Chapter 5 Chapter 3 Anti-"Qingxiang"
Xu Nianchu——At that time, he was the officer of the service regiment of the New Fourth Army
Gu Lichang——Secretary of the Party Committee of Hai'an County, Jiangsu Province at the time
Sun Xinmin——CCP Weihu Brigade Political Commissar
I remember that at the press conference of "My War of Resistance II", I had the honor to meet the veteran Sun Xinmin himself.Leaning on crutches, the old man walked slowly into the house with the support of his family.In an instant, all I had in my mind were the clips that the old man told in the episode "Anti-"Qingxiang".
"At that time we were helping, not really helping." I took the initiative to talk to the old man, and when the old man recounted that period of history again, I heard this sentence again.I have heard the process of collecting materials several times before, and I heard it again from the old man, as if I had quietly infiltrated into the Green Gang and traveled to the history of "Qingxiang".
"He wants to shoot you when you pass by, yelling and shooting all kinds of things." Although the old man is old, he can speak very clearly. Revisiting this history again, the old man still remembers it vividly.He still remembered that when receiving the signal, the woman at the door wore a small yellow flower on her head to signify safety;
Sometimes, I, who was born in the 1980s, can't deeply understand why so many people repeatedly make anti-Japanese war themes.From elementary school to university, there are endless stories about the Anti-Japanese War, and some stories can even be memorized backwards.Until I joined the "My Resistance" team, a lot of bloody pictures hit my sight.Amidst the gunfire, black smoke billowed, piles of refugees who were killed by the bombing, women roaring uncontrollably, a group of orphans crying in the ruins... Who should pay for the souls who died on the battlefield?I seem to understand a little bit, yes, we must do a war of resistance, we must!
"Skinny, that's wearing a top hat, thin and yellow, smoking opium, yellow and thin, isn't it, like this..." The old man smiled and described the last appearance of Yin Hongxing in his memory, "My The press conference of "Anti-Japanese War II" began to enter the arena.Accompanied by flashlights and cameras, veteran Sun Xinmin took the stage, and the audience applauded continuously, and the applause lasted for a long time...
In 1942, Xu Nianchu, who had just turned 20 years old, was already an officer of the service regiment of the New Fourth Army. Her daily job was to follow the troops in various places to promote the Anti-Japanese War and mobilize villagers to support the Anti-Japanese War.
"As for our military service group, the vast majority of people are from Shanghai, about 20 people. Among them are students, workers, shop assistants, and staff. They are all relatively young and active." Xu Nianchu recalled.
In February 1942, Xu Nianchu followed the army to the countryside of Taicang, Jiangsu, just in time for the Lunar New Year. "On the first day of the Lunar New Year, we will perform live newspaper dramas for the masses. When we come together that morning, we will mobilize the common people and come out with door panels to set up a stage."
Xu Nianchu and his comrades built a temporary stage with planks and rattan.The villagers took out the melon seeds and sugar they usually saved and put them on the plate. Some girls tied red ribbons, and the people with the military service regiment were rehearsing the repertoire to be performed.Although there are no firecrackers and couplets, everyone is still immersed in the atmosphere of the New Year.
Suddenly, there was a gunshot.
"A lot of devils came that day. Probably a squadron came, and there was more than one motorboat." Xu Nianchu said, "When the sentries found out, they shot. Everyone will know when they shoot."
Behind the village there is a pontoon bridge built by two small boats.Xu Nianchu's troops retreated urgently, preparing to cross the pontoon bridge and retreat to a neighboring village.Comrades from the military service corps carried stretchers and followed.
"But this bridge was blocked by the enemy. Later, one of our companies outflanked it from the side, occupied a relatively high place, and suppressed the enemy's firepower with machine guns."
Bullets kept flying overhead, and the soldiers hid behind mounds of dirt, half of their bodies covered in dust from the gunfire.
Xu Nianchu recalled: "Just for a short while, we rushed across the pontoon bridge. It was also quite dangerous. The battle was fought very hard, from after breakfast until dusk."
Finally breaking out of the enemy's artillery fire, Xu Nianchu and his comrades fled to a relatively secluded village.However, in the short firepower confrontation, more than half of the wounded were already injured. "We quickly mobilized the masses to set up stretchers to pick up the wounded," Xu Nianchu said.
In the village where the New Fourth Army soldiers were evacuated, the stage that had been built with great difficulty collapsed, and some villagers were arrested and whipped by the devils.The ground was a mess.The sudden "mopping up" on the first day of the new year made the village fall into dead silence.
In the impression of the villagers, this kind of "sweeping" is not the first time it has appeared since 1941, and the Japanese and puppet troops called it "clearing the countryside".
The villagers were very angry: "Our hometown, why should the devils come to 'clear up'?!"
At dawn on January 25, 1941, 3,000 Japanese troops surrounded Panjiayu, a mountain village south of the Great Wall.Rumors about the Eighth Route Army's establishment of a base in Panjiayu made it a thorn in the side of the Japanese army.
At dusk, the Japanese army killed several people who were going to the market at the entrance of the village, then broke into the village, arrested people from house to house, and gathered the villagers in a big pit in the west of the village to massacre them.After a whole day of massacres, in this village of 1,700 people, 1,230 people were killed, 23 families were killed, and 1,350 houses were burned down.
Six days later, Lei Ye, a war reporter from Xinhua News Agency, came to Panjiayu and wrote in his article: "I can't hear the singing of the shepherd boy and the coughing of the old man. There is no smoke and no lights. At dusk, in Panjiayu, who do we say goodbye to?" ?”
From this year onwards, the Japanese army began to wipe out the mountainous base areas on a larger scale and for a longer period of time. Indiscriminate and widespread violence replaced the selective suppression before the Hundred Regiments War. This is the infamous "Three Lights" sweep: killing , Burn out, steal away.
The countryside in the Jiangnan area also ushered in a brutal storm.
For Xu Nianchu, July 1, 1941 was a memorable day. "As soon as I opened my eyes that morning, the outside was completely changed. In some towns, there were no Japanese soldiers before, and suddenly there were all of them. Devils, puppet soldiers, and plainclothes all came to the countryside. Sometimes there were more people, sometimes in twos and threes. Put it on, search everywhere."
Gu Lichang, then Secretary of the Party Committee of Hai’an County, Jiangsu Province, remembers, “The devils come here today to ‘sweep’, and tomorrow they will ‘sweep’ there. The devils came for two or three hours, raped the women, and ate up all the chickens, sheep, and ducks.” Some people were caught and killed by the enemy, and their heads were hung on the street. The tile-roofed houses of the primary school were demolished by the traitor army "Er Huang" puppet army and went to build a bunker."
In June 1941, Wang Jingwei returned from his visit to Japan and brought back a project called "Qingxiang".The Nanjing Wang puppet government immediately established the "Rural Cleaning Committee" with Wang Jingwei as the chairman, responsible for guiding the "Rural Cleaning Movement".
The "Qingxiang Movement" was in charge of the military by the Japanese army, with the cooperation of the puppet army, and the Wang puppet regime was in charge of the political aspect. The "Rural Cleaning Movement" first started in southern Jiangsu, and gradually expanded to the southeast of Taihu Lake, the suburbs of Shanghai, northern Jiangsu, and parts of Zhejiang, Anhui, Guangdong, and Hubei. Military and civilian affairs at all levels in the "Qingxiang" area are under the jurisdiction of the "Qingxiang" organs.
On July 1, 1941, the "Qingxiang Movement" kicked off.
According to Xu Nianchu’s recollection: “At that time we heard that the Japanese and puppets were going to block traffic arteries with bamboo fences. We thought it was funny, what can your bamboo fence block?”
In Xu Nianchu's eyes, the bamboo fence is just a thin bamboo fence that can be dismantled at any time. It sounds too childish to use it to block traffic.Many of her comrades had the same idea. "So we didn't care too much, and we continued to do our work. Our troops are growing, and we should believe in our own strength. While raising our vigilance, we should not cause everyone to panic."
Xu Nianchu didn't know that this was the first step of the Japanese and puppet army's "Rural Cleaning Movement": the military "clearing the countryside".The Japanese and puppet troops transported more than 5 million bamboos from parts of the south of the Yangtze River, built a fence wall that was three to four hundred miles long, and built sentries and bunkers along the way.In order to protect the fence, in addition to sending troops to guard the fence, the Japanese army also set up more than 100 interrogation stations along the line, equipped with more than 450 interrogators.This bamboo fence blockade restricted the activities of the guerrillas, and their communication with each other was interrupted from time to time.
The villagers were also trapped by this bamboo fence blockade.A folk song at that time was: "Bamboo fences, hard separation of families, fields in the south and homes in the north, the grain fields are barren and cannot be grown, and the grown grains cannot be eaten."
The Japanese and puppet troops intensified their "sweeping" efforts, making the common people miserable.Gu Lichang said: "It was chaotic at that time. The devils came and the Kuomintang left. I don't know if they will come or not; the common people are very poor."
In the harsh environment, Gu Lichang, who is in charge of the democracy movement, shoulders an important task: to "speak out" to the puppet troops in the stronghold.
In Gu Lichang's eyes, "promotion" is definitely a technical job. "It must be a few nights when you can't see your fingers. If you let him see the moon, you are not looking for death. You have to be across the river, so the enemy is not easy to rush over. You have to find the route first, and sometimes you can't take the road. You have to prepare what to say first, you can’t shoot easily, he will be alarmed when the gun is fired, put on your clothes, go to the bunker, and face you.”
After all the preparations were done, Gu Lichang's proclamation began to get to the point: "Today we came to talk to you. Don't be afraid, and don't beat us. We are all Chinese. You help the Japanese to do things, and the devils are here for us Killing and arson in your hometown is so bad, you can't run with them."
Through shouting, Gu Lichang had the opportunity to contact some puppet military personnel and gradually drew closer.But the propaganda did not have much effect, and sometimes it attracted machine gun fire from the Japanese and puppet troops.By 1943, Wang Jingwei had established puppet security teams, guards, security forces and puppet regimes at various levels in enemy-occupied areas. In the "Qingxiang" area, strict material control and material sealing policies were implemented, land donations were collected, land rent was collected on behalf of others, checkpoints were set up everywhere, and the economic blockade was carried out against Japanese base areas.
For a moment, the bamboo fence seemed to block all the way out.
Sun Xinmin, then political commissar of the Weihu brigade of the CCP, also shouted at several enemy strongholds around Xiazhen in Weishan. "He will shoot you when you pass by. The superiors instructed us to shout." Sun Xinmin said, "Later, they were alarmed by shouting, but they didn't listen."
According to Sun Xinmin's recollection: At that time, many strongholds controlled important checkpoints, and intelligence, medicine, and military supplies behind the enemy could not be smoothly delivered to the anti-Japanese base areas.Propaganda does not work, we must find another way to get through the tightly blocked stronghold. "Later, the leader said that we should simply do some work of differentiation and disintegration."
Soon, Sun Xinmin locked on the number one target of instigating rebellion - Yin Hongxing, head of the puppet security regiment of the enemy stronghold in Xiazhen, Weishan. "He was transferred from outside, not a local snake. He is very powerful, and all the strongholds belong to him."
It is not easy to instigate Yin Hongxing's rebellion, but the experienced Sun Xinmin has a way.Yin Hongxing once joined the Youth Gang, and Zhang Xiuyan, the leader of the local Youth Gang, lives within the scope of the anti-Japanese base area. "Zhang Xiuyan is Yin Hongxing's master, and his seniority is quite high in the Youth Gang. Yin Hongxing listens to him very much. So do Zhang Xiuyan's work first."
Sun Xinmin brought a little soldier to Zhang Xiuyan's house.
"After the little soldier called to open the door, Zhang Xiuyan was terrified. When he heard that it was Political Commissar Sun, he was afraid. He said, Political Commissar Sun, I did nothing wrong."
Sun Xinmin explained the purpose of his visit.Zhang Xiuyan relaxed a little.
"Let's see this, I also worship you as master, so I'm counting you as your apprentice. In this way, you can send a message to Yin Hongxing, telling him not to treat us like this, and to leave a way out, right?" Zhang Xinmin said to him. Zhang Xiuyan said, "We will definitely win. If you do some work now, it can be considered a contribution."
Sun Xinmin became a member of the Green Gang, and Zhang Xiuyan was inconvenient to refuse.A few days later, Yin Hongxing agreed to negotiate with Zhang Xiuyan.The two parties made an appointment to meet at a clinic not far from the stronghold.
Sun Xinmin recalled: "We agreed that we would only bring one person with us and no guns."
Sun Xinmin's memories restored the scene when the two met:
Sun Xinmin arrived at the clinic at the appointed time.After he entered the room, he saw a big smoke lamp on the table. A man was sitting in front of the table. His thin frame was holding up a long coat and a top hat. It was Yin Hongxing.
Seeing someone entering the house, Yin Hongxing ignored him and continued to smoke.Sun Xinmin took off his hat, sat down at the table, and spoke first.
Sun Xinmin made friends with Yin Hongxing, calling him "brother", hoping that "we can talk about everything in the future".
Yin Hongxing slowly raised his head, puffed smoke from his mouth, took off his hat, shifted his gaze to Sun Xinmin, looked at him, and then said slowly: "Your army, you still eat He Ermaozi A regiment."
Sun Xinmin said: "That's right, He Ermaozi was overthinking his own strength and kept making trouble for us, so our troops wiped him out."
Just a few days ago, Sun Xinmin's army had just won a battle and broke through Tancheng. Yin Hongxing obviously knew the news.Hearing what Sun Xinmin said, Yin Hongxing showed a strange expression, which was caught by the astute Sun Xinmin.
Sun Xinmin said: "As for us, the current situation is very good. We have won a lot of victories in various base areas. The Japanese can't last long, right? Let's save some time. We brothers, if you have anything to do, I can do it." help you."
Sun Xinmin saw that the heat was almost ready, so he asked for a few side dishes, and the two drank wine and chatted.
Yin Hongxing said: "Look, I have a habit of smoking opium, and your army doesn't smoke opium. Can you want me?"
When the "Qingxiang Movement" was in progress, the Wang puppet regime established institutions in the "Qingxiang" area, controlled schools, published newspapers and periodicals, disseminated obscene novels, movies and music, and opened casinos, brothels and smokehouses. Among the puppet troops, people like Yin Hongxing There are many addicts in China.
Sun Xinmin said, "You quit slowly."
Yin Hongxing said: "I feel like I'm dead if I don't smoke for a day."
Sun Xinmin said: "When you have made great contributions and brought these people here, our brothers will not lie to you, and will treat you preferentially."
Under Sun Xinmin's persuasion, Yin Hongxing agreed to think carefully.
A few days later, Sun Xinmin got the news that several important strongholds occupied by Yin Hongxing had opened their doors to the guerrillas.
Sun Xinmin recalled: "After opening the gate, he educated other traitor teams, and generally they didn't come out to 'sweep'. In the past, they came out every two days. It was easier for us to move around, and sometimes we could come out during the day. All in all, it was very effective. .”
Several times since then, Sun Xinmin only needs to inform Yin Hongxing in advance before carrying out the mission, and he can pass through the stronghold smoothly.With the help of Yin Hongxing, the traffic is smooth and the safety of the soldiers is more guaranteed.
The tricks of "clearing the countryside" of the Japanese and puppet troops emerged in endlessly. The "Qingxiang" area carried out political "clearing of the countryside" and widely publicized "China-Japan friendship" and "peaceful nation building."
Xu Nianchu recalled: "Ten households have one jia, and ten jia have one guarantor. If something happens to one guarantor, the entire guarantor's family will be affected. If a stranger comes, the common people will not dare to stay, for fear of being exposed."
Whistleblowing has long been a tradition in China.Sha Yexin wrote in his article "Ugly Mentality: China's "Whistleblower" Culture":
The principle of "concealment between relatives" has greatly restrained the mutual denunciations among relatives, but other people, such as the village, friends, colleagues, and superiors and subordinates, have continued to denunciate. Sometimes the undercurrent surges, and sometimes the turbid waves beat the sky.Since the Qin Dynasty, there have been several large-scale nationwide informant campaigns in Chinese history, with tens of millions of people ruined and their families destroyed.
Gu Lichang recalled his experience of being denounced and narrowly escaped death: "In 1943, I was with a big brother who used to be our cadre. He bought wine and tofu skin, and the two of us ate together. dinner."
Big Brother's warm hospitality made Gu Lichang feel warm in his heart.The two chatted about the old days while drinking.The eldest brother kept persuading him to drink, but Gu Lichang was overwhelmed with alcohol, and after drinking a little, he became dizzy.After a while, Big Brother got up to leave. "He said he was going home to do something and told me to wait for him. Before 12 o'clock, I waited for him and dozed off on the table."
In a daze, Gu Lichang heard footsteps, and he woke up immediately.Intuition told him that the visitor was not good.He hastily blew out the oil lamp and hid in a corner under the bed.A group of people broke into the door.
"These people obviously came to look for me. After searching all over the house, someone lifted the reed mat on the bed with one hand, and stabbed it with a bayonet with the other hand. The bayonet was only a few inches away from my face. Me. If he lifts the bed, I will die."
The group cursed and left.It was late at night, and Gu Lichang, who was about to die, withdrew overnight without saying goodbye to his eldest brother.Along the way, Gu Lichang was thinking: I was already very cautious, how could I still expose my whereabouts?Where did Big Brother go?
Until 1945, by chance, Gu Lichang learned a bit of unacceptable news from the head of the security guard: Big Brother had an excuse to leave when he was halfway through drinking, and it turned out that he had ulterior motives. "He asked his father to report the enemy and arrest me. He brought wine, obviously for a purpose. I didn't doubt him at the time. We used to work in a village, and we were all full-time brothers. I couldn't think of it. He came to kill me as a traitor, he shouldn't have such a heart."
No one knows where Big Brother ended up.
In 1943, the Japanese and puppet troops continued to use a set of "Qingxiang" tricks, and the guerrillas in the anti-Japanese base areas often moved around.
In the harsh environment, Xu Nianchu fell in love. "I met Zhang Li in the military service corps. This man is smarter. He can draw, carve seals, sing, and act. He can do anything."
Love in the flames of war is equally beautiful.The two young men often exchanged letters.
Due to poor sanitary conditions, many soldiers contracted malaria in the season when there were many mosquitoes.Xu Nianchu's boyfriend Zhang Li also fell ill. "A malaria attack is just a bout. There are two kinds of bouts. One is a few days, and the other is a continuous attack. He has continuous attacks, and this one is more severe." Xu Nianchu said.
Because Zhang Li often had to march at night, Zhang Li's condition recurred and his body couldn't bear it anymore, so he had to stay in the rear hospital to recuperate.
The lovers had to endure the pain of parting for a while, expressing their feelings through letters.
According to Xu Nianchu's recollection: there was a Japanese in the rear hospital called Takahashi, who was also ill.Due to the language barrier, Takahashi seldom communicates with others.It happened that Zhang Li knew a little Japanese, and the contact between the two of them increased.Zhang Li often mentioned this Japanese in his letters to Xu Nianchu.
As the days passed, Zhang Li's condition had not improved, and the "mopping up" by the Japanese and puppet troops came again. "They raided the rear hospital that night. At that time, the rear hospital was full of patients, and it was impossible to transfer them every day." Xu Nianchu said.The sudden "mopping up" caught everyone off guard and it was too late to escape.The Japanese and puppet troops searched everywhere in the rear hospital, and Zhang Li had to mix with other soldiers among the people.At this time, the Japanese and puppet troops discovered Takahashi and ordered him to identify the soldiers.
"This Takahashi is good. He protected a lot of people, saying that this is ordinary people and that is ordinary people. In the end, there were only 8 people who could do nothing, because they were wearing military uniforms and went to the rear hospital to recuperate. Zhang Li was among them. One of them is a cadre, and the other seven are soldiers. The enemy captured all eight of them."
Xu Nianchu later heard that eight people shouted the slogan "Long Live the Communist Party" and fell to the sound of gunfire.
A few days later, Xu Nianchu, who had just calmed down, received a letter, which was sent before Zhang Li was killed. "Let's say that his illness is basically cured, but the doctor insists that he rest for another 10 days, because his body is too weak and needs to be recuperated."
Xu Nianchu's heart ached. "From an emotional point of view, I really couldn't make it through. I felt that this person disappeared all of a sudden. Later, I blamed myself, because at the beginning, he was resolutely unwilling to go to the rear hospital. Later, the leader gave the order to die, and he didn't There was a way to go. When the leader gave the death order, I was by the side, because he couldn’t take it anymore physically, and I agreed with the leader’s opinion, so I urged him to go. So I thought later, suppose I didn’t urge him If you go, maybe it won't be like this..."
During that time, Xu Nianchu often dreamed about Zhang Li.In the distance, Zhang Li sang a song and waved goodbye to her... She also often thought of the Japanese Takahashi who had never met but saved many comrades in arms.
On the night of July 1, 1944, the third anniversary of the "Rural Clearance Movement", under the cover of the main force of the fourth division of the Central Soviet Union, tens of thousands of people along the way joined forces on a three- to four-hundred-mile-long blockade. Villagers burned bamboo fences .When the news reached Nanjing, the Wang puppet regime had to announce the postponement of "clearing the countryside".
This year, Wang Jingwei's health deteriorated and he died in Nagoya, Japan in November.In the second year, the Anti-Japanese War was won, and the Wang puppet regime fell apart.
After Sun Xinmin and Yin Hongxing took over, the negotiation has been smooth.After the line of communication was opened, Sun Xinmin traveled around with the large army, and lost contact with Yin Hongxing during the process. "After the devil surrendered, his unit was transferred to another place. His whereabouts are unknown. It is estimated that he was destroyed in the end."
70 years later, the gray-haired Sun Xinmin still remembers Yin Hongxing's appearance when he first met him: he was yellow and thin, wearing a long coat and top hat, sitting at the table with a complex expression.
During festivals, dumplings are boiled in the pot, and firecrackers are constantly sounding outside the window, Xu Nianchu always thinks of the days of guerrilla warfare, the plays that never appeared in time, the girl with the red headband, the talented Zhang Li, and the A fence wall hundreds of miles long.
She still remembers the folk song: "Bamboo fences, hard separation of families, fields in the south and homes in the north, the grain fields are barren and can't be planted, and the good grains can't be eaten."
The Wang puppet regime carried out anti-communist education in the "Qingxiang" area by controlling schools, publishing newspapers and periodicals, and organizing "youth leagues".On the one hand, the Japanese aggressors spread rumors saying that "the New Fourth Army is a Russian army, and it must be unsuccessful when it is jointly opposed by Britain, the United States, Japan, and the Kuomintang," "the New Fourth Army's scorched-earth policy has caused unrest in people's lives," "the friction between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the War of Resistance will surely fail," etc. On the other hand, they wantonly used tricks of deception to promote the so-called "New Order of Greater East Asia", "Sino-Japanese friendship and cooperation to save the country", "retro reading of scriptures", etc., and indulged in pornography, gambling, and drugs, poisoning China spiritually and spiritually. people.
During the Anti-Japanese War, in order to consolidate and strengthen the rule in North China, the Japanese aggressors forced to implement a policy and measure combining massacre and Huairou (slavery). In July 1938, the North China Front Army of the Japanese Army formulated the "Outline of Public Security and Rectification in the Areas Occupied by the Army" in accordance with the order of the Japanese base camp to ensure the stability of the occupied areas in North China. Then, from January 1939 to March 1940, three phases of reorganization were carried out. fight. In 1941, the North China Front Army expanded the law and order campaign into the "Public Security Strengthening Campaign", and formulated the "Public Security Strengthening Campaign Implementation Plan" in February.On March 30 of that year, under the manipulation of the Japanese army, the Puppet North China Political Affairs Commission began the first public security strengthening campaign.By the end of 1942, a total of 5 security strengthening campaigns had been carried out.
The Japanese army divided North China into "law and order areas" (that is, enemy-occupied areas), "quasi-law and order areas" (that is, guerrilla areas contested by the enemy and ourselves), and "non-law and order areas" (that is, liberated areas), and adopted different policies and measures.Focus on "clearing townships" for "security areas", strengthen the Baojia system, strictly implement identity card measures and household registration checks, implement the law of joint sittings, expand self-defense groups and garrison teams, and strengthen spy activities to ban anti-Japanese activities.At the same time, all kinds of deceptive propaganda are carried out to promote the "kingly way and paradise" in order to strengthen the rule of slavery.The "quasi law and order area" was mainly encroached, and the policy of terror was combined with the policy of softening, creating no-man's land, extensively repairing blockade ditches, blockade walls, and blockhouses to expand its occupation area and blockade the anti-Japanese base areas.For "non-public security areas", "mopping up" is the main focus, and the "three light" policy is implemented.Wherever the Japanese army went, people, livestock, property, property, and property were all wiped out, and no one was spared, causing many villages and towns to become ruins.The Japanese army attempted to shake the will of the Chinese soldiers and civilians to resist the war with extremely cruel destruction. Beginning in early May 1942, the Japanese North China Front Army gathered more than 50,000 Japanese and puppet troops under the command of Neiji Okamura, and carried out a large-scale "mopping up" of the anti-Japanese base areas in central Jizhong. More than 50,000 people were arrested and killed.Someone described it as: "I took off my shoes and socks today, and I don't know if I will wear them tomorrow."
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