How did the Japanese army study China's "Military Important Place" in those days? How did they get the information of "military geography"? With these questions, Shen made a special trip to the National Library of Beijing to consult materials, sometimes sitting for three or four days. Shen taught himself Japanese, patiently consulted more than 20 kinds of Japanese materials, and relying on the extensive accumulation of plain and diligent, Shen wrote and published academic papers such as "Japan's research on China's military geography in the past hundred years" and "Japan's Manchuria Railway Investigation Department and Kwantung Army's investigation methods on military geography".
According to Shen's research, before 1909, Japan's so-called military command of the Qing Dynasty compiled the Records of Beijing, Tianjin and zhina, in which the Records of Beijing introduced in detail the equipment, preparation and training of the Qing army, the new army, the Eight Banners, green camp and other old armies.
Shen said that 100 years ago, the Japanese army began to look to China, indicating that Japan's ambition to launch a war of aggression against China already existed.
Shen also has two1:100000 Japanese maps, one in Pingliang, Gansu, and the other in Shanjiaji, Liupanshan District, Ningxia.
"In the war of aggression against China launched that year, the Japanese army did not surpass Baotou to the west. As for Gansu and Ningxia, the Japanese army did not advance at all. So, how did the Japanese army get these maps? "
After research, Shen found that most of the topographic maps of China owned by Japan were copied from the large-scale maps of China stolen before the war, while the topographic maps of China directly measured by the Japanese army were relatively few. Therefore, the above two military maps may have been copied from the stolen map of China by the Japanese land survey department.
In Shen's room, the reporter found that two cigarette boxes used by the Japanese army were engraved with maps of North China and Northeast China of North Korea and China; On a knife, the front of the scabbard is a Japanese soldier standing guard on the Great Wall with a Japanese flag, and the back of the scabbard is a map of North China.
"Through these details, it is not difficult to see that the' battlefield consciousness' of the Japanese invaders has already penetrated into the daily lives of Japanese officers and men." Shen said to.
In Shen's home, the reporter found an old record of Japanese military songs, Hunan Qupu, which drew intermittent, creaky and unfamiliar melodies through the rusty needles on the old record player. The war more than half a century ago, Changsha fire, Changde battle, Hengyang defense war, vividly.
Shen's collection and every research can't be done overnight. Most of these studies have no ready-made materials to consult, and only by paying constant attention can we gain something. Shen pressed on. He hoped to restore that history and prove the war crimes committed by Japanese invaders in China.
On weekdays, Shen will be happy for a while every time he gets the collection. "Because this is my hobby and my lifelong pursuit!" Shen said to.