Chapter 165: Own Territory
What are you fighting in the army for? If nine out of ten soldiers say that they are patriotic, it is absolutely nonsense, ordinary people joining the army are nothing more than eating with a mouth, who doesn't have many children now? Originally, it was to watch the sky and eat, coupled with the war, and the harvest was even less pitiful, and the only way to survive was to go to the city to do some casual work for people, or to join the army.
But how can casual workers be so easy? Not to mention being tired and half dead every day, it's good to be able to eat enough, as for the salary, it is just a symbolic surname, at the beginning of the war, there were so many refugees in the country, if you don't do it, someone will naturally do it.
When they met Su Dao, the commander, the soldiers would only shout in their hearts, this is really happy. Although the food in the army is a big pot of rice, they do not think that the quality of the food is worse than that of the landlord's family, and in the past, they could be happy for a few days if they could eat a few full meals a year at home, but now? Except when you are fighting on the battlefield, there are very few times when you don't have enough to eat.
Pork, chicken, beef and other food, they can't eat anymore, they will eat an average of one meal every two days, although each person only has one or two pieces of meat, but you can't deny that this is really too happy compared to other troops.
And the new military salary system of the 99th Army made these soldiers only hate themselves for contributing too little, otherwise they would kill more devils, and when the time comes, the military rank will be raised casually, and the monthly military salary will be able to eat meat at home every day. Now a hundred fiat currency can buy a big cow and a calf, according to the military salary of a private, a little more than three months can have a hundred yuan of military salary, a big cow and a calf, enough for their family to eat for a few months.
The effect of the implementation of the new military salary system completely exceeded the expectations of Su Dao and Wu Zhongguo, and although it would put the troops in a short period of time to the point of being shy, the effect was immeasurable. The soldiers of the pursuing Kwantung Army can be said to have tried their best to kill the enemy, but at the same time, the soldiers began to pay extra attention to their own lives, and although they had a high pension for death, they still preferred to live.
Only by living, they have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, to have the opportunity to be promoted, to have the opportunity to get a higher military salary, which is not in conflict with fighting to the death, the new military salary system can be said to have allowed Su Dao to find a way to keep the army efficient and combat effectiveness for a long time, although the cost is a bit high, but it doesn't matter, the soldiers are taking their lives to earn this money, no matter how much they pay, it is worth it.
The Kwantung Army can be said to be defeated, the Eighth Division and the Twelfth Division were all wiped out, according to the soldiers of a wing of the Kwantung Army guarding Jinxi, they also searched the city fiercely, and began to flee in embarrassment, the reason why they had time to loot in the city was nothing more than to occupy the light of a huge poisonous gas field between them and the 99th Army, and with this poisonous gas field placed between the two armies, the 99th Army would not be able to pass in a short time.
I knew the power of the poison gas bomb, and I saw the good show of the destruction of the two divisions with my own eyes, and the Kwantung Army, which knew how long the poison gas could survive, could only flee to Jinzhou in a hurry. He said that the poison gas bomb developed by me only has lethal power in the first few hours, and the longer the time, the smaller its effect will be, and after a day, even if the soldiers can freely shuttle through the land without any protective tools, although there is a chance of being infected, the chance of death is still very small.
The Kwantung Army on the Western Front and the Southern Front was completely dumbfounded, without poison gas isolation, they could only desperately flee, while the 99th Army was chasing after them to the death, often a company of troops dared to pull out a battalion of battle lines, coupled with the cooperation of armored troops, it was difficult for the Kwantung Army to organize an effective defense.
After a night of pursuit, the soldiers of the 99th Army finally stopped, they were tired of chasing, and the Kwantung Army was also tired of running, along the way, there were corpses of the Kwantung Army, discarded helmets and lunch boxes and other superfluous items, but their weapons and ammunition were rarely discarded, except for those heavy Type 92 infantry guns.
In the battle of Pingyueli, the Type 92 infantry cannon is the favorite weapon of the Yue army, because of its small mass, two or three people can lift it together, and the two wheels are removed and placed there not much higher than the heavy machine gun, which is the best weapon for sneaking up on the enemy, but at this time, if they can, they even want to take off their clothes and throw them away.
The troops have now reached the outermost part of the pursuit range prescribed by Su Dao, which is actually the southern area of Jinzhou Province now, the southeast corner of Rehe Province, Lingnan, Qinglong, Suizhong, Xingcheng, plus Jinxi, which has not yet had time to garrison. After this battle, the 99th Army has taken five county towns, which is undoubtedly beneficial to the 99th Army's next war of resistance.
Originally, Su Dao only planned to take the three county towns of Jinxi, Xingcheng and Jinxi, and the three county towns formed a straight line, and a complete defense line could be set up in these three places, so as to prevent the direct support of the Yueben Navy through the Bohai Sea to Jinzhou Yingkou and other places, and indirectly expand the cost of force support for the Kwantung Army.
But he didn't expect the air force to detect that there were not too many Kwantung Army troops in Lingnan and Qinglong, so Su Dao temporarily included these two counties into the scope of recovery, five counties, for Su Dao is now the limit, the strength in his hands can no longer enable him to continue to expand the scope of his territory, and he needs a period of time to digest this area.
Early the next morning, after a night of travel, reporters from all over the world came to Jinxi, these reporters basically came directly through Beiping, otherwise they would not be able to go so far in a day, unless they took a plane, but obviously, this is not the afterlife, and the plane is not something that anyone or no one can do.
Su Dao accompanied a large group of reporters to the original battlefield, and the middle area had been isolated, and a soldier was on guard every short distance to prevent anyone from breaking in by mistake.
"General Su, why are you isolating this place? Is there any secret in it that cannot be told? British reporter Finnel saw that Su Dao had no intention of letting them enter the center of the battlefield, and hurriedly asked, she seemed to have sensed that there must be some major news here, as a professional reporter, she felt that she must find a way to enter it and see it with her own eyes.
"No, as I said, there are no secrets here, I've sent my men in there to take pictures, and you'll get them then." Su Dao shook his head and said with a smile. At present, there are all international and domestic reporters here, dealing with this group of very professional people, Su Dao does not dare to be a little sloppy, although Su Dao is not afraid of them scribbling, but he also does not want them to make Su Dao's international reputation stink.
"But General Su, according to the international convention, we have the right to enter the center of the battlefield, you should not stop us, of course, I don't doubt that I will get the photo, but I don't think I'm sure that the photo I got is the real situation there." Finelte pointed to the distance and said unwillingly, anyway, he would not give up his plan to enter there to take a look, even if Su Dao really disagreed, then she could only sneak in.
"Really? Comrade journalists, in accordance with international conventions, I think I also have an obligation to guarantee your safety. Su Daoyi verbally rejected her request, and the rest of the reporters condemned Su Dao, and Su Dao only faced it with a smile and did not refute them.
There are some things that you just need to know, and there is no need to tell them so much, and besides, when they see their soldiers coming out of it with their own eyes, it is estimated that they will not go in. After Su Dao refused them to enter the interior, some reporters began to be a little angry, but this is Su Dao's home field, and their anger has no effect, so they can only secretly muttered in their hearts that they must say two bad words about Su Dao, and the photographers who came with the reporters began to place their cameras next to the cordon to see if they could take any useful photos.
Although everyone had no way to enter the battlefield, they didn't intend to let Su Dao go, everyone asked one by one, there was a sense of chaos at the scene, and it didn't take long for this scene to be stopped by a picture that appeared within the cordon.
I saw two soldiers wearing protective clothing and full gas masks on their heads, and a soldier in the same costume quickly ran out, and for a while, the photographers kept pressing the button in their hands to record all the scenes into photos.
"The soldier who entered to take pictures was infected, and the officer on duty waved a flag to inform us to leave here quickly." Xiao Chen, who had been following behind Su Dao, looked at the constantly changing flags on the high platform in the distance, and said a little anxiously.
Can you be infected even if you are so tightly protected? Su Dao had a lot of doubts in his heart, although the power of sarin gas is very powerful, but if there is enough protection, it is not easy to be infected, otherwise those experts who study sarin gas and the workers who make them would have been poisoned to death.
"Guys, I'm very sorry, I think you've seen it too, my soldier is wearing a full hazmat suit, but he's still infected by the virus inside, I think we're going to get out of here, or we might get infected." Although he was very confused, Su Dao still told everyone about the situation as soon as possible, and they had to leave here.
After hearing Su Dao's explanation, the group of reporters suddenly lost controversy, only a small number of reporters shouted to interview those soldiers, fortunately, most of them were still sensible, and after listening to Su Dao's words, they still followed them and evacuated the area.
And later, Su Dao strictly ordered any soldiers to enter the battlefield, and the soldiers on guard also needed to wear gas masks, and finally those reporters got the photos, Su Dao invited these reporters out of here on the grounds that they wanted to clean up the battlefield, and these soldiers who died of poisoning could not be dealt with by conventional burial methods, they could only be burned first, and then buried, this kind of scene he would not let those reporters see. (To be continued.) )