Before the end of the meeting, An Yi left Yang Jie, Deng Bin, Liu Qing, Huang Xuyi and Lu Guang, and then asked other participating generals to walk around, visit relatives and friends, and return to the Xiaonanhai Banquet Hall in the evening to have a good gathering.
Gather.《》
When several people saw An Yi pulling An Jin to his side, they knew they had a mission.
An Yi introduced:
"Before the meeting, An Jin and I discussed the attack on Hainan Island...Although the three Guards Group armies in the garrison are all composed of veterans who have recovered from injuries and officers and soldiers with outstanding merits, if
If we don't fight for a long time, we can't ensure our combat effectiveness, so I thought about using the attack on Hainan to train our troops.
"After the Japanese army occupied Hainan, they set up barbed wire fences, trenches, coastal defense positions, gun towers, strongholds, etc. around the island's main ports and beach areas to prevent the people on the island from escaping and us who were close at hand to land and attack. Last month, Wang Jingwei and his
Party members from Peiping, Tianjin, Jinan, Qingdao, etc.
They fled to Haikou, bringing with them nearly 200,000 puppet troops, plus the original four Japs who formed a brigade on the island. This gave Wang Jingwei enough confidence that he held a press conference in Haikou and declared that he would
Hainan is built to become a model region of the Pacific Co-Prosperity Sphere, the royal paradise that the Chinese yearn for!
"Although Hainan is rich in resources. The Shilu Iron Mine alone has high-grade iron ore, titanium and zircon resources. In addition, there are large salt fields, rubber plantations, oil palm forests and other economic industries, but they need to be comprehensively utilized and developed.
, the difficulty is very high... It is impossible for Japan to draw blood from the mainland to support it, and the only people who will be exploited are the people on Hainan Island!
"Therefore, I plan to launch the Hainan Island Campaign in the next one or two months, and bring the various armies of the Guards Group up for a round of battle. Our three armies of sea, land and air can also accumulate experience in beach landing operations and prepare for the next war.
! I’m leaving everyone here today just to discuss it and try to improve the battle plan!”
Navy Commander Cheng Guang said with a smile:
"The coastline of Hainan is more than 1,500 kilometers long, and the sandy shore accounts for about 50 to 60 percent. The width of the beach ranges from several hundred meters to several thousand meters. The slope to the sea is generally five degrees, and it extends slowly.
The weather is calm in most places... As long as our fleet anchors offshore and then sends out shallow-water landing craft to launch a landing, any place is the direction for our breakthrough, and the Japanese army cannot guard against it!
"However, to transport troops and supplies on a large scale, we still have to occupy a large deep-water port. That means that after the landing campaign is launched, we must quickly seize the only Haikou port that can berth large ships... Although it is a Japanese defense
The key point is, but we can completely use the capture of Haikou Port to practice our beach landing tactics."
Air Force Commander Huang Xunyi smiled slightly, came to the Hainan map that the staff had just put on, and pointed to the large plain area in the west of the island:
"Our air force is very easy to handle. As long as the navy can open up a few airports here, we can continuously send troops to the island! Especially our airship technology is becoming increasingly mature. Large airships can transport tanks and armored fighting vehicles.
Once our mechanized troops deploy heavy weapons such as artillery and rocket launchers and launch a group charge, how will the Japanese army resist them?"
An Yi nodded:
"This is also an important reason why I keep you... You have to kill a chicken with a knife. No matter what you do, you have to go all out. Let's work together to win this battle... An Jin,
Come and tell me what you think..."
An Jin smiled shyly at everyone, took the baton, and began to explain based on the map. (《》7*
...
Busan Port at the southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula is crowded with people inside and outside the port, and the heart-rending cries of separated relatives are everywhere.
On the sea in the distance, the shadows of sails are like trees.
Thousands of ships, large and small, have crowded the Korean Strait and Tsushima Strait. From the Port of Busan to Japan's Kyushu, the northern port of Honshu Island, there is only a voyage of more than a hundred nautical miles. Coal-fired steam-driven fishing boats and passenger ships, one
One round trip can be made day and night, and a large passenger and cargo ship driven by a fuel-fired steam boiler and steam turbine can make two round trips a day.
These ships go from south to north, almost all of them empty, but when they return they are fully loaded, half loaded with cargo and half loaded with people. The boats are passing back and forth on the sea, which is extremely spectacular.
On the port pier, the Japanese troops who maintained order set up light and heavy machine guns. Whenever there was a disturbance, they immediately fired. In the wilderness behind the port, along the river and on the mountains in the distance, there were densely populated tents, group after group.
The Japanese troops, armed with live ammunition, patrolled various resettlement sites from time to time, knocking panicked people to the ground with their rifle butts and driving them back to their tents.
In the northern part of the city, along the Miyang River, the Nakdong River, as well as in Yangsan, Namsan and other places, gunfire rang out from time to time. Those Koreans who could not leave their homeland and wanted to escape quietly were swept to the ground by machine guns, and many people fell directly from the cliff.
Going down to the river below, there were a large number of human corpses floating on the entire Miyang River and Nakdong River, which was too horrible to see.
No one knows that in fact, most of the Japanese troops blocking roads and maintaining order in urban areas and ports are Koreans. Having received militaristic brainwashing education since childhood, they are extremely obedient and will show no mercy to those who want to escape and return to their hometown.
, no compassion for our fellow citizens at all.
There are many such checkpoints in the areas south of the Sobaek Mountains and Luling Mountains further away. On the one hand, they prevent the infiltration of a small reconnaissance unit of the Anjia Army, and on the other hand, they prevent the North Korean people who were escorted to the southern part of the peninsula from escaping quietly.
In front of the checkpoint, there were piles of corpses that had not yet been buried. Fortunately, it had already entered the autumn and winter season, otherwise a large-scale plague would definitely have occurred due to lack of timely processing. ""
"Mom, I'm afraid!"
In an immigrant settlement near the Nakdong River, clear gunshots were heard from the north. A little girl of five or six years old saw corpses floating on the river from time to time. She was so frightened that she hid in her mother's arms.
The mother, who was in her mid-thirties, touched her daughter's head and whispered comfort: "It's okay. Your brother is an officer in the gendarmerie. He will protect us!"
At this time, there was a noise from the crowd nearby. The mother turned her head to look curiously and saw a large group of people gathered by the river. Soon the group of people carried two wet and pale young people to the mother and daughter.
Next to the tent where the two of them were, they not only squeezed their chests and abdomens, but also tried to rescue them urgently.
"What a sin! You are on the road to death at such a young age!" A middle-aged uncle shook his head and sighed.
"Poor child, must be blocked by those who kill a thousand swords... Who is willing to leave their homeland, leave their hometown? But if you don't obey orders, it will be a dead end!" Another woman in her forties said with a look on her face.
of helplessness.
"I regret it! I shouldn't have obeyed the order and followed the troops south. Now it's too late to run away..." A strong man in his thirties looked annoyed.
"Yeah...I heard that the Anjia Army that has occupied our hometown of Pingtaek Plains is known as the army of benevolence and righteousness. Since they formed an army, they have never had a precedent of opening fire on civilians. Look at these
Of the planes flying densely above our heads, none of them dropped bombs, otherwise we don’t know how many people would have died!" Someone took over, full of helplessness.
"I also regret running away... I once had a radio at home that could listen to radio programs from Xufu and Nanhua. Unfortunately, I was in a hurry this time and couldn't take it with me... Just
Just look at the Nanhua government that allocates land to the people without collecting taxes. It is a good government that has never been seen before... It's a pity that we can't enjoy it anymore..." A thin old man twirled his beard
He sighed and shook his head frequently.
"I heard that we won't stay long in Japan. We will soon be taken to America by ship, to cultivate farmland, dig mines, and work for the Japanese for the rest of our lives!" Someone told the news he had heard, which caused a stir.
lament.
"It's all the fault of today's young people. They all listen to the Japanese. Otherwise, as long as they turn against us, why would we be like this?" someone complained angrily.
"Yeah, I don't know what these little guys are thinking. They obviously have weapons and are the backbone of the army, the support team and the dedication team, but they don't know how to love themselves, and they only work for the tiger. It's really a misfortune for the country and the nation!"
"It's not all like this... The boy in my family was unwilling to sacrifice his life for the Japanese. As a result, he was betrayed by his classmates just after we connected... Well, it's the Li family in the tent in front.
The boy who betrayed me...it's a pity that he was beheaded when he was only twenty-one years old, and now his head is still hanging in front of the military camp for public display!" A middle-aged woman burst into tears and looked at the front of the tent with hatred.
Mother and daughter hugging each other.
"Yes, I heard that the elder man of the Li family was promoted because of this, and became a lieutenant in the gendarmerie. He became even more domineering... In the past two days, more than ten people were arrested from the army, and they were all shot after interrogation.
What a heartless beast!" Vicious curses came one after another.
The somewhat pretty mother heard all this and turned her head to look. She was greeted with hateful eyes. She hurriedly lowered her head and hugged her daughter tightly without letting go.
At this time, there was a sudden burst of cheers from the crowd, and it turned out that the two young people had been rescued.
After asking people around, they learned that the two young men were planning to flee Busan Port and hide in the nearby mountains, waiting for the South China Army to move south. Unexpectedly, there were many people who had the same idea as them. When they crossed the river by chance, they were discovered by the outpost on the other side.
, then the sentry used a machine gun to shoot at the river surface. When the two young men saw people around them being shot one after another, they were so frightened that they quickly dived into the water. They drank a lot of water but did not dare to surface. They fainted and passed out until
Was rescued and woke up.
People around were still lamenting that the crisis had come, and about forty or fifty armed policemen rushed over, surrounded the crowd, and even the mother and daughter were escorted together.
A murderous lieutenant strode over, looked at the two young men being escorted, and a sinister smile flashed on his face: "You want to escape, right? As a citizen of the Japanese Empire, if you don't want to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country, stay here."
In this world, food can only be consumed in vain, so go to hell!"
After saying that, he took out the pistol from his waist and prepared to shoot.
"Dalang!"
The mother took her daughter's hand, rushed out quickly, and ran to the lieutenant: "Child, if you have to be merciful, please let them go! I believe that after this time, they will not run away again!"
The lieutenant was unmoved. He pushed his mother's hand away and fired a machine gun at the chests of the two young men. With the sound of "pop", the crowd became commotion, and the two young men fell into a pool of blood.
"Li Dalang, you are really nothing. Your father died when you were young, and you survived by relying on charity from neighbors! Look, how do you repay us villagers now? My son was shot dead after you reported him!"
The middle-aged woman whose son had died rushed out angrily and stood in front of the lieutenant.
The lieutenant smiled ferociously and said to the woman: "It turns out to be the Zhang family aunt. I wonder who is so brave and dares to save these people who are running away. It turns out to be you guys who have different aspirations...
.Father and mother are not as close as the Empire and the Emperor. Since you dare to betray the Empire, you must be prepared to accept punishment... Come, take all these people down and shoot them all!"
"Da Lang, what are you doing?"
The mother grabbed her son's hand in surprise: "You are crazy. When you were a child, you had no food to eat or clothes to wear. You only managed to survive because the neighbors felt sorry for us... Also, my mother five years ago
We were bullied by the Japanese and had a daughter named Xiao Yingzi who survived by relying on charity and care from neighbors. We should be grateful..."
"grateful?"
The lieutenant curled his lips in disapproval, and then whispered in his mother's ear, gritting his teeth and said: "If they are really as good as you said, why did they report it when my father led his people to deal with the Japanese? Why did Five
Years ago I saw you being bullied by an unarmed Japanese, and they didn't stand up to help? I think they are simply selfish. Now that they can't survive, they think of resisting. How can there be such a good thing in the world?"
The mother looked at her son in surprise. Seeing the fierceness in his eyes, she couldn't help crying: "If you want to kill them, kill me and Xiao Yingzi too!"
"That's fine!"
The lieutenant pushed his mother away ferociously: "Having you as a mother and this little scoundrel is a disgrace to me, Li Dalang. Since you want to die, I will grant it to you, so that you can go to the underworld to be with my damn father.
Reunion. If anyone comes, take them down and shoot them all!"
The mother looked at her son in disbelief, and then was pushed and rushed to the river by the swarming Japanese soldiers.
"Da Lang——"
"elder brother--"
Amidst the heart-rending shouts, gunshots rang out, and a large group of people fell to the ground. The lieutenant's face was stiff, and it was difficult to tell whether he was happy or angry.
At this time, a Japanese colonel came over and patted the lieutenant on the shoulder with admiration: "Yoshi! You are so good! You have lived up to the trust of the Japanese Imperial Army. I will definitely report it to General Fujita and reward you.
Selfless! Young people have a bright future!"
"Hi! I am willing to serve His Majesty the Emperor to the best of my ability!"
The lieutenant's face had regained its composure at this time, and he bowed to the colonel with a smile, completely unable to tell that he had just lost his only relative.
On the river beach not far away, blood was pouring out of the mother's open chest, and her wide and distracted eyes showed a bit of unwillingness. In her abdomen, the head of the five-year-old girl was shot by a bullet.
Broken, blood overflowed, and a pair of eyes that were originally full of innocence were completely filled with fear and helplessness. Unfortunately, no one could help them. Only the radiance of the sun spread over them, witnessing the sins of this world.
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