On July 7, 1937, there were several fanatical militarists in the Japanese army, who were instructed by their superiors, and after planning, the four main organizers provoked the incident at the Lugou Bridge in Beijing and fired the first shots of the all-out war of aggression against China.
Who are these four Japanese soldiers?
They are: Kiyono Ichiki, Ichiro Tashiro, Ryo Mutaguchi, and Teru Morita.
Ichiki Ishizu of crushed bones
Kiyono Ichiki was the first Japanese soldier to shoot in the Lugou Bridge Incident, and his shot was forever recorded in the annals of the invasion of China
。 On October 8 of the same year, Kiyono Ichiki was promoted directly to Daisa, and was awarded the Order of the Golden Eagle of the Third Class by the Emperor, and was later promoted to the commander of the 28th Regiment of the 14th Infantry Brigade of the 7th Division of the Kwantung Army, and was transferred to northeast China for combat.
At the end of April 1942, the Japanese Seventh Division, based on the 28th Infantry Regiment, formed the Asahi Kazuki Detachment, and appointed Kiyono Ichiki as the leader of the detachment, when he led 3870 Japanese troops to the south on May 5 to participate in the attack on Midway.
On 6 June, the Japanese Navy suffered a crushing defeat at Midway
。 So Ichiki was ordered to support Guadalcanal. On the evening of the 18th, a detachment of Ichiki landed on Guadalcanal and launched a battle for Henderson Airfield on the island,
The losses of the battle were extremely heavy, and Kiyonaga Ichiki was wounded in many places
。
Finally, as a last resort, he ordered his signal team to send a telegram to his superiors:
The detachment was completely destroyed
Then, Ichiki, covered in wounds, lay in the damp jungle of Guadalcanal, watching the American tanks open their blood basins and roll towards him, and this crime-ridden Japanese fanatic was crushed to pieces in the blink of an eye.
Tashiro Wasichiro was killed by the Japanese army
Koichiro Tashiro
A native of Saga Prefecture, Japan, he was already a lieutenant general at the time. On the night of July 7, 1937, the Japanese troops stationed in Fengtai demanded to enter Wanping City for a search on the pretext that a soldier was "missing", but the Chinese defenders strictly refused.
In the early morning of the 8th, Tian Daiwan Ichiro issued an order to attack, and the Japanese army began to storm the Lugou Bridge and the county seat of Wanping.
Because the Chinese garrison fought back strongly, it recaptured the Dragon King Temple and the railway bridge on the night of the 8th, which severely cracked down on the Japanese army's rapid occupation plan. Therefore, on the morning of July 11, the Japanese military command directly removed Tashiro from his post as commander of the Chinese garrison and made a major decision to send troops to North China.
When Tashiro received the notice of his dismissal, he felt ashamed and indignant
，
He died of a heart attack on the 15th
Maybe that's the price he paid for it.
Mutaguchi, who died in shame
Colonel Renya Mutaguchi
At that time, he served as the wing commander of the first wing of the infantry brigade of the Chinese garrison of the Japanese army invading China. At 4 o'clock in the early morning of the 8th, Mutaguchi Rinya
Negotiators who participated in the threats against the Chinese side
He also wanted to enter Wanping City to search for the missing soldiers, but at that time he was sternly refused by Wang Lengzhai, the representative of our army.
At 4:23 a.m., Mutaguchi Lian ordered the artillery to fire on the county seat of Wanping County, and it was he who personally ignited the war and fired the first cannon of the war.
To this end, Emperor Hirohito personally awarded him the Order of the Golden Eagle of the Third Class and was directly promoted to major general.
Later he was incorporated into the Confederate Army and participated in the Pacific Operations.
On March 8, 1944, the Japanese army launched the "U-No. Operation", and Mutaguchi Lian led three divisions of the 15th Army and special regiments totaling more than 150,000 people to fight in the Burma-India region.
However, his troops were defeated by the combined forces of China, the United States, Britain and India, and the Chinese Expeditionary Force, and the troops were completely lost!
Because of his failure in battle, the Japanese base camp was extremely angry, and the commander and chief of staff of the Burma Front were all replaced.
Mutaguchi was also dismissed from his military post, and he committed suicide in shame
Toru Morita, who was crushed into a meatloaf
Lieutenant Colonel Akira Morita
In 1936, he was transferred to the deputy wing commander of the First Wing of the Infantry Brigade regiment of the Chinese Garrison Army.
At the time of the July 7 Incident, Morita played the role of directing the Japanese army to conduct "exercises" on the spot, and was also a negotiator on the Japanese battlefield.
At that time, the Chinese war negotiators once recalled that Morita was very short.
But this guy was an extremely brutal fascist soldier
, very annoying. Because he actively participated in the "July 7" incident and commanded the attack on Wanping for "meritorious service", he was awarded the Golden Eagle Medal of the Third Class.
Later, in his battles with the Soviet-Mongolian army, because the Soviet-Mongolian army was fighting in a three-dimensional combat mode composed of aircraft, artillery, tanks and cavalry, Morita used the method of letting his subordinates get close to the tank to throw Molotov cocktails and grenades, but the Soviet tank used a diesel engine, tall and large and thick armor, and his method was useless.
Until the 22nd, most of the officers below the japanese wing commander were killed. So Morita ordered the regiment's flag and all the codebooks to be burned, wrapped in a white cloth strip around his head, and led the remnants out of the trenches, brandishing their knives and rushing towards the Soviet tank group.
However, Morita did not wait to rush a few steps before he was shot down by the tank's heavy machine gun, and then crushed into a meatloaf by the Soviet tanks.
Postscript: These main war criminals in the Lugou Bridge Incident did not end up in a good end, which fully explains a truth: many acts of injustice will kill themselves! Unrighteous armies have waged unjust wars, and since ancient times there has been no good ending.
Today, there are still some militants in Japan who visit shrines and may be proud of those war criminals, but they do not know that such acts will have no effect other than being spurned by others. Because, after the sacrifices of our martyrs and the efforts of the people of the whole country, it is impossible for a strong China to suffer any more humiliation! A word of advice: Confession and repentance are the only attitude of war criminals.
Remember history and strive to be strong
Resources:
"Documentary of the Lugou Bridge Incident"
Silhouettes of the War of Resistance: Little-Known Historical Details
"The Life of Kiyono Ichiki's Evil"