Chapter 14 Chapter Thirteen: Blood and Tears in Jiyang City (1937.11.13-21)

Jiyang County, Shandong Province is located 90 miles north of Jinan, bordering the Yellow River on the east and south sides, and has more than 3,300 residents.In the first three days when the Japanese invaded and occupied Jiyang, more than 2,300 civilians were massacred, and Jiyang instantly became a dead city. Although the city outline of Jiyang is small, it has an important strategic location and is known as the northern gateway of Jinan. After the "July 7th" Incident in 1937, the Japanese invaders approached Shandong, and Jiyang City was the battleground for them to invade and occupy Jinan. On the morning of October 16, two Japanese planes flew along the north bank of the Yellow River and dropped four bombs.After that, enemy planes came here almost every day for reconnaissance and harassment. On October 31, at the Daji, two enemy planes flew in and dropped 8 bombs on the crowd, killing 11 people on the spot, seriously injuring 4 people, and destroying more than 20 houses.Four members of Zhao Hongdao's family of 7 were killed in the bombing. His 12-year-old sister and 4-year-old brother were blown to pieces, leaving only the head; Dragging on the ground, one of my mother's legs was blown off.

Han Fuju, chairman of the Shandong Province of the Kuomintang and commander-in-chief of the Third Route Army, when the Japanese army suppressed the border and was seriously threatened, he transferred about 1,000 people from the First Regiment of the Guards Brigade to the Yin family in the north of Jiyang City on the night of November 12. Luojia, Xiezhuang, Dongjiadaokou, Daijia and other materials were led by regiment leader Jia Benjia to block the invading Japanese army.That night, Han Fuju led more than 50 entourages, rode a motorcycle to Jiyang County, ordered the county magistrate Sun Junchang to stick to the county seat, left two adjutants and 10 supervisors, and then returned to Jinan.

At around 10 o'clock in the morning on the 13th, more than 100 Japanese vehicles and armored vehicles rushed from Huimin to Jiyang along the west bank of the Yellow River through Renfeng. When they drove to Guo's house, they were ambushed by Jia Tuan.So part of the Japanese army confronted the Jia regiment, and the remaining 40 or so vehicles and armored vehicles continued to attack southward, and surrounded Jiyang County at around 11 o'clock.The defenders in the city resisted bravely.At around 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army transferred more than 30 vehicles and armored vehicles from Shanghe, and set up an ambush line on the left and right sides outside the west gate.The Japanese troops besieging the city successively breached the east, south, and north sides, and forced more than 1,800 strong men and more than 200 fleeing civilians out of the west gate, into their ambush circle, and frantically bombarded and machine-gunned. , not one in a hundred.According to eyewitness Yang Chengzu, there was an open area outside the west gate at that time, and the corpses were piled up in layers, two or three miles long.

It is said that a Japanese officer was wounded by the defenders in the city while commanding the siege. After the city fell, the officer issued an order to kill all the people in the city within 7 days.Beginning on the 14th, the Japanese army carried out a search.Anyone found, regardless of gender, age or age, will be killed. On the morning of the 14th, a group of Japanese soldiers broke into the back street of the Confucian Temple and captured the wives surnamed Lu and Zhang. The Japanese soldiers stripped both of their clothes, gang-raped them first, and then dragged them outside the west gate and tied them to a tree. , used a bayonet to cut off her breasts, and poked a wedge at her genitals, tortured for more than an hour before she died.After death, the two naked bodies hung from trees for several days.

This morning, the Japanese army captured Liu Shanyuan and 40 to 50 people, and forced them to move dead bodies, clean the streets and the Japanese army’s residence with bayonets.In the evening, the Japanese army tied up these people and escorted them to the embankment outside the south gate. They were asked to stand side by side and set up machine guns facing each other. .After Liu Shanyuan was knocked down by a machine gun, he pretended to die among the corpses and escaped in the middle of the night, becoming the only survivor among the group. A group of Japanese soldiers found his two teenage sons from the kiln of Lu Kerang's house outside the west gate, stripped them naked, hugged them on the jujube tree in front of the gate, and let the wolf dogs bite them.The two children let out bursts of heart-piercing screams, but the Japanese soldiers laughed.Half an hour later, the two children were bitten to a bloody mess, and their hearts, livers and internal organs were all over the floor.

The Japanese army killed more than 40 people with machine guns at the Confucian Temple; killed 13 people under the embankment outside the South Gate; and buried more than 30 people alive on the south cliff of Majiawan. More than a dozen groups of Japanese soldiers searched door by door from both ends of Nanguan Street to the middle.Every time they went to a house, they first rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, and then set fire to them. If they saw a man, they would be beaten to death, and if they saw a woman, they would rape them.One of the Japanese soldiers broke into Wang Qingtang's house, found three women in a cave, stripped them naked and gang-raped them.Then, the Japanese army used bayonets to open their stomachs, chopped off the feet of the female corpses, picked them up with bayonets, held them up in the street and shouted: "Chinese women's feet are so small! So small!" In the cellar of Liu Zhensheng's house , the Japanese army found 5 men and 7 women and killed them all; the Japanese army also hung a bloody head on the windowsill.In the cellar of Yang Qiji's house, the Japanese army found someone hiding, first fired with machine guns, and then threw grenades, killing 5 people on the spot.Six people were hiding in the cellar of Ren Chuanen's house, and three of them were killed by the Japanese army.

On the 14th alone, there were more than 40 corpses of innocent people lying near the Nanguan Jinxing Temple.47 people including Lu Zunsen, Lu Xiaodan, Wen Lianfu and his wife, Chen Jingzhi, Zhang Maotang, and Wang Rongjie were killed in Dongguan that day.The worst case was a man named Deng Kuijie, who was caught by the Japanese army, tied him to a tree, and cut off piece by piece with a bayonet.Deng was in so much pain that he cried for help.Deng Xuehe, an 80-year-old neighbor who heard the news, came to beg for mercy on crutches, but was stabbed to death by the Japanese army.Zhou Lianfen's uncle, Zhou Jingyuan, was captured by the Japanese army and chopped into several pieces with a saber.His father, Zhou Jingkui, was beheaded by the Japanese army.Yang Cunli, a child under 10 years old, was tied to a tree by the Japanese army, and his stomach was stabbed open with a bayonet, and his intestines spilled all over the floor.Ma's unmarried girl was gang-raped by the Japanese army and committed suicide by jumping into a well with hatred.

The Japanese invaded and occupied Jiyang City, and massacred 1,800 relatives of the masses in addition to the victims of the defenders; in the 7 days after the occupation of Jiyang City (from November 14 to 21), they killed 402 innocent people and seriously injured 19 people. 102 women were raped, more than 550 houses were burned down, and the entire Jiyang City was turned into ruins. The following is the dictation of survivors Hong Naide and Wang Qinglin of the Jiyang Massacre about what they experienced and witnessed (summary). Hong Naide said: When Jiyang City fell, my father and I failed to escape in time because we were guarding our elderly grandma, so we hid in the iron shop.At dawn the next day, a devil soldier held a bayonet, opened the front door, rushed into the house, dragged me out of bed, pushed me out of the door, and then tied me to the bottom of the building with a rope on a wooden post.Then he wrapped the end of the rope that tied me up and stuffed it into my mouth with the tip of a bayonet, blood flowed out from the corner of my mouth immediately.At this time, I saw 6 devils outside the door.My father ran out from the backyard when he heard the yelling, explaining that I was his son, a "good citizen" and begging for forgiveness.Another devil untied me from the post and kicked me down on the ground.The devil saw that I was lying down, and covered my mouth with his hand. I couldn't breathe, and the devil mistakenly thought that I was dead.Then the devils forced my father to carry an iron stove and left with them.Since then, there has been no news of my father, and it is unknown where he died.After the devil left, my grandmother helped me hide in the backyard for 5 days.Since then, I have suffered from shock sickness, leaving a sequelae of shaking my head and trembling hands. On November 17, I discussed with Wang Rongjiu from the same hospital about Zhao Heiye's escape.After walking to the Jinxing Temple on the top of the embankment, we saw two piles, which we mistakenly thought were bean piles. Looking closer, it turned out to be two piles of dead bodies, stacked as high as half a person.On the top of the embankment, there were also dead bodies shot to death by the devils, one by one holding their heads down the embankment, their teeth bared and their mouths bared, it was too horrible to look at.At the end of the lunar calendar, when I returned to Nanguan, I saw stumps chewed by dogs and tattered bloody clothes everywhere.One day, Wang Erjun and I used shovels to remove more than 100 remains and buried them in a small bay at the west end of Nanguan.

At that time, it was heard that more than 50 people were shot and killed by devils in Nanguan.The women of Yang Yuhu, Yang Chengzong, Huang Rushun, and Huang Ruan's family all hid in the cellar and were found by the devils and shot dead. Wang Qinglin said: After the Japanese invaders captured Jiyang City, they searched every house.Regardless of men, women, young or old, once discovered, they were either shot to death with guns or stabbed to death with bayonets, and few survived.In the city, the Japanese invaders found more than 40 elderly people, first asked them to clean the streets, then tied them together with ropes, escorted them to the embankment of the Yellow River outside the south gate, and shot them all to death with machine guns.There was a man named Liu Shanyuan who walked in the front. When the gun was fired, he fell to the ground immediately, so he didn't hit the fatal point and survived.

The two sons of Lu Kerang, a resident outside the west gate, are named Xiaoku and Gegua.After the devils caught them, they stripped off their clothes and tied them to a jujube tree, and let the wolf dogs kill them alive. Liu Qingfang, the manager of the Lixue Trading Company, was caught by the devils, who tied his legs with ropes, tied them to a car, and dragged him to death. The corpses shot to death by the Japanese invaders outside the west gate were scattered everywhere due to rotting and dog gnawing.After the Japanese invaders withdrew, they buried these corpses in four pits in the agricultural experiment field. Each pit was seven to eight square meters, and the dead bodies were more than one meter thick.

In 1938, in order to save the souls of the dead, the Red Cross set up more than a dozen mat tents in the stadium in the city, with the names of the martyrs posted inside.I counted, there are more than 1800.