During the Qingming Dynasty, the rain is pouring,
Toei Seifu broke several souls.
Who sends cherry blossom wine?
The Eighth Route Army on the Diaoyu Platform.
This poem is easy to read and understand, but the literary science is a bit unreasonable, in fact, it is no wonder that the poem is written in Japanese. The author of the poem is Tanaka Shi, a famous Japanese soldier of the Eighth Route Army during the War of Resistance.
The Japanese Eighth Route Army was sorting out propaganda materials
Born in 1918 in Gunma Prefecture, Kwantung Region, Japan, Tanaka graduated from the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School in 1939 and served as a second lieutenant squad leader in the same year for the Japanese invasion of China, fighting against the Eighth Route Army in North China.
In 1941, the Japanese troops stationed in Shenxian and Anping changed their defenses, and Tanaka Shi led 58 Japanese troops under his command, as well as more than 160 puppet troops, and drove more than 20 large vehicles back to Shenxian from Anping.
On January 6, the Tian Squad was in the area of Zhao Bazhuang in Shen County. It was ambushed by the 22nd Regiment of the Jizhong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, 56 Japanese troops were killed, and many puppet soldiers were captured. After Tanaka and another Japanese soldier were seriously wounded, they also took prisoners of the Eighth Route Army.
Tanaka was shot in the chest and broke his collarbone in his right shoulder, leaving him in a severe coma. Regardless of the previous suspicions, the Eighth Route Army, Ke Dihua, the president of the field hospital, personally performed 5 operations on Tanaka Shi, and finally Tanaka Shi turned the crisis into safety.
Tanaka was highly educated and had a strong belief in Japanese propaganda. However, the Eighth Route Army impressed Tanaka with practical actions and made him fully aware of the hypocrisy and brutality of the Japanese militarists.
On January 23, as soon as Tanaka was able to walk on the ground, he could not wait to find Zhen Hua, chief of the Enemy Engineering Department of the Eighth Route Army, and strongly demanded to join the Eighth Route Army.
Zhen Hua, a native of Pingding County (present-day Yangquan City), Shanxi, studied at Meiji University in Japan after graduating from Peking University. Be fluent in Japanese.
Tanaka's desire to join the Eighth Route Army was urgent. Zhen Hua first welcomed him, and then advised him not to be impulsive, and everything had to be carefully considered.
Tanaka expressed his willingness to show his sincerity with practical actions.
During the battle, the base area of the Eighth Route Army captured many Japanese prisoners in the battle, among which 18 die-hard elements led by Ichiro Matsuyama did not repent and refused to accept help from any situation.
Tanaka found Ichiro Matsuyama, and it only took less than an hour for Ichiro Matsuyama to cry bitterly and say that he wanted to change his past wrongs.
Then Tanaka and Ichiro Matsuyama went out together, and in the evening, 18 Japanese prisoners of war were rehabilitated, abandoned the dark and surrendered, and took the initiative to sign up for the Eighth Route Army. The high efficiency surprised Zhen Huadu.
Subsequently, Tanaka proposed to Zhen Hua to form a "Jizhong Branch of the Japanese(Ben) Anti-War Alliance in China" to be formed.
On February 23, in Nanhongcheng Village, Tang County, Baoding, the inaugural meeting of the "Jizhong Branch of the Anti-War Alliance of the Chinese People" was grandly opened.
The venue is located on the playground of the primary school in the village. The walls around the school are plastered with anti-war slogans in Chinese and Japanese.
At the meeting, Commander Lu Zhengcao, deputy of the Hebei Central Military Region of the Eighth Route Army, and Political Commissar Cheng Zihua first made enthusiastic speeches and extended a warm welcome to the "Jizhong Branch of the Japanese-Japanese Anti-War Alliance in China."
As the interpreter of the venue, Zhen Hua was able to use the most concise language to let those Japanese Soldiers of the Eighth Route Army in the audience understand the speeches of the chiefs.
When the Japanese Eighth Route learned that the amiable and smiling chief on the stage was the legendary general Lu Zhengcao, they all jumped up excitedly.
Tanaka shi made an even more emotional speech, saying: Yesterday we were enemies, today we are friends, we are Japanese, but we are not traitors. In the face of justice, we have no choice.
Later, Nakayama Taro and Mitsukami Tobu also made impromptu speeches, and they used their angry voices to expose the evil plot of the Japanese militarists to launch a war of aggression for their own selfish interests and send countless Japanese youths to the battlefield as cannon fodder.
At the congress, Tanaka was appointed as the head of the "Jizhong Branch of the Japanese(Ben) Anti-War Alliance in China".
At the same time, it also promulgated the purpose of the establishment of the "Jizhong Branch of the Anti-War Alliance of the Japanese people in China": to strive for the liberation of the Japanese people and realize true peace in East Asia at an early date. Resolutely overthrow Japanese imperialism.
The first task the Japanese Eight Roads accepted was to open a Japanese language class.
The sentence : "Neon noisy black Taisang, not its Utaao Road, Buckle Lausanai, Wang Si Thought", is what every soldier of the Eighth Route Army must learn, translated into Chinese is the Japanese soldiers, do not kill, preferential treatment of prisoners.
According to these Japanese Eighth Route Army soldiers, the Japanese soldiers left their hometowns and had no hope of returning, so their war-weariness was very serious, but because of the language barrier, they missed many opportunities to surrender.
More than a month later, during the battle of Shangshe in Luxian County, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army shouted to the besieged Japanese army in newly learned Japanese, and eight Japanese soldiers took the initiative to lay down their weapons and surrendered to the Eighth Route Army with more than a hundred puppet troops.
In this battle, our army captured 5 mortars, 6 mountain guns, 20 light and heavy machine guns, more than 300 rifles, and more than a dozen war horses.
For the captives who had just surrendered, Tanaka Shi once again went out on horseback and took the initiative to communicate with them, and soon these prisoners also became members of the Japanese Eighth Route Army.
The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army fought bravely, but many new soldiers lacked the necessary experience in the use and maintenance of captured Japanese weapons. In order to solve this problem, the superior chief transferred 7 people from the "Jizhong Branch of the Anti-War Alliance of the Chinese-Japanese (Ben) People" to transfer 7 people, including Tanaka Shi, Matsuyama Ichiro, HigashiDada, Watanabe Ichiro, and Heno Ikeda, as instructors to guide the military training of new soldiers.
Tanaka was responsible for explaining to the soldiers the performance of the Type 38 rifle, the shooting and stabbing techniques, and the maintenance and maintenance of firearms in normal times.
Before his capture, the Japanese Eight-Way Tokasa was the commander of the Japanese Grenadier Detachment, and his use of the Eight-Eight Grenadier had reached a mysterious realm, and since he joined the "Jizhong Branch of the Anti-War Alliance of the Chinese-Japanese (Ben)", he had taught all the techniques he used on the grenadier without reservation.
Before his capture, Ichiro Matsuyama was a Japanese shosa with a much higher rank than Tanaka's.
In battle, Matsuyama Ichiro paid special attention to tactical coordination, and had his own unique views on the use of grenadiers, crooked light machine guns, and Type 92 heavy machine guns on the battlefield. In addition, his light and heavy machine gun shooting skills, as well as his ability to eliminate machine gun malfunctions, were second to none even in the Japanese army.
Ichiro Matsuyama was extremely harsh in his lectures, and once in class, he reprimanded a warrior in public and even moved his hands.
Afterwards, Ichiro Matsuyama felt very uneasy, but the soldier of the Eighth Route Army who had suffered a loss, instead of hating Ichiro Matsuyama, sent him a basket of dates as a condolence.
The soldier said sincerely: Strict master is a high disciple, and you scolded me in class because you were worried that I would be killed by the enemy on the battlefield.
The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army complained with virtue, which deeply touched Ichiro Matsuyama, and he never lost his temper with the kind soldiers of the Eighth Route Army again.
Under the careful guidance of the Japanese Eight-Way Instructors, the combat effectiveness of the new fighters has been rapidly improved.
The study class has been held for 12 sessions, and at the end of each training, both the instructors and the students have tears in their eyes and are inseparable.
The instructor said "goodbye comrades-in-arms."
The soldiers of the Eighth Route Army said, "Instructors take care of themselves."
In October 1941, Tanaka's training school was attacked by the Japanese army, and after fierce fighting, Tanaka and Otomo Nagafuku broke through the siege, while the other five instructors were missing.
But on day 3, a miracle occurred, and all five instructors returned to the station unharmed. It turned out that the local people risked their lives to hide several instructors.
After escaping safely, Ichiro Matsuyama was moved to tears. In order to show his gratitude, Matsuyama Ichiro took several Japanese Eight Roads and used his status as a former Japanese soldier to induce the Japanese troops in the seven turrets to open the door and surrender overnight. The members of the "Jizhong Branch of the Anti-War Alliance in China and Japan" added 29 new members.
This operation was taken by Ichiro Matsuyama himself, but Zhen Hua was severely criticized by his superiors, and in the eyes of the chiefs, these Japanese soldiers were all "baby bumps", and their safety was far more meaningful than pulling out several artillery towers held by the Japanese army.
Not to be lonely, the Japanese Eighth Route printed a large number of propaganda materials and used various channels to send them into the cities and strongholds held by the Japanese army. They were persuaded to clearly understand the situation, lay down their weapons as soon as possible, surrender to the Eighth Route Army, and become a glorious member of the anti-war alliance.
Yoshida, a Japanese national, once worked as a middle school music teacher, and was proficient in filling in words, singing, and composing music, especially the accordion.
He wrote a bright-paced Japanese children's song that he taught the children in the base area to sing, and soon the song spread throughout the streets of the Japanese occupation area. The lyrics are to the effect:
La la Leaving his wife and children behind, leaving home, putting down his hoe and taking up a gun, leaving his hometown to fight, today this, tomorrow and that, day and night frightened. There is no rice at home, and the child is hungry and calls his mother. Mom can't do it, no way, just hope that her husband will come home early... La-la-la-la-la-la
The children did not know the meaning of the song, and sang happily, but the Japanese army at first heard the local sound, saw the wounds of the objects, and was overwhelmed with grief, and could not help but follow the children to hum softly, singing to the emotional place, all of which were tears.
This psychological tactic worked wonders, and the Japanese troops who dragged their guns and surrendered to the Eighth Route Army were endless.
Japanese eight-way fighters shouted at the Japanese troops in the stronghold
Every festive season, whenever the New Year's Festival is celebrated, the "Jizhong Branch of the Anti-War Alliance of the People in China" will become even busier.
They will specially make a kind of propaganda called "condolence bag", the bag is made of bleached fine cloth, one foot long, eight inches wide, the upper part of the "condolence bag", with red dye printed with the three words "condolence bag", each word has an inch square, and the lower half is printed with the pattern of cherry blossoms.
In the "condolence bag", it contains a permit issued by General Nie Rongzhen, commander and political commissar of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region, to enter the anti-Japanese base area for surrendering to the Japanese army; A small box of exquisite food that only high-ranking officers of the Japanese army can enjoy; A white linen gauze handkerchief with a song or a poem printed in Japanese.
For example, on the Qingming Festival in 1941, the small poem printed on the handkerchief was written by Tanaka Shi: During the Qingming Festival, the rain was pouring, and the soul of Dongying Zhengfu was broken. Who sends cherry blossom wine? The Eighth Route Army on the Diaoyu Platform.
In addition, in the "condolence bag", some anti-war leaflets or publications will be loaded.
At that time, the Japanese troops trapped in strongholds or isolated cities were particularly eager to get such a "condolence bag", and many Japanese troops did not think that this thing had any effect, and even regarded the "condolence bag" as a capital to show off to each other.
However, after a long time, the Japanese command of the invading Japanese army found that the morale of the soldiers under their command was getting lower and lower, and they had a very serious war weariness.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1941, more than a dozen Japanese troops were wounded by puppet troops in the Huangguantun stronghold in Jiaohe County.
The Japanese command wanted to identify the murderer, but heard that these "murderous" puppet soldiers had escaped.
Originally, this matter was so calculated, but a Japanese commander found that the injured Japanese army, although the injury was very serious, but it did not hurt the point.
After careful investigation, we learned that these wounded Japanese soldiers had directed and performed a "bitter meat plan" by themselves, and they wanted to take this opportunity to escape from the battlefield and return to Japan.
The Japanese soldiers who staged the bitter meat plan, without exception, treasured a "condolence bag".
"Condolence Bag" made by Japanese Eight Roads
The Japanese military command finally understood the "condolence bag" very strongly.
In May 1942, the base area of the Eighth Route Army in Jizhong was hit by an unprecedented May 1st sweep by the Japanese army, which was personally commanded by the Japanese chief commander Okamura Ningji.
In less than a year, the Japanese army set up more than 1,700 new strongholds, dug more than 4,000 kilometers of blockade ditches, and divided the Jizhong base area into more than 2,600 pieces.
In order to deal with the Japanese army, the main force of our army was reduced to pieces, broke through the enemy's blockade, and jumped to the outer line (enemy-occupied area) to fight.
At this time, the "Jizhong Branch of the Anti-War Alliance in China" had grown to more than 130 people, and these Japanese fighters were divided into several action groups and scattered to the combat detachments of the Eighth Route Army.
Tanaka and seven Japanese fighters followed the Muslim detachment commanded by the famous anti-Japanese hero Ma Benzai. Enter Jiaohe, Bozhen (Botou City), Nanpi and other counties east of Fucheng.
In mid-May, in order to cooperate with several chiefs of our army's Jizhong troops and cross the Grand Canal and the Jinpu Railway, which were heavily blocked by the Japanese army, the Huimin detachment was ordered to attack Jiaohe and Bozhen at the same time.
Although the Huimin detachment had good combat effectiveness, it was difficult for some strong people to require them to attack two fortified cities at the same time.
At the critical moment, Tanaka Shi once again took the initiative to ask for help.
The town is about sixty miles away from Jiaohe, and although there is no Japanese stronghold, the traffic is very convenient and there is a direct road.
Tanaka Shi took more than sixty soldiers and rode through the night to a road bridge in Wangwu Township. Then the soldiers divided into two roads, one way to destroy the road, the other way to cut off the telephone line from Jiaohe to Botou, and then the telephone line was connected to the telephone machine of the Eighth Route Army.
By telephone, Tanaka first informed the Japanese leader in Jiaohe City, Captain Goto, that he was being violently attacked by the Eighth Route Army, and ordered them to immediately reinforce the town.
Then Tanaka Shi repeated the same trick, informing the Kaneno Squadron Commander in Botou to immediately send reinforcements to Jiaohe.
Rescuing the soldiers was like putting out a fire, and the Japanese troops stationed in the two counties did not dare to be idle and quickly dispatched.
There was a bridge on the only road for the Japanese army, and Tanaka shi led people to ambush at both ends of the bridge, and the two Japanese troops arrived almost at the same time, and were suddenly hit by the fierce blows of the Eighth Route Army's blocking fire.
Fearing that the bridge would be blown up, the Japanese simply sent infantry to charge, but used mortars to bombard the other side of the bridge, where they believed that the follow-up troops of the Eighth Route Army were assembled.
The charging Japanese suffered heavy casualties in the artillery fire, and Tanaka took the opportunity to take the opportunity to move.
Two Japanese troops ping-ponged at the bridgehead until dawn, only to find that this was a misunderstanding. At this moment, they did not know that just ten minutes after they had set out last night, the Huimin detachment had attacked the empty county town.
Okamura was shocked by the loss of two fortified castles overnight, and he ordered the Japanese troops from the strongholds around the county seat to rush to reinforcements.
By the time reinforcements arrived, the Muslim detachment had already withdrawn from the county seat. Several chiefs of the Eighth Route Army's Hebei army were also able to smoothly pass through the Grand Canal and the Jinpu Railway, which were heavily defended by the Japanese army.
After the cover mission was successfully completed, the Huimin detachment was frantically surrounded and blocked by the Japanese army.
Tanaka's unit was also forced to continue to move eastward, crossing the Jinpu railway line and entering the guerrilla zone of the Eighth Route Army's Jilu Border Region, and tried to contact the Sixth Brigade of the Eighth Route Army, which was active here. However, unfortunately, in the village of Liupu in the section of Nanpi County, it was heavily besieged by the Japanese army, and the squadron leader Liu Zirong led the fighters to rush to kill, paying a heavy casualty price, and finally broke out of the siege.
More than 200 soldiers were killed in this battle, and Tanaka Shigeru also disappeared.
After Liu Zirong broke through, he did not leave immediately, he led his soldiers to hide in the sorghum fields, looking for comrades who were lost in the battle.
On the evening of the third day after the breakout, the soldiers heard gunshots not far away. Liu Zirong immediately led someone to pick him up.
In the haze, Tanaka had three rifles on his back, a rifle in his hand, a bullet bag hanging from his body, and a dozen grenades, and he was staggering on his feet, and his right leg was injured.
When Tanaka saw his comrades-in-arms, he burst into tears with excitement. He said that after the breakthrough that day, a group of Japanese puppet troops were in hot pursuit, and they took turns to fight with several rifles, and when they hit one, they changed one.
Tanaka's marksmanship is well recognized by everyone, but how many pursuing soldiers he shot in this breakthrough, he still refused to say, anyway, there was not a single one left of those annoying pursuers.
In addition, Tanaka also knew that the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were very short of weapons and ammunition, so even though he was seriously injured and had difficulty walking, these guns, as well as more than a thousand bullets, were never willing to be discarded.
Tanaka's leg was so badly injured that he could not march normally, and he could not perform surgery for the time being, and his comrades had to carry Tanaka on their backs. Everyone found a thick door panel to make a stretcher, and Tanaka shi still carried a stick and insisted on marching on his own.
In the end, Liu Zirong found a cow, and everyone helped Tanaka Shi on the back of the cow, so as to avoid further aggravation of his leg injury.
In September 1942, Tanaka returned from his wounds and joined several other Japanese Eighth Route Army troops to the Japanese stronghold in Nanyu Town, Jingxing County, and held a party with the Japanese troops in the stronghold. Since then, this stronghold has become a secret liaison office of the Eighth Route Army.
Leaflets made by Japanese Yaru
In May 1943, the Japanese army carried out a large-scale "sweep" of the Eighth Route Army's Ji-Cha-Ji anti-Japanese base area, and Tanaka Shi followed the fourth company of the Eighth Route Army's teaching regiment and was unfortunately captured while fighting in The Village of Doupu in Tang County.
He was the supreme head of the "Jizhong Branch of the Anti-War Alliance of the Japanese (Ben) People in China" and had a very high reputation among the Japanese army invading China. Therefore, Okamura Ningji, a senior general of the Japanese army invading China, personally had two long talks with Tanaka as an alumnus.
Okamura promised that as long as Tanaka wrote a statement withdrawing from the "Jizhong Branch of the Japanese Anti-War Alliance in China" and then a certificate framing the "Eighth Route Army shooting japanese prisoners of war," he would not be blamed for his previous actions.
In response to Okamura's request, Tanaka shi made a stern refutation.
In the end, Tanaka left a suicide note with the following words: As a Japanese soldier, I am ashamed of the evil I have done in the past. I also never regret my choice later. If I were alive, I would still not hesitate to join the Eighth Route Army.
Okamura, who had always been gloomy, was furious after reading the suicide note, and personally ordered that Tanaka be killed by the most cruel means.
When the comrades-in-arms in the base area heard the bad news, they all wept over it.
When Japan surrendered, the "Jizhong Branch of the Anti-War Alliance of Japanese (Ben) People in China" founded by Tanaka Shi alone had grown to more than 200 people, including 37 Japanese Eighth Route Army, who shed the last drop of blood in the just War of Resistance Against Japan. They are martyrs and our true friends.