On February 4, 1982, founding Lieutenant General Yang Guofu died of illness in Beijing.
This news immediately caused an uproar in Beijing. Various generals and high-ranking officials came to the scene and appealed at the memorial service about their reluctance and admiration for the veteran.
At this time, a group of elderly people broke into the venue, dressed in straight clothes and walking in unison.
As soon as these old men saw the photo of Lieutenant General Yang Guofu, their steps became chaotic.
One of them trotted directly down in front of Yang Guofu's spiritual seat, crying and crying, attracting everyone's attention to the past.
When everyone knew their identities, they were stunned.
They're actually Japanese! Be a Japanese veteran!
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the atrocities committed by the Japanese army invading China are still heinous to this day. And Yang Guofu is a general of our army, and the Japanese army should be afraid of his name.
So, why did these Japanese soldiers come thousands of miles away to mourn the founding lieutenant general Yang Guofu?
First, he came from the grassroots and resolutely joined the army
Lieutenant General Yang Guofu
The Lieutenant General Yang Guofu, formerly known as Yang Guofu, was born in 1905 in Huoqiu Hongjiaji, Anhui, China.
Like most Red Army soldiers, he was born in the grassroots, grew up in a peasant family, and grew up in hardship.
Even more tragically, his parents died at an early age. If it were not for his uncle's kindness in adopting him, there may be less legend of a lieutenant general in history.
It is often said that since the ancient heroes came out of my generation, Yang Guofu did not collapse because of the blow of the difficult life in his childhood.
Hard-working, he firmly believes that "his hands can achieve dreams", starting from the grassroots level little by little, and eventually becoming a "founding lieutenant general" respected by everyone.
At the age of 18, Yang Guofu could not accept the oppression of the capitalists, chose to give up his job in the weaving mill and returned to his hometown to work as a hired worker. At this time he came into contact with an organization called the "Farmers' Association" and became a member of it.
Farmers' associations
The peasant association was a peasant mass organization under the leadership of the Communist Party of China during the period of the democratic revolution, and it was also the main force in the peasant movement to combat feudal forces.
Yang Guofu felt the core idea of the greatness of communism in the Agricultural Cooperative, and joined the Chinese Communist Youth League in 1928 and the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army the following year.
After that, Yang Guofu joined the Communist Party of China, and along with the Red Army, he experienced a series of events such as anti-encirclement and suppression, the western expedition into Sichuan, and the Long March.
Until June 1935, the 30-year-old Yang Guofu was already the captain of the 11th Brigade of the Second Column of the Shaanxi-Gansu Detachment of the First Army of the Red Army, and later promoted to the commander and deputy commander of the 11th Regiment of the 4th Division of the First Army of the Red Army.
During this period, Yang Guofu also left a good story on the way to the Long March.
In order to avoid the Encirclement and Suppression Operation of the Kuomintang, the Red Army had to cross the grasslands of the transition zone between the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Sichuan Basin.
This meadow is essentially a highland wetland, that is, a muddy swamp. Along the way, in addition to swamps, there are countless highly poisonous mosquitoes and snakes, which can be described as very dangerous.
Not counting the number of livestock killed along the way, the Number of Red Army sacrifices alone had reached tens of thousands.
The Red Army crossed the meadows
What is unexpected is that the Red Army team led by Yang Guofu only lost two soldiers according to statistics after all walked through the meadow!
His miraculous commanding ability was praised at that time and left a brilliant mark in the annals of history.
After this brilliant stroke, Yang Guofu was not facing a promotion order. On the contrary, he was demoted from a regimental commander to a company commander.
However, he was demoted because at that time the Red Army units were greatly reorganized, the regimental units were changed into brigades, and the battalion-level cadres were abolished.
Nevertheless, Yang Guofu took the position of company commander to a different realm than other company commanders.
After Yang Guofu was demoted to company commander, he did not even complain about the organization, and has been diligently completing the affairs that a company commander should complete.
Just as the so-called gold will shine everywhere, Over time, Yang Guofu's ability was quietly discovered by Mao Zedong.
During the Battle of Gira, he became the only company commander in the Red Army operations under the direct command of the chairman.
The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out
Second, with the country in mind, stabilize the four sides.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, in order to train a group of elite anti-Japanese cadres, Yang Guofu was organized and arranged to study at the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Military and Political University.
This is the first time that Yang Guofu has systematically participated in the study.
Yang Guofu cherishes this learning opportunity very much, indulges in the ocean of knowledge every day, and does not dare to waste his time studying.
A year later, he graduated from the Kang University and immediately set out to organize in the Qinghe Plain area of Shandong Province to carry out guerrilla warfare and create an anti-Japanese base area.
Living up to the expectations of the public, Yang Guofu made great achievements in the future battles against Japan.
Soon, Yang Guofu was promoted to deputy commander, and his subordinate was the 3rd Detachment of the Shandong Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Detachment of the Eighth Route Army, which was reorganized into the "5th Army of the Shandong People's Anti-Japanese Salvation Army" and the "Linzi Young Students Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army Training Regiment".
Subsequently, he was transferred to the commander of the 3rd Detachment of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army, and participated in the command of taihe town, Liu Jiajing and other battles against Japan.
The guerrillas attacked the Japanese
During the war, Yang Guofu flexibly used the knowledge he had learned at the Kang Da, dispatched troops and strategized, and always placed key troops in key positions.
He came to the sky at a time when the Japanese army was completely unexpected, and the Japanese army was caught off guard.
When he was serving as the commander of the 3rd detachment of the Shandong Column of the Eighth Route Army in Qinghe District, Yang Guofu was ordered to organize guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines. In this guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines, Yang Guofu put forward the famous theory of "drawing out manpower from the railway belt and concentrating forces on adhering to guerrilla warfare on the plains", and repeatedly concentrated manpower to attack the Japanese army, and then quietly disappeared by rectifying zero.
Such a strategy was very risky at the time, because at that time our army's military strength was not enough to confront the Japanese army.
If our army is ambushed by the Japanese army when it concentrates its manpower, it is likely that there is a danger that the entire army will be destroyed. It was an absolute disaster-level accident.
Fortunately, However, Yang Guofu's analysis of the war situation effectively struck at the invading forces of the Japanese invaders and also provided the first conditions for future guerrilla tactical planning.
Guerrilla forces in a march
Yang Guofu, who uses soldiers like gods, is as dazzling as a polar star on the battlefield.
Soon, he was discovered and promoted by his superiors, first promoted to deputy brigade commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Shandong Column, commander of Qinghe District, and later commander of the Bohai Naval Region and commander of the 7th Division, and even after the victory of the War of Resistance, he led the army into the northeast and served as the commander of the 7th Division of the Northeast Democratic Coalition Army.
Behind this series of promotions, there is a group of Japanese who play a vital role.
That was the Japanese prisoner of war.
Third, repay grievances with virtue and convince people with reason.
Since ancient times, the art of war has been said to be "encircling three que one".
This means that if the siege of the city must leave a breakthrough passage for the other side, so as to leave hope for the enemy to live and weaken their thoughts of desperate resistance.
The policy of "preferential treatment of prisoners of war" was inspired by this, which gave the enemy hope for life and weakened the enemy's determination to fight to the end.
Yang Guofu knows it well.
After his training at the Kang Da, Yang Guofu profoundly understood the policy of "preferential treatment of prisoners of war" put forward by Chairman Mao Zedong during the Jinggangshan period.
He led by example, and carried out the "preferential treatment of prisoners of war" throughout the army under his leadership.
In that era of lack of food and clothing, Yang Guofu made the Japanese prisoners of war really become Japanese who had a good life.
Not to mention the white rice and white noodles, from time to time you can also dip some meat and fish, you can eat pork, and the poultry that Yang Guofu personally let people slaughter.
This is really the ultimate in "preferential treatment of prisoners of war".
However, just as the so-called thousand people have a thousand faces, not everyone can understand the policy of "preferential treatment of prisoners".
Yang Guofu's behavior also made his superiors and subordinates quite critical in the eyes, and even speculated that he had bad intentions, saying that he had a backbone.
After all, in the context of the times at that time, the Sino-Japanese national contradictions had reached a climax, and it was only people who wanted to see the corpses of these Japanese prisoners of war in ten thousand pieces.
Prisoners of war under a preferential treatment policy
For a time, Yang Guofu became the target of everyone in the legion.
What no one expected was that Yang Guofu did not use any words to explain for himself, but proved himself with actions.
On the battlefield, Japanese officers still regarded Yang Guofu as a thorn in his eye and a thorn in his flesh, and they wanted to kill him quickly.
On the battlefield, Yang Guofu led the troops and spared no effort.
In this way, although some people have some views on the political decision of "preferential treatment of prisoners", they can no longer say anything about Yang Guofu.
Soldiers rushing towards the Japanese army
In terms of Japanese prisoners, their attitude towards Yang Guofu and others was also very bad at first.
The food and drink went on hunger strike in protest, and the warriors in charge of supervision were also beaten and scolded, chanting "Long live the emperor" and "Allegiance to the emperor".
These Japanese people who have a good life do not believe that there will be a beautiful thing that will fall from the sky.
Moreover, they knew exactly what they had done, and thought that Yang Guofu must have another plan to be so good to them.
So, what is Yang Guofu's purpose?
On the one hand, it is true that these Japanese prisoners of war are allowed to help the Chinese people against Japanese imperialism, but on the other hand, the strategy of "preferential treatment of prisoners of war" is more than that.
Mao Zedong once said: "The Chinese people are the same as the Japanese people, and there is only one enemy, that is, Japanese militarism and the scum of the Chinese nation!" ”
This is Mao Zedong's inscription for a Japanese prisoner-of-war school.
The principal of this school is a Japanese named Hayashi, whose original name is Noizaka Sanzo.
Sanzo Nosaka
Nozaka Ishizo is a member of the Communist Party of Japan. He profoundly realized that the key to the Sino-Japanese war did not lie in the conflict between the two nationalities, but in the struggle between imperialist aggression and the anti-aggression of the invaded countries.
Especially when he saw that the Japanese soldiers took pleasure in slaughtering the people, and the Japanese soldiers who refused to kill the people would be punished, he understood the real enemy of the Japanese people.
To this end, he wrote a special letter to Mao Zedong to assist Mao Zedong in jointly resisting the Japanese imperialist forces.
In March 1940, under the pseudonym Lin Zhe, he arrived in Yan'an and spent half a year on a field expedition.
He then wrote a letter to Mao Zedong, suggesting that the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China set up a school dedicated to reforming Japanese prisoners of war.
This proposal was in line with the thinking of the CPC Central Committee at that time. Mao Zedong praised this and named the school "Japanese Workers' and Peasants' School".
After that, Mao Zedong inscribed it.
In June 1942, in response to the call of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, Nozaka Selected a group of advanced elements in the anti-war alliance from the "Japanese Workers' and Peasants' School" and established the "Japanese Communist League in China" in Yan'an.
In the future War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the "Japanese Communist League in China" made indelible contributions to the Chinese nation's War of Resistance.
The League of Japanese Communists in China
Many members of the "Japanese Communist League in China" came from the prisoner of war camp run by Yang Guofu.
Yang Guofu's "special service" day after day, year after year, made these Japanese prisoners realize the Chinese people's yearning for peace, and also made them realize the mistake of participating in the war of aggression.
In order to repay the courtesy of the Chinese people, and to express their determination to resist Japanese militarism, these prisoners of war not only assisted Yang Guofu in translating many Japanese documents, assisted the Chinese army in intercepting Japanese intelligence, but also taught the Chinese side the use and manufacture methods of advanced Japanese equipment.
In addition, they also fought on the front line, carried out communist propaganda behind enemy lines, and other acts to assist the Chinese in resisting Japan.
All these laid a solid foundation for China's victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression.
In contrast, the frequent incidents of mistreatment of prisoners of war in Britain, France, the United States and other countries appear to be so brutal and bloody; Russia directly drove 700,000 Japanese prisoners of war to Siberia to become cheap laborers, and anyone who dared to resist or escape would be reduced to a piece of frozen soil under the snow.
Chinese officers were propaganda for Japanese prisoners of war
In this regard, foreign media have interviewed relevant prisoners of war.
They do not believe that China will adopt such an unreasonable policy of captivity, hoping to find the beginning of public opinion against China.
But after listening to the Japanese prisoners' answers, they were shocked.
In the oral accounts of Japanese prisoners of war, foreign media found that Chinese actually treated Japanese prisoners of war as compatriots, not only had no worries about food and clothing, but also had cultural learning.
Compared with other countries' captive policies of either death or injury, China's policy towards prisoners is unheard of and unseen.
At least, this is a policy that the capitalist countries cannot think of even if they want to break their heads.
There are also some interesting stories about Japanese prisoners of war.
In August 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally as a defeated country, and China, as a victorious Allied country, went to Vietnam for negotiations as agreed.
Just when the Kuomintang 60th Army stationed in the harbor had completed the surrender ceremony with the Japanese army, a ship with a French flag actually appeared in everyone's sight.
The great victory in the War of Resistance Against Japan
Zeng Zesheng, commander of the 60th Army, immediately realized that the comers were not good, and ordered a forbidden signal.
But the warship still sailed toward the port, ignoring warnings from the Chinese to open fire.
"Boom!" At once, the warship not only ignored the warning of the Chinese side, but actually took the initiative to fire at the Chinese side and started the battle. Zeng Zesheng was not a soft persimmon to be manipulated like this, and immediately led the Kuomintang 60Th Army to start a self-defense counterattack.
However, this time I came only to be surrendered, whether it was personnel or armaments, there was a shortage of personnel, and it was not long before the battle began to enter a disadvantage.
Just when Zeng Zesheng and others thought they were going to be defeated in such a humiliating way, some Japanese prisoners of war actually stood out of the crowd and asked to join the battle between the two armies!
They proposed the use of heavy weapons surrendered by the Japanese when they surrendered.
At this time, the battle that had been decided to be defeated underwent a qualitative change, and the French warships fled in the new type of sino-Japanese joint army, and the Sino-Japanese handover ceremony ended perfectly.
【Conclusion】
Whether it was the Japanese communists who assisted the Chinese side in their fight against the Japanese imperialist aggressors, or the Japanese prisoners of war who mourned in front of Yang Guofu's mausoleum, they all confirmed Mao Zedong's words:
"Chinese people are in agreement with the Japanese people, and there is only one enemy, that is, Japanese militarism and the scum of china's nation!"
One thing is for sure:
What the people need will never be war, they desire peace from the bottom of their hearts!
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