In the middle of July 1980, Marshal Nie Rongzhen summoned his daughter Nie Li and said to her daughter with a look of memory: Tomorrow you will go to the airport and pick her up with her family! At 10:00 a.m. the next day, Nie Li met the Japanese woman in his father's mouth at the Beijing airport, and as soon as the woman got off the plane, she let out an exclamation: I have been away from this land for nearly 40 years!
Under the guidance of Nie Li, the Japanese woman and her family rode to the Xinjiang Hall of the Great Hall of the People, and without waiting long, she saw an old man over 80 years old walking towards her on crutches, this person was the "relative" she wanted to meet in Beijing this time, his name was Nie Rongzhen!
Seeing Nie Shuai, the woman instantly burst into tears, speaking in hard Chinese, her voice choked up and shouted her father, Nie Shuai was also very excited, patted her shoulder to show comfort, and then asked: "Are you okay all these years..."
Soon, the fact that Japanese women came to Beijing to "look for relatives" was reported by the Chinese and Japanese media, and the folk rumors in China and Japan were boiling, and even the relations between the two countries were improved. However, we will inevitably have questions about this, is this woman really Nie Shuai's daughter? Why did she go to Japan? How did Nie Shuai handle this relationship?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="8" > orphans in the fires of war</h1>
In 1940, Japan, in a phase of strategic stalemate, shifted the focus of its attacks from the front to the rear. At this time, the Japanese army implemented the "cage policy" in north China on the basis of communication lines and bunkers, and strengthened sweeping to achieve the effect of trapping our army. In order to cope with the "cage policy" of the Japanese army, General Peng Dehuai, Zuo Quan, Nie Rongzhen and other generals decided to launch a large-scale anti-"sweeping" campaign, and the Hundred Regiments War officially began!
On the night of August 20, in order to cut off the energy supply of the Japanese army, the central column of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region led by Nie Shuai quietly sneaked into the Jingxin Coal Mine occupied by the Japanese army. When the miners cooperated with our army to pull down all the electric gates, our army quickly rushed into the mining area, destroyed the engines, steelmaking furnaces and other equipment on the mine, and set a fire to ignite all the more than 100 tons of coal stored in the mine. In the end, the entire mining area was paralyzed, and it could not resume normal operations for at least half a year, and it could no longer provide sufficient power energy for the Japanese army!
In this battle, the Japanese suffered heavy losses. In retaliation, they ignored the Japanese compatriots who had not yet evacuated and fired directly at the mining area, and one of the shells fell into the station master's room of the mining area, and the deputy station chief Kato Kiyoshi, who was on duty, and his family were all caught in the fire.
When the sound of artillery gradually subsided and the soldiers of our machine gun squad searched to clear the remnants of the enemy, they heard the cries of children in the direction of the mining station. Following the crying, the soldiers of our army rescued all four members of the Kato family from the rubble, at this time Mrs. Kato had been shot, due to excessive blood loss and died, Kato was also seriously injured, and finally the rescue was ineffective, leaving a four- or five-year-old girl and a baby girl who was not yet one year old and was seriously injured.
In any case, the child is innocent. After the seriously injured baby girl was urgently treated, she was sent to the camp ambulance station by special personnel, while another four- or five-year-old girl stood alone in front of the rubble, very pitiful, and Yang Zhongshan, a correspondent of the fourth company of the third regiment, rose up sympathy and took the initiative to stand up and send her to a safer ambulance station.
In this way, Yang Zhongshan held the little girl and evaded the search of mines, barbed wire and the enemy all the way, until dawn to take the girl to the ambulance center. It was a critical time when the first shots of the Hundred Regiments War were fired, and the front-line troops who needed to fight at any time were certainly not suitable for taking in two children, and this was still the heir of the enemy Japanese.
Without hesitation, the commander of the battalion headquarters immediately reported the situation to his superiors, and Nie Shuai personally ordered after learning about the original committee: send the two girls to the command post of the Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region for treatment and care. The careful Nie Shuai also specially instructed that we must ensure the safety of the children and not let them be frightened again on the road.
In this way, after receiving treatment in the camp ambulance station, a soldier picked up two baskets with a flat shoulder, put them one by one on the side, and carried them to the command post. When Nie Shuai saw the two homeless girls, he was touched by the uneasy and fearful emotions on the sister's face, and said to the girl with a smile: Let me take a look, we have two Japanese friends!
Then he looked at the injured baby girl, who, although the injury had eased, still needed a long period of treatment and recuperation. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the conditions of our army were very difficult, and drugs were even more scarce, in order to let the medical staff abandon stereotypes and give the best treatment conditions for Japanese girls, Nie Shuai personally communicated with the field doctors, and instructed the guards to find a nursing woman to feed the Japanese baby girls.
Soon, the older girl established a deep emotional foundation with Nie Shuai, often tugging on Nie Shuai's pant legs, and wherever Nie Shuai went, she would follow her. In her heart, the general who spoiled her was her father! However, at that time, it was the stage of war, the Hundred Regiments War had just started, and there was still a fierce battle waiting for them, and it was very dangerous for the two children to stay by Nie Shuai's side.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="44" > the people are innocent and our army is benevolent</h1>
In order to keep the two girls from being displaced and under the threat of war at all times, after consulting with other comrades in the command post, Nie Shuai had two solutions, the first was to find a village nearby to foster them there, and the second was to send them back to the Japanese camp.
At that time, China was in a period of war, and if they were really fostered in the village, they would probably encounter danger again, and it was safer to send them to the Japanese camp, and Japan was their hometown. So after much deliberation, Nie Shuai decided to send them back to the Japanese army. He found a trustworthy fellow nearby and wrote a letter asking him to send both the letter and the child to the Japanese camp.
There is a passage in the letter: The people of the Chinese will never regard the Japanese people and soldiers as enemies, and the reason why they persist in resisting the war is that they are forced to defend themselves because of the Aggression of the Japanese Lords. And the invasion of China is not the wish of the Japanese people and soldiers, but it is only for the Japanese to coerce the ears. For the sake of the present, the people and soldiers of China and Japan should work together to oppose the war to eliminate this evil and overthrow the Japanese warlords and chaebols. Otherwise Chinese the people will be more difficult, and the future of the monarchs will be unimaginable.
For this letter, Nie Shuai once said his thoughts in his memoirs in his later years: he believed that while fighting wars, political work must also be done. It was precisely because when the Japanese army was carrying out the three-light policy of killing, burning, and robbing the light, our party still insisted on giving preferential treatment to the Japanese prisoners, that it finally woke up the Japanese soldiers, let them see the real reality, and finally joined the anti-war alliance and became one of the most powerful weapons in the War of Resistance.
Nie Shuai believed that although they did not belong to the same camp, there would be no less people with conscience in China and Japan, and as long as we adhered to the path of benevolence and righteousness in our bones, we would eventually awaken the Japanese soldiers who were oppressed by the class and unite to resist the source of the war.
After receiving the letters from the two girls and Nie Shuai, the Japanese army learned of their origins, accepted the two war orphans, and sent them to the base camp in Shijiazhuang. At the same time, the Japanese army, which was deeply touched, also replied with a letter to thank the Eighth Route Army for this benevolent approach.
After sending away the two children, Nie Shuai quickly threw himself into the next battle, and had no time or conditions to pay attention to their situation. However, Nie Shuai did not forget these two little girls, and often worried about whether they could find other relatives and resume normal life.
But after the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan, nie Shuai threw himself into the War of Liberation not long after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and for such a long time, when Sino-Japanese relations were also in a frozen period, it was even more difficult for him to get news about the two girls. It was not until September 25, 1972, that Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka accepted the invitation of Premier Zhou and personally visited China by special plane. On September 29, after four rounds of negotiations, the two countries signed the Sino-Japanese Joint Declaration, ending hostilities and formally establishing diplomatic relations.
At this time, the diplomatic relations between the two countries returned to normal, once again evoking Nie Shuai's memories buried in the depths of his memory. In an interview, he inadvertently mentioned the past of that year, which attracted the attention of the media in China and Japan.
It should be known that although the Chinese and Japanese officials have reached a reconciliation and formally established diplomatic relations, because Japan killed too many innocent people and created too many homeless orphans during the war of aggression against China, the Chinese people still have considerable resistance to Japan, and it is difficult to carry out frequent and friendly exchanges. The story of Nie Shuai and the Japanese girl is a link that eases the relations between the two peoples.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > the bond between China and Japan</h1>
In 1980, the People's Daily accepted submissions and published an article titled "Japanese Little Girl, Where Are You?" The article mainly tells the story of Nie Shuai and the Japanese girl at that time, and also published a group photo of them that year, hoping to find the long-lost little girl in this way.
The next day, The Japanese newspaper media also rushed to reprint and report the story, and the two countries joined forces to find the Japanese girl of the year. Finally, on June 8, in a grocery store in Kyushu, Japan, Mishoko, the owner of her 40s, saw the news and tears flowed unconsciously, she was the little girl who was four or five years old at the time, and now she has become the mother of three children.
Mihoko compared her childhood photo with the photo in the newspaper, and sure enough, she was the little girl. Mihoko was also very excited and personally wrote a letter, hoping that the reporter could help transfer it to Nie Shuai. At this time, most of the Japanese people who learned the story of that year were very ashamed, in addition to Mihoko's letter, Nie Shuai also received many thank-you letters and apology letters from them!
It is worth mentioning that an old Japanese military organization at that time also sent a letter and a carefully prepared gift to express the deep remorse of Japanese soldiers for the crimes of killing Chinese people and other crimes during World War II. At the same time, our people have seen the Attitude of the Japanese People in admitting their mistakes, and their resistance to them has been greatly reduced, and the relations between the peoples of the two countries have been greatly eased.
On June 23, in order to promote the further development of bilateral relations, China and Japan agreed on a plan to visit China, preparing to let Mihoko go to Beijing as an emissary to visit China to meet Nie Shuai, who has lost contact for 40 years. The next scene is the opening scene, as soon as she saw Nie Shuai, Mihoko couldn't help but shout out the words that had been buried in her heart for decades: "Father"!
After calming down and talking, Nie Shuai learned from Mihoko that her sister Mihoko died of illness in the hospital shortly after being sent to Shijiazhuang because she was too young and weak, and eventually she was sent back to Japan alone.
And Mihoko also asked Nie Shuai about the good people who took care of her and her sister, and Nie Shuai was silent for a while before slowly speaking out: Yang Zhongshan, who had carried Mihoko to the rescue center, was also going to meet, but due to the restrictions of foreign affairs, she did not rush to the scene; she took care of them all the time, and finally escorted them to the Japanese camp was the mother of the local militia, who was stabbed alive by Japanese soldiers with bayonets during a Japanese sweep! Most of the other comrades also sacrificed themselves on the anti-Japanese battlefield!
Mihoko was very sad about this result and soon burst into tears. Nie Shuai gently comforted: Everything is over, we will not have any more wars in the future, and the people of the two countries will continue to be friendly for generations!
Because of this incident, many Japanese people met Nie Shuai and called him the "Ambassador of Sino-Japanese Friendship"! China also made a special film called "Mihoko Visits Relatives", which passed down this matter forever in the form of art!
Since then, Mihoko has come to China many times to visit this "Chinese father" who has the grace of saving his life. In 1992, the 93-year-old Nie Shuai stopped breathing and left us forever, and Mihoko could not go to China to mourn because of her husband's sudden cerebral thrombosis, but she also set up a spiritual hall worship at home to express her sorrow for her "father".
In the years of war, in the face of invading enemies, none of us will let go! But for weak and innocent lives, we will not be casually implicated. This belongs to Nie Shuai's bosom, and it is also the arrogance of our party, and it is also the kindness that Chinese engraved in his bones! The benevolent are invincible, and it is precisely because of this wind and bone that we can subdue the strong enemy and stand in the forest of the world without falling!
Today's peace is bought with the lives of thousands of revolutionary fighters. Seeing the innocent lives that were annihilated in the war, we should cherish the life we have now and strive to protect this peace. At the same time, every Chinese has the obligation to fight for the prosperity and strength of the country, only in this way can China always remain strong and not humiliated, and can it straighten its waist and say no to all powers!