Chapter 141: Response
The two battalions, which had received timely reinforcements from Ho Zhishan, launched attacks from the front and right flanks of Yamato Park. After five hours of fierce fighting, Liu Guanghua's unit, which was trapped north of the Japanese military police and fought hard with the surrounding Japanese troops for more than six hours, was rescued from Liu Guanghua's unit, which had only one platoon left.
After joining up with the reinforced brother troops, Liu Guanghua led his troops to continue the battle with the brother troops, regardless of the casualties and fatigue after a long battle. There was no way, his instructor and all the wounded in the previous battle were still waiting for rescue in Okura Yoko on the bank of the Haihe River.
The result of the battle in Yamato Park not only freed He Zhishan's troops from Liu Guanghua's troops, who had few troops left, before the entire army was destroyed, but also completely shook the Japanese garrison system in the entire Japanese concession. The entire Japanese concession fell into an avalanche-like rapid collapse.
After capturing Yamato Park, the two battalions did not make any stops, but continued to fight fiercely around the perimeter using the street lights turned on by the Japanese army as an indication, and successively captured several important targets such as the Japanese gendarmerie and the Zhonghe Hospital on Rong Street. and also launched an attack on the front line of Renai Hospital to the east.
After the capture of Zhonghe Hospital, I looked at the basement of this hospital, which was full of large bottles containing human structures and a large number of so-called medical personnel wearing the uniforms of Japanese civilian personnel. Liu Guanghua finally understood why the Japanese army seemed to be dying, and concentrated a large number of troops to counterattack themselves who could not be more than one battalion.
Originally, the headquarters repeatedly ordered to look for it, and the bacteriological warfare unit of the Japanese North China Front Army was in this hospital that was even close at hand after crossing the Haihe River from itself. After discovering this result, Liu Guanghua urgently reported to the deputy commander in charge of the command of the 33rd Regiment, telling all other troops to be careful in the next battle......
If something is found to be wrong, burn it with a flamethrower. In particular, when capturing the entire hospital north of Mingshan Street in the Japanese Concession, whether it is opened by the Chinese, the Japanese, or other countries, it is necessary to be more careful. In particular, buildings such as basements are not allowed to enter. Regardless of whether there were Japanese troops in it or not, they were burned directly with flamethrowers.
After receiving Liu Guanghua's report, the deputy commander of the 33rd Regiment remembered the report from his superiors before the war. Without the slightest delay, he immediately gave a detailed briefing on Liu Guanghua's suggestion to all the participating troops. At the same time, a detailed briefing was also made to the higher authorities and friendly and neighboring troops.
It was with this order that the troops did not get into trouble when they captured the Renai Hospital, the bacteriological culture base of the Japanese army. Two barrels of gasoline and alcohol mixture were poured into the basement of the Renai Hospital, which was specially used by the Japanese army to plant bacteriological equipment, and then set fire to it with a flamethrower.
Because of his own unique experience, he was worried that the troops would encounter the Japanese army launching bacteriological warfare when the dog jumped over the wall, and that it might encounter the Japanese bacteriological warfare base. Therefore, after the expansion of the army, Yang Zhen has always paid attention to the defense against the use of bacteriological warfare by the Japanese army.
Not only have all the medical staff been trained accordingly, but even the hygienists of all the units of the Anti-Japanese Union have been trained to deal with the Japanese army's bacteriological warfare and are familiar with the equipment used by the Japanese army to cultivate bacteria. Each division was also equipped with corresponding medicines in the materials it carried for each battle.
At the same time, military commanders at all levels of the unit, including cadres at the company level, were also trained to identify the Japanese army's bacteriological culture equipment and to use animals for cultivating germs. Because Yang Zhen knew very well that the 731 and 100 troops that had been solved by themselves in the northeast were only part of the Japanese army's bacteriological warfare troops, or their backbone.
In addition to these two largest bacteriological warfare units, they also had several small bacteriological warfare units in the Guannai battlefield, which belonged to various armies of the Chinese Dispatch Army. In order to strengthen the combat capability of bacteriological warfare in various units, so that in the event of unfavorable combat conditions, bacteriological weapons can be used on a large scale.
Although it is not known how large the scale of the Japanese army's bacteriological warfare base in the Sekinai is, and where exactly is its location. However, judging from the location of the 731 and 100 troops, Yang Zhen should be the core city with the most heavily guarded Japanese army and convenient transportation.
Therefore, when entering the Guannai battlefield this time, especially in the Beiping and Tianjin battlefields, Yang Zhen specially convened a meeting of the chiefs of staff of various units at and above the regimental level, and repeatedly told all units participating in the battle to pay attention to searching for the bacteriological warfare bases that might exist in the Japanese army when attacking fortified cities in the city. Be careful in battle.
Once encountering a place suspected to be a Japanese bacteriological warfare base, whether it can be confirmed or not, it must be completely destroyed. For this reason, in the two major battlefields of Pingjin and Tianjin, Yang Zhen also specially transferred a part of the flamethrowers from the northeast to strengthen the troops in these two directions. Therefore, the troops participating in the two battlefields of Beiping and Tianjin were extremely cautious under Yang Zhen's repeated instructions.
After discovering the secrets of these two hospitals, without the slightest hesitation, they were immediately eliminated directly with a flamethrower. Although there was also a small basement in Renai Hospital, no one was sent down to verify whether it was a place used by the Japanese army's bacteriological warfare unit to cultivate bacteria.
But after receiving Liu Guanghua's report, the company commander who attacked Renai Hospital did not hesitate to directly use the gasoline and alcohol seized in this hospital and dump it into the basement that I don't know how deep, and lit a fire.
However, fortunately, the unit was more cautious, and the Japanese army of Renai Hospital, the so-called 1855th unit of the northern branch, struggled to the death before it was destroyed. Before there was time to destroy the evidence, all the cages and containers in the basement for the cultivation of cholera, plague, anthrax, typhoid and other viruses were opened. All the fleas and rats that were cultivated inside to cultivate viruses were released.
In contrast to Chung Ho Hospital, which was mainly used for pathological research and storage of specimens, Renai Hospital was mainly used for cultivating laboratory animals after being forcibly taken over by the Japanese army and the basement was greatly expanded. In the basement here, a large number of rats and fleas are contaminated with various malignant infectious diseases.
If it weren't for the discovery of the anomaly in the Zhonghe Hospital, the anti-United Nations attack force would have been vigilant and would have rushed into the basement and used fire to completely destroy these things. Whoever goes in will be bitten by fleas and rats that have spread all over the basement and are covered with viruses such as plague, typhoid fever, and cholera. And being run out by even a rat will bring devastating harm to the entire city of Tianjin.
Fortunately, the bacteriological warfare unit to which the Japanese North China Front belonged was delayed for too much time because of the continuous migration. And after moving to Tianjin, there are not many places to use it. The area of the site to choose from is small, the number of bacteria cultivated is not large, and the number of animals supplied to the experiment is not very large, so it does not cause excessive harm.
After receiving the report that the forward troops had discovered these two Japanese bacteriological warfare bases, Tao Jingfei immediately made an urgent report to Yang Zhen, who was about to return to Hejian. Hearing Tao Jingfei's report, Yang Zhen pondered for a moment, and immediately explained the three things Tao Jingfei was going to do.
The first thing to do was to immediately send people to interrogate all the Japanese captured from these two hospitals as quickly as possible, especially the commander of their troops, Eiji Nishimura. All necessary means can be used to find out whether the Japanese army has any other similar bases in Tianjin. How many bacteriological weapons did the Japanese army have stored in the city of Tianjin, and where was their location.
The second thing was for Tao Jingfei to immediately seal off the perimeter of these two hospitals. All the buildings of these two hospitals, as well as all the buildings of Yan Oi Medical from Nangaw Street in the east, Azuma Street in the west, south of Chim Shek Street, and north of Wing Street, were poured with gasoline and burned down to prevent all future troubles.
In Yang Zhen's view, no one can guarantee that all the bacteria cultivated by the Japanese army in these two hospitals have been eliminated? No one dares to guarantee it, and I'm afraid no one can. In particular, in the basement of Renai Hospital, none of the rats and fleas that were stained with malignant infectious diseases escaped. In particular, fleas are parasites that are difficult to see with the naked eye unless they crawl onto a person's body.
In order to ensure the safety of the citizens of Tianjin and the troops participating in the war, they would rather be scolded by the citizens of Tianjin, but also do not leave any troubles. At the same time, all residents who have been relocated from the vicinity of Renai Hospital will be immediately and forcibly quarantined. And when you move, you should not carry a single item of property except your clothes.
However, when setting a fire, it is necessary to isolate and be prepared. It is necessary to burn down all the houses in this area, but it is also important not to let the fire spread. This will allow the air force to use napalm to carry out low-altitude bombing of houses in the area to completely destroy all buildings.
The third thing was to order the troops participating in the battle for the two hospitals to immediately halt their advance and withdraw completely. When evacuating, do not evacuate on foot, and do not come into contact with any other troops while evacuating. The troops and all the residents in the surrounding area were evacuated by trucks with canvas. All combatants are to be quarantined and observed, and countermeasures are prepared. All weapons used, as well as military uniforms, are to be destroyed.
After explaining these three things, Yang Zhen immediately sent a report to the Northeast. The Northeast Bureau was required to quickly organize a group of medical personnel, mobilize a sufficient number of disinfectants and medicines, and airlift them to the Tianjin battlefield to prepare for emergencies. At the same time, a telegram was sent to the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region in Beiping, asking them to immediately mobilize a group of medical personnel from Beiping and raise a batch of bleaching powder and disinfectant to be urgently airlifted to Tianjin.
After personally drafting the telegram to the Northeast Bureau and the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, Yang Zhen personally asked for the air force to immediately send the best attack aircraft pilots. Prepare for attacks on targets designated by the ground forces, using napalm. Yang Zhen's order to the air force was to repeatedly attack in batches at ultra-low altitude, and it was necessary to completely ignite the designated target area.
During the operation, it is necessary to ensure that all napalm is thrown into the designated target area. Unable to completely ignite the target area, he had to punish the aviation commander of the Tianjin battlefield. But if a napalm falls somewhere other than the target area, he still has to give the aviation commander the most severe punishment.
This order is undoubtedly a huge risk for Yang Zhen. In a densely populated urban area like Tianjin, the use of napalm, a powerful incendiary bomb, will burn down half of Tianjin if it is not well controlled when it is thrown, or if emergency measures are not taken.
However, in order to avoid the emergence of large-scale infectious diseases in Tianjin after the war, especially plague and typhoid, two infectious diseases with extremely high mortality rates, Yang Zhen could not take much care of it. He would rather be pointed at by thousands of people after the war, and he would never let these Pandora demons released by the Japanese army threaten the lives of Tianjin citizens.