After the Lugou Bridge Incident, an all-out War of Resistance broke out.
In that era, there were many heroes who came out of the family who suffered a hard life, born in a chaotic world, and they could not help themselves.
The Kuomintang and the Communists cooperated again, no matter which side, as long as they were fighting the enemy, they were the most admirable people of that era, but there were many soldiers who died on the battlefield, and history did not remember their names.
With the passage of time, some "unsung heroes" were gradually discovered by the world, and they were also dusted for many years.
Many years ago, before an unsung hero lost his breath, he shot and killed a Japanese major general, and his name was exposed by Japan after 42 years.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the "unsung hero" born in the Battle of Nanchang</h1>
Start with two resumes.
In 1911, Kenshi Iino graduated from the Infantry Section of the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School and was awarded the rank of second lieutenant, and then, under the influence of militarist ideas, he came to the Army University and was placed in the Education Directorate Department after graduation.
The so-called "education" is to send outlaws to Japanese militarism, and after the outbreak of Japan's all-out war of aggression against China, most of the men went to the battlefield, and Kenji Iino did not stay in the rear.
In September 1937, Kenshi Iino's regiment marched westward and landed at a landing point between Wusong and Shanghai, and on the battlefield, Kenshi Iino was like a beast, fighting everywhere, killing a large number of Chinese soldiers and ordinary people.
Because of his bravery, the next year he was incorporated into the sequence of the Central China Dispatch Army, participating in the Battle of Wuhan, and then he and his troops came to the Jiujiang area and captured De'an.
In 1939, as the pace of the Japanese invasion of China continued to accelerate, Kenji Iino came to the outskirts of Nanchang.
On the other side, a Chinese soldier named Qiang Sanwa.
From the name, it can be seen that he is a hard-working child from a certain rural area, perhaps forced to make a living, perhaps with the desire to serve the country, or in time to catch up with the Forced conscription of the Kuomintang, he joined the 141st Division and the Regiment of the Thirty-second Army.
No one knows his previous experience, what everyone knows is that in 1939, Qiang Sanwa came to Nanchang to carry out a defensive mission.
The Japanese who came to attack were several veteran legions, especially the Japanese Sixth Division, who also participated in the Nanjing Massacre.
What is disgusting is that these Japanese forces invading China have adopted unprecedented tactics.
Because there were a total of 13 divisions on the Nationalist side that could participate in the defensive mission, and there were 3 divisions in the Japanese army, Okamura Ninji believed that there was no 100% chance of winning this battle, and he thought of armored troops and chemical warfare units.
Okamura Ninji
If the chemical gases they use are inhaled by the human body, they will cause severe vomiting, then lose the ability to fight, and if they inhale too much, they will be killed on the spot.
There are two defensive lines on the outskirts of Nanchang, namely the Xiushui Defense Line and the Ganjiang River Defense Line.
The Ganjiang River is already approaching Nanchang, and the most important thing to really defend the enemy on the periphery is the water repair defense line.
To this end, Luo Zhuoying arranged 8 of the 13 division headquarters to be placed on the water repair line, and the Chinese and Japanese armies looked at each other across the river for a while, and in terms of numbers alone, the strength was still quite large.
Luo Zhuoying
In order to open the situation as soon as possible, the Japanese army took the lead in using nearly two hundred artillery pieces to launch fire coverage, and the equipment of the Nationalist army was still a little poor compared with the Japanese army, according to the previous operational laws of the Japanese army, they would bomb with aircraft soon after using artillery.
However, the Chinese defenders did not see the Japanese bombers, but waited for the gas bombs.
The winds that day were already approaching 2 meters per second, and the Japanese 101st and 106th Divisions were involved in releasing the gas, and both lasted more than 10 minutes.
It was in these 10 minutes that the Japanese used nearly 4,000 "red bombs", and the south bank of the water repair was instantly filled with smoke.
Almost instantaneously, the number of poisoned people had exceeded seven or eight hundred, and the vast majority of fighters had never heard of poison gas bombs, let alone knew how to prevent them, and instantly entered a state of rout.
A steady stream of wounded soldiers were transported back from the front, and the hospital was overcrowded for a time.
Due to the panic of the soldiers on the front line, the defensive problems were basically ignored, so the Japanese also took the opportunity to start crossing the river, and after only 9 minutes, they occupied the position abandoned by the Chinese soldiers.
Despite the unknown and confusion, many soldiers still chose to hold their positions.
The Japanese army moved all the way forward, encountering almost no resistance, and as a result, when they reached Liangshan, the officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 630th Regiment suddenly launched an attack on the Japanese army, which also caught the Japanese army by surprise.
In the end, because they were outnumbered, the two peaks guarded by the nationalist army were quickly captured.
When the Japanese army came to the south bank of Xiushui, the commander of the 113th Wing of the 106th Division, Ken Iino, was very excited, and after he was conquered at Mount Taizi, he turned on the flashlight and told the north bank of Xiushui that his troops had successfully taken the position.
As a result, a bullet suddenly drilled out of the shadows, accurately hit the right knee of Kenji Iino, the Japanese troops around them saw that their leader was attacked, and quickly rushed up, moving Kenji Iiino backwards, and the accompanying military doctors also quickly bandaged Kenji Iino, but did not expect that this bullet just hit the aorta of Kenji Iino's leg, and eventually he also died because of excessive blood loss.
At that time, there were only piles of corpses in front of him, and the Japanese also believed that the bullet was fired from inside, and immediately began the search, and soon, they found the hero.
The hero's body was covered with wounds, but he did not give up, or spent all his strength to choose to replace one, perhaps, hiding for so long, just to find a Japanese officer.
After dealing with this matter, the Japanese armored forces continued to move towards Nanchang, encountering almost no resistance along the way.
At present, Luo Zhuoying knew that the enemy had been despicable enough to use chemical weapons, and Nanchang could not be saved, but in the face of such a tense situation, it was a heavy responsibility to abandon a city, and in order for the soldiers to retain their living strength, he finally decided to abandon Nanchang and transfer the organs and units to Ji'an after consulting with Xiong Shihui, chairman of Jiangxi Province.
Not long after, the Japanese army, which had an absolute superiority in strength and equipment, marched into the city of Nanchang, and there were still some defenders left in the city, who desperately resisted and suffered heavy casualties.
On April 17 of that year, Chiang Kai-shek announced a counter-attack on Nanchang, but the actual effect of the campaign was still minimal, and after nearly a month, Chiang Kai-shek finally abandoned Nanchang.
The Japanese army was able to easily take Nanchang, which was inseparable from the poison gas bombs they released on the shore of the Xiushui River, and they completely disrupted the defensive deployment of the Chinese army and brought heavy disasters to the Chinese military and people.
If the Battle of Nanchang is calculated from the time the Japanese army releases poison gas bombs, until Chiang Kai-shek ordered the abandonment of Nanchang, the battle lasted for 50 days, and the Kuomintang troops participated in the battle with nearly 260,000 people, more than 23,000 people killed on the battlefield, more than 30,000 wounded, and more than 10,000 people missing.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > Qiang Sanwa was among the corpses</h1>
In fact, when the Japanese army crossed the river, there was also an episode.
Wing Commander Kenshi Iino looked at the defeat of the nationalist soldiers in front of him, and suddenly he was also beastly, he showed his subordinates his superb marksmanship, and shot 8 Chinese officers and soldiers in a row.
Every time one is killed, there will be a sound of boasting around, perhaps praising "Daisa's marksmanship is like a god".
However, suddenly, Kenji Iino was attacked by a cold gun and killed on the spot.
The aide-de-camp Inada Kamezaburō immediately searched the nearby corpses one by one, believing that the person who shot him was among the corpses.
Eventually, they also found the Chinese soldier, because the gun in his hand still emitted a burst of warmth, which was enough to conclude that it was the Chinese soldier who shot and killed Kenji Iino.
A Japanese wing commander was killed in a successful battle, which also attracted the close attention of the Japanese high command, and the identity of Qiang Sanwa was finally determined.
It can also be roughly inferred that this heroic warrior from the countryside may have been dizzy and disgusted under the poisonous gas of the Japanese army, and was attacked by the guns of the Japanese army, and finally fell into a pool of blood.
He was in great pain, but his comrades did not find him, and the scene was too chaotic.
At first, it was speculated that Qiang Sanwa may have chosen to enlist in the army due to lack of food or forced conscription by the Kuomintang, but now it seems that no matter what reason he entered the army in the first place, he was already filled with hatred at that time.
After years of conquest, he must have understood a truth: if he pretended to be dead, then there was a high probability that he could escape the disaster.
But he did not, and after he discovered that the one who raised the flashlight in the Japanese was a senior officer, he did not hesitate to raise the gun with the last bit of his strength.
This shot was also enough to kill.
According to the situation at that time, the Kuomintang soldiers fled in a hurry, and the city of Nanchang was completely devastated by the Japanese army, under such pressure, no one would go to know in detail the story behind each "sacrificed" officer and soldier.
Coupled with the fact that the Kuomintang's conscription system was already very chaotic, some officials even made some fake rosters in order to mention "achievements", and after each war, they could only learn about the number of people who were sacrificed, injured and missing, and it was difficult to count who the grass-roots soldier who died was.
It is even less likely for the Japanese to publicize the "attack on the wing commander" during the war, after all, the shooter is hidden in the pile of corpses and can easily be found.
This was undoubtedly a huge blow to the officers and men of the Japanese army at that time, so that outsiders knew that the officers of the Japanese army would be killed by the soldiers in the "pile of dead people", and the soldier was injured and even inhaled poison gas, which was also too much to punch in the face.
Originally, this matter may have drifted like the wind.
In 1981, however, things took a turn for the better.
The japanese military historian Mr. Fumitsu Furyama's book "Overview of the Personnel of The Army and Navy Generals: The Army" is listed in Japan, and the credibility of this book is still very high, because the materials examined by the author are basically the most original military archives.
The book records the resumes of Army officers, including "Posthumous Titles", as well as the specific causes of death, and mentions the name Kenji Iino.
Behind the death of this dead major general of the army, the feats of an ordinary Chinese soldier are recorded, and the name Qiang Sanwa also appears for the first time in an orthodox article.
You know, in the Japanese army's equipment, the wing commander is a very high status position, once the wing leader dies, a wing is likely to fall into a state of leaderlessness.
Kenji Iino's wing was still celebrating the coming of victory, and how could this gunshot completely pull the wing's emotions back.
The deeds of the hero "Qiang Sanwa" soon spread, and many people in china also knew about it.
However, after so many years, only the name Qiang Sanwa is known, and everything about his family, his descendants, and so on is unknown, and no one even knows how old he was when he died.
However, the hero does not ask about the past, Qiang Sanwa, is the hero of everyone.