Chapter 209: Puppet Army

The Emperor of Japan's edict for the end of the war reads: "In view of the general situation of the world and the present state of the Empire, I wish to take extraordinary measures to clean up the situation, and I hereby instruct my subjects to inform the Imperial Government that the United States, Britain, China, and the Soviet Union are willing to accept its joint proclamation." ”

"Gai seeks the well-being of the subjects of the empire, and enjoys the joy of common prosperity among all nations, and is the legacy of the emperor's ancestors, and also the one who is obeyed by me. In the former, the empire declared war on the United States and Britain in order to seek the self-existence of the empire and the stability of East Asia. However, since the beginning of the war, it has been four years, although the army and navy generals are brave and good at fighting, hundreds of officials have made great efforts, and 100 million people have served their duties, each doing their best, but the war situation has not improved, and the general trend of the world is not in my favor. In addition, the enemy's recent use of cruel bombs, which frequently killed innocent people, caused tragic damage, is really irreversible. If the war continues, it will not only lead to the destruction of our nation, but also destroy human civilization. In this way, how can I protect the innocence of billions of trillions and thank the gods of the emperor's ancestors. This is why the Imperial Government accepts the joint proclamation also. ”

"I have to express my deep regret for the allies who have always worked with the Empire for the liberation of East Asia; When it comes to the death of the subjects of the empire in battle, in the course of their duties, in the absence of their lives and their bereaved families, the five organs are torn apart; As for those who have been wounded in war, suffered from the scourge of war, and lost their livelihoods, I also deeply miss them. The suffering of the empire in the future is indeed unusual, and I am well aware of the heartfelt feelings of your subjects, but the trend of fortune is that I want to endure what is unbearable, and I can be embarrassed by it, thinking that peace will be open for eternity. ”

"I have been able to preserve the state and to trust in the sincerity of my loyal and good subjects, and to always be with you. If they are provoked by love, they cause trouble in vain, or their compatriots exclude each other and disrupt the current situation, so they go astray and lose their righteousness in the world. This is what I have to say. ”

"It is advisable to unite the whole country, pass it on from generation to generation, be sure that Shenzhou is immortal, have a long way to go, devote all our efforts to the construction of the future, abide by morality, strengthen our will, and vow to carry forward the essence of the national system and not fall behind the evolution of the world. Your subjects are self-conscious. ”

Although the Emperor's decree of Japan is very well written, the content is actually very brief - I can't beat you. Surrendered!

When the Japanese heard the emperor's will, their long-held beliefs collapsed. The whole country was in chaos. The Chinese, on the other hand, are almost the whole country celebrating. Lao Jiang announced a three-day national holiday from now on. Carnival for all. In fact, even if Lao Chiang did not announce a holiday, under the impact of the good news of Japan's surrender, no one would be in the mood to pay attention to other things.

For the next three days, singing and dancing continued on the land of China. All kinds of theatrical performances, organized or spontaneous. Countless. Some people looked at the huge banners on the street celebrating Japan's surrender and unconsciously wept with joy. Or start singing.

At this time, the songs that people sang were the most impressive without thinking. It's a voice from the heart.

- "Wolf smoke rises. Looking north! The dragon flag rolls, the horse neighses, and the sword aura is like frost! The heart is like the water of the Yellow River, twenty years. Between the vertical and horizontal, who can fight! "Hatred is mad, and the long knife is directed. How many siblings are buried in their bones! What a pity to die to repay the family and country, endure sighing, even more speechless, blood and tears! "The horseshoe goes south, and the people look north!" People look north, the grass is green and yellow, and the dust is flying! I am willing to defend the territory and reopen the territory, and China wants to let the Quartet come to congratulate! ”

- "After a hundred years of sleep, the people of the country have gradually woken up!" Open your eyes! Watch out! Which one would confess to himself? Because of cowering and forbearance, people are becoming more and more arrogant. Speak up! Shout out! This is a national soldier! Bandits have always invaded and will eventually die! ”

"The Great Wall will never fall, and the Yellow River is surging. The country is beautiful! Stacked Colors! Q: What is my country like to be infected? Rush out of the way and wave your hand! We must devote ourselves to the prosperity of the country! Shall the land be trampled down again? Take up the mission one by one! ”

"The Great Wall will never fall, and the Yellow River is surging. The country is beautiful! Stacked Colors! Q: What is my country like to be infected? "Rush out of the way and wave your hand!" We must devote ourselves to the prosperity of the country! Shall the land be trampled down again? The sleeping lion has woken up! ”

The singing is flying and unscrupulous. If you say that when you just wrote these two songs for the rest of your life, when people sang them, the mood was sad and sad. So, to this day, although the tune and lyrics are still the same, the meaning is completely different, and there are three points of nostalgia for the pain of the past, and seven points of the joy of the rest of the world, and the excitement of finally defeating the Japanese.

According to the statistics and reports of the news media, among all the theatrical performances to celebrate the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, "Loyal to the Country" and "The Great Wall Will Never Fall" brought by Yu Sheng from later generations are the two songs that are sung most frequently. In third place, it is "Reading Lang" sung by primary and secondary school students.

For the rest of his life, in Shanghai, speeches and singing for students were replayed over and over again in the cinema.

“…… Therefore, please allow me to borrow an eloquent essay by Mr. Liang Qichao back then, "Young China Says", to warn you young people -- the Japanese call me China, one is the boss empire, and the other is the boss empire. It is also a language, and Gai is a translation of the words of the Occinians. Alack! What is the boss of China? Liang Qichao said: Evil, what is it! What a word! There is a young China in my mind. If you want to talk about the old and young of the country, please speak about the old and young of the people. The elderly often think about the past, and the young people often think about the future. ……”

“…… Xiao Xiao Erlang, prepare that schoolbag to go to school, not afraid of the sun, nor afraid of the wind and rain. I'm afraid that Mr. will scold me for being lazy, uneducated, I have no shame to see my father, Langli Grandi is a lang, no knowledge, I have no shame to see my father! Langli Langli is a lang, there is no knowledge, I have no shame to see my father! ”

"Little Erlang, I prepared that schoolbag to go to school, not to be an official, nor to save face. Just to study and do learning, not to be bullied, not to be a cow and a sheep, Langli Grandi, not to be bullied, not to be a cow and a sheep! ……”

The speeches of the past are still in my ears. And the teenagers who listened to the speeches of the rest of their lives in Shanghai have grown up. Now he is the most loyal fan for the rest of his life, and a newcomer from all walks of life.

In the midst of the celebrations, on August 23, 1945, the Soviet troops occupied Lushun. The Japanese Kwantung Army was completely annihilated. Except in the end, many Japanese wounded the Soviet troops by suicide attacks by death squads, the losses of the Soviet troops were minimal. However, due to the desperate resistance of the Japanese Kwantung Army, the Soviets' plan to occupy the Japanese mainland was thwarted.

On August 28, 1945, a plane of the US Air Force landed at the airport in Tokyo, Japan. Anglo-American and Allied troops landed on the coasts of Japan on the same day. Realize the occupation of Japan.

September 2, 1945, 9 a.m. The Americans held a ceremony of Japan's surrender aboard the USS Missouri, a battleship of the US Navy, anchored in Tokyo Bay, Japan. The most important part of this ceremony is the signing of the instrument of surrender by the Japanese. At around 9 o'clock in the morning, Japan's new foreign minister, Shigemitsu Aoi, and Japan's chief of staff, Umezu Mijiro, signed the instrument of surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government.

After the Japanese had signed, the representatives of the Allied powers who had accepted Japan's surrender signed in turn. The order of signatures is arranged by strength and entanglement with the Japanese. The first to sign were the Supreme Commanders of the Allied Forces, Admiral MacArthur of the United States and Admiral Nimitz of the United States. He was followed by General Xu Yongchang of China, Admiral Fleiser of Great Britain, and Lieutenant General Delevyako of the Soviet Union. After these people signed, the representatives of the nine countries, including Australia, Canada, France, the Netherlands and New Zealand, signed in turn.

After signing. On the Japanese and American aircraft carriers, a large number of fighters, bombers, and transport planes took off, obscuring the sky and the sun. The Americans, with their absolute strength, severely humiliated the Japanese. Some of these planes were only used for performances, while others flew directly to Japanese territory and occupied Japan.

On September 3, 1945, Lao Chiang ordered the whole country to celebrate. Take a day off. Hang the flag for three days. And September 3 has also become the anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression for future generations.

Subsequently, September 9, 1945. The surrender ceremony of the Chinese theater was held in the auditorium of the former Central Military Academy in Nanjing, and Kobayashi Asaburo, chief of staff of the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invasion of China, Okamura Ninji, presented a surrender instrument to He Yingqin, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese army at this time. It's just that at this time, Lao Jiang's mind was no longer on resisting Japan. Therefore, Okamura Ninji, as a representative of the surrender, did not even surrender the saber as a symbol of weapons. Subsequently. All the Japanese troops who invaded China surrendered to the Chinese army nearby.

Since the First Sino-Japanese War, all attempts by the Japanese to occupy China have failed.

After the defeat of the Japanese, the forces and traitors who originally depended on the Japanese lost their foothold. As the saying goes, the tree falls and scatters.

Of course, these cunning people who were able to surrender to the Japanese actually did not have much loyalty to the Japanese. The so-called allegiance to the imperial army is just to depend on whoever is powerful. In 1945, when the Japanese were losing one after another in the Pacific Theater, the monkeys discovered that the Japanese tree was actually unreliable. Therefore, they secretly turned against the water, and the old Jiang Mei kept coming, and the autumn waves continued. The one who sends the information is called a diligent.

Lao Jiang was able to use the army that was originally relatively weak compared to the Japanese army, and during the counteroffensive, he continued to create miracles to defeat the Japanese, relying on the help of these three family slaves. And with a large amount of accurate information, the battle under Lao Jiang was fought like this, which is actually a shame.

After all, in the later stage of the war, the equipment of the elite divisions under Lao Chiang had already defeated the Japanese who were powerless, and the American-style equipment could only engage in a tug-of-war with the Japanese with few numbers and poor equipment. There really is no reason to praise it.

Just like the sentence in the drama "Latent" in later generations - the traitor at this time is the most willing to contribute to Lao Jiang.

After the formal surrender of the Japanese, these traitors, precisely because of these "merits" that they thought were enough to protect themselves, turned into officials under Lao Chiang, the so-called "underground workers", "heroes of the Anti-Japanese War", and "meritorious heroes".

However, as the saying goes, the will of the people cannot be deceived. The actions of these people have long been remembered. The transformation of these people made the people boil with indignation, and a song was sung - what floated in the river is better than what rolls in the ground; What rolls in the ground is not as good as what flies in the sky; What flies from the sky is better than that that that comes out of the ground; It is better to sit still than to drill out of the ground. And this so-called "sitting still" refers to traitors.

Of course, with Lao Jiang's cautious eyes that Lao Zhang can put Lao Zhang under house arrest for the rest of his life, it turns out that these traitors who surrendered to the Japanese and opposed him can really be forgiven. In addition to wanting to use the hands of traitors to touch melons along the way, he also wants to wait for a reason that can make him come down, break his original promise not to pursue the traitors, and act openly.

On October 13, 1945, Andres, a reporter for the Herald Tribune in the United States, wrote in a report sent back to the United States: "To this day, all traitors and war criminals in Peking have been at large and continue to run rampant, and there is no Chinese government to manage and sanction them. That's what I've seen in Shanghai. The Chinese media followed suit, and Ta Kung Pao and other newspapers wrote articles for several days to express public opinion and demand that the traitors be punished.

Subsequently, Lao Jiang conformed to the will of the people and tore his face with the traitors who originally cooperated with him, and a large number of military commanders and spies were dispatched. The net of searching for traitors was thus spread.

However, it is not so easy to hunt down traitors. The biggest problem is not that they can't be found, or that there is no list, but that there are too many traitors! The Chinese have always said that it is better to die than to live. Therefore, during the war, too many people became puppet soldiers in order to get a bite to eat.

During the entire Anti-Japanese War, the number of puppet soldiers serving the Japanese was as high as 2.1 million. This number has already exceeded the number of Japanese troops invading China! It is really a shame for the Chinese. And these puppet soldiers, although they say that they don't work hard, just to mix a bite to eat. But it still had a big impact on the war situation.

If these 2.1 million young men who can afford to carry guns turn around and deal with the Japanese, I am afraid that it will not take eight years for China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to end. It is not even impossible to counterattack the Japanese stationed outside the territory of China! If you talk about traitors, of course these people are!

But if it comes to punishment, it makes people a little difficult. The roster of 2.1 million people Lao Jiang has on hand. Do you want to kill them all? Apparently impossible! Moreover, Lao Jiang was reluctant to kill these people, after all, although most of these people were soldiers and ruffians who ate mixed rice, they were also troops with combat experience. If it is used well, it is also a living force!

Therefore, what Lao Jiang asked the military commander to arrest was only the first evil. The rest of the big soldiers were waved by his pen and became his own subordinates. After Japan's surrender, the puppet army reorganized by Lao Chiang had more than 230,000 people. There are more than 770,000 security regiments and miscellaneous armies in various places. Many puppet soldiers who aided in the abuse became regular soldiers after changing their faces. That's a million people in total. (To be continued.) )