Chapter 879: The Brutal Japanese Army (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The atrocities of the Japanese army greatly shocked the people in the base area, and everyone was stunned by the brutality of the Japanese army. The intelligence department of the Suicha Military Region www.biquge.info went all out and quickly reported the situation in various regions to Ma Zheng's desk.

Although Ma Zheng believed that the military region had done a very meticulous job this time, in just a few days, more than 140 villages had been destroyed by the Japanese army in the entire Chanan region, and more than 1,300 people had been killed.

In fact, it is not a new thing for the Japanese army to kill people indiscriminately, since the beginning of the Japanese invasion of China, there has been a history of massacring innocent people, and the blood of more than 20,000 soldiers and civilians in Port Arthur during the First Sino-Japanese War has set the Japanese beast on the pillar of shame in history.

But the craziest time for this kind of massacre of innocent people was after the full-scale invasion of China by the Japanese army, especially after Okamura Ninji took office after 1940. Since Okamura took office, he began to implement the notorious "three-light policy" and the "cage policy", the purpose of which was to use no man's land and traffic blockade to trap the Eighth Route Army in the mountains and completely eradicate the basis for the survival of the Eighth Route Army.

There are only two ways to create a no-man's land, one is to gather all the inhabitants to take care of them, and the other is to kill everyone outright. At the beginning, the Japanese army would take into account some negative effects, so they would adopt the method of forced relocation, but then they did not have the patience to do so, and simply killed people when they saw them, using bullets and killings to create no man's land.

After reading the situation reported by the intelligence department, Ma Zheng felt that the matter was extremely tricky, such a war of inhumane extermination of civilians is indeed rare in Asia, maybe the current Nazi Germany on the European continent is using this method to deal with the Jews, but such a large-scale massacre of civilians on the Asian battlefield should not happen until a year later, why Okamura Ninji began to implement this kind of extermination tactics as soon as he took office, Ma Zheng couldn't figure it out.

However, regardless of the reason for the implementation of this terrible "extermination policy" in North China ahead of schedule, Ma Zheng knew that he had to do something, otherwise it would only make this kind of extermination of humanity worse.

Moreover, if the Japanese army was allowed to feel that the destruction continued, it would bring disastrous consequences to the compatriots in North China. Therefore, this trend of massacring the Chinese people must be stopped, no matter how great the cost.

After thinking about the map for a while, Ma Zheng took a magnifying glass and looked at it on the map again, then took out a pencil and drew a circle in a place only the size of a pencil lead, and then Ma Zheng grabbed a phone on the desk and dialed it twice.

After a busy tone, I could only hear a clear voice from the other side of the phone: "Hello, communication company, who are you looking for?" ”

"I'm Ma Zheng, I sent a telegram to the troops in Zhangjiakou, telling Yang Chengwu that he ordered them to find an opportunity to annihilate the enemy, and this time he taught the little devils a lesson, ordering them not to accept the surrender of any situation, not to take prisoners, and to kill the devils and massacre my innocent civilians." Ma Zheng ordered.

"Okay commander, we'll send it right away!"

After doing this, Ma Zheng sent another telegram to Yan'an, reporting the massacre of innocent civilians by the Japanese army to Yan'an, and at the same time suggesting that Yan'an let the Xinhua Daily stationed in Chongqing send out the news to create some public opinion pressure on the Japanese army.

In addition, Ma Zheng also told the Japanese military top brass in the name of the Suicha Military Region, asking them to immediately stop the soldiers' animal behavior, otherwise the Suicha Military Region will no longer accept any form of surrender from any unit of the Japanese army, and will no longer guarantee the safety of the lives of the Japanese prisoners.

As soon as this statement came out, it immediately aroused heated discussions, some people supported it, some people were worried, and some people gloated, of course, the vast majority of the people still supported Ma Zheng's approach.

The attention of the media at home and abroad also put a lot of pressure on the Japanese army base camp, after all, the massacre of civilians is not a glorious act, especially as an army, the wanton massacre of unarmed civilians is unanimously hated by the people of all countries.

Therefore, for a time, this behavior of the North China Front greatly affected the reputation and status of the Japanese Government and the Japanese army in the international community, and the Japanese prime minister had no choice but to present to the emperor a remark on impeaching the army for its reckless behavior. Forced by public opinion, Emperor Hirohito had to order the base camp to immediately stop this stupid practice of the North China Front.

Okamura Ninji was also greatly surprised when he received the telegram of reprimand from China, and he had originally mentioned it in the meeting a little, asking the troops at the front to punish those peasants in China who dared to oppose the Imperial Japanese Army.

The main reason is that according to the intelligence sent back by Tegaoke, most of those hateful Chinese peasants secretly supported the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, and even many of them were "good citizens" under the rule of the Imperial Army during the day, but at night they became the Eighth Route of the Imperial Army.

Therefore, when deciding on the "Northern Expedition" this time, Okamura Ninji thought of fundamentally eradicating the soil and foundation for the survival of the Eighth Route Army, driving all the Chinese peasants together to control, and ordering the troops to execute all those Chinese peasants suspected of colluding with the Communist Party wherever they passed, so as to lay the foundation for the next plan of the Imperial Army.

But now it seems that the soldiers of the front army hated the Tsubachi Road of China to the extreme, and such a small misdirection of the front army caused such a big movement that even His Majesty the Emperor was alarmed.

At the same time, Okamura Ninji secretly rejoiced that he had been wronged, he thought that this tactic was still very effective, and he had just been forced to jump up and down after just a few days, and even Ma Zheng's department had to jump out to "threaten" the imperial army, which shows that this tactic is still very successful.

If it weren't for the fact that the limelight was really tight during this time, Okamura Ninji wouldn't mind spreading this tactic throughout the Chinese front.

Although Lieutenant General Okamura Ninji was very dissatisfied with being reprimanded by the base camp this time, after all, he came out of the central decision-making body, so he still knew about some things in the country.

Especially for the dissatisfaction of the current cabinet, this makes Okamura Ninji know that his current position is actually very embarrassing, just as he doesn't like the hypocrite of Hideki Tojo, Hideki Tojo and his cabinet don't like him who always likes to find trouble, so he was gorgeously kicked out of the central decision-making level and came to North China.

But from the heart, Okamura still likes to play his role on the battlefield, and those people in the country are just a herd of sheep in captivity.

The most important thing is that when Okamura Ningji was just in office in North China, he was ruthlessly commanded by Ma Zheng, although Okamura Ningji was very annoyed, but he was also very admired for Ma Zheng's use of this method to deal with his own offensive methods.

Soon, the North China Front command issued an order forbidding the troops to massacre the civilians of China at will, and this order was soon issued to all units at the front.

Although the commanders of the various units had very different opinions about this order of the base camp, as the elite of the army of the Japanese Empire, they still knew the duties of the soldiers, but there were still some troops who still went their own way and disdained the orders of the front army headquarters.

The 35th Division, as the vanguard of the first attack group, faced the most difficulties in the entire northward cluster, Yang Chengwu, like Ma Zheng, is also a person who does not play cards according to common sense, although the entire reorganized second division is only more than 22,000 people, but every soldier is a carefully selected elite, coupled with Yang Chengwu's investment regardless of the cost, so that the weapons and equipment of the entire division are stronger than those of several other divisions.

After receiving Ma Zheng's telegram this time, Yang Chengwu immediately issued a death order to the main force of the Fourth Brigade, ordering the Third Brigade to immediately dispatch and completely annihilate the main force of the 35th Division at all costs.

Like Ma Zheng, Yang Chengwu is also full of confidence in his own troops; although there is a big gap between the Third Brigade and the 35th Division in terms of establishment, in terms of strength, the strength of the 35th Division and the 2nd Division and the 3rd Brigade, which lacks an infantry wing, are almost the same, and the difference in strength between the two armies is no more than 1,000 people.

Although the number of the Fourth Brigade is less than that of the 35th Division of the Japanese Army, plus the 35th Division has more than 60 tanks and armored vehicles, so if it is stronger than the combat effectiveness of the 35th Division, Yang Chengwu did not let the Fourth Brigade go to the 35th Division to fight to the death, but let Li Wenqing and Yang Suwen make their own decisions, how to fight to what extent, Yang Chengwu didn't ask, he just wanted the little devil to know the pain. (To be continued.) )