[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 508: Xinmin Association (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

The meeting was held very successfully and in a timely manner, and the practical problems encountered in the development of the troops during this period were resolved. The independent division now has three infantry brigades and one guard regiment, and there are more than 17,000 people in seven regiments of the division, and its combat effectiveness is not strong among all the units of the Eighth Route Army, and it is even more incomparable with the hundreds of thousands of elites in the Suicha Military Region.

However, all the officers, including Xie Wensheng, Xu Weiguo and others, believed in the future of the independent division, and it was not so much that they had confidence in the independent division as they had confidence in Ma Zheng himself. They were direct witnesses and participants in Ma Zheng's miracle in the Suicha Military Region, and they knew the abilities of this commander of theirs.

When they went south to Shandong, they believed that Ma Zheng could break into a new world, and sure enough, when they went south to Shandong more than two months ago, they only had more than 1,000 troops, and in less than two months, they developed from 1,000 people to more than 17,000 people now, and the total number of troops has increased by 17 times.

After the meeting, Xu Weiguo and Xie Wensheng returned to their respective units. However, at the end of the meeting, Ma Zheng made some small adjustments to the location of the defense areas of various units, generally moved the main force of each unit to the north by 30 kilometers, and formed a semi-encirclement of Liaocheng on the map.

In the eyes of Xie Wensheng and others, Ma Zheng is a prelude to Liaocheng, and the "Ma Da Villain" who has been dormant for more than two months is finally about to show his fangs that make the little devils tremble again, and the Japanese devils who want to come to Shandong are going to jump again.

When Ma Zheng's headquarters was busy deploying troops, the Japanese army was not idle, and groups of troops began to move westward. However, they only stopped moving when they arrived in Jining or Jinan, and only less than one infantry wing drove directly to Liaocheng. At the same time, the Japanese army began to send representatives to Yanggu County to negotiate with the Huyan family, which was much unexpected by Ma Zheng, and it was really surprising that the Japanese army did not attack directly with the arrogance of the Japanese army, what were they afraid of?

It is definitely not the thousands of troops of the Huyan family, thinking that the Japanese army has filed a case against Lao Jiang's two million troops, how can he be afraid that there are thousands of miscellaneous soldiers in the military region. Not to mention, any infantry wing can tear the Huyan family to pieces.

After thinking about it, Ma Zheng really couldn't figure it out, but he was sure that the Huyan family had something that the Japanese were afraid of, otherwise the Japanese army would not have behaved so "wretched"!

Although Ma Zheng is familiar with history, it does not mean that Ma Zheng knows everything that happened in history. What he knew was some combat overviews and relatively advanced military knowledge, and Ma Zheng didn't know anything about traditional families like the Huyan family that didn't even mention a word in the history books.

According to Ma Zheng's previous prediction, after his "help", the Japanese army and the Huyan family have completely become enemies, and there is no room for maneuver, and the two sides will definitely launch a larger-scale conflict again in a short period of time. But now it seems that the Huyan family is not as simple as imagined, the Japanese army is very jealous of the Huyan family, otherwise with the arrogant personality of the little devil, they will not just want to give up, and they will definitely not withdraw the troops if they do not destroy the Huyan family.

Ma Zheng is a decisive person, when he realized that the Japanese army focused on the Huyan family, Ma Zheng immediately made a decision, ordered the troops to attack frequently, fought several victories in a row, robbed the Japanese army twice of the heavy escort of the military column, and captured a large number of weapons and equipment. Ma Zheng is not afraid that the Japanese army will trouble him now, in his opinion, it is a matter of time before the Japanese army sends troops westward, and it is not him who will not be ruthless if he does not give the little devil this opportunity.

After these two military trains were robbed, the Japanese army suddenly realized that there was still a small Chinese army in the Luxi area eyeing the side. At this time, a force that had been entrenched in Shandong for a long time suddenly jumped out, allowing Ma Zheng to see a new opportunity for the development of the army.

Here's the thing, since Dong'e County was broken by Xie Wensheng, the devils who were originally subordinate to the Liaocheng Garrison Command suddenly panicked, and Major General Segawa immediately sent an infantry brigade to the rescue.

At that time, Xie Wensheng took the initiative to withdraw from Dong'e County, considering that the army had just been expanded and its combat effectiveness was at its lowest. However, the Japanese army did not think that Xie Wensheng's unit was evacuating on his own initiative, but thought that Xie Wensheng's unit was afraid and fled. Therefore, soon after Xie Wensheng's department withdrew, the Japanese army stationed in Dong'e County as soon as possible, and also sent a search force to search for the whereabouts of Xie Wensheng's department.

Who is Xie Wensheng, and how can he let these devils who are not familiar with the terrain find it. After searching for a few days and finding nothing, the Japanese army sent some puppet traitors and even some pro-Japanese businessmen to the area where Xie Wensheng's unit operated, and used these people to find out the whereabouts of Xie Wensheng's department.

Xie Wensheng was also a very alert person, and after sensing that something was wrong, he immediately sent troops to arrest more than a dozen guys, and the final result of the interrogation was that an organization called the "Xinmin Society" was exposed.

After learning about part of the situation of this organization, Xie Wensheng did not dare to slack off and immediately reported the situation to Ma Zheng.

After receiving the telegram from Xie Wensheng, Ma Zheng was also shocked, he was no stranger to this Xinmin Association, he had thought that it was possible to have a conflict with this organization before he came, but he didn't expect to meet this traitor organization so soon.

Speaking of the Xinmin Association, I am afraid that there is nothing Shandong people do not know, this is a political organization established and manipulated by the Japanese puppet regime in North China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it is an important part of the Japanese army's invasion of China.

Since the Japanese army invaded China by military force at this time, the Japanese had to consider two major issues: first, how to deal with the armed resistance of the Chinese, and second, how to maintain their rule over the occupied areas.

The Japanese had limited forces and could not solve these problems by army alone, especially the question of domination over the occupied territories. As there is an old Chinese saying, you can conquer the world immediately, but you can't rule the world immediately.

How to digest and inform the occupied areas was the primary problem faced by the Japanese army after invading China, and this was not a disease in Shandong alone, but one of the problems that the entire Japanese army invading China had to face.

In the occupied areas, the Japanese army encountered not only the armed resistance of the Chinese people, but also the ideological resistance of the Chinese people, which could not be solved by guns. As a result, the so-called pro-Japanese merchant groups put forward measures to carry out ideological propaganda and education to appease the problem in the occupied territories.

Originally, it was the Seonfu class that Japan used to do this. The Xuanfu Class is a military organization subordinate to the military-level secret service department of the Japanese army to carry out propaganda and pacification tasks, and it is an organization dedicated to the invasion of ideological slavery culture. After the Japanese army occupied a place, a kind of person in military uniform came forward to propagate "Japan-China cooperation" and "joint defense against communism" by means of speeches, singing, and plays, distributing leaflets, and running newspapers, so as to justify Japan's invasion of China and help the Japanese organize local maintenance associations and other pseudo-organizations.

However, this kind of "propaganda pacification" always gives the Chinese people a "sense of humiliation" of being invaded by foreign races, and it is emotionally incompatible. Therefore, the Japanese army changed its ruling measures and methods and pursued the policy of "using China to contain China"; on the one hand, it vigorously supported and organized the traitor regime, and on the other hand, it imitated the method of the puppet Manchurian Concord to establish a propaganda organization composed mainly of traitors and easily accepted by the Chinese. Against this background, under the direction of Seiichi Kita and Aiko Sato, the chief of the special services of the Japanese North China Front, the so-called "people's organization" controlled by the Japanese army -- the Shinmin Association -- was established.

In terms of organizational system, it is integrated with the puppet regime in North China, with the president as the supreme leader, the Japanese as advisers, and the Central Guidance Department as the specific organization and guidance body for daily affairs. For local institutions, the province has a guidance department, which is generally concurrently the minister by the puppet governor, and the provincial office and the county and city guidance department are set up below the provincial level. It was combined with the puppet regime to form a vast network from the puppet regime in North China to the provinces, counties, and villages, and mainly depended on the military to organize and carry out activities. (To be continued.) )