Because they were very disgusted by the Japanese army's invasion of China, the people during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression directly called the Japanese army "devils." In fact, this is not the first time that Japan has acted maliciously. It was precisely because the Ronin and samurai in Japan constantly harassed and endangered the people in the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the ruler at that time, the Mingshen Sect, sent the anti-Wu hero Qi Jiguang to the south to resist the Wu. Wokou is the notoriety that the coastal people have given to the Japanese robbers who do nothing wrong. Nowadays, the word 倭 also appears on the tombstones we personally built for the Japanese army.
In fact, the tombstone, located in the Yunnan National Martyrs' Cemetery, was specially built to commemorate the tens of thousands of dead soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. The expeditionary road of the expeditionary forces was too hard. The soldiers alone sacrificed themselves in the poisonous and miasma-filled Savage Mountain, and the number of soldiers was as high as 20,000. However, this battle was very necessary, and if the Japanese blockade of the Burma Road was not lifted, the delivery of supplies would be trapped outside the country. The survival of the warriors was almost linked to these expeditionary forces.
For this reason, the youngest of the expeditionary forces, only in their teens, were willing to use their young bodies to resist the attack of artillery fire in order to win.
In order to commemorate these heroic martyrs who went to the battlefield of Burma to resist Japan, the locals planned to build a martyrs' cemetery for them to commemorate their sacrifice. However, when cleaning up the bodies of the Japanese army, it was difficult. Usually, when cleaning up the battlefield, the corpses of the enemy troops will be uniformly placed, but the sacrifices of this war are so tragic that the people hate their teeth at the thought of many young soldiers falling on the way home.
Therefore, they followed the ancient practice of Qin Juniper, let the 4 Japanese commanders kneel in front of the mountain full of martyrs to bury, and also built a kneeling grave for the Japanese army. Many visitors who come to mourn the martyrs will see that on their tombstones, the word "Wozuka" is written on them. This is the crime that the Japanese army invaded China bears. After the end of World War II, Japan repeatedly asked us to remove these four kneeling statues, but our side directly refused.
After all, the expeditionary force's encounter at Savage Mountain was so tragic that if it were not for the Japanese army deliberately blocking the Burma Road, our soldiers would not have retreated from the treacherous valley that even the locals did not dare to enter. The humid environment of Savage Mountain made the wounds of most of the wounded soldiers worsen violently; because of the lack of medicine, many people could not stand the pain of the wounds and chose to end themselves. Some of the soldiers were consumed by the treacherous environment in the valley, and floods, malaria, poisonous insects, etc., all became obstacles for the expeditionary force to return home.
Therefore, for these Japanese troops, we naturally will not let them get a decent placement. Not only to appease the heroic spirits of those martyrs, but also to warn future generations, never forget how many people's expectations we have carried in our peaceful life today.