Glorious Mission 1937

Chapter 190 Eight: The Epidemic Begins

I was fooled, this is the collective idea of ​​the No.40 Army's senior management. According to preliminary statistics, among the more than 5000 "captives", less than 80 are really prisoners of war, and the rest are out-and-out farmers.20% of them were transferred from the Northeast, and the remaining [-]% ​​were local farmers who were previously controlled by the Japanese army.

Due to the battle of the No.40 Group Army against the Pingjin area some time ago, it caused huge damage to many cities including Beiping, especially Tianjin. All public facilities and city defense facilities were completely paralyzed. The resulting damage was enormous.

After the war, after the Japanese army took over these places, they immediately felt headaches. The public facilities in the city were fine, but they were destroyed if they were destroyed. Anyway, the residents living in the city are still mainly Chinese, and the public facilities were destroyed. The first to suffer is the Chinese. people.However, the city defense facilities and port and coastal facilities are a major issue related to the safety of the Imperial Japanese Army. If the city defense facilities in these places are not repaired, it is not guaranteed when the Chinese cavalry will come to the city again.

In addition, Tianjin is the most important and only port in North China. This is an important window for the Japanese invaders to plunder China's economy. When the port is paralyzed, Japanese warships and freighters cannot dock, and the materials looted from the occupied areas cannot be transported away. China's supplies could not be shipped to Japan, and Japan's economic crisis had just eased a little, but it was on the rise again. In desperation, Terauchi Toshiichi had to order the North China Front Army to arrest Chinese people to build facilities for them and do free labor.

After more than three months of crazy construction.The urban defense facilities in several cities have been restored to the pre-war level, and the public facilities in the city have also been restored, so when the No. He recognized it with his nose, which had nothing to do with the tens of thousands of Chinese farmers he held in his hands.

Although Chen Feng thought that the Japanese might pretend to be prisoners of war with ordinary people, he didn't expect that Shousuichi in the temple would spend such a lot of trouble to raise tens of thousands of farmers from the Northeast.In the end, Chen Feng was fooled.

Although fooled.But Chen Feng didn't feel angry at all. 5000 Japanese expats exchanged for more than 40 strong laborers. This kind of business is still very profitable, if it is compared to doing business.It can only be said that the original plan was a [-]% profit.Now it has become [-]% due to some changes.Although it did not achieve the desired goal.But it was still much higher than the normal investment profit, so Chen Feng still felt that the No. [-] Army did not pay for this captive exchange.

More than 7 people were added out of thin air, which put a lot of pressure on the logistics and other aspects of the No. 40 Army.And how to accommodate these 7 people is also a big problem.If they were all prisoners of war, Chen Feng would only need to order more than 7 people to be sent to the recruit camp for training. After the recruit training is completed, they can be directly incorporated into the army.

But it is a pity that there are only 7 prisoners of war among the more than 40 people, and the rest are ordinary people.Many of them didn't know why they were arrested. More than half of them had parents, wives and children waiting for them to go back. If they didn't care about it, they naturally didn't want to stay and serve for the No.[-] Army. Then how should these people be settled.

According to the plan before the war, all the prisoners of war were gathered together and prepared to be sent to the Daheishan recruit camp for training. Anyway, the [-] recruits had already completed the three-month recruiting period, and they would be awarded guns in a few days and then organized into groups. A new army has been built, and these prisoners of war continue to receive recruit training as their successors.

Of the more than 5 ordinary people, more than 2 were carefree, and these people were also gathered together to prepare for recruit training.The remaining more than 3 people were led by their families, and more than half of them were unwilling to stay in the No. 40 Army and wanted to go home. Therefore, the No. 40 Army has not yet figured out how to deal with these people.

It is obviously inappropriate to let these people go. First of all, this group of people did not have a single adult on them. All the valuables on their bodies have been searched by the Japanese before they came. Why should they go back to their hometowns? Those who live in North China are fine. The big deal is begging for food, and I can barely go home.But here are more people who live in the Northeast. Zhangjiakou is more than a thousand miles away from the Northeast. Besides, although it is not cold this season, it is still not warm in the north in May. It can also wake people up in the middle of the night. That's it. Allowing these people to leave is undoubtedly agreeing to their death.

The most important thing is that from Zhangjiakou to Guanwai, all along the road are Japanese territories. With the ferocity of the Japanese, will they allow these young and middle-aged men to return to the Northeast?The answer is obviously no. What the Japanese lack most now are puppet troops and free labor.Even if the Japanese army does not intervene, the bosses of the Japanese-funded companies along the road will not leave this batch of high-quality laborers safely from their own territory, whether it is by cheating, abducting, cheating, or even directly armed Kidnapping and beating sap also have to keep this group of people, letting them go is tantamount to sending them to a dead end.

But no matter how the No. 40 Army did their work, the 3 people still clamored to leave and go home, and even had a direct conflict with the soldiers in Zhangjiakou.

However, when these people were making a fuss, the field hospital of the Zhangjiakou Independent Seventh Division was overcrowded. On the first day these prisoners came, the Independent Seventh Division followed Chen Feng's instructions and organized doctors from the hospital to give these prisoners one by one a physical examination. At the same time, a large number of beds were vacated to receive patients. In addition, the logistics department was asked to add more condiments such as ginger and pepper to the meals for these people to prevent colds.

After physical examination, more than [-] of the more than [-] people in Zhangjiakou were unwell, but the vast majority of patients felt headaches, hot body, and sweating.The doctors in the field hospital thought that these people were just suffering from the wind and cold, that is, some common colds. After all, this season is the time when winter and spring communicate, and colds are most likely to occur. Not only ordinary people, but also every time in the army There will be a large number of patients, this phenomenon is very normal, not to mention these people travel long distances, eat well, sleep well, and worry about being afraid, it is God's blessing that they are not sick.

Because of this, these patients did not attract the attention of the field hospital of the Independent [-]th Division, but some beds were freed up for those patients who were more seriously ill. camp.

However, in just two days, the situation in Zhangjiakou has undergone tremendous changes. Unknowingly, the number of seriously ill patients has exceeded 2000, and the number of patients seems to be increasing. More importantly, these patients Many of them were soldiers of the No.40 Army.The condition of the first batch of hospitalized patients was getting worse and worse. Not only were their conditions not under control, they even died.

Three people died on May 5, and as many as 24 new patients were brought in. Including the patients sent in the previous three days, as of 3:800 pm on the 24th, the total number of patients in the field hospital of the Independent Seventh Division exceeded three. More than 460 people, including [-] soldiers.

The abnormal situation attracted the attention of the senior leaders of the Independent Seventh Division. After learning the details, Xu Hu immediately reported the situation to the army headquarters, and at the same time requested the army headquarters to send a large number of medical personnel to Zhangjiakou for support.

At first, Chen Feng didn't pay much attention.Although there were quite a few sick patients, the death toll was not that high. Chen Feng believed that it was just a relatively powerful flu, and there shouldn't be any major problems. Think about the outbreak of a big flu in later generations that would have infected millions of people. The small flu of thousands of people really didn't attract Chen Feng's attention.

Although he didn't pay special attention to it, Chen Feng still asked Hu Jishi, the general director of the field hospital, and Fidel, a German Jewish doctor, to rush to Zhangjiakou with a medical team composed of more than 20 doctors and more than 200 nurses, and at the same time brought a large amount of medicinal materials . (To be continued..)