During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a number of "Japanese Eighth Roads" were produced from the Japanese prisoners of war of the Eighth Route Army. However, the transition from "Japanese devils" to "Japanese eight roads" is really difficult.
There was such a Japanese Eighth Route, who had followed him before, who had no humanity and no evil deeds, and after being captured by the Eighth Route Army, he thought about how to escape all day long. However, such a former "beast" was completely "tamed" by an eighth route army officer in his twenties.
This Japanese eight-way, named Yasuo Mizuno, is the town of Kanakami in Chiba Prefecture. In January 1939, when he was only 17 years old, he concealed his age and volunteered to join the Tian Brigade, the commander of the Japanese 32nd Division.
In May 1939, the Japanese 32nd Division was transferred from the mainland to Shandong, China. After the Nagata Brigade was stationed in Wenshang County, it often received information about the activities of the guerrillas of the Eighth Route Army, and the Nagata Brigade immediately dispatched every time to go to the mopping- But each time it was a blank spree, and not even a figure of the Eighth Route Army was seen, so they had to grab a bunch of things and scold the common people and then retreated.
After many fruitless returns, the world's most inhuman army has finally revealed its vicious beast face.
One night, nagata received information that there were "guerrilla activities" and immediately went to mopping it. But as before, they still didn't see the shadow of the Eighth Road. This time, the Japanese army captured 4 peasants in the village, tied them up, pulled them directly outside the village, and dug a pit on the side of the road.
The chinese peasants who were tied up saw the Japanese digging pits and begged for forgiveness:
Sir, I'm not an eight-way street!
Please, sir, don't kill me!
Dozens of Japanese troops surrounded 4 Chinese peasants, giggling and watching, they knew that this was going to be "trial slashing".
A ghost officer stepped out and drew a pistol from his waist.
At this time, the Chinese peasants who begged for forgiveness suddenly stopped asking for forgiveness. They closed their mouths tightly, their eyes wide open, glaring at the ghost officer.
The ghost officer pulled down the pistol safety, and the Japanese soldiers stopped frolicking and watched silently. The devilish officer stood 10 meters away from the Chinese peasants and raised his pistol to aim at one of the farmers. His eyes were covered with blood, and his wrists trembled slightly.
After a long time, maybe just for a moment, the gun went off.
The peasants fell to the ground in response, and the ground was covered with blood.
Another ghost officer came out with a saber. He was full of luck, and with a roar, he swung his knife and slashed down...
On July 31, 1939, the Nagata Brigade received an order to escort the Nojiri Hiroshiri Artillery Squad from the prefectural seat and send the Field Artillery Squad to friendly positions. As a result, the brigade commander Nagata Toshie hurriedly formed an escort team of less than 200 people, plus a field artillery squad, a total of 229 Japanese troops.
On August 2, this vicious Japanese brigade was surrounded at Liangshan by six old Red Army companies of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army. After a night of fierce fighting, the captain of the brigade, Nagata Toshie, and most of the Japanese troops were killed. The remnants of the Japanese soldiers hid in hiding here with two and three there.
Yasuo Mizuno and a few Japanese soldiers hid in a hut in a courtyard. Looking out from the hut, the courtyard was littered with corpses of Japanese soldiers and dying wounded soldiers. Sporadic gunfire rang out from time to time in the village, and the remnants of the Japanese army were still resisting. Then there was a row of concentrated gunshots and grenades exploding, and the resisting Japanese were wiped out.
At this moment, Mizuno Yasuo remembered the order of his commander: "Each of you must keep a grenade, which is used at the end of the day with the enemy!" ”
However, this usage is really too difficult. Mizuno Yasuo was thinking this, and several Eighth Route Soldiers came in the courtyard and shouted in hard-to-understand Japanese: Japanese soldiers! We will not kill you! Put the gun down and get out!
However, It was impossible for Mizuno to surrender, but it was difficult to pull the grenade and die with the eight roads. While hesitating, a hole was dug in the roof of the head, and a bundle of burned sorghum straw was thrown in, and the hut was filled with smoke in an instant. Couldn't hesitate any longer! Mizuno Yasuo grabbed 3 guns and threw them out, taking advantage of the fact that the Eighth Route Army outside thought that they would surrender their guns and said to several other Japanese soldiers: Run!
Yasuo Mizuno rushed out of the hut and fled into the sorghum field, at which point he tilted his head and passed out.
When he woke up, there were several Eighth Route Army troops standing around him. Mizuno thought that after this was over, if he was caught by these bandit-like people, he would never be saved. So he closed his eyes and waited to die.
Suddenly, Yasuo Mizuno heard someone shouting at him in unnatural Japanese: Get up, we will not kill the prisoners.
Mizuno Yasuo couldn't help but open his eyes and see a young man dressed in the Eighth Route Army uniform, 27 or 8 years old, with long hair and a Mauser gun pinned to his waist.
The young Eighth Route Army also brought him a horse and let the hungry and dizzy Yasuo Mizuno ride it.
Entering the village, Mizuno saw five other Japanese soldiers crouching underground, watched by the Eighth Route Army, eating watermelon in the shade of a tree. At that time, Mizuno Yasuo angrily thought, how can these Japanese soldiers eat the enemy's watermelon without incident?!
After that, Yasuo Mizuno and the six of them were loaded into 2 carriages and pulled to the brigade headquarters of the Eighth Route Army. If it wasn't for the young officer guarding the way, I'm afraid they would have let the villagers smash them to death with stones.
At the brigade headquarters, the Mizunos were interrogated, and the young Eighth Route Army officer asked them many questions, and Mizuno made up many lies. Finally, the young officer grinned and beckoned the Eighth Route Army soldiers to bring several thick bound documents. Mizuno took a look, oops! That's the top secret documents of the Japanese army they carry! The young eighth route army officer looked at the interrogation records with the top-secret documents, looked up at them, and said, "You are blind, come back and show you something!" ”
After the young Eighth Route Army officer finished speaking, he went to the courtyard and grabbed watermelons with a few Eighth Route Army soldiers.
The Mizunos were escorted to a courtyard by the Eighth Route Army and saw all their equipment: 92 infantry guns, Italian field guns, grenadiers, light and heavy machine guns...
Mizuno wanted to take these weapons back, but he couldn't. A soldier of the Eighth Route Army also put his rifle under Mizuno's nose as if showing off, which was a Type 38 rifle.
The day after the interrogation, the Eighth Route Army sent each of them a towel, a bar of soap and a notebook. Mizuno opened his notebook and saw a passage on the title page:
Japanese brethren: For the sake of the Chinese and Japanese peoples, let us fight against the common enemy, the Japanese warlords and chaebols, and victory is at hand!
- Yang Yong, Major General of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army
Who is Yang Yong?
Although Mizuno disagreed with this passage, he was still interested in the fact that an Army Major General could sign his signature, let alone the Army Major General who had "completely annihilated" the Imperial Japanese Army.
When he learned that Yang Yong was the young Eighth Route Army officer who interrogated them yesterday, Mizuno Yasuo chuckled greatly in his heart.
Although the Eighth Route Army never interrogated them a second time, and every day they waited for the white-faced steamed buns, the Mizunos still had only one thought - to find a way to escape.
A dozen days later, the Japanese reconnaissance planes arrived, followed by the rumbling of field guns shaking the Great Plains, mixed with the strafing sound of machine guns. The Mizunos knew that the Japanese had come to grab them and the cannons.
However, the hopes of the Mizuno soon fell short. They were transferred to a small island in the middle of the lake. At night, the night sky in the direction of Liangshan was illuminated red by artillery fire. The sound of the 92 infantry guns and tanks is clearly audible. Mizuno thought that it was estimated that he would never see the 20-year-old Army Major General Yang Yong again. For some reason, Mizuno even felt a little sorry.
However, a few days later, Yang Yong appeared in front of them on the island again. Yang Yong informed them of the war with some lightness:
Under the personal command of the commander of the Kimura Division, the Japanese 32nd Division dispatched more than 3,000 people, more than 160 cars and tanks, vowing to retake the cannons captured by the Eighth Route Army and the captured Japanese troops. However, all the way to dushan villa, I didn't see the shadow of the eighth road. The bodies of the Japanese troops buried by the Eighth Route Army had to be exhumed and cremated. During the retreat, a unit was ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, killing and wounding more than 200 people, destroying 10 cars and 3 tanks.
Yang Yong finally said: "There are some inconvenient places that can be raised." ”
There is nothing inconvenient about mizuno, they just want to run.
On the night of September 13, 1939, heavy rains plummeted and Dongping Lake soared. A few Japanese soldiers in total, run!
Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Sentries of the Eighth Route Army entering the house to hide from the rain, six Japanese soldiers sneaked into the storm.
In the pouring rain, they struggled in the lake and swam toward the embankment in the direction of Jinan Province. As I was swimming, I heard someone shouting: Hey, I'm going to drown!
Other people think: Can't take care of it, or they will all die!
At dawn, when it was easy to climb ashore, there were only 3 people left.
When the 3 people stood up on the embankment shakily, they could not walk.
I don't know who shouted: Don't run anymore, I'm afraid I can't escape!
All 3 people were stunned there, not moving for a long time.
Just when they were cornered, the Eighth Route Army with guns appeared. The Japanese soldiers raised their hands.
Seeing that a few of them had only a piece of cloth on their bodies, trembling, the Eighth Route Army could not help but laugh, but still tied them up firmly.
On the way to follow the eighth route army, Mizuno Yasuo found that the eighth road always moved to a new village at 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning. In order not to disturb his fellow villagers, he quietly sat on the ground after entering the village, never sitting on wheat grass or straw. Once, Shui Ye felt uncomfortable sitting on the ground, so he sat on the wheat straw pile and was grabbed by a large Eighth Route Army and thrown out! This is something that has never happened before. Later, Yang Yong told him: People sit on the wheat grass pile, and the animals will not eat when they smell the smell of people! Hearing this, Mizuno Yasuo froze.
Slowly, Mizuno's thinking began to change. So the Eighth Route Army decided to let him do something beneficial to the War of Resistance. 40 years after New Year's Day, Yasuo Mizuno was sent to the units of the Eighth Route Army in Rusi, and everywhere he went, he taught the Eighth Route Army japanese and shouted:
feed! Japanese soldiers, don't shoot and don't kill, feel free to come out!
feed! Soldiers of Japan, your families are waiting for you at home!
While teaching, Mizuno Yasuo thought: It seems that the Eighth Route Army's preferential treatment of prisoners is really not propaganda. If someone really hears this shouting and survives, it's always a good thing!
At this time, Yasuo Mizuno had more or less changed his mind about the Eighth Route Army and about this war. Hearing the Eighth Route Army propaganda team singing "On the Matsuka River" and thinking of his old mother at home, Mizuno Yasuo began to hate the war.
It was the Eighth Route Army's preferential treatment of prisoners and care for their fellow villagers one detail after another that subtly changed the hearts of these Japanese soldiers. No one is born a demon, and such a team can make ghosts turn back into people