Chapter 46 Chapter 45: The Crimes of the Japanese Army in Fraternity

On March 20, 1938, after the Japanese invaded and occupied Boai County, Henan Province, they implemented the fascist policy of "burning, killing, and looting" for seven or eight years, causing great disasters and unprecedented catastrophe to the people of Bo'ai.According to the incomplete statistics of the county-wide survey after the war: 69,214 innocent compatriots were shot to death (including indirectly) by the Japanese invaders, 15,895 houses were burned down, 2,815,635 stones (300 catties per stone) were plundered, 6,809 acres of land were occupied, and servitude was provided. 411,125 migrant workers killed 14,433 livestock, plundered 9,324 sheep, 3,476 pigs, 12,420 chickens, destroyed 215 boxes of bees, lost 131,072 farm tools, robbed more than 100 million yuan, 162,541 pieces of clothing, and lost 4.47 million yuan in industrial and commercial losses. More than 60 percent of the land is barren.The brutality of Japanese burning, killing and looting is rare in the world.

As soon as the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders set foot on the land of fraternity, they set fire to houses in all directions. Smoke billowed everywhere, and the flames soared into the sky, forcing the people to leave their husbands' homes and become homeless. On February 23, 1938, the Japanese army killed 143 innocent people in Dongjincheng Village and set fire to more than 190 houses.Sun Bentong, Sun Renfu and other three farmers were burnt to death 9 people, and Zhao Youlan's family of 10 people were burnt to death 7 people alive. On March 15, 18 farmers from Shangtun Village returned from pushing coal in Xiaofeng Village.When passing the Eighteen-Arch Railway Bridge, the Japanese army stabbed 18 farmers half to death with bayonets for no reason, and threw them into the fire one by one. One day in May, the Japanese invaders went to Baishan to "sweep up". From Shikou to Shankou, all good houses on both sides of the village street were burned, and the farmer Liu Jiutong was thrown into the fire and burned alive.The Japanese army set fire to more than 1,700 houses in Baishan Village alone.The Japanese army was afraid that our Eighth Route Army guerrillas would infeste the bamboo forest area, so they cut down and burned large bamboo forests such as Xu Liang, Si Zhongdao, Hu Zhongdao, Xiaoniumo, Liuqiao, Jianjunzhuang, etc., making this area a "no man's land".

One afternoon in 1939, when Mai was about to ripen, a few Japanese devils who lived in Xiaozhong went to Zhaibuchang Village in order to vent their animal desires. When they approached the wall of the village, they were shot and killed by the local team. Hugging his head and running like a mouse.When the common people heard that the Japanese soldiers had been killed, they fled to other places for fear of revenge from the Japanese invaders.As expected, the next day the Japanese army dispatched cavalry and infantry to "clear and suppress" Zhai Buchang.The cannon blasted first, followed by the cavalry, and infantry broke into the village, knocked on the door and knocked on the house, piled up tables, chairs, benches, cabinets, etc., poured gasoline, and set off a big fire. It burned for three days, and more than 1,700 houses were burned to ruins. .Wang Kuigao was burned alive because he was paralyzed in the house; Wang Genhe and Shi Degui were shot and killed by the Japanese army.

In the spring of 1938, the Japanese army "mopped up" the mountainous area and was blocked by the 40th Army of the Kuomintang stationed in the mountainous area for 4 days and 4 nights.The Japanese invaders finally captured Xuantan Temple and Hangao City, and the remnants implemented the "three light" policy and carried out a bloody massacre.More than 120 people from Huangling and Dongfanchang villages hid in the cave. After the Japanese army found out, they immediately sealed the cave, piled up firewood, and filled the cave with fireworks. Was smoked to death in the cave.The mountainous area has become a horrible "no man's land" where "corpses can be seen everywhere, and every village is uninhabited".

After the bloodthirsty Japanese invaders invaded Boai County, they specially set up two killing fields in the vermicelli field outside the back gate of the "Gendarmerie" and at the root of the southern city wall along Shenkengyan.People in China are often hacked, buried alive, and shot to death in the morning and morning. I don’t know how many innocent people were killed. "Qingxiang" murder is even more cruel. On March 27, 1938, the Japanese army dispatched cavalry and infantry to "sweep" Yangmiao. When they arrived at Yangyi Village, they rushed into Huai Village when they heard gunshots in Huai Village. under the gun.The Japanese troops stationed in Dongzhai, Baishan Village occupied the top of the hill and looked down from a high position, and even targeted the pedestrians and people going to work in Baishan Village.Wang Hama from Baishan Village went to Haozhuang to fetch water and was beaten to death as a living target; farmers Wang Daluan and Wang Daxi went to the field to deliver dung to work, and they all died tragically at the gunpoint of the Japanese army.A dumb man from the eighth street in the city went out to work in the field, and was targeted and killed by the devils as a living target.Lin Laomo, a farmer from Baipo in the mountainous area, was wounded by the Japanese army one day when he went to Baishan Village to do business. Four relatives and friends in Baishan Village took him to Qinyang for treatment.The Japanese army stationed in Qinyang checked for gunshot wounds, insisted that they were "8th Route Army spies", and stabbed five of them to death with bayonets.The Hasegawa Department of the Japanese army stationed in the county lost a military pigeon. The Japanese military agents dispatched together and searched everywhere. They even framed a group of hungry and yellow-skinned children wandering on the streets as "criminals" for burning and eating pigeons. The wolf dog killed him alive.

The east of Guanzhuang Village was the Japanese airfield, and countless passers-by were killed by Japanese dogs.What was even more infuriating was that these demons even asked the people in Gongzhuang Village to wash the blood off the mouths of their dogs. In 1945, six people including Liu Daqiang and Liu Xiaoqiang from Baishan Village pushed vats (selling vats for food) to Yuanwu County (now Yuanyang County) to sell vats. The Japanese army stationed in Yuanwu insisted that they were detectives of the Eighth Route Army. Stabbed half to death, then thrown into a pit to be buried alive.The second son of Zhao on the Sixth Street in the city was sleeping in his house during the day, when several Japanese soldiers broke into the door, dragged him out of the city and killed him, needless to say.The Tiankang Hospital of the Japanese Army (now the West Hospital of the County Hospital) often conducted autopsy experiments on Chinese civilians captured by the gendarmerie. After anesthesia, they opened their stomachs and dug out their hearts and livers.

In order to occupy Bo'ai for a long time and supply its military needs, the Japanese army plundered people's fields, people's livelihood, and water sources, and opened up some "rice field areas" in the Motou area, seriously disrupting farmers' production and bringing endless disasters to farmers. and disaster. The Japanese army enclosed more than 10,000 mu of land in the Motou area, causing more than 5,000 households in more than 20 villages to lose their land.These farmers who lost their land became slaves under the knife of the Japanese aggressors, living a life of "subjugated slaves".The Japanese invaders looted more than 300,000 catties of rice every year in the rice fields.Thousands of Motou people have no food to rely on, and their lives are not guaranteed.Malaria, big belly, and old thick leg diseases are prevalent in this area. People shudder at the mention of the Motou rice field, and it has become a forbidden area for people to tremble.The local folk song wrote sincerely: "Drinking the mill head water, the little ghost wrapped around the legs. It is difficult to walk with thick legs, and the family is alive."

In the vast area south of Motou, due to the seepage of water from the paddy fields to the south, most of the land has been salinized, resulting in a desolate scene of "watery in summer and white in winter". Xu Liang in the Danhe Irrigation District and farmers in the vast area of ​​Shangzhuang were robbed of their water sources. The rivers and canals were dry and they could not get water. As a result, there was no harvest for the fields and no livelihood. People were struggling on the verge of death. While plundering food and destroying farmland, the Japanese invaders strictly controlled Boai’s hookah and bamboo, and set up a “shisha company” for review and management. If something went wrong, they would be fined or confiscated; Boai’s bamboo and bamboo wares were produced and sold. All have to be controlled by its "bamboo trade union".The Japanese army squeezed a lot of blood and sweat from the people every year in the hookah and bamboo industries.

Destroying crops, the Japanese army was even more unscrupulous. In 1938, when the wheat had just bloomed, the Japanese army harvested 520 mu of wheat in Nanguan Village to feed livestock, destroying dozens of farmers who lived on renting. In the autumn of 1939, in order to purify the railway, the Japanese army cut off eared corn on both sides of the railway. Xiaogaozhuang Village, which had only more than 60 households, cut off more than 200 mu.In order to occupy the airport, the Japanese army trampled over 2,000 mu of fast-ripening wheat around the airport with horses, scythes, and tanks. In order to occupy China for a long time, the Japanese army implemented the method of "governing China with China", and successively established the "gendarme battalion", "maintenance committee", fake county office, fake police station, fake garrison team, fake 21st division, and fake Xinmin association in Bo'ai. , Puppet Propaganda Team, Puppet Plainclothes Team and other political, police, military, and special government agencies distribute food and money. Everyone has to bring their "good citizen certificate", even if they don't bring it to check in the city, it will cause disaster.In order to anesthetize the resistance of the Chinese people, they peddle the so-called "co-prosperity in Greater East Asia" and "China and Japan share the same language and the same race".

Implement enslavement education in schools, force students to learn Japanese, do daily exercises, raise the Japanese flag early, sing the Japanese national anthem, and force ordinary people to hang "plaster flags" in front of their homes.Pedestrians passing the Japanese guard posts must salute the soldiers. If they are slightly neglected, they will be beaten or killed.What is even more insidious is that the Japanese army sent Mukai, Zhichuan, Xiaozimu and others as consultants to the "Zhongheji" drug manufacturing company in Daxinzhuang, and trained and armed 280 puppet youth regiments for "Zhongheji" to carry out drug production, Armed transportation is exported to major cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Xi'an to poison the Chinese people.In the city alone, three "official ointment shops" were set up on the 3rd, 5th, and 10th streets, openly selling drugs to poison the masses.The Japanese army also used the "Renyi Society" and "Yiguandao" to engage in espionage activities, preached that "all ways are one", enslaved the Chinese people, and pledged allegiance to the "Emperor".

The Japanese army was a group of beasts. In addition to burning, killing and looting, they wantonly trampled, ravaged and insulted Chinese women.In some cases, in public places and in broad daylight, the Japanese soldiers stripped women naked, humiliated them forcibly, and then killed them. The insulted women committed suicide one after another.Some women died alive after being gang-raped by many Japanese soldiers...Even teenage girls and 80-year-old women are sometimes unavoidable from the brutal behavior of the Japanese army. The Japanese army occupied Bo'ai for eight years, eight years of crime.Fascist rule is implemented politically, plunder and blockade are implemented economically, and enslaving education is implemented culturally.But the aggressors cannot escape the punishment of history in the end, let alone save their destruction.Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the brave people finally defeated the Japanese invaders after eight years of bloody resistance.This is the conclusion of history.