Chapter 19 Chapter 4 The devil is coming (2)

2 My friend Fan Jianchuan is a collector of anti-Japanese cultural relics. He built the "Jianchuan (Private) Collection Museum Settlement" covering an area of ​​hundreds of acres near the famous "Liu Wencai Landlord Manor" in Dayi County, Sichuan Province, with an investment of hundreds of millions of yuan, the largest of which is the Anti-Japanese War Museum. It is divided into "Communist Anti-Japanese War Hall", "National Army Anti-Japanese War Hall", "U.S. Army Hall", "Japanese Army Hall", "Traitor Hall", "Captive Hall" and so on. There are hundreds of thousands of cultural relics exhibited in the museum, and its scale has exceeded The museum of its kind in China is second to none.

Jianchuan Museum also has a large collection of war materials collected from Japan and overseas, including books, pictorials, albums, special issues, extras, newspapers, posters, government documents, military documents, orders, telegrams, and Japanese soldiers’ diaries and letters in the field , photos, combat records, etc., are simply an archive library for studying evidence of Japan's crimes of aggression against China.For me, these war relics are very precious, because it will provide me with another perspective to re-examine the war of resistance against Japan, that is, to read and interpret the war from the perspective of the Japanese, so that I can find many The truth behind the war and unravel some of the historical mysteries that still puzzle us today.For this reason, I would like to thank the owner of the museum, Fan Jianchuan, who made an exception and opened up these undisclosed historical materials to me. My friend Mr. C is a Japanese teacher. The world of war against the Japanese with vicious enemies.

According to data records, at the beginning of the "China Incident" (that is, the "July 7th Incident"), major Japanese newspapers rushed to send more than 200 journalists (or special commissioners) to accompany the army, of which the "Asahi Shimbun" alone reached There were more than 80 people, and the Japanese military also urgently recruited or trained about 100 war correspondents.It needs to be explained here that journalists accompanying the army are not the same as journalists in the field of war. Journalists accompanying the army are journalists who report with the army, and their identity is still ordinary people, while reporters in the field of war are the army staff. In other words, they are soldiers who work as reporters. Guns to fight.With the expansion of the Sino-Japanese War and the outbreak of the Pacific War, the number of Japanese war reporters surged to more than 2,000. These Japanese soldiers, mainly armed with pens and cameras, went to China and even the Asian battlefield, becoming the main source of Japanese imperialism to manipulate public opinion and deceive the people. Media.

At that time, the Japanese military called them the glorious "pen troops", and war reporters were the so-called "pen warriors". I consulted several newspapers and magazines that had the greatest influence in Japan in the early days of the war, such as "China War Weekly", "Great East Asia Jihad Special", "Daily Frontline Express" and "Asahi Shimbun", "Mainichi Shimbun", "Yomiuri Shimbun" ", etc., you can read news, reports, features, newsletters, documentaries and other articles from the Chinese battlefield by war reporters. You can imagine how these ambitious "pen warriors" are active on the battlefield of aggression and massacre of the Chinese people.For example, a war reporter signed by "Shimizu Iwataro" wrote when recalling his experience on the battlefield: The outbreak of war... how ideal middle school students are!When the national anthem is sung, the blood in my body is like a burning flame... I am good friends with Kawabe-kun and Nojima-kun. Originally, Nojima-kun is going to study in Europe, and Kawabe-kun is very hopeful to join a professional club. And my father hoped that I would continue to study in college, but we all chose to enlist in the army without hesitation... During the physical examination, the three of us all reached the first class, we are really lucky... I remember when the female classmates privately Everyone here is very envious of us, and I have received the good blessing that "this journey will be like the passing of cherry blossoms in full bloom"...

I am deeply shocked that such a barbaric, bloody and unjust war of aggression is so desirable in the eyes of Japanese journalists, full of sacred dedication and national pride, and I believe this happens to be the Emperor of Japan and the fascist military state One of the evils of doctrine.In fact, during World War II, most of the battlefield reports and photos that were used to glorify the war of aggression in Japan came from the so-called impressive achievements of this "pen army". Up to hundreds of people.In the course of my researching a large number of Japanese materials, this war reporter named "Shimizu Iwataro" has repeatedly attracted my attention, because this reporter not only was extremely active in the Chinese battlefield, but also from the outbreak of the war to the following year, he was very active in major newspapers and periodicals in Japan. He has published more than dozens of battlefield reports and communication articles on the Internet, and his reports are mainly about the so-called "records" of the 14th Division of Dohibara on the North China battlefield. Based on this, it is inferred that he should be the special commissioner (reporter) stationed in the unit.

I was overjoyed and hopeful, because the 14th Division happened to be the main force of the Japanese army in the Battle of Eastern Henan, and it was the vicious enemy that I most urgently needed to know about in this book.The historical materials that the Chinese side has been able to find so far about the activities of the 14th Division during this period are not only quite limited, but most of them are understated. I also noticed a detail. The reporter’s last report on the battlefield was sent from “Central China”, which is today’s Henan Province, in June 1938. That is, it disappeared without a trace.I guess there are only two reasonable explanations: one is that he resigned for some reason and no longer serves as a war correspondent.The other is "jade broken", that is, dead.

As part of the invading army, the "pen samurai" used pens as knives to beautify the war and poison the hearts of the Japanese people, which is difficult for Japanese samurai wielding butcher knives. The Japanese aggressors are firmly nailed to the pillar of historical shame, providing a new factual basis for us to re-understand the past war.