On April 29, 1932, in Hongkou Park, Shanghai, the Japanese army was celebrating 1.28 to become victorious. Suddenly, there was a loud "bang", and the commander of the occupation army, Yoshishi Shirakawa, was killed...
This was another assassination operation personally planned by "Wang Yaqiao, the first killer of the Republic of China", which shocked Japan and also shocked the Japanese army.
Yoshinori Shirakawa was born in 1869 in Aiji Prefecture, Japan, graduated from the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School in 1890, and later entered the Army University for further study, and then studied in Germany. He participated in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, and was the commander of the Kwantung Army, who sent troops to invade Shandong three times, and his hands were stained with the blood of Chinese.
On September 18, 1931, after Itagaki Seishiro and others planned the "918 Incident" that shocked the world, in order to divert international attention from northeast China, Tanaka Takayoshi, military attaché of the Secret Telegram Embassy in Shanghai, provoked the incident again, and on the evening of January 28, 1932, ordered marines to raid the 19th Route Army garrison in Zhabei, Shanghai in three ways, but unexpectedly encountered fierce resistance from the 19th Route Army, which was the "128 Incident".
The 19th Route Army's fierce counterattack greatly surprised Itagaki Seishiro's expectations, and the battle became more and more stale, and for a while it did not know how to end.
On February 25, 1932, the Emperor of Japan appointed Yoshinori Shirakawa as commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, and "extinguished" the fire for Itagaki Seishiro and Tanaka Takayoshi, promptly resolving the war.
Shirakawa Yoshinori commanded the 9th Division to attack the Songhu garrison from the front, and took advantage of the loophole in the kuomintang garrison, under the cover of naval guns, the Japanese 11th Division successfully landed at the weak point of liuhe strength. On March 1, 1932, the Japanese army captured Jiangwan and other places, and under the continuous bombardment of aircraft artillery, our army suffered heavy casualties. Shirakawa also ordered planes to bomb downtown Shanghai, destroying many buildings and killing and injuring countless people. Due to the enemy on the flank and rear sides of the Chinese army, it was eventually forced to retreat to the second line of defense, that is, the Jiading and Huangdu lines. On the 2nd, the Japanese army captured Shanghai, and on the 3rd, an armistice was declared.
In this way, Shanghai became the domain of the Japanese army, and an assassination plan against "Shirakawa Yoshinori" quietly began.
The planner of this plan was None other than Wang Yaqiao.
He planned to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek, Song Ziwen, Wang Jingwei and others, and was known as the "first killer of the Republic of China". It was precisely because of his careful planning that it directly led to the death of the traitor Wang Jingwei.
After fully understanding Shirakawa's laws of action and the way of guarding, Wang Yaqiao planned to use the Japanese celebrations of the "Tianchang Festival" and the "128 Incident" in Hongkou Park to carry out assassinations, and incidentally brought some other Japanese military and political leaders with him.
However, Hongkou Park belonged to the Japanese Concession, and only Japanese and Koreans could enter it, and his men did not have qualified candidates.
So Wang Yaqiao found Gao Changhao, the head of the North Korean government-in-exile in Shanghai, and asked him to find a suitable person to enter the celebration site and carry out the assassination.
After careful consideration, he chose Yoon Bong-gil, a backbone member of the Anti-Japanese organization in North Korea who spoke Japanese.
Under the careful planning of Wang Yaqiao and Jin Jiu, in order to ensure the maximum lethality of the explosion, they specially made two small grenades with high explosives and placed them in Japanese military kettles and lunch boxes.
Everyone knew very well that the assassination was more vicious and less likely to survive, but Yin Fengji had no fear.
At 10:00 a.m. on April 26, 1932, an oath meeting was held at No. 27 Baokangli, Xiafei Road, Shanghai, french concession, and Yin Fengji hung an oath on his chest and solemnly swore an oath with a special grenade in his hand:
"I swear that, as a member of the Korean Patriotic League, I am determined to kill the Japanese generals who invaded China with sincerity, with a view to returning the independence and freedom of our motherland. Republic of Korea, April 26, 1936, Yoon Bong-gil. ”
Jin Jiu held up his camera and took this historically significant photo.
At 8:00 a.m. on April 29, Yin Fengji carried a military water bottle on his shoulder, carried a lunch box in one hand and a "plaster flag" in the other, and entered Hongkou Park.
At 9 o'clock, the celebration began. The Japanese held a military parade and fired salutes.
Yoshinori Shirakawa, Aoi Shigemitsu, Commander of the Third Fleet, Yoshizaburo Nomura, and other senior Japanese officers in Shanghai all arrived at the scene, standing up one by one on the review platform and starting to speak, roaring at the shameless argument that "aggression is justified."
The speech was completed at 11:40 a.m.
The 13,000 Japanese troops and thousands of Japanese expatriates who participated in the parade began singing the Japanese national anthem against the "plaster flag" on the parade.
At this time, no one noticed that 10 meters away from the review platform, Yin Fengji lit a cigarette, smoked a few sips and threw it away, and then with a flick of his hand, the military kettle was accurately thrown to the middle of the review platform, and then there was a huge explosion of "bang", and the review platform was suddenly covered with blood and flesh. Almost at the same time, Yin Fengji threw the "lunch box" to the review platform again, and there was another "bang", and the scene was chaotic, and the Japanese ghosts cried wolf.
The assassination was fruitful:
"Sadaji Kazumi" was blown up on the spot and his body was killed; the 9th Division Army General "Ueta Kenkichi" who invaded Shanghai was blown off his left leg; the Japanese ambassador to China "Shigemitsu Aoi" was blown off his right leg; the commander of the Third Fleet that invaded Shanghai, "Nomura Yoshizaburo", was blinded by one eye; and the commander of the Shanghai Occupation Force, Yoshishi Shirakawa, was blown to death by being blown up and sent to the hospital (Pingliang Road Japanese Hospital) for serious injuries and died on May 26. Many other Japanese officials were injured.
The hero Yin Bongji was also captured by the Japanese army, and on December 19, 1932, he died heroically at the Kanazawa Army Base in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, at the age of 24.
(After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the remains of martyr Yin Bongji were transported back to Korea for burial and a shrine was built to commemorate it!) ）
Shirakawa's death shook the Japanese government and the public, and the culprit, Emperor Hirohito, gave him a poem:
Maiden Festival Day, Stop War And PeaceTime. The feats are indestructible, and the memories are preserved.
amusing! shameless!
The headline of the Chinese newspaper on the blow was:
"Come on a battleship and go away lying in a coffin!"
The war of aggression against China was originally the result of the Japanese army digging its own grave, so this is a good title, very appropriate!
