Chapter 0062: Hongkou Thunder
Feng Chen followed closely behind Kenkichi Yoshizawa and Ryuichi Hiraoka, came to the rostrum of the conference, looked behind the Japanese elementary school students sitting in front of him, and finally saw Yin Bongji sitting there with a lunch box in his arms, with a calm look on his face. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
At half past nine o'clock, the "Tianchang Festival" and the Songhu Battle Celebration Conference began.
The Japanese army held a military parade in a grand manner, and about 15,000 soldiers of the 9th, 11th, and 14th divisions and naval units of Japan who participated in the Battle of Songhu were reviewed.
Shirakawa Yoshinori and the other Japanese chieftains sat on the rostrum to be reviewed.
According to the procedure of the Zhujie meeting, the parade was first ordered by Lieutenant General Kenkichi Ueda, the commander-in-chief of the parade.
The troops under review, including the 1st Artillery Regiment, the 3rd Infantry Regiment, 1 heavy artillery, 1 mountain artillery, 1 transport, 1 tank, and 1 armored vehicle, passed in front of the rostrum in turn.
Afterwards, Japanese elementary school students lined up past the review stand.
Seeing that the consuls of the consulates of various countries were still on the rostrum, thinking that Jin Jiu's instructions could not hurt the innocent, Yin Bongji in the audience could only hold the lunch box bomb and wait patiently for the opportunity.
Fortunately, God helped, and at about 11 o'clock, the sky suddenly became dark and cloudy, and it began to rain lightly.
At this time, the Japanese side had just officially begun to hold the "Celebration of Victory," and the personnel of the embassies and consulates of various countries took the opportunity to evacuate from the chairman's stage one after another in order to avoid the rain, because they wanted to strictly observe neutrality, and they could take part in the "Tianchang Festival" commemorative ceremony held by the Japanese side, but they absolutely could not continue to participate in the Songhu Campaign Celebration Meeting.
Due to the departure of foreign embassies and consulates one after another, the order of the venue was a little chaotic, and the attention of the Japanese was attracted by the foreign embassies and consulates who left the venue.
Yoon Bong-gil took the opportunity to move forward step by step, and stopped at a position 5 meters away from the rostrum, and no one noticed the change in Yoon Bong-gil's position at all.
The rostrum built by the Japanese is two meters high and six meters wide, and a group of Japanese military police are surrounded behind the rostrum, forming a semicircular cordon, and there is no gendarme in front of the rostrum for filming.
After the retreat of the foreign embassies and consulates was completed, the Zhujie meeting also entered a climax, and all the Japanese on and off the stage sang the Japanese national anthem "Junnoyo", and the 21 cannon salutes also began to roar.
It's a godsend!
The overseas Japanese were waving the "plaster" banner in their hands, hysterically shouting slogans and singing "Jun's Generation", and there were only seven Japanese dignitaries left on the rostrum.
At this time, Shirakawa Yoshinori was making a speech, advocating the great martial arts of the Japanese army in the Battle of Shanghai, and wishing Japan "a long military fortune" and a "holy life without borders" for the Japanese emperor.
Overhead, 18 Japanese planes were flying over Hongkou Park at the moment, and the seven Japanese chiefs on the rostrum stood upright, ignoring the light rain falling in the sky, looking up at the planes flying in the sky, and standing there fixedly without moving.
Seeing that the opportunity had arrived, Yin Bongji rushed forward a few steps, waved his hands, and threw the lunchbox-shaped bomb in his arms towards the review stand, and the bomb fell right at the feet of Shirakawa Yoshinori, Kawabataju and others.
"Boom!"
There was a loud bang, the sky was cracking, deafening, and the smoke was suddenly billowing from the review stand, people were hugging their heads and running around, wailing and screaming, and the whole audience was in chaos.
Kawa Duanju, head of the Japanese Resident Corps in Shanghai, was blown up more than 10 meters high and fell down and died on the spot.
General Yoshinori Shirakawa was hit by 204 pieces of shrapnel and was rushed to the rescue, but died on May 26.
The commander of the 9th Division, Lieutenant General Kenkichi Ueda, was blinded in his right eye.
The Japanese minister to China, Shigemitsu Aoi, was blown off his right leg.
Vice Admiral Kichizaburo Nomura, commander of the Third Fleet of the Japanese Navy, had his left leg blown off.
The seven Japanese dignitaries on the review stand fell to the ground one after another, either dead or wounded, and none of them were spared.
Yoon Bong-gil succeeded!
At the moment of the explosion, Feng Chen was accompanying Kenkichi Yoshizawa and Ryuichi Hiraoka to send the personnel of the consulates of various countries away, far away from the review stand, but he also clearly felt the tremor of the ground under his feet.
After the bomb exploded, the Japanese military police quickly defended the three-mile area around the venue, closely searched all the people in the area, and arrested a number of South Koreans on the spot, including Yoon Bong-gil.
Afterwards, Feng Chen heard from a British reporter who was close to the review stand that after Yoon Bong-gil threw the bomb, he excitedly stretched out his hands into the air, cheered loudly, and shouted: "Long live the Republic of Korea!" ”
Yoon Bong-gil had no intention of escaping at all, he was bent on dying.
After Yoon Bong-gil was captured by the Japanese army, in order to protect the others, he stepped forward and immediately admitted that he had dropped the bomb himself, and that he had done everything alone.
The British journalist who was present described Yoon Bong-gil as resembling an "angry lion" at the time.
The bombing shocked the world!
After his arrest, Yoon Bong-gil was imprisoned at the headquarters of the Japanese military police in Donggang Bay, where he was severely tortured, but he swore to die and did not reveal the names of any of his comrades.
When the Japanese tortured him to force him to speak out as a colleague, Yoon Bong-gil told the Japanese who interrogated him, "The Korean nation, young and old, is my comrade!" ”
The goal of the Japanese army's crazy revenge will not stop at Yoon Bong-gil alone.
They had always wanted to arrest the Korean revolutionaries in Shanghai, but because these people were hiding in the French Concession, the Japanese army had no reason to arrest them.
After the Hongkou Park bombing, the Japanese army had an excuse, so they dispatched a large number of military police to force the patrol house of the French Concession to arrest the Koreans living in the French Concession, and arrested Ahn Chang-ho on the same day.
In the early morning of the next day, the Japanese army simply rushed into the French Concession in 12 trucks and searched for 17 Koreans.
Even if Yoon Bong-gil, who was captured red-handed, took the initiative to bear all the responsibility, the Japanese army would never give up.
They had just been fighting the Chinese army for three months, and the invasion of Shanghai was costly. At this time, the Hongkou Park explosion occurred, and they naturally believed that there were Chinese behind it.
The day after the bombing, Japanese media reports "identified" that the bomb was dropped by Chinese. It wasn't until Yoon Bong-gil's identity was found out that he began to point the finger at the South Koreans.
As a matter of fact, the Japanese have always believed that this matter must have something to do with the Chinese side.
According to the Japanese secret services, Kim Koo, the ROK government-in-exile, and others received assistance from Chinese anti-Japanese organizations in the form of funds, bombs, and other means, and in the name of the Korean Patriotic Corps, instructed ignorant scoundrels to carry out the bombing incident in Shanghai's Hongkou Park.
At the time of the Hongkou Park bombing, China and Japan had basically negotiated the terms of the armistice, and the two sides had agreed to sign an armistice agreement on 5 May.
Surprisingly, the invincible Japanese army actually adopted a calming attitude on this incident and did not dwell too much on the matter.
The Japanese authorities instructed negotiator Shigemitsu Aoi, who was still hospitalized after his leg was blown up: "The armistice will not stop with the bombing. ”
This shows Japan's true mentality of eagerness to end the war in Shanghai.
The scale and severity of the battle in Songhu far exceeded the expectations of the Japanese army. They met with unprecedented stubborn resistance from the Chinese army. Although the Japanese occupied the first line of defense of the Chinese army, it was already at the end of its strong crossbow.
The Nineteenth Route Army of China, which was not a direct descendant, made them anxious, and the Nationalist Government still had more than one million Central Army unmoved, and the war continued to expand, and Japan was not completely sure of victory.
On May 5, at Shanghai Hongen Hospital, Chongguang Aoi, who had just had his leg blown off in Hongkou Park, was lying on a hospital bed and signed the "Songhu Armistice Agreement" on behalf of Japan.
The full text of the agreement is as follows:
Article 1: Having ordered an armistice, the Chinese and Japanese authorities hereby agree to determine an armistice as of May 5, 21 of the Republic of China. The armies of both sides did everything in their power to cease all and all hostile acts around Shanghai. In the event of any doubt, the representatives of the participating friendly countries shall ascertain the circumstances of the armistice.
Article 2 The Chinese armed forces shall remain in their present status until the normal situation in the area covered by this Agreement is restored and until a decisive measure is decided. This status is set out in Annex No. 1 to this Agreement.
Third, the Japanese troops retreated to the public concession and Hongkou to build a road across the border, as before the incident of January 28, 21 of the Republic of China. However, in view of the number of Japanese troops to be accommodated, a number of units may be temporarily stationed in the contiguous areas of the above-mentioned areas. Such places shall be listed in Annex No. 2 to this Agreement.
Article 4, in order to prove the withdrawal of the two sides, a joint committee shall be established, and representatives of the participating friendly countries shall be included as members. The committee assisted in arranging the transfer between the retreating Japanese troops and the Chinese police who took over, so that the Chinese police could take over immediately when the Japanese troops retreated. The organization of the Committee, as well as its procedures, are set out in Annex No. III to this Agreement.
Article 5 This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of its signature.
This Agreement is written in Chinese, Japanese and English, and in the event of any doubt as to its meaning, or in the event of a difference in meaning between Chinese, Japanese and English, the English version shall prevail.
Done at Shanghai on May 5, 21st year of the Republic of China
The "128" incident officially came to an end.