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Text Chapter 274: They are not worthy of being soldiers

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    Hearing that the civilian casualties during the battle were so huge, Yang Zhen frowned deeply. Considering the Japanese army's consistent style and its ability to ignore even its own people when necessary, in  During the battle, the Chinese in the city will not be evacuated.

    In addition to not treating the Chinese as human beings at all in their eyes, the greatest use of these Chinese to them is that they can be used as human shields at any time, so even if the battle is fierce, they will not  I would think of evacuating the Chinese people in advance.

    Linxi has been an important transportation thoroughfare for the entire northern region of Rehe since ancient times. It is surrounded by the Mongolian League Banner. Now it is the only county seat in the entire pseudo-Xing'anxi Province. It can be said to be the commercial center of the entire Xing'anxi Province. It starts from the Zalut Banner in the north.  It is the commercial distribution center of the entire Mongolian inhabited area in Western Manchuria to the Keshiketeng Banner in the south.

    There are a large number of merchants concentrated here. At its peak, there were thousands of merchants in Linxi County alone, employing tens of thousands of people. Even now, there are hundreds of merchants. Compared to the Mongolians who are accustomed to nomadic herding,  Most of the residents in Linxi County are Han Chinese.

    This is very rare in the entire Western Manchuria area west of Tongliao, which is mainly a Mongolian inhabited area. When the 23rd Division of Hailar retreated, it was able to eliminate all the Mongolian and Han people in the city without threatening it.  The people were slaughtered, and now the 23rd Division would not consider the casualties of the Han people.

    Yang Zhen was mentally prepared for the fact that ordinary people might be accidentally injured in the battle for Linxi County. When Wang Guangyu first entered Linxi, he had warned him that he must pay attention to the Japanese army's use of the Chinese.  The purpose of the human shield is to fight in the wild as much as possible to avoid attacking the county town and causing heavy casualties to the people.

    But no one expected that although it only lasted a few months, with the Kwantung Army's supplements at all costs, despite the heavy losses during the previous retreat from Hailar, twenty-three men had already recovered their vitality.  The division will put up such a tortoise formation that you can do whatever you want, but I just won¡¯t show up.

    Not to mention that the Japanese army, which has always advocated the offensive, in addition to only adopting constant tactical counterattacks to delay time, basically only carried out defensive tactics of passive defense relying on the completed fortifications. In desperation, in order to eliminate the 23rd Division as soon as possible  , if field battle fails, we can only change to strong attack.

    In the battle of Linxi, tens of thousands of civilians suffered casualties, which can be said to have set a record for the largest civilian casualties in a battle since the emergence of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. However, as long as the Japanese army did not take the initiative to abandon Linxi County, the 23rd Division would be  Judging from the defensive strength in Linxi County, this kind of accidental injury is very avoidable.

    If Wang Guangyu hadn't used the tactic of luring snakes out of their holes to annihilate most of Linxi's defenders in the wild, the remaining 20,000 people would probably not have survived. After all, cannonballs and bullets don't have eyes, and people can  He could tell whether the opponent was an enemy or a friend, but he couldn't tell the difference between bullets. Especially when the enemy he faced was an unscrupulous army, it was difficult to avoid accidental injuries.

    In response to Wang Guangyu's self-blaming expression, Yang Zhen shook his head and said: "This situation is tense and special, and I am partly responsible for the time I set for you to die. I can't blame you all, so I can forgive you for this."  Once, but please remember one thing. If something similar happens again, even if the number of people lost is only one-tenth of this time, I will deal with you seriously. "

    "Why are we fighting bloody battles on the battlefield? As a senior commander, you should know that what else do you need us to do when the common people are all gone? So I don't want a similar incident to happen again. We will never  Don¡¯t forget, we are the people¡¯s army.¡±

    "As for now, you should immediately coordinate with Yi Jianping, deploy a group of capable political workers from the Political Department, and immediately go to the masses to comfort the people. In addition, you should increase the intensity of search and rescue. As long as there is still a little hope of rescue, we will  Don¡¯t give up any effort.¡±

    "Under the ruins of the entire county, there must be quite a few survivors who have not been discovered. Although the Japanese army will not build civil defense fortifications for the Chinese, nor will they allow the Chinese to build civil defense fortifications, the common people in Linxi County  I¡¯m sure every family has a cellar for storing vegetables in winter.¡±

    "Although these cellars are not as good as specially built civil defense fortifications, they still have certain protective capabilities. As long as they are not directly hit by artillery fire and the people hiding in them survive, there is still no big problem. You also know the actual situation on the battlefield.  , as long as they are not exposed on the battlefield and are not killed by stray bullets and shell fragments, people can still survive.¡±

    "Although it is a little simpler and the protection is a little worse, it is much better than nothing. However, these cellars have simple exits and are generally located around buildings, especially houses. The distances are relatively close and can easily be  The collapsed building held down the?As long as it is not crushed, there is still hope of rescue. You must organize manpower and clear the ruins as soon as possible to avoid unnecessary casualties caused by long-term lack of oxygen.  "

    In response to Yang Zhen's request, Wang Guangyu nodded and said: "No. 1, don't worry, we have done what you said. Political Commissar Yi is now leading the personnel of the Political Department to appease the rescued people. Logistics  The Ministry of Health has also dispatched a batch of food relief, and the Ministry of Health is also doing its best to treat the injured."

    "At the suggestion of Political Commissar Yi, we adopted a work-for-relief method and organized young laborers to clean up the ruins of the county town and conduct rigorous search and rescue.  bodies, disinfected and buried.¡±

    "Although the temperature on this dam is relatively cool, it is summer after all. Once a large number of corpses rot under the high temperature, it will be really bad to cause a plague. This thing is more terrifying than war, and it is far more lethal than artillery shells.  Even more serious, once a plague occurs, not only the common people but also our soldiers will be difficult to escape. "

    "No. 1, can you ask the rear to airlift a batch of lime and special anti-epidemic medicines to us? There are too many corpses, and the lime in our hands is a strategic material controlled by the Japanese army, so the quantity seized is not large, and there are still  To disinfect the entire county battlefield, there is really a serious shortage of numbers.¡±

    Yang Zhen was very satisfied that Wang Guangyu and the others had already started the follow-up search and rescue work. As for the lime he requested, Yang Zhen shook his head and said: "I can ask the rear to airlift a batch of lime for you, and  We are replenishing a batch of medicines, but do not disinfect the corpses of the Japanese soldiers. Douse them with gasoline or kerosene and burn them directly with a fire. All viruses and plagues will be gone. There is no place to bury wild animals on our Chinese land.  ¡±

    There is a punishment in ancient China called breaking the bones and raising ashes, which is a manifestation of holding the dead accountable. Although it does not appear in any law, it is undoubtedly more unacceptable than digging up graves and whipping corpses. Although Yang Zhen said  These four words were not mentioned here, but they always reminded Wang Guangyu of this word. Moreover, the attitude of No. 1 made him naturally think of what happened in Hailar at the beginning of the year. The 23rd Division was responsible for this.  The massacre that was caused.

    As one of the witnesses of the Hailar Massacre, Wang Guangyu is very aware of the excitement that this massacre in Hailar, which can be said to have happened under the nose of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, brought to No. 1. If it had been another Japanese soldier, No. 1  I'm afraid this decision will not be made, but as the main culprit of the massacre, No. 1's decision to make this decision may have some other flavor here.

    In order to avenge the tens of thousands of people who died in Hylar during the retreat of the 23rd Division, No. 1 had sent out all the aviation forces with all the combat effectiveness on hand and adopted all possible means to attack this Hylar giant.  The culprits of the massacre were hunted down.

    If the 23rd Division, which was almost forced into a desperate situation, had not detoured to Outer Mongolia, I am afraid that my opponent today would have changed. And before I detoured to Linxi this time, No. 1 had once explained the combat mission.  It has been repeatedly emphasized that no matter what the price is, the 23rd Division must be completely surrounded and annihilated in Linxi.

    This is not only the need of the overall battle, but also to avenge the tens of thousands of people in Hailar who died tragically under the knife of the Japanese army. This is a military task, but it is also a political task, and it is a reminder to other Japanese divisions to let them understand  Once the Chinese become vengeful, they will be even more vicious than them.

    Although Wang Guangyu also hated the 23rd Division, he did not agree with Yang Zhen's method of crushing bones and scattering ashes. This is not only a tradition in China for thousands of years, but also in Wang Guangyu's case.  In Guangyu's opinion, this approach is a bit too extreme.

    Since the Japanese soldiers have been killed on the battlefield, the account has been settled. At this time, it is obviously a bit awkward to attack the corpses. Moreover, Wang Guangyu's command does not have that much gasoline to burn so many corpses.  Using precious gasoline to burn these corpses is obviously a waste.

    Seeing that Wang Guangyu was hesitant and wanted to persuade him but hesitated to speak, Yang Zhen stood up and walked to the door of Wang Guangyu's headquarters. He listened to the rumbling sound of artillery not far away and was silent for a long time.  Cai Dao said: "I admit that burning the corpses of these Japanese soldiers did have the idea of ????retaliating for the 23rd Division's massacre in Hylar."

    "I am not that open-minded. Soldiers fight on the battlefield. No matter what the reason is, as long as he died in battle, his body should be respected, because we are all soldiers, and war is our duty. What's more,  It is our mission. From the day we put on the military uniform, we should be prepared to be shrouded in horse leather."

    "But like the 23rd Division, they are like beasts that massacred my unarmed and innocent people"The army, they do not deserve any respect, because what they have done is not even worthy of the word soldier. The opponent of an army is the enemy, not those who are innocent and have not done anything to harm them.  Common people.  "

    "Breaking bones and scattering ashes is the lightest punishment in my opinion. If there was no discipline, I would have killed all the prisoners alive, so that all the Japanese soldiers would know that what they did was absolutely unacceptable.  Without being punished, let them consider whether they can bear the price of our revenge the next time they raise the knife."

    "But we are not beasts, we are soldiers. Therefore, I cannot do such a thing, and strict discipline cannot allow us to do such a thing. Cremate the corpses of Japanese soldiers who died in battle. First, the Japanese army itself has cremation  This is a tradition for the war dead, and since it is summer time, the corpses left unprocessed for a long time can easily lead to plague.¡±

    "The third point, as I said before, is that there is no place to bury these beasts on China's land, and they are not exposed to death in the wilderness, which is already cheap enough for them. Also, our air transport capacity is limited. At present, we can only ensure that you and the support  There is not enough spare force to transport you the necessary military supplies for the battle. "
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