The claim that the Japanese invading general Tsuneoka Kanji was killed by the Eighth Route Army was widely circulated, but the PLA Publishing House's 2005 book "The Column of Shame in History - The Complete Record of the Death of the Japanese General Who Invaded China" did not include the entry of Hiroharu Tokioka, which showed the cautious attitude of the editors, and no one easily accepted the "theory of being killed", Tsuneoka Kanji was the predecessor of the predecessor of "The Flower of the Famous General" Norihide Abe, who was promoted to lieutenant general on March 1, 1938, and became the commander of the first independent mixed 2nd Brigade After being transferred on 9 March 1939, he was succeeded by Major General Kameifu Ueno, and Major General Nori Abe succeeded him as commander of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade on 1 June 1939.
Takaharu Tokioka
Born on November 7, 1886, Tsuneoka graduated from the 18th Infantry Section of the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School in May 1906, graduating a year before Abe Norihide, who was in the 19th Infantry Division, and Tsuneyoshi Tokioka was admitted to the 29th Infantry School in December 1914, where he graduated with Jun Gomiya, Sadaichi Suzuki, Ryoya Mutaguchi, Tokiichi Sasaki, Yoshio Uezuki, Kazuya Tsukibashi, Masato Honda, and Takuro Matsui when he graduated in November 1917." Honors" and entered the "Sabre Group" in the same period, while Abe Norihide was unable to enter the Army University due to poor academics.
Army University "Sabre Group"
Tsuneoka's resume from the university until his promotion to army daisaku is unknown, but with his "excellent" graduation results, it was not a problem to enter the three army centers of the general staff headquarters, the army province and the education directorate, and Tsuneoka Kanji was promoted to army daisa, on August 1, 1931, and became the commander of the 47th Infantry Regiment of the 11th Brigade Regiment of the Sixth Division, and he was appointed to the same day as the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Masamune Sakamoto, and his immediate superior was Major General Kunimi Matsuda, the commander of the 11th Brigade.
In February 1933, Hiroshi Tokioka led the 47th Infantry Regiment, with the Japanese Sixth Division regiment to participate in the attack on the important town of Chifeng in northern Cyprus, it was a cold day, the Mongolian steppe was often more than 30 degrees below zero, and the officers and men from Kumamoto, Japan, could not withstand the severe cold in northern Sai, and there was a situation of attrition due to frostbite.
Japanese forces occupying Chifeng
After the fall of Chifeng, Tokioka Kanji led his troops to attack the capital of Rehe Province, Chengde, with the Sixth Division, and Chengde was soon lost, and soon the entire territory of Rehe was completely fallen, and the entire four northeastern provinces fell into the hands of the Japanese Kwantung Army, but the Japanese wolf ambitions were not satisfied, and they began to covet north China, and the war situation of taking Beiping and Tianjin was very obvious.
On March 27, 1933, the Japanese Kwantung Army began to carry out a full-scale attack on the passes of the Great Wall, because the Japanese army was well-equipped and well-trained, constantly breaking through the defensive positions of the Chinese defenders, some important passes along the Great Wall were still lost one by one, and the Chinese defenders caused some confusion during the retreat, and could not organize any effective resistance, resulting in the opening of the gate of the Pingjin area and falling into crisis, forcing he Yingqin, the supreme leader of the Nationalist government in North China. Xiong Bin, a negotiator, was sent to negotiate with japanese negotiator Okamura Ningji, and on May 31, 1933, the Tanggu Armistice Agreement was signed.
The scene of the tanggu armistice agreement negotiations
In March 1934, the Japanese Sixth Division, which had been severely damaged in the Battle of Rehe and the Great Wall War, was transferred back to Japan for rest and replenishment, and on March 5, Tsuneoka Washika was transferred to the chief of staff of the Japanese Second Division, and was successively assisted by two division commanders, Minoru Higashihisa Andemiya and Qin Zhenji, who were also the commanders of the "Nine. The main divisions stationed in northeast China before and after the 18th Incident were the vanguard of occupying the entire territory of the three northeastern provinces.
On March 15, 1935, Tsuneoka Wasaku was promoted to major general and served as the commander of the 13th Infantry Brigade of the Seventh Division, which was under the command of the 25th Infantry Regiment and the 26th Infantry Regiment, and served as the commander of the three divisions of Sugihara Miyotaro, Usami Yukiya, and Mimao Kazuo. After the outbreak of the February 6 Incident, he was transferred to the principal of the Japanese Army Teaching School, which is also known as the Toyohashi Teaching School because the school is located in Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, which is a military school that trains army corporals, and those who graduate from the school are only awarded the rank of cobia.
Military cadets in training
On March 1, 1938, Tsuneoka Washioka was promoted to lieutenant general and transferred to the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade of the North China Front, which was formed on February 10, 1938, with 5 independent infantry brigades under its jurisdiction, each with 4 infantry squadrons, and also an independent artillery team, an independent engineer team, an independent signal team, and an independent heavy brigade, with a total of 5,049 troops, included in the combat sequence of the Mongolian Army, and responsible for the security task in the Zhangjiakou area.
Among them, the 1st Independent Infantry Brigade is stationed in Tun Xuanhua and Kangzhuang; the 2nd Independent Infantry Brigade is stationed in Tunhuailai; the 3rd Independent Infantry Brigade is stationed in Tunwei County; the 4th Independent Infantry Brigade is stationed in Tuntianzhen and Laiyuan; the 5th Independent Infantry Brigade is stationed in Tun zhangjiakou.
Independent mixed brigades are mostly garrison units, but also participate in the sweeping operations of the jurisdiction, but also often assigned to other divisions to participate in frontal combat, independent mixed brigade since February 1938, often invaded the Jin-Cha-Ji anti-Japanese base area, the brigade had invaded Guangling, Shanxi in September 1938, in the Shaojiazhuang and Zhangjiawan areas south of Guangling, was ambushed by the 359th Brigade of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army, Changgang Kanji was in this ambush battle, He was wounded by Peng Qingyun, an instructor of the 1st Battalion of the 719th Regiment, with a 38-big cover rifle sniper, so that the misinformation was killed and has been passed down to this day.
The Eighth Route Army ambushed the Japanese
On March 9, 1939, Tsuneoka Washioka was transferred back to Japan as the commander of the Ninth Division's Remaining Division, responsible for recruiting and training new soldiers, the Ninth Division under the leadership of Lieutenant General Yoshisumi Ryosuke, successively participated in major battles such as the Battle of Songhu, the Attack on Nanjing, the Battle of Xuzhou, and the Battle of Wuhan, and in July 1939 was transferred back to Japan for rest and replenishment.
On June 31, 1939, Tsuneoka Kanji was transferred to the reserve, for unknown reasons, until April 1945, when the Japanese base camp adjusted its strategic deployment and attempted to carry out a decisive battle on the mainland with "100 million jade fragments", Tsuneoka Kanji was re-recruited, and on April 8 of that year, he was appointed commander of the Ryo Fortress, "Nine. Shoichi Shimamoto, who led the 2nd Brigade of the Independent Garrison in attacking the North Camp, served as the commander of Yura Fortress before Hiroharu Tokioka, which was located in Hyogo Prefecture, which was built to defend Osaka Bay, and built a number of large forts, which still have the remains of the forts and have become famous local tourist attractions.
Yura Fortress Fort
On August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan issued the "Edict of the End of the War", the Japanese soldiers who had shouted "one hundred million jade fragments" all had eggplants and surrendered to the US army, and Tsuneoka's post-war experience is unknown, and he died on the third anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender, and he was awarded a meritorious fourth and third-class golden eagle medal before his death.
History is an objective fact that has occurred, and it is not allowed to be fabricated and tampered with, and the history of false rumors must also be corrected, and it is recorded in the "Army and Navy Personnel Overview" published in Japan that Tokioka Kanji died on August 15, 1948, and there is still a saying on the Internet that he was killed in September 1938, a difference of 10 years, which is a two-or-choice topic, and which one will you believe?