Devil's Army

The next morning, Li put all 36 naval prisoners on the first truck. The truck had a door and was locked from the outside.

A platoon of soldiers armed with live ammunition were also arranged to sit in the second truck, with a machine gun mounted on the roof, and they drove towards Tiaobinshan County together.

When they arrived at Diaobeishan Coal Mine, the battalion commander in charge of guarding the coal mine came out to receive the new prisoners.

When a battalion commander saw these naval prisoners with arrogant faces, he decided to kill their arrogance first.

The platoon leader whispered to the battalion commander that the leadership planned to select some people from this batch of prisoners to be naval instructors, and asked the battalion commander to be careful when taking action.

The battalion commander nodded and signed to accept the naval prisoners.

At lunch time, one after another, Japanese soldiers, whose bodies were pitch black except for their white teeth, came up from the mine.

Their torn and black uniforms had not been washed for who knows how long, and they could be vaguely identified as Japanese army uniforms.

When the naval prisoners saw the Japanese soldiers coming out of the mines, all black, they were also shocked at first, but later they looked at them with contempt and disgust, thinking that the army soldiers were spineless and brought shame to the Japanese soldiers.

The army prisoners looked at the navy prisoners with gloating expressions, thinking: Is this the day that will come to you, the navy masters?

At this time, a battalion commander said to the navy prisoners: "Come over for lunch, and then go down to dig coal after lunch!"

But the naval prisoners did not move.

"You take the lead!" said a battalion commander, pointing at the naval lieutenant.

The naval lieutenant hummed, turned his head to the side and stopped talking.

At this time, three sheep that were being raised by the surrounding people broke into the coal mine at an inopportune time.

The battalion commander who had let the sheep go immediately had an idea and ordered his soldiers to catch the three sheep. At the same time, he asked a soldier to find the shepherd and ask him to borrow his sheep for a few days and return them when the time came.

A battalion commander ordered the soldiers to tie up the lieutenant and two second lieutenants among the naval prisoners in a sitting position, then take off their shoes and rub salt water on the soles of their feet. Then they tied the three sheep next to the three Japanese naval prisoners.

At first, the three naval prisoners didn't know what the battalion commander was going to do. Although they were very scared, they pretended to be relaxed and talked and laughed.

But soon they were speechless. The sheep's tongue kept licking the soles of their feet, and they laughed "Hahaha..." The soldier next to them kept rubbing salt water on the soles of their feet.

At this time, the soldier also found the shepherd and explained the situation to him.

The shepherd generously agreed to the request of the soldiers and even offered to give one to the soldiers.

The soldiers of the First Army smiled and thanked the Sheep House for its support, but refused his request to give them sheep.

After lunch, the Japanese prisoners continued to work in the coal mines, while the naval prisoners had no lunch.

A battalion commander told them that the army does not keep useless people. If they don't dig coal, they will be useless and have no food to eat.

The Japanese navy prisoners remained unmoved. The battalion commander no longer cared about them and left them in the miners' shed.

The three Japanese lieutenants continued to have their feet licked by the sheep. The loud laughter of the Japanese could be heard from time to time in the Diaobeishan Coal Mine.

In the evening, the shepherd drove all the other sheep over to support the battalion commander.

In order to prevent the three sheep from being poisoned by salt, a battalion commander ordered the soldiers to replace them with three other sheep to lick the soles of the Japanese soldiers' feet.

At dinner time, the Japanese prisoners in the mine came up one after another to have dinner, but the Japanese naval prisoners still had no food to eat.

The Japanese army prisoners looked coldly at the starving navy prisoners next to them and thought to themselves: "Let's see how long you can hold out. I was this tough before."

The next morning, three soldiers from the Japanese Anti-War Alliance came to do ideological work on the Japanese prisoners.

The Japanese army prisoners all sat there quietly listening. They had received such education many times. Some prisoners agreed with what the three of them said from the bottom of their hearts. Some thought it was none of their business and kept aloof, not wanting to be the first to get involved.

The naval prisoners over there yelled at the three soldiers of the Japanese Anti-War Alliance, saying that they were spineless and had brought shame upon the Imperial Japanese Army, and they refuted them.

A battalion commander ordered his soldiers to capture the two most violent naval prisoners and tie them to pillars.

The other two soldiers stepped forward and each of them cut off the big toes of the left feet of the two naval prisoners with a knife.

The three sheep began to lick the soles of the feet of the three Japanese lieutenants.

For a moment, the Diaobeishan Coal Mine was filled with a strong smell of blood, the Japs' loud laughter, and their painful wails.

The army prisoners watched the whole process without saying a word. This kind of scene has happened among them before. Of course, they have never tried to lick the soles of sheep's feet.

The Japanese lieutenant, who had been licked by the sheep for most of the day, was already laughing weakly and was beginning to collapse mentally. The wailing soldiers next to him accelerated his mental collapse.

A battalion commander announced that today was a day off and that the Japanese army prisoners did not need to go to the coal mine. The Japanese army prisoners began to eat breakfast, while the navy prisoners stared at them with resentful eyes.

"You are very angry, and I hate the look in your eyes." The battalion commander said to the two Japanese soldiers who were still wailing but staring at them with resentment, and then ordered the two soldiers next to him to cut off their right big toes.

The heart-wrenching pain reached the brains of the two naval prisoners, and they couldn't help but wailing loudly again.

The captive naval lieutenant finally broke down and agreed to cooperate.