On the eve of the Qingming Dynasty in 2016, countless Chinese sons and daughters went to Shaoshan Mountain in Hunan Province to pay tribute to Chairman Mao, and an old man in front of the bronze statue of Chairman Mao solemnly saluted Chairman Mao with a standard military salute, and then he recited a "Qinyuan Spring Snow" in Mandarin mixed with a Japanese accent.
What attracts everyone's attention even more is that he has the medal of "Chinese People's Liberation Army" hanging on his chest! So some curious tourists came forward to inquire and learned that this old man was actually a "Japanese Eighth Road", and his identity in China for the first time was the Japanese army invading China!
Why did a Japanese, a Japanese army that invaded China, become the Eighth Route Army? And it all started in 1919.
In Japan, monks can start a family, get married and have children, and this old man was born in a monk's family in Japan, before Kobayashi Hirosumi was born, his father was already a famous abbot, so the father's expectations for his son are also very high, hoping that he can inherit his mantle and become an abbot.
And Kobayashi Hirosumi also lived up to his father's expectations, the talent of him and his father's careful teaching, at the age of 19 he passed the monk qualification exam, set up his own monastic office, if nothing else, then the rest of his life will be spent in the sound of wooden fish.
But the accident always came before tomorrow, and the grandson that the father wanted, the beautiful future that the son wanted, were all shattered with the outbreak of war.
At that time, Japan, for its own ambitions, also mobilized the young and middle-aged people of the whole country to send to the battlefield, in fact, there was another advantage of being a monk in Japan at that time, that is, there was no need to be a soldier. However, with the expansion of the battlefield, whether it is the battlefield in China or the battlefield in Southeast Asia, the front line is extremely short of a large number of soldiers, so this regulation is slowly being broken.
In 1939, Kobayashi's father died, and in the next few days the people of the office found Kobayashi, hoping that he would go to the Battlefield of China to serve the emperor.
Shortly after his father's death, he had only just taken over his mantle, and in 1937 his brother, who had returned from the battlefield full of wounds, returned home and told him about the cruelty of war, and he was extremely reluctant to go to the battlefield in either way. So he also refused without hesitation.
But at that time, Kobayashi Kansumi obviously underestimated the lack of personnel on the front line, at that time the War of Resistance Against Japan also entered a white-hot stage, the expansion of the front line also made the front line seriously short of personnel, and within a few days, the people of the office found Kobayashi Hirosumi again, and promised him without blushing: You are so thin and weak that you do not have to go to the front line, you can stay in logistics without fighting and can also get paid.
And shamelessly said to Kobayashi Hirosumi: Our war is a just war! It is to save the Chinese people from the war, and they welcome us very much!
In this way, the personnel of the office persuaded him with deception. So in early 1940, Kobayashi and 10,000 Japanese troops landed in Qingdao.
But when he first arrived in Qingdao, he was taught the first lesson by the veterans, who told him to be careful of everything around him, be careful of the local people, they are very likely to take your life! At this time, Kobayashi Hirosumi woke up, and the government's propaganda was fake! But at that time, Kobayashi Hirosumi had no choice, and he could not return home.
Nowadays, we have the impression that the Japanese army does not seem to force conscription to the battlefield, because the Japanese army in the film and television drama is either a death squad or a suicide by cutting the abdomen, and everyone is very loyal to the so-called emperor, but is this the case?
Kobayashi Hirosumi, who had just arrived in China, was assigned to the third class of the 14th Division, and the first class he attended here was not military training, but brainwashing! In the first six months of Kobayashi's arrival on Chinese soil, he faced every day the instructors' smear of the Chinese army and people.
They are also constantly intimidated, and once they are captured by the Chinese army, the fate will be very cruel! 6 months of brainwashing, anyone is difficult to overcome! Therefore, at this time, Kobayashi Hirosumi did not want to go home, nor was he afraid of the cruelty of the battlefield, but only wanted to avenge his compatriots and serve the emperor.
So Kobayashi Hirosumi, who had no military training at all, followed the troops to the front line as a light machine gunner, and in 1941, Kobayashi Hirosumi followed the squad to a village in Haiyang County, and several people in his team at that time were all recruits, without any experience, but in the eyes of the Japanese army, this was an extremely simple thing.
So before they stepped into the village, they were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army, and Kobayashi Hirosumi, who was influenced by the brainwashing idea, also rushed to the first place with a gun without fear, and the other teammates did not dare to show weakness and return fire with a gun.
After a while, the gunfire of the eighth road stopped, Kobayashi Kansumi They thought that the eighth road was afraid of himself and others running, so the recruit captain also ran to the position of the eighth road just now to check the booty, the result was that the captain had no news in the blink of an eye, Kobayashi Hirosumi rushed to check with the remaining teammates, only to see the captain was knocked unconscious by the eight roads and lay on the ground, and he and others were also surrounded.
Seeing that there was no way back, he remembered the picture of "how to abuse the captives" painted by the instructor to himself, and his teammates at this time were also afraid that they would be taken prisoner and abused, so he asked Kobayashi Toshi to shoot him, so Kobayashi Hirosumi also took up the machine gun and sent the teammate away.
Kobayashi then shot at himself to be loyal to the emperor, and although he fired several shots at himself, he didn't hit the point, but the pain was enough to make him pass out.
When he woke up again, he found himself lying in the temple, with many bandages on his body. When the people around him woke up, they came around him one after another, and Kobayashi Hirosumi was also afraid to run, but the wounds on his body made him sweat coldly as soon as he moved. He waved his hands to drive the Eight Roads in front of him, and after a while an Eighth Route soldier came over and told him in a non-standard Japanese dialect: "We in the Eighth Route Army will not kill prisoners, we give preferential treatment to prisoners, you can rest assured." ”
Then he was carried on a stretcher by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and began to set off, and this move made Kobayashi Even more frightened, he did not know where he was going, did not know how he would be treated.
When passing through a small river, he also took advantage of the pain and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were not ready to jump into the river, but he was quickly fished by the soldiers of our army, and then he tried to escape many times but was rescued by our army.
Later, when he arrived at the camp of the Eighth Route Army, he learned from the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who knew Japanese that he was captured by the East Naval Sub-district of the Fifth Brigade of Jiaodong of the Shandong Column, and in his short military career, he also heard the name of this unit many times, and naturally knew the strength of this unit.
So it was understandable to think that he had been captured by such a powerful army, Kobayashi Comforted himself so much, and then he found that he did not experience the torture that the instructor said, and the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army also delivered food every day, except that he could not go out, as if it was not so bad.
After that, on the tenth day of Kobayashi's capture, this day was also the July 1st Founding Conference of the Eighth Route Army, and to Kobayashi's surprise, Wu Kehua, commander of the Eighth Route Army, personally invited him to celebrate together! This made Kobayashi Hirosumi at that time very puzzled, his identity would actually be invited to participate in such an important conference, which also made Kobayashi Hirosumi at that time very moved.
However, the accident happened, that night, the sleeping Kobayashi Kuancheng was awakened by the sound of gunfire outside the door, the Japanese army took the opportunity to sneak attack, at this time Kobayashi Kuancheng was not only not at all happy, but very worried, he was afraid that Eight Roads thought that he was ventilating the news, afraid that Eight Roads would kill himself before retreating.
So he went out of the door to check the situation, but found that there was still eight roads standing guard at the door, when he saw the eight road soldiers were very nervous, afraid to give himself a shot in the next second, but what he did not expect was that the soldiers outside the door saw Kobayashi Hirosumi wake up, but instead smiled and went up to say hello, and also discussed with him how to effectively fight the devils.
Afterwards, Kobayashi Hirosumi did not encounter any inquiries, and all he was worried about was his own wild conjecture. After that, Kobayashi's concept of the Eighth Route Army was completely changed, and he also broke free from the instructor's brainwashed remarks and saw everything clearly, what is the so-called "just war" and what "the Eighth Route Army abuses prisoners" are all fake.
Instead, in his subsequent observations of the Eight Roads fighting around, he saw how the Japanese army slaughtered the villages and how they did dirty things in the name of justice. Later, whenever the Eighth Route captured the Japanese army, he would personally persuade those people to wake up in those false statements.
On September 18, 1941, Kobayashi was invited to participate in the September 18 Memorial Conference, after which Kobayashi voluntarily chose to join the Eighth Route Army, and at the end of the year was sent to the Yan'an Japanese Workers' and Peasants' School, where he joined the "Japanese Soldiers Awakening Alliance", also known as the Anti-War Alliance.
After joining the organization, he put down his gun and picked up a pen, in order to let those Japanese soldiers see the real purpose of this war, he wrote countless propaganda books, and over time, those Japanese soldiers were also shaken in their hearts, after all, Kobayashi Hiroshi did not encounter those so-called abuses after being captured, but lived better.
Naturally, the Japanese commander could not tolerate this situation, so he ordered that the relevant content should not be circulated in the army. This attracted the curiosity of the soldiers even more, and it was impossible to prevent it from reading in private.
In addition to the propaganda book, Kobayashi will also go to the front line to shout, he told the Japanese troops on the position of his experience, at first the Japanese army not only insulted him but also responded to the place where he was, but the number of times, the enemy army was silent, because they were like Xiaolin, most of them were tricked into coming to China, although this could not make them surrender directly, but it could make them feel war-weary.
Later, in 1943, the Japanese army even offered Kobayashi's life at a high price, and when the local villagers faced torture and interrogation by the Japanese army at Mount Yimeng, they did not reveal where Kobayashi was, which made Kobayashi more firm in his concept!
In 1946, Kobayashi successfully joined the Communist Party of China under the introduction of Shu Tongde, director of the Shandong Political Department. After that, he was assigned to Jinan to take charge of japanese overseas Chinese work.
In 1955, Kobayashi returned to his long-lost hometown, where he was monitored by the government until the age of 85, when the government thought he no longer had espionage. During this period, he also participated in many speeches to expose the historical truth of Japan's invasion of China to the public.
In 2015, Kobayashi was invited to participate in the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression as a "veteran of the Eighth Route Army", that is, in the solemn Great Hall of the People, the Japanese Eighth Route was awarded the "Medal of the people's liberation army of Chinese".
In the Qingming Dynasty of 2016, this 96-year-old man came to China from thousands of miles away and came to Chairman Mao's former residence to express his highest respect to Chairman Mao.
Although he is in different countries and speaks different languages, Kobayashi Hirosumi has chosen the right path and made great contributions to the cause of peace on the mainland. Today's prosperous China still needs us to add bricks and tiles, count the popular figures, and look at the present dynasty