Chapter 623-3 Rats, Rats Everywhere
Song Laohu's troops have expanded to 3,000 people, the real special combat team is only a little more than 1,000, and the rest are logistics personnel and ordinary combat units. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
His troops had been active in the area since before the arrival of the large force.
Now, because of his cooperation with the Russian army many times, he can also speak more than a dozen words of Russian, and even curse people in Russian. Fighting behind enemy lines, he made a name for himself.
The Soviets in Siberia knew that there was a Soviet-linked force operating in this area.
This unit has Chinese troops with advanced equipment. They travel in the winter by snowmobile, in the spring, summer and autumn on the water there is jet ski traffic, in the sky they have light aircraft to transport people.
This kind of plane is very strange, it uses the engine of a three-wheeled motorcycle, and after a propeller behind the butt turns, the plane goes forward, and when the speed is high, the big propeller overhead rotates, and the plane takes off. The plane, although it could only seat one person, was convenient to travel between Soviet and Chinese troops across the blockade line. This is how important documents were sent several times.
It's a elusive force. The Japanese did not dare to dispatch small troops on their own territory, because after several small units of a dozen people, the troops were missing, and the corpses would be neatly placed on the side of the road.
If the Japanese army carefully searched the hillside near their residence, they would find that the terrain had changed slightly, and there were many loose earth and stones under the fallen leaves, in fact, these earth and stones were thrown by the Song Tiger troops when they were digging tunnels.
Song Laohu's mission this time was to explain to the Soviet side the battle plan of the Northeast Coalition Army. Because the telegram could not transmit the map, it was difficult to explain clearly, so this time, Song Laohu personally led a few people to the Soviet position more than ten kilometers west of the Japanese position, with a battle plan. They staggered to the back of a hill in an American SUV. Song Laohu shouted, "I'm here." ā
A few people jumped out of the roadside and laughed: "Tiger, tiger." What kind of new car is this? ā
Song Laohu said in Russian: "You, the car, the road." Urgent. ā
A well-mannered soldier next to him said in Russian: "You get in the car and lead the way." The captain has an urgent matter to see your general. ā
After the mountains, the road widens, and there are green wheat fields along the way, and the traces of the garrison can be clearly seen in the occasional village. Soon, the car was in a town. In front of a red second floor in the center of town, the car stopped.
The people standing guard had already recognized them and invited them in. When he arrived at the door of the building, he was greeted by a man who was not very tall, with a thick neck and a round head, and said, "Tiger." I've been waiting for you for a long time. Your Commander Lu, Commander Zhao both said you were coming. ā
This person is none other than Zhukov.
Song Laohu said: "General, our Commander Lu greets you." How have you been feeling lately? ā
Zhukov said: "It's been good lately. I want to wipe out the Japanese army, and I won't rest until this thing is done. ā
Soon, Zhukov began to study the operational plans of the Northeast coalition forces in the war room. After pondering for a long time, Zhukov said: "Your battle plan does not want to destroy the Japanese army at all, but to let them go." We can't agree to this, we want to wipe out these hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, so that we can concentrate on fighting Germany on the Western Front. ā
Song Laohu said: "We believe that although there are many Japanese troops, they are not the main problem at all. The land is no better than the sea, and the Japanese army is no longer capable of supplying. Just drive them away from the railway line, and our goal will be achieved. All that remains is to destroy them during the long march of the Japanese army. ā
Zhukov said: "You say that the annihilation of this Japanese army is not the main problem, the key to the problem is to defeat the German army in the west, and even our army does not need to attack the Japanese army at all?" ā
Song Laohu said: "Yes." Our two families have made it impossible for them to get food supplies. They pinned their only hope on the victory of the German army. As long as the German army is defeated, not only will the confidence of the Soviet people be strengthened, but the confidence of the Japanese army will be hit. ā
Zhukov said: "I want to discuss it directly with Commander Lu." ā
Song Laohu said: "This is a letter written to you by Commander Lu. ā
The letter was written in Chinese, and there was a translation. Zhukov read it several times, picked up the battle plan again, went to the map and studied it repeatedly, and after a while, said: "Maybe you can try it." ā
Song Laohu said: "Commander Lu said that this German army is deep alone, and the distance between it and the puppet army is very far, which is very dangerous. It is very easy for you to destroy them. He also asked me to tell you a story about a mouse. ā
What the? The story of the rat?
It was at the turn of the spring and summer of 1910, and there was an epidemic in Siberia, the plague. The plague occurred in Sletenks in Siberia on the Russian border and in the city of Niklaevsk in the lower reaches of the Russian Heilongjiang River, but Siberia was sparsely populated and scattered, and the epidemic did not expand due to the strict control of the Russian side.
Out of its own protection, Russia deported a large number of Chinese laborers suspected of being infected to China. The laborers carried the virus along the railroad all the way south. This is a bad thing done by the evil Tsarist Russia.
Soon, the outbreak first broke out in Manchuria, on the border between China and Russia, when seven Chinese lumberjacks died violently in a shack in Russia's Great Urals half a month ago.
The Russians were so shocked that they not only burned the shacks and the workers' clothes and luggage, but also drove the rest of the workers back to China.
Two of the Chinese loggers from Russia's Great Urals returned to Manchuria, where a plague that lasted more than six months and swept half of China and devoured more than 60,000 lives.
This day is September 23 of the second year of Xuantong, October 25, 1910 in the Western calendar. It is recognized as the origin of the Great Plague in Northeast China.
What does this story illustrate?
This story illustrates that if we convince the Japanese that the plague has broken out, they will panic. Their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. We can easily defeat them.
So how can you do that?
Then the power of the people is needed. Aren't there tens of thousands of Soviet people behind you?
You can give it a try.
In the end, Song Laohu breathed a sigh of relief: he finally persuaded Zhukov. Zhukov was a military strategist and a politician. He was politically intelligent, but because of his origins and many years of habit, he was not accustomed to guerrilla warfare, nor to the methods that these cunning peasants could come up with. If he had the slightest idea, he wouldn't agree to give it a try.
July 7, 1943. Soviet Siberia.
The reconnaissance unit of the Japanese army suddenly found that all the Soviet troops on the western side had retreated, and there were a large number of anti-epidemic personnel among the retreating personnel, spraying potions and powders in the camp. After the withdrawal of the Soviet troops, the reconnaissance unit entered the Soviet camp, looked carefully, looked at it for a while, and suddenly realized that there seemed to be a plague here, and all the phenomena indicated that there was a plague here.
Everyone immediately evacuated and arrived at the second abandoned barracks, and the situation was the same as the first, and the scouts did not dare to enter.
The entire Soviet defensive position was empty, and it was indescribably terrifying and weird.
The reconnaissance unit immediately returned to the barracks and reported the situation. Command immediately became nervous and immediately asked the doctor to disinfect them.
In the past two days, there have suddenly been more rats in the barracks.
That night, rumors spread that there was a plague in the area.
The officers immediately refuted the rumors, saying that there was no plague at all.
After two days, there were more rats in the camp, and every morning some rats were seen, some dead and some alive.
The forward positions of the Northeast Coalition Army on the east side also began to catch fire, burning things incessantly. Smoke and dust billowed from the Soviet positions on the western flank. Although the reconnaissance unit did not dare to conduct in-depth investigations, from a distance, there were also many medical personnel who were preventing the epidemic and disinfecting.
There were more rumors in the Japanese barracks.
In the past few days, a tense atmosphere has been permeating the barracks of the Japanese army, and in order to prevent the occurrence of the plague, the military doctors have sprayed powder everywhere and demanded the burning of dead rats.
Strangely, for some reason, there are more and more rats in the barracks, in the thousands.
If the Japanese still had air superiority, they would have seen the Soviets in a range of several hundred kilometers roaming the mountains to catch mice, quickly transporting them in cages to the front line, and then being released by the soldiers of the special operations team along the tunnels to the vicinity of the Japanese positions at night.
The Japanese positions were scorched on all sides, and the only paradise was the areas occupied by the Japanese. Although the rats are not disciplined, it is an indisputable fact that the number of rats in the barracks has increased.
After only a dozen days, all the soldiers of the Japanese army were already convinced that there was a large-scale plague or some other plague in the area.
Hurrying the rats to the Japanese barracks is a thankless job. The few rats that I had worked so hard to catch, as long as I let them out, I don't know where they have gone. It's harder to let go than to ascend to the sky.
In the first few days, the Soviet army and the Northeast coalition army could only use people to build momentum and make anti-epidemic actions. The rats that were released had no effect at all. Later, wildfires drove the rats out. That was a time when a group of fighters finally reached the front line of the Japanese army and released a large group of rats, which ran wild, most of them burrowed into the grass.
A soldier smoked cigarettes on weekdays, and burned them with fire. It worked, and a lot of rats escaped. Later, the massive wildfire did drive some rats to the Japanese barracks. However, in relation to the rats caught, into the Japanese army
The barracks are still in the minority.
Just these few rats made the Japanese army believe that there was a plague.