. Chapter 1115 Prisoner of War Riot

In the battle to conquer Myitkyina by the directly subordinate corps, the Japanese troops defending Myitkyina resisted quite fiercely, and it only took more than a day to break through the peripheral positions, but the fierce street fighting lasted for two days and one night, and more than 40,000 Japanese soldiers, wounded and captured, were only more than 4,000.

In other words, more than 35,600 Japanese soldiers were killed in the battle with the directly subordinate corps, and in order to conquer Myitkyina, the troops of the five brigades of the directly subordinate corps that participated in the Myitkyina campaign paid more than 7,000 casualties, of which more than 3,000 were killed, and the largest casualties were Liu Hongzhang's 1st Brigade and Chu Ziye's 6th Brigade.

And the Sixth Brigade happened to be the unit that held Japanese prisoners of war, which could not help but make Chang Feng have great suspicions, and he mentioned this matter to the division commander Tang Qiuli, also in order to arouse the attention of the division commander, and now, the army has a tendency, which can also be said to be the predecessor of the independent division, the consistent tradition of the Bloody Hand Regiment, for the Japanese, no prisoners of war are left.

When fighting against the Japanese army at home, Chang Feng did not feel much resistance and disgust at the practice of leaving no prisoners, and witnessed the wanton massacre of Chinese civilians by the Japanese army, including the Sucheng tragedy in Shanxi, the Anyang tragedy in Henan, the Nangong tragedy in Hebei, and the Xu Wen tragedy on the Leizhou Peninsula.

For the brutality and murder of the Japanese soldiers, to the ordinary Chinese people, the heinous crimes committed, Chang Feng's heart, often have the urge to take revenge, and there are not so many mental obstacles, to treat the invaders, as long as he wields a bloody bayonet, the moment he sets foot on Chinese territory, he should make them pay the price of blood, how to treat those Dongying beasts can not be exaggerated.

But since he stepped out of the country and fought in Burma, Chang Feng's heart has undergone great changes, this land is not the land of the motherland, the people here, nor his compatriots, in the depths of Chang Feng's heart, he even thought that our independent division went abroad to fight, according to the division commander's strategic concept, is to replace the position of the British in the Indochina Peninsula, in a sense, in the eyes of the locals, are we invaders?

These thoughts, very painfully gnawed at his heart, Chang Feng from a college student, an ordinary soldier, was discovered by Tang Qiuli's discernment, first worked in the staff office of the independent division, and then, served as the chief of staff, and then served as the chief of staff of the Sulu Mobile Corps, and was entrusted by Tang Qiuli with important responsibilities, serving as the chief of staff of the independent division and the chief of staff of the directly subordinate corps, and finally became one of the core high-level leaders of the independent division, it can be said that he is Tang Qiuli's right-hand man.

Chang Feng's bones, there is also the kind of Chinese literati who are willing to help the world, and Liu Tiehan and Feng Jiwu, who were born in the former Northeast Army, are different from Li Honggang and Han Tie, who are also different from the generals who were born in the first place, and Tang Qiusheng, Tang Qiuquan, and Shanhu, who are also different from the generals who were born in the Bloody Hand Regiment.

Although after many brutal wars of blood and fire, the literati spirit in his bones not only did not fade, but became more ingrained, just after the direct corps conquered Myitkyina, he went to the battlefield to understand the situation, and saw with his own eyes that the residential area that the division commander ordered the 1st Brigade to shell, in eight words, to explain his feelings at that time: "shocking and miserable." ”

Entire residential areas, thousands of houses, razed to the ground by rocket artillery and heavy artillery of the Independent Division, and the northern part of Myitkyina is full of broken walls, but what about the inhabitants here? No one knows, maybe it was a flight in advance, maybe it was buried in the fierce artillery fire, such a scene, the shock to Chang Feng can be described as huge, for the first time, he used the eyes of an unknown to see the division commander Tang Qiuli who he had always admired and convinced.

And he asked himself in his heart, "Could it be that the teacher I know well is a bloodthirsty and murderous person at heart?" It's right to destroy the Japanese army, but shouldn't you give an order to destroy the residential areas? This thought tormented him very painfully, and he tried his best to convince himself that this was war, and civilian casualties were inevitable, and that the division commander did this in order to reduce the casualties of the troops and end the battle as much as possible.

But Chang Feng himself knew very well that he could not convince himself, there was a reality, Chang Feng did not know, most of the young and middle-aged residents of Myitkyina had been bribed by Terauchi Shouichi and became auxiliary soldiers of the Japanese army, and received basic military training, and when the troops of the independent division attacked Myitkyina, these residents had already picked up guns and fought with our soldiers.

In the street fighting, most of the casualties of the 1st Brigade and the 6th Brigade were caused by these armed residents who were familiar with the local situation, and Tang Qiuli, who was a man of two lifetimes, knew this history very well, when the Pacific War broke out, when the Japanese army entered the Indochina Peninsula and Southeast Asia under the banner of plaster, the local residents actually welcomed the Japanese and regarded them as liberators who saved them from the rule of Europeans.

Later, the Chinese Expeditionary Force entered Burma to fight, and the locals not only did not assist, but also provided the Japanese army with information on the squadron, and even hunted down the lone Chinese **, which is a painful history, therefore, Tang Qiuli has absolutely no good impression of the local residents, and in the memory of later generations, the wave of ** and anti-Chinese in Southeast Asian countries has never stopped.

In particular, the archipelago country of Indonesian monkeys, and the Americans' loyal servants Luzon, even more took pleasure in killing the Chinese, for the Europeans and the Japanese, they were very subservient and submissive, not only did not resist in the slightest, but also took pride in their service, Tang Qiuli once wondered, with the Chinese as a person, gentle and bowing, why repeatedly caused the same disaster?

In the end, he figured out that it was because the home country of these Chinese was not strong and fierce enough, coupled with the extremely weak and demonizing propaganda of Europe and the United States for a hundred years, that there would be such a result, so one of the principles he pursued for the independent division troops to enter Southeast Asia was that the locals and the local forces had only two choices, one was to submit and the other was to perish.

There is no goodwill, there is no earnest preaching and probation, there is no need and waste of time, sticks and carrots, choose one, the Americans of later generations have been more successful in this regard, Tang Qiu has saved a lot of time by using it for his own use.

Chang Feng didn't know this, he only saw the appearance of the residents being ruined by the troops under his command, and this riot in the Japanese prisoner of war camp in Myitkyina made Chang Feng very worried, he was worried that the troops of the independent division, when fighting abroad, would degenerate into the brutality and murder of the Japanese, which was not the result he wanted to see.

In his opinion, this is a bad sign and must be stopped, but Tang Qiuli's attitude surprised Chang Feng and made him very disappointed. There may have been a riot among Japanese prisoners, but the fact that more than 4,000 prisoners of war were involved in it could not but arouse suspicion, and Chu Ziye, commander of the Sixth Brigade, could not escape the blame.

Therefore, after listening to Tang Qiuli's unconcerned words, Chang Feng's long-standing feelings in his heart broke out instantly, he stared at Tang Qiuli, and asked word by word: "Division commander, the riot of Japanese prisoners of war in Myitkyina is not as simple as you imagined, more than 4,000 prisoners of war, within a few hours, all of them were killed, and none of them were spared, in this, there will be no purpose?" ”

"Therefore, I insist on my order, the Judge Advocate General's Department must intervene in this incident, if the Sixth Brigade shoots prisoners of war under the pretext of the Japanese prisoner of war riot, the brigade commander Chu Ziye must be punished! In order to put an end to the signs of the troops shooting Japanese prisoners of war, otherwise, what is the difference between our soldiers and Japanese soldiers? Division, you are conniving at this atrocity! ”

Chang Feng said these words in one breath, and he gasped sharply with excitement, it was the first and only time that he disobeyed the order of the division commander Tang Qiuli, and it was also the first time to use this kind of interrogation tone to question his respected division commander, this is not just as simple as disobeying orders, but expressing strong dissatisfaction with the actions of Tang Qiuli, the supreme commander of the independent division.

Tang Qiuli looked at the chief of staff who thought he knew very well, he was not surprised by Chang Feng's questioning and suspicion of himself, but felt that he did not know this young chief of staff very well, and from the time when Chang Feng was suspicious of his first brigade to shell the residential areas occupied by the Japanese army in northern Myitkyina, he felt that some kind of change must have occurred in Chang Feng's heart.

It's just that he was busy commanding the battles of Myitkyina and the Hukang River Valley at that time, and he didn't have time to talk to Chang Feng in detail, Tang Qiuli even thought, "People will change, perhaps, Chang Feng is no longer suitable to serve as his chief of staff, but he should be given a chance to confess himself," In his heart, he still attaches great importance to Chang Feng.

Now, Chang Feng's attitude made Tang Qiuli understand that he had reached the point where he had to talk, he suddenly smiled and said to Chang Feng: "Chief of Staff Chang, you first go and give the order to the troops to assemble in the Gangao Mountains, and then, I will ask the cooking class to prepare some wine and food, and we will talk about the wine in detail and pour out your inner thoughts, go!" ”

Chang Feng's heart suddenly tightened, in informal occasions, the division commander has always called himself by his name, but today, he calls his position very formally, is this the beginning of estrangement? Perhaps, it was the beginning of his departure from the independent division, anyway, today's words have already cut a crack in the incomparably harmonious relationship with the division commander, and he suddenly regretted that he was too impulsive.

Looking at Chang Feng's somewhat depressed back, Tang Qiuli said to himself, "The scholarly spirit, after polishing, can be of great use, it depends on his own creation!" ”

(To be continued)

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