World War II was an absolutely unbearable thing for China. As a result of the enormous casualties inflicted on our country by The Japanese aggression, tens of millions of Chinese lost their lives in the war. The official beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japan was marked by the July 7 Incident.
Ichiki Kiyono, who created the "Lugou Bridge Incident", who was "greatly credited", eventually became cannon fodder
On July 7, 1937, Ichiki commanded troops to exercise near the Lugou Bridge, and under the pretext of the disappearance of the soldiers, they provoked an incident, creating the "Lugou Bridge Incident" and opening the prelude to the Sino-Japanese all-out war. Because of his "great merit", he was soon rewarded by Japan. In 1941, Kiyonaga Ichiki was promoted to The Rank of Daisa, and became the commander of the 28th Infantry Regiment. In 1942, with the outbreak of the Battle of Guadalcanal ("Guadalcanal"), kiyonoichi's detachment landed as the vanguard to support the Japanese army on Guadalcanal and confronted the American army.
Led by 800 people led by Ichiki Kiyono, who was not able to measure up, he dared to sneak up on 11,000 U.S. Marines, and in the end none survived. The U.S. Marines summed up the Japanese more brilliantly—the only safe Japanese were the dead Japanese.
On August 16, 1942, Kiyono Ichiki led the remaining 800 men to the positions to be captured. The U.S. military garrisoned Guadalcanal was the most tenacious and determined Marines, with a total of 11,000 men at this time.
In the early morning of the 21st, Ichiki Kiyono's troops launched an attack on the American positions at the mouth of the Tenaru River, and the American troops began to shoot fiercely after the Japanese approached, and the Japanese troops were suddenly scattered all over the field. After dawn, the Japanese army was caught between the two sides of the Attack, and the Japanese army could only retreat to the sea. In the end, there were only a handful of Japanese troops left, and Kiyono Ichiki was seriously wounded. When the American tanks found this group of remnants of the enemy and killed them one by one, Kiyono Ichiki pulled out his saber and cut himself before being killed. The history of this battle is called the "Battle of the Estuary of the Tenaru River". The executioner, stained with the blood of Chinese, finally ended his short and sinful life.
In the "July 7 Incident", the order was issued to open fire on the Chinese defenders, and the executioner, whose hands were stained with Chinese blood, stood conceitedly on the banks of the Chintun River and made wild remarks, declaring: "The army has now reached the point of invincibility under the heavens, and the day when the sun flag will proclaim our definite victory in India is not far away." Little did he know, however, that he would be greeted by the Worst Defeat of the Japanese Army in World War II. After the end of World War II, Although Mutaguchi also escaped the Allied trial, japan did not spare him.
In March 1944, the Japanese army gathered more than 80,000 people from three divisions, led by Lieutenant General Rinya Mutaguchi, across the Chin Dun River in the Indo-Burma border area, kicking off the Battle of Imphal. Mountbatten, commander-in-chief of the British Allied forces in Southeast Asia, was overjoyed to hear that the Japanese army had crossed the Chin dun River, and immediately asked the British army to use its housekeeping skill - retreat.
The Japanese felt that victory was in full swing, completely forgetting that their supply lines had been stretched very long. The British army's escape tactics are world-famous, although the Japanese army is in hot pursuit, but even the shadow of the British army has not caught up, and the British army is still firmly in the wilderness, taking away everything that can be eaten, and burning it if it cannot be taken away.
With the arrival of the rainy season in India, the Japanese supply lines were completely cut off. The extreme lack of food made the Japanese army have to rely on eating weeds, snails, lizards, and snakes to survive. What was even more tragic was that a large number of Japanese officers and soldiers contracted malaria, dysentery, cholera, influenza and other diseases, and thousands of Japanese troops began to die. During the entire Battle of Imphal, more than 50,000 of the more than 80,000 Japanese troops died and disappeared, and most of them died of starvation and illness, which can be called one of the most painful defeats of the Japanese army in World War II.
Mutaguchi recalled: "The Great East Asian War, if you want to say it, is my responsibility, because I was the one who caused the war by the first bullet fired at the Lugou Bridge, so I think I must be responsible for it." ”