Chapter 19 Chapter 18 Linyi Massacre (1938.4.21-30)

In early March 1938, the Japanese invaders approached the border of Linyi, Shandong.The Pang Bingxun Department of the 40th Army of the Kuomintang stationed in Linyi, with reinforcements from the Zhang Zizhong Department of the 59th Army, fought fiercely with the Japanese troops who invaded Linyi for nearly a month, causing heavy damage to the enemy.Afterwards, the Zhang and Pang armies withdrew from the battlefield one after another, and Linyi fell on April 21. Before the Japanese invaded and occupied Linyi City, two tragedies occurred successively in Gucheng Village in the north of the city and Daling Village in the west of the city.

One day in late March, just after dawn, Japanese troops broke into Gucheng Village like wolves.Farmer Wang Hanyou's family of four hid in the cellar of the claw, but the Japanese army blocked the cellar entrance with lit sorghum straw and burned them alive.Then, the Japanese army set fire to the house, and the farmer Wang Diansi carried his mother who was burned by the fire and fled. Before running far, he was shot to death by the Japanese army, and both mother and mother fell into a pool of blood; , was dragged to the street by the Japanese army and set on fire. The old man screamed, but the Japanese army stood aside and laughed wildly.In less than a day, Gucheng Village was turned into ruins, ruined walls and bloodstained. 62 people were killed in the whole village, including one family.When the fleeing crowd crossed the Zha River, dozens of them were caught by the Japanese army and forced to strip naked and jump into the river with bayonets. Anyone who did not jump would be stabbed with a bayonet.Except for a few people who narrowly escaped death, most people died tragically in the water, but the Japanese army laughed wildly on the shore.

After the Japanese army entered Daling Village, they committed all kinds of evil.The mouth of Liu Zhixian's mother and the breasts of Wang Fude's mother were cut off, and 27 people including Jiang Zhimin's father and grandmother were shot dead.Among the refugees hiding in the Guanyin Temple in the west of the village, except for two who escaped, 45 were killed by Japanese machine guns.More than 300 houses in the whole village were burned down, and four households including Jiang Zhimao, Zhao Hongyi, Jiang Zhishun and Zhang Shouxin were killed. At the same time, the Japanese army continued to send planes to bomb the city indiscriminately, especially in the two or three days before the city wall was abandoned, the bombing and strafing increased day by day.A bomb exploded at the entrance of the air-raid shelter of Wang Zhenyi's grocery store in the south of Beidajie Road in the city. More than 30 men, women and children who took refuge in the cave were killed or suffocated.Yu Mingyi's family in Yanjiaxiang, except himself who escaped, all the others were killed.Yu himself hanged himself that night due to excessive worry and anger.The father of Li Runsheng, who was in a grocery store in Nankai on Ximenli Road, was killed in the bombing at his home.The people who took refuge in Ximenli Catholic Church were killed and injured more than 300 people. The nun, Miss You, was torn apart and stuck to the wall.

After the Japanese army entered the city, they set up guard posts in the streets and alleys, mounted machine guns, searched every house, blocked the doors and intercepted them.Every time the Japanese army came to a house, they stabbed everyone with a bayonet. They raped and then killed young and middle-aged women, even the elderly and children.Residents who hadn't escaped in time jumped over the wall and sought refuge in the direction of Ximenli Catholic Church.However, the German priest closed the door tightly, and there was no answer, and the desperate refugees gathered 700 people in an instant.At this time, the frenzied Japanese soldiers shot at the refugees from the west of the church, and blocked them with machine guns at all intersections east of the church.This was the first massacre, and no one was known to have escaped.Afterwards, it took several days to clean up the dead body.

On the day when the Japanese army entered the city, they found people taking refuge in the three air-raid shelters in the northwest of the city and at the base of the west city wall. They first fired with machine guns and then stabbed them with bayonets. More than 480 people were all killed.Survivor Ning Zhenfang's family of 10 members were stabbed to death by devils with bayonets when they took refuge in a hole in the city wall of Bazi in the northwest.At that time, she was an eight-month-old baby, sucking in her mother's arms, but she was not stabbed. Fortunately, the neighbor, Uncle Lu, found that she was still alive when covering the body afterwards, so she was rescued and adopted by Aunt Ningsun. grow up.

The people searched by the Japanese army from various houses were countless victims.A girl from Taigong Lane in Ximenli was gang-raped by the Japanese army and then stabbed to death with a bayonet.A young woman in the lane east of Laoyingfang was gang-raped by the enemy and died after being maimed.The Japanese army seized more than 20 people from an air-raid shelter in the courtyard of a grocery store in Nanmenli, and stabbed them to death with bayonets on the spot.A child in Cuijia Lane had a rash, and a red cloth was hung at the door. The Japanese soldier "infected the disease" and burned the child to death.When the Japanese army searched Dongyang’s home in the Town God’s Temple, women jumped into the well to commit suicide one after another. In an instant, dead bodies filled the well shaft.The air-raid shelter at Hu Tuying’s house on Chapeng Street was relatively large and there were many Tibetans. The Japanese army blocked the door and fired machine guns and threw grenades into the cave. Countless people died.When the Japanese army left, they still wrote on the gate of Hu's house: "There are many dead bodies in this hospital."An old lady in Luxi, Beimenli, over 70 years old, was sick for several months, and her life was dying. Seven members of her family surrounded the hospital bed. Before she could escape, the Japanese army stabbed all the men to death after entering the hospital, and the woman was forced to carry the patient on her back to jump together. well.All residents in the city who were discovered by the Japanese army were brutally murdered.Once, the Japanese army drove more than 30 people to clean Beida Temple (now Dongfeng Pharmaceutical Factory).

There are very few survivors in the whole city. Some have been hiding in the cellar for many days, struggling to survive; The wounded of the 40th Army were transferred outside the hospital overnight. Most of the seriously wounded died in the wheat fields near the hospital, and their corpses were exposed in the wilderness, and no one dared to collect them.The vicious Japanese invaders, after more than ten days of frenzied massacres in the west of the city, felt that it was not enough, and set up two killing fields next to the Huoshen Temple and west of Nanmenli Road, killing innocent people with military dogs and bayonets for fun.Wang Xuewu's father was chopped into three pieces by the Japanese army; Xu Tingxiang's father, Lu Baolu and others were killed by military dogs.More than 2,840 people were killed in the city, including the killings along the way, a total of more than 3,000 people.

While carrying out the bloody massacre, the Japanese army also set fire to the city.From the west of Huoshen Temple, the east of Yujufu Street in front of Sengwang Temple, the south of Xiyan Pool, and the north to Shibeifang, Yangjia Lane and Liu's House, the fire lasted for six or seven days, and the entire southwest corner of the city was reduced to ashes.In front of the Nanguan Laomu Temple, inside and outside the pavilion, all the houses were burned down.As for the loss of other property, it is even more impossible to count. The people of Linyi will never forget the heinous crime of the Japanese invaders bloodbathed Linyi!

In 1986, the Party History Collecting Committee of the Shandong Linyi Municipal Party Committee convened an investigation and interview of the survivors of the tragedy and the relatives of the victims. The following is the summary of the symposium on the investigation of the Linyi Massacre: Liu Yuzhi: "Bringing these things makes me tremble with hatred, and I want to cry. My father was 52 years old at the time, and he was killed by a plane bombed by the Japanese devils. His whole body was blown into gravy, and only one The funeral was buried with a fake body. After that, my mother led the three of my sisters to escape. My mother cried all day long because her relatives died and her life was not settled. He was hungry and sick, and died a year later. In the bombing by the devil’s plane, four people were killed in our courtyard alone. There was a Mrs. Tang who was hiding in the cellar and died tragically from the bombing. There was a charcoal seller whose wife was bombed and disappeared. Later, only one leg was ripped out in the yard. There was a little girl whose brain was blown to pieces after her first birthday. A strand of hair was stuck together with flesh and blood. to the wall."

Li Shuying: "There is a cellar in the Temple of Fire. When the devils entered the city, many people ran there. While running, a devil caught Madam Zheng and wanted to destroy her. My third father said that 'She was old', and she was stabbed to death by the devil with a bayonet, and Madam Zheng was also stabbed to death after being raped. Two neighbors who ran with my third father were also stabbed to death by the devil." Meng Qingxiang: "Ma Jinyuan who lives behind my house, the devil came, he climbed up the wall of Nantang Hospital, and let the devil stabbed him to death with a bayonet. There was a man named Hou Xiang who was over 50 years old by the gable of my house. He was carrying water on the well platform when he was stabbed to death by a devil with a bayonet. The old man Xu and the old couple ran to the cellar of Zheng’s house in Dongda as soon as they heard the bell of the Catholic Church. A bomb was dropped and both of them were blown up. No more. It was later discovered that a small 'compilation' (that is, a woman's hair bun) was hanging on a nearby tree."

Ning Zhenfang: "My family is in the old barracks Lane of Shuyuan Street in Linyi City. My adoptive mother is named Ning Sun. She often told me that when the devils entered the city in April 1938, 9 of my 10 members were killed. , I was left alone. At that time, I was only 48 days old. After the devils entered the city, they burned and killed, and the poor went to the countryside to flee. I had no relatives in my hometown, and the old man couldn’t run, so the whole family hid Go into a hole in the city wall. After the devil found out, they stabbed everyone in the hole to death with bayonets. My mother was wearing a big padded jacket and was bayoneted three times. Because of my small body, I was breastfeeding in my mother’s arms. I was stabbed. Later, the devil drove the neighbor, Mr. Lu, to bury the body. Hearing that I could still cry, he tore off a piece of my mother’s lapel, wrapped me up, put me in a basket, and carried it to the Catholic Church. I got up. Two or three months later, I was taken away by my adoptive mother who was cooking in the Catholic church and raised as my own daughter. At that time, my head and face were covered with blood, and my adoptive mother washed me clean. My right The eyes were splashed by mother's hot blood at that time, and I still can't see anything." Wang Jiande: "When Japan Electronics entered Linyi City in 1933, I saw with my own eyes that planes dropped bombs, and the devils burned and killed them. It was too cruel. In order to escape, my mother led me, my sister, and the neighbor's old Chang's wife. Two, Lao Shi's family of 15 people, a total of 20 people, hid in the cave at the root of the wall in the north city. When it was dark, they were seen by the devils and shot a shuttle machine gun into the cave. Because the cave is T-shaped, people hiding On both sides, they were not beaten. The devil was yelling outside, and the old man of the old Shi family led the whole family out of the cave because he could speak a few Korean words. Followed the devil to go out about two feet away. Hearing the shouting outside, there was no human voice. After a long time, five members of my family and the old Chang’s family came out together, and saw that the old Shi’s family were all killed by devils.” Li Yuying: "I'm 73 years old now, and I live in Beima Road, Xiguan Shuyuan Street, Linyi City. When the devils entered the city, some of them rushed to my house suddenly and dragged my in-laws and husband out. I was so scared that I hugged my newborn baby." The child got under the bed. I was afraid that the devil would hear the child crying, so I stuffed his mouth with a nipple and hugged him tightly. Unexpectedly, the child was suffocated to death. I lay down under the bed for a whole day One night. The next day, I left my poor child and went to the neighbor’s house to find Mrs. Zheng, and wept bitterly. At that time, like me, she had no relatives and didn’t want to live anymore. So I put him Called to my house, everyone drank a bowl of brine. Maybe it was because the brine was too thin, but it was just uncomfortable for a while, and neither of us died. Afterwards, we found a rope and escaped from the city by falling from the west wall. My uncle and elder brother took me to Gangtou Village, my natal family." Sun Jianzhi: "I am 53 years old, and I live in Shuyuan Street, Linyi City. Whenever I think of the scene of my relatives being murdered by devils, I tremble with anger. When the devils entered the city, many families fled. We had to hide in the hole in the city wall. One afternoon, my mother and I were really thirsty, so we went out to find water together, but the devils found us and followed us to the hole in the city wall. The devil first shot and threw grenades inside. , and then released poison gas. My third uncle was killed on the spot, and my third aunt was broken. My padded jacket was pierced several times by the bullets, but fortunately it didn’t hit the flesh. My uncle, aunt and cousin really insisted We got stuck, so we climbed out together, but we were all stabbed to death by devils. At that time, we thought: rather than asking devils to kill us, it would be better to die ourselves. So, we ran to Dingjiayuan and jumped into the well together. My grandmother and sister I jumped in first, and they all sank; my mother and I jumped later, because the bottom of the well was full of people who jumped into the well, so we didn’t drown. Afterwards, my mother, second sister and I were rescued and hid again. I hid in Xujiayuan's home. There, I didn't dare to show my head during the day, and only came out in the middle of the night to find water to drink, find some leaves and weeds to satisfy my hunger, and my body was skinny. In this way, my mother and I stayed in the cellar for a whole time It took more than 100 days."