Chapter 217: Selling Prisoners (1)

"Report" Li Wenxiu came in: "Miss Report, Chief of Staff Liu and Commander Chen report that Snow Fox has completely recaptured Nanchang, and the remnants of the 106th Division of the Japanese Army fled to Yongxiu to join the 22nd Division, and the results are still being counted." ”

Xue Ru smiled and said, "Report to the theater command." ”

"Yes," replied Li Wenxiu.

Xue Ru said: "Mr. Taylor, you take a rest first, we have time to talk about it, and I have military affairs to deal with." ”

John bowed slightly: "So, I say goodbye, Miss Xue is so young and beautiful, you have to rest well." ”

"Thank you" Xue Ru is actually not used to the etiquette of Westerners, let alone the aristocratic style of the British, but there is no way, it will not be long before Germany will blitz Poland and World War II will break out. Britain was the first to begin to resist, and Britain was more useful than the United States at this time, and the United States did not know the pain if it was not beaten by the Japanese.

Xue Ru wanted to improve relations with Britain. I thought that Zhang Donglin was an American citizen and would contact the United States, but he contacted the United Kingdom. This is not bad, so I also tried my best to maintain the noble image of a lady, stretched out her hand and said, "Please", and then said to Li Wenxiu: "You are responsible for arranging for Mr. Taylor and Mr. Zhang to rest and take care of them." ”

"Yes," Li Wenxiu replied, guiding the two to leave. Although Zhang Donglin is nominally a person from Snow Fox, he is only a guest Qing. Xue Ru sent the two people away and began to understand the situation on the battlefield. Liu Yuanshan had returned from Nanchang City, and Chen Ruihe was waiting for the arrival of the 18th Army and the 92nd Army to hand over the defense of Nanchang while cleaning up the battlefield.

Liu Yuanshan saw that Xue Ru's eyes were a little red, and said with a smile: "Miss can actually rest, don't worry about the Nanchang battle." ”

Xue Ru shook his head: "Why am I worried about the battle in Nanchang, you and Commander Chen command me to rest assured, I didn't sleep because Zhang Donglin came back, and brought an Englishman, so I talked about it overnight, what is the situation ahead?" ”

Liu Yuanshan said: "According to preliminary statistics, a division of the Japanese army escaped more than 5,000 people, and wiped out 20,000 Japanese troops, including more than 4,000 wounded soldiers and prisoners. But the casualties of the snow fox are not small, we have a total of more than 5,000 casualties, if you count the wounded soldiers, it is about 7,000. ”

Xue Ru was taken aback: "The casualties are so big? ”

Liu Yuanshan said: "The main thing is the blocking battle in the north of the city, even this has not been able to destroy all, the Japanese army has a very strong combat effectiveness, our time is too short, only one night, we can only use strong attack tactics, so the casualties are huge." ”

Xue Ru was helpless for a while. There is no way, the battle must be over in one night, otherwise there is no way. As soon as dawn came, the troops were exposed to the planes, and they could not even adjust their tactics, but could only continue to force attacks, and the casualties could not be small. sighed and said: "The casualties blame me, if the devil leaves, there will be no such big casualties, we have no air supremacy!" ”

Liu Yuanshan shook his head: "Even so, but the elimination of almost a division and regiment, the results can be compared with a battle, three to one to defeat the enemy, and the sacrifice is worth it." If there are a few more such battles, it can speed up the process of the war of resistance, but ......"

Xue Ru asked, "But what?" ”

Liu Yuanshan said: "I'm afraid we can't attack the 6th Division, and the logistics of Snow Fox can't keep up, I asked Zhao Wufu, and he said that Chief of Staff Wu in the theater has tried his best to ensure Snow Fox, but it still can't be supplied, and the government is also short of materials and ammunition." ”

Both men were silent. This is the reality, China's external channels are almost completely cut off, and without channels, even strategic materials cannot enter, let alone weapons and ammunition.

The snow fox is also lacking in strength, and the other units of the national army are mainly on the defensive, and they can't see it yet, but the snow fox is on the offensive, that is, machine gun bullets, pistol bullets and * are not enough to replenish, not to mention any heavy weapons. There are more than 20,000 people in two divisions, and it is impossible to fight without heavy weapons as before.

For a long time, Xue Ru said, "What is your opinion?" Liu Yuanshan said: "I think the snow fox should withdraw to the rear to replenish the strength and accumulate strength, prepare ammunition, I see that the Japanese army is also unable to attack, use this time to rest and recuperate, this casualty is not small after all." ”

Xue Ru nodded: "It's okay, order the troops to withdraw to Pingcheng to rest after coming out of Nanchang, and I'll discuss it with the war zone." ”

Liu Yuanshan asked, "What about those prisoners of war?" Do you want to kill them all? ”

Xue Ru shook his head: "No, there are too many, we have to establish a positive image in the future, a small number of prisoners of war are killed, which can scare the Japanese, but too many prisoners of war are killed, which will make the Japanese army desperately resist the next time they fight, and we can't afford casualties in this kind of battle." ”

Generally, snow foxes are not to be captured, and they will be killed if they catch the Japanese, but this time there are too many, more than 4,000 people, Liu Yuanshan and Chen Ruihe didn't dare to decide, so they came to ask Xue Ru.

originally thought that Xue Ru's character and temper must have been ordered to be killed, but Xue Ru did not agree to kill him, and asked in a daze: "Then what should I do?" Leave them to the government to deal with, otherwise we will have to raise them, and the troops will demand that they all be killed to avenge the Chinese and those snow fox soldiers. ”

Xue Ru smiled: "No, tell generals at all levels to look farther, don't just look at the present, the international situation is changing, and we must also change." Butchers, executioners, that's Japanese, we're not. When the troops withdrew, take all those prisoners of war with them, eat, just starve to death, and resist when they are full? Let them be honest, as long as they don't get killed. ”

Seeing the smile on Xue Ru's face, Liu Yuanshan also felt a chill in his heart, it seems that the young lady has thought of some bad ideas again, I'm afraid the Japanese will be miserable. Said a little excitedly: "What good ideas does Miss have?" ”

Xue Ru said: "This is you, if it's Sari, this kid has to say that I have any bad ideas." But this time it's a good idea. Don't worry, I'll talk about it when I get to Pingcheng, I have to think about it. ”

Liu Yuanshan was not Sari, Dai Zong, and Wei Ming, so he didn't ask again. The time was not too long, the 18th Army and the 92nd Army were the troops of the 30th Group Army, under the command of Wang Lingji. The headquarters of the 30th Group Army entered Nanchang, Snow Fox withdrew from Nanchang, and after asking Xue Yue, the Snow Fox Corps withdrew to Pingcheng to rest.

The regiment and headquarters also retreated backwards, and the headquarters of the Snow Fox Corps withdrew to Yingtan City. When Snow Fox left, he took with him a large amount of captured booty and the more than 4,000 prisoners of war. As the troops withdrew to Yingtan City, Zhang Donglin and Taylor John came here together.

Because Yingtan has not been occupied by the Japanese army, it has become an opponent of the Japanese army in the direction of Jingdezhen. Garrisoned here were troops from the Third Theater, and there was only one division of Guo Xunqi of the 50th Army of the 23rd Group Army of Liu Jianxu of the Tenth Group Army.

The snow fox did not enter the urban area of Yingtan, but entered Geyang County on the west side of Huaiyu Mountain, and no one understood why. Since it's a break, why is it still the front line? According to the general understanding, Snow Fox's target may be Jingdezhen. The defeat of the Japanese army in Nanchang made Jingdezhen a prominent location, and once Jingdezhen was recaptured, the three theaters and the ninth theater would be connected, and the Japanese army's attempt to move south to Fujian would be lost.

When Xue Ru asked Xue Yue for advice, even Xue Yue and Wu Yizhi thought so, feeling that Xue Ru's grand strategic thinking was gradually forming, and it was no longer a blind fight. If Jingdezhen is recaptured, the forces of the Nationalist forces in Nanchang, Jingdezhen, and Huangshan are combined with the forces of the Third Theater and the Ninth Theater, and Jiujiang may be recaptured, Nanjing and Wuhan will be cut off, and the Japanese army in Wuhan will be isolated.

Okamura Ninji could never have imagined that Saito Yayuan was so incompetent, and a division did not hold even a day in the face of an attack by a general team. Angry, he reported to the Dispatch Army Headquarters, and General Yamada Otsuzo dismissed Yatoto from his post and transferred the 106th Division back to Japan.

But the Snow Fox's actions startled Okamura Ningji, and once Jingdezhen was lost, the Japanese army would be surrounded and Wuhan would become an isolated area. Okamura Ninji and Yamada Otozo could no longer care about attacking Changsha, and immediately ordered the 6th Division and the 101st Division to retreat and deploy in the areas of Yongxiu, Wuning, and De'an to protect the direction of Jiujiang and Wuhan. At the same time, the 33rd Division and the 15th Division were transferred to Pengze and Jingdezhen, surrounded Nanchang with the strength of four divisions and regiments, and pressed into the front of Yingtan.

A Snow Fox Corps made the Japanese army feel like a great enemy, and it was more tense than a group army. Such a complete solution to the crisis in the direction of Changsha allowed Xue Yue to free up troops to strengthen the defense lines of Nanchang, Liu Yang, Pingxiang, and Yingtan. Both sides are mobilizing troops, and the battlefield situation has returned to the situation before the Japanese attack on Nanchang, except that Yongxiu has become the place where Wuning has become the Japanese army.

Originally, this situation was a greater threat to Nanchang, but the elimination of a division made Okamura Ningji no longer dare to act rashly, and the battlefield was temporarily calm. Xue Ru, who arrived in Geyang County, didn't have time to care about this, and didn't think about the Japanese army's transfer of the 15th Division to Jingdezhen. The Snow Fox Corps was deployed around Geyang, recruited and expanded in Yingtan to supplement losses, and trained new troops. For the Snow Fox army's tactics of never setting up positions and not defending, both the national army and the Japanese army understood that Xue Ru was an offensive tactic.

When the devil attacks, the snow fox will also attack, and the two sides will fight a field battle, a mobile battle, and will not fight a positional offensive and defensive battle. The Japanese army must be on guard against Xue Ru's cunning tactics at any time, so the Japanese army will not attack easily, and if it is not good, it will fall into the pit again. said that it was not to repair the fortifications, who knows what arrangements the cunning vixen secretly had, Nanchang was lost so quickly, and the reason was to figure it out.

Okamura Ninji was a little suspicious, would the imperial army still dare to enter the place where the snow fox gave up in the future? I can't say what arrangements there are, let Xue Ru come back again. Although Geyang is a county town, the snow fox that has just ended the war is resting, but the commander of the 15th division, Lieutenant General Iwamatsu Yoshio, absolutely does not dare to attack, the two sides maintain a balanced state, and the Japanese army has also restrained a lot, trying not to provoke the snow fox.

Xue Ru's new office in Geyang City, Taylor John can understand part of Chinese because he has been in Hong Kong for a long time, but he doesn't know how to speak, and Xue Ru's English is not very good, and the two of them are Chinese and English mixed together.

John said: "Miss Xue, I can get things, but I can only send them to Hong Kong, how to ship them back is your business, in fact, Zhang Donglin can also get it from the United States, we can come forward to buy it from the United States, but it can only be shipped to Hong Kong or Myanmar, from Yangon to Myitkyina, but cannot enter China." ”

Xue Ru nodded: "Okay, you transport things to Haiphong Port in Vietnam and Myitkyina in Myanmar, and I will figure out the rest of the distance by myself." ”

Zhang Donglin and John don't know what Xue Ru can do, I'm afraid the Nationalist Government can't help it, after all, Vietnam and Burma are the places of Britain and France, and the two countries don't want to get involved in the war with China, their enemy is Germany, and they won't allow Chinese forces to enter their colonies.

Xue Ru smiled: "You don't have to worry about these, I have my own way, but Mr. John, I don't have much money, I need money to buy these things, and you won't agree if you don't give you money, so please help." ”

Taylor hurriedly shook his head: "Miss Xue, you are a lady, a beautiful young lady, I am very willing to serve you, but Taylor's company is a family business, my power is limited, it is impossible not to pay, I can't promise you." ”

Xue Ru said: "Mr. Taylor, I don't plan to take credit and I won't owe you money, but I need you to do me a favor and help me raise a sum of money, if it succeeds, I will withdraw 10% of the money to you personally, and it has nothing to do with your company." ”

Taylor didn't know how much this one percent was, and if he wanted to come to such a big arms business, there must be a lot of it. He also said: "Miss Xue, please say, I can help in the future, I am willing to work for the beautiful lady." ”

Xue Ru said: "I have 4,200 Japanese prisoners of war in my hands, I want to sell them to the Japanese, but I need a person to negotiate with the Japanese, it should be much better if you are a British, you can see how much you sell, the more you sell, the more you get, what do you think?" ”

Not to mention Zhang Donglin, even Taylor was stunned, he actually sold prisoners to make money, and Taylor said for a long time: "Miss Xue, according to the international war norms, prisoners of war also have rights, and they are exchanged prisoners after the war, will they agree to do this?" ”

Xue Ru smiled proudly: "Mr. Taylor, I am a snow fox devil, and the Japanese who fell into my hands have all been killed by me, and I don't dare to kill these more than 4,000 people, I didn't dare to kill them, but I didn't kill them out of humanitarianism." But Japan has to pay the price to bring people back, and if Japan doesn't agree I will turn them into corpses overnight, and the news is out, what do you think of the Japanese people and soldiers' army? ”

Zhang Donglin raised his thumb and said: "Gao Ming, Miss Xue sold people to them, used the money to buy weapons and ammunition, and then destroyed them, and got a good reputation, Japan still dare not want it, Gao Ming!" ”

Taylor was also convinced, this young girl is really cunning, and this idea can be come up. Even if a person is 100 yuan, it is more than 400,000 yuan, and he can get tens of thousands of incomes. Xue Ru is like Grandma Wolf: "Mr. Taylor can not only get money, but also get the reputation of a kind angel, do you think it's a good thing?" ”

Taylor nodded again and again, he didn't think about angels or angels, but the white ocean and pounds made him excited. Of course, the Japanese didn't dare to do anything to themselves, but he was British, so he asked, "Then how much does Miss Xue plan to sell?" ”

Xue Ru said: "One thousand, as long as everyone is alive, it is a thousand oceans, which can also be counted as pounds or dollars." ”

Taylor sighed, four million! Isn't it possible to get 400,000 yourself? It's a good deal. Worried, he said, "Will the Japanese agree to this price?" ”

Xue Ru said: "Then it depends on Mr. Taylor's level of business negotiations, and we will split the money from the extra sale." ”

Taylor clapped his hands: "Okay, I'll go to Nanjing immediately, do you want to put all the money into the British Taylor company?" ”

"Yes", except for yours, the rest will be provided according to my list and delivered to Haiphong Port in Vietnam to me. ”

"Deal," Taylor said happily. With money, the gentlemanly demeanor is gone, and he has become a naked businessman, and the aristocratic etiquette has long since disappeared.