Japanese troops lurked in front of the 27th Division of the US Army while the night was dark, the 27th Division of the US Army was not vigilant enough.

Since the Japanese counterattack was severely damaged, the Japanese army, which suffered heavy casualties and had lost all technical equipment, had long been unable to launch a large-scale counterattack operation and could only adopt passive defense, which was broken little by little by little by little by the US offensive forces.

In the view of the 27th Division, the remaining Japanese troops could not defend their defenses, and it was impossible for them to take the initiative to attack on a large scale.

To take a step back, even if they are not afraid of death, they really want to counterattack, with the strong firepower of the US military, such a frontal attack is completely equivalent to a death sentence and is simply vulnerable.

Due to underestimating the enemy and taking chances, the three battalions in the forefront of the 27th Division of the US Army did not seriously repair the defensive positions.

In their defensive positions, not only are there fire barriers hundreds of meters wide, but also foxgloves and trench fortifications are built in sloppy manner.

It is also true that the 27th Division of the US Army paid an extremely heavy casualty price.
Chapter completed!