9.139 Ink Battlefield

The encounter of the Takeda squadron was just a microcosm of what all the front-line troops of the 6th Division had encountered that day! Under the command of Huang Haoran, the Chinese army in the Huangmei area launched an all-round "propaganda war" against the Japanese army. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Huang Haoran even used the bombers of the Soviet Air Force to aid China to drop leaflets and propaganda posters, which successfully caused confusion within the 6th Division, and the commander of the 6th Division, Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba, was forced to fall into a "special war".

For Huang Haoran's hand, the Central China Dispatch Army can only be dumb and eat Huang Lian, and it can't attack! This is a bit inconsistent with the arrogant character of the Japanese!

Don't think that the Japanese have found out their conscience! The reason why Tokyo did not dare to fight back was actually because within the Imperial Army, there was also a "pen army" with almost the same mission, and they concocted more unbearable rhetoric!

Japan's "pen troops" and "war literature" are inextricably linked with the formation of the "national policy" of Japanese militarism's invasion of China. In the process of forming the "national policy" of Japan's invasion of China, some early Japanese Enlightenment thinkers and writers played a very bad role, among which Fukuzawa Yukichi, Nakae Zhaomin, Hoda Yoshigero, and the samurai Koji Minoru can be said to have "made great contributions".

Yukichi Fukuzawa, known as the "founder of modern Japanese civilization", was a Japanese Enlightenment thinker and writer, and one of the first Japanese to pay attention to the Chinese issue. His "contribution" to the formation of the "national policy" lies in the fact that his "Outline of the Theory of Civilization" for the first time downgraded China from a "civilized" country to a semi-civilized country on an equal footing with Japan. Later, Fukuzawa simply saw Japan as the embodiment of "civilization" and China as the representative of a "barbaric" state. It was this scholar from a humble background who had a rebellious personality who resolutely advocated Japan's "separation from Asia and its entry into Europe" and pushed Japan step by step onto the road of aggression and expansion.

And Zhongjiang Zhaomin, who is known as the "thinker of the devil soldiers", is more than that. In his "Questions and Answers on the Three Drunken Economies," Zhongjiang Zhaomin carefully arranges a "drinking talk" between the "gentleman," the "hero," and the "gentleman of the South China Sea," and alludes to Japan's interests in "the big country in Asia" (referring to China) in the form of "the drunkard's intention is not to drink." If Zhongjiang Zhaomin's idea of invading China is somewhat "like holding the pipa and half-covering his face," then Okakura Tenshin, the "representative of Japanese Asianism," is a little impatient. He nakedly preached that Asian integration was "the ideal of the East" and "the great privilege of Japan," and this set of theoretical propositions was later used by the militarist authorities as the theoretical basis for "establishing a greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere." Samurai Koji once pursued utopian socialism, but he was also a fanatical militarist, who trumpeted "Japaneseism", "the aesthetics of death", and advocated "Greater East Asia War", "Overcoming Death", and "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere". At this point, the idea of aggression against China in the Japanese ideological and literary circles has gone through the entire process from germination to maturity. For a century, the aggressive propaganda and war clamor of some representative figures in the Japanese literary circles were in the same vein as the later militarist and fascist ideologies, and they created a "legal" basis for launching war and all-out aggression against China, and carried out brazen cultural provocations.

It can be said that in the process of forming the "national policy" of Japan's invasion of China, Japanese writers played an extremely disgraceful role.

After the start of the all-out war of aggression against China, Japan's war decision-makers became more and more aware that although the core of the war was armed warfare, it was economic warfare, ideological warfare, and propaganda warfare that would expand the effects of armed warfare, and propaganda warfare in particular would have the greatest impact.

Therefore, after the outbreak of the "77 Incident," the Japanese military headquarters immediately set up a military reporting department throughout the army. Under the organization of the Military Reporting Department, Japanese newspapers and news agencies dispatched an unprecedented lineup of military reporters to the Chinese battlefield. At that time, reporters directly dispatched by various newspapers were called "special commissioners," and those commissioned by the army and navy to be dispatched became civilian personnel of the armed forces, subordinate to the reporting departments of the army and navy, and were called "reporting team members." They wore different uniforms and badges, and those who enjoyed the treatment of senior officers also wore sabers like officers of combat units. At the same time as launching a large-scale military offensive, the Japanese government began to further strengthen the militarist system at home and demanded that the whole country unanimously carry out a war of aggression against China.

In order to cooperate with the Japanese offensive on the battlefield, Japan implemented the "general mobilization of the literary circles" throughout the country. The vast majority of Japanese writers actively served the needs of Japan's war of aggression against China in various ways. On the fourth day after the Lugou Bridge Incident, Japanese Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe could not wait to convene representatives of various news agencies for "earnest talks" and demanded that they fully "cooperate" in Japan's war of aggression against China. On 13 July, Konoe summoned representatives of several well-known Japanese magazines——— "Central Bulletin," "Reform," "Japan Review," and "Literature and Art Chunqiu," ———and asked them to cooperate with the war. On August 24, the Japanese government issued the "National Spirit Mobilization Implementation Outline"; On September 25, the Army Intelligence Committee, which was in charge of war propaganda, was upgraded to the Cabinet Intelligence Department. By this time, Japan's wartime literary policy had begun to take shape, and Japan's domestic newspapers, periodicals, broadcasts, and other public opinion tools were also in full swing, and a large-scale war propaganda was launched to the people in an all-round way.

After the "77 Incident," some Japanese literati and journalists, as well as "soldier writers" and military monks, took their pens to the battlefield one after another to carry out the "pen campaign" and form a little-known "pen army." They used their pens as guns to incite "holy wars," beautify wars, and sing praises for the Japanese invasion of China. Those who get along with the Japanese devil soldiers who kill people on the battlefield without blinking an eye, there are also a number of Japanese writers, journalists, poets, etc.

The "pen unit" is mainly composed of three parts: military reporters, soldier writers, and professional writers. These "pen troops" carry out "pen campaigns" in their own different ways, or wave the flag and shout for the war of aggression, advocate aggression, and beautify the war; or with a gun in one hand and a pen in the other, while personally participating in the massacre, while preaching "holy war" and "martial arts"; or participate in various militarist cultural and literary organizations to concoct "war literature......

The coverage and reporting of the "pen troops" must strictly comply with the requirements of the military department, so as to fulfill the mission of the "pen campaign." That's why the "pen troops" are keen to interview and report on soldiers who are already well-known in Japan. Kyosuke Tomoda, whose real name was Goro Banda, was born in Tokyo in 1899 and was a popular drama actor before he was recruited. On the tenth day after the outbreak of the Battle of Songhu, Kyosuke Tomoda was shot and killed while attacking Shanghai and crossing Wusongkou. The Yomiuri Shimbun, a military reporter with the military, braved the rain of bullets to film Kyosuke Tomoda at close range with a camera of Kyosuke Tomoda falling down, which caused a great repercussion after it was broadcast in Japan.

The "Pen Troops" are even more long-winded, sparing no effort to render the "heroic" and "fearless" of the Japanese army. The Tokyo Daily Shimbun published this appalling "100-man killing contest" under the headlines "100 people beheaded, a big engagement, bravely and bravely Mukai and Noda two second lieutenants" and "100 people beheaded, exceeding the record, Mukai 106-Noda 105, two second lieutenants extended the battle." In addition, it also successively published on-the-spot reports sent back from Changzhou, Danyang, Jurong, and Nanjing by four reporters accompanying the newspaper, including Asami, Mitsumoto, Yasuda, and Suzuki, respectively, and reported in detail how Xiang Jing and Noda stabbed 100 people in Henglin Town, Changzhou Railway Station, Danyang Benniu Town, Lucheng Town, Lingkou Town, Jurong County, and Nanjing's Purple Mountain. These reports not only have a clear time and place, the process of the killings and their numbers are clear, but they also distribute pictures!

These superficially polite "pen troops" and the extremely vicious gun units cooperate with each other, echoing up and down, and complementing each other in a two-pronged manner. The gun units were killing people on the battlefield in a steady stream, and the "pen troops" were constantly inciting "patriotism" and cheering for the gun troops. The "pen troops" were the concoctors of the literature of Japan's aggression against China, the instigators and advocates of the war of aggression against China, the main body of the so-called "ideological warfare" and "propaganda warfare," and the main force of Japan's cultural aggression and infiltration into China, and played an irreplaceable role in the war of aggression against China.

It can be seen from this that compared with the malicious intentions of the Japanese, this propaganda war launched by Huang Haoran is at best a "rhetorical counterattack"! It is the way of the other to give back to the other!

In order to agree to this contest on the dark side, Japan can only use the same propaganda war to fight back! By this time, the "pen troops" had already received orders from Tokyo!

Of course, just such a propaganda war was not enough for the commander of the Inaba Shiro Division to give the order to stop the troops, and there were actually two real reasons why the 6th Division was temporarily stopped, the first reason was that the 25th Group Army, the Chinese ace, suddenly appeared on the Huangmei battlefield, which made the 6th Division feel that it was insufficient in strength, and the other reason was an "accidental" battle that happened in Dushan Town.

Dushan Town is located in the scenic western Anhui region, there is a highway nearby, the mountains on both sides of the highway are undulating, and the villages are dotted. Although the land here is barren, the people are strong.

Because Dushan Town is backed by Longgan Lake, once it occupies here, it can cross Longgan Lake and intersperse with the branch town and Xiaochi Town across the river from Jiujiang to establish an advance artillery position, so there have been many battles in this area.

During the Central Plains War, Dushan Town began to set up a militia in order to maintain local law and order. The Dushan Township League charter was promulgated, and households were ordered to donate money to buy guns, and the cost was apportioned according to the amount of land owned.

Dushan Town stipulates that all peasants with more than 10 acres of land must pay for guns; If you can't afford to buy alone, you can join several households to buy one. As a result, as of the end of the Central Plains War, the subordinate townships of Dushan Town had a total of four or five thousand long and short guns, and their strength was quite strong! When there is no fighting, these militia groups are run by captains sent by the county police department.

And Xiaxin Town, which is close to Dushan Town and near Longgan Lake, has also established several militia groups, with four or five cadres of long and short guns, which is equivalent to the size of the local militia of about one division! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )