Chapter 369: Risky Attempt
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But Shiraishi Tomohisa also missed a point, the Huai River is too narrow compared to the Yangtze River, and Bengbu City is too close to the bank of the Huai River, and the scale of Bengbu City is not large, so although the Japanese 2nd Army troops can't come for a while, their artillery can easily shoot shells into Bengbu City from the north bank of the Huai River, and cooperate with the field division in the south to attack Bengbu. It must be known that the Japanese army crossed the Huai River from Bengbu, and naturally has a good understanding of the situation inside and outside the city of Bengbu, coupled with the guidance of reconnaissance planes, indirect shelling is not difficult for Jishu's skilled Japanese artillery
Although the Japanese army is now seriously short of heavy artillery, the Japanese 2nd Army, with 200,000 troops, is still equipped with 12 150mm howitzers, and there are many more 105mm and 75mm caliber field guns. With the strong artillery support of the 2nd Army, the Japanese 18th Division's attack was more courageous, causing unprecedented heavy casualties to the Japanese Column, although the 18th Division also suffered a lot of losses, and the Japanese Column had to take advantage of the fight, but once the combatable troops were reduced to less than 10,000 people, the more than 12,000 Japanese prisoners of war in the city would become extremely dangerous, and a terrible thought unconsciously appeared in Shiraishi Tomohisa's heart, "Or, kill them all?" ”
But soon Shiraishi Tomohisa secretly shook his head, after all, they are all his own compatriots, as long as it is not a last resort, he will still try not to kill if he can, but he will never pin his hopes on good luck, so while sending a telegram to Hu Weidong again to ask for help and report the battle situation, Shiraishi Tomohisa had an extremely bold idea.
"What? This is absolutely not a no-go! Political Commissar Matsumoto Shingo shook his head again and again when he heard this, "Comrade Division Commander, Chairman Mao taught us to analyze specific problems in detail. The Japanese army was deeply poisoned by bushido ideology and could not be quickly transformed through simple education like the warlord troops in China. You're going to make a big mistake when you're messing around like this! ”
"My comrade political commissar, if you don't try it, you can't say it's okay, is this a materialist attitude?". Shiraishi Tomohisa fiercely snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand, looked into Matsumoto Shingo's eyes without flinching and said in a deep voice, "Since there is a precedent like yours. We can at least think that there are always some people in the Japanese army who can complete the ideological transformation relatively quickly and take part in the great cause of Japan's liberation, and as long as we pay attention to the methods and control the numbers, there may not be any problems. Besides, in any case, it's always okay to start the preliminary work such as grievance education as soon as possible, right? ”
The serious expression on Matsumoto Shingo's face showed a hint of relaxation, and Tomohisa Shiraishi immediately hit the railroad while it was hot. "Comrade Political Commissar, you must know that the situation in Japan is very different from that of China, and if the Navy cannot be solved, even with the help of Chinese comrades. We will not be able to go back to our homeland and defeat the evil warlords and chaebols in order to liberate the suffering Japanese people. And all we can rely on is the political work of Liliang, which must be good enough to bring the junior officers and men of the navy to the side of the people, just like the October Revolution of that year. To this end, it is far from enough to learn from the Chinese comrades step by step, we must find out a working method suited to Japan's national conditions, and let the experiment of innovation begin today. ”
"You are right, but the report should be signed with my name and sent to the General Headquarters of the Group Army in the name of the Party Committee of the division and regiment." , Shingo Matsumoto finally nodded, and even offered to take political risks with Tomohisa Shiraishi. As a matter of fact, this is precisely the tradition that the 15 th Group Army has formed since the beginning of its troops in Jiangxi; when they are in a lower post, they must take the lead in charging, and the more dangerous the task, the more they must rush to take over; even if they are promoted to a senior post where they no longer need to take the lead, the work is also very difficult to do; on the one hand, they must not interfere too much in military command, and on the other hand, they must take the initiative to share the responsibility when something goes wrong. In a sense, the political workers of the 15 th Group Army were the most difficult of the Red Party armies, and the officers and men of the Japanese Column, although of different nationalities, clearly inherited these traditions
It is precisely because of this that although Shiraishi Tomohisa has always been conceited, he has always respected Matsumoto Shingo who has relatively mediocre talents. However, now is not the time to be moved, and the phrase "time is life" often said by Hu Weidong, commander-in-chief of the group army, is really very appropriate for the present, and although Shiraishi Tomohisa is only a military commander, he has always had a lot of ideas, but he still took some time out of his power to help Matsumoto Shingo improve the trial program of grievance education and several criteria for selecting prisoners of war to be integrated into the army to fight. As a result, to the surprise of Tomohisa Shiraishi, the initiator, the grievance education, which he did not place much hope in, was an unexpected success
In fact, a long time ago, Hu Weidong applied the grievance education to the ideological transformation of the Japanese prisoners of war, but the effect was very disappointing, so that Hu Weidong even came to the conclusion that the grievance education was not effective for the captured Japanese soldiers, if it were not for the time now, Shiraishi Tomohisa could not think of any other way, and would not have fought this idea, but the result was very surprising to him, and the captured Japanese soldiers, especially the young soldiers, took the initiative to report and expose those officers and veterans who abused and bullied them, and it was not uncommon for them to cry bitterly as they spoke. Tomohisa Shiraishi, who was quite surprised by this, later reported the matter to Hu Weidong, and Hu Weidong, who already had a lot of experience in converting prisoners of war, immediately slapped his thigh and understood why there was such a big difference before and after.
It turned out that although the hierarchical oppression within the Japanese army had long existed, the Japanese prisoners of war captured by the 15th Army had already completed their training and had long been accustomed to this, plus they could bully or even enslave those Japanese soldiers who joined the army later than them at that time or in the future, so their psychology was much more balanced, so they were no longer as painful as when they first joined the army, and even many people thought that these unwritten rules were taken for granted.
And now most of these little devils captured by the Japanese have just enlisted in the army, and the poison of militaristic ideology is relatively shallow, but more importantly, they have come from the homes of their parents who are pampered and cared for by their parents to the army where officers and veterans wantonly bully and drive them, and the psychological gap is far greater than that of those seniors who are generally older than him when they enlist. But these little devils just didn't have that time, just when the dissatisfaction and hatred in their hearts were still very strong, they became captives of the sun, and the resentment in their hearts gushed out like a volcanic eruption in the grievance education, and the effect of education was naturally very different from the original shiyan (to be continued. )