Chapter 35 Chapter Thirty-fourth Nanxian Factory Cellar Massacre (1943.5.8-11)
Located on the north shore of Dongting Lake in Hunan Province, Changjiao Township on the southwestern border of Nanxian County, it is the Huzhou Dayuan (formerly known as Han Taiyuan, also known as Changjiao Dayuan) composed of 28 small embankments. It originally belonged to Hanshou County, in 1955 It belongs to South County).The whole embankment has a radius of 50 square kilometers and a total of more than 41,000 mu of cultivated land.Surrounded by water on three sides, it is shaped like a peninsula, northeast and southwest of the embankment.The land has always been fertile and the products are rich.
On this land, the people of Changjiao once suffered a huge national disaster. From May 8th to 12th, 1943, the Japanese aggressors committed a massacre here that shocked China and the world.This is a major tragedy concocted by the Japanese aggressors in their eight-year history of crimes of aggression against China—the "Factory Cellar Massacre".According to historical records, at that time, more than 15,000 Japanese invaders invaded the Hebei factory cellar area, and brutally slaughtered more than 30,000 Chinese compatriots in just four days and four nights.According to the statistics of the joint investigation team of Yiyang area, Nan County, and Changjiao Township in 1972 (hereinafter referred to as "according to the survey"), in Changjiao Township alone, there were more than 19,000 innocent people who were quilted (including more than 7,000 in Changjiao Township) accounted for about half of the total population of the entire embankment: nearly 200 households whose entire families were killed; more than 12,000 people fleeing from other places were killed).In addition, more than 5,000 officers and soldiers of the 73rd Army of the Kuomintang were killed; more than 6,000 people were killed in the areas near the factory cellar (Wusheng Palace, Sanchahe, Xiachai City, Yougang and Anxiang border, etc.).In addition, in this massacre, more than 3,000 people were killed and injured by the Japanese invaders, more than 2,000 women were raped, more than 3,000 houses were burned, and more than 2,500 ships were burned.
The "Factory Cellar Massacre" occurred in the second stage of the Battle of Western Hubei and Northern Hunan. "The first phase began on March 22, 1943 and ended at the end of March...; the second phase began on May 5 and ended on June 12." "The enemy's attempt was to plunder Huarong and the materials in the area around the Binhu Lake in Nanxian County", "wanted to take Changde from the west", and "inflicted fatal injuries on Changsha". The 3rd Division of the 11th Army (Division Commander Sano Yamamoto), the independent mixed 17th Brigade (Brigade Commander Gao Pinbiao) and Xiaochai Detachment, Hukou Detachment, and Acupuncture Detachment, actually invested a total of 11 brigades, stationed by Japanese invaders Commander-in-Chief of the China Dispatch Army and Commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, Toshiro Hata went to Wuhan to personally command, and committed crimes southward from various crossings in Jingjiang, Hubei.At the same time, planes were dispatched from Wuhan and Dangyang to harass me on the north shore of Dongting Lake. On March 9, the Japanese invaded and occupied Huarong, and in early May, they fell into Nanxian County, Anxiang and other places.So far, the entire northern shore of Dongting Lake has been successively defeated by the enemy.At this time, the 73rd Army of the Kuomintang Binhu Garrison, which has a population of 100,000, was like a frightened bird, collapsing at the first touch, and fled westward one after another.In a short period of time, a large number of Kuomintang county and township government officials and students fled.Urban and rural residents and boat people also followed the Kuomintang army fleeing westward, and gathered in the Changjiao embankment and the waters along the river in order to cross the river twice and then transfer to safe areas such as Changde.
The Japanese invaded the factories and cellars, mainly in cooperation with their forced war tactics and in an attempt to exert military pressure on the Kuomintang regime, thereby creating terror in the hearts of the people and achieving the dual effects of military and psychological warfare. On May 8, the enemy first dispatched more than 3,000 troops, more than 60 motorboats and some aircraft to attack from several sides on land and water, encircling our factory cellar area.The two land routes depart from Nanxian and Anxiang respectively, and directly enter the east and north dikes of Changjiao.The waterway is also divided into two parts, with many motorboats, sailing from Taipingkou, Hubei, Yueyang Port, along the two routes of Yue (Yueyang), Mao (Mao Street), Tai (Taipingkou), and Mao (Mao Street), rampantly approaching the factory cellar The upper and lower waters on the east and west sides of the embankment are blocked to completely block water traffic and various ferries along the river.As a result, the western retreat of the remnants of the 73rd Army of the Kuomintang and a large number of refugees was completely cut off.The enemy planes took off from Wuhan, Dangyang and other places, frequently flew over the factory cellars, carried out rounds of bombing and strafing, and closely cooperated with the Japanese invaders on land and water, so as to create a situation of cruel massacres against our compatriots.At that time, the remnants of the Kuomintang and a large number of refugees fleeing westward, except for a few who escaped by boat, most (mainly refugees and local people) were surrounded by Taiwan in this encirclement.When people encounter this desperate situation, they are all screaming and screaming, looking for no way to survive, "messy like ants on a hot pot", the whole factory cellar area is shrouded in gloom and mist for a moment!
At that time, the Japanese invading army was like a scourge, fierce in every way. After the tactic of encircling the factory cellar was completed, they tried their best to implement the "three alls" policy, killing indiscriminately, burning, looting and raping. The record of their atrocities is unprecedented.According to the investigation: on the afternoon of May 8th, the Japanese invaders began to burn the rice on the north embankment of the factory cellar. From the morning of the 9th to the 12th, the Japanese army carried out a planned massacre in the entire factory cellar area.The area where the Japanese invaders massacred, including the east of the present-day Hanshou West Port, the north of Yuanjiang Caowei, the west of Xiaogong Temple in Nanxian County, and the area with a radius of about 100 miles around the factory cellar.Among them, Xianchangjiao Township and its adjacent areas were the most severely affected.According to statistics, more than 6,800 people were killed along the river from Dabaizhou to Gongjiagang, which is 25 miles long; and 3,000 people were killed along the 7-mile-long Walanti (including part of the current Huazhong Village and Quancheng Village). Many people; in the area of Dian'an River (now Defu and other villages), more than 3,000 people were killed (most of them were Kuomintang soldiers); in the area of Yonggu embankment, more than 1,500 people were killed (some of them were defeated); More than 1,000 people were killed in the area around the embankment (now Xiaojiawan, Lianfu and other villages); around Lizhong Lake, more than 800 people were killed, and in other areas in the embankment, there were also quite a few people killed.In addition, in Yongding and the only two villages in Sanchahe Township opposite the factory cellar, more than 2,000 people were killed; about 1,500 people were killed in Xiachaishi Township, more than 1,000 people were killed in Yougang Township, and quilts in Wushenggong Township More than 500 people were killed (now Xuejia and Tangjia villages); more than 1,000 people were killed in the Anxiang border near the factory cellar.
After the Japanese invaded our Changjiao area, the main atrocity was the cruel massacre of our innocent compatriots (including the defeated KMT soldiers who had laid down their weapons).The first to bear the brunt are the Yonggu embankment, Valente and Dian'an River (dumb river) in Xianchangjiao Township.At the beginning, the remnants of the 73rd Army of the Kuomintang only made sporadic resistance to the Japanese invaders here during their westward retreat. After the encirclement was completed, the Japanese army brutally killed our innocent people here first. On the morning of the 9th, the Japanese army rushed into Yonggu Embankment. First, they shot and killed a large number of my male and female compatriots in the name of hunting down the remnants of the Kuomintang army. Then they forced the masses to go down to various lakes and ponds to get guns (discarded by the Kuomintang troops). A lot of people were killed from it.In Xinchun Village in the present place, more than a thousand people (including many refugees from other places) were killed at that time. What was even more cruel was that the Japanese aggressors carried out mass massacres, or tied my compatriots, male and female, to various houses in groups. In the field, they were shot or stabbed collectively; or our innocent people were tied up with ropes, and then pushed into the pond, drowned alive.In Dai Jilu alone, there were as many as three batches of people killed, killing more than 120 innocent compatriots. Xiao Mingsheng’s family in this embankment was killed by Japanese invaders twice and killed a total of 25 people, 18 of whom were forced to drown. dead.At that time, although a few people escaped from the tiger's mouth, almost all escaped from the pile of dead bodies by chance, and most of them were disabled.Ma Xiangting, who escaped from the pile of dead people in Dai Jilu's field, was killed four times all over his body, and even his stomach was pierced by the Japanese invaders with bayonet barrels.Then came Valenti's bloodbath.At that time, tens of thousands of factory and pit residents and a large number of refugees from other places were shocked by the tragic massacre in Yonggutan by the Japanese army, and they fled to the ditch port, bushes, and crop fields to hide. Close the account, that is, keep small stocks to search along the embankment, while large stocks line up in a long line, and "sweep" back and forth along both sides of the embankment in a combing style, for a total of five times.According to investigations, more than 430 people were killed per Huali in this area at that time. According to the statistics of Walian Village, there are local records, that is, 267 people were killed under quilts, 37 households were killed, and more than 140 people were killed and injured. More than 60 people were killed and drowned by the Japanese invaders at the alley of Yangfengshan House, even babies were not spared.After liberation, Bai Shizhan, who was the secretary of the party branch of Walian Village, witnessed with his own eyes that after a baby was killed by the Japanese invaders, the Japanese soldiers even used bayonets for fun.
Also suffered the massacre by the Japanese invaders was the area around Changjiao Anhe (also known as Heizhouzi).This dumb river is only 5 miles long and about 200 meters wide (there are two villages, Defu and Hanxin, along its banks).The Japanese invaders first pressed down heavily with planes, cavalry, and infantry, and then searched, burned, and killed them repeatedly. On the 10th, 3000 to 4000 people were killed here (among them, the defeated Kuomintang troops accounted for the majority).According to the recollection of Zhou Yaqing, an old resident at that time: among the more than 100 refugees who swam with him after the Japanese invaded (including some defeated Kuomintang soldiers disguised as civilians), only he and another refugee survived by chance. He was shot dead by the Japanese army.It's really a river of blood, and its stench is hard to get into the nose after half a month.
What is even more cruel is the miserable situation of thousands of boat people.When the Japanese invaders encircled the Changjiao area, more than 2,500 large and small civilian boats were blocked in the waters along the river on both sides. For several days, the enemy boats cruised in the river, forcing our civilian boats along the river to move closer to the Changjiao embankment, and then cooperated by land and water. They burned and killed section by section, and in case of escaped ships, armed motorboats were sent to chase them down until their ships were destroyed.A large number of them tied all the boat people to the river bank in a string, shot them with machine guns or massacred them with bayonets. "Subsequent statistics show that more than 6,800 boat people and compatriots were killed this time."According to investigations, the enemy stabbed and killed more than 60 boat people and refugees in one Liushuping section of the Yucheng embankment in the factory cellar, and only 5 of them escaped.Nanxian boatman Wu Shimang, a family of 4, was killed by the Japanese invaders except for Wu himself who was not killed when he went out.
In other areas within the factory cellar, the Japanese invading army also brutally massacred our compatriots.Lianshan embankment with an area of only more than 200 mu has 500 to 600 dead bodies.At that time, there were more than 120 people killed in Zuoxin Township's Er Bao Wu Jia, including 8 families whose entire families were killed.In another place, "There was an enemy soldier who single-handedly killed more than 50 of our male and female compatriots. There were 3 enemy soldiers who jointly killed more than 100 of our male and female compatriots. Their bayonets were bent and they hacked with axes... ""In Changjiao (referring to the small market town of Changjiao), the enemy killed 74 people with 9 knives, and only one escaped...In Tingjiazhou, they killed more than 30 people with 4 knives, and none of them survived." According to Yu Jiayan (Xiaoyuan Son) The memories of the survivors: "Only three of us are left in more than a dozen houses" in Quanyuan, and Lizhonghu, Gongjiagang, Tongchengyuan and other places are exactly the same, and the dead are countless.
In the hands of the massacre, the Japanese invaders adopted many cruel methods against my compatriots.On a river island in Yuchengyuan, in order to "exercise" assassination skills, the enemy hacked to death more than 30 of my male and female compatriots with Oriental broadswords.What's worse, the devils tied our people into a string of thirty to fifty people, tied them with cables, tied them to the back of the motorboat, and then dragged them in the river at full speed and drowned them alive, or weaved them into noose knots with fiber ropes, and tied up our boat people. , the necks of the refugees were chained, and then they were forced into the river to die.After the victim entered the water, the more he struggled, the tighter the knot around his neck became.Seeing this scene, the enemy soldiers laughed ferociously.Tong Chengyuan Wang Hongkui was 60 years old at the time and was a little deaf.When the devil saw that he did not answer the questions or answered irrelevant questions, he raised a knife and cut off his tongue and jaw together, and died a miserable death within a few days.Valenti Peng Lianshan was suffering from lung disease. After being captured by the enemy soldiers, seeing his slow movements, they chopped him into several pieces with an oriental knife, and then threw the broken body into the lotus root pond.Once, the devil found a "refugee ID card" from a refugee, chopped off his head with a knife like chopping wood, and then used a bayonet to pierce his belly.Get some pickles and stuff them into the stomach of the dead.According to reports from the people in Xiaojiawan, during the massacre by the Japanese aggressors, the enemy soldiers dug out the gallbladders of two refugees with knives, squeezed out the bile with their hands, and put it in a bottle they carried with them for "preservation".In addition, the enemy also used torture such as burning the body, beating the brains, scalding the body, cutting the abdomen, gouging out the eyes, cutting off the ears, and pouring cold water, etc., to brutally kill our suffering compatriots at will.It's really a thousand kinds of capital punishment, and everything is used to the extreme!
In the factory cellar area that had been bloodbathed by the enemy, up and down, inside and outside the embankment, there was no smoke in the room, there were few pedestrians on the road, corpses were everywhere, and the river turned red. It was a tragic scene.For example, in Yonggu embankment, more than a thousand unnamed corpses of my compatriots were buried at that time, and it is still called "thousand people's pit".According to relevant reports at the time, the massacre was "comparable to the 'Ten Days in Yangzhou'". "This is a painful history written by the enemy in Dongting Lake with dripping blood. Four years later, (the reporter conducted an interview in the fourth year after the tragedy) there are still bones of the unjustly killed on the river bank, and burnt remains in the river. The board of the ship that came down... Listening to a resurrected person who survived seven times of murder pointing to the tragic performance of that year, I felt that there was a ghostly spirit between the reed banks and shallow waters!" The Japanese army "destroyed more than plundered" The sinister conspiracy of the invading army at that time.During the factory cellar massacre, the enemy soldiers always killed people and set fire to houses at the same time, engaged in a scorched-earth policy, and wreaked havoc on us.Wherever their demon claws went, there was smoke and mist, and the walls fell, which was horrible. On May 7, the Japanese invaders ravaged Nanxian with iron hoofs, and set fire to the county seat of Nanxian that night. "Except for a few houses left by the county government and county schools, all ... have been burned." "There are pools of blood on the street, and hungry white and yellow dogs are tearing apart tiles to find dead bodies to eat."Afterwards, the enemy set fire to Sanxianhu Town. "Except for the former site of Nanhua Gongkou and four or five private houses, all... were burned by the enemy." "Four to five hundred people were killed in total."After the enemy occupied the factory cellar, they ran amok. Wherever they harassed, they burned it. Even the small market towns such as Maocao Street and Goutouzhou near the factory cellar were quickly "burned".The Wusheng Palace was also burned twice, "it was burned until there was no tile left, and the enemy retreated with a ferocious smile."
During the day, they set fire, murder and looting, and at night they set fire as a signal for communication and action. "As far as the disaster is concerned, there are thirteen guarantees, 1,062 houses were burned down, and property losses were at least 294 million yuan (referring to the currency at the time)."According to another survey, in the current Changjiao Township, besides the Japanese invaders burning more than 3,000 private houses and more than 2,500 ships, other losses caused by arson include: 4,000 pigs, 200 cattle, nearly 10,000 poultry, 500,000 catties of grain, plus more than 50,000 pieces of clothes and quilts, and more than 10,000 pieces of farm furniture.The equivalent amount (currency) is no less than tens of millions of yuan.According to the statistics in the first and second groups of Quancheng Village (that is, the original work of Xinxiang Wubaosijia): there were 47 households and 113 large and small houses at that time.During the few days of the Japanese occupation, 44 households, 104 large and small houses were burned, and 50 pigs were lost (39 were burned to death, 9 were killed by the devils, and 2 were taken away by the "Maintenance Committee"); 229 chickens and ducks (burned to death 134, the devils captured 53 and escaped 42); more than 14,000 catties of food (burned more than 13,000 catties, and robbed 8,000 catties).At the same time, the thousands of boats that were blocked on both sides of the river along the factory cellar were burned to nothing. Except for a place in Taibaizhou where the devils set up telephone lines and salvaged the corpses of a few dead devils, how many people had to be left behind? Except for the wooden boat, all the other boats were burned by the devils, and it can be said that there was nothing left.
What's more, the Japanese invaders took the opportunity of setting fire to the house and drove my compatriots into the fire in groups, so that they all died together.More than 20 women were burned to death in Walen Village alone.In addition to setting fire to houses, the Japanese invaders also intentionally destroyed our flood control embankments and farmland production.According to the newspaper report of the Kuomintang government at that time: "Dozens of dikes have been dug, and five or six tenths of the green seedlings are submerged in the water."
Even if there are still seedlings that have not been submerged by the flood, there is no one to cultivate them at that time.Looting is another means of destruction after the enemy's occupation.They usually kill during the day and go out to "rumble" (that is, plunder) in the evening.All the belongings of our masses, especially gold and silver jewellery, fine clothing, grain, sugar, oil, poultry, livestock, etc., are not spared. On the 10th, two peasants from the original Yongguyuan were kidnapped by a squad of devils to become pawns, and they carried two large baskets with them to Lizhong Lake and Tingjiazhou to "fight".These two people recalled afterwards that only eleven or two devils committed the following crimes in one day (less than 9 hours): killing more than 140 of my compatriots with bayonets and random guns, and raping more than 20 women , set fire to 5 houses, hacked to death 2 cattle, killed more than 10 pigs, and also robbed a lot of property from our people.The two "fighted" with the devils for a day, switching the baskets back and forth five times, leaving a good time for throwing them away. In the end, all the gold, silver, jade, woolen silk strands and other valuables were left, weighing more than 300 catties.Their demonic claws are all directed by beasts. When they see furniture and objects, they always destroy them; when they see livestock and poultry, they always slaughter them at will; Pad the enemy's stable.When encountering grains and vegetables, they were either eaten at will or poured into the cesspit; even the leftovers were always sprinkled with feces and urine, so that after the disaster, the masses had nowhere to live and no food to live on after returning home.
After the Japanese invaders looted, they usually took a large number of civilians to do hard labor. After that, there were no news of them. There were more than 200 people in the factory cellar alone.
When the Japanese invaders ravaged the factory cellars, they insulted and mutilated our women compatriots in every possible way.From young girls in their teens to old women in their 60s and 70s, almost all those who can't avoid it will be spared.People still scold them as "beasts with human faces" and "wild boars with two legs".At that time, it was a thatched street in a small market town. "The enemy only occupied this place for a day and a night, but there were as many as 30 to 40 women who were raped. 2 gang-raped, his mother hated her, threw herself into a river with her daughter and died."In the factory cellar, the Japanese army vented their animal desires even more.Not only ordinary women are inevitably raped, "even the virgins who practiced religion are also raped."Even old women, pregnant women, puerpera, menstruating women, etc., who are dozens of years old, can hardly escape the disaster of being insulted.At that time, there was an old woman in her 60s in Defu Village. Seeing the Japanese invaders shooting her two sons dead, she wanted to run out of the house to rescue her.Death due to rape can be seen almost everywhere.There was a pregnant woman in Valenti who was gang-raped by seven enemy soldiers and then kicked in the abdomen by the devils. She died tragically eight or nine days later.In some cases, after the pregnant woman was raped, the fetus was picked out from the belly with a bayonet, so that both mother and child died together.A 12-year-old girl was gang-raped to death by a group of devils in a certain wupeng boat, and her body was thrown into the river.A woman in Xiaojiawan had her breasts cut off by the Japanese soldiers because she refused to be insulted by the Japanese invaders.What was particularly cruel was that the devils raped and murdered our female compatriots. They stabbed the victim's vulva with a bayonet, cut up the flesh with a knife, or stuffed other foreign objects into the vulva.A family in Yujiayuan, 4 women, were tortured to death in this way.The Japanese invaders who rampantly invaded the area of our factory are really full of four poisons: burning, killing, prostitution, and looting.Even the Army Headquarters of Chief Itagaki admitted: "If all the people who participated in our war were investigated one by one, they would probably all be criminals who murdered, robbed, and raped."
The people of the factory cellar cannot be insulted.During the period when the Japanese invaded our factory cellars, although limited by historical conditions, there was no organized resistance.However, the people of Changjiao, like the whole Chinese people, have always fought tenaciously against the Japanese invaders in various forms with an indomitable spirit.
Yi Qihua's wise killing of devil soldiers is a prominent example.When the enemy bandits harassed the factory cellar, there were many refugees hiding in the wormwood bushes in Wanwan Lake.At that time, Yi also took refuge here.At dusk, after a burst of gunshots, there was a sudden scream of a woman.It turned out that the devil had grabbed a woman and was looking for a boat to cross the lake to the west.Seeing the scene, he was immediately filled with anger. He was quick-witted and determined to save the female compatriot. He pulled out a fishing boat from the wormwood, put on a smiling face of "welcome the prince", and invited the devil and the woman to board the boat at the same time.Seeing that Yi was so "gracious", the devil thought the boatman was a "good citizen", so he relaxed his guard.When the boat sailed into the lake, Yi seized the opportunity to fight, and with the tacit cooperation of the female compatriot, after a struggle on the boat, he finally pulled out the saber from the devil and killed him.Yu Zeting, the former Yumin Brigade, is a national warrior who dares to fight and fight.Yu was in his 40s and met four devils chasing and killing him.He turned around to kill the enemy with a long axe, fought the devil alone, and smashed a gun of the devil with the axe.After being outnumbered, Yu's belly was stabbed by a devil, and his intestines flowed out, but he still pressed his hand on the wounded door and continued to fight. He took a bullpen gate bar, knocked over an enemy, and escaped safely.Zeng Dingman (18 years old at the time), a former student of Huxi Middle School who fled from Nanxian County and came to Yongguyuan, has a story of fighting against the enemy.When the devils killed him, he fought against the ground, and before he died, he shouted "Down with Japanese imperialism!"
There are still many compatriots who would rather sacrifice themselves than harm the interests of the nation.Tan Youting, Walian Township, was captured by the enemy and forced to go to Xiaotang to fish for a gun (abandoned by Kuomintang stragglers). He knew that the bullet would be like adding wings to the devil, so he always dealt with the Japanese invaders in a perfunctory manner.After fishing for guns for a day, he clearly found three machine guns and one rifle, but they all fell into the mud.It is also recorded that during the massacre by the Japanese invaders, there were more than 50 women who died heroically in the factory cellar and refused to be humiliated.One of them, a woman surnamed Xiao, was raped three times by Japanese beast soldiers, and she broke free all three times.The enemy soldiers chased her to the river, she was so desperate that she hugged the beast soldiers with one hand and rolled into the river together, drowning both the enemy and us.
The rare "Changjiao Massacre" is a strong evidence of the atrocities committed by the Japanese army invading China.
The hands of this group of fascist beast soldiers were stained with the blood of the people in our factory.The culprits of the crimes are the upper-level ruling group, the people who formulate policies, and the chief culprits of militarism. The "Changjiao Massacre" is the same as the massacres made by the Japanese army in other parts of our country: "The scale of the atrocities is huge...so there can only be one conclusion...that is, if such atrocities were not initiated by the Japanese government or What individual officials and army commanders ordered in secret was deliberately allowed by them." "... Most of these massacres were ordered by military officers, and some were ordered by senior generals; many times , the officers actually supervised, directed, and carried out the actual killing as it was carried out. … The following orders were included: 'When killing, they should be gathered as much as possible in one place, saving bullets and labour. …Whether When, the main purpose must be to prevent a single soldier from slipping through the net, to annihilate them all, and to leave no trace.' This order to massacre, among other things and includes all those who attempt to escape and may become the enemy's combat force, shall be implemented ".However, they start by hurting others and end up hurting themselves. The direct commander of the "Changjiao Massacre" and the commander-in-chief of the enemy dispatched troops stationed in Central China, Hata Shunroku, has finally been judged by history.After the end of the Anti-Japanese War, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the then international court.
The national catastrophe that occurred in the factory cellar is also a strong evidence of the Kuomintang Chiang Kai-shek regime's "false anti-Japanese, real anti-communist". Before the "Changjiao Massacre", the Kuomintang garrison stationed in the Binhu area "consisted of the 73rd Army and a part of the 44th Army, plus local miscellaneous troops, totaling about 100,000 people. The three counties of Nanxian, Huarong, and Anxiang There are 3 divisions of the 73rd Army stationed (the 5th Division is temporarily stationed in Huarong, the 15th Division is stationed in Anxiang, and the 77th Division is stationed in Nanxian County). In addition, there is also an artillery unit of the 44th Army stationed in Chishan, Yuanjiang (which belonged to Hanshou at that time). group".At that time, the Kuomintang army was already ten times stronger than the enemy's invading troops. If the terrain and people's conditions were added and many other favorable conditions, it was absolutely possible to repel the Japanese invasion of this area.But the result was just the opposite. The 100,000 Jiang army collapsed at the first touch, and half of the Dongting surrendered to the enemy in less than two months.At that time, a regiment of the 73rd Army stationed in Huarong was near the Yangtze River. After the devils crossed the river, the regiment leader Xiao was still gathering at the regiment headquarters.The enemy disguised himself as plainclothes, broke into the regiment headquarters and pretended to be a subordinate of the regiment, and reported to Commander Xiao, "Commander, the enemy's plainclothes are here!" "Here they come? Fight!" said the regiment leader. "Fight? Okay! Let's fight!" Just like that, the whole group was defeated.In the same year, on the "March 8th" Women's Day, the Huake people sent Cao Dianmo, the commander of the temporary 5th division, to go out to fight the enemy, and wished him a victory in leading the troops back to the camp. Trouble; if you lose the battle, why don't you go to 'there'!" Sure enough, the next day, Master Cao really went there (surrendered to the enemy).Huarong County fell like this.After the 5th Temporary Division surrendered to the enemy, the 77th Division stationed in Nanxian County and the 15th Division stationed in Anxiang, with a total of more than 10,000 officers and soldiers, fled without waiting for the Japanese army to push the border.Therefore, the Japanese army went all the way, as if entering the land of no one, they drove straight in.According to the investigation, before the Japanese invaders encircled the factory cellars, this group of Kuomintang troops only made a brief stop in Anxiang, Mahekou and other places.After the Japanese invaders encircled the factory cellar, they all collapsed soon.One of them escaped across the river from Xiaojiawan and other ferries, and it is estimated that there were about 5,000 people;At the same time, the Artillery Regiment of the 44th Army, which was stationed at the Chishan Highlands in the opposite direction, did not fire a single shot. , was buried alive in a pool of blood and flames.What is particularly sad is that Peng Weiren, the commander of the 73rd Army who commanded the Nanhuaan Garrison, had fled long before the incident and hid himself in a farmer's home in a downstream port, ignoring his third division headquarters.Xue Yue, the provincial chairman and commander-in-chief of the Ninth War Zone, who is charged with the heavy responsibility of guarding Hunan's territory, is even more absurd. He actually listened to the enemy's radio station to understand the dynamics of the front line and the whereabouts of his subordinates.
The "Changjiao Massacre" is a piece of history in the past, and history is very instructive.We look back at history in order not to forget the past.More importantly, we must learn lessons from the past, so as to inspire the national spirit even more, and carry out unremitting struggles for the construction and defense of our great motherland. Victory belongs to us, and historical tragedies must not be repeated!
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