Chapter 417: Disobedience and Massacre

In the past two years, Xiaolu sent a large number of cadres into North Korea to spread the idea of resisting Japan and spreading the idea that China was the rear of Korea's resistance against Japan. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 After the failure of the first uprising, the idea of resisting Japan was accepted by more Koreans.

There are a lot of North Koreans, especially those in the cities, who don't trust the people sent by the trail because they are communists.

At this time, the second protagonist party of the Korean Peninsula came into play. That is the Korean Liberation Army in China's nationalized area.

On October 10, 1938, Jin Ruoshan, a graduate of Whampoa, used his connections with the Political Department of the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government and with the assistance of the Wuhan Office of the Eighth Route Army to form the Korean Volunteer Corps in Hankou, with 120 members and two detachments at the beginning. Initially active in the Fifth War Zone, from 38 to 40 years, the Volunteers moved to 13 provinces in 6 theaters, and participated in the Battle of Wuhan, Kunlun Pass, Zhongtiao Mountain and other battles.

In early 1939, under the mediation of Chiang Chung-cheng, the two jointly issued a "Letter to the Ruling Compatriots" in July, but Kim Ruoshan was still boycotted by the Korean overseas Chinese community in the Americas. In 1940, the Korean Volunteer Corps grew to 318 members.

In April 1940, the Korean Kuomintang (KMT) (Kim Koo), the Korean Independence Party (Cho So-ang), and the Korean Revolutionary Party (Ri Qingtian) formed the Korean Independence Party as the ruling party of the provisional government. In September, the provisional government moved from Qijiang to Chongqing to open its office, and the inauguration ceremony of the Korean Liberation Army was established at the Jialing Hotel, which was attended by hundreds of dignitaries of the state government, including Zhou Gong, a representative of the Chinese Communist Party. The provisional government elected Chairman Kim Koo, Minister of Finance Lee Si Young, Minister of Military Affairs Cho Sung-hwan, Minister of Internal Affairs Cho Wan-koo, and Commander-in-Chief of the Liberation Army Li Qingtian.

Later, in April 1941, 120 main members of the Korean Volunteers, including Park Hyo-sam and Kim Se-il, collectively defected to the Eighth Route Army, forcing Kim Ruosan to abandon his opposition to Kim Koo and issue a statement to join the provisional government.

After joining the Communist Party, the Korean Volunteers set up the "Korean Youth Revolutionary Cadres School" in Hebei in 1943, and later also founded the "Korean Youth Revolutionary Cadres School" in Yan'an and other places; Choe Chang-yi, who served as deputy prime minister after the founding of the DPRK, Vu Ting, deputy commander-in-chief of the Korean People's Army, Kim Doubong, speaker of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, and General Park Jung-deok, deputy chief of the general staff of the Korean People's Army, and Lieutenant General Park Jinbo, all studied or worked in these schools, which was the "Yan'an faction" in the North Korean government later.

Because Koji sent personnel to Korea, the news naturally reached the Kokuntong region, and the political parties sent people back to Korea to wage war behind enemy lines before they united in 1940.

These people are popular with wealthy people in North Korea, and they are also supported by the Korean diaspora in the United States, who have a lot of money, are well equipped, and are secretly transported into North Korea.

The smuggling of personnel and the transportation of weapons were all completed with the help of Choi Hyung-sik.

The Liberation Army fought mainly in cities and affluent areas, while North Korean troops on the trail fought in the countryside and mountains. From July 1940 to mid-October 1940, when the war report was sent to Koji, the two armies almost swept across the Korean Peninsula, dealt a heavy blow to the newly reorganized Japanese 20th Division, wiped out nearly 3,000 men, killed a large number of Japanese in Korea, and assassinated a large number of Japanese officials and agents.

Xiaolu had a very bad feeling, and after receiving the battle report, he immediately telegraphed Choi Hyung-sik to shrink his troops, pay attention to the protection of the people, and prevent the Japanese army from counterattacking.

The problem came again, because the Liberation Army continued to advance vigorously, and several members of the second batch of dispatch teams did not obey orders because they had more than 10,000 people in their hands and continued to fight against the Japanese army. Not only did they forget the principle of "three no-fights" on the trail, but they also began to carry out a number of battles in towns and cities.

When Mao Gong learned that his subordinates were disobedient, he was displeased, and sent several urgent telegrams to Lu Cui in succession, asking to explain the strength to the officers of the column to prevent the troops and the people from suffering losses. President Zhu also sent a telegram, stressing the importance of military discipline and preventing the occurrence of a chaotic situation in the army.

Choi Hyung-sik strictly ordered the four brigade commanders to shrink the front, and on the other hand, he hid the 5,000 people under his direct jurisdiction in the mountains, called on the rural people to go into the mountains and caves to hide, and some of the logistics personnel retreated to the base area near Ji'an.

On November 2, the Japanese army mobilized 30,000 men from the Kwantung Army and the Japanese mainland, and 20,000 men arrived at Busan, Pyongyang, Uiju and other places, and together with the 192th Division, they carried out a large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Liberation Army and the Korean column.

Several units of the Liberation Army fought fiercely with the Japanese army in Pyongyang, Seoul, Busan, Gwangju and other places for two days, killing and wounding 2,000 Japanese soldiers, and the whole army was defeated, 10,000 troops, 8,000 captured. The rest were killed, scattered, and fled. Later, the POWs were loaded and transported from Pusan and Incheon and disappeared.

After the defeat of the Liberation Army, most of the Japanese army advanced into the mountains and rural areas, encircled and suppressed the Korean columns, and the rest were purged by the Korean people, and a large number of resisting villages were slaughtered.

The four disobedient brigades of the Korean column had been surrounded by several brigades sent by the Kwantung Army, and under the reconnaissance and bombing of aircraft, they suffered heavy casualties. Japanese reinforcements repaired roads and railways, and a steady stream of reinforcements came up.

By November 5, half of the 12,000 men of the four brigades had been killed and most had surrendered, and only more than 1,000 had fled the battlefield into the mountains, while the Japanese had lost only 2,000 men.

Later, this part of the prisoners of war also disappeared.

Four disobedient brigade commanders, three killed in battle. Later, only one arrived in Andong and was immediately arrested by Choi Hyung-sik.

Beginning on 6 November, a massacre began throughout the Korean Peninsula.

The Japanese army began massacres in Uiju, Pyongyang, Seoul, Busan, Gwangju and other places, and on the first day, dozens of villages of five or six hundred people were exterminated, and a large number of young people were killed in the cities. Some estimates put the number of people slaughtered on the first day as high as 100,000.

The final number of people slaughtered in this massacre remains a mystery, with some estimating a million, some estimating it to be as high as three million, and some even estimating that five million were killed.

In the two or three years after the massacre, a large number of Korean women, children, and children smuggled across the border and fled into Manchuria, and the whole of Korea was desolate. Many Japanese farmers took the opportunity to emigrate to Korea and engage in farming.

During this period, the entire Korean Peninsula was in a state of erosion, production was almost completely stopped, and almost zero materials were shipped out of it.

On 8 November, news of the massacre reached Yan'an and Chongqing.

Chongqing and Yan'an successively sent telegrams condemning the atrocities of the Japanese army. Chongqing called the League of Nations and asked for intervention. The South Korean-in-exile government in Chongqing began to quarrel again, and almost faced a split situation.

Xiaolu sent a secret telegram to Yan'an and the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, requesting that the battle of the Hundred Regiments be ended, and if it was not to be ended, the battle could be stopped, so as to stabilize the existing results and not make the mistakes of Korea.

In addition, Xiaolu compiled the situation of the war in North Korea and some of the existing North Korean situations into a two-page report and reported it to northern Shaanxi. The situation in Korea, because of the rash advance of the Liberation Army, which caused it to lose control, completely disrupted our layout and plan, and our army suffered huge losses, and only one-third of the troops were saved.

The situation in North Korea has taken a sharp turn for the worse in a few days, and it has dealt a huge impact on the Chinese battlefield.

Although the capitulation faction, or peace faction, in the Kuomintang region was silent for a few days due to the impact of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, they became clamoring again because of the change in the situation in Korea.

Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army began to discuss the reasons for the defeat of North Korea, and some hot-headed people began to calm down.