Let's start with an old story.
The name of this story is "Mashan Incident".
August 12, 1945, Mashan District, Jixi City, Heilongjiang, China.
It is now a remote suburb of Jixi City, but until 1947, after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, this remote territory was only a small place below Linkou County.
During the Japanese occupation, it belonged to Kuishan Village and was under the jurisdiction of Jixi County, Dong'an Province, Manzhouli, and the Japanese also called it "Asashan Mountain".
The purpose of the devils occupying this place is very clear, they have always had a "continental dream", wanting to get out of the small island that is small and isolated and constantly caused by natural disasters, so that the Yamato people can obtain a living space on land.
Through the 918 Incident, the Japanese occupied the vast northeast of China, and they supported and nurtured the Manchu Qing dynasty and established the puppet state of Manchukuo that divided China.
In fact, the puppet state of Manchukuo was just a cannibalization tactic by Japan to devour northeast China, and their ultimate goal was to completely turn northeast China into Japanese territory as it did with Korea in the past, which was Japan's "seventh great power policy."
Japan's "pioneer group" was the implementers of colonial policy, recruited from Japan and sent to China for "agricultural exploration," hoping to take root on Chinese soil and turn it into Japanese soil.
To this end, Hirota's cabinet formulated an immigration plan of 1 million households and 5 million people, and until July 1945, the Japanese pioneering group was still "exploring" to China, with more than 800 groups and 270,000 emigrants.
With the end of World War II, the sun finally set in Japan, and the crazy Japanese fascist government finally failed to occupy China.
The United States dropped two atomic bombs on August 6 and 9, 1945, and the Soviet Red Army launched a surprise offensive at 0:00 on August 9, which almost instantly destroyed the Kwantung Army.
There are more than 5,000 Japanese expatriates in Jixi and more than 1,300 pioneer members in the Mashan area, most of whom are men, but also many women, children and the elderly.
The situation seemed like the sky had fallen for the Japanese, and the 5th Army had concentrated a large number of men and horses in the Mudanjiang defense, but they did not even survive August 9.
The remnants of the Japanese army broke out and fled with some Japanese civilians in the direction of Linkou County.
Among them were the "Hanedagawa Pioneers" (about 700 men) headed by Yoji Umumuma, the field artillery of Lieutenant Mishima of the 126th Division (540 men), and the "28th Infantry Regiment of the 11th Military Region of the Imperial Army of Manchukuo", and the rest were Japanese civilians in the Mashan area.
Interestingly, the Japanese recorded in the war history that this "28th Infantry Regiment of the Imperial Manchurian Army" was supposed to build fortifications in Masan, but after the start of the war, they suddenly "behaved ominously".
In fact, the puppet Manchu 28th Regiment knew that something was not good for a long time, so it simply killed the Japanese overseer Yamada, ambushed and annihilated more than 200 Japanese troops on the railway line, and finally scattered. Some of them asked the Soviet Union to surrender, some were fortunate enough to join the Northeast People's Autonomous Army, the predecessor of Siye, and some became beards and followed Xie Wendong and others.
The Japanese in Mashan were released with pigeons and had no time to play where the puppet army went, because they soon encountered the vanguard of the Soviet army.
The earliest attacks began with bombing, in which Soviet attack aircraft launched indiscriminate bombing of the Japanese in Masan, blowing up the Haneda River vanguard to the ground.
The men of the field artillery division were in the rear, and when they saw the Soviets beginning to charge, they fired several rounds with three old Meiji 38-year 75mm field guns and three 10-centimeter field guns, and they were immediately drowned by the fire.
The civilians of the Japanese pioneer regiment were already in chaos at this moment, and they mixed with the chaotic soldiers, desperately jumping into the deep ravine north of Mashan in an attempt to escape the pursuit of the Soviet army.
In fact, most of the people did not even see the shadow of the Soviet army, and they were completely frightened into frightened birds.
Just as people were gradually stabilizing their emotions, several members of the Hanedagawa Vanguard suddenly shouted in a panic: "Chariot! Lucia's chariot! ”
I saw that a Soviet tank had approached a very close distance, and was wandering back and forth while crushing the trees along the way.
As a result, all the Japanese thought that "they were surrounded", people began to give up and continue to flee, and led by some extremists, they began to commit collective suicide in panic.
First, some exhausted women and children remained, and the soldiers stuffed them with a couple of grenades ...
They tried their best to form a circle, hugged each other, pulled the ring of the grenade, and smashed it on the bare stone.
When the grenade explodes, the soldiers who are watching around will come over and use knives and guns to solve those unlucky eggs who have not died for a while, which is considered a pain.
As order collapsed, some impatient armed civilians began to shoot the old and weak, many of them their relatives, but they believed that they must be loyal to the emperor together, and their wives and children could not be left to the Soviets.
Yoji Uonuma, the leader of the Hanedagawa Pioneers, remained, and he decided to die with the women, but several men took his gun and shot him dead.
Some of the armed men did not end up dying, they hidden, and some of them chose to attack the Soviets at night and then completely annihilated.
According to Japanese records, a total of 421 people were killed and committed suicide in Masan.
Ironically, not many Japanese soldiers died, more than 400 of them, most of them women and girls.
In fact, the large forces of the Soviet army were still pinned down in the Asashan area, and some Japanese and Manchurian puppet troops fought fiercely with them until late at night.
That field artillery team had also slipped away long ago, and the "experienced in combat" Lieutenant Mishima actually escaped from Mashan with people and transferred from Linkou to Hengdao Chuanzi (present-day Hengdaohe Town, Mudanjiang).
However, they did not last long, and a few days later they were completely destroyed in the Soviet encirclement.
In fact, many civilians had never even seen what the Soviet army looked like, so they committed suicide in panic and were killed by their own people.
The reason why these people feared the Soviet army so much was mainly due to the horror education of Japan before that.
In order to pull all the people together to "crush jade" and accompany the burial of the fascist empire, they rendered the United States and the Soviet Union as man-eating demons and animals.
The Japanese army instilled in the women the idea that "ghosts and animals go crazy when they see women, and they will eat people after spoiling", and many people believed it to be true.
In addition, some people have diehard militaristic sentiments, they do not accept surrender, do not want to be captured, so they choose to cut themselves.
Of course, the Soviet army was actually not so strict and upright, and the military discipline of Vasilevsky's troops was obvious to all.
But what is surprising is that the Japanese now do not admit it, and some right-wingers claim:
About 72 Chinese 0 mothers, children, elderly people, and family refugees of the Japanese pioneering regiment chose "self-determination" because they could not escape because they could not escape.
This is obviously a deliberate smear, Chinese did not kill them, but only hoped to drive away the aggressors, where did the "Chinese armed thugs" come from?
Even the Japanese themselves have to admit that Japan's Manchurian immigration policy and the old Kwantung Army were so overbearing that they robbed thousands of Chinese peasants of land and then brutally enslaved them as low-cost labor.
These Japanese who had done something wrong were scared and weak-minded.
Similar to the Asashan incident, there is also the "suicide incident of the Coming Civilian Pioneering Group".
The Laimin Pioneer Group was established in 1941 and is the only Manchu-Mongolian pioneer group with "Buraku people" as the main body.
"Burakumin" is actually a group of people who have been discriminated against in Shikamoto Minmachi, Kumamoto Prefecture.
The term "tribe" does not mean that they are foreign races (and many of them are from the "Watarai"), but that they are the untouchables of Japan's past.
These untouchable classes have been divided since the Edo period, inferior to the "samurai", "common people", and "townspeople", and are called "kudo" and "non-human", and they were engaged in agriculture and certain specific artisan crafts during the era.
In order to colonize China, Japan actually attracted most of the poor and poor Japanese people. The "Buraku people" who have a low status and are looked down upon by the people around them are naturally also the objects of arrangement.
At that time, there was a special "Central Integration Business Association" in Japan to follow up on this matter, with the aim of using the wealthy class and the mainland to develop the status of the Buraku people, realize the integration of the Buraku people and the common people, and realize the equality of the Japanese.
These Buraku residents were arranged to five stations in Buyeo County, Jilin, and 70% of the 316 people from 82 households were Buraku residents. There were 45 people left by 276.
On August 9, 1945, the Soviet Red Army attacked fiercely, and the Japanese garrison, seeing that the big thing was not good, immediately abandoned the old and weak women and children of the pioneering regiment.
The people who came to the civilian pioneer regiment were immediately dumbfounded, the soldiers ran away, in their opinion, the surrounding is either the imposing Soviet Red Army, or the murderous Chinese people, if they are killed by the Chinese and the Soviets, then I don't know how miserable it will be!
As a result, the tribesmen of this pioneering group actually got together and committed collective suicide in the fantasy "Luzhi Massacre", 276 people died, 275 people died.
The remaining one is called Miyamoto Sadaki, who did not die because he was pulled strong by the Japanese army before and joined the army.
In general, the suicide of the Japanese pioneer group was mostly due to strong fear and despair of being abandoned, they regarded their evil devil soldiers as reliable protectors, and they were afraid that the simple Northeast Old Iron would pull their bills, so they simply died.
Many fascist soldiers, knowing that they have done too much to lose their conscience, are afraid of trial, and also choose to commit suicide to escape punishment.
From the Japanese point of view, this is a bleak and barbaric scene of war. But Chinese didn't invite you to come, Chinese still feel that the anger is not smooth.
May the Japanese keep their duty and stop provoking war.