In the past two years, the blockade and bombing have brought Japan's industry to the brink of extinction, and Japan is extremely short of iron and steel, so there is almost no iron and steel for the materials used by the Japanese to make land mines, and the containers used to hold gunpowder are all clay pots and porcelain jars, in addition to gunpowder, they are also filled with some hard spikes and sharp things such as glass shards, and the Chinese military engineers can not detect such earthen mines at all when they use mine detectors, and they have no effect at all when the Chinese military engineers use mine detectors to detect. On the contrary, three home-made mines were detonated, killing one person and injuring three.

The sappers were unable to detect the situation of the earthen mines using mine detectors, and quickly reported to Chi Chuanshi here, and Chi Chuanshi was extremely surprised when he heard this: "What? You say that mine detectors cannot detect mines planted by the Japanese? What's going on? Our mine detector is the most advanced equipment at present, and it is impossible not to detect mines! ”

The commander of the engineer battalion explained: "Division, you are right, our mine detector is the most advanced detection equipment at present, and the mines produced in Western countries can basically be detected by our detectors, but the mines made by the Japanese are an exception, because the land mines they make do not use a little iron or steel at all, and the objects detected by our mine detectors must have steel to be detected, so ??????."

"Got it!" Chi Chuanshi nodded, "So that's the case, then you don't have any other way to clear mines?" ”

The commander of the engineer battalion thought for a while and said: "Division, we dug up a mine planted by the Japanese from the ground, and after research, we found that although the mine made by the Japanese did not use steel. It uses the most primitive black powder, but its detonation mechanism is triggered. That is, just step on it and release it again. It will explode immediately, and such a mine, the Japanese can lay on any road we have to pass. We came up with a way to collect some livestock and open the way in front, as long as one mine is detonated, the other mines planted around it will definitely be blown up as well! ”

Chi Chuanshi frowned after listening to what the engineer battalion commander said: "If that's the case, then wouldn't we have to collect a large number of livestock?" Otherwise, if it explodes, the rest of the animals will be scared away, and we will have to get them back. It's a bit time-consuming and laborious! ”

The commander of the engineer battalion said with a smile: "Don't worry, we found that every household in the nearby Japanese village has a stone mill, and you only need to use two livestock to drag a stone mill in front of you, and the stone mill is made of stone, which is generally not blown up, and can be used continuously."

Chi Chuanshi didn't know if the method said by the engineer battalion commander was feasible, but at present, he could only try it, if it was feasible, he would use it, and if it didn't work, he would find another way. He waved his hand: "Okay, then do what you do!" ”

In fact, the engineer battalion commander's method was still feasible, and after trying this method, many earthen mines planted by the Japanese along the way were detonated. The animals were frightened because the stone mill was dragged behind by the cattle and the mine was detonated when the stone mill pressed against the mine. He dragged the stone grinder and ran frantically forward, detonating mines along the way. Until the livestock runs exhausted and collapses to the ground.

After the Japanese discovered that the method of laying mines along the route was used by the Chinese army, they knew that this method could no longer be used, and if it was used again, it would be a waste of mines. Japan is now in great short supply of war materials, and these mines are made of materials that are very precious to the Japanese, so it is too cost-effective to waste them, so the Japanese have given up the method of laying mines along the way to delay the pace of the Chinese army's attack.

Without the Japanese laying home-made mines to delay the speed of the march, the Chinese army's marching speed increased a lot, and the speed of the attack was also greatly improved.

In just one week, the Chinese army attacked from the east and southwest, and annihilated all the Japanese troops on Shikoku Island with a swift offensive, and Shikoku Island also fell into the hands of the Chinese army.

Wu Peifu was very surprised that this attack went so smoothly, could it be that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese had dropped to the point of being vulnerable? After systematic analysis of the reports sent from all sides, Wu Peifu learned that the Japanese did not have enough weapons and ammunition to fight the Chinese army at all, and every time they fought, the Japanese troops basically rushed out collectively to fight a white-knuckle battle after fighting for a while, but the Chinese army had sufficient ammunition, was well-trained, and tactically skilled, so where would they give up their own strengths and use their weaknesses to fight the Japanese? Therefore, the Japanese army's method of white-knuckle warfare did not work at all, and more than ninety percent of the Japanese troops that were wiped out were killed by the Chinese army's fire, and the Chinese army did not engage in white-knuckle combat with the Japanese army at all, but when the Japanese army collectively rushed up with bayonets, the Chinese army immediately strafed with machine guns, and with rifles, grenades, and mortars, the Japanese army did not have a chance to rush to the Chinese army for white-knuckle warfare at all.

The supreme commander of the Japanese army stationed on Shikoku Island is Asada Nobuyo, who is one of the important core members of the main battle faction in Japan today, Asada Nobuyo is the adopted son of Asada Shunnobu, a Kawagoe feudal priest, and became a second lieutenant after graduating from the Army Soldier Xueliao (the predecessor of Lu Shi), successively served as an infantry brigade attached to the 5th Infantry Brigade, went out with the 4th Brigade in the Southwest War, and later served as a land instructor, Kumamoto Zhentai staff officer, captain of the 2nd Infantry Wing, captain of the infantry group of the teaching regiment, chief of the 2nd Division of the 2nd Bureau of the War Department of the General Staff Headquarters, and a member of the 2nd Bureau of the General Staff Headquarters. Captain of the 21st Infantry Wing, Staff Officer of the 3rd Division, Commander of the 2nd Infantry Wing, Chief of Staff of the Tuntian Corps, Chief of Staff of the Provisional 7th Division, Chief of Staff of the 7th Division, Chief of Staff of the Eastern Metropolitan Governor. He was promoted to major general on September 28, 1897. Commander of the 20th Infantry Brigade, Commander of the 5th Infantry Brigade, Commander of the 1st Guards Infantry Brigade. The Russo-Japanese War led his troops to the expedition. Later, he was reappointed as the commander of the Guards Division. On 1 April 1906, he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun of the 1st Class, and on 21 September of the following year, he was made a baron. Commander of the 12th Division, Commander of the 4th Division, Director of Education. On August 10, 1912, he was promoted to army general. Military Senate and Governor of the Tokyo Garrison.

Nobuyoshi Asada was a die-hard member of militarism, and together with Masaki Terauchi, Heihachiro Togo, and others, he staged a military coup d'état, abolished the previous cabinet, and established a military cabinet headed by Masaki Terauchi.

After the capture of Shikoku Island, Asada Nobuyuki was ready to flee back to Honshu Island, when he had already boarded a fishing boat, only a few Japanese soldiers around him to protect, and the fishing boat was found and intercepted by a Chinese patrol ship on the sea to Honshu Island, Asada Nobuyuki and others did not have the courage to jump into the sea to seek death, so they could only obediently raise their hands and surrender.

After being captured, Asada Nobuyuki was imprisoned with more than 50,000 captured Japanese soldiers in a concentration camp built by the Chinese Army in Sumo City for prisoners, which served only one meal a day, starving the Japanese prisoners and leaving the Japanese prisoners without the strength to resist.

The Japanese prisoners were not kept here all the time, but it had been decided that the Japanese prisoners would be kept for a month or two, to wear out the violent spirit of the Japanese prisoners, and to starve them before transporting them to China or Siberia to do the heaviest manual labor.

According to the Cabinet's plan, railways will be built in every prefecture and city within 10 years, which means that after 10 years, every prefecture-level city will have railways and trains to pass through. Within 20 years, roads will be built in the whole country, including Siberia and Kazakhstan, so that every village can be connected to the countryside.

The cabinet also has a plan to clean up the Yangtze and Yellow rivers with silt within 20 years, and use stones on both sides of the river embankments to prevent flooding caused by the sudden rise of the river embankments and endangering the lives and property of the people.

Whether it is a road construction plan, or a plan to renovate the Yangtze River and the Yellow River embankment, it is undoubtedly an extremely huge project, which not only requires a huge amount of funds, but also requires a large number of labor, even if the degree of mechanization has been greatly improved in the past 20 years, but it cannot get rid of the dependence on a large number of labor, and there is a large number of free labor to use, only need to take care of the food, do not use it in vain.

As the war continued, more and more prisoners were taken prisoner, and in the course of the war, the Chinese army also captured strong men all over Japan, and as long as the men over the age of six and under the age of forty were taken away and transported to Siberia to build roads.

The captured Asada Nobuyuki, of course, was not sent to build roads, he was held together with the captured officers, and in solitary confinement, separate from the captured soldiers, and the captured Japanese generals and officers were tried and then dealt with according to their crimes, some would go to prison, some could be imprisoned for life, and some would be sentenced to death.

Shikoku Island is smaller than Kyushu Island, in fact, there is no industry on Shikoku Island at this time, it was destroyed by the war and turned into a ruin, Japan has returned to the primitive society at this time, the money is no longer useful, and the daily transactions of the Japanese are barter, which is the price paid by the Japanese for this war.

Wu Peifu always thought that the Japanese might be very hostile to the Chinese army, but when he landed on Shikoku Island, he found that this was not the case, and the Japanese people even welcomed the Chinese army very much, at least under the rule of the Chinese army, the Chinese army did not prohibit the Japanese from owning their own property and food, and under the rule of the current Japanese government, the Japanese were not allowed to have private property, and everything had to be subject to the distribution of the Japanese authorities, and the current Japanese military cabinet was extremely unpopular with the people. (To be continued......)