Section 434 Blood for Blood My Creed
"Boss, do you want to think about it again? After all, the military's approach has gone a little too far, and this has done great damage to China's international image -- "Lu Zhengxiang has been a foreign minister for ten years, and he has always been the demeanor of a personable and honest elder (Xiyuan Temple said with scoff. It's rare to see him speak so violently, especially when he is facing Vice President Wu Chenxuan, the de facto supreme ruler of China.
"Chief Lu, please be cautious." Lieutenant General Yang Shihai's face was pale, and Wei Lihuang and Yin Chengzong behind him were almost blue and jumping, if it weren't for his hands pressing the two of them, the current Lu Zhengxiang was afraid that he would have been in close contact with the fists of the two.
"Chief Lu, I understand your difficulties, but please also understand the principles of our soldiers. In the face of such a cruel beast, we must not be lenient. As the minions of the country, our national defense force is to return blood for blood, tooth for tooth, this matter is a responsibility, and the old man = one shoulder. Duan Zhiquan Duan's words, which were sitting on the general seat, made Lu Zhengxiang feel like a deflated ball, sitting on the chair with his butt in his head, thinking about how to deal with the aftermath. He already knew that there was no chance of reversing it.
"Let's talk about the deployment of the third phase of the round battle, and if you have any opinions from various departments, let's discuss it." Wu Chenxuan didn't seem to hear this argument, but he took the telegram from Duan Qirui's hand asking for instructions on whether to execute Japanese prisoners of war in public, and without hesitation, he took out his pen and signed Wu Chenxuan's three big characters on Duan Zhiquan's name one by one. The generals exchanged glances, and the boss was still facing our Wehrmacht and Air Force. Zhang Nanjiang smiled, but kicked Zou Rong and Chen Tianhua under the table, and the two sighed and couldn't help but close their lips that were about to speak.
Half an hour later, on the front line of the Nakdong River, a military vehicle drove onto a wide river beach, and several sappers quickly erected a doorframe-shaped shelf by the river against the timber from the vehicle. The soldiers of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army on the other side were a little inexplicable, but looking at the several Japanese prisoners of war who were still being held together on the river beach, they were very interested in not firing the artillery, and the other party did not seem to want to cross the river, otherwise there would be no need to take the prisoners of war to set up a frame on the river beach in broad daylight. After the Japanese army, who was confused about what the Wehrmacht on the other side of the strait was doing, they got the order of their superiors: "Strengthen vigilance and do not act rashly," and the Japanese troops all observed the Wehrmacht on the opposite side in the trenches to see which one they were singing.
Ten minutes later, the shelves were erected, and the Wehrmacht brought several Japanese prisoners of war who were tied hand and foot to the bottom of the shelves facing the Japanese positions, but instead of hanging them as the Japanese army thought, they tied their hands firmly and pulled them up with ropes, and hung them on the shelves like hanging salted fish, and a large stone was hanging under each person's feet, and there seemed to be no other action than to be hung there. What they didn't know was that on the Wehrmacht position, a group of journalists from various countries were watching a qiē on the river beach from an observation post. When they were ready, the sappers got into their cars and evacuated the river beach. It was not only the Japanese prisoners of war who were hung on the shelves to show the public, but also reporters from various countries and the officers and soldiers of the Second Division on the other side.
"Look, isn't that Lieutenant Mukai?" A second lieutenant shouted, and soon the Japanese prisoners of war were recognized by the officers and soldiers of the Japanese Second Division on the other side, they were all officers of the Second Division, and their ranks were all lieutenants, but what does this mean?
Chief of Staff Miura was inspecting the front line, and when he heard the news, he rushed to the scene, raised the telescope in his hand, and was surprised for a moment He suddenly understood something, and the cold sweat on his forehead immediately began to seep out, and several staff officers were very surprised by the change in the chief of staff.
"Quick, quick, send someone to grab the beach, grab them back, yes, let the squadron leader of this squadron personally lead the team and grab it back at any cost. Strike immediately, immediately, this is the order. "The incoherent Chief of Staff Miura, but the staff officers below still conveyed the order. A squadron in the chaotic Japanese position was looking ahead, carrying some small boats nailed with door panels, which were usually used for sneak attacks at night, and it was a trick to use this to grab the beach in broad daylight. However, the death order of the chief of staff made the squadron leader and the soldiers of this squadron dare not hesitate at all. But before they reached the first trench, the trumpets sounded on the other side.
"Circular of the Chinese National Defense Forces, Circular of the Chinese National Defense Forces: In view of the brutal torture and murder of the pilots who had surrendered to the Japanese army and disarmed on June 7, this inhumane and tragic atrocity in defiance of the conventions of war, trampling on the conscience of mankind, and being inhumane and unscrupulous provocation to the justice and public knowledge of mankind, the Chinese National Defense Forces will not tolerate or treat such bestial acts in any way. Today, 10 prisoners of war of the second division of the Second Division will be executed in equal proportion as a punishment, and if your army continues to brutalize prisoners of war and slaughter civilians, our army will punish these beasts tenfold and hundredfold. After reading through the notice in Chinese, English, Korean, and Japanese, the hanging Japanese prisoners of war began to twist their bodies frantically, although they knew that the Chinese were not lying and intimidating, but they did not see where the danger came from.
"Ahh Major General Miura, who was setting up artillery mirrors on the other side of the bank to observe, also saw this scene, and his eyepieces could clearly see the machine gun muzzles of the black holes in the three bunkers. "It's late." He closed his eyes in pain, and at this moment, the squadron was still crawling on the rocky beach. "Send a signal, cancel the beach grab, and let the third squadron withdraw immediately." The staff officer next to him had just gone down to give the order, and the machine guns on the opposite bank roared.
"All of them." The dull sound of machine guns shocked the reporters, and there seemed to be two heavy machine guns firing at their feet. "Uh, poof." A reporter who was glad that he had just stood at the observation gate directly gushed out today's lunch, and a sour smell permeated. It was then that they understood why, when they first entered the observation post, the Wehrmacht officers kindly gave everyone a large paper bag. The four Japanese officers on either side of the shelf were considered lucky, licked by the tongue of fire from the machine guns, interrupted by the waist, and were hit by the violent vibration so that the upper half of their bodies were swinging, and they were spilled on the ground. The lower half of his body was dragged by a stone and fell to the ground. After a while, there was no sound. The machine guns stopped for a moment, as if to give the few remaining Japanese POWs a good experience of the good times before they died, so that they could think about life again. The machine guns soon rang out again, and one after another the Japanese lieutenants were interrupted by the stopovers, and after a minute, there were only nine half-cut corpses on the shelf and a Japanese lieutenant who had become frightened and incontinent, dripping and howling. Five minutes, five long minutes later, another tongue of fire from a heavy machine gun swept by, and the Japanese lieutenant lost more than half of his weight like the others, and in the blazing afternoon sun, the ten corpses made the soldiers and reporters on both sides of the strait feel the dragon's devouring anger and the chill that seeped out of their hearts.
The next day, the photograph of the 10 corpses floating in the sunlight in the newspapers at home and abroad became almost the first choice on the front page, comparable to the photograph of a lieutenant of the Japanese Second Division standing under the body of a pilot who had been pierced by a bamboo pole with a saber. Although many people in Europe and the United States expressed extreme indignation at this cruel act, the spokesman of the Chinese National Defense Forces said very bluntly that if similar incidents occurred, the Chinese National Defense Forces could not promise whether they would retaliate in a similar way. Although the Wehrmacht could not save the lives of every captured officer and soldier, it could guarantee that no one would be able to torture and kill the Wehrmacht officers and soldiers and get away with it, and this price was by no means affordable for them.
On the same day, the Samhan branch of the Judges' Corps declared themselves responsible for the attack on the Japanese civilian detention camp in Suwon yesterday. Yesterday morning, they kidnapped 30 soldiers of the Samhan Defense Army, broke through the defense line of the Japanese civilian detention camp, and then killed 300 young and middle-aged men who had participated in the Japanese civilian detachment and had the blood of the Samhan civilians and the Liberation Army on their hands with rifles and Molotov* bottles, and then cut off their heads and took them to the hillside of Dongpyeong-dong, where the Samhan civilians were killed, and carried them with bamboo poles and inserted them in front of the joint burial site of the Samhan civilians to pay respects. Kim Yoon, who organized the incident, surrendered to the garrison of the three Korean defense forces in the evening of the same day, and had his men release the kidnapped three Korean defense forces. The Three Korean Defense Forces were originally adapted from the Three Koreas' Liberation Army, so many reporters privately suspected that this matter might have been done privately by the Three Korean Defense Forces, and Kim Yun died at the hands of the Japanese in such a family, and the unconcerned bachelor was the best person to take the blame. Although this was a groundless suspicion, the result of the later announcement by the Samhan Seoul court that Kim Yoon was sentenced to 10 years in prison for kidnapping, gun snatching, and obstruction of official business seemed to make everyone understand something. The Japanese side is even more bitter, after all, they understand that their own civilians have also killed 100 Samhan and three downed Chinese pilots working in Japan in anger, and once these are revealed, I am afraid that none of the Japanese prisoners of war and Japanese civilian prisoners in Samhan will survive. However, the Japanese government still announced in various localities that in order to exchange the captured Japanese officers and soldiers and civilians as soon as possible, it hoped that the people and military in various localities would hand over the captured pilots or Samhan to the government for handling, and would not abuse lynching. The Emperor was also compelled to issue an edict calling on the Japanese people to uphold the creed of benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faithfulness, and courage, to restrain their own feelings, and to obey the government's call.
Finally, under the coordination of the British ambassadors to China and Japan, the Chinese and Japanese governments reached a tacit agreement to guarantee each other that similar incidents would not occur again, that the personal dignity and safety of prisoners of war would be guaranteed during the conflict, and that they would repatriate prisoners of war and civilians after the war. The British Times called it "the War of the Three Koreas in Northeast Asia in the twentieth century, but it was like a barbaric war that upheld the bloody tenets of the sixteenth century." "That's the end of it.