In addition to the Japanese officers who participated in the Nanjing Massacre, those sentenced to death by the Anti-Union Military Court for crimes against humanity also included those who could find evidence and were captured on the Chinese battlefield, and other Japanese officers who committed crimes of massacre of Chinese people.
This includes Colonel Ben Fanjiu, who massacred all the villagers in an entire village and some prisoners of war in Leling.
This Colonel Motoshigehisa was sent to the execution ground together with a small number of colonel-level officers, two royal families, two army generals, plus a group of active and retired lieutenant generals and major generals. In this regard, Yang Zhen
It was still very humanitarian. After the execution, their ashes were sent back to the mainland on a plane.
Of course, this is all a thing for later, at least it is not the time to implement it now. The war has already reached this point, and Yang Zhen, who has already turned part of his thoughts to the post-war period and is painstakingly planning some major post-war operations, does not want to do it at this time.
Something extraneous is happening.
I don’t even want to create opportunities for certain parties on certain issues. After all, you can’t let many people go to the battlefield to fight, but they are very good at making unnecessary actions. Sometimes there is pressure from politics and public opinion.
, often more troublesome than military pressure.
The situation is different now, and some things can no longer be taken privately under the situation of the past two years. There are many restrictions on what you can do now. In some aspects, you should put away some hands and feet. You still need to put away some hands and feet.
, so Yang Zhen still emphasizes the discipline of prisoners of war.
In addition to the central government's strict regulations on prisoners. After re-opening contact with the central government, some things can no longer be handled as before. We must abide by the policies and disciplines formulated by the central government. After all, we still have to follow the central government's major requirements and directions.
Did it.
And he didn't want his troops to turn into an army of beasts and cannibals like the Japanese army. At the very least, Yang Zhen didn't want his troops to be blamed for killing prisoners out of righteous indignation. If he didn't kill these guys now, what else would he do?
There are those large and small Japanese war criminals who invaded China who have fallen into the hands of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, in order to better judge these beasts in the future.
War crimes against humanity, the most severe crimes stipulated in the International Military Tribunal established to try Nazi German war criminals and the Charter of the European International Military Tribunal, were thoroughly used by Yang Zhen after the war. According to him
, all Japanese officers during World War II, especially senior officers, committed this crime at least on the Chinese battlefield. One by one, there were basically no exceptions.
As for the troops who are currently gnashing their teeth with hatred for this guy, but are restricted by discipline and cannot kill him directly, we don’t know yet. Their number one will not let go of Colonel Motoshigehisa, as well as all those who committed crimes on the Chinese battlefield.
He suffered a lot of blood debt, but relied on the asylum of Americans to escape punishment in the end.
Moreover, the war was in such a hurry that these cadres and soldiers were not given much time to think and think. After completing the encirclement and annihilation of the remnants of the 259th Regiment of Li Gan, the participating troops started on the spot from Huangjia Town and headed eastward according to the scheduled combat plan.
Sweep. Cooperate with the various troops in the frontal attack on the entire Ningjin and Leling front lines. Because they could not evacuate without alerting the enemy troops in front of them, Yanagawa Shinichi stayed behind to attract the attention of the Anti-Alliance.
It turned out that the troops who were entangled with the two Japanese divisions on the front line from Ningjin to Qingyun for more than 20 days, although they also caused a lot of casualties to the Japanese troops in front of them. But in the long tug-of-war, not only
He suffered heavy casualties and was extremely exhausted.
It would be difficult for the troops who had been holding on to the front line alone to clear out the more or less remnant enemies left behind by Yanagawa Shinichi in a short period of time. If he wanted to leave no hidden dangers behind, Tao Jingfei had no choice but to take action himself.
Complete the elimination of these remaining Japanese enemies in the shortest possible time.
Judging from the massacre carried out by the Japanese troops on the Dingli Gan front line before their evacuation, if the remaining enemies on the entire battlefield cannot be cleared out in the shortest time, who can guarantee whether these dying Japanese troops will make more crazy moves?
? Clean it up early, and you don’t have to worry about what these guys are doing behind you.
Even though these Japanese troops were divided into pieces and each one had a small number of troops, under the current situation, it was actually difficult for them to pose much of a threat. But Tao Jingfei still understood the principle of taking precautions in the bud.
Yes. Clean the house early so that you can leave early.
While the troops participating in the battle on the front line of Huangjia Town had completed the encirclement and annihilation of the remnants of the 259th Regiment and swept the remaining enemies eastwards, the two regiments that launched the attack from the front of Ningjin stopped the troops from the front of the original Ningjin battlefield and assembled.
With the cooperation of their forces, they launched a full-line attack on the remnants of the 115th Division. The reinforced battalion that broke through the front line of Huangjia Town penetrated directly behind the 85th Brigade on the right wing of the 115th Division.
In cooperation with the frontal assault troops, they completed the encirclement of more than 1,500 remaining troops of the 85th Brigade. They then attacked and advanced from east to west with one force, attacking the 86th Brigade on the right wing of the Ningjin battlefield.
In cooperation with the battlefield west of Dezhou, Du Kaishan's troops were crossing at high speed to encircle the Japanese troops in the entire Dezhou battlefield.
At the Yanjiujia front line in the easternmost part of the battlefield, a reorganized division from Tao Jingfei's command, who rushed here to set up an ambush, also caught up with this line and was retreating at full speed, but ran into the ambush circle.
The remnants of the regiment, plus about 3,000 troops directly under the command, carried out the final encirclement and annihilation campaign.
He was afraid that he would retreat too late and be surrounded by anti-union tank groups in Laoling. Yanagawa Shinichi, who was eager to retreat, did not withdraw from the 259th Regiment after the two regiments 260 and 261 withdrew.
When they came down, they immediately commanded the remnants of the two regiments that had already completed the evacuation, and quickly retreated eastward along the north and south lines of the old Sinvsi River road.
When Tao Jingfei took the lead in the front line of Huangjia Town, Yanagawa Shinichi, who commanded the remaining troops to withdraw across the road between Qingyun and Leling. After hearing the overwhelming sound of gunfire from behind, not only did he not feel sorry for the 259th Alliance in his heart
The team was worried, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Yanagawa Shinichi believed that his decision to quickly leave the Leling battlefield without waiting for the 259th Regiment to withdraw was very correct. If he had waited until the 259th Regiment to evacuate and broke away from contact with the enemy before retreating, I am afraid that the two regiments would
The troops could not be saved. It was his timely retreat and the brave men who cut off their wrists at the critical moment that saved the last trace of vitality of the 120th Division.
As for whether the 259th Regiment, which was responsible for cutting off the rear for the entire division, could eventually escape the onslaught of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and retreat, Yanagawa Shinichi did not hold out much hope. Not only did he not give any advice to the 259th Regiment,
Any support. In my heart, I still hope that the 259th Regiment can hold off the resistance alliance in front of them for as long as possible.
Anyway, when the battlefield is unfavorable, this tactic of cutting off the tail of a gecko is also a very common tactic used by the Japanese army. Since other divisions that have suffered defeats on the battlefield have adopted this tactic, then it is
Not more than one hundred and twenty divisions.
For Shinichi Yanagawa, the longer the 259th Regiment can resist on the front line of Dingli Gan, the more advantageous it will be for his main force to break through. It is precisely because of this mentality that the 259th Regiment fights to the death at Dingli Gan.
At that time, Yanagawa Shinichi kept urging the main force of the division to speed up the march.
However, Shinichi Yanagawa, who thought he was very clever in his calculations, did not expect that as soon as the remaining defeated soldiers under his command withdrew past the East Sanli line, a large number of anti-alliance troops suddenly came out from both wings. Under the cover of intensive artillery fire, he personally commanded him
The retreating troops implemented a three-sided siege.
Although he was worried about whether he would be intercepted by the enemy during the retreat, he had already made sufficient preparations when formulating the entire retreat plan. Therefore, during the retreat, Yanagawa Shinichi did not send the remaining troops of the two regiments
Instead of gathering together, they took the approach of running the north and south routes in parallel.
I just hope that when encountering a blockage or interception, the two units can support each other and cooperate in combat, so that they can gain a glimmer of hope in critical moments. Don't let others block the remnants of the two regiments on one route. When the time comes,
There is no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth.
According to the original judgments of Yanagawa Shinichi and Nakanishi Manchujiro, they would definitely encounter interception when retreating. This can be said to be inevitable. Although the enemy troops were moving through the entire battlefield too fast and there were not many troops left in depth.
Look, the number of enemy forces you may encounter may not be too many, but there will definitely be enemy interception operations.
It was also based on this judgment that although there were not many available troops in hand, the two decided to divide their troops into two groups. One was to speed up the retreat, and the other was to hope that they could be used tactically when needed.
The role of mutual cooperation.
Both Yanagawa Shinichi and Nakanishi Manchujiro believed that as long as the two units retreating from the north to the south along the old path of the Shimeji River cooperate properly, even if they encounter an interception, as long as the enemy does not dispatch a large number of tanks, it is still possible to rush out in one go. Moreover,
Running the two units in parallel at the same time is also conducive to alternate cover when needed.
If one road encounters an interception, the other road can fully support and cooperate. In the view of Yanagawa Shinichi and Nakanishi Manchujiro, this deployment is almost the best choice under the current situation. The only drawback is that once the enemy is encountered
The two armies, both of which are insufficient in strength, may be defeated by the enemy at the same time.
Although in Yanagawa Shinichi's view, the probability of this possibility is very slim. For the sake of safety, Yanagawa Shinichi placed the scouts far away during the retreat. At least they would not encounter an enemy ambush during the retreat. But he
Now the troops, whose strength is insufficient, are divided into two routes to retreat. However, they cannot take care of the depth of both wings of the entire retreat route.
However, they were both mentally prepared and mentally prepared. Facing a reorganized division of the Anti-Japanese Alliance that had an absolute advantage in terms of military strength and was fighting from all sides, Yanagawa Shinichi and his men were still beaten into a trap in a short period of time.
Chaos. And the scouts he sent out never had time to send back any useful information.
What Yanagawa Shinichi never expected was that in order to deal with him and his remaining defeated generals, the Anti-Japanese Alliance deployed an entire infantry division on the Yanjia front line. Not only did it form an absolute superiority in firepower, but it also formed an absolute superiority in military strength.
Two infantry regiments lay in ambush on both sides of his entire march.
The most critical ambush troops were quite patient. They watched the Japanese scouts pass by without launching an attack. They waited patiently for all the main forces of his division to enter the ambush circle. In order to conceal their whereabouts, the troops involved in the ambush had to move throughout the ambush area.
, and try to be as elaborately disguised as possible.
Moreover, when setting up an ambush, the anti-alliance ambush force, which had an absolute advantage in strength, consciously stretched the ambush circle very long. Before the Japanese scouts had time to contact the blocking troops at the bottom of the ambush circle, they discovered and reported the enemy's situation. They were deployed on four sides.
The anti-alliance ambush troops on both sides of the old road along the Nvsi River have started in full swing.