Chapter 22 Chapter 21 The Tragedy of the King of Han (1938.5.20)

In May 1938, the Ninth Division of Ji Zhu Liangfu, the Central China Dispatch Army of the Japanese invaders, attacked Xiao County. On May 17, Xiao County fell.In order to open the passage between Xiao County and Xuzhou, this Japanese army rushed towards Xuzhou aggressively. On May 19, Tuzhou fell.The Japanese army carried out cruel "sweeping" along the way, killing my compatriots, burning my houses, raping women, committing numerous crimes, and creating the tragic "Hanwang tragedy". Hanwang is located in a mountainous area about 25 miles southwest of Xuzhou, surrounded by more than a dozen natural villages such as Nanwang, Beiwang, Hazhenwo, Hangou, Luogang, and Yanglin.

On May 20, after the Japanese army broke into the clam needle nest, they set fire to the house, killed people, and looted.Suddenly, the whole village was filled with smoke and screams.In less than an hour, more than 200 houses in the whole village were burned down, and 68 people were killed. The 69-year-old Zhang Jinzhong, who was deaf, blind, and lame, hid in the potato cellar. He pulled him out and fell to the ground. A big knife cut off his ten fingers. Zhang Jinzhong passed out from the pain, while the Japanese soldiers laughed loudly.Afterwards, the group of inhumane Japanese soldiers woke up Zhang Jinzhong with cold water, hung him on a big locust tree, and cut off his body piece by piece with a knife.In this way, old man Zhang Jinzhong was tortured to death.Zhang Yuliu, an emaciated farmer, saw his only two thatched huts being set on fire. His heart felt like a knife was being twisted. He tried his best to put out the fire with a broom. 52-year-old Zhang Jiu was found by the Japanese army on the way to escape from the village with his two disabled sons.The brutal Japanese army did not stop there, and hung three bloody heads on the tree for public display.Zhu Rang, an old farmer, was preparing to flee with his belongings on a dirt cart. Before he was discharged from the hospital, a Japanese soldier named Lu Sheng found him and forced him to "lead the way." Not far from the village, the devils tied him to the dirt truck and doused him with gasoline. The people and the car were burned together, and the poor Zhu Rang struggled in the flames until he lost his breath.

This group of Japanese soldiers left Hazhen Nest and broke into Hangou Village.As soon as we arrived at the west end of the village, we met a group of people fleeing from other places, about 120 of them. Like a pack of wolves, the Japanese army immediately set up machine guns and fired wildly at the crowd. All the unarmed refugees fell under the dense bullets, and no one was spared. to die.The elderly and children in the village who hadn't run away were bloody massacred.Two miles east of Zhuang, there is a natural ditch formed by the impact of mountains and rivers. The big ditch runs north-south, about 30 meters wide and 4 meters deep. This is where the name of Hangou Village comes from.At that time, weeds grew in the ditch, and there were wheat fields on both sides. It was a relatively secluded place, so many ordinary people came here to take refuge.Although this place is relatively hidden, it still did not escape the comb-style raid of the Japanese army.When a group of Japanese soldiers found the crowd in the ditch, they immediately surrounded the ditch. They took it as an honor to kill people. Facing the unarmed people, they stabbed those who were near and shot those who were far away.For a moment, the adults were crying for the children, and the children were crying for their parents. The blood stained the withered grass and the stream red, and the corpses were everywhere.

63-year-old Zheng Dayi, a family of 11 members, 10 of them died under the butcher knife of the Japanese army. Only the little granddaughter who was under one year old was thrown and survived; the youngest son Zheng Ying was only 10 years old. Trembling, he covered his stomach with one hand and crawled out of the pile of corpses with the other. Unexpectedly, he was found by a ghost and smashed to death with the butt of a gun.Zheng Dayi's daughter-in-law, Zheng Lushi, was raped by the Japanese army. She resisted fiercely. The Japanese army cut off her breasts, chopped off her arms, and cut her in half with a big knife. ...the cruelty is beyond measure!

43-year-old Zheng Laishan was hiding in a cave in the ditch, and was forcibly dragged out by two Japanese soldiers. Just as the Japanese soldiers stabbed him with bayonets, he stood up abruptly, relying on his extraordinary strength, Filled with anger, he fought against the two devils. He held on to the bayonet tightly. The Japanese army pushed it over, and he pushed it again. His clothes were stained red with blood, and he finally passed out on the ground.The two devils thought that Zheng Laishan was dead, so they left.After a long time, Zheng Laishan slowly regained consciousness. After two months of nursing, he recovered from his injuries and survived.Li Jitang's grandfather, grandmother, and father saw the Japanese soldiers approaching them, and when they tried to run, they were blocked by three Japanese soldiers and stabbed several times. Three relatives died at the same time.Li Jitang, who was only 10 years old, took advantage of the unsuspecting Japanese army and climbed out of the tiger's mouth along the wheat ridge.Poor Li Jitang yelled at the sky and said nothing, and has been an orphan since then.In this way, in just over an hour, 45 of the 48 people in Hangou Village who took refuge in Dongdagou were brutally killed.

At dusk, this group of Japanese soldiers, armed with bloody butcher knives, hurriedly turned around and went straight to the southeast, chasing and intercepting the fleeing crowd.In the end, the people were forced into two ravines, Luogang and Yanglin, surrounded by machine guns, and the Japanese soldiers with live ammunition were all vicious. 45-year-old Li Xiangyun, seeing the Japanese army about to carry out a massacre, rushed out desperately. After running a few steps, the Japanese army broke his left leg. At this time, several Japanese soldiers swarmed up and gouged out his eyes His ears and tongue were cut off, his clothes were stripped, and he was beaten viciously with a leather whip. Li Xiangyun was beaten all over his body, bloody and bloody, and lay dying on the ground. Head, turned around the ravine in a circle, in order to intimidate the masses.The massacre began. Hundreds of Japanese soldiers forced the crowd into two ravines, charged at the crowd with gleaming bayonets, and assassinated one by one from south to north, leaving no adults or children behind.More than a thousand people almost all fell in a pool of blood...

After the Japanese army occupied the villages of Hanwang, they murdered, set fire and looted everywhere, and raped women indiscriminately. The 61-year-old Han Jiang and her 13-year-old granddaughter were ruined by several devils and thrown into a puddle.In the wheat field in the west of Luogang Village, after several Japanese soldiers gang-raped the pregnant woman Dong Zhai, they disemboweled her, pulled out the unborn baby, and beheaded her inhumanely.The four-year-old daughter cried while lying on her mother's body, and was cut in half by the Japanese army. The crime-ridden Japanese army "mopped up" more than a dozen villages in the Hanwang area for a whole day, killed more than 2,000 compatriots, bullied as many as 80 women, burned more than 3,300 houses, and robbed property Countless.Under the trampling of the Japanese army's iron hooves, the people of King Han suffered looting unprecedented in history.

The wild fire is endless, the spring breeze is blowing again, the people of Hanwang have not been wiped out, and the revolutionary fire sown by the Chinese Communist Party in Hanwang has not been extinguished. The revolutionaries represented by Zhang Daoping, full of national hatred, devoted themselves to the Chinese Communist Party The anti-Japanese struggle led by him severely hit the Japanese invaders and contributed to the final victory of the Anti-Japanese War in northern Jiangsu. On January 6, 1972, the survivors of the Hanwang massacre held a symposium, and described the scene they witnessed the brutal massacre of Chinese civilians by the Japanese aggressors:

Zhao Dengshi, a survivor of the Luogang tragedy, said: On May 21, 1938, a group of people who fled to the Hanwang Temple were driven by devils to a ravine in Luogang, where they hung the dead on trees. In a ravine, the Japanese army started killing people on the east side, only 50 meters away from us, and they left from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. At first, the devils stabbed with bayonets, then hacked with knives, and then shot with machine guns. The blood stained the withered grass, In the creek, some devils stabbed a commoner with a bayonet in two or three at the same time, and many people died amidst screams.

At three or four o'clock in the morning, the KMT soldiers ran away when they heard that the devils were coming. The devils surrounded them from the southwest, and the crowd either hid in the temple or in the potato cellar. , probably the entire Hanwang is filled with smoke, screams, and a desolate scene.In one family of 11 members, 10 people were killed, leaving only one child under the age of one, who didn't know that his mother had been stabbed to death, and was lying on his mother's body to suckle.Forty-nine households in Hanwang Temple were killed. Lu Lishi, a survivor who crawled out of the dead at the scene of the Yanglin massacre, recalled: I had four children at that time, the oldest was only eight or nine years old, and I took refuge in the Yanglin ravine. A group of people came, some were riding horses, some were walking, and the dust was flying. Before I could react, I felt that my left arm was pierced, and half of my body was covered in blood. After I woke up, I suddenly thought of him It was gone. I crawled and searched in the pile of dead people, but couldn't find it. The child in my arms was also covered in blood.

I also saw a new baby in my village being cut open from the bottom up by the devils; a pregnant woman was raped by several devils and then had her nipples cut off. It was really inhumane.They also slit the stomachs of pregnant women, picked out babies, and chopped off their heads for fun. Most of these victimized people came from Zhaoshan, Hanwang, Beiwang, Nanwang and other villages. Among the three or four hundred people in Luogang, except one survived, all the rest were killed.