the world is at stake

At present, Japan's annual grain output is only 800 million tons.This is simply not enough food for a population of 5000 million, and it is impossible to even barely fill their stomachs, so they must rely on large quantities of imports.

But mainland China stopped exporting grain, North Korea and Taiwan’s grain production was not high, and Japan could only obtain grain from Southeast Asia, which consumed a lot of foreign exchange. "

Just talking about steel and food, the Japanese candidates sitting in a group were all frowning.They come from wealthy Japanese society and never go hungry.

But in Japan now... The first meal that recruits eat is the best meal in their entire army career, red beans boiled with sticky rice.This is already a very good meal.

The food after that is basically breakfast rice, pickles, herbal tea, everything is simple.There will be canned meat, miso soup, and rice for lunch.Dinner is simpler, basically porridge with pickles or dry bread.

The "Holy Light" team carried out "land reform" in various provinces in China, wielding butcher knives to find faults everywhere, and eradicated big landlords and old-fashioned gentry.Tens of millions of tons of grain can be collected in one go.

It made Miura and the others jealous to death.They can only be grandchildren in Japan, open trading companies, and run manufacturing factories.There is no need to think about collecting food or anything, because the nobles have already sucked the bones and sucked the marrow of the peasants, and they are fishing in the dry.

"The only thing we can do now is to win foreign aid from the United Kingdom and the United States." Miura said in a painful voice: "Develop the industry as much as possible, otherwise the situation will be irreversible."

There are 60 NO.20 Japanese candidates plus followers, and there are less than [-] people who can sit in front of Miura.After a year of practice, they are quite helpless to the situation.

"Miura-kun, have you ever thought... Maybe we can't win at all." A selected person in the team whispered.

This statement drew glaring looks from everyone present, but no one refuted it.

The person who opened the mouth continued: "It's not that Britain and the United States did not help us, but they can't help us with all their strength. Now that China is developing so fast, I'm worried that 'Holy Light' will do something in North Korea."

At present, Japan only has police and gendarmes in North Korea, and at most they control a few large cities.Japan is short of food and is desperately searching for food from North Korea and Taiwan.But North Korea itself is short of food.

The angry crowd suddenly withered, drooping their heads dejectedly.Judging from the recent situation, the Kanto Governor's Office is unable to contain it, and China will inevitably intervene in North Korea after stabilizing the Northeast.

Southeast Asia is now the territory of Britain and France, and even the United States has occupied the Philippines.If North Korea is lost, Japan will have no future at all.

"Mr. Miura, making a choice is sometimes more important than working hard. Britain and France are not the only choices. After all, we are too far away from heaven and too close to China."

Chapter 65 It's a Combat Team and More a Propaganda Team

Wang Sanshun pulled the bolt of the gun, and there was a crisp sound, revealing the magazine.He took out five rounds of bridge clip bullets from the ammunition box, pressed them into the magazine, pulled out the bridge clip and threw it away, and pushed the bolt to close the magazine.

The smooth metal glides and hits are a delight.Wang Sanshun aimed the gun for more than ten minutes, until his arms became limp and his muscles trembled.

The instructor of the national defense force installed a calibration mirror on Wang Sanshun's gun, and stood on his side to observe whether the crosshair was aligned with the chest target 100 meters away.

"Five rounds with live ammunition." The instructor took out a five-round bridge clip from his ammunition box.

Wang Sanshun happily twitched the bolt, ejected the coach bullets in the magazine one by one, took the live bullets given by the instructor, pressed them into the magazine, and aimed again.

During this process, the instructor would push Wang Sanshun from time to time, or order him to change the posture of holding the gun, run for more than ten meters, or even turn in circles on the spot until he became dizzy before shooting.

Intermittent gunfire sounded on the training ground.Wang Sanshun was very accurate, hitting all five rounds.After he finished playing, he showed a naive smile, proud of not being able to stump the instructor.

The comrades around cheered and applauded Wang Sanshun's marksmanship, and even the strict instructor smiled.But when the applause stopped, the instructor patted Wang Sanshun on the shoulder and asked, "Are you ready to fight the Japanese?"

Wang Sanshun's face tensed immediately, he nodded heavily, and blurted out: "Always be prepared."

"Tomorrow there is a guerrilla team going to North Korea. I recommend you to join. You don't have to train in the afternoon, and have a good meal in the evening. Everyone will see you off."

The training instructor saluted Wang Sanshun, and the latter stood at attention to return the salute.The relaxed atmosphere on the shooting range disappeared immediately, and everyone felt a heavy pressure.

The Liaodong Mountain Combat Training Camp of the National Defense Forces is affiliated to the Foreign Military Intelligence Bureau and is located in the direction of Fushun, east of Shenyang.The training camp was established in September 1910, and its original purpose was to train low-level non-commissioned officers for combat in North Korea.

The training camp first occupied a deserted village, with only 50 people, all of Korean ethnicity recruited from the imperial capital.The instructor was transferred from the National Defense Forces, with Zhou Qingfeng as the chief officer, and taught combat skills behind enemy lines such as lurking, infiltrating, assassinating, communicating, and blasting.

With sufficient funds invested, the scale of this training camp expanded rapidly, and the number of personnel quickly exceeded a thousand.There are no conspicuous buildings in the camp, and all are village houses with Northeast or North Korean characteristics.

The trainees were young people of the right age recruited in Northeast China and Vladivostok, including Chinese and Koreans.

Since the Korean language was compiled and formed by Japanese scholars during the Japanese occupation period, it is natural for educated people in North Korea to use Chinese characters, and the ideological education of the training camp is naturally sinicized.

Chinese is used for teaching in the camp, but trainees are required to master at least one foreign language, Japanese or Korean.

Wang Sanshun, who is in his early twenties, is a Korean. He participated in the "Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army" in North Korea. As a result, he was kicked out by the North Korean police and fled to Vladivostok, where he worked as a coolie for the Russians.

After China decided to intervene in the Korean situation, he naturally took the "Middle East Railway" train to Harbin for political review, and then went south to Shenyang to join the training camp and became a Korean with Chinese nationality.

Wang Sanshun originally had a miscellaneous name similar to "Gousheng", but he took a big name after joining the training camp - in order to assimilate, the North Koreans who were trained were not given the surname "Jin" or "Pu".

The training camp doesn't teach queues much, and doesn't care much about making beds and quilts. It only eats and drinks every day to strengthen the body, plus endless mountain training.

Most of the boys who entered the camp grew up in the mountains of Northeast China or North Korea.Brainy, good eyesight, able to bear hardships were selected for training, is a natural mountain infantry.

The Japanese army suffered a major setback in the Anshan-Haizhou conflict, and its army mobilization slowed down significantly.

The Japanese military and cabinet finally understood that the infantry without enough heavy equipment was sent to Liaodong to deliver food to the National Defense Forces, and they could not fight at all.

But heavy equipment is expensive, and the cost of buying a truck is enough to arm two platoons compared to infantry with only rifles.Britain and the United States are happy to sell arms to Japan, but money still has to be earned.

The little devil can only slash the original 20 military expansion plan, and ask the UK for more military aid by the way-Charles I was also a little confused about this request.

The previous £[-] million was already a huge sum.

If it hadn't been for China's expulsion of British power from the Yangtze River, its parliament would have never approved it.But if Japan is to become an obstacle to China's rise, this amount of money is far from enough, and it is not even possible to make a sound.

In the face of Germany's competition in continental Europe, it is impossible for Britain to keep transfusing blood to Japan.Charles I simply calculated that if he really wanted to arm a 10-man motorized army, he would give at least another [-] million pounds.

The money of the British Empire did not come from the wind, so it might be given casually?

This situation is reflected in Wang Sanshun, that is, he could only receive short training for three months, but after the situation eased, the short training period was extended to half a year.Redoubled training made him leaner.

Leaving the training ground, Wang Sanshun went to the armory to collect equipment and ammunition.He will have a Japanese-made 'Golden Hook' rifle, three front and rear ammunition boxes, a set of raincoat and marching blanket, two pairs of leather shoes and leggings, three days' worth of field rations, etc.

Most of these are the standard equipment of the Japanese Army, and domestic munitions factories are also imitating them—no way, Japan has been pondering about the formalization of army building for decades, and the results are just right for the East Asian population.

The Wehrmacht recently took over a batch of German equipment, and the technical weapons can still make do, but the individual equipment is not suitable.

For example, for the generally thin East Asian soldiers, the recoil of the 7.92mm Mauser rifle is obviously too large.The [-]-type rifle is much better.

Walking into the cafeteria, the cooking team knew that Wang Sanshun was going to the battlefield, so they cooked a roast chicken for him.

This is the treatment of each trainee before they leave.Regardless of whether they are Koreans or not, the last step of mountain infantry graduation is to go to North Korea for actual combat.

The enemy's rear insisted on returning for half a month to rest for three months.If they survived with outstanding records, they could go back to the training camp for further study or be promoted to be an instructor.

Seeing a chicken on Wang Sanshun's dinner plate, colleagues all came to pat him on the shoulder.This is not only a blessing and encouragement, but also a sustenance. I hope he can kill a few more little devils or rape.

The next day, Wang Sanshun met the guerrillas who were going to North Korea.This team is very small, only a dozen people.The team leader and team deputy are political workers, as well as two guides and a team doctor.The rest have their own division of labor.

On March 1911, 3, five newly manufactured "Three Hundred" transport planes flew to the runway of the training camp.This is the latest product of the 'Xie Zantai Design Bureau' - 20 km range, 0 kg load.

Under the strategy of "small steps and quick runs", this single-engine biplane transport aircraft quickly replaced the previous "Double Hundred" model and became the first choice for domestic commuter transportation.

Wang Sanshun did not expect that he would be able to take a plane one day, and felt very novel after going to the sky. The "Three Hundred" transport plane can transport him from Fushun to North Korea within one hour, which greatly saves the journey time.

The plane was refueled at the border logistics point, and then landed near Hamhung in the east of North Korea.After Wang Sanshun got off the plane, he found that the construction of the frontier camp was far better than he imagined.

The camp is a river beach along the valley, where hundreds of poor peasant families live.

Previously, a work team had come here for construction, opened up a 500-meter runway, and brought in industrial products such as small boilers, generators, and pumps.

March is the beginning of spring, and the local area has doubled the amount of irrigated land after having water pumps.Before landing, Wang Sanshun could see from the air that farmers were repairing ditches and earth dams in preparation for the upcoming spring plowing.

What surprised Wang Sanshun the most was that there was a broadcast from the "Central People's Broadcasting Station" in this small base.Every day from [-]:[-] am to [-]:[-] pm, the radio will not stop, rolling out current political news and entertainment programs.

In addition, the governments of the three northeastern provinces have specially built a Korean-language broadcasting station in Shenyang to conduct propaganda specifically for North Korean audiences.

The content is carefully selected, such as the Korean people are members of the big Chinese family, the atrocities committed by the Japanese invaders in North Korea, the Korean royal family eats people's food and does not shit on people, and the Chinese government will never abandon the Korean compatriots.

In addition, there are the classics on getting rich in the countryside, Korean and Chinese teaching, and folk art programs.

For North Korean farmers who have worked hard for generations, the government only thinks of them when collecting rent.Now I can hear the voice from the imperial capital of China, it is like hearing the sounds of nature.

Although farmers may not be able to understand all the content of the broadcast, the guerrillas working here have a duty to publicize and educate, and spread the party's ideology.

People in remote areas urgently need cultural knowledge, and strong propaganda can greatly help the development of guerrillas in rural North Korea-the whole of North Korea is a big village, even Pyongyang and Seoul are no exception.

"I thought we were going to fight right away when we came here." Wang Sanshun's first mission after arriving was not to attack the Japanese, but to train the local militia.

The project is also very simple. Standing on guard to collect enemy information is too complicated to teach.

The transport plane brought the militia thirty second-hand old slides and a thousand rounds of ammunition, plus explosives and grenades.This allowed the guerrillas to become the de facto grassroots government after they landed, and their strength expanded rapidly.

In this case, the Japanese are a fart?It has no influence at all.

After the guerrillas landed, they joined the original task force.The captain took the team doctor to visit the village head, provided free medical treatment to hundreds of villagers, and also sold them salt, oil, cloth, and ironware at low prices in exchange for food.

Don't look at the village with hundreds of households as inconspicuous.But the benefits given by the guerrillas are large enough that they can establish a base in the enemy's territory every time they go to a village.

North Korean police or Japanese gendarmes in the cities rarely patrol the countryside.When they found out that the situation was wrong, the base area had already built a 'fortress' that was difficult to conquer.

All the villagers have a heart for the Celestial Dynasty, how can they agree with the Korean royal family and the Japanese?

After the five transport planes brought in personnel and supplies, they left with several rotating working group members and seriously ill villagers.

Among them was a pregnant woman who was expecting childbirth.After diagnosis, the team doctor believed that she was too young to have a risk of dystocia, and it was safer to give birth in a large hospital in Shenyang.

At night, Wang Sanshun and the team leader patrolled the village together.He said with emotion: "The country takes care of the local area like this. How can the village not turn to the central government? There is no need to fight at all. It is absolutely impossible for the farmers in the village to go with the Japanese."

The old ancestors said, 'The upper soldiers attack the plan, the second attack the handover, and the second attack the soldiers, and the lower soldiers attack the city'.The little devil is worried that the Chinese National Defense Forces will attack North Korea, and is rushing to expand its army to strengthen its rule over North Korea.

But the more Japan expands its military, the greater the burden, the more it has to pass on the contradictions, and the faster it will die. 'Sacred Light' would not follow the mass line of 'encircling the cities from the countryside' and forcefully start a fight without hesitation.

The captain chuckled, "Actually, all over the country are sending work teams to 'download the grassroots', build small airports in remote areas with underdeveloped transportation, and send cadres there by plane.

Sending water pumps can be used for irrigation, sending medical care can save lives, and sending culture can enlighten people.

The central government said that we are not only a combat team, but also a work team, a production team, and a propaganda team.As long as we are there, it is the territory of the country.

How can the Japanese beat us? "

Chapter 66

"Everyone sit down and have a meeting."

Captain Sun of the Hamhung Guerrilla Army greeted them, and pulled seven or eight members to sit down on the open space next to the airstrip.

There were many people in the meeting, including the female director, team doctor and communication officer, and village representatives.Militia instructor Wang Sanshun was the last to sit down while stepping on the muddy feet with a hoe on his shoulders.

Captain Sun grabbed half a pencil, flipped through the small book in his hand, coughed, and said: "The previous batch of work teams traveled across mountains and rivers to Xianxing to open up a base area. airstrip with a runway of meters.

Because the runway needs flat and solid land, it takes up a lot of farmland and labor.The work team promised to give the village compensation in kind, a total of [-] kilograms of salt, [-] iron pots, [-] hoes, and [-] kitchen knives.

In addition, we also provided free medical care to the village, including sending a pregnant woman to Shenyang, giving medicine to more than a dozen patients with skin diseases, and guiding the sanitation and disinfection work in the village, etc. "

The captain spoke in a mixture of Chinese and Korean, and the female director and village representatives next to him nodded repeatedly.It is not easy to establish a base area. It was very difficult to ask this small village in the valley to contribute people and give up the farmland to build the runway.

But the effect was immediate. Airplanes transported more supplies and personnel, greatly improved the lives of poor villagers, and established the prestige of the cadres in the base area.

An airstrip can radiate a range of ten to fifteen kilometers.

The guerrillas worked along the slopes and valleys, mobilizing the manpower and material resources of seven or eight nearby villages, so they could build another airstrip.

The team leader continued, "We have been here for half a month, and it is the busy season of spring plowing and farming, but the work of promoting the party's policies and eliminating illiteracy among villagers cannot be relaxed."

Wang Sanshun put the hoe aside and interjected: "When are we going to occupy Xianxing City? There are not many enemies there at all, only the old bureaucrats and their lackeys.

I was trained in mountain warfare in Shenyang, but here I spend all day repairing canals.When will this be fixed? "

Lee's North Korea is weak and dregs, so it has a bit of ruling ability in Pyongyang and Seoul on the west coast, and other places are simply primitive societies.

After Japan occupied North Korea, its Governor-General established a gendarmerie police system to strengthen management.But the first batch of personnel was less than 4000, and more than [-] of them were North Korean policemen equipped with wooden sticks.

North Korea currently has a population of 300 million at any rate, and just by relying on this, paramilitary personnel can control several major cities.Swathes of the east coast are uncontrolled.

Wang Sanshun was very frustrated when he said that, but the captain and the team doctor both laughed.

Before the guerrillas set off, they were told that the work of opening up base areas was very difficult. After they came, they found out that it was really difficult-ninety percent of their work was dealing with villagers and repairing the earth with hoes.

The team doctor explained: "Our superiors require us to do a good job in mass work, focusing on production and construction, supplemented by fighting. If we fight all day long, it only means that our work has failed."

Wang Sanshun grinned, he knew the truth, but he was unhappy.

In the 'Holy Light' team, Xiao Jinlang was calm and forbearing, while Qin Qing was calm and composed.They asked Zhou Qingfeng to go to North Korea to disrupt the situation, but they never thought about fighting in North Korea.

"North Korea will become Japan's bloodshed." Far away in Washington, the old Kissinger once again came to the Oval Office of the White House.He scanned the Japanese information provided by Marco and shook his head.

"Your Excellency, we have to implement stronger aid. Today's Japan is like '2010', and China's economy suddenly surpassed it, and it can still express anger and incompatibility.

But in ten years, when China's national strength is several times that of Japan, it will be too late.Without the support of the United States, Japan cannot survive. "

"But Congress..." Marco understood what his chief staff member meant, but he also had difficulties.

"Don't count on the Congress." Kissinger shook his finger. "Don't count on the consortium either. The 'Brotherhood' must come forward, and it must be fast. Otherwise, I suspect that the Japanese elect will also turn their backs."

Marco was silent.

The United States has two dogs in East Asia, one of which has disappeared.The other is also in crisis.

However, the United States itself is developing very smoothly, with a solid scientific research and industrial foundation, and hundreds of future technologies are being rapidly put into application.

With the backing of Marco Shi, the head of the government, the 'Brotherhood' is becoming a consortium within a consortium, and medicine alone is earning innumerable excess profits.

"Okay, the 'Brotherhood' can provide a low-interest loan to the Japanese government. Two hundred million dollars, how?"