"Some bodies had been sliced up so much that only bones were left," says Tseng. The food shortages got so severe that some soldiers turned to cannibalism, even going so far as to kill local indigenous people for food. Tseng himself refused to eat human flesh, catching snakes and frogs to feed himself.
「有的身體，被割的只剩骨頭，」曾元石表示，當時因為食物嚴重缺乏，有的戰友割人肉來吃，連當地原住民都有被殺來吃的。