Fighting continued till the jungle became dark. Bhagwati counted the dead around him. All the time he was so focused on the fight that he forgot to see that he was actually standing on a pile of dead bodies of his fellow soldiers. Resistance form his platoon had become weak as they had almost run out of ammunitions. Although the Japs were reduced to less than half in the intense fight, they were becoming heavy and started closing upon the remaining British soldiers. Escape was almost cut off. At one side where the escape could happen was the lake and other side it was the enemy. It started raining and became pitch dark. Japs were better armed and had flares with them. Occasional flares were followed with intense firing from their side. Bhagwati was lucky to have survived this long. As yet another flare went up, he tried locating his other soldiers. In a moment, he caught the sight of few of his colleagues surrendering and taken as prisoners. The fighting stopped immediately after that. Japanese soldiers kept firing flares as they fanned to locate other living soldiers to capture them and probably torture them to death eventually.

 

Before anyone could make out, Bhagwati fell down and pulled a dead body over himself and faked as dead. Within a few seconds a Jap soldier came in on his side and started thrusting his bayonet at random into the bodies of the dead soldiers. A pile of bodies where Bhagwati hid was seen by many more Japanese soldiers but eventually they ignored them and went away. Bhagwati kept himself buried like this for more than two hours before he shook himself out and stood up to see whatever possible in pitch darkness. He knew that if he had to survive, he will have to move out from the place as fast as possible. Wild animals would come down to this place soon and may even attack him. Moreover the Japs would return to take a stock of their victory and the dead. He might then be caught and would certainly be killed.