The third bloody war of resistance Chapter 11 Chaotian Que Section 1 The Eyes of an American Reporte
"The hot climate is not as hot as the enthusiasm of the Chinese people. From Shanhaiguan Front to Funing Qian'an, I walked around Jidong and could feel the fire-like enthusiasm everywhere. This is the newly revived area and one of the longest-term areas, only a little shorter than the Northeast.
Since the year 1, it was called the Second Great Wall War of Resistance in China's official records, the Zhong** team has been banned from entering this area. The people here have not seen the Zhong** team for ten years.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident, local people rose up to riot. The riot achieved great success in the early stages and recovered most of the Hebei East. However, it soon failed under the counterattack of "Japan" by me who drew troops from the front line. I interviewed those rebels who participated in the riot and escaped by chance. They introduced me to the riot seven years ago, so this riot that was not known to the outside world clearly showed us.
The riot process was actually very simple. The Japanese I put my main force into the attack on the mainland of China, and the eastern Hebei region was empty. The local GC organization and the National Rescue Council took the opportunity to launch a riot aimed at driving the Japanese Imperial College. The riot spread across eight counties in eastern Hebei and once cut off the railway traffic from Peiping to Shanhaiguan.
〖Japan〗I hurriedly pulled back two divisions from the front line and launched a crazy attack on the uprising troops. Although the number of the uprising troops was superior, they lacked training and equipment. Most of them disintegrated and a small part moved into the pass. Under the pursuit of the Japanese army, they soon failed.
If it weren't for his words, you wouldn't have thought that he had participated in this bloody battle. There was no difference between ordinary villagers in his village, with dark faces and calloused hands. The local white turban was on his head.
During the story, he kept choking and tears kept flowing. His troops were dispersed near the Great Wall from Qian'an to the Great Wall. The corpses of the uprisingers were kept chasing them. When the troops retreated westward, the bodies almost blocked the river.
Due to my relationship with General Zhuang Wenge, the commander of the theater, I received many interview opportunities, which allowed me to access a large number of things that other journalists could hardly access.
There are many reasons for the failure of this uprising, but in this uprising, the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party was initiated behind enemy lines. However, with the development of the riot, the two parties inevitably had conflicts. This contradiction has occurred in many places in the past seven years. Due to expectations for territory, food and the army, the two parties fought for it, and even fire broke out. The conflict between them was captured by the Japanese. Under the attack of Japanese, neither party armed forces could stand firm. In the end, the main force fled into the pass, and only a very small number of people stayed.
I once went to Tianjin for an interview after the war. I was very shocked by the huge damage suffered by Tianjin City, but this kind of damage seemed rare in Hebei. The Japanese army almost evacuated from Hebei. Other cities in Hebei except Tangshan were almost "destroyed" by war, at least it seemed like this. This made me secretly relieved that after all, restoring and rebuilding the Pingjin area had already consumed the National Government's wallet.
But soon, I knew I was wrong. Japan's rule in Hebei was extremely cruel. Although the riot in Hebei failed, the fire of resistance was in trouble. In the next six years, the rebels were active on both sides of the Great Wall. They used the continuous mountains on both sides of the Great Wall to frequently attack the Japanese army and attack the Japanese garrisons and transport vehicles.
This kind of battle is said to be a guerrilla war behind enemy lines. The battle here is not as grand as the government army, nor as grand as the sound of thousands of cannons. However, its cruelty is not inferior to the arduous battle of Hubei and northern Hubei. The battle here is often for the battle of dozens of kilograms of grain or alchemy guns.
"Survival here is the first place," said Lao Li, the commander of the local GCD base. Yes, survival is the first place. In order to eliminate the weak resistance team here, he walked along the Great Wall and turned the area ten kilometers wide on both sides of the Great Wall into an unmanned area. All residents in this area were moved away, and all those who refused were killed. In some villages, the entire village was killed by the Japanese army.
I watched several mass graves. The buried corpses were all ordinary civilians shot by the Japanese army. The youngest in these mass graves was about ** months old, and the oldest was about seventy years old. In the dug graves, their surviving relatives carefully carried out their corpses and buried them again.
The atrocities of the Japanese were discovered in various areas of eastern Hebei. The rapid advancement of the Chinese team captured a complete military prostitute team. These military prostitutes were women called comfort fu by Japanese soldiers: I asked the comfort fu managers, and they did not look like soldiers, but merchants, and answered our questions honestly.
Comfort is a major feature of the Japanese army. Out of a sense of honor, Japanese officers are unwilling to serve as such a role. The same reason makes senior officers unwilling to include such an organization in the military organization, so such an organization is handed over to merchants, but in the military organization, these people are listed as consumables.
Indeed, they are some consumables. Each comfort service receives hundreds of soldiers every day on average. The high-intensity and frequent work makes their bodies quickly become numb, tired, or get infected with a medical disease and can no longer work.
The middle-aged man in charge of this comfort team is called Forage. He has been in China for six years and has been active in Chahar, Henan and other places. There are thousands of comfort companies he handles. I asked about the source of comfort. Forage told me that there are three sources of comfort. The poor Japanese women, women collected from North Korea, and Chinese women arrested in the occupied areas, were shot to death when they retreated. Only Japanese people can retreat with the Japanese army.
For most Chinese and North Korean women, they are not here voluntarily, and this behavior should be designated as an organized force.
Although Japanese soldiers showed strong combat effectiveness in this war, in most cases, they were fighting against the masses with few and could persist in fighting even in the most difficult situations, on the other hand, Japanese soldiers also showed their other side.
I have never seen such an army full of beasts. In many cases, they show beasts that are beyond ordinary people's understanding. Almost every Japanese soldier can be regarded as a criminal.
They enjoy killing people, whether they are old men in their seventies or eighties or children a few months old, they can wave their swords without frowning.
They regard strong noses as joy. Whether it is an old man in his seventies or eighties or a little girl in his seventies or eighties, they can scream and pounce on him, just like a wild beast that has never seen a woman.
I once thought, what made them like this? Is it war?
No, war also came to China, and the Chinese people were not like this: war also came to the United States, and the Americans were not like this: Soviets, British people, they were also fighting, but even in difficulties, they still maintained their true nature.
Before the war, I had traveled and worked in Japan. At that time, Japan was clean and gentle, and everyone was so well-educated, but what made them become people I couldn't know?
The forage lowered his head humbly, and the women in kimono lowered their heads gentlely, and their soft black hair draped around their fair necks. I couldn't help but think of Mr. Benedict, who once described the Japanese in this way. His blood was filled with the tenderness of the chrysanthemum and the coldness of the samurai sword.
The two completely different specialties, two contradictory specialties, can appear in the same body so perfectly, which is unimaginable.
In the long history, what happened to this island nation and made them so conflicted? This requires historians to study it carefully. This may be a world-shaking problem.
The seven-year war also made me understand another nation, the Chinese nation, and yes, the Chinese nation, this nation with dragons as its totem.
In the West, the dragon is a symbol of evil, but here, this ancient country with a history of civilization of three thousand years, its people call themselves the descendants of the dragon: But before this war, I had disagreed with this.
Dragon, proud, arrogant, full of power, is the most powerful creature in the legend and the ruler of this world: But what about the Chinese? It is so humble and so weak. In the past century, almost all powerful countries can take away anything they want from this country, and become synonymous with this nation.
It is simply impossible to associate them with the proud powerful dragon.
But in this war, we saw a completely different China. They were weak and strong, and they were rich in sacrifice and brave in sacrifice. Whether in the Songhu battlefield, in the Myanmar jungle, or in the North China Plain, or the mountains inside and outside the Great Wall, they all rushed into the fierce artillery fire without hesitation.
They endured unprecedented pain and huge casualties. From now on, incomplete statistics, more than four million soldiers were killed during the entire war, and all kinds of military ranks were abundant, from generals to privates.
They lack material, from grain umbrellas to cloth, all kinds of material are lacking, but they grit their teeth and endure it without regrets.
This is a tenacious nation. This perseverance becomes more obvious when the suffering is greater. At this time, you can find that they are worthy of being the descendants of the dragon. They have the perseverance as strong as dragons. In front of the enemy, they are as unattainable as dragons!!!
War, this unavoidable problem, continues, but victory is not far away!
This war will end this chaotic century in China. With the smooth advancement of social reform, this ancient country is full of vitality! Full of hope!" Weber opened the window, and the sunlight came in, squinted his eyes to look at the sunlight. He stretched his waist vigorously, relaxed his tired waist, lowered his head and blew out the still jumping oil lamp, put it away and sealed it in the envelope.
Someone was talking in the yard, and Webber heard that it was the voices of Bai Xiude and Charles. He pushed open the door and Charles looked at his red eyes.
"It's another all night." Charles smiled.
"There's no way, the boss asked me to do a series of topics." Weber felt a sense of satisfaction. Among Western journalists, he was the person who had been in China for the longest time and had almost never left the Chinese battlefield. Moreover, due to his relationship with Zhuang Jihua, he had been exposed to a large amount of first-hand information on the Chinese battlefield. Therefore, the editor-in-chief hoped that he would make a series of topics to fully introduce the war...
Chapter completed!