On the morning of February 1. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Yi Chunnan. There is a Korean tun near Heungsan, and there is a Japanese prisoner of war farm in the Korean tun. This POW farm was newly opened.

Yamada, who turned out to be a gendarme, was captured in Harbin and, along with a few companions, was transferred here more than ten days ago.

He also has a secret identity, which is a secret agent of Tegaoke, which was secretly developed after the destruction of the spy network. However, just after becoming a secret spy, he caught up with the Battle of Harbin, was wounded and arrested.

He always remembered that he was a spy, and did not resist like other prisoners, and was judged to be a Japanese who could be educated, and a month ago, he was assigned here with more than two dozen prisoners from all over the country.

They were run by militias, a handful of Han Chinese, and mostly Koreans. North Koreans are new arrivals, coming from North Korea. I heard that a lot of North Koreans were housed, but there was no place for them, and even hundreds of people were housed on the prisoner of war farm.

The relationship between the North Koreans and the Han Chinese was not good, but a week ago, Yamada noticed that the relationship between the North Koreans and the Han people had deteriorated. The North Koreans are short of food, so they go to the Han people every day to ask for food.

This morning, Yamada had breakfast with a few Japanese prisoners of war, and the war was waiting for the management personnel to assign today's affairs, when suddenly, a Japanese prisoner of war ran in from outside and said, "The fight has started." ”

Yamada: "Who hit whom?" ”

Prisoner of War: "Interesting. The Koreans all came and surrounded the barracks of the army. The siege of the barracks by ordinary people is really unique. ”

Yamada: "Here's your chance? ”

Several others nodded. Yamada said: "I'll go and take a look, you're all ready." Clothes, food, matches. By the way, there are also tools. Without guns, tools can also defend themselves. I figured out the situation in the decision. ”

Several others nodded and went one after another.

These people have been planning to escape for a long time, and almost every one of them has hidden a ten-pound bag of fried noodles, which is full of fried noodles. Matches were also obtained. If you don't have a weapon, you can gather some stick tools. One of them had a scheming one, and he also got a bottle of lamp oil, ready to light a fire in the field and make a torch.

Yamada left the dormitory and pretended to go to the bathroom. After walking only a few steps, I saw hundreds of North Korean villagers surrounding the barracks, making noise. Born in Japan, Yamada lived in Korea as a child, and later lived at the University of Ryū and returned to Japan to study. As a result, he is fluent in Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. After being captured, he hid his language skills and spoke only Japanese.

When I got to the toilet, I just squatted down when I heard the words outside: "These North Koreans are crazy to ask for food." We didn't have enough of ourselves, and the prisoners of war didn't have anything to eat. What to give to them? ”

Another said: "You go to the headquarters to ask for food, and I go to appease the North Koreans?" ”

The first said: "I did all this yesterday, and I can't do anything without food." I think that while the North Koreans are not aware, we will say to go and transport grain, let's run. ”

The other said, "Run? Where to go? ”

The first said, "Go to Yubara Prefecture." I have relatives there. ”

Another said, "Okay." I'm going to get fried noodles, let's go right away? The voice was gone.

Yamada came out and saw two lines of footprints on the ground, which were exceptionally clear.

Back in the dormitory, the other two snooped on the situation and came back, and the situation was the same, the guards were going to run. The confidence of the captives was greatly increased, everyone put on cotton clothes, carried a ten-pound bag of fried noodles on their backs, quietly came out, looked for a while, and sure enough, they found the two lines of footprints, and followed the footprints into the mountain. Leaving the village, I looked back and saw that the POW farm was on fire, and the fire was raging.

The two deserters were indeed locals, and the path they chose was very clever, not far from the populace, but no one would find out. After a day's work, the captives rested twice and finally came out of the mountain. As soon as I got out of the mountains, there were more villages along the way, and there was trouble in several places, all of them were North Koreans grabbing food, and in one village they found that the Anti-Japanese Union beat North Koreans with the butts of their guns.

The captives did not dare to stay, but simply ran along the path.

At night, the captives found that there was a large town in front of them, and the houses in the town were flying with false flags.

When several of the captives saw this, tears flowed down their eyes.

February 1939 in the Western calendar. Spring seems to have come early. Of course, the weather is still cold, but some people feel that spring is coming.

February 3rd. Shinkyo, the headquarters of the Kwantung Army.

The staff officers are briefing the commander and chief of staff on the clean-up plan.

The staff officers had already drawn up a plan for the crusade. Although the plan has not yet been finalized, the preliminary preparations are in place. At present, the teams of the crusade and eradication in various localities have been reorganized, and the materials have also been prepared.

The command had actually made up its mind and was ready to launch a major crusade across Manchuria in a few days.

The reason why the crusade is only now is simple, that is, it keeps receiving contradictory information that is completely opposite. The victory of the purge last autumn was supposed to confirm the arrival of peace in Manchuria, but as a result, local battles were fought in many places. All battles are for food.

So I prepared for the winter purge of the purge

At the beginning of the month, the Kwantung Army first received the news of the reorganization of the Northeast Coalition Army, which was their official news and had no factual support. Soon, they received information that it was a speech by the leaders of the Northeast Coalition Army and the Northeast Bureau, although the speech was very formal, saying that the situation of the Northeast Coalition Army was very good.

Everyone thinks there's a lot of information in it. One of the important pieces of information is that there are tens of thousands of troops in the Northeast Coalition. There is another one, that is, they have run out of food and are going to the USSR to ask for food aid.

While it was being examined, a staff officer ran in and said, "Report, telegram." There is important information. ”

A staff officer said, "Don't you see that the report is being made?" "Whispered, this one came in with his subordinates.

The new staff officer said, "But this information will change our plans. ”

"Read the information again." This was an order from the Chief of Staff, and the commander did not say anything.

The staff officer took a stack of telegrams and read: "Jiamusi is calling, more than a dozen prisoners of war of our army have escaped from the other side of the river and returned to Jiamusi. They saw a mutiny among North Korean refugees and a large number of Northeast coalition troops fleeing from the army. ”

There were several more telegrams, all from around Yichun. All the intelligence said one thing, Yichun himself was in chaos.

The staff officers began to discuss.

The chief of staff said: "The situation has changed, and now it is not clear about the situation of the other party, how to send troops?" Study this information right away. Based on the intelligence, adjust the plan. ”

A staff officer sitting in the corner said, "I suggest that troops be sent immediately to exert strong pressure on them and promote their destruction as soon as possible." ”

A staff officer opposite him said: "They themselves are fighting internally, and if we send troops, they will inevitably stop fighting and unite with the outside world." If the situation is in our favor, why should we change it? ”

Seeing that these people were arguing again, the chief of staff had a great headache and said, "You continue to investigate and come up with conclusions as soon as possible." Conclusions are followed before action is taken. Meeting. ”

Once again, the crusade was put on hold, delayed.

Throughout the first half of the month, the Kwantung Army received a large amount of opposite, contradictory intelligence.

At the beginning of the month, the guards of a Japanese prisoner-of-war reform camp in Heungsan took advantage of the Korean mutiny to seize the prisoners' food and escape.

This prisoner of war camp was built last year as a Korean farm, and in January it was converted into a Japanese prisoner of war camp in preparation for the spring of the disaster to reclaim the fields. The prisoners of war in the prisoner of war camp were newly brought in more than ten days ago, and they were prisoners of war who had not been reformed well in other prisoner of war camps. Before they left, their food rations were drastically reduced and they were simply not fed.

Hundreds of prisoners of war fled from several prisoner of war camps around the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, all of which were new prisoner of war camps. They saw the guards mutinied and fled from the prisoner of war camp. They walked through several villages along the way, and they all saw North Korean refugees besieging the village office and looting food. They also saw some men with guns fleeing like them.

The Kwantung Army attached great importance to their return and inquired about them for several days. The interrogation records were compiled into a large book of information, and the Kwantung Army trusted their judgment even more.

The raiding troops in the northeast quickly reported the good news of victory, and some active advance troops suddenly disappeared, and news continued to come that in winter, the advance army had a food shortage, soldiers mutinied, and many troops disintegrated.

In addition, news of the bandit leader being killed by his subordinates kept coming. In Zhuhe, there was even a security chief who reported the news that the Japanese army went to the scene of the murder to check and found the body of the bandit leader Zhao Shangzhi, a horse whip, a diary, a document bag, and documents.

Another big bandit leader, Lu Xiaoming sent by Yan'an, fled from the Soviet Union because of the mutiny of his subordinates, and has returned to Yan'an to engage in grain production.

There was also a bandit leader, Li Zhaolin, who was forced to flee to the prairie around the Rehe area, to be accompanied by cattle, sheep and yellow squirrels, and recent local intelligence has made it clear that Li Zhaolin seems to have been injured.

Another bandit, Zhou Baozhong, had fled to the Soviet Union. The spies of the Kwantung Army in Vladivostok, the spies of the Manchurian Railway in Vladivostok, and the spies of the Navy all sent back news that the leader of the bandits, Zhou Baozhong, and his wife were stranded in Vladivostok and were snubbed by the Soviet Union.

The bandit leaders in Vladivostok with the bandit leader Zhou Baozhong also included Xie Wendong and Li Huatang.

In all parts of Manchuria, no one harassed the group tribes, no one harassed the pioneer groups, and no one made trouble in the cities.

A peaceful scene.

At the beginning, they didn't believe that the Northeast Coalition Army was already very strong, and it would collapse overnight and defeat itself without a fight?

With more information, they gradually began to believe it, and found the reason. In the eyes of the Kwantung Army, the method of blaming the North Korean refugees on the advance army worked. The North Korean refugees have eaten them up, and most of them, except for a few forts, are finished.

However, there are many people who do not believe it and think that this is a deception by the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation. They are treacherous and cunning, they are despicable villains, and they have carried out many despicable deceptions, and this time they are deceitful too.

The argument was fierce.

Both the Chinese-language "Kant News" and the Japanese-language "Manchurian Daily" published a series of news and even distributed photographs to publicize the victory of Manchukuo and the destruction and flight of one big bandit leader after another. It is said that more than a dozen newcomers to journalism have gone deep into the grassroots to discover the latest news in order to make meritorious contributions, under the protection of a limited number of policemen.

The reporters who investigated these reporters, without exception, were all people who had just joined the work, and their backgrounds were very simple.

The article says that once upon a time, these big bandit leaders set off an earth-shattering wave in Manchuria, but now they have destroyed themselves in a few days. This is a great irony. A few years ago, the bandits in southern Liaoning perished in dozens of days, and the big bandit leader Ma Zhanshan also perished in dozens of days, and now, it is the turn of other bandit leaders.

The intelligence agencies are annoyed, how come we are behind the journalists? Quickly sent people to check on the riot villages mentioned by the prisoners of war, and sure enough, they saw the chaotic villages and the smashed village offices. Walking into the mountains, I found that there were many bandits.

Chongqing received similar information. Because the information was so detailed, the Chongqing government basically believed the facts. The Chongqing government looked at this matter in the same way as when it was in Nanjing.

The Chongqing government received a telegram from Yichun, asking Chongqing to exert diplomatic pressure on the Soviet Union and ask the Soviet Union to urgently provide food, cloth, cotton and other materials to the Northeast Coalition Army. Yichun also telegraphed that the Xingshan Fortress is still in our hands, and we swear to live and die with the fortress

The information received by Chongqing, as well as Chongqing's judgment on this matter, was not leaked, and all of them were transmitted to Tokyo, Dalian, and Xinjing. This kind of information gradually decreases in the spring and May.

The Northeast Coalition Army is no longer working, and this has been confirmed by the Japanese military.

A big pie flickered and smashed on the head of the Kwantung Army.

The Kwantung Army was actively preparing for war, and now that the order had been issued, more than 100,000 troops would arrive in Manchuria in the coming months. They did not stop the transfer of troops because of the collapse of the Northeast Coalition Army, on the contrary, the speed of the transfer of troops accelerated.

Obviously, the mobilization of military forces has another purpose.

1939 will be an extraordinary year.

It's going to be war.

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1 Historically, in 1939, there were still sporadic battles in the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance, but they gradually declined, a large number of troops were scattered, and Li Huatang and others surrendered. Zhao Shangzhi, Zhou Baozhong, Li Zhaolin's troops retreated into the Soviet Union after being defeated, and fought back after recuperation, becoming weaker and weaker. The repeated defeats of the First Route Army and the inability to enter the Soviet Union for recuperation led to the martyrdom of Yang Jingyu in January 1940. In this year, the Japanese army was able to completely suppress the Anti-Japanese Union with only a few local puppet armies and local Japanese troops, so the existence of the Anti-Japanese Federation did not affect the Japanese decision-making on the Soviet campaign at all.