Glorious Mission 1937

The news that the Northern Air Force under the Eighth War Zone had achieved great victories in Northeast China and North Korea and that Chen Feng had a happy baby spread like wildfire. Immediately, congratulatory messages from all parties flew to the northern part of Saibei like a snowflake, just like when Xiao Xiangxiang was born three months ago That, but along with the good news there was also some nasty news.

On the morning of November 11, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a press conference in Tokyo. At the meeting, Japanese Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka complained to reporters from all over the world about the "atrocities" of Chen Feng's subordinates. The losses were notified. In Japan's notification to the outside world, the losses caused by yesterday's bombing to the Japanese army were negligible. In total, less than a hundred soldiers were killed or injured in the three places, and ordinary civilians would suffer countless casualties.

In particular, the bombing of Pyongyang by Chen Feng's troops directly caused more than 1 Japanese civilian casualties, and more than [-] North Koreans were killed, countless property losses, and the ancient city wall of Pyongyang and the Royal Palace were also destroyed.

At this reception, Japanese officials released 70 photos, mostly of the tragic situation in Pyongyang and Busan after the bombing. Except for some Japanese civilians, most of them are Koreans.In the words of Yosuke Matsuoka, this bombing was planned by Chen Feng's subordinates for a long time. It was a deliberate murder against the civilians of the Empire of Japan, which was a deliberate revenge by the Chinese people against the Empire of Japan.

This press conference quickly caused shocks around the world. A single bombing caused more than 2 civilian casualties, which is extremely rare at this time. Even the German bombing of the British mainland did not cause such tragic casualties.For a while, the news media in the United States, Britain and other countries all accused Chen Feng's troops of violating the spirit of humanitarianism. The accusations suffered by the Japanese before were now on the shoulders of Chen Feng's troops.

but.There are also some people who don't focus on this, such as Germany and the Soviet Union. They are more concerned about what kind of bombers or bombs are used by Chen Feng's air force to achieve such great results. Following their Japanese allies, they sent a telegram to Chen Feng, hoping to introduce this new type of bomber and aerial bomb.

Under the deliberate propaganda and instigation of the Japanese government, the Korean peninsula quickly triggered a storm of anti-Chinese. Just like the anti-Chinese movements in those Southeast Asian countries in later generations, the Chinese in North Korea were persecuted and shops were smashed.The storm first started in Pyongyang.Rapidly spread all over North Korea.It caused extremely serious harm to the lives and properties of overseas Chinese.

On November 11, the morning after the press conference held by the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dozens of North Koreans in the urban area of ​​Pyongyang, North Korea threw stones at shops and barbershops run by overseas Chinese.However, the local Japanese police station did not pay any attention to this, and did not strictly stop it.Things quickly spiraled out of control.The North Koreans dropped leaflets everywhere.Gather the crowd.At around 22:11 noon, as many as 3000 Koreans gathered in front of the Korean Royal Palace, and the anti-Chinese riots began.

The rioting North Koreans beat overseas Chinese whenever they saw them.All overseas Chinese shops and vegetable gardens were destroyed except for a Chinese street.By 8:9 p.m., the anti-Chinese atrocities became more rampant. At around [-]:[-] p.m. that night, more than ten thousand North Koreans in Pyongyang searched for Chinese nationals everywhere with wooden sticks, iron rods, knives and axes. .

As of 11 o'clock that night, a total of 87 overseas Chinese in Pyongyang were killed, 281 others were injured, more than 120 shops were smashed and burned, and property losses amounted to more than 20 yen.

Following the anti-Chinese riots in Pyongyang, anti-Chinese atrocities also appeared in various parts of North Korea. At 11:23 p.m. on November 7, mobs in Seoul armed with sticks, clubs, knives, axes, stones and other murder weapons, and carried flashlights, attacked the houses of overseas Chinese, regardless of farmers, businessmen, and businessmen. The people were beaten to death, destroyed their property, burned their accounts, and carried fuel for ignition, trying to set fire everywhere.

In just 5 hours, 308 overseas Chinese in Seoul died, 563 were injured, 13 were missing, and property losses amounted to 580 million yen.Outside of Seoul, serious atrocities similar to beating overseas Chinese and burning overseas Chinese shops also occurred in Busan, Wonsan, Sinuiju and other places.

At the same time, the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Chongqing also protested to the Nationalist Government, demanding that the Nationalist Government stop Chen Feng, commander of the Eighth War Zone, from carrying out large-scale bombing of the city ports in North Korea, and demanded compensation for North Korean property losses.

Things changed drastically in a very short period of time. Just one big bombing completely pushed Chen Feng and the entire Eighth War Zone to the cusp of the storm.

When the news came out, the atmosphere in Saibei Province suddenly became tense, and the festive atmosphere of Xidejiaer was also seriously affected.

Regarding this, Chen Feng himself didn't have much thought. How many North Koreans died had anything to do with him, Chen Feng, in Chen Feng's view, sticks were as hateful as devils.

This is not because Chen Feng is an angry youth, but because what the North Koreans have done is really hateful.Leaving aside the omnipotent plagiarism of later generations, the actions of these stickmen in the Sino-Japanese War are enough to make Chen Feng remember them.

In history, the most tragic massacre in human history that broke out in Nanjing was an eternal pain in the hearts of the Chinese people, and it was also a thorn that could never be removed in the hearts of all Chinese people!Many of us only know that we hate and hate the Japanese, but we don’t know that the first Japanese army unit in Nanjing that violated the Japanese military order and began to defile Chinese women was the Korean wing of the 15th Division of Matsui Iwane.

Moreover, according to historical records, especially the war history data released by the Japanese government after the war, the proportion of Koreans in all the Japanese troops who captured Nanjing in 1937 was not low, and the highest was even as high as 40%.The loyalty of Korean soldiers to Japan has been mentioned in the memoirs of many Japanese after the war.

Some people say that North Korea was annexed by Japan at that time, and there was no way.However, this is not a very good excuse.Isn't Taiwan annexed by Japan, and it was earlier than North Korea.Compared with the Taiwanese who were also incorporated into the Japanese army, but because they were not "brave" enough, they could only appear as cooks and porters.

In North Korea, in order to make up for the shortage of soldiers, after Japan took control of North Korea, it implemented a series of policies to enslave Koreans such as the "Royal Civilization Movement" and "Changing Family Names".Just like the consequences of Japan's similar policies in Taiwan, many Koreans were cultivated to be Japan's loyal subjects, and they voluntarily served as Japanese soldiers and as cannon fodder for the Japanese.According to the statistics of the Japanese Defense Agency in 1973, among the approximately 250 million Japanese invaders, there were 160 million Korean soldiers and 38 in the puppet "Manchukuo" army.

During the Nanjing Massacre, five Japanese troops were rewarded by the Japanese king for their "combat bravery", and one of them was the "Korean Troop" composed entirely of 5 Koreans.After the war, 3 Koreans were tried as "former Japanese soldiers" for the crimes of "targeting the killing, torture of prisoners and ordinary citizens", and were convicted of Class B war criminals, 148 of whom were sentenced to death.The most incredible thing is that after Japan announced its surrender, no less than 23 North Koreans committed suicide in various forms. According to common sense, the country is free and the nation is liberated. People should rejoice.But in the eyes of a US military reporter, the Korean peninsula in 10 was full of crying, wailing, and suicide, like the end of the world.He wrote in his diary: "What kind of country did I come to? Here I can't see a trace of the joy of being liberated, but it's like being in Japan. There are wailing, crying, and suicide everywhere."

Because of this, Chen Feng didn't have any scruples when bombing. In his opinion, there is actually not much difference between the Koreans and the Japanese.

However, the development of the matter was beyond Chen Feng's expectations, especially the large-scale anti-Chinese movement broke out on the Korean peninsula, which is simply unforgivable.These sticks have tasted the sweetness, do they really think that they can be irresponsible for smashing, burning and looting the Chinese?

This is not the first time, nor will it be the last time.As early as July 1931, 7, a North Korean anti-Chinese incident broke out because of the "Wanbaoshan Incident".

Wanbaoshan is located 30 kilometers north of Changchun City. At that time, the Japanese had not invaded the Northeast, and Zhang Xiaoliu was still in charge of the Northeast's military affairs.In Wanbaoshan, there is such a villain named Hao Yongde, who has leased a large amount of land in Wanbaoshan.Without the approval of the county government, he sub-leased the land to Lee, a North Korean living in China, for cultivation.These Koreans diverted water from the Yitong River, dammed it, and dug ditches to irrigate the fields, flooding tens of thousands of acres of nearby Chinese farmers' land, and disputes arose.

On July 7, hundreds of affected Chinese farmers voluntarily filled up a section of the aqueduct.The next day, the Chinese farmers were waiting to continue clearing the canal. The Japanese police openly opened fire, killing several Chinese farmers, injuring dozens of others, and arresting more than 1 people.Changchun Consul Tashiro Shigetoku sent police to support the opening of the canal with force and the water was officially opened in November.

After the Wanbaoshan incident, Japan created public opinion and called various North Korean newspapers to falsely claim that the Chinese authorities had expelled the Korean nationals, and that the overseas Chinese farmers in Wanbaoshan were massacred by Chinese farmers, etc., and finally instigated a large-scale anti-Chinese incident in North Korea.This incident first started in Incheon and quickly spread to all parts of North Korea, causing extremely serious harm to the lives and property of overseas Chinese.In addition to Incheon, serious atrocities similar to beating overseas Chinese and burning overseas Chinese shops also occurred in Seoul, Pyongyang, Busan, Wonsan, Sinuiju and other places.Many overseas Chinese had no choice but to cross the border and return home.The overseas Chinese who returned to China "all had bloody heads, no long belongings, and were in a state of embarrassment, which is unspeakable."

Due to the weakness and incompetence of the Nationalist Government at the time, coupled with the fear of becoming an excuse for Japan to attack the Northeast, the Nationalist Government chose to remain silent.This time, Chen Feng encountered such a thing, and it was because of him that this kind of atrocity was caused, so he couldn't ignore it. (To be continued..)