Bright Sword's Bloody War of Resistance

Chapter 780 The rebel army in Japan
Time flies to January 1943. Zhou Weihan has been in Yanzhou for eight months.

During this period, the situation in North China was changing rapidly. After the Chinese army lost a large area of ​​​​Zhongtiao Mountain, its 24th Group Army in the Changzhi area, the 3rd Group Army in the Jincheng area, and the 80th Army and 98th Army directly under the theater jointly captured the Japanese army. Jincheng, an important town, forced the Japanese army to abandon Boai and Xiuwu and shrink the main force to Xinxiang.

Secondly, a great uprising of workers, peasants and soldiers broke out in the Kansai region of Japan. The rebel army was so powerful that it swept through several important cities in the Gyeonggi region.

Most of the Japanese troops who participated in the Tianjin Mutiny hijacked the Japanese people in the concession and fled into the Yanshan Mountains with a large amount of supplies. Since then, they have been fighting guerrillas with the 27th Division stationed in Tianjin. This group of "rebels" and the Eighth Route Army in the Jidong Army Division Helping each other, the little devil has been helpless.

However, the main function of this group of "rebels" is to attract the attention of Japan's top leaders. The real trump card is Nobuo Yumoto and others who have sneaked back into the country.

Nobuo Yumoto and his group of Japanese troops were originally transferred back to China from Shanghai to rest and recuperate. However, after the transport ship arrived in Tanggu, they were intercepted by the North China Expeditionary Force. This made the Japanese troops dissatisfied and launched a mutiny.

During the Tianjin Mutiny, Zhou Weiguo secretly contacted the rebel leader Nobuo Yumoto, and the two parties reached a secret deal to divide Jinmen's machinery, equipment and wealth.

Zhou Weiguo tailored a program of activities for Yumoto Nobuo and his group of "rebels", and then Yumoto Nobuo led more than [-] backbones to secretly return to the country on an Osaka merchant ship.

Japan is different from China in that it is a deformed industrial country, which means that the working class has a strong foundation in Japan's major cities, but it is exploited by the aristocrats and capitalists.

Therefore, the main purpose of the activity program is to use workers as the backbone, give full play to the power of the working class, launch riots in big cities, and seize power with arms.

At first, Nobuo Yumoto did not start a rebellion rashly after returning to Japan. The reason was that there were well-established garrison divisions stationed in various regions in Japan, so he did not dare to expose his traces casually.

Most of this group of Japanese troops came from Kobe in the Gyeonggi region, and a small number came from Kyoto and Osaka. As the Japanese army's war in Southeast Asia became more intense, newly formed divisions were gradually transferred away, significantly weakening the local defense force.

During this period, Nobuo Yumoto and others sneaked into various factories in Kobe to develop their strength. At the same time, they secretly connected with the garrison in various places, and actually developed a lot of strength.

Japan mainly has four major regions: Hokkaido, Honshu Island, Shikoku Island, and Kyushu Island. Honshu Island is the core area, and is divided into Kansai and Kanto by mountains.

In ancient Japan, important cities such as Kyoto, Kobe, and Osaka in the Kansai region have always been the political centers. With the rise of the Meiji Restoration, the political center shifted to Tokyo and other places in the Kanto region.

The contradiction between the two regions has been around for a long time, and has become more and more severe with the economic deviation. Militarism is prevalent in Japan, and class contradictions are acute. The war has not benefited the ordinary people, but has made them miserable, just like a Like a powder keg, a spark can ignite it.

"Princes and nobles, would you rather have the seed?"

The Japanese people have suffered from tyranny for a long time. This propaganda slogan made the Japanese people's hearts float. The first to start the uprising was not the team of workers secretly organized by Nobuo Yumoto, but the local garrison division in Kobe.

Most of the Japanese troops in this garrison division are new soldiers, who are being trained at home and preparing to go to the battlefield. I don’t know when they started. Many soldiers received letters from their families. The soldiers were incited by the contents of the letters, causing everyone to be afraid of fighting and not want to fight. Being transferred out of the country.

On the day of the incident, a group of more than [-] Japanese soldiers gathered together and suddenly launched a riot, shouting: "Princes and nobles, would you rather have your own kind?" Then they rushed into the garrison division headquarters and killed a group of senior division officials. Because The incident occurred suddenly, and the military police responsible for maintaining military discipline did not play a role. The mutinous Japanese army led five to six thousand panicked soldiers towards Kobe.

Kobe City was not heavily guarded. Local officials hurriedly organized urban residents to defend the city. Workers were the main force. Little did they know that the urban workers had been incited by Nobuo Yumoto.

As a result, this group of people received weapons and equipment legitimately, took the opportunity to start a rebellion, and detained a group of local officials. The two rebel armies successfully met in Kobe.

According to the activity program of the rebel army, Nobuo Yumoto commanded the troops to take over the city defense and maintain law and order, and then commanded the troops to search the assets of some unscrupulous businessmen and evil-doing nobles in the city.

The next step is to send soldiers back to their hometowns, mobilize fellow villagers, hold a trial meeting, distribute the seized assets, and allocate the fields to farmers.

Although the methods implemented by Nobuo Yumoto were a little rough due to lack of experience, he quickly won the hearts of the people because he distributed the benefits.

The uprising spread throughout the Kansai region like a whirlwind, and people from all over the country followed suit. Uprisings broke out frequently, and workers, peasants and soldiers formed a rope and swept across large areas of Kansai.

After the Japanese high-level officials learned of the news, they were extremely panicked. All the main Japanese army divisions were fighting outside, and soldiers were the main force of the rebel army. As a result, the Japanese government did not dare to easily mobilize garrison divisions in surrounding areas to quell the rebellion.

This also bought time for the rebels. Nobuo Yumoto immediately mobilized some of the rebels to go to Guanyuan and other places in an attempt to cut off the connection between Kansai and Kanto.

The fire in the lair would obviously affect the morale of the Japanese army, so the Japanese government tried its best to block the news. It took half a month for the news to reach China.

"Ta Kung Pao" commented that this was the awakening of the working class in Japan and a major victory for the anti-fascist alliance.

At the beginning of the uprising, Isamu Terauchi got the news. He did not expect that the more than [-] rebel soldiers sent back by him would actually make such a big noise.

However, the Japanese high-level officials issued an order strictly prohibiting soldiers from all divisions from communicating with the country, so at first the grassroots soldiers did not know that there was unrest in the country.

However, after all, paper cannot stop the fire. Both the Kuomintang and the Communist Party learned about the situation in Japan through lurking personnel, and the countries in the Allied and Axis camps also learned about the news.

Countries in the Allied camp launched propaganda offensives one after another. The Nationalist Government directly ordered the air force to distribute leaflets to the Japanese-occupied areas. The originally stalemate war in Myanmar took a turn for the better, and the Japanese troops stationed in Myanmar began to shrink their strength.

For a time, it seemed that the Japanese army was defeated, and the Chinese people rejoiced, as if victory was not far away.

　I don’t know the specific situation in Japan at that time, so I’m just writing this in vain.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)