On October 26, 1909, the Harbin Railway Station, which had always been crowded, was very quiet, and a large number of Russian military and police were lined up solemnly, because they were about to welcome an important guest, Japanese Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi. At nine o'clock the train slowly pulled down to the platform, and the first thing that came off the train was The Russian Chancellor of the Exchequer Kokevchev, as well as officials from various countries in Harbin, and finally a small old man with a small stature and somewhat malnourished appearance, who was Ito Hirobumi.
Ahn Chung-geun
Just as Ito Hirobumi waved to the cheering crowd, a young man suddenly rushed out of the crowd and fired three shots at Ito Hirobumi, followed by three more shots, and Ito Hirobumi did not even hum a single hum, and went to see God. After the killer fired, he shouted "Golia Ulla" three times in Russian, which means "Long live Great Korea", and the Russian military police did not have time to think much about it, and rushed up to catch the killer.
At the beginning of the interrogation, the killer refused to say anything, but Ito Hirobumi was the Prime Minister of Japan, the most trusted elder of the Meiji Emperor, and he was inexplicably shot, and the angry Japanese government was eager to ask the Russians for explanations. The interrogator tortured the killer, but he still refused to tell the truth, so they could only guess the identity of the killer, and finally they reported to the Russian high-level: the killer was most likely arranged by the Russian side, on the grounds that Russia was defeated in the Russo-Japanese War and wanted to retaliate against Japan before arranging the killer's assassination.
As soon as this conclusion was reported, the person in charge of the interrogation was scolded, why is this? As we all know, Japan and Russia launched the Russo-Japanese War in order to compete for the interests of northeast China, and after the armistice, the two sides divided their own spheres of influence with Changchun as the boundary. However, the European and American powers also want to share a piece of the northeast, Japan and Russia are naturally unwilling to share, Ito Hirobumi went to Harbin this time, in order to re-talk with Russia about the northeast issue, not to let European and American countries interfere in northeast affairs. At such a critical moment, how could the Russians be stupid enough to assassinate Ito Hirobumi and disrupt the two countries' plans for the partition of the northeast?
Just when Russia was in a dilemma and Japan was raging, the silent killer began to speak, it turned out that his name was Ahn Jung-geun, born in a Korean aristocratic family, and the assassination of Ito Hirobumi, he had been preparing with his accomplices for a long time. The Russian military police asked him: "You, a Korean from a prominent background, do not stay at home well, why did you come out and carry out assassination?" Ahn Chung-geun said contemptuously, "Where do I still have a home, you ask yourself, Ito Hirobumi has done something that has ruined his conscience." "
Hirobumi Ito
As soon as this statement came out, everyone was silent, and Ito Hirobumi was indeed a devil for The Koreans. On October 8, 1895, a group of Japanese ronin stormed the Korean palace, brutally murdered Empress Myungseong, who had resisted Japanese colonial rule, and forced Gojong to depose her. In 1906, Ito Hirobumi "oversaw Korea" and became the nominal ruler of Korea, and the officials and people of Korea, and even King Gojong, were reduced to puppets, and everything was at the mercy of Ito Hirobumi. Later, he forced Gojong to abdicate, let him sign an unequal "Japan-Korea Treaty", disbanded the Korean army, and completely turned Korea into a Japanese colony, and the Korean people were deeply victimized by the Japanese.
"Under the nest, there are complete eggs", although An Zhonggen was born into the nobility, but the country has collapsed, and these nobles who depend on the country for survival naturally cannot escape the fate of being enslaved. Ahn Jung-geun watched the North Korean people being trampled and insulted by the Japanese, and he thought about what he had to do to save the country.
After the fall of Korea, Ahn Jung-geun participated in the "Korean Independence Salvation Movement". Although the salvation movement was very popular and the voice of the anti-colonial people was very high, in the face of absolute suppression, any activity would be bloodily slaughtered, and Ahn Jung-geun soon faced arrest, and he had to flee in order to survive.
"Korean Independence" flag
Later, Ahn Jung-geun joined the "Korean Volunteer Brigade" in Vladivostok, Russia, was appointed as a staff lieutenant general, and secretly sneaked back to Korea to carry out armed struggle. At that time, there were tens of thousands of Japanese troops in The country, but An Jung-geun only brought three hundred people, and the result of this battle can be imagined, except for Ahn Jung-geun and a few comrades who escaped from the siege, the rest of the people were all killed by the Japanese. Under the pain of pain, Ahn Jung-geun began to think about what made Japan a war machine and turned Korea into a colony, and when he thought about it, he felt that there was a person who was fueling the waves, and he was Japanese Prime Minister Itō Hirobumi.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with Ahn Jung-geun thinking this way; as one of the craziest clamors of "occupying the Korean Peninsula and invading China," Ito Hirobumi's actions also responded to the slogans he shouted, and it should be said that the entire Asian people except Japan hated him extremely much. Ahn Jung-geun spoke his mind to his comrades, and they received a response, so they gathered to discuss a plan to get rid of Ito Hirobumi. The executor of the whole plan was, of course, Ahn Jung-geun, and the remaining 11 people acted as a supplement to assist him in getting rid of Ito Hirobumi when necessary.
In order to show their ambitions, Ahn Jung-geun and 11 comrades cut off the ring finger of their left hand, wrote the words "Korean independence" on the Korean flag with blood, and finally everyone pressed the blood handprint, and their ultimate goal was only one, that is, to get rid of the great scourge of Ito Hirobumi. At the beginning of 1909, Ito Hirobumi conducted an expedition in Korea to busan in the south and Uiju in the north, and Ahn Jung-geun mixed in the crowd to look for assassination opportunities, but Ito Hirobumi's security measures were extremely tight, and Ahn Jung-geun did not find the opportunity to attack.
It was not until October that Mr. Ahn learned in the newspaper that Ito Hirobumi was going to Harbin, which said that Ito Hirobumi had departed by train from Changchun on the evening of October 25 and would rest at Caijiagou Station in the early morning of the 26th to pick up a Japanese official who was expected to arrive at Harbin Railway Station around 9 a.m. An Jung-geun was ecstatic to learn this news, he found his old friend Yu Dechun, asked him to look for opportunities at CaiJiagou Station, if he could kill Ito Hirobumi there, he would not have to do it, Yu Dechun is also a patriotic person, naturally full of promises.
Before the action, Ahn Chung-geun deliberately carved the bullet's warhead into a cross shape, because such a bullet into the human body will not pass in a straight line like an ordinary bullet, but will roll in the human body, shattering the internal organs, and there is no possibility of rescue. At 7 a.m. on the 26th, Ahn Jung-geun disguised himself as a Japanese (Japanese expatriates do not need to check their identities when entering the station) and successfully blended into the cheering crowd at the train station. When the train pulled into the platform, Ahn Jung-geun was holding a gun tightly in his hand, in fact, he had not seen what Ito Hirobumi looked like, only that he was a small old man.
North Korea commemorates Ahn Jung-geun
After the Russian officials and other state officials got out of the car, sure enough, an imaginary little old man stepped out, and Ahn Jung-geun knew that Yu Dechun must have lost his hand, and now he could only rely on him to kill the devil. Protected by the Russian military police, Ito Hirobumi let down his guard, and as he waved at the crowd, Ahn Jung-geun rushed out and fired three shots at him, as well as the Japanese next to him.
Due to the lethality of the pre-carved bullets, many people, including Ito Hirobumi, died. And after he succeeded, I shouted "Long live Great Korea" in Russian because he saw a lot of Russian journalists present. He hoped that these journalists would also remember the lessons of Russia's defeat, have a patriotic heart, and not continue to associate with the enemy, and what he did today is what a patriot should do.
Unfortunately, weak and small countries cannot be saved by a patriotic hero, and Ahn Jung-geun cannot even save himself. On February 14, 1910, the Kanto Governor's Office District Court established by Japan in China announced that Ahn Jung-geun was sentenced to death, and the judges, prosecutors, lawyers, and observers throughout the trial were All Japanese, and finally gave Ahn Jung-geun a five-day appeal. Of course, Ahn Jung-geun knew that this was a blind eye of the Japanese, and he said calmly: "I will not obey the trial, and I will not appeal." He demanded a one-month delay in execution and the completion of his works "The Seven Histories of An Ying" and "The Theory of Oriental Peace" in prison. On March 16, before the book had finished writing his sentence, Ahn Jung-geun put on the hanbok, white silk top and black pants that his mother had made for him, and was generous and righteous.
After Ahn Jung-geun assassinated Ito Hirobumi, the Japanese government fell into chaos, so the plan to invade China was suspended, which was also a fortunate thing for Chinese. On January 9, 2014, at the request of the North Korean leader, the Chinese government built the "Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Hall" at the Harbin Railway Station to commemorate this warrior who has contributed to the country.
Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Hall
More than a hundred years have passed, and Ahn Jung-geun's heroic deeds are still tearful, and we should also clearly realize that only a strong country can protect its citizens from harm. A country that needs its citizens to fight to the death to defend, if it does not work hard to stand up, is doomed to be beaten.