Chapter 42 2. Terrible Fireball

After the bloody massacre, the Japanese soldiers felt that such killing methods were too monotonous, boring, not fun, and not exciting enough. Therefore, many Japanese soldiers began to germinate and implement various and varied killing methods to brutally kill Chinese people. On December 21, the Fukuchiyama 20th Regiment of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army was ordered to guard the city. This was the unit of the executioner Nakajima Kagego. The soldiers were as cruel as their devil commander. The 3rd Company of the 20th Regiment was stationed at the Ministry of Justice of the Nationalist Government and was responsible for guarding the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Court building.Since the capture of Nanjing on the 13th, troops have swept back and forth inside and outside the city, capturing and "processing" tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers. Japanese soldiers have regarded massacres of Chinese people as routine and commonplace.

After the Ministry of Justice was stationed, the soldiers felt bored, so someone suggested: "Go catch some Chinese people to relieve boredom!" After a while, a Japanese soldier dragged a Chinese from nowhere. In his 30s, with the appearance of a shop assistant, he stood on the field in front of the silver-gray building of the Ministry of Justice with a look of fear and anxiety.Immediately, the Japanese soldiers surrounded him excitedly, and began to tease him like a child catching a puppy. A Japanese soldier yelled in blunt Chinese: "Your Chinese are crawling happily like dogs! Happy!"

The Chinese hesitated and refused to lie down. The Japanese soldiers raised their bayonets and yelled ferociously: "Chinese, crawl like a dog and be happy! Be happy!" The helpless Chinese had no choice but to get up on the ground, and the Japanese soldiers kept beating them with tree branches, yelling, "Chinese, barking happily like a dog!" The Chinese didn't respond.The Japanese soldier picked up his rifle and slammed down the barrel of the gun. After a scream, the Chinese shed tears of humiliation and painfully imitated the sound of a dog barking. After a while, the Japanese soldiers got tired of playing. A soldier named Hashimoto came up with a trick and shouted: "Put him in a bag and burn it!"

Everyone echoed, and someone immediately found a large mail bag from the building, and everyone hurriedly put the Chinese into the bag.The Chinese cried and struggled, but to no avail.The mouth of the bag was tied tightly, and the cruel Hashimoto found gasoline from the broken car, and poured gasoline on the pocket while smiling cunningly and triumphantly. Seeing this, a sympathetic Japanese soldier frowned and said softly, "Isn't it too cruel to do this?" "What? Cruel?! What kind of humanity can you say to the Chinese!" A Japanese soldier shouted loudly. "Victors are never humane to slaves!" Hashimoto exclaimed domineeringly, tying the long straps on his pockets and lighting a match.

The gasoline burst into flames with a bang, and there was a horrible scream from the pocket.The Chinese struggled and danced desperately in their pockets, and the flaming pockets kept jumping and rolling on the field in front of the judicial department.Hashimoto pulled the belt and ran on the field, and the fireballs with horrible screams spun back and forth with him, and the Japanese soldiers onlookers laughed heartily.The laughter of the Japanese soldiers and the horrific screams of the Chinese became two completely different hellscapes in the bloody Nanjing. Hashimoto, who was tired from running, stopped and saw many people admiring his masterpiece, and said with pride: "The bag is so hot, how about letting him cool off?"

A number of Japanese soldiers immediately responded, pulling the pockets to the pond, attaching grenades, and tossing the pockets into the pond.With a horrible scream, the flames went out, the bag sank, and then there was a loud explosion of the grenade, and the pieces of meat and water splashed in all directions, and the Japanese soldiers watching on the shore burst into wild applause. and cheers. This game of massacring Chinese people for fun is over, but new games will start one after another. The whole city of Nanjing has become a sad stage where thousands of tragedies of brutal massacre of Chinese people are staged at the same time. .

Half a century later, Toshiro Toshiro, a former soldier of the Japanese Invasion Army who lived in Tango Town, Takeno County, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan and was engaged in the machine tool manufacturing industry, publicly disclosed this crime to reporters out of guilt.Dong Shiro was a soldier of the 3rd Company of the 20th Regiment at the time. He released his diary to the reporter. The diary was signed on December 21. The entire process of the brutal massacre was recorded in the diary: Japanese soldiers put the Chinese in mailbags, jumped up as soon as they were ignited, and after they cooled down, tied grenades and threw them into the pond, so that the human body exploded in the water.

Toshiro and Toshiro also met with Japanese reporters were Masuda Rokusuke and Kamiba Takeichiro, soldiers of the Fukuchiyama 20th Regiment. Their published diaries and memoirs after demobilization recorded many crimes of massacring the Chinese people, and their methods were very cruel. Some Japanese soldiers even dug out Chinese livers and carried them in their hands to show their prestige.