44 Liberation of Korea (1)
Someone has made statistics that since the world entered the 20th century, all civil wars and foreign wars have been counted, and all parts of the entire earth have been in peacetime, and there are only a few days at all. After the end of World War I, regardless of whether there was war or not elsewhere in the world, fighting continued every day on Korean soil.
March 1, 1924, Dandong.
Uiju, the capital of North Pyongan Province in North Korea, not far from Dandong, had been without a trace of the Japanese since June 4, 1922, and was under the overall command of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, which assumed the main force of the Uiju Campaign, and killed a Japanese brigade in one fell swoop. Since then, Uiju has been the capital of North Pyongan Province and the temporary capital of the newly established People's Republic of Korea.
At this time, the Yalu River Bridge built by the Japanese was already operated by the joint management team of China and North Korea, and the railway bridge had already been repaired by the Japanese. This transportation hub connecting North Korea and China is crowded at this time.
The Chinese government has long ordered the North Koreans in China to be gathered and sent back to North Korea. At this time, no one could have imagined that one of Chen Ke's goals was to send the Koreans away from China. What can be regarded as a racial issue in peacetime is now considered a necessary approach by both the People's Party and Korean aspirants. Even North Koreans in China, who are reluctant to return to North Korea, feel that Chen Ke is doing the right thing.
After the ravages of Japan, North Korea was killed in a dozen years and "consumed" more than a million people in the Death Mine. Coupled with the large number of Japanese immigrants to Korea, people of insight in Korea realized that things were going in a very dangerous direction. Intelligence warfare and public opinion warfare are important modes of warfare between national levels. As a self-employed five who has been fighting with five cents on the Internet for many years, Chen Ke can be said to be the most profound one in this time and space.
The main point of public opinion warfare is to use facts as much as possible to explain the evil deeds of the enemy. Japan has committed many evil acts in Korea, and there is no need to incite them anymore. However, many Koreans don't know about the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan. The People's Party has dug deep into this matter. From the massacre of Koreans in the disaster areas by the Japanese victims, to the frenzied plundering of Korean supplies to Japan. Finally, the BJP tried to propagate a "conclusion". The Japanese wanted to kill all the Korean men and use the Korean land to settle the Japanese victims.
If the propaganda says that the Japanese want to kill all the Koreans, this will certainly not reflect the power of public opinion warfare. If "North Koreans" are replaced by "North Korean men", this has both the fact that "the Japanese have been killing North Korean men" and the imagination of the masses such as "how the Japanese will treat Korean women when all the North Korean men are killed".
Therefore, the news that the Japanese were going to kill all the Korean men spread throughout Korea, and even the Koreans in the south, who did not dare to make the slightest move because they were afraid of Japanese repression, did not doubt the authenticity of this news. In North Pyongan Province, North Korea, which has now become a liberated area, this is even more of a consensus. At this time, the Asahi War changed from a war of liberation to a war of survival. The Korean aspirants firmly believed that if the Japanese could not be driven out of Korea, it would mean the complete destruction of the Korean nation.
We must talk about the so-called "national character", and the national character of the DPRK is called "seizing the day." Some wooden poles have been erected near the Yalu River Bridge, and many people's heads have been inserted on them. There are also some notices next to it, with the words "Japanese spies" and "Korean traitors" written on them. There was also a large white cloth banner with two lines written in red pen.
Never let go of any Japanese spies!!
Never let go of a traitor to North Korea!!
The handwriting was sabre-rattling, revealing a murderous aura.
In these days, there are also Japanese teams that try to blow up the Yalu River Bridge, but after failing, they are all cut off and stuck here for public display. In addition, the Korean aspirants also made a roster of their own, and all those who advocated pro-Japanese in the Lee Dynasty and served as officials in Japan after the annexation of Korea by Japan were Korean traitors. Many Koreans fled from Uiju, and after screening, the heads of the traitors were also cut off, and some of them were hung here for public display, and some of them were displayed in various parts of North Pyongan Province.
The comrades of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army also advised the Korean aspirants to pay attention to the united front issue anyway. After killing all the way like this, the group of "Korean traitors" who originally wanted to leave the Japanese forces and join North Korea now have no way to survive at all. It's okay not to persuade them, but this persuasion has aroused the dissatisfaction of the North Korean aspirants, "It was because these traitors were not eliminated that North Korea fell." It's just light to kill them! In fact, it should be dismantled and executed by Ling Chi. ”
When the Korean aspirants said this, the comrades of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army could not say anything more. After all, it has long been made very clear by the organization that China has absolutely no intention of taking the opportunity to annex Korea, and that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army must respect the right of the Korean comrades to speak on Korean affairs.
Of course, there are two sides to everything. Such a stark notion of friend and foe lacks political flexibility, but it also simplifies contradictions. For example, the North Korean comrades were quite simple in the fighting. When fighting a tailwind battle, he has the momentum of swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger, and after fighting a headwind battle, the retreat is also very quick. Of course, if they have to resist it, the Overseer will also be merciless when they kill people. On the whole, the comrades of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army felt that there was no real need to stay in this part of Korea for long.
Most of the middle- and high-ranking cadres in the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army have experience in civil affairs, and as far as they are concerned, it is purely a matter of bases to set up some bases in Korea to fight against Japan in the future. We must not do more with the DPRK. Otherwise, I'm afraid that everyone will quarrel endlessly.
The March plan is a reorganization period, and since China has entered the war, there is no need to completely hide it. The Korean combat unit was reorganized into the Korean Volunteer Army, and theoretically these people were all Korean volunteers. With the 40,000 volunteers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army as the backbone, four armies and 12 divisions were formed in accordance with the establishment model of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, numbered as the 1st to 4th Armies of the Volunteers. In the First to Third Armies, Chinese troops accounted for five-ninth, Koreans sent by China accounted for two-ninth, and Korean local troops accounted for two-ninth. In the Fourth Army, one-third of the Chinese troops and two-thirds of the North Korean troops.
The purpose of this establishment is to allow veterans to lead new recruits, and the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army is not only a three-three system in terms of its large establishment, but also a three-person combat group in the combat squad. This mode of operation is relatively high-tech, and if the proportion of North Korea's own troops is too large, this battle will not be fought at all. According to the plan, the DPRK soldiers who are qualified in the battle will be handed over to the DPRK side, and they will learn to form the Korean National Defense Force, which will be called independent, and will begin to undertake more and more combat missions until the fighting is completely undertaken by the DPRK side independently.
In addition to the establishment, the same is true in terms of weapons. The weapons and equipment of the Volunteer Army are unified Chinese standard weapons. The current equipment of the North Korean side is Japanese-style equipment. This is not a discriminatory treatment, the North Korean side is, after all, natives, and they are also responsible for the work of the guerrillas who infiltrate the south. The opponent was the Japanese army, and the North Korean side naturally made better use of the captured weapons and ammunition.
April is a month of green and yellow, last year's grain has been eaten, and the new grain is still only green seedlings. As far as the DPRK is concerned, it is completely dependent on China for war logistics, and whether or not there is food will not hinder the overall situation at all. It was a completely different situation with the Japanese, who were repeatedly attacked, and the larger the war, the more troops had to be used. The troops should eat and make peace, or eat and drink away from their homeland. The logistical pressure is enormous.
On 15 April, a large number of reorganized Korean guerrillas began to move south. The target is Pyongyang.
Japan is not ignorant of the situation, they have long known that the "Korean rebels" are ready to take advantage of the opportunity to make a big fuss. It's one thing to know, it's another thing to have the strength to solve it.
"The Japanese want to kill all the Korean men and use the land of Korea to settle the Japanese victims." This rumor is well known to passers-by in North Korea, and the Japanese side is in a wonderfully embarrassing position. It's not that the Japanese War Department didn't think so, but the Japanese War Department felt that it would be too difficult to implement this plan in the short term, so they vetoed it themselves. As a colonist, he spent a lot of effort to kill all the aborigines, and then engaged in large-scale migration, and he couldn't afford such a big action with taxes alone. At the same time, there is a cost to killing Koreans, and it is necessary to kill the Japanese. These costs are too high. As far as Japan is concerned, there is no better way than to slowly annex North Korea and squeeze North Korea's labor force to death in the process of annexation. In the end, the North Koreans were consumed.
However, after the Great Kanto Earthquake, many extremist ideological organizations spontaneously emerged in Japan. In the midst of the panic caused by the earthquake, they first felt that Japan was not safe, and second, they heard that the Koreans were rebelling. So instinctively shouted "Kill all the North Koreans!" Emigrate to all Korea! slogan. This slogan is still quite popular in Japan. From the point of view of Western-style democracy, this idea has such a deep public opinion. In Western-style democracy, the government has to follow the will of the people, which is part of "procedural justice".
The Admiralty, which advocated party politics, complained bitterly, and they pleaded with Britain to suppress China in accordance with the terms of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, so that China would not interfere in "Japan's internal affairs." But the British were not stupid, and Europe advocated peace after World War I. Although Britain itself was the biggest executioner of the slaughter of the aborigines, Britain was attacked by the People's Party's public opinion war. A number of left-wing newspapers in Europe have reported on Japan's advocacy of "killing all Koreans!" Emigrate to all Korea! "Things.
After the Americans got the news, they reported the incident in major newspapers one after another. The American people did not want to see the British, let alone the Japanese. At this moment, the American society's sympathy for the idea of the earthquake in Japan flew out of the clouds. There is a wave of voices throughout American society that the Japanese are not civilized people at all.
After industrialization, especially after the First World War, the level of civilization of human "civilized society" has increased considerably. Britain could not openly support Japan's policy under any circumstances. Because "public opinion" is really against the state policy of such a massacre. The most important thing is that Britain has the ability to threaten China by force, but it does not have the ability to attack China by force.
Before the Sino-Soviet alliance, China was attacked from all sides, but now China and the Soviet Union have made it clear that they are allies, and China is not afraid of external forces attacking China itself. At the same time, Britain now has a great regret of being deceived. After China legitimately annexed North Vietnam and Laos, and almost effectively controlled Cambodia, the geopolitical strategic situation has changed subtly.
China has overhauled its railways, and construction of a direct railway to Cambodia has begun. Once the railway was completed, China was given a good transport line to attack Burma. Myanmar is followed by India. India was the most important British colony and the source of the crown on the head of the King of England.
The close military exchanges between China and Germany also allowed Britain to obtain a lot of information about the military level of the Chinese army. Sometimes it's not always good to know the truth. The more sober people in the British military department have to admit one thing, Britain commands the Indian army to fight against China, and it does not have an advantage. The terrifying size of China's 5.5 million army is a big deal. If China and Britain completely tear their faces and come to a long all-out war, the British will really not be able to bear it.
On Britain's strategic map, the Western Pacific is not at all the core of Britain's interests, it is a strategic frontier. The British had conceived that the British would take Indian servants and drive African slave laborers to conquer the world. The yellow race in Asia is nothing more than the lowest level of existence. Strategically, at least, Africa is more important than the Western Pacific. China was able to attack Malaysia by land, which was a headache for the British. China has been in decline for decades, and when China suddenly rose, Britain was not used to looking at China from the perspective of a great power. So this difficult change of mind is painful for the British.