Guan Guizhi's hanging was carried out very quickly. After all, this was the war era. Everything was simplified and everything that could be saved was saved. The law enforcement soldiers, under the command of the commander, directly hung Guan Guizhi to the gallows. Guan Guizhi was hanged.

It only took a few struggles in the air and it was over.

Hisao Tani was stabbed one after another.

Lingchi, a punishment that originated during the Five Dynasties period, was abolished in 1905 at the end of the Qing Dynasty. The reason why Hisao Tani is still sentenced to death at Lingchi is, needless to say, because Hisao Tani's evil deeds have reached the point where it would be too easy for him to hang him.

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It is said that Liu Jin, the great eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, was sentenced to Ling Chi and suffered 3,357 knives and was mutilated for three days.

Considering that the execution of Lingchi was too difficult and too bloody, Liu Yimin told Cai Zhong and others that they could not let soldiers execute the execution, but should look for an executioner from among the old executioners in Jinan Prison. In the end, they did find one. According to him, he said that during the Ming Dynasty,

Ling Chi's sword skills are exquisite, usually more than a thousand swords. After the Qing Dynasty, Ling Chi roughly had twenty-four swords, thirty-six swords, seventy-two swords and one hundred and twenty swords. He is a ancestral craftsmanship.

You can use a thin blade to slowly cook Hisao Tani, and at least you can cut more than a thousand cuts. In the end, Liu Yimin made the final decision and chose the cutting method of one hundred and twenty cuts.

This night is a grand festival for the Chinese people who were invaded by the Japanese invaders. When the sentence was announced, from Shaanxi to the rear area and all the counties controlled by the Chinese army, as long as there were radios, everything became a sea of ​​joy. Firecrackers

The gongs and drums are played, the gongs and drums are beaten, and the Yangko dances are performed. The suffering Chinese people have smiles on their faces, sing little songs in their mouths, and express their excitement and excitement in various ways.

Hisao Tani's wails struck the hearts of all the Japanese officers and soldiers in front of the radio.

None of the Japanese generals could have imagined that the Eighth Route Army did not implement the policy of preferential treatment of prisoners against the captured Hisao Tani and Guan Guiji, but instead prosecuted them as war criminals, tried them in public, and sentenced them to such heavy and severe punishments.

, so cruel, so tragic.

Naturally, those who reacted most strongly were the officers of the various units of the Japanese Sixth Division.

After the commander of the Sixth Division, Lieutenant General Inaba Shiro, issued an order prohibiting ordinary officers and soldiers from listening to the radio, only officers above the captain could listen to the live broadcast. In this way, a situation arose where officers above the captain were in the room.

Listen, officers and soldiers below the group leader were listening secretly outside the unit's group department and outside the window sill. Later, those squadron leaders and squad leaders couldn't stand the crowding, so they simply violated the order and listened in their own squadron headquarters.

The people who are most likely to have a mentality of worship are young people who are not deeply involved in the world.

The same is true for the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army. Speaking of Hisao Tani, the brigade commanders and regimental commanders may not have much admiration for him. Maybe some people still have opinions about him and wish him bad luck! On the contrary, those junior officers and soldiers mentioned

He respected the name of Hisao Tani so much that he always followed him as an example and dreamed of being like him, killing crazily and making great contributions on the Chinese battlefield.

When the wailing of Hisao Tani's being tortured came from the radio, these junior officers and ordinary soldiers collapsed completely, wailing everywhere, as if it was not Hisao Tani who was being tortured, but their own parents.

After the wailing, some young officers first acted irrationally and began to accuse and curse each other, which later developed into fights. Later, some young officers and soldiers began to commit suicide. These are nothing, their lives are theirs.

If you die, you will die, no one can care about it. But killing others is wrong, and those irrational young officers did exactly the wrong thing. One of the squad leaders actually picked up a light machine gun with a crutch and pointed it at his own

The team opened fire, and as soon as the shuttle went down, more than a dozen little Japs fell down. There was still a Japs who didn't want to die and shot him decisively. Otherwise, when he changed the magazine again, I'm afraid the whole team would be dead.

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According to subsequent statistics, that night, the Sixth Division, the most elite of the Japanese army, had 120 suicides and manslaughter accidents, with a loss of 1,200 personnel, equivalent to an elite infantry brigade. This also coincides with the fact that Hisao Tani was chopped into pieces by 120 knives.

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Afterwards, Inaba Shiro urgently reported to the base camp and requested that the country immediately produce a batch of exquisite amulets so that each soldier of the Sixth Division could wear one to give them a sense of security and confidence. At the same time, he requested the base camp to immediately select a senior monk to come.

The Sixth Division preached the essence of Shinto and Buddhism to help restore the morale of the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division.

The North China Front Army headquarters was filled with lifeless atmosphere.

When the North China Front Army Chief of Staff Yamashita Tomofumi and the deputy chief of staff heard the news on the radio that the Eighth Route Army was going to put Hisao Tani on trial, they all became furious and cursed loudly. When the Eighth Route Army actually put Hisao Tani on trial and read out the indictment word for word, this

The two guys fell silent, and Juichi Terauchi sat there and listened.

The reason why Yamashita Tomofumi became the chief of staff of the North China Front was because his father-in-law and Terauchi Juichi were good friends. Originally, after he served as the commander of the independent brigade of the North China Garrison Army, he had been stationed in Peiping and was responsible for defending the commander of the North China Front.

After the independent brigade of the North China Garrison Army was reorganized into the 27th Division, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma became the division commander. Because he was a major general at the time, he could not serve as the division commander, so he stayed at the North China Front Army Headquarters.

, assisting Lieutenant General Naosaburo of the Post Department in his work.

The North China Residential Army Independent Brigade did many bad things, the most famous of which was provoking the Marco Polo Bridge Incident. Yamashita Tobumi and his original North China Residential Army Independent Brigade had done all the bad things that Hisao Tani and the Sixth Division had done

, it’s just not as famous as Hisao Tani and the Sixth Division.

After listening to the indictment read out by the prosecutor, Yamashita Fengfumi said angrily: "Liu Yimin made a fuss out of a molehill. Is there any need to prosecute this kind of thing? Which occupying army in the world doesn't do this? Mr. Hisao Tani just did what is history."

Isn't it something that many people have done before? Liu Yimin arrested all the famous generals in history for trial if he had the ability. Why did he only try Mr. Gu Shou? This is absolutely unfair!"

Akira Muto was one of the representatives of the Japanese army that expanded into the war of aggression against China. He was among 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 most generals of the Japanese army, Muto Akira was promoted along the route of Army Infant School, Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and Army University. Unlike other Japanese generals, Muto Akira liked to write and write in his youth, pretending to be a soldier.

Like a literary young man, this also laid the foundation for his long-term career as an advisor.

After graduating from the 32nd class of the Army University with the second place, Muto Akira was selected to study military in Germany. The craze of the whole country in Germany to reorganize the army and improve military training deeply stimulated him. After returning to China, he began to vigorously advocate the launch of a war of aggression against China.

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This Muto Akira may not be a big official, but the things he does are earth-shattering.

When he was the squad leader of the fourth squad of the Second Department of the General Staff Headquarters, Akira Muto was ordered to go deep into central and southern China to collect intelligence and survey geography. He came to the conclusion that China is vast and rich in resources, while Japan is narrow and barren. He believed that the way out for Japan lies in occupying China.

When he served as the Chief of the Operations Section of the Kwantung Army Staff Headquarters, Muto Akira specifically led the intelligence collection and analysis of the Northeast region, laying the foundation for the Japanese invasion of the Northeast. King Toku occupied Suiyuan and formed an army. Muto Akira seemed to have smelled it.

The smelly flies 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 won a great victory in the Bailing Temple battle, almost capturing Muto alive who was acting with King De's army.

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When the Marco Polo Bridge Incident occurred, Akira Muto was already the chief of the operations section of the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters.

After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, there were two opinions in the Japanese Army General Staff Headquarters. Muto Akira's immediate boss, Japan's number one military scientist and head of the First Department of the General Staff Headquarters, Ishihara Kanji, believed that the Japanese army's imaginary enemy was the Soviet Union and that now was not the time to fully invade China.

If it is mature, once it falls into the Chinese battlefield, it will affect the Japanese military's management of the entire Asia. But Muto Akira didn't see it that way. After receiving the report of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, he was ecstatic and believed that the opportunity for a full-scale invasion of China had come, and he must seize the chance of China's return.

The lack of opportunity to complete war preparations dealt a fatal blow to China. The two men faced off tit for tat, and the lawsuit went before the Prime Minister and even the Emperor. Naturally, Muto Akira won, and the Japanese army began to fully invade China.

During the Songhu Anti-Japanese War, Muto Akira flew to Shanghai to meet Matsui Iwane, and then to Peking to meet Terauichi Juichi. He single-handedly planned the Hangzhou Bay landing, which caused the Chinese army to retreat from the Songhu battlefield.

When the Japanese army attacked Nanjing, Muto Akira had already become the deputy chief of staff of the Central China Expeditionary Force. The Japanese army captured an empty city and suffered such heavy losses. Naturally, Muto Akira wanted to take revenge. Hisao Tani and others burned, killed and looted the market towns near Nanjing.

It was with his consent. Historically, the Nanjing Massacre was also triggered by his order to allow large Japanese troops to camp in the city.

After listening to Yamashita Fengfumi's words, Muto Akira immediately spoke nonsense: "The Chinese people are all illiterate and are the garbage of the civilized world. It will be a great contribution to world peace if the Imperial Japanese Army sweeps away the garbage that affects the progress of the world. What is the crime of Lieutenant General Hisao Tani?

Really? Liu Yimin dared to publicly try General Hisao Tani, which shows that he is also a frog in the well who does not understand current affairs and the direction of the changing trend of the world. It cannot explain the general climate."

Yamashita Fengwen immediately continued: "That is, crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes are unheard of. I have never heard of a general committing such crimes in the world. It is simply inexplicable. Liu Yimin, a Tubalist, actually tampered with the past

It is sheer nonsense to convict the Japanese army generals based on an international convention that has not been implemented and to use provisions that are still on paper."

This is not the idea of ​​Yamashita Fengfumi alone. At this time, the prosecution and trial of war criminals on these three charges had never happened in the world. In the minds of Japanese generals, killing is a military exploit, robbery is a military exploit, including raping women, then

It was also a violation of military discipline. At this time, the Japanese generals did not have the concept of war crimes. It was precisely for this reason that they published photos and news of soldiers massacring civilians in newspapers.

Liu Yimin prosecuted Hisao Tani and Kameharu Seki for three crimes: crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. This can be regarded as creating a new era in the history of war in the trial of war criminals. It stands at the height of the entire human civilization and punishes all behaviors that endanger human civilization.

The verdict is also a warning to those war madmen that if you dare to launch a war of aggression, I will judge you in the name and qualifications of all mankind.

How can a little devil understand these things?

Yamashita Tomofumi has this view, and Muto Akira has this view even more: "Liu Yimin is sensationalizing and wants to use the blood of the Imperial Japanese Army generals to attract the attention of the international community. I have to say, this guy has a trick, and he succeeded.

Tomorrow, newspapers from all over the world will publish the news of their public trial of General Hisao Tani on their front pages. Maybe there will be a heated debate among the legal circles. However, this is just sensationalism. What determines the outcome of a war is strength, and the Empire of Japan

The strength of the Army is by no means something that the small Tubal Army can compete with. What are crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes? The Japanese Army is conducting a holy war in Greater East Asia to liberate the backward and ignorant Chinese. Liu Yimin is simply confusing right and wrong.

Confusing right and wrong. I can guarantee that although the press will make a fuss, military strategists and politicians from all over the world will sneer at Liu Yimin's arrogant and ignorant actions."

Yamashita Fengfumi nodded: "Muto-kun, it seems that we must immediately formulate a combat plan similar to the Hangzhou Bay landing to completely shatter Liu Yimin's unrealistic illusions and dispel his confidence in confronting the imperial army."

A blush immediately appeared on Muto Akira's face as he tweeted: "Chief of Staff, there is an opportunity now. The Fifth Division has already taken a boat to the north and will arrive in Qingdao soon. I think we are fully capable.

Launch a large-scale offensive operation against Tubal Road in Shandong and wipe out the main force of Liu Yimin's instructors in one fell swoop. Maybe we can also rescue General Hisao Tani and General Guan Guiji."

Terauchi Shouichi listened to the rhetoric of his chief of staff and deputy chief of staff, and knew that these two people did not understand Liu Yimin's instructor at all, and their thoughts were still at the level of fighting against Chiang Kai-shek's government troops.

There's a big difference. If they follow their idea and let the Fifth Division land at any port in eastern Shandong, they can indeed catch Liu Yimin off guard at the beginning and sweep away the Eighth Route Army's base areas. But what happens next?

?If Liu Yimin's main force surrounds him next, wouldn't it mean that the elite Fifth Division will be put into the wolf's mouth?

Terauchi Shouichi was upset and told Yamashita Fengfumi and Muto Akira to shut up and listen to how the Eighth Route Army pronounced its verdict.

Upon hearing that the Eighth Route Army had actually pronounced Hisao Tani and Kameji Seki guilty of six major crimes including breach of peace, crimes against humanity, war crimes, homicide, rape, and robbery, and sentenced Hisao Tani to death and Seki Kameji to hanging,

Yamashita Hobumi and Muto Akira shut up without the need for Juichi Terauchi to stop them.

When Seki Kameharu was hanged and Hisao Tani's wailings during his execution came from the radio, both Yamashita Hobumi and Muto Akira began to sweat on their heads.

Yamashita Fengwen touched his neck and couldn't help but think that Guan Guizhi had only been in China for a few days. His 34th Division had been harassed by Tubal Road since arriving in Tai'an and had never been able to let go.

How can he fight so vigorously like his former independent brigade of the Tun Army in the Pingjin area? Guan Guizhi sentenced him to hanging. If one day he fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, wouldn't he have to be like this?

Will Hisao Tani be sentenced to death like the unlucky guy? It seems that he can't just follow the troops in the future, and it's safer to stay in the headquarters. It's best to leave North China as soon as possible.

Muto Akira was even more outrageous than Yamashita Tofumi. He knew in his heart that Hisao Tani could be convicted of war crimes, crimes against peace, and crimes against humanity. One of the evidences was that he had participated in the decision-making discussion of the Imperial Council. The reason why Seki Kameji was not sentenced to death was

In addition to the fact that he killed fewer people than Hisao Tani and raped fewer women than Hisao Tani, an important factor is that he was purely an officer who only carried out the orders of the military and did not participate in the decision-making of the war against China.

Hisao Tani only participated in one imperial meeting. Although Muto Akira had a low position and a small official position, because he was in the central decision-making center, he not only participated in many imperial meetings, but also directly led to Japan's full-scale invasion of China. When it comes to the real

For war crimes, the little Muto Sho's crime is much more serious than Hisao Tani's. Hisao Tani was sentenced to Ling Chi and was slashed one hundred and twenty times. So when it is Muto Sho's turn, how many cuts should be made?

Muto Akira didn't dare to think about it, he just felt that every pore in his body was pulling out cold air.

When Juichi Terauchi first thought that the public trial of Hisao Tani would only embarrass the Emperor of Japan, the government and the army, he thought that the Eighth Route Army might really shoot Hisao Tani and Seki Kameji. He never expected that Liu Yimin would actually sentence Hisao Tani.
To be continued...