After the founding lieutenant general died, during the memorial service, a group of Japanese suddenly appeared
On February 4, 1982, a founding lieutenant general died of illness, and after the news reached Japan, a group of Japanese people traveled far and wide to Jinan, Shandong Province, to pay tribute to him. These Japanese people are all over the age of flower armor, and when they see the portrait of the general, they are all in tears and cannot cry.
Who is this founding lieutenant general? Why did a group of Japanese people come to pay tribute to him?
Don't sell Guanzi anymore, this general, named Yang Guofu.
A native of Huoqiu County, Anhui Province, Yang Guofu was born in 1905 to a poor peasant family and officially joined the Red Army in 1928.
Yang Guofu is not only brave in fighting, but also a good hand in political work, and even the chairman and President Zhu know his name and instruct him to be promoted and reused.
After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Yang Guofu was sent by the organization to the Bohai region to organize armed forces behind enemy lines, led the famous Black Iron Mountain Uprising, created the Bohai Anti-Japanese Base Area, led his troops to the Jilu Border Region, and repeatedly crushed the attacks of the Japanese puppet army.
Before going to the front, Yang Guofu had studied at the Kang Da, and he still remembered the chairman's speech of giving preferential treatment to the prisoners, so he took good care of the Japanese prisoners.
As we all know, during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese invaders were deeply poisoned by the spirit of "Bushido," and very few Japanese soldiers surrendered. ”
Therefore, for many eighth route army officers, killing the Japanese army is not a skill, and it is only powerful to capture Japanese prisoners, and if these Japanese prisoners can be successfully transformed, it is even more remarkable. In fact, General Yang Guofu was very successful in influencing dozens of captured Japanese officers and men.
In fact, at the beginning, these Japanese prisoners of war also refused to surrender, refused to accept our army's policy of giving preferential treatment to prisoners, and even went on hunger strike and sought death. In the face of this situation, Yang Guofu not only patiently enlightened, but also took practical actions to attack the psychological defense line of these Japanese prisoners of war.
At that time, the conditions in the base areas were very harsh, and they were brutally swept up by the Japanese puppet army, and they lacked clothes and food, and many troops were starving by digging wild vegetables and grass roots, but Yang Guofu tried every means to get some rice and white noodles for these Japanese prisoners of war, and also distributed cigarettes to them on time.
The Japanese are also human beings, and in the face of such meticulous and special care as Yang Guofu, these Japanese prisoners of war were gradually moved, and many people began to gradually change their views on this war, no longer shouting all day long for loyalty to the emperor, but accepting the ideas of our party and joining the anti-fascist camp.
In 1942, Yang Guofu established the "Shandong Qinghe District Branch of the Japanese Anti-War Alliance in China" to take advantage of the advantages of these Japanese prisoners of war to go deep into the Japanese army to carry out anti-war propaganda and expose the aggressive behavior of the Japanese army, and some even directly shouted at the officers and men of the Japanese army on the battlefield, which played a great role in disintegrating the Japanese army's will to fight.
After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, most of the members of the "Japanese Anti-War Alliance in China" returned to Japan safely, and some of them joined our army and continued to contribute their modest efforts to the liberation of the Chinese people.
According to statistics, in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Eighth Route Army captured a total of 5,096 Japanese officers and men, the New Fourth Army captured 2,022 people, and all the captured Japanese officers and men were given preferential treatment by our army.
The dozens of Japanese soldiers who were captured by Yang Guofu at that time even formed a deep friendship with Yang Guofu, and after the normalization of Sino-Japanese diplomatic relations, Japanese people often went to Jinan, Shandong Province, to visit General Yang Guofu and thank him for his kindness in rebuilding that year.
Therefore, when General Yang Guofu died, the scene at the beginning of this article appeared.