1932: Playing with the Japanese Communist Party with a doll

But being born into a bureaucratic landlord family, enjoying the preferential treatment of a young master when he was a child and later living in the city for a long time, he had never witnessed such a village massacre with his own eyes.

"Alright, alright, Mr. Zhou, stop hitting me, stop hitting me. If you kill me, there won't be any witnesses..."

Snow and Helen finally persuaded Lu Xun to stop by saying that "Fujiwara Kanezane would avenge them so the witness must be protected", but they were also extremely angry in their hearts.

During their research in Northeast China, they did see some criminal acts, but they were usually stopped on the spot by the police or the army, and then investigated and dealt with.

—All the random events that happened in various places told them that this was not Fujiwara no Kanezane deliberately putting on a show in front of them, but that he was truly trying to change the entire Northeast.

As a result, they were satisfied with the performance of the "puppet army", but when they were about to leave, they witnessed with their own eyes the atrocities committed by the counterattacking "national army"!

According to the "Three Represents" theory, who is qualified to rule China?

Seeing corpses of various sizes being carried out by Japanese soldiers and women covered in wounds hugging each other and crying, Lu Xun felt that his heart was broken along with something in his heart.

For the first time in months, he expressed his sincere gratitude to the soldiers who had protected them:

"Thank you, thank you for saving us, and thank you for saving these ordinary people."

The soldiers did not answer or speak immediately, but just did their work silently.

Over the past few months, they have become accustomed to this gentleman's temper and have become numb to it.

However, the leading officers looked at each other, and the two from the 386th Brigade spoke first:

"You're welcome, sir. This is our duty and mission." The other two from the Osaka Division also replied:

"If His Highness knew we saw this atrocity and didn't stop it, he would be furious."

Two different yet similar styles.

Lu Xun was clear about the origins of these similarities and differences.

The slogan of the 386th Brigade of the 129th Division was: "We would rather die of cold than demolish houses, and we would rather die of hunger than plunder!"

The 4th Division's motto was much simpler: "Until death, we will be loyal to His Highness Kanezane!"

There is no need to say much about the former. Anyone who knows something about Chinese history knows where this slogan came from. It is simple, clear, easy to understand, and has strong communication power.

It now seems that the latter's "loyalty! Sincerity!" is not only directed at Fujiwara no Kanezane himself, but also requires the entire army to be loyal to his ideals.

Fujiwara no Kanezane's ideals have been made very clear.

At this moment, after witnessing this tragedy and experiencing this extremely strong contrast, Lu Xun suddenly had a "traitor" thought in his heart that even he himself found incredible:

I really hope Fujiwara no Kanezane lives a long life and that he can always rule the Northeast.

Not to mention the Japanese Uchiyama Kanzo among the accompanying people, the idea of ​​"loyalty to the King" had already taken root. Even real "outsiders" like Snow and Helen couldn't help but sigh:

"Mr. Zhou, I'm afraid that Northeast China will never be able to return."

Three Represents, Three Represents, whether Fujiwara Kanezane can represent the people of Northeast China remains to be seen;

But what is certain is that the government can never represent...

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Yes, there is no going back.

Because these witnesses would never help the national army to conceal the incident, and instead they would be severely criticized.

This is their most basic conscience as a human being.

Once these things are exposed, will the people of Northeast China, who previously had doubts about the rule of the Japanese/Fujiwara no Kanezane, continue to have doubts?

Damn Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang!

Damn the Kuomintang reactionaries!

The village that the "Lu Xun Investigation Team" happened to pass through was lucky; "nothing more" than a few houses burned down, seven or eight people died, and most of the women of marriageable age in the village were raped.

But other villages, such as the one mentioned above, and those villages closest to the border between "Manchukuo" and North China and Inner Mongolia, were the ones that truly entered hell.

The cruelty of the "Homecoming Corps" not only exceeded Fujiwara no Kanezane's expectations, exceeded the imagination of Lu Xun and others, and even exceeded the imagination of the Kuomintang and the Northeast Army who sent them to the Northeast to sabotage the Japanese:

Any village invaded by the Homecoming Corps was subjected to arrests, looting, burning, killing, and pillage. This was only the most basic operation.

The most horrifying thing is that under the pretext of "eliminating traitors," they inflicted extremely cruel "punishments" on the masses:

Some had their limbs chopped off, and then were buried in a pit and suffocated to death. This was called a "living earth jar."

Some, like the village chief, had their ears and tongues cut off, their eyes gouged out, and then their chests and abdomens slit open with a knife and stabbed to death;

Some had their hair plucked out while they were still alive, their faces covered in blood, their hands and feet tied, and they were thrown into the water or even drowned in a cesspool.

Some women were tied to trees and gang-raped, and after their bestiality was released, they were killed by inserting red-hot iron rods into their vaginas.

Some had their skin and flesh cut into pieces with scissors, and when they had no more strength to wail, they were burned to death with flammable materials;

Some were stripped naked, doused with boiling water, had their blisters swept away with bamboo brooms, and were sprinkled with coarse salt, leaving them to die in agony.

They even targeted pregnant women and babies!

They first raped and gang-raped the pregnant women, then cut out the babies, splitting them along the legs, leaving only the skin and flesh, and dumping them face down into a red-hot pot, laughing and clapping their hands, calling it "poor devils trying to turn things around."

Whole families were wiped out, whole families were wiped out, whole villages were massacred, the relatives of the victims searched everywhere for the bodies, children cried for their mothers, and many desperate farmers who had lost family members hanged themselves.

The worst-hit village was one that was too far from the county town and too close to the "border". There was not a single survivor among the more than 200 people. Corpses were scattered all over the ground, with broken bones and flesh everywhere, left to be torn and eaten by wild dogs.

When the Japanese rescue force in charge of the area arrived, they only managed to capture a few soldiers of the Homecoming Corps who had broken their legs and were unable to escape in time. The Japanese captain of the Mori Company Independent Guard was so angry that he almost chopped them all to pieces alive.

It's despairing to think about how His Majesty Fujiwara, the Soldiers' Chamber of Commerce, and the Manchurian Ministry of Internal Affairs will investigate and hold people accountable for such a tragedy that has occurred in their jurisdiction.

"Damn it! Break the limbs of these bastards and send them to Fengtian to await trial by His Highness!"

After the tragedy at the border was exposed, even the commander of the Kwantung Army, Mutō Nobuyoshi, was amazed and called the National Army anti-human (inhuman).

Let’s put aside the scolding of bullshit for now. These things were soon all reported to Fujiwara Kanezane. He was planning to take a boat to the United States to make arrangements in advance, but suddenly froze.

According to preliminary statistics, more than 30 villages were attacked by the National Army and the Homecoming Corps, resulting in more than 1200 deaths, more than 900 serious injuries, and countless minor injuries and property losses.

You have to know that this was even after he anticipated the possibility of casualties among the Nationalist troops and ordered the relocation of some people to nearby counties for shelter. In addition, a small number of Northeastern troops could not tolerate such atrocities and took the initiative to stop the Homecoming Corps!

Damn it, my understanding of this era and the degree of inhumanity of some "people" is too shallow.

He thought about the Northeast Army and thought that even if something happened, it would not be a big deal. But he ignored the existence of the Homecoming Corps.

The ideas of humanoid creatures such as the Homecoming Group were beyond the prediction of Mark, a human.

Haha, they didn’t have the guts to fight the Japanese, but they not only had the guts to massacre their own people, but they were also very brave!!

"Someone! Prepare the planes! Return to Manchuria!"

With the roar from Hachiman Palace and hundreds of flawless orders from UMP40, the entire state machinery of Manchukuo was activated at an unimaginable speed.

A large number of students, medical staff, and civil servants were quickly organized and transported to the border by train to help rescue the attacked villages and injured villagers.

The 4th Division, the Independent Garrison, the 386th Brigade, the National Highway Guard, and even the police forces in the border areas began to assemble to suppress the rebellion and were ready to march south at any time;

At the same time, newspapers, radio stations throughout Northeast China and even Japan began to widely publicize the tragedy that occurred in the "National Army Counterattack", using text and photos to frantically denounce the atrocities of the National Army.

The first two are Manchukuo's internal affairs, and seem inconspicuous (although they are actually very awesome);

But as soon as the third thing happened, the whole of China, which was cheering the "National Army's Northeast Counterattack", was suddenly in an uproar.

Wait a minute... counterattack, isn't it counterattack against the Japanese? Why did the counterattack target 30 million compatriots in Northeast China? Why did they massacre the people of Northeast China?

The Kuomintang refuted this almost immediately, claiming that it was a slander by the Japanese.

A text description? That's made up! A photo in the face? That's a "staged photo"!

The villagers' own accounts and the confessions of captured soldiers? That was "tortured"!

fake!

They are all fake!

Maybe the Japanese did this themselves and then framed us!

Don’t forget the “Port Arthur Massacre”!

The Kuomintang is very familiar with this process of public opinion counterattack, especially those cadres with "rural experience".

"If the knife goes too far, the people must be replaced." The people in Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei and other places have long been accustomed to it, okay?

Therefore, the Kuomintang was not at all surprised that the Homecoming Corps and the Northeast Army could do such a thing, and they even believed it more than the common people.

However, they are more aware of one thing - the so-called "public outcry" now is just an "uproar" among the urban petty bourgeoisie and the literary world. Even if the common people know about it, they have no channels to speak out.

Therefore, as long as we can fool those petty intellectuals, the so-called "public outcry" will soon die down. After all, you can't expect these weak intellectuals to go to the Northeast to verify the facts, right?

In short, the KMT's rhetoric really fooled many Chinese people, especially the "gentlemen" who were high and mighty.

After all, Fujiwara no Kanezane cannot represent all Japanese, and he did not rule the Northeast for a long time, so it is impossible for him to change the image of "Japanese" in the minds of the Chinese people in an instant.

Since the Japanese were able to carry out the supposedly horrific "Port Arthur Massacre," why couldn't they massacre a village themselves and then frame the Nationalist army?

(Note: At this time, the Port Arthur Massacre had not yet been fully investigated, and quite a number of people were not even aware of its existence.)

It is indeed possible!

As a result, the two sides were evenly matched in the war of words.

However, an extremely unexpected interview statement instantly changed the balance.

"...I saw with my own eyes the Kuomintang troops burning, killing, and looting...When we tried to stop them, they even tried to kill us to silence us..."

The co-signers of this statement are all heavyweights:

Lu Xun, a great writer who was famous all over the world and had a very high reputation, and who cursed the Kuomintang every day but was not affected by Chiang Kai-shek;

Kanzo Uchiyama, a Japanese bookstore owner who is very famous in Shanghai and has a good reputation everywhere;

Helen Foster, secretary to the Consul General and journalist at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai; Paul Houston, diplomat at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai;

American journalist Edgar Snow.

Putting aside Lu Xun and Uchiyama Kanzo, if the three people mentioned above had any problems, the entire Nanjing government would have a hard time.

What's more, they stood up together to speak out, denounced the atrocities of the national army, and expressed gratitude to the "Japanese and puppet troops" for rescuing the people of Northeast China.

Regardless of whether it was difficult or not, their statement directly defeated all the propaganda forces of the Kuomintang.

You say the Japanese lied, and you say they lied too?

You said the people of Northeast China were bought off by the Japanese, and you said they were also bought off? You said the photos of the Japanese were all staged, and you said their photos were also staged?

The reputations of these people, especially Lu Xun, are so high that no one believes they would go against their conscience for a little money.

You said they were threatened?

But they said that the "investigation" in Northeast China has been completed and the investigation report will be published soon. Besides, when they issued the statement, they were already in Shanghai!

Well, even if the Japanese could threaten Lu Xun and Uchiyama Kanzo in Shanghai, could they threaten those Americans?

Do you believe this when you say it?

Therefore, once this "Statement by Mr. Lu Xun and others on the Nationalist Army's Massacre of Chinese People in Northeast China" was published, the entire Chinese public opinion was further inflamed;

Media outlets from the United States, Britain, France, and other countries followed suit, and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after receiving orders from Fujiwara no Kanezane, launched a fierce campaign. Even the propaganda forces of the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party joined in the condemnation.

Under pressure from all sides, Chiang Kai-shek, Zhang Xueliang, and the entire Kuomintang were instantly scolded like dogs.

Damn it, I've never heard of a counterattack that could hit one's own people!

(Well, in history, a dozen years later, you can still see the strange scene that after the Nationalist Army entered the Northeast, many people in the Northeast began to miss the Japanese because of their inhumanity.)

Some scholars wailed in the streets of Nanjing:

"I can't go back to the Northeast! I can't go back to the Northeast!"

Yes, even discerning people like Chen Bulei could see that the National Army's actions were a complete failure of character.

Everyone was expecting you to have a big shit, but you ended up having a huge shit?

Everyone thought the people in Northeast China were living in dire straits, but it turns out they are actually living a good life?

Everyone thought the people of Northeast China were looking south to the imperial army, but when the imperial army arrived, they took their heads as military merits?

So your legitimate Chinese government is not as good as the Japanese invader, right? There is no harm without comparison.

If the Nationalist army launches another counterattack on Northeast China, will the people of Northeast China still "eat and drink"?

Damn it! The reason we don't organize and drive your national army out is because everyone speaks Chinese and uses Chinese characters!

Of course, although public opinion was overwhelming and everyone was criticizing the Kuomintang, making both Young Marshal Zhang and Chairman Chiang extremely embarrassed and afraid to respond, there was still some noise.

For example, a certain "Dr. Hu," whose status as a traitor is still debatable, but whose existence is not doubted by anyone as a sophisticated egoist, denounced Lu Xun: