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Show 180 the bunker Red led an attack out the side right into the Japanese which partially protected them from the xxxx surrounding fire because there they were in the middle of all the Japs, some of whom Red finally got to see face to face, in fact mostly they looked scared or mad, and not really very yellow, actually more brown. Everybody was on top of everybody right in the middle of the little gap between the jungle and the camp so ikx soon there wasn't even much gunfire, mostly bayonet fighting that might have reminded Red of The Illiad had it happened after the Year of Two Hundred Books and you could picture the Greeks fighting with bayonets in their underwear. In fact the whole business got pretty impersonal. Red would have killed anything that got between him and the woods, and he did. A lot of kxxxxK bodies got left in that little gap and most of them weren't Japanese. Still some of the Marines got through and headed for the back lines, but xxx when they got out of the Japanese pursuit Red stopped them and told them that as many as wanted could keep going but he thought it was their obligation to go back fexxk and harrass the Japanese xxixixxXaxMaocxxaxxaaxidtxaxgxxixa and keep them in disarray until the Marines could organize a counter-offensive. Of course nobody had any clothes on so nobody knew anybody's rank and everybody figured Red was in charge, which was okay with Red, he always figured he should have been charge anyway. So only a couple guys went back, because somebody had to, and the rest followed Red back toward the camp where already the Zeros had stopped strafing and there was only the occasional spatter of ax. automatic gunfire cleaning up the last few Marines who stayed to die in their underwear. But Red felt pretty good. He wasn't dead. And he'd been figuring pretty much from the start that he'd end up dead. Now he'd just as well have it happen facing the Japs as running from them. And he didn't want his sweat to dry. So they headed back. Red figured he'd spread the Marines out in as i±x thin as line as possible along the edge of the jungle and start pecking away at the Japs in the camp. It would keep them from moving the supplies or attacking the front lines from behind. They wouldn't think that the few Marines who got away would turn around and attack, so they'd have to figure they were under attack from the vanguard of the counter-offensive, Also thya*^ ^ mn]rB* caught on the defensive in a stable position, |