"How many people did they kill here?" Soldiers are always in the company of war and death, and it is not easy to make the voices of soldiers tremble. A search party of the 15th Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army stood on a rocky beach beside a small river, frozen in front of patches of black stones.

This is an ordinary small river in the water system of western Anhui, and it doesn't even have a formal name. According to the information provided by Fan Ainong, a member of the western Zhejiang branch, the search team of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army found the location of the relatively hidden massacre. After the reorganization of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, most of the units had combat experience. It is easy to distinguish whether it is a blood stain or not. The mottled black of the stones in front of me was not the primary color, but a large amount of blood soaked and dried on the stones. Zhejiang is rainy, and after more than a year of wind and rain, you can still clearly see these blacks, which shows how much blood was shed at that time.

The comrades first scraped the surface of the black stone with military daggers, and sure enough, the cyan stone was immediately exposed under the black surface. The recorders keep a record of the data.

"How many people did they kill here?" Even though it had already been said once, the comrades said it again in a skeptical tone. The search team is not so simple to see and feel, and the tragic massacre still leaves a large number of traces after more than a year of wind and rain. In addition to a large number of blood-soaked stones, the search even found a lot of broken bone fragments, and even a broken Heavenly Spirit Cover.

Take control of major cities, ports, and lines of communication, and then carry out repression in one region at a time. The plan of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army to attack the three southeastern provinces was not bizarre, it was a completely clichéd pattern. After the liberation of Hangzhou, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army ensured control of northern Zhejiang, the Fifth Army divided its troops to the south and marched eastward, and the Fifteenth Army took over the liberated areas.

The comrades in western Zhejiang have all heard about it, and after they really entered western Zhejiang, if they carefully searched the places where they were collectively killed, the traces of the tragedy could still be found. After more than a year of wind and rain, the mottled blood marks on the city walls can still be faintly seen, and countless evidence has been searched for a large number of places of mass slaughter.

Naturally, the purpose of such a search was not to find survivors, but to identify the heinous crimes committed by the counter-revolutionaries. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was never afraid of battle, and it showed no mercy when it fought the enemy. But this does not mean that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army likes to kill, still less that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army will take human life in disregard. If there are no Zhejiang soldiers in the troops, and no troops have been active in Zhejiang, it will be difficult for the troops to understand how brutal the enemy can be if such a search is not carried out.

After reading the information collected, the political commissar of the 15th Group Army, Hitoshi Kuroshima, had a green face. As a Japanese, Kuroshima understands brutality. Driven by fear, human beings will always do things that are inconceivable to normal people. During the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan carried out many massacres. But it was against the citizens of other countries, and to be able to carry out such a brutal massacre of their own citizens is something that challenges the imagination of mankind.

Of course, Kuroshima would not declare to his comrades the results of his thinking based on different nationalities, but He Jinwu, commander of the 15 th Group Army, and Lu Zhengping, chief of staff, couldn't help but sigh: "Back then, I thought that killing the landlords in the base areas was ruthless enough, but now I see that this is the real compassion." ”

If the landlords heard this, they would definitely think that the cadres of the People's Party were talking nonsense. Hitoshi Kuroshima was very much in favor of this. It is not that he is now on the side of the murderer, but in the overall situation, the People's Party has only killed 600,000 reactionaries in the liberated areas of the eight provinces in the past few years. Those people had been killed in bloody battles, or in wars with open swords and guns. Including the Chinese and Japanese soldiers killed in the revolutionary war, the total is still less than one million.

Now, judging from the incomplete information collected temporarily, there are more than 100,000 members of the Liberation Society and the peasant association who were killed in Zhejiang Province. After the end of the upcoming anti-rebellion operation, it is expected that more than 200,000 or even 300,000 people will be killed. This is still the territory of only one province, and the total number of dead and dying people in the entire three southeastern provinces in the course of this counter-revolutionary massacre and the suppression of counter-revolutionary massacres will not be less than one million.

If the People's Party had conquered the three southeastern provinces by force from the beginning, even if it had been ruthless enough, the number of people who had died in the revolutionary war and the suppression of the landlords would never have exceeded 100,000. The severity of the BJP's defeat of the reactionaries compared to the brutality of the reactionaries' counterattack was nothing short of a spring breeze.

Chen Ke once said that revolution is the greatest humanitarianism. Ren Kuroshima now finally understood the heaviest part of the words. Revolutions will cause a large number of dead in a very short period of time, but this will not only greatly reduce the number of dead compared to the number of people who have been caught up in the long chaos and died, but the blood and life of each dead will leave its own value in history. Kuroshima couldn't help but think of another thing Chen Ke said, the history of human progress is like the formation of coal, at first a large piece, and finally only a small point. And the blood sacrificed is not enough for the amount or not, and the quality must also be enough. The altar must be presented with the blood of genuinely determined revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries.

Heijima Ren once felt that Chen Ke's words were too innocent and moaned, but when he saw the real situation of the 412 counter-revolutionary massacre with his own eyes, he suddenly understood what Chen Ke was talking about. Knowing everything Chen Ke was referring to, Kuroshima Ren couldn't help but have another doubt. What kind of perspective did Chen Ke use to gain insight into history and revolution? It takes a lot of willpower to admit that the revolution must cross the bottomless sea of blood in order to continue to move forward, and to approach the other side of victory.

"Black political commissar, we have to hurry up this time to get our mobilization meeting." Lu Zhengping, chief of staff of the group army and deputy secretary of the party committee of the group army, said, "The soldiers feel that they are here to fight, not to kill people like this. Or give this work completely to the comrades of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs? ”

The People's Party has quite a few foreign members, more precisely, Japanese members. Originally, the default rule in the army was that Japanese party members could not become party secretaries. With the sharp increase in the number of troops, it has become a tacit assumption that foreign party members cannot become commanders at or above the military level. In any case, the political commissar of the group army and the commander of the group army participate in all high-level military meetings and party committee meetings, and this adjustment of the idea is not so much prevention as protection. The stall of the army is so large, and in many cases, it is not that someone will cause irreparable losses to the troops, but that it is necessary to guard against a large number of well-intentioned people who have the opportunity to spread rumors. Kuroshima Ren rose all the way up from company commander and political commissar, but he never cared about it. The Japanese side did not send spies to try to contact Kuroshima, so gossip is more terrible than assassination.

Everyone knows this, and Kuroshima really can't take this to heart, so he replied, "First destroy the militias that are trying to resist, and defeat them is fundamental." The rebellion is never a matter of one or two days. ”

In order to kill fewer people and try not to spare the counter-revolutionaries, the anti-rebellion plan in the entire three southeastern provinces will be carried out for more than a year or even longer. The first step is not to disrupt the three southeastern provinces, but to establish a household registration system as soon as the three southeastern provinces are stabilized. Counter-revolutionaries also fled, and there were many problems of the masses fleeing their homeland during war. The liberated areas have full experience in this regard, and after the establishment of a strict household registration system, those displaced people from other places have been contained, screened, and repatriated, and in addition to the circulation of information, many people who have fled with blood debts in their hometowns have been arrested and brought to justice.

After being able to prove to the local masses that those criminals who fled to the ends of the earth would also be arrested and brought back to the law, the prestige of the BJP was established. This time the anti-rebellion action in Jiangsu and Zhejiang also adopted this line of thinking and mode.

"When there is no war, it's good!" Chen Jinwu, commander of the group army, sighed. He is also a veteran of ten years of military experience and has participated in almost every battle in Jiangnan. The long war, and the carnage and destruction it brings, made these soldiers yearn for peace more than anyone else. In the military education of the People's Party, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army set foot on the battlefield without hesitation for the sake of peace. It is precisely because of this that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army has always been able to maintain its high morale.

"That also depends on how stubborn the militia is!" Lu Zhengping is not blindly optimistic about the bloody storm that he will experience on the road to peace. As he thought, since the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army entered Zhejiang, the fighting has been going on every day. Defeating the Beiyang Army and eliminating or capturing the Beiyang Army did not mean that the war was over, and the war was carried out more brutally in various villages in Zhejiang.

In a valley, more than two dozen people dressed in various costumes staggered and fled, sweating profusely. They were a militia group in Wujialing, western Zhejiang, and in 412 this militia group killed many members of the peasant associations in western Zhejiang. Before the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army came over, they knew that they had formed a blood feud with the People's Party, so they tried their best to contact the Beiyang Army as support. When the Beiyang Army laid down a defensive line in western Zhejiang, these people tried their best to communicate with the Beiyang Army. Therefore, after the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army broke through the defense line of the Beiyang Army, this militia immediately got the news. When the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army attacked Wujialing, they also resisted stubbornly.

However, there was a huge gap between the weapons and equipment, military training, and tactical level of the two sides, and the militia soon found itself semi-surrounded. The point of fire of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was on the soft underbelly of the militia defense line, and under the dense and accurate fire attack, the guys that the militia tried to resist were knocked down one by one. These men had killed the local peasant unions, and they knew what would happen if the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army had won. Therefore, when the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army cut into the weakness of the militia defense system, divided the militia's defense line into two, and began to attack from both sides, the militia leader immediately decided to lead the people and ran away.

can't control their own family and money, and they can't manage so many brothers, what these people can do at this time is to keep themselves.

Along the way, the pursuing procession of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army kept firing their guns, and those who remained at the end were either knocked down. Either you can't run and then simply surrender on your knees. Wen Side, the leader of the militia group, is also a local "hero", he gritted his teeth and led the team to completely escape for his life, and he managed to maintain the team. Such a small team took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to flee desperately, looting, throwing weapons, and throwing everything that hindered the escape. Running to the point of almost foaming at the mouth, the pursuers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army behind were still biting at the bottom.

Staggered into the valley, the pursuers behind also looked very tired, and the distance between the two sides did not shorten. Wen Side, who was the leader, finally slowed down his pace, but he took the lead, but when he saw that some of the people behind him simply collapsed on the ground and couldn't move.

Wen Side shouted anxiously, "Hurry up! But I can't rest, and when I rest, I can't move anymore. ”

But no matter how much Wen Side shouted, the members of the militia who had already sat down and fell still couldn't move.

"Alas!" Wensted knew that the brothers really couldn't run, so he shouted hard and continued to walk forward.

The brothers in the back struggled to get up when they saw that Wen Side wanted to continue walking without them. But seeing that Wen Side hadn't gone too far, a snow-white flower jumped on his head. The familiar scene reminded the militia members of what they would have seen more than a year ago when they shot their rifles at the heads of peasant union members. At this time, a crisp gunshot rang out from the mountain. The gunshot sounded as if it were a signal, and Wen Side was still standing relatively straight, and then he fell straight backwards.