On July 30, 1912, Emperor Meiji of Japan died of uremia at the age of 60.
Two months after Emperor Meiji's death, on September 13, the night of Emperor Meiji's funeral, a 63-year-old Japanese army general committed suicide by cutting his abdomen at home.
In order to make his death foolproof, after cutting his abdomen, he mended his own knife and cut off his carotid artery with his bare hands, so that he could finally die thoroughly.
Before the old man committed suicide, his wife, who was one step ahead of her husband, broke herself, and she died by stabbing herself in the heart of her chest with a knife.
The old couple both committed suicide and went to Huangquan together, of course, voluntarily and voluntarily for the burial of Emperor Meiji.
This 63-year-old army general single-handedly created the Lushun Massacre in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War. His sinful hands were stained with the blood of countless Chinese, and the crimes he committed on Chinese soil were too numerous to describe.
He is the nogi nogi who is enshrined at the Nogi Shrine today and is revered by the Japanese as the god of war.
Nogi Norinori
Born in 1849 in Edo, Japan, his father Nogi Heiseji was a famous samurai in the area, so Nogi Beidō began to learn literature and martial arts at the age of 10, and at the age of 16 he clamored to enlist in the army and be loyal to the emperor.
In 1869, at the age of 20, Nogi Entered the "Pro-Soldier" Barracks Loyal to the Emperor and began systematic and rigorous military training.
Two years later, in 1871, at the age of 22, Nogi was promoted to the post of Shōsa.
In the following decades, he made one battle after another in the battle to quell the local rebellion, from the initial shaosa, step by step to become a major general, until he became a major general in the Japanese army.
In June 1894, under the pretext of a peasant uprising in Korea, Japan sent troops to invade Korea and provoked the Sino-Japanese War.
At the age of 45, Nogi was soon appointed commander of the 1st Brigade of Infantry of the Major General and led his troops on a campaign against China.
Before his departure, Emperor Meiji personally set up a banquet for him.
At the feast of arrogance and blood boiling, Nogi Nogi, who had long been unable to contain his excitement and excitement, gave an impromptu poem at the cocktail party:
The fat horse knife has not yet been paid, and the emperor has bathed in the air for several spring and autumn.
Dou Dou poured out his drunken dreams and broke through the four hundred states of China.
Because the Qing government at that time was decadent and backward, the military equipment was poor, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers was weak, so Nogi Xidian's heroic and murderous poem of expedition did not blow big words.
In late October of that year, the Japanese invaders began to attack China in a big way.
Nogi Led his army to land from Huayuankou and quickly attacked Dalian and Lushun from behind.
As the commander of the vanguard, Nogi Hidnori led his troops to attack The Golden State.
On November 6, his army quickly occupied Jinzhou, and soon after occupied Lushun, Wafangdian, Gaiping, and Yingkou, all the way invincible.
However, after the Japanese army occupied Jinzhou and Dalian Bay, when they attacked Lushun on November 18, in Tuchengzi Village outside the city, they encountered qing troops led by Qing generals Xu Bangdao, Cheng Yunhe, Jiang Guiti and others who took the initiative to ambush and attack.
Nearly fifty Japanese soldiers, including Lieutenant Wan Deji of the First Brigade of The Japanese Infantry, were killed on the spot, which effectively dealt a blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army.
However, because the officers and soldiers in the city were unwilling to support and actively cooperate, Xu Bangdao and other Qing generals who had fought a victorious battle eventually had to withdraw from Tuchengzi and return to Lushun City again.
At that time, in Lushun City, the Qing army had a total strength of 14,700 people, but it belonged to eight different leaders, and they were not subordinate to each other, so when they finally fought, no one listened to anyone, let alone closely cooperated.
On November 21, when the Japanese army began to attack the various forts in Lushunkou, in the Lushun Peninsula, in just one day, more than 20 forts fell into the hands of the enemy, more than 2,000 Qing troops were killed, but the Japanese army lost only 280 people.
After the Japanese army occupied Lushun, under the pretext that in the Battle of Tuchengzi, the corpses of Lieutenant Zhongwan deji and other non-commissioned officers were humiliated by the head of the scoundrel, and starting from the 21st, Nogi Xidian ordered that a massacre of innocent people who were unarmed in Lushun City was carried out for four days and three nights.
Lushun massacre
In this inhuman massacre, nearly 20,000 people in the city were killed, except for the 36 people who buried the bodies, all of whom survived. The corpses in the city were several feet away, and it was unbearable to see.
According to witnesses at the time, their methods of slaughter were unusually brutal:
"Tie up the Chinese in one place, shoot at them, and chop them with sharp blades until the body is complete."
The Times said:
"When the Japanese attacked Lushun, they killed the people for four days, killed them indiscriminately, and suffered terrible wounds, and several groups of soldiers were tied up, and they were first killed with foreign guns, and then disbanded with knives."
More foreign newspapers have pointedly commented:
"The Japanese nation is a monster with barbaric bones and bones on the skin of Mongolian civilization."
In the Battle of Lushun, Nogi Yoshinori, who had tens of thousands of Chinese of blood and bones, was promoted to lieutenant general by Emperor Meiji on April 5, 1895, as the commander of the Second Division, and was soon appointed commander of the Golden State Garrison.
Because of the defeat of the Qing court in 1895, it was forced to cede Taiwan to Japan.
On October 14, 1896, Nogi became the third Governor of Japan, Taiwan.
Because of the continued fierce resistance of the civilian armed forces in Taiwan, from June 20 to 23 of the year before Nogi arrived in Taiwan, the Second Brigade of the Japanese Army gathered heavy troops and began a brutal retaliatory massacre of the people of Yunlin, 4925 houses were burned down, and 30,000 innocent people in Yunlin were bloodily slaughtered.
Yunlin Massacre
The Times at the time reported:
"The extent of the Japanese soldiers' brutality and insults is staggering... Wanton killing and setting fires... Women, young and old, are not exempt. ”
Because the early killing was too brutal, nogi Xidian began to try to implement the policy of "ruling Taiwan with Taiwan" in Taiwan after taking office, but it was still fiercely resisted by the people of Taiwan.
In the Taroko area, where Taiwan's mountain tribes are located, the local Taiya people used the favorable terrain to kill more than 300 Japanese troops, forcing the Japanese army to dare not try to occupy the area again.
All kinds of thorny problems made Nogi Think That Taiwan was a hot potato, too difficult to tame, and difficult to manage, so he successively advocated selling Taiwan to Britain, France and other countries, and finally gave up because of the resolute opposition of Kodama Gentaro and others.
Since 1898, Goto Shinpei has served as Taiwan's chief civil administrator, and Kodama Gentaro has also served as the governor of Taiwan.
According to official Japanese statistics, in the four or five years from 1898 to 1902, a total of 32,000 Taiwanese people were slaughtered in Taiwan itself.
Stepping on the bloody sea of countless Anti-Japanese people in Taiwan, Japan finally began its bloody colonial rule in Taiwan for 50 years.
After the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, in 1904 Nogi Yoshinori became the commander of the Third Army in the Russo-Japanese War, and was promoted to general of the army, leading the army again.
In February of that year, in order to compete for control of china's Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula, Japan and Russia fought an unjust war between the imperialist powers on the land of northeast China.
At that time, the Russian army had only 50,000 troops, and the Japanese army led by Nogi Nogi, consisting of 40,000 troops from the first three divisions and two brigades, was later increased until there were 200,000 troops, which surrounded the Russian army.
Because there were many people, Nogi Besunori began to use meat bombs to charge tactics, that is, to organize the Japanese troops one by one, and then wave after wave to charge the enemy positions.
Countless Japanese troops shouted "Long live the Emperor" and launched suicide charges again and again again against the Russian positions, so this offensive combat method was also ridiculed as "Long live the charge".
Nogi Also gave his own self-created tactic a special name, called the Art of Pig Protrusion.
In Nogi's meatball tactical offensive battle, his two sons were also contributed.
In the early morning of May 26, 1904, Nogi Katsunori, the eldest son of Nogi Nogi, was ordered to lead an army to attack the north gate of Jinju.
At 3:00 p.m., Nogi Washinori was hit in the left lower abdomen by a Russian machine gun at the east gate of Golden State City, and the buckle of the saber belt on his waist was inserted into the lower abdomen along the wound, causing the large intestine to be cut off and bleeding severely. When he was taken to the Second Field Hospital, he eventually died the next day due to excessive blood loss.
After the Japanese army finally occupied Jinzhou, Nogi Hidnori, who was extremely sad, also wrote a poem to mourn his eldest son:
The mountains and rivers turned desolate, and the wind and new battlefield were ten miles away.
Zhengma did not speak, and the sun stood outside the city of Jinzhou.
In addition to the Pig Protrusion Technique, Nogi Hidori also invented the orthographic attack method, that is, by continuously digging trenches, extending the trenches to a relatively close range to the enemy, and then launching a sudden attack to reduce the lethality of enemy fire.
In September of that year, Nogi used this method to successfully capture two fortresses of the Russian army.
Prior to this, starting from August 16, in order to win the 203 heights, Nogi Yoshinori used the meat bomb tactic to the extreme.
Wave after wave of Japanese troops, stepping on the corpses of countless companions, launched an attack on The 203 Heights again and again, but they were repulsed by the Russians again and again.
Later, the Japanese army finally took Hill 203 after paying the price of more than 10,000 people killed, including Nogi's second son.
After the war, this small hill, only 203 meters above sea level, valleys and streams and ravines, were stacked on top of each other with the corpses of Japanese soldiers.
After the battle for the 203 Highlands, Nogi Ordered the People to erect a cannonball-shaped monument at the top of the 203 Highlands, and the inscription is:
Erling Mountain is difficult to climb, and the man's fame is difficult.
The iron blood covered the mountain and changed the shape of the mountain, and the ten thousand people looked up to the Erling Mountain.
On October 21, 1909, ito Hirobumi, then Prime Minister of Japan, secretly went to Harbin five days before he was assassinated by the Korean patriot Ahn Jung-geun, and also made a special trip to Highland 203, and also wrote a poem:
18,000 buried mountains in the 203 highlands of Kuhisa.
Today's advent is infinite, and the white clouds on the ridge are still there.
In the Russo-Japanese War, which was launched in northeastern China and shamelessly declared "out-of-office neutrality" by the extremely corrupt Qing government, the Japanese army led by Nogi Hiden finally won the victory at a heavy price of 59,480 dead.
However, Japan also successfully entered the ranks of imperialist powers in the first world war.
The Qing government, which declared neutrality, did not survive because of its neutrality, and the war also brought them ruin.
During the Russo-Japanese War, Factories in Lushun were blown up, houses were burned down, and even temples were not spared.
The northeastern peasants who have been cultivating and working on the black land for generations have been killed and robbed of their grain, because of the war, hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes and displaced.
The Japanese and Russian armies burned and plundered the land in northeast China, and Chinese 20,000 died in the war.
Among them, some were forced by the Japanese and Russian armies to transport ammunition, serve hard labor, and die under artillery fire; some were used as "spies" by both Japan and Russia and were brutally killed.
This catastrophe of the war not only caused the people of northeast China to suffer huge losses and personal injuries in the war, but also nakedly trampled on and humiliated China's territory and sovereignty at that time.
Because the casualties were so heavy, and at the same time, two sons of Nogi Hidori also died in this war, one died in The Golden State and the other in the 203 Highlands, so Nogi Hiden, who returned to Japan after the Russo-Japanese War, asked Emperor Meiji to commit suicide to thank the world, and the emperor did not allow it, and said to him, As long as I live, you will not be allowed to commit suicide.
In 1906, Nogi was appointed Military Counsellor and in 1907 he was made Count.
In addition, in order to avoid his whimsy all day long and his feelings could not be dispelled, Emperor Meiji arranged for him to enter the imperial academy as the director of the imperial academy at that time, and he personally taught the study courses of Hirohito, who was then 6 years old, the later Emperor Showa.
Under the education of Nogi Nogi, who was full of militaristic ideas, the young Hirohito also admired force and greatly respected Nogi, and every time they met, they had to be honored as "Your Excellency the Dean".
Hirohito
Four years later, on July 30, 1912, Emperor Meiji died and was succeeded by Hirohito's father, Emperor Taisho, with Hirohito as crown prince.
Two days before Emperor Meiji's funeral, Nogi, who had already decided to be buried in his heart, met Hirohito for the last time and presented him with two books, one was "The Facts of China and Korea" and the other was "History of the Empire of Japan".
He hoped that after his death, the two books would replace him and continue to instill in Hirohito his militaristic ideas.
Hirohito, who later succeeded to the throne in 1926, inherited nogi's mantle in its entirety.
In 1932, he personally awarded the medal to the Japanese general who conquered the three eastern provinces of our country; in 1936, he changed the order of "Emperor of Japan" on the Medal of Honor issued by the imperial family to "Emperor of the Empire of Japan"; he indulged his uncle King Hatohiko Asaka palace to issue an order to "kill all the captives", bloodbathed Nanjing, and finally created the tragic Nanjing Massacre.
On December 14, 1937, Hirohito summoned the Chief of the General Staff of the Japanese Army, Konobu, and the Commander-in-Chief of the Military Command, Fushimi, and said:
"I am satisfied that the various units of the army and navy on the Central China side have continued to fight bravely and decisively near Shanghai, taking advantage of the victory and pursuit, so that the (Chinese) capital Nanjing has fallen. This message is conveyed to all the soldiers. ”
Therefore, although the 63-year-old Nogi Nogi has already committed suicide by cutting his stomach, the remnants of Hirohito that he cultivated have completely inherited his arrogant militaristic ambitions.
The all-out invasion of China, the conquest of Southeast Asia, and the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor have been major events that have drawn Asian countries, including Japan, into the vortex of war of great evils, and Hirohito, who has reigned for 63 years, has actively participated, paid close attention to, and been kind to them one by one.
Nogi Shrine
At the Nogi Shrine, located in downtown Tokyo, Japan today, the nogi clan is enshrined.
Because of his so-called outstanding performance in the conquest, Nogi Yoshinori was worshipped by the Japanese as a "military god", and his wife Shizuko, who committed suicide with him that day, was also worshipped by the Japanese as a female representative of loyalty, simplicity, and benevolence.
Locals say that the environment here is very secluded, very suitable for the sacrifice of precious souls, suitable for the wedding of the couple here.
As Chinese, we do not know where the preciousness of their sinful souls, whose hands are stained with the blood of countless Chinese people, let alone whether the Japanese bride and groom who went here to hold and attend the wedding, as well as their relatives and friends, will dream of the blood of tens of thousands of chinese people who died at midnight and the bones of white bones.
Although the time has passed a hundred years, but the Chinese nation has been humiliated and suffering, blood and deep hatred, as Chinese, we must always remember, never forget!
Author: We invite the author to be the lord of the Noon Dream Hall