Chapter 294: The Nanjing Trial

"You, you, who are you?" Gu Shoufu looked shocked and asked in horror.

"I'm Gu Shoufu, a farmer from Okayama County, and graduated from the 15th Infantry Section ......of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School in November 1903," an old man who looked exactly like Gu Shoufu smiled at him.

"No, no, I'm Gu Shoufu, you are fake, fake", Gu Shoufu kept struggling.

"How is it possible to find such a similar stand-in?" Matsui Ishine muttered to himself for a while, his face full of horror, and he looked at a loss.

"What the hell are you trying to do?" Yanagawa Heisuke looked sad and angry, he didn't believe that it would be a good thing for these people to make these similar stand-ins.

"You know what? Another reason why General Wei has kept you for so long is to use this time to observe your words and deeds, so that they can imitate them, so as to reach the point of being fake, and few people in this world know about this", the old ghost does not seem to intend to hide this kind of thing from these people.

"Why are you looking for someone to impersonate us, why?" Matsui Shigen was even more frightened, he finally saw Wei Chendong's methods, so ruthless.

"A month later, Tani Shofu, Matsui Ishine, Yanagawa Heisuke and other war criminals sent to Central China will face the world for a public trial, and in the court, they will confess one by one, and admit all the crimes committed in Nanjing and China, and after the trial, they will all go to the gallows, and say that the crime of their country's aggression against China will be an ironclad fact, and no one can retract their confessions, but you can rest assured, we will not plant the crime on your head, haha...... General Wei is really the person I admire the most in my old ghost's life, his move will not only make you ruined, but also become a traitor to the country, after you die, you will not have the opportunity to enter the Yasukuni Shrine, the whole world will not tolerate you", the old ghost's words and words reached the ears of several butchers.

"You're going to use them to impersonate us to confess our sins? Wei Chendong, you are so poisonous, you are so poisonous......" Matsui Shigen screamed miserably, he was not in good health, after a few days of torture, and under such a mental blow, his eyes glared, and he died of anger directly, no wonder he was like this, the destruction of his family made him not have much expectation, he only hoped to leave a good reputation in the empire, but now, Wei Chendong not only crushed this opportunity, but also made them from an imperial hero to the most shameless sinner, How can this make him, a man who is so happy, bear.

Matsui Shigen was to death, Gu Shoufu and a few of them were no better, they became stupid and stupid one by one, they were crazy by Wei Chendong.

"Wei Chendong, I won't let you go if I'm a ghost, even if I don't reincarnate, I will keep pestering you until death, I still won't let you go if you are a ghost, I will be your mortal enemy for the rest of my life", Yanagawa Heisuke's eyes were blood-red, he stuck out his tongue, bit it violently, his eyes glared, and after a while, he died.

"Hmph, just a scumbag like you, I'm afraid you won't be able to enter the Yama Palace, and you still want to be reincarnated?" The old ghost looked disdainful.

There were a few people left who were angry and stupid, and the old ghost didn't plan to let them go, so they all used Ling Chi.

A few fakes, oh, it should be said that it is authentic Matsui Ishone, Tani Toshio, Yanagawa Heisuke and a few people were carefully placed and ready to accept the next arrangement.

In fact, the old ghost doesn't know how Wei Chendong got these people, this is incredible, I'm afraid that even if it is said now, no one will believe it, how can there be such an imaginary stand-in, and even if there is, it is impossible to have these butchers at the same time. In this world, there are only a few people who know the situation, Wei Chendong is one of them, in addition to these stand-ins, there is another person who should know, she is Yoshiko Kawashima, oh, now it should be called Aiko Hirata, if she knew that these people were stand-ins, she would definitely say a word, this is made by Wei Chendong with face swap surgery.

Sure enough, a month later, the public trial of the war criminals was carried out in Nanjing as scheduled, and Matsui Ishone, Tani Toshio, Yanagawa Heisuke, Emperor Saikanomiya's uncle, and several other important criminals of the Central China Dispatch Army, learned that the Yan and Huang Army were going to try the war criminals in front of the world, causing a global sensation, and the streets of Nanjing were empty, and they had been waiting for this day for too long.

The Times in Britain, Reuters in France, the New York Times in the United States, and so on, all sent more than one heavyweight reporter, because they all felt that this war criminal trial was not ordinarily important, especially Britain and France and other European countries that were suffering from the baptism of war, and they all wanted to tell people through this report that they hated war criminals and that all evil people would not end well.

As for the trial of some war criminals, the Chinese side did not want to directly treat them as prisoners, and gave them the opportunity to defend themselves.

Several junior officers who had killed a lot of people were put in the front, and under the hard facts, although they still refused to admit their guilt, the people present felt that it was not too much to sentence them to be hanged, and they did not show much controversy in this regard, after all, these few were only junior officers, and the impact was not great, and if they died, they would die, and their main goal was to minimize the impact caused by a few commanders.

Finally, after a few days of trial, when it came to Gu Shoufu, the division commander, first of all, the court read out his various crimes on the spot, and read them out for more than an hour, which is really hard to read, and many of them were briefly read by the prosecutor, and Gu Shoufu below bowed his head and was speechless, standing restlessly.

The offences were read out in a complete manner, and the presiding judge asked him if he had any doubts about the above offences. Gu Shoufu immediately came to the end, almost wiped out these facts, except for admitting that he had shot thousands of Chinese civilians, the others pretended to be stupid, and said that most of these thousands of people were killed by mistake because of the inevitable war, while the other part was only shot by the soldiers who mistakenly thought that they were [***] soldiers who had taken off their uniforms.

In the face of the death of the war criminals who did not admit their guilt, the Chinese prosecutor immediately laid out a large amount of evidence, including a large number of photos and memoirs of the massacre of Chinese civilians by soldiers of the Sixth Division.

"I suspect that these witnesses are all family members of Chinese civilians who were mistakenly killed by our army, and because their family members died at the hands of our army, they hated me very much, so they testified in court, and if the presiding judge believes that the accidental killing of civilians in war is also considered a war criminal, then I plead guilty," Gu Shoufu further quibbled.

Some foreign reporters also came out to testify that these skulls were indeed dug up in a large mass grave, and there were a large number of photographs to testify, saying that the existence of mass graves was not quibbled by the party, but they did not admit that it was the work of the army, and actually said that it was caused by environmental problems after the fall of Nanjing, which led to a plague in some areas, but the Central China Dispatch Army did not make it public because it was afraid that this incident would affect the morale of the people, so it was not publicized and concealed from the world.

Some foreign forces in Nanjing did not agree with this statement, and they all confirmed that this fact did not happen at all during their stay in Nanjing, and when the Chinese prosecutor pointed to the bullet hole in the skull and asked the reason, they were a little hesitant in their words, and although they continued to quibble, they seemed too pale and weak.

In order to make the war criminals confess their guilt, the court checked the above-mentioned publicized crimes one by one, and every crime they said was verified in public; Gu Shoufu and lawyer Yumoto also tried their best to quibble, and finally even aroused the public indignation of the people present, many of them were even foreigners, they were really ashamed of the butcher's sophistry, if they really wanted to believe their retarded defense, then they were really called idiots, and some foreign influential people also took the initiative to stand up and testify, which is more powerful than some Chinese people coming out to testify.

In the end, perhaps feeling that he couldn't hide it anymore, Gu Shoufu's face turned pale, and he suddenly fell to his knees, and begged with tears in his eyes: "I, Gu Shoufu, a person from Okayama County, have now confirmed all the crimes mentioned above, and in addition, I am willing to add some crimes that have not been made public, and I hope that the presiding judge will give the greatest tolerance to me when he is old and has taken the initiative to admit guilt."

Gu Shoufu's move suddenly made the lawyer stupid, saying that he would not admit his guilt, how could he compromise so quickly, and immediately shouted at Gu Shoufu not to scare him, but at this time, Gu Shoufu seemed to be unwilling to listen to him anymore, and told some horrific crimes that outsiders did not know one by one, which made people shocked, this is what he did, it is more than a beast than a beast, which is outrageous.

Before the presiding judge could pronounce the verdict, people were indignant and asked for the death penalty.

"This is a betrayal of humanity, this is a betrayal of God, and no amount of his salvation can eliminate the harm he has brought to this world, execute him", a foreign officer openly roared.

The presiding judge ordered the on-site guards to stop the agitated crowd while calming the scene.

"Gu Shoufu admitted all the above-mentioned crimes, and automatically stated that the crimes committed, and there were circumstances of voluntary surrender, which can be mitigated, but his crimes are heinous, and this little bit of cooperation can be forgiven, so the court finally sentenced him to death, and in view of the good cooperation of the circumstances, he can choose his own way of death." As for the presiding judge's handling of the result, many people feel that the sentence is too light, and a butcher like this will be cut by a thousand knives, chopped up and fed to the dogs.

Gu Shoufu also collapsed to the ground all of a sudden, crying constantly.

Next, Yanagawa Heisuke and Matsui Ishine were all put on trial, and they did not admit their guilt at first, and the lawyer also vigorously defended them, but under the hard facts, these debtor butchers were obviously not as calm as those lawyers, and their mental defenses collapsed one by one, and they pleaded guilty one after another, and they were all sentenced to death one by one.

The last to be tried was Hirohito's uncle, King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace, who was even more shameless, directly putting all the crimes on the heads of those war criminals who were sentenced to death, saying that he was only watching the war on behalf of the emperor, and when Matsui Ishine jumped out and accused the Nanjing Massacre of being his direct order, he was also stunned for a long time.

(To be continued)