"To establish the 'Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere', in addition to military suppression with aircraft and artillery, it is also necessary to implement a policy of enslaving education and fooling the people, so that these people will no longer resist us and obediently listen to us. But in addition to these are not enough, all we have to do is plunder their books......"

At a meeting of Japanese naval officers at the Xiamen Garrison Command, Consul General Uchida was talking eloquently. An officer of the Navy interrupted him and asked, "Uchida-kun, now that the war is tight, and there is a shortage of troops and ships, I don't know what is the significance of the Holy War of the Imperial Japanese Army for us to spare soldiers and warships to transport the books of China?" ”

Uchida smiled and said, "That's a good question, and that's what I'm going to talk about next." In line with the offensive on the battlefield, the core of the policy of enslavement that we pursued and implemented was to make the people of China forget their own culture and to admire, or rather respect, the culture of the Great Japanese Empire. In fact, the existence of Chinese civilization and the bloodline that have endured trials and wars have benefited from their cultural accumulation and continuation for thousands of years. After the Imperial Japanese Army recovered Nanjing and Shanghai, it also established a "Cultural Management Committee" to study books and books collected from all over China, so as to study China and the Chinese, find the weaknesses and fatal points of the Chinese, and reduce resistance to conquer China.

Uchida's remarks drew applause from the Japanese officers and soldiers.

"Uchida-kun said it well!"

Inspired and touched, Miyata couldn't help but stand up, pacing and saying with emotion: "I heard that since the establishment of the Xiamen Library, it has received donations from Lin Gutu and other masters, and has collected more than 20,000 books from the collection of the Academy, which contains the oldest classics and the largest number of classic books in China, all of which are priceless treasures. ”

The Japanese officers present listened attentively, with a serious and pious face.

Do you still remember the "Atlas of the Sea Kingdom", which was owned by us because the emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom did not know that it was valuable. It was with this book that the rise of the Great Japanese Empire took place. ”

Commander Miyata looked left and right, and then continued: "It seems that our Great East Asian Holy War, to collect books and books, is not as important as plundering property, taking over the market, and massacring the people of China in the occupied areas, but in fact? The plundering of books is an extension of territorial occupation and property plunder. If we blow up a few of their streets and a few cities, they will be restored in a year and a half, but if we destroy their library, a cultural institution, it will never be restored. This was an important part of the policy of the Great Japanese Empire to annex other countries and conquer their people. ”

Takanori Tamura stood up and said, "My subordinates understand, I will do my best to complete the task." He had an empowering look on his face.

Commander Miyata ordered: "Send your special team, the Marines will meet you on the way, and make sure that nothing goes wrong!" ”

"Hello!" Takamura Takanori said half-bowed.

At night, the special task force quietly drove seven or eight large trucks to stop on the side of Siming Street, and more than 100 Japanese marines in civilian clothes got out of the cars, and under the command of Suzuki Shaosa, they ran towards the Xiamen Library.

Japanese spies and Japanese marines rushed into the library and surrounded the library, which was lined with military and police officers with loaded guns and ammunition.

Hundreds of Japanese soldiers were the first to rush into the library to rush books, and many books were pushed by them in small carts to the door of the library. The Japanese soldiers began to transport library materials to the carts outside, and while the Japanese robbers were busy committing cultural theft, a spy ran out of the library and shouted in panic, "Oh no, it's on fire inside!" ”

"What, it's on fire, where did it come from, do you see it clearly?" The Japanese soldier Suzuki Shaosa, who led the team, grabbed the Japanese spy by the collar and asked.

The Japanese spy trembled and said, "You can see clearly, the fire is lit from the innermost!" ”

"Yaga!" Suzuki shozo threw away the collar of the plainclothes agent, pulled out his pistol, and wanted to rush in to find out the truth, when a thick black smoke came out of the door of the library.

The Japanese soldier Shaozo hurriedly ordered: Hurry up and put out the fire, bastard.

As soon as his order was issued, the Japanese military police and spies rushed to the library, and the sound of "bang, bang" gunfire and "boom, boom" explosions rang out nearby, dyeing the night red.

In the midst of the explosion, I heard someone shouting again: "The Blood Soul Regiment is coming, the Blood Soul Regiment is coming, the Blood Soul Regiment is coming, ......"

Bursts of gunfire rang out in all directions, and the Japanese marines of the Japanese Marine Corps resisted and blocked on the spot around the car, and for a time the gunfire was loud.

"It's not good, get out of here!"

Suzuki Shaosa commanded the landing crew to run quickly to the Japanese convoy parked on the side of the street. At this time, the Japanese automobile convoy had already been violently attacked by the Blood Soul Regiment, many vehicles had exploded and caught fire, and more than a dozen Japanese marines were lying crookedly next to the cars.

A team of marines rushed to reinforce and fired back at the area near the Blood Soul Regiment and the car, and the Blood Soul Regiment had already fled without a trace.

There were more than a dozen leaflets of the Blood Soul Regiment thrown on the ground.

Shozo Suzuki ordered the special forces: "Stop shooting!" ”

The enemy immediately stopped firing, and the night sky fell silent.

Suzuki picked up a flyer on the ground, looked at it in his hand, and squeezed the flyer into a ball, screaming "wow, wow" in his mouth......

Late at night, in the Miyata office of the Japanese garrison headquarters, Takano Tamura hurriedly ran in.

He panted and said: Your Excellency, the library of the Xiamen Library has been burned down, and the special forces and marines that transport the books have suffered heavy losses.

Commander Miyata stood up with a look of surprise: What? The library was destroyed by a dream, who did it?

Tamura Takanori said with a nervous expression: "Blood Soul Group! ”

As he spoke, he handed Miyata a leaflet distributed by the "Blood Soul Regiment" with both hands.

Miyata took the leaflet and looked at it, and couldn't help gritting his teeth and said: "It's the Blood Soul Regiment again, he is declaring war on our Imperial Japanese Army, and informing the Marines to immediately block the shipping between Xiamen and Drum, and launch a large-scale search and arrest on Xiamen Island." At the same time, the "wild wolves" were ordered to penetrate into the "Blood Soul Regiment", and the special service of the Xiamen headquarters and the police department of the Xiamen Municipal Government cooperated in the operation to ensure that they were all wiped out. ”

"Hello!" Tamura hurriedly turned and ran out.