"Those leaders of the guerrillas, lock them up alone. Don't let them come into contact with the people below, but don't make things difficult for them. We'll also deal with the guerrilla captives later ~"
Yanagawa immediately gave another order. Takano Osamu, who was next to him, was very confused. He did not understand why he gave such an order.
"Liu Chuan-kun, what are you doing?"
Osei Takano frowned.
"I'm afraid that these leaders will realize that I'm lying to the commander. If they resist, the situation will be difficult to deal with. Even if these leaders react, they won't be able to resist. They don't have any soldiers, so they can only curse a few times."
Liu Chuan explained. Of course, he wouldn't say that he was protecting these leaders.
"Do you want to keep it a secret?"
Onishi Takano made a throat-cutting gesture. His meaning was simple. Since he was afraid that these people would resist, he might as well kill them.
"No way ~ Although the guerrillas are also a kind of army, there is actually not much military discipline to speak of. The leader commands the soldiers under him based on his own prestige.
They have a lot of prestige in the hearts of the soldiers below. Once we kill these people, the news will spread, and it will be difficult for us to accept prisoners of war.
Moreover, if they were to be detained alone, they would only know that they had been deceived after we completed the encirclement and suppression plan. It would not be too late to deal with them slowly when the time came.”
Liu Chuan looked at Takano Osamu and said.
" Yuxi, Yanagawa-kun is indeed far-sighted. I'll wait for Yanagawa-kun to make a great contribution to the empire."
Osamu Takano laughed.
"Haha, let's go. Now that the Bronze Mountain guerillas have surrendered, let's hurry to the next target. Takano-kun also has a share of this great merit ~"
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The Japanese's sweeping plan began. A total of 170,000 troops swept through the area, divided into three layers.
This was the first time that the civilians had not been violated.
In the past, when the Japanese swept up the country, didn't they cause a ruckus among the people? These Japanese people were really like ghosts entering the village. They would rob anything valuable. After robbing, they would kill you. Not only would they kill you, but they would also burn down your house.
However, this time, the Japanese were like good old people. They only searched for guerillas and did not rob the people or bully them. They did not loot as if they were looting the land.
This made many commoners heave a sigh of relief. They did not understand what was going on with the Japanese today. However, no matter what, it was a good thing that the Japanese did not rob them.
How could these people know that the traitor Liu Chuan had been planning for this for a long time? He had tried his best to deceive the old devil, Eternal Turtle Shiro.
However, they didn't know that when they woke up tomorrow, they would still call Liu Chuan a traitor. This couldn't be changed. However, Liu Chuan needed their scolding.
The more they scolded him, the safer Liu Chuan would be. The more the Japanese would not suspect him. Once they stopped scolding him, the Japanese would start to suspect him. This was how the world worked.
When you get something, you lose something. Liu Chuan lost his reputation, but he gained the Japanese's trust, which meant that he was one step closer to success.
On the contrary, if he gained a reputation, he would lose the trust of the Japanese and he would never succeed. The scolding of these people inadvertently became a stepping stone on Liu Chuan's path to success.
The Japanese were still sweeping the area. Many of the guerillas who had received orders from the commander had surrendered, but not all of them. There was also a portion of the guerrillas who would rather die than surrender.
Even though they were surrounded by the Japanese, they still fought until the last person. They did not surrender until they died. Even if Liu Chuan went to persuade them, he could not change the fate of these people.
Since ancient times, there had been no shortage of people who pleaded for the lives of the people, no shortage of people who carried justice with iron shoulders, no shortage of people who threw eggs at rocks, and no shortage of people who fought for the country.
They were the backbone of the nation and the hope of the nation. Flesh and blood could not forge a steel wall, but they could forge an iron-like will. Looking back at history, we can always find heroes who gave up personal honor and disgrace for the sake of national justice.
Those who died in battle became tombstones for future generations, while those who survived continued history. This was an unchanging principle.
With a warm smile on their faces, they looked at the corpses that the Japanese gathered and burned, but their hearts were crying for them. In the history books of the future, we only saw two words for them-martyrs!
These two words were written in blood!!!!!
No matter what the outcome was, the Japanese did not stop their sweep because of the death of the guerrillas. On the contrary, the Japanese seemed to be more proactive because of the death of the guerrillas.
There were those who shed blood on the battlefield, those who surrendered in accordance with the military command, and those who fled.
Not everyone would listen to the military commander's orders. At least Liu Chuan had seen many guerrilla groups break up and run away in disguise, such as the railway guerrillas in Zaozhuang.
Those who died in battle, those who surrendered, and those who ran away, Liu Chuan had seen many things along the way.
Those who ran away could only say that they were smart. The Japanese had sent so many troops to surround and sweep the area. Naturally, they were not something that the guerrillas could resist.
Liu Chuan could only say a word of pity to those who died in battle.
Liu Chuan could only think that it was a good idea to surrender according to the commander's order.
It was already late August. The Japanese had been on the mission for about a month and a half. According to the current statistics, more than 20,000 guerillas had died in battle, and more than 30,000 guerillas had surrendered to Liu Chuan according to the pre-arranged arrangements.
There were also some who ran away. It was impossible to count them. Perhaps there were 10,000 or 20,000 people. Who knew?
In such a large area of 50,000 to 60,000 square kilometers, there were as many guerrillas as there were hairs on an ox. Perhaps they could not be seen in the cities, but in the rural areas below, where the Japanese's rule was weak, who knew how many guerrillas there were?
This time, Yongsheng Kuishiro handed over all 30,000 people to Liu Chuan. Just like what Liu Chuan said earlier, he handed them over to him. He wanted to be an example, so that the guerilla forces would become fewer and fewer in the future.
Therefore, he handed the Eternal Turtle Shiro over to him. However, two years later, when the Eternal Turtle Shiro recalled this matter, he was still filled with regret and hatred. He personally cultivated a person to destroy the Japanese.
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After the Japanese finished their sweep, everyone returned to their homes and looked for their mothers. Everything seemed to have returned to peace. The more than 20,000 people who had died on the battlefield seemed to have never existed in this world.
There were hundreds of thousands of guerillas in the enemy's territory. The Japanese were not too sure about the exact number of guerillas in the territory of the Luxi government. They did not know the exact number, but after the sweep, especially after the surrender of more than 30,000 guerillas, the number of guerillas in the territory of the Luxi government was reduced by more than two-thirds.
For this, Yongsheng Guishilang, the lieutenant general of the 35th division, received a commendation from Commander Tada of the North China dispatch army.
Liu Chuan had also received a commendation telegram from the commander of the North China Army. This was not the main point. The main point was that the Japanese had sent a message to Liu Chuan asking him to go to Beiping. He had important matters to report to Liu Chuan.
The development of the situation was beyond Liu Chuan's expectations, but he could feel that there might be a greater opportunity waiting for him.
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