In Harbin in mid-December, the weather suddenly became cold, but for the more than 100,000 Soviet soldiers stranded in the city, the severe cold seemed not unbearable. On the contrary, they could still feel the comfort before the New Year. Yes, for them, the new year is coming soon.

For the Chinese people living in Harbin City, life during this period is also comfortable. After the Japanese have finished it. After maintaining a terrifying rule over Harbin for more than ten years, these bandits who rushed from the east finally ended their rule in Harbin. Now, these guys who were arrogant and prosperous in the past have become completely imprisoned. They are imprisoned in several concentration camps outside Harbin. The scenery and vicious interests of the past are no longer there.

During this period, going to the concentration camp not far from the city to watch the Japanese prisoners of war seemed to have become a great pleasure for Harbin citizens. Seeing them wearing thin military uniforms, trembling in the cold wind, and throwing some stones and vegetable roots at them to vent their long-standing anger. These can bring great pleasure to those who have just gotten rid of the fate of being enslaved.

For some reason, the Soviet soldiers who were responsible for guarding the prisoners maintained their onlookers' acquiescent acquiescent to the Harbin citizens' practices. Whenever a similar conflict occurred, these Soviet soldiers would gather together in groups of three or three, sucking cigarettes, and smiling at the side to "watch the show".

This indifference from the left-behind personnel of the Soviet army further encouraged the citizens' revenge to some extent. Therefore, conflicts between citizens and prisoners of war occurred one after another in several prisoners of war concentration camps outside Harbin. After mid-December, the situation became increasingly serious, and even casualties of prisoners of war were caused.

On the other hand, with the Soviet army's step by step offensive on the front battlefield of Manchuria, the Japanese Kanto Army began to show a situation of defeat on the entire front. On December 10, two infantry divisions of the Soviet Fourth-Line Front Krelov's army launched an offensive in the outer area of ​​Mudanjiang. After eight hours of fierce fighting, they wiped out three Japanese brigades that were originally stationed in Mudanjiang. More than 4,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and injured, and more than 20 officers below major general were captured. Then the Soviet army occupied Mudanjiang and Yanji's front line, completely blocking the Japanese army's passage from this line to the Korean Peninsula. Nearly 100,000 Japanese expatriates who were originally stranded in the area were forced to move to the Jilin area.

On December 11, Chu Sinan, who had been back to Moscow for nearly half a month, took a military plane to return to the Eastern Front battlefield. At the newly restored Harbin Airport, he couldn't wait to issue a series of combat orders as soon as he got off the plane. One of the most important ones was to order the Krelov tribe to advance southward and capture the numerous Japanese expatriates who were trying to move to the southward. At the same time, he also ordered the anti-Japanese armed forces operating behind enemy lines to actively move to harass the Japanese expatriates and troops who were moving to the south, thereby delaying their retreat to the south.

At 30 noon on the 11th, nearly 400 bombers and dive bombers took off from three air bases in the Soviet Union. Large-scale bombing was carried out on the road from Jilin to Shenyang and Changchun; the railway from Harbin to Pyongyang through Jilin; and the railway from Shenyang to Pyongyang.

“It’s a black day.”

Later, when Japanese World War II historians talked about the Soviet air raid on this day, they often said this. In fact, for those Japanese immigrants, this was indeed a black day.

In the suburbs of Jilin, nearly 100,000 Japanese expatriates are waiting for trains that can carry them south or eastward. There is no doubt that the huge number of expatriates gathered in this area has put a heavy burden on both railway transportation and road transportation. In addition, this is a difficult period for the Kanto Army to fight, and it is really not easy for the headquarters to mobilize such a large-scale transportation force. In this way, with the delay of transportation, more and more Japanese immigrants in Jilin are gathering, and under the conditions of complete loss of air supremacy, it is obvious how much danger this contains.

Some people may say that the war has been fought like this, and they are still worried about the immigrants? Especially the Japanese soldiers, they are not charitable species, and they will consider immigration? In fact, under the current circumstances, the Kwantung Army Command has to consider their immigration issues. After all, there are not a thousand or a few thousand immigrants in the suburbs of Jilin, but tens of thousands of immigrants. If the army in Manchuria cannot even keep its own immigrants, it will be an extremely heavy blow to the morale of the soldiers. Even whether the future battles can continue to be smoothly carried out will be a big problem. It is precisely based on this consideration that the Kwantung Army Command has made every effort to move the group into the pass while ensuring that the subsequent troops are transported to the front line.

However, under the current circumstances, due to the loss of air supremacy on the battlefield at the beginning of the war, the Japanese Kwantung Army almost fell into a certain desperate situation. Just like the Soviet army encountered on the Western Front in the early Soviet-German War, whether it was logistics transportation or corps advancement, they were facing unscrupulous attacks from the Soviet-East Air Force. As for the policy of Japanese immigration, Chu Sinan, as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front Battle, had made a very systematic and tough policy. According to his statement, in the evil Japan.

Under the instigation and drive of militarism, all so-called Japanese immigrants entering the Japanese-occupied area have completely lost their qualifications as civilians, and at the same time, they have also lost the rights and interests of war protection that civilians should enjoy as stipulated in international law. "They have become soldiers to some extent, and as participants in enslaving another nation, they have become fascist followers. For these people, our policy, and the only policy is to surrender and be judged, or be directly eliminated, and there is no intermediate path to do so."

War is cruel, while tactics are useless. When nearly 100,000 Japanese immigrants were crowded in the suburbs of Jilin and waiting to move south, the Soviet army also thought of an opportunity to severely dampen the morale of the Japanese. In this case, a huge plan for air bombing and ground attack was introduced.

At 120 p.m. on the 11th, forty Soviet dive bombers flew to the Japanese Yimawu Station in the southern suburbs of Jilin. At this not-so-large Japanese military station, there are now tens of thousands of Japanese immigrants stranded. These poor people hoped that they could wait for the train heading south here and carry them out of the sea of ​​war. Unfortunately, they first waited not for the train full of hope, but for the Soviet bombers sprinkled with the fire of death.

In fact, at the beginning, this group of Soviet bombers did not use this inconspicuous small station as a direct target for attack. Their original plan was to blow up the railway trunk lines in this area and cut off the Japanese local transportation capacity in the area. Because of this, at 1:20, this group of Soviet dive bombers first flew over the above station without launching an attack on the opposite target.

However, the rumbling sound of motors when the plane passed by made Japanese immigrants from mainland China who were originally hidden near the station panic. According to the air defense training they had received before, they fled out of the houses and looked for places to hide. For a moment, fugitives, who were running around like ducks, blocked the streets and wilderness near the station. However, their panic made the Soviet fighter observers who were originally looking for bombing targets through telescopes quickly discovered an abnormality here. With the turn of the Soviet dive bomber formation, an unprecedented disaster occurred.

Accompanied by the harsh screams of the fighter planes when they dived, huge fires rose among the blind running crowd, and a series of ground-firing machine cannons and machine gun bullets. They collected the offerings of life unscrupulously like ploughs. In the contrast of the thick smoke and fire, the originally fresh bodies were cruelly torn into pieces, and the pieces of flesh and limbs scattered on the ground were scattered on the ground in an irregular manner. They used living facts to explain the horror of war to the world and how fragile and powerless flesh and blood were in front of the iron-armored missiles.

People in the war have bad natures, and this sentence is fully reflected in the Soviet pilots carrying out the attack. Flying the fighter jets that slaughtered life, these fighter jets locked in the densest places in each dive. Looking at the people who fled in a hurry on the ground, they are often in a dive, first dropping two to three bombs, then a round of machine guns and cannons. Looking at the wounded people who fell to the ground and groaned, rolling around and struggling, these pilots can feel the incomparable pleasure in their hearts. ￣￣ They have their eyes red, oh, it should be said that they have their eyes red.

In twenty-seven minutes, an air strike with a huge difference in power lasted for twenty-seven minutes. When forty Soviet dive bombers were proud and took off and returned, the originally intact ground behind them had become a devastated corpse. The sorrow and death rushing to the sky seemed to be enough to describe the desolation there. In this short twenty-seven minutes of air strike, the Japanese immigrants stranded at this station had more than 3,000 casualties, and most of them were women and children, which was really heavy.

On this day, the Soviet regiment of Romizov, who was originally scheduled to cross the Yalu River and launch an attack on the Qingjin line on the Korean Peninsula, suddenly drew some of the troops and launched an offensive south. The Soviet army of the unit extended the front line south along the west bank of the Yalu River, penetrated directly into the eastern part of Jilin, and tried to continue to advance to the southern part of Jilin. At the same time, the two German mechanized divisions of the Third Front Army headed south along the railway from Harbin to Changchun. They avoided the blockade of the Japanese army in the front and penetrated the sharp blade of the troops directly into the key area between Changchun and Jilin, completely cutting off the connection between the Japanese troops between the two regions.

As of the 15th, the German troops of the Soviet Third Front Army, together with the two units of the Fourth Front Army, successfully met in the southern suburbs of Jilin, which indicates that the two Japanese divisions gathered in the Jilin area and nearly 100,000 Japanese immigrants had become turtles in the jar, and their demise was just around the corner.

Through the half-month offensive in December, the Japanese Kwantung Army command department realized the Soviet army's combat intentions. There is no doubt that they planned to seize most of Manchuria, including Chenyang, Changchun, Jilin, and even Tongliao and Fushun in this stage of battle. At the same time, the offensive of a part of the Soviet army on the Jeollado area of ​​the Korean Peninsula also indicates the Soviet army's military attempts against the Korean Peninsula. To summarize the battle in less than two months Moreover, all the commanders of the Kanto Army Command were filled with despair. In less than two months, the Kanto Army lost nearly eight divisions of troops, not including the air force that had been wiped out when the battle was launched. How to fight this damn war? Is there still a day to make a comeback? The senior Kanto Army leaders, including Umezu Mijiro, were not sure at all. There was no doubt that they had already felt the shadow of failure gathering towards their heads.

Just as the Soviet army on the front line was advancing on a large scale towards the depths of the Japanese defense, Chu Sinan's series of new orders began to be issued in the Manchurian Soviet-occupied area. On the night of the 11th day after returning to the battlefield on the eastern front, in the temporary command of the Far East War Zone in Harbin, Chu Sinan met with Commander Zhou of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. After talking all night, the two sides seemed to have reached an agreement to some extent.

Starting from the 12th, secret telegrams were sent from the temporary command to all directions in the Soviet-occupied area. Immediately afterwards, a large number of anti-Japanese forces wearing animal skins, hats, gray cloth cotton jackets, and cloth soles and cotton shoes appeared in the Soviet-occupied area. They held a handwritten handing over the Japanese armory, which was originally led by Soviet soldiers. So, a unique defense exchange operation was launched in front of the 273 former Japanese armory in the Soviet-occupied area. After a simple negotiation and order verification with the coming anti-Japanese forces, the Soviet soldiers handed over the defense of each armory, and thus handed over the countless weapons and equipment seized from the Japanese army to the anti-Japanese forces.

According to incomplete statistics after the war, from the Soviet army's attack on Manchuria until the Kwantung Army surrendered, the first and second lines of the Soviet army alone handed over more than 3,700 artillery pieces of various types to the Anti-Japanese United Army. More than 600 tanks, nearly 100,000 guns, and more than 680 Japanese military warehouses. In addition, there were some Japanese water ships on the Songhua River. According to a meeting of the former Anti-Japanese United Army, after the Soviet army occupied Shenyang, the largest military warehouse in the area was handed over to the Anti-Japanese United Army guards. They opened the warehouse and "took three days and three nights, there were more than 20,000 rifles, 1,000 light and heavy machine guns, and 150 mortars, field cannons and mountain cannons of various calibers."

It seems that it is unknown what consequences Chu Sinan's order brought. In just two months, a large number of former anti-Japanese troops, holding all-Japanese equipment, and with the cooperation of a large number of Japanese tanks, drove to the pass, thus giving the heavyest blow to the Japanese army in North China.

Of course, after returning from a trip to Moscow, Chu Sinan issued more than just one order. Compared with before leaving, he now seems more decisive and decisive. On December 12th, the day after he returned to the Eastern Front, with the issuance of another order for the Japanese prisoners of war, another order for the migration of Japanese prisoners of war began to be issued.

According to this order, the various Japanese prisoners of war camps established by the Soviet army began to move to Harbin. Of course, Harbin was not the terminal station that these Japanese prisoners of war were going to. On the contrary, this was just the starting point for their hardships.

On December 27, the second day after Christmas, more than 300,000 Japanese prisoners of war and Japanese expatriates who had assembled in Harbin began to migrate to the Amur Gongqingcheng hundreds of kilometers away under the escort of Soviet soldiers. According to the route designated by Chu Sinan, these prisoners of war will continue to march northwest through Gongqingcheng, pass through Ekimchang and Antkan to the Stanov Mountains (outer Xing'an Mountains), and then continue northward and pass through Svi

Trey, Aim, Ustimili, and Amgar finally arrived in Yakutsk in Western Siberia, with a total journey of more than 1,460 kilometers. According to the order, Chu Sinan wanted to let the most people who started the war go to Yakutsk to work and reform in order to compensate them for the crimes they committed against the people of the world. But in fact? The nearly 300,000 prisoners of war were only more than 14,000 people who could finally reach Yakutsk.

"This was a difficult journey, a veritable death march. The prisoners of war lacked enough clothes to protect the cold, but were forced to walk on the Siberian ice sheet, which is known for its severe cold. Along the way, the Russian soldiers responsible for escorting them to do their best to abuse, not provide enough food, no hot water, and no rest time. When camping at night, the prisoners of war had no tents and could only squeeze into a pile of warmth in the wind and snow. A total of nearly 290,000 people died on the way. Almost every four meters walking, a prisoner of war or civilian died, and the casualties were heavy, which was the world's largest."

"At the beginning, the Russians also drove specifically to restrain the bodies on the way, but when they entered the desert, they did not even restrain their bodies, but allowed them to be exposed to the wasteland, buried by the subsequent wind and snow, or shared by wild animals..."

Later generations, Japan made the long-distance marching of this prisoner of war in some books that specialized in the history of World War II.

In fact, when Chu Sinan made this decision, there were some different opinions among the Soviet generals, but the opposition was minimal and even negligible. After all, in the history of Soviet Russia, it has become an unwritten practice to transport prisoners of war to Siberia to serve as coolies.

As 300,000 Japanese prisoners of war officially embarked on the distant road of death, the scroll of history gently swelled, and the old year was covered in the permeation of gunpowder and death. The year 1943, full of hope and foreshadowing peace, came quietly.
Chapter completed!