Mountbatten: He was assassinated at the age of 79. Before he died, he insisted that there should be no Japanese at the funeral.

1979 On August 27th, a family boarded their yacht with a lobster basket in the small town of Moremore, Ireland. About ten minutes after going out to sea, there was a sudden explosion. Of the seven people on board, four died on the spot and the other three were seriously injured.

Louis mountbatten, the owner of this yacht and an important member of the British royal family, was seriously injured after being blown up. At the age of 79, mountbatten finally died because of ineffective rescue. His last request before his death was that there should be no Japanese at the funeral.

Special envoys and representatives from all over the world came to attend his funeral, but no Japanese were invited and the Japanese government was not allowed to send people. I'm afraid mountbatten is so stubborn because it has something to do with Japanese feuds during World War II.

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1900, mountbatten was born in Windsor Castle, England. His great-grandmother was the famous Queen Victoria, his menstruation was the queen of Russia, his mother was an English princess, and his father was Prince Louis Badenburg. The prince used to be a member of the German royal family, but he gave up his German nationality and joined the British Royal Navy because of his naval dream since childhood, and he has been the first maritime minister.

After reading this dazzling resume, you will know that mountbatten is not a rich second generation, but his ancestors are six generations of nobles. Not only that, he also has the right to inherit most of the royal families in Europe. Of course, according to the principle of succession, he is not too high.

Nevertheless, he is also a serious Gao Fushuai.

Mountbatten admired the Royal Navy as much as his father, so he entered the naval school at the age of 13. At this time, the First World War broke out. To tell the truth, World War I was a family matter, and all of them were relatives. What can't you say?

However, due to the strong anti-German sentiment in Britain, mountbatten's father had to leave his job because of the German royal background. Mountbatten, 14, vowed to sit in the position of commander-in-chief of the navy to avenge his father.

The young man is very motivated, but there are not many opportunities to perform in World War I. What really achieved him was World War II.

1939, World War II broke out. This year, mountbatten was 39 years old. Mountbatten, who was no longer confused, showed great courage in the fierce battle between the destroyer and the German fleet. Of course, his destroyer was sunk in the end, and his performance was affirmed by a big boss.

This man is Churchill.

Churchill soon gave mountbatten a position to go to Asia as "Commander-in-Chief of Southeast Asia Theater". Churchill's move was not because of mountbatten's talent, but because in Southeast Asia at that time, the allied forces became very confused in the face of the Japanese attack and needed a person to coordinate the armies of various countries.

This person must have some background, and ability is not important. After all, the command of the battlefield will not be given to him, so Churchill chose mountbatten.

I brought a prince. You people should at least show some face. Roosevelt agreed, and China had to agree under the pressure of Roosevelt and Churchill.

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To put it bluntly, Gao Fushuai mountbatten came to Southeast Asia as a vase, and his activity area was basically in safe India.

Mountbatten wants to live a peaceful life in India, but the Japanese don't think so. 1in March, 944, in order to completely cut off the allied supply to China's army and occupy India, the Japanese army assembled 65,438+10,000 troops to attack the allied counterattack base Impal.

The Japanese commander むたぐちれんや said arrogantly before launching the campaign: "Speaking of the East Asian War, this is my responsibility. I ordered the first shot to be fired at Lugou Bridge, so I must try to end this war as soon as possible! "

On March 8th, 1944, the arrogant Moutian led 15 Army * * with more than 65,438+ten thousand men, crossed the Chindun River in the border area between India and Myanmar and approached Impal.

The Japanese army's quick success and instant benefit soon exposed its flaws. The British and Indian troops quickly withdrew from the areas along the Yangtze River, retreated to the highlands near Impal, and stretched the front line, causing the Japanese army to be far away from the rear base, and the transportation line was bombed by the US Air Force, so that the supply was cut off.

It rained all night, and the arrival of the rainy season in Myanmar made the Japanese army almost desperate. Diseases raged in the jungle, and Japanese officers and men either starved to death or died of illness. They soon collapsed and returned to Qindun River. Four months later, the Battle of Impal ended with the Japanese burying 50,000 bodies in the Qindun River.

The news of the defeat made the Japanese base camp furious, and all the Japanese commanders and chief of staff stationed in Myanmar were dismissed.

The commander of this campaign is Lieutenant General Slim, but the credit goes to mountbatten. There is no way to stop his background and the status of senior officials.

Churchill didn't expect the rich boy to be covered with gold all over India. He was really a talent.

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More than a year after the Battle of Impal, Japan was defeated and surrendered. As the supreme commander of the Southeast Asian theater, mountbatten enjoyed the highest level of treatment, that is, accepting Japan's surrender.

When he surrendered, he also made a request that made the Japanese feel very embarrassed. He asked the Japanese generals to sign the surrender in front of their subordinates and symbolically disarm.

Hisaichi Terauchi, commander of the Japanese Southern Army, couldn't accept it, so he had to let Sakaguchi Seijiro take his place.

Long before the surrender ceremony, mountbatten explicitly ordered his men: No one should shake hands with the Japanese.

Even after his retirement, the respected prince visited many countries, including the Soviet Union and China, but there was no Japan. He refused to go to Japan, and it was said that the Japanese did not welcome him.

The end of World War II did not end mountbatten's brilliant resume, because the influence of World War II made Britain's national strength decline rapidly, unable to maintain its huge colonies and armaments, and India, as the "jewel in the crown of the British Empire", immediately demanded independence.

The last Indian governor and deputy king was mountbatten. 1947 In March, mountbatten arrived in India with his wife edwina, and Nehru, the leader of the Indian independence movement, accepted the mountbatten plan to carve up India.

English people are real dogs. Although they let you be independent, they buried a mine for you when you arrived. The partition of India caused a long-term contradiction between India and Pakistan, and it still does today.

In addition, as a requirement of independence, Britain demanded that India must stay in the Commonwealth. As far as the situation at that time was concerned, all the weapons and equipment of the Indian army were made in Britain, and trade with Commonwealth countries was the most frequent, so it was impossible for India to cut off its ties with Britain.

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If mountbatten's greatest gain in India is anything, it may be a hat.

1920, 20-year-old mountbatten met edwina, the granddaughter of the famous banker Edward Kassel, who was also one of the richest heiresses at that time. After two years of love, they got married. During mountbatten's tenure as Indian Governor-General, the couple had a very close relationship with Nehru.

The future Indian Prime Minister just lost his wife, and the arrival of edwina filled the gap in Nehru's personal love life.

Later, Matthew, the secretary who followed Nehru for a long time, even said in his book "Memoirs of Nehru Times" that among all women, Mrs. mountbatten occupied the most important position. Even when Nehru was on vacation in the mountains, the governor's son opened Nehru's bedroom and saw Nehru kissing edwina. The relationship between the two can be seen.

Even after edwina returned to England, Nehru wrote her affectionate letters and even went to see her every time he went to England.

Even Indians can see the behavior of his wife and Nehru. Mountbatten is not a fool. Will he not know?

Mountbatten pretends not to know, because he is also a romantic, which is not uncommon in European royal families. He has long been used to it. He once described his marriage with edwina as "my marriage with her is to climb into someone else's bed."

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1955, mountbatten finally realized his boyhood oath and became the first British minister of maritime affairs, and then served as the minister of national defense until 1965, when he retired with honor.

But mountbatten didn't expect that he was targeted by terrorist organizations when he was older.

The organization against him was called the Irish Peace Corps, and it was this organization that finally killed mountbatten.

The contradiction between Britain and Ireland has a long history. In order to resist the British colonial rule, the Irish established the Irish Volunteer Army, which was later renamed the Irish Peace Army.

After the First World War, due to the inability to suppress Irish resistance, Britain had to make southern Ireland independent, and the rest of northern Ireland still belonged to Britain.

However, the Irish do not want to be independent only in the south. Irish peace forces continue to create terrorist attacks to promote the reunification of North and South. Even the garbage cans on the streets of London are full of bombs, so that the British government has already removed the garbage cans on the streets, and the whole London stinks.

1979 is the tenth year of Northern Ireland's demand for independence. On the anniversary, the Irish Peace Corps always wants to do something big, and this year, it is also the British election year. Margaret Thatcher's cabinet is about to take office, and the Irish Peace Corps is bent on giving the Iron Lady a scare.

Crucially, there is still competition between terrorist organizations in Ireland. The competitor of the Irish Peace Corps is the Irish National JF Army. 1979 On March 30th, the Secretary General of Northern Ireland, Eric Neve, was killed in the parking lot of the British Parliament. The planner is the Irish National JF Army.

Opponents made a vote, Irish * * * and the army felt that they could not lag behind, so they set their sights on mountbatten.

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Mountbatten is old, easy to learn and respected, and he is also the spiritual mentor of Prince Philip and Prince Charles.

Mountbatten often goes to crassus Castle, which he inherited from his wife edwina. Every year, mountbatten comes to stay here. Although the Irish police repeatedly suggested that mountbatten cancel the plan to go to Ireland for a holiday, mountbatten didn't care, and even directly replied, "How can they be interested?" I'm just an old man. "

After he finished this sentence, life has entered the countdown.

1In August, 979, two members of the Irish Peace Corps came to Moore Town, mountbatten, where they were going on vacation. They put a bomb on mountbatten's ship "Shadow 5".

After releasing the bomb, the two quickly fled to the Irish border by car, but the two unlucky buddies were arrested immediately because they were too nervous when crossing the border.

Although the police thought something was fishy, they didn't get anything out of them. At this time, mountbatten had already sailed out, and four people on board were killed on the spot. Mountbatten's legs were blown off, and he died soon after.

A week later, the British government held a grand funeral for mountbatten, which was the most grand state funeral held in Britain since Churchill's death in 1965. Representatives from all over the world came, except the Japanese.

It is worth mentioning that mountbatten's granddaughter should have married Prince Charles, but at a barbecue party after mountbatten's funeral, Prince Charles in his early thirties met Diana and got married again.