Chapter 358: Turmoil in Korea
It was not until the controversial March 1st Movement in later generations that the starting place was actually Japan, and after the end of the European War, Korean students in Japan could not help but feel that it was time for Korea to become independent and self-governing and no longer be enslaved by Japan. So the students gathered at the YMCA hall in North Korea, drafted the first declaration of independence, and decided to act on February 8, which became the 28th Declaration of Independence. The students then sent the petition and the Declaration of Independence to the Japanese government and consulates in Japan. However, the rally of the international students was quickly disbanded and expelled by the Japanese police, who heard the news. The independence movement could no longer be carried out in Japan, so it naturally turned back to Korea itself.
At the same time that Japanese students were drafting the declaration of independence, the Yeonhee College, the Puseong College of Law and Commerce, the Gyeongseong Medical College, and the students of the General College of Medicine in Korea were also planning independence events, but they had not yet formally drafted the Declaration of Independence. At the same time, Sun Bingxi, the head of the Tiandao Sect, believed that the students' movement would not only fail to succeed, but would affect social peace, so he used his influence to contact several important ministers of the Joseon Dynasty to work alone.
While the Korean independence movement was still in the making, the Japanese suddenly announced that the Korean king Yi Hee had died of a cerebral hemorrhage. But the whole of Korea knew about Japan's arrogance, and it was rumored that King Yi Xi was poisoned by the Japanese. Although Yi Xi was an emperor who did not do much, he was one of the symbols of North Korea. In this way, he was poisoned by the Japanese, which filled the hearts of the entire Korean people with anger.
At this time, the students studying in Japan brought back the draft declaration of independence, and the whole Korean community was greatly inspired. It has promoted the union of the Korean student and religious circles. However, there are considerable differences between the two sides on the way to independence.
At the same time as the students marched and rallied in the religious circles headed by Sun Bingxi, Sun Bingxi led 28 delegates to formally read out the declaration of independence that he had drafted at the Taihe Pavilion when the four delegates did not arrive. Han Longyun stood up and said a few words as a congratulatory speech for independence. Then three sang long live. After the ceremony, 29 ethnic representatives had a meal, during which Choi Rin asked Ahn Soon-hwan, the owner of Taehwakan, to call the North Korean Governor-General's Office to inform him of the time and place of the meeting of ethnic representatives, in order to show the "sincerity" of the peace petition. Soon after, the Japanese police came and arrested all 29 ethnic representatives who were having a meal. This was the end of their activities in the Trinity Movement.
At this time, the student circles did not know about the arrest of Sun Bingxi and other important members of the religious circles by the Japanese side for the first time. Taking advantage of Lee Hee's memorial service, after the rally in Tadong Park, the students wrote the slogan Long Live Korean Independence under the Taeji National Flag with their blood. Then thousands of students split into three groups and chanted long live Korean independence. The slogan of the Japanese army get out. Workers and women continue to join. At its peak, the population grew to more than 300,000.
However, it is a pity that these students and citizens ignore the hideous and ugly face of Japan under the face of hypocrisy. And Sun Bingxi was even more stupid to think that the Japanese and Korean Governor's Office would be polite and could exchange the courtesy of the other party.
These students who fancied that they could pass the peace movement soon received a blow to the head. In addition to immediately dispatching all the police and gendarmes, the Joseon Governorate also urgently transferred three infantry squadrons and one cavalry squadron from Yongsan to the streets of the capital and went on a rampage with the crowd of marchers, arresting hundreds of people.
On the same day, citizens of Pyongyang. Mass rallies were also held by students, and demonstrations broke out in Uiju, Wonsan, and other places.
Faced with an independence movement that quickly swept the country, Japan finally showed its fierce minions. Large groups of horses sprinted through the streets, long knives raised, slashing at the demonstrators. The demonstrators were suddenly attacked and dispersed, so that the casualties were not large. Only a dozen people were killed or wounded. News of the violent suppression by the Japanese army also came from several other places.
"North Korea also has a history of thousands of years and has more than 20 million people. This movement has changed the whole of Korea, and if the use of force to suppress it provokes opposition from the whole of Korea, I will see how you will end it. After his own policy was not implemented, the commander of the Japanese forces in Korea, Utsunomiya Taro, roared on the phone.
"Udo-kun, it is precisely this movement that has spread to the whole of North Korea, so it is necessary to suppress it by thunderous means. Let this despicable people understand the consequences of opposing the rule of the Empire, as long as those who rise to the head are suppressed, the ignorant Korean people will submit to the force of the Empire. The Japanese governor in Korea, Hase, said in a flat tone, "The base camp of the bill on the suppression of Korea has been passed, and Utsu-kun will carry out the order." ”
"Yaga. You will regret your stupid decision. Utsunomiya Taro was so angry that he smashed the phone directly.
"Your Excellency Commander, a large number of people are gathering outside the city, how to deal with it?" An officer said respectfully to Utsunomiya Taro.
Bang Bang Bang! Utsunomiya Taro, who was angry, directly threw a few ear melon seeds at the other party, "Spring goods, let him kill all the demonstrators who take the lead to deter the North Korean people!" ”
In the face of the Japanese side, which has already unified its consciousness, this movement, which is dominated by demonstrations, naturally means a lot of bloodshed.
In Xuanchuan, North Pyongan Province, the horse team was raging in the streets, and several students led by them had already collapsed in pools of blood, and their bodies were weakly convulsive. The soldier on the horse raised his blood-dripping knife and continued to drive his horse forward. There was a cry at the scene.
Eating these weak citizens, students, and common people did not dare to resist, only a dozen cavalry cavalry dared to rampage in the face of a team of thousands of people. However, at this time, these cavalrymen did not notice at all that after the eye exchange of several people in the team, a trace of ruthlessness flashed, and they respectively lifted hoes, shovels and other farm tools in the chaotic crowd and quietly approached the three lone Japanese cavalrymen.
"Die, cowardly coward!" Ito raised his saber brutally and slashed at a panicked student in front of him, and the crowd of these marchers, mostly peasants and students, who had never seen blood, was faced with this scene of rolling heads and blood splattered on the spot for the first time. The body is weak and the face is pale. I usually don't know where to run at this time.
Facing the sharp knife that was chopped, Jin Miki was stunned on the spot, and his mind couldn't turn around.
"Die!" At the same time as the saber fell, a strong man with a strong body carried a hoe and smashed it on the back of Ito's head. Suddenly, his brain splattered, and Ito's body was smashed directly off the horse.
At the same time, the other three Japanese cavalry were also attacked one after another, and several Japanese cavalrymen were directly killed under their horses.
"The Japanese army is inhumane, they don't take our lives seriously, they killed so many of us, and now they will continue to kill, and we will also fight violence with violence. Kill these Japanese soldiers and escape with your life! The man holding the hoe yelled and threw himself at the remaining Japanese cavalry who were shocked and did not expect this group of people to resist.
"Kill these Japanese soldiers!" A few people should drink, and other North Korean people who killed and injured their relatives and friends also had red eyes at this time, or picked up the saber on the ground, or grabbed something that could be grabbed around them. Someone took the lead, and the anger and hatred of the marching crowd were quickly ignited, like a fire under the wind.
The remaining six or seven Japanese cavalrymen looked in horror as they had been as tame as sheep before. At this time, the North Korean people have completely changed. Before he had time to escape, he was torn off his horse by the sea of people who swarmed up. Punch and kick to death.
"Have you seen these brutal Japanese, they killed our king, they killed our relatives, they didn't take our lives seriously, but the lives of the Japanese are also fragile. Now that we have killed so many Japanese soldiers, sooner or later the Japanese will seek revenge on us, and we will break the Japanese police station in Xuanchuan now and rob them of their things. After grabbing the grain and burrowing into the nearby mountains, no matter how great the Japanese are, what can they do with us? Staying is death, there is still a life in Xuanchuan, let's go! ”
"Hit the propaganda and kill the Japanese." The other laborers who were the first to resist shouted loudly, and the agitated flow of people began to move towards Xuanchuan County. This large-scale independence movement, which swept through the whole of Korea, came too suddenly and too quickly to be taken care of by the army and the military, police, and gendarmerie stationed in Korea alone. Xuanchuan's police force at this time was almost exhausted, and the remaining dozen or so policemen were quickly overwhelmed by the angry crowd.
At the same time, demonstrations in more than a dozen places, including Nampo, South Pyongan Province, and Gangseo-gun, South Pyongan Province, turned into riots. In the march of thousands of people in Jiangxi County, in the face of the bloody suppression of the Japanese army, dozens of people armed with guns mixed in the ranks, and more than 50 Japanese soldiers were killed by surprise.
"Ouch, take your mother, kiss it." In a house in the county seat of Jiangxi County, Zhang Xuemin squinted his teeth and smoked cold air.
"Captain, who told you to be so careless, so many Koreans stood in the way, and let the bullets of little Japan bite." The young man who bandaged Zhang Xuemin's wounds looked like a student, and he didn't seem to buy Zhang Xuemin's account much, so he said angrily.
"You know a fart, these North Koreans are really useless, there are so many people, what kind of parade, rally, if the wolf changes to a vegetarian diet, the pig can go up the tree. Expecting the march to make them independent is laughable. Zhang Xuemin said with a grumble, "We have the strength to eat milk in the back, and I don't see that these people dare to really make trouble, and we have to go into battle in person, damn it, killed dozens of Japanese soldiers, see what way they have to retreat." ”
"Hey, Captain, you'd better say less about us, in case it's exposed, it's going to be a lot of trouble."
"You know a fart, the North Korean royal family has begged to go to our northeast, we are here to help, what kind of provocation, if it weren't for the dead begging of others, Lao Tzu could have run to North Korea to be shot?" Zhang Xuemin's scolding is full of anger, if he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, it would be hard to believe that Zhang Xuemin was a person with a gunshot wound.
"Captain, this riot is getting bigger and bigger, and seeing that the Japanese army will soon come over to quell the rebellion, what should we do next?" Xu Yuanli, who was in charge of bandaging the wound, asked, although the captain had a bad mouth, he was not ambiguous in handling things, and he was also very experienced.
"Most of the main forces of the Japanese army are distributed around Pyongyang, Beijing and other big cities, and the places we choose are basically small county towns, although there are also secret agitators in big cities, but they are very deep. The batch of munitions that we secretly transported before had to be taken out in advance, otherwise the Japanese army could only wait to eat the guns when they came over, and sent another contact to the country, so that the commander could send some more men to transport the ordnance over, and we would take people to drill into the mountains, no matter how powerful the Japanese army was, it would only be able to catch the blind. Zhang Xuemin smiled, there are as many as 30 personnel in the special operations brigade that entered North Korea this time, and there are some auxiliary personnel, some of these people take the North Koreans to fight guerrillas in the mountains, plus North Korea and Fengtian are leaning on, and it is relatively easy for Mukden to support the rebel army in North Korea, and all those who can come out of the special operations brigade have a sense of arrogance, and the Japanese army's marksmanship is also relative, and there is no one in the special operations brigade who has poor marksmanship.
"Okay, the Japanese are used to stirring up trouble in the Northeast, and we will also stir him up in North Korea this time." Xu Yuanli clenched his fists and said excitedly.
Of course, the Northeast was not so strong, and it was expected that an independence movement would spill over the whole of Korea. The members of these special operations brigades entered Korea to secretly help the Joseon king Yi Xi transfer to Mukden. However, the Japanese took too good care of Li Xi and had no chance to start.
Qin Yu naturally refused to waste the precious lives of the special combat soldiers on this kind of thing, so he changed his plan and completed the task of drawing a map of North Korea and finding out intelligence with the personnel who had previously lurked in North Korea. After all, sooner or later, the Northeast Army will have to fight a war with the Japanese army in Korea. You can't help but do these things well. The independence movement in North Korea can only be described in a few words that coincided with the meeting.
Compared with the threat of Japan in Luda, the threat of its military presence in Korea for many years is even worse, and this Korean independence movement is a golden opportunity for Qin Yu. Instigating the Korean uprising, Korea was a springboard for Japan to attack the mainland of the Republic of China, which was densely populated and occupied and ruled by the Japanese for many years. Far from being comparable to the sparsely populated Russian Far East. There is no room for error. It is also because the population is relatively dense, and the impact of inciting an uprising is also greater. The more chaotic Korea is, the more it is bound to attract considerable energy from Japan. In addition, the Siberian side made more than 70,000 Japanese troops exhausted. Once the shape of the Republic of China changes, it is less likely that Japan will intervene. Coupled with the disbandment of the participating armies, as well as the local armies of Shandong and Henan, a large number of ordnance was piled up in the armory. Throwing these ordnance in North Korea is also considered waste, as for how much turmoil it will bring to North Korea, it is not in Qin Yu's consideration, and there are many devils in World War II who are from the Korean Peninsula, and the scourge is even more serious than that of old devils. The right is to collect some interest in advance. (To be continued......)