Commander of the Japanese North China Front, Genjihiro
Okamura Ningji and others want to help Chiang Kai-shek "suppress the communists"
On December 22, 1948, the 35th Army of the Fu Zuoyi Group in North China was annihilated in Xinbao; on the 24th, one division of the 105th, 104th, and 101st Armies of the 11th Corps and two cavalry brigades of the 11th Corps surrounded in Zhangjiakou were annihilated; on the 23rd, more than 50,000 people of the 11th Corps in the Zhangjiakou area were completely annihilated...
Prior to this, on December 12, Song Yuelun, counselor of the Kuomintang government's embassy in Japan, called Chiang Kai-shek, saying that his Japanese "friend" Junsaburo Yamada and ningji Okamura, the former commander-in-chief of the Chinese dispatch army, were very worried about the recent successive defeats of the Kuomintang troops in the "suppression of the communists." They were willing to form an "anti-communist military association" among the veterans who returned to Japan and went all out to help the Kuomintang in the war of "suppressing the communists." Out of political concern, Chiang Kai-shek refused.
At this moment, Chiang Kai-shek believed that the only way to defeat the People's Liberation Army in the Pingjin area was to invite the Japanese to command, and Lieutenant General Hiroshi Nemoto (1891-1966, a native of Fukushima, Japan), the former commander of the Japanese North China Dispatch Army, was the most suitable candidate.
Nemoto Hiroshi, a lieutenant general in the Japanese army, was the commander of the North China Front of the last Japanese army invading China and the commander of the Japanese army in Mongolia. Nemoto and Chiang Kai-shek had known each other as early as 1926, and after Japan's defeat in 1945, he had always obeyed his orders, ignored the emperor's orders to surrender unconditionally, engaged the Soviet and Mongolian Red Army in the northern part of Zhangjiakou, and fought by force against the Eighth Route Army. Later, Chiang Kai-shek implemented the policy of "repaying grievances with virtue" to Japan, and Negebo smoothly repatriated hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops and overseas Chinese, and he himself was exempted from being prosecuted as war criminals, so he was quite grateful to Chiang Kai-shek.
When the Kuomintang Taiwan side sent military attaches Cao Shicheng and staff officers surnamed Li to Visit Genbo in Japan and explain their intentions, Nemoto bo told the two that he was very familiar with the terrain of North China and had experience in fighting with the Communist army, and that according to the situation in the North China battlefield, he would also bring several officers with rich combat experience.
In order to prevent exposure, the military delegation stationed in Japan, in accordance with Chiang Kai-shek's instructions, carefully disguised seven members of Genbo and his party as Kuomintang soldiers and gave them a Chinese name. Who knows, their preparations have not yet been fully completed, the Pingjin Campaign has ended, and most of the hundreds of thousands of Chiang Kai-shek troops entrenched in north China have also revolted and surrendered, except for some of which have been wiped out. Chiang Kai-shek had no choice but to secretly order them to change to Shanghai to help Tang Enbo, commander-in-chief of the Beijing-Shanghai-Hangzhou garrison.
Nemobo signed under the "Surrender Representative"
Nemobo commanded the Battle of Kinmen
One day at the end of February 1949, Motonehiro and his staff officer surnamed Li set off under the cover of night on a chartered 90-ton aircraft sailboat, the Jie zhen maru. They only got the news that Shanghai had been conquered by the People's Liberation Army and that Chiang Kai-shek had asked them to transfer to Taiwan. They decided to change course and rushed in the direction of Keelung, Taiwan.
Unfortunately, Nemoto and his party encountered a typhoon, and the boat sank in the wind and waves, but fortunately it was rescued by an American warship to avoid being buried in the belly of the fish. On June 10, the U.S. military secretly sent them to Keelung, Taiwan, on a small warship. However, in the port of Keelung, Nemoto Hiroshi and his party were mistaken for spies and imprisoned, and were almost shot by the Keelung coastal defense forces.
Because the Kuomintang troops were defeated on the mainland, Chiang Kai-shek was so distraught that he could not take care of Ji Jibo and his party for a while. By the end of June, the matter had been reported to Chen Cheng, the chairman of Taiwan Province. After a few days, I don't know who reflected this matter to Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Kai-shek instructed Chen Cheng, Genbo, and others to come to China on his instructions, and that the living problems should be arranged by the Taiwan provincial government for the time being and should be taken care of.
In October, the People's Liberation Army occupied Xiamen, and Chiang Kai-shek decided to hold Kinmen. He sternly ordered Tang Enbo: "The Golden Gate can no longer be lost, it must be supervised on the spot, responsible for due diligence, and cannot resign from the general." Nemobo was also sent to Kinmen to join Tombaugh's 166 regiment.
On the night of October 24, the People's Liberation Army ordered a cross-sea attack on Kinmen, resulting in the PLA landing forces fighting the island for three days and nights, and there was no support, resulting in the total annihilation of the PLA army that attacked Kinmen.
Nemobo's greatest "credit" was to help the Kuomintang army hold Kinmen in the Battle of Kinmen. Next, Genbo persuaded Tang Enbo to withdraw the troops still on the mainland to Yijiangshan Island, Dachen Island, Kinmen, and Matsu on the coast as soon as possible, thus strengthening the strength of the Kuomintang Kinmen defenders. According to the recollections of the veterans of the Taiwan Army who participated in the Battle of Kinmen, this Japanese who wore a flat head and wore the uniform of the "National Army" but could not say Chinese directly commanded the campaign.
After winning the Battle of Kinmen, Chiang Kai-shek was very happy and gave Genbo a vase fired in a Jingdezhen official kiln as a souvenir. After that, there was an incident in which Genjihiro's subordinate Yoshikawa Genzo embezzled the settlement fees of several other people, and after this matter was disclosed by the media, the US military was forced by public opinion pressure to begin to investigate the matter, and Nemoto Hiroshi had to return to China in 1952. After returning to Japan, Nemoto Hiroshi kept a low profile and never mentioned this history in detail throughout his life. In May 1966, Nemoto Hiroshi fell ill and died.
——Excerpted from Party History Tiandi, No. 29, 2014