Chapter 5: Blood and Fire (28)

Yoshizumi Ryosuke immediately spread the news of the poison gas attack to Nanjing, and the Central China Front Army also immediately transmitted the news back to the Japanese base camp, which held a meeting overnight to discuss the loss of control of the special operation. The Japanese base camp, the twilight is gloomy, and they are all some elderly people, who were called up in the second half of the night, and these old goods are extremely depressed, drooping their eyes, and they are all confused.

Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe and Minister Sugiyama Mototo each put forward their own proposals; Fumiro Konoe wanted to exert diplomatic pressure to make the Chinese military consciously give up the attack of special ammunition, while Sugiyama Mototo believed that it was even more necessary to increase the production input of special ammunition, send all the special ammunition in stock to China, and publicize with great fanfare that it would fight to the death with the Chinese who used special ammunition, so as to deter the Chinese military from acting rashly. In the end, the two sides reached an agreement to take a two-pronged approach, using strong pressure from the military to fight a special war and diplomatic means to force the Chinese military to give up the special weapons in their hands.

Early the next morning, Japanese Foreign Minister Hirota Hiroki met with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Chonghui to lodge a strong protest against the Chinese military's use of special ammunition.

In Wuhan, there was also a conversation in the General Staff of the Chinese Military Commission, and the content of the conversation was also about special ammunition.

"Only the governors are allowed to set fires, and the people are not allowed to light lamps." Bai Chongxi, deputy chief of the General Staff, said: "There is still a reason that you are only allowed to fight and I am not allowed to fight, and the Japanese are really shameless. ”

"There is no diplomacy for a weak country." He Yingqin said a little helplessly: "A prostitute has to deal with three prostitutes at the same time, it is not easy for Wang Chonghui!" ”

He Yingqin's words resonated with everyone in the General Staff, the Japanese are clearly urinating on your head, you still don't dare not let it, a weak country, a weak country, my dignified China, it is already so weak, it is really a great sorrow for thousands of years.

"Jiansheng, do you honestly admit that it was your Gui troops who used special bombs in the south of Jinpu Road?" Cheng Qian asked, this duke had a smile on his face, and his eyes were full of ill intentions.

Bai Chongxi shook his head and said, "Everyone knows that our troops in Guangxi do not have special ammunition, and they can't use it if they want to. I have already sent a telegram to ask Liao Lei, and he replied that the 21st Group Army does not have this kind of poison bomb, and no one will use this kind of weapon, it is estimated that it is other troops. ”

"Who else is active in this area besides you?" Cheng Qian smiled and said, "It won't be the Wei Chengqing from last time!" ”

"I don't know, the 21st Group Army is a strictly disciplined force, and it will not adopt the method of over-limit combat without approval." Bai Chongxi said: "But I very much agree with the person who uses special ammunition, his actions make the war tend to be balanced, poison gas bombs are poisonous to us, and they are also poisonous to the Japanese, so we should use them together, and we don't need them." Bai Chongxi did not hide his attitude, he was the absolute main battle faction in the General Staff, and he also believed that only by beating the Japanese down was the final outcome of the war.

"I know it's not a good thing to give the Japanese a taste of gas bombs, but there is a lot of pressure on the League of Nations to reduce or even cancel the war aid they give us if they decide that we have violated the Hague Convention by using gas bombs." He Yingqin's face was bitter, this is a very moral and ethical person, but he is often in a position of grinding his heart, and it is difficult to be a person left and right. Many people in China think that he is a pro-Japanese faction, but in fact he does not have a good impression of the Japanese, but the country needs such a person and the Japanese are hypocritical and have to play such an inglorious role.

"Could it be the New Fourth Army?" Cheng Qian speculated: "Zhang Yunyi's division of the New Fourth Army has already arrived in this area, and their guerrilla ability is very strong, and they have no concept of the overall situation, so it is possible to make some out-of-the-ordinary moves. ”

"It won't be them." Bai Chongxi categorically denied it without hesitation, saying: "They are also members of the national army, and if they want to adopt such an excessive combat method, they will definitely apply in advance." Zhang Yunyi is a virtuous soldier, and he will not take the initiative to adopt this anti-human combat method. What's more, like our troops in Guangxi, they do not have poison gas bombs and there are no people who can use them. ”

At this moment, a staff officer sent a telegram and handed it to Bai Chongxi. Bai Chongxi took it and took a look, and said with a smile: "Liao Lei's telegram said that the night before yesterday, a small unit attacked the poison gas brigade of the Japanese Ninth Division, and it is estimated that some poison gas bombs were snatched. This unit is really very kind, and last night it gave two to the Japanese, and threw them directly into the barracks of the 7th Wing of the 6th Brigade of the 9th Division. However, the 21 st Group Army had no way to find out which unit was responsible for the work, and the Central Military Commission was requested to investigate. ”

Cheng Qian smiled, smiled very weakly, and layers of ripples appeared on his fat face, and said: "General Liao Lei's telegram at least shows that those troops who did not have gas bombs before have become troops with gas bombs since the night before yesterday, so it is possible who used gas bombs last night." It could be the 21st Army, or it could be the New Fourth Army. ”

"Neither!" He Yingqin already knew Bai Chongxi's intentions, Cheng Qian was a single-minded person who wanted to deduct on the heads of the troops of the Gui family, and Bai Chongxi wanted to wash all the national troops out of this notoriety, in contrast, Cheng Qian was narrow-minded. He Yingqin didn't say a word, put himself on Bai Chongxi's side, and seeing everyone's eyes on him, He Yingqin said: "I think it must be done by stragglers like Wei Chengqing and others, they have no responsibility and no scruples, and they are not afraid of the escalation of the war, so they robbed the Japanese gas bombs without organization and discipline, and used gas bombs to fight back at the Japanese army." The person who came and informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that after an investigation by the General Staff of the Army, the poison gas bomb incident that occurred in the vicinity of Nanshimen on Jinpu Road last night was committed by a group of unorganized and unorganized stragglers who robbed the poison gas brigade of the Ninth Division of the Japanese Army the day before yesterday. ”

Hearing He Yingqin's words, Cheng Qian knew He Yingqin's intentions, he glanced at Bai Chongxi a little embarrassed, and smiled apologetically at his own battle of will. Bai Chongxi didn't care, but asked another question: "What if this gang of lawless guys continues to attack the Japanese army with poison gas bombs tonight?" ”

"What to do? Cold! Cheng Qian took over and said, "We don't know who did it, what do you want us to do?" ”

"This raises another problem." Bai Chongxi said very seriously: "The other side can put the blame on the ordinary people in China, thinking that it was the ordinary people who attacked their troops with poison gas bombs, so we have to guard against the foreshadowing and hidden dangers that they used gas bombs against ordinary people in the future." ”

He Yingqin's eyes unconsciously glanced at Bai Chongxi, how does this Guangxi person's head grow, how can he think much more than ordinary people!

Bai Chongxi was right, Xu Ping and his gang were intensively planning tonight's attack. In their opinion, the defense of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army is like a sieve containing water, full of loopholes, yesterday hit the southeast corner, today there are three corners, just pick a corner, throw a few tea No. 1 in, it can have an effect, that is the Japanese barracks, is the most densely populated area, but also the most defenseless place.

"If I were Japanese, I wouldn't sleep today." Li Baicheng said.

"Then don't throw gas bombs today, go tomorrow." Xu Ping said: "You have the ability not to sleep every night. ”

"If you don't sleep, you don't sleep, I sleep during the day." Li Baicheng said.

"That's a problem!" Huang Tianhua said: "We can't let the enemy grasp the law of our attack, they think we are going, we are not going, they think we are not going, we are going." I think we have to attack today, but we have to do it early, so that when the Japanese are having dinner, it is best to go directly into their canteens, and if you don't kill too many people, at least you can starve them for the night. ”

"Which horn?" Li Baicheng asked.

"I think it's better to be the 18th Wing of the 19th Infantry Brigade, this corner is the farthest away from us, and the defense should be the weakest." Wei Zhigao said.

"No," Xu Ping said, "continue to fight yesterday's 6th Brigade and 7th Wing." ”

"It makes sense, but it's false, and it's true, this horn thinks that it was attacked yesterday, and it will be spared today, we just don't let them get this luck and beat him again." Huang Tianhua said.

"Fuck, this 6th Brigade and 7th Wing have offended you, why did you recognize him and stick to it!" Li Baicheng said with a smile.

"It's his fate!" There was a voice behind him, and several subordinates hurriedly stood in to welcome him. Mo Di had just returned from the division headquarters, and Ou Shounian conveyed the news from all over the country to Mo Di, telling him that the two poison gas bombs had caused a lot of noise in China, and asked Mo Di to control the use of poison gas bombs and not let Shangfeng be too embarrassed. Mo Di told Ou Shounian that the current situation is very unfavorable to us, and the replenishment of the 13th Division in Tuzhou will soon be in place, and at that time, a pincer attack formation composed of the 13th Division and the 9th Division will appear, and we will no longer have to face one division but two divisions that cooperate with each other. On the other hand, we have been fighting fiercely for many days, our supplies are insufficient, the reorganized 31st Army and the newly formed 84th Army are still in distant Guangxi, and if the Japanese army attacks on a large scale, we can only abandon the position. If we abandon the battle, the southern line of the Jinpu Road will be handed over to the enemy, and Commander Li of the Fifth Theater in Xuzhou will definitely suffer from the enemy on his back, and the consequences will be unimaginable. At the very least, we must delay the enemy's counteroffensive until the 31st Army and the 84th Army come to the front line, and our 21st Army must also be fully replenished, otherwise, we will be very passive. For the time being, we should do all the more to defeat the Ninth Division first, gain time and space, and cooperate with the blocking of the northern and eastern fronts. Ou Shounian sighed, he didn't make a sound, what Mo Di said, he understood, he also understood the potential meaning of the above order, he was in a dilemma, and finally, he said: You are the master yourself!

Mo Di came out of the division headquarters, suppressed the fire in his belly, and finally got vent here, he said: "These Japanese devils, in their own country, are not the only ones, and they want to come to China to die, so we will let them get their wish." You have a good plan for attacking in the afternoon, and dinner time is a good time, and you will definitely have a good harvest. However, it is not enough to have only one time, and in the second half of the night tonight, three teams will be prepared to fire a few rounds of Cha-1 at the other three corners to disrupt the position of the Ninth Division. Let the Japanese honestly withdraw from Jinpu South Road. After completing the task, I invited everyone to eat canned fish, Chen Zhengxin was very active in Centipede Mountain, and yesterday he hijacked the flatbed truck that delivered grain from Tuzhou. The last grain route of the Japanese army was cut off, and they were hit by poison gas to see how long they could hold out. ”

"As long as they don't retreat for a day, our gas bombs will not stop for a day, and everyone will compete with each other to see who can survive whom." Huang Tianhua said: "We will immediately arrange people to support today's four waves of strikes. ”

"Okay! It's arranged, so let's try the canned food sent by Masato first. Li Baicheng said.

Huang Tianhua quietly asked Mo Di, if he only played once and a half a day, he could also blame the notoriety of the attack on the local stragglers, four attacks a day, and it was not a shame to tell everyone that this was definitely done by the standard troops. If the Japanese protest, it will be difficult for the top to shirk their responsibilities, and it will not be embarrassing for the upper peak.

Mo Di smiled and said, embarrassed, that's the matter of the peak, what does it have to do with me, I don't see the Ministry of Foreign Affairs doing all the things that have to be done and set up the archway, that is, to force it, so that the national government no longer has the idea of peace talks, and don't pin hope on the mediation of the League of Nations, since we want to fight with the Japanese, we will fight vigorously once, I don't believe that the Japanese bullets can kill all my Chinese sons and daughters, and the Japanese poison gas bombs can poison all my Chinese land.