Chapter 347: Pressure from the Ministry of Social Affairs

With the sudden loss of Harbin last time, a large number of classified files were seized. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 According to the map, the Info Anti-Japanese Federation has almost wiped out the lessons of Harbin and the puppet Manchurian Binjiang Province, and the original secret spy organizations of the Japanese puppet puppet. At the beginning of the South Manchurian Campaign launched by the Anti-Japanese Union, although the northern Liaobei battlefield in the north was still in a stalemate, the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army had already made preparations in advance.

Not only was a large number of spies deployed and lurked in the civilian population, but also the original Concord personnel. At the same time, the files of the hidden agents in South Manchuria, as well as the secret agents who were sent to North Manchuria, were either transported to North Korea in advance or all destroyed. It's done cleanly, leaving no gaps.

Although the capture of Shenyang this time has seized a large number of Japanese fake archives, many unsolved mysteries have been clarified. In the rear, he also found a lot of secret bases that were originally built by the Kwantung Army, but could never be found, and captured almost all the high-ranking officials of the puppet Manchukuo. However, one of the most important documents, the file of the Japanese puppet sleeper agent, was not able to be seized.

The intelligence department of the Kwantung Army, which has suffered many big losses, can be described as clean and neat this time. Not only were all the files of the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army transferred, not even a single piece of paper was left. Even the puppet Manchurian Security Bureau, which was under the actual control of the Intelligence Department of the Kwantung Army and was responsible for part of the intelligence work in the United Nations base area, had all its files transferred by the Kwantung Army.

Although the seizure of Shenyang was fruitful, when it came to the archives of the intelligence departments, only the military department of the puppet Manchurian military police and the archives of the puppet Manchurian military police and the general regiment of the puppet Manchurian military police were seized. However, the contents of these files, which mainly manage the pseudo-armed forces on the surface, are very limited.

Except for the arrest of overt traitors and the cracking of those spy organizations on the surface, it basically does not play a big role. On the secret front, it is for people to see, and when it is shown to people, where will it be true. The experience of Beiman has taught the Anti-Japanese Union that the Japanese hidden agents are quite deep.

Even during the period when the Kwantung Army was at its most rampant, even during the period when the Japanese controlled the entire Tohoku. There are still a large number of spies lurking among the people, who are used to reconnoiter the anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese sentiments in the hearts of the people in Northeast China. These spies are disguised as people from all walks of life, and even right under your nose, you don't know he's Japanese.

The most critical files were not seized, and only those puppet Manchu traitors with the same tablets were arrested, and no matter how many generals, lieutenant generals, and major generals were arrested, they were not as important as the head of a Japanese intelligence agency. These high-ranking pseudo-officers who don't even know how many troops they have under them and what equipment they have still know these things.

Even the head of the puppet Manchurian Fengtian Police Department, the so-called direct boss of the Mukden Branch of the Puppet Manchurian Empire Security Bureau, was arrested. But this so-called police chief, even the Mukden Branch of the Puppet Manchurian Security Bureau, is not clear where the door opens. Even the Mukden Police Department does not know that there is such a department.

The intelligence department of the Kwantung Army relied on this so-called Imperial Security Bureau to suppress South Manchuria. In addition to the secret agencies directly under the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army, a considerable number of the remaining hidden agents were sent by the General Security Bureau of the Empire.

And this so-called Manchurian Empire's Security Bureau, although it is a so-called Manchurian Empire's subordinate organization, but this institution, the pseudo-Manchurian nominal emperors and ministers, no one knows. So many high-level personnel of the puppet Manchurians have been arrested, including Japanese personnel from most of the eight departments of the puppet Manchurians, although there are a lot of things that have been confessed. However, there is no information about this.

The sabotage activities of spies in the newly liberated areas of South Manchuria have never been put an end to it, and the pressure on the Ministry of Social Affairs, which has been criticized by the central authorities several times, can be described as quite great. At present, the Northeast has been regarded as a strategic rear by the central government, and South Manchurian is one of the major industrial areas in the Northeast. At present, the south is restless, and the overall strategic intention of the central government has also been affected to a certain extent.

Coupled with the military and central commanders in Guannai and Chongqing, the uninterrupted secret war has spread to the northeast. At present, the pressure on the social minister can be imagined. At this time, Yang Zhen's support for the Social Department, which is in charge of the anti-special work in the whole Northeast, cannot be small.

In addition to the rampant spy activities, there were also quite a few small scattered Japanese troops in the entire South Manchurian region, as well as puppet Manchurian military police and military specialists, who went to the mountains to become bandits. In the mountainous area of southern Benxi Lake alone, there are more than three or four such large and small political bandits. In the eastern mountainous area of Kaiyuan, one of the main battlefields in northern Liao, the number of such bandits even reached more than 2,000 people.

The remnants of the Japanese army, as well as the puppet Manchu military police and military personnel who had dispersed up the mountain, carried a large amount of weapons and ammunition when they entered the mountain to become bandits. These political bandits were well-armed and equipped, and with the exception of a rabble of some puppet Manchu troops, the military quality of foreign bandits composed of Japanese troops was generally excellent.

Armed with mountain artillery and mortars, hundreds of light and heavy machine guns, and even field heavy artillery. Moreover, bandits with ample shells and ammunition are probably found in the whole of China at the moment only in the northeast after the war. When the former Japanese troops who went up to the mountains to become bandits were eliminated, the public security forces responsible for the clean-up suffered heavy losses.

Originally, in accordance with Yang Zhen's previous arrangements, during the preparatory stage of the campaign, the military region transferred four mobile detachments and 13 mobile brigades of the public security forces from the old base areas in North Manchuria, plus one fully formed battalion from each of the 17 military sub-divisions. Responsible for clearing out the small units of the Japanese puppet army in the area where the main force completed the operation.

It also organized the subordinate units of various military subdivisions in the South Manchurian region, as well as the public security armed forces in the South Manchurian region. However, when these public security forces, which had only light weapons in the south, were confronted with the remnants of the Japanese army, which had become bandits, or even well-equipped, and the former puppet Manchu army who had returned to the mountains as bandits, it was only by mobilizing part of the main force that had completed the operation to participate in the battle that the problem was basically solved.

In the mountainous area east of Kaiyuan, a regiment of the main force, plus a detachment of the public security army, as well as three brigades and five mobile squadrons, were even mobilized, and reconnaissance planes were dispatched to cooperate. The tactics of encircling and suppressing the Japanese army in those years, advancing in unison with multiple roads, and biting a little bit and chasing after each other were adopted by the Japanese army in those years, and finally solved the problem in the deep mountains and old forests at the junction of Kaiyuan and Fushun.

Fortunately, these scattered Japanese troops, as well as the puppet Manchu military police and gendarmes who went up to the mountains to act as bandits, were not very familiar with this tactic similar to mountain guerrilla warfare. Although the equipment is far better than that of ordinary bandits, they are not professional bandits after all. Except for a small number of bandit-born personnel who had surrendered to the Japanese army, most of them still adopted regular tactics when dealing with the liquidation troops.

From December 44 to March 45, the troops participating in the war and suppressing bandits cooperated with Yang Zhen's mobilization of the 1st Mountain Division, an infantry division, and four squadrons of the Special Operations Command of the Military Region. In the past four months, more than 15,000 Japanese soldiers who had gone up the mountain as bandits were killed, wounded, and captured, as well as more than 15,000 puppet Manchurian military police and special personnel.

More than 7,000 guns of various types and more than 200 light and heavy machine guns were seized. More than 40 mountain artillery pieces, more than 40 mortars, three field guns, and even one Meiji 38 150-mm howitzer, three Meiji 38 120-mm howitzers, and five rapid-fire guns were captured. One major general of the Kwantung Army, five Dazuo, two puppet Manchurian lieutenant generals, and three major generals were captured.

Among them were not only a large number of small groups of broken personnel of the Kwantung Army, but also former puppet Manchurian officers who saw that the situation was not good and dragged their guns up the mountain again to become bandits. There were also a large number of former puppet Manchu gendarmes, security bureaus, and Concorde personnel who deliberately stayed behind to go up the mountain as bandits before the Kwantung Army was destroyed.

Among them, a large number of Japanese policemen who were familiar with the situation in the northeast, except for the areas that were suddenly captured, were basically deliberately left behind by the Kwantung Army in the areas where there was repeated tug-of-war and where the Kwantung Army retreated, and they were provided with a large amount of weapons and equipment, ammunition, as well as radio stations and code books, so that they could lurk in the mountains to wreak havoc.

In the area under the jurisdiction of the Fourth Army of the former Kwantung Army in western Liaoning, when the Fourth Army contracted and withdrew to Huludao, it left behind thousands of political bandits composed of former puppet Manchu military police, Japanese policemen, and several regular Japanese search teams. The Japanese troops that were cut off and eliminated during the retreat also had many small remnants of the troops joined them.

By the end of the battle, the Kwantung Army, whose defeat had already been decided, adopted the method of large-scale slaughter. Not only did the remnants of the annihilated troops go up the mountain to become bandits when they had no way to retreat, but they even consciously dismantled part of the troops, along with those hardcore traitors and the Japanese policemen in the puppet Manchurian police, into the mountains and forests.

The Kwantung Army's order to these people was to lurk in the deep mountains and old forests, waiting for an all-out counteroffensive by the Empire against Manchuria. When the time comes, as a latent force, mess up the enemy's large rear. At the same time, it is absolutely impossible to allow the people of China to stop using the industrial base in South Manchurian to fight against the empire and create trouble for the overall strategy of the empire.

As for those puppet Manchurian police and Concord personnel, the Kwantung Army was troublesome. Among them, the old traitor of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the so-called hardcore traitor of the Chinese, and the Kwantung Army did not trust it. Rather than being unreliable, it is better to throw a name in South Manchuria, so that they can create some trouble for the Anti-Union on the one hand, and on the other hand, they can be regarded as doing their last hand for the empire.

For the Kwantung Army, they are not expected to play much role, anyway, as long as they can create trouble for the Anti-Union. In order to let these desperate people stay in South Manchuria and persist in guerrilla warfare, the Kwantung Army was unprecedentedly generous in this regard. In order to increase the operational capacity of these political bandits, the Kwantung Army not only handed over to these people a small secret arsenal of food, light weapons and ammunition located in the mountainous area of Liaodong, with several reserves sufficient for a division and regiment to fight independently for a year.

They were also given some gold, counterfeit currency, opium that could be used as hard currency if necessary, and even a large amount of heroin as activity funds. Five or six high-power radios of more than 50 watts were left, and even more were the various tactical radios and batteries.

After painstaking reorganization, the base areas behind enemy lines in North Manchuria have been free of addicts and opium. However, in South Manchuria, which was controlled by the Kwantung Army, in order to accumulate financial resources and loot the wealth of the Northeast, the opium trade monopolized by the Kwantung Army was still quite prosperous. Although Rehe was lost, the Kwantung Army opened up a new opium producing area in western Liaoning.

Under the control of the Kwantung Army's various means, the number of opium addicts and even heroin addicts in South Manchuria was extremely large. Although opium has been shouted and beaten by everyone in North Manchuria, there is no problem at all in using it as a hard currency at a critical moment in South Manchuria. Compared with the pseudo-Manchurian currency that has become waste paper after liberation and has not had time to be exchanged as a whole, it can be said to be much easier to use.

During the battle, the large forces of the Anti-United Nations simply did not have the energy and free time to deal with these enemy forces scattered in the rear. After completing the operation against the main force of the Kwantung Army, large units were transferred to the pass one after another. Only some of the remaining troops and public security forces were left behind to eliminate these bandits.

But in the face of these well-equipped bandits, who even had field heavy artillery, they finally invested part of the main force left behind. It took the encirclement and suppression of the old Anti-Japanese Federation by the Kwantung Army outside the Guan. The tactics of sweeping the troops of the 18th Group Army in the North China Battlefield in the Guannai were adopted to annihilate most of them by encircling them on all sides.