Chapter 45 Chapter 44 Bloodbath of Jun County

In June 1956, the Special Military Tribunal of the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China opened a trial in Shenyang to try eight war criminals including former Lieutenant General Keihisa Suzuki of the 177th Division of the Japanese Army. The court opened on June 9, and the defendant, Suzuki Goku, was interrogated first. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, Suzuki Keihisa successively served as the commander of the regiment and the commander of the division in the Japanese invading army. Six massacres of peaceful residents.After the court session, the public litigant brought the above-mentioned crimes of the defendant to the court for public prosecution.Then, the judges presented a large amount of evidence to the court, and some survivors of the victim testified in court.The facts are conclusive and the evidence is overwhelming.Suzuki Keihisa pretended to be calm at first, while Jier was sweating profusely, and finally fell to his knees with a "plop", shouting again and again: "Forgive me! Forgive me!" and admitted: "This is completely true, and I sincerely apologize."

Through the smoke and dust of history, looking back at the past, the Jun County tragedy that occurred in 1938 was really a horrible page in the history of human civilization, and it is an ironclad proof that the heinous Japanese fascist gangsters killed the Chinese people... After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the Kuomintang army abandoned the city and lost ground, retreating steadily, and the Japanese invaders drove straight in. In late February 1938, the first part of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army going south continued to march towards Jun County.Wherever the Japanese army arrived, they burned, killed, raped and looted.

Junju is located in northern Henan, bordering Wei County and Tangyin.Wei County is the hometown of Wagang Army, a peasant hero in the Sui Dynasty, and Tangyin is the hometown of Yue Fei, a famous national hero.The people of Jun County are deeply influenced by the peasant uprising army and the national hero Yue Fei in history. They have a strong national consciousness and have a tradition of resistance.Witnessing the brutal behavior of the Japanese invaders, the majority of young and middle-aged people rose up one after another, fighting desperately with the enemy invaders. On March 15, hundreds of Japanese troops invaded Peizhuang in the north of Jun County.Under the leadership of Chang Xianfu and Lu Yue, the villagers of Peizhuang fought bravely and fought fiercely with the Japanese army with simple weapons such as broadswords, rifles, and earthen cannons, killing and injuring many Japanese soldiers.After the fall of the village, the Japanese army became brutal and killed more than 70 men, women and children in the village. On March 26, more than a hundred young and middle-aged people from Zhoukou, Fangzhuang, Mazhuang, Wangkezhuang, Dongwangqiao, Daxiaoyuliu, Shilipu, Hedao and other villages near the county town of Jun County voluntarily united to hold a meeting in Hu Laoji and Wang Qinfu. Under the leadership of others, they took advantage of the night to attack the Japanese troops stationed in Tunzi and Wharf villages.The Japanese army was caught off guard and responded hastily.During the battle until dawn, the villagers killed and wounded dozens of enemy soldiers, captured 6 alive, and seized 2 heavy machine guns and more than 20 rifles.

On March 27, the Japanese army mobilized more than a thousand cavalry and infantry soldiers and attacked Jun County under the cover of aircraft and artillery.Driven by the anti-Japanese voices of the masses and public opinion, Shi Mingchen, the magistrate of Junxian County of the Kuomintang, was determined to stick to the city wall. He ordered a battalion of his troops to guard Dagu Mountain and the east and north gates of the city. Guard Fuqiu Mountain and the South Gate.Our army and the people share the same hatred against the enemy, braved the enemy's intensive artillery fire and stubbornly stood firm, and repelled the enemy's many attacks.Seeing that repeated strong attacks were ineffective, the enemy dug tunnels and advanced towards the east gate.The witty Chinese defenders bombarded the Japanese army with cluster grenades, and more than 20 Japanese soldiers who dug the hole were shot with flesh and blood, either dead or injured.In the end, due to the disparity in the strength of the enemy and ourselves, until late at night the next day, the city wall was breached by the enemy, and the Japanese army broke into the city from the northeast corner of the city.

A tragic massacre began. At dawn on March 29, a group of Japanese soldiers forced more than a hundred innocent residents into a house in the east gate, piled each other into a mountain, poured gasoline on it, and set it on fire.Except for one person who escaped by chance, the rest were all martyred. More than 40 people took refuge in the backyard of Wang Baoshan's home in Houchenggou Street, Nanguan, and the Japanese army broke into the house after discovering it.Except for 5 people who escaped, the rest were shot by the gunmen.Nearly 200 people who had taken refuge in Tudongli near Nanshan Street were also discovered by the enemy. The Japanese army swept the cave with machine guns inhumanely. In an instant, almost all the people in the cave fell into a pool of blood.In Caiyuan Street and Jihutong, the Japanese army massacred more than 500 residents.

What is particularly heinous is that in the north gate, the Japanese army searched out dozens of residents, tied them up, dragged them to the wall of the west gate, forced them to kneel on the edge of the battlements, and then shot them to death.With a burst of gunfire, the victims fell to the city one after another.Witnessing this tragic scene, the Japanese army laughed happily.Dagu Mountain and Fuqiu Mountain, which are located in the southeast of the county, are Buddhist and Taoist resorts in northern Henan.A group of Japanese soldiers broke into Dagushan Temple and forced Cihai, a monk of Yuwang Temple, to boil water for him.After drinking the water, the Japanese army tied monk Cihai to a poplar tree in front of the Bazhang Buddha, and stabbed him to death with a bayonet.Under the stone cliff engraved with the words "There is a monk Dong Du Liu's Zen staff", which shows the friendship between the people of China and Japan, the Japanese army stabbed the monk Bendong of Tianqi Temple to death with a bayonet, pierced the chest of Master Haidenxi, and dug the Remove the eyes, and let Lieda bite off the nose and ears.The Japanese army also shot at the Bazhang Buddha, shelled the Bagua Building on the top of Dagu Mountain, and destroyed the statues of Wenchang Emperor and Kuixing.A group of enemy troops broke into the temple of Fuqiu Mountain and killed Zhang Dian, Sun Xianghuai, Li Zongjie, Wang Taizhong, Song Taigui, He Yuxiu and other Taoists in the temple regardless of indiscriminately.Old Mrs. Wang, who is more than seventy years old, took refuge in the temple. After the Japanese army found out, they forced the old man to drink cold water.The Japanese army indiscriminately destroyed all cultural relics in the temple and bombed them with explosives.The Japanese army set off a fire around the Wenzhi Pavilion, and hundreds of neat houses were reduced to ashes.Most of the residents were brutally killed, and those who survived were thrown into the raging fire by the Japanese army.The scene is so miserable that even trees and stones are angry.Yangming Academy, located on Dagu Mountain, is the teaching place of Mr. Wang Yangming, a famous scholar in the Ming Dynasty. It is one of the famous ancient academies in the Central Plains.The Japanese army set fire to it, leaving only ruins in the academy.The brutal Japanese fascist gangsters are not only relentless executioners, but also a group of sinners who wantonly trampled on human civilization through the ages.

After the Japanese army entered the city, 8 women in the city hid in the small temple in Nanguan to avoid being insulted.After the Japanese army found out, they gang-raped first, and then pushed them into the fire.A group of Japanese soldiers broke into Li Jinlu's home, shot him dead first, and gang-raped his two girls (one 16 and one 13).After rape, she stabbed her vagina with a bayonet to death.After the Japanese army gang-raped the pregnant woman, they cut open the belly of the pregnant woman, pierced the fetus with a bayonet and held it up as a joke.What's more, a group of Japanese soldiers drove dozens of young women into a courtyard, stripped them naked, raped them openly in broad daylight, and then assassinated them all.Even the gray-haired old lady, the Japanese army refused to let it go.Li Laoxiang's wife on Caiyuan Street was over 50 years old. After being gang-raped by several Japanese soldiers, they stabbed her genitals with a bayonet and killed her.And so on, it's outrageous.

The heinous and brutal actions of the Japanese army aroused the incomparable anger of the people of Jun County.On South Street, there was an old man over sixty years old who sold tea for a living. After witnessing the brutality of the Japanese army, he was determined to avenge the death of his fellow villagers.He has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and his arm strength is extraordinary.When the Japanese army searched the house, the old man held a wooden pole to hide behind the door.Two Japanese soldiers broke into the door. Taking advantage of his unpreparedness, the old man raised a bar and slammed them. The two Japanese soldiers were killed immediately.A group of enemy troops rushed over upon hearing the sound, and the old man fought bravely without fear, but unfortunately died a heroic sacrifice.

On the evening of the 29th, the Japanese troops who had bloodbathed the town of Jun County withdrew.Before leaving, he forced dozens of young and middle-aged men to deliver luggage for him.Halfway through the journey, the Japanese army shot and killed all the civilians. According to subsequent statistics, the Japanese army's brutal actions in Junxian County killed more than 100 innocent people, raped more than 500 women, reduced more than 1,000 private houses to ashes, and caused countless losses of other property.After the robbery, corpses lay all over the city, and several wells in the southeast corner of the city were filled with dead corpses.Under more than a dozen horse sheds in front of the South Yeyun Building on Ximenli Road, corpses piled up, blood flowing like a canal; corpses piled up more than ten feet high in front of the gate of Dawang Temple.Many families were exterminated, and those who were not exterminated also had no family and no filial piety, and every household cried.The city of Jun County suddenly became a miserable world.

The massacre committed by the Japanese army in Jun County is a microcosm of the Japanese fascist gangsters' invasion of China and the massacre of the Chinese people.The bloody feud is engraved in the hearts of the Chinese people and will never be forgotten.

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