Killed in China by the Devil General Kurokawa Kunisuke (Major General of the Army)

On June 28, 1943, the chief of staff of the 56th Division of the Burmese Front of the Japanese invasion of China, Kurokawa Kunisuke Infantry Daisa, was killed by the Chinese Yunnan Expeditionary Force during a "sweep" operation in the Liding area of Yunnan Province, China. After his death, he was posthumously promoted to major general of the army. Kunisuke Kurokawa is a native of Oita Prefecture, Japan. He graduated from the 32nd Infantry Section of the Japanese Army Non-Commissioned Officer School on May 26, 1920, and was awarded the rank of Infantry Corporal on December 26 of the same year, beginning his military career. In 1930, as an infantry lieutenant, he was selected to be sent to the 42nd class of the Army University for further study. He was later sent to the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo for further study. In July 15, 1938, he was appointed as a staff officer of the Kwantung Army, specifically responsible for the administrative affairs between the Kwantung Army and the puppet state of Manchukuo. On August 1, 1939, he was promoted to infantry daisaku. On February 14, 1942, he was appointed as a subordinate to the Military and Political Department of the 25th Army of the Burmese Front of the Japanese Army, responsible for instilling militarist ideas in the officers and men of the Japanese Army. In 1942, in order to cooperate with the Allied offensive in the Pacific Theater, the Chinese government formed the Chinese Expeditionary Force to enter Burma and cooperate with the British and Burmese armies in fighting against Japan. When the Chinese Expeditionary Force entered Burma, the Japanese army landed from Rangoon and attacked the Border of Yunnan, China, and the two sides engaged in a fierce competition in the northern part of Burma. During the battle, Kurokawa Kunisuke led the military and political personnel to supervise the battle, driving the Japanese officers and soldiers to fight to the death, first the Anglo-Burmese army was defeated by the Japanese army, and then the First Route Army of the Chinese Expeditionary Force suffered serious losses and was forced to retreat to Yunnan. In pursuit of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, the commander of the Japanese Twenty-fifth Army ordered the main force of the Japanese Fifty-sixth Division, which was conducting a "sweep" operation on the upper Irrawaddy River in Burma, to attack China. At the end of May, three divisions of the 71st Army of the Chinese Army counterattacked the Japanese army, and the two sides fought fiercely in the Pingjia and Longling areas of Yunnan. At this time, the chief of staff of the Japanese 56th Division was transferred, and Kurokawa Kunisei took over on June 1, assisting the division commander, Lieutenant General Yuzo Matsuyama, in commanding troops against the Chinese army. On the day of the engagement, the Chinese army achieved the goal of annihilating the Japanese army and retreated to the east bank of the Nu River. The Nu River is bounded by the two sides, and the two sides face each other. In mid-July, after a rest, the 71st Army of the Chinese Army formed several elite detachments, crossed the Nu River, infiltrated the Tengchong area, and engaged in guerrilla warfare with the Japanese army. On September 13, after the Japanese army was hit by the company, it launched a "sweeping" operation, and Kurokawa Kunisuke ordered the divisional regiments and regiments to form a "crusade" team, using the combing tactic to seek annihilation of the Chinese army, while personally going to the "crusade" team to command and organize the operation. After more than a month of fighting, the Chinese army achieved the goal of annihilating the enemy and took the initiative to retreat to the east bank of the Nu River to rest. The "crusade" organized by Kurokawa Kunisuke was exhausted and exhausted, so he had to collect troops. In mid-December, the 2nd Reserve Division and the 88th Division of the 71st Army of the Chinese Army each formed a small and capable force, using GudongJie and Wadian as bases, once again crossed the Nu River and launched guerrilla warfare in the Tengchong area. At the same time, the 11th Army of the Chinese Army sent Xie Jinsheng, a famous anti-Japanese general, to reorganize the People's Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Army in the Tuojiao area into a security brigade, and cooperated with the British troops who entered the vicinity of Sun Brabang to carry out guerrilla warfare. By January 1943, guerrillas sent by the Chinese army were attacking everywhere on the west bank of the Nu River occupied by the Japanese army, causing the crusades sent by Kurokawa Kunisuke to be eaten by the Chinese guerrillas one by one. In February 1943, Kurokawa Kunisei drew up a plan for phases 1 to 3 of the "mopping-up" operations, and with the consent of the division commander, launched the first phase of the "mopping-up" operation from February 4 to 21. Kurokawa, believing that the Japanese army was strong and that a small group of guerrillas of the Chinese army was vulnerable, only ordered the Lashio garrison (equivalent battalion) to carry out a "sweep" between Lashio and the Nu River. The Chinese guerrillas relied on the local population, sometimes concentrated and sometimes dispersed, so that the Lashio garrison suffered defeats and lost soldiers. Kurokawa Kunifu was in a hurry, and did not wait for the end of the first phase of "mopping-up" and launched the second phase of "mopping-up" operations. On February 11, he ordered the Imagoka United to depart from Hatamachi by night and enter the eastern foothills of Theo-Rigon Mountains to "sweep up." On the thirteenth day, the Matsumoto United team set out from Tengchong and "swept" out of Qiaotou Street through Mingguang. On the 16th, the Lashio garrison was ordered to move north and break into the Wadian area to "sweep up". The three Japanese troops attacked separately and in an attempt to annihilate the Chinese army. In order to supervise the "crusade" operation, Kurokawa Kunisuke led the division combat commander to advance from Mangshi to Wadian, and from the 26th to the 28th, he personally inspected the "crusade" operation of the Matsumoto Regiment at Mamian Pass and Lengshuigou. On March 5, after more than ten days of bitter fighting, the three Japanese troops finally met in the area around Tengchong. From May 10 to 11, when the Chinese army was vigorously advocating the victory of the "sweeping" operation by Kurokawa Kunisuke, it sent several units to carry out guerrilla operations in the areas occupied by the Japanese army. In order to consolidate the occupied area, Kurokawa Kunisuke personally led the main force of the "crusade" team, imagoka United, across the Nu River and launched a surprise attack on the main force of the Ninth Division of the Chinese army, which was assembling in the Mengding area on the east bank of the Nu River. He also fought against the Chinese army in Quanchangba, Lufang, Kanhe, Ximalin, Huoban, Mengding and other places. On June 28, Kurokawa Kunisuke commanded the "Crusade" team to organize several attacks, but they were all repelled by the Chinese army. He was so angry that he personally led the team to attack, and was killed immediately. After his death, he was awarded a medal of the fourth class of the Golden Eagle.