[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 170: The Curse of the Kwantung Army (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Ma Zheng knows that Japanese immigrants in Northeast China are still a historical problem until after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and he has no hatred for ordinary people Ma Zheng, because in Ma Zheng's view, the military and the people are two different groups, and not all Japanese are bad people and deserve to die. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, Ma Zheng did not dare to treat the Japanese immigrants of these pioneer groups as ordinary people, because the nature of the pioneer group was very different from that of ordinary people.

According to incomplete statistics, during the period of its invasion and occupation of northeast China, Japan sent more than 860 pioneering groups with more than 330,000 people, who forcibly occupied or forcibly bought Chinese land at extremely low prices, and then leased it to Chinese peasants to cultivate and enjoy the profits themselves. As a result, 5 million Chinese peasants have lost their land, and countless have died of starvation.

Moreover, the pioneer regiment has always been a militarized formation, always armed with weapons, and is an auxiliary force for the Japanese army to control the northeast and suppress popular resistance. It can be seen that although the Japanese pioneer regiment was not a murderous army, it was also a paramilitary organization that forcibly occupied Chinese land and a rentier invader who plundered China's resources.

Although some of them may not have come to China with their own intentions, the fact that they came to China to participate in plundering and oppression does not change their nature as aggressors.

Japan's invasion of China has caused huge casualties, property losses, and mental trauma to the Chinese nation, and we should never forget the atrocities of the aggressors. Whether it was the Japanese army, which was full of blood debts, or the pioneer regiment that oppressed the Chinese people, they were all undoubtedly aggressors.

In the process of colonization, they not only plundered a large amount of land and property of the Chinese, but also became the rulers and superior people of the so-called Manchukuo, highly participated in Japan's aggression against China, and oppressed the Chinese people.

Even among these people, some of them have participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Confrontation Federation, how dare Ma Zheng treat them as ordinary people in such a group.

But it's not a matter if it hangs like this, after all, these are hundreds of thousands of Japanese, not three or two.

Moreover, according to the information transmitted by the intelligence department, the Japanese emigrant organizations in various localities are extremely manic, and each pioneer group has its own armed forces, ranging from a few dozen to hundreds of people, and the majority of these people are armed groups composed of soldiers in the townships as the backbone, and they have very strong strength, and their combined strength cannot be underestimated, and they must be resolved as soon as possible.

Ma Zheng realized that he must not be indecisive in this matter, although Ma Zheng knew that after the defeat of Japan, the people of the pioneer group, especially those old and weak women and children, were in a very miserable situation, and a large number of people died.

However, just like the Japanese soldiers who died on the battlefield in China, they were all the sins of Japanese militarism, and the accounts cannot be blamed on the Chinese, and there is no need for the Chinese to be responsible for their life and death.

So Ma Zheng decisively ordered the whole army to immediately issue an ultimatum to the remnants of the Japanese puppet army in Central Manchuria, and ordered all the Japanese puppet troops in Central Manchurian to immediately lay down their arms and surrender to the Chinese troops in their area, and the Saibei Corps guaranteed their lives. If they have a fluke mentality and refuse to surrender and resist stubbornly, the Saibei Corps will resolutely annihilate them.

At the same time, the pioneer regiments in various places were ordered to immediately surrender their weapons, and the people of the regiments immediately marched to the cities in their respective areas to accept the surveillance of the defenders in various places. After the war, the Chinese promised to repatriate them to Japan, but during this period they were responsible for their actions, and young men and women were to undergo forced labor until the end of the war, and each of them had a preliminary period of five years, and those who performed well could reduce the time of forced labor.

Ma Zheng sentenced these people to 5 years in prison in disguise, but Ma Zheng also issued strict orders to the local troops and government officials to which he belonged, strictly prohibiting the arbitrary persecution and massacre of Japanese immigrants, let alone allowing them to die of cold and starvation.

After solving the problem of immigration, Ma Zheng ordered the troops to intensify their offensive and be sure to pacify the central and northern Manchurian regions within half a month. Then the army moved south to complete the final battle against the Kwantung Army.

On February 24, 1944, Xinjing, which had held for 9 days, was broken by Ma Desheng, and Lieutenant General Sato Seiichi of the Japanese Army led his troops to break through, and finally all of them were annihilated in Wangjiatun south of Xinjing, and the first division of the Japanese Army was completely annihilated. At this point, the entire Central and North Manchurian region has basically been liberated, except for Harbin, which is still holding on.

However, Ma Zheng is also a little entangled with the Japanese army in Harbin, Harbin itself is an important city in the era of Japanese puppet rule, and a large number of ammunition materials and looted food and other resources have been hoarded in the city.

Moreover, there is a huge arsenal in the city of Harbin, which can produce weapons and ammunition in a steady stream, and the soldiers are also extremely sufficient, and the casualties of the attacking troops will certainly not be small, but if they do not storm the Japanese puppet army in the city, they will obviously not surrender.

But it is not a way to let Yang Chengwu and Xu Hu's two nearly 400,000 troops be consumed in Harbin like this, so Ma Zheng ordered Xu Hu's troops to continue to besiege Harbin, and Yang Chengwu's troops immediately attacked the satellite cities around Harbin, forcing all the Japanese puppet troops to Harbin, especially the Qingshui Rule's department that was cowering in Shuangcheng.

In addition, there was no longer a need for armored troops here, so Ma Zheng immediately ordered the armored troops to immediately go south to join Ma Desheng's department and prepare to participate in the battle against the Japanese puppet army in the South Manchurian region.

The great change in North Manchu finally attracted the attention of the Japanese high-level, and after General Yamada Otozo gave the order to go south, the base camp sent a secret telegram to inquire about the battle situation.

Unlike the last time, this time the base camp obviously paid more attention than the last time, and asked General Yamada Otozo to report all the relevant battles since the start of the war on January 6 to the base camp in writing.

At the same time, the base camp decided to increase troops in Manchuria, the main purpose of this increase was not to recover the Central and Northern Manchuria, which had already been occupied by the Chinese people, but to keep South Manchuria and Korea, especially Korea.

Moreover, the reinforcements transferred to Manchuria this time were not those newly formed Baiding Divisions, but some elite troops were drawn from the Japanese mainland defense forces to rush to Manchuria, with about 100,000 troops in six divisions.

At the same time, under the strict orders of the base camp, reinforcements originally stationed in Korea were already on the way, and this support force had about four divisions and regiments, and was rushing from Pyongyang to Mukden to be dispatched by General Yamada Otosan.

In order to make up for the air power in South Manchuria, the base camp specially transferred a flying division from the Japanese air force defending the homeland, together with 400 newly equipped Zero fighter reinforcements, all of which were transferred to Manchuria, but the tank troops urgently needed by General Yamada Otozo still did not exist.

The top leaders in Japan saw the crisis in Manchuria and knew that if they did not save the Kwantung Army at a bloody cost, not only would Manchuria, which the Japanese Empire had painstakingly managed for more than ten years, not only would it not be protected, but even the allied forces of China and the Soviet Union would probably take advantage of the situation to take Korea.

Korea is as important to Japan as the puppet Manchurians are to Japan, and even more so. Unlike the puppet Manchurian regions, the whole of Korea has now been completely tamed and has become a complete colony of Japan.

However, the puppet Manchurian region is different, there have always been resistance forces like the Anti-Japanese Union, and now there are even royal troops like the Saibei Corps.

An untrained tiger is never as cute as an obedient deer, and in the eyes of the Japanese, Korea is obviously a completely tamed deer, while Manchuria is a wild tiger.

Ma Zheng had already prepared for reinforcements in the northeast region in Japan, but he did not expect that Emperor Hirohito and the entire Japanese high-level would be so calm. Now that they have defeated the Middle Manchurian and Northern Manchuria, the Japanese Kwantung Army has basically been disabled, and even if hundreds of thousands of reinforcements come, they may not be able to restore their combat effectiveness.

You must know that a strong combat force not only needs high-quality soldiers and advanced equipment, but also needs to have a high-intensity will to fight, that is, the soul of the army.

The Kwantung Army, once the ace of Japan, after experiencing such a setback, whether it is a soldier or an officer, has a fear of the Saibei Corps from the bottom of their hearts, and this fear is the inner demon is the obstacle, and it is the most terrible curse that prevents the Kwantung Army from regaining confidence. As long as the Northern Saibei Corps is not destroyed, it will be impossible for the Kwantung Army to return to its former glory.