My own war game

Chapter 235 Exchange of needs

The next morning, when He Chi woke up, he found that Iikuni Kojiro and his two teams of surrendered Japanese soldiers had been exercising for half an hour.

"Push harder! Focus! Faster!" Ikeda, who had become a team leader, kept shouting while holding a bamboo sword that he got from somewhere.

Each of these former Japanese soldiers was holding a wooden stick of about the same length as the Type 38 rifle, and they were practicing bayonet combat with each other. He Chi discovered that these Japanese soldiers were not playing tricks. Except that their weapons had no blades, every stabbing action was based on actual combat. Some people were stabbed in the ribs by the hardwood guns, and they grimaced in pain.

"What are you doing?" He Chi asked Fanguo Kojiro who was supervising on the side.

"To reply to your question, sir! In order to live up to your expectations, I intend to make full use of the characteristics of the Japanese Army. I am having the soldiers practice bayonets and prepare for pig-rush tactics!"

He Chi looked at Xiao Jilang across from him in some surprise. "Pig charge? Didn't you say yesterday that these soldiers are not reliable for attacking?"

"Sir, this is an exercise after all. As long as the soldiers know they won't die, a little pain or injury is not a big problem. Besides..." Kojiro glanced around and lowered his voice and replied, "I have paid double the allowance to the soldiers during this period, and promised extra rewards after the exercise is won. The people below will not have any objections."

“Just give money?”

"Yes, sir, give me the money." Kojiro put his index finger and thumb together to form an "O" shape and gestured quietly.

It has to be said that Iikuni Kojiro did learn a lot from the black-hearted boss in Osaka. He used three methods to manage these surrendered soldiers.

The first one was the trick that He Chi had used on him. He prepared a separate piece of embarrassing material for each soldier, the kind that would make it impossible for them to gain a foothold in Japan if it were leaked.

The second is his brainwashing concept of "saving Japan in a roundabout way". He asked the soldiers to chant slogans repeatedly every day to deepen their impressions, and this has begun to have initial brainwashing effects.

Third, the most tangible money.

Kojiro, who dreams of becoming a wealthy businessman, knows that if he wants to do big business, he has to invest first. Therefore, he is surprisingly generous to the thirty or so "initial employees" who follow him. Every soldier can receive "military pay" that has never been seen in the Japanese army, and the salary is paid in the strongest US dollar.

"Where do you get the money? To support nearly forty people at a time?" This is the most strange thing about He Chi.

Kojiro bowed respectfully and said, "I dare not deceive you, sir. I have already processed part of the goods you gave me before. In addition, we have some small business here..."

"Small business? Here? I remember you have only been on the island for half a month? You have business already?" He Chi gave the order directly.

"Ha! It's just a small insignificant business." Iikuni Kojiro seemed very humble, but there was still a slight tone of complacency in his words.

He Chi was a little curious, so he asked, "Take me to see your business?"

"Hai! Then sir, please bear with me and go to the warehouse to purchase some goods first." Kojiro walked in front and made a gesture to lead the way.

He Chi followed them and soon he found that the two men had come to the camp of the 1st Marine Division. They stopped in front of a house with a sign outside.

"Special classroom for teaching the use of military supplies"

Looking through the window, there were about 20 low-ranking officers at the NCO level sitting in a large barracks, and a lieutenant in logistics uniform was explaining something to them.

Kojiro stuck his head out to take a look, then turned around and said, "It seems that it will take a long time today. Please be patient for a moment, sir." He Chi did not answer because his attention was already attracted by the speech on the stage.

The lieutenant picked up a bunch of "safety balloons" and showed them to the people below.

"This is standard ration, 6 per soldier per month. You must tell the soldiers to wear this when they go out to look for women, instead of taking cans and running into the woods with native women just for the sake of momentary desire, otherwise the bottom will rot."

"As far as I know, there are professional workers at the Australian military base. They have regular medical examinations. Although it is expensive, it is safer."

As if he felt that what he said was not enough, the lieutenant continued to add
"Of course, if training and combat are busy, there are also temporary substitutes here."

After saying that, the lieutenant took out an air pump and started fiddling with some rubber product. Soon, a life-size human-shaped "product" appeared in front of the soldier.

"Each company has three. They must be strictly cleaned and disinfected after use, and each person needs to limit the number of times they can be used, if you don't want everyone below to become weaklings."

The whole room was filled with laughter. The atmosphere among the non-commissioned officers was very relaxed, and there was no sense of a war at all.

Although family planning products were indeed standard rations for the U.S. Army, He Chi still couldn't imagine that these logistics officers were still teaching soldiers the front and back of condoms when landing operations were about to take place in a few weeks.

But what does this have to do with Kojiro's business? He Chi soon got the answer.

When the crowd dispersed, a sergeant quietly went around the back of the house, dragging two rubber men and a box of small balloons.

"You're here early. This is today's supply." The sergeant said to Kojiro.

"Ha! Your things." Kojiro answered in stiff English, and then handed over the wine and cigarettes he had taken out from somewhere.

"Why is there an extra box?" asked the sergeant after counting the number.

"Ha! Rick-san, thank you for your hard work, and I'll give you a discount." Discount is the most concise word Kojiro has ever said.

The sergeant named Rick on the opposite side chuckled and stuffed the extra cigarette into his pocket.

In the next ten minutes, Kojiro took He Chi around and around, and in a hidden corner, he handed the small balloon and the rubber man to a black soldier, and then a stack of US dollars fell into his hands.

"Is this your business?" He Chi asked Kojiro who was counting money.

"Ha! Some people don't have enough cigarettes, some like to have fun, and some like to drink a lot. Xiaojiro is just exchanging what he has and making a little business. It's not worth mentioning. "

He Chi couldn't help but marvel at this guy Kojiro's calculations. He used tobacco, Coca-Cola, alcohol, and even family planning products that were originally rationed by the US military to do a two-way business. With almost no capital, he supported two squad-level combat units.

The two squads of Japanese soldiers had already begun practicing jungle raids, while the newly enlisted American recruits were still learning how to use tools to open canned instant rations.

He Chi is becoming more and more interested in the results of next week's exercise.

(End of this chapter)