Chapter 28 Chapter Twenty-Seven

On February 18, 1941 (the 23rd day of the first month of the lunar calendar), the Japanese invaders sent heavy troops to besiege the Twelve Forts of Xiashe, Ying County, Shanxi Province, and Xiaoshikou, an important site of the Great Wall, and massacred more than 1,700 Chinese compatriots, creating another massacre in Yanbei. A horrific tragedy. Xiashe, located in the southeast of Ying County, 24 miles away from the county seat, is composed of 12 forts, commonly known as "Twelve Forts".It is 1 li long from east to west and 5 li long from north to south. It is the only place that Datong leads to Hebei and Wutai, and it is one of the important towns in Ying County.There are temples and ancestral halls in Athens, a lot of shops and shops, and a bustling bank name, known as "Little Tianjin".Many foreign businessmen also came to the community to do business.

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Xiashe and Xiaoshikou in Yingxian County were the garrisons of Qiao Richeng's Department of Yan Xishan Army.Qiao Richeng's bandit force is called Anti-Japanese War, but in fact it colludes with Japanese invaders to create friction against our Eighth Route Army and sabotage the War of Resistance.Because Qiao Richeng refused to obey the Japanese army's mobilization and detained the Japanese negotiator, Adviser Dayu, the conflict between Japan and Qiao intensified, so the Japanese army formulated a plan to annex Qiao's bandit army and massacre the common people.

On February 18, more than 3,000 Japanese troops stationed in the Kuroda Division in Datong surrounded the Twelve Forts of Xiashe and Xiaoshikou, an important part of the Great Wall.After the fierce battle between the two sides, Qiao Richeng's troops were defeated, some fled, and some put down their weapons. The bandit leader Qiao Richeng led more than 10 guards and escaped from the northwest fort wall of Xiashexinbao.The local people, foreign merchants and some rout soldiers were all besieged in the village, and the Japanese army began a massacre. In the evening, ghost soldiers swarmed into the Twelve Castles of Xiashe, went door to door, plundered property, raped women, killed people, caught chickens and slaughtered pigs.In the courtyard of Zhao Guangda in Zhaobao, the family of Ren Yangde, a guest of Lingqiu, lived. A ghost rushed into the courtyard and raped Ren Yangde's younger sister. .On the way, the three of them, father and son, were caught and killed by devil soldiers.The ghost soldiers broke into the courtyard of the blacksmith shop in Fengzhaibao, killed all 9 villagers hiding in the courtyard and more than 20 foreign merchants, looted all their belongings, and burned 19 houses in the courtyard.The Fuxing Cloth Store in Fort Lee and the shops in other forts were also robbed.At Kou Yanru's house, a devil yelled to open the door. Kou Yanru opened the door without even putting on his shoes. When he opened the door, the devil stabbed him several times without saying a word, and Kou died on the spot.The devils entered Kou Maoru's house, and killed three members of the family on the spot without distinguishing right from wrong.Kou Hancai's second brother-in-law came to Kou's house to pay New Year's greetings, but was also stabbed seven times by devils, and then pushed into a well alive.Kou Lishi's two daughters and son-in-law came to Qianbao to pay New Year's greetings, but they were also massacred.

There was a villager named Li Changwei in Fort Li. When the devils entered the village, he was hiding at home with his younger brother.After several devils entered the house, they searched Li Changwei and his younger brother from the house, along with seven women.The devils drove the nine of them to a courtyard in Qianbao, locked Li Changwei and his brother first, and then stripped the seven women of their clothes and raped them one by one.Then they escorted the two Li Changwei brothers and the seven trampled women to Qianbao South Garden.At that time, the Nanyuanzi devils were massacring the masses.When Li Changwei heard the sound of killing, he didn't leave.When the devil pulled him, he pulled off his leather jacket. He took the opportunity to escape from the village through several courtyards and braved the devil's bullets. The seven women and Li Changwei's younger brother were all killed.A devil drove two women captured in Qianbao to a courtyard to strip off their clothes and rape them forcibly. The two women got up and fought with the devil and were stabbed to death one by one.There was also a woman who was caught by the devils, stripped naked and hung from a tree to show the public, and then stabbed her body with a bayonet, which was horrible.In Qianbao, a young man surnamed Tian was caught by the devils and asked to lead him into the village for search. He refused to go, and was stabbed 27 times by the devils and survived.

In the early morning of February 19th (the twenty-fourth day of the first lunar month), the devils found that Qiao Richeng had escaped from the siege in Xinbao, so they smashed open the gate of the fort with tanks and entered Xinbao.A large-scale massacre began, and the Twelve Forts of Xiashe and Xiaoshikou, an important site of the Great Wall, fell into a pool of blood. Liu Shanli's uncle, his uncle and his family lived in the front and back yards of Newcastle.After the devils rushed into the front yard, they smashed open the doors of the east and west rooms and killed anyone they saw. Liu Shanli's uncle and several brothers were all killed.At this time, Liu Shanli's family in the backyard was preparing to have breakfast. Hearing cries in the front yard, he quietly went to the front yard to look. He ran to the backyard and led his three brothers and three relatives across the house.As soon as they left, the devil came in.Liu Shanli's father, Liu Guoxin, was about to escape, but was blocked by devils.A devil stabbed at the old man, blood spurted profusely, and he passed out.Fearing that the old man was still alive, the devil went up and stabbed the head with a bayonet, causing his brains to splash everywhere.At this time, Liu Shanli climbed over the wall and came to the courtyard of the wooden shop next door, where he hid in the pile of purlins.At this time, several devils entered the courtyard of the wood shop. Seeing that there were 4 people in the courtyard, the devils rushed to kill them with bayonets.In the afternoon, Liu Shanli climbed over the wall and went back to the roof of his house to see that four uncles, two relatives, and two merchants in the front yard were all killed by devils.Eleven members of the Liu family were killed. They were Liu Guoxin, Liu Guozhu, Liu Guofu, Liu Guoxiang, Liu Guoliang, Liu Guomei, Liu Shanbao, Liu Shanqing, Liu Shanchang, Liu Xiyao, and Liu Xize.

Chilifa's home in Newcastle was close to the castle wall.When the devils broke through the fort wall, the villagers, businessmen from other places, and Qiao Jun who threw away their weapons in the fort all fled and hid.In the early morning, more than a dozen ordinary people and businessmen hid in the Zhili court, and four Qiao troops came in after a while.And hid the rifle in the courtyard, disguised as ordinary people.Then 6 women hid in.At this time, the sound of carnage outside sounded like a burst. 4 Qiao Jun and several businessmen fled to the outside.When they fled to the fort wall, they were all shot dead by devils.Wang Fukuan, Zhimingjun and two businessmen of Xinbao fled to Zhili Court when the enemy was killing them.As soon as they entered the courtyard, a ghost followed.The devil first searched the room, and when he saw a woman in the east room, he acted like a beast and raped the two of them on the spot.After walking out of the room, he searched randomly in the yard, and soon found the rifle hidden by Qiao Jun.The devil fired a shot into the sky, and a few more devils came in.After the devil said "Wow, wow!", those devils shot at the crowd.Zhilifa also fell with the gunshots.In fact, Zhi Zhafa was not shot, but he knew that he would be killed by the devil, so he hid under the body of the person who was killed. At noon, when the devil burned the houses in the fort and around the fort wall, Zhilifa escaped .He is still alive.Several women in Newcastle did not have time to escape that day. After they were found by the devils, they stripped off their clothes one by one and forced them to dance in the streets and alleys.The rural women didn't know what dancing was, so they ran around, and the devils shot them to death one by one.

The devils searched in turn, and within a few hours the entire lower society was turned into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​flames.In the streets and alleys of the Twelve Fortresses, there are mutilated corpses lying on the ground and above the houses, and even the toilets are full of dead people. The devils are extremely vicious, and they really kill people like hemp.On the morning of the twenty-fourth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the devils drove more than 60 people they had captured to Yang Pinliang's courtyard, and made them stand in line.More than a dozen devils held glaring bayonets and stabbed the masses to death one by one. Unarmed and innocent people were killed by the devils in this way.Several people who were stabbed ran towards the courtyard gate in pain, and were stabbed to death by the devils guarding the gate.There was blood in the yard that day.The tragic scene on the north side of the fort wall (now the south side of the middle school) is even more creepy.More than half of the corpses were piled up on the nine-acre piece of land.The dead were all bloody and distorted.Afterwards, people counted more than 1,100 people.

The devils burned, killed and looted, even the Buddhist monks would not let them go.On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar calendar, two devils armed with guns fiercely broke into the Tianwang Temple built in the fourteenth year of Ming Hongwu.The little monk was coming out of the hall, the devil didn't say anything, and stabbed the little monk with a knife. The little monk yelled and fell to the ground.The great monk Enhui hurried out of the house when he heard the shouts, and was immediately stunned by the horror in front of him.He closed his eyes tightly, put his hands together, and said "Amitabha".He opened his eyes, filled with grief and indignation, and blood welled up in his heart, wishing he could immediately fight the devil to the death.But after thinking about it, the devil had a knife and a gun, and he was unarmed. He caught a glimpse of a hammer for striking a clock on the ground and held it in his hand.He quietly lay behind the hall door, waiting for the two devils.As soon as the first devil came in, Enhui raised the hammer with lightning speed and smashed it on the devil's head.The first devil turned his head sharply, Enhui quickly aimed at the head and gave another blow, and the two devils fell down.En Hui picked up the devil's gun and stabbed him several times in the neck, killing the devil.After a while, three more devils came in, En Hui collected his mind, mustered up his courage, held the hammer tightly, and fell behind the hall door, waiting for the enemy quietly.After a while, the devil came in, and he gave way first.When the second devil came in again, he hit that guy's Tianling Gai with a hammer, and the devil fell down.When the first devil turned around and was about to flee, Enhui grabbed and beat him again, knocking that guy to the ground.He picked up a gun, loaded it with bullets, and knocked down the devils who came in one after another, scaring the enemy from entering the temple again. After a while, the enraged enemy bombarded Tianwang Temple.Immediately, the Tianwang Temple was filled with smoke and flames shot into the sky, and the monk En Hui was also seriously injured and died.

On the same day (that is, the 24th day of the first lunar month), the Japanese army invaded Xiaoshikou, an important part of the Great Wall, and the devils entered the village, killing everyone they saw.There were 6 members of Feng Tianshan's family in Xiaoshikou. The eldest son Feng Jinke was shot dead on the street, and the other 5 people hid in their own cellar.In Xiaoshikou Village, 27 men, women and children made quilts.Qiao Jun captured a large number of young men from various villages, called "youth team members", and more than 60 of them were also massacred by the Japanese army.Including those captured and killed by the Qiao army, a total of 287 people died under the Japanese butcher's knives and bullets.In Xiaoshikou Changmen Road alone, 187 corpses were buried.

In the massacre by the Japanese army, there were not many survivors.Liu Shanli and Zhilifa of Xinbao, Li Changwei of Libao, and Kou Huaru of Qianbao all escaped death. The following are the accusations (excerpts) of these historical witnesses: Liu Shanli said: "On the morning of the 24th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, our family was preparing to have breakfast when we heard devils entering the front yard to kill people. Three of my brothers and three relatives jumped out of the house and fled. I saw two devils coming in from the front yard. Immediately Captured and killed my father. I went over the wall to the courtyard of the wooden shop next door, and hid in the pile of rafters. At this time, I saw in the courtyard of the wooden shop, some devils massacred 4 people in the courtyard. In the afternoon, I crossed the wall When I got back to my house, I saw my uncle’s family of four, two relatives and two house guests were massacred. I jumped out of the room and turned a corner to escape.”

Zhi Lifa said: "My house is close to the fort wall. On the 24th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, when the devils entered our village and began massacres, Wang Fugui and four other businessmen from other places were shot dead. I fell down with the sound of the gunfire and hid under their bodies. At noon, the devils set fires everywhere, and I escaped when the fire reached my house in the afternoon." Li Changwei said: "On the morning of the twenty-fourth day of the first lunar month, some devils found me, my brother and seven women, and we were driven to a courtyard in Qianbao. They locked up two of my brothers, and the seven women were arrested. They raped, and then took the nine of us to the former Baonan Garden. I took the opportunity to escape through several yards and risked bullets. Four days later, I returned to the village, my brother and the seven women who were arrested together They were all killed in the former Fort South Garden’s well.” Qianbao Kou Huaru said, "On the 24th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, after the massacre began, a group of devil soldiers rushed from Xiaoxibao to Qianbao, searched out the masses and drove them to the South Garden, where they massacred. Two daughters and two sons-in-law, the four of them came to Qianbao to pay New Year's greetings, and they were all killed, only the second son-in-law survived being stabbed several times and hid under the corpse for the rest of his life." On February 20, 1941, most of the Japanese troops withdrew from Xiashe, and the refugees returned to the village one after another.They saw corpses strewn all over the village, fields, streets and alleys, and homes in courtyards, with blood flowing like rivers.When claiming the bodies of the murdered relatives, it was discovered that more than 20 people had been killed in the Qiaochangsheng Hospital in Xinbao. Fifty to sixty people had been killed under the earth screen wall in the northwest of the fort wall. In a piece of land as large as 10000 mu, 27 corpses were picked up from only one well in Qianbao Nanyuan. On February 23, when all the devils withdrew from the lower society, they used cars to take away countless silver dollars, smoke, fine cloth and other valuables looted from the lower society. In the Xiashe tragedy, the Japanese invaders killed more than 150 people in Xiashe village.Killed more than 1,500 people from other villages, foreign businessmen, and Qiao Jun prisoners, burned more than 850 houses, and killed 287 people in Xiaoshikou. Many children in Xiashe and Xiaoshikou lost their parents, many old people lost their children, and many families were wiped out.Those who survived were also homeless. People were displaced, living in the open, living in the mountains.Japanese fascism owes another blood debt to the Chinese people!