After the annihilation of the Japanese 64th Wing, what the Kwantung Army was most worried about was not whether Wing Commander Takemitsu Yamagata was dead, but whether the flag had been completely burned and whether it had fallen into the hands of the enemy. This is indeed a real thing, the Japanese army general flag, as something more precious than life. Looking at the records of the Japanese army's battles, it is not difficult for people to find that no matter what kind of defeat they fought, the Japanese army must burn the flag of the regiment one step at a time before the abdomen is cut.
The flag of the Japanese army was personally issued by the Emperor of Japan, and only an organized infantry company or a cavalry company was eligible to be equipped with a military flag. So they will also, the flag they have, called the wing flag. According to the regulations of the Japanese Army, the military flag is a symbol of the establishment, and once the flag is gone, the establishment will also be revoked. Therefore, the military flag is the most important thing for the Japanese army. Because the flag was so important to the Japanese army, the Allies were very eager to capture a Japanese flag in World War II, but the Allies were unable to do so.
This is because the Japanese army stipulates in the battle regulations that when judging the situation of the war, if there is a possibility that the entire army will be destroyed, then the Japanese army should burn the military flag. No matter what kind of defeat was fought, the Japanese army had to burn the flag one step at a time before committing suicide by caesarean section. In the summer of 1939, on the border between puppet Manchukuo and Mongolia, the famous Battle of Nomonhan between Sioux and Japan broke out. From august 20, when the Soviets launched an offensive to the 30th when a ceasefire was declared, the Japanese Kwantung Army lost 18,000 people in just ten days. This was an unprecedented defeat for the Japanese Army. But under such circumstances, the Japanese army was still brewing plans to counterattack the Soviet army.
After hearing that the Sixty-fourth Wing had been annihilated, the Kwantung Army's greatest concern was not whether Wing Commander Takemitsu Yamagata was dead. Instead, it was worried about whether the flag owned by the wing had been completely burned and whether it had fallen into the hands of the Soviets. To this end, the Kwantung Army did not hesitate to mobilize the Second Division, the Fourth Division and other direct subordinate units to prepare for a major counterattack against the Soviet Army.
On September 24, the Japanese Kwantung Army found the body of Takemitsu Yamagata on the 747 high ground, and the Japanese Kwantung Army also found the flag belonging to the squadron that had not been completely burned. The Japanese Kwantung Army found the chrysanthemum imperial flag crown of the military flag in the pocket of the flag bearer of the regiment. This discovery made the Kwantung Army up and down, relieved.
Cao Matsumoto, a military doctor of the Twenty-third Division of the Kwantung Army, once wrote in his memoirs: The military flag is only a flag, it is only a symbol of a unit, but the entire Japanese army regards it very seriously, and it is more noble than everything in the army. Speaking of the reason, it is actually the result of the Japanese military unification and education. I remember when I was young, as soon as there was an army or military exercise, my mother would carry me on her back and follow the neighbors to watch it. For such a ritual, we never dare to neglect it. As Ming's dangling bayonet passed in front of her eyes with the flag, the mother and neighbors would kneel and bow and watch the flag walk by with tears in their eyes. To this day, when I see the flag, I still involuntarily bow my head. This is the result of being nurtured by that era. Those of us were domesticated in that environment.
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