Chapter 347: Pressure from the Ministry of Social Affairs
Following the sudden loss of Harbin last time, a large number of confidential files were seized. The Anti-Japanese League searched for the map and almost completely wiped out Harbin and the Binjiang Province of the puppet Manchuria, as well as the original secret spy organizations of the Japanese and puppets. After the Anti-Japanese League launched the Southern Manchurian Campaign this time, At the beginning, although the Liaobei battlefield in the north was still in a stalemate, the Kwantung Army's intelligence department had already made preparations for contingency in advance.
Not only did they deploy and lurk a large number of secret agents among the civilian population, but also the original Concorde Society personnel. At the same time, the files on the secret agents lurking in South Manchuria, as well as the secret agents sent to North Manchuria with unknown life and death, were either all transported to North Korea in advance or completely destroyed. It's clean and neat, leaving no gaps.
Although a large number of Japanese and puppet files were seized during the capture of Shenyang, many previously unsolved mysteries were clarified. Many secret bases originally built by the Kwantung Army but never found were also found in the rear, and almost all of them were captured. Senior official of the puppet Manchukuo. However, one of the most important documents, the Japanese and puppet latent spy files, was not captured.
The Kwantung Army Intelligence Department, which had suffered many heavy losses, this time was a clean and tidy move. Not only were all the files of the Kwantung Army Intelligence Department transferred away, but not even a piece of paper was left. Even the Kwantung Army Intelligence Department Under actual control, all files of the Puppet Manchukuo Security Bureau, which was responsible for part of the intelligence work in the anti-alliance base areas, were also transferred away by the Kwantung Army.
Although the seizure of Shenyang was fruitful, it involved the intelligence department's files. Only the Puppet Manchukuo Military Department of the Puppet Manchukuo Military Police Gente Armed Forces and the Puppet Manchukuo Military Police General Regiment's files were seized. However, these mainly manage the puppet armed forces. Department, the content on the file is very limited.
Apart from arresting public traitors and uncovering the secret service organizations that were operating on the surface, it basically did not play a big role. On the secret front, it is only for people to see. How can it be true when it comes to things? The experience and lessons of Northern Manchuria tell the Anti-Japanese Alliance that the Japanese hidden spies are quite deep.
Even when the Kwantung Army was at its most rampant, and even when the Japanese controlled the entire Northeast, there were still a large number of secret agents lurking among the people, who were used to detect the anti-Japanese sentiment in the hearts of the Northeast people. These agents disguised themselves as people from all walks of life, and even Under your nose, you don't even know he is Japanese.
The most critical files were not seized, but only those puppet Manchu traitors with the same rank were captured. No matter how many generals, lieutenant generals, and major generals were captured, they were not as important as the head of the Japanese intelligence agency. These did not even matter how many troops he had under his command. , a high-ranking pseudo-officer who doesn’t know what equipment he has, how can he still know these things?
Even though the Chief of the Fengtian Police Department of the Puppet Manchukuo Empire was captured, he was also the direct superior of the Fengtian Branch of the Puppet Manchukuo Imperial Security Bureau. But the specific location of this so-called Police Chief, and even the Fengtian Branch of the Puppet Manchukuo Empire Security Bureau was unclear. I don’t know where it is located. I don’t even know if the Fengtian Police Department has such a department.
The Kwantung Army's intelligence department relied on the so-called Imperial Security Bureau to suppress southern Manchuria. In addition to the special agents directly under the Kwantung Army's intelligence department, a considerable number of the remaining latent agents were dispatched by the Imperial Security Bureau.
Although the so-called General Security Bureau of the Manchuria Empire is a so-called subordinate agency of the Manchurian Empire, none of the nominal emperors and ministers of the puppet Manchukuo know about this agency. It has arrested so many high-level officials of the puppet Manchuria, including Although the Japanese personnel of the Eight Ministries of the Puppet Manchukuo had confessed a lot, no information about this aspect was found at all.
The sabotage activities of spies in the newly liberated areas of South Manchuria have never been eliminated, putting considerable pressure on the Ministry of Social Affairs, which has been named and criticized by the central government several times. At present, the Northeast has been regarded as a strategic rear area by the central government, and South Manchuria is one of the main industrial areas in the Northeast.
1. The current unrest in South Manchuria has also affected the overall strategic intentions of the central government to a certain extent.
Coupled with the military reunification and central reunification in Guannei and Chongqing, the uninterrupted secret war has spread to the Northeast. The pressure on the Minister of Social Affairs at the moment can be imagined. At this time, Yang Zhen was in charge of the entire Northeast Rebellion
The Ministry of Social Affairs' support for special work cannot be small.
In addition to the rampant spy activities, there are also a large number of Japanese troops that have broken up in the entire southern Manchuria area, as well as the Puppet Manchukuo military and police officers who have gone up to the mountains to become bandits. Only in the mountainous area south of Benxi Lake, there are such large and small
There are more than three or four groups of political bandits. In the eastern mountainous area of Kaiyuan, one of the main battlefields in northern Liaoning, the number of such bandits even reached more than 2,000.
These remnants of the Japanese army and the Puppet Manchukuo military and police officers who broke up into the mountains carried a large amount of weapons and ammunition when they entered the mountains to become bandits. These political bandits were well-armed and equipped. In addition to some ragtag members of the Puppet Manchukuo army, they were also composed of Japanese troops.
Foreign bandits generally have excellent military qualities.
They are equipped with mountain cannons and mortars, hundreds of light and heavy machine guns, and even field heavy artillery. Bandits with sufficient amounts of shells and ammunition are probably only found in the post-war Northeast China in China. In the process of clearing out these bandits who go up to the mountains to become bandits,
During the former Japanese army, the public security forces responsible for cleanup operations suffered heavy losses.
Originally, in accordance with Yang Zhen's previous deployment, during the preparation stage of the campaign, the military region dispatched four mobile detachments and 13 mobile brigades of the public security forces from the old base area in northern Manchuria, plus a full-scale cadre regiment from each of the 17 military divisions.
Formed battalion. Responsible for clearing out small groups of Japanese and puppet troops in areas where the main force has completed operations.
And formed the troops belonging to various military divisions in the South Manchuria region, as well as the public security forces in the South Manchuria region. However, these public security forces who went south with only light weapons faced these bandits, and even the well-equipped remnants of the Japanese army, and returned to the mountains to become bandits.
When the former puppet Manchukuo army was in power, it was only by mobilizing part of the main force that had completed the operation to participate in the war that the problem was generally solved.
In the eastern mountainous area of Kaiyuan, they even mobilized a regiment of the main force, plus a detachment of the Public Security Army, as well as three brigades and five mobile squadrons, and dispatched reconnaissance aircraft to cooperate. The Japanese army used the same method to encircle and suppress the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Surrounded on all sides, advancing in parallel on multiple fronts, and using the tactics of persistent pursuit, we were finally resolved in the deep mountains and old forests at the junction of Kaiyuan and Fushun.
Fortunately, these defeated Japanese troops, as well as the Puppet Manchukuo military and police officers who went up to the mountains to become bandits, were not very familiar with this kind of tactics similar to mountain guerrilla warfare. Although their equipment was far better than that of ordinary bandits, they were not professional bandits after all. Except
Except for the few bandits who originally surrendered to the Japanese army, most of them still adopted regular tactics when dealing with the suppression troops.
The bandit suppression troops only participated in the war from December 1944 to March 1945. With the cooperation of Yang Zhen’s mobilization of the 1st Mountain Division, an infantry division, and four squadrons of the Military Region’s Special Operations Command, these four months
In a matter of seconds, more than 15,000 Japanese soldiers who had gone up the mountain to become bandits were killed, wounded, and captured, as well as more than 15,000 puppet Manchukuo military and police officers.
More than 7,000 guns of various types, more than 200 light and heavy machine guns, more than 40 mountain guns, mortars, three field guns, and even a Meiji 38-type 150mm howitzer and three
Meiji 38-type 120mm howitzers and five rapid-fire cannons. One Kwantung Army major general, five colonels, two puppet Manchukuo lieutenant generals and three major generals were captured.
Among them are not only a large number of members of the defeated Kwantung Army, but also former puppet Manchukuo officers who once again dragged their guns up the mountain to become bandits when the situation was bad. There were also a large number of former Kwantung Army members who deliberately stayed behind to go up the mountain to become bandits before they were destroyed.
Puppet Manchukuo military police, Security Bureau, and members of the Concord Society.
Among them, a large number of Japanese policemen who are familiar with the situation in Northeast China were basically deliberately left behind by the Kwantung Army in areas where the Kwantung Army retreated and were rationed with a large amount of weapons, equipment, ammunition, and radio stations, except for the areas that were suddenly captured.
and code books, allowing them to lurk in the mountains to wreak havoc.
Only in the area under the jurisdiction of the former Fourth Army of the Kwantung Army in western Liaoning, when the Fourth Army retreated to Huludao and evacuated, thousands of former puppet Manchukuo military police, Japanese policemen, and several regular Japanese search teams were left behind.
, a political bandit force composed of Japanese troops. The Japanese troops that were cut off and eliminated during the retreat were also joined by many remaining small groups.
In the later stages of the battle, the Kwantung Army, whose defeat was already certain, adopted a drastic measure. Not only did the remaining members of the annihilated troops go up the mountain to become bandits when they had no way to retreat, they even consciously took part of the troops together with those hardcore traitors, and
All the Japanese policemen in the Manchukuo police broke up and went into the mountains and forests.
The order given by the Kwantung Army to these people was to lurk in the deep mountains and old forests, waiting for the empire's full-scale counterattack on Manchuria. At that time, they would serve as a latent force and disrupt the enemy's rear. At the same time, they must not let the Chinese people stand still.
The use of the South Manchu Industrial Base to fight against the Empire caused trouble for the Empire's overall strategy.
As for the puppet Manchukuo police and members of the Concord Society, the Kwantung Army felt troublesome. Among them were old anti-Japanese traitors, the so-called die-hard traitors of the Chinese people, and the Kwantung Army distrusted them even more. Rather than pretending to be unreliable, it would be better to lose them in a name.
In Southern Manchuria, letting them create some trouble for the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can be considered as their last effort for the empire.
For the Kwantung Army, there is no expectation that they will play a big role. Anyway, as long as they can cause trouble for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, it will be fine. In order to let these people who are determined to stay in South Manchuria persist in guerrilla warfare, the Kwantung Army is unprecedentedly generous in this regard. In order to increase
Due to the operational capabilities of these political bandits, the Kwantung Army not only handed over to these people several small secret arsenals located in the mountains of Liaodong, which contained enough food and light weapons and ammunition for a division to fight independently for a year.
These people were also left with some gold, pseudo-Manchu currency, opium that could be used as hard currency when necessary, and even a large amount of heroin as activity funds. Only five high-power radio stations with a scale of more than 50 watts were left.
Six, and as for various tactical radios and batteries, the number is even greater.
After painstaking efforts to rectify the base areas behind enemy lines in Northern Manchuria, there are no more drug addicts or opium. However, in Southern Manchuria controlled by the Kwantung Army, in order to amass financial resources and plunder the wealth of the Northeast, the opium trade monopolized by the Kwantung Army is still quite prosperous. Although Rehe is lost,
But the Kwantung Army opened up new opium producing areas in western Liaoning.
Under the control of the Kwantung Army through various means, the number of opium addicts in Southern Manchuria was huge, and even injecting heroin. Although opium was already popular in Northern Manchuria, it was used as hard currency at critical moments in Southern Manchuria.
There is no problem at all in using it. It is much easier to use than the fake Manchu currency that has become waste paper after liberation and has not yet been fully redeemed.
During the battle, the large forces of the Anti-Japanese Alliance simply did not have the energy and free time to deal with the enemy forces that had collapsed in the rear. After completing the main battle against the Kwantung Army, large forces were gradually transferred into the pass, leaving only some remaining troops.
and the public security forces to eliminate these bandits.
However, in the face of these bandits who were well-equipped and even had field heavy artillery, they finally invested some of the remaining main forces. They adopted the same tactics as the Kwantung Army used to encircle and suppress the old resistance alliance outside the pass. They also carried out the 18th Group Army troops in the North China battlefield inside the pass.
Using mopping up tactics and encirclement from all sides, we were able to annihilate most of them.