Chapter 694: The Withering of the Flower of the Famous General
The Japanese mainland reacted quickly, and the high-ranking generals in Shandong were still on the defensive line, and everything was not moving, strengthening the defense, and blocking the assassins of the advance army who infiltrated. The headquarters is temporarily replaced by a newly promoted major general, so that the command of the various departments is connected, but if it does not have command ability, the local will send generals there.
At the same time, he ordered to concentrate all his efforts to rescue Shouichi Terauchi and Norihide Abe, and make sure to revive them.
Shouichi Terauchi, after a day of rescue, is still not alive, but it has been determined that it is poisoned, and surgery was done to clean up the discolored muscle tissue, and laboratory tests were done.
What can give the Japanese military doctors a headache is that the generation of this toxin is far from the unknown to acceptable, the key is that there is no antidote plan, the toxin has spread all over the body of Terauchi Shouichi, the whole person began to turn blue, and the skin is black, unless all the blood is replaced, or the symptoms of poisoning can be reduced.
Unfortunately, this treatment is called hemodialysis, which is an impossible technique and can only be used to replace the blood instead of removing toxins from the blood.
However, even if the blood is replaced, the body functions and organs are already contaminated with toxins, and it is difficult for Shouichi Terauchi to recover if the blood is replaced.
All the doctors were at a loss, they looked at the Terauchi Shouichi who was gradually breathing weakly, but there was no way, the configuration of detoxification did not even have the direction of the hand, I don't know if this is a neurotoxin or what, in fact, this is just a poison mixed with the juice of the plant to purify, detoxification, and also need to be familiar with the pharmacology of Chinese herbal medicine, if it is a master, even if it can't solve this chronic poison, it can also make Terauchi Shouyi die slowly.
Seeing that the sap of the Blood Sealed Throat Tree could have been used directly, it could have made poisoned beasts, such as wild boars, die in seven steps uphill and eight steps downhill, which is really domineering, but it can be easier to detoxify. and can be prevented. But after the preparation of Dong Kunagu's formula, this poison can be said to have no solution except for the antidote refined by Wufeng Grass.
Even in the era of advanced medicine in later generations, it was possible to prolong life, and if you were treated in time, you could live a few more days, but there was still no solution.
They are helpless. The Japanese also understood that this was the revenge of the advance army, and they could have killed Shouichi Terauchi, but they left him alive, and they could have killed Abe Norihide, but they let him have the toxin in his body that could not be found out, and let them watch the two generals die in person.
Shouichi Terauchi is already helpless, no matter how hard you work, you have to have a direction, right? Take a hair of the dog that bit you. They have thought about it, but no one dares to try, and they can't afford to bear the responsibility.
And Abe Norihide, the symptom reaction is much calmer than Terauchi Shouichi, but unfortunately, except for finding a substance similar to neurotoxin in his blood, there is no way to revive him and make his breathing smoother.
More than two dozen doctors stood in the commandant's office, which had been set up as an infirmary. Norihide Abe, who was breathing weaker and weaker on the hospital bed, was at a loss.
After a night of rescue, all kinds of methods were tried. Even Father York, a well-known expert in Western medicine, who invited a priest from the English church from Qingdao, was unable to find out what kind of poison Abe was in.
York frowned, he couldn't think of any way to make Abe's breath smooth, but there was one thing he could already tell, and that was that it was hopeless.
Abe's breathing was getting weaker and weaker. The breathing was mixed with the sound of pulling the bellows, and it was obvious that the breathing passage was no longer smooth.
His complexion barely changed much, except for the difficulty of breathing, which made his face look painful. But it's not obvious, it seems to be asleep.
Dong Ku knew the effects of these two poisons, and he had seen the deaths of the Japanese soldiers who did the experiments, and he knew that there would be no solution, but he still made preparations with both hands, and once the internal information said that the detoxification had been detoxified, the two people were recovering. He said that he would continue the assassination and kill the two directly.
However, his worries did not appear, and as soon as it was dawn, Abe Norihide's breathing stopped, more than five hours earlier than Dong Ku expected, as if his body was too weak.
The moment Abe Norihide was announced dead, all the Japanese high-ranking people were moved and saddened, this is a legendary general, there is no place he can't take where he can't be attacked, there are no living enemy troops, he doesn't want to be captured, he rewards and punishes clearly, although he is ruthless, the soldiers and generals who make mistakes will be burned to death, and they are not allowed to apologize for their crimes, but there are still countless Japanese soldiers who feel honored to join his troops.
The emperor also received this report, and he shed crocodile tears in the palace, and the flower of the famous general, which he personally rewarded, has now withered.
The news was blocked, and only the high-level knew it, however, it no longer made sense, and the Voice of China sounded two hours after Abe's death, announcing Abe's death.
There was not much reaction to this news from various countries, for them, it was just a dead individual Japanese lieutenant general, and his worth was not much higher than that of other dead lieutenant generals.
However, Japan itself and all the soldiers are in grief, the flower of the famous general is a kind of flaunting that the war needs, the image of the hero, he is well known by most Japanese soldiers and civilians, and he is so withered, of course there will be grief.
The Japanese generals had not yet arrived in Shandong, and then there was news that Terauchi Shouichi had died.
The death of Shouichi Terauchi caused an equally huge shock, this strongman, this cold-blooded and dictatorial militarist, this Class A war criminal who personally led troops into Hebei and other places, died silently in Shandong, on the "territory" he had laid.
After Dong Ku confirmed the death of the two, the voice of Huaxia sounded again, and the death of Shouichi in the temple was made public.
In doing so, he will make the Japanese military top brass quickly realize that there are internal demons among them, and they will take action to purge them. This is exactly what Dong Ku needs, the more chaotic the appointment, he is not in the hospital, in Abe Norihide's office, but where he has placed a bug, a one-way sending walkie-talkie, to truthfully transmit the situation there to the nearest sleeper who is listening, and then pass it on.
Sure enough, the Voice of China released a broadcast less than half an hour after Shouichi Terauchi was announced dead, and the speed with which the news was learned attracted the attention of the Japanese military high-brass.
As a result, Senior General Nobuyuki Abe, who was stepping off the plane, had one more task, to clean up the ghosts in Shandong and find the person who delivered the news to the advance army.
Nobuyuki Abe is a cabinet minister, and he is also a leader in the military circles, but he is not particularly rich in combat experience, but he has a particularly good grasp of the political wind. This time, he was sent to serve as the commander-in-chief of the North China Dispatch Army, which veteran generals were also motivated by. Which veteran major generals of Zhongjiang have been shattered, and the new major generals below who do not have enough qualifications may be difficult to control, so there is a minister as the commander.
However, his arrival is destined to fill in his political failure, because Dong Ku's task is not over. is proceeding in an orderly manner, his arrival is just a coincidence, and the mess is not cleaned up, and there will be new injuries.
At the same time as these actions, the countdown to sabotage operations everywhere has begun.
At the Dongliao River Bridge in the south of Gongzhuling in Jilin, a truck walked to the middle of the bridge and stopped. It seems that the truck broke down.
The end of the bridge had been checked, there were no problems with their procedures, and there were only three soldiers on the truck, and there was no pulling, so there was no threat.
The sentry on the other end had already called to inquire, and Zhilu said that there was nothing suspicious about the truck, and it did not pull anything, so it would not cause damage to the bridge. So I didn't care anymore. It's just that the telescope looks at it from time to time and doesn't pay attention to it.
trucks. A white rope stuck to the bridge deck and went down the bridge until it reached the ice under the bridge thirty or forty meters high.
At the moment when the rope fell on the snow, a hand suddenly stretched out from under the snow and pulled the rope towards the bridge pier, and then the snow moved, and a snow-white figure dragged the rope and tied it to the bridge pier.
As the rope was fixed, one by one the figures came out from under the snow, quickly grabbed the oblique rope and climbed up, and slowly climbed under the railway bridge overhead without being visible from both ends of the bridge deck.
Forthwith. Cut the rope, tied it to where he had climbed up, and down a few more ropes.
In just two minutes, a figure went up to the bridge, and then the pulley pulled boxes of explosives up to the railway bridge, and was quickly fixed under the bridge.
The overhead truck seemed to be repaired, and after the broken rope was pulled back, several people cheered, jumped into the truck, and drove to the opposite shore as the truck started in smoke.
Seeing that there was nothing unusual on the bridge deck, the Japanese soldiers guarding the bridge put down their binoculars and waited for the truck to approach for routine inspection. When the truck drove to the bridge, the 20 boxes of explosives had been fixed, divided into four blasting points, and the time bomb was pressed, and when the truck left the bridge and disappeared, the busy figure on the bridge also quietly slid down the rope, shook off the live buckle, and got into the snow, and disappeared in less than ten minutes.
A train loaded with coal, emitting thick white smoke, drove towards the Dongliao River Bridge with its pants slit, and when it was still a few hundred meters away from the bridge, the driver sounded the whistle.
Woo......
The train chirped and entered the approach bridge of the bridge, and there were five or six hundred meters to go up to the Dongliao Bridge.
At this moment, there was a violent tremor on the bridge, and then in a ball of fire, a loud bang came.
"Not good!!"
At the moment of the loud noise, the train driver reflexively pulled down the brakes and exclaimed.
Chirping......
The wheels braved the sparks and rushed to the position where the fire rose, slowing down slowly in the violent bumps.
The violent explosion frightened the Japanese soldiers on both sides of the bridge, and they grabbed their guns and raised their binoculars, and rushed to the location of the explosion in the firelight.
As the flames rose, an abrupt bulge in the middle of the bridge, followed by rail sleepers flying out of the sky, and huge cement blocks tumbling into the sky.
In the squeaky brake scream, the train crackled on the car with the oncoming debris, and under the frightened gaze of the driver, the green tendons of both hands burst out, firmly grasped the brake handle, and pulled with all his might, and slowly stopped.
The car stopped, and the shock wave of the explosion also shattered the glass on the train, and the frightened train driver saw that the bridge deck in front of him disappeared, and he collapsed directly on the car.
In two or three minutes, the Japanese troops at both ends of the bridge pounced on the location of the explosion, and they saw that the entire bridge deck was lifted away, and the snow on the ice below was covered with debris, but they did not see a human figure.
The bridge has been completely broken, fortunately the piers are fine, the explosion is just the bridge deck, nothing else, however, even if the bridge deck, it is not a short time to be able to repair the bridge, dozens of meters, it is easy to erect a simple bridge, if you want to pass the heavy train, three days and five days is not to think.
The news has not yet reached Xinjing. The surrounding roads, railways, and as long as there are bridges, all exploded, and several bridges were blown up by bombs in about ten minutes. Traffic was paralyzed.
In the Northeast, the role of bridges is not very useful in winter, and the highway can be directly passed from the ice, but the train will not work, and the train must repair the railway along the original position, otherwise it will not be possible to change the line, or rather, it is more difficult to change the line than to repair the broken bridge.
Blowing up this part of the bridge, except for a few railway bridges that must be bombed. In fact, the highway bridge here is just to attract the Japanese military. The assassination led to the concentration of Japanese troops in the city, the search for suspicious people, and the full martial law, except for a major road, there were not many Japanese troops outside. Coupled with the ice and snow, there are basically no patrols.
In trucks, motorcycles rushed to these explosion sites. Siege there, search for vandals. At Sanmen Mountain in Siping, a muffled sound came, and stones flew everywhere, breaking the branches in the canyon.
The sound was not loud, and it was not heard for a few miles, but the earth shook. It's just a muffled sound. This is the location of the road and rail to Shenyang, flanked by mountain peaks, where the road and railway pass through a canyon-like area, which is more than 2,000 meters long and is designed to avoid the lines laid by digging cave tunnels.
Muffled. It is fried with sawdust, which is used to expand the blast hole, and the mountain explosives are buried deep enough to collapse, otherwise it will only blow up the surface rocks.
Liu Zhong led more than 500 Huya soldiers to personally guard both ends of the explosion site to ensure that the explosion could go smoothly.
Sure enough, after a few muffled sounds, within half an hour, the entrance of the cave had entered the mountain for more than 30 meters, and the soldiers there were sweating like rain digging out the cannon holes, and the Japanese patrol received a report and rushed here.
Liu Zhong received a warning from a distance, put on a respirator, and ordered: "More than thirty devils, don't let go of one, get it with one blow!" ”
"Yes!"
One by one, the Huya warriors put on breathing apparatus, and the muzzles of their guns poked out of the snow, waiting for the arrival of the enemy.
After the news of the bombing of the Gongzhuling Bridge came, it was on strict guard and blocked two kilometers at both ends of the bridge to ensure that the bridge was not attacked.
Therefore, the scattered troops around were mobilized and all concentrated on the bridge. When they heard a muffled noise in the mountains, the Japanese army was worried that the enemy was diverting the tiger away from the mountain, so they sent a team of 30 people to drive horses and plows to check there.
Horses sprayed white mist, running on the snow, the Japanese soldiers on the snow plough held guns, cotton hats hung with frost flowers, they vigilantly stared at the white patch around them, searching for possible targets.
Just as they turned a bend and entered a straight road about five or six hundred meters long, suddenly, the Japanese soldiers on the climbing plow fell one after another, and one by one they silently blocked and rolled down the climbing plow.
The abrupt blow made the Japanese army stunned, stunned, the horse climbed the plow did not stop, but they did not have a chance to shoot, poof, a figure rolled, dropped the horse plow, only two or three seconds before and after, there was no more figure on the six horses climbing the plow, behind him, a slip of bright red blood stains spread on the snow, so that the color of the snow is no longer monotonous.
The horse loses control of the plow and slowly slows down as it runs, until it stops. Liu Zhong stared at the corpses that were all over the place, and did not give the order to clean up the battlefield. They don't need to clean up the battlefield, they don't lack their own burdens, they don't lack food, come together, and if there are Japanese troops in the back, they will find out.
Rumble!
There was another muffled sound, the cannon hole continued to expand inward, as the stones erupted, the soldiers quickly rushed to the entrance of the cave, the shovel wheeled, a basket of earth and a basket of gravel was transported out of the tunnel, a piece of dangerous stones that were about to collapse were removed, and the tunnel was quickly cleaned in the busy work of hundreds of people.
"Potter, almost, aren't you? It's forty meters away. ”
A soldier took out a basket of gravel and asked Tao Tianshun at the entrance of the cave.
Tao Tianshun looked at the slope of the mountain, shook his head and said: "It's not enough, at least fifty meters, otherwise the mountain can't all collapse." ”
All right!
The warrior shook his head, ran to the side with the basket of dirt, and fell there.
It is very difficult to know that every meter of the tunnel is expanded, and the amount of filling will determine whether the cave can be blown up, which is purely a technical work, once the tunnel collapses, all the efforts will be in vain.
Tao Tianshun originally learned blasting, and learned more profound directional blasting techniques from Dong Ku, and blowing up tunnels was a piece of cake. In three hours, he successfully dug out a pit of more than 40 meters extending to the bottom of the lake in the position where he was optimistic.
Liu Zhong is very patient, he knows what to say. This will not allow the Japanese to have much energy to take care of this place, and the bridge is the position they have to defend.
Half an hour later, there was another muffled bang, and the tunnel extended five meters away again, basically meeting the requirements of blasting.
"Start filling the medicine!!"
Tao Tianshun knew that it was impossible for him to reach the most perfect, and he didn't dare to take the risk of continuing to expand the cannon eye. This depth is enough to collapse tens of thousands of cubic meters of mountains, and even tens of thousands of migrant workers are difficult to clean up in a month and a half.
With his order, bags of sawdust explosives were carried into the tunnel, and the soldiers ran and filled the bottom of the cave with the fried explosives, and placed five tons of yellow explosives in the middle, time bombs. Twenty fuses, twenty detonators, and double-safe detonation were placed, and immediately bags of sawdust explosives were filled into the cave......
Liu Zhong received the news that it was ready at the mountain pass, and ordered: "All evacuate and march to Mukden!" ”
All the team members held their skis in command and quickly disappeared into the vast snowy mountains. The mountain forest, which had been noisy just a moment ago, fell silent. The entrance to the cave had been filled with rubble, and a bundle of fuses was still burning. Smoke rose from a snow pit forty or fifty meters away.
Liu Zhong and the others had just run to the end of this canyon and went up to the top of the mountain, and just as they were about to go down the mountain, Tao Tianshun stopped and looked back at the direction that they had been busy before.
Is it time?
Everyone stopped. The long depth of the fuse determines the time of burning. Tao Tianshun's stop means that the fuse is coming to an end, and after several hours of hard work, whether it can succeed depends on this trembling.
Everyone had just stood still for less than two minutes when the ground shook violently. Then a deafening muffled sound was heard, and as the snow fell from the trees, a huge pillar of ash rose into the air.
"It's done!"
Everyone should swing their fists, trying to stand firm, and at the same time, they all want to know what effect so many explosives will explode.
Before their thoughts fell, the mountain thousands of miles away quickly disappeared as the gray pillar rose.
In the deafening roar, the patch was covered in dust and drifting snow.
"Let's go, this place is completely filled......"
Tao Tianshun said confidently.
Liu Zhong also had no intention of going back to take a look, taking advantage of the fact that the snow was drifting in the woods and could hide their whereabouts, they still had to leave as soon as possible, otherwise the Japanese army searched the mountains, even if they could dodge, wouldn't it be troublesome?
"Let's go!".
Liu Zhong retracted his gaze and ordered.
Following his order, the team waded through the snow and mist, rushed straight down the mountain forest, twisted and twisted between the trees, and quickly disappeared.
The Japanese soldiers guarding the bridge did not receive a report for a long time, during which they still heard an explosion, although the sound was very small, but it was definitely an explosion, but the reconnaissance team did not report, they still endured it and did not send people again.
The ensuing violent explosion stunned all the Japanese troops, unable to think of any targets worth bombing over there.
The generals guarding the bridge thought it would be better to go and see, or else, they didn't know what was going on there.
More than half an hour later, when the snow was falling, revealing a clean sky, the Japanese patrol rushed to the approximate location where the explosion had come from.
"Huh? Why is Shanmen Mountain Ridge a little shorter? ”
A Japanese soldier climbed on a plow and pointed to the distance.
"yes, the two sides should be about the same height, it seems to be a ...... shorter"
The Japanese soldiers were talking, their eyes locked on there.
But when they turned the mountain pass, they saw the corpses lying all over the ground, and the frightened horses that had burrowed into the woods by the roadside and the plows were stuck, and when the neighing war horses were, they were not startled by the dead people, nor did they care about the neighing war horses, but stared blankly at the front one by one.
Ahead, a black patch blocked the valley, looking at the height, tens of meters is a conservative estimate. The whole railway and highway are gone, they are buried, and the mountain peaks are really collapsed, a lot shorter, in the full white, the black one, looking so dazzling.
What happened? Earthquakes?
All the Japanese troops were dumbfounded. You don't need to get close to know the road, here, it is completely blocked, and the train doesn't have to worry about passing. (To be continued......)