The leaflets were written with all kinds of sayings, most of which described the current situation in the Far East, saying that the Chinese squadron had dropped tens of thousands of tons of poison gas bombs and would continue to expand the scope of the gas bombs.

There were also pieces of paper that said that if the army went north to the Chinese position north of Rossby and surrendered, they only needed to lay down their weapons on the spot and raise their hands to safely pass through the position to accept the prisoners, and the Chinese [***] team would never take the initiative to shoot.

"Baga, damn Chinese, actually came to this set."

Mitsuo Murata looked at the large handful of leaflets in front of him and kicked the officer sharply.

It's not that Mitsuo Murata doesn't know about such things as battlefield propaganda leaflets, but this kind of thing is used very few times in the Far East and Southeast Asian theaters.

This kind of psychological warfare method is used very frequently in the European theater and the Soviet-German battlefield, and once the Soviet-German army with a weak will to fight is encircled, it is very easy to be persuaded by some clumsy psychological warfare propaganda, so as to give up resistance.

This is also the reason why both the Soviet and German armies, once surrounded by the superior forces of the enemy, are prone to the absurd thing of surrendering 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands of people at a time.

However, in the Far Eastern theater of events this was hardly the case.

The performance of the Soviet army in the Far East was very strong, under the command of Marshal Zhukov, at least the Soviet army did not show the same absurd performance on the Soviet-German battlefield, of course, this is also because they have not been surrounded by the enemy's absolute superiority, and when they were finally attacked, they did not even need the Chinese to engage in psychological warfare, and directly collapsed and surrendered. That's why the Soviet army has reached the limit of its psychological endurance.

The performance of the Yue army in the Far East can be called stubborn, never surrendering voluntarily, and even after being surrounded many times, it is able to fight to the death.

When the Chinese [***] team attacked the coastal areas of the Far East, including Vladivostok and other areas, even if the army was also heavily surrounded, it resisted to the end.

Nowadays, after using poison gas, the Chinese are using propaganda leaflets on an unprecedented scale because they want to use psychological warfare to recruit the Yue army.

"Collect the leaflets, anyone who dares to hide the leaflets privately, shoot them immediately!"

No one knows what Mitsuo Murata was thinking, but at least on the surface, he was very angry and made a decision that a supreme commander on the front should make.

As a result, the first wave of propaganda leaflets in the hands of the army was quickly confiscated, but the leaflets that fell outside the position were ordered not to be picked up.

Of course, this order is ineffective against the officers, from the division commander to the squad leader, and even everyone has a large number of leaflets in their hands and is looking through them one by one.

However, this was not the end, and in the next half a day, the air force of the Chinese army appeared four times, again dropping countless leaflets.

Although the leaflets fell into the hands of the Yue army again, and the content was different from the first wave, the Yue army still did not appear to surrender on a large scale, and remained in a struggle before the collapse.

What is even more serious is that since the hunger at noon, except for a few middle and high-ranking commanders, the Yue army has no food to eat, and with the troops coming from the rear one after another in the afternoon, more than 300,000 Yue troops have gathered here.

However, the Chinese have not abandoned this means of psychological warfare, but continue to expand the scale of psychological warfare.

At the same time as the airdrops were focused on the areas where the Chinese troops were assembled, such as Rosby on the north-south line, Chinese planes also flew over various parts of the entire area under the control of the Chinese army, and dropped leaflets on a large scale whenever they discovered the march of the Chinese army.

These leaflets are different from the leaflets received by the Chinese army that have already arrived on the north-south line, and these leaflets all say that the Chinese air force will increase the dropping of poison gas in such and such an area, and inform the army that it can evacuate these areas and retreat to the north and south lines, where it will not be attacked by poison gas, and can even choose to lay down its arms and surrender.

As a result, all units of the Japanese army, whether they had received orders from the military headquarters or had not received orders, began to frantically flee towards the north and south lines.

No one dares to guarantee that what the Chinese say is true, but no one dares to guarantee that the Chinese are telling lies, and if it is true, then they will die under poison gas.

And the idea of the military department of the army was that it was necessary to evacuate the gas zone, so it was better to concentrate the troops and block the [***] team on the north-south line to buy time for possible negotiations.

However, the Chinese political axe remained silent about the negotiating intention conveyed by the Chinese ambassador, and neither agreed nor refuted, that is, "because the war on the front line is tight, it is inconvenient for us to express our position for the time being." ”

Dragging, the Chinese used a trick of procrastination, which made the political axe of Yumoto feel very tricky.

They pinned their hopes that the Chinese would eventually agree to the negotiations, so they did not issue a death order for the Yue army to launch a suicide attack on the northern and southern fronts, nor did they let the Yue army stay in the poison gas area or near the area and wait for death, but concentrated on the northern and southern lines, so as to concentrate their forces and avoid the poison gas, and second, they could attack the [***] team in turn if necessary, creating even a little bargaining chip for negotiations.

In their opinion, the life and death of these more than one million Yue troops is no longer a big problem, and whether they can get the opportunity to negotiate from the Chinese is the most important thing.

Therefore, while China dropped a large number of psychological warfare leaflets, the Yue army was also retreating on a large scale towards the north and south lines, avoiding poison gas as much as possible and concentrating to resist a possible attack by the Chinese.

At the same time, the Chinese [***] team once again dropped poison gas bombs in several places, and those lucky soldiers finally broke their courage this time and fled quickly. By dawn the next day, the assembly areas of the southern and northern armies had reached more than 900,000, and there were only more than 300,000 troops on the road. On the northern and southern fronts, about 400,000 surviving Japanese troops were concentrated.

It seems to be a very powerful force, but in fact it is the end of a strong crossbow.

On the second day after the start of the entire psychological warfare, the troops on the northern and southern fronts ran out of food, and according to the original plan, when the rescue convoys docked, in addition to taking away the troops, they would also bring some supplies along the way, so as to ensure that the troops who would evacuate later would not starve to death.

After all, the situation in the Far East has reached the most dangerous juncture, and the Yue army is willing to retreat at such a huge price, and there is not even food, which is naturally the most critical incident.

Now, the outbreak of poison gas is the fourth day, the Chinese are still dropping poison gas bombs one after another, but the poison gas isolation zone has not weakened too much, those poison gases do not volatilize into the air in large quantities, but settle near the surface like fog, sticking to the ground, leaves, soil, if all to dissipate, can let people pass, at least one or two weeks, this is the power of the new type of poison gas, even the poison gas sown by the army itself, is continuing to explode, for the poison gas isolation zone to replenish.

On the second day of the psychological warfare, the troops on the northern and southern fronts starved for a day from top to bottom, and if it had not been for the rout caused by the great panic and the loss of food, they would not have fallen into such a situation.

...... "Major Yu, it's been the second day, and no soldier has come to surrender, does this psychological warfare method really work?" If it really doesn't work, we can suggest a military operation to the above. ”

Hou Xiaoshan couldn't help but wonder if he actually preferred to attack, although he knew that these prisoners of war would be prisoner coolies who could be used and abused at will in the future, but the bloodthirsty impulse in his heart still couldn't be suppressed.

"Hehe, General Hou doesn't need to worry. Unlike the Soviet-German armies and the British-American-French armies, they have a natural madness, and the people in this area who have been trained under the militaristic education system have not only received a crazy imperialist education, but also have been armed with militaristic ideology, which is very crazy.

Ordinary psychological warfare may be effective against the armies of other countries, but for the armed forces, this limit of psychological warfare is still a little short. Moreover, according to the information, Emperor Samoto personally ordered the Far Eastern Army to take pride in the Great Samoto Empire and persevere. The military headquarters even ordered the troops to gather together, avoid poison gas, and resist us to the death. ”

"Aren't they afraid that after we launch a full-scale military attack, we will wipe out more than a million troops?" Hou Xiaoshan was puzzled, but he admitted that the army was indeed a crazy nation.

"To put it simply, the army is broken and broken, waiting for the end to come, and they will not surrender until the last moment. However, now that the army is already short of food, I think it is very uncomfortable to have no food for a day, and even water is beginning to be lacking. ”

Major Yu said confidently.

"Okay, I'll wait for good news, it's best to capture him tens of thousands of devils, and let our brothers in the field army take a bad breath, there is no way to kill them, it's the same if you take more prisoners, haha." Hou Xiaoshan said happily, he is not in a hurry now, it should be those devils who are gradually in a desperate situation.

…… In the evening of the same day, the assembly zone of the northern line of the army was called.

Mitsuo Murata held back the hunger in his stomach and took a sip of water, as the supreme commander of the Northern Front, he actually didn't have to starve, but in order to maintain the prestige of the new officer, he chose to eat only a little.

"General, please eat a little!!"

The people in the entire command bunker felt unbearable hunger, the first day of the psychological warfare of the Chinese was better, ordinary soldiers could still drink a little gruel, and they, senior officers, and the people in the command could even have food.

But the next day, the situation became worse, and a group of Japanese troops, who could no longer stand the hunger, rushed into a cave where supplies were stored, and snatched up the tightly guarded food, and Mitsuo Murata did not even know who to shoot.

Subsequently, Mitsuo Murata was left with only the grain hidden in the bunker of the headquarters. After distributing this grain to those divisions and regiments, the grain in his hands was finally in jeopardy.

"General, please eat some."

A large group of middle- and high-ranking officers of the Japanese army who were moved to their knees knelt in the bunker and invited the lieutenant general, who was exuding the aura of a human surname, to dinner.

"Alas!"

Mitsuo Murata actually had other ideas in his heart, but these people in front of him didn't know it yet.

In his opinion, if he is not willing to finally attack the steel defense line of the Chinese with hundreds of thousands of troops with extremely weak combat effectiveness, then he can only surrender.

In the past two days, it is not that the army surrendered, but they were all stopped by the warlords, and Mitsuo Murata did not kill them for the sake of the overall situation. It's just that the Inspector is sent to guard against this kind of unorderly surrender.

At this time of the war, Mitsuo Murata, as the supreme commander of the Northern Front, was even very eager to surrender, which even Emperor Saimoto and the military department did not expect.

Yes, at this time, Mitsuo Murata even wanted to lead the army over and surrender immediately. He was a native division, and he did not participate in the war of aggression against China, and even deep down he was not a general who actively pursued aggression.

The reason why he was able to climb to the high position of division commander with the wind was purely due to various unexpected factors and the great expansion of the army. After he was transferred from the mainland to the Far East, he also kept fighting with the Soviets, and it can be said that not only him, but even the 19th Division did not fight with the Chinese.

His psychology against the Chinese is not so complicated at all, when the situation is in his favor, how the military department orders, how he acts, but now, when he is gradually in a desperate situation, he wants to surrender.

But he understood that this was not the best time to surrender, and there would even be many division commanders who would oppose surrender, because the situation had not yet reached the final moment.

Mitsuo Murata glanced at the many officers kneeling there and said, "Now that the situation is so dangerous, I should coexist with you." Let's all have dinner, and make rice porridge with the leftover grain, so that everyone can eat a little. ”

"The general is really the glory of the empire!!"

While everyone was happy, they also felt deeply guilty, and they were shocked that they and others were always worried that there would be mutinous troops to snatch the food, but the general did not care about his own desire to divide the food.

Mitsuo Murata immediately glanced at the division commanders and said earnestly, "Gentlemen, for the glory of the empire, we must endure hardships with the warriors, so let's take out the last grain in our hands." ”

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander!"

Many division commanders didn't know if it was true or not, but they promised to take out food anyway. Although Mitsuo Murata knew that they would definitely hide a little food in their hands for their own consumption, even his closest guards would hide food, but it didn't matter, what he had to do was to consume the food and let these commanders starve too, so that he could control the overall situation at that time.

The next day, that is, the third day of psychological warfare.

The soldiers, who had long been dizzy with hunger and had no water to drink, began to die, and the wounded were the first to die, and they didn't know whether they were starving to death or dying of thirst, but they were dead anyway. A large number of ordinary soldiers also began to fall into coma and even die.

On a sunny day, drinking water was completely insufficient for hundreds of thousands of people to eat and drink, the clouds of death brought about by hunger and thirst, and the huge panic brought about by the poisonous gas of the Chinese, the Yue army began to show more and more non-combat attrition.

"The Chinese plane is here again!!"

The troops looked up one after another, only to see one Chinese plane after another flying over the sky, and just like the previous two days, they also dropped propaganda leaflets.

"Chinese dropped food !!"

Some people were pleasantly surprised to find that after the leaflet bombs exploded, a very small number of small bags actually fell, and some people who happened to land on the battlefield saw the food contained in the broken lunch box-sized bags at a glance.

"Great, there's food!!"

The army who grabbed the grain was surprised and found that the Chinese had actually cooked the grain, and even some small bags contained a few white-faced fragrant buns.

As a result, the army within a radius of several square kilometers became chaotic again, in order to compete for this little grain that was not enough to stuff between the teeth, the army began to kill each other, and even the commanders could not control it, and some of the soldiers had just swallowed a bun and had not had time to bite it, they were killed by bayonets or bullets, and then the food in their mouths was snatched away.

The frenzied killing was something that even Mitsuo Murata couldn't stop, but fortunately, this little shameful amount of food was too little after all, and it ended after a while.

However, the fratricidal killing over food has had catastrophic consequences.

"General, someone has started eating human flesh."

The staff officer whispered to Mitsuo Murata.

"What ......"

Mitsuo Murata was only slightly surprised, but then realized that this would be inevitable, maybe the living would not be eaten, but those who died, the wounded and sick would almost certainly be eaten. Especially because of the panic in the food just now, after setting a precedent of cannibalism, the only surname that was the only one has been lost.

"Order the ministries to restrain them."

Mitsuo Murata only gave this ambiguous order, and did not mention what exactly was going to happen to the soldiers who ate human flesh.

He continued to look at the leaflet that had just fallen.

“…… We have placed a small amount of food two hundred meters in front of the position, as long as you dare to come, we promise not to shoot, you will take the food safely, this is our guarantee of integrity, if you surrender, not only can you eat, but also avoid death......"

Grain, the Chinese have already piled up grain in front of the position, and they want to show their sincerity in this way.

He could foresee that those who saw the leaflets would definitely have troops trying to get the food back. So, he secretly ordered the Overseers not to shoot soldiers who tried to retrieve food.

Sure enough, just over twenty minutes later, a strange scene appeared in front of the Chinese position.

"Division commander, division commander, there is a group of troops in front of our position."

"Oh? Came so fast!! ”

Hou Xiaoshan and Major Yu walked to the lookout hole of the bunker in two steps, raised the binoculars and looked at the front of the position.

An hour ago, according to the psychological warfare plan, the officers and men of the 166th Division placed bags of grain per kilogram, a total of fifty bags, on a table there.

In the binoculars, a group of Japanese soldiers came to a kilometer in front of the position, and then, the five Japanese soldiers put down their weapons in their hands and raised their hands barely, and began to walk cautiously towards the Chinese position.

"The order goes down, and it is resolutely forbidden to open fire."

Hou Xiaoshan repeated the order just now, the officers and soldiers of the 166th Division naturally did not open fire, and under the death order, the army's obedience was very strong.

Of course, in order to deter the Japanese army, the Chinese [***] team set up weapons on the positions on the hilltop, and even tanks drove up the mountain pass, but they only showed off their strength, but did not fire.

The five soldiers took off their clothes and pants and wore only one pair of pants as required by the leaflet, and walked cautiously to the table, exactly as the leaflet said, the Chinese put the grain there, and they would put the grain every hour.

Although 50 kilograms of grain was not enough for more than 500,000 soldiers on the northern front, it was enough for hundreds of brave soldiers to eat a full meal.

At the forefront of the five soldiers was Miyamoto Nagata, who had just been in the army for seven months, and he from Nagasaki had grown into a brave veteran in seven months in the Far East, although he was only 15 years old.

The five Miyamoto Nagata were cautious, they were really hungry and couldn't stand it, they couldn't even grab human flesh, and they happened to be very close to the Chinese defense line, so they tried desperately.

"Although the Chinese are hateful, they still count when they speak, they say that they are a big country!"

These were the words that Miyamoto Nagata persuaded the other four, and he had read from a book that had been circulated among the people, that it was a secret organization that had distributed materials about the good of China and the many evils and evils of the political axe.

So their team used binoculars to discover that the Chinese had indeed placed grain in the distance, and decided to take the risk and give it a try.

Even if you are deceived, it is only a death, which is better than starvation.

Miyamoto Nagata walked step by step towards the table, and the four soldiers behind him were also extremely nervous, they did not have guns in their hands, but the Chinese who looked up at the hill were heavily armed and on high alert.

Ten steps, nine steps, eight steps, seven steps...... Miyamoto Nagata silently counted the distance, and finally, he walked to the table, he paused for two seconds, and the Chinese still did not shoot.

The Chinese really kept their promise and did not shoot.

His hand trembled as he reached for the bag of grain, as if he could already smell the fragrance inside.

"It's a rice ball, it's a rice ball!!"

Opening a bag, he found that the ten kilograms of grain in it were not raw, all cooked rice, although the color was not very good, and there seemed to be some unknown objects, but what did it matter, even if it was stained with the dirtiest things by Chinese pranks, it didn't matter.

Although, Miyamoto Nagata was right, it was indeed a lot of dirty things that were spoofed by the soldiers.

Miyamoto Nagata stuffed a few handfuls of rice into his mouth in one go, and several soldiers behind him also pounced, and the soldiers in the distance saw it and ran over frantically, this time, they lost their weapons and ran directly and frantically.

In the blink of an eye, in two or three minutes, this table was filled with thirty or forty soldiers, all frantically grabbing food.

Finally, a squadron leader ordered to return with food, and this seemed to be a very staunch militarist. He's going to take the rice back.

However, at this moment, Miyamoto Nagata suddenly fled from the ranks like crazy, rushing towards the Chinese positions at a speed of life and death, while shouting: "I surrender, I surrender, I surrender, don't shoot......"

Suddenly, the dozens of soldiers present were stunned when they saw the crazy fleeing soldiers.

The squadron did not shoot, and let the soldier run over with his bare hands and even took off his clothes.

"Yaga!!"

Seeing this, the squadron leader of the crazy militarist threw down the rice bag in his hand and rushed forward in a few steps, trying to pull the soldier back.

"Bang!"

With a crisp gunshot, the squadron leader was immediately killed on the scene, and the other Yue troops and the Yue army in the distance were startled, but the Chinese did not continue to shoot.

(To be continued)