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Spn leaflets are written in a variety of Japanese, most of which introduce the current situation in the Far East, saying that the Chinese Communist Party has dropped tens of thousands of tons of poison gas and will continue to expand the scope of poison gas.

There are also pieces of paper saying that if the Japanese army goes north and surrenders in front of the Chinese position north of Rossby, they only need to put down their weapons and raise their hands to safely pass through the position and accept prisoners. The Chinese *** team will never take the initiative to shoot.

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"Baga, the damn Chinese are actually doing this."

Mitsuo Murata looked at a large handful of leaflets in front of him and kicked the officer violently.

It’s not that Mitsuo Murata doesn’t know about battlefield leaflets, but it’s just that such things have been used very rarely in the Far Eastern battlefields and Southeast Asian battlefields.[

This kind of psychological warfare method was used very frequently on the European battlefield and the Soviet-German battlefield. Once the Soviet and German troops who were not determined to fight were surrounded, they were easily persuaded by some clumsy psychological warfare propaganda and gave up resistance.

This is why whether it is the Soviet army or the German army, once surrounded by superior enemy forces, it is easy for 100,000, or even hundreds of thousands of people to surrender at once.

However, this situation almost never happened in the Far East battlefield.

The performance of the Soviet army in the Far East was very strong. Under the command of Marshal Zhukov, at least the Soviet army did not show the same absurd performance as on the Soviet-German battlefield. Of course, this was also because they were not surrounded by the enemy's absolute superiority. In the end,

When under attack, the Chinese did not even need to engage in psychological warfare and simply collapsed and surrendered. That was because the Soviet army had reached the limit of its psychological endurance.

The Japanese army was also very stubborn in the Far East, never surrendering voluntarily, and even after being surrounded many times, they were able to fight to the death.

When the Chinese ** troops attacked the Far East Coastal Area, including Vladivostok and other areas, even though the Japanese troops were also heavily surrounded, they resisted to the end.

Nowadays, after using poison gas, the Chinese use propaganda leaflets on an unprecedented scale in order to use psychological warfare to recruit the Japanese army.

"Collect the leaflets. Anyone who dares to hide the leaflets will be shot immediately!"

No one knows what Mitsuo Murata was thinking in his heart, but at least on the surface he seemed very angry and made a decision that the top commander of the Japanese army should make.

As a result, the first wave of leaflets in the hands of the Japanese army were quickly confiscated, but those falling outside the position were ordered not to be picked up.

Of course, this order is effective for the officers. From the division commander to the squad leader, everyone has a lot of leaflets in their hands and is reading them one by one.

However, this was not the end. In the next half day, the Chinese air force appeared four times and once again dropped countless leaflets.

Although the leaflets fell into the hands of the Japanese army again, and the content was different from the first wave, the Japanese army still did not surrender on a large scale and was still struggling before collapse.

What's more serious is that starting from the hunger at noon, the Japanese army has no food to eat except for a few middle- and high-level commanders. With the troops coming from the rear one after another in the afternoon, more than 300,000 Japanese troops have gathered here.

However, the Chinese have not given up on this method of psychological warfare. Instead, they have continued to expand the scale of psychological warfare.

While focusing on airdrops on areas where Japanese troops were concentrated such as Rossby on the North-South Line, Chinese planes also flew over the entire Japanese-controlled area, dropping leaflets on a large scale whenever they discovered the march of Japanese troops.

These leaflets are different from those received by the Japanese troops who have arrived on the North and South lines. These leaflets all state that the Chinese Air Force will increase the drop of poison gas in certain areas, informing the Japanese troops that they can evacuate these areas and retreat to the North and South lines, where they will not be attacked.

During a poison gas attack, you can even choose to put down your weapons and surrender.

As a result, Japanese troops from all walks of life, whether they had received orders from the military headquarters or not, began to flee frantically toward the north and south fronts.

No one can guarantee that what the Chinese are telling is true, but no one can guarantee that what the Chinese are telling lies is true. If it is true, they will die from poisonous gas.[

The idea of ​​the Japanese military headquarters is that it is necessary to evacuate the poison gas area, so it is better to concentrate the troops and block the Chinese troops on the north and south lines to buy time for possible negotiations.

However, the Chinese government has remained silent on the negotiation intention conveyed by the Japanese government through the Swiss ambassador. It neither agreed nor refuted it. It just replied, "Because the war on the front line is tense, it is not convenient for us to express our position for the time being."

Procrastination, the Chinese used a tactic of procrastination, which made the Japanese "government" very difficult.

Not only did they hope that the Chinese would eventually agree to negotiate, they did not issue a fatal order for the Japanese army to launch a "suicide" attack on the north-south line. They also did not let the Japanese army stay in the poison gas area or nearby areas to wait for death. Instead, they concentrated on the north-south line.

In this way, we can concentrate our strength and avoid the poisonous gas. Secondly, if necessary, we can attack the Chinese team in turn and create even a little bit of bargaining chip for negotiations.

The crazy Japanese army and the Japanese "government" are unimaginable. In their view, the life and death of these more than one million Japanese soldiers is no longer a big issue. The most important thing is whether they can get the opportunity to negotiate from the Chinese.

Therefore, while China was dropping a large number of psychological warfare leaflets, the Japanese troops were also retreating on a large scale towards the north and south fronts, trying to avoid the poison gas as much as possible and concentrating to resist possible Chinese attacks.

At the same time, the Chinese *** team once again dropped poison gas in several places. The lucky Japanese soldiers finally got frightened and fled quickly. The Japanese army assembly areas on the north and south lines were already there at dawn the next day.

The number reached more than 900,000, and there were only more than 300,000 Japanese troops on the road. About 400,000 surviving Japanese troops were concentrated on each of the north and south lines.

It seems to be a very powerful force, but in fact it is weak.

On the second day after the entire psychological war began, the Japanese troops on the northern and southern fronts were out of food. According to the original plan, in addition to taking away the troops when the rescue fleet docked, they would also bring some food supplies along the way to ensure the subsequent evacuation of the troops.

Won't starve to death.

After all, the situation in the Far East has reached the most dangerous juncture, so the Japanese army is willing to pay such a huge price to retreat the Japanese army, even without food, which is naturally the most critical event.

Today, it is the fourth day of the poison gas outbreak. The Chinese are still dropping poison gas one after another, but the poison gas isolation zone shows no sign of weakening at all. The poison gas does not evaporate into the air in large quantities, but settles near the surface like mist.

, sticks to the ground, leaves, and soil. If it is to completely dissipate and allow people to pass, it will take at least a week or two. This is the power of the new poison gas. Even the poison gas sown by the Japanese army continues to explode.

Supplement the poison gas isolation belt.

On the second day of the psychological warfare, the Japanese troops on the northern and southern fronts were starving from top to bottom. If it had not been for the retreat caused by huge panic and the loss of food, they would not have been in such a situation.

"Major Yu, it's already the second day and no Japanese soldier has surrendered yet. Is this psychological warfare method really effective? If it doesn't work, we can recommend military action to the superiors."

Hou Xiaoshan couldn't help but wonder that he actually preferred to launch an attack. Although he understood that these Japanese prisoners of war would be captive coolies who could be used and abused arbitrarily in the future, he still could not suppress the bloodthirsty impulse in his heart.

"Haha, General Hou, don't worry. The Japanese army is different from the Soviet, German, British, American and French armies. They have a kind of natural madness. The Japanese in this area who were trained under the military-state education system have not only received crazy imperialist education, but also been taught by the military state.

Being armed with thoughts is very crazy.

Ordinary psychological warfare may be effective against the armies of other countries, but for the Japanese army, this level of psychological warfare is still a little short of the limit. Moreover, according to intelligence, the Emperor of Japan personally ordered the Japanese army in the Far East to be proud of the Great Japanese Empire and to persevere.

The Ministry even ordered the Japanese troops to gather together to avoid the poisonous gas and resist us to the death."

"Aren't they afraid that we will launch a full-scale military offensive and wipe out the more than one million Japanese troops?" Hou Xiaoshan asked doubtfully, but he admitted that the Japanese army is indeed a crazy nation.

"To put it simply, the Japanese army is just waiting for the doomsday to come. They will not surrender until the last moment. However, the Japanese army is already short of food. I think it will be very uncomfortable to go without food for a day. Even water

It’s also beginning to be lacking. Tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow at the latest, when our new round of psychological warfare is launched, it may have a different effect.”

Major Yu said confidently.

"Okay, I'll just wait for the good news. It's best to capture tens of thousands of his Japs. It will also make our brothers in the field army feel bad. We can't kill them. It will be the same if we capture more prisoners, haha." Hou Xiaoshan said happily.

, he is not in a hurry now, the ones who are anxious should be the Japanese who are gradually falling into a desperate situation.

That night, the Japanese troops assembled on the northern front.

Mitsuo Murata resisted the hunger in his belly and drank a sip of water. As the supreme commander of the Northern Front, he actually did not need to starve, but in order to maintain the prestige of the new officer, he chose to eat only a little.[

"General, please eat some!!"

Everyone in the entire command bunker felt unbearable hunger. On the first day of the Chinese psychological warfare, the situation was a little better. Ordinary soldiers could still drink some gruel. Senior officers like them and the people in the command headquarters were even able to

There is something to eat.

But the next day, the situation became worse. A group of Japanese soldiers who could no longer endure hunger rushed into a cave where supplies were stored and robbed the tightly guarded food. Murata Mitsuo didn't even know who to shoot.

, dispersed in a commotion, and the commotion lasted for a long time before being suppressed.

Later, Mitsuo Murata was left with only the grains hidden in the headquarters bunker. After distributing the grains to some of the divisions, the grains in his hands were finally in danger.

"General, please eat some."

A large group of middle- and senior-level Japanese military officers who were moved to the point of kneeling knelt in the bunker and invited the lieutenant general, who exuded a halo of humanity, to eat.

"well!"

Mitsuo Murata actually has other ideas in his mind, but these people in front of him don't know it yet.

In his view, if he is unwilling to eventually use hundreds of thousands of troops with extremely weak combat effectiveness to attack the Chinese steel defense line, then he has no choice but to surrender.

In the past two days, it was not that no Japanese troops surrendered, but they were all stopped by the war team. Mitsuo Murata did not kill them for the sake of the overall situation. He only sent the war team to strictly guard against such disorderly surrenders.

At this point in the war, Mitsuo Murata, as the supreme commander of the northern front, even wanted to surrender very urgently. This was probably something that even the Japanese Emperor and the military had not thought of.

Yes, at this time, Murata Mitsuo even wanted to lead his army to surrender immediately. He was a native division and had never participated in the war of aggression against China. Deep down in his heart, he was not a general who actively pursued aggression.

The reason why he was able to climb up to the high position of division commander was purely due to various unexpected factors and Japan's military expansion. After he was transferred from his homeland to the Far East, he has been fighting with the Soviets. It can be said that not only him, but also

The 19th Division has never fought against the Chinese.

His psychology towards the Chinese is not that complex at all. When the situation is favorable to his own side, he will do whatever the military orders. But now, when he is gradually entering a desperate situation, he wants to surrender.

But he understood that this was not the best time to surrender. There would even be many division commanders who would oppose surrender because the situation had not yet reached its final moment.

Murata Mitsuo glanced at the many officers kneeling there and said, "Now that the situation is so critical, I must coexist with you.

Let’s all have a dinner, and the remaining grain will be made into rice porridge for everyone to eat.”

"General, this is the glory of the empire!!"

While everyone was happy, they also felt deeply guilty. They and others were always worried that mutinous troops would snatch the food, but the general ignored him and wanted to distribute the food. This shocked them.

Murata Mitsuo then glanced at the division leaders and said earnestly, "Gentlemen, for the glory of the empire, we must endure hardships together with the warriors. Everyone, please take out the last food in your hands."

"Yes, Your Excellency Commander!"

Many division commanders didn't know whether it was true or not, but they agreed to give out food anyway. Although Mitsuo Murata knew that they would definitely hide some food in their hands for him to eat, and even his most trusted guards also hid food, but this was not important.

What he has to do is to consume the food and let these commanders starve. Only then can he take control of the overall situation.

The next day is the third day of psychological warfare.

The Japanese soldiers who were already dizzy from hunger and didn't even have water to drink began to die. The wounded were the first to die. I don't know whether they died of starvation or thirst, but they just died anyway. A lot of ordinary Japanese soldiers

Soldiers also began to fall into coma and even die.
To be continued...