Chapter 27 Chapter 26 Panjiayu Massacre (1941.1.25)
On January 25, 1941 (the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month), just before the Spring Festival, the headquarters of the Japanese troops stationed in Tangshan ordered to mobilize 3,000 soldiers from Fengrun, Zunhua, Yutian, Qian'an, Lulong, Luanxian, Tangshan and other places. The Japanese puppet army, under the personal command of Sasaki Gaosang, the commander of the Japanese garrison stationed in Tangshan, carried out a premeditated and planned massacre on Panjiayu, the central area of our anti-Japanese guerrilla base in Fengluan in eastern Hebei. There were 1,230 compatriots, and 1,100 houses were burned down, creating a tragic tragedy.
Panjiayu, Fengrun County, Hebei Province is located at the eastern foot of the Yanshan Mountains belt, 60 miles northeast of the county seat.Panjiayu Village was first built in the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (AD 1404), and it has been multiplied and prosperous for generations.Before the tragedy, there were 220 households and 1,700 people in the village.Surrounded by mountains, with long streams and rivers, the mountains are full of green pines and cypresses, the slopes are full of fruit trees, and the courtyard is full of grapes. It is called "Little Turpan", which is a typical beautiful and rich mountain material in North China.
After the "September 18th" Incident in 1931, Northeast China and Eastern Jidong fell successively, and Panjiayu in Fengrun County was ravaged and trampled by the iron hooves of Japanese invaders.However, the people of Panjiayu did not give in. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, they persisted in the anti-Japanese patriotic struggle and developed into an anti-Japanese guerrilla base relatively early, which is a strong anti-Japanese fortress in eastern Hebei.According to the diary of Pan Hegao, the village clerk at that time: "During the two or three years from the summer of 1938 to the end of 1940, the enemy (Japanese and puppet troops) came and besieged more than 130 times. The guerrillas fought the enemy more than 50 times.” In order to extinguish the flames of the anti-Japanese patriotic struggle in eastern Jidong, the Japanese army established many strongholds around Panjiayu, generally set up Baojia organizations, made “household registers”, issued “good citizen certificates”, and ordered “house numbers” ", the implementation of "five families sitting together", but this was openly resisted by the people of Panjiayu, who burned all the house numbers, household registration books, and "good citizen certificates" sent by the fake police in Wangguanying.The enemy strongholds often asked the village for food, money, and firewood, but Panjiayu refused to hand over a grain of grain, a penny, or a piece of firewood.At that time, when the Japanese and puppets mentioned Panjiayu, they would turn pale and tremble when they mentioned Panjiayu, which aroused the Japanese invaders' extreme hatred for Panjiayu.As a result, the Japanese and puppet troops continued to "sweep" and "clean up" Panjiayu crazily. The people of Panjiayu have always maintained a high level of vigilance. farming.
On the eve of the Spring Festival in 1941, due to the severe winter season, people lived in the mountains and other villages, and their lives became more and more difficult, and the new year was coming soon. People hoped to go back to the village for a reunion year, so everyone was lucky , One after another returned to the village to prepare for the New Year.When they saw no movement from the Japanese army, they mistakenly thought that nothing would happen. They did not listen to the dissuasion of the party organization, and most of the people turned back to their homes.The kind-hearted people of Panjiayu didn't know that the evil Japanese bandits were planning a vicious, bloody massacre.
At dawn on January 25, 1941 (the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month), more than 3,000 Japanese and puppet troops from strongholds such as Tangshan, Fengrun, Luanxian, Qian'an, Lulong, and Zunhua marched from the northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest to Surround Panjiayu tightly.At this time, the villagers of Panjiayu were sleeping.Around seven or eight o'clock in the morning, the Japanese devils burst into the village with their guns loaded and knives unsheathed.They searched and arrested people from door to door. There was a sound of smashing doors, roaring, and cursing. The enemy forced more than 1,400 people who did not escape to the big pit in the west of the village.The devil searched the village three times in a row with a bayonet in hand, and killed the old, weak, sick and disabled on the spot.Seeing that Pan Fengzhu's mother was in her 70s and unable to walk, the Japanese soldiers beat her to death with a stick.Pan Ruide's old mother was hacked into two pieces by the devils, and her intestines spilled all over the place. Pan Zhongyuan's grandfather was over 80 years old, blind and unable to walk. Four Japanese soldiers took him outside the hospital and stabbed the old man with four bayonets.Pan Shudi's grandmother was in her 90s and staggered to the door on crutches. Japanese soldiers stabbed her nine times in the chest and abdomen.A child under two years old was also stabbed to death.
West Dakeng is located in the west of the village. It is about 100 feet long and 30 feet wide. It is less than a person's depth.When the sun rose to the east hillside, the last group of people was driven to the west pit.Machine guns were erected beside the big pit, surrounded by devil soldiers with live ammunition, black gun muzzles and bright bayonets, all facing the crowd of old and young.How tense the atmosphere was at that time, people were close together and behaved unusually calm.In this severe winter of 27 or 8 degrees below zero, the cold can be imagined. Suddenly a child was so cold that he was about to cry. His mother quickly untied her arms and stuffed the nipple into the child's mouth to prevent him from crying in front of the devils. speak up.
At this time, a Japanese army officer in his 40s came to the people.He is full of beards, gold teeth, and a blue tassel sword on his waist. This is Sasaki Takasang who is called "Vulcan ghost" by the people of Jidong.After telling people nonsense about "China-Japan amity", "kingdom and paradise", and "coexistence and common prosperity", he forced them to ask "Where are the Eighth Route Army's things hidden?" But no matter how the enemy asked questions, the people didn't say a word, Sasaki was so beastly, he drew out his sword with a "clang", and his beard stood up, like a wolf.As he walked up and down the ridge around the waterhole, he pressed people for questions, but no one answered, no one spoke.They clearly knew that there was no Eighth Route Army in the village, but it was just an excuse to provoke and massacre.
Seeing that his master could not step down, Ling Yizhong, a veteran and hardcore traitor, shook his head and fawned over him and said, "Taijun calm down, the villain is here to ask." No matter what he asked, people only answered him with snorting, spitting and contemptuous glances.
The enemy selected young girls, daughters-in-law and some men from the besieged crowd in Dakeng to cook for the Japanese soldiers at several houses along the west edge of Dakeng.The rice was cooked, but the brutal police pushed the women into the sweet potato cellar to rape, and the man who cooked was also killed on the field in the west of the village.Afterwards, their bodies were set on fire.
At the same time, the Japanese murderer is arranging a larger killing field.According to Dong Penglin, who served as an on-site interpreter with the Japanese army at that time, he confessed after the war: "Entering Panjiayu Village (referring to after he arrived in Panjiayu with the Japanese army adviser Sasaki Erlang in Fengrun County), and going to Dapaozi (referring to West Dakeng) on the West Street of the village, the villagers They are concentrating here. The consultant saw that the security around here was inconvenient, and asked me to tell the special agent to find another location. After reporting, there is a compound in the south of Kengdong that can accommodate it, so I decided to move there and drive all the villagers to the compound... ".
This compound is the house of the landlord Pan Jialin. It is divided into three courtyards: east, middle and west.The Japanese and puppet troops and secret agents carried straw, thatch, and pine branches from the village into the courtyard, spread a thick layer in the courtyard, and then poured kerosene on it.A wooden ladder was set up outside the south wall of the compound, and Japanese soldiers with live ammunition stood on it, and machine guns were also set up on the mounds and flat roofs.
Around 10 o'clock, the killing field was ready.The devil soldiers beat and kicked people to drive them into Pan's compound.There is a distance of 100 meters from Xidakeng to Bojia compound. There are many swords and guns along the way. Devil soldiers line up one by one in a bayonet alley. The gate of the compound is densely covered with beast soldiers with machine guns and rifles.People pass through the forest of bayonets. Where have children seen such a solemn and terrifying atmosphere!There was a little girl who was terrified, crying and backing away.Sasaki grabbed it one step at a time, and with a "click", the child was cut down.Seeing his beloved child being killed, his grandfather rushed towards Sasaki, and a devil with a bayonet stepped forward and stabbed the old man to death again.People could no longer be silent. More than 1,000 people roared in unison, brandishing their fists and waging life-and-death struggles with the enemy. How could unarmed people resist these heavily armed fascist bandits!Some people were killed on the spot, most were driven into the Pan family compound, and only a few rushed out.When people entered the hospital, they immediately realized what was going on. The one who walked behind was hesitant to enter, so he was stabbed to death by the devil.
After the people were driven into the yard, Sasaki, the Japanese machine gun captain, stood on the stool and yelled, and the translator translated at the side: "All the common people here are all connected, and they all died today...!" Then, the puppet county Chang Yizhong stood on the big rock in the south of the courtyard and said: "The imperial army came today, and it was your own fault, because you have always communicated with the imperial army and opposed the imperial army." After finishing speaking, they filed out of the hospital.With a bang, the gate of the courtyard was closed. People guessed that a catastrophe was imminent, and a commotion began. Three people ran out and were shot to death.More than a dozen young people squeezed out of the crowd and tried to rush out of the gate. Before reaching the gate of the courtyard, they were stabbed to death with bayonets by the Japanese soldiers guarding there.At this time, the crowd was furious, some shouted, some scolded.Immediately, the Japanese army rushed in like a swarm, chopping off people's heads and stabbing them in the chest.A few elderly people stepped forward, in the hope of any eventuality, hoping to call back the humanity that the Japanese army had wiped out, and asked the Japanese army to let the women and children go.The cruel bandits raised their knives and chopped off their heads, blood gushing out from their bodies.The Japanese soldiers outside the second gate of the East Court lit the firewood sprinkled with kerosene, and the villagers took off their cotton clothes to fight the flames.Machine gun and rifle bullets hit like a hailstorm, and unarmed people were engulfed in smoke, fire and bullets.
Pan Futing, the village food and fodder committee member, shouted loudly: "Go and open the door!" As a result, a group of young and middle-aged men rushed to the gate of the courtyard.Seeing them rushing over, the Japanese soldiers guarding the door hurriedly fired with machine guns.Those who were in front fell down, those behind came up and fell down, and came up again.... Pan Guosheng, who was in his fifties, threw off his burning padded jacket and shouted: "Follow me if you don't die, and fight with the dog!" He rushed towards the Japanese army under the rain of bullets, fell wounded, and struggled to get up again. He jumped at the Japanese army, grabbed the machine gun from the Japanese army, and threw it at the Japanese army with all his might.A group of Japanese soldiers rushed forward, and Pan Guosheng died heroically.
The evil deeds of the Japanese army arouse people to fight!Only fight!
Pan Shumi's mother was over 50 years old, and a group of women rushed to the east courtyard under the rattan shelf, saw a grenade rolling down, she suddenly pushed away the women beside her, grabbed the smoking grenade and threw it at the Japanese army.
Pan Ruiling's wife and a group of women were forced into the gatehouse of the middle courtyard. Seeing the Japanese soldiers lighting firewood, they set up windows and rushed out. The people in front were assassinated by the Japanese soldiers as soon as they stepped over the window sill.The people behind picked up the ignited sorghum stalks and continued to rush out the window, scaring the Japanese soldiers in the courtyard to dodge.Some of them climbed over the courtyard wall and ran into the east courtyard.
People rushed here and there, looking for a way out.
More than a dozen people including Pan Guokui rushed to the East Courtyard, braved the dense bullets, dismantled the brick-built north gate of the East Courtyard, rushed out of the compound, and just stepped into the threshold of the opposite house, the Japanese army with bayonets chased them over. People hurriedly closed the door, the Japanese army's bayonet pierced through the iron door, and the bayonet could not be pulled out for a while, and these few people escaped.The iron gate pierced by the Japanese bayonet is still there.
About 30 people, including Pan Futing and Mrs. Pan, crowded into the granary in the east courtyard.People used grain jars and other heavy objects to support the door of the house, picked up axes, rakes, scales, and weighing mounds, and prepared to fight the Japanese army to the death.Fortunately, this house is not connected to other houses. The house has a mud roof and the windows are sealed with adobe. The Japanese army set fire to the house, but this house survived.After the Japanese and puppet troops withdrew from Panjiayu, the people inside the house were rescued by villagers from neighboring villages.
There was a ten-year-old boy who rushed to the west courtyard and was dragged to the top of the pigsty fence by the adults. When he saw the fire engulfing his relatives, he jumped and scolded the Japanese soldiers.Although he escaped from the compound by chance, he was caught and killed by the Japanese army when it was getting dark.
To avoid bullets, more than 50 villagers squeezed into the barn.The fire burned down the barn, and the people were buried under it, all dead.
There were more than 200 people in the lane between the firewood houses in the west courtyard, all of whom were shot dead by the Japanese army.Due to the narrowness of the land and dense population, most of them still stand there after death.
In order to exterminate the people of Panjiayu, the Japanese army took turns to shoot, hack, and set fire to them, and then searched for the undead from the pile of corpses. 88-year-old Pan Chunyuan, 63-year-old Pan Liushi, and 33-year-old Pan Zhangshi were killed by Japanese soldiers with guns when they were dying.The Japanese army found that no one was dead in the pile of human corpses at the root of the east wall, so they threw grenades into the pile of human corpses, causing the corpses to fly all over the place.When the Japanese army evacuated the house, they sprinkled kerosene all over the house and fired sulfur bombs, causing the fire to rise into the air.Some people did not die under the pile of corpses, and the Japanese army did not find them when they searched. At this time, because they could not bear the burning of their bodies, they hurriedly crawled out from under the corpses and jumped into a well more than five feet deep in the courtyard.
After the Japanese army left the compound, they searched outside the compound and inside and outside the village.When it was getting dark, another 32 people were found from the south slope outside the village.Most of them were children and women, and the Japanese army forced them to go to Pan's compound.Walking to the South Cliff, facing the fire in the courtyard, people would rather die than move forward. The Japanese army killed them on the South Cliff, and then used bayonets to pick the corpses off the cliff, covered them with pine branches and hay, Sprinkle kerosene and set fire to the body.At the end of the 32 corpses under the cliff, only a pile of charcoal bones remained.The blood stains seeping into the cliff wall are still visible even after more than ten years.
After the massacre, the Japanese army looted and set fire to houses in Panjiayu Village.The whole village was on fire, with tongues of fire flying in the thick smoke, and the smell of gunpowder and blood permeated the entire mountain and river.The beautiful and rich mountain village suddenly turned into scorched earth.
In this bloody massacre, 1,230 civilians in Panjiayu were brutally killed.Only 276 people (including the injured) escaped after being circled and killed.The Japanese army created the Panjiayu tragedy, but wanted to cover up this atrocity.According to the confession of Ling Yizhong, the pseudo-Fengrun county magistrate: "The Japanese army does not allow this matter to be spread to the outside world, and they are prepared to deny it." .However, no one can cover up history.
Not long after the tragedy, Comrade Lei Ye, a front-line reporter of the General Administration of the Eighth Route Army and a special correspondent of Jinchaji Daily, accompanied local government leaders Ding Zhenjun, Fu Shangjin, Wu Yushan and other comrades to Panjiayu to condolences to the villagers who were killed and injured in the tragedy. On the afternoon of January 31, they entered the scene of the Panjiayu massacre.Comrade Lei Ye took many photos at the scene of the massacre, and wrote a newsletter report on "The Panjiayu Massacre in Eastern Hebei" under the pseudonym Zhu Jing, which was published in the "Jinchaji Daily" on April 9, 1942.Comrade Lei Ye died heroically in 1943.Decades later, another unpublished posthumous manuscript titled "Inspection of the Tragedy Scene" was found in his historical archives, which recorded the real tragic scene of the massacre he witnessed.The excerpt is as follows:
After climbing over a mountain ridge, we can see the mountain village surrounded by mountains.
Walking into the village, there are three big characters "Panjiayu" painted on the white powder wall that attracts people's attention.Two rectangular pine boards were nailed to the big tree beside the road, which read "Complete Extermination of the Communist Party" and "Pro-Japanese Peace".
In front of our eyes are all collapsed houses, broken walls, rubble, grass ash, and coke. Looking into the village, we can't see the chimney, let alone the smoke from the kitchen. Only a few white walls are dazzling, and we can't see the blackness of the past. Tile and thatched cottage too.
Looking as far as the eye can see on the hillside and wild land: I can't see the old flocks and children collecting firewood, and there is no one who has gone to the field.
Walking down the high slope of Zhuangtou, crossing the stone bridge of Zhuangtou to the bottom of the rock, there is a small cave no more than two feet wide and three feet deep, filled with green pine branches, and outside the cave there are scattered jade stalks still burning. All mixed in.
Taking away the pine branches, I was surprised to see four charred female corpses.
Next to the stone bridge is Hui Lin's family, Mr. Hui's compound. The cement door and wall are very strong. Once you enter the courtyard, there are human corpses in front of you, and the foul smell rushes towards you.
What was particularly shocking and caught my attention was a female corpse on the stone trough on the right side of the house gate. She was naked, half of her head was blown to bloody brain, her right hand rested on the edge of the trough, her left hand stretched upwards, and her back was against the brick wall. According to the person who came to identify the body, this is a pregnant woman in Pan Zhengdong's family.If her belly hadn't been burned and burst, it must have been cut open by a ghost with a bayonet. The gray intestines were turned over, and the two-month-old fetus was lying on the mother's intestines with its head in its two small hands.
The enemy is using this compound as a burning ground.When I came to inspect, there were many horrific scenes that I could not see. Today I may only see four or five tenths of them.Li, a young man who came to identify the body, told me: "I came to identify my brother-in-law's body on the second day after the killing and burning. This big yard is covered with dead bodies. The big yard is full and the flames are still burning. The person who identified the corpse carried water and splashed it for a long time, and the human flesh made a creaking sound when the water splashed down, and it smelled like scorching..." After the flames were extinguished, the slightly recognizable corpse had been carried away for burial. Four or five, but there are already human corpses everywhere, which shows how many and tragic deaths the villagers suffered at that time.
What makes me most indignant is the tragic death of old people, women, and children.The corpses of these weak people are also everywhere. In the courtyard alone, there are not one or two small corpses of the children, nor are there hundreds of them. It is difficult to count the corpses of the children clearly in the corpse yard. Those crooked little black hands, scorched fuzzy little heads, coke-like calves, and little padded shoes that frighten people can be seen almost everywhere in the courtyard.
These many dead children have been concentrated, and no one has come to claim them. All of them are naked and small. After spring snow, severe frost, and splashing of water, their small bodies condense into stiff coke shapes. It is not lying straight like when dying of illness, but bent, curled up, fallen down, scorched, broken, foul smelling... Judging from this tragic state: being thrown into the brimstone fire, being crushed in the fire Underneath, the children who were trampled by the throwing and trampling struggled and were tormented. His belly burst...and he died in excruciating pain.
On the body of the half-charred child, wounds from the 38-style bayonet and blood stains can still be found. The injured child first suffered the pain of being killed, and then was burned by the fire in the pain.We can't bear to imagine such pain. Our children, the children of the Chinese nation, were cruelly destroyed by the devils in the unbearable pain.
Take another look at the corpses in the compound!Many of them could no longer tell whether they were male or female. Among the fragmented limbs, some still had a leg and a small foot left.
The mother who died tragically was still holding the corpse of the breastfeeding baby. The mother always wanted to save the poor little life and shielded the child with her own body. When the mother died, the lamb-like baby also died in the bloody hands of the devil...
As we stood, in the collapsed and empty house, we seemed to hear someone wailing and screaming!Looking around, in the setting sun, only foul black smoke can be seen.
We emerged from the black smoke and rubble, and a white-haired Panjiayu grandmother stood in the setting sun and wailed to the corpse:
"Where's my nephew! Where's my niu-niu! — People don't look like people, bones don't look like bones..."
Pan Futing, a survivor of the Panjiayu massacre, wrote a "Memoir" on April 22, 1965, which described the actual situation of the Japanese army's brutal massacre in Panjiayu and his narrow escape.The excerpts are as follows.
On January 25, 1941 in the Gregorian calendar, the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Japanese devils surrounded the entire Zhuangzi at dawn, and only those who went to the market on Shangshui Road left part of it.Pan Guangshun was the first to discover the Japanese devils. He said, "Run!" We ran home after hearing this.
At 8 o'clock, the Japanese devils closed the village from far to near, searched from house to house, and drove men and women into the big pit at Miaotou.The ice and snow in the pit were more than two inches thick. At first I stood on the north side of the pit with my daughter in my arms, and let the child block me, because I was afraid that the office workers (traitors) would recognize it, so I dared not look up.There were huge crowds of people in the big pit, crying and making noise, and it was a mess.At this time, the interpreter said: "All the old and young in your village are in touch with the 'bandits'. Hurry up and hand over the Eighth Route Army, or everything..." At that time, no one made a sound.Seventy or eighty people from the Japanese police force were required to cook. After the people who had been dragged out left, the interpreter asked another six women from the pit, saying that they were cooking for the Taijun...If no one went, the spies would forcefully pull them.I thought to myself that it is not a good thing to drag women to Pan Hegao's yard to cook.After a while, the devils drove the cooks back to thirty or forty people.I saw that machine guns were set up around the big pit, and the Japanese showed their foreign knives.
At this time, the Japanese devils went to the compound (Pan Huilin compound) to carry firewood (corn stalks, pine branches) for an hour, at 11:30.The translator said to the masses: "You guys have finished watching this play!" He said, "Your village is related to the Eighth Route Army, and all of them should go to Huilin Compound!"
When I went to the gate, I saw that the Japanese on both sides of the street had already made up their mouths and drove everyone to the courtyard.I remember Wanxiu's mother wanted to run home, but was arrested.We arrived at the compound.Seeing that something was wrong, the pile of firewood was full, and the people at the door refused to enter, so the Japanese chased them away with bayonets.The firewood in the yard has been laid two feet high.The courtyard was full of firewood in front of and behind the two gates and in the house, and there were ghosts standing on the walls around the courtyard, and then the devils drove people to the west courtyard of the courtyard.
When all the people entered the courtyard, the Japanese in the head sprinkled gasoline, and the Japanese in the back lit the fire.Outside the second gate of the east courtyard, which was ordered first, flames burst into the sky.I was rushed to the room on the first floor, and seeing the fire, I yelled to take off my clothes and put out the fire.At this time, the house also caught fire, and I jumped out of the window with my youngest son.The flames are two feet high, I yell to open the door!As soon as people opened the door, the devil had already made it!can't run.The fire was two feet away, and everyone had no choice but to run inside the house.
I saw a sea of flames, and the elders were so burned that they stretched out their hands and circled under the flames.I ran to the east courtyard and saw that it was full of people, and the people on the second gate were all piled up.Pan Guozhong and Pan Guoqing yelled: "Old men, let's go!" I yelled: "Cross! Go west!"
At this time, the machine gun rang out, and how many people died under the ridge of the pigsty!Pan Guosheng rushed to the enemy's machine gun, but was stabbed to death by the devil.Pan Guoqing and I ran out of the room, and the machine guns on the second door were aimed at us. My youngest son also ran out, but he was injured in 8 places, his hands were beaten in half, and the cotton-padded clothes were covered with blood.
As the sun went down, the Japanese devils searched again, and if anyone was still alive, they stabbed them to death with bayonets.Pan Fengge's wife was covered in fire and got into the carrot cellar.Grenades rang out in the yard one by one.Pan Yuanhe, Qian Guoyong, and Pan Shubang were covered in blood.At this time, the tile-roofed houses were all on fire, and the house collapsed.
Suddenly they heard the Japanese blowing whistles, and they probably assembled and left.After a while, I heard that the people who went to the market outside came back, and they said that the enemy had left, so run for your life if you are not dead!At this time, Pan Ruilai and Pan Guangyou were talking outside the wall, and I asked Ruilai to open the back door.So Pan Guohe's family, Pan Guoguo's family, Pan Shuping's daughter, and Guo Mingzhi's woman...these people all came out, there were more than a dozen of them.Some have been crying bitterly, calling mother and father, looking for relatives.There are dead people inside and outside the door, where can I find them?Next to the dung pile outside, a child was cut in half.
I said, let the living people go!When I got home, it was all on fire.I went to the old hospital again and saw my brother's leg was broken. I asked my mother where?He said if he saw it.I went back to the burning people compound and saw a woman running back home alive.When I came back and entered the small garden at the second gate, I heard the woman Pan Shusheng shout: "Help me!" I saw that my stomach was in two halves, and my intestines flowed out. Soon Shusheng also arrived. The couple were very sad. Let the children live! I can't survive!" After saying a few words, he raised his head and died.At the corner gate, I call out to the family and the living!At this time, my youngest son whispered: "Dad, I am here!" He was pressed down by the dead man, and I dragged him home.
I couldn't bear to watch the dead people leave me alone, so I endured fatigue and went to find the living among the dead.At this time, more than 100 people from the Mazhuang household came to rescue us, and Comrade Zhao Shangjin also came, saying that those who were injured would go to the Zhuanghu to recuperate.I went to the courtyard and searched for a long time, trying to find a living person.The dead crush the dead, and there is no way to tell the number.There was a woman outside the second gate, she saw that her stomach was in two halves, and all the dead in the west courtyard died standing upright.It is 8 feet wide from the pigsty to the south wall. Some were burned, beaten to death, and killed, all dead.I went to the small sheep pen in the backyard again, and a woman didn't know whether she was dead or alive, holding the child tightly in her hands, and the child was still in her mother's arms with her scorched hands.I yelled a few times, but the woman was silent, and touched her with her hand, she was dead.It was very sad to see it.
The whole village was in flames, and houses collapsed.Our folks with a radius of 80 miles have not had a good year, relatives and friends, who is not thinking about their relatives?The superiors Gao Jingzhi, Lei Ye, Zhao Shangjin, and Gao Yufeng came, and they wept in unison for our material disaster. Zhao Yongxiang, who had sent letters to our village many times, came to our village immediately after the incident, and wept bitterly when he saw this tragic situation.Comrade Lei Ye took a photo.
Everyone still identified the corpse in twos and threes, calling out the names of their relatives over and over again in the pile of dead people with tears in their eyes, for fear of losing a living person.People were burned to death, and the burnt corpses were hard to identify. Relatives could only recognize their heads, legs, and feet, and they could only recognize relatives from some limbs, and some even no one dared to recognize them.My brother, who had burned his leg and left the bones exposed, is alive and in a state of horror beyond description.The worst thing was the twin women who died under the stone trough. Their abdomens burst and their fetuses flowed out of their bodies. These unborn children died together with their mothers...
The body was buried with the help of people from Waizhuang. Everyone dug three big ditches with all their strength and put the body in it.Gao Yulai went to Hejiaying, Shangshuilu, and Shijiaying to mobilize and take out 1,700 pieces of pit mats to wrap the corpses. The government conducted an investigation based on the corpses. There were 473 people left alive in the village, and 1,230 people died (including died here).The injured were sent to the Eighth Route Army's rear hospital for treatment.
After more than 40 years, reading these two bloody articles still makes our hearts tremble strongly, and we will never forget the bloody hatred.
The Japanese bloodbath of Panjiayu was premeditated, organized, and commanded.According to the confession of the criminal, the magistrate of the pseudo-Fengrun County, Ling Yizhong (and the captain of the garrison, and the chairman of the Xinmin Association), and it was confirmed from the translation of the pseudo-Fengrun County government and the confession of Tian Baowen, a participant in the tragedy: On the afternoon of January 24 (the 27th day of the twelfth lunar month) under the order of the Japanese military headquarters in Tangshan to "sweep" Panjiayu, relevant Japanese and puppet personnel in Fengrun County were convened to deploy a plan to encircle and suppress Panjiayu.
The meeting was held in the office of the false county magistrate Ling Yizhong.
Japanese adviser Sasaki Jiro told the participants the purpose, mission and military order requirements of sweeping Panjiayu.
According to Dong Penglin’s confession in his testimony, translated by the cooperative: “…Sasaki (referring to Sasaki Erlang) was proud of him and said: ‘This crusade was an order given to me by the advisor of Tangshan Road. This is a joint crusade by the three counties (Feng, Yu, and Zun). County I am the commander in chief.'”
According to the confession of Tang Peng, the deputy head of the Qian’an County Puppet Police Corps, who participated in the tragedy, “Participating in the Panjiayu Massacre were also the Japanese and puppet troops stationed in Luan County and Qian’an County.” According to Ling Yizhong, the pseudo-county magistrate of Fengrun County, “ The Japanese and puppet troops stationed in Tangshan also participated in the Panjiayu massacre, and some Japanese and puppet personnel in Fengrun County passed through Panjiayu in Tangshan Japanese army vehicles."
The above testimonies confirm that apart from Fengrun, Yutian, and Zunhua counties, Japanese and puppet troops stationed in Tangshan, Luan, and Qian'an counties participated in the Panjiayu massacre.Such a large-scale operation was obviously conspired and planned by the high-level command organization.According to Tian Baowen, a pseudo-Fengrun County Office translator who participated in the incident, confessed: "After the tragedy happened, the county magistrate reported the situation to Dao Yin and the provincial government and asked for handling. Jiro Sasaki also wrote a report and reported it to the North China Japanese Military-Judicial Liaison Department. "
This massacre was not an accident of "temporary motion".According to the confession of the criminal Ling Yizhong: At the pre-planning meeting, the consultant Jiro Sasaki first conveyed the order of the Japanese military headquarters in Tangshan.He said: "... This time I went to Panjiayu. One is to attack the Eighth Route Army, and the other is to punish ordinary people." "The Japanese army is about to go to Panjiayu to encircle and suppress. Your garrison must be equipped with sufficient troops for deployment. At the same time , the military department has ordered Zunhua, Yutian and other counties to also prepare considerable troops, and they can start at the same time. Panjiayu must be surrounded in groups to prevent any of them from escaping. If anyone escapes, they are allowed to shoot and kill them immediately. And Warn them, no one should leak this military information, and anyone who leaks this information will be punished with beheading."
Here is an excerpt of Ling Yizhong’s personal confession on November 17, 1958:
At the end of December of the lunar calendar (that is, the beginning of spring of 1941), Jiro Sasaki, the Japanese adviser to the puppet county office, informed that Japan would go out to crusade in the near future, and ordered our garrison to deploy troops and set off with them.Ask me to call a meeting and get ready to set up quickly.I immediately dispatched my clerk Xiong Sheng (i.e. Xiong Baoyan) to notify the deputy head of the police brigade, Li Jigui, and the director of the police station, Wang Guozhi, to come to Shulai County immediately for a meeting.The meeting was held in the county magistrate's office, and the meeting was attended by Japanese consultant Sasaki, translator Tian Baowen, deputy captain of the police force Li Jigui, director of the police station Wang Zhizhi, chief of the police department He Xiaopeng, chief of the special affairs department Li Liansheng, and translator Dong Penglin of the cooperative. , as well as Tanaka, the Japanese instructor of the county office, Toyama, a Japanese from the Xinminhui, the captain of the Japanese Gendarmerie, and Lu Xintai, the secretary of the county office.At the beginning of the meeting, Sasaki spoke first, conveying the order of the Japanese military department.He said: "The Panjiayu village must be surrounded so that none of them can escape. If anyone escapes, they are allowed to shoot and kill them immediately.... Then I spoke and said that we fully accept the orders of the Japanese military department. Ask Li Jigui, do you think we can get ready today? It is better to prepare more than to use it, and not to be short of distribution. Li said: This can be followed. I told Li, then you are completely responsible for the strength of the troops. , make proper arrangements as soon as possible so that the Japanese army can be dispatched at any time.... The adviser Sasaki asked me, can you go with the team when we set off? According to the summer system, everyone should go with the army, except that Secretary Lu Xintai stays in the city to work. Everyone at the meeting agreed. At the end of the meeting, I said to the consultant Sasaki that we can finish the preparations today, and we can do it at any time. If you can wait for the transfer, you can reply to your commander. We must abide by the military order and help complete this task. At six or seven o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the Japanese military issued an order to set off immediately. Our troops were led by Captain Li. There are about 200 people including the police station. I asked a fake team member when we started, we only have three big trucks, and I’m afraid we won’t be able to squeeze them together. He said that people from Tangshan also came here to gather, and we can share some of them in their trucks. Go up, and you can deal with it. I sat in a big yellow truck with consultant Sasaki and translator Tian Baowen. At the end, I sat next to the driver in the front compartment of the truck, and the consultant and Tian Baowen leaned against the compartment on top of the truck. We sat side by side. We zigzagged towards the northwest, walked for about two hours, stopped at a stronghold, rested for a while, and then moved forward. In the middle of the night, we walked to a place four or five miles away from the village of Panjiayu. Seeing a few private houses, we stopped the car and took a rest here, drank some tea, and then walked forward. When we arrived at Panjiayu Village, teams from all sides had already surrounded the village. Most of the The residents have been gathered, and they dare not move. If they make any movement, they will stab them in the waist with the bayonet on the gun. At the same time, they are searching the houses of the residents. When this kind of work is completed, it is almost noon Well, there was a Japanese commander named Sasaki (Takasang Sasaki—Editor) who spoke to the people. He said: You should be very clear about today’s events. You have always been enemies of the Japanese, so today’s crusade You must all be killed, and you will never be forgiven.” Then I walked to the south entrance of the yard, and saw machine guns on the walls around the yard and on the roofs of the houses, and a lot of gasoline was prepared, and the ground was paved with Weeds and firewood, this is obviously the slaughter field prepared by the Japanese army.I stood on a big rock and said to the people in a very simple and cruel way: "What happened today is caused by what you have done in the past. It is your own fault. You can't blame me." Not long after I finished speaking, I heard There was a gunshot in the northeast corner, and the adviser Sasaki said: The commander has not ordered the massacre, we can leave first, and then returned to the city by the original car.At this time, it was getting dark, and then Li Jigui came back and reported that more than 1,000 people were massacred by shooting and burning. The village has been sealed off. It is strictly forbidden to disclose this massacre (case), and the family members of the victims are not (allowed) to enter the village for funeral affairs. .
After the tragedy, Ding Zhenjun and other local party and government leaders came to Panjiayu, and soon, the commanders and fighters of the 12th regiment of the Eighth Route Army also came from afar.A lot of medicines, food, clothes and other relief materials were brought in.潘家峪幸存活命的人，大多住到邻村的亲戚和朋友家里，受伤的乡亲被安置到邻近的马庄户村。派去的医生，到马庄户村给他们换药治疗。地方和军队领导同志逐村挨户地进行慰问，看望潘家峪惨案中遇难的乡亲，倾听他们的控诉和复仇的呼声。
2月5日，民主政府发动邻村的百多个乡亲去清理尸首，由丰滦迁联合县政府主持公葬。从潘家大院扒出的尸体已无法辨别姓名年龄，只能在辨认出的男尸身上写上“男”字，女尸身上写个“女”字，童尸身上写个“童”字。其中有的男女也无法辨认，只能把那些尸骨集中起来，然后，以炕席为棺木，一领席里包一个到两个尸体，包了128个席包。
公葬是在初春的寒夜里举行的。大风在怒吼，苍天在哭诉，送葬的队伍从街里走上山麓，把尸体安放在松柏长青的南山脚下。没有唱一支挽歌，也没有鲜花、供果、清酒做祭品，只有悲愤的长风，沸腾的热血，血债必须用血来偿还，幸存的潘家峪人民庄严宣誓；“一定向敌人讨还血债，为死难者报仇！”
1941年农历三月初，潘树平、潘树成、潘树堂、刘贺、潘树太、潘景龙等7名青年带头成立了复仇青年小队。后来，潘家峪村和邻村青年纷纷参加，队伍很快发展到120多人。五月初五，李运昌、周文彬、刘诚光、高敬之同志到潘家峪，并在火石营村召开军民大会。会上，军分区政治部主任刘诚光宣布“潘家峪复仇团”成立。第一任连长是潘化民，脱产随十二团活动。1942年8月，复仇团编入了正规部队——冀东军分区十二团（为该团二连）。这支复仇的队伍，始终活跃在冀东大地，开展游击战，配合八路军主力作战，在丰润、滦县、迁安一带不断给日军以沉重打击。从复仇团成立到抗战胜利，四年多的时间里，同日伪军进行大小战斗150多次，歼俘日伪军1021人，杀人魔王佐佐木高桑于1942年7月16日终于在甘河槽战斗中被击毙，实现了为乡亲们复仇和争取民族解放的誓愿。
为了缅怀和纪念死难的潘家峪同胞，不忘他们爱国抗日的革命精神，丰润县人民从1952年开始，先后重修了四座坟墓，立墓碑四座，立纪念塔一尊，纪念碑一个。后来又建祠堂、纪念馆各一座。人们还编写了一首叙述潘家峪惨案的深沉而又悲愤的歌曲，在潘家峪广为传唱。苍海可以变为桑田，用血谱写的历史却永远不能忘记！
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