Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven Chengan Santu (1937.10.24-early 1939)

After the "Marco Polo Bridge Incident" in 1937, Japanese invaders aggressively invaded the North China Plain. On October 24th (September 21st in the lunar calendar), the Japanese army broke through Cheng'an City, brutally slaughtered more than 5,300 innocent compatriots, and created the "Cheng'an Massacre" that shocked North China. Cheng'an County is located in the southeastern tip of Hebei Province, with Taihang Mountain and Beijing-Han Railway in the west, Shandong in the east, Zhanghe River in the south, and Fuyang River in the north. It enjoys convenient transportation and is known as Mianhai. On October 18, the Japanese army occupied Handan and Feixiang the next day.The three counties of Handan, Cheng'an and Feixiang form a big triangle, and Cheng'an County is the top of the triangle. At the beginning of October, the Liu Ruming Department of the 29th Army of the Kuomintang retreated to Cheng'an and stationed in the area of ​​Liuzhuang and Jinshan Village, three miles east of the city. Yao Zishou led a battalion of troops to the county seat.Because our party mobilized and organized all forces to participate in the war of resistance, and organized and arranged more than 100 people from the Yang Chaoqing Department of the armed militia to assist in defending the city.So far, Cheng'an has formed a powerful anti-Japanese force.After the Japanese army occupied Handan and Feixiang, they decided to take Cheng'an to prevent his back from being threatened by our anti-Japanese armed forces.At that time, Song Zheyuan's troops were stationed in the east and south of Cheng'an. Although they stood still, the Japanese army regarded it as a threat after all, so the Japanese army must march from the north.For this reason, the city defense focused on Beicheng, which was guarded by Yao Zishouying and Yang Chaoqing's militia, and the rest of the cities were defended by the Volunteer Self-Defense Group and other civilian armed forces.

At midnight on October 23, 1937 (September 20 in the lunar calendar), a brigade of the Shanglin Troop of the Eighth Division of the Japanese Army was dispatched from Feixiang and marched southward along the East and West Dubao and Tiantai Mountains towards Cheng'an.At this time, the dense fog could not see their fingers. The Japanese army grabbed several ordinary people to lead the way and told them that if Cheng'an had no city defense force, they would plant a white flag near the county seat as a sign.A few ordinary people knew that there were troops stationed in Cheng'an, but in order to deceive the enemy, they deliberately planted a white flag, and the Japanese commander boldly arranged to attack the city.The soldiers and civilians defending the city wall fought back with intensive firepower, and the enemies who rushed to the bottom of the city were almost wiped out by the soldiers and civilians with grenades.The militia groups from the four townships outside the city flocked to surround the besieging Japanese army, and the ammunition supply of the Japanese army was cut off.At dawn, the siege Japanese army ran out of ammunition, and the defending soldiers and civilians rushed out of the city to start a hand-to-hand fight with the Japanese army.By 9:00 am on the 24th, the battle was over, the Japanese army dropped four to five hundred corpses, and only twenty or thirty people fled.

The Japanese army, which was defeated in the west, rushed to Gaozhuang to kill everyone they met.They broke into Gao Zhong's house and shot Gao Zhong dead.The neighbors ran out when they heard the gunshots, and more than a dozen people were captured and shot dead by the Japanese army.Gao Ze hid behind the door of his house, was discovered by the Japanese army, stabbed in the stomach with a bayonet, and died tragically on the spot.Chang Wanni (Fang Nizi) hid behind the pot and was shot to death by the Japanese army.Then the Japanese army tied up Chang Zhiyu, Wang Shangxian, Gao Heide, Wang Shouzhen and other six people with ropes, took them to the east of the village and tied them to a tree. They were cut open and beheaded one by one. Struggling, trying to break the rope and escape, the devils smashed him to death with a gun butt in front of the village east temple.

This group of ferocious Japanese soldiers came out of Gaozhuang and rushed into Fanerzhuang. The first thing they encountered was old man Wang Dejun.Later, 7 people including Li Degui, Zhang Dengke, Liu Fengguang's father and three older brothers were found from various homes. They were all tied to a tree in front of the village east primary school and cut open. After the Japanese army bloodbathed the two villages, they returned to Qu Village in a hurry, joined forces with the Japanese soldiers at Fenghuangtai, massacred the people of Qucun, and took more than 30 people who did not escape under the big tree of Fenghuangtai to kill them all.Among them, Zhang Zhong's mother was nailed alive to the wall with wooden stakes and set fire to death by the Japanese army.They also killed more than 70 livestock in the whole village, burned more than a hundred houses, and then retreated towards Handan.

After the disastrous Japanese army slaughtered our three villages, they fled to Handan via Dutangbao Village in Feixiang County.Doihara Kenji, the commander of the Japanese army stationed in Handan, was very annoyed when he heard the report of the failure to attack Cheng'an, and swore that Cheng'an must be taken down.So a total of about 1,000 artillerymen and infantry were dispatched, and on the evening of October 24, they rushed towards Cheng'an.In order to boost "morale", Kenji Doihara also ordered that the Japanese army who invaded Cheng'an have a 7-day holiday and move freely.At 9 o'clock in the night, the Japanese army attacked the city, first bombarding the west gate and the nearby city walls with powerful artillery fire.Yao Zishou camp, who was in charge of guarding the city, only had light weapons, and there was a mortar that no one could use. It was used by the masses Zhou Yugui (from Beijie).Under the powerful firepower of the Japanese army, there was no ability to counterattack.The Japanese army quickly opened the west city and a section of the city wall nearby.The war developed rapidly. At this time, the troops of the 29th Army outside the city stood still, and the Japanese army invaded the city.People in the city abandoned their homes and fled to the east gate.At this time, the east gate of the city was still stored in sacks, and the two gates were locked with iron chains, only allowing one person to escape.The fleeing masses crowded each other, the order was chaotic, and the exit was blocked. Battalion Commander Yao Zishou of the 29th Army didn't organize the masses to retreat, but he threw down dozens of horses under the banner of "going out of the city to copy the enemy's rear route", tricking the masses into getting out of the way, and hurried out of the east gate to escape.The county magistrate Li Xizhang, who called himself a "national hero", also fled with his life under the same pretext.Except for a very small number of people in the city who squeezed out of the city gate, most people failed to go out.Beneath the city gate, there was chaos everywhere in the street.The Japanese army set up machine guns on the west city wall and fired at the crowd along the East and West Streets. Most of my innocent people fell in a pool of blood.Among the east and west streets, there are several ancient archways, which became natural obstacles to the Japanese army's shooting. The crowd stopped here for a while, seeing that the east gate could not escape, and the west gate was full of Japanese troops, so they had to rush to the city wall , planning to escape over the wall.Some strong men escaped by jumping over the city wall, and some broke their bodies.The old, weak, women and children did not dare to jump off the city wall, but turned back down the city wall and ran around in the city.The enemy's machine guns continued to fire, and many people were shot and killed.Zhang Fenglin's wife ran desperately while holding the nursing child. As soon as she touched the child's head, it was blown open by a bullet.Under the east gate, the dead bodies were layered on top of each other.The Japanese army saw the crowds running around all over the street, so they fired with machine guns and stabbed them with bayonets.Innocent people were caught in the disaster of being killed.Later, Kenji Doihara's order of "freedom for 7 days" brought unprecedented catastrophe to the people of Cheng'an.

In the early morning of the 25th, the invading army searched everywhere in groups. When they saw an adult man, they killed them on the spot. , regardless of age, is either molesting or raping.They killed people in various ways, some beheaded, some disemboweled, and some stabbed their shoulders with bayonets, so that no trace of blood could be seen after death. There were 14 refugees hiding in the east room of Li Xiangcheng on South Street. The Japanese army chased the two young girls and broke into her house, insulting the two young girls in every possible way.In the evening, several Japanese soldiers went to her house again and tried to find a woman. They killed 12 people in a fit of rage. Song Yuzhen, 10, survived by hiding in a cupboard.

On the south side of Dongdajie Road, there are now three big houses on the west side of Zhang Cai’s house, and more than 100 women and children were crowded inside. The Japanese army locked the door, surrounded the outside with firewood, poured gasoline on it, and wiped out all the more than 100 people. Burn alive. Chi Fenglin's wife, seeing the tragic scene of the Japanese soldiers killing and stabbing anyone they saw, expected that she would not escape the tiger's mouth. With tears in her eyes, she pressed her one-year-old beloved daughter into the water tank and saw it with her own eyes. After watching her daughter die, she ran to Nandakeng (now the pool in the South of the Union), scolded the Japanese invaders, and then jumped into the water to commit suicide.

The mother of Yin Xiangzhong in Nanjie took her 7-year-old daughter Xiaoqiao and 5-year-old son Xiaogao to find a safe place to hide, but the Japanese army came after them.She vowed not to let the three of them die under the enemy's butcher's knife, picked up the two children, jumped into the big pit in front of the Confucian Temple (to the south of the current trade union), and drowned in the stagnant water with hatred. The daughter-in-law of Dasheng in Beijie was holding a nursing boy, and Ji Nizi's daughter-in-law was carrying a weeping daughter on her back.They ran east, there were killing sounds in the east, they turned back and ran west, and there were screams in the west, feeling that they had nowhere to go, they jumped to Xidakeng (now the stadium with lights), and both committed suicide.

A 17-year-old young woman was stripped naked by the Japanese army, tied her hands and feet, and lay naked in front of the Sanhuang Temple (south of the current illuminated stadium), and was wantonly gang-raped by a group of Japanese soldiers in broad daylight. There are more than 20 girls hiding in the mill on South Street (to the west of Siqing Primary School now), and all their relatives have been killed by the Japanese army.These bereaved girls cringe together.The Japanese army broke in, selected four of them, and brought them to Wang's house in South Street (now the address of the county committee), and made them wear the red and green dresses of the landlord's house, and had fun while insulting them.Later, when these girls came back, they had been ruined beyond recognition.

More than 20 elderly couples ran to Tianye Temple, all dragging their grandsons and granddaughters. They thought that Tianye Temple (south of the current county committee) was a shelter for beggars, and the Japanese army might not come, hoping to take refuge here.As everyone knows, the Japanese army entered Tianye Temple, tied up the old men one by one, dragged them outside the temple gate, and shot them dead. Zhang Goudan and more than 10 young people in the city hid on the slope between the front hall and the back hall of Tianye Temple and starved for two days and nights in order to avoid the Japanese army's massacre.The Japanese army on the ground did not see it, but was discovered by the Japanese aircraft.The Japanese soldiers on the plane sent a signal to the ground.These dozen or so youths were surrounded and driven off from the top of the hall.They knew that they would not survive, and even though there was no water or rice for two nights, they still chanted slogans such as "Down with Japanese imperialism! The aggressors will be defeated!" and other slogans.The vicious Japanese army immediately shot them to death on the edge of the pit in front of the gate of Tianye Temple.

Nanjie Pharaoh was tied to a tree by the Japanese army with wire, and burned alive with dry firewood. After the Japanese army entered the city, 600 to 700 people took refuge in the "Wan Zi Hui" of the international charity organization.When the Japanese army came here, the members of the Wanzihui, led by the chairman Zhang Shixian, came out to greet them with the banner of "Wanzihui". They're all dead!" Breaking into the courtyard of the Swastika Society, they dragged out more than 150 men from the people who had taken refuge here, tied them up, took them to the long pit downstairs of Kuixing Tower, and shot them dead.The blood stained the pit water, and none of the more than 150 people escaped.Just as the Japanese army was marching in, the women and children took the opportunity to run out and hide in the West Street Catholic Church.The church was already full of fleeing people.How did they know that it was called a church, but it had actually become a concentration camp for the Japanese invading army. Those who went in were served by men and abused by women. In the massacre by the Japanese army in Cheng'an City this time, the places with the most deaths were Changkeng downstairs of Kuixing Building, Dakeng in front of the Confucian Temple, Dakeng behind Houcang, Weikeng in the northwest, Southwest Street, Dongxi Street, Dongluzui, Tianye Temple, etc. , killed one or two hundred people in each place.During the 7 days of "holiday", the Japanese army also gathered a large number of dead compatriots' corpses.They took off the men's upper body and the women's lower body, and put them in various postures such as kneeling, facing up, and standing. They leaned against the east wall of the Japanese army's headquarters in the city, and used them as targets for shooting practice. They were brutal and vicious. , outrageous. On the one hand, the Japanese army slaughtered wantonly in the city, and on the other hand, some people were selected to collect the corpses of the Japanese soldiers who died in battle, and gathered the corpses near Qu Village, where kerosene was poured on the corpses from the "Juyisheng" business in the city and cremated.According to the translator Yu Letian: At that time, some wounded Japanese soldiers who were alive were also carried and thrown into the fire. They shouted and said, "I can still live! Don't burn me!" The Japanese soldier who carried them said: " Stop yelling and go back to your country to find the emperor!" The Japanese fascists were so cruel to their compatriots, so the cruelty to the Chinese people can be imagined. Cheng'an County fell, and the 29th Army withdrew and stationed in Jinshan and Liujiazhuang in the south of the city. The other units of the 29th Army are also stationed in Wei County and Guangping County to the east of Cheng'an.Various militia groups in Cheng'an County gathered in Gu Village, Chengdong Road, and automatically established a military and civilian headquarters, headed by Wang Tianzhi, Zhang Zhihe, Bai Jun, Shi Butang, Xu Dianbang and other militia leaders.The people who escaped from the city cried out to the army and local militia groups about the atrocities committed by the Japanese invading army in the massacre in the city, and asked them to avenge the victims. The vast number of patriotic officers and soldiers in the 29th Army and the local militia were filled with righteous indignation when they heard that their compatriots were brutally slaughtered.Liu Ruming sent a brigade, and more than 1,000 people from the Cheng'an People's Army actively cooperated, planning to use artillery fire as a cover to forcibly ascend the city. However, considering that our army has few artillery and shells, if we consume ammunition with the enemy, we will suffer.After repeated research, it was decided that the Cheng'an People's Army would encircle and guard the city, focusing on Handa Highway. The 29th Army pulled out strong soldiers from three companies, dug a tunnel from the Xiaodongmen in the northeast corner of the city, and rushed into the city.The engineers started their operations on the evening of November 5th, and dug through the tunnel before dawn on November 6th (the fourth day of October in the lunar calendar).In the early morning of the next day, the heroic team members were all armed with big knives, wearing shorts and vests, with grenades pinned to their waists, and some went into the city with their arms bare.The Japanese army was still sleeping in the homes of civilians. Our army touched in, raised knives and dropped them, killing the invading army to pieces.After dawn, the enemy and the enemy fought hand-to-hand from house to house.My heroic soldiers became more and more courageous as they fought, and the Japanese army could no longer support them. Some of them retreated to the old pawnshop on the East Street (the walls of which were as high as a city), and some retreated to Dutangbao, Feixiang County, Northwest China to wait for reinforcements.The Japanese Army Command in Handan received the report and urgently mobilized reinforcements from Handan, Feixiang, and Yongnian to support the Japanese army in Cheng'an.After these Japanese troops arrived in Da'an, they fought fiercely with my brigade (one battalion missing) and the militia outside the city.The Japanese army had more artillery than our army, and our soldiers and civilians died more.The Japanese army retreated to Dutangbao in Feixiang County, saw a large number of reinforcements arriving, and returned to the city.There are fierce battles inside and outside the city.The battle lasted until about 3 p.m., the Japanese artillery fire was too fierce, our artillery fire could not withstand it, and the casualties increased, so we threw off the enemy and retreated.Our army in the city was isolated and helpless, and fell into a bitter battle.At 5:00 p.m., the battalion commander of the 29th Army led more than 100 soldiers who had broken through the encirclement to retreat outside the city. There were still more than 40 soldiers in the city before they could withdraw in time.The Japanese army shouted to them to surrender.Our army condemned the heinous crimes of the Japanese invasion of China, and solemnly vowed never to surrender.While attacking, the Japanese army secretly obtained firewood and set the house on fire.All 42 of my fighters were killed. After the Japanese army occupied the county for the second time, they became furious and committed another bloody massacre. All the men who stayed in the city were caught and killed.The small courtyard of the Catholic Church was full of searched men. The Japanese army only left 37 men to carry water and feed their horses. Along the Weikeng, the interpreter said to them: "The imperial army killed 500 people in peace. Damn it!" The heroic people of Cheng'an knew that they had nothing to say in the face of imperialism.All of them glared and walked to the edge of the pit with their chests outstretched.With a burst of vicious gunshots from the Japanese soldiers, more than 150 of my compatriots were buried in the reed pit, and the water in the pit turned red.Only Zhang Jianzi was not hit, pretended to be dead and fell into the water, broke free from the rope and hid in the reeds, and escaped across the city in the middle of the night. When the Japanese army occupied the county seat in 1937, it was rainy and rainy in Cheng'an area, and the streets were flooded.The Japanese army actually put the corpses of my compatriots in the water, sprinkled loess on the road to walk on, and only one intersection on Southwest Street (southwest of the county committee today) covered the dead 240 square meters (site survey).In addition, in the big pit in front of the Confucian Temple and the Changfang Pit below the Kuixing Building, the big pit in front of the Tianye Temple, the Wei Pit in the northwest corner, and the puddle in the north of Houcang, dead bodies floated to cover the entire water surface, and all ten wells in the city were filled. Full of dead people. In Nangong County alone, 118 people were killed doing business in Cheng’an. Survivors recalled: 12 people were killed in Baofeng Grocery Store; 11 people were killed in Tiansheng Hengbuzhuang; 9 people were killed in Tianshengyong; 7 people from the pickle shop; 13 people from Hang Seng and grocery stores; 9 people from Juyisheng grocery store; 7 people from Fuxing Loubuzhuang. After the fall of the county seat, the 29th Army retreated to the Menggucai area of ​​Guangping County.The Japanese army carried out bloody massacres in Donghe Village, Hezhong, Hexi, Hedong, Gaozhuang, Faner, and Qucun. Only 57 people were killed in Donghe Village, Li Shiyan's family was killed 13 people, and Xiaojing in the south of the village filled 27 corpses. , later known as "Blood and Tears Well".Villages and villages were filled with corpses and blood, and households were crying loudly. At the beginning of December, the Japanese army was forced to abandon the city and retreat due to the attack of our people's armed forces.When leaving, Liao took the only 37 male "coolies" left in the city who fed their horses and carried water to the brick kiln in Yinzhuang, Guangping County, and stabbed them to death with bayonets.Only Liu Decheng and Zhang Feng were not stabbed to the vitals and survived. At the beginning of 1939, when the Japanese army occupied Cheng'an again, in order to buy people's hearts, Chi Yingdou in the city was asked to investigate the dead in the city, register their names, and hang them in Nantai Temple (now the Martyrs' Shrine).Then monks and nuns were invited to chant sutras for the deceased.This fully exposed the full hypocrisy of the Japanese invaders. Japanese fascists wantonly trampled on public international law. In Cheng'an County, which is 0.36 square kilometers in size, and nearby villages, they killed more than 5,300 innocent people twice in succession. In the city alone, 3,718 people were killed, 22 households were killed, and 1,200 houses were burned down. , property was looted. The people of Cheng'an County will never forget the huge blood debt of the Japanese invading army.Although 50 years have passed, the surviving old people still have fresh memories, accusing the Japanese aggressors of massacring the Chinese people.Li Xiangcheng, an old lady on Cheng'an South Street, is 93 years old. She is a survivor of the tragedy.she says: I remember that at Qianye on September 21st of the lunar calendar that year, the Japanese army blasted open the west gate with cannons, and then swarmed in, shooting and cutting.Most of the people in the city fled to the east gate.The east gate is not open, and only one person can pass through the gap.Due to the crowding, most people failed to leave.A middle-aged woman was also running with a headless child on her back.Early the next morning, the Japanese army killed everyone they saw in the city and fired at them with machine guns. They were really murderous!I led a group of old and young people running around, and in the alleys that the Japanese soldiers didn't pay much attention to, I saw Japanese soldiers patrolling with guns standing at the intersection.I saw with my own eyes two brothers from a family who were covered in blood and were hacked to death at the intersection. A person who ran past them fell to the ground when he saw the bodies of the two brothers and lay straight on the ground, frightened to death. I led my whole family to hide and hide for two times. When I returned home, I entered the courtyard and saw the Japanese soldiers holding bayonets standing all over the courtyard. They pulled out a dozen men from the women hiding in each house and pushed them to the Kuixing Building. .These men were killed by the bullets of the Japanese invaders. Waking up early the next day, the two Japanese devils did not satisfy their animal desires, and killed 11 people in the house with machine guns, leaving only two or three injured orphans covered in blood. I took these orphans and watched several Japanese soldiers , Throwing the dead into the cesspit in the yard. I saw with my own eyes that the road was covered with human blood and rotten clothes. There was a section of the road that was actually paved with layers of dead people. It became a "road" by covering it with dirt. Numb.The North and South pits are even more unsightly.The water in the pit was stained red with blood, and there were dead people and disembodied heads floating on the water... Li Xiangcheng's goddaughter, Song Yuzhen, was only 10 years old that year. She was also one of the survivors. Here is her memory of the Japanese army's murderous scene: On the morning of the 22nd day of the ninth lunar month in the 26th year of the Republic of China, my mother, nanny, and I went to hide in the place where my mother Li Xiangcheng lived. There were 14 people, old and young, squeezed into two small east rooms.The godmother arranged us to sit on the kang, told everyone not to talk, she turned and went out.After a while, two girls came and begged everyone for help. The group of elders and children became more and more worried. In order not to hurt the elders and children, they took advantage of the absence of guards outside and hid elsewhere.Still don't know their names. I was really afraid that something might happen. As soon as the two girls left, a Japanese soldier with a bayonet came up and yelled, "Is there a flower girl in there? Come out!" All the young and old shook their heads and waved their hands to indicate no.The Japanese soldier glanced into the house, then staggered away.Before everyone could let go of their throats, two aggressive Japanese soldiers came over.They rushed to the door of a house with bayonet-tipped guns in their hands and said: "The two girls in the house, come out!" Seeing that the situation was not good, they shook their heads more tightly and shook their hands faster, and said in their mouths See "no, no".Two Japanese wolves stared fiercely into the house, and cursed through gritted teeth: "Huh? Damn, there are no flower girls, bring a gun!" One devil stood at the door and shot into the house, and the other stood at the window. The devils shot into the house.An old man hurriedly shouted, "Don't shoot, don't shoot!" The child was so frightened that he couldn't cry.In an instant, several old people were shot, and they were crying and screaming in the house.The gunfire outside became more and more intense, and there were a few grinning laughter mixed in.The old man fell down one by one, groaning in pain, and the gunshots still rang out.I lay on my mother's chest, looking at the bloody dead man, I was even more frightened, and kept yelling "Mother, mother, mother..." My mother didn't answer.I touched it randomly, and when I touched my mother's chest, there was a large sticky patch, which looked like blood.I shook my mother vigorously, cried and shouted desperately, and somehow I ended up in the cabinet in the godmother's house.My mother's blood flowed all over my body. I couldn't even breathe because of the blood. My mind was also numb. I could hear the gunshots outside.When the godmother came back, she opened the door and looked, her eyes were glazed over.What a sad scene!The ground is full of pits, old and young, dead and injured.My mother lay on her back in a pool of blood and died.My nurse also lay dead on the ground.Unknown old and young, you pressed me, I pressed you, the ground was covered with blood.Both of my godmother's nieces were seriously injured. The godmother spread her hands and was dumbfounded.I couldn't even put my feet in the room. After the godmother regained her composure, she jumped into the room, moved the dead ones away, and pulled up me and her two nieces who were still alive and submerged in blood.The godmother's eyes were swollen and round, but she didn't shed a single tear, and she left with three bloody children in her hands. There were two children who escaped death, one was Yin Decheng, who was 9 years old at the time, and the other was Huang Shulin, who was 15 years old at the time.Yin Decheng said: After the Japanese car entered the city, my father ran out and never came back. My mother dragged my 13-year-old sister and me to run around, and finally ran to the south room of Lao Sun's house on South Street.There are three neighbors hiding in this house, and the more people feel that they can take courage.During breakfast, the Japanese army entered Lao Sun's house, and people were hiding in the house.When I was young, I dragged my mother to squat under the edge of the kang, scared in my heart, but still watching.As soon as a Japanese soldier stepped into the door, he raised his gun and shot Xiao Sanniang to death on the kang, and then killed Zhang Shuniang and her mother-in-law.My mother hid on the side of the coal fire platform. Another Japanese soldier found out and shot my mother in the chest.My mother took one look at me, and died while holding on to the coal stove.My sister hid under the quilt and couldn't help moving when she heard the gunshots and the screams of the Japanese soldiers. The Japanese soldiers went to the kang and stabbed the bed with a bayonet several times. My sister screamed in pain in the bed. The Japanese army picked up the quilt again and grabbed Going down, my sister died.My heart was pierced like a knife, and I wished I could pounce on the devil, but I was too young.The Japanese army grinned grimly and left. For some reason, at that time my family was running around like crazy, and I was no longer afraid of dead people in the streets.At that time, there were too many people killed by the Japanese army in Cheng'an, and the number was too numerous to count.I remember that at the moment, the southeast corner of the county committee, the northeast corner, and the south-north street opposite the guest house, there were piles of dead people in each of the three places, and there were at least 400 corpses in each pile.Some are whole bodies, and some have only two legs left.Li Gui picked up a dead man's leg in South Street, so he found his father's body. Wei Zhen's parents in North Street were all killed by devils. My uncle helped him collect the corpses, put the recovered corpses in the coffin village and just nailed them up, but some people said that the people in the coffin village were six fingers.I hurriedly opened it and saw that there were six fingers.A man came over to take a look and said it was his father, so he had to be carried away.Wei Zhen had no choice but to look for it again, but she couldn't find it no matter what, and his father's whereabouts are still unknown to this day.Wei Zhen is not the only one who can't find the dead bodies of her relatives, there are many!According to Feng Lin, his wife saw the Japanese soldiers and killed them when they saw them. It was very tragic. She couldn't bear the death of her two-year-old daughter under the bayonet of the Japanese army. up. Please see Huang Shulin's eyewitness account of the tragedy: The Japanese army entered the city and arrived at the Tianye Temple where I lived early the next morning.Many old men, wives, and children in South Street thought that the people living in this temple were beggars, and that maybe the Japanese army would not come, so they all came here.I remember that the three rooms in the east wing were full, about 50 people.The Japanese army drove them all into the yard, surrounded them with guns and picked out about 20 old men. Their wives and children cried together.The Japanese army drove the old men out, but the old woman and children went forward to stop them, but the Japanese army blocked them with bayonets.The old men were driven out of the temple, and the Japanese army took up guard at the gate of the temple.After a short pause, gunshots rang out outside the temple, and the crying inside the temple became even louder.The Japanese army left, and everyone rushed out to have a look, oh my god! About 20 old people were all lying on the edge of the pit, and all of them were shot dead by the devils.My adoptive father also died here. In the afternoon, the Japanese army drove more than 20 of us into a noodle mill. We were not allowed to move or eat. In fact, there was no food to eat at that time.I was hungry until the next day, the old women cried softly, and the children shouted loudly that they were hungry.At this time, the Japanese army rushed over with several women and children. I recognized Nanxian Zhao's wife and his daughter-in-law among them.The three mills were packed to the brim.The vicious Japanese bandits picked four young women from among the women and took them away, and brought them back the next morning.They were all dressed in red and green, and earrings, and they could barely walk.They broke down in tears as soon as they entered the door, and they said, "In the south building of Wang's house..." The whole house understood that these Japanese beasts had ruined them.Although we children are not old, we also know that robbers are inhumane, and we cried with their cries.Angry and resentful, I didn't feel hungry for three days without eating. After a few days, the city will loosen up, and the Japanese military and police will not be very strict in development. I went outside to walk around, and walked to the intersection of Southwest Street. A low-lying road that usually accumulates water when it rains disappeared. It turned out that the devils used the corpses of ordinary people to level it Yes, sprinkle some soil on it as a road.At that time, I gritted my teeth with hatred, thinking, how many of us have been killed by the devils!The farther you go, the more dead people are. There are piles of dead people on the left and right on the road, some with short heads and some with short legs. When I went to Tianye Temple, there were sixteen or seven young corpses outside the temple. At dawn on the sixth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the Japanese army cleaned up the men again. My mother was so frightened that she hid me under the quilt, but she was also searched out and took me to the priest's courtyard.The men who were found here were crowded, about 200 people. More than 100 Japanese soldiers surrounded with bayonets, and the priest muttered something, not knowing what to say.A Japanese military officer wowed for a while, and the translator said, "Your hearts are broken, you have a beard, and you call the beard to attack the city. They are all dead!" The devil took 37 people from Zhongtao to work as coolies, and the rest More than 160 people were tied up with ropes, forced with bayonets, and rushed to the reed pit in the northwest corner of the city.The devil checked it again, slapped me and said: "Don't do it for children, open the way." I ran to the side and the devil's machine gun rang.People fell into the pit, and those who were not killed burrowed into the reeds, and the devils chased after them and stabbed them to death with bayonets.I said bitterly: "Little devil, sooner or later I will clean up your sons of bitches!" Forty days passed, and the city people hiding in the countryside flocked to the city to find their relatives.There is still some hope of finding the woman, but none of the men are left, only the dead bodies of relatives can be found.Even 37 male compatriots who worked as coolies for the Japanese army were taken to the brick kiln in Yinzhuang by the Japanese army and all were stabbed to death. People searched, Confucian Temple Pit, Tianye Temple Pit, Northwest Weed Pit, streets, and alleys. A corpse was searched several times, but no one could recognize it clearly. They were burned to the point where only one leg was left, and some had only one foot.Especially the dead people picked up on the road of the dead are even more miserable. They can't be pulled. If they pull their legs, their legs will break. If they pull their hands, their hands will break.It turned out that the meat and bones were covered.Later, I walked to the driveway facing west in the south gate, where the bodies of more than 100 men, women and children were placed against the wall.Mother saw at a glance that there was a dead body wearing clothes that she had made by herself. Although the face was not clear, she confirmed that it was my father.Strange why dad's body ran here?It turned out that the Japanese army got here to use it as a gun target, and the multiple bullet holes on these corpses are also certain. Crying is useless, or arrange to bury people.At that time, coffins were impossible to find, and even if they were available in the countryside, they couldn't afford them, so they found a broken mat, rolled them up and buried them outside Nanguan.While rolling the corpse, someone shouted, "The Japanese devils are coming again!" My mother and I ran quickly, and came back to carry my father's corpse after a while without any movement. After running like this three times, we carried it to the east of Chen's grave and buried the old man hastily. .