Liang Jian: Lao Li, I'm really not a military expert

Chapter 635 If the problem of lack of parachutes is not solved, medicines cannot be airdropped even

After learning that there was an epidemic in Ping'an County, Zhao Gang immediately strengthened the vigilance of the base, which made Zhu Ziming's attempt to steal the prescription extremely difficult. After a whole day of hard work, he finally got half of a blurry prescription, which was deliberately released by Lin Zhenhua in advance in order to trick the Japanese.

Lin Zhenhua was not sure whether he could succeed in the end. He thought that if he succeeded, it would be a pleasant surprise, and if he failed, there would be no loss. Unexpectedly, the Japanese army shot themselves in the foot this time. The prescription was soon delivered to the Japanese army. The unclear names of the medicines made the Japanese army doctors feel overwhelmed.

It took nearly an hour of discussion to figure out what these Chinese medicinal materials were. Then half a prescription was sent over. The two prescriptions together were exactly one prescription, which made the Japanese military doctor very excited and he immediately reported it to Dean Ito.

"Tsuruta-kun, immediately prepare the medicine according to the prescription and select 200 patients for the experiment. If the effect is good, continue to promote it. If not, the loss can be controlled within a certain range!"

Ito did not blindly trust the prescription. He first asked his military doctors to test it. The results were very good. 200 out of 150 patients began to gradually reduce their fever, proving that the prescription was true. He immediately reported the matter to Lieutenant General Imai, who finally smiled after hearing the news. He asked Dean Ito to bring the prescription over and give it to Ichiro Ishii to check and verify the authenticity of the prescription again.

It has to be said that Lieutenant General Imai was a cunning old devil. In order to ensure that there was no problem with the prescription, he had to confirm it twice. The prescription was quickly sent to the headquarters in the form of a telegram. Lieutenant General Imai, who received the prescription, immediately gave it to Ichiro Ishii.

Ichiro Ishii was also very curious about the prescription that could cure the plague. After taking it, he looked at it carefully, but did not find anything strange. He immediately called a meeting of his men and began to analyze the prescription. In the end, they all agreed that there was nothing wrong with the prescription.

Lieutenant General Imai was relieved and immediately ordered Dean Ito to use the prescription to treat soldiers infected with the plague. This prescription with major problems began to be promoted and achieved good results on the first day, but on the second day, something was wrong. After taking the medicine, a large number of soldiers not only did not get better, but their high fever became more severe. In the second half of the night, as many as 1000 Japanese soldiers were burned to death.

Upon discovering something was wrong, Director Ito immediately stopped using the prescription and reported the matter to Lieutenant General Imai. The bad news made Lieutenant General Imai unable to sit still any longer. He planned to go to the hospital in person to check out the situation, but was stopped by Ichiro Ishii beside him.

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General, leave this matter to me! I am most familiar with those bacteria. Give me two days and I will definitely find a solution. I can now be sure that the prescription the enemy gave us before was absolutely fake. Many of the drug ratios in it hide secrets, but we just didn't see them, so we fell into the enemy's trap!" Ichiro Ishii said with a serious face.

Lieutenant General Imai solemnly pleaded, "Mr. Ishii, I leave everything to you. You must find a cure, otherwise my 30,000-strong army will be wiped out in an instant!"

Ichiro Ishii knew how heavy the burden was on him, so he immediately led his men, wearing gas masks, to the field hospital to treat the Japanese soldiers infected with the plague.

The Japanese outside the city had not made any movement, which further confirmed Lin Zhenhua's guess. Li Yunlong and Chu Yunfei were completely relieved and could focus their work on treating the soldiers infected with the plague.

"College student, half of the soldiers in my 358th Regiment have been infected with the plague. The situation is very bad. We are running short of medicines. We must find a way to raise some medicines, otherwise many soldiers will die!" Chu Yunfei said anxiously.

Hearing Chu Yunfei mention this, Lin Zhenhua also had a headache. In the past few days, the base has airdropped a lot of medicinal herbs, but it still cannot meet the needs. Since yesterday, the airdrop has been gradually stopped. It is not that the base has no medicinal herbs, but that the base has no parachutes for airdrops. It is too difficult to solve this problem.

"Old Chu, it's not that I don't want the transport planes to continue airdropping medicines for us, but without parachutes, we can't airdrop medicines. The parachutes we urgently purchased from outside haven't arrived yet. It's estimated that it will take another three days to arrive. If you add the transportation time, it will take another seven or eight days to deliver them to the base."

"We have to use the medicines we have sparingly. I have asked people to take out the last of the life-saving medicine. Now we can only take one step at a time. The outside of Ping'an County has been tightly blocked by the Japanese. Supplies cannot be transported in at all. Transport planes dare not risk landing. It is too dangerous."

Li Yunlong had a bold idea and interrupted excitedly, "College student, we can completely demolish all the houses in the west of the city and level them in 2 to 3 days. It is completely possible to dock small transport planes. I remember that you produced three small transport planes before. The load capacity is only 100 kilograms, but it can solve the urgent problem."

"Old Li, you are talking about the Butterfly transport plane. Its actual load capacity is only 60 kilograms, and its take-off and landing distance is less than 50 meters. If you hadn't reminded me, I really wouldn't have remembered it. If we can use it, it can really solve our urgent needs."

"Now that we have a solution, let's act immediately. First, demolish all the wooden houses in the west of the city and prepare a runway about 80 meters long and 20 meters wide for the emergency takeoff and landing of the Butterfly transport plane!" Lin Zhenhua urged anxiously.

The three men immediately took action, mobilizing the forces of two battalions, and worked for two full days to clear the runway. Zhao Gang also dispatched three butterfly transport planes as soon as possible, and arranged a squadron of fighter jets for escort. In order to solve the plight of the shortage of medicines in Ping'an County, the three butterfly transport planes flew four times at high intensity, transporting nearly one and a half tons of medicines to Ping'an County, greatly alleviating the urgent shortage of medicines.

As the supply of medicine became more and more sufficient, more and more soldiers recovered. Five days later, 358% of the soldiers had recovered, and the combat effectiveness of the troops was quickly restored. This large-scale plague outbreak caused considerable losses to the Independent Regiment and the 800th Regiment. A total of more than soldiers died, and the losses were no less than a small battle.

Compared with the increasingly stable situation in Ping'an County, the Japanese eastern attack group was completely stuck in a quagmire. Even Zhangzhuang and Xiaozhangzhuang, which were hundreds of miles away, were affected. More than 8000 Japanese and more than puppet troops were infected with the plague. In just six days, the losses of the Japanese and puppet troops amounted to more than people.

The Japanese Western Attack Group and the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army were also affected by the plague. The combined losses of the two exceeded 30,000 people, not to mention the civilians affected. A huge plague began to spread throughout northwestern Shanxi, and the situation was completely beyond everyone's expectations.

Taiyuan City, the headquarters of the Japanese 12th Army.

"Your Excellency Commander, the plague in northwest Shanxi has a tendency to spread to the entire province. We must take effective measures, otherwise the entire province will become a living hell, and our 12th Army will be greatly affected. According to our estimates, if the plague is not controlled in time, the number of casualties will exceed 30. Once it spreads to several connected provinces, the consequences will be even more disastrous!" Chief of Staff Ippei Mitsui reported with a bitter face.

Shinozuka Yoshio replied with a look of horror: "I didn't expect that biological weapons are so powerful. Immediately order the suspension of Operation Pandora and destroy all the biological weapons in our hands. We must not let this matter spread. This will have a huge impact on the image of the empire!"

"Order the Ishii unit and Dr. Neo to find a cure as soon as possible. At the same time, send someone to contact Li Yunlong and get the prescription from him. Leave this to Kojiro Hirata. This is Kojiro Hirata's only chance to survive. If he can't get the real prescription, let him commit seppuku to apologize!"

This time, Yoshio Shinozuka showed no mercy to Kojiro Hirata. If he had not secretly instigated the night attack, things would never have evolved to this point, he would not have been so entangled, and the empire would not have suffered such a great loss.

An hour later, Kojiro Hirata received a stern order from the Taiyuan Command, but he had no way to get the real prescription, so he had to ask for help from people around him.

Ichiro Nakamura, who has always been known for his shrewdness, rolled his eyes, thought of an idea, and whispered a reminder: "Hirata-kun, we completely got the wrong direction before. You sent people to spread the plague in Guxian County, where the Jinsui Army is stationed. Now the plague has also appeared inside the Jinsui Army. Chu Yunfei will definitely not stand idly by and will definitely hand over the prescription to the main force of the Jinsui Army. At that time, we only need to get it from the Jinsui Army, and the difficulty will be much smaller!"

Hirata Kojiro nodded in agreement. He immediately took out a large amount of money to bribe the insider of the Shanxi Suiyuan Army and soon got two prescriptions. A relaxed smile appeared on the corner of his mouth and he quickly handed over the prescriptions...