After the reform and opening up, Japanese veterans came to Langya Mountain one after another to pay homage and apologize. 1one day in July 1997, Liu Jianjun received a phone call from an old Japanese man. The old man spoke poor Chinese and asked Liu Jianjun to accompany him and his son to see Langya Mountain the next day. Out of courtesy and respect for the Japanese elderly, Liu Jianjun agreed to the old man's request.
On the bus, the Japanese old man said that he was the Japanese captain who pursued the "Five Strong Men of Langya Mountain". He came to apologize this time. He is guilty in this place. The car came to a corner at the foot of Langya Mountain, and the old man asked to stop. After getting off the bus, he stood at attention facing Langya Mountain, shouted in Japanese, and then knelt on the ground, kowtowing and crying.
Dry your tears, he said. They drove five strong men to the edge of the cliff. After witnessing the feat of "Five Strong Men of Langya Mountain" jumping off the cliff, he ordered the soldiers to take off their hats and shoot guns in the air to pay tribute to the hero. Later, someone reported it, so he was transferred back to Japan and was punished.
The car came to the Yishui River and the old man asked to stop. He asked his son to take a box out of the trunk. Inside the box is a saber wrapped in white cloth, engraved with the words "Hirohito 15 year system". The old man said that he wore this saber to kill the "Five Strong Men of Langya Mountain" and participated in the "Blood Well" tragedy in Beiqi Village below the mountain.
This knife is stained with the blood of the people of China and bears witness to all his crimes and atrocities. This is a nightmare he will never forget in his life. Making up is the only way for him to seek relief. When he left, the Japanese old man told Liu Jianjun his name-Yukio Edano, then president of Yokohama Dahua Co., Ltd.
Now, this saber has been treasured by Liu Jianjun in his home in Baoding. Liu Jianjun said that this is the witness of history and the best commemoration of the "Five Strong Men of Langya Mountain".
Extended information of the five strong men event in Langyashan;
194 1 On September 25th, the Japanese army assembled 3,000 or 4,000 troops and invaded the Langya Mountain area in the Jinchaji base area of China. At that time, many cadres and 30,000 to 40,000 people in China were hiding in this area. As the main force has moved behind enemy lines, there is only one company of the Eighth Route Army defending Langya Mountain.
After more than a month of heroic fighting, the Seventh Company dealt a heavy blow to the enemy. However, due to the disparity between the enemy and the enemy, it was decided to transfer the main force of the company and the cadres and the masses to the Longwang Temple, under the cover of Class 6 of the company. There are five soldiers in Class Six, namely monitor Ma Baoyu, vice monitor Ge Zhenlin, soldiers Hu Delin, Hu Fucai and Song Xueyi.
In order to cover the transfer of the company and the masses, they fought and retreated, leading the enemy to the Qipaituo cliff on Langya Mountain. They fought fiercely with the enemy, repelled the enemy's repeated charges and killed more than 50 people. When the grenades and bullets were used up, they would rather die than surrender and jump off the bottomless cliff behind them.
After the five strong men jumped off the cliff, Ma Baoyu, Hu Fucai and Hu Delin died heroically, while Ge Zhenlin and Song Xueyi were caught by a cross-country tree on the mountainside and were injured but not sacrificed. After waking up, they climbed the hillside despite the severe pain and returned to the company with the help of the masses.
People's Daily Online-Revealing the Five Heroes of Langya Mountain: The Japanese took off their hats and kowtowed to the officers to apologize.