Okamura Ningji was a senior Japanese general and one of the culprits of the Japanese invasion of China during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. Because of his outstanding military prowess, together with Nagata Tetsuyama and Toshishiro Obata, he was called the Japanese Army Miwa U, Chinese means "Whampoa Sanjie" and "Beiyang Sanjie". It can be seen that Okamura Ningji is a leader in the Japanese Army, and he is also very familiar with the topography of China, which also makes him one of the main generals of the Japanese invasion of China.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, he was appointed commander of the 11th Army of the Japanese Army, and successively participated in the command of the Battle of Wuhan, the Battle of Nanchang, the Battle of Changsha, and the large-scale battles of Yichang and Zaoyang. In these battles, Okamura's military talents were fully utilized and his military talents were also demonstrated. At the same time, he was also very cunning and sinister, and he adopted a consistent method, which was to use the military as the mainstay to strike at the Nationalist troops that were given resistance, to use monetary means as a lure to plot against the so-called miscellaneous troops in the Nationalist army group, and then to concentrate superior forces to annihilate Chiang Kai-shek's concubine troops.
This move was really sinister and vicious, and Okamura Ningji seized on the defect that Chiang Kai-shek's military clique had a relationship with concubines and miscellaneous cards, and successfully plotted against a number of senior generals of the Northwest Army to surrender to the Japanese. It is also because of Okamura's sinister cunning that he was favored by Chiang Kai-shek. This is why, after the surrender of the Japanese Kou, Okamura Ningji, one of the main generals of the Japanese army that had invaded China, was not sentenced under the protection of Chiang Kai-shek, successfully escaped the disaster, and was acquitted. If it were not for Chiang Kai-shek's patronage, with his three-light policy in northern China, it would have been enough to be sentenced to death.
Of course, in the process of Okamura's invasion war, he also encountered strong opponents. According to his memoirs compiled in his later years, it is recorded that in the course of the confrontation with the Chinese soldiers, there were two Chinese generals, which he admired the most, praised their military talents, and fought very well, and was the two strongest opponents he had ever encountered in his life.
The two Chinese generals Okamura praised were General Xue Yue and General Tang Enbo. Both were senior generals in Chiang Kai-shek's military clique during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. After Okamura Ningji successfully occupied Wuhan, the next target was Changsha. The person guarding Changsha was Xue Yue, acting commander of the Ninth Theater. This time was xue yue and Okamura Ningji's second confrontation, the first time Xue Yue successfully won the Wanjialing victory and defeated Okamura Ningji. This time, General Xue Yue was shouldering a heavy responsibility, and there were thousands of Hunan people behind him. You know, if Changsha can't be defended and occupied by the Japanese army, it will be a massacre.
Faced with such a situation, General Xue Yue decided to win the war and hold Changsha. Under the command of General Xue Yue, the 240,000-strong army fought the famous Battle of Changsha with the Japanese in September 1939. General Xue Yue adopted the operational policy of taking northern Hunan as the defensive focus, retreating to the decisive battle, and fighting for the outer wing, and engaged in a life-and-death struggle with 240,000 troops against the Japanese. After a bloody battle, the Chinese defenders successfully blocked Okamura's attack, allowing the invincible 11th Army to try the taste of fruitless return. That is, this time, the commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Ningji, said such a sentence, shaking the mountain is easy, shaking the Xue family's army is difficult, that is, praising General Xue Yue for fighting a fierce battle. At the end of the Battle of Changsha, Okamura was punished for his failed capture of Changsha and was transferred from the 11th Army to Serve as commander in North China.
Although Tang Enbo said that his character was not good, he was a Chinese general in Chiang Kai-shek's military clique who was praised by Okamura Ningji during the eight-year War of Resistance. It is said that the group army led by Tang Enbo is the most tenacious fighting force among Chiang Kai-shek's troops. In the course of several engagements with the Japanese army, our side (referring to the Japanese army) had to pay a great price to defeat this force. For this reason, Tang Enbo was also regarded by the Japanese army as the number one enemy of Tianzi.