Chapter 177 3. "Three-Province Joint Crusade"

Beginning in July 1937, according to the "Three-Year Suppression Plan" formulated by the Japanese and puppet authorities, the Japanese and puppet authorities mobilized more than 50,000 troops to carry out a "big crusade" against the Sanjiang area for a year and a half.At the same time, the Japanese and puppets were still in the puppet Tonghua Province, most of Jiandao Province, and the eastern part of Jilin Province, continuing to carry out the work of "security and rectification".There are still about 20,000 troops, distributed in the puppet Tonghua, Jiandao, Jilin and other provinces, fighting against the Japanese army and civilians for "crusade".

In the spring of 1939, the enemy formed advance teams among the Japanese army and the puppet army, and formed a special task force among the puppet police to "crusade" and kill the leaders of the 1st Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army and the troops led by them. Through the organization of "special task forces", special search squads, special agent squads, etc., they penetrated into the anti-Japanese armed forces to induce political surrender and ideological disintegration. After the "big crusade" in the Sanjiang area ended, the Japanese and puppet authorities shifted the focus of "security and rectification" to the three provinces of Tonghua, Jilin, and Jiandao in the southeast. From October of that year to March 1941, a long The year and a half of the "Three Provinces Joint Crusade", also known as "Southeast Public Security Suzheng" or "Wild Deputy Great Crusade".

Before this big "crusade", the Japanese and puppets carried out some preparatory work. In May 1939, a "crusade headquarters" headed by Major General No Changde, commander of the Kwantung Army's 2nd Independent Garrison, was formed in Jilin City. The "crusade command" consisted of the staff department, the gendarmerie department, the police department, the puppet Manchukuo army, the puppet Manchukuo railway guard, the puppet court, the puppet Union Association, and the puppet administrative liaison department.The core institutions are the General Staff and the Police Department.

In the staff department, there are also three working teams, which specialize in political induction and surrender work: the first working team has ad hoc guerrilla and gendarmerie work teams; the second working team has Lijiang, Huadian and Huinan teams ; The third working group consists of Antuban, Wangqingban, Yanjiban and Dunhuaban.Under the police department, there are pseudo-Tonghua, Jilin, Jiandao and other police brigades, and there are also agencies such as special agent search squad and fingerprint squad. In May 1939, the 8th Military District of the Puppet Army was newly established in Tonghua, which governed the military affairs of the puppet Tonghua and Andong provinces, and was specially used to "crusade" the 1st Route Army of the Anti-Union Army operating in the Dongbian Road area.In September of the same year, the "Eastern Road Public Security Suzheng Plan" was formulated from October 1939 to March 1941.Subsequently, troops were dispatched, and in October 1939, the "three-province joint crusade" began.

The main target of this "crusade" was the 1st Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War. The "crusade" areas included the puppet Jiandao Province, the entire Tonghua Province, and Panshi, Huadian, Dunhua, Jiaohe, Shulan, etc. in the eastern part of the Puppet Jilin Province. County and Ning'an County in the Pseudo-Mudanjiang Province. There were more than 60,000 Japanese and puppet police officers participating in this "crusade". brigade, and another 20 radio units.Each brigade also has a number of Japanese military police equipped by the Gendarmerie Department.The total Japanese army strength is more than 6400 people.

The puppet troops participating in the "crusade" include: the 2nd Infantry Brigade, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade, and the 2nd Teaching Team of the 2nd Military District; the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Mixed Brigades and the 8th Teaching Team of the 8th Military District. One brigade of the 6th Military District, one brigade of the 7th Military District, the 5th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Military District, as well as the communications unit and the automobile team, etc., totaling more than 25,000 troops. The pseudo-police teams participating in the "crusade" are: Tonghua Provincial Police Team (divided into 10 "crusade" teams), Jiandao Provincial Police Team (divided into 5 crusade teams), Jilin Provincial Police Team (divided into 14 crusade teams), Mudanjiang Provincial Police Team (divided into 14 crusade teams), Provincial Police Force, Jiandao Ad Hoc Team, all 9 counties in the pseudo-Tonghua Province, all 5 counties in the pseudo-Jiandao Province, Panshi, Huadian, Dunhua, Jiaohe, Shulan counties in the pseudo-Jilin Province, and Ning'an County in the pseudo-Mudanjiang Province police force.There are also special search teams organized by the police in the three provinces of Tonghua, Jiandao, Jilin and their subordinate counties.In addition, there were also the pseudo forest police teams in the southeastern region, the trainee teams of the pseudo Xinjing Police Academy, two planes of the pseudo Yingkou Maritime Police Team, and the police reinforcement teams of the pseudo Jinzhou, Fengtian, Binjiang and other provinces. The police force is about 30,000 people.

In this "three-provincial joint crusade", the Japanese and puppet still adopted the method of "treating the symptoms", "treating the root cause" and "ideological work".In terms of "treating the symptoms", the Japanese army was the main force, and the puppet army was under the direct command of the Japanese army commander. At the same time, a large number of puppet police teams from various provinces were used to participate in the military "crusade". In the "crusade", the area to be "crusted" is divided into five regions: east, south, west, north, and northeast.Among them, the "south area" includes the entire puppet Tonghua Province, and the "west area" includes the eastern part of the puppet Jilin Province (that is, the Jilin area).Each "crusade" area is headed by a brigade of the Japanese Independent Garrison, commanding the puppet army, the puppet police force and other forces, and the main targets of the "crusade" are the troops of the 1st Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army operating in the area.In the "crusade", the tactics of encircling by dividing troops, sweeping in turn, dragging the net back and forth, and chasing after them to the end were adopted, forcing the anti-Japanese armed forces to fight frequently with them without rest, in an attempt to divide and eat the 1st Anti-Japanese Army and other troops.

This "three-province joint crusade" was originally planned to be divided into three stages. The first stage was from October 1939 to April 1940. The focus of the "crusade" was the counties in the pseudo-Tonghua Province and Huadian County in the pseudo-Jilin Province.The main targets are the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army's 1st Route Army Headquarters, the Guard Brigade and the 1st Front Army. From April to September 1940 was the second stage. The Japanese and puppet troops carried out the "spring and summer crusade". Dongning, Shulan in the pseudo-Jilin Province, Wuchang in the pseudo-Binjiang Province and other places, the main targets were the 2nd Front Army, the General Command, the Guard Brigade and the 3rd Front Army of the 1st Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War. The third stage was from September 1940 to March 1941. On the basis of the first and second stages of "crusade", they actively pursued the remaining troops of the 3 front armies of the 1st Route Army of the Anti-Union Army, destroyed their preparations for wintering, and "crissed" by divisions. "Eliminate the anti-Japanese troops and consolidate regional security.

In addition to the crazy military "crusade", the Japanese and the puppet also intensified a series of so-called "cure" and "ideological work" in the "crusade" area during this "three-provincial joint crusade", and implemented a series of reactionary policies and measures .The main contents are as follows: First, step up the implementation of the so-called "separation of bandits and people" policy.The first is to further strengthen the Baojia Lianzu system. If one person is found to be a "bandit", the whole family will be beheaded, and everyone in the neighborhood will also be fined.In order to encourage neighbors to monitor each other, it is also stipulated that if anyone who has contact with the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces is reported in advance, the fine can be reduced or exempted.The second is to further strengthen the "group tribe" policy, continue to build more "group tribes" in Tonghua, Jilin, Jiandao and other provinces, and strengthen their defense facilities.In addition, in June 1939, the Japanese Puppet Ministry of Public Security sent more than 50 fingerprint management technicians to the "crusade" area to assist in the issuance of resident certificates with fingerprints, so that people could be checked at any time during the "crusade" to prevent Anti-Japanese militants hid among the people.

Second, the anti-Japanese allied forces intensified the economic blockade and cut off food routes.In addition to controlling the food supply in Manchukuo and prohibiting transactions, the Japanese puppet also implemented a monopoly rationing system for food and daily necessities in the "crusade" area. The food and other items distributed to residents each time were only enough for two Three days, in order to prevent the Anti-Union personnel from getting food and daily necessities from the people. During the two years between 1939 and 1940, every year from mid-August to early October, farmers in the "crusade" area were forced to harvest the crops before they matured, and then transported the harvested crops to designated places to be guarded by military police. In order to prevent food from flowing into the hands of the Anti-Union personnel.

Third, speed up the renovation of guard roads and guard communication facilities.During the one-and-a-half-year "crusade", the Japanese and puppet authorities built more than 20 new guard roads in the three provinces of Tonghua, Jilin, and Jiandao. 260 kilometers of guarded roads, 100 kilometers of new guarded telephone lines, and 500 kilometers of repaired wires.Pseudo-Tonghua Province extended 312 kilometers of guard roads. Fourth, people are not allowed to plant sorghum and other crops on both sides of railways and roads, and farmers are not allowed to open up wasteland on hillsides and valleys.Trees within 50 meters on both sides of railways and roads were also cut down.For example, in the pseudo-Jilin Province, 200 kilometers of trees were felled within 50 meters on both sides of the road.At the same time, the railway security team stepped up to check passengers and pedestrians along the railway and on the train. Fifth, burn down the cottages and houses where the anti-union troops lived.According to records, from October 1939 to the end of 1940, the Japanese and puppet military police destroyed 2,085 cottages in the "Three-Province Joint Crusade". From October 1939 to April 1940, the "crusade" team of the puppet Jilin Province burned down 230 mountain houses in 5 counties including Dunhua, Huadian, Jiaohe, Antu, and Yangjiang. Sixth, use military police work squads, police special search squads, and other organizations to collect intelligence in the "crusade" areas and carry out activities to induce surrender.In addition to directly politically inducing surrender and disintegrating the minds of the Anti-Alliance personnel, its methods of inducing surrender also threatened and lured traitors among the Anti-Alliance personnel to surrender, or carried out persuasion activities through the relatives of the Anti-Alliance personnel.For those who have surrendered to the enemy, they were organized into police teams, ad hoc teams, and special work teams. They used their familiar characteristics to attack the Anti-Alliance forces, destroy the secret camps and cottages of the Anti-Alliance, and hunt and kill the backbone of the Anti-Alliance leaders. Seventh, carry out the so-called "ideological crusade" and "cultural crusade".Beginning in March 1940, the Deputy Field Crusade Headquarters held a meeting in Jilin City every half a month, with the participation of staff officers, gendarmerie, police and other ministers of the Crusade Command, specifically studying how to suppress the Northeast Anti-Japanese War in terms of culture and thought. joint measures.They also sent a large number of members of the Puppet Concord Association and pseudo-administrative personnel to form "Publication Squads" and "Publication Networks" in various parts of the "crusade" area to fight against the Japanese military and civilians who wantonly carried out "Publication Activities".At the same time, a large number of anti-communist leaflets, pornographic photos, and obscene books and periodicals were distributed to the "crusade" area, with a view to inflicting ideological corruption and mental blows on the anti-Allied personnel.In order to instigate the division within the Anti-Alliance and kill the senior generals of the Anti-Alliance, in April 1939, the Puppet Ministry of Public Security also formulated the bounty regulations for the killing of high-level and middle-level cadres of the Anti-Alliance and Anti-Japanese Army. A reward of 5,000 yuan for killing the division commander, 2,000 yuan for killing the head of the regiment and chief of staff, and 1,000 yuan for others or rewards as appropriate.