Continue to share old photos of the War of Resistance Against Japan, which is a historical moment taken by Japanese war reporters from North China, East China, and South China more than 80 years ago, on October 22, 1937, on the same day. Last night the autumn wind entered Hanguan, the Shuo cloud side moon full of western mountains, every photo here is a shameful history.
On October 22, 1937, the Battle of Songhu was nearing its end, and although the downtown area of Shanghai was not particularly damaged in this war, it was an inch of mountains and rivers and an inch of blood in the suburbs, and many places were overturned by bombs.
On October 22, Japanese soldiers occupying the city of Dezhou in Shandong Province held a sports meeting at the stadium in the city. In the previous two sets of photos, the veterans introduced that Dezhou fell on October 5, and it was also the fiercest resistance encountered by the Japanese when they marched into Shandong, although this resistance was only one regiment, but it played a Chinese bloody nature. At the time of this photo, the Japanese Kou were already moving south to Jinan, while the Japanese in Dezhou City were organizing sports games to improve their morale.
On the 22nd, after the End of the Japanese Soldiers' Games in Texas City, the organizers were presenting awards, and athletes wearing steel helmets and carrying guns were indeed rare. It can be seen that the political and cultural work of the Japanese army as an aggressor on the anti-Japanese battlefield was also first-class.
On October 22, 1938, South China Japan sent troops to invade Hui'ai Road in Guangzhou. According to historical records, in the early morning of October 12, 1938, the Japanese Kou landed from Daya Bay in Huizhou and then invaded all of Guangdong. However, the Japanese Kou encountered stubborn resistance from the anti-Japanese army and people in Huizhou, and on the 20th, the Japanese 18th Division launched a full-scale offensive, and the Chinese defenders' defensive line was broken through and took the initiative to retreat. On the 21st, the Japanese captured Shahe, and then Guangzhou fell. Its 104th Division advanced north of Guangzhou, capturing Taipingchang and on the 23rd Conghua. On the other hand, the Japanese 5th Division, in coordination with the navy, captured the Humen Fortress on the 23rd, Sanshui on the 25th, and Foshan on the 26th, and reached the southern suburbs of Guangzhou on the 29th. At this point, the Battle of Guangzhou was basically over.
In addition to Guangdong in southern China and Shanghai in eastern China, on October 22, 1937, the Japanese Kou in north China were also in the process of attacking, and the picture above is the Japanese Kou Aoshan troops attacking Niangziguan in Shanxi, and they were attacking the positions of the anti-Japanese army with mountain artillery.
Back in Shanghai, at this time the overall situation of the Songhu battlefield has been decided, the war is basically over, on October 22, 1937, a Japanese soldier named Tamura was reading the newspaper, and he wanted to learn about other battlefields through the news. Of course, at that time, the Chinese side wanted to postpone the war until November, hoping to find a solution to the Sino-Japanese dispute through the Nine-Power Pact Conference. However, Japan did not participate in the Nine-Power Pact at all, and the only country at the Nine-Power Conference that explicitly supported China's War of Resistance was the Soviet Union.