1944 12 17 His boss Gutian ordered 23-year-old Onota to wage guerrilla warfare against Americans on Lubang Island. He said to Onota, "We will retreat, but only temporarily. You go into the mountains and deal with the enemy by burying mines and bombing warehouses. I forbid you to commit suicide or surrender. Three years, four years, five years, I will come back. Only I can cancel this order. "
1On February 28th, 945, American troops landed on Lubang Island, and most Japanese troops either surrendered or died. Onota divided the rest of the people into groups, and entered the jungle with the military commander Daotian, privately and privately, and continued fighting. 1on August 5, 945, under the joint attack of the allied forces, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. The U.S. military sent military envoys, that is, surrendered Japanese soldiers, to the islands to surrender, and at the same time dropped a large number of leaflets. 1945 10, Onota saw leaflets distributed by Americans, which read "14 August, the Japanese surrendered. Hurry down and surrender! " Onota was skeptical at that time. Suddenly I heard gunshots not far away, so I concluded that the war was not over, the leaflets were deceptive, and they were hiding in the depths of the jungle.
Onota's Philippine police and Philippine army are its rivals. Targets include local US military radar stations, warehouses and US-Philippine military and police strongholds. They also attacked residents to get supplies. Onota made a short wave receiver with transistor radio to judge the international situation independently. Observe the activities of American warships and planes around the island, collect intelligence, and wait for the Japanese to counterattack. Onota observed the transfer of American planes to North Korea. Judging this is the result of Japan's counterattack in Manchuria.
Onota and others keep the same mobile strategy, even the locals can't catch it. After staying in the same place for a few days, they will move. During the long rainy season, they camped because no one would go up the mountain in the rainy season. They steal food from local residents, steal chickens, kill buffaloes, catch rabbits and eat lizards. They even use pickled dried bananas as dry food to keep a certain amount of heat. But they can't hunt too much food, because gunfire will reveal his fighting position. When the rainy season comes, they have to be alert to each other and try to stay awake so as not to die of hypothermia while sleeping.
Eramos, former deputy chief executive of Lubang Island, said, "Honorta showed us his hiding place in the forest. Very clean. The slogan "Carry the war to the end" is hung on the wall, and the portrait of the emperor is engraved on the banana leaf. When his men were alive, Honorta often trained them and even organized poetry competitions. " Onota doesn't know about other groups. Erasmus said, "My father fought with Honorta. Later, I became a policeman and fought with guerrillas in Onota. We searched the jungle many times, but found no trace of guerrillas. In order to convince them that the war is over, we distributed newspapers and letters from relatives and friends of Honorta guerrillas. Afterwards, I asked Onota, why didn't you surrender? He said, "Because I believe that letters and newspapers are fabricated. "
Year after year passed. Skyscrapers have been built in Japan, and electronic products made in Japan are sold all over the world. Industrialists in Tokyo have bought big American companies, while Onota and others continue to compete for the emperor on Lubang Island. They drink river water and feed on fruits and roots. Fortunately, he only suffered from tonsillitis once. It often rains cats and dogs in the jungle at night, so they can only protect their rifles with their own bodies. 1950, Private Kimchi couldn't bear the desperate environment and raised his hands to surrender to the local police. The remaining three men encouraged each other to continue fighting. The next year, they found that Jinchi had left many leaflets in the mountains, telling them that the war had ended for a long time and Japan had surrendered for many years. They also found that Jinchi joined the local search team and surrendered in the mountains of the whole island. Onota judged that this was the enemy's strategy, and disagreed with Jinchi's betrayal. He ordered all the people to retreat to deeper mountains to avoid being trapped by the enemy.
1952, letters from their relatives and Japanese newspapers appeared in the depths of the forest, hoping that the three of them would soften their attitude and surrender. However, Onota still thinks this is a strategy to break their will. He stubbornly concluded that he would continue to fight and never surrender.
1953 In June, Corporal Teru Shimada was shot in the thigh by a local fisherman during an operation. Although he recovered later, in May of the following year, Teru Shimada died on the spot in a conflict. Ten days later, new leaflets appeared. The search team shouted "Onota, Otsuka, the war is over" in the mountains with microphones. But they are still indifferent. They feel that the war is still going on, Japan is still at war, and it is a great shame to surrender. They firmly believe that one day Japanese backup forces will capture the whole island and the sun flag will fly in the wind. Even when Onota's own brother came to the island and shouted at him with a microphone, he still believed that only American propagandists trapped him with his brother's voice. Guerrilla warfare made him doubt everything. More importantly, he is convinced that the Japanese are a nation that would rather die than surrender, and he can't let the Japanese imperial army and the people who are still fighting bow. Honorta and the rest of the soldiers dug an underground bunker in the jungle that could not be found from the air and moved in. Molina, the current deputy chief executive of Lubang Island, said with a smile: "They firmly believe that the Japanese will come back. Because that's what the boss in Onota said. Later, Onota wondered whether Tanida had forgotten him. Once he had the idea of suicide, but he immediately gave up because his boss didn't allow him to do so. "
After the end of World War II, they were ordered to hide (claiming that they had not received the evacuation order from their superiors) and lived secretly in the wilderness of foreign forests for 28 years. It is said that Onota was able to survive in the mountains for a long time as a primitive man because he had received relevant training in Nakano Reconnaissance School. It is also reported that there are still traces of the activities of old Japanese soldiers on Bana Island in the South Pacific.
1972 10 10 In October, Honorta laid the last mine in a nearby village. Mines don't explode because of rust. 1972101On 9 October, the Philippine police received a report from local farmers and found two Japanese veterans burning straw on the mountain of Lubang Island. Philippine policeman Zosot and other three people rushed to the scene, and two Japanese soldiers on the mountain immediately fired their guns. In the crossfire, one Japanese soldier was killed and the other escaped into the dense forest. Later, it was discovered that it was Private Otsuka Feng Jingen who was killed by the police. A well-maintained Type 38 rifle was left at his side, and Onota Braun escaped. Nakazuka was shot twice, one of which went through the heart and died on the spot. Twenty-seven years after Japan surrendered, the death of Japanese soldiers attracted the attention of Tokyo. Japan immediately sent people to Myanmar, Malaysia and the Philippines to look for Japanese soldiers hiding in the forest. There are more leaflets in the mountains. In addition to newspapers and magazines, Japan also has news about Otsuka funeral. Onota never bought it.