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In the eyes of the great powers, old China was like a piece of fat meat. These mad dogs plundered Chinese land and created many weird colonial invasions such as concessions.
Kanto State is a freak created by the invasion of foreign powers.
Lushunkou has an important strategic position and has been valued by military strategists from ancient times to the present. As early as the Jin Dynasty, this place was called Mashijin, Duli Town in the Tang Dynasty, and Shizikou in the Yuan Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, Taishikou
Zhu Yuanzhang sent a general to cross the sea from Shandong to guard Liaodong. The sea was calm and a boatload of Ming soldiers safely arrived at Shizikou, so Shishikou was renamed Lushunkou as a commemoration. Lushunkou naturally became the Ming Dynasty.
The Liaodong garrison established a coastal defense post in Jinzhou, called Jinzhou Zhongzuo Post.
In 1882, the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty took a fancy to the strategic location of Lushunkou and built a naval base here. At that time, Lushun was called the first military port in East Asia.
This serious construction of a military port attracted the attention of Cai Lang. After the defeat of the Beiyang Navy in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894, the Japanese army captured Lushun and forced the Manchus to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki, which included Lushun.
The Liaodong Peninsula was ceded to Japan.
The Liaodong Peninsula, such a large territory, is full of precious land!
Other powers began to covet it. Under the mediation of Russia, Germany, and France, the Japanese occupied the Liaodong Peninsula only a few weeks before they had to agree to the Qing government paying to redeem the Liaodong Peninsula.
No one expected that the Russians were more ruthless, more sophisticated, and had a bigger appetite than the Japanese. Just two years later, in December 1897, Russian warships sailed into Lushunkou, using Lushunkou as a gateway to northern China.
, the forward position in Korea and the Sea of Japan, and was renamed Port Arthur. Immediately afterwards, the Russians used the pretext of their meritorious service in forcing Japan to return the Liaodong Peninsula to negotiate with the Manchu Premier Yamen, and signed a treaty in Beijing on March 27, 1898.
The "Luxun Land Lease Treaty" was signed, leasing the military port of Lushun Port and the commercial port of Dalian Bay for 25 years. The Tsarist Russian army and navy immediately occupied Lushun Port in a swaggering manner. On May 7, Tsarist Russia forced the Qing government to sign the "Renewal of Lushun Port" in St. Petersburg.
The Land Lease Treaty stipulated that the northern boundary of the leased land should start from the north of Adam Bay (i.e., Pulandian Bay) on the west coast of the Liaodong Peninsula and draw a straight line east to the north of Piziwo. To the south is the Russian leased land, with a total area of 3,200 square kilometers and a population of nearly
300,000.
Since the area east of Shanhaiguan was called Guandong at that time, Tsarist Russia called the Luda leased area "Kwantung Prefecture" and implemented military management.
With the rise of the Boxer Rebellion, the Russians took advantage of the situation and controlled the entire Northeast.
Now, the Japanese were unwilling again. Tsarist Russia occupied Kanto Prefecture for seven years before being defeated by the Russo-Japanese War launched by the Japanese. Kanto Prefecture, including the Middle East Railway, fell into the hands of the Japanese.
On the basis of the Russian occupation, the Japanese expanded the occupied area by 246 kilometers at will, bringing the area of Kandong Prefecture to 246 square kilometers and a population of 380,000.
The Japanese established the Kantung Governor's Office in Lushun, which was in charge of the Luda leased area and the Manchuria Railway affiliated area. In addition to administrative power, it also had military command power.
From 1905 to the present, the Japanese rule of Kanto Prefecture has entered its thirty-fifth year.
Now, after several reforms of the Kantung management system, the Japanese have already abolished the Kantung Governor's Office, ceded the military command power of the Kantō Governor's Office, and established the Kwantung Army; they also ceded the operation of the Middle East Road and established the Manchuria Railway
Co., Ltd. and the Middle East Road annex were also handed over to the puppet Manchukuo; the administrative management of Kanto Prefecture was handed over to the Kanto Prefectural Office and was under the jurisdiction of the Kanto Bureau.
The Kwantung Bureau was located in the Japanese Embassy in Manchuria, with the Japanese Ambassador to Manchuria, the commander of the Kwantung Army, in charge.
In the Kanto Prefecture Office, in addition to the chief executive's office, there are three departments: internal affairs, economy and police. Local administration is divided into two types: municipal system and council system.
The municipal system is implemented in 2 urban areas of Lushun and Dalian. The social system is implemented in other places and villages in the prefecture. There are 2 municipalities and 4 civil affairs offices in the jurisdiction of Guandong Prefecture Office. That is, Dalian and Lushun; Lushun, Jinzhou, and Pizi
There are four jurisdictions: Wo and Pulandian, and each jurisdiction has a civil affairs department.
Among them, Dalian has jurisdiction over 118 districts, Lushun has jurisdiction over 14 towns; Lushun has jurisdiction over 10 hui, Jinzhou has jurisdiction over 16 hui, Pulandian has jurisdiction over 18 hui, and Piziwo has jurisdiction over 20 hui.
Kanto Prefecture has a typical maritime climate. In early June, the highest temperature was only over 20 degrees, neither hot nor cold.
The Japanese army has occupied Kanto Prefecture for 35 years, and counts Kanto Prefecture as Japan's mainland. In the eyes of the Japanese, there is no difference between Lushun Bay, Dalian Bay and Tokyo Bay in Kanto Prefecture, and there is no difference between Lushun Base and Sasebo Base. South
The Asia Express high-speed train on the Manchuria Railway runs on the 701.4-kilometer railway line between Dalian and Xinjing at an average speed of 85 kilometers per hour and a maximum speed of 130 kilometers per hour, creating a world-shocking Manchuria Railway speed. Even Asia
The high-speed train is bound for Harbin and Busan in North Korea. Merchant ships and passenger ships are constantly coming and going from Dalian Port and Port Arthur, transporting grain and ore produced in Manchukuo back to Japan, and transporting industrial products produced in Manchukuo and Kanto Prefecture to various trade companies.
China; batches of Japanese pioneer groups landed here, took trains, and cars to travel to various parts of Manchuria to seize Chinese land, forests, and livestock, and became rich people one by one.
Kanto Prefecture is safe.
In addition to the Japanese naval fleet, marines, and Kwantung Army garrison troops stationed here, there are also police. Every city and every district has a Japanese police station responsible for public security.
Late at night on May 26, a large cargo ship flying the American Stars and Stripes approached Huayuankou on the north coast of the Yellow Sea in eastern Kanto Prefecture and docked three or four nautical miles from the coastline.
This Huayuankou was called Taohuapu in ancient times. In the old days, peach trees were all over the seaside. In spring, the flowers bloomed like a garden, hence the name Huayuankou. When Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty led his army to regain Liaodong, they landed here. In the Ming Dynasty, they once fortified Japanese pirates here.
It was a pier to resist the invasion of Japanese pirates. The Japanese army also landed from here when they made sneak attacks on Jinzhou during the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, groups of Shandong men who entered Guandong also landed at Huayuankou and set foot on the land of Guandong with dreams in mind.
Soon, the sampan was put down on the freighter, and the two small motorboats towed at the rear were also released. A blond American with a translator and five Japanese soldiers boarded a motorboat and drove to the coast first.
This American is one of Suo Kebin's assistants, named Jeff. The translator is Zhou Zijian, an old Red Army soldier sent by the Eighth Route Army to Suo Kebin to also take charge of the merchant fleet. Needless to say, the five Japanese soldiers are the Eighth Route Army's Shandong Military Region Northward Advance.
The soldiers of the advance team were led by Luo Ye, captain of the Second Special Operations Squadron.
The reason why Jeff and Zhou Zijian were allowed to go ashore was to cope with possible interrogations by the Japanese garrison.
The distance is three or four nautical miles, and the motorboat will be there in an instant.
What surprised Zhou Zijian and Luo Ye was that the coastline was quiet. Not to mention the Japanese garrison, not even a dog barking could be heard, only the roar of the waves at high tide.
Luo Ye couldn't help but give Zhou Zijian a thumbs up.
The landing point Liu Yimin chose for the advance team of the Northward Expedition was Dahuzui. When Zhao Yonggang led the Northward Expedition Team secretly crossed Jiaoji Road and rushed to Longkou in Jiaodong to meet up with Zhou Zijian, Zhou Zijian heard that he was going to the Northeast for support.
During the Anti-Japanese War, they immediately suggested changing the landing location, and suggested that all the motorcycles and cars brought by Zhao Yonggang and others should be kept and replaced with war horses.
Zhou Zijian’s reason is that Taihu Tsui has been a defensive point since ancient times. There have been forts since the Ming Dynasty. The Japanese army also has strongholds and is tightly defended. At Huayuankou, the beach is shallow, so you can land on foot when the tide is low; when the tide is high, you can use motorboats and sampans.
The board carried personnel, war horses and weapons and equipment. The Japanese troops landed at Huayuankou twice because they took a fancy to the undefended and shoals here. Moreover, he had been traveling to Kanto Prefecture with merchant ships for more than a year, so he was very familiar with it.
Moreover, there is a more important point, that is, the landing at Huayuankou is close to the activity area of Yang Jingyu's First Anti-Japanese Route Army, so there is no need to cross the South Manchuria Railway, which facilitates covert operations.
Zhao Yonggang didn't believe it. He said that the Japanese troops landed here for two sneak attacks. Don't they have a longer memory? Wouldn't they set up forts here to guard them?
Zhou Zijian replied: In the huge North Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, and South China Sea, can we still find a Chinese Navy ship? Not to mention warships, can we still find a Chinese Navy small patrol boat? Why do the Japanese want to fortify themselves here?
What about wasting precious Marine Corps manpower?
As he spoke, Zhao Yonggang's face was so long that he was speechless.
The good Zhou Zijian, since he took on the task of taking charge of the merchant fleet, has changed to learn naval knowledge, and has a good understanding of the situation of the ports in Shandong and Northeast China.
As for using war horses, Zhou Zijian said it more clearly. The winter in Northeast China is very cold. The water tanks of cars and motorcycles are easy to freeze and cannot start. It is impossible without war horses. If you need to use vehicles, there are many Japanese cars on the ground in Guandong Prefecture.
Just seize some and use them. Not to mention cars, it’s not a problem even if you want trains. The Manchurian Railway’s Shahekou factory in Dalian can even manufacture the Asia high-speed train. There is a round trip from Dalian to Changchun every day.
When the train starts, it’s a good thing to tease the little devil!
Zhao Yonggang's eyes lit up when he said this, and his elongated face suddenly became lively!
Therefore, Zhao Yonggang handed over the motorcycles and cars of the advance team to the North to Gao Jinchun, the political commissar of the 11th Column and the former commander of the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade, and asked Gao Jinchun to transfer all the war horses and pack horses from the Jiaodong Garrison Brigade Cavalry Battalion and the Baggage Battalion to him.
, each soldier had three war horses, one for riding and two for carrying ammunition and supplies. The landing point was also determined at the entrance of the garden.
The freighter Zhou Zijian brought was a modified freighter from the Zhenhai, which was the largest warship in the former Northeast Navy. It was a mother ship and could carry a squadron of eight aircraft, which was more than enough to carry Zhao Yonggang and his advance team heading north.
After Luo Ye gave Zhou Zijian a thumbs-up, he just nodded and flashed the Zhenhai three times with a flashlight covered with a red cloth. Then he turned around and led the four Goths to conduct a reconnaissance search, leaving behind
Zhou Zijian and Jeff stood on the beach where the sea breeze was blowing coldly.
After receiving the signal from Luo Ye, the Zhenhai became busy immediately. The soldiers tied the sampan behind the motorboat, lowered the plank from the Zhenhai, unloaded supplies and war horses, and used the motorboat and sampan to transfer to the shore.
I was busy until the sky was dimming, and then I finished unloading.
When parting, Zhou Zijian took Zhao Yonggang's hand and whispered: "This place is different from Guan Nei. In order to deal with the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the little devils adopted a group tribal policy, demolishing all the small villages and driving the fellow villagers to live in big villages.
A strict Baojia and Sitting system is implemented. If there is any movement, the Self-Defense Forces in the big villages will call the Japanese to report, and the Japanese and the puppet Manchukuo army will pounce on them immediately. Be careful in everything."
Liu Yimin has already introduced these situations clearly to Zhao Yonggang.
Zhao Yonggang nodded and said goodbye to Zhou Zijian and Jeff.
When Zhou Zijian and the others returned to the Zhenhai, Zhao Yong ordered the entire team to line up on the beach, pay attention to the Zhenhai, and watch Zhou Zijian and the others leave.
In the thin morning light, the advance team from the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army set foot on the northeastern land.
The situation was exactly as Liu Yimin and Zhou Zijian introduced. As soon as he set foot on the ground in Guandong Prefecture, Zhao Yonggang immediately felt something strange.
Originally, the advance team heading north was a special force, and they wore the military uniforms of the Japanese Kwantung Army's troops that marched south to fight captured in previous battles, so they could march in a swaggering manner. However, Zhao Yonggang found that this was not possible. There were many Japanese, puppet troops and police here.
Telephone lines extend in all directions, and if you don't pay attention, the Japanese army and military police will be questioned. Zhao Yonggang and others bring so much munitions, war horses, and pack horses. It is impossible to march quickly and covertly on the road. Especially if they don't have
When marching on a moonlit night, you must use a flashlight and hold up a torch to illuminate the pack team. This torch will be discovered by the Japanese and puppet troops, which will arouse the suspicion of the Japanese.
At this time, the First Route Army led by Yang Jingyu had retreated to the Laolin secret camp in Huadian under the attack of the Japanese and puppet troops. Moreover, it was surrounded by layers of Japanese and puppet troops. The situation was very dangerous.
Zhao Yonggang, who learned about the situation through the radio, was eager to join Yang Jingyu and the others to rescue them. However, to join them, he had to cross the Shenyang to Andong and Changchun to Ji'an railways. The journey was long and he had to march quickly during the day.
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The problem is that it is difficult to find a trustworthy guide, so we can only rely on maps and compasses. The Japanese army's group tribe policy is very vicious, and all scattered households have been moved to Datun. Each Datun usually has 100 households, with a minimum of 50.
There are two-foot-high walls built around all the villages. Some villages directly have strongholds of the Japanese army or the puppet Manchuria army. Those that do not have strongholds also have self-defense forces. Telephone lines are connected to the Japanese and puppet army strongholds.
Residents here are allowed to leave the village when working in the fields, but are not allowed to leave the village at ordinary times. They must register when leaving the village, when visiting relatives, when buying things, and when selling things.
Thinking about such strict monitoring and protection measures, Zhao Yonggang knew how difficult it was for the anti-alliance comrades.
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