Speaking of kneeling in front of the tomb to apologize for their sins, everyone's first impression is often that of Qin Juniper and his wife who knelt in front of Yue Fei's tomb to apologize. Although they have been kneeling for a thousand years, it is still difficult to understand the hatred in the hearts of the world, after all, it is only a statue, not the real Qin Ju couple.
However, in the martyrs' cemetery in Tengchong, a scene of Japanese Kou kneeling down to apologize for his sins was truly staged, and the protagonist was The Japanese Major General Zang Shige Yasumi.
So, who is this Tibetan Yasumi? Why is it in our martyrs' cemetery? And how do you kneel down and apologize? This also begins with the Battle of Tengchong in 1944.
Yasumi Tsangshige, who graduated from the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School, is also a rare talent in the Japanese army, who fought fiercely at the beginning of the war of aggression against China, and was later transferred to Yunnan to garrison Tengchong, becoming the main opponent of the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the great southwest.
After the outbreak of the Tengchong Campaign, after a long period of attrition, there were only 3,000 defenders left in the hands of Zangzhong Kangmei, while the Chinese side had 50,000 expeditionary troops and occupied the advantage of air fire support provided by the US army.
However, the development of the war was unexpected by everyone, relying on the 3,000 men and horses in hand, The Tibetan Kangmei held the determination to defend Tengchong, coupled with the easy-to-defend and difficult terrain around Tengchong, the Chinese Expeditionary Force sacrificed more than 9,000 people to break through the Tengchong city wall, and finally relied on the US fighter bombing and several days of street battles to completely occupy Tengchong.
There is no doubt that this was a crushing victory, the Chinese side paid nearly 10,000 casualties, the Japanese side was completely annihilated, and even the supreme commander Kurashige Yasumi was killed.
The battle is over, but the cleaning of the battlefield is still a huge project. In order to bury the soldiers who died in this battle, the Chinese Expeditionary Force deliberately built a martyrs' cemetery on the spot, and the inscription was personally written by General Li Gengen - "National Martyrs Cemetery".
However, it is not only the Chinese soldiers who died on the battlefield, but also the Japanese soldiers, how to dispose of their corpses? Raging Wilderness, right? Not very humane, what if they were buried? And can not stand the sacrifice of nearly 10,000 soldiers. Thinking about it, General Li Gengen made up his mind to bury all the complete Japanese corpses that could be found, including Yasumi Kurami (only 146 complete bodies were found later), but to tie them up and kneel in front of the cemetery of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, so that they would forever apologize to these martyrs!
In addition, Li Gen also gave the Japanese cemetery a humiliating name, "Uchizuka".
Therefore, there is an extremely rare scene: the cemetery of the Chinese army and the cemetery of the Japanese army appear in the same cemetery, and they stand opposite each other. However, all the Japanese troops were buried on their knees.
However, the existence of "Wazuka" has always been a controversial topic. In the eyes of the Japanese, this made them feel deeply uncomfortable, after all, they also knew that "Wakasa" was not a good word, so they proposed to remove the Uchizuka several times after the war, and asked to return the ashes of Yasumi Kurashige and others. Of course, these requests were rejected.
In the eyes of the Chinese, the Uchizuka is also unnecessary, these Japanese devils kill people and set fire to my compatriots, they should be allowed to die without a place to bury, so at that time, when the Uchizuka was just built, many people criticized General Li Gen.
But in any case, this special cemetery has survived, and to this day, there are often Japanese people who come to the Uchizuka to pay their respects, of course, all of which are sneaky.