In World War II, Japan burned and looted in China without any evil, and the crimes committed can be described as uncountable, but any Chinese who are a little bloody, mention these things are gritting their teeth and feeling angry at the rampant japanese madness. To this day, talking about what the Japanese army did in China is still difficult to let go, especially the thought of those innocent compatriots who died, which is even more painful!
So, during the Japanese invasion of China, what role did those Japanese officers play? I believe that everyone has noticed that in most of the domestic anti-war dramas, Japanese grassroots officers always give people the impression of fat heads, big ears, greasy and stupid, but the real history is actually not like this. Under normal circumstances, Japanese junior officers are held by students who graduated from the Army University, they are only in their twenties, and most of them have high ranks in the army, at least they must be second lieutenant or above. Once, a Japanese officer named Akira Fujiwara recalled: The Japanese army burned and looted in China, shooting at will, disregarding life, from the initial nervousness to the final numbness, I compromised.
In the autumn of 1941, Akira Fujiwara was only 19 years old, and after arriving in China, he came to Hebei with the Japanese 27th Army. On the way, Fujiwara looked at the wreckage of the Japanese truck that had just been burned, and instantly realized the cruelty of the war, and in the future, he would face death on the front line of the war. He began to get nervous. Soon after he took office, Fujiwara's leaders solemnly told him not to act rashly, because his predecessor was killed by Hachiro. Fujiwara came to China for the first time to participate in the war, and was even more shocked by the Japanese army's live-fire drill, and after the soldiers walked out of the barracks, they began to shoot at the nearby farmland at will, ignoring the lives of innocent Chinese people. Fujiwara later recalled that he had become numb because things like this were increasing.
Three months later, Fujiwara participated in the first "clean-up", and he found that the so-called "friendly exchanges" between China and Japan were fundamentally different from what he imagined. After the Japanese army entered the village, it burned the village, killed people at will, and committed various crimes, which greatly impacted his thinking. In the process, something that he remembered for the rest of his life occurred, that is, his commander ordered all the soldiers and junior officers to burn down the village that had just been wreaked havoc, and the soldiers, after receiving the order, like a group of devils, went crazy and set the village on fire. In the eyes of the other soldiers, this was just a rare carnival, because every cleaning was very rewarding.
However, the atrocities of the Japanese army were not unresolved, and at that time the Eighth Route Army implemented a guerrilla tactic, and every time after annihilating the Japanese detachment, it could come and go without a trace, which also made countless Japanese officers frustrated, but there was no way to deal with it, and Fujiwara Akira was one of them. In Fujiwara's mind, he always firmly believed that no matter how the Japanese army implemented the no-man's land plan, the Eighth Route Army could not be eliminated.