In the book "Killing One Hundred Japanese Generals in China" published by the People's Liberation Army Publishing House, it is believed that the first senior Japanese general to be killed was Koga Dentaro, commander of the 27th Cavalry Regiment of the Mixed 38th Brigade of the Japanese Kwantung Army. He was posthumously awarded the title of major general. It is evident from Japan's post-war declassified documents that on January 19, 1932, Minister of War Masao Araki and Prime Minister Takeshi Inuyasha issued a posthumous announcement that Koga Dentaro, who died in battle, was posthumously awarded the posthumous title of Daisa. Therefore, Koga was also a nakasa before his death, and he could not be regarded as a high-ranking general. So who is the owner of this "honorary title"? The answer is: Lin Daeba, commander of the Seventh Infantry Regiment of the Ninth Division of Kanazawa.
Lin Daba (1986-1932), a native of Yamayuki Prefecture, was admitted to the 16th Infantry Section of the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School. He was called the "Honor Sixteenth" cadet by the Japanese military circles, and there were four "talented" army generals. Hayashi Daihachi and his contemporaries Okamura Ninji, Seishiro Sakagaki, Kenji Doihara, and Nagata Tetsuyama are not famous compared to them. In addition, the qualifications are mediocre, and the army university has been admitted several times. So the road to progression is extremely difficult. However, this jun, although his IQ was not enough, was very diligent, and went to the Soviet Union to study Russian for a year, and then learned Mongolian at his own expense. In 1924, he was awarded the rank of Zhongzuo of the Army, and served as a military adviser to Zhang Zuoxiang, the overseer of Jilin Province, becoming one of the few Chinese and Russian passes in the Japanese army. In May 1931, he was promoted to Army Daisaku and served as the chief of The Nakamoto's secret service in Jilin Province. In the absence of admission to Lu University (known in Japan as the "Heavenless Group"), being able to promote Daisa at the age of forty-five is also a reward for heavenly reward.
In August of the same year, he was transferred back to Japan and became the commander of the 7th Infantry Regiment of the Ninth Division of Kanazawa. By chance, Lin Daba, who had been engaged in secret service work in the northeast for more than ten years, missed the September 18 Incident and let his classmate Sakagaki Seishiro Daisaku and his five-year-old Ishihara Guan'er Nakasa pick peaches. Failed to "leave a name in history". Missed the best step-up stepping stone. His state of mind at this time laid the groundwork for him to become the first senior Japanese general to die on the battlefield in China. On January 28 of the following year, the Sino-Japanese War broke out again in Shanghai, and in the face of the powerful offensive of the Chinese Nineteenth Route Army, Japan twice sent reinforcements to Shanghai, of which the Ninth Division was in the reinforcement sequence. On February 23, the 7th Infantry Regiment of the Ninth Division led by Lin Daba landed at Wusong. The arrogant and arrogant Lin Daba, who was eager to win, charged forward in an attempt to take Jiangwan Town in one fell swoop. It was gone before it was done. A bullet hit his abdomen, bleeding profusely, and the rescue was ineffective, so he received the lunch box in advance. Later, a soldier recalled that before his death, he had been shouting: "Military flag, military flag!" And the anti-Japanese god drama in the "this load, this load!" "There is still a comparison.
When Emperor Hirohito heard the news, he posthumously awarded the title of Major General of the Eighth Army. So this unlucky egg became the first high-ranking general in the history of the Sino-Japanese war to die in Huangquan. Nailed to the column of shame of history, "forever recorded in the annals of history"! There are two more points worth mentioning about his aftermath. In order to commemorate his "battle achievements", the Japanese army named the place where he died in battle "Ōhachi Tsuji". "Tsuji" means crossroads in Japanese. Surprisingly, after the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, this place name was actually retained, but Chinese rarely used the word 辻, but replaced it with a consonant word "temple", until 88, under the incessant suggestions of historians, the Shanghai Municipal Government officially decided to rename "Big Eight Temple" to "Big Cypress Tree". The history of humiliation was officially dismissed.
His second son, an avid fan of the "Imperial Daoist Sect". His name was Hayashi Hachirō, who had just graduated from the Army Noncommissioned Officer School, conferred the rank of second lieutenant, was dissatisfied with the pressure of the "unification faction", and the "226 Military Coup" broke out, and Lieutenant Hayashi Hachiro participated in the murder of Japanese Prime Minister Keisuke Okada. He was the army lieutenant who shot at Keisuke Okada in the movie "The Chaotic History of Showa". Okada Keisuke had good luck, and neither Hayashi Nordaro nor the leading junior officers knew Okada Keisuke and mistakenly killed the Prime Minister's secretary, Matsuo Tōzo. Three days later, the mutiny failed, and eighteen junior officers of the Shaozhuang faction were arrested and shot, of whom Lin Balang was the youngest, less than twenty-two years old.
Lin Daba, including his son Hayashi Hachiro, was a vanguard of Japanese militarism, and their deaths did not deserve even the slightest sympathy, but as a countryman who was deeply persecuted by Japanese militarism, we should remember that period of history.