The sixteenth term of the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School is known as the "Sixteenth Period of Glory", this is because of the Japanese Army's "Three Feathers", they are Nagata Tetsuyama, Toshishiro Obata and Ninji Okamura, these three people later became the crown prince Hirohito's heavy henchmen in the early 1920s, in the sixteenth period there is another outlier, he is the artillery department of The Sangmu Takaaki, this article will talk about the People of Kuwagi Takaaki, legend has it that he has a certain relationship with the death of "the flower of the famous general" Abe Norihide, What's going on here?
Takaaki Kuwaki
Takaaki Kuwagi (1885-1945) was a native of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, born in a military family in Hiroshima, his father and two older brothers were all ranked as Army Daisa, so they were influenced by militarism from an early age and began to join the army, attended the Hiroshima Army Infant School and the CSKA Early School, graduated from the 16th Artillery Section of the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School in October 1904, and together with Nagata Tetsuyama, Okamura Ninji, Kenji Doihara, Seishiro Itagaki, Riki Ando, Ryosuke Isoya, and Kamezo Otaka. Toshishiro Obata and others were classmates of the same period, but the above students were all from the infantry department.
Shortly after graduating, at the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, Sangmu Takaaki went out with the army to northeast China, accumulated certain combat experience, wrote and published a pamphlet "Artillery Small Tactics", which is a popular popular book, and later enrolled in the 16th period of the Higher Section of the Army Artillery School, and graduated in November 1910.
On December 12, 1911, Takaaki Kuwagi was admitted to the 26th class of the Army Academy, and joined Theohito Hatohiko, Higashihisa Minoru, Riki Ando, Keisuke Fujie, Tsukada, Shigeru Sawada, Masataka Yamawaki, Kiyoshi Imai, Daisaku Kawamoto, and Makoto Kuna, and when he graduated on November 27, 1914, Takaaki Kumagi entered the "Sabre Group" with such students as Riki Ando, Masataka Yamawaki, Kiyoshi Imai, and Makoto Kuna due to their excellent grades.
Army University "Sabre Group"
After graduating from Lu University, Kuwamu Takaaki was assigned to the General Staff Headquarters and served in the Russian class of the Second Department (Intelligence Department), during which he went to the Tokyo Foreign Language School to study Russian due to the needs of his work, and was sent to Russia to study in February 1916, where he experienced the whole process of the "October Revolution".
In June 1920, Sangmu Takaaki returned to Japan and was assigned to the 14th Field Artillery Regiment of the 14th Division, promoted to artillery junior in August of the same year, assigned to the Greek legation as a deputy military attaché in May 1921, during which he traveled to France and Turkey on business trips, and after returning to China in November 1922, he served as an artillery instructor at the Army University, and was promoted to artillery lieutenant during his tenure.
On March 1, 1928, Sangmu Takaaki was promoted to artillery commander of the 2nd Wing of the 1st Brigade of Field Heavy Artillery, which was equipped with heavy artillery such as the Taisho VII 150 mm heavy cannon, the Type 90 240 mm heavy cannon, the Type 96 305 mm heavy howitzer, and the Type 89 320 mm mortar.
Japanese heavy artillery
On March 6, 1930, Takaaki Kuwagi was transferred back to the General Staff Headquarters as the chief of the exercise section, and on December 7, 1932, he was promoted to major general of the army and became the commander of the 3rd Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, which at that time belonged to the 1st Division and stationed in the Tokyo area and served as a garrison, when the 1st Division was led by Lieutenant General Hayashio, a name that did not resemble the Japanese at all.
On January 22, 1934, Kuwamu Takaaki was transferred to Taiwan as chief of staff of the Japanese Army in Taiwan, and during his tenure he was assisted by Matsui Ishigen and Terauchi Shouyi and two commanders, the Taiwan Army, the Korean Army, and the Kwantung Army were the three major military groups of Japan outside the mainland.
On August 1, 1935, Kuwagi Takaaki was transferred back to Japan as an officer of the Army Field Artillery School, which was similar to the duties of provost, assisting the principal in teaching management, in the Japanese Army Division, one was assigned to the Field Artillery Wing, the other was assigned to the Mountain Artillery Wing, and the concept of the so-called field artillery refers to the curved artillery and direct fire cannon with a caliber of more than 100 mm, of which the curved gun is also called a howitzer, and the direct fire gun is also called a cannon, which is the concept and classification of that era.
Japanese artillery in training
"II. After the "26 Incident", Sangmu Takaaki returned to the General Staff Headquarters as the First Minister, and was promoted to Lieutenant General on August 1, the first department was in charge of operations, and the position of Chief of Staff was important and prominent in the General Staff Headquarters, second only to the Chief of Staff and the Deputy Chief of Staff, and the chief of staff at that time was Prince Shinoehito Miyamiyasu, who was the agent of Emperor Hirohito in the General Staff Headquarters, directly under Emperor Hirohito, and even able to influence the decisions of Emperor Hirohito, while the position of Deputy Chief of Staff changed more frequently.
On January 7, 1937, Sangmu Chongming was appointed as an attached to the General Staff Headquarters, which was only an idle post, generally waiting for a new appointment, and sure enough, more than a month later, he was appointed as the commander of the remaining division of the First Division, responsible for conscription and new soldier training, and replenishing the troops of the First Division stationed in Tuntun in northeast China, while the First Division was stationed in Qiqihar, Sun Wu, Bei'an, Heihe and other places, undertaking the garrison task of defending the Soviet Union, with Lieutenant General Kyosuke Kawamura as the commander of the division, and the division headquarters was located in Sun Wu, and Sun Wu was a military town at that time.
On June 16, 1938, the Japanese base camp, based on the remaining division of the Tenth Division, established the 110th Division in the Himeji Formation, with Takaaki Kuwagi being selected as the commander of the division and Yan Matsuda as chief of staff, which had the 108th Infantry Brigade of Ishii Kaho and the 133rd Infantry Brigade of Tsuda Mitake, the former had jurisdiction over the 139th Infantry Regiment and the 140th Infantry Regiment, the latter had jurisdiction over the 110th Infantry Regiment and the 163rd Infantry Regiment, the 110th Cavalry Brigade and the 110th Field Artillery Regiment directly under the division, The 110th Engineer Regiment, the 110th Wing of the Heavy Infantry, as well as the Communications Brigade, the Health Brigade, the 1st to the 4th Hospital, etc.
Naval warships transport the Army
Sangmu Chongming led the 110th Division to land at Tanggu, Tianjin in July 1938, was incorporated into the Combat Sequence of the North China Front, stationed in Shijiazhuang and Baoding, and was responsible for the security and operation along the Beijing-Hankou Railway, at that time the commander of the North China Front was Terauchi Shouichi, Sangmu Chongming once again became a subordinate of Terauchi Shouichi, and soon Sugiyama Moto succeeded him as the commander of the North China Front.
On September 12, 1939, the commander of the North China Front was again changed commanders, with Tada Jun as commander, and after taking office, he vigorously pursued the "cage policy" and mobilized more than 20,000 Japanese troops to carry out a large-scale winter sweep of the Jin-Cha-Ji anti-Japanese base area.
The Battle of Yansu Cliff and Loess Ridge is to be planned
The soldiers and civilians of the Jin-Cha-Ji base area, on the other hand, adopted various operational policies to find weak enemies to strike or annihilate, and successively ambushed the first part of Abe Norihide's independent 2nd Mixed Brigade at Yansu Cliff and Loess Ridge in Laiyuan County, Hebei Province, resulting in the famous general Abe Norihide also withering on the Taihang Mountains on November 7, 1939, while the 110th Division of Sangmu Chongming, as a friendly neighbor, was unable to reinforce Abe Norihide's troops, so it was responsible for the death of Abe Norihide.
Report from the Asahi Shimbun
On December 1, 1939, Kuwagi Takaaki was transferred back to Japan as a subordinate to the General Staff Headquarters, but at the end of that month he was transferred to the reserve, although Kuwagi Takaaki had reached the age of retirement from active duty, but it was not unrelated to the death of Norihide Abe, who retired from active service, but used his writing expertise to write a book, and in 1943 published a book entitled "Fifty Years of the Army", the content of which was tout the strength of the Japanese Army, declaring that the Japanese army was "the strongest Japanese army in the world". 。
Fifty Years of the Army
After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Kuwamu Takaaki was re-recruited, or served as a subordinate in the General Staff Headquarters, and did not have a specific real position until Japan unconditionally surrendered, but only a few months after that, Kuwagi Takaaki fell ill and died on December 6, 1945, indicating that he had been in poor physical condition, which was also the reason for not holding a real post, and he had been awarded a gold medal of the third class during his lifetime.