Using civilians as shields and shields is really not as simple as eating and drinking water for the Japanese who are already on the verge of despair. Since becoming a great power, the Japanese have despised human life, and it is even more obvious in the army, whether it is the First Sino-Japanese War or the Russo-Japanese War, under the situation of absolute disadvantage, the scene of counter-charge in the face of bullets and bullets, I don't know how much, the reason why Japan can not occupy an advantage in all aspects, but only in the case of manpower superiority, to capture the fortress of Arthur, is because the Japanese are not afraid of death.

Even regular soldiers are like this, not to mention civilians, in Japan, for the exploitation of civilians, almost to the extreme, before the large-scale improvement of various light industrial machines in the northwest, Japan's quality cotton cloth and cotton yarn are not particularly good, the reason why there is a market in this world, the reason is very simple is that it is cheap, the Japanese processing technology is very backward, but under the crazy squeezing, the labor cost is very low.

Japan's cotton cloth is cheap to a certain level, and the production efficiency is also high to a certain extent, and the 24-hour method starts from Japan, and the average Japanese can produce half a bag of cotton yarn per cotton belly, which is a production efficiency that has attracted worldwide attention.

Originally, Japan could rely on this, and the opportunity of World War I, to transform from an imperfect agricultural version of an industrial country into a modern country, complete the reform of the industrial system, and change from a debtor country to a creditor country, and make a series of changes, but the emergence of the northwest, like a basin of cold water, poured down from his heating head, with newer equipment, faster production efficiency, and rational use of electric energy. While Japan is still catching up with the world's advanced level, the northwest has already begun to create the world's advanced level.

The machine in the Northwest has taken a new path from the beginning, with a higher grade alloy, a more perfect design, a concept from the twenty-first century, a monster-like all-in-one machine. Together, these loads have made the light industry in the northwest, from the very beginning, not pursue manpower, and the efficiency of a single foot far exceeds the world's advanced level, and it is also the same as Japan, 24 hours a day, but it is much more humane. It is divided into three shifts, even four shifts, and even five shifts in extreme cases, with an 8-hour work system, and after a day of work, the rest of the time can be rested, and the night shift can be rested for a whole day. In this way, the degree of fatigue is greatly reduced. The shift system also allows everyone to get reasonable rotation and rest.

Reasonable rest will improve the productivity at work, in this case, Northwest both from the quality and from the output. Even the cheapness is far higher than that of Japan, and in any case, the fact that Japan cannot produce cotton is a fatal wound. The Northwest controls the entire central and western regions, and the high-latitude cotton-producing areas, to a certain extent, can supply the needs of the whole of China and export to the world.

This world is like this, it has not developed into a global village in later generations, but with the gradual development of the shipping industry, it has become particularly close, one link after another, and there are so many markets, not to mention the colonies controlled by Britain and France, more closed markets, and scattered markets have been occupied almost under the impetus of China's light industrial products and some labor-intensive products, leaving almost nothing for Japan, if it were not for the Entente to win over Japan and give Japan a part of the order, Japan would not be able to support the war against China at all, Even if the war was supported, after all, the support was only a minority, and most of it still had to be bought with money, and Japan went further on the basis of the debtor country, and owed more and more debts, and this result also directly led to the outbreak of another matter.

Now that the so-called weakness of the northwest has been discovered, these brutal Japanese soldiers naturally thought of ways to make the greatest use of civilians and use civilians as shields to help them leave.

That's right, it's the civilians, Japan is at a disadvantage, the massacre is impossible to do, maybe it will anger the northwest, so they can't run away, you can use civilians as a shield, the Japanese are good at this, when they were in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese used it, drove the civilians to attack the city, of course the success is good, not successful, your own people come to slaughter each other, but also to a considerable extent, reduce your morale, this is a double thing.

Concerning the survival of a million troops, even the Japanese high-level, do not dare to be careless, now, the Northwest Army in all directions, about to surround them, leaving them not a lot of time and space, after a little deliberation, Prince Zaihito quickly issued an order, the beastly Japanese army began to disperse, a disaster against civilians, began.

The Northwest Army has been monitoring the movements of the Japanese army, and it is almost clear what big moves Japan has, and the movements of a large number of Japanese troops have directly alerted the Northwest Army, no matter what, the Japanese army also has 1 million people, and if all of them are pressed in any direction and are not carefully dealt with, losses are inevitable.

The northwest can be on a solid defensive line, with one dozen ten, or even more, but in the march, the advantage of numbers will be brought into full play, even if it is as strong as Cai Yi, leading a strong first army of 300,000 people, and the Japanese millions of people in a certain area encounter, in the absence of geographical advantages to use, the premise that the artillery is not deployed, just fight the strength of both sides, the defeat must be the side with fewer people, the Japanese have too many people.

The reason why we kept a distance of about 50 kilometers from the Japanese army was also for this, if it was too close, and the Japanese really rushed over, they would definitely have to eat the losses in front of them, and even now, when the Japanese moved on a large scale, we had to adjust according to the actions to prevent the Japanese from doing their best to target one aspect of the encirclement. The most elite 100,000 people in the south and 200,000 in the west all made the same move, and even Tianjin, which was controlled by Beiyang, was fortified and prepared to guard against the Japanese attack.

However, they soon discovered that Japan's actions were not aimed at one aspect, desperate, but in all directions, and the same troops were also dispatched, and the Japanese were operating in the surrounding area of more than 40 kilometers, and they were not targeting their Northwest Army, but civilians in an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers, wantonly arresting people.

After the special forces detected the movements of the Japanese, they already knew the mentality of the Japanese, and the news was summarized to Cai Yi, who almost gritted his teeth, was familiar with the psychology of the Japanese, and on the premise that he knew the Japanese army very well, he understood that it was obvious that the Japanese could not see the possibility of escape, and actually chose to use the people as a shield to use the people to blackmail the northwest and achieve the purpose of escaping.

This is already close to Tianjin, one is a relatively densely populated place, on more than 1,600 square kilometers of land, only a larger county seat, there are as many as 5, in each county, there are only about 7 or 80,000 people, but together, it is almost 400,000, plus outside the county seat, scattered, the Japanese have captured at least 700,000 people.

700,000, when he thought of this, he almost didn't have to look at it, he knew how much crime and bloodshed there would be when he caught so many civilians, but he misjudged and didn't seize the best opportunity to stop the other party, and now, most of the people have been caught. Cai Yi was dizzy in front of his eyes, he asked himself if he was a Confucian general, experienced in a hundred battles, but he never thought about what he would do when 700,000 innocent lives were in front of him.

His body shook weakly, Cai Yi stabilized a series of orders and followed, with the help of advanced radio, notified all units in the northwest located in the entire Hebei Province, at all costs, to touch the Japanese, at least, to interfere with their continued arrest.

It is not easy for the personnel of a county, even if the Japanese have a million troops, to arrest all of them, of course, the Japanese cannot dig three feet into the ground, they just sent a large number of troops into the city, sealed the city gates, and then began to search for them.

Such a search is barbaric and cruel, but also with a variety of crimes, such as robbery, such as strong X, may be afraid by the Northwest Army, may be surrounded by the Northwest Army, in order to avoid angering the Northwest Army, which is also Chinese, they will only move unless the other party clearly resists, and rarely use guns, most of the time with gun butts or sticks, injured many people, but the fatal is much less, and the strong X is almost minimized.

The Japanese army is like locusts, frantically searching for all the people and materials that can be collected around, but it is very orderly, at the very least, Zairen has set a time for one day, and after one day, even if there is something missing or there is a great benefit, it must be returned, without the slightest hesitation, otherwise the military law will be engaged.

The Japanese are like octopuses, quickly dispersed, as if playing a time difference, after completing the capture of personnel, and quickly returned, the final statistics are that Japan captured more than 637,000 people in one day, most of these people were escorted back to the county town where the Japanese were stationed, and the remaining small part followed the Japanese army to act together, even if it was only a few thousand people, it was also their protective umbrella.

Facts have proved that the Japanese approach made the Northwest Army unable to fight at all, and after receiving Cai Yi's order, the Northwest Army, which was approaching quickly, encountered the Japanese soldiers hiding behind the Chinese people. (To be continued.) )