12dz Chapter 851: Cultural People Are Cruel
Chapter 851: Cultural People Are Cruel
With the "assistance" of the mobile regiment, Zhao Gang screened the Japanese expatriates in counties and townships. It would have been fine if he hadn't screened them, but once he did, the bullied people immediately stood up and, like beating a drowned dog, smashed the expatriates on the heads with the big sticks in their hands.
Overnight, those men wearing wooden clogs and women carrying small quilts seemed to disappear from the three northeastern provinces and all became Chinese.
There are even many young Japanese girls who used to be chaste but suddenly became romantically involved and insisted on getting married, and they all wanted to marry Chinese men.
Those homeless people and paupers who couldn't even lick their little fingers have become popular. No matter how poor or ugly they are, as long as they are Chinese, there is only one word: marry!
Yesterday you ignored me, today I made you feel out of reach.
Even so, those Chinese men stayed far away, their hearts itching like a dozen female cats in heat, but they listened to the announcement from the independent column on the radio:
All Chinese who shelter or frame Japanese expatriates and fabricate facts will be sent to study classes.
Although only Wang Meng, Li Yunlong and Zhao Gang roughly knew what the "study class" was, the others had no idea, but it was definitely not the kind where they would really give you a book and ask you to read it.
The winner is the king and the loser is the bandit, that's all.
Although the Purity Plan has just begun, the coal mines in Shanxi, the railways in Inner Mongolia, and the large construction sites in Central China are all hungry for people.
Zhao Gang had no choice but to focus on the mines with the worst conditions.
He dispersed all the Japanese prisoners of war, reorganized them, and elected a captain, a deputy captain, and a discipline committee member out of the 100 people.
The team leader is responsible for the food, drink, defecation and urination of these 100 people, including work assignment, food distribution, etc. The deputy team leader is responsible for assisting the team leader in his work, and the discipline committee member is responsible for supervision.
The team leader, deputy team leader and disciplinary inspection committee member do not have to work and can have enough food and clothing, but if there is any rebellion or rebellion in the team they manage, these three people will be executed immediately if they know about it and do not report it.
Of course, those who take the initiative to report can not only be promoted to a higher level, but also be transferred out of the original team without any worries.
Zhao Gang designed this system to make everyone feel insecure, like a pile of loose sand, unable to work together.
In addition, Zhao Gang also established a workload assessment system for them.
Complete 100% of the workload and get half full.
Complete 120% of the workload and get 80% full.
If you complete 150% of the workload, you will be fully satisfied.
So, I'm not afraid that you won't work.
The less they work, the hungrier they get, and the hungrier they get, the less able they are to work. Eventually they starve to death in the mine and are "optimized."
The harder you work, no matter how much effort you put in, the fuller you eat, and the fuller you eat, the more energy you have, and the cycle repeats itself.
In short, just be happy that you didn’t have to take these hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war to go shooting. What else do you need?
Those overseas Chinese were also sent to different levels of jobs according to their levels, and the conditions were improved accordingly. Especially for those overseas Chinese who were skilled in technology, they were classified as the third or fourth class. They could have enough food and clothing, and as long as they worked obediently and did not cause trouble, their lives would be worry-free.
All the land and properties of the overseas Chinese were nationalized. After all, they brought nothing with them when they came here, and their current businesses were taken from the Chinese. It is reasonable to take them back now.
After seeing Zhao Gang's plan, Li Yunlong and Wang Meng could only say that intellectuals are really ruthless!
At this time, because Operation No. 1 failed, General Hata Shunroku was removed from the post of commander-in-chief of the Japanese Expeditionary Army in China, and the former commander of the North China Front Army, Okamura Yasuji, was promoted to commander-in-chief of the Expeditionary Army.
Faced with the defeat in the Northeast, Okamura Yasuji was heartbroken. Although the Kwantung Army was directly responsible to the Emperor, it had now created a situation where the North China and East China coast to Guangdong were being attacked from three sides by independent columns.
He even believed that as long as the independent column assembled 400,000 troops and marched south from Shanhaiguan, they could drive them directly to Hainan Island to go fishing.
"Immediately send a telegram to the General Staff and His Majesty the Emperor, requesting that the troops on the Korean Peninsula be transferred to North China and that a counterattack be launched against the Chinese troops!"
"Hayi!"
However, this telegram fell on deaf ears and received no response.
In fact, this telegram was indeed placed on the desk of the General Staff and the damn Emperor, but they simply chose to ignore Okamura Yasuji's unreasonable request.
On the Chinese battlefield, there were only the 13th Army (Fujian, Zhejiang and Jiangsu areas), the 6th Army (Hangzhou Bay area), the 23rd Army (Guangdong and Hong Kong areas) and the participating North China Front Army troops, with a total of no more than troops.
The independent column's army strength had reached 16 armies, 42 armored divisions, 6 infantry divisions, 6 artillery divisions, plus other artillery brigades and airborne brigades, totaling one million troops.
This does not include eleven air divisions and an aircraft carrier formation overseas.
The opinion of the Japanese General Staff was to cut off one's arm in order to survive, gradually give up large tracts of land in mainland China, shrink the defense, concentrate troops in Southeast Asia, Hainan Island, the Pearl River Delta, and Taiwan, and ensure the safety of the major sea route from Southeast Asia to the main island of Japan.
Moreover, the Japanese were prepared to propose secret peace talks to China on the condition of returning Chinese land, demanding that China withdraw from the anti-fascist alliance or form an alliance with Japan.
As soon as this report was released, it was strongly opposed by radicals, who believed that the failure in the battle with the Independent Column was only due to carelessness. If the Imperial Army had been fully prepared, it could at least have achieved a one-to-one exchange ratio.
Even the radicals conducted a tabletop game with the General Staff in front of Emperor Hirohito, with the goal of causing harm.
The radicals acted as the defenders, while the General Staff acted as the attackers.
"The independent column assembled 20 armored divisions and 6 aviation divisions, totaling 40 people, 1800 tanks, 500 aircraft, and more than 3000 artillery pieces. They attacked Shanghai from Suzhou and Jiaxing without any division of echelons!"
"No, it's impossible. How can they have so many troops? Don't they need defenders on other lines of defense?"
The officers of the General Staff threw the list of the independent column's strength in front of them.
"According to the latest intelligence, the independent column now has at least 42 armored divisions! Moreover, their garrisons in various places are all managed by so-called mobile regiments or mobile divisions. They do not occupy the organization of the independent column and are a kind of lightly armed force without heavy weapons!"
Faced with the iron facts, the radicals still refused to give up.
"Then let them come. The water network area in the south of the Yangtze River is not suitable for their armored group to maneuver. So, we can take advantage of the fact that they are trapped in it and send out a large number of fighter jets to bomb their tank group!"
“We admit that the Jiangnan water network area is not suitable for marching, but where can the Empire draw enough aircraft to pass through a fleet of 500 aircraft and reach the sky above the independent column’s armored forces?
And even if they reach the target area, the barrage of bullets fired by their 37mm and 80mm anti-aircraft guns will be enough to tear the Empire's planes into pieces."