Chapter 66: The Sound of Guns and Cannons in Ice City
The Earl's apartment was bombarded, and Count Yoshida, who heard the news, was naturally furious. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info to find, be sure to find those who launched the ****! Count Yoshida issued a stern order, and Harbin was once again placed under martial law.
The mortar abandoned on the roof of the third floor was found, but the ordnance experts came to the conclusion that Count Yoshida was dumbfounded, and the mortar turned out to be an 82-mm mortar made in Soviet Russia!
It was the Russians who used this mortar? Could it be that the Soviet and Russian sides supported people and weapons to Ren Laifeng? Count Yoshida had a bit of a headache. A Ren Laifeng gave him a headache, and if he added the Russians, he really didn't know how to end up.
The empire's current strategic focus has shifted to the south, and a large number of elite divisions have been transferred to the Pacific and South China Sea countries. Now it is absolutely impossible to provoke the Soviet and Russian sides! Count Yoshida made up his mind.
Ren Laifeng's armies continued to besiege Harbin, and life in the city became increasingly difficult. The devil's life is sad, so he naturally wants to loot the people in the city. Anyway, the devils have long been used to doing this kind of thing, and they won't have the slightest sense of guilt for robbing food from the people.
In the first few days, it was quite smooth to go to the homes of ordinary people to collect military rations, but as time went by, various accidents became more and more, and the resistance of the Japanese army became more and more fierce. Finally, one day, a man from a family snatched a gun from the Japanese army and used this rifle to kill the Japanese squad leader who was insulting his wife, the situation finally got out of control!
Although the Japanese army decisively killed the two children, three children and a family dog at that time, the news still spread. After that, the Japanese army went to the homes of citizens to collect food and supplies, and almost every ten or six or seven families would meet resistance.
At first, it was the men who fought with kitchen knives and shovels against the Japanese soldiers who illegally entered the house, but later, I don't know where these ordinary people got the guns! When the soldiers of the Japanese army who raised food and baggage entered the homes of citizens, they often encountered one or several armed men.
The Japanese army went to fewer people, and they were often no match for others. There are too many people who go, and the armed soldiers who go to a squad for 100 catties of food are inevitably suspected of wasting resources. So far, the scattered gunfire in Harbin has never stopped.
"Ren Laifeng, it must be a ghost caused by Ren Laifeng!" Count Yoshida slapped the table hard. Just now he was writing a letter to His Majesty the Emperor, but he didn't know that the sudden explosion according to the law made him write a wrong word, and some of the notes were rewritten.
Count Yoshida grabbed the phone and shook the handle, and there was a shout in the microphone: "Moses Moses, pick me up from Changchun Special City, I want to talk to General Umezu on the phone!" ā
In total, the operator knew that this was Count Yoshida and did not dare to delay, so he immediately contacted Changchun, and the phone was quickly connected. From the microphone came the voice of Umezu Mijiro's feminine voice with a hint of enthusiasm: "I'm Umezu Mijiro, who are you?" ā
"Commander Umezu, I'm Yoshida. Harbin has been besieged by the 49th Group Army of the Chongqing Army, and the enemy has infiltrated the city. Although he was furious, Count Yoshida's words were still calm and powerful, a good habit he had cultivated from a young age in the aristocratic education.
"The 49th Group Army of the Chongqing Army? When did Chongqing send a group army into Manchuria? Yoshida-kun, could you be mistaken? Our troops guarding the front line of the Great Wall have not sent me a report. ā
Umezu Mijiro This is deliberately pretending to be confused. Ren Laifeng's unit was renamed the 49th Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, can he not know? Commander Umezu was expressing his dissatisfaction with Count Yoshida through this way of speaking. I'm a good Harbin special city, what have you become like when you go there?
In addition, Umezu Mijiro is also entangled. He knew the plight of the Japanese army in Harbin, so he sent troops to rescue it, it didn't work if there were fewer people, and it was said that there were 20,000 or 30,000 people under Ren Laifeng! When there were only a few thousand people, he sent more than 20,000 troops to win in the past, but he didn't win the battle, how many people do he have to send now? Fifty thousand? Lakh? Or two hundred thousand?
The strength of the Kwantung Army is not as strong as it used to be, and there are too many people sent, in case of a misunderstanding among the Soviet Russians and a large army sent south to the border to participate in the war, will the Kwantung Army be able to withstand it? Will His Majesty the Emperor support him in doing this? On the other hand, he was also worried that if Ren Laifeng was forced to be in a hurry, would that person still suddenly appear in his house like last time?
The result of Umezu Mijiro's comprehensive consideration of these aspects is that I don't care if I am confused and pretending to be confused, you can watch and do anything.
If he pretends to be stunned, there will definitely be no reinforcements. Count Yoshida held on hard in Harbin. On the tenth day, a telegram came from Japan, which was sent to him by then Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.
Prime Minister Tojo asked Count Yoshida in a telegram: What kind of ship did Unit 731 sail on? Why is there a large number of sources of virulent infectious diseases on board? There has been a mass outbreak of plague, cholera, smallpox, leprosy and other virulent infectious diseases in Japan!
Prime Minister Tojo hoped that Count Yoshida would give him an explanation. At the same time, he also hoped that Unit 731 would immediately send its elite back to China to participate in the nationwide plague treatment work. Rescue the Yamato nation from the fall.
Count Yoshida was so shocked that he was sweating profusely when he saw it! There was an unprecedented plague in the Empire, and that thing was not divided into poor nobles, and if someone in his family contracted cholera leprosy, the Earl would not have to die of distress.
Count Yoshida picked up the phone and hung up on Umezu Mijiro, he wanted to ask General Umezu, what should we do with this thing? As soon as the phone was connected, Umezu Mijiro told him that I knew about it, and that the order had been given to 731. All you have to do is try to make it as easy as possible for the specialist doctors who are going to return home so that their fleet can leave port as soon as possible.
Yoshida hung up the phone and sent his troops to the port, and at this moment, the gunfire in the city suddenly became intense, and there were even several explosions in a row in the west direction of the city! Yoshida was in a state of trembling, and his apartment had not been shelled for long. This can't be a mortar for Soviet Russia again, right?
Yoshida guessed correctly, these explosions were really Soviet-made 82-mm mortars! Ren Lai Fengle stood not far away, blocking his ears with his hands.