After Gu Shoufu led the Sixth Division to invade China, he began to fight in North China, and then fought in the Northern Hebei Battlefield and the Baoding Battlefield, and then returned to North China to participate in the encirclement and suppression of Qin Siyu's troops in the northern Hebei region. Witnesses from Guangdong and Huiyang did not have time to come to Jinan, but witnesses from the battlefields of Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong abounded. As soon as the judge said that the witnesses would be called, a large area immediately poured out of Hulala, and one by one began to complain with blood and tears.

The testimony of these witnesses was bloody, tearful, and so tragic that the audience at the radio could not bear to listen to it, and covered their ears and wept. When Jiang Qiang listened to the blood and tears of the witnesses, and was thinking about whether the hanging sentence for Gu Shoufu was too light, Chang Yuan came over and handed him a note, telling him that the people of the Nanjing Government Communications and Liaison Group would see him alive or dead.

Jiang Qiang unfolded the strip and looked at the electric light, only to see that it was written: "After receiving the chairman's telegram order, the criminal Gu Shoufu must be sentenced to Ling Chi to death." Jiang Qiang smiled when he saw it, Lao Tzu was about to kill Gu Shoufu alive, and the chairman's order came, it was good, it was a coincidence, it was wonderful!

Jiang Qiang told Chang Yuan that he was busy, and the people in the communication and liaison group disappeared for the time being, and he took time to meet them. They can be told that the order of the Chairman has been received and that it is being followed.

It may be that the chairman's later telegram order was too harsh, and not long after Chang Yuan left, he still led the people from the Nanjing Government Communication and Liaison Group to Jiang Qiang's back, saying that they must see Ling Chigu Shoufu with their own eyes, otherwise, they will have to bear severe punishment.

As soon as Jiang Qiang heard it, he knew that these people were under the strict order of the chairman to supervise the verdict against Gu Shoufu, so he waved his hand and asked these people to stand behind. After a while, He Xinghua, the director of the radio station, also rushed over and sent a telegram from Yan'an, which was clearly written: Severely sentence Gu Shoufu to death!

Jiang Qiang looked at it, and it turned out that he was still afraid that he would be accused of being too cruel if he killed Gu Shoufu alive, but now it's okay, and he is no longer afraid that others will say that he is too cruel. Jiang Qiang immediately wrote a note: Gu Shoufu was executed by Ling Chi, and Guan Guizhi was hanged. After writing it, I asked someone to send it to Yang Dalin.

Witness testimony eventually had to be interrupted because it was too long. Justice Yang Dalin declared that the evidence was sufficient and there was no need to cross-examine it. Yang Dalin finally said; "Defendants Gu Shoufu and Guan Kameizhi, you still have one last chance to refute the evidence provided by the prosecutor and the testimony of witnesses. The judge reminds you that this argument should not exceed five minutes. ”

At this time, whether it is Gu Shoufu or Guan Guizhi, they all know that the evidence is ironclad, and no matter how much they quibble, it has lost any meaning, and it can only make their families more embarrassed in front of the world. Therefore, Gu Shoufu and Guan Guizhi invariably proposed to abandon the argument and ask the judge to allow them to leave a letter for their wives, help them find a small bag, cut off a little hair, and put it in a bag to keep for their wives.

The chief justice agreed to the request of Gu Shoufu and Guan Guizhi, and replied that he would entrust the International Red Cross to hand it over, and then several Shandong Military Regions stepped forward to untie the two, helped them sit down in front of the table and chairs, and handed them paper and pens.

Gu Shoufu may have repented a little at this time, and after moving his hands and feet, he wrote on paper: "When the cold wind gradually rises, I will go to Huangquan." Sending a message to his wife and son, don't set foot in the Central Plains again. After writing, Tani asked the soldiers to bring scissors, cut off a few strands of hair, stuffed them into a small pocket, and wrote on them the words No. 53 Fujimicho, Nakano-ku, Tokyo.

Guan Guizhi's performance was similar to Gu Shoufu's, and he also wrote a few crooked poems, cut a few strands of hair, and wrote his home address clearly.

Judge Yang Dalin began to pronounce the verdict, and the verdict was very long, including the facts of the crimes of Gu Shoufu and Guan Guizhi and the provisions of the applicable law, and the audience in front of the radio heard the verdict at the end, and firmly remembered the verdict result: Gu Shoufu participated in the decision-making to launch a war of aggression against China, acted as the vanguard of the invasion of China, and during the war, he slaughtered prisoners and non-combatants, and forcibly annihilated, looted, and destroyed property, violating the Naiva Convention, constituting the crime of undermining peace, crimes against the people, war crimes, homicide, forcible annihilation, and robbery. In view of the fact that the crime was particularly great, each of his crimes constituted the death penalty, and it was decided to punish Gu Shoufu to death and Ling Chi to death.

During the war, Guan Guizhi massacred civilians and forcibly annihilated, looted, and destroyed property, violating the Naiva Convention and constituting the crimes of undermining peace, crimes against the people, war crimes, homicide, forcible annihilation, and robbery. In view of the fact that the crime was particularly serious, and each of his crimes constituted the death penalty, it was decided to punish the several crimes concurrently, and sentenced Guan Gu to death and hang.

After listening to the verdict, Gu Shoufu and Guan Guizhi were completely beaten, they originally thought that they might be shot, but they didn't expect that one was Ling Chi and the other was hanged. The two old devils even exerted their strength to eat, shouting loudly to disagree with the verdict and ask for an appeal.

The justices struck the gavel and coldly told them that this was the final judgment of the Chinese people and that no appeal was allowed. Gu Shoufu and Guan Guizhi collapsed to the ground, muttering to themselves, I regret it, I regret participating in the war of aggression.

Jiang Qiang's voice rang out: "Ladies and gentlemen, the verdicts of Gu Shoufu and Guan Guizhi have taken effect with the knocking down of the justice's gavel. The next thing is execution, look, Gu Shoufu and Guan Guizhi have been dragged to the execution ground by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, Gu Shoufu was tied to the wooden pillar of the gallows, his clothes have been stripped naked, and there is only a crotch cloth on his body. Seki's head has been put into a noose, and it will be executed immediately. ”

Zhou Xuan's voice rang out: "Ladies and gentlemen, the murderous Gu Shoufu and Guan Guizhi are about to surrender to the law. Once upon a time, they regarded the lives of Chinese as bad as grass and killed at will. Now, the righteous judgment has finally fallen on their heads, and Gu Shoufu and Guan Kamei have also collapsed into a cloud of mud. I'm thinking that those generals who are still arsoning with the army will have to think carefully about their ends. General Jiang Qiang has already said that a special military tribunal will be set up to try these aggressors. Waiting for the lieutenant generals and generals of the army will inevitably be gallows and guillotines. ”

Guan Kaoji's hanging was carried out quickly. After all, this is the war years, everything is simple, and everything that can be saved is saved. Under the command of the commander, the soldiers who enforced the law directly hung Guan Guizhi to the gallows. Guan Kaoji only struggled in the air for a few moments before it was over. Gu Shoufu was stabbed one by one.

This punishment originated in the Five Dynasties period and was abolished in 1905 at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The reason why Gu Shoufu is still sentenced to death is that needless to say, it is because Gu Shoufu has done evil to the point that it is too cheap to hang him. It is said that Liu Jin, the great eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, was sentenced to Ling Chi and was stabbed 3,357 times for three days.

Considering that the execution of Ling Chi was too difficult and too bloody, Jiang Qiang told Zhuang Tao that they could not let the soldiers carry it out, and they had to find an executor from among the old executioners of Jinan Prison. According to him, in the Ming Dynasty, Ling Chi's knife skills were fine, generally more than a thousand knives, and after the Qing Dynasty, Ling Chi roughly had twenty-four knives, thirty-six knives, seventy-two knives and one hundred and twenty knives. He is an ancestral craft, and he can slowly concoct Gu Shoufu with a thin blade, at least more than a thousand cuts. In the end, Liu Yimin made the final decision and chose the 120-knife cutting method.

This day is a grand festival for the Chinese who have been invaded by the Yukou. When the verdict is over. From Shaanxi to the rear to all the counties controlled by the Chinese army, wherever there is a radio, everything has become a sea of joy. Firecrackers are set off, gongs and drums are beaten, songs are twisted, and the suffering Chinese are smiling and singing small songs in their mouths, expressing their excitement and excitement in various ways.

Gu Shoufu's wail struck the hearts of all the officers and soldiers in front of the radio. None of the generals could have imagined that the Jiaodong Group Army did not implement the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners of Gu Shoufu and Guan Guizhi that they propagated, but prosecuted them and tried them in the name of war criminals, and the punishment they imposed was so severe, so severe, so ruthless, and so tragic.

The strongest reaction was naturally the officers of the units of the Sixth Division of the Chinese Army.

After Lieutenant General Shiro Inaba, commander of the 6th Division, issued an order prohibiting ordinary officers and men from listening to the radio, only officers above the rank of group leader were allowed to listen to the live broadcast. In this way, a situation arose in which officers above the rank of captain listened in the room, and officers and soldiers below the rank of captain listened secretly outside the unit unit and outside the windowsill. Later, those squadron leaders and squad leaders couldn't stand the crowding, so they simply disobeyed the order and listened to their own squadron headquarters.

The people who are most likely to have a cult mentality are those who are not deeply involved in the world.

Speaking of Gu Shoufu, those brigade commanders and wing commanders may not admire him much, maybe some people still have opinions about him, and they are unlucky to be unlucky! On the contrary, those junior officers and soldiers, when they mentioned Gu Shoufu's name, were extremely respectful, and always took him as an example, dreaming of being like him, killing and making meritorious achievements on the battlefield in China.

When the wail of Gu Shoufu when he was Ling Chi came from the radio, these junior officers and ordinary soldiers completely collapsed, and wails rang out, as if it was not Gu Shoufu who was tortured, but their own father and mother.

After the wailing, some young officers first acted irrationally, and began to accuse and abuse each other, which later developed into fights. Later, some young officers and soldiers began to commit suicide. None of this is anything, life is theirs, and if you want to die, no one can care. But it's not right to kill someone else, and those irrational young officers do exactly what is wrong. One of the squad leaders actually picked up a light machine gun and fired at his own team, and as soon as he went down, more than a dozen little devils fell. There is still a devil who doesn't want to die and decisively kills him, otherwise, when he replaces the magazine, I'm afraid the whole team will die.

According to later statistics, that night, the 6th Division, the most elite of the Chinese army, had 120 suicides and manslaughter accidents, and 1,200 personnel were reduced, which is equivalent to an elite infantry brigade. This also alludes to the figure that Gu Shoufu was cut one hundred and twenty times.

After the incident, Shiro Inaba urgently reported to the base camp and asked the country to immediately make another batch of exquisite amulets for each of the soldiers of the Sixth Division to wear one more, giving them a sense of security and confidence. At the same time, he requested that the base camp immediately select and transfer senior monks to the Sixth Division to preach the essence of Shinto and Buddhism, and help the officers and men of the Sixth Division restore their morale.

In the headquarters of the North China Front, there was a dead air.

When the chief of staff of the North China Front Army, Yamashita Fengwen, and the deputy chief of staff heard the news on the radio that the Jiaodong Army was going to try Gu Shoufu, they all flew into a rage and cursed loudly.

The reason why Yamashita was able to become the chief of staff of the North China Front was because his father-in-law and Terauchi Shouichi were good friends. Originally, after he served as the commander of the Reading Brigade of the North China Garrison Army, he had been stationed in Beiping and was tasked with defending the headquarters of the North China Front. After the North China Garrison Army's Reading Brigade was reorganized into the 27th Division, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma became the division commander. At that time, because he was a major general, he could not serve as the commander of the division, so he stayed at the headquarters of the North China Front Army to assist Lieutenant General Naosaburo Gangbu in his work.

The Reading Brigade of the North China Zhutun Army did a lot of bad things, the most famous of which was to provoke the Lugou Bridge Incident. The bad things that Gu Shoufu and the Sixth Division have done, Yamashita Fengwen and his original North China Zhutun Army Reading Brigade have all done, but they are not as famous as Gu Shoufu and the Sixth Division.

After listening to the indictment read out by the prosecutor, Yamashita Fengwen said indignantly: "Jiang Qiang, a little policeman, is making a big fuss, can this kind of thing be prosecuted?" What occupation army in the world doesn't do that? Gu Shoufujun just did what many people in history have done, Jiang Qiang has the ability to arrest and interrogate those famous generals in history, why only judge Gu Shoufujun? This is absolutely unfair! ”

Muto Akira was one of the representatives of the faction that expanded into the war of aggression against China in the army. He was one of the seven Class A war criminals hanged at the Tokyo Trial in history, and he had the lowest military rank, only a lieutenant general.

Like the vast majority of the generals of the army, this Muto Medal was also promoted along the route of the Army Infant School, the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and the Army University. Unlike other generals, Muto Sho liked to dance and write in his youth, pretending to be like a young man. This also laid the foundation for his long-term work as a counselor in the future.

After graduating from the 32nd Army University with the second grade, Muto Sho was selected to go to Germany to study military affairs, and he was deeply stimulated by the upsurge of the whole German army and military economy, and after returning to China, he began to vigorously advocate waging a war of aggression against China. This Muto Zhang, the official is not big, but the things he does are earth-shattering.

When he was the leader of the fourth squad of the second department of the General Staff Headquarters, Muto Akira was ordered to go deep into the central and southern regions of China to collect intelligence and survey the geography, and came to the conclusion that China was vast and vast and the local area was narrow and barren, and believed that the way out for him lay in the occupation of China. When he was chief of the operations section of the General Staff of the Kwantung Army, Muto Akira also led the intelligence collection and analysis of the northeast region, laying the foundation for the invasion and occupation of the northeast by the Japanese army. King De occupied Suiyuan and formed an army, Muto Akira was like a fly that smelled a stench, and immediately stuck to it, instigating the Kwantung Army to fully support King De in an attempt to establish the "Mongol Empire". As a result, Fu Zuoyi led his troops to launch a counterattack, and the battle of Bailing Temple was a great victory, almost capturing Muto Zhang alive who was acting with King De's army.

At the time of the Lugou Bridge Incident, Muto Akira was already the head of the Operations Section of the General Staff Headquarters of the Chinese Army.

After the Lugou Bridge Incident, there were two opinions in the General Staff Headquarters of the Yue Army, and Ishihara Wan'er, the top boss of Muto Zhang, the first military scientist of the Yue Army, and the first director of the General Staff Headquarters, believed that the imaginary enemy of the Yue Army was Wang Yizhe, and that the time was not ripe for an all-out invasion of China, and if it fell into the Chinese battlefield, it would affect the military to run through the whole of Asia. However, Muto Akira did not see it that way, and after receiving the report of the Lugou Bridge incident, he was overjoyed, believing that the opportunity for a full-scale invasion of China had come, and that it was necessary to seize the opportunity that China had not yet completed its war preparations to deal a fatal blow to China. The two went toe-for-tat, and the lawsuit went to the prime minister and even the emperor, and the result was naturally that Muto Akira won, and the army began to invade China in an all-out way.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Muto Zhang flew to Guangdong to see Matsui Shigen, and then to Beiping to see Terauchi Shou, and single-handedly planned the landing of Daya Bay, which led to the retreat of the Chinese army from Daya Bay.

After listening to Yamashita Fengfumi's words, Muto Akira immediately let out a lot of nonsense: "The people of Shina are illiterate and are the garbage of the civilized world, and it is said that the Imperial Army will make a great contribution to world peace by sweeping away the garbage that affects the progress of the world." What is Lieutenant General Gu Shoufu's crime? Jiang Qiang dared to put General Gu Shoufu on trial, which shows that he is also a frog at the bottom of the well who does not know the current affairs and the direction of the change of the world trend, and he will not be able to achieve any big climate. ”

Yamashita immediately continued: "That is, any crime against peace, crimes against the people, and war crimes are unheard of. It is simply inexplicable that the world has never heard of a single general who committed such a crime. Jiang Qiang, a small policeman, went so far as to tamper with an international convention that had never been fulfilled and convict the generals of the army with those provisions that were still on paper. ”

This is not the idea of Yamashita Fengfumi alone, at this time, there is indeed no case in the world where war criminals are prosecuted and tried for these three crimes. In the minds of the generals of the army, murder is a war feat, robbery is a war feat, including the forcible annihilation of women, and that is only a matter of violating military discipline. At this time, the generals of the army did not have the concept of war crimes, and it was precisely for this reason that they published in the newspapers photos and news of the massacre of civilians by soldiers.

Jiang Qiang's indictment of Gu Shoufu and Guan Guizhi on the charges of sabotaging peace and war crimes can be regarded as ushering in a new era in the history of war in the trial of war criminals, and it is from the perspective of the entire human civilization to make judgments on all acts that endanger human civilization. It is also a warning to those war maniacs that if you dare to launch a war of aggression, I will judge you in the name and qualifications of all mankind. How can these things be understood by little devils?

Yamashita Fengwen has this view, and Muto Akira has this view: "Jiang Qiang is grandstanding and wants to use the blood of the generals of the Imperial Army to attract the attention of the international community. I have to say, this guy has a set, he succeeded, tomorrow newspapers around the world will publish on the front page the news of their public trial of General Tani Shofu. There may be a heated debate in the legal circles. However, this is only grandstanding, it is strength that determines the outcome of the war, and the strength of the Imperial Army is by no means something that a small group of small policemen can contend with. What crimes against peace, crimes against the people, and war crimes, this army is waging a holy war in Greater East Asia and liberating backward and ignorant Chinese. Jiang Qiang is purely confusing right and wrong and reversing black and white. I can assure you that although the press will make a noise, military strategists and politicians from all over the world will scoff at Jiang Qiang's arrogant and ignorant moves. ”

Yamashita Fengwen nodded: "Muto-kun, it seems that we have to immediately formulate a battle plan similar to the Daya Bay landing, completely shatter Jiang Qiang's unrealistic illusions, and dispel his confidence in confronting the imperial army." ”

Muto Shoen's face immediately flushed: "Your Excellency Chief of Staff, there is a chance now, the Fifth Division has already gone north by boat and will soon arrive in Tianjin." I believe that we are fully capable of launching a large-scale offensive against the Shandong Jiaodong Army and destroying Jiang Qiang's main force of the Shandong Military Region in one fell swoop. Maybe we can rescue General Tani Toshio and General Seki Kameji. ”

Terauchi Shou listened to his chief of staff and deputy chief of staff talk exaggeratedly, and knew that these two people did not understand Jiang Qiang's Jiaodong Army at all, and their thinking was still at the level of fighting against the Nanjing Political Axe Army, and they were still a long way from the former chief of staff, Naosaburo Gangbe. If they had followed their idea and let the Fifth Division land at any port in eastern Shandong, it would indeed be able to defeat Jiang Qiang at the beginning and sweep the base area of the Jiaodong Army. But what next? If Jiang Qiang's main force surrounds him next, wouldn't it send the elite Fifth Division into the wolf's mouth?

Terauchi Shou was upset, and asked Yamashita Fengwen and Muto Akira to shut up and listen to how the Jiaodong Army announced the verdict.

As soon as they heard that the Jiaodong Army had really pronounced that Gu Shoufu and Guan Guizhi were guilty of six major crimes, including the crime of undermining peace, the crime of opposing the people, the war crime, the crime of homicide, the crime of forcible annihilation, and the crime of robbery, and that Gu Shoufu Ling Chi was sentenced to death and Guan Guizhi was hanged, without Terauchi Shouichi to stop it, Yamashita Fengfu and Muto Akira shut up.

When Seki Kameji was hanged and the wails of Tani Shofu's torture were heard on the radio, Yamashita and Muto Akira's heads began to sweat.

Yamashita Fengwen touched his neck, and couldn't help but think, Guan Guizhi has only been in China for a few days, and his 34th Division has been under the attack of the Jiaodong Army since it arrived in Tai'an, and he has never been able to let go of his hands and feet to do a big job. Guan Guizhi was sentenced to be hanged, so if one day he fell into the hands of Jiang Qiang, wouldn't he be sentenced to Ling Chi to death like Gu Shoufu's unlucky bastard? It seems that in the future, it is better to stay in the headquarters and be safer to move with the troops casually. It's best to get out of North China as soon as possible.

Muto Akira's heart is more hairy than Yamashita Fengfumi, he knows in his heart that one of the evidences that Tanisoo can be convicted of war crimes, crimes of sabotaging peace, and crimes against the people is that he has participated in the decision-making and discussion of the Imperial Council. The reason why Guan Guizhi was not sentenced to death was that he killed fewer people than Gu Shoufu and forcibly killed fewer women than Gu Shoufu, and an important factor was that he was purely an officer who only carried out the orders of the military department, and he did not participate in the decision-making of the war against China.

Gu Shoufu only participated in one imperial meeting, and although Muto Zhang's position is low and his official position is small, because he is in the central decision-making center, he not only participated in the imperial meeting many times, but also directly led to the full-scale invasion of China. Gu Shoufu was sentenced to Ling Chi and was cut with one hundred and twenty knives, so when it was Muto Zhang's turn, how many knives should be cut?

Muto Zhang didn't dare to think about it, but he felt that every pore around his body was slightly squeezing cold air coming out.

At the beginning, Terauchi Shoufu thought that the public trial of Gu Shoufu would only disgrace Emperor Daishomoto, the political axe, and the army, and thought that the Shandong Military Region would probably really shoot Gu Shoufu and Guan Kameji. He never thought that Jiang Qiang would sentence Gu Shoufu to Ling Chi to death, and he really cut Gu Shoufu alive with one knife. In Gu Shoufu's wails before he died, Guan Guizhi's hanging seemed a little lucky.

Jiang Qiang dared to execute the lieutenant general of the Great Imperial Army, the commander of the dignified Sixth Division, and the commander of the Twelfth Army, which was simply an extreme contempt and humiliation for the Great Imperial Army, and it was unbearable!

Terauchi Shou, who was furious, wanted to immediately order a crazy revenge against Jiang Qiang's Shandong Military Region, but after looking at the dejected Yamashita Fengwen and Muto Zhang, Terauchi Shou had to restrain his anger and sit down and slowly chew the bitterness in his heart.

Jiang Qiang knew that the Yue army would retaliate frantically, knew that the Yue army had a large number of aircraft and warships, knew that in terms of national strength, it was far superior to China, and dared to inflict Ling Chi's capital punishment on the captured Gu Shoufu, which had been abolished a long time ago. Shouichi Terauchi didn't dare to think about it.

Terauchi Shou knew that no matter how arrogant Jiang Qiang was, no matter how strong and capable his Shandong army was, it would not be able to change the basic situation that the army was stronger than the Chinese army in a short period of time. Once the main force of the Yue army completes the assembly and rushes back to Shandong, Jiang Qiang's Shandong army will still not be the opponent of the Yue army. Unless a miracle happens. In this case, Jiang Qiang still dared to ignore the large-scale retaliation of the Yue army, and resolutely Ling Chi Gu Shoufu and hanged Guan Guizhi, at least to show one point, that is, they held the heart of death that they would rather be broken than broken, and they were determined to fight the imperial army to the end.

The public trial of Gu Shoufu is likely to make all Chinese troops more determined to fight the Yue army to the end.

Terauchi Shou, like Prince Zaihito of Kanin Miyajihito and Sugi Sugimoto, are all supporters of the quick victory theory. In their minds, the Chinese army has backward weapons, poor training, and inconsistent thinking, and as long as the army invades China on a large scale, it can completely wipe out the main force of the Chinese army in a short period of time, destroy the Nanjing political axe, or force it to surrender. It is precisely because of this that they are desperate to launch a full-scale war of aggression against China.