Chapter 38 Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Two Big Sweeps of Bloodbath Hirayama

Pingshan County is located in the west of Hebei Province, at the eastern foot of Daxing Mountain, at the junction of Hebei and Shanxi provinces. The Hutuo River crosses the territory from west to east. There are many hills in the east and high mountains in the west. It is 70 miles away from Shijiazhuang, an important town in North China, and 50 miles away from Zhengtai Railway in the south. , the strategic position is important. On October 3, 1937, the Field Salvation Mission of the 359th Brigade of the 120th Division of the Eighth Route Army came to Pingshan, and together with the party organization in Pingshan, mobilized the people to establish an anti-Japanese base area behind enemy lines.During the eight-year Anti-Japanese War, the Northern Branch of the Communist Party of China, the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region, the Fourth Military Division, the Fourth Prefectural Committee, and the Third and Fifth Special Administrations lived here for a long time, organizing and leading the people in the anti-Japanese struggle.Under the leadership of the party, the people of Pingshan came in and out, had money and food, and more than 10,000 young people joined the Eighth Route Army. The 718 regiment of the 359 brigade was called the Pingshan regiment.Most of the fighters in the Eighth Brigade, Pinghuo Detachment, Eighth District Team, Ninth District Team, and Fifth Regiment of the Fourth Division were from Pingshan.At that time, it was true that his wife sent Lang to the battlefield, his mother asked his son to fight Dongyang, father and son joined the army together, and brothers rushed to join the army.The guerrillas, youth anti-Japanese vanguards, women's rescue associations, and children's regiments in each village stood guard, delivered rations, carried stretchers, joined the army, joined the army and participated in the war.People from all walks of life in Pingshan County merged into a vast ocean that engulfed the enemy, and every inch of land became a cemetery for the Japanese invaders.The team from the 4th Division and 8th Division has been praised by Chairman Mao. The Huishe Big Gun Team has attended the Heroes Meeting in the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region.Pingshan County is known as the anti-Japanese model county in the Jinchaji border area.

The Japanese invaders hated the people of Pingshan for their continuous anti-Japanese struggle, and they always wanted to extinguish the anti-Japanese war of the people of Pingshan.They built bunkers, dug blockade ditches, built blockade walls, and established no-man's land in Pingshan. They repeatedly gathered heavy troops, besieged, raided, and repeatedly "mopped up."Wherever the Japanese army went, they raped, burned, killed, looted property, and committed all kinds of crimes.During the eight years, the Japanese army committed dozens of massacres in Pingshan, killing more than 14,000 unarmed civilians in our county, and more than 34,000 people died of burning, killing, looting and disease.Only in 1941 and 1943, the two bloody "sweeps" of Pingshan killed 4,330 innocent compatriots.

On August 23, 1941, the Japanese invaders mobilized more than 17,000 troops and began a two-month "sweep" against the four divisions of Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei.Pingshan County is the residence of the military area and division, and it is also a model county for anti-Japanese war, so it has become the focus of the enemy's "mopping up". At the beginning of the "mopping up", the enemy attacked Pingshan from all directions, killing people, burning houses, and looting things, causing 12 major tragedies and killing 1,364 of our compatriots. Donkey Mountain, it is said that Zhang Guolao rode a donkey backwards, and there were donkey hoof prints on the mountain, so it got its name.There are more than a dozen villages at the foot of the mountain. In the autumn of 1941, after the Japanese army's "sweep" began, they first occupied Wentang Town across the river to the east of Lushan Mountain, and then occupied Hongzidian Town, 7 miles west of Lushan Mountain, forming a double-sided attack on Lushan Mountain. .

On the early morning of July 21 in the lunar calendar, people were rushing to harvest early-maturing crops when they suddenly found "message trees" falling down one after another at the lookout post of Shanglian Village on the top of the mountain, which told people that the Japanese army had been dispatched from all directions.After the cadres and masses of the villages fortified the walls and cleared the fields, they quickly moved into the mountains.This time the Japanese troops were divided into five groups and surrounded on all sides: one route went from the west along Bailongchi Village upwards to hold various mountain passes on the west side of Donkey Mountain;After the Japanese army entered the village, they burned, killed and looted. Wherever they went, no chickens or dogs were left behind.Immediately, the villages around Donkey Mountain were filled with smoke and flames shot into the sky.The people hiding on the mountain saw the thick smoke billowing in the village, and they were very anxious.At this time, the Japanese army in Lengquan Village had a vicious plan and forced the captured peasants to shout: "Folks! The devil is gone, come back and put out the fire!" .When I went to the village, I saw that the Japanese soldiers hadn't left, so I hurried to the direction of Donkey Mountain.Unexpectedly, the Japanese and puppet troops had already occupied the commanding heights around the village, shooting at the masses with machine guns.The Japanese army saw a large number of people fleeing into Eishigou, west of Liangjiayao Village, and followed them.After entering the ditch, they used machine guns to shoot, and many people fell into a pool of blood. The Japanese army seized more than 20 people from a cave, and more than 40 people from other caves.Among them are elderly people in their sixties and seventies, as well as nursing children.The Japanese army used bayonets to force people to form a line, pulled out a young woman Wang Rangni from the line, forced her to take off her clothes, and then asked her to stand at attention, take a rest, squat down, and stand up.The Japanese soldiers laughed wildly, having insulted enough, they dragged Wang aside and stabbed him to death.Wang Chaoyu, a woman from Liangjiayao, embraced a 3-year-old boy. The Japanese army slammed a bayonet, pierced the child, lifted it high, spun it around a few times, and fell into Wang Chaoyu's arms again.Afterwards, Wang Chaoyu was stabbed twice in the chest and abdomen. Wang Chaoyu glared at him. The Japanese stabbed Wang Chaoyu a third time in his stomach, and his intestines flowed out.Wang Chaoyu survived the catastrophe, and there is still a pimple on her belly that looks like a human head.Li Qingshu, Wang Chaoyu's niece and daughter-in-law, was 10 months pregnant. The Japanese army stabbed her in the stomach, and she died tragically immediately.In Eshigou alone, the Japanese army killed 78 people from Lengquan Village, 46 people from Liangjiayao, and more than 300 people from neighboring villages.Only 14-year-old Wang Yongxiang from Dachenzhuang was the only one who was injured by chance in the whole ditch. Because Wang Chaoyu's mother-in-law was assassinated, the corpse was pressed on him, and another assassinated corpse fell beside him in the east. In the middle of the corpse, the whole body was covered with blood, and Wang took advantage of the situation to pretend to be dead, so he saved his life.

In Hongcaowa Miaogou, the Japanese army first stripped dozens of women naked, picked them up with bayonets, played with them and insulted them, and then stabbed them to death with bayonets one by one.Under a big persimmon tree in Miaogou, there are piles of brutally murdered corpses.The Japanese army slaughtered more than 200 compatriots in Miaogou.Huo Xizhuang's Shun family on Tuesday, 9 people were killed in one day. The Japanese army "mopping up" in Bailongchi drove more than 20 people who were hiding in Zhao Bingjia to the field.When the Japanese army was about to shoot, the crowd ran into the three yards to take shelter.The Japanese army blocked the door and set fire to the house with straw.Liu Mingming, a 14-year-old girl from Damiyu Village, ran desperately from the flames to escape, half of her face was burned.The remaining 20 people were burned alive.The 9-year-old boy Zhao Kukan and the 7-year-old boy Zhao Bingxi from Zhao Bing's family were killed.The Japanese army searched every house, every cave, rummaged under every bushy tree, and killed anyone they saw.Dozens of people were also killed in the whole temple.In the Bailongchi with a radius of six or seven miles, there were tragic corpses everywhere in various valleys and ditches, killing more than 160 people in total.Among them, 74 people were killed in Damiyu and Bailongchi.In Weipiaogou, Chunshuwan, Wangwugou, Nanhongcaowa, Yanqueshigou and other villas, many people were brutally killed.

The Donkey Mountain massacre affected more than 10 villages including Bailongchi, Dachenzhuang, Zhongchenzhuang, Liangjiayao, Lengquan, Hongcaojia and Huoxizhuang, and more than 700 people were killed.In five villages including Lengquan and Liangjiayao, more than 1,000 houses were burned down.Farm animals, pigs, sheep, clothes, bedding, etc. were looted. The killing and looting by the Japanese army aroused even greater hatred and resistance from the people of Lushan.They turned their grief into strength, and young and middle-aged people enthusiastically joined the army and participated in the war. In 1942 alone, more than 150 people from the villages around Donkey Mountain honorably enlisted in the army and went to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War.Men, women and children are in the rear, giving birth while supporting the war of resistance.Not only was the fire of resistance against Japan not extinguished, but it burned even more vigorously.

On September 14, 1941 (July 23rd in the lunar calendar), more than a thousand Japanese and puppet troops attacked our Donghuangni, Dongbaipo, Xibaipo, Tongjiakou, Nanzhuang, Beizhuang, Gaijiayu, Yanweigou, Xigou The people of 11 villages, Baijiazhuang, Chenjiayuan and Chenjiayuan carried out bloody massacres.In the same day, 588 innocent Chinese people were massacred, causing the appalling "July 23" massacre. In the early morning of that day, more than 100 Japanese soldiers secretly crossed the river from behind the temple in the north of Hongzidian, climbed up to the top of Laohuwo Mountain in the east of Donghuangni Village via the mouth of Wendu River, and then surrounded the village along the ditch.The Japanese troops who came out from the Baijiazhuang stronghold took several machine guns and went up to Pigeon Cliff. The Japanese troops who came from the Hongzidian and Sujiazhuang strongholds blocked the access to Baiergou, and set up traps in Yaoergou to prepare Arrests.

At around 7 o'clock, the Japanese army on Pigeon Cliff in the west of the village fired machine guns at the village.The crowd heard the gunshots and hurried to move out of the village.Some go to Baiergou, some go to Yaoergou.As soon as the people transferred from Benbaergou left the village entrance, they were shot by Japanese machine guns.Hurrying back, some people hid in the green gauze tents and rice paddies in the south of the village, and the other part turned to Yaoergou. Unexpectedly, the Japanese army set up a card in Yaoergou in advance, and all the people fell into the Japanese army's net.

The Japanese army surrounded the masses to the side of the spring near Mizoguchi and the soil bank on the south side of the Mizoguchi, and there was a place called "slicing garlic tools", where the masses stood side by side.The Japanese commander howled, and the Japanese soldiers with bayonets all stabbed the crowd.Two rows of unarmed people fell to the ground one after another.After the people on the soil bank were stabbed to death with bayonets by the Japanese army, they were kicked to the bottom of the bank one by one.Qi Mengdong's daughter-in-law, Liu Fujun, was stabbed five or six times by the Japanese army and fell into a pool of blood while holding the little girl who had just turned one month old in her arms.Her little girl was crying, and the Japanese soldiers stepped over the corpse and stabbed the girl to death with bayonets.Qi Menghu's daughter-in-law used her body to protect her son, and both mother and son were stabbed to death by the Japanese army with bayonets.A child named Wang Laixi was stabbed twice in the back of the heart with a bayonet by the Japanese army and died.Some people fell to the ground and rolled over in excruciating pain after being stabbed, with their fingers digging into the soil several inches deep, while the Japanese soldiers laughed.

After the Japanese army carried out massacres outside the village, they entered the village and searched and massacred people from house to house.There were 30 to 40 people hidden inside and outside the courtyard of Qi Lianxi's house. The Japanese army smashed the door into the courtyard and opened fire. , Pounced on the Japanese army.Later, because he couldn't resist, he retreated to the back room and was shot and killed by the Japanese army.Qi Haiqing's home was in the east of the village. The Japanese soldiers took Qi Haiqing's mother away as soon as they entered the house. Qi Haiqing picked up a rolling pin and chased outside the door.A Japanese soldier's arm was broken.Another seven or eight Japanese soldiers rushed forward. Qi Haiqing continued to fight without fear, and finally broke the rolling pin into two pieces.When Qi Haiqing died, his eyes were wide open and his fists were clenched. An old man in his 60s, Qi Erxiao, rushed out of the house with a kitchen knife and stabbed the Japanese soldier in the head.The son of Wang Yanping's family was named Bald. When the Japanese army stabbed him with a bayonet, he held on to the Japanese bayonet with one hand. The Japanese army slammed the bayonet and cut off all five of his fingers.Then the Japanese army stabbed him with bayonets. After waking up, he endured severe pain and crawled into the nearby pig shed.Later, the Japanese army didn't see Baldy's body, so they searched for the blood, pulled Baldy out, and stomped on his body until the blood gushed out from his chest before stopping.

The massacre by the Japanese army in Donghuangni lasted from 7:00 am to 10:00 am, killing 136 villagers and injuring 23 others. In the early morning of September 14 (July 23rd in the lunar calendar), people in Dongbaipo Village and Xibaipo Village were getting up. "The devil is coming! The devil is coming!" The shouts followed.People in the village, with their children and daughters, hurried up to the east of the village.The Japanese army charged at the crowd like wolves.Wang Jinzhong's daughter-in-law, Qi Yuqiu, has been pregnant for several months. She is holding her two-year-old son in her arms, and she is pulling her 8-year-old daughter along with her. The Japanese bayonet stabbed her chest, and she hurriedly grabbed the Japanese bayonet with her hand, and the bayonet cut off several of her fingers.The Japanese army stabbed him a few more times, killing Qi Qijia.Another Japanese soldier chopped off her daughter's head and set it aside.The two-year-old son crawled in a pool of blood beside his mother, crying and starving to death. Yan Zhihe, brothers Yan Zhizhong and others were captured. After the Japanese army pierced Yan Zhizhong to death with a bayonet, they raised their feet to wipe the blood on the bayonet. Yan Zhihe and Liu Menghua took the opportunity to escape along the ditch. Eight-year-old Yan Geng had his father, mother, and younger sister killed, and Yan Geng was stabbed 13 times.Afterwards, my uncle returned to Yan Gengeng, but there was no medicine to treat him, and the incision turned into thickened maggots, and he survived with all kinds of nursing care.There are still several scars on my back.On this day, a total of 81 compatriots were killed in Dongbaipo and Xibaipo. There is a mountain in the north of Tongjiakou Village, called Xingshan. During the "mopping up" by the Japanese army, people were not allowed to stay in the village, so they dug holes in Xingshangou to hide. On September 14, before dawn, the enemy occupied the east and west ridges of Xingshan Mountain, and surrounded the Xingshan Valley with water.At breakfast, hundreds of Japanese and puppet soldiers laid out their things like combs.Combing from top to bottom, every piece of land, every gully, and soil bank must be searched several times, no matter men, women, old or young, they will stab everyone they see, and they will not let anyone go.When the enemy discovered the earthen cave dwellings, they called the crowd out, stabbed one to death, and threw grenades, machine guns, and firewood into the caves if they did not come out.Seventeen people were killed by Japanese invaders in a cave above and below Ren Yongsheng's cemetery.People hiding in the crop fields were also stabbed to death on the spot by the enemy. The three devils lined up the 24 captured people and hacked them with knives.The first one was Feng Renying. When the enemy stabbed him down, Renying's head and half of her arm were cut off.Seeing this tragic situation, Feng Huni and Feng Fuliang ran away. They jumped off the bank and crossed the ditch.The remaining 22 people were all hacked to death by the enemy. Feng Maolin was surrounded by three devils holding bayonets. The two devils stabbed at him from the east and west sides at the same time. Guan, suddenly pressed down, the two enemies couldn't take away the guns, and they couldn't pick them up, so they were terrified.When the enemy was stunned, he swiped the gun upwards with both hands, making the two enemies sideways.He took the opportunity to escape like a gust of wind and took his life.On this day, 96 people were killed in Xingshangou, and 20 people were arrested. Among them, 4 people were killed and 16 people fled back. A total of 100 people were killed. "Take dry food and carry quilts on your back, and devils don't go to sleep on the ground." This is a ballad sung by the people in Nanzhuang during the Anti-Japanese War.That's what they sang, and that's what they did. In the fall of 1941, the Japanese army "mopped up" and the masses in Nanzhuang took Zhang Dagou and Xiaolingbei as hiding places.In order to harvest wheat in autumn, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled hid in the ditch, and the young and strong returned to the village to produce. They fought, produced, and dealt with the enemy at the same time. At about two o'clock on September 14, a wave of enemies suddenly crossed the Hutuo River from Shuimen Cliff and rushed towards Nanzhuang.At this time, Wang Zengzeng and Wang Zhengji, who were standing guard by the river, ran back to the village to report when they saw the situation.The cadres and masses of Liu Village quickly moved to Zhangdagou in Beishan.The enemy rushed into the village, and also chased Beishan, and surrounded Zhang Dagou and Xiaolingbei. After dawn, the Japanese army began to search the mountains, killing anyone they saw.Wang Weihan's family hid in a small earthen kiln, and no matter how much the enemy yelled, they couldn't come out. The devils rushed into the kiln and stabbed all six members of his family to death.Four members of Wang Zengwei's family were stabbed to death in the same way. After death, they were disemboweled and thrown into the fire to be charred.The enemy also captured 14 people from Nanzhuang and forced them to go to the threshing ground of Wang Shengzhuang and Wang Shengda. heap.Wang Yinxue survived the stabbing. After being stabbed, Liu Da rolled into a nearby pit while the enemy was not paying attention and pretended to be dead. Except for these two who escaped, the other 12 people were all burned so badly that their bodies were hard to identify.While killing people, the enemy raped women.After some women were gang-raped, they were stabbed to death with bayonets inserted into their vaginas. Village public security officer Wang Shitou was confiscated by the enemy.The enemy forced him to reveal who the cadres were and where the public food was hidden.Wang Shishi didn't say a word.The enemy beat him to pieces, and passed out several times. He was sprayed with cold water to wake him up and asked again, but he still found nothing.In the end, the enemy tied him to a tree and opened him up. Wang Qingtai was running on the ridge of the big canal, and ran into a devil head-on.The devil's gun was slung over his shoulder, and Wang Qingtai didn't wait for the enemy to take it off, he ran up to him and grabbed it with his hand.The devil was anxious, and bit Wang Qingtai's nose. Wang Qingtai held the gun with one hand, and grabbed the enemy's cheek with the other and tore it forcefully. The enemy let go with a scream and dropped the gun.Wang Qingtai was running with a gun, and the enemy chased and shouted.Other enemies heard the shouts and blocked them from both sides.Seeing that the situation was not good, Wang Qing threw the gun into the ditch.Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese aggressors going into the water to get their guns, he escaped and escaped. On this day, the enemy killed 70 people in Nanzhuang, and the plane killed two people. There is a valley in the north of Beizhuang Village called Muhuyu.This is the place where nearby villagers concentrated and hid during the enemy's "mopping up".That day, before dawn, the enemy surrounded Muhuyu.There were five cave dwellings under a dirt bank, all of which were discovered by the enemy. The Japanese invaders roared and drove people out of the cave, killing each one when they came out, and stuffing them with firewood and burning them to death.When Qi Bingbing saw the cruelty of the Japanese invaders, he was furious. He rushed forward, grabbed the enemy's gun, and fought with the enemy. Another enemy rushed over and stabbed Qi Bingbing in the chest with a bayonet.After Qi Bingbing was injured, he jumped into the pool and died due to excessive bleeding.The Japanese invaders killed more than 30 men, women and children inside and outside the kiln. The Japanese invaders searched Liu Village house by house.Shi Shuangcheng's grandmother was 86 years old, and Zhang Lizhi's grandmother was over 70 years old. They hid at home, were found by the enemy, dragged to the street, pushed into the fire, and burned alive. The cruelty of the enemy aroused the great anger of the people.Holding a kitchen knife, Feng Xiongwei hid in ten huts by the side of the road. When a group of enemies passed by, a ghost came alone. !” The enemy was caught without a fight. In this massacre, 7 members of the Feng Yujie and Feng Yuchun brothers' families were killed, including their father, mother, older sister and two younger brothers; Zhang Xixi was also stabbed in the stomach by the enemy, and was raised by his uncle.Shi Songshou's family of five, including his mother, wife, and son, were killed.On this day, 55 people were killed in Beizhuang Village, 629 houses were burnt down, 52 livestock, 146 sheep, 6 pigs, 212 shi of grain and 179 bedding were taken away. There is a valley in the north of Gaijiayu Village——Zhangjiagou. The Shandagou is deep and there are many forks. On September 14, the enemy surrounded Zhangjiagou and killed anyone they saw.Only in the lower half ditch killed 51 of my compatriots.In Gaijiayu Village, 12 old, weak, sick and disabled people were found, and all of them were stabbed to death with bayonets.A total of 63 innocent people were killed on this day. Yanweigou is a small mountain village with only 40 households and 240 people. On September 14, 1941, more than 30 people who fled were hidden in a corn field called Fangjiagou.The enemy's footsteps "chacha" on the mountain ridge can be heard clearly.At this moment, Ren Qingrong's breastfeeding child was about to cry. If the crying attracted the enemy, where would the lives of these 30 people still be?In desperation, Qingrong covered the child's mouth with his hands, the child's face was livid and fainted, and Qingrong let go of his hand.The child regained his breath and was about to cry again. Qing Rong was upset and covered his mouth again. In this way, the child passed out three or four times until the Japanese invaders withdrew. Unfortunately, Qi Xiurong and Ren Liubao were caught by the enemy, and after escaping home, they became mentally ill and died soon after. Ren Fuzeng, the village head, and Ren Wuduocan, director of the Armed Forces Committee, were killed. Ren Erzhu's family of 6, including 4 grandmothers, mothers, older brothers, and younger sisters, were killed.The whole village was killed by the enemy 17 people. Xigou is a small villa located at the foot of Fengshan Mountain. On September 14, Japanese invaders entered the village and killed everyone they met.The guerrilla leader Wei Ru found the enemy and ran fast. The enemy was chasing him with a gun and was about to catch up. Wei Ru picked up a stone and shouted: "Look at you!"Hearing an ouch, the enemy fell to the ground and Wei Ru ran away. On this day, the enemy killed Qi Heihei, Wei Sanyaba, Tang Shuang..., Jin Heisi, Han Kouju, his mother, sister, and nephew in Xigou, a total of 9 people. On September 14, the Japanese army, led by the traitor Grasshopper, raided Baijiazhuang Village. People in the village fled to the Langwo Cave in the west of the village.After the enemy entered the village, they searched in the mountains around Langwodong. Six-year-old Ji Lianwu and his mother were stabbed three or four times each.Li Rongshan and his parents, Li Zhenlin, Li Zhentang, Li Zhenchang, Li Quanfu's mother and son, Li Tao's father and son, and Li Taini were all killed.Ji Sanniu, a self-defense member, is tall and strong. A devil stabbed him with a bayonet.At this time, another enemy shot and killed Ji Sanniu.The enemy seized Li Shuguo and let him lead the way to attack Liujiagou.Li Shuguo led the enemy around Wanzi and around the mountain ridges.When the enemy found out, he stabbed him to death.On this day, 21 people from Baijiazhuang Village were killed and 6 were injured in Langwodong. In the autumn of 1941, after the Japanese army's "mopping up" began, they occupied Chenjiayuan and used it as a temporary stronghold.Every day before dawn, hundreds of Japanese troops were dispatched into the valleys and villages to search.Lock up the captured common people in the courtyard of Li Yinglong's house.There are 7 north and south rooms in Li's courtyard, and 5 east and west wing rooms. The north side is surrounded by a wall seven or eight feet high.The Japanese army placed guard posts on all sides and was heavily guarded. One day, the Japanese army drove the captured people from the house to the yard.A leader of the Japanese army stood on the steps of the yard, gesticulating in front of the arrested people, finished his training, and then interrogated them one by one. First pull out Huo Qishi, the guerrilla leader of Chenjiayuan Village.The Japanese army forced him to ask him where the Eighth Route and the cadres were?He replied that he did not know.The Japanese soldiers slapped him twice, tied him up, beat his head with a stick, and choked his mouth.Huo Qishi puffed out his chest and didn't groan.The Japanese army asked another guy to untie him, and laughed wildly and said, "If you don't kill me!" At this time, Huo Qishi suddenly rushed out of the door and sneaked into a large group of Japanese soldiers on the street.The Japanese army bombed the battalion all at once.Huo Qishi ran on a rampage, crossing the street and over the wall, and ran out of the village.Several Japanese soldiers chased after him and shot Huo Qishi in the buttocks.Huo Qishi covered the wound with his hands, ran to Dacun (the name of the village) as hard as he could, and passed out on the street.Seeing that Huo Qishi was injured, the Eighth Route Army who lived in Dacun did everything possible to rescue him.Due to excessive bleeding, he could not be rescued. Li Gongji is from Xiaobeitou Village.When the Japanese army interrogated him, seeing that he did not look like a farmer, they said that he was a cadre of the Eighth Route Army, and asked him to tell where the Eighth Route Army's warehouse was stored.Li Gongji said that he ran a medicine shop, but the Japanese soldiers said, "Your, the medicine shop is open all over the place!"Li Gongji was knocked to the ground, unconscious. Interrogated like this for a day, the person being interrogated would rather die than surrender.The Japanese army used scissors to cut off people's hair, smeared a layer of black oil on their heads, and locked people into the house. On the morning of September 13, several Japanese soldiers came to Guanren's house and wowed for a while, and escorted nine young people including Zhao Chunyu out.A puppet soldier stared and said, "I'll take you back to your hometown tomorrow!" After speaking, he locked the people in the house and locked it. On September 14, before dawn, the Japanese army set up machine guns on the roof of Li Yinglong's house.There were also more than 200 Japanese soldiers standing on the title, at the door, in the courtyard and around the pigsty with shining bayonets.A Japanese soldier unlocked the door, kicked open the door, and escorted the captured people to the side of the pigsty two by two, forcing them to kneel down.The Japanese army brandished a big foreign knife and chopped off people's heads.Cut off the head and kick the body into the pigsty.Some did not kneel, and the Japanese soldiers pierced them through the back with bayonets.From about 6 o'clock, more than 40 people were killed before 10 o'clock.Dead bodies filled the pigsty.The Japanese soldiers also kicked and kicked the heads that fell on the side of the pigsty, laughing wildly for fun.The heads of Li Erbao and his son from Xiaobeitou Village, and Su Xicai from Diaoli Village were kicked and played by the Japanese soldiers in the same way. The Japanese army massacred 42 of my compatriots in the pigsty of Chenjiayuan Village.On the same day, another 14 people were killed near the well in the east of the village, and 18 people were killed in the kiln in the north of the village. Together with Huo Qishi, a total of 75 people were killed. In September 1943, the Japanese army mobilized more than 40,000 troops to carry out a three-month devastating "mopping up" of Beiyue District in Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei, especially Pingshan and Fuping counties, causing 13 major tragedies in Pingshan , Killed 2966 of my compatriots. In the northeast of Wakou River in Pingshan County, there are three villages called Fantugou, Lengquan and Wanzi.The mountains and rivers here are vertical and horizontal, and the peaks are undulating.The nearby Huangzhongzhai, Beiding and Wangmuguan Mountains are the three highest peaks in the group, and the terrain is extremely dangerous. From 1939 to 1942, the headquarters of the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Military Region lived in Zhaibei and Chenjiayuan in Wakouchuan. In February 1943, the Japanese army occupied Nandian Town, along the Nandian River, starting from Qingtan in the north, passing through Anli, Nandian, and Hujia Town, and establishing a second blockade line to Wangmu Village (the first line was in Lingshou ). On September 19th (August 20th in the Yi calendar), the Japanese army eroded another 20 li to the west, and established a third blockade line at Wanzi, Lengquan, and Fantugou.Wangmuguan Beishan in the north of Wanzi Village, Beiding in the north of Lengquan, and Huangjinzhai in the west of Fantugou are all above 1,000 meters above sea level.Standing in Huangjinzhai, you can look at Hongzidian and Jiayu in the west; Dawuchuan in the south; Sanji and Lingshou County in the east; Zhaojiazhuang, Chenjiayuan, Zhaibei and Huikou in Wakouchuan in the southwest are all within the range of artillery fire within.Standing on the north top and the Queen Mother watching Beishan, the north can monitor Chenzhuang and Zhaitou in Lingshou County; the south can control the Nandian area. After the Japanese army's autumn "sweep" began, four to five thousand civilians were arrested from counties such as Wuji, Gaocheng, Zhaoxian, Luancheng, Yuanshi, Zanhuang, and Huolu, and a large number of civilians were arrested from Pingshan County. , Build forts and build roads in these three places.After one winter and one spring, three groups of fortresses were built: the first group is dominated by Huangjinzhai, with three forts built on the mountain and two in Fantugou at the foot of the mountain; the second group is dominated by the north top, with three forts built on the mountain. There are two cold springs at the foot of the mountain; the third group is dominated by Queen Mother Guan Beishan, with eight fortresses built at Beishan, Huangtujian, Solajian, and Yilajian. Two fortresses were built in Zicun.In order to build these three groups of fortresses, the Japanese army killed more than 1,800 Chinese compatriots.At that time, the common people said: The fortresses of the Japanese army were piled up with the bones of my compatriots. Under the threat of Japanese bayonets, the captured militiamen went up the mountain to build forts and roads.The mountain is high and steep, and the road is difficult to walk. It takes more than 20 miles to carry materials from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain.The work was heavy and tiring, and I was not allowed to eat enough, and sometimes I stopped.The mistress was caught in autumn.After winter, their clothes are worn out.The cold wind was bitter and piercing.In mid-winter at minus fifteen or six degrees Celsius, with no cotton-padded clothes and no food in their stomachs, they were all blue and blue from the cold.People wrap straw bags or paper bags filled with cement as clothes.If people were neglected in their work, the Japanese soldiers would beat them with rifle butts and sticks until their skins were torn apart and blood dripping from the beatings.Every day, people died of freezing and starvation, sometimes as many as 40 to 50 people. The Japanese army was afraid that people would escape, so there were guard posts everywhere.Those who escaped were captured and shot to death by the Japanese army.Those who can't catch up will be shot and killed.Still, every day someone escapes. There was an old man in Huangjinzhai who was arrested to repair the fort. He was over 60 years old and couldn't bear the torture of the Japanese army. He escaped and was captured by the Japanese army.First, various tortures were used, and finally the old man's head was cut off with a knife, and the old man's head was tied to a tree with a straw rope for public display.The next day, Wang Chenzhuang's militiamen came to work, and a Japanese soldier shouted: "Come here, children!" He called An Bingzi and Yang Gouzi, who were eighteen or nine years old, to the tree with their heads hanging on them, and gestured with their hands. , Let the head be untied from the tree.An Bingzi said, "My lord, I can't go up." The Japanese soldier pointed a bayonet at An Bingzi's chest, "Your, if you don't go up, you're dead!" An Bingzi had no choice but to go up a tree and decapitate When he got down, the Japanese army forced him to wash his head and face by the river ditch.After washing, the Japanese soldiers planted the sharpened wooden planks by the roadside and stuck the heads on them.He also forced Yang Gouzi to prop up the eyelids of the human head with thatch sticks.It was written on the board: "Whoever escapes again will be treated like this!" The old man's head had been stuck there for more than two months.At that time, there was only a dozen or so steps away from Fantugou Village with such a human head stuck in it. During the "mopping up", the Japanese captured 9 people from Nanzhuang Village, including Wang Rongrong, Wang Ergen, Wang Hanjie, Wang Sansuo, Wang Fafa, Wang Gengxue, Wang Lulu and Wang Ershuan.These people were caught in Huangzhong Village and stuffed into a cellar.This place was already full of people, but they were stuffed in like carrots.They often do not give food or water for two or three days, and force people to carry stones up the mountain to build the fort.Wang Sansuo was so hungry that he grabbed all the rotten cotton from his torn cotton coat to satisfy his hunger.The release time was irregular, and those who died in the cellar because of inhuman torture were dragged out by the Japanese army and thrown into the wild.Wang Ershuan was so skinny that he didn't look like a human being. Seeing that he was dying, the Japanese army pulled him out and threw him into the wild.Wang climbed to a mountain villa, was carried home by the common people, rescued and nursed, and survived by luck.Of the 9 people arrested in Nanzhuang Village, except for Wang Ershuan, the other 8 people all died on the mountain. It was a cold day, and some militiamen escaped and were captured by the Japanese army. They put them on the roof, stripped off their clothes, tied their hands behind their backs, put them on with wire, and knelt in the biting cold wind to survive the cold. Some had their noses pierced through their ears, some through their clavicles, and some through their heel tendons. The Japanese and puppet soldiers guarding the watchtower would occasionally use the iron wires to penetrate them. It took only a day or two, and most of them were tortured to death.One or two survivors were kicked off the roof by the Japanese and puppet soldiers, dragged to the edge of the village and buried alive.There are five such pits near Fantugou Village, 20 people are buried in the small pit, and 60 to 70 people are buried in the big pit. Migrant worker Xin Zhizhong recalled: "The devils were afraid that the militiamen would escape, so they organized all 12 militiamen into a squad. One escaped in the squad, and in addition to killing the escaped, another person in the squad was killed. Later, in a certain village, one escaped and killed again. A fellow countryman. Once, four escaped fellows were captured by electronics, all of whom were fellow villagers of Wakouchuan. The devils drove all the peasants in the yard to a wheat threshing field, and surrounded them in a circle with Japanese puppets The 4 people under the guard of the army. Japanese and puppet soldiers with guns and live ammunition stood outside the circle. A Japanese army leader gave a lecture first, and then beheaded the 4 people on the spot. The blood was more than a foot high, and the head rolled far away. In Tugou, there were four such killings within 20 days." The Japanese army slaughtered civilians with many tricks, such as biting foreign dogs, pouring water on top, stabbing live targets, hanging sky lanterns, and what is called "broken persimmons". Old and infirm servants, or those who were slightly negligent in their work, were kicked off the cliff and fell to the bottom of the cliff, where they were thrown like "rotten persimmons".In the West Cliff of Huangjinzhai alone, more than 200 people were killed. In the front yard of the office in Jiaojiazhuang Village, Wentang Township, stands a "monument" with the inscription: In 1943, the Japanese army mobilized 30,000 to 40,000 troops, and from September 16 to December 15, they carried out a 30-month "sweep" on Beiyue District in Shanxi, Chahar and Hebei. In the early morning of September 23 (the 21st day of the eighth lunar month), the Japanese army occupied Jiaojiazhuang.The Jiaojiazhuang Party Branch set up the guerrilla village office in Jingjiazhuang, a neighboring village, to lead the masses to persevere in the struggle according to the needs of anti-"sweeping up". of the Japanese army. The Japanese army discovered that there was a sentry post on Heishi Ridge, and tried to destroy it.One day at dawn, the Japanese army secretly climbed up the mountain from Xigou, and was discovered by the guerrillas.When the Japanese army climbed halfway up the mountain, bullets and grenades were fired at the Japanese army.The Japanese army rolled down the hillside one after another.Suddenly, the Japanese troops from the north and east were also surrounded by guerrilla groups, and the encirclement circle became smaller and smaller.Zhang Chengyi, the instructor of the guerrilla group, ordered: "I will cover you, and you retreat quickly!" Under the cover of Zhang Chengyi, the guerrilla group rushed out of the encirclement of the Japanese army. Start melee.In the end, they were outnumbered and fell into the hands of the Japanese army.The Japanese soldiers beat Zhang Chengyi with leather whips and wooden sticks, and stabbed his legs with bayonets.He was brave and unyielding, shouting: "Down with Japanese imperialism! Long live the Communist Party of China! Long live the Chinese nation!" The brutal Japanese army cut off Zhang Chengyi's tongue.He glared at the Japanese army, and the Japanese army gouged out his eyes. In the end, Zhang Chengyi died a heroic sacrifice. After the Japanese army occupied Jiaojiazhuang, they burned, killed, looted, and plundered the surrounding area every day, arrested civilians, and detained the captured people in the houses of Li Luzi, Li Zhengming, and Li Gaoliang.They were not given food or water, and were often beaten and interrogated.Every day, people are forced to go to various villages to transport food for them.Those who were tortured to the point of being unable to walk were cut, chopped, burned, stabbed, and thrown into the well after death.People are being killed almost every day. Late one night, the captured refugees whispered to each other: "It's better to fight the devils with your neck stretched out to die! Only by fighting can you have hope of living!" Everyone agreed to act the next day.The next day, when the Japanese army drove the people to the street again, the Communist Party member Qi Laoyin glanced at the comrades behind him, and the people understood, and then shouted in unison: "Compatriots, fight the devils!" Before falling, several Japanese soldiers escorted by the team were smashed to death with stones and bricks by people who broke their ropes, and lay down on the street with injuries.At this time, a large number of Japanese troops came and surrounded the resisting masses. People fought with the Japanese soldiers with bare hands.The corpse was thrown into the well by the Japanese army. The 8 people who were beaten to death were also hacked to death and thrown into the well after being beaten by the Japanese army in every possible way.Hongcaowa Shifang was escorted to the well, before the Japanese army stabbed him.One strode into the well and got under a donkey skeleton next to the wall of the well. The Japanese soldiers threw stones into the well but did not hit him.There were hundreds of corpses in the well, bloody and foul smelling, and he persisted until midnight before he crawled out of the well and narrowly escaped death.This time, 105 people were killed and thrown into Li Zhengming's well. There are two door panels on the wellhead of Li Gaoliang's house, on which there are guillotines.日军把群众铡成两截和三截扔入井里。日军在这里共铡死160人。井边的墙，被染成了血墙。溅在墙上的血，结成厚厚的一层血痴。 李录子家的井里塞满了110具尸体，完全是大刀砍死的。被日军残杀我同胞的尸体还堆满了王顺心、贾有录家的两个大猪圈。这就是人们所说的“三井两猪圈”。其实全村10口水井，井井都有死人。日军在焦家庄盘踞28天，共残杀焦家庄和附近村庄群众400余人。同时，还砍光全村所有树木，烧毁700多间房屋。群众的农具、家具、衣服、被褥也被焚毁。一个风景秀丽的山村，变成了一片废墟。 柏叶沟位于平山县西部深山山区的柳林河畔，是晋察冀边区的腹地。附近村庄住着边区银行、四分区供给处、卫生处等单位。1943年秋冬，日军对根据地，搞了三个月的大“扫荡”，柏叶沟是日军“扫荡”的重点之一。 1943年12月7日（农历十月十一）深夜，日军黑田支队由汉奸张树俭（解放后被镇压）带领，分四路包围柏叶沟。8日凌晨，日军摸进村里，挨家挨户进行搜查。正在熟睡的100多名群众，被砸门而入的日军逼到柏叶沟下庄梁四小家的北屋里。房前屋后站满了日伪军，他们把老百姓的门窗、家具堆在一起，点着火焚烧，还烧了一大锅开水，扬言要火焚、锅煮我同胞。 刽子手黑田，从人群中拽出梁贵文的儿子梁丑小。“谁是干部，八路的哪里去了？说了皇军糖块大大的有！”说着拿出一把糖塞在梁丑小手里。“不知道！”梁丑小一边说一边把糖块扔在地上。黑田抽出东洋刀搁在梁丑小的脖子上：“小孩，你的不说，死了死了地！”这时汉奸张树俭走过来，皮笑肉不笑地说，“小孩子不要怕，说出谁是干部，给你好吃的，还送你回家。”梁丑小瞪了那汉奸一眼说：“不知道！”那汉奸打了梁丑小一个嘴巴，随即将梁丑小提起来，摔在地上，梁丑小口鼻流血，昏了过去。 梁贵文眼见儿子昏了过去，便一边破口大骂日军和汉奸，一边用力挣脱绑绳。穷凶极恶的日军用枪托猛砸梁贵文的脑袋，鲜血染红了他的棉衣。梁贵文往前猛一扑，咬住了日军的手指，那日军痛得哇哇直叫。这时，凶恶的黑田便举刀将梁贵文劈死。 日军继续逼问群众：“谁是粮秣主任？八路哪里去了？不说统统死啦死啦地！”群众用沉默回答日军的咆哮。日军从人群中把邻村一个外号叫“小财迷”的人拉了出来。许多群众一看事情不好，主动用身体挡住村干部。 日军押着“小财迷”，从人群中找出了村干部梁贵武。日军让梁贵武带路去找粮食。梁站立不动，日军用皮鞭抽打他的脸，停鞭后继续逼问，梁说：“粮食是让人吃的，不是喂狗的！”日军气得暴跳如雷，用木棍、皮带、枪托又是一阵乱打，梁被打得皮开肉绽，鲜血直淌，仍然不屈服。日军把他的棉衣脱去，往他身上倒开水，把他推到开水锅里烫，后来又把他推进火里。水烫火烧，梁贵武始终刚强不屈，最后惨遭日军杀害。日军一无所获，一怒之下，把“小财迷”也杀了。 日军又用刺刀刺梁向才，梁用力拨开日军的刺刀，日军把他捆绑住，梁用嘴咬断绳子，趁日军不备冲出院门，其余群众也跟着向外冲。日军红了眼，机枪、步枪一齐朝人群扫射。刚刚跑出院门的人被日军追上砍死。瞬息间，我86位同胞的尸体倒在了梁四小家的院子里和附近的街道上，其中柏叶沟村65人，邻村21人。日军还烧毁柏叶沟村房屋100余间。 1943年12月11日晚上，日军黑田支队从苏家庄出发，兵分两路奔袭岗南。 日军挨家挨户把全村群众逼到曹玉庆的大院里，门口、房上架起了机枪，四周站满了日军，一个挎大洋刀的日军问：“谁是八路的干部？”人们沉默不答。 日军从人群中拉出16岁的曹兵英。“小孩！谁是八路的干部？武器粮食的藏在哪里？” 曹兵英仰头不语。日军恼羞成怒，“飕”的一下抽出大洋刀，搁到曹兵英的脖子上：“你的不说，死了死了地！”曹兵英扭头盯住那日军说：“不知道！”那日军气得暴跳如雷，把大洋刀向上一指“哼”了一声，一群日军上前，把曹兵英拖出去活埋了。 日军的残暴，激怒了群众。他们用眼神传信，互相解着绑在手上的绳索，当曹狗狗给别人偷偷解绑时，被日军发现，拉出刺死在猪圈里。接着，逃跑未遂的曹秀林，被日军马队抓住砍了头。 日军接着又杀害了曹建中、曹太山等8人，然后又把模范队长曹更祥拉了出来。“你的，八路军的模范队长！”曹更祥怒目不“武器，粮食的藏在哪里！”“不说死拉死拉地！”日军用刺刀戳着曹更祥的胸口。 “落到你们手里，我就没有想活！” 日军即把曹更祥吊在门楣上，用枪托、木棍毒打。尔后又将曹更祥拖到村东一个水沟边，用刺刀刺向曹更祥的脖子，曹双手夺枪，日军死命往回一拽，刺刀拉断了曹更祥的手指。曹继续和日军搏斗，最后被日军连刺数刀，推入水沟，昏了过去。 日军的残暴并没有使群众屈服，妇救会主任刘振九，被日军头朝下倒挂在梯子上逼问，刘振九闭口不说，日军将她倒插进水缸里，一会儿又抬出放在地上，用杠子压出肚子里的水，继续逼问，刘振九始终守口如瓶。 日军在曹建章的大院里，又逐个地逼问：“八路的粮食藏在哪里？……” 人们一个个宁死不屈。曹新太推倒日军门岗，人们冲了出去。日军用机枪扫射，曹新太、曹五追、任勇贵、曹春吉等5人惨遭残杀。 日军把岗南村成年男子拉出来，用一根绳捆绑两个人，每人扛一捆高粱秸，带到尚家湾村北一条大沟边，分作三摊刺杀，直杀到太阳西下，然后把高粱秸堆到尸体上点火焚烧。 日军在岗南村，一天内共杀死和烧死135人。其中东岗南40人，西岗南53人，附近村庄42人。 反“扫荡”结束后，晋察冀边区派来了慰问团，为死难者召开了追悼会。 东西岗南的群众人人披麻戴孝。“打倒日本帝国主义！”“为死难烈士报仇！”……愤怒的口号声响彻云天。人们化悲痛为力量，父送子、妻送郎，兄弟相争上战场。当时就有100多名青壮年头戴孝帽参军入伍。