Matsui Takuro was one of the culprits who prompted the outbreak of the "July 7 Incident", then served as the chief of the Peiping secret service, then served as the supreme military adviser of the puppet Manchukuo and the puppet Nanjing government, served as the commander of the Fifth Division of the Japanese Army and the chief of the general staff of the China Dispatch Army, and finally ushered in Japan's unconditional surrender as the commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army.
Taikuro Matsui
Matsui Takuro (1887-1969) was a native of Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, born in a farming family, graduated from the 22nd Infantry Section of the Army Non-Commissioned Officer School in May 1910, was admitted to the 29th Class of the Army University in December 1914, and was a classmate of Jun Gonmiya, Sadaichi Suzuki, Ryoya Mutaguchi, Tokiichi Sasaki, Yoshio Uezuki, Ichi Tsuchihashi, and Masanori Honda, and graduated in November 1917 and was assigned to serve in the 12th Division, which he followed on a mission to Siberia in August 1918.
After returning to Japan from Russia, Matsui served in the China Division of the General Staff Headquarters, the Kwantung Army Command, the Shioura Dispatch Army Command, and the Headquarters of the Korean Army, and was later sent to Europe to investigate the military, and after returning from Europe, he was transferred to the Army Province.
"IX. After the 18th Incident, Matsui was transferred to the Staff Headquarters of the Kwantung Army As the Fourth Section Chief, and on February 17, 1932, he was transferred back to Japan to serve as an attached to the Army Technical Headquarters, and a little more than a month later, he was transferred to the 2nd Infantry Wing of the Guards Division as an attached unit, and on August 1, 1933, he became the commander of the Osaka Wing.
On January 21, 1935, Matsui was transferred to the Kwantung Army as the commander of the 12th Independent Infantry Regiment of the 11th Independent Mixed Brigade, which was formed in Japan in October 1934 and sent to China, with the 11th Independent Infantry Regiment, the 12th Independent Infantry Regiment, the 11th Independent Cavalry Squadron, the 12th Independent Field Artillery Regiment, the 12th Independent Mountain Artillery Regiment, the 11th Independent Engineer Squadron, and the 11th Independent Heavy Army Squadron.
Flag of the 11th Independent Infantry Regiment
On December 3, 1936, Matsui Wasakuro was transferred to the headquarters of the Chinese Garrison Army and the head of the Beiping Secret Service, engaged in various special service activities in Beiping, and the commander of the Chinese Garrison Army at that time was Lieutenant General Tian Dai Wanichiro, whose headquarters was located in Haiguang Temple in Tianjin, under the jurisdiction of two infantry companies, one stationed in Tianjin and one stationed in Tun beiping, of which the 1st Infantry Regiment of Mutiankou Lianye stationed in Beiping was the culprit who provoked the "Lugou Bridge Incident".
At that time, the 8th Squadron of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Regiment was conducting a military exercise in the area north of the Hoshipyeong-Lugou Bridge, with the imaginary goal of capturing the Lugou Bridge, a second-class soldier named Kikujiro Shimura, during the exercise, because of diarrhea, temporarily separated from the troops, due to the darkness of the night, the 8th Squadron was in a state of movement, resulting in Shimura Kikujiro failed to return in time, the 8th Squadron Commander Shimizu Shimizu Shimizu Shizu kiyono Shōsa reported to the 3rd Squadron Leader Ichiki Kiyono Shōsa that a recruit named Shimura Kikujiro was missing.
Kikunoro Shimura
For the disappearance of Kikujiro Shimura, Shimizu Andei Kiyono always suspected that it was related to the local Chinese garrison, so they reported to the Headquarters of the Chinese Garrison Army step by step, because the commander Tashiro Wanichiro was seriously ill and hospitalized, and was temporarily represented by the chief of staff, Major General Hashimoto, so the telegram instructed matsui Tokuro, the chief of the Beiping Secret Service, to negotiate with the Chinese side, matsui Takuro immediately called qin Dechun, deputy commander of the Twenty-ninth Army and mayor of Beiping, to make representations, asking to enter Wanping City for a search, "If you do not open the city gate, The Imperial Japanese Army will forcibly enter the city. ”
Matsui Takuro then rushed to Wanping Castle with Sakurai Tokutaro Shōsa, the military adviser of the Japanese Army in the Twenty-ninth Army, to negotiate with Wang Lengzhai, the governor of Wanping County, and Ji Xingwen, commander of the 219th Regiment of the Thirty-seventh Division of the Twenty-ninth Army stationed in Wanping City.
However, just as the two sides were negotiating and negotiating, Matsui Takuro's classmate Mutaguchi Rinaga ordered the Japanese artillery to fire at Wanping City in the early morning of the 8th, in an attempt to intimidate and threaten the Chinese side with force to submit, and the Chinese defenders could not bear to fight back, repelling many attacks by the Japanese army, and the "July 7 Incident" broke out.
The Chinese defenders blocked the enemy at the "Lugou Bridge"
On August 31, 1937, the Chinese garrison in Tun was abolished, and at the same time the North China Front was formed, with its headquarters located at the former site of the Government of Qirui in The Beiping Duan, and Matsui Tataro was appointed as the headquarters department because he was familiar with the situation in Peiping, assisting the commander General Terauchi Shouichi, the chief of staff, Major General Naosaburo Okabe, and others, during which he participated in the formulation of the Armistice Agreement on the Lugou Bridge Incident.
On September 14, 1937, Matsui was transferred to the headquarters of the Kwantung Army and the head of the Zhangjiakou Secret Service, when the Chahar Dispatch Corps led by Hideki Tojo had already occupied Zhangjiakou, and based on the independent mixed 11th Brigade Regiment, it was organized into the 26th Division, the first three-unit division of the Japanese army, and Lieutenant General Jun miya, who served as the commander of the division, was his luda classmate, and on October 13, the Chahar Corps was abolished, and Matsui Tadaro was promoted to major general on November 1.
On June 10, 1938, Matsui Wasakuro was transferred to the 1st Infantry Brigade of the Guards Division, which was then commanded by Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu, and while the Japanese Kwantung Army and the Soviet Army were fighting fiercely in the Nomonkan area, Matsui was transferred back to the headquarters of the Kwantung Army on August 1, 1939 and the supreme military adviser of the puppet state of Manchukuo, and was promoted to lieutenant general a year later.
On October 15, 1940, Matsui succeeded Akihito Nakamura as the commander of the Japanese Fifth Division, which was stationed in French Indochina (i.e., Vietnam) and was directly under the general staff headquarters, and in December of that year it was reorganized into a three-unit division, the 9th Infantry Brigade and the 21st Infantry Brigade were abolished, and the 41st Infantry Regiment was transferred, leaving only the 11th Infantry Regiment, the 21st Infantry Regiment, and the 42nd Infantry Regiment, but the division still had more than 25,000 men.
The Fifth Division in attack
In order to implement the "Southward Expansion Plan", the Japanese base camp established the Japanese Southern Army on November 6, 1941, with General Terauchi Shouichi as the commander-in-chief, Lieutenant General Tsukada as the chief of the general staff, and the Fifth Division was incorporated into the operational sequence of Yamashita Bongfumi's Twenty-fifth Army, participating in the attack on Malaysia, Singapore and other places, forcing the British troops defending Singapore to surrender.
Shortly after the fall of Singapore, Matsui was transferred to the General Headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army and the supreme military adviser of the puppet Nanjing government on May 11, 1942, becoming the "Emperor Taishang" of the puppet government of Wang Jingwei, commanding the puppet regime of Wang Jingwei and implementing colonial rule.
On March 18, 1943, Matsui succeeded Shozo Kawabe as chief of the General Staff of the China Dispatch Army, assisting Hima Toshiro and Okamura As the commander-in-chief of two major battles, and committing many war crimes as a result.
Taikuro Matsui (Left 3) Shunroku Yohata
On February 1, 1945, Matsui was transferred to the commander of the 13th Army of the Japanese Army, with Lieutenant General Akio Doi as his chief of staff, the army was formed on September 4, 1939, with its headquarters in Shanghai, at that time the army under the jurisdiction of the 60th Division, the 61st Division, the 65th Division, the 69th Division, the 161st Division, and the independent mixed 90th Brigade, the 92nd Brigade, the 6th Independent Infantry Brigade, and the 1st Independent Garrison, with troops mainly distributed in Shanghai, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Xuzhou, Andcheng.
After Japan's unconditional surrender, Okamura Ningji, commander-in-chief of the Chinese dispatch army, instructed Matsui to serve as the chief officer of the surrender of the Sixth and Seventh Surrendered Areas, representing the surrender of the Japanese forces in the Hangzhou area and the Shanghai area, and taking Hangzhou and Shanghai as the place of surrender, respectively, while the chief officer of the sixth surrendered area was Gu Zhutong, commander of the Third Theater, and the chief officer of the seventh surrendered area was Tang Enbo, commander of the Third Front.
At 2:00 p.m. on September 11, 1945, the commander of the Japanese Thirteenth Army, Matsui Takuro, led by chief of staff Akio Doi and 5 others, was ordered to arrive at the Headquarters of the Third Front Army in the Seventh SurrenderEd Area, entered the headquarters office after disarming the saber, bowed to Tang Enbo and other military and political leaders, and after briefly introducing the personnel of the two sides, Tang Enbo immediately handed over the Order No. 1 of the Third Front Command to Matsui Takuro, who received it after signing, for matters that the order was not appropriate. Tombaugh asked the Japanese side to submit it in writing, and the whole process took only about 20 minutes.
Surrender Report
The surrender of the Japanese army in the seventh surrendered area has no solemn sense of ceremony at all, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was carried out in secret, which cannot but be said to be a very regrettable thing, and the sixth surrendered area is responsible for receiving the surrender of the Japanese army in Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Jinhua, Ningbo and other places, and at 10:00 a.m. on September 15, the surrendered chief officer Gu Zhutong summoned the surrender representatives designated by Matsui Taitaro, that is, the commander of the 133rd Division, Kazuharu No. Hara, the chief of staff, Hizawa Kazuharu, the commander of the independent mixed 62nd Brigade, Anderson Changling, and others, and immediately gave Hangzi Orders No. 1 and No. 2. He was ordered to convey to Matsui Takuro to comply with the implementation, and the Japanese side was signed and accepted by the chief of staff of the 133rd Division, Hizawa Kazuharu.
Gu Zhutong's official rank was even higher than That of Tang Enbo, and Matsui Tairo did not attend such an important occasion, which shows that neither side took such an important historical moment seriously, Matsui Tairo of course deliberately avoided humiliation, and Gu Zhutong did not deliberately force Matsui Tokuro to attend, resulting in the surrender of the sixth and seventh surrendered areas like a child's play, which was too lacking in historical responsibility, so that it was not known to the public at that time, and did not leave live photos for future generations to witness this historic moment.
The scene of the surrender ceremony in Nanjing
The reason for this situation is entirely due to the order issued by the General Headquarters of the Chinese Army: "No ceremony will be held for the surrender of the Japanese army in each surrendered area, except for Taiwan (including the Penghu Islands) and northern Vietnam, the surrendered officer will issue it in the form of an order or a directive, and the representative of the Japanese army in each region will sign the order certificate." However, after the issuance of this order, only a few surrendered areas complied with it, and most of the surrendered areas still held a signing ceremony for the surrender of the Japanese army.
Matsui was not demobilized until July 1946, and the reason for this was that there were still work to be done, such as the dismissal of officers and men, and Chen Cheng, then chief of staff of the Ministry of National Defense, submitted a letter to Chiang Kai-shek on November 29 of the same year, in accordance with the extradition request of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, to escort Okamura Ninji and Matsui Tokuro to Tokyo to testify in court for the trial of Class A war criminal Hata Shunroku, who had been the immediate boss of Okamura Ninji and Matsui Takuro, and Chiang Kai-shek agreed with the opinion of the Ministry of National Defense and only escorted Matsui Tokuro to testify in court.
Chen Cheng's submission
Matsui Takuro was known as "China Tong" for his long-term activities in China, especially for the outbreak of the "July 7 Incident", and served as the supreme military adviser of the puppet Manchukuo and the highest military adviser of the puppet Nanjing government, so he was included in the list of war criminals by the Nationalist government, but unfortunately, he was acquitted by the Shanghai Military Tribunal, and the criminal survived until June 10, 1969, before he fell ill and died at home.