"What's the matter? Are you talking about chasing the Japs? It's time for the new recruits to get some practice. By racing against the Japs in the mountains, their physical fitness will be significantly improved."

All the Japanese troops in the direction of the canyon had been captured, and the new soldiers were idle. Zhao Zhiguo simply handed over these new soldiers to Gao Cang's command.

There were only a dozen guards left around the Japanese commander, but he was being pursued by a company of soldiers.

The rest of the little devils were like lost dogs. Facing the Chinese soldiers who were chasing them all over the mountains and plains, they complained endlessly and just wanted to have two more legs.

It's a pity that most of them are in Zhao Zhiguo's Wuzhi Mountain. Even if they fight with all their strength, the outcome will not change.

Zhao Zhiguo used the matter of chasing the remaining Japanese soldiers to prevaricate Matthew Wen.

"You know I'm talking about the Japanese prisoners!"

"What happened to the Japanese prisoners?"

Sometimes in life, you have to pretend to be stupid. Pretending to be stupid is also a kind of knowledge, which can save a lot of trouble.

And you can't even admit this kind of thing to death, and in the end it was just nothing.

Zhao Zhiguo pretended to be confused, and he would not admit what Matthew asked.

"While the prisoners were being escorted back to their base, the wounded Japanese soldiers fell off the cliff and all died!"

"Is this really happening? In fact, it's not surprising. You also know that the roads in this mountain are dangerous for normal people to walk, let alone carrying wounded soldiers. Besides, we have captured so many prisoners, and one or two died on the road. It’s also a very normal thing.”

"No, the responsibility of escorting the soldiers must be held accountable, otherwise they will do this again in the future!"

If we encounter this kind of problem again in the future, and their soldiers see that the Japanese prisoners of war don't like it, they push the Japanese prisoners off the cliff halfway, and then put the blame on the poor roads, how will they ensure the safety of the prisoners in the future.

"I think there is no need to punish them. After all, they made an unintentional mistake and punished the soldiers. The soldiers will definitely be unconvinced, and it will have the opposite effect." Zhao Zhiguo did not want to do the opposite to Matthew Wen, "It is better to do this. Directly carry out education and regard this incident as a model."

Going against Matthew Wen is not conducive to the unity and development of the army.

So Zhao Zhiguo simply followed Matthew Wen's suggestion and came up with a better way.

The way Matthew Wen looked at Zhao Zhiguo, it seemed that Zhao Zhiguo had indeed nothing to do with this matter.

"Okay, instructor, if you want to punish me, then punish me. As the captain, it is my responsibility not to do a good job in ideological education about prisoners of war before the battle!"

Ideological education work is of course Matthew Wen’s main job.

For not doing a good job in this area, Matthew is the first to bear the brunt, and he is the one who deserves to be punished the most.

Now that Zhao Zhiguo took the initiative to take the responsibility on himself, Matthew Wen suddenly felt a little blushing.

"Soldiers don't have much contact with prisoners of war. They don't know our policy towards prisoners of war. In the final analysis, it is still the responsibility of officers."

Zhao Zhiguo has always maintained that part of the mistakes made by soldiers are caused by officers.

If a soldier does something wrong, the squad leader and platoon leader will also be punished.

What happened to the prisoners of war this time was that they did not properly publicize the prisoner of war policy. The captain and instructors have an unshirkable responsibility.

After Zhao Zhiguo had a "high discussion", Matthew realized that he also had his own responsibility for this matter.

"I will write a report to my superiors to review my responsibility on this matter. After I return, all soldiers must learn our prisoner-of-war policy. Our Eighth Route Army is an army of benevolence and righteousness. The army we want to build will not only be admired by our own people. Let your enemies also admire you!"

"Okay, I'll listen to you in terms of ideological education work. I don't have any objections."

Zhao Zhiguo thought to himself that in the future, if he wanted to deal with these scumbags like the Japanese army, he would probably have to use more clever methods.

Fortunately, the deception was over this time, and the remaining Japanese prisoners of war were able to explain themselves.

"Report to the captain that the Japanese commander committed suicide!"

At noon, a company under Takakura surrounded the Japanese commander.

The Japanese commander looked at the Chinese soldiers who surrounded him three levels inside and three levels outside. Without saying a word, he stabbed himself in the belly.

The Japanese army's suicide by disembowelment was the most painful. If the stabbing was not accurate, he would not die on the spot and would have to endure tremendous pain.

This was the case with the little Japanese team leader. He committed suicide by disembowelling himself in a hurry, missing his vital points, and struggled on the ground for half an hour without dying.

Seeing the Chinese soldiers surrounding him, he could only endure the severe pain and used his last strength to shoot himself in the head.

"It's a pity. If such a big official were caught alive, we would have accomplished a great feat."

Matthew said it was a pity.

A living Japanese army captain was captured. If word of this spread, it would shock even the top brass.

"Of course it's a pity. It's such a hot day and there's no way to preserve the body. It rotted away in two days!"

Zhao Zhiguo felt that it was a pity that he could not exchange the Japanese army captain for money.

If Zhao Zhiguo had sent the Japanese commander to Pingcheng for sure in winter, the kid would definitely be willing to spend 10,000 yuan to get his body back.

Unfortunately, there are no freezers in this era. In this hot weather, it smells bad in two days.

If the body rots and an infectious disease develops, the gain outweighs the loss!

"Why are you only thinking about money?" Matthew was curious.

Zhao Zhiguo seems to have a special liking for money. In his eyes, nothing is as important as money.

"In the future you will know how important money is. Making money is harder than fighting a war."

When you are short of money, you really can’t make money just because you want to.

"Tian Kezhi, find a few soldiers and find a way to cremate the Japanese captain, then put his ashes in the urn and put his military uniform on the urn. This must be worth a thousand oceans, right?"

No matter how small a fly is, it is still meat, and Zhao Zhiguo can be regarded as turning waste into treasure.

"It's up to you to do whatever you want. The little Japanese captain is dead and this battle is over. I'll go back to the station first. The people of Anyang Town are waiting for our good news."

The battle is over, but there are still many things to deal with in the aftermath.

For example, combat reports, Matthew's report to the division headquarters, and how to deal with prisoners all need to be handled by the division headquarters.

"Captain, this is the command knife and gun of the Japanese commander!"

Gao Cang sent the captured weapons to Zhao Zhiguo.

"It's been a long time since I've captured the command knife of the Japanese coalition captain. Not bad! I'll send it to the division commander later."

If it were the command sword of the commander of the Little Japanese Division, Zhao Zhiguo would definitely regard it as a treasure, but in his eyes, the command sword of a commander of the regiment was at best a commodity on the black market.

"I have arranged for the signal troops to send orders to Qin Dongsheng to withdraw to their base."
Chapter completed!