Chapter 39 Chapter 38: Xiangcheng Liuwang Tomb Murder (1944.5.3)

In April 1944, the Japanese invaders mobilized 50,000 to 60,000 troops to launch the Henan Campaign. Wherever the fascist bandits came, they raped, raped, burned, and killed them.The Liuwang Tomb massacre in Xiangcheng County is one example of the mass tragedy. On May 1, 1944, after the Japanese invaded and occupied Xuchang, Lieutenant General Yoshio Hongo, the head of the 62nd Division of the enemy, led his troops to invade the west the next day, and directly captured Wanqiao and Xiangcheng.Most of the 20th Division of Tang Enbo's Department of the Kuomintang, which was stationed here to defend, fled without a fight. One part fought fiercely with the enemy, and finally retreated due to being alone and helpless.

In the early hours of May 3, after the enemy's mixed 7th Brigade broke through Xiangcheng County, it pushed into the Xiangxi Mountains, and cooperated with it with a part of the enemy's 137th Division, encircling the Xishan Mountains from the direction of Jiaxian in an attempt to cut off the rout. The 20th Division of the Kuomintang retreated, encircling and annihilating it in the Xiangxi Mountains. At about 9 o'clock, the Japanese invaders were resisted by about 400 people from the 20th Marshal and local armed forces in the Qiangou and Huangliu areas of Lingwu Mountain.The Japanese army suffered heavy casualties, and a senior officer was killed.Therefore, the enemy invaders descended from Doujiao Village, turned to the northeast, occupied Yugou and Yanggou in the northwest of Youlingwu Mountain, and then attacked the Kuomintang troops in Qiangou and Huangliu.At this time, the main force of the 20th Division of the Kuomintang had already fled, and the Japanese invaders were so angry that they brutally killed 38 prisoners and wounded soldiers.

After the Japanese aggressors' plan to encircle and wipe out the 20th Division of the Kuomintang failed, they became even more angry. They sent troops to burn down houses and search for and kill innocent people.In Xie Village, the Japanese invaders captured Jiang Chaofan and 32 people in a small village on Mount Wu today and killed them all.Another team of devils took 60 or 70 people from Liulou, Shengzhuang and other villages to the well in the south threshing field of Lindong village and forced them to jump into the well to commit suicide. , After shooting all the masses, fill them into the water sheet.In Menggou, a group of devils discovered that there were many women and children hidden in the sweet potato cellar of Meng Xianglin's family. Because they hid in the cellar and refused to come out, they lit firewood and threw it into the cellar, causing all the people inside to be suffocated to death.However, nothing is more heinous than the "Six Kings Tomb" massacre.

Liuwang Tomb is located in the northern part of Lingwu Mountain in Xiangxi, surrounded by villages such as Menggou, Houjia, Ligou, and Yanggou. Around 1939, an "Anti-Japanese Propaganda Team" led by Xiangchengju, the Communist Party of China, was active here. They mobilized the masses, publicized the Anti-Japanese Defenders, and organized the "Anti-Japanese Union Village Association". The people's anti-Japanese enthusiasm was very high.At that time, the first part of the 20th Division of the Kuomintang stood here, and the masses took the initiative to help dig trenches, deliver tea and food, rescue the wounded, transport ammunition, etc., to assist in resisting the westward advance of the Japanese invaders.In addition, on the eve of the capture of the county, the Japanese invaders continued to send planes to harass and bomb the town. Residents in urban and rural areas panicked and helped the old and the young.Abandoning their homes and taking refuge, most of them fled to Lingwu Mountain, Ziyun Mountain, Guishan Mountain, and Liuwang Tomb in Xiangxi area, including county residents, industrial and commercial people.There are mostly shop assistants, teachers and young students.They thought that the mountainous area was remote, with deep ditches, small roads, rocks, grass, trees and caves, and it was safer than flat land, but they never expected that the Japanese fascist bandits would go into the mountains to search, hunt, burn and kill, bringing even heavier disasters to the fleeing people. . On the afternoon of May 3, various Japanese troops tied up a large number of captured civilians with ropes, and drove them, one by one, to several villages near Liuwang Tomb.Some were driven to the wheat threshing ground, some were tied to big trees inside and outside the village, and some were locked in the courtyard of the village. Suddenly, the area around Liuwang Tomb became a large prison for Japanese invaders to kill innocent people.There were a lot of people arrested, and hundreds of farmers, traders, young students, women, and children were detained in a small courtyard of about 60 square meters in Houjia Village, Zhongbian.

It was evening, and the Japanese invaders set up a killing field in front of a large deep water well in Liuwang Tomb.The vicious devil soldiers formed a large circle, armed with several machine guns and Ming Chaohuang's bayonet.At this time, the ghost soldiers pulled the bundled people out of the village and forced them to kneel down.After the Japanese army scrambled for a while, the devil soldiers raised their guns and stabbed the crowd one by one. Where the butcher knife was aimed, the crowd screamed.The bayonet pierced the heart from the shoulder socket, and the victim vomited blood and collapsed to the ground. The Japanese invaders took advantage of the situation and kicked the victim into the well. Some of them jumped into the well and died under the force of the bayonet.After the Japanese invaders killed one group, they massacred another group of people.When the Japanese invaders dragged the masses to the killing field and were about to kill them, a middle-aged farmer suddenly pulled out a kitchen knife from his pocket and slashed at a devil's head, killing him.A few devils, still in shock, raised their guns and surrounded and stabbed the farmer to death.Afterwards, when the Japanese fascist bandits got tired of killing people, they forced the common people to jump into the well with bayonets. If there was any hesitation, the bayonets would be stabbed up, and after the masses jumped down the well, they would aim at the well and shoot repeatedly. That's it. Strings, batches, and rows of innocent people died tragically under the butcher's knives of the devils, and fell into a pool of blood.By midnight, the large urn-shaped well with a bottom of more than 30 square meters and a depth of more than 10 feet was filled up with the corpses of more than a thousand victims.

After midnight, the moonlight was dim and gloomy.Seeing that there were still a large number of people imprisoned and tied up in Yanggou, Ligou and other villages near the Liuwang Tomb, the vicious devils split up and killed them all as quickly as possible.Villager Wang Qunhe of Damiao Village and more than 70 farmers from Qilidian and Wulibao villages were driven to the wheat threshing ground in Yanggou Village by the Japanese army.The officer of the Japanese Army asked, "Where is yours from? What do you do?" Without waiting for an answer, he stepped forward and stabbed him in the chest.All of these 70 people were killed except Wang Qunhe, who survived.At dawn, another Japanese army pulled out 24 Hexi Street farmers Song Xueli and Zheng Jiantang from a room in Hou Jiacai, tied them up in a string, and drove them outside the village to assassinate them one by one.The first person to be assassinated by the devil was Su Qing, an apprentice from Beiguan Yanxing. The devil stabbed him with a knife. Su Qing screamed and jumped violently.At this time, several devils surrounded him, pushed Su Qing to the ground, and some others stabbed him in the back with bayonets. Su Qing bled all over his body and died miserably on the spot.The devil soldiers stabbed Song Xueli five times. He bit his tongue, spat out blood, and fell to the ground pretending to be dead. It was not until dawn that the devils left and he crawled out from the corpses of the dead villagers.

The Japanese beast soldiers not only slaughtered innocent people bloody, but also bullied and ravaged our women compatriots in every possible way in broad daylight.Amidst the sound of guns and guns, two little girls ran and hid from the west mountain to the east mountain slope. They were caught by the devils in the Lin Dong field, pushed down to the ground and raped; in Zhenggou, a 14-year-old girl was raped.At the same time, the devils collectively raped more than 30 women detained in a courtyard. For fun, the devils also stripped 20 or 30 young women captured from Yuhe, stood on both sides of the house, and then Running and colliding with each other, and making noise when their bodies touch each other.In Zhouzhuang, six members of Zhou Jinyu's family were killed by Japanese invaders, and three daughters-in-law were gang-raped and stabbed to death.Among them, Zhou Jinyu's niece and daughter-in-law died the worst.She yelled at the devil for her inhumanity, and the devil went up and pushed her to the ground and gang-raped her.Then, the devil, who was not as good as a beast, stabbed her mouth and genitals with a bayonet, and stabbed her in the heart, and died tragically.Some women had their breasts cut off after being raped, and some had their laparotomy cut off.

In the early morning of May 4th, the Japanese army left, and the fleeing villagers rushed to find the bodies of their relatives.I saw corpses strewn all over the fields, up and down the mountain, in and outside the village, and the ground covered with blood.Among the dead were old men with white eyebrows and beards, as well as breastfeeding babies, and most were young and middle-aged men and women.The horrors of these victims are unbearable. Some were shot, stabbed, hacked, smashed to death, disemboweled, and split in two... the old man who came to recognize the corpse People, women, and children searched and ran in the mountains, calling their sons and husbands, calling their fathers and mothers, and the sounds of mourning and wailing merged into one piece. It was extremely miserable. Once the bodies of their relatives were found, many died crying.Four uncles and nephews of Chen Yuheng, a resident of Beiguan Street in the city, were killed by devils at the mouth of Shenjing. His grandson-in-law Tan Zirong dug out the corpses and saw his relatives slashed several times. Fall, die with hatred.So far people still clearly remember that there are more than 300 dead bodies in front of the Liuwang Tomb; more than 1,000 dead bodies in the deep water well; There are more than 300 dead bodies; there are also more than 100 dead bodies in a big ditch on the mountain; 45 dead bodies in a small pit on the mountain; dead bodies are next to each other on the wheat threshing field in Yanggou Village, and there is a big kang smoking room beside the field. There are actually 50 of them.A few days later, there were still a large number of unclaimed corpses, rotting and smelly, and the corpses were full of fly maggots. The local people had to bury them anywhere. Some dozen or dozens of corpses were buried in a pit.The Japanese army brutally murdered more than 2,000 innocent compatriots in Liuwang Tomb and other places, raped more than 200 women, burned houses, slaughtered livestock, and looted countless property.