Even today, in the Tengchong National Cemetery, the tour guide will still ask everyone who comes to remember to touch the chest and gently call in the heart like Abba and Auntie. In the face of 9168 Chinese soldiers, netizens said: The Japanese Army Major General Kurashige Yasumi and several Japanese soldiers buried here should be allowed to kneel forever... The burial of Japanese invaders in the Chinese martyrs' cemetery is rare in the world.
This is a place where people can cry with heartache - Tengchong National Cemetery.
In May 1942, the Japanese army invaded the border of western Yunnan, and a large area of land west of the Nu River fell into the hands of the enemy, and the Burma Road, an international passage in the rear of the Chinese War of Resistance, was completely cut off.
In May 1944, in order to recover the lost land in western Yunnan, open the Southwest International Transport Artery - The Burma Highway, so that the Allied aid to China materials smoothly entered China, and finally won the victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan, the Chinese Expeditionary Force launched a counter-offensive in Western Yunnan.
The 20th Army Of the Right Wing Army of the Expeditionary Force crossed the Nu River with the strength of 6 divisions (including the troops directly under the Expeditionary Force), attacked Gaoligong Mountain, and fought a bloody battle in the South and Hokusai Public Houses. Then, with the cooperation of the Allies, he besieged Tengchong City, annihilated all the Japanese on September 14, 1944, and recovered the first city since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Tengchong.
The Tengchong siege lasted 42 days and experienced more than 40 large and small battles, and the expeditionary force completely annihilated the Japanese army in Tengchong City. In this campaign, 9168 soldiers of the 20th Army of the Expeditionary Force died heroically, 19 Allied (American) officers and men were killed, and more than 6,000 Japanese troops were annihilated. The victory in the Battle of Tengchong greatly encouraged Yunnan and China's War of Resistance, effectively promoted the victory on the battlefield of Yunnan and Burma, and wrote a glorious page in the history of China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War.
Now, more than 70 years have passed, but in the Tengchong National Cemetery, the tour guide will ask everyone who comes to remember to touch the chest, like Abba and Auntie, gently call in their hearts: "Children, come back..." Those children cannot come back, but Abba and Aunt have never stopped, when the people of Western Yunnan in order to win this just war, the wife sent away the husband, the aunt sent the son away. Before the expedition, Abba said to his son: "You must come back alive, Auntie can't live without you..." But there are still 100,000 western Yunnan boys buried forever in the mountains of Burma.
Li Gengen (1879-1965), also known as Xuesheng, also known as Yangxi and Yinquan. Yunnan Tengchong people. Born in Tengyue, Yunnan (present-day Jiubao Township, Lianghe, Yunnan), he was a modern celebrity, an elder and general of the Chinese Kuomintang, and a patriot. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he raised his arms and shouted and published the famous "Letter to the Fathers of Western Yunnan": "My compatriots in Yunnan and the compatriots of the whole country and the people of our allied countries are now looking forward to the west, looking forward to changing from a stable war situation in western Yunnan to a victorious battlefield for annihilating the enemy on the border... It is good for the country and the anti-war people, although they destroy their families to alleviate difficulties and go to the soup and the fire, they will not give up! "Patriotic feelings shook Yunnan and touched the whole country.
On November 1, 1944, Li Gen proposed in a telegram to Wei Lihuang that a cemetery be established for martyrs. On the 16th, the relevant parties established the "Tengchong Memorial Building Committee". Huo Yuzhang, commander-in-chief of the 20th Group Army, is the chairman of the committee, Li Gengen, the supervisor of Yungui, is the vice chairman of the committee, and Major General Gao Sansun Xiaofeng of the group is responsible for the supervision of specific projects.
On January 2, 1945, Huo Yunzhang presided over a special meeting of the Memorial Construction Committee to raise funds for construction. On the 12th of the same month, another meeting was held to launch fundraising. The committee received a total of 75 million yuan (national currency) in social donations. On the 15th, the construction of the National Martyrs Cemetery was officially started. Li Gen resigned from his post as inspector of Yungui and returned to his hometown of Tengchong, Yunnan, where he actively advocated the construction of the Tengchong National Martyrs Cemetery. After more than half a year of hard work, the National Martyrs Cemetery was completed, and the names of the officers and soldiers of the Chinese army and migrant workers who died in the Tengchong War of Resistance were engraved on the stele.
In this way, the heroes quietly returned home to the soft call of Abba and Auntie, and turned into a gentle hill among the green grass and trees. But at this time, an unexpected affair occurred, and General Li Gen buried the bodies of a Japanese officer and several soldiers in the National Martyrs Cemetery. They were in the same cemetery as the chinese army's cemetery, but opposite each other. Some people say that these Japanese soldiers were buried on their knees at that time, and people wanted them to apologize to the martyrs forever, and General Lee personally wrote on their tombstones- "Woizuka". Since then, this scene has become rare in the world and has caused a lot of controversy.
The legends of the Internet are sometimes very scary and irrational. For the Japanese soldiers in front of the tombs of Chinese martyrs, the legend of some netizens is this: In that year, the heroic martyrs went forward and fought with the Japanese army to the death, and finally won the war. When the bones of the martyrs were transported back, the fathers and fellow villagers saw that one by one the living lives were gone, and their hearts were extremely sad, so they tied up the bodies of several Japanese soldiers and let them be buried in a kneeling posture, forever kneeling in front of the Chinese army to apologize.
However, there are some discrepancies between the "kneeling posture and burial" and the facts: after the war, the corpses are scattered in the mountains, the expeditionary force has been collected, and the Japanese army must have a place to go. At that time, people found more than 100 complete Japanese corpses, but they could not let them be brutally deserted, what to do? Thinking about it, General Li Gen decided to bury them with the martyrs of the Expeditionary Force, but only if they were on the opposite side of the cemetery of the Martyrs of the Expeditionary Force, so as to give a warning education to future generations and make people understand the shameful acts of aggression.
In Tengchong, the highest-ranking of the buried Japanese soldiers was yasumi Zangshige. A native of Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School in 1914 and was awarded the rank of Infantry Corporal at the end of the year. After the July 7 Incident, the Japanese army's war of aggression against China was in full swing, and it participated in the Japanese army's "sweeping" operations in northeast China and north China. In 1940, he was promoted to the commander of the Eighth Independent Infantry Brigade, and once again led his troops to fight in China, and was incorporated into the South China Dispatch Army. In 1948, he was promoted to infantry daisaku.
In the Battle of Tengchong, the joint forces of Tibet Heavy Kangmei garrisoned Tengchong City. On 26 July, the expeditionary force rushed under the city and engaged in a battle for the city walls. The Japanese Tengchong garrison suffered heavy losses and asked to withdraw, but was refused by the division commander Matsuyama. Yasumi Kurashige received orders from his superiors to stubbornly guard Tengchong, and resisted with broken walls and strong houses. On August 13, Yasumi Kurashige and 32 other Japanese soldiers were killed by aircraft of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.
After his death, Yasumi Kurashige was posthumously promoted to major general of the Japanese Army. But what about his body? Therefore, there was a "final destination" arranged by General Lee for him and several other Japanese soldiers, which seems to be a very "humane" act today, and there is nothing inappropriate about it. For this reason, General Lee was once criticized for believing that the Japanese army had committed many crimes and should die without a place to die. However, General Li said: "The Japanese army killed people and set fires, invaded our territory, and harmed my compatriots, but people are dead, and they must find a place for them." Only then did he personally inscribe the words "Wozuka" and bury them.
However, the legend of the Internet is very reminiscent of the Qin Juniper couple kneeling in front of the Yue Fei Temple, and because the "Wo" is somewhat ambiguous in Chinese culture, some netizens also said that the Japanese were deeply uncomfortable with this, and after the war, they proposed to remove the Uzoku and asked to return the bones of The Japanese soldiers, but they were rejected. He also said: To this day, there are often Japanese people who come to Uzo to pay their respects, but they are all sneaky. The existence of The Wozza is a very powerful illustration of Howling's China is not a good bully, and uses the famous saying of the Han Dynasty, which is very uplifting: Those who offend china will be punished from afar!"
In this regard, what we want to say is that there is no need to be angry in fact, it is not necessary to reflect in such details, and it is the last word to remember that period of history and do a good job. But in any case, the Tengchong National Martyrs Cemetery is a place where people can shed tears of heartache, and in the call of A-Ma, the bouquet of incense that people fall is as bright red as the blood of the martyrs, and it is also the driving force for China to move forward.
Yingshui is full of rushing waterfalls, honor qi river flow and yongxi, the river has exhausted its reputation! Tengchong National Martyrs Cemetery is located under the slope of the Dieshui River 1 km southwest of Tengchong, Yunnan.
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