Chapter 58: Chiang Kai-shek's Predicament
Japan sued the Wuhan government to the League of Nations, saying that the Osumi Islands had a total of 50,000 Japanese people, including two brigades of about 3,000 people, and government agencies of about 1,000 people. It is unlikely that there will be no information after the fall, and they suspect that the Wuhan government has carried out genocide and the use of weapons of mass destruction such as poison gas on Osumi Island.
On 10 June, more than 200 people, including Teru Nakajima and Haruka Hashimoto, the captains of the two Japanese garrisons of the Osumi Islands, and Tokiya Tanegashima, were sent to Nanjing.
Teru Nakajima was very angry because he was captured alive in his sleep. After a long period of fatigue and harassment, coupled with the belief that the danger was over, most Japanese soldiers relaxed, as did many Japanese. They slept peacefully. It's not that Nakajima didn't arrange sentries and guards, but on the one hand, these people were small in number, and on the other hand, they were not very vigilant, and they were all killed quietly.
This resulted in a large group of more than a thousand people, and not one of them had time to react and became prisoners.
Nakajima believes that the Chinese side released drowsy poison gas because he tried to wake up when he was captured alive, but was unsuccessful. He was tied up and slept until Longhai before he woke up.
When I asked, I found out that he was not alone, but most of the people who were captured.
They had the most comfortable sleep of their lives, but the war was lost.
Teru Nakajima asked for a physical examination. However, medical experts from Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States did a physical examination of Nakajima and others, and found no abnormalities, nor did they find any traces of chemical agents.
They certainly couldn't detect any traces of chemical agents.
The Pacific Fleet waited for more than 20 days before finally finding a suitable wind direction. Air pressure and other conditions, the medicine is all plant-based natural ingredients, which mainly play a role in fatigue and drowsiness. There is no harm to the human body. These mixtures of pollen and plant extracts are very light and drift towards the target area with the breeze. The coverage is very large, including the Marines who sneak ashore. But these drugs don't work for them, they have long been resistant.
But neither the inhabitants and the army of the island.
People who are awake are actually resistant to this pollen, after all, it only acts as an inducer. But these people have become a line of defense and cannot stop the penetration of the marines. The sudden relaxation after high alert aggravates their fatigue, which makes them confronted by the soldiers of the Marine Corps. There is not much resistance.
Either be killed, or be captured.
And as long as you fall asleep, almost all of them are in a state of deep sleep. This is the situation faced by Teru Nakajima. Tanegashima and Yakushima are in a similar situation. There was only a slight change in the direction of the wind.
This is the first time that this medicine of Xinmin Medical College has been used in foreign combat. In the past, it was used for military training.
If it can't be found, it can only be psychological warfare.
Japan has nothing to say.
However, China refused to hand over the prisoners and repatriate the civilian population. Soldiers must serve in China, and the common people need to listen to their wishes.
Only about 1,000 people are willing to return to Japan. Mainly the families of the officers and some nobles.
Tanegashima Airport has been received by the KPA. More than two dozen high-speed patrol boats patrol and mine the islands between Tanegashima and Yakushima. Some Japanese were transferred to the interior, while a large number of Han Chinese went to Tanegashima and Yakushima.
At the same time, large fishing fleets are docked on both islands.
With no resistance left on the islands, Japan's navy and air force were at a disadvantage, and it was impossible to recapture the Osumi Islands.
The industrial potential of the Wuhan government was evident at this time, the warships were fine, and the production of civilian ships was very fast. Because there are a large number of fishermen who need to be resettled, and most of them are ocean-going vessels, except for Yantai and Wuhan ports. The port of Qingdao also began to build fishing boats, supply ships and transport ships.
The ships were carried under the flag of the People's Revolutionary Army.
If you want to talk about the banner of the People's Revolutionary Army, it was the standard iron-blooded eighteen-star iron-blooded flag at the beginning. During the Yuan Shikai period, it was designated as the flag of the army. And the blue sky and white sun flag is the naval flag.
Later, the government of the Republic of China changed to the Nineteen-Star Banner. The Wuhan government has also changed accordingly.
During the Chiang Kai-shek period, the iron-blooded flag was abandoned, and the blue sky and white sun flag were used alone. But the Wuhan government continued to use the Iron Flag.
When it came time to create the navy, Lee Zhilong was in a dilemma. If the method of the old Republic of China government is used, it is obviously inappropriate for the navy to use the blue sky and white sun flag. So he applied the blue sky and white sun flag, and turned the nineteen stars to the upper left corner, which also had an extra piece of blue like the blue sky and white sun flag. The stars were changed to red and yellow.
They didn't want to make the flag look like the Japanese Rising Sun.
This kind of flag looks like the blue sky and white sun flag from a distance. Nor does it violate old traditions.
The Air Force saw that this flag was good, so it directly took it and replaced the blue corner with white.
When the army looked at it, it only had its own banner and nineteen stars in the middle, which was big and ugly. Simply move the stars to the same position as the Navy Air Force. But no other color was added, it was a red flag, but black was replaced with yellow, and the origin of yellow was replaced with white.
It's still called the Iron Flag.
In this way, the banners of the three armed forces were unified.
The party flag is still a sickle and an axe.
Because the flag of the navy was too similar to the flag of the Kuomintang, the fishermen often confused it from a distance. Someone even suggested to Chiang Kai-shek that it would be better to change the flag of the navy to the same. Replace the day with nineteen stars.
was so angry that Chiang Kai-shek scolded and said, did you change the national flag and the party flag to 19 stars? The nineteen stars represent the ambition of the CCP to unify the whole country. It's also like learning that the CCP relies on sneak attacks to fight wars, and doesn't even want the four dimensions and eight virtues.
The Northeast government still used Yuan Shikai's original five-color flag. After all, Zhang Xueliang's power is strong, and Pu Yi also recognizes the Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Hui, and Tibetan republics, also known as the banner of the republic
In this way, China's flag has a certain pattern. The Republican Flag was the earliest, and the Iron Blood Flag and the Blue Sky and White Sun Flag were also used by the Northeast Government, but they were separate military flags, and they claimed to be the orthodoxy of the Republic of China. The Wuhan government mainly uses the revised iron-blooded flag. I didn't say what flag was used, and I never hung the national flag.
Chiang Kai-shek's government used the blue sky and white sun flag as the national flag, which he claimed to be the inheritance of Sun Yat-sen's legacy, also known as the orthodoxy of the Republic of China.
Chiang Kai-shek said that the Wuhan government does not hang the national flag now, but only the military flag.
But the Wuhan government already controls most of China, does it need both ends of the snake and the rat?
In any case, the Wuhan government did not declare independence, recognized the central government, and now changed the navy and air force to look like a blue sky and white sun flag, instead of using a five-color flag. Chiang Kai-shek thought it was a taste of acknowledging the central government in it.
Chen Shaokuan also returned from Britain, and the matter of building aircraft carriers naturally did not come to fruition, and Britain's maritime supremacy can only be maintained in Asia now, so how can it be possible to create an opponent by itself.
Chiang Kai-shek believed that Chen Shaokuan still exerted a certain influence on the Wuhan government navy, dismissed Chen Shaokuan from his post as secretary of the navy, went to Taiwan to set up the South China Sea Fleet, served as the commander of the South China Sea Fleet, and prepared to receive US aircraft carrier carriers and form an aircraft carrier battle group. This is a person of real power, no worse than the fictitious post of Minister of the Navy.
At the same time, it can also transfer Chen Shaokuan out of Guangzhou and disassociate him from the Fujian faction.
Chiang Kai-shek acquiesced to Chen Shaokuan's cooperation with Li Zhilong. It is believed that the CCP has taken the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea in China's maritime frontiers, and if the South China Sea is not taken, the central government will not be able to save face. Speaking of which, there are really not many people available to Lao Chiang now, the gate lords and factions have infiltrated the Whampoa Military Academy, and Li Zongren, the commander-in-chief, has been inserting his own people in the military academy, but Chiang Kai-shek can't find a reason to oust Li Zongren from power.
In the army system, Chiang Kai-shek and Li Zongren elbowed each other, and what military actions they wanted to do were quarrelsome. In the past, Chiang Kai-shek insisted on the Northern Expedition, and everyone agreed.
But now, everyone is saying that this is the golden period of construction, the international environment and the domestic environment are unprecedentedly peaceful, war requires strength, and economic development is the last word. When it really comes to war, it can last.
The Americans also do not want a war with China. China's cheap resources and cheap manpower provide the United States with cheap goods, and the national control area is also the largest dumping area for American products. The United States supplied a large amount of fertilizer and agricultural machinery to the national control areas, so that the landlords tasted the sweetness, and now it is not only the landlords who annex the land of the peasants. Mergers between landlords and landlords also took place in the market. Bulldozers bulldoze the dwarf hills to create fields, and use fertilizing flour to increase yields. A large number of lakes, river beaches were reclaimed and filled in to accommodate agricultural mechanization. Although the yield has not increased much, the area of cultivated land is expanding, and the total output is increasing.
At the same time, a large number of peasants lost their jobs and went to the factories like ants. The capitalists were given cheap resources and manpower. The Americans worked with several families to build residential areas to accommodate the workers, not only selling building materials, but also siphoned off the workers' hard-earned money.
Such a good thing, how can the Americans let the war destroy it? This will seriously affect the economic recovery of the United States.
Many American economists went to the Kuomintang to teach the advanced nature of this theory, and more and more laurels were added to Chiang Kai-shek's head.
Openly and secretly, Chiang Kai-shek's hands and feet were tied. (To be continued......)