Chapter 1111 Epidemic prevention
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Liu Yimin's original plan was to attract the Japanese 7th Division and the 36th Division to come to the aid after destroying the 32nd Division and the 1st Tank Division of the Japanese Army to expand the results of the battle.
The performance of the Japanese army surprised Liu Yimin, and Tada Jun not only ordered the independent mixed 18th Brigade in the eastern section of Jiaoji Road to retreat urgently overnight to join the 7th Division, and all of them retreated to the first line of defense in Qingdao, but even the 36th Division and the puppet army units in Zhoucun fled to Zhangqiu, joined up with the 12th Division, and formed a heavy army group. In this way, there is no opportunity to continue to expand the results of the war.
The periphery of Qingdao is mountainous, Zhangqiu is also a shallow hilly area, and the Japanese puppet army has already repaired fortifications to rely on, and a forced attack is bound to fight for positions one by one.
Liu Yimin believed that in the absence of the first war to recover Shandong, there was no need to fight this kind of battle for positions that would be filled with human lives. However, in order to oppress the Japanese army and connect the base area in central and southern Shandong with Qinghe, Jiaolai, and Jiaodong, Liu Yimin still waved his main force to pounce on the Japanese Seventh Division and the 18th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Army, which fled to Qingdao, and put on a posture of encircling and annihilating the enemy in Qingdao and capturing Qingdao. After ordering Liu Jianli, Zhang Hongtao, and Chen Shiqu to complete the combat mission of breaking the Jinpu Road in the north of the Yellow River, they should fight continuously, oppress the Japanese 41st Division, and force the 37th, 40th, and 11th Divisions transferred to Shanxi to send troops back for reinforcements, so as to reduce the pressure on the Shanxi battlefield. After the Japanese army returned to help, it was necessary to contain the enemy with one section, concentrate the main force of three columns in the southwest of Lu, and find and annihilate the Japanese troops stationed in the southwest of Luxi to form the seventh brigade and regiment, and at least drive them out of the southwest of Lu and compress them to Longhai Road.
As for the fierce attack launched by the Japanese puppet army on southeast and south Lu, Liu Yimin didn't care at all, and instructed Wang Nanhu, commander of the 12th Column in southeast Lu, Hong Chaoyuan, commander of the 5th Column in Lunan, and Wang Jian'an, commander of the 9th Column in Taiyi Mountain, to open the road. The walls are clear, and the little devils are striding towards the base. As a result, the little devil tossed for two days, and then obediently retreated to the starting position.
The high-pressure posture of the Eighth Route Army saw results, and the 11th Division, 37th Division, and 40th Division of the Japanese Army, which reinforced the Shanxi battlefield, quickly transferred troops back to Deshi Road and Jinpu Road, and the pressure on our army on the Shanxi battlefield was suddenly reduced. The Japanese puppet army in Jiaodong retreated to Yantai and Weihai. Hold on with the help of naval forces.
Liu Yimin immediately ordered Liu Jianli, Chen Shiqu, and Zhang Hongtao to lead the main forces of the 2nd, 6th, and 10th columns to end the front-line combat operations on the Jinpu Road in northwest Shandong and move south to southwest Shandong. As a result, the Japanese puppet army in southwest Lu, which smelled the news, ran faster than rabbits, and without waiting for the advance of the Eighth Route Army to arrive in the southwest of Lu, they retreated to Longhai Road to hold on.
So far. The Ludong War came to an end. The Central Committee and the General Headquarters immediately ordered the main forces of Liu and Luo to go to concealment and recuperate, and continue to complete the task of expanding and reorganizing the army, and the troops of the Luzhong Military Region and the Qinghe Military Region went west to monitor the movements of the Japanese puppet army on the front line of Zhangqiu. The troops of the Jiaolai Military Region went east to monitor the movements of the Japanese puppet army in Qingdao.
In one fell swoop, our army annihilated the Japanese 32nd Division, the 1st Chariot Division, the garrison of the Jiaoji Road Garrison from Changle to Gaomi and the puppet Ludong Pingjian, killed the commander of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army, Lieutenant General Iide Tetsuzo, the commander of the 1st Chariot Division, Lieutenant General Hoshino Toshimoto, and killed more than 30,000 Japanese troops, and eliminated more than 18,000 puppet troops of the puppet Ludong and Pingjian **Commander Li Wenli. In addition to the elimination of the 17th Brigade, the 4th Cavalry Brigade, the Jinan Garrison and the 29th Division of the Japanese Army in the early stage of the Ludong War, our army in Shandong recently attacked and eliminated three divisions and three brigade-level units of the Japanese army, and the results were fruitful and surpassed all previous wars.
At this time, the relationship between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party had become tense again. The reason was that after the main force of the Japanese army swept northern Jiangsu, it was transferred to the Shandong battlefield by the main force of our army in Shandong, and the problem of the armies of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party vying to restore the base area after the counter-sweep once again appeared in northern Jiangsu. A detachment of the New Fourth Army in Jiangnan also crossed the river and headed north. There was a battle with Chen Taiyun's troops with the background of the Gui family under Han Fuqu, and as a result, he won more with less and defeated Chen Taiyun. Occupied Jiangyan and Huangqiao. The Battle of Huangqiao was on the verge of breaking out.
Because of this reason, and the fact that the Military Commission had already abolished the number of instructors and removed Liu Yimin from his post as lieutenant general and division commander, the Nationalist Government and the Military Commission turned a deaf ear to the results of the Ludong Battle and did not even send a congratulatory telegram.
Against this difficult political background, after the good news of the Ludong War spread, the people in the rear area still responded enthusiastically, many newspapers and radio stations launched propaganda, and congratulatory telegrams from some political groups flew like snowflakes.
In particular, Huang Wei, a news soldier of the Eighth Route Army and a female war correspondent of Wen Wei Po stationed on the front line in Shandong, wrote a series of articles on the "Field Newsletter," which reported in detail the process of our army's victory in Ludong in Shandong in a journalistic documentary way.
Newspapers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Southeast Asian countries are all reprinting Huang Wei's news reports one after another.
At this time, the arrogant Japanese Fifth Division's Konoshi Independent Mixed Brigade could not wait for the Japanese government and the French Vichy government to negotiate the peaceful entry of Japanese troops into Vietnam, and on the 23rd, they could not wait to attack Dong Deng in northern Vietnam from the two flanks of Zhennanguan, invaded northern Vietnam, and started a fight with the French army in Vietnam.
As soon as the Japanese army entered northern Vietnam, the United States and Britain felt the pressure and could not sit still, and began to prepare to convene a military conference to study how to deal with the possible Japanese attack on the American and British colonies. At this time, Huang Wei's press release was particularly interesting to the Yankees and British, and it was not only reprinted in the newspapers, but also carefully studied by the military.
Liu Yimin can't take care of all this, he is already very busy now. Because the Japanese machine put a large amount of flour and wheat grains carrying fleas carrying plague bacillus between Zhoucun and Qingdao, the plague was triggered.
Chen Tong, director of the field hospital, who is now a senior medical expert of our army, discovered the plague from the sick number sent by the army, and immediately made a report to Liu Yimin, requesting that emergency measures be taken to investigate the scope of the epidemic area and organize epidemic prevention.
Liu Yimin is a traverser, and knows that the Japanese army at this time in Quzhou, Ningbo and other places in Zhejiang Province at this time to put wheat grains and flour carrying plague bacillus pestis, causing plague, and the epidemic area was burned down until after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Moreover, Liu Yimin also knew that in history, the Japanese army carried out the cholera war in Luxi, resulting in 200,000 casualties in the Luxi area.
After receiving Chen Tong's report, Liu Yimin personally went to the field hospital to check on the soldiers infected with the plague, and saw that it was indeed chills, high fever, swollen and painful lymph nodes, and weakness, which were exactly the same as the symptoms mentioned in the military epidemic prevention theory of later generations, so he ordered the field hospitals of all columns to cooperate with the field hospitals of the military region to conduct investigations.
As a result of this investigation, it was found that there had been dozens of deaths and thousands of cases of infection in various units.
Liu Yimin immediately realized that the Japanese army was poor in donkey skills, and after the defeat on the battlefield, he wanted to use bacteriological warfare, a criminal means of exterminating human nature, to defeat and eliminate our army. Thinking that the Japanese army had already established a bacteriological warfare unit under the cover of the waterproof supply department at this time, Liu Yimin knew that the plague was only a kind of bacteriological warfare of the Japanese army, because the jumping sao carrying the plague bacillus could be mixed with flour and wheat and dropped by airplane, while the cholera bacillus and typhoid bacillus produced by Unit 731 of the Japanese army were mainly transmitted by polluted water sources and could not be dropped by airplane. In the future, I am afraid that the little devils will often use bacteriological warfare against our army.
Before the crossing, when Liu Yimin was a graduate student at the National Defense University, he had studied military epidemic prevention, and he was very familiar with how to deal with bacteriological warfare such as plague, cholera, anthrax, and typhoid. For example, the live plague vaccine and the special drug streptomycin for the treatment of plague are still in the laboratory research stage, and they have not been developed at all, and if there is really a large-scale plague, it will be a disaster, and our army will suffer heavy losses without the help of small devils.
Liu Yimin remembered that during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, the US military also carried out bacteriological warfare against the volunteers, and because our army actively organized epidemic prevention and extensive vaccination, the US military's germ warfare did not achieve the expected goal. However, after all, the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea took place after the founding of New China, and the live plague vaccine and streptomycin were also successfully developed, so the US military's bacteriological warfare did not succeed. There are no conditions for that time.
Liu Yimin immediately ordered the establishment of an epidemic prevention center of the Shandong Military Region with Chen Tong, director of the field hospital, as director, and Ni Hua, vice president, as deputy director, to direct the whole army and all base areas to carry out a sanitation and epidemic prevention campaign, to exterminate rats, fleas, and flies on a large scale in the Shandong base area, to isolate and treat infected patients, and to carry out disinfection.
Ni Hua is far away in Chongqing, not in the base area, Liu Yimin is looking forward to his lover coming back as soon as possible, and he still appointed Ni Hua as the deputy director of the epidemic prevention center in the order.
Fortunately, the pharmaceutical factory in the logistics base resumed production and was able to produce penicillin normally, although penicillin is not a special drug for the plague, not as good as streptomycin, but it is better than nothing, at least it can control the disease and relieve the symptoms. As long as the patients are found, they can be treated in the field hospitals of the military region and in the hospitals of the columns.
In addition to the army's field hospitals, private hospitals and traditional Chinese medicine have all been engaged in a large-scale anti-epidemic campaign.
After the arrangement was made, Liu Yimin called Li Lingfeng, Wang Tongsheng, and Wang Laohu, and ordered them to organize an elite detachment to enter Beiping and destroy the "Beiping A Unit 1855" of the Japanese North China Front, and sent a report to Zhao Yonggang, who was far away in the northeast, ordering him to destroy the Japanese Army's Unit 731 and the Kwantung Army's Unit 100 within a time limit.
plunged headlong into the pharmaceutical factory, opened the golden finger, and went to develop streptomycin and vaccines.
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