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Since Japan invaded China in 1931, it has burned and looted in China' territory, and has done all kinds of evil deeds. The Japanese soldiers were brainwashed by the spirit of Bushido, committed suicide at every turn, and swore allegiance to the emperor to the death, which was also the main reason why our army captured few Japanese prisoners.
However, the actions of Kawamura and Ishii, the captains of the garrison of the Japanese Independent Mixed Eleventh Brigade in Jiangyin Prefecture, as well as the county's liaison officers Inamoto and Uchie, and the cooperative manager Narita, were very different from the Japanese devils that people were accustomed to knowing.
They use the power in their hands to collude with each other, form parties for personal gain, and do whatever it takes to make money. Under the pretext of sweeping up the anti-Japanese armed forces, robbing the people, extorting and extorting money, they did not show mercy to their own people, and even sold military materials to the New Fourth Army, which made people stunned.
The following is an article compiled by the author from the archives of the Japanese army for the benefit of readers.
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The Japanese army captured Jiangyin
On December 2, 1937, the Chinese defenders stubbornly resisted the Japanese army in Jiangyin for many days, and finally ran out of ammunition and food, and were ordered to withdraw from the county seat, and the Japanese army occupied Jiangyin.
Jiangyin County is located in the south of Jiangsu, north of the Yangtze River, south of Taihu Lake, has always been a place of contention between soldiers and families.
After the Japanese occupation, they imposed an eight-year reign of white terror on Jiangyin, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, and owed countless Chinese people in blood debts.
After the Japanese army occupied Jiangyin, the 48th Independent Brigade of the 11th Brigade was stationed in Jiangyin militarily. The Japanese garrisoned one squadron in the county seat, the Jiangyin County Garrison, and the other strongholds had two infantry squadrons and an artillery squadron.
Politically, the maintenance committee system was implemented, and after the establishment of the Wang puppet government, pseudo-governments at all levels were established. The Japanese sent two agents as liaison officers to supervise the puppet government, and were actually the heads of the Jiangyin County government.
They gathered intelligence, arrested anti-Japanese people, collected grain and money, and actively cooperated with the brutal rule of the Japanese army Chinese people.
Economically, cooperatives headed by Japanese veterans were set up to frantically plunder Chinese resources to feed the war.
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In March 1941, on a sunny afternoon, in the office of Lieutenant Emura of the Japanese Gangin Garrison, Emura leaned back in a chair and fell asleep.
Suddenly, the squad leader Ishii hurriedly reported and caught three suspicious people, one of whom was an imperial veteran, claiming to be a Suzhou tax official.
Jiangcun was full of questions, what did the Suzhou tax official do in Jiangyin? With doubts in his eyes, Emura personally interrogated the tax collector.
The lieutenant of "Underground Traffic Station" trades goods with the puppet army
After interrogation, the Japanese man, who called himself Miyamoto Yukio, was indeed a Suzhou tax collector, and he led his subordinates to Jiangyin to collect a salt tax, and the owner lived in Jiangyin and sold salt between Suzhou and Jiangyin.
Jiangcun was furious when he heard it, you collected suzhou salt tax in Jiangyin, isn't this an ultra vires tax? Dare to grab money in Lao Tzu's territory, too bold.
He ordered Ishii to pay a fine of 300 yuan to Go, and did not take it as an example, otherwise the consequences would be borne by himself.
Miyamoto Yukio cried and laughed, knowing that this was Emura's extortion, but he had no choice but to pay a fine of 300 yuan and flee back to Suzhou with his subordinates.
When Miyamoto returned to Suzhou, he immediately wrote down the matter of Jiangcun's extortion and complained to the Military Law Conference (equivalent to a military court) of the independent mixed eleventh brigade regiment.
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After receiving the complaint, the military judicial conference sent three prosecutors to Jiangyin to investigate the matter.
After a janitive visit, three Japanese prosecutors submitted an investigative report to the Judicial Code Of Command. The article is to the effect of the following:
Lieutenant Emura was a native of Kyushu and was a senior employee of the Tokyo Imperial Silk Company before joining the army, and earned a good income.
The man is known as a business acumen, greedy for money and pleasures, and weak in will. During his tenure as captain of the Jiangyin garrison, he co-opted ishii, the leader of a small detachment, Inada and Neijiang, the head of the Suzhou secret service in jiangyin county government, Narita, the head of the Japan Economic Cooperative, and Chinese Li Zimin, chief of the Jiangyin County Police Bureau.
The lieutenant of "Underground Traffic Station" trades artillery with the New Fourth Army
They are in a state of rage and mischief. By lying about military information, looting materials, selling them privately, colluding with the New Fourth Army privately, selling military supplies, and privately releasing prisoners of the New Fourth Army, it caused major economic losses to the Empire.
Lieutenant Emura is the main culprit in this ccp corruption case, and he hopes that the Military Judicial Congress will arrest the above suspects to correct military discipline.
The main evidence of their crimes were:
1. Jiangcun lied about military information, led Ishii to Houcheng Town to clear the New Fourth Army, occupied the New Fourth Army Arsenal (doubtful, pending investigation), and seized 40 boxes of soap, 44 boxes of candles, 220 cans of kerosene, and 10 bicycles.
Emura sold the above-mentioned booty to the head of the cooperative, Narita, for a total of 2500 yuan (the monthly income of the Japanese lieutenant general was about 500 yuan).
Two: Jiangcun led Shijing to occupy Zhouzhuang under the pretext of sweeping Zhouzhuang. Looting, buying a large amount of rice and bean cake at a low price, and selling it to Narita, making a profit of thousands of yuan.
Three: Jiangcun is responsible for looting materials, indahine, Neijiang, Li Zimin and other ventilation messages, assisting Jiangcun and Ishii to seize the materials, handed over to the cooperative Narita to sell to the market, and then proportionally divided the dirty, only this month profit of more than 20,000 yuan.
Four: Extortion and extortion of Imperial workers without cause. Extorted 300 yuan from Suzhou tax collector Yukio Miyamoto.
5. Suspected of adultery with the Communist Party's New Fourth Army. Jiang Cun had received some cash from the Sixth Division of the New Fourth Army (the amount is unknown), ordered the release of two Prisoners of the New Fourth Army, and repeatedly traded military supplies with the Sixth Division of the New Fourth Army, in huge quantities.
The lieutenant of the "Underground Traffic Station" arranged for his subordinates to trade military supplies with the New Fourth Army
finale
The commander of the 11th Independent Mixed Brigade of the Japanese Army (the head of the Japanese military and the head of the Military Justice Conference) was shocked when he saw the report, and hurriedly ordered the arrest of relevant suspects, strict interrogation, and the conclusion of the case and reporting it to the Military Department.
The Japanese gendarmes then arrested seventeen people, including Inada, Neijiang, Ishii, Narita, and Li Zimin, but Lieutenant Emura escaped without a trace (one said to surrender to the New Fourth Army, the other said to flee to Hong Kong).
The case was reported to the Japanese Military Department, and the then Minister of Land Tojo Hideki was furious after seeing it, ordered severe punishment of relevant criminals, and listed the case as a teaching material for the Japanese army's anti-corruption campaign.
The case was tried expeditiously by the Military Judicial Council, and all 17 of the perpetrators were shot, and only the main offender, Emura, escaped.
This case further shows that the Japanese army is influenced by the spirit of Bushido, and it seems to be loyal and courageous, but in fact it is not monolithic, and there are also people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, greedy for money and pleasure.
Remarks: In the TV series "Underground Traffic Station", the plot of the Japanese artillery squadron leader trading arms with the New Fourth Army and doing business for profit originated from this case.
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