Chapter 966, Allied Resolution

After half a month of operation, the 33rd and 35th Divisions, which set up defense lines in Cicheng, Houchang and other counties, have built a defense line in an important geographical location on the periphery. Although there has been friction with the 17th Division of the Manpu and Jiangjie in the past half a month, both sides have been cautious in dealing with each other's temptations. Although according to the intelligence collected by the *** intelligence units, the combat effectiveness of the 33rd and 35th Divisions is limited, especially the generals leading the two units are all 80% of the 20th Division, but after all, the instructions issued by the *** General Staff Headquarters are strategic defense and protecting the Jiangjie transportation hub.

Especially recently, news has been heard that the front line of Shinyiju is relatively tight. Most of the air force and artillery of the Northern First Army are pressing on this line, and even some of the defense lines have already appeared. Due to the lack of supplementary troops in the rear, we have to start using the new recruits of the 19th Division and the 20th Division as supplementary troops to fill the 16th Division.

It is precisely because of this that the Supreme Command of the General Staff in Seoul had to start considering whether to draw some of the troops of the 17th Division to support Shinyiju. Therefore, the 17th Division on the Jiangjie side did not dare to act rashly, but just strengthened the position while strictly guarding the death.

The main task of the 33rd and 35th Divisions during this period was to follow the orders of the head of the army and try to make a prosperous scene in the occupied areas. After just announced the occupation of three counties, the 33rd and 35th Divisions announced the security announcement of the North Korean temporary government, and at the same time ordered soldiers to harass the people. It was summer, and when some fruit forests were ripe and harvested, the division headquarters also sent soldiers to help the people harvest fruits, and purchased fruits at prices slightly higher than the market to improve the income and life of fruit farmers.

When the Chinese team built a defensive front on the outside of the occupied area, although they requisitioned a group of local North Korean residents to participate, they settled their wages according to the working hours during the requisition project, and even provided free water, dry food, fruits and cigarettes during construction. This is in sharp contrast to the forced recruitment of civilians to build a second line of defense. Working in Chinese people is equivalent to working, and working in foreigners is a coolie.

At the same time, Zhang Shengting's Northern Business Company also made some symbolic investments in the local area. According to the description in the newspaper, it established several farms and transported a batch of agricultural machinery, which not only improved the living and employment environment of local people, but also greatly promoted the development of local agricultural technology.

In terms of administration, the North Korean Provisional Government imitated the prefect of the local county government of the Republic of China and established a political bureau based on counties, elected the three local elders, and gentry served as members of the Political Bureau to establish a new "democratic" political model. The county magistrate elected by the Political Bureau accepted the appointment of the North Korean Provisional Government. Despite the fact that he ruled North Korea for so many years, he still had no shortage of puppet-like agents. As long as there was an army and gun support, many people would rather sharpen their heads than get in.

In addition, the Chinese side also strengthened the combination of publicity and education, and advocated that after the war, the compulsory education system would be implemented in North Korea, so that all children of appropriate age could receive free education. Although this made North Korea's literacy system for thousands of years, the intellectual class felt dissatisfied. Those who could study and read in North Korea were almost considered to be the upper class society, and the privileges of the upper class were popularized at once, which was the same as having no privileges. However, this still catered to the entire era of innovation and the psychology of the vast majority of people in North Korea.

Before the compulsory education system was officially implemented, some named education scholarships and government scholarship systems were established through investment in local private schools, schools and local newspapers to promote China's selfless funding and friendly side to North Korea. For example, "China-North Korea Friendship Scholarship", "China Study Abroad Scholarship", etc. The 33rd Division also specifically followed the order of the head of state camp and established the Division Culture Department, dispatched professionals from China to North Korea, and carefully analyzed some places where there were conflicts with the Korean nation during the reign of ***.

At that time, *** forced the order to de-issue in North Korea, requiring the North Koreans to change their Western service and hairstyle. This move aroused extremely strong opposition from the Korean nation. In response to this, the Ministry of Culture of the Division promoted the public in the occupied areas, saying that China would not force the North Korean people to do anything they were unwilling to, and allowed and encouraged the North Korean people to maintain their national customs and habits.

As for the cultural invasion activities carried out by *** in North Korean schools, including compiling North Korean history and banning North Korean higher education institutions from teaching Korean literature, the Ministry of Culture has also launched a targeted counterattack. On the one hand, it not only spreads the shamelessness of the idea of ​​*** slavery, but also promotes the Korean national integrity.

This series of activities is to create a gap between the Korean nation and the people, further expand the contradiction between North Korea and the people, and let all North Koreans realize that they accept the rule of the country, which is to accept the reality of being enslaved by the people. In order to achieve this goal, the Ministry of Culture also forged a newspaper a few years ago, and published the remarks of the people who commented that the North Koreans are third-class people, in order to "disclose" that they are not communicating with North Korea at all!

This scene lasted until June 28, which was the fourth day after the Dandong Front launched the general attack. In order to cooperate with the Dandong side's actions, the 33rd and 35th Divisions decided to launch a strong enough attack to push the distance between the two sides to within 500 meters as much as possible. The operation began in the afternoon of the same day. Before going to battle, each soldier drank a bowl of salt water, and then launched an attack on the two counties of Manpu and Heping under the cover of artillery.

In the propaganda in the rear, the Ministry of Culture said that this attack was to consolidate the security of the "Luoluo District", to push the line of fire to the south, and avoid the impact of the "Luoluo" areas. This hits the psychology of many Korean people, and what they fear most is to be affected by the war. Since the Chinese team is going to attack south, of course, they must fully support it.

So a few days after the war began, many North Korean people spontaneously formed a transportation team to help the Chinese logistics forces transport materials to the front line. At first, the front line troops did not make any statement, but the next day they received an order from the division headquarters, requiring the troops receiving the materials to settle wages for the North Korean militia team, 50 cents per person, and the 50 cents were of course paid in "Republic currency".

The battle in Manpu lasted for a day and a night, but the Japanese army here was too tenacious to finally move the line of fire to a three-kilometer outside Manpu. The peaceful attack lasted for three days, and the battle situation became more and more intense day by day. The main artillery of both sides was pressing on this line, and planes and airships continued to launch air strikes in the air. On July 1st, they finally seized the Japanese army's peaceful peripheral position, which was considered to have exceeded the standard to complete the task.

Also on July 1st, nearly a month before the war between China and Japan began, the countries in the Allied camp, after repeated consultations, arguments and talks, under the provisions of the Allied countries and the current pressure on the European battlefield, Britain, France and Russia decided to formally declare war on China. Whether the Allied countries declare war on China has always been the most concerned issue between European countries and China. After all, before this, the Chinese Ministry of Information spent a lot of effort and invested a lot of money to create the independence of the Sino-Japanese conflict and try to resolve the conflict between China and the Allied countries.

But what should come always comes. Britain considered it over and over again and finally decided to win over the stronger industrialized ***, so as not to judge the reversal of China and Japan based on the Qingdao War alone. With the British government making a diplomatic decision, France and Russia followed closely behind.

On the same day, the ministers of the Three Kingdoms formally submitted a letter of cessation of diplomatic relations to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announcing the closure of the embassy in China and the consulates in various regions.

A few hours later, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a press conference. Wu Tingfang said some high-sounding words at the meeting, regretting the irrational behavior of Britain, France and Russia. At the same time, he once again emphasized that China would never take the initiative to go to war with Britain, France and Russia before the actions of Britain, France and Russia. The Sino-Japanese War is a unilateral conflict between China and the United States, and will not affect the interests of other countries in the Far East.

Afterwards, Wu Tingfang formally issued a diplomatic order to withdraw his three ministers to Britain, France and Russia.

At 8 o'clock that night, the governments of Britain, France and Russia issued a telegram to declare war on China, but in fact it was just a verbal form. Considering Wu Tingfang's remarks at the press conference in the afternoon, Britain, France and Russia were not stupid enough to open up Asian battlefields when they were inadequate. However, in order to make this form look more imposing and serious, Britain still sent four destroyers and a battle cruiser from India to Taiwan, and transported two musket battalions to Hong Kong through American cruise ships. In the early morning, it announced that the Hong Kong pass was restricted and the British concessions in various places had strengthened military alert.

On July 2, the Nanjing Presidential Palace decisively responded to Britain's military "deployment".

The Presidential Office officially authorized the Ministry of Defense to mobilize the troops to impose martial law on the Allied Concessions in China. At the same time, it arbitrarily inspected foreigners, especially British people, in public places in various places under the name of investigating spies. The First Southern Army in Guangzhou and Xin'an gathered three divisions to set up posts along the Hong Kong Concession line, confronting the British only a few meters away. The Guangzhou Navy also sent warships to patrol near the Hong Kong waters. Although there was no particularly obvious war cloud, it also made the British nervous.

Hong Kong is very clear that if China really wants to fight with them, Hong Kong will not be able to hold on for even a week.

Taking advantage of the tense relations with the Allied countries, the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the Presidential Office has deployed some soft offensive measures to raise the unit price of supplies supplied to the Allied countries' concessions in the mainland, especially the supply of tamsui has increased by as much as three times in just two days. Chinese suppliers only said that the military martial law has been severe recently, people are in panic, and workers cannot work with peace of mind. They often have to do the workload of two people by one person, and the price increase is a forced one.
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