Chapter 59 Destruction (4)
There were twenty-one gun-mounted grenade launchers in the three platoons, and all of them were ejected. The grenades fired over the courtyard wall and fell into the courtyard. Suddenly, a series of explosions sounded in the courtyard, and several broken arms could be clearly seen flying up with the explosion, and there were also some screams mixed with it. It was obvious that the soldiers defending the courtyard wall were hit hard.
Before the smoke of gunpowder had dissipated, Luo Yue led the soldiers of the platoon to rush towards the courtyard wall. The two soldiers bent down by the wall and formed two "stairs". Luo Yue stepped on the "stairs" and supported the wall with his left hand. His whole body leaped over the wall, and his right hand held a gun and shot in an indiscriminate manner into the courtyard. Then he stepped on his feet and fell into the courtyard.
Other soldiers also leaped over the courtyard wall and landed on the ground, and gunfire sounded endlessly. Even a few soldiers who luckily avoided the explosion of grenades, they all fell under the guns.
The smoke gradually dissipated, revealing the building, and the firepower of the coalition forces was suppressed, and the counterattack was minimal. Luo Yue was about to order to attack the house, but at this moment, he picked out a piece of white cloth from the window on the second floor and waved it left and right. Luo Yue was stunned for a moment, and then ordered the soldiers to stop shooting temporarily.
At this time, the other two platoons also flipped into the yard. Wang Qinglin rushed to Luo Yue and said, "Platform Commander Luo, why don't you attack?"
Luo Yue pointed to the white cloth that was still floating on the second floor and said, "The Eight-Nation Alliance is going to surrender."
Wang Qinglin then saw it clearly and said, "What a shameful bone. He didn't surrender when he shouted just now. He only remembered it when he was beaten to hurt."
Just as the two were talking, two officers came out of the house. One was carrying a piece of white cloth, the other raised his hands high, and shouted in English: "Don't shoot, don't shoot, we are here to surrender, we are here to surrender."
Luo Yue and Wang Qinglin looked at each other, and Luo Yue also said loudly in English: "Okay, we won't shoot. Come over honestly, but don't play tricks."
After hearing this, the two British people felt relieved, so they came to Luo Yue and reported their names. It turned out that one of them, Chelch, the other one was named Pierce, and both were ordered to negotiate surrender with the assault troops. Chelch said: "Sir, we are willing to hand over our weapons and surrender to you. Please respect the [Geneva Convention] and ensure our lives safety."
Luo Yue bowed his head and said, "Don't worry, we will respect the provisions of the Second Chinese Theater Convention on Land Warfare Regulations and Practice, and ensure the safety of life and basic rights of prisoners of war, but you must ensure obey our orders. Now you come with me to meet my command."
The two British people were also a little surprised. They didn't expect Luo Yue to come to the Second Convention of The Hague. However, it sounded like this that Luo Yue really understood the [Geneva Convention], so he felt a little relieved.
In fact, the Geneva Convention is a general term for a series of international conventions on the protection of civilians and victims of war from 1864 to 1949.
Originally, the Geneva International Conference organized by the Red Cross was founded in 186. It hoped to "neutralize" the wounded and medical personnel in war. On August 1864, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Portugal signed the Geneva Convention for Improving the Siddished People in the Warring States Armed Forces in Geneva, which stipulated the neutral status of military hospitals and medical personnel and the reception and care of wounded and sick soldiers regardless of nationality. It was the first convention of the [Geneva Convention]. On July 9, 1899, the Second Hague Convention, "Convention on the Application of Principles of the Geneva Convention for Naval Warfare," and the Third Hague Convention, "Convention on the Application of Principles of the Geneva Convention for Naval Warfare," expanded the protection objects in war to prisoners of war.
The [Geneva Convention] was subsequently revised several times, and finally, on August 1, 1949, the four basic international humanitarian laws reconcluded in Geneva set the standard for humanitarianism in international law. They mainly deal with the treatment of war victims, prisoners of war and civilians during war. They were formally determined to come into force on October 1, 1950, so they are also called the Four Geneva Conventions. On June 10, 1977, two additional protocols to the Four Geneva Conventions were signed in Geneva, and they came into force on January 7, 1978. This is the most complete [Geneva Convention].
China joined the Geneva Convention in 1956, so the People's Liberation Army is not unfamiliar with the content of the Geneva Convention, and Luo Yue was not wrong.
The two British officials met Qiu Yahui and received Qiu Yahui's guarantee before returning to the house. After a while, more than ten soldiers with black hair and yellow skin were pushed out of the house, and they seemed to be Japanese. Then, Lu Jie, soldiers from the Eight-Nation Alliance, came out of the house, held their rifles high in accordance with the requirements of the People's Liberation Army, and after they came to the courtyard, they put the rifles aside, then walked out of the courtyard and sat down at the designated position of the soldiers.
More than thirty people came out one after another, and then came out the commanders of the Eight-Nation Alliance, led by British Navy Lieutenant Colonel Gunnarson, as well as Russian Navy Lieutenant Colonel Mozgov, German Navy Major Campbell, US Navy Major Fletcher, and French Navy Major Gazi. They handed over their swords or guns to Qiu Yahui to express their surrender. Some soldiers were careful and found that there were no Japanese who took the initiative to surrender.
It turned out that as early as when the Eight-Nation Alliance was surrounded, several commanders discussed surrendering to the PLA because the current situation was very clear. The Eight-Nation Alliance had failed completely and fulfilled all its obligations. In the European concept, surrender became a natural thing. Because after the PLA called on the Eight-Nation Alliance to surrender, several commanders basically decided to surrender. Except for the Japanese.
Japan is the only non-Western country in the Eight-Nation Alliance. In the vast majority of Japanese military dictionaries, there is no word "surrender". The Japanese commander, Colonel Otsu Yuki, belongs to the majority. Although Otsu Yuki went to Europe to study and study, he came from a Japanese vassal family. He had received Bushido spiritual education and regarded surrender as the most shameful thing on the battlefield. Instead, he regarded death in battle as surrendering as supreme glory. Naturally, he refused to accept the opinions of several other commanders and surrender to the enemy. Therefore, he firmly opposed surrendering to the People's Liberation Army, but had to fight to the end, and the glory was broken.
After all, Yuki Otsu was the head of this Eight-Nation Alliance, and the Japanese army accounted for nearly half of the troops guarding the command center. Therefore, Yuki Otsu insisted on not surrendering, and the other people had no choice but to try their best to subdue Yuki Otsu.
But the People's Liberation Army used grenades to jump over the courtyard wall and hit it directly into the courtyard wall, injuring and killing countless Japanese soldiers guarding the courtyard wall. It also shocked the commanders of various countries who were still abandoning the verbal conquest of Yuki Otsu. They also realized that if they did not take action, they would all be with the Japanese.
So British Navy Lieutenant Colonel Gunnarson led the lead and took out his pistol and blocked Yuki Otsu's head. The other people immediately understood and took action together to subdue several other Japanese officers in the command center. Fortunately, most of the Japanese soldiers were killed, so the "mutineering" was successfully completed. Then Lieutenant Colonel Gunnarson decided to fire a white flag on behalf of everyone, surrender to the People's Liberation Army, and tied up the Japanese who were restrained.
After understanding the incident, Qiu Yahui, Luo Yue and others were also a little amused and crying. They did not expect that such an internal fight occurred within the Eight-Nation Alliance. However, the Japanese still kept talking as usual. Fortunately, people from other countries were still in normal minds, and of course they saved a lot of trouble. After all, the officers they caught were all at the school level and their weight was not low.
The surrender of the Eight-Nation Alliance Command also means that the end of the battle was settled. However, the war ended all the end until after noon. Most of the time was spent on the surrounding area of Juhe Town to pursue the escaped Eight-Nation Alliance soldiers. Because the soldiers of the reinforcements participated in actual combat for the first time, they naturally wanted to fight a big battle, but the combat plan was temporarily changed. When the reinforcements arrived, the troops stationed in Hejiawan Village defeated the Eight-Nation Alliance.
The soldiers of the reinforcements were naturally unwilling to give up. Since the big fish was gone, they had to touch a few shrimps, and it was finally in vain. Therefore, they worked very hard when chasing the soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Sometimes, in order to chase a few deserters, they chased for more than ten kilometers in one breath, which of course took a lot of time.
The final result of the battle was that in this battle, a total of 512 enemy troops were killed, 187 prisoners were captured, 324 rifles, about 8,000 bullets, twenty-two pistols, seventy-three donkeys and horses, thirty cars, and a small amount of blood supplies. The soldiers who finally escaped were probably no more than twenty.
However, in this battle, the crossing fleet also had the first time soldiers. A total of seven soldiers were sacrificed in this battle. Among them, four soldiers were sacrificed in the battle to attack Juhe Town, two of them were from Luo Yue's platoon, Du Pingtao, the deputy of the machine gun and Zheng Jinbo, and one of the other two platoons was sacrificed. The other three platoons were shot dead by cold guns while pursuing the fugitive. Although the soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance were beaten into siege by angry soldiers, the sacrificed soldiers could not be resurrected. There were twenty-seven soldiers injured, and eleven soldiers were seriously injured.
Seeing the bodies of the comrades who died lying in front of him, the company commander Qiu Yahui, deputy company commander Wang Jianping, company instructor Liu Jun, platoon leader Luo Yue, Ran Runfeng, Liu Qinglin and others were also silent. Although everyone had such mental preparation in their hearts, after all, fighting was inevitable death. Even the time traveler was not a superman who put his shorts on his pants, but when death really came, it still brought strong impact to the soldiers, allowing the soldiers to experience the cruelty of the war for the first time, and those who died would not always be enemies.
Chapter completed!