Japanese prisoners in the custody of the Chinese Expeditionary Force
As we all know, in the war of Japanese aggression against China, in order to save troops and throw themselves into front-line operations as much as possible, a large number of puppet troops were incorporated. The composition of these puppet armies is very complicated, some are soldiers in the warlord period, some are hooligans, and even more many are bandits in the mountains, at the peak of the period, Japan has collected a total of about 2 million puppet troops, many people wonder where these puppet armies went after the end of the War of Resistance, there are three main flows, the first is the secondary integration, here is mainly aimed at some large-scale pseudo-armies.
The puppet army that was searched by the Eighth Route Army
As we all know, at the end of 1943, the Chinese War of Resistance gradually entered the counter-offensive stage, and began to gradually and gradually close the land occupied by Japan, of which the vast majority of Japanese puppet troops were not eligible to withdraw with the Japanese army. These remaining Japanese puppet armies were incorporated into the regular army, of course, on the premise that after identification, the crimes were relatively minor, and some of the most serious crimes were basically executed after trial.
A puppet army that was used as an animal by Japanese soldiers
Although the integration of the puppet army made a large number of puppet troops escape punishment and sanctions, it was also due to objective reasons at that time, after all, there were many heroic martyrs who died in the War of Resistance Against Japan at that time, and soldiers were needed in the counter-offensive stage. In addition, there are some individuals, groups, and other pseudo-military units, such as some famous traitors and their henchmen, who have basically been tried after the war, some who have committed the most heinous crimes have basically been tried and sentenced to capital punishment, and some who have made great meritorious achievements have also been difficult to escape from prison.
Puppet army with Japanese soldiers
In addition, there is also a part of the Japanese puppet army, this part of the crime committed is not big, not small, not small, knowing that it is difficult to escape sanctions, so simply carry equipment up the mountain to become bandits, this group of people is not a minority. Abandoning the last conscience to be a bandit is also the most miserable of all the puppet armies, these puppet armies basically did nothing wrong, and still burned and looted in the later stages of the war, but immediately after the founding of New China, they were liquidated, and in several battles against bandits, the remnants of these puppet armies basically disappeared, and even some of them turned themselves in and were finally sentenced to heavy sentences.
The image of a traitor in film and television dramas
The puppet army is a specific product of a specific period, basically composed of Chinese, and most of the puppet army performs the so-called public security work. This was mainly because China was so vast that even if the Japanese conquered an area, it was impossible to send too many soldiers to defend. A considerable number of these puppet armies have relatively little harm (the larger harm has been basically eliminated in guerrilla warfare), which is also an important reason why they can be incorporated.
Traitorous bandits who were executed in a concentrated manner
Of course, being incorporated is not foolproof, as we all know, because of the urgency of the war, many times it is the whole team that is collected, and there are many fish that have slipped through the net. After the founding of New China, many of these fish that slipped through the net were reported and then fell into the legal net, and they were properly tried.
Author: Engineer