Chapter 1309 The First Negotiation
After Liu Yimin returned to the headquarters, he called Cai Zhong and asked him to organize the news media in Shenyang to openly report on the bombing of Shenyang by the Japanese invaders and expose to the world the crime of the Japanese invaders in massacring civilians! In all the cities and market towns liberated by our army in Liaoning, all those who have conditions have lowered their flags, sounded alarms, and played mourning music, and those who have no conditions have sounded trumpets and guns to mourn for the martyrs and compatriots who have died!
Cai Zhong went to make arrangements, and Liu Yimin followed up and went to Shenyang Radio Station to make a radio speech.
After the Japanese occupied Tohoku, they quickly used the new media of radio stations to inculcate colonial ideas. The Japanese side invested 100 million yuan and the puppet Manchurian side invested 60 million yuan to establish a joint venture to establish the puppet Manchuria Telecommunications and Telephone Co., Ltd., referred to as "Manchuria Telegraph" for short, which monopolized the telegraph and telephone business in Northeast China and also monopolized the broadcasting industry in Northeast China. The "Manchuria Electric and Telecommunications" has four "central" broadcasting bureaus in Xinjing, Mukden, Dalian, and Harbin throughout the northeast of China, and 17 sub-broadcasting bureaus in various localities, forming a four-way broadcasting network with Changchun as the center and a combination of long-wave and medium-wave broadcasting networks. Among them, there are also Manchu lectures in the Chinese program. In addition to instilling the ideas of Japan-Manchuria, the republic of the five ethnic groups, and the construction of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, it also reported some science and technology news. Restaurants, coffee shops and other business places in cities in Northeast China are equipped with radio for people to listen to radio while eating, and radio users pay 1 yuan per month.
Liu Yimin came up in a radio speech and said: "Fathers and fellow villagers of the northeastern provinces, compatriots of the whole country, I am Liu Yimin, commander-in-chief of the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Democratic Alliance. Started this morning. The Japanese Kwantung Army dispatched a large-scale aircraft group to bomb Shenyang City indiscriminately, resulting in more than 4,000 casualties among our troops, more than 3,000 casualties among innocent civilians, and 7,000 casualties among captured Japanese nationals. More than 500 houses were blown up. The General Headquarters of the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Democratic Alliance Army decided to raise alarms, lower flags, fire guns, and blow trumpets in various cities and market towns in Liaoning to mourn for the victims.
The Japanese army's wanton and indiscriminate bombing of Shenyang this time fully exposed the murderous nature of the Japanese army and exposed the lie they advocated that the republic of the five ethnic groups and the unity of Japan, Manchuria, and China were unified. The Japanese aggressors are the aggressors, and under their bombs, there is nothing to speak of republican co-prosperity. Some are just bloody massacres. The people of Northeast China should wake up from the barbaric bombardment of the Japanese army, pick up the steel gun, follow the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Allied Army, completely destroy the Kwantung Army, eliminate the puppet Manchukuo State, and drive the invaders out of the Northeast and from China!
The reason why the Japanese army bombed Shenyang indiscriminately this time was because they lost too badly on the battlefield, in just a few days. Liaoning was basically liberated, the main force of the Kwantung Defense Army of the Japanese Kwantung Army was annihilated, and the Japanese garrisons in the Lushun and Dalian areas were completely annihilated. The troops of the puppet Manchurian Defense Forces stationed in the Shenyang area, Liaoyang area, Jinzhou area, and Shanhaiguan were annihilated. The little devil was annoyed and angry, so he relied on air superiority to retaliate. Sadly, those Japanese who were under scrutiny followed the Kwantung Army to the Northeast as accomplices in the invasion, but in the end more than 7,000 people died under the bullets of their own aerial bombs and airborne machine guns.
The Japanese bombardment of Shenyang sounded the alarm for our army and the people in Northeast China. The quick little devil has a butcher knife in his hand, and he will cut it down at any time. We must be vigilant, be prepared for air defense at any time, turn Shenyang, Dalian, and other cities into steel fortresses, so that the little devils will not be able to blow up or be defeated, and provide strong support for the people's war of resistance against Japanese aggression in Northeast China.
The indiscriminate bombardment of the little devils also illustrates a problem. That is, the little devil realized the danger of Liaoning's loss! Knowing that their path of aggression is coming to an end, the only thing that awaits them is defeat, defeat, defeat, and defeat until they surrender unconditionally! Why? As you know, Japan is a resource-scarce country, with no oil and very few iron ore and coal mines. For so many years. On the one hand, Japan relied on importing oil, ore, and steel from Europe and the United States, and on the other hand, it plundered war resources from Tohoku. Sixty percent of the supplies of the entire invading Japanese army were provided by the northeast. The coal and iron and steel enterprises in Northeast China are concentrated in Liaoning. Now that the allies of the United States and Britain have completely declared war on Japan, it is no longer possible for the little devils to import war materials from Europe and the United States. Under these circumstances, the occupation of Liaoning by our army is tantamount to choking the throat of the little devils and cutting off their supply lines, and relying on Japan mainland and Southeast Asia alone cannot meet the needs of Japan's war of aggression. Next, the Kwantung Army will have planes, tanks, and cars that have to lie down because they run out of gas, and the little devil soldiers will be hungry like rabbits in winter because they have no food to eat. In the end, there is only one way for the little devil to go, and that is to be eliminated! ”
In his radio speech, Liu Yimin called on the young people to take action, go to the army, go to the factory, resist revenge, and develop production. Liu Yimin even instigated that the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was a process of the Chinese nation's phoenix nirvana and rebirth from the ashes, and it was also a process of changing everyone's destiny. Through the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, countless anti-Japanese heroes born will become heroes admired and remembered by the Chinese nation from generation to generation, and after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, they will be sent to middle schools and universities to study and become the backbone of the construction of New China.
In order to encourage the people of Northeast China to rise up against the invaders, Liu Yimin reiterated in a radio speech that he had set a reward for killing devils when he was in Shandong. The difference is that a new content has been added this time, that is, the soldiers and officers whose families are mobilized to participate in the puppet Manchu army, the puppet Mongolian army, and the puppet Korean army will also have a rich reward anyway.
After Liu Yimin finished his radio speech, he told the responsible person of the radio military management committee that he must rebroadcast the speech continuously, at least three times a day, for three consecutive days.
On the way back to the headquarters, Liu Yimin saw people gathered in front of restaurants, shops, and coffee shops everywhere on the street to listen to the rebroadcast of Liu Yimin's speech. When the car drove to the city government and the Northeast Lecture Hall, I saw a long queue at the door. Liu Yimin knew that it was a young man from Shenyang who had listened to the radio and was signing up to join the army.
Returning to the headquarters and sitting down, just after taking a sip of the water cup, Cai Zhong came in and asked to see Colonel Bao Ruide of the US military liaison group.
Liu Yimin was also anxious to see Colonel Bao Ruide, and he guessed that Colonel Bao Ruide came to the Northeast this time to understand that he should have a mysterious mission when he went to Yan'an in the history of jade.
Liu Yimin asked Cai Zhong to invite several leaders who had returned to the headquarters to attend the meeting, and they all took time to attend the meeting, and he greeted him outside the Daqing Building with a spring breeze on his face, and he stretched out his arms and said enthusiastically in English: "Dear Colonel Bao Ruide, welcome to you, my distinguished guest!" ”
Bao Ruide opened his mouth and smiled, walked quickly to Liu Yimin, hugged Liu Yimin warmly, and said in English: "Dear Liu, just now I saw the scene of you shooting down a Japanese fighter plane with one shot. My God, you are simply the god of war reborn in Greek mythology! ”
Liu Yimin said a few polite words, and Bao Ruide and his party entered the conference room on the first floor of Daqing Building, and after sitting down, he urged Li Xiaoshuai to go and see if Political Commissar Chen and Political Commissar Luo were here.
After a short time, Chen Yun, Luo Ronghuan, Li Fuchun, Peng Zhen, Ye Ting, and Cai Zhong all arrived at the conference room and sat with Liu Yimin. The interpreter on the U.S. side was John Brown, the second secretary of the U.S. to China. Xie Weisi, who was born and raised in Sichuan, spoke Chinese since he was a child, and often visited the office of the Eighth Route Army in Chongqing. The Chinese interpreter was Yang Dalin, the head of the Public Security Corps, who returned from studying in the United States.
Liu Yimin first introduced his comrades-in-arms to the US military liaison group, and Colonel Bao Ruide introduced the members of the US military liaison group to our army.
After the introductions between the two sides, Colonel Bao Ruide said that their liaison group was entrusted by General Stilwell to collect intelligence on the Japanese army in the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Allied Army and to liaise with the two armies on operational matters.
After Bao Ruide finished speaking, Yang Dalin translated it again so that Chen Yun and others could listen to it.
Liu Yimin didn't need Yang Dalin's translation, and when he finished translating, he said: "Colonel Bao Ruide, don't say more polite words." You have already experienced the situation of the Japanese bombing of Shenyang, and then you can go to all parts of Shenyang City to see and experience the ferocity of the Japanese army on the spot. I'm anxious to know, do you have the authority to send reports directly to President Roosevelt and General Marshall? ”
John? After Xie Weisi translated, Bao Ruide hesitated for a moment, and then nodded.
Liu Yimin continued: "Dear Colonel Barred, my comrades-in-arms, our country, and our people are deeply grateful to the American people and the U.S. government for their support for China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. In the past, because the United States did not enter the war, this support was only in the form of material aid. Now Japan has become our common enemy, and the Chinese and American armies have become allies. I won't say much about these situations, but please send a report to President Roosevelt and General Marshall, as long as you give me enough air cover force, we can completely wipe out the Kwantung Army and the puppet Manchu Army within this year. Please tell Mr. President and General Marshall that long-range bombers can take off from Lushun and Dalian and bomb Japan directly. As long as the economic base of Japan is destroyed, the little devils will have to surrender unconditionally. Vice President Zhou has already talked to Ambassador Goss about our request, and the US Government must have studied it, so it should be more than just a matter of contact, so please tell me your opinions. ”
After listening to the translation, Barred replied: "As far as I know, Mr. President did study the proposal of **. However, US congressmen are more concerned about whether the US aid weapons and materials will be used to fight a civil war with the Kuomintang. I would like to ask General Liu, if your troops had been equipped with American weaponry, would you have threatened Mr. Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government with strong force after the destruction of the Kwantung Army. ”