On November 7, 1939, Norihide Abe, commander of the Second Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, was shelled by the Eighth Route Army, seriously wounded, and died that night.
This so-called "flower of famous generals" Abe Norihide was killed in the Chinese battlefield, which instantly detonated major newspapers and periodicals, and the Japanese military department launched a very detailed investigation into the cause of Abe Norihide's death. I didn't think about it, this check, really found out the cat tired.
It turned out that before Abe Norihide was killed, he had summoned his subordinates to organize his last words, one copy to his family, and the other to report to the military department. The whole last words generally include three articles, the first is to let his children remember the emperor's mission and continue their unfinished "cause"; the second is to hope that they can get the Order of the Rising Sun, which symbolizes the honor of the soldiers, and to instruct their families to "make a family sacrifice without forgetting to tell Naiwong".
These two articles seem to be in line with people's common sense, but the third article in the suicide note is confusing, what is it? It was actually asked the military department to severely punish the commander of the 110th Division, Sangmu Takaaki, and claimed that the reason why he died was entirely because of this guy's passive slackness, and he would not let him go if he was a ghost!
So, who is this Sangmu Somyo? Why did Norihide Abe hate him to the bone before he died?
In fact, the contradiction between the two has a long history, and even in the Japanese army can be said to be well known. Kuwamu Takaaki is older than Abe Norihide and is a typical representative of the older generation of traditional army, while Abe Norihide is a young talent in the young and strong faction, whether it is a tactical concept or a royal soldier's thinking, there are great differences.
In fact, these two also represent the confrontation between two forces within the Army. From this point of view, the joint sweep led by these two people may have been a wrong decision.
On November 4, 1939, Abe Norihide led more than a thousand Japanese troops to attack the First Military Subdistrict of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, only to be ambushed by Yang Chengwu's troops in the area of Loess Ridge. Because the Japanese troops under Abe Norihide were obviously in a weak position, it was difficult to break through the siege for a while, and they could only retreat while fighting.
What was Sangmu Takaaki doing at this time? He was being blocked in the rear of the First Military Division. That is to say, one of these two people is in front and one is behind, but one is surrounded and one is blocked.
In fact, the Eighth Route Army also had such a worry, if Abe Norihide pushed forward desperately, it was likely to be connected with Kuwamu Takaaki in the rear, so that the encirclement circle carefully arranged by our army would form a counter-encirclement. However, what they did not expect was that Abe Norihide did not even try, and directly chose to retreat in an attempt to join his follow-up troops.
It is not difficult to see from this that compared to the stronger Kuwamu Takaaki, Abe Norihide is more willing to believe in the weaker "own people". However, it was this decision that completely buried him.
As the distance between the two sides in a straight line became farther and farther, and the Eighth Route Army invested a large number of troops to block it, Sangmu Chongming's troops were unable to rush to the aid of Abe Norihide until Abe Norihide was blown away by a shell from Li Erxi, a small gunner of the Eighth Route Army.
Objectively speaking, the death of Abe Norihide cannot be completely blamed on the head of Sangmu Takaaki, but the reality is there, the two of you have a vendetta, and you did not support in time, this is really a black cauldron that cannot be washed away by jumping into the Yellow River.
What's more, when the "Flower of Famous Generals" dies, someone must come out to protest, right? As a result, in December 1939, Takaaki Kuwamu was dismissed, placed in the reserve, and repatriated to Japan, until 1943, when he was reinstated and served in the General Staff Headquarters, and finally died on December 6, 1945.