Chapter 581: The Embodiment of the Faith of the Common People
Anyway, in the last few strongholds where the Japanese army was entrenched, there were no ordinary people at all, except for traitors. As for those traitors, since they are determined to follow the Japanese, what is the way to live for them? As for the retreat to the Chengbei Power Plant, the more than 100 Japanese troops who could not be solved for the time being because of concerns about the safety of the power plant's equipment were temporarily besieged first, and then talked about it when the majority of the problem was solved.
Wang Jun mobilized heavy artillery troops into the city to participate in the battle, but another effect was to strengthen those who were not yet involved in the war, but were also frightened by the previous dense gunfire and explosions. But for those who are worried about being injured by artillery fire and bullets, and being captured by the Japanese as a human shield. I am even more worried that the Anti-Japanese Federation will not be able to stand in Tongliao, and the common people who will have to be driven out by the Japanese have a little confidence.
The common people had no confidence in the Anti-Japanese Federation, fearing that even if the Anti-Japanese Federation could take Tongliao City, it would not be tenable, and they would be driven away by the Japanese and retaliated. As well as the ignorance of the confrontation union, thinking that they really look like the red beards propagated in the Japanese pseudo-newspapers. Although the Anti-Japanese Federation said that the military uniforms were neat, but there were no heavy weapons, the ghost believed that you were an army.
Besides, what are you talking about the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and you are not the National Army or the Northeast Army of the Young Marshal, who knows who you are? North Manchurian is too far away from Tongliao, coupled with the long-term news blockade of the Japanese puppet, even if the Anti-Japanese Federation hits South Xing'an, the common people do not have any understanding of the Anti-Japanese Federation.
I don't understand, and there is a gap. In addition, in addition to tanks and some small-caliber direct-aim artillery, in order not to accidentally injure the people, they did not carry any heavy equipment into the city, giving the people in Tongliao the same impression as the volunteers back then. Therefore, no matter how the political workers are mobilized, they are unwilling to contribute, even if they lead the way.
A small number of young students who knew some of the situation of the Anti-Japanese Federation and wanted to lead the way for the Anti-Japanese Federation were also dragged by their parents and did not make the trip. When the troops entered the city, not only were the wounded housed in the open air until the end of the battle, but they could not even drink hot water, let alone others. And the reason for the situation of ordinary people is not clear in one sentence or two.
At that time, hundreds of thousands of well-equipped Northeast Army ran and surrendered, and the rising volunteer army seemed to be huge, but it was broken up in a few days. And the Japanese army kept the successive defeats in recent years strictly secret. In the newspapers of the entire Japanese-occupied areas in the northeast, there was absolutely no news of any defeat in the so-called anti-bandit battle in North Manchuria, which was propagated by the Japanese army.
In addition, although Tongliao City has developed transportation, it is not one of those well-informed big cities, and its location is still remote. Therefore, except for a few well-intentioned people, the vast majority of the people still lack a sense of trust in these anti-union that suddenly entered the city. Even many people directly regard them as the Japanese pseudo-propaganda communist wives, and the redbeards who looted everywhere.
The most important thing is that you keep saying that you are the people's own team, the Chinese's own team, and you have come to rescue the people. But if you lose the battle or like the previous self-proclaimed anti-Japanese teams, after raising enough food and wages, pat yourself on the ass and leave, will the people whose families and property are here be able to run?
When the Japanese come back, will they be able to spare the people who helped you? And those guys in your hands, who don't even have a single cannon, can they really defeat the Japanese? The Volunteers were huge, weren't they? Tens of thousands of people could not move at every turn, but the little devil fired two shots on the railway, and it was wiped out in a few days.
Don't look at the tanks of the Anti-Japanese Federation have all entered the city, but the common people know what tanks are. At most, it is nothing but a running iron bump. What people recognize is how many guns you have, whether there are or how many cannons, and these things that ordinary people generally know and know. The high-tech gadget of the tank, like the airplane, is too foreign to the ordinary Chinese people.
Guo Jie is not wrong, the disappointment after the 918 incident again and again has made the people in the city lose confidence in driving the Japanese away, and they can even be said to have become numb. In addition, after the Anti-Japanese Union entered the city, it never used artillery to fight. In the eyes of the common people, your equipment will not work without artillery.
Back then, the equipment was so good, the Ninth Brigade of the Northeast Army Cavalry stationed in Kailu surrendered without a fight, and you can still beat the Japanese with these few guns? I'm afraid it's still like the volunteers who either ran to the pass, or it didn't take long for the head to hang on the city wall. You can't beat and run, so what about the people? It's not eye-catching for little devils to kill people, and the people will be unlucky if you leave.
As for the previous battles on the north bank of the West Liao River, for the Chinese people, who have always paid attention to hearing as false and seeing as believing, as long as they did not see it with their own eyes, they naturally would not know that they believed that the equipment of the Chinese would still be above the Kwantung Army. The Japanese army that can be seen as powerful in their eyes, boasting in the puppet Manchurian newspapers all day long about how many armies they have defeated, is a lot of fart.
If the Chinese really have the ability to defeat the Japanese, how can most of China be occupied? I've been disappointed for too long, and people's hearts have been cooled. Compared with the strength that the Anti-Japanese Federation has not yet shown, the common people are more worried about the ensuing retaliation of the Japanese army.
How powerful the Anti-Japanese Federation is, under the strict blockade of the Japanese, the common people in Tongliao City do not know. But they know how many methods the Japanese used to kill people. In the wolf-dog pen in the Japanese gendarmerie at the south gate, how many people were not thrown in that month? The Japanese wolf dogs eat people, and the eyes of the Chinese are red when they see them on the street.
Under years of high pressure, the precarious life has completely numbed the nerves of the people. There is no hope that he will be able to break free from the cruel rule of the Japanese. Nanwang Wang Shi year after year, but year after year, all he got was complete disappointment.
And what really convinces the common people is that in addition to the guns that they are not unfamiliar with, the other main ones are cannons. After all, the previous Northeast Army also had artillery, and although the common people didn't know what was going on with this thing, everyone was no stranger to it.
As for the power, it must be that the thicker the barrel, the better. Wasn't the great general cannon of the Qing Dynasty back then that the thicker the barrel, the farther it hit? What other tanks, planes, and how powerful do the people know that thing is? Anyway, in the eyes of ordinary people, the more cannons you have and the thicker the barrel, the stronger your team will be.
Most of the people in the Northeast are familiar with guns. Before the September 18 Incident, although compared with the warlord melee areas in the Guannai, the overall shape of the Northeast was still relatively stable. However, the number of bandits in the Northeast is almost the highest in the country, and the number of civilian guns in the entire Northeast is definitely one of the best in the country.
Not only the Northeast Army and police, but also the rich and big landlords have guns, and even those ordinary people have guns at home. Even before the 918 Incident, there was a special, and very popular industry in Tongliao City, which specialized in repairing guns and manufacturing earthen guns. There used to be a repair shop of the Northeast Army in Tongliao City, where people with good hands and eyes could buy guns there for a little money.
In the Northeast, bullets, like opium, can be traded openly and can even be used as a semi-circulating currency. Of course, this is the same for all of China, and the Northeast is just one of the more typical examples. But the guys in the hands of the Northeast people back then were not comparable to those local tyrants in Guannai.
The ubiquity of guns, as well as the familiarity with guns, make the common people here think that your guns are nothing? No matter how many guns you have, how many Japanese are you? Before the 918 Incident, there were many guns in circulation in Northeast China, including Japanese-made Golden Hook Rifles and 38 Gais. People not only have the ability to arm themselves with a strong army, but also have the ability to export to China, do you have the ability to do so?
These Japanese-made guns, along with water rifles and box guns, are the most numerous guns owned by the people of Tohoku. On the contrary, the Hanyang-made guns, which are more widely circulated in Kannai, are not used in the wealthy Tohoku. Only the worst bandits and impoverished hunters use these old things.
The really wealthy people, the caretakers or those high-end goods made in the Czech Republic and Belgium, and the most common ones are the Japanese man-made gold hook rifles and 38 big covers. Compared with the expensive Czech-made and Belgian-made, the cheaper Japanese-made Golden Hook Rifle and the 38 Big Cover, as well as the Water Lianzhu rifle flowing from the hands of the White Russians who retreated to the Northeast, were more numerous because of their cheapness.
Before the commander of the Eighth Army of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, he had two pistols and four golden hook rifles at home, and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and he was just a landowner in Yilan back then. In terms of land area and property, it is not even average in the Northeast. But it was such a landowner who had six guns in his hands.
The commander of the anti-coalition army, who first resisted Japan and then surrendered to the enemy, also relied on the first time to collect the civilian guns in the Tulong Mountain area, and armed thousands of troops in a short period of time. And won a lot of battles in a row, and also killed Iizuka Asago Daisa, who is known as the father of the Manchurian Pioneer Regiment.
And this is just the Tulong Mountain area in the eastern mountains of Yilan, so many guns and ammunition have been obtained, and the number of guns in the entire Northeast can be imagined. At the beginning of the establishment of the various ministries of the Anti-Japanese Federation, the source of weapons also mostly relied on the collection of civilian firearms. After the September 18 incident, in order to suppress the resistance of the Chinese, the Japanese cut off the source of weapons and ammunition for the anti-coalition and confiscated civilian guns on many occasions, with the number of hundreds of thousands.
It is precisely because the number of guns in the people is too large that the familiarity of the common people is high. Therefore, the common people think that the number of guns you have does not mean anything, and it is no different from the huge beard of the powerful people who wandered in the northeast back then. In the eyes of most people, more artillery means real strength. With artillery, you are the army, and it truly represents your strength. If not, then it's a beard.
Although this sense of the common people has lagged behind the trend of the world's weapons and equipment development, after all, this is a poor, backward China in which most areas are relatively closed. Looking at whether an army is strong or not, it is still based on one's own feelings. That is, what they can understand, the most intuitive, and what they all understand.
Wang Jun, who was worried that it would cause innocent casualties among the people in the city, but did not mobilize artillery to enter the city to participate in the battle, probably did not think about his decision at all. It also caused difficulties in finding guides and the wounded after entering the city, and even affected the operation of the troops.
Wang Jun mobilized these two heavy cannons into the city, but they didn't know how powerful these two large-caliber guns were. But looking at the thick barrel of the cannon, the common people's understanding of the confrontation alliance has obviously improved. After all, the one who has the strength in these years is the real uncle.
The Northeast Army had strength, and the beard did not dare to stay in one place, nor did he dare to attack a larger county seat. The Japanese had the strength to drive out the Northeast Army and establish Manchukuo. You keep saying that you are here to rescue the people of the Northeast, so you can take out your strength and take a look.