Chapter 3349 The Walking Dead

The 39th Engineer Regiment in the jungle fell into despair.

People kept falling down.

At first, they could still be 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 spread.

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 to live after resisting, 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.

When a person falls, the people around him run away from him.

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

Just half a month later, Kitazawa Nobuhiro was horrified to find that there were only 1,200 people left in the 39th Engineer Regiment.

Those 1,400 people died and disappeared!

Kitazawa Nobuhiro fell into complete despair.

…

"Later, we finally discovered the city, which is 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 has made a decision to surrender to the US military. This is our only chance to survive. But we dare not rush out of the jungle for fear of being attacked by you.

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

"How many more of you do you have?" Captain William asked.

"Five hundred and twenty-one."

The people listening could hardly believe it.

A team of 2,600 people lost more than 2,000 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 13,000 men. After the battle, only more than 20 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 and 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.

"Send 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 and was responsible for handling all matters with full authority.

At the same time, MacArthur dispatched a medical unit of thirty people, 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 date of acceptance of 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.

Seal the surrender site to prevent people from getting emotional. Set up machine guns. If any misdeeds are found on the surrendered Japanese troops, they will be strangled immediately. William, you are personally responsible for the security of the site."

"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 that I have accepted the surrender of the Japanese army.

This may be something you will remember for a lifetime.

…

Early in the morning, military doctor Mesmaran and his medical team arrived.

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.

"Everything here 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 a possibility of a large-scale outbreak. And I am sure that among the 500 Japanese troops, many are suffering from malaria, and maybe even all of them have been infected with malaria."

Meng Shaoyuan thought so too.

Despite the measures Kitazawa Nobuhiro took, he had no way to prevent the spread 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 cases of malaria infection, they will immediately carry out the next step, 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.

Here it comes, 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, US troops do 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 is in serious shortage.

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 cause great harm 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.
To be continued...