Chapter 477: One Sings Red Face, One Sings White Face (2)
"Oh my God! May God bless them! ”
Having learned about the fate of the high castes in the city of Bahapur in the coming days, there was hypocritical lamentation, but more of a gloating laugh.
"They are infidels, and God will not bless them."
Artoria said coldly with a non-human emotion: "Those princely lords, the upper brahmins, we used to indulge them too much, and now someone beats them for us, which is a good thing. They will soon understand that without our protection, they will have nothing. ”
If Lin Han was here, he would definitely exclaim in surprise when he saw Artoria's expression when she spoke: "This is not the Knight King, but the Knight King of Darkness after being polluted by the black mud of the Holy Grail." ”
Artoria continued: "Are the troops ready for the encirclement? ”
The reply was Sir Royd, the commander of the army in India: "I have been transferred from all over the country, and I can go out at any time." According to your opinion, it is all the troops of the princely lords who have been transferred from other regions. ”
Artoria asked again, "Have you sent the printed bandit handbook?" ”
"Send it down."
Speaking of the phrase "Bandit Handbook", Sir Bran in the room had a strange look on his face. The original author of this "Handbook for Suppressing Bandits" was written by Chairman Chang Kaishen of China before the third encirclement and suppression of the Soviet areas. In 1935, when the Artillery Party collapsed, a small number of "Bandit Suppression Manuals" were brought to Japan by the defeated and escaped high-ranking officials of the Artillery Party.
Later, during the Anglo-Japanese intervention war, the Japanese side took this "manual for suppressing bandits" as a reference and participated in the encirclement and suppression of guerrillas in North China. However, the Red Army in this plane was not as good as the Red Army in the original historical plane, and the "Yang Eighth Road" with a large number of advanced weapons in its hands had completely failed in the Japanese encirclement and suppression operations in North China and Shandong.
After the war, the Japanese side made further improvements to this "manual for suppressing bandits" written by Chang Gong in accordance with the lessons learned during the war, and then after the occupation of the Philippines. It is also used in the suppression of local resistance.
The British, through the Anglo-Japanese alliance, also obtained this handbook from the Japanese, and according to Artoria's advice, they even invited the Japanese "anti-guerrilla warfare experts" as advisers to prepare for the purge operation that would begin next year.
Artoria said: "People from the propaganda department, are you ready?" ”
"It's ready."
Artoria said to the head of the Fifth Division: "Mr. Rothschild. For the next half month, I don't want to hear the voices of Gandhi and Nehru, and find a way to give them a break. These two guys are in Kolkata right now, and they're too close to there. ”
Rothschild said in a meaningful tone: "It has been prepared for a long time, just waiting for your instructions, we can give them a rest at any time." ”
She looked at the people from the civil affairs department again and asked, "Are you guys ready too?" ”
"It's ready."
"Well, that's fine, we can now enjoy the last few days of Christmas this year with confidence!"
Artoria nodded in satisfaction. Then he raised the wine glass in front of the table and toasted: "God bless my emperor!" ”
The other conspirators in the room also stood up, raised their glasses, and said, "God bless my emperor!" ”
After the meeting, Artoria got into a bulletproof car specially designed for her, escorted by a team of "holy warriors", and returned to the local Christian church station. Watching her ride away, Governor Mountbatten said to the intelligence officer of the Fifth Division: "Mr. Rothschild, is she really an oracle?" ”
Rothschild laughed: "This topic. You shouldn't have asked me. For we are the ones who work in darkness, the furthest from God. But for us who work in the dark. She is closest to us, and she is like a god. ”
The Governor smiled dumbly and said, "That's right."
Rothschild, who had been dealing with Artoria for a long time, knew very well how evil Artoria's plan was. But if it succeeds, it will be of extraordinary significance to stabilize the British Empire's rule over India, but the plan will be successful. What is needed is a base of dozens, if not millions, of corpses.
On December 26, the day after Christmas, a scene that has never happened before in the history of India is being played out in the city of Bahapur.
On this day, the high castes in the city of Bahapur. Brahmins and Kshatriyas, like crabs for sale, were tied in strings with ropes, wooden whistles in their mouths, and palm leaves tied to their butt (crab) strands, and they were sent to the streets and markets in droves.
Many of the men and old women who were sent to the streets, and the young women, because of their "special value", were fortunate enough to escape this humiliation, but they did not end much better than the others who were being paraded through the streets. The fighters of the Ratani guerrillas divided up these high-caste women.
This guerrilla army, led down the wrong path, was corrupting at an astonishing rate on the first day of its invasion of the big city.
With the order of the supreme leader Ratani and the help of Lin Taiping, the adults (crabs) among the high-ranking people in Bahapur City enjoyed the humiliation they had never enjoyed before.
"Dalits of Bahapur, our brothers and sisters! Take a good look at your tattered clothes! Look at how hard you have worked for a year, but you can only get this tattered thin clothes! ”
"Why do I work hard all my life, but I can only eat coarse tea and light food all day long; Why do we work hard all our lives, but we can only live in mud houses and dilapidated houses? Why do we work hard all our lives, but in the end we can only marry ugly women! ”
"Do you think it's fair that those high-caste aristocrats who claim to be of noble blood, who do nothing but enjoy fancy clothes and good food all day long, can even insult us with impunity and take everything from me?"
"Yes, some of you think it's fair, because we had sins in our past lives, and everything we have suffered in this life is atonement for our sins in previous lives! That's what they've been saying for thousands of years. ”
"But this is the most shameless lie in the world! This is how they trick us and nullify our rebellion, so that they can attach themselves to us like parasites and suck our blood. ”
But this kind of lie is going to end completely today! We, the BJP, our army, are the army of the Dalits. It is the army of the broad masses of toiling people. We don't talk about the illusory afterlife, we only talk about the reality of this life! ”
Speakers in the army in Lassani, according to the script prepared by Chen Taiping and others, gave revolutionary speeches to the surrounding crowd and disseminated their revolutionary program.
When the speaker spoke loudly, some of the people who had been mixed in with the crowd of onlookers began to echo in response. The flock effect drove the people around to shout along with the people on the stage. Then, a group of high-ranking officials in the city who "had blood debts in their hands" were dragged to the stage like dead dogs with signs on their heads, enjoying the treatment of the people's "grievances" and criticism.
Class oppression in India is far deeper than in old China. Although the civilians here have been brainwashed into ignorance, there are people who are really willing to uncover the piece of paper, and the spark that ignites it can start a prairie fire.
It is a pity that what happened in Bahapur was secretly distorted from the very beginning by people with ulterior motives. Enter Bahapur's. Not a real revolutionary army, just an army of revenge. In their eyes, the revolution was only a means of revenge, and after entering the city, what they did to the women of the upper caste families made them just a second Li Zicheng.
Chen Taiping took his colleagues from Lanfang and blended in the crowd, coldly watching the performance on stage. Last night, Ratani also sent dozens of high-ranking women, washed and sent to their beds.
Neither Chen Taiping nor his colleagues refused, the main reason was that he was clear. If he doesn't take these women, they fall into the hands of those people outside. The end will be even worse. For this reason, he also specially asked other Lanfang colleagues not to refuse. As for this issue, Lin Han had discussed it with him before coming to India.
"Everything that happens here is exactly what the gentleman has discussed."
Chen Taiping had in his pocket a secret telegram that he had just received, which Lin Han had given him through the dark wire that had been placed here beforehand. The text of the secret message told him that the British would launch a full-scale attack on Bahapur around January 3 next year. At that time, the British army will also strike.
The secret telegram told him in detail the scale of the encirclement and suppression of the British and Indian troops, the division of troops, and the route of the march, and gave corresponding suggestions.
In addition, another requirement was that Chen Taipingli would join the Chinese non-combatants in the Ratani army and use this time to withdraw from Bahapur, and the evacuation route had been arranged in advance in the secret telegram.
From the content of the message. Chen Taiping has already sniffed out that in January next year, there will be a bloody storm here.
Since 26 December, a large number of "high-caste" people have been executed daily in the city of Bahapur on various charges.
Although Ratani is an avenger, he is not crazy enough to the point that "anyone who is of high caste deserves to die". But among them, those who oppressed the untouchables and the poor, and those who had blood debts on their hands, were to be tried and put to death in the fastest way.
Ratani knew he couldn't stay in the city for long, so the trial was very hasty. Basically, as long as it is "extremely indignant by the people" and "someone complains", then it is enough to be executed, and the evidence or anything is basically ignored.
Local officials and Brahmin temples were among the hardest hit by the crackdown. Especially the latter, the sacrifices in the temple, the monks, etc., were basically executed directly without trial. And the only hope that these people will survive is that before the execution, the law enforcers will ask the onlookers, "Please find a reason why these people don't deserve to die."
Only a few "good people" who are relatively honest and often provide relief to the poor and untouchables around them have been left behind by the knife due to the pleas of others. For example, one of the presiding officers in the Brahmin temple would have been shot, but on the day of the execution, a dozen of his former kindly adopted foundlings came to intercede and survived.
Some of the people who usually gave free treatment and relief to the untouchables and the Shutuo also escaped death because of their reputation.
However, only 20% of the total number of people arrested were killed.
Before the New Year of 1945, about 5,000 people were executed in the city of Bahapur and its surroundings, including landed landlords, Brahmin nobles, Kshatriya military police, local officials, black-hearted lawyers, and members of various high-race races, most of whom were men.
During this period, Ratani distributed the property of these "high-class" people to the middle and lower classes of the local poor after taking what he needed for military supply.
For the lower class of the poor in Bahapur, the last days of 1944 were a carnival of anger that had been accumulated over decades of oppression. With the support of the Ratani guerrillas, they stormed the homes of high-caste families and moved everything they wanted.
Chen Taipingru suggested to him: "We must use this method to tie all these people to our chariots. ”
Ratani felt that made sense, and ordered the following to do so. As for the protests and grievances from the members of the Indian Communist Party in North India, he didn't listen to them at all, and in his heart he had long seen that these guys were not pleasing to the eye.
By the time the city of Bahapur had been captured, the Ratani guerrillas had taken control of more than one-fifth of West Bengal. At this time, he had 12,000 regular troops, 20,000 regional militiamen, and 10 tanks.
According to the opinion of the British, the suggestion of Comrade Lan Fang, and his own reasons of "class hatred", Ratani carried out the most radical policy of land reform in all the areas under his control. Everywhere the Ratani guerrillas went, most of the men among the local Brahmin landlords were executed, except for the women and children.
The women were "assigned" by him to his guerrillas, and the land was divided equally among the local untouchables. After capturing the city of Bahapur, he also hunted down the local high castes. Ratani's overly radical approach was the only thing he opposed was the people of the Northern Indo-Indos and the New China, and the Soviet side, with its own revolutionary experience, also agreed with his approach.
Chen Taiping taught Ratani how to mobilize the masses, how to incite class hatred, and how to judge class enemies, but he did not teach him: although the revolution is a storm power, the revolution is more about order. The maintenance and restoration of order is paramount, and it is taboo for revolutionary action to turn into an orgy of anarchists and lumpenproletarians. However, the revolutionary army does not pay attention to discipline and wantonly acts of women after entering the city, and the atrocities of women should be strictly forbidden.
These most crucial things, Chen Taiping deliberately did not teach him according to Lin Han's opinion.
At the age of twenty-six, Ratani had no idea how brutal the agrarian revolution and class struggle would be. Chen Taiping, who only participated in the Chinese Liberation War in the middle and late periods, when the Red Army had entered the stage of strategic counteroffensive against the White Army, did not experience too many stages of passive defense and stalemate in the revolutionary (crab) base areas. A brutal scene when the "red and white" armies repeatedly tug-of-war.
And the next scene of retaliation and counter-retaliation is about to be staged in and around the city of Bahapur. And the person who planned the future was not Ratani, who temporarily controlled everything in Bahapur, but Artoria, who was now "celebrating" Christmas with the parishioners in Kolkata.
In order to continue the life of British colonial rule, Artodia prepared this script that will be written on the corpses of millions of people in India, including all classes of India from top to bottom. (To be continued......)