On the battlefield, he was loyal to the country, and his soul returned to his hometown after sacrifice. Some of the soldiers, comrades-in-arms and governments who died on the battlefield will do their best to avoid the souls of the faithful. However, across the sea from Japan, Chinese students have found several Chinese martyrs' cemeteries, and these cemeteries have not been sorted out in the past hundred years, and what is infuriating is that the tombstones are impressively engraved with two big characters, full of insults to Chinese martyrs!
Tombstone of a Chinese martyr
What words are engraved on the tombstones of Chinese martyrs? Why are the tombstones of Chinese martyrs in Japan? What will happen to this matter in the end?
The Japanese Army cemetery humiliates Chinese martyrs
In the summer of 1945, Japan was on the verge of collapse on various battlefields, and out of luck, the Soviet Union would not participate in the war, and for the sake of false Bushido honors, it still stubbornly resisted on the battlefield. Finally, on August 15, 1945, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito issued a surrender edict, and after eight years, the Chinese military and civilians made great sacrifices to achieve victory in the War of Resistance.
In order to apologize to the innocent civilians killed and the soldiers who died, China buried four Japanese kosovars, including Yasumi Zoshige, in a kneeling position at the Tengchong Martyrs' Cemetery in Yunnan Province, with two large characters engraved on them. When the people of the whole country learned of this, they all clapped their hands and applauded.
When the Japanese government learned of this incident, it felt humiliated and immediately called for condemnation of China in the international community, believing that China was insulting Japan by doing so, and demanded its demolition. China categorically rejected Japan's demands. The Japanese government's disgrace was not revealed until 2003.
In 2003, Yang Haijia, a Chinese student, studied history and liked to visit the customs and customs of Japan. One day, as usual, he was playing around the outskirts of Japan, and when he walked to the Zhengtianshan Army Cemetery, he suddenly found that the Japanese cemetery had 10 tombstones of Chinese martyrs, but it had not been sorted out for a long time, and it seemed very desolate.
Walking forward, only to see two big words engraved "captive", Yang Haijia felt very angry. After careful observation, it was found that there were 5 tombstones that could clearly see the names, they were Liu Hanzhong, Li Jinfu, Yang Yongkuan, Xi Xixuan, and Lu Wenfeng, and the remaining 5 tombstones were blurred. Compared with other flower-studded tombstones in the surrounding area, these 10 tombstones have not been sorted out for a long time, which looks very desolate. As a Chinese studying in Japan, Yang Haijia was very sad about the scene in front of her.
Historically, few countries have buried the dead soldiers of enemy countries, and even rarer have built martyrs' tombs. The Japanese engraved the words "prisoner" on the tombstones of Chinese martyrs, which is obviously an insult to China's martyrs, which can be described as a painstaking attempt to humiliate China.
So why do Chinese martyrs' tombs appear in Japanese cemeteries? In order to find out the ins and outs of this matter, Yang Haijia returned to the school to consult the teacher, visited the local elderly, and a history that had been covered up for many years gradually surfaced, and he was shocked that the Chinese martyrs had come to Japan with such identities.
China was defeated in the Sino-Japanese War
How did 10 martyrs of China come to Japan? Why do the Japanese have the word "captive" inscribed on their tombstones?
In the mid-nineteenth century, Western colonial powers opened the doors of Japan and China with gunboats. In the face of aggression by western powers, if we want to avoid the fate of humiliated countries, we can only align ourselves with the developed countries of Western Europe, carry out economic and military reforms, and enhance national strength.
Thus began the Meiji Restoration in Japan. Japan sent a mission to visit the developed countries of Western Europe to learn about the capitalist system. At that time, the Japanese emperor was only 15 years old, and he spared no effort to support reforms. In addition to learning from advanced Western science and technology, Japan has also vigorously developed the military industry and carried out military reform.
As an island country, Japan is small in size, scarce in resources, and its economy is very dependent on foreign trade, so it attaches great importance to the development of naval power. In order to speed up the construction of the fleet, Japan took out half of the country's economic budget, and the emperor also took out his own private treasury to support Japan's military development.
After the Meiji Restoration, after twenty years of development, Japan's national strength gradually increased, and it successively abrogated the unequal treaties signed with Western powers, regained national sovereignty, and realized the modernization of national development. The Meiji Restoration was a turning point in Japan's development, and since then it has embarked on the road of independent development, quickly becoming one of the top two powers in Asia and even a world power.
While Japan was doing its best to rush forward, China also began the foreign affairs movement. At that time, invaded by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement and western powers, the Qing government felt that the situation was difficult and began to introduce advanced western military equipment and production technology to maintain its rule. Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang, and others established the first batch of military industries, such as the Jiangnan Manufacturing General Bureau and the Anqingnei Ordnance Institute.
In the First Opium War, Britain, with its advanced naval superiority, posed a great threat to China's southeast coast. In order to consolidate coastal defense, some people in the Western affairs faction proposed to build a navy and consolidate southeast coastal defense.
Under the efforts of Li Hongzhang, the Beiyang Water Division was formally established in 1888, and in order to enhance the combat strength of the Beiyang Water Division, the Qing government at first made efforts. First of all, more than 10 advanced gunboats were introduced from abroad, and more than 4 million silver was allocated every year to develop the Beiyang Marine Division.
At the beginning, the Qing government was willing to spend silver, and the combat effectiveness of the Beiyang Marine Division was still very impressive, it was the largest and strongest of the four Chinese navies at that time, and the strength of the Beiyang Fleet had reached the level of the first in Asia. Before the Sino-Japanese War, Japan's ironclad ships were severely damaged by the Beiyang Fleet several times, which made the Japanese Navy extremely jealous of the Beiyang Fleet.
Later, however, as the Qing government became more and more corrupt and indulged in extravagance, the Rulers of the Qing Dynasty were reluctant to invest silver in the Beiyang Water Division, and Empress Dowager Cixi thought that the Beiyang Water Division was already strong enough, so she took the beiyang Water Division's military expenses to build the Summer Palace. Since 1889, for every additional warship added by the Beiyang Marine Division, the fastest ship was 1 hour and 23 nautical miles.
Officers and men of the Beiyang Marine Division
After 1890, just in time for the European ships to increase their speed, the Qing government stopped buying warships.
In the summer of 1894, when the situation on the Korean Peninsula was tense and the outbreak of a major war between China and Japan was inevitable, Li Hongzhang requested the imperial court to allocate 2 million yuan in military expenses to recruit soldiers and purchase advanced ships. However, Li Hongzhang never expected that at this juncture, the imperial court refused his request.
The imperial court gave Li Hongzhang a very good reason: da shou
The imperial court planned to give the Beiyang Marine Division 180,000 yuan, which was raised to 1.5 million yuan with the efforts of Li Hongzhang, but this money was not received until the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War.
In contrast, Japan can be described as a national force for naval construction. Japan prepared 160 million taels of silver for the Sino-Japanese War, and in order to buy warships during the war, the emperor ate two meals a day, and the empress sold the jewelry, which shows the importance That Japan attaches to this war. The Japanese warship "Yoshino", this warship was originally customized by the British for the Qing government, the budget of this warship became Cixi's sixtieth birthday gift, and finally the Japanese emperor called on the people to donate money to buy this warship.
In July 1984, the Sino-Japanese War broke out, Li Hongzhang adopted the strategy of retreating to protect the ship, underestimating the ambitions of the Japanese Navy, and finally the Sino-Japanese War was defeated, and the Beiyang Marine Division was completely destroyed. In this battle, the Qing army invested 630,000 people, 31,500 killed, and 2,000 were captured. Later, the two sides signed the Treaty of Maguan, most of the prisoners of war were released, and japan secretly detained 10 prisoners of war and took them to the Japanese mainland.
Sino-Japanese War with Deng Shichang
In order to learn the intelligence of the Chinese navy from the mouths of these prisoners of war, the Japanese tortured them to extract confessions, and they vowed to die and did not want to betray the motherland, and were killed by the Japanese army, who were ashamed and angry. After the 10 prisoners of war were killed, the angry Japanese buried 10 of them in front of the Japanese soldiers' cemetery, and inscribed the word "prisoner" on the inscription.
The deep cause of Japan's humiliation of China
Japan buried 10 Chinese prisoners of war in front of the Japanese military cemetery to humiliate China, stemming from Japan's extreme inferiority in front of China.
In modern times, China is poor and weak, but when resisting Japanese aggression, it always calls them "Little Japan" and "Japanese Kou", and the reason must start from the aggressive ambitions of China's ancestors who repeatedly defeated Japan.
In 633, after the Daehwa Reformation, Japan's national strength was increased, and it began to show off its military power everywhere in an attempt to annex Korea, a vassal state of China. Japan sent 60,000 troops plus 1,000 warships, while the Tang Dynasty only sent 10,000 men and more than 100 warships.
The Japanese army and the Tang army met in Baijiang Village, and the Japanese army saw that there were few Tang soldiers and rushed forward with one brain, and there was no rule to speak of. Without taking advantage, the Tang army launched a fire attack using bow and arrow launchers, burning more than 400 Japanese warships in a row. The history books record that at that time, "the smoke was scorching, and the sea was red." In this way, the Tang army won more with less, and Baijiang Village defeated the Japanese army in one battle.
After this war, Japan obeyed and respected the Tang Dynasty. Envoys of the Tang Dynasty went to Japan to issue edicts, and the Japanese Emperor knelt down to accept the Tang Dynasty's holy will to show respect for the Tang Dynasty and become a student of the Tang Dynasty.
Japanese Envoy to Tang Dynasty
During the Ming Dynasty, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, his ambitions swelled dramatically. In order to build a super-empire, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ordered Ukita Hideyoshi to be the commander-in-chief and led an army of 200,000 to attack Korea.
The Ming Dynasty repelled 200,000 Japanese troops in one fell swoop with 40,000 troops. After several tug-of-war battles, the Japanese army was forced to return the same way, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi was devastated and died shortly thereafter.
Japan challenged China several times, all of which were defeated, which made Japan feel inferior in front of China. After every defeat in Japan, it will analyze the reasons for its defeat and always want to find an opportunity to fight a turnaround battle.
Therefore, before the Sino-Japanese War, Japan did its best to support army building. After Japan won the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese began to become arrogant, and even created "Indochina" and "Indochina" to demean China.
The Japanese buried 10 Chinese prisoners in the Japanese cemetery, and the two words "prisoners" were written on the tombstones to publicize their victory in the Sino-Japanese War, from which we can see Japan's strong inferiority complex.
After Yang Haijia posted this matter online, more and more Chinese students went to worship, and the social influence of this matter became more and more influential. Under the pressure of public opinion, the Japanese government eliminated the word "captive" and our martyrs were no longer humiliated.
Every soldier who charges forward for the country, whether he died on the battlefield or was unfortunately captured, they deserve our respect, but now that their names have been corrected, they can comfort the loyal souls of these buried bones in foreign countries!