There are many historical materials and memoirs about the War of Resistance Against Japan, and similarly, Japanese soldiers who participated in the war of aggression against China also wrote a large number of memoirs. Nowadays, the Internet is developed, and the memories of some Japanese soldiers are translated and shared on the Internet by the masters, so that we can understand the bits and pieces of the War of Resistance Against Japan from another perspective.
More famous in this regard is the "Army Infantry Story" written by Japanese veteran Kunio Saito, from which it can be understood that the Japanese army invading China at that time was not monolithic, and there were many war-weary and anti-war soldiers. Saito was a soldier who was forcibly recruited into the army, and he had a high opinion of the guerrilla warfare of the Eighth Route Army, and he felt that Japan could not win the war.
The content of this article is the memory of another old devil named Hashimoto, thanks to the sharing of the master.
Hashimoto was originally a first-class soldier in the Japanese Army, and after training in Japan, he was sent to the Chinese battlefield in 1940. Their station is near Shijiazhuang, less than 200 kilometers from Beijing.
It needs to be explained here that in the past 40 years, the Eighth Route Army's base areas in north China have been quite powerful, but mainly in the Jinji-Hebei Luyu Border Region, shijiazhuang and Beijing, the Japanese army has strong troops, and the guerrilla force is relatively small. Even so, the numerous anti-Japanese armed forces there were also headaches for the Japanese army. The Japanese controlled the villages near the strongholds, and if they exceeded the boundaries of those villages, the japanese soldiers who were left alone were often unloaded in eight pieces, and the bones were gone.
The first time Hashimoto went to the battlefield, he listened to the veterans and still knew what he was doing.
The Japanese army engaged in war to feed the war, and the supply mainly depended on plunder. But in the written article, they claimed: "Try to buy cash as much as possible...", whether the big devils or the little devils do not take it seriously, knowing that it is a lie.
A few days after Hashimoto arrived at the station, the captain sent him and two veterans out to grab some food. Nearby villagers have experienced a lot, and often as soon as the ghosts enter the village, they will escape completely, and no one will raise food for them. But the crops, vegetables, chickens and pigs raised by the villagers in the fields were snatched away by the devils.
The village they went to was just under the turret, and in broad daylight, there were no guerrillas. But by the time they entered the village, the villagers had run out. The two veterans took it for granted, pointed to a pigsty and said, "There's a big pig there, there's roast pork to eat tonight, Hashimoto, you go, catch the pigs!" ”
Hashimoto is a city soldier, who has done this. But the veteran's words were orders, he did not dare not listen, jumped into the pigsty with a hard scalp, fought with the pigs for half a day, and finally took the rope to tie the pig's neck, and sweated heavily. He dragged the rope for the pig to follow, thinking he was walking the dog. The pig is very refined, knows that he will be knifed, where he is willing to go, a butt crouch, let him pull hard, just don't move.
The two veterans sneered, you boy can't even clean up a pig, don't kill it here." After saying that, the two men went up and pushed the pig down, grabbed the pig's foot and pressed it with his body, so that Hashimoto could move: "Hashimoto, take the bayonet and stab it in the heart!" Hashimoto felt embarrassed and did not move, and the two veterans angrily said, "You boy doesn't want to eat barbecue meat at night?" hurriedly! "This guy has a lot of strength, we can't hold it!"
Hashimoto was helpless, gritted his teeth and closed his eyes, and stabbed down with a knife. Who knew that the pig screamed bitterly, struggled to break free, arched Hashimoto on all fours, and ran around in the circle. It turned out that Hashimoto had closed his eyes and stabbed the pig's ass with a knife, and the bayonet had not yet been pulled out. The servants went up together, tired and half dead, and did not put down the desperate pig, and finally it jumped out of the low wall and fled.
The servants crawled to chase after the ground, but the pig had already run into the crop field and could not catch up, and the two veterans complained about Hashimoto and said in frustration, It seems that there is no meat to eat today, only vegetables. Hashimoto was even more dumbfounded, his bayonet was taken away by the pig, how to account for it when he went back? If you don't, you will be sent to a military court for trial. Hashimoto cried.
The two veterans, unlike their officers, were not schadenfreude, saying that they had gone to other villages to find supplies, asking Hashimoto to find bayonets, and promising to go back and help Hashimoto say good things. Hashimoto turned the village around and didn't see the injured pig. It was getting dark and I had to go back at night.
Hashimoto was sweating profusely and was running around the village when someone next to him spoke, still in stiff Japanese, "Taijun, sir." He turned his head to see that it was an elderly farmer, and there was a slaughtered pig next to him, and there was a wound on the pig's ass. Hashimoto was thrilled and seemed to have found it. The peasant asked again, "Taijun, this pig, yours?" ”
Hashimoto didn't think it was strange that the other side could speak Japanese, the area had been occupied by the Japanese army for several years, and many locals would speak a few simple words of Japanese. Hashimoto hurriedly said, "Yes, it was the pig I ran away from here." The other party said, "Oh, I've already killed it, if Taijun wants it, take it for ten dollars." ”
Hashimoto said yes, but the bayonet on the pig had to be returned to me. The other party said, I didn't take your knife, in Lao Zhang's place, or I will take you to get it. Hashimoto said yes, just follow the old farmer. If you go farther and farther, if you go out of the field on the edge of the village, you are no longer under the control of the Japanese stronghold, and Hashimoto does not dare to go forward. The old farmer said, it's all right, it's almost here.
Hashimoto couldn't help it, followed the old farmer to a forest, and asked suspiciously, Haven't arrived yet? The old farmer stopped talking, snapped his fingers twice, and then four or five men with guns burst out of the woods, and Hashimoto was taken prisoner before he could come over.
The other side was a guerrilla of the Eighth Route Army, carrying the trembling Hashimoto through the woods, into a valley, circling around, and arriving at the temporary headquarters of the guerrillas. The old Zhang in the peasant's mouth was the guerrilla zhang captain, and Hashimoto's bayonet was on the table in front of captain Zhang.
Captain Zhang asked with a smile, "Is this your knife?" "Hashimoto did not say a word, previously planted in the hands of a pig, and now captured, he decided to maintain the dignity of the imperial samurai." Your name? "Captain Zhang's Japanese was good. Hashimoto replied, "First Class Soldier Hashimoto." If nothing else, I won't say anything! ”
Captain Zhang smiled and said, "You don't need to say it." There are 220 of you in total, Captain Magawa, Lieutenant Nan, the squadron leader, right? Hashimoto was taken aback, and it turned out that the other party knew everything. Captain Zhang said: "Hashimoto Jun, no matter what, we meet is also fate, how about working with us?" ”
Hashimoto was speechless. Captain Zhang said, "Want to go back? It's not impossible, don't worry, it's not that you answer right away, give you a day or two, and think about it. Hashimoto was taken down by the guards and locked up in an earthen house.
The next day, Captain Zhang told Hashimoto that our people had heard that you had not returned to the team yesterday and were treated as deserters, and that your gendarmes were searching for you. "What, I'm a deserter?" Hashimoto was angry and scolded, "These bastards! "But he understood that if the gendarmes were caught, they would have to be sentenced without execution." Therefore, he had to give up the hope of going back and act with the Eighth Route Army.
The guerrillas never stayed in one place for too long and moved after a few days. They then fought a battle with the Japanese puppet army, leaving Hashimoto behind. Hashimoto was surprised to find that the guerrillas had dozens of Japanese-style 38-big cover rifles.
Hashimoto's relationship with the guerrillas grew more and more harmonious, and when they agreed to participate in the battle, the guerrillas were raided by nationalist forces and scattered. Hashimoto and several members of the team were captured. When the Nationalist army saw that Hashimoto was a Japanese soldier, they immediately sent him to a shelter in Chengdu. In this way, Hashimoto never went to war again, and it was not until the end of the war that he was freed when the prisoners of war were released.
However, Hashimoto did not dare to go back, and joined the Chinese army again (I don't know which side I joined). Hashimoto failed to catch the pig and was captured twice, thus casting a shadow on the pig and never being able to eat pork again.