Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: The Chronicles of Zhengding People's Suffering (1937.10.6-9)

On October 8, 1937, the Japanese army divided into three groups and occupied Zhengding City.Within two or three days, the Japanese army carried out a brutal massacre of innocent people in thirteen villages (streets) in the city and its suburbs.In a few days, 1,506 innocent people were massacred, 103 were seriously injured, 106 houses were burned down, and more than 80 livestock were stolen.This is a debt of blood owed by the Japanese fascist gangsters to the people of Zhengding. After the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army invaded south frantically and occupied Baoding on September 24, 1937.Then, the First Army of the North China Front Army of the Japanese Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Xiangyue Qingsi, set out from Baoding and attacked Zhengding. On October 5, the 14th Division and part of the 6th Division, the main force of the Japanese army, invaded Zhengding.At that time, the 141st Division of the Shangzhen Department of the 32nd Army of the Kuomintang Army was led by division commander Song Kentang to defend and resist. Comrade Wang Xinggang, the leader of our underground party in the 32nd Army, and Wang Qiming, the battalion commander of the 721st Regiment of the 141st Division, were filled with righteous indignation at the Japanese invasion, mobilized patriotic officers and soldiers to oppose surrender, and actively fought against the Japanese army. On October 6, the Japanese army captured Xin'an Railway Station and other places. On the 7th, the Doihara Kenji Unit of the 14th Division of the enemy, relying on air superiority and more than 200 artillery pieces to support them, cooperated with infantry, artillery, and air to attack repeatedly, but they were all repelled, causing heavy casualties on both sides.At this time, the Kuomintang army transferred to Anxia Village (5.5 kilometers north of Zhengding City), Niujiazhuang (6 kilometers northeast of the city), Xiaolinji (2.5 kilometers east of the city), and Zhuhe Village (5.5 kilometers east of the city) to resist.The Japanese army used more than 30 cannons and more than 2,000 Japanese troops launched an attack on the city. Although the Kuomintang army resisted, the ancient city of Zhengding finally fell in the early morning of October 8.

Zhengding County is one of the famous ancient towns in northern my country.Located 15 kilometers north of Shijiazhuang, Hebei, it is located on a plain with a vast territory. It was Zhending in the Western Han Dynasty, Huanzhou in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and it was changed to Zhending Mansion in the Tang Dynasty after the Five Dynasties.The ancient city of Zhengding has a long history, splendid culture, and many cultural relics and historic sites, especially Buddhist buildings. It is known as "Nine Towers, Four Pagodas and Eight Great Temples".The Xumi Pagoda of Kaiyuan Temple, the Hua Pagoda of Guanghui Temple, the Lingxiao Pagoda of Tianning Temple, and the Chengling Pagoda of Linji Temple stand in Zhengding City. Spectacular beautiful pictures.

After the enemy's iron hooves stepped into Zhengding, they immediately ruined this beautiful ancient city.Like a scourge, they entered the three villages of Anxia, ​​Yong'an, and Beiguan in the northern suburbs of the city; and seven villages (streets) including Shangzhai in the northeast and west of the city; the other road entered three villages near the east of the city, including Zhuhe Village, Sanlitun, and Xiaolinji, causing a horrific tragedy. On the night of October 6th, because the Japanese army was attacked by the Kuomintang plainclothes team in this area, they suffered a lot. In the early morning of October 8th, the Japanese army surrounded Anxia Village, and then arrested and killed people everywhere. Pulled to the outside of the village, brutal massacres were carried out by shooting, cutting with knives, burning with bayonets and other cruel means.In just two days, in this village of more than 250 households, 365 people died tragically under the butcher knife of the Japanese army, and 55 households were exterminated.At the north entrance of the village, there is a cemetery with towering ancient trees. The Japanese army gathered the captured people here, and killed 155 people with machine guns in one shot.26 people were killed in the vegetable field of Yu Heiren's house, 23 people were killed in a courtyard at the north entrance of the village, and 28 people were stabbed to death behind Zhang Luotai's house at the south entrance of the village.The Japanese army was extremely brutal, searching and killing.Three villagers who took refuge were found in the cellar of Zhang Huazi's house, and after being killed on the spot, they smashed the dead's head with a wooden stick; two people were found in Zhang Gulun's house, and they were burned alive.While killing innocent people, the Japanese army also murdered women everywhere.Unwilling to be humiliated, 28 women jumped into the well of Xu Ergai's house with six children in their arms to die. After salvage, 10 were rescued and 24 died of hatred.The rampant massacre by the Japanese army left corpses lying all over the streets and alleys, which was too horrible to look at.The bloody atrocities committed by the Japanese army aroused strong resistance from the villagers.The villager Huang Mule, holding a kitchen knife, fought with the Japanese soldiers coming up at the door of his house.

Villager Zhang Bingchen, holding a dung stick, confronted the two Japanese soldiers who broke into his house.He killed one enemy, wounded another, and was shot to death just as he was escaping over the wall. Shi Luoquan, in his 40s, when the Japanese army broke into his house to commit crimes, he took a large guillotine knife and hacked the Japanese army to death. Then he was chased into the house by several Japanese soldiers and killed. Villager Zhang Qiu was chased by the Japanese army. He ran home as hard as he could, took out a machete, and fought the enemy in the yard.He hacked one enemy to death first, retreated to the second gate, and the Japanese army swarmed up. He hacked one to death first, then turned to go to the room, and then stabbed the other with a javelin. kill.

Two Japanese soldiers rushed to Sister Yang Jin's house. When they saw Ma Fengju, the daughter-in-law of Yang Jin, they became animalistic and shouted: "Flower girl's! Flower girl's!" Then they threw guns and Japanese knives in the outer room, and the two Japanese soldiers smiled ferociously. Pushing Ma Fengju into the house in an attempt to rape her.When Sister Yang Jin heard her daughter-in-law's scream, she picked up the Japanese sword thrown by the enemy in the outer room and broke into the inner room. Taking advantage of her unpreparedness, she hacked the Japanese army to death.Another Japanese soldier tried to escape, but was held tightly by the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.Sister Yang Jin gritted her teeth and cursed: "You son of a bitch, I'm going to fight with you!" With a knife in hand, she killed the Japanese soldier as well.The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hurriedly threw the corpses of the Japanese soldiers, guns, foreign knives, and copper helmets into the pigsty and buried them, covered them with a layer of leaves, and then escaped.

In Anxia Village, there is also a white-haired 76-year-old man named Zhang Heini, who witnessed the tragedy that year.He said: "On the fifth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, I hid under the cabinet at home for a day. After breakfast on the sixth day, my mother asked me to go to the west of the village to see the situation. As soon as I went out, I saw a tragic scene in the street; Zhang Wuni, Zhang Xiaoji , Zhang Wogou was killed, and the body was lying on the street. I thought, just hiding at home will cause trouble sooner or later. So, I went out and fled north with my mother on my back, and saw Zhang Qiukui was killed at the entrance of Wangjiadao, and there were still 4 people lying inside , There was also a dead body at the entrance of the school. In the afternoon, when it was getting cold, I went home to get a padded jacket for my mother. When I went to Guanjing, I was caught by the Japanese army. They tore my clothes and tied me up. At this time, someone An interpreter asked me: Is there a girl in your family, and where is your wife? I said no. This group of robbers let me go and spared my life.

"On the ninth day of the lunar new year, I consulted with Zhang Luohui and Zhang Qiucheng. So many people died in the village. It has been four or five days and no one has collected the corpses. It is really unbearable. What should we do? Let's discuss and find people to bury them. After searching for a long time, we gathered 50 or 60 people, old and young, to bury the bodies of the victims separately. After we buried Zhang Fengming, we went out to the west entrance of the village and saw two Kuomintang soldiers also died there. We went to the village again In Nankou, more than 30 people were killed in the field of Zhang Zhenzhong's house, and martial arts teacher Zhang Chen also died there. Blood flowed like a river! After burying these people, they went to Zhang Xiangbao's house and saw Huang Xiaohe died in front of Zhang's house. Zhang Xiangbao, his father and his son all died in the yam cellar of his house. When I went to Xu Ergai’s house in the north of the village, I saw that the well was full of people jumping, and the ones below and in the middle were all drowned and dead. 10 people survived and 24 people died, what a tragedy, I will never forget this blood debt."

In Anxia Village, there is also a 71-year-old old woman named Ding Zhu. In order to avoid the massacre and maiming by the Japanese invading army, five sisters-in-law and two children jumped into the well of Xu Ergai's house, and she was rescued.She is the only one who is alive now, and the rest are dead. Whenever someone asks about the past, she will cry, choke and die, and cannot eat or drink for several days.She is the living historical witness of the tragedy under the bank. In the early morning of October 9, Japanese troops invaded Beiguan.Villagers were awakened by gunshots.Some took advantage of the fog and fled outside the village to hide, while others hid in the village.After the morning fog cleared, the Japanese army broke into houses and searched for them.On South Street, Zhang Luowan was captured first, and then Lu Luodan was captured. Three Japanese soldiers picked up a Kuomintang army uniform with bayonets and asked Lu Luodan to wear it.Lu Luodan refused and was beaten to death on the spot.The enemy also threw Lu's body on the road, first crushed it by a car, then doused it with gasoline and set it ablaze.

Cui Zaobao, Liu Luowen and others were hiding in the cellar of Cui Yunhe's house. Unfortunately, they were discovered by the Japanese army and killed 18 people at one time. Dong Waibei was stabbed and his intestines leaked out of his body. Only then did he climb over the wall with his stomach in his arms and escape to the outside of the village. Cui Luohe, a villager, heard the gunshots, and led his three children to escape to the cotton field in the west of the village. The Japanese army found him and shot him and two children to death. The other child fell into the ditch and died alive. drowned.

After Cui Futang was caught, the Japanese soldiers told him to kneel down, then held his chin with one hand and cut his neck with a short knife in the other, and blood sprayed all over the floor.What is even more cruel is that after a young woman was raped by the Japanese army, she stripped her clothes and opened her body with a bayonet for fun.At the same time, the Japanese army pretended to hold a meeting and drove the captured people into the courtyard of Chen Luokai's house. While saying nonsense that "the imperial army helped China build a kingly paradise", they ordered to shoot with machine guns. More than 80 innocent compatriots One fell in a pool of blood.In this small village of more than 170 households, 145 people were killed and 11 were injured by the Japanese army. It was not until November 14 that the survivors buried the bodies of their relatives in grief and indignation.

On October 9, when the Japanese army invaded Zhuhe Village, two companies of the Kuomintang army were defending here.One company guards the southeast entrance, and the other guards the northwest entrance.In the north of Zhuhe Village, from west to east, there is a Zhouhan River gurgling through, the water is more than ten feet deep, rippling and rippling, forming a natural barrier.The Japanese army chose the Zhouhanhe Bridge at the north entrance of the village as a breakthrough point and launched a charge.The enemy rushed to the bridge in a four-way column, holding bayonets, roaring like wild animals.The commander of the garrison, Captain Bao, led two platoons and fought back. Two heavy machine guns, two light machine guns and the rifles of the two platoons of soldiers fired at the same time.In this way, the Japanese army repelled three attacks in a row, half a mile to the north of the bridge, there were dead bodies, and at the same time, the Kuomintang defenders suffered heavy casualties.At this critical juncture, Commander Bao of the defending army gathered 18 people, including Zhang Shuangqing, Ma Jizao, Zhao Mandun, Ma Yidai, and Zhang Shuangcheng, who were digging trenches, to mobilize for help.He said: "For the survival of the nation, you must stand up and help fight. If you don't fight, you will die!" The 18 people replied in unison: "Everyone is responsible for the survival of the country. It is better to die in battle than to wait for death!" Guns, launched a bloody battle with the enemy.After a fierce battle, the enemy broke through the bridgehead without ammunition.At this time, Captain Bao led the crowd to start a hand-to-hand fight with the enemy.He took off his shirt, jumped from Wang Luopeng's house with his bare arms and jumped into the enemy's formation, fighting all the enemies, hacking and killing 8 Japanese soldiers in one go.At this critical juncture of the life-and-death struggle, the Kuomintang defenders at the southeast entrance deserted and fled. A Japanese army rushed in from the southeast entrance and shot violently from behind.All 18 villagers, including Zhang Shuangqing, Ma Jizao, Zhao Mandun, and Ma Dongdai, who helped in the battle were arrested.Except for Zhang Shuangqing who escaped, the other 17 were all killed by the Japanese army.The heroic feats of these 18 young and middle-aged men who were strong, brave, and fought against the Japanese army side by side with the army are well known in this area and widely circulated among the people. The Japanese army was resisted here and suffered heavy casualties, so they poured out their hatred on the people.After entering the village, there was a massacre, killing 283 innocent people in one day, especially in Fujiajiao, where almost all adult men were killed. For many years, this place was called "Widow Street." Facing the frenzied massacre of the Japanese invading army, my bloody Chinese sons and daughters fought desperately with the Japanese army.After the villager Zhang Yuzi hid his family in the cellar, he broke through to the south of the village. When he reached the entrance of the village, he was surrounded by six or seven Japanese troops armed with bayonets.With his martial arts, he dealt with the enemy with bare hands.He defeated three Japanese soldiers one after another, injured more than 30 places on his arms, was stabbed in the abdomen because of excessive bleeding, and his intestines flowed out. After he fell down, he was stabbed twice.After the Japanese army left, Zhang Yuzi was rescued by his mother. When the Japanese army massacred the people in Fujiajiao, the villager Jiao Xiaoduo broke through the gap in the enemy's encirclement with a shovel in hand.Just after crossing the courtyard wall of his house, he met the Japanese army. He shoveled his head and knocked down the Japanese army to escape the danger. In order to cooperate with the Kuomintang defenders in fighting the Japanese army, villager Zhang Sanyue and others were sent to the west of the village to dig trenches. On the way back, they were surrounded by eight Japanese soldiers. Zhang Sanyue fought with the Japanese army with a shovel. The Japanese army shot and killed him.later.People called Zhang Sanyue a "lonely hero", and his deeds were widely circulated in the Zhuhe area. Villager Fu Guanying was a well-known person in the education circle at that time. He graduated from Tianjin No. 1 Normal School and was a classmate of Wu Zanzhou, the puppet governor of Hebei Province during the Japanese and puppet rule.Before the Japanese invasion of China, he taught in Beijing. After the Japanese invasion of China, he stopped teaching and returned home.Wu Zanzhou asked him to come out of the mountain one after another, and promised to appoint a false county magistrate several times.Fu Guanying said to the envoy in public: "I am a descendant of Yan and Huang. How can I bow my head for the Japanese pirates, act as a traitor, and be cast aside by others!" Therefore, he gave up high-ranking officials and dignitaries, preferring to live a poor life in a remote village.When Japan occupied Zhuhe and asked everyone to wear a "good citizen certificate", Fu Guanying sternly refused.Said: "I am a dignified Chinese, how can I wear the Japanese 'good citizen certificate' and be an obedient citizen of the Japanese invaders!" After that, he opened a primary school in Zhuhe Village.The Japanese and puppet traitors asked him to add Japanese classes in the school. He said: "The Chinese nation has a long history and splendid culture. It has always respected Confucianism and read the scriptures. How can the Japanese invaders engage in enslavement education in China!" Therefore, he only taught "Four Books" at school. ", "Five Classics", do not teach Japanese.During the Japanese rule, the old man never entered the county seat, showing his upright national integrity. In order to make future generations remember the ferocious massacre of the Japanese invaders in Zhengding, keep in mind the national crisis and family hatred, and inspire future generations to devote themselves to the great cause of revitalizing China, the Zhengding County Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Zhengding County People's Government organized on May 30, 1984, the Japanese invading army In the center of Anxia Village, which killed the most people, a solemn "Monument to the Compatriots Who Died in the Anxia Massacre" was erected. Days sieged the bank, raped women, and slaughtered villagers. More than 1,200 people from more than 200 households in the village were killed by the beasts of the bandits. A total of 365 people, 55 of them died. There were mules and foals surnamed Huang who risked their lives to defend their homeland, entered the group of bandits with a kitchen knife, killed one bandit, seriously injured another bandit, defeated the fierce flames of the enemy, and made me upright.”… 266 inscriptions in total. Words are written with blood and tears.It can't finish writing about the eternal hatred of the people, and it can't tell the heinous crimes of the Japanese invaders!It only comforts the compatriots who died: the revitalization of Shenzhou is just around the corner! As for the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in aggression against China, as long as one is a Chinese, including some members of the Kuomintang, he deeply hates it.Yu Huafeng, a former representative of the National Congress of the Kuomintang, was born in Wuxing Village, Zhengding. In 1984, he compiled a "New Records of Guchangshan County" in Taiwan. After his death, his family complied with his will and entrusted someone to send it to Zhengding County from Taiwan via Hong Kong. People's Political Consultative Conference.In "Ancient Changshan County New Records", he also made a true record of the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Zhengding at that time.He wrote: "At about 1 o'clock in the morning on October 7, more than a thousand enemy infantry and more than ten cannons attacked us at Luojiazhuang, Shilipu, and Dongbaitang. At the end of the day, only Sanjiao Village and Dongbaitang positions remained. The plainclothes team was sent to attack the Anxia and Yong'an Villages at night, destroying two enemy guns and killing many enemies, so they angered the villagers on the Anxia and massacred them frantically. In addition to shooting and killing men, there were also those who were decapitated and cut several times in half. , raped women, some were killed naked, there were more than 400 dead bodies of men and women, it was horrific and horrifying!" This shows that some patriotic soldiers of the Kuomintang at that time would not tolerate the Japanese army trampling on our territory and massacring our innocent people.However, due to the corruption and incompetence of the Kuomintang government, it brought huge disasters to the Chinese people. This historical tragedy can no longer be repeated.