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When the Emperor's Edict of Surrender was broadcast to the world, an Asian-faced troop of troops, from officers to soldiers, was jubilant.
Could it be that this is the anti-Japanese armed forces celebrating their victory? But this unit is wearing the devil's uniform.
This unit is an elite division of the devil class A, but when the war began, this unit was looking forward to the end of the war.
Hearing the announcement of the emperor's surrender, the devil officers and soldiers at least showed great frustration, crying and crying miserably, and there were many devils who shot and committed suicide by disembowelment.
Even among the ordinary people in the country of devils, many people committed suicide, and there were teachers who jumped into the sea en masse with elementary school students.
Only this unit is different, and their celebration of surrender is closely related to the territory in which they live.
This unit is called the Osaka Division, and the vast majority of its officers and men are from Osaka, Japan.
Why are devils from Osaka different from devils from other places?
Osaka is one of Japan's most prestigious commercial cities, and most of the people in Osaka are businessmen who only know how to make money.
Even if they are in the arms business, it is to make money from other people's wars, but they themselves do not want to go to the battlefield as cannon fodder.
However, Japan has a small number of people, and since it embarked on the road of militarism, there has been a shortage of soldiers, and it is impossible to allow Osaka people to stay in the country to do business, and before the First Sino-Japanese War, Osaka people forcibly conscripted and formed the Osaka Division.
At present, Japan is a developed country in terms of per capita income, and the improvement of the quality of life of Japanese people in general was after World War II.
Before Japan's surrender, the lives of ordinary people in China had always been relatively poor, and even in order to raise war resources to the greatest extent possible, the government issued regulations to restrict ordinary people from eating meat.
During the war, Japan's grassroots civil servants often went to rummage through the trash cans of ordinary people and found bones to reprimand the family for being disloyal to the emperor and not saving supplies for the holy war for Japan.
The Japanese people also generally believe that this kind of examination is a matter of course.
However, the people of Osaka are different, and their desire to live a good life far exceeds their loyalty to the emperor.
And most of the people of Osaka at that time also made money to live a good life, so they had no interest in fighting.
After the Osaka people, who were mainly vegetable and fishmongers, were conscripted to form the Osaka Division, the unit continued to be war-weary.
The fact that the Japanese Government has equipped this unit with the sophisticated equipment of the main force cannot boost the morale of this force.
When Japan first began to launch a war of aggression, the Osaka Division still performed well in the face of the declining Tsarist army and the Qing Dynasty army. Relying on a good record, the Osaka Division became arrogant when it returned home.
Once the commander of the Osaka Division, because his soldiers ran a red light and clashed with the police, he led people to directly smash the police station, which made people feel that the Osaka Division seemed to be very belligerent.
However, after the Osaka Division encountered hard stubble in World War II, the nature of the merchant division was exposed.
"77 Incident" Japan launched a war of aggression against China, and the Osaka Division went to the front line, but without a big battle, it was transferred to the Kwantung Army for reorganization and training because of its combat strength from pulling the hips.
The Osaka Division, also known as the Fourth Division, was one of the 17 standing divisions of the Japanese Army.
Originally, the Osaka Division, as a well-equipped veteran division, should have a strong performance on the battlefield, but the Japanese army base camp did not expect that the combat strength of this division and regiment would be so unbearable.
In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Osaka Division, the Japanese army base camp specially let the famous general Yamashita Fengfumi serve as the commander of the Osaka Division.
Yamashita was a native of Kochi Prefecture, Japan, and he didn't know much about the people of Osaka, and he thought that the Osaka Division's combat strength was due to insufficient training, so he adopted intensive training to improve the combat power of the Osaka Division.
The Osaka Division also actively cooperated with the new division commander and became more and more courageous on the training ground.
Yamashita was relieved to see this, but soon a real battle shattered his dreams and made him realize how slick the merchant division was.
In 1939, Japan provoked the Nomenkan Incident and the Soviet Union broke out into war.
The Soviet Union's steel torrent caught the Japanese army off guard and was defeated, and the Kwantung Army Headquarters hurriedly transferred the Osaka Division and the Sendai Division to reinforcements.
On the way to reinforce the Osaka Division, the soldiers suddenly fell ill, some had a high fever, some had diarrhea, and all kinds of things made the military doctors scramble.
By the time the officers went to the infirmary to supervise the treatment, the soldiers were all cured one by one, and the military doctors did not know that their medical skills were so high.
The Osaka Division was not in a hurry, but it was very active in eating, and it couldn't even move when it started eating on time, which truly interpreted the sentence "If you are not active in eating, you have a problem with your brain", and claimed that it was to go to the battlefield with the fullest mental state.
By the time the Osaka Division came to the front line one by one, the Battle of Nomenkan had already ended, and the Sendai Division, which had rushed to the front line, had already been disabled by the Soviet troops.
The distance between the two divisions and the front line was about the same, but the Osaka division took eight full days, more than twice as slow as the Sendai division.
However, the Sendai Division, which strictly adhered to military discipline, became a typical example of the defeated army, but the Osaka Division was full of spirit because it was unscathed, and was hyped up by Japanese reporters, portraying the Osaka Division as an invincible image of the Japanese army.
In the second Battle of Changsha, the Osaka Division was full of strength at first, and the battle was impressive.
But when Xue Yue organized a counterattack by the national army, the Osaka division left its allies and fled alone, becoming the culprit of the collapse of the Japanese army on all fronts.
After this battle, the Japanese army base camp no longer dared to let the Osaka Division fight the main force, which was the result that the Osaka Division secretly hoped for.
Serving as a reserve unit to save life as much as possible is the goal pursued by the Osaka Division.
During the Second Battle of Changsha, the Osaka Division ran the fastest, so the battle losses were the smallest, which gave the Osaka Division the capital to advertise.
They also publicized the reduction to reserve as an honor, saying that they were the divisions directly under the base camp.
After the start of the Pacific War, the Osaka Division was stationed in Shanghai as a reserve for the Philippine Campaign, which made the Osaka Division very happy.
Shanghai Tang Shili Ocean Market is the market where they do business to make money, and they are all human beings when they start a black market business.
The thrill of earning money and enjoying life in the metropolis makes them even less interested in going to war.
However, when the Japanese army was blocked at the fortress of Corregildo in the Philippines, they had to transfer the Osaka Division to participate in the battle.
The Osaka Division did not go to attack the fortifications as cannon fodder, they used long-range firepower to besiege the US-Filipino coalition forces, and finally forced more than 68,000 US-Philippine troops to surrender, and they did not have much battle losses.
After this victory, the first thing the Osaka Division did was to sell the spoils of war, and then the Osaka Division was transferred to Bangkok, where there was no war, to enjoy life until the news of surrender came home.
The Osaka Division surrendered to the U.S. forces without any psychological barriers, disarmed and returned home, and they also peddled war souvenirs to the U.S. troops, not missing any opportunity to make money.
If the devils had all been of the virtue of the Osaka Division, perhaps Japan would not have suffered the tragedy of being bombed by atomic bombs.
Resources:
The Fourth Division of the Japanese Army - Baidu Encyclopedia
Yamashita Fengwen - Baidu Encyclopedia