Chapter 276: Hatohiko of the Asahika Palace
Since Chen Tian caused the flour explosion case, killing and injuring most of the lawyers of the Japanese lawyers' group, he has disappeared and lurked. Dressed in Japanese costumes, he speaks pure Japanese that he learned from the Japanese who invaded Shanghai, and blends in with the Japanese. If someone hadn't paid attention to it, they wouldn't have noticed that there was such a person in Japan.
Chen Tian has been lurking for a long time in order to succeed in one blow. The Japanese who was kidnapped by Chen Tian is the uncle of the current Japanese Emperor Showa and the eighth son of Prince Kurenomiya, Prince Hatohiko of Asakanomiya. Although this person is not well-known in later generations, and he is not on the list of Class A war criminals today, his sins are no less than those of Class A war criminals and commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, Matsui Ishone.
Moreover, this person is also one of the main executors of the Golden Lily Plan. There are many secrets that no one can know except the Japanese Imperial Family.
On May 27, 1908, Hatohiko Asakanomiya graduated from the 20th class of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School. In the same year, he was awarded the rank of second lieutenant of infantry and became the deputy of the 2nd Infantry Wing of the Royal Guards Division of Japan. He is a rare professional soldier in the Japanese imperial family.
Even, he once supported the Imperial Dao faction. However, although Hatohiko supported the Imperial Sect, the rebellion of the Imperial Sect was eventually suppressed. However, because he was a member of the royal family, he was not punished too harshly. On the contrary, because of his extreme approval and support for Japan's foreign expansion, as well as his rare military mastery, he was entrusted with important tasks by the emperor.
On December 2, 1937, Hatohiko Asakanomiya was appointed commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army. At this time, although Hatohiko Asakanomiya did not have too dazzling resume in the army, compared to his younger brother Minoru Asakanomiya who once served as the commander of the field troops, his appointment as the commander of the Guards Division was not worth mentioning at all. However, he also has the rank of lieutenant general. As soon as he arrived in Nanjing, Hatohiko of Chaoxiang Palace immediately showed his anger and ruthlessness.
On December 7, 1937, Hatohiko Asakanomiya arrived in Nanjing. Due to lung disease, Matsui Ishone, the commander-in-chief of the Central China Front of the Japanese invasion of China in Liaoyang, served as the temporary commander-in-chief of the Japanese occupation of Nanjing.
On December 10, 1937, Hatohiko Asakanomiya ordered an attack on Nanjing. Although because the tactics and strategies are decided in advance based on intelligence, Hatohiko Asaka does not have much room to play. However, as a prince of the imperial family, being able to endure not meddling indiscriminately shows his military quality.
Three days after the Japanese attack, in 1937. On December 13, the city of Nanjing fell. This speed was even unexpected by the Japanese. On December 17, 1937, the Japanese held a grand ceremony to enter the city for the Japanese commanders headed by Matsui Ishine and Hatohiko Asakanomiya.
Subsequently, Japan's "Tokyo Asahi Shimbun" published a series of articles entitled "The Imperial Responsibility under the Asahoka Palace, the Imperial Commander of the Three Armies in the Nanjing War", "Under the Terrible Asahi Palace, the Imperial Inspection in the Smoke of the Guns, and the Soldiers of the Nanjing Front Weep" and "The Famous Horses of the Nanjing City Gate Have No Neighing." The father's palace is now in the city, and the stinky and long sycophant articles such as "Chaoxiang Palace Zhan Wang Wang Joy" have made great contributions to the Chaoxiang Palace.
Also published were large photographs taken by Japanese journalists in Nanjing.
However, Hatohiko did not only enter the city in Nanjing. When the Asaka Palace Hatohiko entered the city of Nanjing. After obtaining comparative data on the number of Chinese and Japanese in Nanjing, he issued a secret order to burn them all after reading them - kill them all!
After the Japanese entered Nanjing, they frantically plundered and slaughtered in the long run. It is to exterminate the Chinese bloodline and plunder wealth. However, from a military point of view. Although most of the troops in Nanjing City did not have fighting spirit, the number of young and middle-aged people was far more than the Japanese army entering Nanjing City.
If the old and weak women and children are included, the population of the Chinese far exceeds the number of Japanese troops entering the city of Nanjing. There are so many people, but whenever someone raises his arms and shouts and counterattacks the Japanese, the Japanese will obediently get out. Therefore, in order to consolidate the gains in hand, and also to conform to their nature, the Japanese began to kill on a large scale.
And the whistleblower of this secret order was Takayoshi Tanaka, who was later known as the "Japanese Judas".
Takayoshi Tanaka has been active in China since 1927. In 1930, Takayoshi Tanaka cooperated with Yoshiko Kawashima to create the 128 Incident in Shanghai. And, because of his merits in the 128 Incident, he was promoted to Zhongzuo.
Subsequently, in 1935, Takayoshi Tanaka was transferred to the General Staff of the Japanese Kwantung Army, where he became an intelligence staff officer and the head of the secret service. is a world-famous spy. Subsequently, it was mixed into the Zhang Gufeng incident. As a result, the Zhang Gufeng incident, the Japanese plan failed.
Takayoshi Tanaka was transferred back to the Japanese Ministry of War and became the head of the Military Affairs Division of the Military Affairs Bureau. Because of his close relationship with the Japanese military police, he became a confidant of Hideki Tojo. However, because of the opposition to Hideki Tojo's radical military speculation, Takayoshi Tanaka fell into bad luck. He was admitted to the army hospital in Kokufutai by Hideki Tojo, and in the name of it, Takayoshi Tanaka had mental problems.
However, Takayoshi Tanaka's research on China is far more in-depth than that of Hideki Tojo. What he always approved of was Ishihara's plan to divide and devour China, not Hideki Tojo's radical plan to wage war against China, the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and the United States at the same time.
After being institutionalized in a psychiatric hospital by Hideki Tojo, Takayoshi Tanaka hated the Japanese upper echelons led by Hideki Tojo. After the defeat of Japan, Takayoshi Tanaka was released from a psychiatric hospital. Subsequently, in 1946, he wrote a book entitled "Analysis of the Causes of Failure". A large number of internal information of the Japanese Army that are unknown to outsiders are exposed.
The Americans welcomed it perfectly. Subsequently, Takayoshi Tanaka became a key witness against Japan's Class-A war crimes. As Takayoshi Tanaka, who has been in the intelligence community for a long time, all kinds of information are clearly remembered by his excellent memory, and most of the information that Americans want, Takayoshi Tanaka knows.
Moreover, what the Americans hate most is a gang of Japanese war criminals led by Hideki Tojo. As long as the people who are close to Hideki Tojo, most of them don't end well. And the Japanese upper class, who were offended by Hideki Tojo, mostly lived a nourishing life. If it weren't for the influence of Ishihara Wanji and Tanaka Takayoshi, the two political enemies of Hideki Tojo would not even be considered Japanese Class A war criminals.
At least, Americans have no grudge against them.
And Takayoshi Tanaka also lived up to the expectations of the Americans, and successively threw out some heavy intelligence news.
For example, "The masterminds of the Manchurian Incident were Major General Miji Kenkawa, head of the Operations Department of the General Staff Headquarters, Shingoro Hashimoto, Nakasa, head of the Russian squad of the Intelligence Department, Captain Nagayoshi of the Shina squad, senior staff officer Seishiro Itagaki of the Kwantung Army, and operational staff officers Ishihara Kanji Nakasa and Dr. Shuaki Okawa. ……”
"On November 29, 1941, Director Muto said in response to the ultimatum given to U.S. Secretary of State Hull four days earlier: 'If accepted, it will be Japan's chronic poverty. It will definitely perish, and it will not work if it is not fought'. On December 8, the year of the war, while listening to Prime Minister Tojo's instructions, Director Muto said, "This time Tojo Riku has become a hero," and the next day, at the meeting of directors, Muto said, "Sending Ambassador Urasu and the hospitality ship Tatsuda Maru to the United States is the most beautiful cover work to be done before the start of the war." ”
So much so that the Huanggutun incident in which the Japanese assassinated Zhang Zuolin was also proved by the testimony of Takayoshi Tanaka.
Such a class-A war criminal who hated Hideki Tojo and a group of Class-A war criminals made the Japanese so angry that even Ichiro Kiyose of the Japanese lawyers' group once roared at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East: "Let me ask you, are you Japanese?" Is it Japanese? ”
Takayoshi Tanaka was unmoved. The gaze is contemptuous. He knew that he would live well, and Hideki Tojo and Seishiro Itagaki and others were dead.
And the Americans did protect Takayoshi Tanaka. When the Japanese lawyers' team asked Joseph Ji Nandao: "Did the prosecutor's team give Major General Tanaka any promises, or did it bribe Tanaka?" ”
"No, the inspection team did not give any promises to Major General Tanaka, nor did they give Tanaka a penny of money."
The Japanese lawyer asked: "Are you saying that Rear Admiral Tanaka has the freedom to choose?" ”
Joseph Ji Nan replied easily and proudly: "Of course, Major General Tanaka has complete freedom of choice. ”
"Then why did he take the initiative to provide intelligence to the Inspectorate?"
"Oh, according to the order of the Allied headquarters, the actions of Major General Tanaka are legal."
The Japanese were so angry that they vomited blood, while Takayoshi Tanaka was always under the protection of the Americans. Lived to the afterlife in 1972. In this case, Takayoshi Tanaka's evidence is very credible. He has no reason to deliberately slander Hatohiko Asakanomiya. So, it's basically certain. The order to "kill them all" came from Hatohiko Asakamiya.
After the occupation of Nanjing, the commander of the 16th Division, who served as the commander of the Nanjing garrison, and his subordinates had a killing contest, Nakajima Imago. He also wrote in his diary: "Since the policy was to generally not take prisoners, it was decided to rush them to a corner and solve them all." ”
Muto Akira also wrote in his posthumous work: "General Matsui did not command the Shanghai Dispatch Army and the Tenth Army, but was under the command of the commanders of the two armies at that time. Senior General Matsui only stood on it and temporarily commanded the operation. Therefore, the commanders of the two armies should take full responsibility for the issue of banning the military discipline and discipline of their subordinates. Senior General Matsui, as a superior commander, should only be responsible for operational command. ”
The spearhead is directed at Hatohiko Asakanomiya.
Of course, the massacre of Hatohiko was only one of his means, and in the process of the massacre, he began to send people to loot a large number of Chinese cultural relics. Millions of ancient Chinese books, countless Chinese cultural relics, and a large amount of gold and jewelry were looted by this person in Nanjing.
In order to collect as much wealth as possible in Nanjing, Hatohiko even instructed Muto, deputy chief of staff of the Central China Front, who was in charge of the arrangements for the Japanese army to camp in the Nanjing area, to revise the order of the Japanese army to camp outside Nanjing, announcing that the Japanese army could choose to camp in Nanjing at will.
It's almost an undisguised robbery order. In this regard, the Japanese can justifiably open any gate in Nanjing without violating military law, and take anything behind the gate as their own.
After the plunder, the Japanese withdrew the Shanghai Dispatch Army. Hatohiko Asakanomiya returned to Japan with a great deal of wealth. Subsequently, the wealth looted from China was lost. And because of the agreement between the Americans and the Japanese, the Americans eliminated the Japanese imperial family when determining the list of Class A war criminals.
Therefore, Hatohiko Asakanomiya is not on the list of Japanese Class A war criminals. The greatest punishment received was that in 1947, in order to contain the Japanese emperor and punish the imperial family, the Americans revoked the imperial status of a large number of Japanese imperial family members, and since then they have ceased to be of royal blood. And Asakanomiya Hatohiko is naturally among them.
Although Hatohiko was removed from the imperial status of Asaka Palace, he could already be interrogated and detained as a war criminal, but on March 4, 1948, when Colonel Moro of the United States visited Michisugamo Prison, he asked Matsui Ishine: "There is now a saying from the outside world that Nanjing's Asaka Palace has a major responsibility, but because he is a royal family, it is not pursued at this time, what do you think?" ”
Matsui Ishine replied: "Asakanomiya took over as the commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army ten days before the Japanese army invaded Nanjing, and he is not responsible for this matter. Answering like this can be regarded as preserving Hatohiko of Asaka Palace. According to the historical development, Hatohiko of Asakamiya lived happily ever after, playing a dozen golf games in his spare time, and did not pass away until he was 94 years old.
However, there is the rest of this life. For the rest of his life, he naturally couldn't let Asaka Palace Hatohiko go on like this. After the Americans paid attention to Hatohiko Asakanomiya, Chen Tian tied him back to a secret place where he operated in Tokyo.
A few days later, Chen Tian wiped out all the secret interrogations that Hatohiko knew about the palace, and gave a happy feel to this war criminal who had escaped the trial of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East because of his identity.
At the same time, the Japanese imperial family was in turmoil. Although Hatohiko has now removed his imperial status, no one will regard him as a person outside the imperial family. The disappearance of Hatohiko of Asaka Palace, but all the members of the Japanese imperial family who have been removed from the imperial family are in danger. I'm afraid that the next person who will disappear will be myself.
And the Americans are also very annoyed, after all, this is what happened on their own turf. has promised the little brother something, but failed to do it, and now he is questioned by the little brother, which hurts the boss's face.
Thus, a nationwide search began. Even the rest of his life's home was visited by American GIs. And Lucy, who accompanied Qing Xiaoyi, was called back to ask many times. only to clear the suspicion of the rest of his life. After all, Americans know that it is not the Americans who hate the Japanese the most, but the Chinese.
Yu Sheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he and Chen Tian had only met in secret, and did not go to the place where Chen Tian hid Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace, and personally see what this Japanese imperial family chief who was even more ruthless than Matsui Shigen looked like. Otherwise, once the whereabouts are leaked, it will inevitably arouse the suspicion of the Americans. (To be continued.) )