Chapter 290 Population Growth
Nanjing fell as expected, and during the fall of Nanjing, Zhang Cheng became very irritable, and every day he would be angry about some trivial things, until he received a telegram from Zhang Wenzhen, the captain of the Red Sword Special Operations Brigade, every night, and his mood would settle down a little. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
The massacre still happened, but compared with the original history of more than 300,000 people killed, under the butterfly wings of Zhang Cheng, the number of people slaughtered was much less.
Zhang Cheng published the evidence of the massacre of the Japanese army brought out by the Red Sword Special Operations Brigade at the risk of death in the influential media around the world, and the atrocities of the Japanese army immediately caused an uproar around the world.
Amid the accusations of the global media, the Japanese army's massacre had to be restrained, and a large number of military police units were dispatched from December 10 to rectify military discipline and stop the massacre.
However, even so, in just one week from December 3 to December 10, the Japanese army slaughtered more than 50,000 soldiers and civilians in Nanjing, and the rivers on the Qinhuai River were stained red with blood.
At the behest of Zhang Cheng, the Red Sword Special Operations Brigade launched a frenzied retaliatory action against the main formulators and executors of the Japanese army's massacre policy, among which the main messenger behind the Nanjing Massacre, who escaped the trial of war criminals as a prince after the war, and lived until the 94-year-old commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, Lieutenant General Hatohiko Asakanomiya, was personally stopped and killed by Zhang Wenzhen, for which the special operations team paid the price of the sacrifice of eight special combat members.
In addition to King Hatohiko of Asakanomiya, Captain Tanaka Gunyoshi, the main culprit of the murder contest, and two second lieutenants, Toshi Mukai and Iwa Noda, were also cut off by special combat personnel in the middle of the night.
However, due to the assassination of Prince Hatohiko of the Asakanomiya, the atmosphere in Nanjing was unprecedentedly tense, and the Japanese army laid a net in the city, so that the Red Sword Special Operations Brigade no longer had a good chance to stop and kill, Zhang Cheng in order to avoid heavy losses to the Red Sword Special Operations Brigade, immediately ordered the Red Sword Special Operations Brigade to withdraw from Nanjing, and continued to return to southern Anhui to cooperate with the New Fourth Army to fight guerrillas.
The death toll of the Nanjing Massacre dropped from 300,000 to 50,000, and the main culprit of the massacre, King Hatohiko of the Xianggong Palace, did not escape punishment and was shot in the head by Zhang Wenzhen, which made Zhang Cheng's soul feel much better.
You must know that during the whole week of the fall of Nanjing, Zhang Cheng was psychologically tormented because he knew that the tragedy happened but could not prevent it, and now everything has settled, Zhang Cheng has also been freed from the torment, and the whole person has become much easier.
Although the other main culprits of the massacre were the commander of the Central China Front, General Matsui Ishine, the commander of the advance team of the 3rd Division, the commander of the advance team of the 3rd Division, Lieutenant General Yoshizumi Ryosuke, the commander of the 9th Division, the commander of the 16th Division, Lieutenant General Nakajima Imajima, the commander of the 103rd Brigade, Major General Yamada Oji, the commander of the 10th Army, Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke, the commander of the 6th Division, Lieutenant General Tani Toshio, the commander of the 18th Division, Lieutenant General Sadao Ushijima, the commander of the 114th Division, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, Major General Noboru Kunisaki, the head of the Kunisaki detachment, and others escaped the assassination of the Red Sword Special Operations Brigade, but Zhang Cheng believed that he would definitely annihilate them all on the future anti-Japanese battlefield and use their heads to pay tribute to the innocent and dead Nanjing compatriots.
Immediately after the Nanjing Massacre, the government of the Republic of China publicly condemned it and sent diplomats to Europe and the United States to publicize and complain about the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing.
Chang Kaishen, the leader of the Kuomintang Party, made a public speech, strongly denouncing the atrocities of the Japanese army and declaring that the government of the Republic of China would never be intimidated by the atrocities of the Japanese army and would persist in resisting the war to the end.
Zhang Cheng took advantage of the commercial channels established by Zhang Zhongwen in Europe and the United States to sell stockings and bikinis in the United States, and published reports on the Nanjing Massacre in the world's mainstream media, such as the New York Times, the British Times, and the French Le Figaro.
As the leader of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Party, the commander-in-chief also spoke on Xinhua People's Radio, in which he strongly condemned the massacre committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing, calling it an act of animal and beast, and called on the people of the whole country to unite to resolutely resist Japan to the end, eliminate the Japanese invaders, arrest the main culprits who committed the massacre in Nanjing, and let them be tried by the people.
The Japanese invaders did not expect that the massacre they committed in Nanjing not only did not intimidate the Chinese, but instead made more Chinese unite and join the ranks of the war of resistance.
With the continuous fermentation of the Nanjing Massacre, more and more details of the Japanese army's massacre of civilians were exposed, and in the Japanese-occupied areas, there were constantly people who dragged their families and fled from the occupied areas, and for a time the population of the base areas under the rule of the Eighth Route Army increased greatly.
Compared with the scene of smoke rising in the occupied area and the displacement of the people, the northwest land under the rule of the Eighth Route Army is like a paradise, there is no war, no exploitation, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the joyful laughter and suona of the people can be seen everywhere.
Moreover, the refugees found that the Eighth Route Army also took the initiative to build houses for them, and divided the land, especially the land on the Hetao Plain, which was very fertile, which surprised the refugees.
The surprised refugees did not forget their relatives and friends who were still alive in the occupied areas of Japan, and wrote to them one after another to inform them that they should be relocated to the base area of the Eighth Route Army as soon as possible.
The cadres of the Eighth Route Army who were in charge of government work soon discovered that with the outbreak of the all-out war of resistance, the population of the base areas in the great northwest ushered in explosive growth, the entire north China region fell, and the people of North China, who feared that they would be slaughtered under the brutal rule of Japan, fled to the great northwest one after another.
Although the Great Northwest Base Area has abundant mineral resources and vast land resources in the Hetao Plain, because of its sparse population, although the development of the base area is changing with each passing day, it is still at a relatively low level on the whole, but with the explosive growth of the population, many major problems in development have been quickly solved.
In particular, under the vigorous propaganda of underground party members, most of the major colleges and universities in the Beijing-Gi region of China have chosen to relocate to the northwest region, except for some schools that are extremely disapproved of the Workers' and Peasants' Party, which has ushered in an explosive development of higher education in the northwest.
In order to win the favor of more people in North China, the Central Committee of the Workers' and Peasants' Party has also implemented many good and effective policies, such as setting up education funds to help institutions of higher learning relocate, providing free land for colleges and universities to build schools, formulating a law on the labor protection of workers, stipulating minimum wage standards and maximum working hours, and dividing fields and land among peasants and distributing good seeds.