Chapter 6 6. The monument engraved on the earth

One truck after another staggered forward on the urgent highway.The car is loaded with food, ammunition, and military equipment.Cars with a red cross flag on the front side are full of wounded soldiers or neatly arranged body bags.When the car of the wounded soldier passed the pothole, screams that could be understood without translation broke out in the car, which was in contrast to the silence of the car pulling the body bag. On one side of the road was a column of infantry.After these days of fighting, the team is no longer as neat as it was when they came here. The sun flag hangs weakly on the rifles of the vanguard. The soldiers walked forward mechanically with their guns on their backs. Smeared with mud, many soldiers had bandages on their heads and arms.

At the same time, there were groups of Japanese troops rushing northward on many hilly and mountainous paths.From October 2, Japanese troops from all walks of life began to implement Okamura Ningji's retreat order and returned along the route they had come. Autumn in northern Hunan is cloudy and rainy, with cool autumn raindrops or fine rain and mist soaking every piece of land.The suede leather shoes used by the Japanese army left a string of dirty footprints on this land, deep in the memories of Hunan people. Reporter: Hou Xuekang When the enemy who harassed northern Hunan was defeated in Pingjiang, the rape, looting, burning, and massacre in this county were unbearable, and the records are as follows:

adultery.No matter when they are moving or stopping, the devils always look for women as their only job. If they find women, they will rape them wantonly, regardless of day or night, in any place, without taboo. Young girls under the age of ten, and old women of eighty years old, regardless of beauty, regardless of disability or illness, no one is spared.The area around Pingjiang Bridge, Anding Bridge, and Yuetian Ridge belonged to vast fields. They had not escaped beforehand, and they could not hide temporarily, so no family was spared from the catastrophe.The local people witnessed that Li's wife in Andingqiao, about thirty years old, was gang-raped by eight devils.Yue Tianlongyi, who was seven months pregnant, saw a devil promiscuously, jumped into the pond and committed suicide, but was still picked up by the devil, unable to pray for death, and carried to Anding Bridge to gang-rape and kill her.Yuan Jialing had a young girl about twelve years old who was gang-raped by two devils. The white pants she wore were all stained with blood and she was still unable to move.Near Matouling, a woman who had just given birth two days ago was gang-raped by devils to death.Wu's wife in Miaowan, Sicun, was gang-raped by seven devils. Wu couldn't bear it and begged for forgiveness, but she was brutally killed. Wu's father-in-law pleaded again, but was also killed, and Wu's wife was raped to death. ...

Loot.Wherever the devils went, chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle and other livestock were all taken captive.When pigs and cattle are slaughtered, only a piece of meat is selected from the fat and strong part, and the rest is discarded.Those belongings of the people's houses that were better or suitable for their needs were taken away, and the rest were either torn or smashed, abandoned all over the ground, or burned. massacre.Most of the people killed by the Kou army this time were caused by the so-called "imperial army" begging for mercy when they raped, looted, and burned.In short, the "masterpiece" of the "imperial army"-burning, killing, and adultery-allows no one to beg or interfere, otherwise he will be killed.Twelve people were killed in Ji Beishan, three people were killed in Si Village, and more than 20 people were killed near Anding Bridge. All the strong men, regardless of whether they had accidents or not, were slaughtered...

70th Army Headquarters Prisoner Interrogation Records Number: 42 Date: October 17, 2008 Enemy captured number: 103rd Brigade, 65th Regiment, 13th Division Occupation: Private First Class Name: Kazumin Nakamura Capture location: Qing'anpu Capture Time: October 16 at 5pm Interrogators: Liao Hongsen, Tian Shengbing Tian: Your troops wantonly raped, burned and killed during the retreat. Did you get special instructions from your superiors or did you acquiesce? Prisoner: The retreat was incomprehensible to the soldiers, and so did the junior officers. Before the war, it was said that Changsha City could be captured, but when it approached Changsha, it received an order to retreat.

Many people feel irritable.During this battle, the 19th Artillery Regiment of our regiment was originally assigned to perform tasks, but there were almost no roads for artillery vehicles to pass along the way.All the roads on the map have disappeared, which is different from previous combat situations.We also struggled when we marched.Later, I heard that in order to cooperate with the army in fighting, local farmers in Hunan destroyed the road, drained water on the land where the road used to be, and planted rice.Since there is no artillery attached, there are many targets and light weapons that cannot be solved in combat, and casualties increase.

The officers said that Hunan people are all cunning and savage by nature, but they live in a land of fish and rice that is many times better than our hometown, and they want to retaliate.Therefore, during the retreat, the officers did not stop the violation of military discipline. Liao: Explain the fact that your department violently assaulted the villagers in Qijiatang at noon yesterday. Prisoner: After our team entered the village, I was on guard at the east intersection of the village, and neither participated nor saw it. Liao: Tell me! Prisoner: I did not participate, please believe me.After eating at noon, I was replaced by others to go back to eat. I heard that many people violated military discipline, including the team leader. I also heard that some farmers were killed...

"Memoirs of Neiji Okamura Thirty-five Carrying out the Policy of Caring for the People": On February 23, the 15th year of Showa (the 29th year of the Republic of China, 1940 AD), when the division chief and chief of staff meeting was held, the chief of staff made the following report. Even if it is based on the needs of the battle, after the house is burned down, no matter how the propaganda work is done, it will have no effect; on the contrary, the place where the propaganda work is carried out without burning the house, nor looting and rape, when the enemy launches an offensive However, in the case of the former, when the enemy attacked, the residents collaborated with the enemy, which was not good for me. Until now, I feel painful that I must abide by the army commander's policy of loving the people.

I really didn't know until now that I would have repeatedly warned them to pay attention to this problem a year and a half ago. It seems that the crime of rape has not been eradicated, and there have been repeated reports of gendarme mediation and rape.The reconciliation conditions are all 50 yen. The policy of loving the people is strictly implemented, so the troops are not allowed to destroy not only the houses, but even the plants and trees in their own defense areas at this time; but once the battle is dispatched and goes deep into other combat areas, they often have to cut down trees. .

Reporter: Huai Bing In this battle of northern Hunan, the enemy exposed the brutality and cruelty of its aggressive war more severely than any other time.What the reporter saw along the way when I was chasing the troops was really appalling. ...According to a survey by the Political Department of a certain ministry, in Jinjing Shatian Township, more than 1,700 people were killed and more than 3,000 women were raped...In Yuanchong, two miles away from Fulinpu, There is a Kaiwu Agricultural College.When the enemy arrived, the students were still in class and had no time to run away.The enemy captured seven young students. An officer held a saber, pointed to a photo of the prime minister on the wall of the classroom, and asked a student:

"Who is this one?" The student naturally and solemnly stood on two feet and replied loudly: "This is our prime minister." The enemy raised his knife and swung his head away from his body.The enemy asked the second student again, and the student still answered the same way, and the enemy still raised his knife and chopped off his head.Then came the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth. They were all asked the same question, answered with the same gesture, and suffered the same result.At the seventh one, the enemy pointed to the first six bodies lying in a pool of blood, and the seventh one still stood at attention and replied loudly: "This is our prime minister," the enemy gouged out his eyes, and blood gushed out like a spring.The enemy asked again, and he still answered the same way. The brutal enemy cut off his tongue, and then cut off his two legs. He fell to the ground, and the last mouthful of blood gushed up like a fountain, and he did not move. , The enemy also walked away silently. ... Among the frequent exchanges between the leading military agencies during the First Changsha Battle, the author found the only telegram that was not directly related to combat operations: Reporter: Fu Xiaoyu Readers in the rear are particularly concerned about how the enemy insulted our compatriots and raped our women this time. Now, let me make a real report. This is just a part, and I can send it back one after another in the future: ... Five miles away from Jiangjunba, there is a very small village named Jiuxiyuan. There is a family named Luo in the village, two husband and wife.Hearing that the invaders were coming, everyone in the village hid in the mountains. My mother-in-law, who is sixty-eight years old, was ill and could not withstand the wind and rain on the mountains, so she stayed at home. When the Japanese soldiers came, they searched for things when they entered the house. They broke an old oil tank she had used for 40 years, snatched her walking stick and beat her twice on the waist. raped four times. Yujialong, which is five miles away from Jinjing, left late because the villagers didn't know when the enemy soldiers were coming.The women hid in the deep trees on the nearby hillside. The enemy searched the mountain here and got a lot of women.And the blood of these unfortunate Yellow Emperors has been mixed with the poison of the Japanese devils. This is really a humiliation that we can't wash away even if we scoop up the water of the Xiangjiang River. Two mothers and daughters surnamed Yu lived in the corner of the village. They didn't know that Kou Bing had entered the village. The mother was twenty-four years old and was cooking with her half-year-old child in her arms.The Japanese devil came in lightly, hugged her waist tightly, and wanted to rape her.The child in her hand began to cry, and the Japanese ghosts exterminated the conscience, snatched the child, threw her into the boiling rice cooker, and then continued to rape her.The child's mother passed out like this and never woke up. The proprietress of a grocery store surnamed Sun in Jinjing City is eight months pregnant, and her belly is very protruding.She was hiding with her husband in an ancient temple on a hill three miles away from her home, but unfortunately she did not escape the Japanese soldiers who searched the mountain.Five robbers tied their husbands to a pillar and watched their wives being humiliated. Is there such a cruel thing in the world?This woman was humiliated by five wild beasts, and she was utterly miserable. She was lying limp in the gloomy ancient temple. Before the robber left, he took a bayonet and stabbed her husband in the chest... Now the facade of her grocery store has been used Ink wrote a slogan: "Keep in mind our enemies". These are two ethnic groups with the same skin color and separated by a strip of water.Since ancient times, the elders of the two nations have told their children stories and legends about each other by the stove in winter and under the shade of trees in summer. The two lands are also full of beautiful legends in the hearts of the children of each other.Children have dreamed of traveling there when they grow up.None of them wanted to be armed at the time. What ruined it all?From the time the author was babbling, "Japan" is a word that cannot be associated with any beauty and kindness in any case.The most vicious curses among friends when they were young were "devil" and "traitor".Until now, you can still read an abominable and frightening Japan from the words and expressions of almost any old man, how terrible it is! In July 1946, the Social Affairs Department of the Hunan Provincial Government published the "Records of Hunan Disasters" and "Statistics of War Losses in Hunan Province".According to this record, during the Anti-Japanese War, 920,085 people died in the war, 738,512 people were seriously injured, 963,786 people were slightly injured, 945,194 houses were burned, 4,068,9368 grains were robbed by the Japanese army, and 642,788 cattle were robbed. The loss of property other than the legal currency is 12 trillion yuan. How could those ordinary people who worked hard all day in paddy fields, mountain roads, garden stoves, and weaving be innocent, so that they were so brutally brutalized by neighbors with the same appearance and similar writing across the sea?