In 1945, Emperor Hirohito of Japan announced his unconditional surrender, and World War II ended. For Chinese, this day represents the end of the 14-year War of Resistance Against Japan. From the beginning of the Japanese arrogant clamor to destroy the land of China, to the final gray-headed and dirty face to roll out of China, the gap between the front and the back can not be said to be insignificant.
For those who felt the most about the changes in the Japanese army from 1931 to 1945, the Japanese commander Ninji Okamura should be one of them.
On September 9, 1945, Okamura Ninji signed the instrument of surrender in Nanjing, nearly a month after Japan announced its surrender, he stretched his face, the corners of his mouth were pulled downwards, and his eyes revealed a faint indifference and viciousness, but overall, the mood had calmed down.
On August 15, 1945, the Japanese Emperor announced his surrender, and on that day, the cheers of the Chinese land resounded through the clouds, but the Japanese army represented by Okamura Ningji was not so good. For the Japanese army at the commander level, they were not suddenly hit on the head by the word "surrender", in fact, as early as the end of the War of Resistance, Japanese troops began to fight passively.
Ordinary soldiers do not know what the senior officials are planning, but they will find that guns, ammunition, military food and other aspects of supply can not keep up, if you want to live to fight less, this message clearly reveals a problem that the Japanese army is most afraid of facing: this war, they can not continue.
Okamura and other senior Japanese generals naturally knew more about these things, and Okamura and others had heard the news long before Japan surrendered. Everyone waited with trepidation, and the final news was like a steel knife hanging high above their heads, which might die if it fell, and it would be difficult for people to sleep if they did not fall.
On August 10, 1945, Okamura suddenly received a telegram from Tokyo, and he was mentally prepared to read the contents, but saw that it said that he was ready to "restart all-out operations."
Okamura hesitated in the face of the telegram, the Japanese front in China had been dragged down, the opportunity to give a fatal blow did not exist, and the order to "restart all-out operations" was really feasible? Okamura suppressed the doubts in his heart and decided to wait a little longer, if there was really going to be an all-out war, there would definitely be detailed deployments later.
On August 12, 1945, Okamura received a second telegram, which gave him a "thunderbolt on a sunny day."
Tokyo told him that under the joint pressure of the Allies, Japan intended to accept the Potsdam Proclamation, that is, Japan, which regarded itself as the "Empire of Japan" and ran amok in World War II, really had to bow its head and surrender this time.
Okamura was in a trance and could not accept the defeat of Japan.
Immediately afterward, he received several telegrams, all of which were instructions and contents related to the "100 million jade crush plan", which was crazy and radical, but it just happened to meet Okamura Ninji's ideas.
It is better to crush the jade than to collect troops.
On August 13 and 14, 1945, Okamura Ninji, who decided to carry out the "Jade CrushIng Plan", began to deploy his troops like chicken blood, and as for the previous news of the surrender, Okamura Ningji deliberately forgot as a lie.
But there are some things that do not mean that forgetting is equal to non-existence.
On August 14, Okamura Ningji, who was deploying the "Jade Crush Plan," suddenly received a telegram informing him that "the worst state is a foregone conclusion," followed by a telegram in the evening telling him to listen to the contents of the emperor's broadcast tomorrow.
On August 15, 1945, Okamura Ninji dressed up and listened to the emperor's jade voice in a dignified manner. When Emperor Hirohito said the moment Japan announced its unconditional surrender, Okamura relaxed bizarrely.
The steel knife hanging high above his head finally fell, japanese militarism was cut off and bloodied, and the war criminals, led by Okamura Ninji, would be pushed to the court of war.
On September 9, 1945, Okamura signed the Instrument of Surrender in Nanjing.
Regrettably, because of the protection of the Nationalist government, Okamura Ningji, who had committed many massacres in China and implemented the three-light policy in North China, so that the number one war criminals who had suffered countless casualties among the soldiers and civilians in North China were finally pronounced "not guilty."
Perhaps, in the presence of Chiang Kai-shek, the Japanese war criminals who fought side by side with him and used vicious tactics against the Chinese military and civilians in the Liberated Areas may be more important than the tens of millions of unjust souls on the land of China.
Despite strong opposition from the country for this "acquittal" verdict, in April 1949 Okamura returned to Japan unscathed under the protection of the Nationalist government.
After returning to Japan, Okamura attended various events as a representative of the Japanese right wing, and also served as a senior official in the Nationalist government and the army in Taiwan until his death from illness at the age of 82.
However, after Okamura's death, the Okamura family had no successor, because his younger son died while he was a spy in Shanghai, and the eldest son died in middle age.
For Okamura Ningji, who is bent on destroying the Chinese country, he may not have imagined that it was his own family that died in the end!