Chapter 049: New Changes in the Situation
Since the main force of the Japanese army was faced on the 8th, the casualties of the expeditionary force gradually increased, and the expeditionary force attacked each city and found that there were no Burmese natives inside, and even less outside the city, and the expeditionary force did not reflect until this time. In the end, the expeditionary force interrogated the surrendered Burmese Independence Army to find out what happened.
It turned out that since the last massacre, there were Burmese independence army killed Japanese officers, and then defected to the expeditionary force, but it was unsuccessful, but after the Japanese army's behavior in Burma was exposed, the Japanese army not only did not relent, but intensified, completely tore off the skin, and wantonly collected beautiful women in the Burmese-controlled areas as a tool to vent their desires.
At the same time, Japan looted cultural relics and jewels everywhere, and the families of the independent army were not spared, and the families of the independence army were controlled by Japan.
As for where those people went, the Burmese Independence Army believes that the people were very dissatisfied with the Japanese before, and Japan did it even more ruthlessly, and according to logic, it is estimated that they have been killed by the Japanese.
In fact, the five million natives living in the area controlled by the original Japanese army, the Japanese refused to do this because there was going to be a war, and they had no place to relocate, and the Japanese were not so good.
Later, according to the memories of the survivors, a large number of Japanese troops were stationed in Burma, and the Japanese first grabbed a large number of strong laborers to build fortifications, which was Yamashita Fengfumi's plan, on the one hand, he was worried about the attack of the squadron, and on the other hand, he was also looking for something for the Burmese to do, lest these people have nothing to do when they are full.
Later, the Japanese army often killed people for no reason, and as more and more Japanese troops fought, and a considerable number of them were recruits who had only served in the service, and had not killed anyone, the officers below were more worried about how these people would fight in the face of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, a veteran of a hundred battles, in case of a fight.
Soldiers who have not killed anyone, no matter how well they are trained, are not veterans, so Japanese officers and veterans began to hone new recruits by slaughtering Burmese, as long as these people kill a few more people, they will not be timid on the battlefield, this trick has been tried and tested in China. Whenever a recruit kills a few people, he immediately becomes a qualified veteran. So the Burmese suffered.
It is no wonder that the expeditionary force is now facing the Japanese army is extremely strong, although the artillery has blown up all the fortifications on the ground, the Japanese army hid in the underground fortifications to fight the expeditionary force.
If it weren't for Wang Hanzhang's knowledge of the Japanese army's desperate combat methods from the beginning, so that the entire expeditionary force prepared a large number of relevant materials and targeted training, the losses of the expeditionary force would have been at least ten times that of now.
The area controlled by the Japanese army is the richest area in Burma, the most populous area, looking at the Japanese army's fighting style, in addition to being well prepared, the Japanese army is the fierceness of the soldiers, the expeditionary military first got the intelligence, the Japanese army has a large number of recruits, but now it seems that they have hardly found a single recruit, all fierce veterans are fighting with them.
Hearing the explanation of the Burmese Independence Army, you may be able to find the reason, the Japanese army is a compulsory military service system, all adult men have received more than two years of military training, and Japan's military training is almost the strictest in the world, so these Japanese soldiers have no other skills in addition to not killing anyone. Now, if one person kills dozens of people, and there is a period of training, he can definitely become a fierce soldier.
The senior officers of the expeditionary force believe that the Japanese must be killing and killing, just kill them all, anyway, they have killed so much, they are all related to their relatives, and they are nothing in peacetime, but in an emergency situation, the Burmese, who have a deep blood feud with the Japanese army, will definitely fall to the squadron and help the squadron to deal with the Japanese army. So it's better to kill them all, one hundred, and in addition to pocketing all the food and valuable things of these millions of people, Japan happens to be very short of supplies, and these things are shipped back to Japan, just to solve the urgent need. The people in Japan at least pay less for military rations, and the pressure is not so great.
Just like Wang Hanzhang levied taxes in Myanmar, but there were not many taxes, and they were only done gently.
After Wang Hanzhang learned the news, he immediately sent people to verify it, and after the final verification, it was confirmed that almost all the Burmese people in the Japanese-controlled area of Burma west of the Nu River had been killed, and the place where the expeditionary force had entered was almost uninhabited.
Wang Hanzhang immediately hyped up the publicity, and organized people to recruit Burmese soldiers, collect donations, fight devils, Burmese people began not to believe, but under the appearance of the Burmese Independence Army began to be suspicious, and later organized people to go to the captured place to see, they knew that it was true, there was a thick layer of dust in the houses that were not destroyed, and there was not much blood in those occupied cities, and there was not a single civilian corpse found at all, all kinds of signs showed that it was definitely not the expeditionary force who lied, or the expeditionary force did it, In denying to the Japanese, Wang Hanzhang also invited numerous international scholars to visit the occupied towns, and they also carefully investigated and photographed.
By the time everyone believed that the Japanese had killed all the Burmese under Japanese control, the number of Burmese killed exceeded 6 million, and within a few months.
For a time, world public opinion was shocked, the massacre of millions of people, even the people of the Gestapo felt that their efficiency in killing was too low, how many people did the Japanese have in Burma, they killed 6 million people in just one or two months, although there should be water, but Germany also knows how many people are in each country, that area, so there are at least three or four million people, and they have to admire the uniqueness of this ally.
Governments and media around the world, civil society groups have criticized Japan, and even the Axis countries in Europe have condemned Japan, and the Japanese have once again become shouted by everyone, there were originally millions of Japanese immigrants in Brazil, and Brazil and Japan had a secret agreement before, that is, Japan would not attack Macao, and Brazil guaranteed the personal safety of Japanese expatriates in Brazil, but now the Brazilian government feels that it must be just in case, and they will concentrate the Japanese in a certain place to take care of them, which is actually a concentration camp in disguise, The assets of Japanese expatriates in Brazil were also temporarily entrusted to the Brazilian government.
In fact, the Brazilian government does not want to completely offend Japan for the time being, but it has no choice but to let it go, in case Japan attacks South America, it will be difficult for these Japanese people to rebel, and now that these Japanese are under their guard, it is at least impossible for these Japanese to provide any information to Japan, and without intelligence, I believe that if Japan wants to attack the Americas, it should be weighed.
At the same time, the Brazilian government once again warned Japan that if Japan dared to attack Macao, then these millions of Japanese would not end well, and Japan was simply mad at Brazil's sudden move, but the mountains and rivers were far away, and they could not do anything, so they could only curse Brazil secretly, and secretly swore that they had defeated the Allies, and that Brazil would be cleaned up when the time came.
What the Japanese did in Burma was true, so they did not refute the rumors, because the reporter asked to see what was going on immediately, but all the people were killed, and no one could move over, and no one could move over, and the Thais could not be moved over, people were different, and in the end Japan could only refuse on the grounds that during the war, it would prevent military leaks. But this further confirms Japan's accusation of massacring 6 million Burmese people.
Wang Hanzhang made a big propaganda in Burma, encouraging Burmese people to join the army, go to the front line to fight devils, avenge the dead compatriots, and encourage Burmese people to donate money and materials to support the front line.
In addition, this matter did not solve a big problem that Wang Hanzhang solved, that is, the problem of the private army of Burmese Tusi.
Wang Hanzhang first sent people to spread the word that the Japanese would kill all the Burmese after defeating the Chinese expeditionary force, and sent a rumor that Tusi had an army, and in order to prevent the rest of the people from being killed like the Burmese in southern Burma, Tusi should send an army to help the expeditionary force drive out the Japanese first.
Before the Qing Dynasty, Tusi was actually a small independent country, but a vassal state, and these Burmese Tusi did not recognize themselves as Burmese before the British government Burma, and nearly half a century later, these Tusi were slightly coerced by the British to recognize that the British classified themselves as Burma, not an independent country. This is also the reason why the ethnic groups of northern Myanmar have always wanted independence.
But now that Myanmar is at stake, and other ethnic groups in Myanmar are also under the guidance of public opinion, they have begun to realize that their situation is very dangerous, so more and more people advocate that Tusi send troops to fight devils.
Wang Hanzhang saw that the voice of the people was almost over, so in the name of the expeditionary force, he asked these Tusi to send the army out to fight the Japanese, otherwise they would be killed by Tongri.
Burmese Tusi saw that the force could not be defeated, and the people's hearts were lost, it is worth agreeing, originally they still wanted to keep a part of the army, but Wang Hanzhang did not allow it, and a large number of Burmese young people joined the anti-Japanese army under the encouragement of public opinion, Wang Hanzhang deliberately diluted the national consciousness, so it was called.
Soon Wang Hanzhang recruited 200,000 people, including the Tusi army, and even Wei Lihuang and others were surprised by Wang Hanzhang's efficiency.
These days, the expeditionary force fought extremely the front line, and although many things were prepared in advance, weapons and ammunition were lost very quickly.
Britain and the United States at this critical juncture actually found an excuse to delay the supplies, so that the expeditionary force did not dare to let go of their hands and feet, everyone was very disdainful of Britain and the United States, at this time actually pit allies, although few have been to the United States and Britain, but everyone has heard that Britain occupies half of the world's land, equivalent to a dozen China's size, of course, everyone exaggerated, and how developed the industry of the United States, what do you want, and now they say that there are no materials, isn't this a lie.
Chiang Kai-shek finally understood what Wang Hanzhang meant, Britain and the United States were really a raccoon dog and unreliable, so he cared more about the production of munitions.