The People's Liberation Army's operations on the northern front were temporarily suspended. Dongye gathered a large number of troops in Shanhaiguan and trained troops every day. The shouts of killing were deafening, and he assumed a posture of leaving the border at any time and entering the Northeast.
Moreover, everyone knows that the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Field Army of the People's Liberation Army is Zhang Xueliang, and it will be a matter of time before we fight back to the Northeast.
Many former members of the Northeast Army have contacted Zhang Xueliang one after another. Those who have the conditions have tried their best to come to join him, and those who have no conditions have also expressed their support in various ways to support Zhang Xueliang's determination to fight back to the Northeast.
Umezu Yoshijiro did not dare to take it lightly. He also deployed heavy troops in Jinzhou and Huludao. He also mobilized the coast patrol troops stationed in Fushun to strengthen maritime patrols along the Bohai Sea and be ready.
Once the People's Liberation Army leaves the border, it will definitely face a war.
Not only that, Umezu Yoshijiro also mobilized the air force to conduct an exploratory air raid on Shanhaiguan. As a result, the more than twenty aircraft that came to attack Shanhaiguan lost more than a dozen aircraft under the intensive air defense firepower of the People's Liberation Army and returned home, and they never dared to come again. .
Damn it, Umezu Yoshijiro has never fought such a frustrating battle. The weapons and equipment equipped by the People's Liberation Army are obviously several levels higher than that of the Japanese army.
In desperation, the Japanese troops had to turn to passive defense, building defensive positions and tunnel fortifications at several dangerous strategic locations that they must pass through when exiting the border, such as Taishan and Balewading.
All of a sudden, the Japanese army was carrying out extensive construction outside the customs. Steel and concrete were continuously transported to the front line. Tunnel fortifications and trenches and bunkers stretched for dozens of miles. The entire mountain on Bald Wife Top was about to be hollowed out by the Japanese engineers. Tunnels were crisscrossed throughout the mountain. It extends in all directions, and the food and ammunition stored in the tunnel are enough for the Japanese army stationed there to fight a war of attrition with the People's Liberation Army for a year.
As a result, the Japanese army was busy digging tunnels to store grain and ammunition all day long, but the People's Liberation Army, which was close at hand, made no movement. It seemed that the People's Liberation Army had been satisfied with the status quo, and maintained the status quo with Shanhaiguan as the boundary between the two sides, and the two sides did not invade each other.
If this is the case, this is the result that Umezu Meijiro wants to see most.
The People's Liberation Army is too difficult to defeat.
The 130,000 people of the temporary First Army were defeated without even being able to withstand a damn day. Umezu Yoshijiro knew that the People's Liberation Army had used Red No. 1, but there was nothing he could do.
The Kwantung Army does not have that many chemical defense troops at all, and now it has concentrated on providing chemical protection uniforms to the Koizumi Brigade stationed in Taishan and Bald Wife Ding.
Umezu Yoshijiro also secretly mobilized a unit of the 731 troops to enter the Taishan front line and implement a top-secret action plan. This was Umezu Yoshijiro's ultimate means to deal with the People's Liberation Army, but it took time.
A dozen Japanese soldiers wearing chemical protective suits took advantage of the night and slowly crawled in the shadows to approach Shanhaiguan. They stopped when they could see Shanhaiguan in the distance.
The Japanese soldier who led the operation, Lieutenant Colonel Masama Danno, smiled ferociously and took off the cage he was carrying on his back. He placed it in front of him solemnly and took off the blouse covering the cage.
Dozens of rats in the cage were running around in fear, making people's scalps tingle.
Seeing that Ma Tuanyo had begun to take action, the other Japanese soldiers followed suit and took the cages off their backs. Each cage also contained dozens of rats.
"Go, little darlings." Ma Tuanye muttered like a prayer, and opened the cage with a grin.
Seeing that there was a way out, the rats in the cage swarmed out and disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye.
More than a dozen Japanese soldiers also followed suit and released the rats in the cages. Hundreds of rats ran and fled into the forest, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Hundreds of mice are too small for this vast mountain, and they can't even startle a bird when they run in.
However, Umezu Meijiro had high hopes for these hundreds of rats. Perhaps they could change the unfavorable war situation facing the Japanese army.
Plague is a highly infectious disease caused by Yersinia pestis. It spreads quickly and has a high fatality rate. It once swept across Europe in the Middle Ages, killing tens of millions of people. It was horribly called the Black Death by Europeans.
Umezu Yoshijiro was so mad that he lost his mind. In order to stop the People's Liberation Army from advancing, he ordered Unit 731 to release rats infected with Yersinia pestis into the Qinhuangdao area of Shanhaiguan.
We must know that it is difficult to control the spread of infectious diseases and the number of victims. He released the plague into Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao. Not only did he target all the People's Liberation Army and civilians in Shanhaiguan and Qinhuangdao, he also targeted the Japanese troops stationed at the front lines of Taishan and Bald Wife Ding. The Koizumi Brigade is placed in a dangerous situation.
However, the Koizumi brigade has all been issued chemical protective suits and been notified in advance. The casualties will definitely be much smaller than those of the People's Liberation Army.
After releasing the plague, the Japanese army lay down and observed for a while, and then retreated along the same route under the leadership of Ma Tuanye.
After walking to a safe distance, Ma Tuanye proudly sat on a rock and pulled off his gas mask to let himself breathe. Seeing Ma Tuanye's behavior, the accompanying team members also relaxed and sat around and took off their gas masks. Some simply put on their gas masks. I also took off my chemical protective clothing. Wearing airtight chemical protective clothing on this hot day was simply a pain. The military uniform on my body was already wringing out water when I climbed over.
Soldier Nobuo Michichi took out Sakura cigarettes from his pocket and asked Madanno: "Captain, can you smoke?"
The Japanese army has strict discipline, and Shanhaiguan can still be seen vaguely here. Nobuo Michio did not dare to light a fire and smoke without Ma Tuanye's permission, even if he had a good personal relationship with Ma Tuanye.
Ma Tuanye laughed and stretched out his hand towards Nobuo Nobuo: "Shoot, the Chinese bullets can't hit here, it doesn't matter even if they find out."
Nobuo Yoshichi hurriedly stood up and walked over to give Lieutenant Colonel a cigarette. However, as soon as he took two steps, he seemed to have stepped on something and heard a squeak. Nobuo Yoshichi was startled and hurriedly raised his feet. Suddenly, there was a squeak on his ankle. A pain.
Ma Tuanye didn't have time to pick up the cigarette, so he hurriedly raised the flashlight and shined it at Nobuo Nobuo's feet, and found a trampled mouse that quickly ran into a crack in the stone and disappeared.
Nobuo Michichi turned pale with fright when he saw that he had stepped on a mouse. He asked in a trembling voice, "This mouse...couldn't it be the one we let go just now?"
Ma Tuanye quickly stood up and held up a flashlight to search for the crack in the stone where the mouse ran in, but there was no sign of the mouse anywhere.
Ma Tuanye frowned and shined a flashlight on Nobuo Nobuo's feet, and said in a deep voice, "Probably not. A mouse from such a long distance wouldn't come back so quickly. Did it bite you?"
Nobuo Michio was so frightened that he trembled and said hurriedly: "No, no, I just stepped on it and was startled by it."
The soldiers of Unit 731 are very aware of how the army handles soldiers who are accidentally infected with the virus. If conditions permit, of course they will actively treat them. If conditions do not exist, superior officers will immediately execute the infected soldiers and use Dispose of the body by burying it deeply or burning it.
Now we are at the forefront, which is the kind of situation where there are no conditions.
Ma Tuanye shined a flashlight on the face of Nobuo Nobuo, who was already sweating profusely, and ordered with a dark face: "Pull up your trouser legs and let me check."
Under the pressure of Ma Tuanyo, Nobuo Yoshichi closed his eyes and pulled up his trouser legs, silently praying in his heart that the damn mouse would never bite his skin.
Looking at the two rows of clear rat-tooth marks and the oozing blood on Nobuo Michi's calf, Ma Tuanye frowned, hesitated for a moment, took out the bastard bastard from the holster, turned the handle of the gun upside down and handed it to Nobuo Michi: "Michi-kun, you Kill yourself, I will report to the military that you died in battle."
Nobuo Michichi looked at Ma Tuanyo with a pale face and begged: "Captain, you just said that this rat should not be the one we released. Give me three days to kill myself if I am infected." It’s not too late.”
"Yes, Captain, maybe the ones Michi-kun stepped on were not the ones we let go, so just give him a chance." Several more people begged Nobuo Michi for mercy.
Ma Tuanye pondered for a moment, put away the gun, looked at Nobuo Nobuo and ordered: "Put on the chemical protective clothing. From now on, you are not allowed to take off the chemical protective clothing, and you are not allowed to take off the gas mask to eat or drink. Three days later If you are not infected, I apologize and buy you some sake."
"Hi, hi, thank you very much, captain." Nobuo Yoshichi bowed repeatedly and hurriedly put on the wet chemical protective suit again and put on the gas mask again.
Ma Tuanye stared at Nobuo Nobuo, who was dressed neatly, and ordered with a dark face: "Don't rest anymore, speed up and return to the camp."
The person who spread the plague was bitten by a rat. The officers and soldiers of Unit 731 were extremely depressed. How could they think of sitting in the wilderness and resting.
The group hurriedly packed up their equipment and returned to the camp carrying the empty rat cage.
The commander of Shinzo Koizumi's brigade, who had been waiting at the camp for a long time, heard that the people from Unit 731 were back and sent a message to Ma Tuanye to see him.
Ma Tuanye soon arrived at the tunnel where Koizumi Shinzo lived. Koizumi Shinzo looked up and looked at Ma Tuanye with a smile on his face and asked: "Is the operation going well? Did any accidents happen?"
Ma Tuanye stood at attention and reported: "Everything went well."
Madanye concealed the fact that Nobuo Nobuo was bitten by a rat. After all, it was so far away from the place where they released the mice infected with Yersinia pestis. There was a high possibility that the rat that bit Nobuo Nobuo was an uninfected rat.
Shinzo Koizumi hates and fears the people of Unit 731 from the bottom of his heart, but he is still very polite on the surface.
Shinzo Koizumi hummed: "As long as everything goes well, I've asked someone to prepare supper and sake for you. Go and rest."
"Hi", Ma Tuanye saluted and turned to leave.
Before Unit 731 took action, Shinzo Koizumi had already sprinkled mothballs in the tunnels and fortifications according to Unit 731's instructions. Now the entire tunnel smells of mothballs, which is also one of the most annoying smells for rats. There is no need to worry about those. Rats infected with Yersinia pestis ran to the Japanese army's positions.
