The Japanese have always compared themselves to flowers: samurai called them cherry blossoms in the hope that they would wither like cherry blossoms; the symbol of the imperial family is the chrysanthemum, because the chrysanthemum symbolizes nobility. There is also a flower within the Japanese Army, the flower of the Imperial Army, Abe Norihide.
Abe Norihide was born into poverty, but he was hard-working and studious. In his early years, he graduated from the prestigious Japanese Non-Commissioned Officer School and specialized in mountain combat. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in 1937, he came to Mengdong to fight with the cavalry of the Nationalist Army. The mountains in the Mengdong region are rugged and complex, and the nationalist army is familiar with the terrain and comes and goes like the wind, while Abe Norihide has used his military superiority to fight many victorious battles and occupy a lot of our territory. Therefore, the Japanese army gave him a title: the flower of the imperial army.
Of course, the exact color of this Imperial Army Flower will soon be known. When the Mengdong War was over, Abe Norihide confidently came to the Taihang Mountains with his own set of mountain warfare theories. In the Taihang Mountains, the base area of the Eighth Route Army was in full swing and had been regarded as a thorn in the side of the Japanese Army.
The terrain in the Taihang Mountains is complex, and several "sweeps" by the Japanese army have been fruitless. As soon as Abe Norihide arrived, he announced a major sweeping attack and ordered the first brigade of his own duchao second brigade to attack the Taihang Mountains. Anyone who knows the military knows that the one with the first trumpet is generally the soul of a troop. And this first brigade ran into the ambush circle of our army in a daze. After a violent beating, only the captain of the brigade escaped in a gray and slippery manner.
At this time, Abe Norihide was angry: he had been in the army for more than ten years, and he had not suffered such a big defeat! So he personally led the main force of the brigade to take revenge, but he did not expect to be surrounded by our legion again. Norihide Abe is a man of greatness, and even in the midst of the crowds, he wears a straight tweed coat and high-barreled riding boots. This was seen by Yang Chengwu, who was inspecting the enemy situation at the front.
Yang Chengwu felt that this was a high official, so he ordered his artillery to fire at him. At that time, the Tubalu were poor, so every shell was as expensive as gold. The mortar gunner fired a total of three shells, which was right in the middle of Abe's brain. The flower of the famous general withered away.
Say two words about Abe's posthumous affair. After Abe's death, the ashes were shipped to Tokyo, and three generals of the Japanese Army: the Army Education Director, the Chief of Staff, and the War Minister all came to mourn. However, when the family hoped to posthumously award Abe the title of general, he was rejected by the Minister of War, Hata Shunroku: it turned out that Abe had just been promoted to lieutenant general, and it was not in line with the Japanese military regulations to posthumously award the general. The family members can only return with a meagre pension. And these pensions were not enough to buy a cemetery for this prominent general.