Glorious Mission 1937

Chapter 210 Nine: Public Opinion War and Lien-teh Wu

Of course, Chen Feng would not be so stupid as to nakedly pull out those 400 Japanese captives and execute them. Before that, there must be a public opinion war, and he had to put himself on the moral high ground, so no matter what Chen Feng did No one will jump out and make irresponsible remarks when something out of the ordinary happens.

Otherwise, even if Chen Feng massacred Japanese prisoners of war, some moralists would definitely jump out and accuse Chen Feng.Although Chen Feng doesn't care what those useless guys say, but people's words are scary, and it's better to avoid them if they can.

Ever since, under Chen Feng's instructions, a big propaganda about the atrocities committed by the Japanese army began.In order to achieve the goal of winning by surprise, Chen Feng deliberately sent people to the south secretly, sneaked into Shanghai and other big cities, contacted Chinese and foreign media, and then provided them with a lot of evidence.

On August 8, newspapers and magazines across the country simultaneously published the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in North China and the entire Chinese region. All newspapers and media almost unanimously chose to make a series of reports in the form of full pages.

Because there were pictures and the truth, all the accusing articles were full of pictures and texts. For a while, the crowd was furious, and large-scale anti-Japanese demonstrations broke out in major cities soon.The atrocities committed by the Japanese army also completely shocked the Western powers. They never thought that the Japanese would be so brutal.

Especially the Americans, they supported and condoned Japan's invasion of China, and it was entirely because the Western powers hoped that Germany would go to the East.It is hoped that Japan will go north and attack the socialist Soviet Union from eastern Europe and northeast China, weakening or even destroying the socialist Soviet Union.It is this strategy of weakening or even eliminating the socialist Soviet Union out of hatred for socialism that has led the United States, Britain and France to implement a policy of appeasement and connivance against Germany in the west and Japan in the east for a long time.

The German and Japanese imperialists also tried to take advantage of the attempts of the United States, Britain and France. Therefore, the Japanese warlords quickly proposed the establishment of "Great Japan", a colonial empire that included China, Siberia in the Soviet Union, and other East Asian regions, and then put its The act of aggression was said to prevent "the threat of corruption".

But in any case, the Americans did not expect that the Japanese were not only fighting with the Chinese army in China, but also extended their butcher knives to those innocent people.

Immediately afterwards, an article titled "America in the Eyes of a Chinese General" was published in the Washington Post.This article is entirely the content of the contentious conversation between Claire and Chen Feng that day.There are hardly any modifications.Once this article was published, it was quickly reprinted by major media in the United States.

After reading this article, the Americans were stunned. They did not expect that in the eyes of Chinese generals, the US government was so unbearable.Especially the sentence "Freedom and justice. This is bullshit. In the eyes of American politicians, there are only naked interests" "To be honest, I am very disappointed with the current US government. His performance in this war is completely ineffective. It reflects the sense of responsibility that a big country should have, but it is more like an accomplice and executioner." It deeply hurt the hearts of Americans.

But after careful analysis, they found that what the Chinese general said made sense.Especially the exact numbers, which are completely different from what the politicians said, and soon some people realized that the government had deceived them. When the government was full of benevolence and morality and flaunted freedom, democracy and justice, it was actually conniving and supporting aggression.

Combined with the reports from China about the atrocities committed by the Japanese army, the horrific photos, and the horrifying files, the Americans were outraged.Tens of thousands of Americans took to the streets to protest in their own unique way.For a time, there were demonstrations all over the United States, which made President Roosevelt very disturbed.

When the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the people across the country was extremely high, the No. 40 Army threw out another amazing depth charge, and the No. 40 Army's newly formed newspaper Saibei Army News published a notice.After multiple investigations by the No.40 Group Army, it was learned that the plague in Zhangjiakou and other places was caused by the 731 Unit of the Japanese Army stationed in Northeast China, and a large number of field troops were responsible for cooperating with it.Therefore, the No.40 Army decided to publicly execute 8 Japanese soldiers and officers involved in the plague manufacturing plan on August 15.

Published together with this news were the confessions and testimonies of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers, all of which were written in Japanese. Once the news was published, all parties were shocked.Regardless of whether those testimonies are true or not, the public execution of nearly 500 prisoners of war at one time is enough to shock everyone.

However, everyone who read the Saibei Army News felt that those testimonies should be true. Although the testimonies were all written in Japanese, they couldn't stand someone translating them for him.Seeing those translated testimonies and those pages of original testimonies, the vast majority of people chose to believe.

But only some high-level officials of the No.40 Army knew that those so-called testimonies were all written by the commander-in-chief, and had nothing to do with the Japanese prisoners of war.

Speaking of this, Chen Feng felt inexplicable. Before, he always felt that the intermediate Japanese skills were super weak, but he didn't expect that this time, it was this weak skill that helped Chen Feng a lot.Intermediate Japanese is equivalent to a master's degree in Japanese literature. It's no wonder that those people can't tell the authenticity of things written by such handwriting.

Besides, Chen Feng knew without thinking that the plague incident was absolutely inseparable from the Japanese Army Unit 731, so even the Japanese were extremely panicked after reading this report, even though they knew that Chen Feng was just looking for an excuse to execute those prisoners, but You must know that most of the things mentioned in it are not far from the truth.

Compared with those soldiers and politicians who are concerned about who made the plague and whether it is reasonable to execute prisoners of war, etc., doctors are more concerned about how the Chinese eliminated the plague.

But it is a pity that the No.40 Army did not report the details of the eradication of the plague in detail, and everyone can only rely on guesswork.However, as the well-known medical scientist Wu Lien-teh publicly confirmed in the famous British Times, the plague that occurred in Zhangjiakou and other places in China was a new type of plague with a very high fatality rate and an unprecedentedly rapid infection rate.At the same time, Wu Lien-teh also confirmed that this plague has been extinguished. The military doctor of the No.40 Army invented a method of purifying penicillin, which made the mass production of penicillin possible. It was that magical drug that killed the plague bacteria and saved the world. Thousands of lives were lost.

Wu Lien-teh is not only well-known in China, but also a famous medical scientist in the world, so his words quickly detonated a blockbuster in the medical field. The miraculous penicillin can be mass-produced, and the person who developed this method turned out to be Chinese, this is incredible.

Wu Lien-teh and his party came on June 6, when Chen Feng was on the front line in Suizhong, so Mr. Chen personally went to Datong to welcome Wu Lien-teh and others.

Along with Wu Lien-teh were 78 doctors and 128 nurses, all of whom were overseas Chinese in Nanyang, and most of them were young people.In addition, Wu Lien-teh also brought a large amount of medical equipment and medicines, as well as nearly 50 yuan in donations from overseas Chinese.

After Wu Lien-teh arrived in Zhangjiakou, he found that the plague there was basically extinguished. At that time, he thought that the plague in Zhangjiakou was not as serious as Chen Feng said, and he was still a little unhappy.But when he learned that more than 1 people died in less than a month, he judged with the minimum judgment of a medical expert that this should be a plague that spreads extremely fast and has a very high mortality rate .

Wu Lien-teh knows that the virus is not easy to kill, and its incubation period can even be as long as three months to half a year.So Wu Lien-teh took several of his disciples to dig a few pits for burying corpses on the random burial mounds outside Zhangjiakou City, and extracted some samples of plague virus from the remains of those plague patients, and then brought them back to the city for testing.

The test results surprised Wu Lien-teh. It turned out to be a type of plague that he had never seen before. With the characteristics of this virus, it was simply an incurable infectious disease. Once this kind of plague occurs, it will completely become a dead city in at most three months, and the people in the city will definitely not be spared.

But how the No.40 Group Army extinguished this plague aroused Wu Lien-teh's interest.Wu Lien-teh was interested, but penicillin was one of the most important secrets of the No. 40 Army, and Chen Feng did not intend to reveal it easily before negotiating business with the United States and the Soviet Union.

But this is hard for Hu Jishi, Wu Lien-teh can be regarded as his half-old

Teacher, and they came all the way from Nanyang to Saibei to help, so it is not enough not to tell the truth.So after Hu Jishi asked Chen Feng for instructions, he still told Wu Liande the secret of penicillin.

Wu Lien-teh was completely stunned when he learned that the No.40 Army could mass-produce penicillin.As a doctor of medicine who once studied in the UK, how could Wu Lien-teh not know about the miracle of penicillin in the history of medicine.However, a few military doctors in a local army in northern China actually solved the purification problem that even Fleming, the inventor of penicillin, could not solve. This is simply a miracle.Of course, he didn't know that penicillin had nothing to do with the military doctors in front of him.

After using penicillin, Wu Lien-teh was surprised by the strong antibacterial ability of this drug. Wu Lien-teh tested the clinical effect of penicillin in two months. He found that although some people are allergic to penicillin, severe cases may even cause patients die.

But for those who are suitable for penicillin, this drug can be called a magic medicine. Whether it is difficult tuberculosis or the most difficult wound infection and suppuration, penicillin has amazing effects, especially for soldiers, it is a life-saving medicine. During the period of fighting with the Japanese army, a large number of wounded were sent to field hospitals every day.Each doctor has to operate on at least [-] soldiers every day, but for two full months, none of the soldiers who used penicillin died due to wound infection, saving the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, and the effect is heaven-defying. . (To be continued..)