Chapter 219: Public Opinion War and Wu Liande (Asking for Subscriptions, Monthly Tickets, and Various!! ）

Of course, Chen Feng would not be so stupid as to nakedly pull the more than 400 Japanese prisoners out of the army and execute them, before that, he must conduct a war of public opinion, and he must put himself on the moral high ground, so that no matter what Chen Feng does, no one will jump out and say irresponsible things.

Otherwise, even if Chen Feng slaughtered Japanese prisoners of war, some defenders would definitely jump out and accuse Chen Feng. Although Chen Feng doesn't care what those useless guys say, but people's words are terrifying, and it is better to avoid them.

So, under Chen Feng's instructions, with the plague created by the Japanese army in Zhangjiakou, Datong, Weixian, and Xuanhua as the fuse, a great propaganda about the atrocities of the Japanese army began. In order to achieve the goal of surprising victory, Chen Feng deliberately sent people to secretly go south, infiltrate Shanghai and other big cities, contact Chinese and foreign media, and then provide them with a large amount of evidence.

On August 9, newspapers and magazines across the country simultaneously published the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in North China and throughout China, and almost all the newspapers and media chose to publish a series of reports in the form of full pages.

Because there are pictures and truths, all the accusations and articles are full of pictures and texts, and for a time the crowd was furious, and large-scale anti-Japanese demonstrations soon broke out in major cities. The atrocities of the Japanese army also completely shocked the Western powers, who never imagined that the Japanese would be so brutal.

The Americans, in particular, supported and connived at Japan's aggression against China, and it was entirely because the Western powers hoped that Germany would kill in the East. It was hoped that Japan would attack the socialist Soviet Union from the east of Europe and northeast China in order to weaken or even eliminate the socialist Soviet Union. It was precisely this strategy of weakening and even annihilating the socialist Soviet Union, which was born out of hatred for socialism, that caused the United States, Britain, and France to carry out a policy of appeasement and connivance against Germany in the west and Japan in the east for a long time.

German and Japanese imperialism also tried to take advantage of this attempt by the United States, Britain and France, so the Japanese warlords quickly proposed the establishment of a "Greater Japan," a plan of a colonial empire that included China, Siberia of the Soviet Union, and other East Asian regions, and then presented their aggression as preventing the "threat of communism."

But in any case, the Americans did not expect that the Japanese were not only fighting the Chinese army in China, but also extending their butcher's knives to those innocent people.

Immediately after that, an article titled "America in the Eyes of Chinese Generals" was published in the Washington Post. This article is entirely the content of the disputed conversation between Claire and Chen Feng that day. There are hardly any modifications. As soon as this article was published, it was quickly reprinted by major media in the United States.

After reading this article, the Americans were stunned, they did not expect that in the eyes of the Chinese generals, the US government would be so unbearable. Especially the phrase "Liberty and justice." It's all bullshit. "To be honest, I am very disappointed with the current US government, and its performance in this war does not at all reflect the sense of responsibility that a major country should have, but is more like an accomplice and executioner."

But after careful analysis, they felt that what the Chinese general said was very reasonable. In particular, the precise figures, which are completely different from what the politicians say, soon realized that the government had deceived them, and that the government, in its professed claims of freedom, democracy, and justice, was conniving at and supporting aggression.

Combined with the reports of atrocities committed by the Japanese army from China, the horrific data photos, and the shocking and disturbing information, the Americans were outraged. Tens of thousands of Americans took to the streets to protest in their own unique way. For a time, demonstrations were everywhere in the United States, which greatly disturbed President Roosevelt.

At a time when the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the people of the whole country was extremely high, the 40 th Group Army dropped another astonishing depth charge, and the newly formed newspaper of the 40 th Group Army, the Saibei Army Daily, published a notice. Through various investigations by the 40th Group Army, it was learned that it was the Japanese Army's Unit 731 stationed in northeast China that caused the plague in Zhangjiakou and other places, and a large number of field troops were also responsible for cooperating with the execution. Therefore, the 40th Army decided to publicly execute 478 Japanese soldiers and officers involved in the plague planning on August 15.

Along with this news, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers' testimonies were published, all of which were written in Japanese. Leaving aside the authenticity of those testimonies, the public execution of nearly 500 prisoners of war at one time alone was enough to shock everyone.

However, everyone who read the Saibei Military Newspaper felt that those testimonies should be true, although those testimonies were written in Japanese, but they couldn't stand someone translating them. Seeing the translated testimonies and the pages of the original testimonies, the vast majority of people chose to believe it.

However, only some high-ranking members of the 40th Army knew that the so-called testimony was written by the commander-in-chief, and had nothing to do with the Japanese prisoners of war.

Speaking of this, Chen Feng sighed inexplicably, he had always thought that the intermediate Japanese skill was simply super chicken, but he didn't expect that this time it was this chicken rib skill that helped Chen Feng a lot. Intermediate Japanese is equivalent to a master's degree in Japanese literature, and it's no wonder that those people can't tell the truth from the fake when they write something by hand.

Moreover, Chen Feng didn't have to think about it to know that the incident of the plague was absolutely inseparable from the Japanese Army's Unit 731, so even the Japanese were extremely panicked after reading this report, although they knew that Chen Feng was just trying to find an excuse to execute those prisoners of war, but it should be known that most of the things said in the Dao were not far from the truth.

Rather than military politicians who were concerned about who created the plague and whether it was reasonable to execute prisoners of war, doctors were more concerned about how the Chinese eradicated the plague.

However, it is a pity that the 40th Army did not report in detail the details of the eradication of the plague, and everyone can only rely on guesses. However, as the famous medical scientist Wu Liande publicly confirmed in the famous British Times, the plague that occurred in Zhangjiakou and other places in China is a new type of plague, with a very high fatality rate and an unprecedented rapid rate of infection. At the same time, Wu Liande also confirmed that the plague had been extinguished, and the military doctors of the 40th Army invented a method of penicillin purification, which made it possible to mass produce penicillin, and it was the miraculous drug that killed the plague germs and saved thousands of lives.

Wu Liande is not only famous in China, but also a well-known medical scientist in the world, so his words quickly detonated a bombshell in the medical community, the magic penicillin can be mass-produced, and it is Chinese who developed this method, which is incredible.

Wu Liande and his entourage came on June 2, when Chen Feng was on the front line in Suizhong, so Mr. Chen personally greeted Wu Liande and others in Datong.

Wu Liande was accompanied by 78 doctors and 128 nurses, all of whom were overseas Chinese in Nanyang, the vast majority of whom were young people. In addition, Wu Liande also brought a large number of medical equipment and medicines, as well as nearly 500,000 yuan of overseas Chinese donations.

After Wu Liande arrived in Zhangjiakou, he found that the plague had basically been extinguished, and at that time he thought that the plague in Zhangjiakou was not as serious as Chen Feng said, and he was still a little unhappy. But when he learned that more than 10,000 people had died in less than a month, he judged with the least judgment of a medical expert that it was a plague that spread very quickly, and the mortality rate was extremely high.

Wu Liande knows that the virus is not easy to kill, and its incubation period can even be as long as three months to half a year. So Wu Liande and a few of his disciples dug several graves to fill the corpses in the mass graves outside Zhangjiakou, took some samples of the plague virus from the remains of those plague patients, and then took them back to the city for testing.

The results of the test made Wu Liande extremely surprised, this turned out to be a kind of plague that he had never seen before, with the characteristics of this virus, it is simply an incurable infectious disease, according to Wu Liande's plan, a city like Zhangjiakou, once this plague appears, it will become a dead city in three months at most, and the people in the city will definitely not be spared.

But how the 40th Army extinguished this plague piqued Wu Liande's interest. Wu Liande was interested, but penicillin was one of the most important secrets of the 40th Army, and Chen Feng did not intend to leak it easily before negotiating business with the United States and the Soviet Union.

But this is difficult for Hu Jishi, Wu Liande can be regarded as half his old

Division, and people traveled thousands of miles from Nanyang to Saibei to help, and it was really not interesting not to tell the truth. So after Hu Jishi consulted Chen Feng, he still told Wu Liande the secret of penicillin.

When he learned that the 40th Army could mass-produce penicillin, Wu Liande was completely stunned. As a medical doctor who once studied in the United Kingdom, how could Wu Liande not know about penicillin, a miracle in the history of medicine. But it is a miracle that even Fleming, the inventor of penicillin, could not solve the problem of purification, and that a few military doctors of a local army in northern China actually solved it. Of course, he didn't know that penicillin had nothing to do with the military doctors in front of him.

After using penicillin, Wu Liande was surprised by the strong antibacterial ability of this drug, and spent two months to test the clinical effect of penicillin, and he found that although penicillin can cause allergies to some people, it can even lead to death in severe cases.

But for those who are suitable for penicillin, this drug can be called a miracle drug, whether it is a difficult tuberculosis or the most difficult wound infection and suppuration, penicillin has an amazing effect, especially for soldiers, this is a good medicine to save lives, during the war with the Japanese army, a large number of wounded are sent to field hospitals every day. Each doctor had to operate on at least 200 soldiers every day, but for two months, none of the soldiers who had used penicillin died due to wound infection, saving the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers. (To be continued......)