Chapter 3 Chapter Two Yanggao City Massacre (1937.9.9-12)

On July 7, 1937, the Japanese imperialists created the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, which shocked China and the world, and launched a brutal armed aggression against the Chinese people.How many innocent men and sons were massacred, how many wives and daughters were ravaged, and how many treasures were plundered, which wrote the darkest page in the modern history of the Chinese nation.Today, people who are interested in rejuvenating China, please don't forget this history, and don't forget the shame and hatred of our nation.What is described here is the bloody massacre by the Japanese invaders in Yanggao County, Shanxi Province. It is one of thousands of tragedies.

As soon as the war broke out, Li Fuying, Gao Guizi, Chen Changjie and other troops under the command of Jiang and Yan continued to pass through Yanggao, Shanxi, and headed towards Chahar Chaigoubao and Zhangjiakou. Defense fortifications, defending the war of resistance.The common people in the city saw them armed with live ammunition and drove past one by one. Although they were skeptical of their rhetoric, out of their enthusiasm for the War of Resistance, they felt that as long as they could resist for a while, they would be considered sons and daughters of the Chinese people and descendants of the Yellow Emperor.Therefore, the county's Chamber of Commerce mobilized the rice noodle shop to speed up the grinding of noodles, and sent bags of white noodles to their stations one by one.However, once upon a time, no matter whether Jiang Jun or Yan Jun, they were all like dogs in front of the enemy. They either fled at the wind, or collapsed at the first touch.A medical officer of Li Fuying's division who had retreated from the front line said: "The team has not yet reached Zhangjiakou, and has not seen what the Japanese devils look like, so they are called to retreat. Even the radio station was thrown into the river when they crossed the Yang River. It was really embarrassing. "

The Japanese invaders drove straight in and rampaged, and Beiping, Tianjin, Nankou and other places fell one after another, and they were attacking along Pingsui Road.People saw with their own eyes that the defeated troops of Jiang and Yan retreated one after another, and the enemy planes painted with plaster flags came to attack almost every day, sometimes more than 20 sorties, sometimes more than 60 sorties, buzzing and circling in the air, making a shrill cry, flying to the ground. Shoot and drop bombs.But not long after, the county magistrate, high-ranking officials and nobles led their subordinates to go to work in the countryside under the pretext of air defense, and slipped away.What is even more puzzling is that two days before the fall of the neighboring county, the chief of police also disappeared.Seeing this situation, the common people are all full of worries.But people still took chances and said: "For those of us who have lived in the city for a long time, the dogs in the countryside will bite, so we have to stay at home and have a look." It is their nature to enslave the people. We cannot sit still and wait for death. At least we should go to the countryside to hide for a while to avoid their sharp edge, and we can talk about it later.

At this time, reports of battles on the front line were frequent. Just two or three days before the fall of the county, a regiment of Yan Jun's 72nd Division withdrew from the front line and stationed in the county. Survival".They arrested peasants to dig fortifications, blocked city gates, demanded food and money, and so on.Of the three city gates, two were blocked, only the west gate was left, and a pass was required to enter and exit. On September 8, the sound of cannons from a distance was vaguely heard. Two groups of enemy planes came in a row, bombing and strafing in turn. People inside and outside the city suffered casualties. The men squatting in the streets and alleys in groups of three and four, talking about the impending catastrophe.People no longer have any illusions about the retreat of the enemy on the front lines and the garrisons.Some soldiers who had retreated from the front line and individual junior officers also participated in the discussion, and some said angrily: "Defend the city, guard the fart! Officials are afraid of death. The enemy entered the Panshan area, and Yan, who was guarding the defense fortifications, The whole company, the whole company, led by officials climbed out of the fortifications, bowed their knees and surrendered, and they all became living targets for the Japanese devils. If they took the lead in resisting, which soldier would not fight the devils hard. "

Harassment and unrest, breaking people's hearts.Those with a little idea packed up and climbed into the mountain, while those who had no idea drifted on the street like a kite with a broken string... "Cough! Officer Yan, it's a black man, let's wait for someone to come and give him food!" A town of 20,000 people is as quiet as death.Before nightfall, the gates of the common people had already been closed, and the streets and alleys were deserted.The gatekeeper dog also seemed to have inspiration, as if he smelled something ominous, he didn't dare to bark arbitrarily.In this terrible silence, tension, panic, and fear seemed to strangle everyone's throat. No one wanted to say a word, and they were all silently and helplessly waiting for the bloody storm to come.

After midnight, suddenly, a shell hissed and pierced the silent night sky.The tanks, cars, and motorcycles of the Japanese bandits surrounded Yanggao City.In an instant, the guns fired and the shouts were loud, and the enemy began to attack the city. The Kuomintang army, which threatened to "live and die with the city", had long been frightened, threw grenades indiscriminately for a while, and fled across the city.Yanggao fell into the hands of the Japanese invaders in this way. However, when the city fell into danger and the people were in danger, a man named Sun Cunren staged a ugly show to welcome the Japanese invaders.This man is an out-and-out speculator. In 1927, he took the lead in welcoming the Fengjun, and was appreciated by the leader of the Fengjun, who gave him the title of Director of Support.After several months, Sun Cunren's pocket was full, and a poor bachelor turned into a little rich man in an instant.At this time, the Japanese devils came in. He thought that the opportunity to make a fortune had come again, so he ran to the street early, knocked on the door, and yelled to let the shopkeepers put up lights and flags to welcome the Japanese soldiers.Until now, there is still such a saying: "Sun Cunren, the big man, welcomes the Japanese soldiers with flags and flags."It sounds absurd now, but at that time many kind-hearted people were deceived by this clown. Hundreds of people gathered along the way from East Street, South Street to West Street, and followed him to the west gate.

On September 9th, in the Japanese Military City, on West Street, merchants encountered the advance team of the devils. Sun Cunren took the lead in shouting slogans, "Welcome to the Imperial Japanese Army". The Japanese army did not understand Sun Cunren's "good intentions", and immediately became vigilant The enemy spread out and surrounded the masses with glaring bayonets, forcing them to advance towards the center of the city.Along the way, they arrested people from house to house, even sporadic pedestrians.There was a man named Yan You who opened a charcoal store. He went to visit his old mother in the morning. He was discovered by the devils, who chased him into an alley and caught him.The Japanese soldiers drove all the people to the entrance of Beidajie and ordered them to kneel down and not move.At this time, the Japanese brigade had entered the city, and the streets, alleys, and all empty spaces were filled with devils' tanks, cannons, cars, yan horses, and devil soldiers.Along the street, there is a guard at three steps, and a whistle at five steps.The enemy chieftain ordered: "If no one is released on bail, those who are caught will be shot to death."Later, the Japanese invaders only released two or three prestigious elders in the crowd (such as Mr. Liang from the intellectual circles, shopkeeper Sun from the business circles, etc.).

Hundreds of kind-hearted people knelt down under the persecution of the devils, hungry and thirsty, unbearably hungry, but no one intervened.Until noon, the devil played a trick and separated the young and middle-aged from the old and young.People were terrified, not knowing what kind of medicine was sold in the devil's gourd, and they all looked forward and looked forward to being released on bail.Some honest people said: "Kneel down, as long as you don't kill, you can kneel for a while."But there were also some clever young people who sneaked into the nearby gate and ran away.Li Guaizi, a butcher, told his son to kneel down obediently, but the son refused to listen, so Gu Kong ran away.At about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the ghost soldiers escorted the young and middle-aged men like driving a flock of sheep and walked towards the Southwest Street. No one knew where they were going or what they were going to do.The ferocious Japanese invaders shouted and drove away.When people reached the entrance of Temple Alley on South Street, a bold young man suddenly left the crowd and ran into the alley.Only in this way did people wake up from their delusional dreams of bail, knowing that the devil was about to kill him.All of a sudden, the crowd rushed around like boiling water, making a mess.When the crowd was driven to the Wengcheng outside the south gate and ordered to kneel down again, the people rushed like crazy to the devil with guns, struggling and shouting, trying to break through the net of death .Kind and innocent people fell down one by one in the face of the evil bullets.

The cruelty of the devil soldiers reached the extreme. They pierced straight with bayonets and slashed with sabers horizontally. White blades went in and red blades came out.People are red-eyed, completely forgetting what death is?From the pool of blood, the dead man got up from under his body, rushed at the enemy with his bare hands, and shouted "Down with Japanese imperialism!" Blood stained the knife edge! "You Chinese people can't kill enough!" Old Liu, a pork seller, grabbed the enemy's gun and stabbed three devils to death in a row, before falling to the ground heroically.The corpses of the dead compatriots lie on the ground covered with their hard work and sweat.

When the machine guns were screaming, some fathers pressed their sons under their bodies, and older brothers held their younger brothers in their arms, protecting the lives of their loved ones with their own bodies!There were also very few young people who struggled to get into the horse temple in the chaos, and climbed to the ceiling to hide.In this way, very few people survived.Climb out from under dead bodies, climb down from ceilings and escape outside the city with the enemy no longer guarding the scene.There was a young farmer named Zhao Liantang who had a machine gun warhead on his back that didn't penetrate the bone.More than 600 people were shot dead this time.It took several days before the enemy chief allowed the body to be buried on the spot.

The vicious Japanese invaders were not satisfied with this, and they wiped out the countryside wantonly for three days and three nights.Especially on the day of September 11, the enemy chief ordered: "Tomorrow at 12 o'clock at noon, the township will be cleared. Any man without a civil certificate will be dealt with by the clothing team and killed." Liu Zao, the chairman of the Chamber of Commerce who refused to release the people on bail, put his life at risk. When filling out the "good citizen certificate", he asked people to fasten the bowl circle, draw a grid, and then fill it out, adding The "noisy" chapter of Geri Chief and so on.There are so many complicated procedures, how many can be filled in one night.It just so happened that the weather was not beautiful, and it rained cats and dogs at night. In order to survive, people were crowded in the chamber of commerce, waiting to receive the "good citizen certificate".One night passed, and the "good citizen certificate" was not issued.At 10 o'clock in the morning, the enemy dispatched troops to clear the countryside.The vicious devil soldiers searched from door to door, Dongdong's slamming on the door, murmurs of cursing, and the cries of women and children intertwined.All men who did not obtain the "good citizen certificate" were pulled out and executed on the spot.Some were hacked, some were shot, and some were stabbed to death with bayonets.The bloody massacre is unbearable to watch.In order to save the lives of their husbands, many women fought hard against the threat of enemy guns and bayonets.How could the beast-like Japanese invaders be merciful? Some whole families were killed, and no one was spared.In a store on South Street, Japanese invaders forced 18 men to a public toilet pit on Southwest Street, stabbed them to death with bayonets, and then pushed down the earthen wall beside the pit, crushing all 18 men inside.According to eyewitnesses at the time, there were more than 100 corpses lying around the public toilet alone.Just within the five gates of Xuanloudi Street, as many as 30 people were killed.There was a young man in a small bookstore on South Street. The Japanese invaders chopped off his head and threw it into a cooking pot.The ghost soldiers said that they killed the "plainclothes team", anyway, ordinary people are wearing plainclothes.It is said that those who do not have "good citizen certificates" will be killed, but in fact, those who have "good citizen certificates" are also killed.It is impossible to count exactly how many people the Japanese invaders killed on this day, but it is estimated that there were at least 400 to 500 people. In the bloody massacre by the Japanese invaders, a county town of 20,000 people almost turned into a dead city.As for young girls and young girls who were brutally raped and ravaged, it is even more unspeakable.Some were tortured to death, and some were killed for resisting.There is a daughter and daughter-in-law named Hao (Hao Tianfu) on the East Street. Because they couldn’t bear the Japanese invaders who were ravaging them day and night like wild animals, they felt that there was no way out. The next night, 13 members of the family went to the Guandi Temple in Majiayuan. Nearby, they were tied to each other with ropes and collectively committed suicide by throwing themselves into a well.His eldest daughter and son-in-law, seeing their family die in such a tragic way, were in despair, and they also jumped into a nearby well to commit suicide.The next day, the beast soldiers went to vent their animal lust again. Because they couldn't find anyone, they forced a young man surnamed Wang from the same courtyard to look for him. Where could they find him?Innocent youths were also stabbed to death with bayonets by beast soldiers.In Yanggao City, no one can tell how many of the 15 members of the Hao family died of hatred. Within a few days, the attacking troops of the Japanese Army Corps had advanced to Datong and Yanmen Pass, followed by the guards, gendarmerie, Xuanfu squad, etc., with the means of "combining grace with power" and "using China to govern China", After the massacre, appease the local area and publicize the "benevolent government of the imperial army".When the blood of the compatriots is still wet and the relatives are in grief, people with a little national pride and patriotism will all grit their teeth and hate everything. Who can listen to the nonsense of the Japanese invaders and bow their heads to the enemy.But there are also some shameless scum who come out from the dark corners to recognize the thief as the father and work as the tiger's minion. There was an opportunist named Ren Zigang, who volunteered to be the head of the pseudo-self-defense regiment. He led a group of people, armed with sticks, and patrolled the county town all day long.Whom he defends himself and whom he patrols, isn't it clear.They indiscriminately abused the power of the people and servilely bowed down in front of the Japanese invaders.One day, the captain of the Japanese gendarmerie gave lectures to the common people in the square of the old Sanfu government office. Above and below stood three people, the second floor was the Korean interpreter, the third floor was the puppet Manchurian interpreter, and the bottom was the so-called head of the self-defense regiment.Wearing a satin gown and mandarin jacket, and a melon skin cap, he stood on the stool on the bottom floor as an interpreter.The Japanese devils talked for a while, first the Korean interpreter, then the puppet Manchurian translator, and finally the fourth-class slave translator.He didn't understand Japanese at all, so he had to make up things.The captain of the Gendarmerie yelled for over an hour, but people only heard him say two sentences over and over again: "The Great Japanese Imperial Army—for our welfare—for our happiness—for the establishment of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere." Please see what kind of "benevolent government" the Japanese invaders and traitors are! Until three months later, the family members of the victims spent a lot of sports expenses. In addition to receiving 50 yuan for a dead body, they had to admit: first, "Your person deserves to die"; second, "This is' The imperial army 'killed your son or husband in order to protect you'; third, 'don't cry'.The common people gritted their teeth, swallowed tears and agreed, and then carried the bloody and mutilated relatives to their homes, swallowed their tears, and buried their grudges in their hearts. On the bloody day of the fifth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the enemy shamelessly posted "good news" all over the street: "The imperial army has wiped out more than 1,000 'bandits' in this area..." Turning his heart and soul, he cursed the Japanese bandits with his teeth gritted. When the Eighth Route Army liberated Yanggao for the first time in 1945, it was the eve of the tragic festival on the fifth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. The masses knew that the Eighth Route Army was an anti-Japanese team, and they went to the government to ask, "May we cry?" The people's government quickly replied: " You can cry! You can cry!" When they barely suffocated their breath and left the gate of the county government, they burst into tears. On the second day of the fifth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the people of the county held a memorial meeting. A mat shed was set up outside the west gate, a martyr memorial tower stood, and wreaths sent by various agencies and groups were placed.Not far from the venue is the mound where more than 1,000 people were buried together.Wreaths were placed around the tomb, and paper flowers sent by women and children were scattered all over the ground like seeds of hatred.Mr. Zhang, a local gentleman, came to the podium as a representative of the family members of the dead. He said: "My family of 5 members and two sons were killed, and the daughter-in-law left a grandson who remarried. Now the old couple lives with their five-year-old child. " Because of the excessive sadness, tears flowed from the dry eyes and went in from the mouth, choked up and unable to speak.At that time, the county magistrate Ma Yunzhang said: "Our compatriots have been brutally slaughtered, which is chilling", and the whole audience burst into tears. The tears of eight years have been shed today!Thousands of voices combined into one voice: "Revenge! Revenge! Revenge!"