What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In history, in addition to Onoda Hiroshi, there was a japanese soldier who also supported the Island of Guam in the United States for 28 years, named Shoichi Yokoi.
Shoichi Yokoi and Hiroro Onoda had a personal experience similar, and after the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, Shoichi Yokoi, who was originally a tailor, was forcibly conscripted into the army and sent to Guam.
A tailor, who usually does the work of threading needles and threads, coldly throws himself to the battlefield to fight, can he fight well? Indeed, after the Second Battle of Guam began in 1944, seeing that the Japanese army was about to be unable to hold on, Yokoi Shoichi simply slipped into the jungle of Guam and hid.
Some people may ask: Why didn't he go back to Japan? In fact, Shoichi Yokoi did not want to go back, but did not dare to return.
On the one hand, he was a naked deserter, and the Japanese military department had a decree at that time that "soldiers who surrender and return home will be punished by death, and they will be punished by crimes and their families", so instead of going back to die, it is better to survive here.
On the other hand, the Battle of Guam was too fierce, almost all the defenders on the island of nearly 18,000 people were killed, and the Japanese side had already announced the death of the Japanese army on Guam, including Shoichi Yokoi, if they went back like this, it would be a shame.
In this way, Yokoi Shoichi made up his mind and embarked on a 28-year-long wilderness survival journey.
When he just hid in the forest, the biggest problem facing Yokoi Shoichi was food, after all, Guam is no better than other places, the environment is very harsh, there are very few indigenous people, if you want to grab something, there is no place to grab, there is no way, you can only do it yourself.
Moreover, at that time, Guam was the territory of the Americans, with American troops stationed there, and Yokoi Shoichi could only lie out day and night to avoid the search and arrest of the American army. At the same time, he ate almost everything he could chew, from fungal wild fruits to rats and snakes, and trained himself to become a master hunter.
In these 28 years, he wanted to go out more than once, but because he had severed contact with the outside world, he did not know the news that Japan had already surrendered, and he was afraid that he and his family would be punished, so he could only continue to suffer, hoping that the Japanese army could fight back.
One day in 1972, shoichi Yokoi, 57, clashed with two local hunters while hunting, was caught, and handed over to the local U.S. military. Only then did he know that Japan had already surrendered 28 years ago!
It is hard to imagine what kind of mood he will feel at this moment, he has been fighting for 28 years, and it turned out that it was only in vain. Even so, Shoichi Yokoi never got rid of the fact that he was a deserter, and the first thing he said in an interview after returning to China was: "I'm ashamed, I came back alive." ”
However, the development of the matter was completely unexpected, and instead of being punished for desertion, he became famous for "one man insisting on fighting for 28 years", and became a popular target in the country at that time, and the media was full of propaganda, calling him "the last emperor soldier" (at that time, Onoda Hiroro had not yet returned to Japan).
Shoichi Yokoi's deeds not only earned him fame, but also won him love. Soon after his return to China, a woman named Mihoko married him because she admired his deeds.
However, this Mihoko is still too impulsive, the life after marriage is completely unexpected by her, Yokoi Shoichi has become a savage because she has lived in the jungle for 28 years, Mihoko is completely intolerable, had to divorce. It had only been a year since they were married.
In 1997, Shoichi Yokoi died of illness at the age of 82.