1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

Chen Shuxiang was the commander of the troops responsible for receiving Soviet aid. "Comrade Xu, I'd like to ask why you are here?"

Obviously, Chen Shuxiang was also surprised:

"Aren't you guys going to chase that army? Why..."

"We received an order from the Corps saying that the first batch of Soviet aid convoys coming through the Outer Mongolia channel was attacked, so we came here..."

"We found traces of that unit nearby, so..."

The two looked at each other for a while, and shouted in their hearts at the same time!

not good!

So this is the true purpose of that unit!!

After the two armies merged, their numbers increased a lot, and the coordination between cavalry and infantry made them not afraid of attacks, so they quickly sped up and headed north to the agreed location.

Sure enough, three days later, the Red Army's advance reconnaissance troops finally discovered the Soviet convoy near Urad Middle Banner.

But unexpectedly, they were intact, with no signs of being attacked at all. When they saw the Red Army, they were stunned:

"It's snowing so hard that we're forced to stop and rest. Why are you still here? Are you short of supplies?"

? ? ? ?

Both of them dropped their hats. Damn it!

Got cheated again!!

At this time, the Red 45th Division led by Xun Zhunzhou stationed in Baotou received an order from the Corps Headquarters to go to a nearby area to collect a batch of supplies, which were said to be very precious and required to be treated with the highest security level.

But when Xun Zhunzhou personally led the team to the scene, he found only a few small boxes that could be carried away by a horse, which contained some glass bottles, strange instruments and books.

"...Life-saving bacteria? What is that?"

"We call it penicillin. It's more effective than sulfa drugs in killing bacteria and has fewer side effects... I finally managed to get some back from England..."

"...As for how to purify it, how to mass-produce it, and how to make it affordable for ordinary people, I'll leave it to you to research!"

(Some people always think that penicillin was discovered in the laboratory in 1928, so four years later in 1932, it should have been mass-produced to make money (shrugs))

(I guess they don’t even know that Chinese penicillin and Western penicillin are basically the same thing, and why Chinese penicillin requires a skin test while the penicillin used by wealthy people in the West does not.)

……

On January 2, 1933, the Manchukuo cavalry attacked Bailing Temple, beheaded King Kang and King A, and then led the Red Army cavalry division in circles, deceiving the enemy to the north while turning south and east.

As a result, the pro-communist and pro-national Mongol tribes along the way suffered greatly. Caught off guard, the Dalat Banner, Tumed Left and Right Banner, the Four Princes Banner, and the Chahar Right Wing Middle and Rear Banner... countless nobles and lamas were beheaded, and countless gold, silver, treasures, cattle, sheep, horses, and dogs were brutally distributed to the poor.

A bloody storm broke out on the grassland against the oppressors.

431 Fellow villager, I have pork stewed with vermicelli

"...Why doesn't His Highness allow us to open fire?"

A Japanese junior officer from the 386th Brigade chewed the sweet potato in his hand and asked his companion in confusion:

"With our firepower, we can easily defeat them! We've already reached this point."

"Your Highness must be hoping to defeat the enemy without fighting!"

A Chinese junior officer, chewing on some dried meat that had just been softened over the fire, observed the situation on the opposite side, and answered with a smacking of his lips.

"Not having sex...but being forced to marry someone?"

"Zhi Bing! Conquering the enemy without fighting! It means that you can make the enemy surrender without fighting or using force."

"Oh, I see. What a profound Chinese idiom... Then, Your Highness, what do you plan to do?"

"How should I know? I know I'm still here in the trenches with you..."

Similar conversations took place near Hailar and Manchuria on the positions of the "Manchukuo" 386th Brigade, which was facing the "Northeast People's National Salvation Army" of the anti-Japanese general Shen Su Bingwen.

Incidentally, the current 386th Brigade is no longer the original "puppet army" composed almost entirely of Chinese;

Instead, it is a new fleet that uses Chinese and Japanese as the main official languages, is a mixture of multiple nationalities including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Mongolian, and all members can speak northern Chinese.

Moreover, the addition of a large number of "retired soldiers" from the Osaka Division or the Independent Garrison and hidden members of the Communist Party of China made the combat quality of this unit extremely high, and its political quality reached a level second only to that of the Central Red Army.

Needless to say, if it weren't for the difficulty in revealing their identities and some tasks not being done openly, the 386th Brigade would have truly become a stronger 386th Brigade than the one in history.

In terms of combat effectiveness, despite the continuous "voluntary retirement" of veterans, the Osaka Division's paper strength has not changed much. So where did these extra people go?

Not to mention the civilians who enthusiastically joined the army and trained actively because of the military treatment, the idea of ​​defending their country, and gratitude to Fujiwara no Kanezane for saving their lives.

Therefore, just as some people have speculated, under the organization of a mere 386th Brigade or the soon-to-be-established 129th Division, there may really be a group army hidden, or a half-PLA group army.

At present, the "Northeastern People's National Salvation Army" operating in Hailar and Manchuria is facing a part of this "group army";

There weren't many people, only about 6000. Compared to the 10,000-strong "Northeast People's National Salvation Army," they didn't have an absolute advantage.

However, it was just these 6000 people who suppressed the 10,000 on the opposite side and made them unable to raise their heads. They easily defeated the latter all the way from Fulaerji near Qiqihar to Zhalantun, and their strategic retreat space was almost gone.

"...Hanzhang, I regret not listening to you. You were right. We shouldn't have sheltered those bandits and landlords!"

A man with a crew cut and glasses, about 50 years old - Zhang Dianjiu, deputy commander-in-chief of the "Northeast People's National Salvation Army" - slammed his fist on the desk, his eyes full of regret.

If he had not advocated the large-scale sheltering of landlord armed forces, bandits and former Northeast Army soldiers who had been "persecuted by the Japanese" on the grounds that "one more person means one more helper", how could Fulaerji have fallen so easily?

These bastards were like traitors who had come to join them. The enemy simply fired a few shots, and they scattered, breaking through the defense line behind them and leading the Fulaerji defenders to flee with them!

As a result, the Fulaerji Defense Line, which the National Salvation Army had originally placed high hopes on, was lost so easily, and the price paid by the 386th Brigade was just a few artillery shells.

"No, I agreed at the time. Otherwise, the army wouldn't have grown to 10,000 men and held out for so long. But now it seems that when we're really going to war with a powerful enemy, the quality of the army is more important than the quantity. Too many people won't do, and even more will be harmful."

Commander-in-Chief Su Bingwen shook his head bitterly:

"It's probably my fault. If I had seen the situation more clearly, I could have dealt with the Japanese for a longer period of time."

Unlike the tough image he presented to the people of the whole country, Su Bingwen, who was born in Baoding Army Officers School, rose from the Zhili clique to the Fengtian clique, from a squad leader to a lieutenant general, and served in the army for 20 years, was actually as cunning as Ma Zhanshan.

After the "September 918th Incident," he, like Ma Zhanshan, also negotiated with the Japanese, intending to steal more supplies and wait for the right time to defeat them in one fell swoop.

But he was even more cunning than Ma Zhanshan, who misjudged the situation and openly raised the flag. After the "Manchukuo ceremony bombing" broke out, he still pretended to be loyal to Manchukuo.

It was not until he could no longer hide it, received an order from the Nationalist government, and failed to gain any "benefits" from the Japanese, that he openly defected along with Zhang Dianjiu, Ning Kuanglie, and others.

The garrisons in Manchuria, Hailar, Zhalantun, Fulaerji, and other places took action simultaneously, holding high the blue sky and white sun flag, and armed forces occupied various stations, important roads, and checkpoints...

As a result, this rebound completely scattered the group that had been relatively cohesive.

Or to be more precise, it exposed the fact that "people's hearts are not united, they just get together to get by."

Because, after defecting, Su Zhang and others who had been busy accumulating military strength, building fortifications, and preparing for the war against Japan unexpectedly discovered:

Aside from the armed forces directly under their command and members of the former Northeast Army, ordinary civilians surprisingly showed little support for them. The originally envisioned scene of "the masses giving up their food and drink and enthusiastically joining the army" simply didn't occur!

Especially after the "Northeast Village Massacre" occurred one after another, and Fujiwara no Kanezane personally led the army to avenge the people and occupied Rehe at a very low cost, many soldiers and technicians from the former Fengtian Arsenal chose to leave the "National Salvation Army"!

Before leaving, someone asked him a question:

"We're called the 'Northeast People's National Salvation Army,' but why is that His Highness so much better to our people than our own government? General Su, are we really saving our country?"

In fact, when Fujiwara no Kanezane established the Ministry of Internal Affairs, began to kill landlords and divide up their land and houses, arrested and killed corrupt officials and bastards who oppressed the people, and strictly enforced the law, this trend had already appeared;

However, none of Su, Zhang and others paid any attention to it. Instead, they regarded it as "spy politics", a means of "eliminating dissidents and persecuting virtuous people", and regarded those rumors as "Japanese propaganda strategies".

As a result, without their knowledge, the public sentiment in Northeast China was quietly and slowly shifting, and the "Northeast Massacre" only accelerated this process.

After carefully inquiring about many things, Shen Zhang and others finally realized that those rumors were not propaganda, but ironclad facts!

It turns out that Fujiwara no Kanezane really treated the people of Northeast China with a kindness a hundred times better than that of the National Government and Zhang Xueliang!

However, the arrow is on the string and has to be shot.

Now that he has openly defected, he can only continue to defect.

The price was that when the "puppet army" 386th Brigade actually launched an attack on the "National Salvation Army", their resistance seemed so "weak and powerless".

To be honest, the people of Northeast China were able to stand by and watch, and did not help the 386th Brigade fight these "evil-filled" Northeast Army, because they were all Chinese.

At this moment, besides the feeling of regret, Su and Zhang both had something they had never thought about before:

Perhaps the reason why the Fulaerji position was lost so quickly was not only because the people at the forefront were all bandits and useless landlords, but also because we did not have the real support of the people?

Perhaps, between September last year and May this year, the willingness of various places in Northeast China to urgently send money, food, and people to Zhao Da was not because we were so good, but because the Japanese at that time were so bad?

Perhaps, the world-renowned His Majesty Hachiman Palace had already seen through this, and therefore had no fear of rebellion from those who harbored dissenting motives, and was even too lazy to put forth any effort to combat them?

"Forget it, there's no point in regretting it. Now we can only defend the Nianzishan-Zhalantun defense line on the Nenjiang River, and..."

"Report! Commander! Nianzi Mountain has been lost!!"

Su Bingwen and Zhang Dianjiu were stunned for a few seconds, then grabbed the messenger's collar in disbelief and shouted angrily:

"How is this possible! That's our own army! How could we lose it? How could we lose it so quickly?"

"Commander! They...they..."

The messenger's expression was even more incredible: "They actually stewed pork with vermicelli!"

The strong aroma of meat, along with the mist, blew over on the winter wind, making the hungry and shivering soldiers on the battlefield swallow their saliva and tighten their belts, as if this could resist the attack of the gluttonous worms in their stomachs.

but...

It smells really good...

I smell it, it should be pork... Yes, it should be a big pig with at least three inches of fat stewed with vermicelli?

etc?

It seems like there's something else mixed in? Cornmeal?

Shaobingzi?? Meat! Meat patties!

Holy shit!!

Are the puppet troops on the other side living such a good life? "Comrades! Don't waver! This is the enemy's conspiracy!"

A square-faced man with a thin figure but full of energy, who looked like a decent person, stood up and shouted loudly:

"They are definitely just pretending to use this method to lure us into surrender. It's simply a pipe dream!"

After hearing this, everyone "suddenly realized" and patted their faces, cheered themselves up, and forced themselves not to drool while looking at the situation on the opposite side.

Well, actually, they were just "putting on an act" to give face to this respected leader, Comrade Li Yanlu, the chief of staff and political commissar of the "Chinese National Salvation Army" and a Communist Party member.

This group of people are considered to be determined. Those who are not determined have been easily conquered by the pork and vermicelli army, just like the Nenjiang-Zalantun defense line of the "Northeast People's National Salvation Army".

Li Yanlu, who was fully aware of all this, retreated and went to the rear of the position to talk to a middle-aged bearded man who looked a bit like Ma Zhanshan and sighed:

"Commander, the situation is very bad. The morale of the troops has been severely shaken..." "I know we can't hold on for much longer."

The bearded man sighed:

"That Japanese king in the Northeast is really powerful..."

This was another target attacked by the 386th Brigade - another anti-Japanese armed force located in Hailin, Ning'an and Dunhua areas, led by former Northeast Army general Wang Delin.

Compared with generals such as Ma Zhanshan, Su Bingwen, Ding Chao, Li Du, who always refused to accept the leadership of the Communist Party of China and never knew how to mobilize the people to resist Japan, Wang Delin was considered a truly smart person who supported the Communist Party very much.

That year, after he beat up the Japanese officers who came to ask him to surrender and formally declared anti-Japanese resistance, the Manchuria Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China immediately sent Communist Party members such as Li Yanlu, Li Yanping, Wang Songbai, and Hu Zemin to help him build his team.

Thus, an anti-Japanese armed force named "China National Salvation Army" was established. At the beginning, this team also made the same mistakes as Ma Zhanshan and Su Bingwen - absorbing a large number of former Northeast Army and bandit landlord armed forces, trying to make itself powerful and gain more support;

As a result, the army did expand to over 20000 men at one point, but the cost of maintaining the army was too high, the equipment and training were not up to par, military discipline was seriously damaged, combat effectiveness declined rapidly, and the army lacked the support of the people.

After democratically discussing and analyzing the situation, Wang Delin promptly began to reorganize the team, clear out those evil elements, and appointed Li Yanlu as chief of staff of the general command to carry out political and ideological work.

By the way, during the last "Northeast Counteroffensive", Wang Delin, who was appointed as the "Ning'an Security Commander", did not respond to the call of the Kuomintang government because the Kuomintang government secretly issued him a "secret order to suppress the Communist Party", requiring him to kill Li Yanlu and other Communist Party members, but he flatly refused.

In short, with the help of the Communist Party of China, the number of Wang Delin's troops was reduced by more than half, but they became more efficient, cohesive and combat-effective, and won several victories.

For example, Japanese Major General Suzuki Mitsuhiro, who was beheaded by Fujiwara no Kanezane for massacring the people of Hegang Mingshan Village, was beaten to a pulp by the "Chinese National Salvation Army" and fled back to Harbin without permission, abandoning his troops.

If it weren't for his connection to the Suzuki Group, the recent "ceremonial bombing" incident, and the chaotic internal strife within the Kwantung Army, how could Fujiwara no Kanezane have the right to chop off the head of the commander of the 4th Mixed Brigade?

There was also the Amano Brigade in the "Jingpo Lake Victory", which suffered more than a hundred casualties due to an ambush by the "Chinese National Salvation Army". It was a rare victory.

(As for the online rumors about "700 people annihilating 3000/7000 elite Japanese troops" and "killing Rokuro Amano", they are pure bullshit. They are just a bunch of nonsense that smears the anti-Japanese heroes. Rokuro Amano lived until 1964.)

However, just like what Li Du, Ma Zhanshan, Su Bingwen and others encountered, everything changed when Prince Hachimangu Kanezane took over the Northeast.

First, the newly formed 386th Brigade of the puppet army annihilated the main force of Ma Zhanshan and Li Du's "Northeastern National Salvation and Anti-Japanese United Army" in one battle, breaking Wang Delin's right wing cover;

Then, Xie Wendong, a big bandit who emerged near Tulong Mountain, blocked Wang Delin's troops' route to the north, and the route to the south was also difficult to enter or exit due to the frequent activities of Japanese troops on the Sino-Korean border;

Being strategically blocked in the Hailin area was one thing, but the key was the subsequent moves that completely hit the vitals of Wang Delin, the anti-Japanese forces who mobilized the people: