Chapter 51 5. Soldiers who escaped from the devil's lair

On February 7, 1938, "Ta Kung Pao" in Hankou published the article "Witnesses of the Beasts of the Enemy in Beijing", which reported how a small squad leader of a communication battalion of our army was captured by the Japanese army and escaped from the enemy's clutches. The small squad leader was unable to walk when the troops retreated, and was captured by the Japanese army in a shop after changing into casual clothes.The Japanese army just needed a waterman, so they escorted him back to the yard of the garrison, and gave him a white cloth armband as a talisman. From then on, he carried and delivered water to the Japanese army every day. .

On the afternoon of December 16, the Japanese army captured more than 100 Chinese soldiers and civilians. The small squad leader saw from the water room that the enemy stripped off the clothes of Chinese soldiers in batches in the yard, and tied them to pillars, doors, and trees. , and then stabbed them with awls and needles until they all turned into bloody people, screaming endlessly.Some of the soldiers roared and scolded them, and the Japanese soldiers stabbed them twice in the eyes, and finally stabbed them in the throat with a bayonet, and blood gushed out like a spring. The scene was horrible, but the Japanese soldiers surrounded them and clapped their hands loudly Applause.

After getting tired of playing, the enemy drove the remaining soldiers and civilians to the open space outside the door, and ordered everyone to dig a hole. After digging, they knelt on the edge of the hole. The enemy shot him from the back of the head, and the corpses fell down one by one. In the pit.Then a Japanese officer came into the kitchen and drove some Chinese with white armbands out to do the burying work. The small squad leader spent more than ten days in the enemy barracks in such a frightening manner. On December 26, when the Japanese army marched to Jiangbei, an enemy drew out his pistol and prepared to give him a "farewell memorial". When the enemy was about to raise his gun and shoot, the Japanese officer who captured him first came over, waved his hand, and shot He said hello, so he stayed and took him to Jiangbei, near Chu County.

That night, the Japanese soldiers locked him in the house, and then went out in twos and threes to find women.The little squad leader stayed alone in the dark room, recalling the bloody and stormy days for more than a dozen days, and the life he was lucky enough to pick up, thinking that sooner or later he would die in the hands of the devils, if he didn't leave now, when would he wait?So he stretched out his hand and shook the window, the dilapidated window was actually opened by him a few times.The little squad leader hurriedly climbed out, took advantage of the cover of night, and ran desperately toward the outskirts of the countryside, only then escaped from the enemy's devil's lair.

Qi Pengfei, commander of the engineer battalion of the 58th Division, changed into civilian clothes after the fall of the city and hid at his uncle's house in a back alley near Xuanwu Gate. After camping, I dared to sneak back to my uncle's house, soak my feet in hot water, eat a little something, and keep warm for a few hours. Before dawn, I hurriedly got up and left the house. Crouching in the rubble, you can see the tragic scene on the street from a distance every day.Once, a group of Japanese soldiers gang-raped women on the street and ordered the Chinese to stand by and watch. Then they drove all the Chinese into the house and set fire to the house. Hearing the screams of the Chinese, the Japanese soldiers clapped their hands and laughed.Another time, the Japanese soldiers drove a large number of Chinese into a burning house, and then threw a handful of hand grenades into the fire room, causing the house to collapse, screaming and screaming, and the Japanese soldiers laughed wildly again.

Qi Pengfei was indeed dormant in this bloody horror, day and night.After the beginning of spring, he and his aunt disguised themselves as husband and wife, boarded a fishing boat late at night, and returned to Wuhan via Anqing to Jiujiang. Chen Hong, the medical director of the 103rd Division, was unfortunately injured when he retreated in Nanjing, and he took an orderly to wander in the countryside near Nanjing.When he was desperate, he met Mr. Wan, a businessman, who helped him and settled down in a shallow and narrow thatched hut. After living here, life can be said to be poverty-stricken. The two of them were unkempt, filthy and full of lice, and became real beggars.Fortunately, I had some medicinal materials with me, washed and wrapped it every day, so the wound would not fester, and gradually healed.

During this period, the Japanese soldiers often went to the countryside to raid, and none of the women in the village could escape the ravages of the enemy soldiers. They could kill and set fire at any time, which was nothing.The two of them, Chen Hong and the others, managed to save their lives just by relying on their unkempt, dirty and smelly appearance.Once, there was a loud gong in the village. It turned out that Japanese soldiers had captured an old woman and forced her to take off all her clothes and pants, and asked the villagers to come and watch. After 4 months of heart-stirring and frightening, Chen Hong and his wife moved with Mr. Wan to Touguan Village in the suburbs of Nanjing.In order to maintain his life, he borrowed 40 yuan from Mr. Wan to open a clinic.Woke up early that day and rushed to Nanjing to buy medicine.When entering the city gate, you must bow and salute to the enemy sentry post, nodding and bowing; when you meet Japanese soldiers on the road, you must also bow and salute, otherwise, you will be rewarded with old punches.Most of the shops on the market are run by Japanese, and there are especially many brothels and smoking dens.Chen Hong didn't dare to stay for a long time, he hurriedly bought the medicine and rushed back to the first pass.

When I opened the clinic, I didn't encounter any serious danger, but the traitors often came to harass me.What are "anti-communist meetings" and "meetings to celebrate the victory of the imperial army in capturing a certain place", there are many names, and there are often.Hand over a plaster flag and force participation. If you don't participate, you are not a good citizen. Report to the prince and you can arrest people at any time. Once, two Japanese soldiers went to the countryside to look for the "flower girl" and ran into the wife of the guerrilla leader. The woman pretended to be happy and asked them to come back the next day.The next day, two soldiers rushed to the woman's house, and the guerrillas who were ambushing rushed out, sending the two beasts to the west in an instant.Afterwards, the guerrillas notified from door to door that in order to prevent the enemy from retaliating, each family was ready to evacuate at any time.

During these tense days, Chen Hong thought that being in exile was not a long-term solution.So we closed the clinic, bid farewell to Mr. Wan and fellow villagers, and finally returned to my hometown in Fujian with the orderly soldiers. Not everyone who escapes from the Devil's Lair can escape safely. A friend in distress surnamed Qin, retreated with the Guangdong army on December 13, encountered Japanese soldiers in the Daxing Palace, and had to hide in the refugee area in a hurry. In the refugee area, he was recruited as a member of the corpse burial team, and began to bury the corpses in the Fuguishan area. Each pit contained 200 people, all of whom were civilians, with their hands tied behind their backs with wire.Then turn to the south gate. The corpses here were all stabbed to death with bayonets. Each person had at least a dozen knives, and some were covered with holes. It can be seen that the Japanese used these captives to practice assassination.Once I passed by the gate of the Puppet Vigilante Association and saw the Japanese nailing the captives alive to the bed boards, and then driving over with tanks and crushing them to death, it was horrible.

From December of the first year to May of the following year, the work of burying the corpses could not be completed, because after burying a batch, the enemy slaughtered another batch. After the weather warmed up, the stench of corpses could be smelled everywhere in Nanjing. In order to escape from the devil's den, Mr. Tan invited many compatriots. One night in May 1938, a group of 21 people climbed out of Nanjing through the hole in the city gate and went straight to Xiaguan Railway Station.The station was heavily guarded. Both men and women had to unbutton their clothes and take off their belts for inspection by the Japanese army. They were checked 11 times from Xiaguan to Yaohuamen.After boarding the train, he was escorted by the Japanese army like a prisoner and checked at every station until he arrived at Shanghai North Railway Station at 3:00 pm the next day.The inspection in Shanghai was particularly strict. They were interrogated one by one. When the inspection was completed, only 4 of the 21 people in the company passed the hell gate, and the rest were detained one after another during the inspection along the way. Their fate can be imagined.