During the entire period of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the total number of "puppet armies" was about 2.1 million, and these puppet armies mainly included the "Manchukuo Army" of the puppet Manchukuo, the North China Public Security Army (commonly known as the Imperial Allied Army) of the Puppet North China Administrative Affairs Committee, and the Peaceful Founding Army of the Wang Puppet Nationalist Government. These armies were called by the common people as the two dogs, the traitor army, and so on. The puppet army that defected to the Japanese army can be roughly divided into several categories: First, those who are really greedy for life and afraid of death, and who are afraid of the enemy; second, those who covet wealth and nobility and shamelessly betray the country and seek glory; third, those who are forced to make a living and have no choice but to submit; fourth, those who are coerced and arrested and obeyed. So is there anything that can still be preserved? The answer is yes.
Today, I would like to share with you a story: a puppet soldier killed the commander of the Sixth Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army, Tsuchiya Bing, without warning, and all the Japanese troops at the scene were petrified.
For this reason, Tsuchiya also became the most peculiar officer in the entire history of the War of Resistance, and he was the only Japanese general in the entire history of the War of Resistance to be shot in public by the puppet army that followed. It is worth mentioning that at the time of his death, more than 800 Japanese soldiers were present and witnessed the incident.
On May 25, 1941, more than 800 Japanese troops and a group of puppet troops along the Jinpu Railway were stationed and led by Tsuchiya soldiers and "swept up" in the area of Qihe County. When I was in Shiliwu Village, Qihe County, I accidentally arrested an anti-Japanese cadre named Zhang Zizheng, who was the chief of the county civil affairs section. He was immediately tortured by the Japanese army, but Zhang Zizheng never gave in.
It is reasonable to say that these "physical tasks" can be done by his men, and the angry and corrupt Tsuchiya soldiers decided to do it themselves, but in the end they were shot in the head.
In the face of the enemy's severe torture, Zhang Zizheng was not afraid at all. This could not help but make the Tsuchiya soldiers angry, and he was immediately angry and demoralized, and ordered several devils to tie Zhang Zizheng to a pillar and stab him with a bayonet in the chest and abdomen, and Zhang Zizheng was martyred immediately. Zhang Zizheng had already sacrificed heroically, but the Tsuchiya soldiers were still angry. At this time, Zhang Zizheng drew his saber himself and aimed it at Zhang Zizheng, who was already out of breath, and frantically slashed and slashed.
At this time, a puppet army stationed behind the Tsuchiya soldier witnessed this tragic and magnificent everything from beginning to end, and he really couldn't look at it anymore, and suddenly scolded loudly in his mouth: "The Japanese devils raised by dog food do not treat Chinese as a human being", and then he raised his rifle and shot at the back of the head of the Tsuchiya soldier. The head of the Tsuchiya soldier was shrouded in a blood mist and fell to the ground. More than 800 Japanese Kou reacted to this, and they hurriedly grabbed the puppet army creeps and brutally killed the puppet army creeps.
When the more than 800 Japanese troops present saw that the supreme commander was dead, several leading adjutants consulted and felt that this place was no longer suitable for long, so they hurriedly withdrew with the corpses of the Doya soldiers. The villagers then buried Zhang Zizheng and the puppet soldier at the head of the village.
As for what this puppet soldier is called? We have no way of knowing. But what is certain is that this puppet soldier saw with his own eyes the feats of his compatriots before their sacrifice and felt the brutality of the Japanese Kou and the awakening of their souls. Although he was a puppet soldier at the time, what he did was extremely respectable.