Chapter 266: Prisoner Exchange
PS: Chinese New Year, there are so many things, hey, it's hard to say!
Whining......
A whistle sounded, and then I saw a military train slowly driving into Yaohuamen Station, the Japanese army was heavily guarded, and a Japanese military police second lieutenant led a Japanese army of about 100 people into the station.
The atmosphere at the station suddenly became tense.
This is just a stop, and buses usually stop here for no more than three minutes.
"Get off, get off, quick, quick, quick......" The door of the military train opened, and the conductor jumped out of the door, holding a baton, shouting and dragging and pushing the Chinese soldiers wearing gray cloth and cotton jackets inside.
On the platform, the Japanese army took three steps and one post, and five steps and one sentry, as if facing a great enemy.
There were more than 600 people on this train, and in addition to Xie Jiyuan and his 524th Regiment and a battalion, there were more than 200 people who were unfortunately captured in the Battle of Songhu, and they were also on the list of prisoners exchanged this time.
The rest of the people on the list were all captured during the defense of Nanjing and retreating along the way, and they were escorted over separately and then sent to a temporary prisoner of war camp set up by the Japanese army outside the Wild Wolf Valley.
"Tuanzao, after a night's rest, finally arrived in Nanjing?"
"This should be Yaohuamen Station, and the Japanese don't feel comfortable letting us into the city." Xie Jiyuan got out of the car and pulled his collar slightly, the temperature in the suburbs of Nanjing was a little low, and he just got off the car, and he was a little uncomfortable.
"Zhibiao, order all companies to assemble!"
"Yes!"
"Lao Yang, how is the condition of the wounded?"
"It's all fine, a few of the injuries are more serious, but they all took medication before getting in the car. It's basically under control. Yang Rui got out of the car with a pale face.
"Assemble in each company and in each platoon. Fast! ”
On the platform. The first battalion of the 524th Regiment quickly completed the assembly, which made Ikeda Shaosa and his entourage, who came to borrow people, see it, and their eyes shrank slightly, such a Chinese army is too rare.
If China's army were like the one in front of them, I am afraid that Japan would not have had a chance to land on China's soil and achieve such brilliant results, let alone conquer this country.
Luckily. The country has an incompetent and corrupt government, and their army is not so much of an elite as it is, but a rabble that is on the verge of collapse.
"Let's take a look at each shift, are there all the people!"
"Yes!"
"This is the army that blocked my third division at the Sixing warehouse in Shanghai?"
"Yes, after this army retreated from the concession, His Excellency General Matsui gave the British an ultimatum that wherever they went, the imperial army would chase them, which forced the British to confiscate their weapons and equipment and put them under house arrest in a military camp on Jiaozhou Road!"
"I didn't expect them to be free like this!"
"Because of the peculiarities of this force. His Excellency Admiral Matsui was also consulted above, and His Excellency the Admiral personally agreed. Otherwise, the British agreed to release the ......"
"Hello General Xie, I'm Masao Ikeda."
"Is there something wrong?"
"This time, I am fully responsible for the prisoner exchange work, I heard that General Xie has arrived, so I came to meet you!" Masao Ikeda bowed.
"What do I have to meet, and when are you going to take us there?" Xie Jiyuan said with a slight hint of disgust.
"General Xie can take a short break in the station, we have arranged breakfast for you and your subordinates, and after breakfast, you can take a car from here to Qinglong Mountain." Masao Ikeda said with a smile.
"That's it, thank you!" Xie Jiyuan raised his hand and clenched his fist, and without looking at Masao Ikeda, he strode past him and walked towards the station.
"Baga, I don't know how to lift ......"
"No, they have been under house arrest for a long time, and they have already returned to their hearts, I can understand this feeling!" Masao Ikeda reached out and stopped his men.
"Hay!"
"Shaozuo, they still have a wagon of supplies, all of which are sealed."
"It's sealed, what's in it?"
"I don't know, I just said that the materials they carried with them looked quite heavy, do you want to open the box and check it?" The second lieutenant asked.
"What do you say?" Masao Ikeda glared at him.
"I understand the humble position, so I will arrange someone to open the box and check it!" The second lieutenant hurriedly bowed his head and said hurriedly.
Bang!
In less than a minute had passed, a gunshot was heard, and in front of the wagons carrying supplies, the officers and soldiers of the Japanese army and the lone army camp surrounded the city, and it was the Japanese second lieutenant who fired the shot, and the southern pistol in his hand was still aimed at the sky.
"What's going on, why the shooting?" Masao Ikeda led people to rush over, and Xie Jiyuan, who heard the gunshots, also ran all the way from the station lounge.
"Shaozuo, they prevented us from unpacking and inspecting." The second lieutenant hurriedly put away his pistol and reported.
"Lieutenant, why are you preventing us from inspecting your supplies?"
"These materials have already been checked before getting on the bus, and they have to be checked when they get off the car, you guys are deliberately finding fault!" Lieutenant Yang Genkui, the platoon leader of the second company who was responsible for unloading the supplies, said loudly.
"Checked it when you got in the car?" Masao Ikeda asked.
"Of course, or you're going to let us load the supplies onto the train?" Yang Genkui said confidently.
"Ikeda Shaoza, these materials were donated to us by the people of Shanghai, except for some medicines, there are no contraband, before getting on the bus, after checking, a seal has been affixed, you still have to check, what does this mean, do you want to fake public welfare, or do you want to fight our idea of this batch of materials?" Xie Jiyuan rushed over and asked sternly.
"Chi Zhengjun, since you checked it when you got in the car, you don't have to check it again, let them carry it." Masao Ikeda thought for a moment and waved his hand.
"Hay!"
The Japanese army retreated, Xie Jiyuan and the others couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, if it was really unpacked and checked, it would really not be enough to check.
The Japanese army specially deployed eight trucks to transport supplies to the lonely army camp.
A wagon of supplies was quickly loaded onto the truck and followed the team of the lone army camp on the road to Qinglong Mountain.
"Shaozuo, there must be something wrong with this batch of supplies!"
"I know, but don't make a fuss out of it at this time. Influencing prisoner exchange programs. Do you understand? Masao Ikeda said slowly. Of course, he knew that there was a problem with the supplies, but even if there was, he would pretend not to see it.
If the problem is really found, it will really not end well, and if it is not done well, it will affect the implementation of the "infiltration" plan, which is a big deal, but he will not tell such a secret to Chi Zheng, a little second lieutenant.
Of course, Xie Jiyuan didn't know what Ikeda Masao was thinking, but he could let this batch of supplies escape the inspection of the Japanese army. This also made them sweat.
These things are not contraband, except for some special antibiotic drugs, but these things are not something that the Japanese will never watch as they are received by the 'Yakshas'.
This will greatly enhance the combat effectiveness of the 'Yaksha', which is what the Japanese are most afraid of now.
They were all forced to invite the "Yaksha" to leave in the form of 'sending them out', and the price they paid was quite large, but they also knew that this was only temporary, and if this army continued to grow and develop, it would definitely become a terrifying enemy of the Japanese army on the battlefield, an unprecedented disaster.
Around eleven o'clock in the afternoon. The Chinese prisoners of war on the "prisoner exchange" list have basically arrived at the temporary prisoner of war camp outside the Wild Wolf Valley, and the Japanese army has arrived. Chang Yong, the acting chief of staff of the Dispatch Army, represented the Japanese army as the chief representative of the "prisoner exchange", and the "Yaksha" side had the chief instructor Liang Dong plenipotentiary.
"Dazuo, the 'Yaksha' side has made a request, do you want to hand over the materials of both sides first?"
"General, what do you think?"
"Yes, they are understandably worried that we will withhold the supplies after handing over the prisoners of war." Kenji Dohihara nodded slowly.
"Agree to their plan, we will transport the supplies to the buffer zone, and ask the people of the 'Yaksha' to come and receive them!" Chang Yong nodded and commanded the second lieutenant.
"Hay!"
"Leader, the Japanese agreed to exchange supplies first."
"Send someone to bring the supplies back immediately, and tell the brothers that there are medicines in this batch of supplies that we urgently need, and we should handle them with care, understand?" Liang Dong solemnly instructed.
"Understood!"
Liang Dong sent a company to quickly rush to transport the exchanged materials.
In the temporary prisoner camp, Xie Jiyuan and the others were happy when they saw that the supplies were transported away by their own people on the other side, and this hard work was not in vain.
Even if they can't go back, the help of these materials against Japan is huge, and as the people who handle them, they know the value of these materials best.
If you use it well, it can be worth three elite German armorers.
The officers and men of the temporary prisoner of war camp were also a little excited, regaining their freedom and no longer having to be abused by the Japanese, which was something they had been waiting for for a long time, and now it was finally the last moment.
It was agreed that the official time for the 'prisoner exchange' would be 12 o'clock at noon.
A total of 77 Japanese prisoners of war lined up in a three-way column, escorted by the guard squad, and slowly walked to the huge open space in front of the temporary prisoner of war camps on both sides.
On the other side, there were Chinese prisoners of war, 1,540 people, 20 people in a group, occupying more than one-third of the open space.
In the middle of the two prisoner-of-war camps, there was a buffer zone of 20 meters, and each side sent a platoon of soldiers, armed with guns facing each other, to form two cordons.
The Yaksha and the representatives of the Yaksha and the prisoner exchange were taken away in front of the center of the separation zone.
"Mr. Liang!"
"Chang Yong Dazuo." Liang Dong responded politely, in fact, if it weren't for this 'prisoner exchange' negotiation, he wouldn't want to say the first half of a sentence to the Japanese.
"Today is the Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar, a day of reunion, you Chinese and us Japanese also celebrate the New Year, on this special day, we have reached a friendly prisoner exchange agreement, can this be regarded as the beginning of Japan-China friendly cooperation?" Chang Yong smiled slightly.
The Japanese reporters behind him couldn't wait to hit the spotlight.
"Changyong Dazuo is wrong, you Japanese have been learning from China, but you are only learning the surface, and you have not learned our profound cultural connotation at all, and you are learning the same from the West now, which is nondescript and ridiculous!" Liang Dong said mercilessly.
Chang Yong's face froze slightly, he originally wanted to set a language trap for Liang Dong, but he didn't expect him to ignore this stubble.
"Mr. Liang, it's almost time, let's go through the formalities."
Liang Dong pushed the signed agreement text in his hand forward, Chang Yong was slightly embarrassed, but he still raised the agreement text with both hands and handed it over, and Liang Dong took it unceremoniously.
Click!
It was like a scene of the defeated country delivering a surrender document to the victorious country that was frozen on film, which later became one of the most iconic photographs of 1938.
Chang Yong soon realized that his actions were a little too humble, he was facing an enemy, not his own people, and it was too inappropriate to do so.
But he couldn't do it again, and he could only bear the mistakes he made.
Kenji Dohihara sighed secretly, hoping that this photo was not taken, or that it would not be known to outsiders, otherwise, Changyong's future would be ruined.
The two sides opened the text of the agreement and looked at it, confirmed that it was correct, and the "prisoner exchange" officially began.
The exchange of prisoners was carried out according to the list, in accordance with the ratio of 20 to 1, that is, if the 'Yaksha' released one Japanese prisoner, the Japanese side would release 20 Chinese prisoners of war, and after the two sides confirmed their identities, the next group would be exchanged.
In order to increase the efficiency of the exchange, three groups are carried out simultaneously.
That is, three Japanese prisoners and 60 national prisoners of war were exchanged at one time.
Both sides have basic information on the exchange of prisoners of war, which is also the most basic material for confirming the identity, and it is very easy for the Japanese side to confirm, but it is slightly more difficult for the Chinese side.
The information on the Chinese side itself is not complete, some of them are only a few words, and there is no photographic information, so it is inevitable that there will be some deviations, but as long as there is cross-identification of the captured troops in the same period, this is not very difficult.
"Xie Tuanzuo, I've heard of your name for a long time, I'm Liang Dong." Xie Jiyuan was the highest-ranking and most famous of the Chinese prisoners of war in exchange.
The moment he stepped into the Chinese military camp in the Wild Wolf Valley, his eyes instantly turned red, and this moment was not only a return home, but also a spiritual relief.
"Chief Instructor Liang!" Xie Jiyuan also heard it just now, Liang Dong is the chief instructor of the 'Yaksha'.
"Don't, Chief Xie, you might as well call me Liang Dong!" Liang Dong gave a military salute.
The exchange did not take long, but it took some time to confirm the identity, and the entire "prisoner exchange" lasted nearly two hours, and did not end until 2 p.m.
"Mr. Liang, there is another person, I hope you can consider it, and we can exchange it with the rest of the people on the list." After the end, Changyong solemnly made a request.
"The person you are talking about, I know, but she is a wanted criminal by our national government, besides, she is guilty of espionage, and her identity is different from that of a prisoner of war, so even if she is in our hands, it is impossible to exchange." Liang Dong coldly refused.
"How can a woman make you so scared?"
"Don't use the agitation method, the agitation method is useless to me, a spy is a spy, I believe that your intelligence personnel will not be easily released if they arrest us, right?"
"Can that give you a visit?"
"Impossible, the prisoner exchange is over, there is still an enemy between us, what about the safe route of retreat you gave us?" Liang Dongyi stretched out his hand and asked.
Chang Yong's face was cold, and with a wave of his hand, a Japanese second lieutenant handed over a folder: "This is a safe route for your retreat, you are limited to three days to set off, otherwise the Empire will not abide by the provisions of the agreement and launch an attack on you." ”
"Don't worry, we're almost here in this place, but please remember that this is a Chinese place, and we will come back." Liang Dong took the folder and said loudly. (To be continued.) )