The Japanese squad leader who forced the death of the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain returned to Wolf's Tooth Mountain 50 years later to prostrate himself and apologize
Speaking of the War of Resistance Against Japan, I believe that everyone, like Zifei, is very sad and angry in their hearts, and the damage caused by this war to the mainland is very huge. During the Republic of China period, under the banner of establishing the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," the Japanese invaded the mainland openly, and they were mad on the battlefield and committed many evil deeds. They burned and plundered without any evil, even the old and weak women and children did not spare, and many innocent people on the mainland died at the hands of the Japanese Kou. Although the disparity between the mainland and Japan in military equipment was relatively large, the military and people of the mainland united as one, united to resist Japan, and finally drove the Japanese back to their hometown, won the war, and defended the sovereignty of the country.
What we should be most thankful for for the victory in this war is those anti-Japanese fighters, those heroic fighters, who went to the soup in the midst of artillery fire, regardless of life and death, and spilled their blood for the sake of the country and the people. Because of their existence, the mainland can finally win the victory, and we must pay the highest respect to these heroes. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, there were many heroic deeds, the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain is one of them, for this heroic deed, many people should be more familiar with it, ZiFei learned about them when he was in elementary school, and the deeds of the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain occurred on Wolf's Tooth Mountain in Baoding Yi County, Hebei Province.
In August 1941, the Japanese army in North China carried out an unprecedented large-scale sweep of the anti-Japanese base area in beiyue District, and on September 24, more than 3,000 Japanese troops attacked the area around Langya Mountain under the cover of aircraft and artillery, hoping to eliminate the leading organs and the main force of the Jin-Cha-Ji First Sub-district in one fell swoop. At this time, the firepower of the Japanese Kou was very fierce, and our army was not its opponent, so in order to preserve its strength, our army decided to transfer. That night, the leading organs of the first division and a regiment of the main force were transferred, leaving seven companies and six squads of fighters to tie the enemy down on Wolf's Tooth Mountain.
At noon on the 25th, in order to ensure the safe transfer of the main force, the squad leader Ma Baoyu, the deputy squad leader Ge Zhenlin, the soldiers Hu Delin, Hu Fucai, Song Xueyi, and five others opened fire to lead the enemy to the top of the wolf-tooth mountain chessboard peak, and used the terrain on the mountain to fiercely return fire on the enemy, and finally ran out of food. After there were no bullets, they began to stone the enemy again, but they were still invincible to the Japanese, and when the enemy was about to attack, the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain shouted at the Japanese on the edge of the cliff: "Down with Japanese imperialism!" "Long live the Chinese Communist Party!" After shouting, they resolutely jumped into the bottom of the cliff.
Among the five heroes, Ge Zhenlin and Song Xueyi were fortunate to survive because they hung on a branch, and the other three were heroically sacrificed, after which Ge Zhenlin also participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea and made a lot of merits, and Song Xueyi returned to his hometown to work. Originally, everything was calm, but one day in July 1997, an 80-year-old veteran of the invasion of China accompanied by his son came to Yi County, saying that he was the leader of the Japanese army squad that forced the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain to the cliff, and Liu Jianjun, the county magistrate of Yi County, heard about it and received them. This veteran of the invasion of China, called Kagita Kosuke, said that when he personally saw the five heroes of Wolf's Tooth Mountain jump off the cliff, that scene was very shocking, even after many years, it still reverberated in front of his eyes. At that time, after seeing the five heroes jump off the cliff, in order to show respect, he and his japanese subordinates all took off their hats to salute the cliff, and also fired their guns to salute.
However, this act of paying tribute to the Eighth Route Army was denounced, and after returning to the army, Yukisuke Maoda was dealt with by his superiors. Liu Jianjun heard the silence here, and accompanied the veterans of the invasion of China to the foot of the Wolf's Tooth Mountain, when the old man stepped down from the car, stood up and saluted in the posture of a soldier, and kept saying something in his mouth, as if he was repenting. After the ceremony, the old man suddenly fell to his knees, kept prostrating his head at the Wolf's Tooth Mountain, and even cried, as if he was really repenting of his original behavior. The various acts of the Japanese elderly coming to Yixian were widely publicized, which was a very friendly signal for Sino-Japanese relations at this time, but in the end there was a voice of doubt. It turned out that after the father and son returned to China, there was no news, as if they had disappeared, and Liu Jianjun had also inquired about their news many times and found the embassy in Japan, but in the end they were not found.
According to some information provided by the old man at that time, it seems that things are not very reasonable, in 1997, the old man came to Yi County, at this time he was about to celebrate his 80th birthday, the old man told Liu Jianjun when he left Yi County, his real name was Mao Tian Yuki, not Mao Tian Yusuke, but in the files of the Japanese army invading China, there was no Mao Tian Yuki this person. In 2011, Liu Jianjun tweeted that on March 15, Kosuke Maoda, president of Daiki Corporation, who had worked with Japan for many years, had a phone call and expressed his condolences for the earthquake. If you look at the age of 1997, in 2011, Yusuke Maoda should have been 94 years old, and the 94-year-old should not still be the president, so age is a big doubt. However, regardless of whether this information is true or false, the veterans of the Japanese invasion of China kowtow and apologize in order to repent of their crimes.