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Chapter 739: Making up for the sins caused by the labor force

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    After resting for an hour, the Japanese attack began again!

    Contrary to expectations, Colonel Yamada originally thought that the firepower of the defenders in front of him would inevitably decrease, but the actual situation was that the opponent's firepower not only did not weaken, but actually increased a lot.

    More importantly, the morale of the soldiers under his command dropped rapidly due to continuous fighting and the inability to rest well!

    Due to the low morale of the frontline troops of the Japanese and puppet troops, the offensive became increasingly weak. By about 6 p.m., the Japanese army conducted a total of 7 attacks, and all of them were repulsed by the defenders without exception.

    Kimura Hy¨­taro, who was supervising the battle from behind, saw that it was already very late. Even if the attack force was changed, it would only be tomorrow. He could only order the Yamada Regiment to stop the attack and fight again tomorrow.

    At this time, the sound of gunfire that had been ringing all day in Xiong'er Mountain finally stopped!

    "The Japanese army and Li Guoyao's troops both suffered heavy losses. Both sides were like two exhausted and injured beasts, hurriedly returning to their lair to recuperate, and wait until they regained their strength to fight again.

    Night falls, and on the simple road leading to Wangjiashan, Shanting County, a strong army is moving quickly!

    This troop is not large in number, but they are all capable!

    Although there are people and horses, there are no other sounds except the sound of footsteps, which shows how high the quality of this unit is!

    There is no doubt that this unit is the Second Squadron of the Special Forces of the Shandong Guerrilla Corps. It is currently commanded by Zhou Cheng, the deputy captain of the Special Forces, and its mission is to attack the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Wangjiashan.

    A few days ago, Li Guoyao and others received a report from the intelligence department, saying that the Japs had actually built a large stronghold outside Shanting City, located in Wangjiashan, ten kilometers northwest of the county.

    At the time, the purpose of these dogs was not clear. Later, after close surveillance by the intelligence department, it was discovered that the little devils used it as a prisoner of war camp. A large number of civilians and prisoners of war were sent to Wangjiashan every day.

    In just a few days, thousands of people have been sent in, and the number is still increasing!

    Although the intelligence department did not know the intention of the imprisoned civilians and prisoners of war in Wangjiashan, they still reported the situation to Li Guoyao.

    After seeing the location of Wangjiashan, Li Guoyao suddenly understood!

    Wangjiashan is located in the suburbs of Shanting. The terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is a good place to establish a large prisoner of war camp.

    What¡¯s more important is that it is close to the railway and has convenient transportation, which is conducive to the transportation of prisoners of war!

    As for why the Japs locked up an alarming number of prisoners of war and civilians here, Li Guoyao believed that the Japs were preparing to move these people to the Northeast to serve as free labor.

    As we all know, Japan is an island country with a small land area and a population far smaller than that of China. Therefore, in addition to coveting China¡¯s vast land area, the Japanese also covet China¡¯s abundant labor force.

    After the September 18th Incident, the Japanese army and the Japanese government consciously enslaved the Chinese. Since the entire Northeast was occupied at that time, the targets of the Japanese enslavement first came from the Northeast.

    In addition, about half of the workers come from North China, East China and other places, with the largest numbers coming from Shandong and Hebei provinces.

    According to relevant statistics disclosed after the war, before Japan launched the September 18th Incident, hundreds of thousands of workers entered Northeast China from North China every year, with the highest number reaching more than 1.04 million.

    After Japan¡¯s armed invasion of Northeast China in 1931, it implemented a policy of restricting workers from North China from entering the Northeast for a period of time, so the number of workers entering the Northeast decreased.

    However, as Japan intensified its plunder in the Northeast, the number of labor required increased rapidly, and the number of laborers from North China and other customs entering the Northeast also increased.

    During the Japanese occupation of Northeast China, North China has always been an important source of labor for Northeast China.  It's just that although a considerable number of laborers who entered the Northeast were deceived by the Japanese puppets at the beginning of Japan's rule in the Northeast, most of them entered naturally.

    Since 1934, Japan has used deceptive means to recruit labor for military engineering construction. Its area is not limited to North China. It also uses the same method to defraud and recruit workers in the labor market in Northeast China.

    Japan¡¯s fraudulent recruitment and conscription of labor in the Northeast is very widespread. From 1934 to 1938, Japan fraudulently recruited labor in the Northeast, mainly in densely populated areas.

    In the later period of Japanese rule in Northeast China, the main method was forced recruitment, and even sparsely populated remote areas were not immune.

    Since 1937, most of the laborers who entered the Northeast by the Japanese and puppet agencies in Northeast and North China used fraudulent recruitment, recruitment, arrest, etc

    According to the "Overview of Labor Issues in North China" and "Manchu-China Labor Migration Statistics" of the North China Liaison Department of the Nikko Institute of Technology, the number of ordinary workers who entered Northeast China from 1934 to July 1945 was 7,776,817.

    In addition to the above-mentioned ordinary workers, there were also special workers transported from North China to Northeast China, consisting of prisoners of war captured by the Japanese army and captured anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians, which were called "special workers" in Japan.

    After that, the Japanese army divided "special workers" into "guidance workers" and "protection workers."  The captured personnel who originally belonged to the anti-Japanese army were called "guidance workers"; the captured civilians were called "protection workers."

    In the eyes of the Japanese, the development of Northeast China depends on these Chinese workers!

    However, because the little devils did not regard the Chinese as human beings, the people in Northeast China were living in dire straits. In addition, the Japanese army brazenly launched a full-scale invasion of China. As a result, its domestic strategic supplies could not make ends meet, and they had to increase their plunder of resources in Northeast China and other places.  The labor gap is huge.

    In desperation, the Japanese government paid attention to the Chinese in North China. After all, compared to the vast and sparsely populated Northeastern region, the population of North China was much larger. The population of Shandong Province even exceeded that of the entire Northeast.

    At the beginning, the Japanese army only focused on those prisoners of war. In the past, the Japanese army mainly used two methods to deal with prisoners of war captured during combat. One was to shoot them on the spot, and the other was to tie them up and give them to new recruits for training.  Fighting stabs to exercise the courage of new recruits.

    However, with the shortage of labor force in the Northeast and Japan, the Japanese government immediately ordered the frontline troops to prohibit the killing of prisoners of war. After capturing the prisoners of war, they must be centralized and detained. When a certain number is raised, they will be sent to the Northeast.

    From this time on, the Japanese troops on the front lines rarely massacred prisoners of war, unless they could not be carried during the march!

    However, the number of prisoners of war is limited after all. When the war first started, tens of thousands of captured soldiers could indeed be seen. However, as the Chinese army gradually adapted to this war, the Japanese army was rarely able to capture Chinese troops on a large scale.  .

    For example, in the Battle of Xuzhou, even though the Japanese army mobilized almost all its mobile forces, the Chinese army forced them to retreat thousands of miles away, which frustrated the Japanese army's desire to completely annihilate the Chinese army.

    Another example is the Battle of Wuhan. Although the Japanese occupied Wuhan, they failed to eliminate the main force of the Chinese army!

    The consequence of this is that the number of prisoners of war is getting smaller and smaller, and the labor force is becoming increasingly scarce!

    In order to encourage frontline troops to capture more prisoners, the Japanese base camp also introduced many incentive measures, such as how much bonus the local garrison would be given if a prisoner was captured.

    Driven by interests, these Japanese began to hunt down the resistance forces in the occupied areas like crazy. At the beginning, they mainly looked for the main force of the National Army. Later, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army also became their targets. Later, bandits and other anti-Japanese forces were also targeted.  The forces are not spared either.

    But there were still few soldiers after all, so the Japanese turned their attention to ordinary people.

    Anyway, there is not much else in China, but there are many people. The densely packed villages are full of people, and these are all money in the eyes of the Japanese army!

    So during this period of time, the Japanese army launched a frantic raid, and basically burned, killed, and looted everywhere they went. All the old people and children were killed, and all the adults, both men and women, were arrested. Finally, they were imprisoned as prisoners of war and sent to the Northeast for money.  In Li Guoyao's opinion, this was entirely the Japanese's attempt to make up for the sins caused by the lack of labor.

    And this was just the beginning. At its craziest time, the Japanese army was transporting tens of thousands of people from North China to the Northeast every month.

    According to statistics from the Puppet Manchukuo Labor Department and the Labor Rejuvenation Congress, 35,402 special workers were transported to the Northeast from July to September 1941 alone.

    Especially from March 1941 to the end of 1942, the Japanese army forcibly carried out five brutal "security strengthening campaigns" in North China, and carried out crazy "mopping up" and "three light" policies in anti-Japanese base areas and guerrilla areas, taking the opportunity to arrest anti-Japanese  Soldiers and civilians were sent to Northeast China, Central China and other regions.

    By June 1943, the cumulative number of soldiers and civilians sent to the Northeast reached hundreds of thousands. In the entire North China region, more than 2 million anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians were arrested and used as special laborers.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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