Chapter 50 4. Li Kehen Hell Escape

Li Kehen was an employee of a certain cultural institution in Nanjing. When Nanjing fell, he was tired of his duties and was lame and disabled. Witnessed all kinds of atrocities committed by the Japanese invaders. On December 9, the Japanese army captured Banqiao, and Li Kehen's family tragically fell into the hands of the enemy. In the early morning of the 10th, a group of beast soldiers broke into the village and began to set fire to the houses.Li Kechen's family lived in a thatched house, and they were not spared. Several ghost soldiers broke into the hut, grabbed Li Kehen and dragged him out. Li Kehen limped and took a few steps. The family's 60-year-old servant did not let go.With melancholy eyes, the old servant pointed to the white hair on his finger and begged for forgiveness, but the ghost soldiers did not let him go. The poor old man who was over sixty years old was dragged into a job by the beast soldiers. The dire future is already clearly visible.Then the ghost soldiers lit the hut, and the flames shot up into the sky. Li Kechen's wife was seriously ill and lay on the bed.

After the fire, the whole family sat on the rubble.His wife's body was scorched, and his mother cried out her tears. Li Kehen looked at the dilapidated home, his heart was bleeding, and his face was in a daze.As night fell, it started to rain, and the bitter cold wind blew in bursts, making people shiver.His wife has passed out, and the mother and son are suffering from hunger and cold. They really want to cry but have no tears, and there is no way to call for help.Li Kehen deeply felt the suffering and sorrow of subjugation. Soon, his wife died miserably from hunger, poverty and illness, and Li Kechen, mother and son lived in four villages ever since.He slept in the open in the wilderness, spent the night in a pigsty, and survived the winter with a ragged jacket he had begged for.During this period, he was often robbed and killed by Japanese devils, and was let off by the enemy because of his lameness, and he was lucky enough to save his life.

Once, a brigade of Japanese troops came to the area of ​​Liulang Bridge in the southern suburbs of Nanjing to burn, kill, rape, and loot, and captured three old women surnamed Chen, all of whom were over 60 years old.The ghost soldiers thought that they were too old to express their desires, so they stripped the three old women naked and went to the countryside to show the public, which was even more humiliating.The old woman was cold and ashamed, crying and wailing, very miserable.The inhumane ghost soldiers clapped their hands and laughed, poking at the shriveled breasts of the old women from time to time with bayonets, and stabbing their genitals until the blood was bloody, and the three old women passed out.In the end, Guizibing cut off their little feet cruelly, laughed wildly and walked away.

Another time, four devil soldiers broke into a family surnamed Zhu in Shazhouwei, south of the city, and grabbed Zhu's 40-year-old daughter-in-law and gang-raped them.During the gang rape, her father-in-law, husband, and son were forced to watch.After the devil soldier finished tossing around, he waved his hands maliciously: "Old man, come here and be happy! Be happy!" The old man hesitated and refused to move forward.So the two ghost soldiers stepped forward, forcibly took off the old man's pants and pushed him down. The old man had no choice but to lean on his wife as a gesture.But the ghost soldier didn't let it go, and it was indeed a kick to lift his leg. The old man had no choice but to do it seriously.

After the father-in-law raped his wife, the ghost soldier was still not satisfied, and waved to the 17-year-old child: "Son, come here and be happy! Be happy!" The son really didn't want to do such a beastly thing, and he was stubborn and refused to move forward.Guizibing was annoyed, and Huo Di raised two bayonets.So, under the threat of the bayonet, the son walked forward with tears and pain, and performed this most miserable human tragedy. With a satisfied mood, Guizibing clapped his hands and went out laughing. Li Kehen heard and witnessed many atrocities committed by the Japanese army in the suburbs of Nanjing, and his heart was filled with depression and grief. He felt that he could not stay in the suburbs any longer, so he might as well go to Nanjing to have a look. In the month of 1938, the mother and son ventured to the Zhonghua Gate with a small package on their backs.

In front of the bullet-riddled Zhonghua Gate, eight enemy soldiers stood there viciously, one with the appearance of an officer, and two traitors.Everyone who came in and out had to bow to the devil soldiers.Li Kechen was scared, but he had no choice but to bite the bullet and walk forward.Fortunately, his lame leg once again contributed to him, and the ghost soldiers signed him a permit to enter the city without questioning him. Walking on the streets of Nanjing, Li Kehen couldn't help looking around. There were very few pedestrians on the streets, and women were even missing.Almost all the houses along Zhonghua Road were burned down, and the ruins were ruined.The ponds on the side of the road were soaked in corpses, and in addition to the unpleasant stench in the air, there was also some bloody smell!There were scattered corpses on the street. At the entrance of an alley, a female corpse was stripped naked, her breasts had been cut off, and the sunken part was dark brown, which was extremely ugly.Several holes were pierced in her lower abdomen by the bayonet, her intestines flowed out, and a piece of wood was stuffed in her vulva... Seeing this, Li Kehen shivered unconsciously!Nanjing is not as peaceful as he imagined.

Li Kehen didn't dare to look around anymore, he walked quickly with his head down, and came to a friend's house on Ninghai Road.The whole friend's family fled to the rear, leaving only one old man watching the house, and Li Kehen's mother and son settled down in this friend's house. A few days later, Li Kehen went to get the "settlement certificate".On Shanxi Road Street, a rectangular table was placed, with more than 20 devil soldiers lined up on both sides, and their sharp bayonets were showing their power to people. This is the place where the Japanese secret service issued "residence permits".Li Kehen's mother and son lined up in the queue, and everyone dared not speak, and even lowered their panting voices.Every time 4 people stood in front of the table, a traitor with glasses, pointed head, and thin face questioned everyone with a straight face. When he met a young and strong guy, or he had traces of being a soldier on his body, or he answered questions suspiciously, Or the other three people didn't know him, and the traitor waved his hand, and immediately the Japanese soldiers came up to fight him, and the young man died.It is said that tens of thousands of people have died at the hands of this traitor.Li Kehen stepped forward tremblingly, but the traitor was about to interrogate him. Seeing that he was crippled, he told him to walk a few steps, then immediately filled out a "residence certificate" and waved him to walk.Li Kehen took the amulet and let out a long sigh, and the mother and son hurried back home.

While hiding on Ninghai Road, the old man who watched the house told him many things that happened after the fall of Nanjing: thousands of people were shot to death by machine guns on the riverside, many young and middle-aged people in the refugee area were searched and executed, and the streets were full of The corpses of women who were raped and killed, Taiping Road, and the Confucius Temple were burned to the ground... The speaker was still afraid, and the listeners shivered. Li Kechen couldn't help sighing: There are no eggs under the nest. ! The days were spent in terror and blood.

In late May, Li Kehen was determined to leave Nanjing, so he took his "settlement certificate" to get a "relocation certificate", and then bought a train ticket to Shanghai on June 3.When we arrived at Xiaguan Station, a large row of devil soldiers stood there with live ammunition, and the cold light of bayonets flickered people's hearts.Li Kehen's mother and son were in the line of passengers, and both men and women had to untie their belts for inspection. The ghost soldiers took the opportunity to pinch and grope the women for a while until they blushed and refused to stop.

There are ghost soldiers escorting the carriage in the carriage, staring at the passengers with malicious eyes, as if escorting a group of prisoners.As the car drove away, Li Kehen's heart was full of complicated emotions. Farewell, fellow suffering compatriots in dire straits!Farewell, the bloody horrors of slavery!Farewell, Zijin Mountain, Xuanwu Lake... As the wheels rolled, Li Kehen's tearful eyes gradually blurred. Arriving in Shanghai that night, and being strictly interrogated by the ghost soldiers, he still relied on his lame leg and turned into safety after going through danger.I only stayed in Shanghai for one night, and the next day I took a boat to Hong Kong, and then returned to the embrace of the motherland from Hong Kong.

After escaping from hell, Li Kechen wrote the atrocities he had heard and witnessed in Nanjing as "The Story of May in the Fall of Beijing", which was serialized in Hankou's "Ta Kung Pao" in July 1938. Ta Kung Pao published an editorial for this article saying: "Li Jun's article is unadorned and lacks skill. It is just pure and realistic. When we read this article, our nerves felt convulsed, and our hearts rushed to the top with anger. "Li Jun's article, every word is shed with the blood of the Chinese, and every sentence is filled with the sins of the Japanese. This article should be read by everyone in the world, especially the Chinese, who should shed blood and tears to read it."