Eiichi Yamada: A good chief, a pair of tears fell in front of the king
From May 7 to June 9, 1979, The founding general, Mr. Su Yulao, who was already seventy-two years old, paid a one-month goodwill visit to Japan as the supreme adviser to the Sino-Japanese friendship ship delegation to Japan. During this friendly visit, it is planned that the Sino-Japanese friendship ship will circle the Japanese archipelago for a week and dock in 10 port cities, including Shimonoseki, Osaka, Nagoya, and Tokyo.
For Su Yu, in addition to the foreign affairs activities arranged by the official, this visit also has a different reception activity, which is of extraordinary significance to himself. When the Sino-Japanese friendship ship arrived in Kobe, Japan, a gentleman named Eiichi Yamada, who had come from Osaka, said earnestly that he must meet General Su Yu. Why did a Japanese friend suddenly suggest that he must visit Su Yu? Let's take a look.
Acquaintance with Junchu
The story goes like this: During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Eiichi Yamada was originally an artillery lieutenant of the Japanese army, but he was touched by the righteous act of Chinese people unanimously and united with the whole country to unite and heroically resist Japanese aggression. So at the end of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression he joined the New Fourth Army and joined the Japanese Anti-War Alliance, an organization known as the "Japanese New Fourth Army." The emergence of this organization had a major impact on the anti-Japanese struggle. This anti-war alliance, as the name suggests, is very admirable for their adherence to peace and opposition to Japan's aggression against China. I don't know if my friends know about the Battle of Cheqiao in 1944, matsuno Kyaw, as a member of the Japanese Anti-War Alliance, bravely shouted to the Japanese army on the battlefield, denounced their bad deeds, and died heroically on the battlefield.
Let's move on to the story of Eiichi Yamada. After Eiichi Yamada joined the New Fourth Army, Su Yu was pleasantly surprised to learn that he was originally an officer of the Japanese artillery and knew all kinds of artillery and artillery tactics very well, so he asked him if he could train artillery for the New Fourth Army. Sure enough, Eiichi Yamada did not disappoint everyone, and his work performance was very good, and he trained a batch of skilled artillery for the New Fourth Army. Later, Yamada was promoted step by step to the commander of our army's artillery battalion, and participated in the whole process of the Liberation War, and even later participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
It is truly admirable that such a former Japanese officer was able to wholeheartedly advise and advise the New Fourth Army and to do his utmost for the Chinese nation's struggle against the enemy! In 1958, after organizational mobilization, Yamada returned to his hometown of Japan.
He knows it from afar
Time pulled back to 1975, when he learned the news of Su Yu's visit to Japan, Yamada Eiichi was so excited that he could not help himself, and decided to come to recount his former comradeship with Su Yu regardless of the distance of the road, and to visit the old leaders and chiefs who had not seen each other for decades. As soon as he saw Su Yu, he quickly and solemnly saluted and said, "Hello, Chief! Then he respectfully handed over his business card. After Su Yu took the business card, the old time together came to mind, and he immediately squeezed Yamada's hand and said with tears in his eyes: "Ah! I remember you, I remember you, you were our artillery battalion commander mile! Eiichi Yamada was very excited about Su Yu's memories of himself, and hurriedly responded, "Yes! Right! Right! It's me! It's me! The chief's memory is so good! Su Yu and the artillery battalion commander under his command had not seen each other for many years, and their hearts were happy, and the two of them talked very happily.
Originally on the battlefield, the two sides were dead and alive, and they were enemies that could not be tolerated in each other's eyes, but later, the opportunity of fate made the two comrades on one front and made unremitting efforts for common aspirations. Later, decades later, the two actually met in Japan, far away from the ocean, and this time, their wish was fulfilled, there was no battlefield full of smoke and smoke, only a great river and mountain with clear sea and sea.
The world has not been sad for a long time, and the two places have been moaning and knowing each other
Time is like a white colt passing through the gap, and after a short encounter, it is a parting. When the two said goodbye, Su Yu did not use the official gifts prepared by the delegation, he deliberately took a new shirt and a new tie from his suitcase and gave them to Yamada, which he was originally prepared to wear himself, and now he specially gave them to Yamada Eiichi to express the friendship between the two of them who fought together on a front. Eiichi Yamada said that he was flattered, he did not expect the old chief to give him such a "valuable" gift. What is valuable is not this shirt and tie, but their friendship that is comparable to a thousand gold! Eiichi Yamada was very grateful for this and said that he would collect this gift well.
Su Yu's meeting with Hideichi Yamada, which has been separated by decades, is a reunion between their old friends, and in a certain sense, it has also played an incomparable role in strengthening sino-Japanese exchanges and promoting diplomatic exchanges between the two countries.
epilogue
The friendship between Su Yu and Eiichi Yamada has endured decades of ups and downs but has endured for a long time. China and Japan, with one coat and one water, exotic mountains and rivers, the same wind and moon, in this anti-epidemic struggle, the spirit of cooperation and friendship shown by tens of thousands of netizens have also made tens of thousands of netizens feel very pleased. I think that as long as both countries learn from history, they will certainly cooperate and win-win in the future.