On March 10, 1947, the director of the Military Court
For a moment, everyone's emotions could not be controlled. Some were angry because this demon had harmed too many people and some were excited. Justice finally came.
April 26, this demon was finally shot. This incident has become a big news that everyone knows, but many people can't help but wonder, if this demon dies, where has his beast team gone?
In fact, the division that Tani Suo once commanded did not end well.
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An army composed of a group of beasts
Speaking of this Gu Shoufu Division, we definitely have a deep hatred for it, because it is not the first time it invades China. Tani Suoka Division is the 6th Division of Japan. Since the supply military region is Kumamoto , it is also called Kumamoto Division. It is one of the seventeen permanent divisions in Japan and is also a Japanese A Division.
More than a dozen permanent divisions including 6th Division have always been under military training and have participated in many battles, so they have strong combat capabilities. Later, in order to adapt to different levels of combat, Japan divided the divisions into levels of divisions, and the A divisions would also give priority to other divisions in terms of resources.
Among more than a dozen elite divisions in Japan, the Sixth Division and the Second Division of are the two most elite divisions.
Its predecessor was Kumamoto Town set up in 1873. During the Southwest War, , the army of Saigo Takamoto was blocked in the city but still resisted tenaciously.
Tani Suo
1888, the army reformed, and the Taiwan-Taiwan became the 6th Division, with only more than 10,000 people at the time of its establishment. The size of the Japanese division was formed in the model of the German division, so the actual scale was very large. Later, the total number of the Sixth Division, which was supplemented, reached more than 25,000.
Japan has various types of troops. Often one division has eight corpses, two brigades each have two infantry corpses, and there are also four corpses, namely engineers, cavalry, artillery and Zibo, as well as non-combat troops, and they have strong independent combat capabilities.
If you talk about equipment in detail, the Sixth Division has many things. There are three infantry brigades under one infantry corps. The infantry brigade has eight heavy machine guns , two infantry artillery , and three squads under the infantry squadron, each squad has two light machine guns and two grenade launchers . The artillery gang of the division is equipped with forty-eight heavy artillery , usually 75 mm mountain cannon , field cannon or 120 mm howitzer . The specific situation depends on the situation of the Japanese division equipped with war horses, which are divided into pack horse system and horse-drawn horse system.
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Japanese 6th Division was responsible for capturing Weihaiwei during Sino-Japanese War , causing great losses to Beiyang Navy . During Russo-Japanese War , it also participated in many battles, including Liaoyang , Shahe, Fengtian , Heigoutai and other battles.
Later, the 6th Division returned to Japan after stationed in Northeast China for three years. In 1928, it invaded Shandong again and caused a tragedy. Tens of thousands of Chinese people fell under the butcher knife of these beasts.
After the September 18th Incident, the 6th Division set foot on China's land and fought for more than half a year before returning to Japan.
That is to say, before the full-scale war of resistance against Japan, the Sixth Division had actually invaded China five times and had committed numerous crimes, which most people may not understand.
When the full-scale anti-Japanese war broke out on July 7, 1937, the Sixth Division was still in Japan and received an order at the end of the month to participate in the invasion of China. This was its sixth trampling on Chinese land.
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At this time, Tani Shouo had been the division commander of the 6th Division for more than a year. He led the 6th Division to harm countless Chinese people in the North China area.
In November of the same year, the Sixth Division headed to Hangzhou Bay , and once again showed its devilish nature in the Shanghai-Hangzhou area, putting the local people under terror.
By December, the Japanese army attacked Nanjing City, and the whole city fell on the 12th. Then something that made every Chinese heartbroken, the Nanjing Massacre.
Tanaka Division did everything in a few days, burning, killing, looting, and the beast that killed hundreds of Chinese Tanaka Army Yoshikami 2 was a subordinate officer of Tanaka Division. Of course, such inhumane people were everywhere in the Sixth Division at that time.
Tani Suzuo
The defeat of the beast division
Greedy desire to aggression has gradually exhausted resources, so it can only surrender to Southeast Asia. In order to seize the sea control on Pacific , Japan can only launch the Pacific War, so the United States was pulled in.
The war situation is becoming increasingly unfavorable to Japan. Japan has to fight against the two major powers of China and the United States at the same time, and at the same time it has to divide its troops in Southeast Asia. It is difficult for the two battlefields of one east and one west to support each other. Japanese fascism can only continuously demolish the east wall and repair the west wall, and mobilize the limited army back and forth.
As the Pacific war gradually expanded, Japan transferred some of the Asian army forces to the Pacific island guarding, including the Sixth Division.
It should be emphasized that since the end of 1937, Tani Suo no longer served as the commander of the division. The commander of the division at this time was Lieutenant General Kanda Masato.
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Navy was originally a resource-consuming service. The displacement of warship that can sail far requires at least a few thousand tons. With so many wars, Japan can no longer maintain its combat effectiveness.
So no matter how elite the Sixth Division is, it is still an army division, and it is empty talk to defend the island without sea advantages.
Originally, the Sixth Division was sent to Guadalcanal Island , but due to the situation, they could only be transferred to Bougainville Island. Bougainville Island is the largest island in the Solomon Islands, with 10,000 square kilometers. The island is mountainous and fertile. This is also an island that Japan attaches great importance to at that time and is also the burial place of the Sixth Division.
Japan decline became increasingly obvious in the second half of 1943, and the armies of the United States and Australia launched a counterattack in the Western Pacific. At that time, guarding Bougainville Island was the 17th Army mixed with the army and the Navy, including the 6th Division, the 38th Mixed Brigade, and the Navy Southern Police Force, with a total of more than 35,000 people, of which the 6th Division was the main force.
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The US military's land forces are comparable to those of the Japanese army. They are mainly the First Marine Army, with the Third Marine Division, the 37th Infantry Division and a brigade of the New Zealand army, with a total number of more than 34,000 people.
The difference is that the United States has huge support power. One task force plus three aircraft carriers . Compared with the Japanese Navy at this time, the strength of the Japanese Navy is somewhat insufficient, and the land forces of the Allied forces are also continuous.
As early as a month before landing, the US military launched air strikes on Bougainville Island and other places. The 17th Japanese Army trapped the islands suffered heavy losses, and the 6th Division was not spared. Then landed in Queens Bay, Augusta on November 1. The terrain here is dangerously weak in the defense of the Japanese army, and the US military can get more forces ashore in a short period of time.
The 17th Army of the Japanese army quickly organized a counterattack, and the 6th Division still carried bayonets and charged in a formation according to the general land battle style.
US military
The US military, who has always believed in the "fire sea tactic", suppressed the Japanese army with the mortar . There are also naval guns of warships at sea, which has made many Japanese soldiers smashed to pieces without reacting.
Just as the two sides were fighting fiercely on land, the Japanese Navy dispatched four cruisers and six destroyers , plus the aviation force, trying to give some support to the island defenders, but this force was quickly defeated by the US military.
After the Japanese 17th Army failed to land on the anti-landing, it could only huddle in the jungle on the island. The elite 6th Division had no supplies to supplement it, and was like a dog that was stranded. The US military took the opportunity to quickly expand the results of the war, seized highlands and built airports on the island.
In a blink of an eye, it was March 1944, and the Japanese army was preparing to launch a counterattack, equip each artillery with hundreds of shells. The Sixth Division carried light machine guns, flamethrowers, artillery and other weapons to use the jungle to launch a second strong attack on the US military.
US military
At this time, three divisions of the US Army replaced Marine Corps . They had deployed more than 100 square kilometers of defense zones, with more than 60,000 soldiers on the defense line, as well as various bunker fortifications, barbed wire mesh, minefields, and gasoline barrels .
The US military also knows that the Japanese army's dying struggle should not be underestimated and pays special attention to firepower configuration.
Each infantry squad is equipped with several light machine guns. heavy weapon is equipped with multiple heavy artillery battalions and independent heavy artillery companies. They are basically equipped with artillery with a caliber of more than 100 mm. The number of mortars provided by infantry troops is also quite large, and there are also large-caliber naval guns at sea.
On March 9, 1944, the Japanese army, with the Sixth Division as the main force, attacked the US military positions for eight days. The attack lasted for eight days. The Japanese army caused some losses to the US military with its limited number of heavy artillery, but no matter how elite the artillery of the Sixth Division could not make up for such a large number gap.
US military
Every US military's artillery position was continuously shooting at the Japanese army, and almost tens of thousands of shells were poured out of various artillery, and there were always ammunition on the warships to be sent continuously. The Japanese army, which was heavily firepower, lost more than 7,000 people under heavy artillery bombing by the US military. Every attack by the Japanese army was tantamount to death, and the US army lost only more than 1,000 people.
Seeing that there was no hope of victory, the commander of the 17th Japanese Army, Haruki Hakuto, quickly terminated the attack.
The 6th Division had lost more than half of its losses, and some infantry brigades had only a handful of people left. In the end, the entire division was forced to huddle in the corner of the island, and they even planted vegetables themselves in order to survive.
At this time, there are still quite a lot of Japanese troops on the island, but few of them can fight. On this Pacific Island , damp and hot is unbearable. If you are injured, you can only look at the wound and get infected. Even those who were not injured were already exhausted and malnourished, and people died every day.
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The Japanese army on the island has very limited range of activities. If you are not careful, you may bump into soldiers of the 93rd Division of the US Army. Before the attack, the commander of the 17th Army, Hyukihito, said to the soldiers of the 6th Division, "The bright red blood adds to the badge of the 6th Division," but at this time he has no courage at all.
11 In October 2019, the Second Australian Army took over the defensive mission of the 14th Army of the US, and the Australian army continued to launch strong attacks on the Japanese army.
The 6th Division of the Japanese Army fought many battles with the Australian Second Army in the Battle of Mawalaika and the Battle of Mosingota. The Australian army became more and more brave. When the remaining soldiers of the 6th Division met Australian tanks, they were basically unilaterally massacred.
By June 1945, Lieutenant General Qiu Yongli, the last division commander of the Sixth Division, limped and launched an attack with more than 2,000 beggar soldiers who had difficulty walking, but lost a small half of them. At this time, the Sixth Division was basically equivalent to destruction.
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In September 1945, with Japan surrendering , the Japanese troops still in various places put down their weapons one after another. On the 6th, the Eighth Front Army of the Japanese Army announced its surrender, and the 17th Japanese Army under its command laid down its weapons.
At that time, the Sixth Division alone had 25,000 people, but the 17th Army at the time of surrender had only a few thousand people.
The 6th Division was destroyed, and those who had committed crimes in Nanjing were also sent to the military court for trial and executed by firing. Although the sinful beast division was destroyed, the evil roots still exist. Today, the Northeast Front Team of the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force still has the number of the Sixth Division.
And the entire Japanese Self-Defense Force uses military numbers and warship names during the World War II . This shows that some Japanese today have not yet drawn a clear line from the past. We must be wary of militarism that resurrects the disaster to the world again.
Reference
The 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, the person who conveys blood evidence. Beijing Satellite TV "Archives"
