Chapter 561: Jade Crushing Preparation

It's just that for Kawa Nami, although he really wanted to do this in his heart, it was quite a shame to leave the troops who were still insisting on resisting to escape by himself, and it was a shame for him as a lieutenant general of the Imperial Japanese Army. The most critical thing is to escape alone without receiving the order of the Kwantung Army, which is against the so-called military morality in his heart.

Go, I can't go now. Fighting, according to the current strength, I am afraid that it will not last too long. For Lieutenant General Kawanami Mitsu, it is now a dilemma. If the reinforcements are still delayed, then after the remaining 1,000 or so defenders have consumed the embers, what awaits them is probably to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor. As a typical Japanese soldier, being a prisoner is absolutely unacceptable to Kawanami.

After a moment's hesitation, Lieutenant General Kawanami ordered the destruction of all weapons and equipment that had run out of ammunition. Whether it's artillery, machine guns, even a rifle, you have to blow them all up. At the same time, all non-combatants were issued weapons and all rushed to the front line to participate in the fighting.

As for the people who can still move, and can still lie down in the fortifications and shoot outward, as long as the injuries are not slightly injured in the eyes, all of them will go to the front-line position. Even if the injured part is the eye, as long as you have no problems with your hands and feet, you can still charge with grenades.

Even the seriously wounded, who were awake and conscious, were carried out into the street and given explosive packs or grenades to be used as fixed meat bombs. As for the seriously wounded, who were no longer of any use, the military police assisted them in their devotion to the Emperor. He also strictly ordered all the officers and soldiers in the city not to throw away any barricades or fortifications until all the jade was broken.

In order to make up for the shortage of troops, Lieutenant General Kawa Mi issued an order for all the garrison troops to be crushed, and once again issued a conscription order. The entire gendarmerie of the city was ordered to be dispatched to recruit soldiers from among the expatriates once again. Unlike the last time, when only young and middle-aged people were recruited, this time the age of recruiting expatriates in the city to participate in the war was relaxed to the point that there was almost no scale.

All the expatriates who can still move are under the age of sixty-five, and over the age of thirteen, anyway, as long as you are a man, all of them are added to the battlefield. Men over the age of sixteen were each given one rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition, and each man under the age of sixteen was given two grenades.

And those old and weak women and children who really can't go to the battlefield are given a grenade for every three people. Of course, the grenades given to the women were used to save themselves from being insulted by the enemy. There were also those seriously wounded, who were no longer of any use, and the gendarmes also helped them to be loyal to the emperor.

In a word, if reinforcements arrive late or there is no order to break out, then none of the Japanese in Tongliao City can fall into the resistance alliance. To use the slogan he shouted, the more than 4,000 Japanese in Tongliao City, including the remnants of the garrison and all the old and weak women and children, were broken into pieces.

Of course, the 10,000 people are clearly exaggerating the numbers. Tongliao, a small county town, no matter how important the location is, is not comparable to Jiamusi, Qiqihar, Sunwu and Harbin in North Manchuria. There are not no Japanese civilians in the city, but there are not that many of them.

Excluding the hundreds who have been honorably martyred on the front line of Kongjiawobao, there are only less than 3,000 people. 10,000 people is just a slogan shouted by Chuan and Mi. Just like a few years later, the Japanese, who were almost blown up, shouted out the sentence of 100 million total jade pieces, and the water was quite adulterated.

After issuing a series of orders to prepare to break the cauldron and sink the boat, all the jade was broken, and Kawa Mimi handed over the command to the senior combat staff officer of the division, and he was also the highest-ranking Japanese army in the entire Tongliao City. He was instructed not to disturb himself as long as the enemy did not reach the division headquarters. Go back to your office and slam the door shut.

For him, it is clear that the current stubborn resistance can only be described as a dying struggle. He knew that even if the Fifth Division was dispatched immediately, he was afraid that it would not be able to save the fate of the Fourteenth Division. Those rice buckets of the Kwantung Army were delayed for too long before. For the Tongliao battlefield, unless the divine soldiers descend from the sky, it will be too late for any rescue operation now.

Sitting in the large chair in his office, brought from the mainland, listening to the dense gunfire not far from the window, Chuan did not have a fake hand, and carefully wiped the Browning gun in his hand. After wiping, another bullet was loaded with the same carefully wiped bullets.

This pistol is very meaningful to Kawanami. Not only did he have a multi-pistol with better performance than the Japanese army's standard Southern Type 14 pistol, replacing the southern pistol he wore when he was the wing commander, but also saving him more than 100 yen in the purchase cost of the pistol. And for Kawa Nami, this pistol also bears witness to his so-called great exploits on the battlefield of China.

According to the regulations of the Japanese army, an officer's personal equipment and military uniforms such as pistols, sabers, binoculars, and compasses are all military uniforms. In other words, these things are not uniformly distributed by the state, and they need to be paid for by the officers themselves. Only the pistols and sabers of non-commissioned officers and soldiers were dispensed with official supplies and were issued free of charge by the army.

When officers graduate from the non-commissioned officer academy, they are given 350 yen per person for the purchase of military uniforms. The money for the purchase of sabers, binoculars, compasses, pistols, and various equipment required by the army, such as picture bags required by officers, as well as various military uniforms, was paid here.

Just a complete set of picture bags required by Japanese military officers cost 40 yen. A Southern Type 14 pistol costs seventy-five yen. Combined with other personal equipment such as sabers, binoculars, and military uniforms, which are also expensive, 350 yen is barely enough.

In addition to the uniform and personal equipment required by the unified style, the Japanese army did not enforce the uniform system for the pistols and sabers used by officers. Anyway, the money will give you so much, what kind of pistol you are willing to buy is your personal will, and the army does not interfere. The Southern Type 14 pistols were issued to soldiers and officers as official rations, and were not required to be purchased by officers.

If you have the money, you can go to a high-end clothing store and order hand-sewn military uniforms. If there is an ancestral so-called handmade sword, then the saber can also be purchased without it. As for the pistol, you can choose the Japanese standard Southern 14th style or Meiji 26th style pistol, then you can also choose a series of imported high-end goods such as Browning, Colt, Walter, Beretta pistol, etc.

Of course, those new officers with good family conditions and senior officers with relatively good salaries generally buy imported pistols as their own matching guns to show that they are different. It's just that imported pistols are expensive, and a Browning M-1900 pistol costs as much as 110 yen, and ordinary middle- and lower-ranking officers don't dare to ask about it at all.

Senior officers of the Japanese army generally did not wear the Japanese standard pistol such as the Southern 14 pistol, which was only worn by middle and lower-ranking officers and non-commissioned officers of the Japanese army. Middle- and lower-ranking officers with modest salaries could not afford expensive imported pistols, so they had to buy the cheaper Nanbu Type 14 pistol, which was only 75 yen.

For senior officers, wearing this combat pistol, which is also worn by non-commissioned officers and machine gun co-shooters, is a very degrading thing to be a general or a big one. Therefore, the senior officers of the Japanese army generally wore the European and American brand-name goods they bought. In particular, the Belgian Browning pistol and the American Colt pistol, which came out of the same door, were quite popular with high-ranking Japanese officers.

Of course, this kind of pistol, which costs hundreds of yen at every turn, is not a burden for a high-ranking officer who earns five or six thousand yen a year. For middle- and lower-ranking officers who do not have high salaries, especially those ordinary officers who have no extra money to fish, they generally choose the Southern Type 14 pistol.

However, those children of wealthy families with strong family backgrounds usually spend a lot of money to buy an expensive imported pistol as a self-defense weapon. It's just that a considerable number of high-ranking Japanese officers who have been promoted since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War have had an additional source channel compared with the old-timers before the war, that is, foreign pistols imported by the Chinese army were captured on the battlefield.

Years of warlord warfare and loose gun control have made the number of pistols in the hands of Chinese unusually large. Moreover, as long as there are military pistols in various countries, they can basically be found in China. Because of its excellent performance, the Browning pistol is extremely favored by some wealthy people and middle and senior military officers in China.

Not to mention middle and high-ranking officers, even those so-called gangsters, celebrities, and even courtesans such as high-ranking dancers have also engaged in a weapon of self-defense. Being able to own a Browning pistol, no matter what brand, is quite a face-saving thing.

The three most popular pistols are all from the Browning series. Among them, the Colt M1903 pistol, which is called the Continental brand, is actually the American brand of Browning's pistol of the same series. The Japanese also captured quite a few of these pistols on the battlefield.

In view of the fact that the Japanese standard Southern Type 14 pistol was of no use except for high accuracy. So not only high-ranking officers, but also low-ranking officers kept the captured Chinese army pistols for their own use. The Browning M-1903 pistol, which costs as much as 180 yen in the mainland, was captured from a captured lieutenant colonel of the Nationalist Army when he participated in the Battle of Wuhan when he was the commander of the Sixth Wing.

The unlucky guy was taken prisoner, and this portable gun, which had not yet been fired, naturally became a trophy of the Japanese army. For a high-end item like a Browning pistol, if Lieutenant General Kawanami wanted to buy it in China, he would have to pay 180 yen. With this high-performance, crucial and white trophy, he naturally used it as a portable gun.

It's just that when he seized this pistol, he never thought that this pistol would be shot at someone for the first time in his hands, and the target would probably be his own head. In other words, the first actual combat after he got this pistol was to be used to commit suicide.

Looking at the pistol in his hand, which was wiped by himself, it was almost spotless, and its appearance was far more beautiful than the Southern Type 14 pistol, and the performance was much better. Thinking that the 7.65 bullet fired from this gun would not be long in the future, it would make a fatal hole in his head, and Lieutenant General Kawanami had mixed feelings in his heart at this time.

Back then, the Kwantung Army swept through Manchuria with less than 20,000 troops. Japan, which used less than one-third of its national strength, occupied most of China. But in less than a few years, the situation has been reversed. The Kwantung Army, which was majestic in the past, is now pressed by the despicable Shina people and the even more despicable Shina army.

In the Battle of Lanfeng that year, the 14th Division was majestic. Hundreds of thousands of Chongqing troops have no way to take the 14th Division with all their might. It has not been a few years since he was transferred to Manchuria, but his prestige has long ceased to be there. Last year's fiasco, the 14th Division lost seven out of ten of its troops. This year, the whole army has fallen, and all the jade is ready to be broken. Since the First Sino-Japanese Incident, when did the Kwantung Army and the 14th Division get mixed up in this step?