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Chapter 144 The Ryukyu Islands (Chapter 2 of the Commitment)

August 2, 1928

"The plan begins to be implemented." After reading a piece of information full of codes, Chen Shao got the news recorded. This news was sent from Jinan, which was Chen Shao's first and most important step. Once Chen Shao's grand strategy was completed, China will be much easier in the future World War II.

Pick up the lighter and ignite the information until it is completely burned.

Chen Shao came up with another plan for garrison, which was a plan for garrison on Jeju Island and Ryukyu Islands. The military headquarters submitted a plan for Chen Shao to sign.

The Chinese and Japanese sides have begun to divide the boundaries between the sea islands. Jeju Island is still a good idea, but it is complicated to get to Ryukyu. The Osumi Islands are too close to Japan's mainland. Japan disagrees with the border outside the Osumi Islands in this regard. In the end, both countries made concessions. The Osumi Islands set out an island close to the Tugala Islands as national borders, and China also set out a small island from the Tugala Islands as a buffer zone for the two countries.

The border line was finished, and the military headquarters immediately came up with a plan to garrison. The plan was to station a division of the army and a large group of air forces in the Ryukyu Islands, and at the same time build the Ryukyu Islands into a naval base that goes out of the Pacific Ocean, where a fleet will be stationed there to defend the enemy outside the national gate. This is a non-war garrison force, and the scale of garrison can be expanded at any time during war.

The Ryukyu Islands have many natural deep-water harbors, which are very suitable for building naval bases. The geographical location is also very important and are an important part of China's first island chain. The strategic value is very important and can be cultivated with Taiwan. This makes the strategic significance particularly prominent.

Although Jeju Island is not as big as the Ryukyu Islands, once war starts with Japan again, the strategic significance of Jeju Island is irreplaceable. Once the war begins again, it can hold back Japan's military assistance to North Korea. Whether it is supplies or troop carriers, dive bombers and torpedo aircraft that take off from Jeju Island can be well treated. Moreover, the military headquarters also intends to build a huge submarine base on Jeju Island, at least one fleet must be stationed, the air force has no less than one wing, and the army is also stationed by at least one division.

At the same time, corresponding arsenals will be built on Jeju Island and Ryukyu Islands to be self-produced as much as possible.

Chen Shao was quite satisfied with this plan of garrison. Whether it was the number of troops or the establishment of a naval base, it was almost the same as Chen Shao expected.

After reading the complete plan, Chen Shao wrote down his name at the end. With Chen Shao's signature, the plan can be implemented.

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The Ryukyu Islands were taken over by a division's army half a month ago. Several large islands were all blocked and no Japanese were strictly prohibited from entering and leaving. In addition to many Japanese on the Ryukyu Islands leaving early when they saw the news that the Japanese were not allowed to leave within two months. Japanese people who did not leave within the deadline will be arrested on the charge of espionage. At the same time, all Japanese property was confiscated, and no items were allowed to be taken away except for their clothes.

This news caused great panic to the Japanese on the Ryukyu Islands. But they had no choice now. As soon as a division's troops arrived on the island, they confiscated the weapons of the original Japanese garrison. The Japanese police department located on the Ryukyu Islands was not spared, and the Japanese from both armed forces were taken into custody. The waters of the Ryukyu Islands. Patrol ships led by destroyers were cruising there to prevent Japanese from escaping.

At the same time, as soon as the Chinese army entered the Ryukyu Islands, after confiscating all weapons, they began to seize all the Japanese's property and confiscate their property. At the same time, some sinister Japanese were arrested under the accusation of the Ryukyu people. These arrested people would lose the opportunity to return to their country, and the next thing was to be imprisoned or guns.

In just half a month, the patrol ships had intercepted hundreds of Japanese people. They pretended to be Ryukyu people and went fishing, took all their assets, and wanted to escape from Ryukyu. When they just left the port, they were blocked and confiscated all their property, these people were also arrested for espionage. There was no way to escape. After half a month, the Japanese sent ships over and leaned against the port after layers of inspections. These ships came here to pick up the Japanese on the island. The Chinese side did not have such good intentions to send the Japanese back.

More than a dozen ports were opened on the Ryukyu Islands, and the Japanese were gathered together, and they submitted their identity certificates and all their assets were handed over, and they could take all their families on the way home.

At Kadena's port, tens of thousands of Japanese were lined up and walked past the checkpoint one by one. The surroundings were surrounded by Chinese soldiers, and they all looked at the Japanese in line with live ammunition with murderous aura. Seeing this posture, many Japanese were very scared and moved with their heads down and they did not dare to look at the soldiers around them.

The first check level.

A soldier took the luggage of a Japanese man and checked it. The first package was normal, all of which were all clothes. When the soldier took the second package, he felt the weight, and it was not just clothes. The soldier did not check it immediately, but stared at the Japanese who was undergoing the inspection. The Japanese did not dare to look at the soldiers in front of him, and his head was even lowered.

"Say, what's there?" the soldier asked with a murderous look on his face.

"I, I..." Hearing the soldier's words, the Japanese couldn't speak, hesitated, and his legs couldn't help but tremble.

"Hmph! If you don't say it, I'll check it myself. If you check something, don't go back to Japan."

"Don't..., I... say, there is a gold bar inside." The Japanese was really scared. He originally wanted to get through it. Under the murderous gaze of the People's Army soldiers, he did not dare to take any luck. At this time, he just wanted to return to Japan safely.

The inspected soldiers quickly found a gold bar from the package and handed it to another soldier beside them for registration.

"Speak, are there any more things? There are still several levels behind it. It's not too late to hand it over here. If something is found later, it's not a question of whether you can go back or not."

"It's gone, it's really gone!"

The inspected soldier didn't say anything else and threw two packages on the Japanese. He started to check the next Japanese. Before he could do anything, the Japanese quickly took out a bank bill hidden on his body. With the lessons of the past, the Japanese cooperated very well and could earn it again when the money was gone. If he was left here, he didn't know what to suffer, so it would be safer to take the initiative.

"It's all a bunch of bad bones. If you don't want to eat and drink, you will give up until you get here." The inspector said with contempt. This insistence point is the second checkpoint. There is another asset collection point outside the dock. The Japanese who came to queue must hand over all their property there, but there is no check for their luggage. The second checkpoint starts to check their luggage, and the third checkpoint is to check their bodies. When boarding the ship, they will check for the last time. If it is found that the finances have not been handed over, they will be taken away. If they can't go back, they will be welcomed. They will be deeply hurt.

The team was not fast or slow. After several inspections, the Japanese began to board the ships returning to China. The People's Army's patrol boats would stay with them until these ships were far away from Ryukyu.

Compared with the bleak experiences of the Japanese, the Ryukyu people are completely the opposite. Everyone is like the New Year, and the entire island is cheering. In just half a month, they feel great comfort. The Japanese are expelled like dogs and cannot even take out a piece of extra dog hair. Many infamous Japanese people were arrested and all Japanese industries were seized. This greatly satisfied the Ryukyu people who have been oppressed for decades.

The Celestial Empire became powerful and did not forget them. They defeated the Japanese and freed them from the Japanese minions. All the Ryukyu people were moved by the Celestial Empire. The decades when the Japanese ruled them were their darkest times. Thinking about the 1.2 million residents of Okinawa in later generations, only a very small number of 100,000 were Ryukyu people. This shows how miserable the lives of the Ryukyu people during the Japanese rule.

During World War II, more than 500,000 US troops attacked Ryukyu. This was the last major battle in World War II. It lasted for three months. A total of 200,000 people died, including about 12,000 US officers and soldiers, 94,000 Japanese soldiers and 94,000 Ryukyu civilians. Most of the Ryukyu civilians who were killed in this battle were massacred or forced to commit suicide by the Japanese army, rather than by the artillery fire of the US military. Japanese soldiers forced Ryukyu people to jump off a cliff and commit suicide, or simply killed to reduce the pressure of lack of food in the cave, or because the Ryukyu people were considered spies and were brutally killed. The war reduced the Ryukyu population by one quarter.

According to post-war statistics, 45 of the 130 residents in a small village in Kyurama Island in Ryukyu were forced to commit suicide. In Zamami Village, which consists of 21 small islands, about 1,200 people died, of which 402 were forced to commit suicide by the Japanese army. On the Keirama Island in the Ryukyu area, large-scale suicides are more common and serious than in other places.

The desperate Japanese army not only despised theft of food prepared for women and children, but also occupied caves where Okinawa residents hid, forced residents to go out to commit suicide, or simply killed them. The Japanese army even began to massacre the people. The Japanese headquarters once killed thousands of Okinawan people on the grounds of suspected spies, simply because these people only spoke local dialects and the Japanese from other places could not understand it.

A glimpse of the whole leopard can be seen.

Now that China has defeated Japan, such a tragedy will not occur in the Ryukyu Islands. However, there is still another problem in front of all Ryukyu people, that is, to restore the country or directly rely on China. One thing is certain now, that is, all Ryukyu people hope that China will come here to garrison troops. (To be continued...)
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