Chapter 263: The Kwantung Army's Countermeasures
When Gao Pengzhen, Hua Butterfly and Li Shangrong returned to the Juyi Hall to discuss the anti-Japanese timer after that, within about a certain time, the bandits in Jilin and bandits in Heilongjiang also began to hold similar meetings.
Among these bandits, the bandits of Liaoning and Heilongjiang were the most active, because Liaoning was located within the control of the Japanese army, and the greater the oppression, the greater the resistance.
The bandits in Heilongjiang grew rapidly with the help of Ma Zhanshan's money and guns. Just when everyone wondered where Ma Zhanshan got so many arms and military sounds.
In Heihe County, Heilongjiang, the telegraph operator beside Ma Zhanshan sent a secret report again, and Ma Zhanshan immediately hid in the hut, took out a code book from his arms, and translated the secret reports one by one.
After reading the secret report, I saw that it was written that the Japanese army was about to encircle and suppress it, and that it could be dealt with with the Japanese army in the depths of Heilongjiang, and if nothing could be done, it could cross the border line and retreat into the territory of the Soviet Union.
At the same time, in a secret valley on the outskirts of Harbin, military supplies for Ma Zhanshan www.quledu.com 1,000 people had been prepared. Then at the end of the secret report is the coordinates of a place. Summer name plum ten.
Ma Zhanshan had mixed feelings after putting down this secret report, and he still remembered that in early April, after he had led more than 200 brothers to raise the banner of resistance against Japan, he fled all the way to Heihe like a lost dog.
At that time, a businessman came to him with ten truckloads full of munitions, and gave him a radio and the codebook in his arms. When he asked who was helping him, the merchant said that he didn't know, that he was just receiving money and people to eliminate disasters.
However, on the cover of the codebook, there is a code name, plum ten. And since then, this plum blossom ten has often sent all kinds of information and supplies to himself.
He also instructed himself that he could call on the bandits of the entire Northeast to fight the war together through these supplies, and all the expenses would be provided by him.
Ma Zhanshan only needs to send his request in the form of numbers according to the fixed contact time and special frequency band, and then it will hardly take a few days for him to get a reply from the other party.
In just five months, Ma Zhanshan has received nearly 1 million yuan in funding and nearly 5,000 long and short guns of various types. Now that he has just gathered 3,000 men, he is thinking about how to send so many military supplies to him.
Who knew that he had received a telegram from him again, and he had already prepared the equipment of three thousand people near Harbin. What's even more incredible is that the 3,000 men and horses they have prepared are also planning to trouble the Japanese army in Harbin.
Could this plum blossom ten be unpredictable? Who is he sacred? Why is it that whenever he is at the end of the mountain, he can always get the help of this plum blossom ten in time?
Ma Zhanshan was also puzzled, but it didn't matter if he couldn't figure it out, as long as he supported the Anti-Japanese War, he didn't care who the other party was.
He immediately gathered his men and horses to prepare for the movement to the Harbin area. At the same time, he distributed some of the arms he had kept to the bandits who came to ask for help.
In this way, bandits from all over the northeast, with the call and strong support of Ma Zhanshan, began to frequently attack the Japanese reclamation areas and transportation lines. Because the northeast area was vast at this time, and the Japanese army could not monitor the whole area, so it could only be garrisoned, so the Japanese army was very passive.
However, in the vast northeast, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there are indeed as many bandits as there are as many as cattle hairs, and these bandits range from 30 to 50 to several hundred take advantage of the advantages of being familiar with the local topography and landform to drill ravines and hide in woodlands.
Shoot and run, grab if you can, and burn if you can't grab it. In just two months, thousands of Kwantung Army and Japanese nationals were killed and wounded.
In the face of the Northeast bandits who have almost come and gone without a trace, and in the face of the Northeast bandits who have inflicted more and more losses on the Japanese Kwantung Army.
In early September, the Japanese government ordered the start of armed migration activities in the Northeast. On the condition of giving away land for nothing, a large number of Japanese people were tempted to go to the Northeast to reclaim land.
With the arrival of a large number of armed immigrants, the battles between the bandits in the Northeast and the Japanese immigrants began to become more and more frequent, and the battles became bigger and bigger, and the two sides won and lost each other.
However, it has to be said that in the absence of regular troops to resist the Japanese in the entire northeast, the bandits in the northeastern provinces held high the banner of resistance against Japan, which not only greatly restrained the strength of the Japanese army, but also delayed the pace of Japan's march into Beijing and Tianjin and its involvement in North China.
Different from the previous life, the bandits in this life had a lot more guns and ammunition, although they were often chased by a large number of Japanese troops all over the mountains, but a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed and injured, and seriously threatened the transportation lines of the Kwantung Army, causing huge trouble to the Japanese garrison.
In this way, on this day in mid-September, at the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, Major General Dohihara, Yoshiko Kawashima, Kawamoto Daisa, and the heads of intelligence agencies from various parts of the Northeast gathered today to discuss a way to deal with the bandits in the Northeast.
Because they found that the bandits in the Northeast were numerous and troubled, and they were much more difficult to deal with than the Northeast Army. And now that the autumn harvest season is about to begin, if the bandits in the northeast are not controlled, I am afraid that they will have to import the rations of the Kwantung Army from Japan this year.
The atmosphere of the meeting was a little solemn, everyone knew that bandits were rampant in the northeast now, and everyone sitting there could not come up with a decent plan, so no one dared to squeak, everyone silently drank the tea in front of them, and from time to time secretly looked at Major General Tu Feiyuan with the corner of his eye.
Don't think that Major General Dohihara usually thinks that he is really a good person as soon as he has a charitable face, this Dohihara has a dark heart, and in order to get this position, I don't know how many colleagues he secretly killed.
Tu Feiyuan tapped the table lightly with his fingers, and said helplessly: "In the past few months, our agents who have been lurking around Ma Zhanshan have reported back. The reason why the bandits in the northeast are making a lot of trouble is precisely because they are fully funded by Ma Zhanshan.
And what puzzles us the most is that Ma Zhanshan is just a lost dog, where did he get so many guns and ammunition? ”
"Yes! We are also wondering, it stands to reason that he has no money, no food and no land now, and it is impossible for him to raise thousands of men and horses.
But in fact, he not only fed thousands of men and horses, but also had the spare energy to fund tens of thousands of bandits in the Northeast. And it seems that his money and guns and ammunition are inexhaustible, and many of our agents who went to bribe the bandits have gouged out an eye and brought them back.
said that we looked down on them, and the little money we sent might as well be sent to call Huazi, and the pocket money that Chairman Ma Zhanshan gave them was more than what we gave. An intelligence chief said.
"This is the crux of the matter, for these bandits who have milk and are mothers, I don't believe that they are against us for the sake of national righteousness.
If they really get a huge amount of funding, then they will of course rush to do the good thing of getting money and name, which is one of the reasons why we have suffered relatively large losses recently.
Another reason is that we can't afford the fighting power of these bandits. In fact, these bandits usually live a life of licking blood from the knife edge, and their combat effectiveness is very strong.
With the same equipment but few and not much different forces, our combat squads are often no match for these bandits. ”
"I'm also thinking positively about this matter, although we have fully occupied the northeast, and the country has also sent us tens of thousands of additional troops, but the current situation in the northeast is still very urgent.
I didn't expect that we were not defeated by the Northeast Army, but let the bandits in the Northeast almost mess up. ”
"General Dohihara, these two months. Although we have increased the number of armed immigrants, tens of thousands of immigrants are still far from enough to deal with the bandits in the northeast.
Although these bandits were extremely poorly equipped, they came and went without a trace, and they fled immediately after missing a blow. We can't chase it even if we want to. ”
"This is our main topic today, I have reported to the General Staff Headquarters on the security situation in the Northeast at this time, and in order to greatly improve the security in the Northeast, we must increase the progress of armed emigration.
I have already suggested that the General Staff Headquarters should re-emigrate 500,000 people within three years, and that the number of emigration increase every year thereafter. Within 10 years, another million people had immigrated, and within 20 years, more than 5 million people had immigrated.
If the empire had acted according to my plan, in twenty years' time, Tohoku would have more than one-fifth of Japan's population, and our people would have more than one-third of the most fertile land in the three northeastern provinces.
Coupled with the assimilation education that we have begun to implement now, all Chinese born in Northeast China will no longer remember their true identity in 20 years.
In this way, we will be able to thoroughly digest the Northeast and find a safe and fertile ground for the future migration of the entire Empire of Japan, and on this basis, if we are given a few more decades, all of Asia will be our Japanese. ”
As soon as Dohihara's voice fell, it immediately caused a round of applause in the conference room, and more than a dozen intelligence directors, including Yoshiko Kawashima, burst into warm applause.
"However, although the immigration policy can fundamentally eliminate the banditry in the northeast, after all, it will take too long, and we still have to think of ways to quickly change the current law and order situation together. It doesn't matter if it's wrong. Tu Feiyuan looked at the people at the conference table again, and found that although everyone bowed their heads in contemplation, no one wanted to speak.
Tsuchihara set his eyes on his body: "Kawamoto Daisa has always been known for his eloquence and resourcefulness, so it's better for Kawamoto Daisa to be the first to speak." As Tu Feiyuan personally ordered the general, there was a round of applause in the conference room again.
Kawamoto Osa could only stand up and express his own shallow opinion: "I think that now that the Manchurian State has just been established, and the Northeast Army has been beaten back to Guannai by us, there will be no more major wars to be fought in the short term."
In this case, it is better to take a group of people from each guard unit and form a team of two or three thousand people, and equip them with the most suitable equipment for mountain warfare, and be specially responsible for suppressing bandits. ”
"It's a good way, but it's not enough, because such a team can only encircle and suppress powerful bandit leaders like Gao Pengzhen and Ma Zhanshan, but most of them are small and medium-sized bandits with about 100 people in the northeast, and we have to think more about how to deal with bandits like them." Tu Feiyuan analyzed.
"Major General Dohihara, why don't you let the security forces that surrendered us be dispatched? Now there are tens of thousands of troops in the Northeast who have surrendered to us.
These tens of thousands of people are indeed doing the work of maintaining law and order with a more lucrative army than before, and it is too cheap for them. An intelligence chief asked.
"It's not that they don't need them, but because the combat power of the Northeast Army is really low, and they have not been able to exterminate these bandits under the leadership of Zhang Zuolin in the past.
Now most of them are under our hands, and most of them have the mentality of messing around, and many soldiers of the Northeast Army are related to these bandits, even if they want to suppress the bandits, they will be disadvantaged to suppress the bandits because of the leakage of news. That would be even more detrimental to our rule in the Northeast. "As the commander-in-chief of security in Manchukuo, Yoshiko Kawashima is very clear about the virtues of his subordinates.
"Actually, I don't think we have to worry so much. The Chinese have always been greedy and disregard the overall situation, so many bandits will always want to cooperate with us.
We can ask the intelligence departments in various places to dig deep into the details of these bandits, and then threaten them, increase their bribery, or in short, let some of the bandits be used by us.
With their help, we will attack the other bandits together, and I believe that soon these bandits will be in chaos. We now have another opponent to deal with, that is, the guy who is supporting Ma Zhanshan behind his back.
If my guess is correct, this person must be our old rival, Li Tie of Shanghai Huaxing Company is behind the ghost. Tu Feiyuan had an idea, not only remembered the trick of using bandits to control bandits, but also guessed the driving force behind the bandits in the Northeast this time.
"Oh! Why is the teacher so sure? Yoshiko Kawashima wondered.
"There is no evidence, pure intuition." Tu Feiyuan said.
"Ah, is that okay?" Yoshiko Kawashima was shocked.
"Okay, let's not talk about this for now, continue with the topic just now, we can't just buy bandits, is there anything else?" Tu Feiyuan immediately changed the subject.
He suddenly realized that there were many people here, and he must not let Li Tie realize that he had guessed him. Otherwise, the situation in the northeast will only become more chaotic in the future. He looked at the room again.
"Ah, I figured it out. We can also send out some soldiers to pretend to be some reputable bandits to kill people and set fires everywhere, so that ordinary people who don't know the truth will naturally give us a tip-off. We can also take the opportunity to clear out some more bandits. "An intelligence chief had a sudden inspiration.
"And we have to publicize all those who report to us, so that we can not only let those Chinese people who see money open to our use, but also cut off the back road of these whistleblowers, so that they will stand more firmly on our side in the future." Another intelligence chief came up with an idea.
"There is another way, we can put a high price on each bandit capital, and announce that we have received many applications from bandits for the task of assassinating the bandit leader, so that we can divide the trust between the bandits and make them suspicious of each other."
The atmosphere of the meeting finally improved, everyone's brains were also enlightened all of a sudden, and all kinds of ideas that lacked morality began to pop up one by one.
Hearing the bad ideas that kept popping up, Tu Feiyuan shouted: "Okay, very good, with these methods, I don't believe we can't fight these bandits."
Kawamoto Daisa, you should immediately print today's minutes of suppressing bandits into a book and send them to every officer at or above the level of squadron leader in the northeast, so that they can strictly follow the methods of this summary.
I'd like to see if these bandits can get along like this before all the methods they have come up with in the form of brainstorming. ”
After speaking, Tu Feiyuan unconsciously narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance, as if he saw the figure in the distance that had always attracted him to his opponent.
"Li Tie, I want to see, how should you deal with so many of our tricks?" Tu Feiyuan thought viciously in his heart.