Chapter 33 Chapter 32 The Mashishan Massacre in Jiaodong (1942.11.23-24)

On November 23, 1942, 20,000 Japanese invaders dragged their nets to besiege the Mashishan area of ​​Mashidian Township, Rushan County. Countless, more than 2,000 besieged people were able to break through due to the heroes and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army rushing back and forth to rescue them. For this reason, many commanders and fighters died heroically. Mashishan is located in Mashidian Township, Rushan County, Shandong Province. It stretches at the junction of Rushan, Haiyang, Qixia and Mouping counties. The main peak is 467 meters above sea level. In November 1942, Okamura Ningci, the supreme commander of the North China Expeditionary Force of the Japanese invaders, flew from Beiping to Yantai and gathered in Qingdao and Yantai.Under his personal command, the 20,000 Japanese and puppet troops in Laiyang and other places carried out an unprecedented "mopping up" of the central area of ​​our Jiaodong anti-Japanese base area. The Mashishan tragedy occurred during this "mopping up" by the Japanese army.

On November 17, 1942, more than 13,000 Japanese and puppet troops arrived in Laiyang, Qixia, Fushan and other places along Yanqing Road and Yanwei Road in hundreds of vehicles from Qingdao and Gaomi. On the 21st, the enemies of Laiyang, Qixia, and Fushan were all mobilized, and they cooperated with the capitulation faction Zhao Baoyuan, Qin Yutang and other troops to attack our anti-Japanese bases centered on Yueyashan and Mashishan.With the cooperation of aircraft and warships, the Japanese and puppet troops "drawn a net to encircle" from all directions in a dense formation and at a speed of one to twenty miles a day.During the day, the enemy adopts combing tactics, searching no hills, combing no villages, even desolate nunneries.The wild temple and the small earth temple are not spared either.At night, the enemy army camped in the wild, pulled up barbed wire and hung bells on various main roads and mountain passes, and lit fires every 30 to 50 steps to prevent our soldiers and civilians from breaking out.By the 23rd, the Japanese army was about to surround Mashishan with a radius of more than 40 kilometers. There were thousands of people surrounded here, as well as thousands of people in some places, the wounded and sick, and soldiers who had lost contact with the army.The enemy once boasted proudly: "As long as you enter the combined attack circle, a bird flying in the sky will be shot three times, and a bird running underground will be stabbed three times. The Communist Party's Eighth Route Army will not escape with its wings."

Then, the Japanese army carried out a brutal massacre of unarmed civilians in several villages near Mashishan.In Dayuan Village, because we implemented the "hard wall and clearing the wilderness", the Japanese army rushed to the sky and searched along the way to Ma Shishan. Two compatriots; Wang Tianzeng's son was also killed in the cave.The Japanese army found the cave where Chen Jingpu's family was hiding, and fired incendiary bombs into the cave, igniting the firewood stored in the cave. Chen Jingpu struggled to climb to the entrance of the cave, and climbed out through a gap, while the 8 people who stayed in the cave were killed. Burn alive.In Xishangshan Village, the Japanese army captured the village head Wang Lianfu, cut off one of his ears, and then killed him.Wang Jinjing from Dalongkou Village was captured by the Japanese army and tied to a tree with ropes. He was poured with boiling water over his head. His bare feet were scalded and he was stabbed to death with a bayonet.Gongqing from this village was placed horizontally on a pot support by the Japanese army and roasted to death with fire.Qiao Pingzhi, head of the self-defense regiment of the villagers in Cao'an, was surrounded by Japanese troops entering the village because he lost contact with the brigade.He first threw four grenades at the enemy group, and then fought with the enemy with a big knife in his hand. Finally, because he was outnumbered, he fell into the clutches of the enemy and was stabbed to death by a group of Japanese soldiers.

The vicious Japanese army burned houses everywhere and killed innocent people.All the houses in Cao'an Village were burned down by the enemy.Jingqiao Village is a small village. The enemy set fire to it and burned 80% of the houses in the village.Shibo Village at the foot of Mashi Mountain had only a little more than 100 households at that time. After the Japanese army entered the village, they burned more than 80 houses in one go.The wife of the village king Shaoliang was gang-raped to death by Japanese invaders less than three days after giving birth.After Wang Yugui and his wife were killed by the Japanese army, their child under the age of one was still struggling to find milk in his mother's arms.In this small village bloodbathed by the enemy, 11 people were brutally killed, and more than 100 people were arrested to do hard labor.

At the same time, the Japanese army continued to send planes to bomb Mashishan indiscriminately. Trees and rocks collapsed on the mountain, shrapnel flew across, and many people were killed and injured. At dawn on the 24th, with the cooperation of planes, the Japanese army began to search the mountain from all directions, advancing step by step towards the main peak of Mashi Mountain.In the Jinyinding quarry, there are more than 60 compatriots hiding. After the Japanese invaders found out, they forced them to come up one by one. Slow cutting, let the victim die of pain.In this way, more than 50 people were killed in a row. The remaining people in the stone pit witnessed the tragic situation of their compatriots being killed. Some rushed to fight the enemy and died, and some rolled down the cliff to escape for their lives.Yao Ruijian in Yahou Village narrowly escaped death after rolling off the cliff.Liu Jingfa, head of Dongshangshan Village, was unfortunately caught by the Japanese army on his way back from serving as a guide for our army.The enemy asked him for food and people, and he replied firmly, "I don't know!" The Japanese army stabbed him several times in the head, chest and abdomen, and Liu Jingfa turned into a bloody man, lying in a pool of blood.The next morning, after being rescued by our troops, he survived death.Zheng Chongda, a soldier from the village of Liujia, encountered Japanese soldiers searching the mountains on the way to carry out his mission.The enemy slashed him severely on the neck. He passed out and woke up in the middle of the night. He still has the scars of the cut.

The Japanese army took pleasure in massacring the Chinese people, and the methods were cruel and jaw-dropping. Xu Deyu, who was over 70 years old in Zhaominzhuang, was rolled up by the enemy with grass thatch, set on fire from his lower limbs, and burned all the way to the top of his head. He was called "the grass burner" ".A pregnant woman on the west mountain was stripped naked by the enemy and fell from a high cliff, which is called "watermelon throwing".Outside the Jinyinding quarry, the enemy tied 9 people into a row with ropes and shot them, killing 7 people on the spot, which is called "living targets".What's more, the enemy used bayonets to cut open the chests and abdomens of the victims, and the internal organs flowed out; they cut children alive in half, cut off the breasts of naked women, and inserted wooden sticks into their vaginas...

The heroic Jiaodong people have always had a glorious tradition of defying violence and resisting foreign aggression.While the Japanese army tightened the encirclement to Mashishan and carried out massacres, I stood firm and fought with the soldiers and the masses around Mashishan, and with a fearless revolutionary spirit, fought a majestic struggle with the enemy to rescue the masses to break through. According to the instructions of the Jiaodong Military Region, all units of our army were divided into parts, and the activities were divided into divisions. Wherever the troops were active, they would lead the masses to carry out guerrilla warfare and destroy the enemy's "mopping up".The main force of our army cleverly broke through the enemy's encirclement, went around to the enemy's rear, and dealt a heavy blow to the enemy. The soldiers of the 16th and 17th regiments of our army's Jiaodong Military Region in the encirclement, using battalions and companies as units, interspersed and smashed the net to attack the enemy. The enemy, protect the party and government organs and the masses of the people to break through and transfer, so that the party and the people can avoid greater losses.In the struggle to crush the Japanese army's "mopping up", Xia Yunchao, Director of the Medical Affairs Department of the Jiaodong Military Region, Zhang Huanxu, Political Commissar of the 16th Regiment, and many soldiers who died gloriously to cover the masses' breakout, wrote a tragic chapter with their lives.

On November 23, under the leadership of the platoon leader Xu Shuli, soldiers from a platoon of the 2nd Company of the Independent Regiment of the Eastern Navy Division rushed into the enemy's encirclement twice and rescued hundreds of people.In order to keep more people out of danger, 19 soldiers led by Xu Shuli rushed into the encirclement again.At this time, it was already daylight, and the soldiers were completely exposed to the enemy. The enemy stepped up their firepower and surrounded them tightly on the top of the mountain. As they ran out of bullets, the soldiers jumped off the cliff led by the platoon leader Xu Shuli, and sacrificed heroically.

Guo Zichen, leader of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Company, and 1st Platoon of the 16th Regiment of the Jiaodong Military Region, led more than 20 soldiers, together with Shi Chen, Wang Qingzhai, and militia soldier Zhong Kong from the Jiaodong Military Region Art Troupe, organized the masses to break through several times overnight, and finally retreated to the north peak of Mashi Mountain superior.They relied on the ancient city walls to fight fiercely with the enemy, repelling the enemy's many charges, but they were surrounded heavily and ran out of bullets. Shi Chen, Wang Qingzhai and most of the soldiers died heroically.

In the evening of the same day, 35 cadres and soldiers in the third platoon, led by Tu Dianyuan, the political instructor of the guard company of the Jiaodong District Public Security Bureau, and Tang Ci, the chief of the third section, disregarded their personal safety in order to rescue the people surrounded by Mashishan. , Braving the hail of bullets, broke through the enemy's fire net three times back and forth, and passed through the mountains and ravines, so that a large number of people were out of danger and transferred safely. After dawn on the 24th, when they rushed into the siege to rescue the masses again, they were surrounded by Japanese troops on the mountains.My heroic cadres and soldiers immediately chose favorable terrain, stood up and resisted, and repelled the enemy's attacks many times in a row.

After dawn, the Japanese and puppet troops approached the mountain under the cover of aircraft and artillery fire.Cadres and soldiers tenaciously held their positions, and when they ran out of bullets, they hit them with stones.By noon, only 18 people including Wang Dianyuan were left on the top of the mountain.On Mashi Mountain, the soldiers who died heroically to protect the people, and a traffic squad of the 13th Regiment of the Jiaodong Military Region, including Comrade Wang, the squad leader, and 10 people all died heroically on the top of the mountain. The heinous crimes committed by the Japanese aggressors in Mashishan Mountain, according to the memories of witnesses and relevant historical records at that time: The Mashishan Massacre created by the Japanese army in this "sweep" killed 503 soldiers and civilians, most of whom were Mashishan Peasants from surrounding villages. The encirclement encirclement that Okamura Ningz painstakingly arranged was shattered by my hero's soldiers and civilians.Our party, government and military organs, the main force of the Eighth Route Army, arsenals, and hospitals stationed near Mashishan all cleverly broke through the net and moved out. Some of them stand out from the encirclement to avoid greater massacres by the enemy. On January 25, 1943, the Jiaodong Chief Administrative Office set up a monument to commemorate the heroes, soldiers and civilians who died in the Mashishan tragedy. In October 1970, the People's Government of Rushan County built a martyr cemetery in Mashishan, so that future generations will always remember the crimes committed by the Japanese invaders in Mashishan, and cherish the great achievements of heroes, soldiers and civilians.