Chapter 84 The Way of Respecting the Enemy

"The solidity of golden soup is not guarded by millet; Han Bai's courage is not to fight without grain."

Anyone in [***] can easily say this sentence. The experience of attacking and defending the field again and again in history tells them the role of food on the battlefield.

Even if a city is solid, it can't be defended if there is no food; Han and Bai, the two generals in ancient times, Han Fei and Bai Qi, even if they are as resourceful and brave as they are, they can't win the battle without food. As long as the army still exists, the army and the people will eat, and the food will only be eaten less and less.

"If the people have no food, they should rebel, and if the soldiers have no food, they should disperse!"

It is based on the understanding of this sentence that as early as more than a month ago, the conflict broke out on the first day of the first month. After the Guards formed a siege of the Manchurian army in Tieling, although a passageway was opened, the passage retreated into the mountains that were easy to defend and difficult to attack. For the dead land, supplies, the mountain roads were difficult to travel, and the transportation was difficult, let alone War materials are a problem to guarantee the food of 200,000 Manchurian troops.

But even so, for layers of shells and shells from time to time, Dashanyan, as the commander of the Manchurian Army, has to give priority to the supply of ammunition, followed by food. At this time, the "hunger-resistant" training carried out all day long, this soldier, the previous training will finally come in handy, and the food is halved, for For Japanese soldiers who have long been used to hunger, although it is unbearable, it is still bearable.

But fifteen days ago, with a burst of incendiary bombs from long-range artillery, the burning fire of more than a dozen warehouses was finally extinguished, but the grain stored in every effort turned into coke. Then, the news of the formation of a full encirclement came, not to mention the one-in-a-meter that made them hungry before. After being surrounded for ten days, there was not even half of everyone's food every day.

"The food is exhausted!"

After a telegram five days ago was sent from the Japanese military headquarters in Tieling City, the surrounded Japanese soldiers immediately fell into a real hunger. Inside and outside Tieling City, the hungry Japanese soldiers went to grab each other when they saw the chimneys there. For a little food, the hungry Japanese soldiers would even beat each other. Get up. In order to cook the robbed food, they will cut down trees, demolish houses, and cook.

But what can happen when there is no food?

On the Tieling front line, the two sides have only a hundred meters recently. They can see what food they eat. If their arms are slightly stronger, they can throw a grenade into the other party's trench.

On the plain of the flat river, the warm spring breeze is blowing green grass and colorful flowers. Flowers and green grass cover the traffic trenches leading to the front, and the end is a hundred-mile-long trench, with barbed wire on the edge of the ditch. The wind blew the vines onto the barbed wire, and ** flowers were blooming on the barbed wire.

Lying in the wet trench, Yoshida Shen Ze knew "hunger" in his mind for the first time.

Born in a businessman's family in Tokyo, he only learned that there was hunger when he was studying, but now this empty stomach really tells him what hunger is!

Maybe this is the most uncomfortable feeling!

The two legs can't stand it anymore. The hair is floating, and it's like being filled with lead. As soon as you move, you will sweat all over. Your eyes are hungry with golden flowers, lying in the trench. Yitian Shen will think of the city as soon as he sees the bird.

Now Yoshida often dreams of becoming a bird, flying, flying, flying over Tieling, flying over Manchuria and North Korea, flying back to Tokyo where he raised him, and then at home, eating the fragrant birthday food made by his mother, maybe... he drooling, maybe feeling I was just an extravagant hope. I began to fantasize about the civilian food my mother said, such as salted fish, Chen rice and radishes. It would be great if he could put a plate in front of him now!

Why did you come to Manchuria to fight? What if it's to help China? Then why does China want them to surround them? Why don't Japan and China work together to expose the Chinese people? These question marks are like the golden flowers in front of you when you are hungry. Yi Tianshen couldn't figure it out, but now he has identified one thing, which is going to be finished.

If there is no food, soon they will starve to death in Manchuria, China!

Will you really starve to death here? Fear spread in Yitian Shenze's heart. He knew that he would starve to death earlier than others, because he was not good at fighting. That's why he was as hungry as he is now.

If I starved to death, maybe... A scene of people competing for corpses and eating human flesh appeared in his mind. When the fear spread in his heart, he saw a black spot in the air falling towards him.

"Zi..."

The grenade dragging the sound of smoke was thrown into the opposite trench. After a dull explosion, there was a scream in the smoke rising. While the smoke had not been blown away, a group of hungry soldiers with tattered military uniforms rushed to the smoke, and the moan turned into a begging voice, and the voice disappeared soon. Lost. I lost it.

The soldiers with bayonets rushed up like wolves and wolves. The soldiers rushed up in order to compete for the bodies. They waved the bayonets in their hands and rushed to the corpses as if they were fighting on the battlefield. The hungry soldiers instinctively cut the human flesh with bayonets, in front of them. This scene is more thrilling than any hand-to-hand combat, and more fierce and cruel than any war.

In order to be able to grab the body, the soldiers forgot to hide. When they folded people and grabbed the body, they squeezed out a sneer's lips 100 meters away from the shooter with a light machine gun. They waited for this moment. When the horizon flashed blue, the gun sounded, and when the gunfire sounded, There were a few more corpses and groans of wounded soldiers in the trenches, but the next second, the more fierce crazy robbery began again.

"Turtle son, remember to eat or not!"

A heavy machine gun aimed at the heavy machine gun shooters who shot out half of their heads or half of their bodies. He muttered in his mouth that he had never suffered from real hunger. How could he know that hunger is the most insurmountable enemy of human beings? In many cases, it is far more terrible than death. The instinctive reaction will make people Forget death and all the morals in the world.

As long as you can have a bite of rice! Even if you can take a bite before you die!

When they shot at the trench of the Japanese army, the surface in the trench was completely messed up. The soldiers who cut the human flesh with bayonets cut the meat like hungry wolves and stuffed them directly into their mouths. Even some people who came late scrambled for food and those people. When they were fighting crazily, people kept being When the bullet shot from the opposite side hit, a piece of fragrant meat once again became the reason for the soldiers to tear up, and everyone even lifted up their comrades-in-arms around them for food. After he was killed by the bullet, they would tear the body of the deceased.

If it goes on like this, there must be a big mess.

An officer who was also tortured by hunger took out a Meiji Sany rotary pistol and fired a gun in the air, but the soldiers still kept tearing for a mouthful of meat. Finally, the unbearable officer picked up the gun and fired two shots at the head of a soldier who was grabbing the body. His brain splashed, but he couldn't. Blocking the chaos in the trenches, the dead have become the source of chaos.

Until the third person was killed, the situation was finally under control. In addition to the bloody soldiers in the trench, there were dozens of dismembered and scraped bodies. Although the soldiers were quiet, they still chewed human flesh in their mouths, and hunger had already made them lose the end. A trace of human conscience.

"If the Chinese call now!"

The scene in front of him made him almost unable to believe that this was what the imperial army had done. Hunger was running out of the army little by little... Standing in the trench, he did not realize that when he was standing there, he showed half of his head, let alone that his head had been trapped. Within the line of the scope.

With a "bang" of gunshots, a blood fog gushed out from the other end of the officer's military cap, his brain splashed, and the body slowly fell next to the skeleton of the scraped meat, and the eyes of the soldiers who were chewing human flesh appeared again. That was food!

"Commander, let's eat something,"

A staff officer brought a bag of biscuits and a jar of tea to Dashanyan. As the commander of the Manchurian Army, he now at least doesn't need to eat human flesh.

Taking the bag of biscuits, Dashanyan immediately devoured his stomach, and then drank a few cups of tea. Then he walked out of the house and looked at the fields in the northeast: there were gray-brown fields and willow forests called "willows" by the locals. The low farmhouse looked like a few adobe piled on the ground from a distance... Could it? Do you say that this is the place where you are buried?

At this time, the mountain rock has completely lost the look of enthusiasm after the end of the Fengtian Campaign. If those [***] observers are still in Tieling, they will be surprised to see his change at this time. The beard has become whiter, the same is also more messy, and the people have become thinner. Even those resolute eyes are full of unwillingness, and there are painful eyes hidden in unwillingness!

What kind of look is this?

If Marshal Mochi of Germany were alive, when he saw the mountain rock at this time, he would definitely find that his eyes were very familiar, so similar to McMahon, which was a desperate, painful, unwilling but helpless look.

But compared with McMahon's despair, there is a trace of despair in the eyes of Dashanyan. In fact, after half a day of discussion, the division heads of each division have reached an agreement that if there is no optimistic news coming tomorrow, in order to prevent the Manchurian army from starving to death in the northeast, in order to maintain the emperor of the empire. The glory of the army, the whole army launched a "jade" attack on the Chinese position!

Yes!

This is the difference between the commanders of the East and the commanders of the West. When McMahon knew that he was surrounded in a desperate situation, what came to his mind was surrender. At this time, what came to his mind was the last "brave and decisive" attack to prove to the world that the emperor's army. Brave.

"Xiao Yan's tough..."

Although he had made a decision in his heart, Da Shanyan kept muttering his opponent's name on his lips. Until now, he only knew that his opponent's name was Xiao Yuren. He graduated from the West Virginia Military Academy in the United States. He was once the director of the professor department of Huangpu Sports School and a confidant of the Chinese emperor. Other than that, I know nothing about him.

I don't even know what he looks like, and this is what Dashanyan feels regretful about. An enemy he has never met has taken away all his glory on the battlefield, and then left endless shame to himself.

At this time, the big mountain rock standing in the open space in front of the command post never expected that when he was standing here thinking about his opponent, in a bunker in the trench of the Guards more than ten kilometers away, a general in a straight general's uniform was lying under the mirror of the artillery to observe the defense line of the Japanese army, and this person was He muttered that he had never met an opponent... Xiao Yanren.

"Command the 3rd Artillery Division to keep five minutes of forward shooting, each time..."

Xiao Yuren looked at his pocket watch, and then raised his head.

"Two quick shots at a time, 2 hours apart! From now on, add five minutes each time, and ten minutes after the third time..."

Weird order, if it were to be another battlefield, the observers in the bunker would definitely mutter like this, but at this time, anyone can feel the cruelty in this order.

The vast majority of these observers were a few days ago. Tieling was completely cut off from food and held a white flag. After the two armies negotiated, they crossed the defense lines of the two armies and turned into military observers on the Chinese side. Although they said that they had swore with the honor of soldiers that they would never reveal the information of the Japanese army, and unexpectedly, Xiao Wei Resilience didn't even ask. That's why they called "General Xiao a real gentleman and soldier."

It's just that the gentleman also has his cruel side, just like the order of this matter.

"General, your order will lead to a massacre!"

British [***] Observer Ian? Hamilton expressed his protest with dissatisfaction. He, who came back from Dashanyan, would not know that the current Japanese soldier even fought for a corpse, and Xiao Yuren's order was to send the body to the Japanese army. He did not want to conquer the army's defense line at all, but to let him... They killed each other.

"Slaughter?"

Xiao Yu raised his eyebrows and then laughed.

"Mr. Hamilton, what would you do if it were you?"

"General, you should write a letter of persuasion to Marshal Dashan!"

Ian? Hamilton said seriously.

"No!"

Shaking his head, Xiao Yuren glanced at the Japanese military position, and then looked at the Western officers.

"If I had fought with the armies of other countries, I would have written a letter of persuasion, but for Marshal Dashan!"

Xiao Yu's words even have a trace of respect, whether it is false or serious, at least he shows this attitude.

"If I hand over a letter of persuasion to Marshal Dashan, I think it must be the greatest insult to Marshal Dashan himself. As a soldier, although we are the enemy, I must still maintain the glory of Marshal Dashan!"

"Glory?"

"Lt. Col. Hamilton, whether in the Japanese army or the Chinese army, has a saying "not a prisoner for life". For oriental soldiers, being a prisoner of the enemy country is a great shame for soldiers. If I write a letter of persuasion, it is an insult to Marshal Dashan. I am questioning his military honor!"

When Xiao Yuren said this, there was a trace of sadness on his face.

"As a soldier, I can only maintain the reputation of Marshal Dashan as much as possible. Of course, to some extent, I hope that he can choose to surrender for the sake of the fate of the soldiers, and at least order the troops to surrender before committing suicide. Therefore, I can only do everything possible to put pressure on him!"

Perhaps when he saw that he noticed that the strange colors on the faces of those military observers did not seem to talk much, but Xiao Yuren bowed to them and whispered.

"You have witnessed the bravery of the Japanese army. I hope that when you write this battle in the future, you must give a pertinent evaluation to Marshal Dashan and the soldiers of the Japanese army!"

Xiao Yu's generosity surprised everyone. They looked at the young and almost incredible general with surprise or understanding. No one refused his request. The honor of the soldiers asked them to truthfully record the heroic performance of the two [***] teams in the war.

"Your Excellency, please rest assured that we will truthfully record the heroic behavior of your army and the Japanese army!"

Their answer is in exchange for Xiao Yu's sneer in his heart. When he vilifies the enemy and dwarfs the enemy, he dwarfs himself at the same time, describing the enemy's incompetence, and will also show his incompetence. These officers can praise how brave the Japanese army is and how good at fighting in the future, but in the end... defeat They are the middle [***] team, so the middle [***] team is far stronger than the Japanese army. To mock the enemy, that is the stupidest person, the stupidest thing to do, not dare to face the enemy's bravery, is the act of a coward.

On the other hand, the best way to respect your opponents is to destroy them and achieve their "loyalty" with death!

At this time, the explosion sounded, and the smoke once again enveloped the front line of the Japanese army. The shelling came quickly, just like Xiao Yuren's order, only fired two shells, just to add a little food to the Japanese army.

"Well, gentlemen, I'm really sorry. I have other things to deal with!"

After apologizing with everyone, Xiao Yiren left the front shelter and began to prepare for tomorrow's affairs. Now, as the commander of the war zone, he needs to coordinate the combat matters of the three legions, and what he is most concerned about is North Korea, which is the top priority of this war.

Just after he left the shelter, the staff officer sent him a telegram just taken from the Nanjing General Staff.

"Substantial progress has been made in the negotiations, and major concessions have been made. Some food can be provided to the besieged Japanese army at the right time and in the appropriate name. The required expenses shall be handled by the Japanese side..."

(to be continued)