If the Japanese Navy and Army were to rank the most unpopular units of their own, the military police would definitely be among the top three. And if the same investigation had been done in the German army, then the position of the Japanese military police would have been absolutely left to the SS. Compared with their Japanese counterparts, the German gendarmerie clearly lacked a little bit of deterrence.

When the German SS developed to the extreme in history, it had broken away from the category of a paramilitary organization and evolved into a national administrative body, whose functions and powers had covered the jurisdiction of the original police and gendarmerie, and even intervened in the field of production and people's livelihood, controlling a large amount of labor and resources in Germany. Because of the Führer's trust, the SS held a large number of secrets of the Third Reich, which was also the source of the confidence that Himmler dared to hide from Hitler and make contact with the Allies alone on the eve of the end of the Reich.

However, that was only the history in Xu Jun's memory, and in the current time and space, the SS has embarked on a completely different path from history under the guidance of the new Führer. The Armed Guard Brigade is a pilot combat unit, and the training content of this unit is somewhat similar to that of the army special forces of later generations.

From the configuration of the weapons of this brigade, it can be seen that they are not suitable for regular positional combat, this unit is more suitable for that kind of high-speed mobile guerrilla warfare, from Xu Jun's point of view, the scope of the mission is somewhat similar to the future US army's ranger troops. The real U.S. Ranger unit was formed for the first time in June 1942.

The light infantry units of the Tomahawk Brigade, at this time, all wore gray-green German Army autumn and winter combat uniforms, which were newly made in the garment factories of the French Concession, and the uniforms did not feature a black SS collar, which made them look like a German Army unit now.

The epaulettes and collar badges are still the same as the interior of the SS, but with a new design in Berlin, the SS logo and rank on the collar badge are no longer embroidered with silk threads, but directly with metal stamping with chrome on the surface, which looks very beautiful with silver shining. There is also a set of black matte versions of this rank, which is intended for use by officers and soldiers in the field. The new badge had been flown in from Germany, and the accompanying order was signed with the name of Himmler, the national leader of the SS, but it was more likely to be believed that it must have been the idea of His Excellency the Führer.

At this time, the rank symbol worn by the Tomahawk Brigade is a matte combat version, and the black SS logo looks inconspicuous at first glance, but with the temperament and expression of the soldiers, it immediately makes people feel murderous.

The officers and men wore M35 steel helmets covered with gray-green khaki helmets, and the steel helmets carried by the brigade to Shanghai this time were all black SS parade livery, and the kind with a swastika coat of arms with a red background and a white circle on the left side looked like a bull's-eye from a distance, and of course it was not suitable for wearing during combat, so it was necessary to add a gray-green helmet. This helmet was not made to order by the French, but by a Chinese garment factory, which is said to have been pulled by a high-ranking official in the special mission, and as for what other transactions were inside, it was not enough for outsiders.

As mentioned earlier, the Japanese military police are not welcomed, and this is limited to the army and navy, and the military police is very respected among the Japanese people. It's not that the gendarmes are expected to return, but because the unit is well paid.

Normally, the monthly allowance of a Japanese soldier is 8 yen and 8 cents, and if you look at the military police, the monthly salary of a military police officer is 50 yen and 5 cents, which is more than five times that of an ordinary soldier in the army. The rank of the gendarmerie soldier is equivalent to that of the patrol officer in the police, and it is not at the same level as the ordinary big-headed soldier, so every time the gendarmerie recruits, the applicants are eager to apply, and the competition is extremely fierce and cruel.

At that time, the minimum educational standard for recruiting military police in Japan was to graduate from elementary school, pass the examination, and be trained by the military police training center, so that you can become a formidable military policeman. Judging from the nature of the work of the military police, they are actually police officers in the army, so their training direction and training subjects are completely different from those of ordinary army combat units. In addition to regular military training, they also need to learn various military regulations and policing techniques, and their targets are mainly various criminal activities involving the military, which gradually spread to all hostile activities against the Japanese army.

The strength of the Japanese gendarmerie has always been very thin, and before the end of the war, it was also the time when the size of the Japanese gendarmerie expanded to its highest, and the total number of military police in Japan was only more than 30,000. The gendarmerie units attached to the occupied areas and even under the division and regimental headquarters are often only the size of the detachments, and in many places there is even a gendarmerie brand, and the captain and his subordinates add up to less than one squad, which is called a gendarmerie detachment in the Japanese army.

Because the Japanese gendarmerie in Shanghai has a headquarters here, it is already the largest in East China, but it is also only one squadron. In this attack on No. 76, the Shanghai gendarmerie threw in a squad at once, which was equivalent to a quarter of the strength thrown here.

As mentioned earlier, the Japanese military police are, to put it bluntly, the military police, and they themselves were called this earlier, and the establishment of the Japanese army military police was completely born out of the Japanese Metropolitan Police Department, and the first batch of Japanese army military police was actually adapted from the police of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

Because of the special nature of the work, most of the equipment distributed by the Japanese military police was mainly for deterrence, and did not take into account the actual combat effect, and the result was a tragedy at this time. Within the Japanese army, the military police were classified as cavalry and baggage units, so every Japanese military police officer was qualified to wear sabers and leather leggings, and senior non-commissioned officers could even wear long riding boots. Each gendarme was assigned a military raincoat with a hood, which almost became the symbol of the Japanese military police, and the same became the symbol of this branch, one was the hexagonal sunburst badge on their collar badge, and the other was the gendarmerie armband with red letters on a white background (there are also black letters, but not many survive). ）。

The Aoki squad was originally a standard gendarmerie equipment, one saber per person and a southern pistol, and for this operation, they specially received a batch of rifles and machine guns from the Thirteenth Army. However, in peacetime, the gendarmerie did not organize much weapons training, and this year, they have been busy searching for Chongqing agents and Red Party elements, and they are willing to soak in the wine pond meat forest in Hongkou Little Tokyo when they have time.

Don't look at the famous murderous Shanghai Gendarmerie, in fact, except for the 128 Song Shanghai Anti-Japanese War, when they were forced to go to the battlefield, they have not used a gun a few times in the past few years.

Most of the anti-Japanese people in Shanghai were unarmed, and even among the hidden agents sent by Chongqing, many of them were unarmed in order to disguise their identities, and even some armed agents rarely chose to resist stubbornly, and most of them saw that the situation was unfavorable and directly knelt down and raised their hands to surrender.

If you encounter a ruthless character, let the gangs in Shanghai and No. 76 deal with it, and the ordinary goods will be handed over to the pseudo-police and the concession patrol, and there is no need for the Japanese military police to do it themselves. As a result, when they encountered the outlaws of No. 76, the gendarmerie masters immediately suffered heavy losses. After all, they are still police, and their combat effectiveness is really limited.

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