Chapter Seventy-Two: Mukden Army Mutiny
Due to Prince Su's quick escape, Mukden's army never fought against the Wehrmacht at all, because they knew that they were no match for the Wehrmacht, and the Wehrmacht had outnumbered them, and they did not even have the courage to fight.
Mukden City was easily taken by the Wehrmacht, and the chaotic Mukden City soon restored order, and a large number of gangsters who smashed and looted were arrested, and no one dared to resist, and to resist was death!
Prince Su's looting order caused the entire Fengtian City to destroy many people, and they all hated Prince Su and his army, and the merchants all held grudges. The Manchu and Mongolian ethnic groups were not very accepted by the Han people when the Manchu Qing Dynasty fell, and as soon as the separatist actions in Outer Mongolia were quelled, there was another movement to restore the country in Mukden, and there was already an opinion in the country to expel these two ethnic groups, but the voice was not loud.
This kind of voice was secretly suppressed by Qin Yu, and at the same time, the Imperial Daily made a special introduction to the rebellion in Tibet and Outer Mongolia, saying that the vast majority of the members of the ethnic minorities in these places are good, because they have not yet been liberated when they experienced the Xinhai Revolution, so they are all high-level people who are either ambitious or wary of the Han people, not ordinary people's problems, and hope that the imperial people will look at the problem rationally.
When the Imperial Daily exposed the rebellion of Prince Su and others, it had already stated that this was because some people were still immersed in the past and wanted to continue to enslave the people of the whole country, they wanted to restore the country, and those were all die-hard elements of the previous dynasty, and it was not a pity to die!
The Wehrmacht who entered the city of Mukden quickly calmed down the chaos and immediately continued on their way, the officials and policemen sent by the empire to manage Mukden were already on the way, and they were directly divided into two parts, 300,000 troops rushed to Jilin, and 200,000 troops rushed towards the border between Mukden and Korea.
Prince Su Shanqi ordered the Mukden army near Jilin Province to attack Jilin, causing the entire army to mutiny, because the Han people in the northeast did not want to attack Jilin at all.
In addition to Prince Su's henchmen, the other armies of Fengtian are not very clear that the person behind them is Shanqi, they still think it is Zhao Erxun, after all, Zhao Erxun's prestige in Fengtian is still very high. But now that Zhao Erxun ordered them to attack Jilin, there was a strange aura inside, so the officers of the 150,000 Fengtian army, except for those good henchmen and Manchu and Mongolian soldiers, did not rush to attack, but ostensibly expressed acceptance of the order, but slowly rushed to Jilin like a tourist.
Soon, the officers of this army basically learned that Zhao Erxun was the puppet of Prince Su Shanqi, and Shanqi had defected to Japan to carry out a stupid operation to restore the country, and the Wehrmacht sent troops to suppress the rebellion. This is all on the surface, but they all understand that it is probably the Wehrmacht who has known about Shanqi's rebellion for a long time, but it has not been exposed in order to maintain the stability of the Northeast, and now the Japanese invasion of the Northeast Defense Force will definitely not watch from the sidelines.
The senior Han generals of the Fengtian army secretly consulted and discussed their way out.
"Let's do the opposite, joining the Wehrmacht is our last way out, and it is absolutely impossible for the brothers to die for the Japanese."
"According to the current situation, the advantages of joining the Wehrmacht outweigh the disadvantages, and if we really join the Japanese army, we will definitely be killed by the Wehrmacht, and I hope you can consider joining the Wehrmacht. If I take refuge in the Japanese, they will definitely treat North Korea like they do, I don't want to be a slave of Japan, my ancestors will crawl out of the grave and drag me down. ”
"Damn, it's a death both horizontally and vertically, it's better to join the Wehrmacht, if you win by luck, it's not a problem to be knighted in the future, even if you die, you can enter the Imperial Martyrs' Cemetery and engrave the Imperial Monument, and the name will be passed down through the ages!"
"Who has not died in life since ancient times, and left Danqing to sweat his heart! We are all Han Chinese, and we must not do anything to damage the empire, we might as well kill these Manchurian and Mongolian regents! ”
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Although some people also raised the question of whether defecting to the Wehrmacht would be suppressed and ignored, it was quickly overthrown, because the current emperor and the top leaders of the imperial army are very powerful, otherwise the generals of the revolutionary army and the Beiyang Army are still senior generals of the Wehrmacht, so there is no need to worry about this.
They were almost one-sidedly in favor of defecting to the Wehrmacht, and of course some wanted to join the Japanese, but in this case they did not dare to put it forward, and could only attach the opinions of the officers.
A Han officer wearing the rank of general of the Mukden army looked at the people present and said resolutely: "Since everyone has decided, then we have decided to join the national defense army, how to say that it is also the central government army of China, and we will also be the imperial army in the future." By the way, in order to prevent anyone from betraying us, no one present is allowed to go out tonight, so let me have someone order everyone to take action, and eliminate the forces of the so-called Prince Su, and then everyone will go and kill some Manchurian officers. ”
The military ranks of the Fengtian army are almost the same as the military rank system of the Japanese army, and the military ranks of these generals are correspondingly equivalent to the military positions, but the corresponding changes have been made in the military ranks, after all, Huaxia has never had a military rank such as Dazuo Shaozuo.
The 150,000 Mukden army had dozens of Manchu and Mongolian officers, large and small, who controlled nearly a third of the army, and those who were basically Manchu and Mongol or loyal to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, so if you want to deal with them without revealing any losses, you can only secretly gather these officers to kill them secretly, and then persuade those soldiers to surrender, or kill them while they are sleeping at night.
Soon the Han officers came up with a countermeasure, and they called up the officers who were full of Mongolian officers overnight, saying that there was an urgent matter to discuss, and they took the opportunity to let their subordinates do a good job of the soldiers' thoughts, and then go to subdue the third of the army.
The Manchurian and Mongolian officers were very dissatisfied when they were urgently called to discuss in the middle of the night, and they scolded and walked to the council camp while getting dressed, and some thought that something urgent and important might have happened, otherwise they would not have summoned them so late.
"Zhang Kai, what is the urgency that summoned us to discuss late at night, could it be that the National Defense Force called?" Zhang Kai is the Han general officer who has just made the final decision, and now a small Manchurian major general came in and arrogantly shouted Zhang Kai's name without making a report, which can be seen.
The Manchurian officer next to him and the officer who asked looked the same, while Zhang Kai and the Han officer were not dissatisfied as if they were used to it, in fact, they were very dissatisfied in their hearts.
"According to the information from the inside, Zhang Zuolin has drawn out 100,000 troops to fight against us, and the Wehrmacht also has an army rushing to us, which should be rushed to Jilin, and we are likely to meet the Wehrmach, so I asked everyone to think about how to fight." Zhang Kai said very sternly, his expression did not show the slightest flaw.
"What, the Wehrmacht actually sent an army to us, how did Zhang Zuolin know that we entered Jilin?" The arrogant officer just now asked in shock.
The other Manchurian and Mongolian officers were also very surprised, they intercepted in front and pursued the troops after that, if they really let the Wehrmacht and the Jilin Army flank them, they didn't know if there was a way to live, so they were very cautious.
"What else, act according to Governor Zhao's orders, as long as we kill the Jilin Army when the Wehrmacht arrives, and then we go south back to Governor Zhao, do you want to disobey the order?" A Manchurian officer with braids scolded.
Mukden Province did not clearly stipulate that the braids should be cut, and it was up to the individual to cut them or keep them, and the core members of the Sect and Socialist Party basically did not cut off the braids.
"We don't want to disobey Governor Zhao's order, but we should give us an explanation, why did the Wehrmacht say that Mukden was rebelling, and was it true that Prince Su of Raushzi colluded with the Japanese to restore the country?" A Han officer stood up and looked at these Manchu and Mongolian officers and asked fiercely, and the Han officer next to him also looked at them at this time.
"The bold, despicable Han people dare to scold the prince, what explanation does Governor Zhao need, the Wehrmacht is nonsense, the whole world is the Qing Dynasty, we just take back what belongs to the Qing Dynasty." The officer who called Zhang Kai by his name just now said angrily.
Hearing the humble Han people, the faces of those Han officers changed directly, and they all comforted themselves in their hearts, wait a minute, they are just dead corpses, it is better to deal with them, just endure it.
Who knew that the Manchurian officer continued: "Governor Zhao Erxun is the prince's person, and he is also a member of our Zongshe Party, and the prince has reached an agreement with Japan, and they will help us restore the country in the northeast. As long as you follow His Royal Highness the Prince, you will be the heroes of the Qing Dynasty in the future, and it is not impossible to become an official and become a knight, and it is no longer difficult to restore the country with the help of Japan. Those Manchu and Mongolian officers looked at these Han officers with great pride, as if they had seen the day when the Qing Dynasty successfully restored the country in Northeast China, and then, with the help of Japan, entered the customs and dominated the whole of China like their ancestors.
"Fuck your mother's restoration, what is the matter with the bullshit Qing officials, we still want to restore the country, it's just looking for death, a group of stupid pigs are being played by the Japanese and don't know. Show your mother's superiority, it's good that you are not wiped out by the empire like a lost dog, do you think there are a lot of millions of Manchurians, and if you really want to kill them, it's just a group of ants. A very grumpy Han officer jumped up and scolded.
After hearing this, the faces of the officers turned into pig's liver, and a few of them even reached out to touch their guns, but they found that they were in a bit of a hurry and didn't bring them, so they had to point their fingers at the officer and scold.
"You minion, you dare to insult me Daqing, you don't have to die, you wait, soon I will dismantle you to eight pieces!"
"Dog slaves, all of you Han people are dog slaves, when our army enters the customs, you Han people will cry, just like the Qing Dynasty at the beginning."
"Come on, hurry up and arrest this dog minion, what are you waiting for!"
In the midst of the shouting and scolding of these Manchurian officers, Zhang Kai waved his hand directly at the soldiers at the door of the tent, and a large group of soldiers ran in and surrounded them with guns, and they all stopped.
"What are you doing here, I asked you to arrest him, are you going to rebel, don't you want to die?" As soon as the Manchurian officer finished speaking, a soldier stepped forward and pointed a rifle butt at his stomach, and the officer lay on the ground moaning.
"Hmph, we won't defect to the Japanese, so you must die, we have to defect to the Wehrmacht, that's the big tree. Tsk, Prince Su? It's not bullshit, a lost dog still wants to restore the country, do you think we Han people will be stupid enough to enslave you again, don't be delusional, you are our vote, I believe that the Wehrmacht will accept us. Zhang Kai said in a constitutive manner.
After saying that, the soldiers arrested all these officers, and then one by one the Han officers picked up their swords and walked up, and each of them found one and cut it down.
The soldiers outside also rushed into the camp of the soldiers loyal to the Manchurian and Mongolian officers who were sleeping one by one, and then all of them were arrested and concentrated with guns pointed at them, and all those who dared to resist were directly shot, and the rest were all taken into custody.
The next morning, the Mukden army publicly telegraphed its departure from Mukden Province to join the Wehrmacht, preparing to resist the Japanese on the same day.