In 1945, Japan announced its surrender, and the 8-year-long War of Resistance Against Japan finally ended, but there was still a Japanese army in China, who did not know that the emperor had issued an edict of surrender, and continued to obey the last order they received, hiding in the underground and stubbornly resisting, they were the last Japanese army in China.
This Japanese army hid in the fortress, this fortress in a small county town in Heilongjiang, called Dongning Fortress, it built underground, the Japanese spent a lot of effort to build this underground fortress, the original establishment of this fortress is to prevent the Soviets, since the end of the 19th century Japan has been competing with Russia in the northeast, so that it can resist the Soviet attack at any time.
Since 1933, Japan has begun to build the Dongning Fortress, for which they have brought in a lot of labor, but the Japanese will not use people from their own country to do this kind of hard work, they use the Chinese people to build, a total of 170,000 laborers, if the laborers die of illness, they will be thrown to feed the wolf dogs, very cruel.
The front of Dongning Fortress is more than 110 kilometers wide and 50 kilometers deep, and even if the positions on the ground are destroyed, they can still resist the attack underground, when the Japanese stationed 130,000 Japanese troops here, and more than 1,000 women were transported, most of them Chinese and Koreans, and some of them Japanese.
After the Japanese emperor announced the surrender, the army of Dongning Fortress had no contact with the outside world, did not know the surrender, continued to confront the Allies underground, and occasionally came out to attack the Allies, the Dongning Fortress was full of weapons, easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Japanese army was living in this dark and damp cave, the Allies were helpless for a while, and the Allies finally thought of a way to persuade them to surrender.
The Allies told the Japanese emperor underground that they had surrendered, but they were still reluctant to come out, and finally the Allies burned gasoline at the mouth of the cave to try to smoke them out, but they preferred to die inside than come out, and finally called in aircraft cannons for a strong attack, and finally eliminated the last remaining Japanese troops in China.
Fast forward a few decades, the battlefields of China and Japan have now become a beautiful homeland, and the blood and ruins of the land have disappeared with time, but dongning fortress has always been like a stone pressed against our chests, we must remember this history and do not let it repeat itself.