It can be said that every city experienced tremendous suffering when it fell.
For example, a reporter once recorded the tragic situation of the fall of Liuhe:
There was no one in the city, the government officials had already left, and the general public had fled to the countryside, leaving only a few old and weak remnants.
The scoundrels and scoundrels seemed to have been organized and premeditated, taking advantage of the opportunity to rob, and even set fire to it. Most of the essence of the shopping mall was burned, and no one in the city was spared. The local chaos had reached an extreme.
Similar to Liuhe, Changzhou was also miserable.
Even more tragic.
Before the city fell, it had been bombed four times by Japanese planes. Fires broke out in the city, and people were killed in their homes. The fires spread and burned for four days and nights.
At the same time, some gangsters suddenly rushed onto the streets, causing chaos, shooting everywhere, and looting at will. The city was in chaos, fires broke out everywhere, and people ran away. This was a time of panic and chaos.
After the fall, Suzhou and Wuxi were also in a tragic situation. Shops and houses were looted on an unprecedented scale, boxes were rummaged through, and money and clothing were confiscated.
"There are murders and looting everywhere inside and outside the city." Similarly, there are also cases of local ruffians burning, killing and looting.
There was an investigation report within the military command last year, and Cheng Qianfan, as the leader of the Shanghai Special Intelligence Team, was also qualified and had a stake in knowing about it.
After investigation, it was found that the burning, killing and chaos that occurred in many cities before and after the fall were indeed caused by some ruffians and scoundrels who took the opportunity to cause chaos. However, in addition, the Japanese also played an extremely important role in guiding and commanding.
In order to create maximum panic among the Chinese people and disrupt the fighting will of the Chinese army, Japanese agents would arrange for local ruffians who had already been contacted to launch operations before and after the city was breached. These people waved flags welcoming the locust army to launch riots, and quickly Inspire more rogue gangsters to participate.
In fact, while Japan is advancing military operations, it will often use agents to instigate and recruit traitors, taking the opportunity to create chaos. In this way, residents flee frantically, fires spread, prisoners escape, bandits commit crimes, and ruffians take advantage of the chaos to rob the entire city. Order was lost and the army lost its will to fight.
Then, after the Japanese army occupied the city, they would take advantage of the situation and kill a group of gangsters to prove that they had 'brought peace and sincerity', and then traitors, big and small, would work together to advocate the friendship of the Japanese. This clumsy method could often receive a certain amount of publicity. Effect.
Finally, the Japanese military will immediately identify influential figures in the area to form a maintenance committee, through which the local order will be restored and military supplies and daily necessities will be provided.
For example, when the Japanese army was stationed in Liuhe, they "visited the elders, looked for impartial gentry, and came out to maintain order." They even used "move with emotion and reason with" Xie Heling (a retired official of the Kuomintang) who was unwilling to "cooperate" with them. The method is "persuasion".
So the Liuhe Maintenance Committee, headed by Xie, Zheng, and Wang, and including several staff members, was established.
In this way, maintenance committees were established in various places. At the same time, the Japanese army recruited the remaining gangsters who burned, killed, and looted. Some of them belonged to the maintenance committees to serve as armed forces, and some were incorporated into puppet troops, responsible for maintaining local security. Suppress the anti-Japanese forces.
What Cheng Qianfan was thinking about at this moment was the situation in Wuxi.
To be precise, it is the situation in Wuxi that maintains the meeting.
At first, after the Japanese army occupied Wuxi, because the local gentry was unwilling to come forward, the Japanese army used coercion and inducement to establish a maintenance committee.
In Messi's case, the Japanese army directly used kidnapping to bring together famous gentlemen to organize a maintenance meeting. If they were unwilling to join the maintenance meeting, they threatened to kill them. This was how they 'successfully' established the maintenance meeting.
Thinking of this, Cheng Qianfan also tended to think that Ohta Yuichi's judgment was correct:
Our New Fourth Army may indeed be operating in Meicun right now.
The maintenance meeting in Plum Village was established under coercion by the Japanese. These people were not willing to be traitors.
When the maintenance committee is determined to do things for the Japanese, the local gentry and celebrities in these places can create huge trouble for the anti-Japanese armed forces.
On the other hand, if the Maintenance Committee was making false concessions to the Japanese, it was actually secretly supporting the anti-Japanese resistance, which would be able to provide great help to the anti-Japanese armed forces.
With the Meicun Maintenance Committee secretly helping to cover it up, Meicun is indeed a very good foothold for the New Fourth Army to march eastward to fight against Japan.
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"What bad effects will it have?" Ohta Yuichi frowned and asked.
"The areas of influence of the rebels, especially the areas controlled by the Chinese army, have always been besieged by the empire on all sides. This has led to a huge demand for supplies in these places, and in order to obtain supplies, their prices will be much higher than other customers. "Cheng Qianfan talked eloquently.
"So, if I make too much more than usual because of this, I'm worried that my men will eat the marrow and know the taste." Cheng Qianfan shook his head, "Although these guys are loyal to me, they are more loyal to money."
Ohta Yuichi looked at Kentaro Miyazaki and cursed in his heart.
This guy had just vowed that his Jiujiu Trading Company would never have any business dealings with the New Fourth Army. However, judging from these remarks, this is obviously not the case.
Even if there is no business dealings with the areas controlled by the New Fourth Army, there must be business dealings with the areas controlled by the Kuomintang army.
"The Red Party's New Fourth Army is an army of beggars. Miyazaki-kun, don't worry, they won't have money to buy your goods." Ohta Yuichi said.
Then he saw Kentaro Miyazaki's solemn and worried expression, and nodded in agreement, as if to say:
'That's what I'm worried about'.
"Ota-kun, if I agree to your proposal." Cheng Qianfan looked at Ohta Yuichi, frowned, and asked worriedly, "According to Ota-kun's guess, assuming that there is a New Fourth Army in Plum Village, and my people transport goods there, if the New Fourth Army To seize the goods..."
Ohta Yuichi shook his head. He wanted to say, 'The New Fourth Army is not a locust army and will not rob merchants of their goods. '
However, these words really couldn't be said. Finally, Ohta Yuichi said, "According to my understanding, the New Fourth Army is very good at disguise. They promote fair trade and will not openly rob merchants of their goods."
"If they rob in private..." Cheng Qianfan shook his head and said, "A dangerous business trip is really too worrying..."
"Miyazaki-kun, you are an imperial agent. Please remember this. You are not a businessman who cares about everything and only has money in his eyes." Ohta Yuichi said in a deep voice, he was angry.
"Ota-kun, I dare not forget my identity and my mission." Cheng Qianfan also looked serious, and then he smiled bitterly, "Ota-kun, my personal loss is not worth mentioning, it's just..."
Bag duck falls!
Ohta Yuichi cursed in his mind, knowing the underlying meaning of Miyazaki Kentaro's words.
Kentaro Miyazaki uses the high-level stakeholders behind him to put pressure on him.
Who are the people behind Kentaro Miyazaki?
Ohta Yuichi doesn't know very well, but based on what he can guess at the moment, Sanbonjiro, the director of the Shanghai Special Higher Education Course, and Hyōtaro Imamura, the counselor of the Imperial Consulate General in Shanghai, must be involved.
In addition, it can be expected that there are also senior officials from the French Concession authorities, especially the patrol house.
Yuichi Ohta is not afraid of offending Kentaro Miyazaki. He can force Kentaro Miyazaki to cooperate with him. However, this guy has too many backers. Although Yuichi Ohta is not too afraid, it is best not to offend him if possible.
"Miyazaki-kun, this plan has been approved by the division commander and must be implemented." Yuichi Ohta looked at Kentaro Miyazaki and said. Seeing that his expression turned cold, he could only relax and added, "Of course , regarding the losses that Miyazaki-kun may suffer, we can discuss a mutually acceptable solution."
Hearing this, Cheng Qianfan, who had always had a gloomy expression and hinted of getting angry, immediately changed his face, his eyes glowed with surprise, and a touch of joy bloomed at the corner of his mouth, and he almost couldn't wait to say, "Ota-kun, are you serious about what you said?"
Ohta Yu felt bad for a moment, and even had a hint of regret about taking back what he just said. He felt that he had been tricked by Miyazaki, a cunning agent (businessman).
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