Chapter 120: Circumstance (1)
After repeated negotiations and negotiations, the German consul, who had already received instructions from Germany, finally relented and agreed that the Japanese troops stationed in Nanjing should organize an inspection team to enter the two refugee camps of the Women's College and Xiaofenqiao to conduct searches. "Gentlemen, although the Committee has allowed your inspection team to enter the camp, if you want to take people from the camp, you must first inform the members of the Committee, and only if the members of the Committee unanimously agree with your verdict will they agree to your removal."
Hogg, as the vice president of the Security Zone Committee, gave full play to his role in the face of the aggressiveness of the Japanese army, but the angry Japanese army had no way to deal with Hogg, who had German nationality. Lu Yuan, who was seriously injured, had already been able to move freely on the ground, and Luca, who learned the news, sent someone to send a set of SS uniforms, and Lu Yuan was overjoyed, and walked around the women's college in SS uniforms all day.
Most of the Japanese military inspection teams that entered the women's college were Japanese female doctors and nurses who were temporarily transferred, and the rest were Japanese military reporters wearing press cards. Blocked from the refugee camp, the Japanese army was actually very interested in the two international security zones, the Women's College and Xiaofenqiao, but when their inspection team entered the women's college, they found that the refugee camp that they thought was very mysterious was actually not mysterious.
As Lu Yuan had predicted, after the Japanese inspection team entered the women's college, they directly gathered the adults among the refugees, and then screened out the young adults. For the young and strong men screened, the Japanese inspection team mainly inspected the palms and shoulder blades of these refugees, and checked whether the palms, index fingers and shoulder blades of the other party had calluses and traces. The Japanese army did not know that long before they entered the city on a large scale, Lu Yuan had already organized people to send the young refugees to Jiangbei on a large scale, and most of the people who were currently stranded in the refugee camp were old and weak, women and children, and even if they were screened out by the Japanese army, most of them were injured or disabled.
Looking at the group of young and strong men who have been screened, not to mention the foreign reporters specially invited by Hogg, even the Japanese inspection team will not judge these people as the rout of the national army. I don't know if the Japanese military exerted too much pressure behind the scenes, and failed to search the inspection team of the national army from the Xiaofanqiao refugee camp, and actually judged more than a dozen gray-haired civilians to be the national army's rout.
"NO NO, LADIES, THEY ARE DEFINITELY NOT SOLDIERS, AND WE WILL NEVER LET YOU TAKE THEM IF YOU CAN'T COME UP WITH A CONVINCING REASON." Rabe, who was specifically in charge of the affairs of the Xiaofenqiao refugee camp, shook his head and motioned to the assembled guards to protect the civilians who had been screened by the Japanese inspection team. Rabe's stubbornness seemed to infuriate the Japanese officer who led the team, and this guy with a long line of horizontal flesh immediately drew his command knife and slashed it at one of the civilians in front of Rabe.
"Bang" At the same time that the civilian who had been frightened stupid subconsciously closed his eyes, a gunshot suddenly sounded in the originally noisy open space, and with a crisp sound of "dang", only half of the command knife in the hand of the Japanese officer was left. "Nani?" Looking at the remaining half of the command knife in his hand, the Japanese officer, who was originally full of madness in his eyes, was also stunned, and then turned his head to look to his right, just in time to see a young man in a German SS uniform chuckling at himself, and the young man happened to be carrying a pistol in his hand.
"Stop, stand still." Before the Japanese officer pointed the broken knife in his hand at Lu Yuan, four German soldiers in German military uniforms had already surrounded him, and while shouting angrily at the Japanese officer, the submachine gun in his hand had also been flattened and pointed at the Japanese officer's body. Faced with the four submachine guns that had already been loaded with bullets, the Japanese officer who was furious in his heart had to temporarily suppress the anger in his heart and gently threw the half of the command knife in his hand at his feet.
"Ladies and gentlemen, please remember that this is an international security zone. Since the banner of the great Germany was hoisted here, the Führer's great will would exist with it, and the SS would never allow anyone to tarnish the Führer's great will. Seeing that the Japanese officer had been subdued, Lu Yuan smiled slightly, put the pistol back in the holster on his waist, and then shouted loudly to the Japanese inspection team and those foreign reporters in proficient German.
Lu Yuan is now wearing the uniform of the German SS and defending the will of Germany and the Führer, which is naturally an unshirkable duty, even if some people in the Japanese inspection team doubt Lu Yuan's identity, they can't find Lu Yuan's flaws for a while. More than a dozen civilians who had been screened out by the Japanese inspection team were forcibly left in the refugee camp, because the Japanese inspection team could not give a valid certificate, and in the face of the aggressive Lu Yuan and those foreign journalists who had been watching from the sidelines, the Japanese inspection team had no choice but to suspend the screening and search.
"Baga, that damn SS second lieutenant is obviously a Zhi Na man, when will there be a Zhi Na officer in the German SS Army?" Sagawa Yasan who was driven out of the Xiaofenqiao refugee camp by German soldiers was very annoyed, he was entrusted with a heavy task by his superiors, not only did he not complete the task, but even the family heirloom saber became a remnant, Sagawa Yasuken already hated Lu Yuan to the bone in his heart, and he hated to lead the soldiers to forcibly arrest Lu Yuan from the refugee camp, and then cut off the other party's head with his own hands to relieve his hatred.
The inspection team failed to complete the task, and the disgraced Yasuken Sagawa reported the situation to his superiors, and the report was handed over to the Japanese commander Matsui Ishone. The Japanese army fought fiercely with the Chinese army in Shanghai for three months, and in the end only suffered more than 40,000 casualties, and the battle of Nanjing, which lasted only a week, caused nearly 30,000 casualties among the Japanese troops attacking Nanjing, of which the two infantry companies under the command of the 16th Division were almost completely wiped out, and after the Japanese army entered the city, the sporadic resistance in the city has not stopped, which is absolutely unacceptable to Matsui Ishone.
The 16th Division, which suffered the heaviest casualties, tried to search for and disperse the Nationalist army throughout the city, but most of the people in the city had already fled Nanjing, and the only place where there were a large number of Nanjing residents was the two so-called international safety zones of the Women's College and Xiaofenqiao. The flags of various countries hanging on the periphery of the international security zone are densely packed, the most conspicuous of which is the German Nazi flag, and there are even heavily armed German soldiers guarding the perimeter of the security zone.
The existence of the International Security Zone was a headache for Matsui, who suspected that the security zone would contain the scattered national troops, but on the other hand, he also agreed with the good deeds of the security zone to contain civilians in the city, believing that the war should not involve innocent civilians. However, the demands of the 16th Division and other participating units could not be treated with caution by Matsui Ishine, as the supreme commander, and if the backlash of the soldiers could not be appeased, the morale of the troops might continue to be low.
"Boss, the Japanese army has sent troops to block all the passages to the outside of the refugee camp on the grounds of protecting the refugee camp and at the street entrance, even if the committee members and reporters want to go out, they must have a special pass issued by the Japanese army headquarters to pass." Lu Yuan, who has nothing to do, is playing games with a group of children, but the angry Schuchmann brings him bad news.
"Relax, Schuchmann, relax." Lu Yuan didn't feel flustered or angry at all, and persuaded Schuchman with a smile. "The Japanese army sent troops to block the external access to the refugee camp, which already shows that they are already panicking, because they have no way to deal with us, so they resort to such a trick. If you calm down and think about it carefully, we have no shortage of food or supplies here, even if we are blockaded by the Japanese army all the time, what can we do? Could it be that they will stay outside for the rest of their lives? ”
Lu Yuan's words instantly woke up Shu Heman, yes, a large amount of food and materials have already been prepared in the refugee camp, and the refugee camp with concentrated personnel can also raise poultry and grow vegetables on its own, even if the passage from the refugee camp to the outside world is all blocked by the Japanese army, they can hold out for at least half a year. Matsui thought that after he sent troops to block all the passages from the refugee camp to the outside world, the so-called security zone committee would send people to him to beg for mercy, but things were somewhat unexpected, and three days later, the international security zone committee did not send anyone to him at all.
"Nani? The refugee camp is ploughing the land, and they are ready to raise poultry and grow vegetables? The news from the search team made Matsui Ishine cry and laugh, and he sent troops to block the external passage of the refugee camp, and the other party opened up the wasteland in the refugee camp to grow vegetables and raise poultry. Matsui Ishone, who didn't have a better way, had to give up this method of persecuting the other party, after all, there were still a large number of corpses and ruins in the city that needed to be cleaned up, and there were a lot of people in the two refugee camps in the city.
"No problem, we can send people to clean up the corpses and rubble in the city, but you must be paid in the form of a hired man, with food and necessities, and the committee will soon form a labor management office, all labor must be under the jurisdiction of the labor management office of this safe zone, and your army is only responsible for on-site vigilance." According to Lu Yuan's confession, Hogg, who negotiated with the Japanese army on behalf of the security zone, argued with reason, and while agreeing to transfer labor to clean up the city, he also obtained the right to independently govern the labor in the security zone from Matsui Shigen.
"Cleaning up the city according to the requirements of the Japanese army is not to be the dog's leg of the Japanese, there are a large number of bones of soldiers and civilians in the city who are ignored, and if we ignore them, they will only become food for wild dogs. And after the New Year, the weather will slowly get hotter, and there are too many corpses in the city, and there is likely to be an outbreak of plague, even if it is for our own sake, those corpses need to be cleaned up immediately. There were many excuses to persuade the refugees, but Hogg gave them the most direct one.