Age of Rebirth

Chapter 110 and five of the prisoner-of-war riot incident

Regarding the prisoner-of-war riots, with Chang Feng's meticulous thinking, I feel that the matter is not that simple. During the battle of the directly subordinate corps to conquer Myitkyina, the Japanese army defending Myitkyina resisted fiercely. It only took one day to break through the outer positions. There was a lot of time, but the fierce street fighting lasted for two full days and one night. There were more than 4 Japanese soldiers, and there were only more than 4000 wounded and captured.

That is to say, more than [-] Japanese soldiers died in the battle with the directly subordinate corps, and in order to conquer Myitkyina, the troops of the five brigades of the directly subordinate corps participating in the Battle of Myitkyina paid more than [-] people. Among the casualties, more than [-] were killed in battle, and the most casualties were Liu Hongzhang's [-]st Brigade and Chu Ziye's [-]th Brigade.

And the Sixth Brigade happened to be the unit that guarded the Japanese prisoners of war, so Chang Feng had to be very suspicious. He mentioned this to the division commander Tang Qiuli in order to attract the division commander's attention. Now, the troops have a tendency to It can also be said that it is the predecessor of the Independent Division, the consistent tradition of the Bloody Hands, for the Japanese, no prisoners of war.

When fighting against the Japanese army in China, Chang Feng did not feel much resistance or resentment against the practice of not keeping any prisoners. He witnessed the wanton massacre of Chinese civilians by the Japanese army, including the Sucheng tragedy in Shanxi, Anyang in Henan, etc. The tragedy, the Nangong tragedy in Hebei, the Xuwen tragedy in Leizhou Peninsula, etc., Chang Feng is a person who experienced it first-hand. [

Regarding the brutality and bloodthirsty committed by Japanese soldiers and the heinous crimes committed by ordinary Chinese people, Chang Feng often has the urge to revenge in his heart, and there are not so many psychological obstacles. The bloody bayonet, the moment they set foot on Chinese territory, they should pay the price in blood, no matter how they treat those Japanese beasts.

But ever since he stepped out of the country and went to fight in Burma, Chang Feng's heart has undergone great changes. This land is not the land of the motherland, and the people here are not his compatriots. Deep in Chang Feng's heart, even I thought about it, our independent division went abroad to fight, according to the strategic concept of the division commander, it was to replace the British in the Indochina Peninsula. In a sense, in the eyes of the locals, are we the aggressors?

These thoughts gnawed at his heart very painfully. Chang Feng, a college student and an ordinary soldier, was discovered by Tang Qiuli's intelligent eyes. He first worked in the staff office of the independent division, and then served as the staff He then served as the chief of staff of the Sulu Mobile Corps, and was entrusted by Tang Qiuli to serve as the chief of staff of the independent division and the chief of staff of the directly subordinate corps, and eventually became one of the core senior leaders of the independent division. It can be said that he is Tang Qiuli. Li's right-hand man.

In Changfeng's bones, there is still the kind of heart of helping the world of Chinese literati, which is different from Liu Tiehan and Feng Jiwu, who were born in the former Northeast Army, and Li Honggang, Han Tie, who were born in Taiwan. Tang Qiuquan, Shan Hu and other generals who were born in the Bloody Hand Regiment were also different. From a certain point of view, Chang Feng was a maverick in the command system of the independent division.

Despite many times of blood and fire, the spirit of literati in his bones has not faded away, but has become more ingrained. Just after the corps directly under the corps conquered Myitkyina, he went to the battlefield to understand the situation and saw it with his own eyes. The division commander ordered the first brigade to bombard In just eight words, to describe his feeling at that time was "shocking and appalling."

The entire residential area, with thousands of houses, was razed to the ground by rockets and heavy artillery from the Independent Division. There are ruins everywhere in the north of Myitkyina. What about the residents here?No one knows, maybe he fled beforehand, maybe he was buried under the fierce artillery fire. Such a scene shocked Chang Feng tremendously. It was the first time he looked at the teacher he had always admired and admired with unfamiliar eyes. Tang Qiuli.

And I asked myself in my heart, "Could it be that the commander I know is a bloodthirsty and bloodthirsty person in his heart? It is true to destroy the Japanese army, but shouldn't he issue a devastating bombardment order to the residential area?" This thought tortured him very painfully. , I also tried my best to convince myself that this is a war, and civilian casualties are inevitable. The division commander did this to reduce the casualties of the troops and end the battle as soon as possible.

But Chang Feng knew very well that he hadn't been able to convince himself. There was a factual situation that Chang Feng didn't know. Most of the young and middle-aged residents of Myitkyina had been bribed and lured by Shouichi in the temple to become auxiliary soldiers of the Japanese army. When the troops of the Independent Division attacked Myitkyina, these residents had already picked up their guns and fought with our soldiers.

In the street fighting, most of the casualties of the [-]st Brigade and the [-]th Brigade were caused by these armed residents familiar with the local conditions. However, Tang Qiuli, who has been a man for two generations, is well aware of this period of history. When the Pacific War broke out, the Japanese army When they entered the Indochina Peninsula and Southeast Asia with plaster flags, the local residents lined up to welcome the Japanese as liberators who rescued them from European domination.

Later, when the Chinese Expeditionary Force entered Burma to fight, the locals not only refused to assist them, but also provided the Japanese army with information about the squadron, and even hunted and killed the single Chinese squadron. This was a tragic history. The local residents absolutely don't have a good opinion of them, and in the memory of later generations, the wave of violence and anti-Chinese in Southeast Asian countries has never stopped.

Especially the Indonesian monkey in the archipelagic country, and Luzon, the loyal servant of the Americans, took pleasure in killing the Chinese. To the Europeans and Japanese, they were submissive and obedient. Taking pride in his service, Tang Qiuli once wondered why the same disaster happened repeatedly because of the Chinese way of dealing with things and being gentle and conciliatory.

In the end, he figured it out. It was because the mother country of these Chinese people was not strong enough and fierce enough, coupled with the extremely weak for a hundred years, and the demonized propaganda of Europe and the United States, this result would be the result. One of the principles pursued is that the local people and local forces have only two choices, one is to surrender, and the other is to perish.

There is no goodwill, there is no earnest preaching and influence, it is neither necessary nor a waste of time, stick or carrot, choose one, the Americans of later generations have been more successful in this regard, Tang Qiuli took it for his own use, To save a lot of time.

Chang Feng didn't know this, he only saw the appearance of the residents being destroyed by the troops under his command, and the riot in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Myitkyina made Chang Feng very worried. He was worried that the troops of the Independent Division would fight abroad At that time, he would become as cruel and bloodthirsty as the Japanese, which was not the result he wanted to see.

It was only then that the Military Law Office was ordered to investigate the riots in the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. In his opinion, this was a bad sign and must be stopped. However, Tang Qiuli's attitude surprised Chang Feng and was very disappointed. The teacher couldn't see the hidden truth and crisis behind this incident?There may have been riots by Japanese prisoners of war, but more than 4000 prisoners of war participated in it, which cannot but arouse suspicion. Chu Ziye, the commander of the sixth brigade, cannot absolve himself of the blame.

Therefore, after listening to Tang Qiuli's indifferent words, Chang Feng's long-suppressed emotions burst out instantly. He stared at Tang Qiuli and asked word by word: "Master, what happened to the Japanese prisoner-of-war riot in Myitkyina? It's not as simple as you imagined, more than [-] prisoners of war were all killed within a few hours, and if they survived, wouldn't there be any purpose in this?"

"Therefore, I insist on my order that the Military Judiciary Division must intervene in this incident. If the Sixth Brigade shoots and kills prisoners of war under the pretext of rioting, brigade commander Chu Ziye must obey the law! In order to prevent the troops from shooting and killing Japanese prisoners of war, Otherwise, what is the difference between our soldiers and Japanese soldiers? Commander, you are condoning such atrocities!"

After Chang Feng said these words in one breath, he was so excited that he gasped sharply. It was the first and only time that he disobeyed the order of his teacher Tang Qiuli, and it was also the first time that he used this questioning tone to respect himself. This is not just disobeying orders, but expressing strong dissatisfaction with the actions of Tang Qiuli, the highest commander of the independent division.

Tang Qiuli looked at the chief of staff who he thought he knew very well. He was not surprised by Chang Feng's questioning and suspicion of him, but felt that he didn't know this young chief of staff very well. Ever since he was skeptical about ordering the First Brigade to bombard the residential areas occupied by the Japanese army in the northern part of Myitkyina, he felt that something must have changed in Chang Feng's heart. [

However, at that time, he was busy commanding the Battle of Myitkyina and the Hukang River Valley, so he didn't have time to talk with Chang Feng in detail. Tang Qiuli even thought, "People will change. Maybe Chang Feng is no longer suitable to be his chief of staff. However, he should be given a chance to confess himself, "In his heart, Chang Feng is still very important.

Now, Chang Feng's attitude made Tang Qiuli understand that it was necessary to talk about it. He suddenly smiled and said to Chang Feng: "Chief Chang, first go and give the troops an order to assemble in Gangao Mountains. Then, I asked the cooking class to prepare some wine and dishes, let's talk about the wine in detail, pour out all your inner thoughts, go!"

Chang Feng's heart suddenly tightened. In informal occasions, the teacher always called him by his first name. Today, he called his position very formally. Could it be that this is the beginning of estrangement?Perhaps, it was the beginning of his departure from the independent division. Anyway, his words today had already created a rift in the harmonious relationship with the division commander. He suddenly regretted that he was too impulsive.

Looking at Chang Feng's somewhat bleak back, Tang Qiuli said to himself, "Scholar's spirit, after polishing, it can be used to great advantage, it depends on his own good fortune!"

(To be continued)

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