The representatives of Japan's surrender kept buzzing at the ceremony

On September 9, 1945, the surrender ceremony of the Chinese Theater was held in the auditorium of the former Central Military Academy in Nanjing. Early in the morning, the soldiers of the New Sixth Army, who had made great achievements in the Battlefield of India and Burma, stood up in the hall of the surrender ceremony and the avenue outside the door with great vigor, only to see them wearing steel helmets, pedaling shoes, wearing straight uniforms, wearing white gloves, holding American submachine guns, and the victorious division, fully displaying the style of the victorious country.

At 8:58 a.m., General Ninji Okamura, the representative of the Japanese surrender and the supreme commander of the Japanese army in China, and his 7 entourage entered the venue, and then lined up in a horizontal line to salute He Yingqin, commander of the Chinese Theater Army and a first-class general, who took off his hat and bowed. According to the prior agreement, only one of the seven Japanese people could put his hat on the table, the others could only put it on his lap, and all the representatives of the Chinese side put the hat on the table. On this day, Okamura Ningji, who has always been arrogant and arrogant, kept his head down, crying and mourning, and his face was full of chagrin and shame.

At 9:06 a.m., Okamura signed the instrument of surrender on behalf of the Japanese government, and then took out the seal and covered it with a sigh. At 9:07 a.m., Okamura Ninji and Kobayashi Asaburo presented the surrender letter to He Yingqin, not knowing whether it was a trick or Kobayashi Asaburo was too short, and his surrender letter stopped after being handed in the center of the table, and He Yingqin had to lean over to take the surrender letter. After reading the signature seal, He Yingqin found that the seal was a little crooked, and Okamura had nothing to say except nod his head and smile bitterly, and the two sides did not investigate deeply.

At 9:15, after the formalities were completed, He Yingqin ordered Okamura Ningji to withdraw from the table, and the latter bowed again and slowly withdrew from the venue. As a result, the signing ceremony of the surrender of the Japanese army in the Chinese theater, which lasted for a quarter of an hour, was completely concluded. After the Japanese personnel withdrew, He Yingqin delivered an impromptu speech, which was translated by the interpreters on the spot and broadcast live to the whole world, to the effect that: "Respectfully, I would like to warn the compatriots of the whole country and people from all over the world that the signing ceremony for the surrender of Japan in the Chinese theater of operations has been successfully completed in Nanjing at 9 a.m. on the 9th, which is the most meaningful day in China's history, the result of the eight-year arduous struggle of the War of Resistance, and the beginning of a new era of peace and prosperity for mankind in East Asia and the whole world." We in China will embark on the road of peaceful construction and create a great cause for the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation! ”

The surrender ceremony lasted only 15 minutes, but from the Sino-Japanese War to the September 18 Incident to the Eight-Year War of Resistance, the japanese militarism invaded China for half a century. For this reason, the Chinese people endured great pain, paid a great price, and waited for a long time. At this great and glorious historical moment, Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties that suffered the massacre and atrocities of the Japanese army, finally witnessed the moment when the invaders bowed their heads, and the suffering of modern China finally came to an end.