In 1945, Japan, which was unstoppable in China, chose to surrender unconditionally after being threatened by two atomic bombings and countries such as the United States, and the arrogant Japanese emperor had to bow his head. The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which had ravaged China, finally came to an end.
However, a group of Japanese invaders in China still did not die in china, and the representative of this group was Okamura Ningji, who had 800,000 troops and sufficient armaments. When he received the news of Japan's surrender, he tried his best to resist this fact, and he also coldly said four words to his subordinates, which expressed his unwillingness and his last madness.
Fanatical militarists
Okamura was born into a declining samurai family, received an education in Japanese Bushido from an early age, and the japanese military style began to rise at that time, so the idea of militarism was imprinted in his mind. After graduating from elementary school, he was admitted to the high school attached to a prestigious school in Tokyo, but because his family could not afford the high tuition fees of the school, he eventually transferred to a school in Tokyo for the training of the army.
At this school, Okamura received military training and began to become a Japanese soldier. It was also here that Okamura was thoroughly brainwashed by militarist ideas and became an outright militarist.
Not long after Okamura's graduation, the Russo-Japanese War began, and Okamura Ningji had the intention of fighting for the emperor and dying for the emperor to apply to his superiors to go to the battlefield. In the end, his superiors were so annoyed that they agreed to his application to go to war, and he took part in the Battle of Sakhalin Island.
After that, Okamura was transferred to the Foreign War Office. In the same year that he was transferred, World War I broke out, and Japan took advantage of Germany's self-care to occupy the former German colony in China, Qingdao, Shandong.
After Japan gained a firm foothold in Shandong, the Japanese General Staff Headquarters sent a team of men and horses to Qingdao to collect information in order to compile the history of the Russo-Japanese War. Okamura Ningji was one of them, and he also took the opportunity to set foot on Chinese soil for the first time, and stayed in China for four years. In these four years, he thoroughly understood China's national conditions at that time, which also prepared him for his future invasion of China.
After being transferred back to Japan, he has been following the instructions of the government, trumpeting militarism and the spirit of Bushido, and has always been a voice for the "right to life" and "right to development" of the Japanese Army. His superiors saw him working so hard and quickly promoted him, and he became a small and powerful figure in the Japanese military, and later became known as The Three Feathers along with the other two.
He and two others in Baden-Baden had a secret gathering. After that, with the support of the Japanese Emperor, they carried out a great purge and reform of the Japanese army from top to bottom, which greatly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army and also fueled the Ambition of the Japanese military to invade China.
Enjoy the dividends of war
After Japan launched a war of aggression, Okamura was very happy, because he thought that the opportunity to show his fists had arrived. Sure enough, after the September 18 Incident, in order to divert international attention, the Japanese military top brass secretly sent personnel to attack Shanghai, China, and provoked the 128 Incident.
Okamura was also sent to Shanghai as chairman of the Military Investigation Committee and promoted to major general. Because he had done a good job in covering up Japan's aggression against Shanghai, he was appreciated by his superiors, and was soon sent to the northeast to serve as deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army.
After taking office, he was faced with a situation in which the anti-Japanese military and people stubbornly resisted Japanese rule, so he believed that the issue of handling the "public order" in the northeast region was the most important thing.
So while requesting reinforcements from his superiors, he issued an order to strengthen the legal system through puppet Manchukuo, slandered the resistance fighters as traitors and bandits, and bribed local bandits and established puppet armies as cannon fodder for the Japanese army. After the arrival of reinforcements, he launched a huge "mopping-up" campaign, which cost countless anti-Japanese heroes their lives.
During the mopping-up against the Akira, Okamura also negotiated an armistice as a military representative and signed an agreement that would give the Japanese full advantage. This agreement forced China to recognize the Great Wall area as a japanese occupation zone, and at the same time established a demilitarized zone, which laid the foundation for Japan's further aggression.
With the "merits" of stabilizing the northeast region and signing the Tanggu Armistice Agreement, Okamura Ninji soon became one of the core figures of the Japanese invasion of China. Later, he also implemented the extremely cruel Sanguang policy in northern China, allowing his soldiers to burn and loot the Chinese people and insult them wantonly. It can be said that he single-handedly pulled the Chinese people into the abyss.
Okamura Ninji's last madness
When Japan first invaded China, it made a big fuss and threatened to destroy China within three months. However, under the desperate resistance of the Chinese military and people, the Japanese front for invading China was getting longer and longer, and Japan, a small country, could not withstand such a large consumption after all.
As one of the core figures of Japan's war of aggression, Okamura Ningji led the Japanese army to start one sweep and three light activities after another in order to eliminate the anti-Japanese forces in the northeast region and to reduce the logistical pressure, resulting in the innocent and tragic deaths of tens of thousands of Chinese people.
Under the military suppression of Okamura Ninji, the anti-Japanese activities did not die out, but intensified. This made Okamura Ninji's military strikes desperately resisted by the Chinese military and civilians. In such a situation, Okamura Sensed the harbinger of Japan's defeat, and therefore formulated the Jade Fragment Plan, intending to give it a go and die with the anti-Japanese forces.
On the eve of the implementation of the plan, Okamura received the news of Japan's surrender, but he ignored it, and he coldly said to his subordinates: "Continue to attack." This can be seen in Okamura Ninji's madness when he was desperate—he wanted to die with the anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians. In addition, in order not to waver the hearts of the army, Okamura Ninji also said to his subordinates: "Although the emperor has declared the end of the war, we in China have not yet received the emperor's edict, so the emperor still wants us to continue to attack China." ”
Although the general trend of Japan's defeat cannot be changed, it has to be said that Okamura Ninji has the ability to change the small trend. At that time, Okamura Ningji was the commander-in-chief of the Japanese invasion of China, with 800,000 well-equipped Japanese troops, including the elite army, the Kwantung Army. His proclamation of death and non-surrender really dealt a heavy blow to our country. But in the end, evil did not suppress the right, and under the blows of various forces, Okamura Ninji's jade crushing plan failed.
But what is chilling is that after the war, the Kuomintang protected such a sinner who invaded China and bore a heavy blood debt, and when he was tried militarily, he was acquitted, so that he could return to China safely and get a good death, which has to be said to be a great irony for the People of the Country.
brief summary
The War of Resistance Against Japan is a scar that our nation can never heal, and we have sacrificed too much to win this war. In this protracted war, countless able men and women sacrificed for the liberation of the country and the independence of the nation. While remembering these heroes, we must also learn lessons and reflect on ourselves.
We must ask ourselves why a small country in Japan almost wiped out the great China, and why a repeat war criminal was able to return home unharmed. The lessons of the past, the teachers of the future generations, we cannot repeat the mistakes of the past. The suffering Chinese nation has woken up, and we will guard our country and never let that humiliating history repeat itself!
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