Chapter 17 Chapter 16 Three Massacres in Teng County (1938.3.17-19)

On March 15, 1938, the Japanese army invaded the territory of Teng County, and occupied Teng County on March 17.Within three days, the Japanese invaders killed 2,259 innocent people, raped 224 women, and burned more than 60,000 houses.More than 720 people were killed in Dongguan, the county seat alone, and some entire families were killed.This is what people call "the bloodbath of Teng County by the Japanese army". After the "July 7" incident, the Japanese invaders drove straight in, and Jinan, Tai'an, Yanzhou, and Zou counties fell one after another, and the southern section of Jinpu was in danger.On January 10, 1938, the 22nd Army of the Kuomintang was ordered to go to the Teng County area to deploy defenses to prevent the Japanese invaders from going south.

At dawn on March 14, about 10,000 Japanese infantry and cavalry, carrying 20 cannons and 20 tanks, launched a full-line attack on the Chinese army positions with the cooperation of aircraft. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon on the 15th, the Japanese army detoured and took the strategically important Teng County. When the residents of Teng County heard the news, they helped the old and the young to leave their homes and flee.In the evening of that day, the people who fled to Xiaoji Mountain and Gushan in the east of the city met the Japanese search troops at the river bend outside the gate of the East Walled City, and the refugees immediately panicked.Qian Shoudao's mother yelled because she was looking for her child.The Japanese invaders immediately shot at the refugees. In an instant, 72 people were killed. Their blood stained the river, and the enemy continued to shoot at the vegetable garden houses along the Hebei River.At that time, there were 22 beggars who fled famine and lived there. Except for one whose kneecap was shattered and another whose foot was pierced, the rest all died tragically under the bullets of the Japanese invaders.

At 6 o'clock in the morning on March 16, the Japanese army began shelling the town of Teng County in Chengtang Village, east of the city.On this day, more than 10,000 shells were dropped near Dongguan, Chengzhong and East Station. On the 17th, the artillery fire of the Japanese invaders became more intense. In addition to bombardment with dozens of mountain artillery and field artillery, there were also indiscriminate bombardments by aircraft.The whole county is full of flames and smoke billowing.The Sichuan army guarding the Dongzhai Gate was outnumbered and all died, and Teng County fell.

After the Japanese invaded the East City Gate, they searched from house to house. When they saw women raped first, they killed them. When they saw men, they were either hacked on the spot or tied up and shot.Only in Zhengjialin and Mashen Temple, 42 innocent people were collectively shot and killed.There were 1,400 households in Dongguan Street, Shawo Street, and Shanguomen Street, and more than 4,700 houses were burned down. Zheng Shuoan’s father hid in the cellar and tried to fight the fire.Wang's daughter-in-law had only been married for three months. After being dragged out of the cellar by devils and gang-raped, she was stabbed to death by caesarean section with a bayonet.There was an 18-year-old girl who wore braids and pretended to be a daughter-in-law. She fled from the city and encountered Japanese invaders. After being gang-raped, she was stabbed to death.After being raped by two Japanese soldiers, Wang, a woman from Chunqiu Pavilion Street, was rolled up in foil by the neighbor Chen Changming and hid on the shed. Then three Japanese soldiers came and asked Chen, "Where is Miss Hua?" Chen said, "Here There is no flower girl." The Japanese invaders raised their axes and struck, Chen Duolu escaped by jumping over the wall, but was chased by the Japanese invaders and hacked to death.Zhang Dashan's mother and younger brother jumped into the well in fright.After the gang of Japanese invaders left, the crowd fished Zhang's mother up, and another gang of Japanese invaders came again, and Zhang's mother jumped into the well again. After several times of tossing, she was saved from death.When Chengyin and Laiyin saw the Japanese invaders chasing them, they jumped into the well to take refuge, but they were all drowned. Zhang Si and his wife, both in their 70s, were stabbed to death by Japanese invaders.Zhang's grandmother, who was over 70 years old, was also raped to death by the Japanese invaders.At that time, 50 families were killed in North Street and Shawo Street, and 82 people died tragically from the enemy.

Sha Yincai, a boxer on Dongguan South Street, took refuge in a cellar with his family of six when the Japanese army occupied the county.A woman was entangled by the Japanese army because she couldn't hide in time.Sha Yincai was filled with righteous indignation and rushed over immediately, but the Japanese soldier was killed. Several Japanese soldiers rushed outside the door to stop Sha Yincai and killed him with a machine gun. At noon on March 17, the Japanese invaders broke into Dong Youjun's house. Seeing a cellar dug in the courtyard, they threw several grenades through the hole.All the people hiding in the cellar were killed by the Japanese invaders, and none survived.

On March 18, the Japanese invaders rushed to Chunqiuge Street, arrested six or seven people, tied them together with ropes, and escorted them away.When passing by the door of Liu who sells tea, the Japanese invaders saw Liu's wife standing at the door, showing a brute brutality. Disperse.At noon that day, the people sheltering in the air-raid shelter of the Nanguan Catholic Church heard the sparse sound of artillery, so they went out of the cave to observe the movement.As a result, there were only going out, but no returning, and all those who went out were brutally killed by the Japanese invaders.At the same time, the Japanese invaders also carried out massacres in the caves of more than a dozen shops and shops in Dongmenli and Dongmenwai North and South Streets.110 people were killed in Xu's Deyuan, Li's Dejuquan Hotel, Youfang and Hengsheng Gongyanfang's underground caves.

In just three days, thousands of my innocent compatriots died tragically under the guns of the Japanese invading army.This blood debt will never be forgotten from generation to generation! In November 1985, the Party History Office of the Tengxian County Committee of the Communist Party of China convened some survivors of the Dongguan City of Tengxian County to hold a symposium on the bloodbath of Tengxian County by the Japanese army. The minutes here are as follows: Wang Ruilin: I am 72 years old.The Japanese invaders attacked Teng County in the second month of the lunar calendar in 1938. At that time, I was 25 years old and I was guarding the gate of Li's house in Yikang (the name of the business).After hearing the news that the Japanese devils were going to attack Teng County, my boss and I went to Majiaheri (his hometown) to transport things.When we reached the Dongsha River, we couldn't go further east.So my boss stayed here and asked me to go back to the city alone.When I came back, it was the night of the fourteenth day of the second lunar month, and I saw Sichuan soldiers standing guard on the city wall.At around 9:00 a.m. the next morning, gunfire rang out from the east of the county seat. There were enemy planes in the sky, flying very low, with machine guns chasing people.At this time, I saw with my own eyes that Lu Jianqun's third son was knocked down by a machine gun.And the enemy's cannons kept bombarding the railway.

On the 17th day of the second lunar month, after midnight, there was no fierce battle between the Japanese army and the Shoucheng Sichuan army, but the massacre of ordinary people by the Japanese army did not stop.The common people in the east of Teng County were miserable, and almost every family suffered.Chen Changming asked the devils to catch her and beat her to death because of saving her second sister Wang, who was raped by the Japanese army.Zhao Jinxian and his wife were also beaten to death by devils.Huang Bao's mother, Zhang Dashan's mother and her brothers were so frightened that they hid in the well when they saw the Japanese soldiers coming.Seeing someone jumping into the well, the Japanese soldiers threw stones down, maiming Zhang's mother's hand and killing the child.The innocent people who died tragically at the hands of the enemy at that time, as far as I heard and witnessed: Sun Daku, Sun Erku, Daku's second son, Sun Si and his wife, Sun Yu's father and other eight or nine people; Zhang Si and his wife, both 70 at the time Many years old, they were also called to be killed by Japanese devils; Zhang Mazi from Zhang’s Garden, the gatekeeper of Han Liqin’s house, Guo Dachun, Guo Mingchun, Xu Santuzi, Sun (whose name was Po), Wang Fengxian and his mother were all killed by Japanese devils Brothers Chengyin and Laiyin jumped into the well in fright because the Japanese invaders were chasing them, and they were drowned.Think about the crimes committed by Japanese bandits in China, even if you cut them with a knife, you will not be able to forgive them.

Dong Youqi: I am 84 years old. In 1938, when the Japanese attacked Teng County, they came from the northeast direction. At that time, the gunfire in the east of the city was intense, and the neighbors around my house were so scared that they cried and cried.I said: "My house has an air-raid shelter dug, you come here." At 12 noon the next day (February 16th in the lunar calendar), the Japanese invaded the county town of Dongguan.At this time, a shell was falling into my courtyard, blowing up the pole and other belongings flying all over the sky.After the Japanese invaded my house, they saw that there was an air-raid shelter in the courtyard, so they threw grenades at the south entrance of the cave.The people in the cave couldn't bear it, so they climbed up from the north entrance of the cave, and the Japanese devils shot them with guns.Dou Kegong's wife was beaten to death on the spot, and her eldest daughter threw herself on her mother and cried loudly.At this time, the devil shot her again, wounding her thigh, bleeding profusely, and she fainted immediately.The second girl (14, 15 years old) saw her mother and sister lying in a pool of blood, and rushed to cry, but was dragged into the house by the Japanese soldiers and raped, then stabbed to death with a bayonet.My neighbor to the west is Cheng Hongyi's family, and the house is rented to Zhang's grandmother.When the devils arrived, they saw Zhang's grandmother and called out "Laohua girl." At that time, Mrs. Zhang was over 70 years old. Although she begged hard, she was finally raped to death.Neighbor Zhao Jinsheng and Thursday, who was renting a house at my house, were also beaten to death by the Japanese devils.In our hospital alone, 8 people were killed by the Japanese devils.And Liu Zijie's mother, over 80 years old, was also beaten to death in front of my house.Li Tianbao and Er Mazi, who lived on the west side of my house, had the Japanese tie them with ropes to the road and stabbed them to death with bayonets.Zhang Yibin and Zhang Sihu, who had more than 80 voices, were also stabbed to death by the devils with bayonets.

Qian Shouye: I live in Gangzi Street Qianzhuang, 78 years old this year.In the year when the devils attacked Teng County, my father and brother and I fled from Hujialin.Qian Shoudao's mother yelled a few times because she couldn't find her child. As a result, the Japanese devils turned around and shot all the people in Hetongzi to death with machine guns.There was a man named Xu Jingrui, carrying a vegetable basket with a pair of cloth shoes and two biscuits in it. He went up to the Japanese soldiers and said, "I am a commoner." As soon as he finished speaking, the Japanese soldiers shot him to death.At that time, in the entire river, Jiaogui soldiers killed nearly a hundred people.Counting from the south of the river to the north, more than 70 people died.I crossed the river with my father on my back. As soon as the devil fired a gun, I hurried into the water, and my father stayed on the bank. As a result, the devil stabbed me to death with a bayonet.My elder brother was also stabbed to death with a bayonet when he hid in the pit.Zhao Peilan's family in the street is a Taoist. When the Japanese soldiers came, his family of seven burned incense and kowtowed at home, praying for God's blessing, but they were killed by the devils.Guan Wan's family of five were also killed by devils.At that time, there were corpses all over the street, and the pit outside Dongzhai Gate had to be filled up by corpses.Zhang Fuxin's house on the west side of my house, his uncle, aunt, aunt and aunt were all killed.In addition, one member of Liu Qi'ai's family was killed, and two members of Li Qi's family were killed.All of the above is what I have seen with my own eyes.