Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 388 Outside the battlefield
Inside the bunker command post at the Luodian battlefield.

Wang Yi stopped writing and used Qi to transform and control objects. He made two boxes with the mud under his feet, put the family letters and military pay in each box, and then wrapped them with Qi as the outer shell.

The air raid from Japanese planes in the sky seemed to have ended, and there was no more movement.

But I could still hear the sound of artillery fire coming from afar. That was where the Japanese army, which was launching a massive attack, was fighting against the National Army at several landing points.

It seems that other important locations that were used to prevent the Japanese army from landing on a large scale and attacking have either been lost or are on the verge of being lost. The National Army soldiers there are also in danger. Soon, it will be the turn of the Luodian battlefield.

Wang Yi looked at every face in front of him, as if he wanted to remember each of them in his mind. After clasping his fists to them, he also looked at Guo Ruyue, the hidden accomplice.

Lao Guo was also very calm and took out a suicide note that he had already written from his pocket.

"It's urgent, please ask Boss Wang to go and give this letter to my commander Huo Kuizhang."

Wang Yi was familiar with the life of Lao Guo, a man who was in Cao's camp but his heart was with Han. He also knew that Lao Guo had such a story.

He took the suicide note that Lao Guo had already written and handed it to him, and remained silent as he read the content that was not unfamiliar to him.

"The last sentence here is what I want to say to Boss Wang. We met by chance, but we are also friends. After the victory in the future, if Boss Wang revisits the old place and sees the waves like mountains at the Wusongkou, it will be me, your old friend, greeting you."

"The king will definitely deliver this letter. Everyone, take care!"

After putting the suicide letter in his arms, Wang Yi left the bunker with the letter from home and military pay. With quick footsteps, he turned into a shadow and fled to the rear.

Old Guo just stood there and watched Wang Yi disappear from his sight. Then he dismissed everyone and asked them to return to their positions and wait for orders.

The funeral arrangements have been made. The next step is to fight the Japanese who are attacking without any worries.
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The front line was in a state of emergency due to the massive attack by the Japanese army, positions were lost one after another, and the Luodian battlefield was in danger.

But in the rear, in the urban area, the confrontation between China and Japan is no less intense.

As mentioned before, the first phase of the Battle of Shanghai was a ten-day siege planned by the National Army, intending to drive all the old Imperial Navy in the city into the sea, but this operation failed.

If Wang Yilai had not arrived in time and captured the general at the base camp and brought back the naval officer Hasegawa Kiyoshi, the situation in the city would have been even worse.

But for now, in order to redeem the old devil Hasegawa Kiyoshi, the Japanese army made many concessions, allowing the three divisions that retreated into the city and suffered heavy casualties in the first stage to breathe a sigh of relief, and rely on the fortifications and strongholds built in preparation for war to fight street battles with the Japanese army.

These fortifications and strongholds were consciously prepared by the Nationalist government after the January 28th Battle of Shanghai in order to prevent Japan from using Shanghai as a battlefield again. Even the Shanghai tycoon Mr. Du contributed a lot to this and even turned his own mansion into a fortress.

With the tone set by Matsui Iwane, the old Japanese soldier in the army who took over the command of Hasegawa Kiyoshi, the old Japanese soldier in the former Imperial Navy, they ignored the role of Wang Yi, the enemy's hero unit, and captured Songhu in one go.

The Chinese and Japanese sides in the city also fought fiercely under the same tone.

The National Army guarded the Zhabei area and several important roads where reinforcements were coming, while the Japanese army tried their best to block them, not wanting the National Army's reinforcements to break through the encirclement and go to the front line to support.

Both sides used the streets as their battlefield, and every step forward came at the cost of hundreds of lives.

However, we have to turn our attention from here to the rear, that is, the western area of ​​the International Settlement south of Suzhou River.

The Republic of China branch of the Continental Hotel opened by the John Wick new company founded by Wang Yi in the United States, as well as the East China branch of the Stone Company established by himself using the new company as a base, were both located in the western district of the International Settlement.

It was only the 26th year of the Republic of China, the early stage of the War of Resistance Against Japan. For China, World War II had begun in the 22nd year of the Republic of China, but for Britain and the United States in the International Settlement, World War II had not yet begun, at least it was not their turn.

As a guild established by Wang Yi's new account on the US server, the Republic of China branch of the Continental Hotel naturally could not openly cooperate with Wang Yi in supporting the national army.

Liu Wei, the former young owner of a small inn in the underworld, has now become the new decision-maker of the Soitong Company with the cooperation of Wang Yi. On the surface, he is cooperating with the powerful and wealthy people who have invested in the Soitong Company to drive Wang Yi out of office, but secretly he is the same as Wang Yi.

During the period when Wang Yi captured the old devil Hasegawa Kiyoshi and won a ceasefire, Liu Wei used his diplomatic skills to persuade those wealthy and powerful people who only cared about how much benefit they could get in the Sino-Japanese War to invest money and provide manpower to cooperate with him in renting a large warehouse from the Republic of China branch of the Continental Hotel in the western district of the International Settlement and transform it into a temporary field hospital.

It was used to accommodate the wounded National Army soldiers and captured Japanese prisoners of war in the Battle of Shanghai.

Liu Wei's reasons for persuading these powerful and wealthy people were very simple.

No matter which side wins, people like us will be needed to help them allocate resources and squeeze the people's money.

We have a network of connections with the Nationalist government, so we won't lose whether we win or lose. But we don't have any network of connections with the Japanese. What if the Japanese break into Songhu and only covet the resources in our hands, and don't want us to help them? What should we do then?
The gun is in their hands, can't you still fight them head-on?
It would be better to use this field hospital, return the favor, and maybe there will be a ray of hope?

So we have this field hospital that accommodates the wounded and prisoners of war from both China and Japan.

Liu Wei was responsible for allocating manpower and resources, and those powerful and wealthy people would only contribute their efforts, manpower and money at this time.

They were also cunning. They used several iron doors to put together and divided the hospital into two halves. The side that accommodated the Japanese prisoners of war took up a larger area, and they even invited Western doctors from large hospitals and used various Western medicines to treat the injuries of the Japanese prisoners of war.

As for the National Army, since these rich and powerful people had almost plundered all the doctors and precious medicines in the concession, no matter how Liu Wei could allocate resources, they thought that it would be useless for him to do anything without the right ingredients.

Obviously, they didn't think the National Army could win at all. Instead of spending money to win over the hearts of the people from the National Army, it would be better to please the Japanese who were about to capture Songhu. After all, they were just a bunch of soldiers, so why would it be worth it for them to spend so much manpower and resources to treat their injuries and save their lives?

Liu Wei was naturally happy that these powerful and wealthy people thought this way, or perhaps this was what he wanted.

This way he could give penicillin to these Kuomintang soldiers to save their lives.

Penicillin, a miracle drug that became popular only in the middle and late stages of World War II, was developed on the eve of the War of Resistance against Japan only after Wang Yi helped Lao Meng, the beastly division, advance to a biologist. With Lao Meng's help and in collaboration with Fleming's research team that came across the ocean, the drug was developed.

During this research and development process, Lao Meng also mastered the process of adapting to local conditions and using traditional methods to purify the Penicillium he cultivated into penicillin. At the same time, through repeated trial and error, he cultivated high-quality strains that could increase production even without the need for biologists to stimulate growth.

Then Wang Yi immediately arranged for someone to send him to the northwest, to Zhang Zhiwei, and to be with the gentleman.

It can be said that from the moment Lao Meng advanced to a biologist and cultivated high-quality strains of bacteria, Wang Yi understood that Lao Meng, a biologist, was an indispensable part of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and even in the development of agriculture and biomedicine after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Even if both himself and Zhang Zhiwei were gone, Old Meng would not die.

He also reached an agreement with his new account John Wick created in the US server.

Before the United States officially joined the Second World War, he served as a supplier and provided the Continental Group in the United States with a batch of high-quality bacteria strains that were prepared by Lao Meng and had a time limit on a regular basis and in a fixed quantity, for the Continental Group to process and purify into penicillin.

He didn't care whether John Wick used the penicillins to enter the US pharmaceutical market, stockpiled them for sale, or sold them to the Japanese at a high price.

He had only one request, that the Situng Company must be the sole agent of penicillin in the Republic of China, and that the profits of penicillin sold by the Continental Group, whether sold in the United States or to the Japanese, must be split 70% and 70% would be his.

The cooperation was terminated only when the United States officially joined World War II. He unconditionally provided original high-quality strains that were sufficient to expand production immediately without any manipulation. During the period before the termination of the cooperation, Wang Yi's profits did not necessarily have to be settled in currency, but could also be converted into resources. For example, on the eve of the Battle of Shanghai, he had already made arrangements in advance and persuaded the National Government to start construction of two international routes in the southwest and northwest Shaanxi and Gansu.

Only in this way could Wang Yi use his power for personal gain and deploy resources or plant needles in the base through these two routes, so as to accumulate some industrial foundation or industrial talents in his new home where everything was in ruins.

When Wang Yi first created the new US server account John Wick, he just wanted to give himself a vest so that he would have a base.

Unexpectedly, man proposes, God disposes. This new account on the US server suddenly became one of the developers during the testing of the new version of World War II on the US server. With backend permissions, he, who created the account, became the first internal test player.

There are good and bad aspects to this.

The downside is that the other party is now in a semi-independent state. Wang Yi, the original owner of the account, returned to the old version of the Chinese server and is busy working on a new version. He is thousands of miles away from the US server and cannot take care of the affairs of the US server at all.

The other party is just doing some small tricks behind his back. Because of the distance, Wang Yi can also know what the other party is doing behind his back. When the US server is upgraded to enter the international market in the future, will there be any major conflicts with the new version of the national server?

The benefit is, of course, that before the new US version of John Wick is fully released to the public, he needs Wang Yi, an internal test player, to open up new areas for him and occupy resources in advance.

Penicillin is one such example.

The god John Wick is gradually changing from a god born from the faith of all living beings to John Wick. While this allows him to have his own ideas, as a price, he loses his absolute control over Continental, a behemoth that emerged during the Great Depression.

Taking advantage of Wang Yi's foresight, he wanted to get rid of the shackles of penicillin on Wang Yi's side and invest money and resources in advance to cultivate high-quality strains of bacteria.

However, due to institutional reasons, all this money became the start-up capital for some people from the Continental Group to buy land in their hometown and luxury houses and cars in the city.

Unfortunately, John Wick cannot just take action to eliminate them now, because there is no suitable time and reason to attack him.

I can't directly say that the high-quality penicillin strains of the Continental Group have all been tampered with and are all imported from the Republic of China.

He could only hold his nose and step into the conspiracy prepared by Wang Yi, and use the resources seized by Continental Group in the United States to provide blood transfusion to Wang Yi.

The very little penicillin currently circulating in the few key areas of the Republic of China is all free processed products that the Situng Company received from the Continental Group.

Several major pharmaceutical giants in the United States who coveted penicillin only knew that Continental Group had mastered a special drug that could fight current bacterial infections.

However, the cost is high and Continental has been trying to overcome this difficulty for years, but has not succeeded so far.

Although these pharmaceutical giants have purchased this miraculous drug through channels, due to the limitation of productivity, it will take them at least ten years to reverse engineer the formula.

No one would have thought that this special medicine could actually be mass-produced a long time ago, and it was born on the other side of the ocean, in a large agricultural country that has been poor and weak for many years and suffered from the turmoil of war.

The topic has gone a bit off topic, so let’s return to this temporary field hospital built in the western district of the International Settlement.

In order to please the Japanese, these wealthy and powerful people in East China bought out all the penicillin on the black market in Songhu and even in South China, just to treat the Japanese prisoners of war who were admitted to this temporary field hospital.

This was a good deal for Liu Wei. The money would eventually return to his hands anyway, just like flowing from one hand to the other, with less oil.

These powerful and wealthy people were happy, so Liu Wei did not shy away from them and took out the penicillin that Lao Meng had purified through traditional methods according to local conditions to treat the injuries of these national army soldiers and save their lives.

Naturally, its purity cannot compare with that of industrially produced penicillin, but these days, the concept of antibiotics remains only in the papers. Not to mention traditional penicillin, even veterinary penicillin, if injected into the injured and infected soldiers, would increase the survival rate by 20 to 30 percent.

There is no need to worry about drug resources for the time being, the only problem is manpower.

These wealthy and powerful people have almost packed up all the famous doctors and medical staff in the concession. Liu Wei's future national players are now in the same boat with Wang Yi and his nine senior brothers, who are from a medical family.

It was with these ten people, plus some apprentices and others, that the situation was barely under control.

But there are still problems. Although Wang Zizhong and the other ten people came from medical backgrounds, they studied Chinese medicine, mostly internal medicine. They did not specialize in surgery because of folk customs and concepts deeply rooted for thousands of years.

Even those who are medical students are still working in the field of surgery in secret and do not have much experience accumulated.

Digging out bullets, stopping bleeding, bandaging, and applying medicine are easy, after all, the patient is just a bullet wound and is still breathing. But when it comes to those with severe bleeding from broken limbs, large wounds, and extensive burns, they are completely clueless.

It was clear that the person was still breathing, but they didn't know how to save him and could only watch him die.

After studying medicine for many years, the teachings of their master are still echoing in their ears. People around them don't blame them at all and say that this is their fate.

Wang Zizhong’s brothers were able to get over it because they knew they had tried their best.

But Wang Zizhong couldn't get out, especially when he heard the laughter and joy of the Japanese prisoners of war who were only separated by a wall, while his side was a tragic scene with people dying every minute. He just couldn't accept it.

Liu Wei, who had been in charge of allocating manpower and was equally busy, saw this and felt anxious.

He was able to be noticed by Wang Yi and was designated as the successor by Niu Qinghao, a medical master in the circle at a young age. If he died here, he would have no place to cry.

It’s just that for these things, you either have to get out of them on your own, or rely on others’ help.

Liu Wei knew very well that he was not the person who could help Wang Zizhong get out of the current situation.

He stood at the door, looking at the battlefield across the river where artillery fire was raging, but he could do nothing.

Just as Liu Wei was staring at the battlefield south of Suzhou River where artillery fire was raging, a breeze blew past him.

He turned around suddenly and saw Wang Yi, who had lost a lot of weight, appearing beside Wang Zizhong carrying two boxes.

"Now, do you understand?"

"I see. There has never been a saying that Chinese medicine is inferior and Western medicine is superior. The debate between Chinese and Western medicine is just a foreign rhetoric. There is only traditional medicine and modern medicine. We are not inferior, we are just backward and lack knowledge and experience in this area."

"Very good. Now, I will help you break through the confusion, cure diseases and save lives, and free your mind. How much you can learn from it depends on you."

After saying that, Wang Yi formed his fingers into a sword and pointed it at the back of Wang Zizhong's head.

Magnetic field martial arts, spiritual connection!

(End of this chapter)