Chapter 18 Chapter 17 The Changyuan City Tragedy (1938.3.25)

On March 25, 1938, the Japanese army invaded Changyuan City, Henan Province, and massacred more than 1,700 innocent people, creating a brutal and inhuman Changyuan City repair case, which was called the "Xuexue Massacre" by the masses. Just as the Japanese invading army was aggressively invading North China and the Central Plains, on February 23, 1938 (the twenty-fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar), the 14th Division of the Japanese Army Kenji Doihara, who was heading south along the Pinghan Road, attacked In Changyuan City, the traitors Zhai Xuewen, Mu Xiangzhong, and Xu Xiuzhai gathered hundreds of hooligans and lined up North Street holding the sun flag to welcome them.In order to continue their southward invasion, the Japanese army left a batch of supplies and handed them over to the "maintenance committee" for safekeeping, in an attempt to join forces with the Japanese army on the West Road in Xinxiang.Soon after the Japanese army went south, the 68th Army of the Kuomintang, the 679th Regiment of the 27th Brigade of the Kuomintang, regained Changyuan City and drove away the traitors and bandits in the city.

On March 24th, in order to transport away the supplies left behind, the Japanese army sent four cars carrying more than 30 Japanese soldiers along the Changfeng Highway to Changyuan. They were blocked by our defenders. Two cars were destroyed, and the number of Japanese soldiers People were killed, and the rest fled in embarrassment. In the evening of the same day, the Japanese army dispatched dozens of vehicles, loaded with devil soldiers and heavy weapons, to retaliate.As the defenders were helpless and their ammunition was exhausted, they retreated from the east gate to the east of the river at dawn the next day.Japanese artillery deployed in Luangangzhan, Jiezhuang, Suzhan, Liuyuan and other villages in the south of the city crazily bombarded the city.Because there was no army in the city, after the Japanese army entered through the east gate, they began to massacre unarmed and innocent people frantically.

On the morning of March 25th (February 24th in the lunar calendar), the Japanese army searched house by house along the street. Regardless of men, women, old or young, they killed anyone they saw.Not long after, the streets and alleys were littered with dead bodies and blood flowed like rivers.All 11 members of Yang Lianxi's family on Xiaonanguai Street were killed, and none of the 9 members of Han Dejian's family on Humenmen Street survived.In order to avoid being slaughtered by the Japanese invaders, the people in the city fled everywhere. How can they hide?The Japanese soldiers searched more and more intensively. Everywhere they went, they first fired guns into the room for a while, and then stabbed randomly under the bed and dark corners with bayonets.Young adults were found and were shot dead on the spot.Lu Huanzhang, the platoon leader guarding the north gate, and others had thrown away their weapons and disguised themselves and sneaked into the civilian population. They were all found and shot by the Japanese army.

After noon, the devil soldiers were exhausted from killing, so the Japanese military officer ordered the devil soldiers in Siguan and Fifth Streets to force the residents who had been found to gather in the spring college with guns, together with the people who had already been hiding in the courtyard. , all rushed to the main hall of the scriptures, and then the devil soldiers set up machine guns and blocked the gate.Hearing the howl of the devil, the machine guns fired wildly into the hall. I have pity for hundreds of unarmed and innocent people who died tragically inside and outside the hall.After the machine guns fired, dozens of devil soldiers entered the hall again, and used bayonets to pick up the lying corpses. If the bullets missed the vital parts, the electronic soldiers would use bayonets to kill them. Heartbroken.Except for Hou Jiaxiu, an old Taoist of Chenghuang Temple on North Street, Zhou Gaosheng on West Street, and Zhen Wuni from Zhenzhuang on Chengnan, who fell to the corner of the wall and pretended to be dead when the devils machine gunned them, and none of the other hundreds of people survived.This is the "Xiaoxue tragedy" during the bloodbath of the Changyuan City by the Japanese invaders.

The Japanese massacre in Changyuan City did not stop there.They continued to search around, killing all those who were found, and slaughtered until late at night.In the end, the ghost soldiers demolished the houses, lit fires here and there, and corpses were strewn all over the four passes and five streets. Under the gray moonlight and firelight, the whole city was a miserable scene.The Japanese army bloodbathed Changyuan City and killed more than 1,700 innocent compatriots, creating the tragic "Changyuan City Massacre". In the early morning of the next day, the Japanese army searched all over the city again. Seeing that there was no one in the city, it became an "uninhabited city", and the brigade of devils and soldiers left angrily.