Chapter 22 16. Destroyed the "Special Team Yamamoto" ahead of time?

In the battlefield photo collection "Manchuria Incident Photo Collection" published in 1933 by Tokyo Nihon Shimbun Agency, the following photo appeared. Several Japanese monks guarded the station to welcome the urns of three Japanese soldiers who died in the northeast. This kind of scene is not new, because according to statistics, after the Japanese army captured the Northeast, due to the tenacious resistance of the soldiers and civilians in the Northeast, the Kwantung Army transported the remains of about 50 Japanese officers and soldiers back to China almost every month.What is new is that the ranks of these three Japanese troops are not low. Masa Katsuhiro and Tatsuryu Inoue are major commanders, and Hideto Watanabe with the highest rank is even a middle commander. All three were killed at the same time and on the same ground.In film and television dramas, you can often see shots of easily killing a few Japanese commanders or generals, but in the real war of resistance, it is not easy to kill a Japanese commander.In a battle like Pingxingguan, the result was nothing more than the killing of two Japanese lieutenants.Therefore, killing one lieutenant commander and two major commanders at a time on the Northeast battlefield is worth following such a battle.

The Chinese side also recorded this battle, claiming that it was a plane that the Japanese army communicated with the so-called "international police force" (composed of personnel from Japan, North Korea, and China, actually controlled by the Japanese army) stationed in Hailar, September 27, 1932 , because the plane was not aware that the patriotic general Su Bingwen's army had pledged to fight against Japan that day, when it was about to land at Hailar Airport, it was violently shot by the troops of Su Bingwen and Zhang Dianjiu.The driver hurriedly diverted to Manzhouli, and was shot by rebel troops at Manzhouli Airport. When the plane flew to the vicinity of Nianzi Mountain, it landed on Wudao Liangzi Mountain in the north of Wangdaluotun in Gannan due to lack of fuel.The Japanese soldiers on the plane exchanged fire with the local Self-Defense Forces who tended to resist Japan, and were killed after burning documents.

There are other records in the "Hailar Literature and History Materials"—— On September 27, the Kwantung Army sent a transport plane to carry out reconnaissance along the route from Fularji to Hailar. When the enemy plane arrived near Guanzi Mountain, it suddenly broke down and was forced to land. All 8 reconnaissance personnel on board were killed.Su Bingwen's troops disassembled the plane and transported it to Hailar by train. On October 8, the Japanese reconnaissance plane flew to Hailar and found that the transport plane had been assembled at the airport there.For this reason, the Kwantung Army decided to send the 1st Squadron of Heavy Bombers from the 12th Bomber Battalion to dispatch from Qiqihar and fly to Hailar to blow up the transport plane. On October 15, the No. 1 Heavy Bomber Squadron flew to Hailar to blow up the transport plane and return.

This should be how Watanabe and others were killed. However, according to the Chinese records, the Japanese troops made an emergency landing due to a plane failure (the plane was not too damaged), and were besieged and wiped out by the Chinese side. The Japanese records are different, saying that these The Japanese army officer was killed when the plane he was flying was shot down by Su Bingwen's army when he was trying to rescue the Japanese soldiers captured by Su Bingwen's troops. Eight Japanese officers and soldiers were killed in the whole plane. Serve as squad commander.Pilot Koro Sakakura and other flight non-commissioned officers died at the same time. Others who died included Shiro Toyama and Saji Iwamura, members of the Kwantung Army's Special Service Department.

Su Bingwen, courtesy name Hanzhang, was born in Xinmin County, Liaoning Province, and graduated from the first batch of Baoding Military Academy. After the "September 18th" incident, Su Bingwen, who served as the commander of the road protection of Hamon Road, led the Hulunbuir army and civilians to support Ma Zhanshan's war of resistance in Jiangqiao.After Ma Zhanshan was defeated and retreated to the east, Su Bingwen led his army back to Hailar. Because Hulunbuir was flat and there was no danger to defend, he organized the National Salvation Support Association and carried out anti-Japanese activities. Its a request to the Occupation Zone Conference. In the autumn of 1932, the former Northeast Army-controlled areas in various parts of the Northeast fell one after another, leaving only a corner of Hulunbuir, and the Japanese army pressed harder and harder.Unbearable, Su Bingwen led his troops to raise the flag of rebellion on September 27. On October 1, he officially announced his appointment as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast People's National Salvation Army.

Su Bingwen made adequate preparations before the incident.The Japanese army had oppressed the Soviet Union and forced it to accept the requirement of stationing an "international police force" in Manchuria. On September 27, when Su Bingwen started the incident, he disarmed the international police force controlled by the Japanese army, killed the resisting Japanese army, took control of the Japanese consulate and secret service agencies, and captured Captain Shigetaka Ohara, the head of the Japanese secret service in Manchuria, and Captain Uno of the international police. It is this group of Japanese soldiers that Watanabe and others are going to rescue.

This Japanese transport plane is also quite interesting, and the Japanese army even flew to destroy it. It is speculated that it was a Fokker F3/7 transport plane purchased by Japan from Germany in 1928, which was a relatively advanced aircraft at that time.In addition to two pilots, this aircraft can carry eight crew members, and it was also one of the few aircraft that the Japanese army could fly to Manzhouli and Hailar from its controlled area at that time. In 1932, the "Manchuria Aviation Co., Ltd." hosted by Japan once used this kind of aircraft, and it is normal for the Japanese army to requisition it.

The Fokker F3/7 transport aircraft has three engines, which can ensure that when one engine fails, it can return safely.From this perspective, it is difficult for ordinary accidents to destroy this kind of aircraft, but it is more likely that the Japanese record will be shot down by the Chinese. Since the Japanese information shows that Watanabe and others did not go to "reconnaissance", but to "rescue", the Japanese captured more than 100 people in Hulun Buir, and Watanabe and other mere eight people, how this rescue method is a bit unimaginable. Although there is no direct historical data, a piece of information about Hideto Watanabe's lieutenant aroused Sa's interest. It turned out that this person was a graduate of the 29th class of the Japanese Army University, and he was a classmate of Class A war criminal Sato Kenyaku.After graduation, he went to Europe to study abroad and took the "special tactics" course.Reminiscent of the weird titles of the "Sub-Captain" of Katsume and Yamashita, could this "special tactics" be the "special operations" that became famous all over the world later?If this is the case, then the Japanese army is probably not ignorant of Su Bingwen's uprising (Su Bingwen was originally forced to openly revolt under the huge pressure of the Japanese army), but tried to send a capable team to fly to Su Bingwen from the air. Hailar, cooperating with the inside and the outside, mobilized the local Japanese army with a small number of elites to launch an oriental version of "Victory Escape".

In the TV series that was all the rage a few years ago, there was a special agent Captain Yamamoto who had a similar experience to Kato and also went to Europe to study.Perhaps the group of Japanese troops that Su Bingwen accidentally destroyed was the originator of the Japanese special forces.If this is the case, perhaps the Northeast military and civilian resistance war delayed the appearance of the Japanese special forces.