Rebirth: I am in Jin-Cha-Ji

Although they could read, they did not know what the Eighth Route Army was. Was it the Northeast Army, the Volunteer Army, or the Anti-Japanese United Army?

Anyway, the whole Fuxin was in an uproar.

Soon, more accurate information spread among the coal miners. Some workers whose families were in Fuxin were unlikely to leave with the army. Only those with few family members were unwilling to continue working in the coal mines and were willing to leave with the Eighth Route Army.

However, even the workers who stayed behind had a very favorable impression of the Eighth Route Army.

One reason for this was the "special workers" who dared to fight the Japanese and puppet troops in the mining area. They dared to argue with the guards, to fight for their own interests, and even to unite and fight the guards.

But they were very hostile to the guards, but very good to the workers.

No matter what problems any worker encountered, they would do their utmost to help. As a result, these "special workers" enjoyed a particularly good reputation within the mining area. Many workers also learned from them about the Anti-Japanese War in the interior of China and that they were part of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, led by the Chinese Communist Party.

Another reason is that they saw the Eighth Route Army troops with their own eyes.

The Eighth Route Army troops suddenly appeared in Fuxin like gods. They wiped out the seemingly powerful and fierce mining area guards and the police. This alone was enough to make them feel good about the Eighth Route Army.

Because of them, the people in Fuxin soon knew about it.

The troops that broke through Fuxin this time were the Eighth Route Army, a force of the same nature as the Anti-Japanese United Army. Suddenly, the Eighth Route Army became very famous in the area.

Chapter 509: Kusaba Tatsumi's Anger

Such a big thing happened in Fuxin.

According to common sense, the Japanese and puppet troops should have reacted quickly, sending troops in pursuit. However, the actual situation was completely different from what Wei Hongjun and his team had expected. The Japanese and puppet troops in Northeast China did not immediately pursue the evacuating troops. Because it was not until noon the next day that the commander of the Kwantung Army Defense Force, Kusaba Tatsumi, received accurate information.

Or it was only at this time that Caochang Chenyi learned that such a big thing had happened in Fuxin.

As for what exactly happened, Caochang Chenyi still has no idea.

The truth is, these pampered, pseudo-policemen in Northeast China, with nothing to do all day, have become so overpowered. They're all gorged with fat, plundering the people like two men, but otherwise they're completely vulnerable. A police brigade of 300 or 400 men is well-equipped. Not only do most men have Type 38 rifles, but there are also plenty of box guns. Some established police brigades even have several light machine guns. Yet, faced with an attack from only 100 or 200 men, many simply surrender. They never considered fighting the Eighth Route Army to the death.

Compared with the police brigades that participated in the Japanese army's punitive expeditionary force and suppressed the Anti-Japanese United Army a few years ago, their combat effectiveness has dropped several levels. When suppressing the Anti-Japanese United Army, the combat effectiveness of these police brigades was still quite good.

Of course, most of the police brigades that participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Anti-Japanese United Army were transferred to Jidong and Rehe, where they were successively annihilated by the Eighth Route Army. The current police brigades in Northeast China were all reorganized later.

Many of these newly formed police brigades, like the puppet police in Fuxin, had never even fired a gun. The guns they held were used solely to intimidate the people. Using guns to bully the people was fine, but forcing these puppet police, who had never fired a gun, to engage in combat was a complete joke. Especially since they were completely unprepared, they simply gave up resistance when the Eighth Route Army attacked them so suddenly.

Due to time constraints, not all police stations in Fuxin were closed down.

But about the same.

Before leaving, they not only blew up the coal mines but also cut all external power and telephone lines. They also destroyed the railway in Fuxin. As a result, the Japanese and puppet troops were completely unprepared for this sudden situation.

It should be said that the Japanese and puppet troops were too comfortable in the Northeast.

They only knew that something had happened in Fuxin, but they were not as anxious as they had imagined. This was because they were very confident in this area because there were no Kuomintang troops or Eighth Route Army troops around.

Therefore, they first contacted Fuxin, but when the call was unsuccessful, they sent someone to Fuxin to investigate and see what had happened. After discovering a major incident in Fuxin, they hurriedly reported it to Caochang Chenyi. By this time, it had already been seven or eight hours since the Sun family and their group had left Fuxin.

Sun Jiahe was genuinely worried that the Kwantung Army would dispatch troops directly in pursuit of them, sending aircraft to bomb them. That's why he fled so hastily. Otherwise, Fuxin, as a coal mining base, would have been teeming with Japanese merchants, various Japanese institutions, traitorous regimes, and traitorous merchants. But in his haste to leave, he had no time to deal with them. Unfortunately, he had truly overestimated these puppet police forces, who hadn't seen combat in years. They were so slow to even investigate what was happening.

The Sun family and their troops were evacuating by train and had already reached Chaoyang. They were also preparing to enter the mountain road from Chaoyang. Caochang Chen had only just received the news.

"What exactly is going on? What happened in Fuxin? We have so many police agencies in Fuxin, and yet they let so many coal miners escape? How many people were there? Where did the troops come from?"

Cao Changchen was furious after seeing this unclear report.

What is this.

A bunch of losers, they didn't even know how they were killed.

There were so many coal miners in Fuxin, and a lot of them had escaped. How could Caochang Chenyi not be angry about this?

"Commander, they don't know either. They only know they were probably Eighth Route Army troops. When they evacuated Fuxin, they wrote slogans with "Eighth Route Army" written at the end."

"Don't know? Damn, why does the Empire keep these rubbish like them?"

Cao Changchen was really angry.

These puppet policemen in Manchuria, armed with weapons and salaries provided by the Kwantung Army, operated in this way. Although Cao Changchen knew these puppet policemen couldn't fight, he hadn't expected them to be so vulnerable. How could thousands of policemen be wiped out overnight? He couldn't believe it. How could such a thing happen?

If he could, he really wanted to shoot all these fake policemen.

But it doesn't work.

After all, although the Japanese army was powerful in the Northeast, the regular army was defending the Soviet army in the north. If they wanted to control the vast Northeast region, they still needed these puppet regimes, these puppet Manchukuo troops, and puppet police.

But these puppet Manchukuo troops and puppet police are really disappointing.

In fact, Kusaba Tatsumi had made a lot of efforts to change this situation, such as appointing Japanese as the head of the puppet police. However, the Japanese police officers he sent were okay at the beginning.

But after a while, he started to get involved with those fake policemen.

What?

They bullied the people together, embezzled and smuggled together, and divided the money together.

The puppet Manchukuo army also began to recruit a large number of Japanese. Now many puppet Manchukuo troops were one-quarter or one-fifth Japanese. But even with the addition of Japanese, the combat effectiveness still did not improve.

Because the Japanese reinforcements for the puppet Manchukuo army were mostly retired soldiers or villagers from Northeast China, these individuals had no desire to fight. Their presence in the Manchukuo army was of no use in improving its combat effectiveness. Instead, it caused significant conflict between these Japanese and the original officers and soldiers of the Manchukuo army. Constant internal conflicts between the two sides resulted in combat effectiveness not only failing to improve, but actually declining.

What's even funnier is that when the puppet Manchukuo army was surrounded by the Eighth Route Army and surrendered, the first to surrender were not the original puppet Manchukuo officers and soldiers, but the Japanese reinforcements.

This situation made Caoba Chen very angry.

The puppet Manchukuo army and puppet police had to be used, but after using them, Sheng Caochang Chen had already started to look at the map.

Analyze the origins of these troops and where they will go. After all, such a combat-capable force can't just appear out of thin air. The puppet police are indeed incompetent, but there are no bandits in the Northeast who can easily deal with so many puppet police. Only a regular army with strong combat capabilities can create such a storm in a single night.

Caochang Chenyi finally set his sights on Chifeng.

"These are troops from the newly formed Ji-Re-Cha Military Region of the Eighth Route Army. They are the only ones capable of crossing the mountains and entering Fuxin quietly. How many 'special workers' have escaped from Fuxin?"

"All the special workers in the surrounding coal mines fled. Even many ordinary workers followed them. A simple calculation shows that more than 10,000 workers fled this time.

"Ten thousand people?"

Cao Changchen couldn't help but sigh.

So many people ran away.

Japan is currently in dire need of coal, and the country needs a lot of it. It is precisely because of this lack of coal that they are forcing these "special workers" to work in the mines, regardless of their identities.

Because they are really short of people now.

In the past, Li Zhenjun and his men, who led the Xinqiu uprising, would have been killed by the Japanese. However, most of them were simply relocated to the Gaode Coal Mine because the Japanese had set a target for them to produce a certain amount of coal each month.

That's why they let Li Zhenjun and more than 200 others go.

Unexpectedly, over 10,000 people ran away this time. This meant that the Fuxin coal mine was basically paralyzed. Cao Changchenyi suddenly thought of something and asked, "What's the situation at the coal mine in Fuxin?"

“When they evacuated, they blew up the coal mines.

"idiot."

Cao Changchen was furious.

The Fuxin coal mine brings more than three million tons of coal to Japan every year.

But how could he explain this to his family back home? Furious, Caochang Chenyi immediately looked back at the map. He looked at Chaoyang, Fuxin, and then Chifeng.

Start calculating in your mind.

A team of more than 10,000 people wanted to walk five or six hundred miles along the mountain road.

Even though most of them were former soldiers, they were definitely not in the best physical condition they once were after working in the coal mines for so long. For so many people to walk five or six hundred miles would take at least ten days to half a month.

If we send troops to pursue them, we should be able to catch up in time.

It's a pity that the Eighth Route Army is so cunning and blows up the railway at every turn. Otherwise, we could use the railway to reach Chifeng directly.

At this moment, one of his staff officers rushed in and said, "Commander, we've just received news. Four police stations in Chaoyang were also captured by Eighth Route Army troops last night. According to them, there were over 2,000 Eighth Route Army troops in Chaoyang last night."

"More than two thousand?"

Kusaba Tatsumi didn't really believe their report.

More than two thousand people?

If there are really so many troops, can they capture four police stations?

What a joke.

It’s no problem to shoot down Chaoyang.

"Draw five garrison squadrons from each of the Third and Fifth Independent Garrison Corps to form a punitive force. Appoint Major General Onitake Goichi as commander. Pursue them. They must be heading towards Chifeng."

"Yes."

Chapter 510 The Power of Submachine Guns

The Japanese army ruled Northeast China for many years.

There are extensive railway lines and well-developed highways in the Northeast.

After Cao Changchen issued the order, the Third and Fifth Garrison each dispatched five garrison squadrons and began to assemble along the railway. Although the railways around Chaoyang and Fuxin were blown up before leaving, the Japanese army still assembled quickly.

In just one day, a 1500-member expeditionary force assembled in Chaoyang.

Then depart from Chaoyang.

To avoid bombing raids by Japanese aircraft, Li Wanfu led his troops on main roads at night and hid in the mountains during the day. However, after the Japanese army assembled, they began to mobilize trucks from the surrounding areas. Since the September 18th Incident, they had begun to control the Northeast, which was their stronghold.

It's too easy to withdraw the car.

150 cars set out from Chaoyang and pursued along the highway.

Although cars of this era weren't very fast, they were still cars after all. A 20-kilometer trip in an hour was no problem. If necessary, you could even travel from Chaoyang to Chifeng in a single day.

Why talk about mechanized troops?

Because the mobility of mechanized troops is strong.

Unfortunately, when the Japanese expeditionary force set out, they found the situation was not so easy. Before leaving, Li Wanfu had planted a large number of mines on the road. There were mines buried at intervals along the road.

Less than ten miles after setting off, two vehicles were destroyed by mines.

Guiwu Wuyi was very angry.

However, Gui Wuyi was promoted to the position of general in the encirclement and suppression of the Anti-Japanese United Army, so he didn't care about these tactics. He didn't believe they could lay mines on all the roads. So after a simple disposal, the troops continued their march.

The situation of the troops who were evacuating at this time was not very good either.

too many people.

Many people are injured or weak.