PS: PS: (Successfully passed a level, finally able to rest for two days, and took time out to update the code word)

Chapter 839: Seeds of Hatred

Speaking of arson, these guys are all journeymen, and with a torch in their hands, they will soon be lighting up the dilapidated building. Gangcun came to inform those Ottoman soldiers who were hiding in the building to sneak attack, trying to avoid unnecessary casualties. In this kind of narrow street, street fighting is undoubtedly risky, and when Ensign Akashi is having a headache, he naturally will not hesitate when he receives this order. An officer's first priority in combat is to complete the mission, and the second is to minimize casualties, and every soldier's life is precious. Not to mention, these Japanese soldiers traveled halfway around the world to get here, how far away and troublesome it was.

As for the harm caused by arson to the local people, how could the colonizers consider this issue when they invaded? What does the life or death of the locals have to do with them? In particular, many of these Japanese non-commissioned officers participated in the resistance war to clear a certain Sudan in Nanyang, and everywhere they went, they used bloody killings to deter the rebels. Killing one is not enough to deter, so kill ten, and kill until no one resists. A group of lackeys of Ming imperialism, under the banner of Ming imperialism, killed people and set fire to other people's homes. This scene is a bit beautiful, and I can't bear to look at it directly.

Fleet Commander Zheng Sen's face was bored, for him, such a war has no value in testing his personal ability, but it is an opportunity for the engineering troops to perform. The port of Suez is the largest in the region, but it is still far from sufficient in the eyes of the expeditionary force. Smoke billowed from the docks, and small boats repeatedly brought one infantry battalion after another ashore. After clearing the resistance around the pier, the 1,000-ton transport ship docked, the crane arm lowered the cement prefabricated parts into the sea, and five simple deep-water trestles slowly took shape.

According to the pre-war plan, it would take at least ten days. All personnel and supplies can be completed. This is the result of environmental constraints, and the port of Suez is extremely backward compared to Mumbai. The draft of the wharf is insufficient, the facilities are insufficient, and after the seizure of this port, the problem of personnel is easy to deal with. With so many supplies, we can only slowly wait for the engineering troops to improve the environment of the dock in order to improve efficiency.

After the fire burned, the resisters had nowhere to hide, some chose to come out to fight, without exception were reached by the platoon of guns to reach the sieve, more people chose to run, and the rest were ordinary people who had nowhere to live, dragging their families with their families, with a few possessions, fleeing their homes.

The aggressor carefully held the bayonet. Stepping on the corpses of the resisters, as long as they appeared at a dangerous distance in front of them, they would be called out by the recruited traitors and put them in detention. The homeless, who can only look at these invaders with angry eyes, occupy their homes and slaughter their compatriots. These inhuman guys, the slightest resistance is a shot. Or just stab with a bayonet. It's so bad!

Before the first night, the whole of Suez was cleaned up. A little better, the houses are occupied. More than 10,000 people can only take shelter in their burned homes, and they are still looking for their few belongings in the smoking ruins. In general, the discipline of these aggressors was relatively good, and there were no incidents of "forced hand-holding". It's really not that these guys are kind-hearted, they are really strict in military discipline, and the results will be miserable if they are caught. For these Japanese soldiers. It is no good for the local woman to touch it, otherwise she will wait patiently for half a month later, the women's service group will be shipped from India. It's also dark, but it's relatively safe and won't be halfway through. The hated local woman pokes a hole with scissors or something.

At the end of the day, an infantry division landed and set off safe zones near the city's wealthy quarters and docks. Any adult male who comes within 50 meters of him will be killed. In fact, needless to say, the local people will stay away from them, and only those who resist with hatred will try to get closer. It's all a matter of experience.

Early the next morning, after several deep-water improvised trestles were in use, the locals sensed the difference between the invaders. As long as the people live in the designated area and go to the designated place to apply for a good citizen certificate, they can move freely, and they can also go to the wharf to receive a relief food, and they can also find a job on the wharf, and the reward is paper money or food of the corresponding price.

Not many people believe in the conscience of the aggressors when they find this kind of thing. But there are always some men, on the premise that they will starve if they don't do anything, take the risk to go out of the designated area, and after applying for personal identification as required, they really receive a day's rations. A small bag of mixed powder, who knows what it's made of, just eat it anyway. It was washed with boiling water and tasted good. Or pour some water and eat it in a ball. Anyway, it was to register a person to receive a portion of the food, and to be told that if someone robbed him of his food, he could come to the soldier to defend his interests.

Don't say it, this trick is really vicious. That night, no more than 100 people were distributed mixed fried noodles (main ingredients: corn flour, sweet potato flour, potato flour, fish bone meal) brought down from the wharf freighter. Early the next morning, more than a dozen men with blue noses and swollen faces came, and the food they brought back was robbed, and they were reluctant to eat it, and they planned to leave it for their wives and children, but they were robbed. Not to mention the poor food that was robbed by his own compatriots, he was also beaten.

In the locals' designated residential area, there were countless incidents of injury and robbery on this night. Losing its original order, the ugly side of human nature is unmistakably revealed in the ruins of what was originally a slum. When these locals, who had been robbed of their food rations by their own compatriots, bravely stepped forward again, a law and order operation was triggered.

For those unstable elements who did not come out to apply for the certificate of good citizenship and were within the boundaries of the people's houses, the expeditionary force, led the way by the local people with the victims, quietly infiltrated in the early hours of the morning, surrounded them, kicked the doors, and arrested people. After the end of the security operation, more than 300 people were injured or arrested during the operation. There was no trial, the captured were executed directly, and the bodies fell on the pillars. Early the next morning, the traitors stood in front of a row of "hanging street lamps" with loudspeakers in hand, repeatedly publicizing what had happened, denouncing the viciousness of these people and their innocent deaths, and preaching that the rules of the expeditionary force could not be broken.

The contradictions between the local religious sects were very deep, and coupled with the pressure of survival, after the public security incident, the internal contradictions in the local residential areas deepened, and they soon divided into three groups of people with different understandings. There is also a point of recognition between the three, that is, the aggressor is cruel, and the certificate of good citizenship must be there. The difference lies in the fact that an ambitious speculator who is in difficulty or has the goal of improving his life takes a positive attitude and takes the initiative to work for the aggressor in exchange for a good remuneration to ensure the life of the family. Or to seize a share of power and make a fortune in front of his fellow citizens. Such people are a minority, but they are the most influential, and their actions have indeed set a benchmark among the local people. On the other hand, there is the majority, which is also the centrist, who will go to the good citizen certificate to receive the most basic subsistence rations, and follow the rules to fend for themselves, keeping their distance from the invaders out of fear. In the end, there were also a small number of them, because of the factor of hatred, they applied for good citizenship certificates and received rations, but they did not delay them to continue their hatred and wait for the opportunity to rebel.

After the landing, the expeditionary force methodically prepared for a large-scale battle. With the Ottoman Empire's low position in the region, it was impossible to sit idly by and watch important ports and tax places be occupied. It was a matter of the dignity of a great empire, and for the sake of the basis of its rule, it was also necessary to organize a large army to drive out the invaders after learning of the occupation of Suez.

Because of this understanding, the expeditionary force then used the company as a combat unit to continuously attack everywhere, sweeping villages and towns within 100 kilometers of Suez. The main road to Alexandria was cleaned within 200 kilometers and within 10 kilometers on both sides of the road. The local people were forced by bayonets to leave their homes and move to the designated area near Suez, and if they wanted not to starve to death, they had to apply for a certificate of good citizenship, and if they wanted to have enough to eat, they had to work for the invaders.

Half a month later, the days of the slow Ottoman army to assemble and attack were far away, and the colonists had succeeded in creating large areas of no-man's land and placing these people in the slums on the edge of the city.

People may not have the heart to resist the absolutely powerful, but they are often not afraid of the same kind of mutual conflict. In Suez, about 30,000 locals, because of the problems of different sects, consciously divided, because of the emergence of unscrupulous speculators, the bullying of their own people, for the benefit of their own faction, led to the breeding of contradictions between the groups that had been automatically divided, and constantly aggravated.

The main thing is that among the invaders there was a group of professionals who had a considerable understanding of the local ethnic groups and sects, and that the policies against the local people were formulated by these people. The receipt of the Certificate of Good Citizenship and the receipt of rations tied the natives to the land, at least for the short term. If you are obedient to the people, you will be able to have a bite to eat, and you will not starve to death. If you don't obey the people, it's better not to be discovered, otherwise not only will you die, but the whole group will inevitably be unlucky.

Because of the policies of the invaders, all kinds of emotions gathered among the local people, including gratitude, hatred, numbness, and ambition, and all kinds of emotions were silenced and brewed in silence under the threat of the invaders' bayonets. It is just one moment away from triggering an outburst of these emotions, and once it erupts, this region will become a deep hatred for the gods because of sects and ethnic problems, and it will be completely divided.

To use a sentence from the work report of Wei Wencheng, the head of the Suez secret service, to explain the colonial policy in this region, "taking advantage of the traditional contradictions between religions and ethnic groups in the region to sow discord, create hatred, and fight again and again, and finally make a situation where many scattered forces exist in the same region, which cannot pose a major threat to our rule." (To be continued......)