[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 299: The Mass Grave Outside Datong City (Ask for Subscription!) ）

In fact, Ma Zheng had the idea of attacking the Datong mining area for a long time, but he had been busy with it and had no time to implement it, and secondly, the previous comparison of the strength of the enemy and me was extremely large, and even if it was reluctantly implemented, the effect would not be too good.

In fact, it is not difficult to take the Datong mining area, although the Japanese army also stationed some troops in the mining area, but the number is not much, there are only two reinforced squadrons when the battle is full, and the rest are all some Japanese ronin and the company's own private army, the combat effectiveness is extremely weak, as long as Ma Zheng is willing, he can send a reinforced battalion at any time to sweep away the entire mining area.

But in that case, you can only fight the Japanese army, but you will not be able to increase your own strength. The elimination of the Japanese army was not the goal, the purpose was to rescue the absentees and seize the equipment, these two things were indispensable, so the matter dragged on as soon as it came and went.

Now that the Suicha Military Region is strong and strong, it is time to solve this problem, and as for deterring the Jin and Sui troops, it is just a matter of beating rabbits with grass -- by the way.

In addition, there was another reason for Ma Zheng's quick action, and that was related to the harsh and vicious rule imposed by the Japanese on the Datong mining area. In the past, when they were in military academies, the school often gave them patriotic education, and the main materials for learning were the events of the Anti-Japanese War, such as the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, the Yan'an Red Revolution Base, the Daqingshan Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Revolutionary Base Memorial Hall, etc., and of course, the 10,000-person white bone pit outside Datong City.

Yes, that's right, it's a pit of 10,000 bones! These mass graves are just outside the city of Datong, and these "mass graves" were formed by the corpses of the mutilated miners after they died after the Japanese invaders occupied ******** and brutally implemented the bloody policy of "exchanging people for coal". According to incomplete statistics, in the eight years ******** occupation by the Japanese invaders, more than 14 million tons of coal were plundered. More than 100,000 miners were brutalized to death, including more than 60,000 victims in the Nangou mass grave alone, and there are as many as 20 such mass graves in the ******** mining area.

There is also information that the invading Japanese army brutalized more than 155,000 Chinese laborers through the "mass grave" in Datong. In addition, the invading Japanese army also killed Chinese laborers through such cruel means as "refining furnaces", "bone riverbeds", "burning fires", burying them alive, and cultivating malaria bacteria. This is already known, but sixty or seventy years have passed in history. There are many things that have been buried in the dust of history, and it is difficult for people to restore their true appearance. It's like how many creepy mass graves there are, and how many Chinese miners are buried in them, it's unknown.

The brutality of the Japanese army's brutal bloody policy of "exchanging people for coal" can be said to be exhaustive, and nearly 200,000 people died there where there is information available, but more of them are those who have no data to verify the death. You must know that the miners who are buried after death do not account for the majority, and many people are thrown directly into the barren mountains and mountains after death, leaving wild beasts to bite their stomachs, and finally until the bones are gone. No one can say for sure how many of these people there are.

History cannot be forgotten. When Ma Zheng was in the military academy, he was fortunate to come to Datong with his classmates once and visited ******** mass graves. Ma Zheng still can't forget the horrific scene of the Datong mass grave, the bones are piled up, layered, some cut off their legs, some break their backbones, some pierce their heads, and some crawl towards the entrance of the cave.

The remains of the dead miners are forever frozen in the moment they crawled towards the entrance of the cave. Ma Zheng seemed to see the moment when the scrawny miners covered their hands and wanted to climb out of this human purgatory, and seemed to see the moment when they died helplessly in moaning and struggling. The "mass grave" and the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, as well as several similar activities, can be said to have laid the foundation for Ma Zheng's hatred of the Japanese invaders. Therefore, Ma Zheng vowed to destroy this human purgatory built by China during the Japanese invasion of China.

At this time, there were dozens of large and small coal mining enterprises in the Datong mining area, although these belonged to the branches of the ******** Co., Ltd. established by the Japanese army, but in fact they all had independent rights, and they only needed to pay a huge amount of protection money to the military department every year, and the vast majority of these coal mining enterprises in the Datong mining area belonged to the industries of the major Japanese families. The largest mine is an industry belonging to the Mitsui family.

In addition to coal extractors, there are more than a dozen large coking coal plants and two steel mills that make cold-rolled steel. The steel refined here was continuously transported to Shijiazhuang, hundreds of kilometers away, and then processed into various weapons and equipment to massacre the Chinese, so Ma Zheng had long wanted to destroy it.

As long as the Datong mine area was destroyed, the Japanese army's war machine would be severely damaged. It's not fatal, but it's impactful. You must know that the most important reason for the Japanese invasion of China is to pass on the domestic economic and political crisis, of which the economic crisis is the mainstay.

After the Japanese Kwantung Army occupied northeast China, Ishihara of the Kwantung Army proposed that it was necessary to formulate a "general policy for developing China headquarters and first developing North China." In particular, "coal from Shanxi, iron from Hebei, and cotton from Henan and south of Shandong" were urgently needed by Japan and should be "developed" quickly. Therefore, after the "77 Incident," Japan's all-round plundering and control of North China's economy was a long-standing conspiracy.

The Japanese army exercised military control over Datong and other coal mining companies, and two squadrons of military police were stationed in the mining area. You must know that the combat effectiveness of the gendarmerie is not beyond the reach of ordinary Japanese soldiers, and being able to produce two squadrons of gendarmes is enough to prove that the Japanese army attaches great importance to this place. As long as the Datong mining area is destroyed, at least the Japanese army will not want to resume coal mining for the time being.

You must know that since the Japanese army occupied Pingjin and the coastal areas, many military consumables have been transferred from Japan to local production in China, including some weapons and ammunition. Whether it is the production of weapons and equipment or other military equipment, coal is the most important means of production. Once coal mining is cut off, the Japanese army's steel and military production industries in China will inevitably be affected, which is extremely beneficial to China's anti-Japanese war.

However, how to rescue these miners must be cautious, you must know that after the Japanese occupied ********, a large number of military facilities were built, including pillboxes, mine police posts, mining walls, and housing for Japanese and Chinese senior staff, among which only the artillery tower was built in the high mountains, southern suburbs and other coal mines, the Japanese army stationed a different number of mine troops, and built artillery towers of different sizes. The mine was heavily guarded with bunkers, and the Japanese kept an eye on the workers' movements underground.

In addition, the owners of the major coal mines are not far behind, and in order to squeeze the Chinese miners to the maximum, the Japanese companies have shown their own security teams, and these security teams are recruited from Tokyo, Sendai, Yokohama and other places such as ronin and other unemployed vagrants.

The major coal mines in Datong are surrounded by power grids, and the miners are also monitored underground, and there are special Japanese devils in the coal mine area. The underground workers are monitored by two devils in each shift, and they hold small hammers in their hands to see which worker is not working, and they will beat him with a hammer. Japanese soldiers and pseudo-mine police often beat and scolded the workers, and even killed them casually.

Due to the proximity of ******** to the two guerrilla areas of the Eighth Route Army, coupled with the huge threat posed by Ma Zheng's headquarters, the Japanese army's management of the coal mining area was extremely strict, and once an abnormality was discovered, it would immediately retreat into the bunker group in the mining area.

Moreover, those Japanese were very sensitive, when the two small Japanese coal kilns were destroyed by the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, and the mine owners were executed, the heads of the other mines immediately purchased a large number of weapons and ammunition from the garrison in Datong, and armed those ronin and jobless vagrants into a special armed force. Ma Zheng was very worried that when the troops attacked the mining area, the Japanese army's bestiality would be aroused, which would lead to the large-scale massacre of the miners by those bastards.

Therefore, this time, Ma Zheng's order to the 12th Brigade was to fight a quick battle and wipe out the armed forces of the Japanese army in the mining area, and never leave any chance for it. It was necessary not only to annihilate the regular Japanese troops in the mining area, but also to completely destroy the private armed forces of the Japanese business owners, and not to accept anyone's surrender. (To be continued.) )

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