In 1945, in the unremitting struggle of the Chinese people, the 14-year-long War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression came to an end, and the Japanese Emperor announced his unconditional surrender through the radio. However, Okamura Ningji, a Japanese officer who was fighting in China, did not think so after receiving the news, and tried in vain to use the 800,000 Japanese troops in his hands to resist stubbornly, and actually ordered the Japanese army to "continue to fight"!
The edification of militarist ideas
Ninji Okamura was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1884. Although he was a premature baby, under the meticulous care of his parents, Okamura Ninji's body was stronger than that of his peers.
At this time, Japan already had ambitions to invade other countries and opened many military schools in the country. Coupled with the proliferation of the spirit of traditional Japanese Bushido, society is full of fanatical yearning for war. Ninji Okamura, who grew up in such an atmosphere, entered the Tokyo Army School with the idea of loyalty to the emperor.
In 1904, at the age of 20, Okamura took the initiative to go to the front and became an infantryman in the war against Russia. In the Battle of Sakhalin Island, he shot many times at the Russian soldiers, and the close-quarters fighting outside the marksmanship was not timid. The cruel and bloody methods made Okamura Ninji famous when he first entered the battlefield, and he could not help but believe that he would become an excellent killing machine of the Empire.
Okamura, who has been fighting for many years, has been promoting in the military, but stationed in North Korea does not seem to be able to stretch his lofty ambitions. Japanese militarism has long coveted a vast and vast China, and that is where his career took off. After repeated requests to participate in the war of aggression against China, in 1931, Okamura Ningji successfully obtained approval and led the Kwantung Army to participate in the creation of the September 18 Incident. Since then, the butcher knife has been extended to the innocent Chinese people.
Aggression against China
Okamura Ninji put forward the "three lights" policy in the aggression against China, that is, wherever the Japanese army went, it was necessary to burn, rob, and kill the light, and leave no way for the Chinese to live. Only in this way can we occupy the Chinese mainland as soon as possible and realize the so-called "common prosperity in East Asia" touted by the Japanese Empire.
After the September 18 Incident, Okamura Ninji, as deputy chief of staff, led the Japanese army to provoke an incident in Shanghai, triggering the Battle of Songhu. Later, as a commander, he led the Japanese 11th Army to Nanjing, where he participated in the inhumane Nanjing Massacre. Whenever he encountered resistance, he always ruthlessly slaughtered the nearby villages to play a terrifying deterrent effect of killing a hundred people.
The countrymen who stubbornly guarded their homeland shattered the Japanese army's illusion of "destroying China in three months". Okamura found that the Japanese army was dragged into a protracted battle, and the logistics supply seemed to be struggling. Therefore, he vigorously promoted the Three Lights Policy, encouraged his subordinates to plunder the Japanese-occupied areas, and tried to kill two birds with one stone, so as to force the Eighth Route Army into a corner.
For Japan, a small country with a small projectile, the shortage of troops has always been a big problem. In 1944, Ninji Okamura, who was appointed commander-in-chief of the dispatch army, had up to 800,000 Japanese soldiers. He originally wanted to focus his strategic focus on Chongqing and attract reinforcements from the International Anti-Fascist League to China in order to alleviate the pressure of the Japanese mainland being attacked by the United States and Russia, but he had to give up due to the problem of troop strength.
On August 14, 1945, after receiving the emperor's order to retreat and surrender, Okamura was very unhappy. Once mighty Tsarist Russia was defeated by the Japanese army, it was only a matter of time before it occupied backward China. So he was stubborn and prepared to turn the tables with the remaining 800,000 people in his hands. But Japan's surrender was the trend of the times, and he could not change it at all.
Acquitted war criminals
After the surrender, Okamura Ninji led the Japanese soldiers back to Japan in a daze. The following year, after a trial at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo, Okamura was identified as one of 28 Class A war criminals. However, Okamura Ningji, who was covered in blood, did not get the punishment he deserved, and he evaded hanging several times with the help of Chiang Kai-shek. The Kuomintang government even set up a public trial court in Nanjing, and publicly declared Okamura Ningji innocent!
Chiang Kai-shek ignored the boiling popular anger, distorted history, and wooed Okamura Ningji. It was to use this person to train the army to achieve the goal of confrontation with the Communist Party. According to Okamura's memoirs in his later years, Chiang Kai-shek was so kind and generous to him that even he himself did not expect to escape the punishment of the law.
After the founding of New China, Chiang Kai-shek, who had lost Taiwan, was still not dead-hearted and invited many officers who invaded China, including Okamura Ningji, to Taiwan to guide the army. He did not care about international public opinion at all, and only wanted to invade the mainland and rebuild the Kuomintang regime. For a person like Chiang Kai-shek, who has an extremely strong idea of class oppression, the people's livelihood that should be valued the most is left behind, and instead he calls the enemy a brother and a brother, and naturally it is impossible to receive the popularity of the people.
Okamura Ningji, who was full of evil, was able to spend a peaceful old age under the protection of Chiang Kai-shek, and no one with patriotic feelings could accept this result, but Chiang Kai-shek still insisted on going his own way. In 1966, Okamura finally closed his eyes, ending his violent and bloody life.
epilogue:
After Japan declared defeat and surrender, Okamura Ninji, who stubbornly refused to surrender, was really hateful. What is even more hateful is that the former Kuomintang government, in order to fight for power and profit, disregarded the facts of the war, ignored the mutilated people, and openly declared the innocence of war criminal Okamura Ningji. I was simply dazzled by lard! Such a government is doomed not to last, as evidenced by the facts.