Chapter 8 7. Memory of the Japanese Army

In fact, the memory of the Japanese soldiers is very clear and even very detailed, ranging from General Matsui Iwane who commanded the entire attack on Nanjing, Lieutenant General Nakajima Imasago, the commander of the division, to ordinary soldiers. Too many, too deep memories. For the Japanese, this day is simply "joyful" like "a big festival".In Tokyo, 800,000 people attended a celebratory meeting early in the day.This is the emperor's will: to celebrate, the Yamato nation has successfully occupied the capital of another country for the first time since the founding of the country, and it is the capital of China, a neighboring country that has dominated the world for thousands of years.

Before reading the massacre recorded by the Japanese army on the first day of entering Nanjing, the author first saw the writing by Jiro Suzuki, an army correspondent of the Tokyo Nihon Shimbun, in Volume 61 of the vast "Historical Materials Collection of the Nanjing Massacre". An article entitled "The "Nanjing Tragedy" I Witnessed".In the paragraph "Torturing the Unresisting Prisoner", he said this- Both the Japanese military and us believed that if Nanjing fell, the Nationalist government would surrender and the war would be over.Therefore, the morale of the occupying forces in Nanjing is very high. In addition, coupled with the pride and spiritual relaxation of the "winners", as well as the Japanese army's "three light operations" (burn, kill, and rob) policy, it is difficult for Nanjing alone. As many as 300,000 citizens were massacred.

On the second day, the 13th, a group of dozens of people from the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun including the painter Jien Nakagawa and the late Soichi Oyake, follow-up reporters from the Tokyo Nihon Shimbun, and photographers took a house in the urban area to a house that had disappeared. I moved into the brick hotel as the headquarters of the front line, and I returned to Zhongshanmen again. There, for the first time, I witnessed the horrific and tragic carnage. On the 25-meter-wide city wall, the captives lined up and were stabbed one by one on the outside of the city wall by bayonets. Many of the Japanese soldiers brandished bayonets and stabbed at the chest and waist of the captives on the city wall shouting.Blood splashed in the air, and the scene was like hell... I stood there blankly for a long time watching this tragic scene.

But in this cruel scene, there is a phenomenon that I don't understand, and I can't forget it all the time.That is the attitude and expression of the stabbed captives: people who are about to die, show cold smiles, and some people sometimes laugh loudly, waiting for "death in turn". On this battlefield, a group of people armed with red-tasseled guns were not afraid of death, and attacked one after another, continuing the hand-to-hand combat that confused the Japanese soldiers. ... My thinking has been frozen, and I left the scene.On the way back, I sneaked into the gate of the "Inspirational Society" again.There was a big tree in the courtyard that had not been noticed before, where more than 10 captives were tied up with wire.Everyone's face is as pale as paper and shirtless.Some people were sitting, some were standing, looking at me with blank eyes.

At this moment, a few Japanese soldiers came in noisily, two or three of them were holding picks, from which I knew they were their engineers.They didn't glance at me who was standing next to me. One of them stood in front of the big tree and shouted: "These guys want to attack our companions too." One of the captives swung down.After the shiny pickaxe was cut off with a "click", blood spurted out "gurgling".Others struggled after watching, but could do nothing, allowing other soldiers to commit violent acts.This is simply an unbearable instant tragedy.Among the captives were those in military uniforms and belts, as well as those who looked like citizens.

Seeing this, I had no choice but to escape. The defenders and ordinary people arrested by the Japanese army could not escape under such circumstances. Their fate was only one: death. Let’s take a look at how the Japanese officers and soldiers who occupied Nanjing committed violence and what their state of mind was like—— This is what Ichiyo Takashima, who was only enlisted in the army in August 1937, wrote about the scene of Nanjing on the 13th and the next day: Before dawn, the gunfire stopped abruptly.It seemed that the enemy troops who had defended the mountain for three days had retreated.The 6th Squadron marched towards the Observatory Heights as a vanguard.

At dawn, the sound of artillery stopped, and the city of Nanjing, which was still shrouded in the smoke of artillery fire yesterday, clearly appeared in front of my eyes. "Ah, Nanjing!" The long city walls are clearly defined.The joy at this moment brought tears to everyone's eyes... The pioneers excitedly raised the Japanese flag at the observatory. The words "Occupied by the Noda Team at 9 am on the 13th" were written on the half-open fire exit. Kneeling in the trenches were a few hundred disarmed captives, all skinny guys, blinking at our troops. ...and set off again immediately.Team 1 captured more than 200 remnants.They didn't know that Nanjing had fallen and fled.I went to ask Adjutant Oshima what to do with the prisoners.Adjutant Da Dao said: "Whether it is 200 or 500, drag them anywhere and kill them!" So they were loaded into an empty carriage at the station, and it was decided that the team would assist the heavy machine gun team in handling the prisoners by the Yangtze River.

The captive in the van screamed "Wah-wah".There was steam coming from the van.The prisoners were pulled out one by one, all naked, struggling to breathe, yelling "Wah-wah", pointing to the kettle and saying, "My lord, my lord, water, water." "Bastard!" I yelled angrily.They drink from the muddy water accumulated in the hollow.The captives lined up in four lines with their hands raised.We took 50 people to the riverside. Because the grenades are placed under their feet, the danger is extremely small.It's just that the squad is small in number, and there are only me and Kondo as junior officers. If they make a desperate commotion, we won't be able to control it.Pull people out of trucks and warehouses, a total of 1,200 people, and let them sit facing the river in the mud up to their knees.Give an order, and the heavy machine guns hiding in the trench behind will fire together.They fell down like dominoes, blood flying everywhere.Dozens of people who jumped into the water were all killed by light machine guns waiting on the trestle bridge, and the muddy water was stained red with blood.Ah, what a cruel scene!Where else in the world does this kind of situation exist?Those who can still squirm, use the captured guns to fight again.The warship floats on the Yangtze River, and the sailors watch the scene from the deck.

Carrying a large national flag, he entered Yijiang Gate, and there was a sign on the gate: "At 5:00 pm on December 13th, the Sichuan troops occupied it." Sandbags were spread on the charred corpses and they went up to the gate tower.I don't know why the tower was burned.Half-burned bodies littered the streets, along with clothes, bayonets, ammunition, and abandoned anti-aircraft guns.Telephone poles were down, wires stumbling like spider webs.There is no place to step on the repaired and spacious road.Our chariots pulled the captured anti-aircraft guns and drove over majesticly.On the grass are the eight characters of "loyalty, filial piety, faith, peace, benevolence", and large anti-Japanese slogans and cartoons are painted.The Ministry of the Navy, the Ministry of Railways and other government offices stood everywhere, and the Ministry of the Navy became the headquarters of the Marine Corps, flying the flag of the warship and standing the sentry post of the sailors.

In the spacious mansion, the British flag is flying on the majestic building, and the sign of "Great British Ambassador to China" is hung.Is this the mansion where the British ambassador lives every time he acts strangely against our operations?Sweep the city.It is said that in the city, except for the street where the government is located, it is like a rural street.There are almost nothing in the warehouse of the 88th Division Headquarters and the barracks of the cadets.Because I had a telephone, I stuffed it into a bag with a map and brought it back.Grenades were thrown everywhere.

There are groups of twenty or thirty people, and there are several groups of prisoners with their hands tied behind their backs.Booming noises can be heard everywhere, and fires are burning.Presumably they were disposing of prisoners with hand grenades. After entering Nanjing City, all the troops were full of joy and energy... The 13th day in another memory of the upper-class Hyoi family: I saw Nanjing!Unexpectedly, they actually saw the place they had been attacking so far, tied the Japanese flag to the machine gun, and couldn't help shouting "Long live" resounding through the sky. The Nanjing City Wall extends to the foot of the mountain in the distance along the right hand direction.I saw the streets of Nanjing from a distance.Sunlight obscured the view. The voice of "Long live" sounded over and over again.Dozens of Japanese flags fluttered one after another on the city wall... He was enlisted in the army for more than 90 days, and wandered between life and death many times on the Shanghai battlefield.After the Battle of Shanghai, I came to Nanjing and climbed the city wall... When I thought of the emperor, my parents, brothers and sisters, prayed for safety and cheered for long live, I couldn't help but shed tears. The memory of Mizuguzhuang, a private of the Japanese 9th Division, stayed at the moment when he boarded the gate of Nanjing at 7:20 on the 13th: Standing on the city wall, holding guns in both hands, he shouted "Long live" hoarsely toward the east!I took out the Japanese flag that my brother gave me and tied it to the gun, shouting "Long live" repeatedly, and everyone burst into tears with excitement.Alas!The long-awaited city of Nanjing, only a very small number of people including us can immerse themselves in this excitement.The whole body is filled with the happiness of a soldier, and we have mixed feelings.It's great to be born as a Japanese boy! Masuda Rokusuke, a soldier of the 3rd Unit of the 20th Regiment of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, recalled the 13th in this way: December 13th in the 12th year of Showa was the day when Nanjing was captured, and it will always be a glorious day in the history of our country.Needless to say, Nanjing is the stronghold of the Kuomintang and the center of China's anti-Japanese campaign.One side of Nanjing faces the Yangtze River, and the other three sides are surrounded by mountains and hills. The terrain is naturally dangerous and easy to defend but difficult to attack.Relying on the fortifications, the Jiang regime wanted to compete with the imperial army to test whether its regime survived or died.It's a pity that Chiang Kai-shek didn't have a strong shield to stop our imperial army. In front of my sword of justice, Chiang Kai-shek's army was vulnerable, and the city was destroyed in only three days.The flag of Japan's sun was flying on the gate of the city, and the warriors of the imperial army poured into the city like a flood that broke the embankment, with hot tears on their faces. The first to occupy the Zhongshan Gate and become famous in the army was the star troop of the Ohno Army-Sanqing Squadron.At 1:00 p.m., the captain of Blood Damo (Lieutenant Banqing, captain of the 4th Squadron of the 20th Regiment of the Japanese Army, who suffered a penetrating injury to his right wrist in the battle in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing, so he got this alias) took the lead and walked in front. Many soldiers marched into the city boldly holding the remains of the fallen.The officers and soldiers of the squadron had no time to rest, and immediately under the command of Second Lieutenant Tanaka, they began to sweep the remnants of the defeated soldiers in the city.We entered Nanjing Public Hospital, five or six hundred meters away from Zhongshan Gate.This is a hospital with several four-story buildings, built of reinforced concrete, very magnificent.The hospital is used to accommodate the wounded and sick from Shanghai, Changshu, and Wuxi. Each unit does not allow its soldiers to act alone, but to go collectively.All that was left in the hospital were blood-stained military uniforms, battered caps and blankets.Although this is only a shelter for the hateful Chinese army, it also makes us very angry.Whether it was a cabinet or a table, we smashed them all.Medicine cabinets, utensils and chest clocks were also smashed.All kinds of photos, specimens, etc. were stabbed with bayonets without exception. After exiting, on the way to Zhongshan North Road, we saw weapons, ammunition, quilts, horses, carts, etc. left by the fleeing soldiers all over the ground.Rows upon rows of businesses have been plundered by the Chinese army, not to mention people on the street, not even a dog can be seen. It's been a long time since we decided to stay indoors that night.The plundering was originally not out of intention, but the continuous fighting with almost no food, no drink, and no sleep in the past few days, isn't it all for the sake of today?In order to be able to have today, didn't many comrades in arms die gloriously?Celebrate the capture of Nanjing!Celebrate the capture of Nanjing City! Fukuji Meguro, head of the 13th Division of Japan, recalled on the 13th: Get up at 3:00 am, set off at 4:00 am, and go to Nanjing Mufushan Fortress to attack.On the way, enemy prisoners gathered everywhere, and it is said that there were about 13,000 of them.There were children ranging in age from twelve or thirteen to people in their fifties, including two women.The enemy continued to surrender, and the total number of prisoners captured by each team was about 100,000.At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the Nanjing City Wall was seen, and the troops camped outside the city. On July 10, 1991, in the "Numazu Asahi" newspaper, Nakamura Yaseki described the day that made him feel "sinful" all his life: On December 13th, the weather was clear and windless, and the mirror-like water of the Yangtze River was flowing slowly. Our fleet and army cooperated with each other and quickly went up the river with Nanjing as the goal. At about 3 o'clock, I rushed to the Xiaguan trestle bridge and landed on the shore.Before that, 7 Chinese prisoners were captured, killed on deck in the middle of the night and kicked into the Yangtze River.The cruelty I have seen began then. We have not been ashore for a long time, and we are allowed to go ashore to watch the battlefield.The entire Nanjing city is surrounded by city walls (10 meters high and 4.5 meters wide) except for one side facing the Xiaguan city gate facing the Yangtze River.There are strong gates in many places.The army controls all the city gates from the outside, and no one in the city can get out.When I entered the city, I was very surprised. Nanjing, a big city, had become a dead city.The country is broken.There are no people, cars or horses, not even cats and dogs in sight.All that can be seen are endless mountains of dead bodies that extend endlessly.On the road, in the square, and on the embankment, there are piles of corpses.Soldiers, merchants, and peasants, men, women, and children, all died.Due to the cold weather, the dried blood was black, and there was still fresh blood under the corpse. The Navy rarely goes ashore, and it's hard to see women.Perhaps it was for this reason that there were cruel-hearted people who used wooden sticks to pick off the clothes on the chest of the female corpse, and some people lifted up the hem of the clothes to look at them. In the early morning of the next day, I saw the river beach beside the trestle bridge.This is also a mountain of corpses, which have not rotted yet.There are traces of blood flowing on the sand.The bodies had no stab wounds and appeared to have been shot. The above is the real situation I have seen.But who caused these?Its number is 300,000? 100,000?Or 10,000?I have no idea.I think in that mess, it seemed like no one really knew about these things, but certainly more than a few thousand. Yoshio Akahoshi, a soldier of the Japanese 6th Division, recalled the day he joined the war on the 13th: On December 13, a general attack on the city wall of Zhonghuamen was launched from the morning.The field guns aimed at the Zhonghua Gate, which was once considered indestructible, and continuously fired from the bottom of the city wall to the top. Soon, the vertical wall began to deform, and people could climb up. After the bombers attacked the Zhonghua Gate and the mortars and machine guns on the city wall in waves, a three-man death squad with light machine guns and rifles rushed forward, hung rope ladders on the deformed city wall, and stood on our side. Climb under cover of shooting and enemy attack.Then, amid heavy gunfire, about 40 infantrymen followed; the enemy's counterattack seemed to be continuing. After a while, the Rizhang flag was flying high above the Zhonghua Gate.It was around 10:30 am on the 13th. At that moment, everyone raised their hands and shouted: "Long live! Long live!" They all shouted: "That's great! That's great!" While being moved, I was thinking, it's great to be able to get to this point without incident up.We took "Taking Nanjing first" as our slogan. Two or three hours after the Death Squad climbed the city wall, the gate of Zhonghua Gate was finally opened.Following the order of the team leader to "enter the city", we walked towards the city gate and entered the city.The city is filled with sandbags about 10 meters long and 4 meters wide.Homes were mercilessly vandalized or were burning.There are obvious traces of bombing and shelling everywhere, and the air is filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke. In addition, everywhere was stained bright red with blood, and the ground was littered with corpses whose heads had been blown up or whose internal organs were exposed, as well as pieces of shattered flesh, which was unbearable to look at. Except for the Red Cross refugee area in the city, there is not a single guerrilla or defeated soldier in sight. Now the city of Nanjing has really fallen into the hands of the Japanese army. We raided the city repeatedly, but encountered little resistance.That night, that is, on the night of the 13th, guards were set up in a corner of the city. On the second day, we passed through the city and headed for the banks of the Yangtze River.Looking at the Yangtze River below from that fort, we can see countless stick-shaped things flowing. We got off the Lion Rock and walked towards the bank of the Yangtze River.On the way, I saw the corpses of Chinese soldiers lying on the ground, some without heads, and some with only upper bodies, telling people the horror of the attack. The banks of the Yangtze River are the same as ordinary piers, where ships depart and arrive.But when standing there looking at the water of the Yangtze River, an unbelievable scene unfolded in front of my eyes. At 2,000 meters, no, maybe even wider, there are countless corpses floating on the surface of the river.Looking around, there was nothing else to be seen except the corpse.There are corpses on the bank and in the river. They are not the corpses of soldiers, but the corpses of ordinary people.Adults, children, men and women, flow slowly like rafts floating on the river.Move your gaze upstream, followed by a mountain of corpses.I felt as if the corpses that followed were endless. At least there are more than 50,000 people, and almost all of them are the corpses of ordinary people. The Yangtze River has truly become a "river of corpses". I have heard the following about this matter. The day before, tens of thousands of Chinese troops and refugees retreated from Nanjing City squeezed onto a ferry that could hold about 50 people at Xiaguan Port in the Yangtze River Basin 8 kilometers ahead, trying to escape to the other side. At the height of the attack on Nanking, the navy armed with cannons and machine guns went up the Yangtze River, ready to ambush the retreating army and refugee boats, before their ferries reached the opposite bank, all guns fired in unison.With the roar, shells and bullets rained down.The ship was blown to pieces by a direct hit, and all ships were sunk. When I heard about these things, I thought to myself: "Why do people who have nothing to do with..." Then I thought, maybe this is the real situation called "Nanjing Massacre". Sho Mitani, a recruit of the Japanese Navy, witnessed and participated in the massacre on the 13th on the ship—— I was 18 years old and joined the Japanese Navy as the youngest recruit on the ship.The ship I was on was the "Sea Kaze", known as the most cutting-edge destroyer of the Japanese Navy at that time, and it belonged to the 24th Destroyer Fleet. On December 13, 1937, news of the capture of Nanjing reached the ship.That morning, everyone was a little nervous at first.We moored in the vicinity of Pukou on the opposite bank of Nanjing, and while waiting for orders, we engaged in an artillery battle with the fort on the bank of Nanjing.At that time, because the naval guns of the Japanese Navy were very accurate and powerful, it didn't take long for the battery on the shore to be destroyed. After the artillery battle and other attacks were over, we saw several bamboo rafts floated from the upper reaches of the river, on which there were neatly piled corpses that looked like Chinese. The corpses were about one and a half to two meters high. Very neat, like a drawn geometric cuboid.Everyone felt very strange, fearing that it was a camouflage, and there was something hidden inside, so about 20 people on the deck raised their guns and shot wildly at the bamboo raft.That is to say, it doesn't aim specifically at all, but shoots roughly towards the target with the hand supported by the waist. We shot desperately, but there was no reaction on the bamboo raft. The four bamboo rafts floated over like this... I found out later that they were full of Chinese people. As a Chinese, the author believes that every reader will feel grief and indignation at the atrocities committed by the Japanese invaders in Nanjing when they read this.From the descriptions of the Japanese officers and soldiers above, we can clearly see that whether it was the "excitement" of the Japanese army "three cheers" after successfully attacking Nanjing, or the arbitrary killing of Chinese prisoners and civilians by the riverside or other places, The "sense of appreciation" or "sense of guilt" revealed is ironclad proof of the historical fact of the Japanese army's massacre in Nanjing. Let's take a look at the most convincing accounts of the "Generals of the Empire of Japan".This is what was recorded in the diary of Lieutenant General Nakajima Kagego Nakajima, head of the 16th Division of Japan, on December 13, 1937: sunny December 13th Early in the morning, the general-school reconnaissance team of the 30th Infantry Regiment [the Japanese army led by generals (second lieutenants and above) and brought necessary soldiers to scout the enemy's situation and terrain, etc.] entered Zhongshan Gate. No trace of the enemy was found. So far Nanjing has been completely occupied. ... 21. Basically do not implement the captive policy, and decide to adopt the policy of complete and complete elimination. However, since there are groups of 1,000, 5,000, and 10,000 people, even the armed forces cannot be disarmed in time.However, they have completely lost their fighting spirit and are just coming in groups. They are now safe from our army.Although safe, it will be difficult to deal with in the event of a disturbance.To this end, additional troops were sent in trucks to monitor and guide. On the evening of the 13th, a large number of trucks needed to be dispatched, but since the battle had just ended, it was difficult to execute the plan quickly.Because the measure had never been envisioned, the staff was very busy. 22. It was later learned that Sasaki troops alone disposed of about 15,000 people; a squadron leader guarding the Taiping Gate disposed of about 1,300 people.About seven or eight thousand people gathered near the Crane Gate.In addition, there are people who continue to come and surrender. 23. To deal with the above-mentioned 7,000 or 8,000 people, a large trench is needed, but it is difficult to find.It is planned to divide them into teams of one or two hundred people and lead them to appropriate places for processing. 24. Most of these defeated soldiers were handled by the 16th Division. Therefore, the division had no time to take care of entering the city or camping, etc., and just ran around blindly. 25. While mopping up the remnants of the enemy, it is also necessary to find and dispose of dangerous landmines, and it is also necessary to collect discarded weapons and ammunition, and the number of them seems to be quite large. Dealing with the above issues may take several days in the future. Take a look at this "diary in the battle" written by Lieutenant General Nakajima Kagego of the Japanese Army. The facts about the "processing" (shooting) of my Chinese prisoners of defense described in it could not be more clear.This is a history that cannot be erased, and only these parties know the situation at that time best.The Sasaki unit that Nakajima mentioned was in charge of "handling" the Chinese prisoners was actually the executioner, the commander of the 30th Brigade of the 16th Division of Japan, and a major general, Sasaki, who was also one of the main culprits of the Nanjing Massacre. It is hard for the Chinese to believe that: Toichi Sasaki and Iwane Matsui, the biggest culprit of the Japanese army in the Nanjing Massacre, are both "hands in China" and have "deep friendship" and various inseparable relationships with the Revolution of the Republic of China. wisps of relationship.As we said earlier, Matsui Iwane was not only Chiang Kai-shek's "mentor" but also an active supporter of Sun Yat-sen's revolutionism. This Sasaki was also a "hot-blooded youth" who was full of sympathy and yearning for the Chinese revolution when he was young. After graduating from the military academy in 1911, he set foot on the land of China. Later, he became Sun Yat-sen's military adviser leading the Great Revolution in Guangzhou. Foreign military experts who casually entered and exited the base camp with a wave of their "passport".It was also when he was serving as a military adviser to Sun Yat-sen that Sasaki met Chiang Kai-shek, who was the chief of staff at that time.According to Sasaki himself, Sun Yat-sen's "Chinese tunic suit" was specially designed for the Kuomintang members in a Japanese-style suit shop at the invitation of Sun Yat-sen. Matsui Iwane is a very thin, dry old man - he was 59 years old when he commanded the Battle of Songhu and the attack on Nanjing, so the young men in the Japanese army secretly called him a "dry old man".Don't look at the "dry old man" whose hands are stained with the blood of the Chinese people, but he is still a fake scholar who likes to dance and write. During his invasion of China, he wrote poems and lyrics every time he won a "decisive" victory.For example, after winning the "victory" on the front line of Taihu Lake on the way to attack Nanjing, he wrote two seven-character poems: One is called "After the Battle of the East of the Lake": Xiao Diyun's birthday is getting poorer, and the flag is high above the lake.Don't talk about secular and confused policies, but don't pull out the Nanjing emperor's way. Another song is called "Words and Receptions": The war situation in the east of the lake is getting worse day by day, and the holy worry is clearly unrewarded.Looking west and north at the evil spirit, when will the emperor contact Asia. Although Sasaki is not as skinny as old Matsui, he is a standard soldier with a full face and a murderous look, but he usually likes to dance and write. Not only does he write a diary, but he also likes to write poems and poems, and his style is quite delicate. place.It's a pity that the Japanese now have little to say about this "great hero" who attacked Nanjing, because Sasaki used too many delicate writings to remember the historical facts of the Nanjing Massacre clearly, and he was extraordinarily detailed and "emotional".Let's read Sasaki's record of the situation and state of mind on the first day of the occupation of Nanjing on December 13, 1937: December 13: ... At 8:00 a.m., gunshots rang out nearby, waking me up from my dream.Correspondents, transport members, and orderlies were all crackling and firing with their guns. "What's the matter?" I asked, running out of the house. "Just repelled them. A large group of enemy troops descended from the Purple Gold Mountain." "Is it a defeated soldier?" "While searching, they suddenly came down from above. Groups of people rushed down, with five or six hundred people each time." "Have they handed over their guns?" "There's no time to make them surrender, kill them all." The enemy army is still rushing down from Zijin Mountain, group after group, overwhelming the sky and covering the land, with enemy troops everywhere.They are all soldiers of the Instructor stationed on the top of Zijin Mountain.They tried to cut a bloody path through the gaps in my detachment, counterattacked, and broke out. Because the enemy wants to be trapped in the house and resist endlessly, it is better to change into plain clothes and escape as soon as possible.Therefore, those enemy soldiers who surrendered in twos and threes threw their weapons into the pond, or threw them into the house and set them on fire.They do this thoroughly.This army is the most valiant direct line army of Chiang Kai-shek, therefore, it is also the most heroic army that fought tenaciously to the end. ...In addition, the cavalry regiment stationed near the rear health center was attacked by the enemy in the dark.The enemy army rushed into the courtyard, causing them to lose more than 200 personnel and more than 60 horses. They were in a panic at that time.The cavalry regiment continued to ask for heavy artillery reinforcements afterwards, and had no time to consider whether it was capable of self-defense.And our troops have opened up a battle line for several miles, and we have to continue to fight fiercely with the enemy troops swarming on both sides... After that, captives came to surrender one after another, and the number reached thousands.The excited soldiers ignored the dissuasion of the superior officers and killed the prisoners one by one.Recalling the blood shed by many comrades-in-arms and the hardships and hardships of the past ten days, let alone the soldiers, I also want to say "kill them all". At present, there is not a single grain of white rice left.Although it can be found in the city, it is impossible for our army to still carry food for the prisoners. We boarded the Peace Gate and shouted "Long live the Generalissimo" three times.Today's weather is very sunny.Rizhang flags are flying everywhere on the Jinling city wall.Seeing all this, the corners of his eyes couldn't help getting hot. (I can sleep well tonight.) Sasaki was so excited that day that he was so excited that he couldn't sleep afterwards, because Nanjing was the place where he "fighted" ten years ago, and the past of "living and dying to make revolution" with Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek and other Chinese Kuomintang figures is vivid in his memory. Sasaki couldn't help picking up his pen again and wrote an evil poem entitled "Song of Attacking Nanjing": After writing the poem, Sasaki felt that he was still puzzled by the "thousands of emotions" in his heart, so he continued to write: I am sure that the person standing at the head of Nanjing city is the most emotional person than me.This is not only because I have lived here for two and a half years, Nanjing is a place I used to be familiar with.Nor is it because when I left eight years ago, there were still two-thirds of the farmland inside the city walls of Nanjing, where pheasants and hares could be hunted. modernized city.In fact, when I was still in the weak crown, that is, in the 44th year of Meiji, I aimed to solve the Manchurian problem, and secretly had a good impression of the Kuomintang.However, I was very unhappy because they implemented a policy of tolerance to the Communist Party, especially Chiang Kai-shek's policy of defecting to Britain and the United States.I was deeply worried about the future of the imperial kingdom and left this place angrily.The experience of the summer of Showa four years is still vivid in my mind. "Look now!" I am definitely not expressing my personal anger. People who break their trust will eventually be punished by God... The spirit of Sun Wen, who rests in the Zijin Mountain, must have sighed and wept at Chiang Kai-shek's short-sightedness.A modern city becomes a dream in one day.The flames of war were still raging in the city, and thick black smoke shot straight into the sky. At this moment, I feel more deeply the meaning of "the country is broken and the mountains and rivers exist". Sasaki's day can be described as "excited" and "excited".After being overwhelmed with emotion, he couldn't fall asleep for a long time, and wrote in his diary the next day—— Now, I am in full control of the two alliances, carrying out raids inside and outside the city.The troops searched out all the remnants and defeated soldiers lurking everywhere.However, they have all discarded or hidden their weapons. Large numbers of captives, ranging from 500 to 1,000, were brought in succession.They didn't look particularly frightened, but they were all exhausted and probably had nothing to eat. Until the night of December 11, there were electric lights and running water in Xiaqilin Village outside the city.According to intelligence reports, after the military meeting ended that day, Tang Shengzhi, the commander of the enemy city defense, fled across the river, and a large number of civil and military officials and their families also fled downstream in civilian boats. It was once debated whether Colonel Hashimoto's heavy artillery bombarded a foreign ship, possibly a British ship full of overcrowded soldiers and civilians up the river (actually what was on board, no one knows). Jinling University housed thousands of young women, and the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs housed hundreds of wounded soldiers, claiming to be protected by extraterritoriality and receiving treatment from foreign doctors. There is no more miserable person than the abandoned Chinese soldiers who escaped from the guard.Everyone knows whether they have the will to fight. More precisely, the reason why they resist desperately is because there is no way out. Although the remnants were defeated, there were still people lurking in villages or mountains for sniper warfare.Therefore, those who continue to resist and refuse to obey will be killed immediately without mercy.The gunfire continued all day long. The big moat outside the Taiping Gate was full of dead bodies. Empty houses were looted.Military uniforms and other items were scattered all over the place.Hand grenades and rifle bullets abound.Coupled with the fact that all the key points are planted with landmines, it is really dangerous. In order to carry out street fighting and air defense, large-scale fortifications have been built on the avenues in the city.Cars with all their engines destroyed or burned were thrown away row by row.In the meantime, there are discarded quilts and equipment in a mess, messy everywhere.Our air strikes blew up the national government, military academy, and other military facilities to pieces.The same goes for airports outside the city. Residential houses were burnt to ruins, and some fires have not diminished and are still burning. There is not a single resident in sight, only stray dogs wandering blindly. The original bustling city of Xiaguan had been burned to ashes, hundreds of cars were abandoned on the road along the river, and hundreds of corpses on the bank were washed into the river one by one. It has been ten years since the National Revolutionary Army entered Nanjing in February of the 16th year of the Republic of China (that is, 1927).The city's population has increased from 300,000 at that time to 800,000 now.By exploiting farmers, they successfully built a modern city that shows off itself.However, it has become a passing cloud now, and anyone who witnesses the tragedy of the destruction of the capital will be deeply moved... It is really rare for an executioner to write so "emotionally" about an inhuman massacre directed by himself!And this just completely and thoroughly proves that the facts of the Nanjing Massacre are beyond doubt. What is there to doubt?If you still have doubts, please see the following "interview proof" from Japan's own people——