Chapter 1063 First Arrival in Your Land

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In the eyes of the great powers, old China was like a piece of fat, and this group of mad dogs scrambled on Chinese land and created many freaks of colonial aggression such as concessions.

The Kanto Prefecture is a deformed freak born of the aggression of the Great Powers.

The strategic position of this place is very important, and military strategists from ancient times to the present day have attached great importance to it. As early as the Jin Dynasty, this place was called Ma Shijin, the Tang Dynasty was called Duli Town, and the Yuan Dynasty was called Lion's Mouth. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang sent a general to cross the sea from Shandong to guard Liaodong, the sea was not alarmed, and a boatload of Ming soldiers was sent to Lion's Pass safely to land, and then the Lion's Mouth was renamed Lushunkou to commemorate. Lushunkou naturally became a coastal defense post set up by the Liaodong garrison of the Ming Dynasty in Jinzhou, called Jinzhou Zhongzuo.

In 1882, the Qing Beiyang Naval Division took a fancy to the strategic location of Lushunkou and built a naval base here, which was called the first military port in East Asia at the time.

The construction of a military port in a serious manner has attracted the attention of the eyes of the wolf. After the defeat of the Beiyang Naval Division in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, the Japanese army captured Lushun and forced the Manchus to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki, ceding the Liaodong Peninsula, including Lushun, to Japan.

Liaodong Peninsula, such a large territory, is full of anointed land!

The other powers were covetous, and under the mediation of Russia, Germany, and France, the Japanese occupied the Liaodong Peninsula for only a few weeks, and they had to agree to the Qing government to pay for the redemption of the Liaodong Peninsula.

No one expected that the Russians would be more ruthless, more sophisticated, and more appetizing than the Japanese. Just two years later, in December 1897, Russian warships sailed into Port Arthur, which was renamed Port Arthur as a forward position in northern China, Korea, and the Sea of Japan. Immediately afterwards, the Russians negotiated with the Manchu Prime Minister Yamen under the pretext of forcing Japan to return the Liaodong Peninsula, and signed the "Luda Land Lease Treaty" in Beijing on March 27, 1898, leasing the military port of Lushunkou and the commercial port of Dalian Bay for 25 years. The Russian army and navy then swaggered into the port of Arthur. On May 7, Tsarist Russia forced the Qing government to sign the "Treaty on the Renewal of the Concession of the Great Brigade Region" in St. Petersburg, stipulating that the northern boundary of the leased land should start from the north of Adam Bay (i.e., Pulandian Bay) on the west coast of the Liaodong Peninsula to the north of Piziwo in the east, and the south should be the Russian leased land, with a total area of 3,200 square kilometers and a population of nearly 300,000.

Since the area east of Shanhaiguan was called Kwantung at that time, Tsarist Russia called the Luda leased area "Kwantung Prefecture" and implemented military management.

By the rise of the Boxer Rebellion, the Russians took advantage of the situation to control the entire northeast.

At this time, the Japanese were reluctant again, and Tsarist Russia occupied Kwantung Prefecture for seven years, and was defeated by the Russo-Japanese War launched by the Japanese, and Kwantung Prefecture, including the Eastern Railway, fell into the hands of the Japanese.

On the basis of the territory occupied by the Russians, the Japanese arbitrarily expanded the territory occupied by 246 kilometers, bringing the area of Kanto Prefecture to 246 square kilometers and the population of 380,000.

The Japanese set up the Kwantung Governorate in Lushun, which was in charge of the Luda lease and the Manchurian Railway, and in addition to administrative power, it also had military command power.

From 1905 to the present, the Japanese have ruled Kanto Prefecture for 35 years.

Now, after several reforms of the Kwantung management system, the Japanese have long since abolished the Kwantung Governorate, separated the military command of the Kwantung Governorate, and established the Kwantung Army; The operation of the Middle East Road was independent, and the Manchurian Railway Co., Ltd. was established, and the annex of the Middle East Road was also handed over to the puppet Manchukuo; The administration of the Kanto Prefecture is under the responsibility of the Kanto Prefecture Agency and is under the jurisdiction of the Kanto Bureau.

The Kwantung Bureau was set up in the Japanese Embassy in the Puppet Manchuria, and the Japanese Ambassador to the Puppet Manchuria, that is, the commander of the Kwantung Army, was in charge of the overall responsibility.

In addition to the Governor's Secretariat, there are three ministries in the Kanto Prefecture Office: Internal Affairs, Economy, and Police. There are two types of local administration: the municipal system and the council system.

The municipal system is implemented in the 2 urban areas of Lushun and Dalian. The guild system was applied to other parts of the state and villages. There are 2 cities and 4 civil affairs offices within the jurisdiction of the Kanto Prefecture Office. That is, the two cities of Dalian and Lushun; There are four districts of Lushun, Jinzhou, Piziwo and Pulandian, and each district has a civil affairs office.

Among them, Dalian has jurisdiction over 118 districts and Lushun has jurisdiction over 14 towns; There are 10 associations under the jurisdiction of Lushun District, 16 associations under the jurisdiction of Jinzhou District, 18 associations under the jurisdiction of Pulandian District, and 20 associations under the jurisdiction of Piziwo District.

Kanto Prefecture has a typical oceanic climate, and in early June, the maximum temperature is in the mid-20s, and it is neither hot nor cold.

The Japanese army has occupied Kanto Prefecture for 35 years, and it counts Kanto Prefecture as the Japanese mainland. In the eyes of the Japanese, there is no difference between Lushun Bay, Dalian Bay and Tokyo Bay in Kanto Prefecture, and there is no difference between the Lushun base and the Sasebo base. With an average speed of 85 kilometers per hour and a maximum speed of 130 kilometers per hour, the Asia-Asia express high-speed train on the South Manchurian Railway runs on the 701.4-kilometer railway line between Dalian and Xinjing, creating a world-shocking Manchurian railway speed. Even, the Asia high-speed train went to Harbin and North Korea's Busan. Merchant ships and passenger ships from Dalian Port and Port Arthur continued to come and go, bringing grain and ore produced in Manchukuo back to Japan in a steady stream, and transporting industrial products produced in Manchukuo and Kanto Prefecture to various trading countries; Groups of Japanese pioneer groups landed here, took trains and automobiles to various parts of Manchuria to seize the land, mountains, forests, and livestock of the Chinese, and became rich one after another.

Kanto is safe.

In addition to the Japanese naval fleet, the Marine Corps, and the Kwantung Army garrison, there are also police, and each city and ward has a Japanese police station, which is responsible for law and order.

Late at night on May 26, a large freighter flying the American Stars and Stripes sailed to the mouth of the garden on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea in eastern Kanto Prefecture and docked three or four nautical miles from the coastline.

This garden mouth was called Taohuapu in ancient times, the old seashore was full of peach trees, and the spring flowers were like brocade, just like a garden, so it was named Huayuankou. When Tang Taizong led a large army to recover Liaodong, he landed from here. In the Ming Dynasty, it used to be fortified here to resist the invasion of the Japanese invaders. It was also here that the Japanese army attacked Jinzhou during the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle and the Russo-Japanese War, and it was also from here that they landed.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, groups of Shandong men who broke into the eastern part of the country also landed from the garden mouth with dreams and set foot on the land of the eastern part of the country.

Soon, the sampan was lowered on the freighter, and the two small motorboats towed at the tail were also released. A blond-haired, blue-eyed American with an interpreter and five Japanese soldiers boarded a motorboat and headed for the coast first.

This American is an assistant under Sokbin, named Jeff. That translator was Zhou Zijian, an old Red Army sent by the Eighth Route Army to Suo Kebin to also manage the merchant fleet. Needless to say, the five Japanese soldiers were the soldiers of the northward advance squad of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, and the leader was Luo Ye, the leader of the second special operations squadron.

The reason why Jeff and Zhou Zijian were brought ashore was to deal with the possible interrogation of the Japanese garrison.

At a distance of three or four nautical miles, the motorboat is just around the corner.

To the surprise of Zhou Zijian and Luo Ye, this coastline was quiet, not to mention the Japanese garrison, and they couldn't even hear a dog barking, only the sound of high tide and waves.

Luo Ye couldn't help but extend a thumbs up to Zhou Zijian.

When Zhao Yonggang led the northward advance team to secretly cross Jiaoji Road and rushed to Longkou in Jiaodong to join Zhou Zijian, Zhou Zijian heard that he was going to the northeast to support the anti-United Nations operation, and immediately suggested that the landing site be modified, and suggested that all the motorcycles and cars that Zhao Yonggang and the others brought should be left behind and replaced with war horses.

Zhou Zijian's reason is that Dahuzui has been a defensive point since ancient times, and there have been forts since the Ming Dynasty, and the Japanese army also has strongholds, and the defense is tight. At the entrance of the garden, the beach is shallow, and you can land on foot at low tide; At high tide, motorboats and sampans can be used to carry people, horses, and weapons. The Japanese army landed twice from the mouth of the garden, which was to take a fancy to the undefended and shallow here. Moreover, he has been running with merchant ships to Kanto Prefecture for more than a year, and he is very familiar with it.

Moreover, there is a more important point, that is, the landing at Huayuankou is close to the activity area of Yang Jingyu's First Route Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and there is no need to cross the South Manchurian Railway, which is convenient for covert operations.

Zhao Yonggang didn't believe it, saying that the two sneak attacks of the Japanese army landed from here, wouldn't he have a long memory? Won't there be a fort here?

Zhou Zijian replied that in the huge North Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea, can you still find a ship of the Chinese Navy? Not to mention warships, can you still find a small patrol boat of the Chinese Navy? Why did the Japanese waste precious Marine Corps troops on fortifications here?

Zhao Yonggang's face stretched for a long time, and he was speechless.

Zhou Zijian, since he assumed the task of managing the merchant fleet, he has changed his knowledge of the navy, and he has a clear understanding of the situation in Shandong and the ports in Northeast China.

As for the use of war horses, Zhou Zijian said more clearly, the winter in the Northeast is cold and cold, and the water tanks of cars and motorcycles are easy to freeze, and they can't start, and they can't do without war horses. If you need to use a vehicle, there are more Japanese cars on the ground in Kanto Prefecture, and a little bit of it can be seized and used. Not to mention cars, even if you want a train, it's not a problem. The Manchurian Railway in Dalian's Shahekou factory can even manufacture the Asia high-speed train, and it is a good thing to make a round trip from Dalian to Changchun every day, and make a train to run and tease the little devils!

Zhao Yonggang's eyes lit up, and his elongated face suddenly became lively!

Therefore, Zhao Yonggang handed over the motorcycles and cars of the northward advance team to Gao Jinchun, the political commissar of the 11th column and the former commander of the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade, and asked Gao Jinchun to transfer all the war horses and pack horses of the cavalry battalion and the baggage battalion of the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade to him for use, with three war horses for each soldier, one for riding, and two for carrying ammunition and supplies. The landing site was also determined at the entrance of the garden.

The freighter brought by Zhou Zijian was a freighter converted from Zhenhai, which was the largest warship of the former Northeast Navy, and it was a mothership, which could carry eight planes in a squadron, and it was more than enough to carry Zhao Yonggang and his northward advance team.

After Luo Ye gave Zhou Zijian a thumbs up, he just nodded, and shook the Zhenhai three times with a flashlight covered with red cloth, and then turned around and led the fourth brother special combat team to reconnoiter and search, leaving Zhou Zijian and Jeff standing on the beach where the sea breeze was blowing.

After receiving the signal sent back by Luo Ye, the Zhenhai was busy when it boarded, and the soldiers tied the sampan to the back of the motorboat and began to lower the plank from the Zhenhai, unload the supplies and war horses, and transfer them to the shore with the motorboat and sampan.

I was busy until it was dark, and I didn't finish unloading.

When parting, Zhou Zijian took Zhao Yonggang's hand and said in a low voice: "This is different from Guannei, in order to deal with the Anti-Japanese Federation, the little devils adopted a group tribal policy, demolished the small tunzi, drove the villagers to live in Datunzi, and implemented a strict system of protecting armor and sitting together. At the slightest movement, the self-defense forces in Datunzi will call the devils to report, and the devils and the puppet Manchu army will immediately pounce. Be careful. ”

Liu Yimin has already introduced these situations to Zhao Yonggang very clearly.

Zhao Yonggang nodded and shook goodbye to Zhou Zijian and Jeff.

When Zhou Zijian and the others returned to Zhenhai, Zhao Yong ordered the whole team to line up on the beach, saluted the Zhenhai, and watched Zhou Zijian and them leave.

In the thin morning light, the northward advance team of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army set foot on the land of the northeast.

The situation is really like what Liu Yimin and Zhou Zijian introduced, as soon as he stepped on the ground in Kanto Prefecture, Zhao Yonggang immediately felt something strange.

Originally, the northward advance team was a special combat unit, and it wore the uniforms of the southbound units of the Japanese Kwantung Army that had been captured in previous operations, so it could march with swagger. However, Zhao Yonggang found that no, there are many Japanese, puppet soldiers and police here, and the telephone lines extend in all directions, and the slightest carelessness will attract the Japanese army and military police to investigate. Zhao Yonggang and the others carried so many arms, war horses, and pack horses, that it was impossible to march quickly and covertly on the main road. Especially when marching at night without moonlight, it is necessary to use flashlights and torches to illuminate the pack team. This dozen torches will be discovered by the Japanese puppet army, causing the devil to be suspicious.

At this time, Yang Jingyu led the First Route Army to retreat to the old forest secret camp in Huadian under the crusade of the Japanese puppet army, and was surrounded by the Japanese puppet army, and the situation was very sinister.

Zhao Yonggang, who learned about the situation through the radio, was eager to meet Yang Jingyu and rescue them. However, in order to connect with them, it is necessary to cross the two railways from Shenyang to Andong and Changchun to Ji'an. The road was long, and it was necessary to march quickly during the day.

The problem is that it is difficult to find a trustworthy guide, and you can only march with maps and compasses. The Japanese army's group tribal policy was very vicious, and all the scattered households were relocated to Datun. There are generally 100 households in each Datun, and the minimum is not less than 50 households. Datun is surrounded by walls that are more than two zhang high. In some of the tunzi, there were directly strongholds of the Japanese army or the puppet Manchurian army, and those without strongholds also had self-defense forces, and telephone lines were connected to the strongholds of the Japanese puppet army. The residents in the tunzi can go out of the tun when they go to work in the fields, but they are not allowed to go out of the tun in normal times. Those who come to visit relatives must be registered, those who buy things must be registered, and those who sell things must also be registered.

Thinking about such strict monitoring and protection measures, Zhao Yonggang knew how difficult it was for the comrades of the Anti-Japanese Federation.

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