Chapter 29 The Eighth Route Army Exposes the Japanese Army's "Three Alls" Policy in North China

On September 16, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army sent a telegram across the country, exposing the Japanese army's "mopping up" in North China and implementing the "Three Alls" policy of killing, burning, and looting. Facing the successful guerrilla warfare of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese troops who "mopped up" North China returned without success time and time again.These angry beasts began to implement the "three alls" policy of burning, killing, and looting in the base areas.The soldiers and civilians in the base area paid a heavy price for this.

In the 1930s, North China included the five provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, Cha, and Sui, and the two cities of Beiping and Tianjin, with a total area of ​​about 1.02 million square kilometers, accounting for about 1/11 of the country; 316 million mu of arable land, accounting for about 1/4 of the country's cultivated land area; the population is more than 76.2 million, accounting for about 1/6 of the country's population, exceeding the total population of Japan. North China is rich in products.The output of wheat accounts for 1/3 of the country, the output of cotton accounts for about 1/2 of the country, the output of coal accounts for about 45% of the country, and the output of salt accounts for about 1/5 of the country.There are also many factories and enterprises, among which textile factories account for about 1/5 of the country's total, and flour mills account for about 2/5 of the country's total.The traffic conditions are also good. The total length of railways accounts for about half of the country, and the length of highways accounts for about 1/6 of the country.In addition, there are world-renowned natural harbors such as Tianjin, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Yantai, and Weihai.

In China's economy, North China has an important strategic position. Therefore, after seizing the Northeast, Japan immediately expanded and plundered North China from the perspective of economic resources. Shanxi was an important target of Japanese aggression. There were not only important strategic materials there, but also one of the main bases of the Eighth Route Army.In order to consolidate the occupation of Shanxi, the Japanese army caused a series of horrific bloody tragedies in Shanxi. The Japanese army burned houses and looted everything they saw in the city. A large number of houses and shops were turned into ruins, and all their belongings were looted. On July 9, 1940, five Japanese soldiers from the 41st Division of the Japanese Army in Qinshui County, under the leadership of a traitor, came to Xishan Village, drove nearly a hundred villagers into various rooms in a courtyard, and took Put on the pre-prepared gas masks and release gas bombs to each room, and all the people in the hospital were poisoned to death.

On September 13, 1940, in Majiazhuang, Pingding County, the Japanese army used bayonets to force more than 140 villagers into the enclosure of Zhang Qingshen’s house in Xiajie, locked the door, piled up wooden furniture and firewood around them, poured gasoline on them, and lit the fire Burning, the people in the pen room were burned into coke in the raging fire. On October 2, 1940, the Japanese army tied all the 75 anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians they captured with hemp rope at the border river between the north and the south of Xiyang County, and buried them alive in the earth pit dug in advance in the Xihe River near the county seat.

On November 19th of the lunar calendar in 1940, a Japanese soldier wanted to rape a peasant woman in Baiyun Village, Heshun County. He felt that the four-year-old girl she was holding was in the way, so he snatched the girl, grabbed her ankle, and lifted her Then slammed down the steps.The girl died without saying a word, bleeding from all seven orifices, and his mother also failed to escape the clutches of the devil. On December 23, 1940, the Japanese army bloodbathed the towns and villages of Xingxian County. In Guojiagou Village, Xiguanqiao, they wanted to drive a group of women into their houses and rape them.There was a seven or eight-year-old girl who held her mother tightly, but a Japanese soldier grabbed her head and slammed it into the stone pier next to her. Immediately, her brain mixed with blood flowed all over the floor.

On October 25, 1940, the Japanese army burned down more than 2,000 houses in Lan Village, Dingxiang County.During the eight years of the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army repeatedly "raided" many villages. Lancun alone was "raided" by the Japanese army 13 times, and the houses and property in the village were burned 13 times. On December 31, 1940, several Japanese soldiers captured a 4-year-old girl in Caozizhai, Lan County, and made a frenzied bet that whoever was stronger could tear the girl in half.Immediately, a Japanese soldier stepped forward to knock down the girl, stepped on her left leg with both feet, and lifted her right leg with both hands. Despite the girl's screams and screams, amidst the applause of her companions, she was torn alive like a chicken dismembered, and hung the dismembered corpses on the wall like a butcher shop.On the same day, in Juzizhai, Lanxian County, after the Japanese army raped and killed a young woman, they put the baby lying on the corpse and crying for milk on a bayonet, and then went to the street to let their companions admire the baby The horror of fumbling with hands and feet on the bayonet.

In the winter of 1940, the command organization of the Japanese North China Dispatch Army issued the "Sanguang Order" to the Japanese army "mopping up" in central Shanxi: The purpose of this operation is completely different from the previous ones. It is to completely annihilate the Eighth Route Army and the people in the Eighth Route Army's base areas. Therefore, all people in the enemy's territory, regardless of men, women, old or young, should be killed; all houses should be burned. All grain and fodder, which cannot be transported, will also be burned; all pots and bowls will be smashed, and all wells will be buried or poisoned.

There is a Meihua Town in the south of Gaocheng County, Hebei Province. The Japanese army burned, killed, raped and looted in Meihua Town for four days and three nights.According to statistics, a total of 1,547 people were killed, accounting for 60% of the town's population, and 46 households were killed.Many people had their eyes gouged out, their ears cut off, their tongues cut off, their feet cut off, and their arms cut off.More than 600 houses were burned down, and countless livestock, food and other property were looted. Panjiayu Village is located 60 miles away from Fengrun County, at the eastern foot of the Yanshan Mountains. It used to be the main activity base of an anti-Japanese democratic regime in eastern Hebei, and it often dealt heavy blows to the Japanese and puppet troops who came to "mop up".For this reason, the Japanese army hated the local people deeply, and wanted to destroy them quickly.In a bloody "sweep", a total of 1,237 people were burned to death, bombed to death or shot to death, more than half of them were women and children, and many families were killed.More than 1,100 houses in the village were burned down, and their belongings were either looted or burned.

In order to "secure Manchuria", the Japanese army moved the measures of "returning villages and merging households" implemented in the Northeast to the Great Wall.They built a large number of blockade ditches, blockade walls and bunkers, burned many villages, cruelly created many "no man's land" and "no man's village", and engaged in the so-called "separation of the people and bandits". The "700-mile no-man's land" on both sides of the Jidong Great Wall was the largest "no-man's land" created by the Japanese army at that time. In early August 1941, Neiji Okamura, the new commander of the Japanese North China Front Army, convened a meeting of regimental commanders in Beiping and decided to build a "no man's land" in eastern Hebei.Its range starts from Gubeikou in the west and ends at Shanhaiguan in the east, with a total length of 350 kilometers, a width of about 30 kilometers from north to south, and an area of ​​about 10,000 square kilometers.It covers nine counties including Luanping, Chengde, Xinglong, Pingquan, Lingyuan, Qinglong, Miyun, Zunhua and Qian'an.

In order to create "no man's land", the Japanese army frantically implemented the inhumane "three light" policy.In addition to carrying out large-scale military "mopping up" and "encirclement and suppression", special rapid troops were formed to massacre innocent people bloody. Neiji Okamura's North China Front Army used violence and bayonets to force the people to leave their homes where they had lived for generations and move into disguised concentration camps - "group tribes" in the process of creating the "700 Li No Man's Land".For those who did not enter or delayed the deadline to enter the "group tribe", the Japanese army killed one by one.They also burned all the houses in the "no man's land" they stipulated, looted all their belongings, and even burned all the trees to create an open area where people could not hide. Within tens of miles of the "no man's land", there is not a single person to be seen, not a trace of cooking smoke to be seen, and not a single cock crowing or dog barking to be heard.The fields are full of wormwood, and there are only ruins in the villages and towns.Crows are circling in the sky, and hungry wolves are walking through the grass.In the "group tribe", the Japanese army used all kinds of fascist terror methods to round up the common people like cattle and sheep, and enslaved and persecuted them.People angrily called this "tribe" the "circle of men".

The "circle of people" is surrounded by high walls covered with power grids, and bunkers are built around the walls and on the top of the gate, which are strictly guarded by the Japanese army to restrict access. The living environment in the "Human Circle" was very harsh, and the Japanese army stipulated that each household should build their own houses.When ordinary people were driven into the "human circle", their belongings had been looted, so how could they have the strength to build houses?I had to build a horse shelf nest shop.In winter, when the wind and snow hit, the ventilated huts were freezing to the bone, and many people died of frostbite.In Xinglong County alone, more than 1,000 people froze to death in a few years.In summer, sewage and feces are everywhere, and the mud is stinking.Flies, mosquitoes, rats, bedbugs, and lice were rampant, and plague, typhoid, cholera, and dysentery were widespread.In a "circle of people" in Xinli Village, Zunhua County, more than 530 people died due to infectious diseases.At that time, every family buried their corpses and every family howled, which was very tragic.At that time, there was a sad ballad popular in the "human circle": "Three horse-frame houses, without walls on all sides, winter and summer are hard, everyone is heartbroken." The ordinary people who were driven into the "human circle" had no way of life.Due to the pitifully small amount of land around the "circle of people" allowed to be cultivated, and a considerable part of it was used to dig blockade ditches and build blockade walls, so there is very little land that can be rented or borrowed.When farmers lose their land, they lose their source of livelihood.The common people could only live on a very small harvest, and they couldn't even eat acorn flour and chaff. Many people starved to death. In the "human circle" of Dashuiquan in Xinglong County, more than 200 people starved to death within a year, accounting for 20% of the entire "circle" population.In the "circle of people" in Changgou, 265 people starved to death within two years, accounting for 38% of the entire "circle" population.The Japanese army had extremely strict control over the "circle of people". The "Baojia" system is implemented in the "circle of people", 30 households are a Baojia, and 10 households are a Jiajia. In some places, there are cards under the Jiajia, and there are Baochang, Jiachang, and Paichang respectively. If one person has an accident, they will be implicated. .Ordinary people are also required to join organizations such as the "Self-Defense Forces", "Concord Association", and "Tao De Association".Adult men are issued a "good citizen certificate" and stipulated that they must perform hard labor, including building roads, building blockhouses, mining, digging blockade ditches, and vigil on the "circle" wall.Many were overwhelmed and overworked to death.The Japanese army implemented a "big whistleblower" system in the "human circle", and people were often killed on trumped-up charges such as "political criminals", "thought criminals", "economic criminals", "smuggling criminals" and "suspicious elements" , Sometimes mass killings are carried out after the "big report".While massacring ordinary men in the "human circle", the Japanese army humiliated women in every possible way, and raped women became an open and legal thing.The Japanese army ordered people to "open the door and not close it at night" so that they could go to ordinary people's houses to rape women at any time.It happened frequently that women committed suicide because they could not bear the humiliation or were killed because they resisted the humiliation.According to the statistics of a "human circle", nine out of ten women have been insulted, and many have been raped by beast soldiers countless times.Among the insulted women, as many as 30% suffer from sexually transmitted diseases. In order to suppress the Chinese people, Japanese imperialism has indeed exhausted all the cruelest means.