Chapter 11 Chapter 3 The Suffocated Jinling City (the first week of the massacre)

Except for the massacre of the Chinese defenders who failed to cross the river in Xiaguan area on the 13th, the Japanese army massacred Chinese prisoners in Nanjing on the 14th and 15th. The massacres were for two purposes. : One is that the Japanese army is afraid that the remaining Chinese soldiers will resist them, and the other is the game-like massacre.Therefore, there have been scenes of tragedies where young men are killed when they see them—— On the 14th, before a brigade of the Japanese army came down from Zijin Mountain to enter the city, they captured a Chinese major and forced him to lead the way through the Taipingmen into the city.At this moment, they suddenly saw a group of Chinese soldiers head-on, so the Japanese army quickly surrounded them.Through an interpreter, the Japanese army told the Chinese soldiers: Your commanders have all fled, surrender your guns and surrender!The Chinese soldiers surrendered their guns one after another.When I asked which department these Chinese soldiers belonged to, they replied that they had just retreated from Zhenjiang and thought that there was still a place to live in Nanjing.The Japanese army laughed after hearing this, thinking that these Chinese soldiers had become their shackles.But the Japanese army team soon became a little nervous: I only had less than a hundred people, but the "enemy" prisoners gradually reached more than a thousand people!what to do?At the beginning, the Japanese army tied the captured Chinese soldiers with ropes one by one and asked them to stand at a corner of the city wall. Later, there were too many people to tie them up, and more than a thousand people, what did they eat?I asked Shangfeng for instructions on whether to eat or not, and the answer was: no.It is not a big deal not to be given food. Anyway, if a prisoner goes hungry for a few days, it is not considered abuse.But dozens of people had to guard more than a thousand people, and no "good things" (referring to robbery, robbery and fun) could be done. So the officers and soldiers of the Japanese Army Regiment once again reported to Shangfeng how to deal with the prisoners?Shangfeng replied: "Dispose of it on the spot."

"I'll send you away!" The Japanese army jokingly drove all the Chinese prisoners to the base of the city wall, made them line up, and then launched machine guns, submachine guns, and rifles together... It took more than ten minutes for more than a thousand people to "dispose of" all of them.Carrying blood-spattered spears and sun flags, the Japanese squadron triumphantly walked towards the streets and alleys of Jinling City. On the same day, a machine gun squadron of the Japanese army walked down from Zijin Mountain, and a railway stretched far along the valley. The highly vigilant Japanese army was nervous and afraid, fearing that the remaining Chinese soldiers would stop them, so the machine gunners hurriedly lay down Body, mount the machine gun.Sure enough, not long after, a group of about one brigade of Chinese soldiers fled from Yaohuamen along the railway to the Japanese machine gun squadron.Because the team was holding a white flag, the Japanese army did not shoot.

More than 10,000 people!what to do?The Japanese machine gun squadron asked Shangfeng for instructions, and the answer was: bring the prisoners into the city. "We only have dozens of people, it's impossible to escort so many people!" The Japanese Machine Gun Squadron requested additional troops for support.Soon the wing sent another squadron and asked the prisoners to be escorted into the city overnight. More than 200 people betting more than 10,000 people is still a big problem, and night has fallen.Although the Japanese army was aggressive on the surface, the little rabbit in their hearts was jumping.

After entering the city, the Japanese soldiers of the Machine Gun Squadron discovered that the captives they had escorted were stuffed into trucks that had already parked in an open space, saying that they were sent to one place in batches for “processing”—of course the captives didn’t know . The more than 10,000 captives were transported by truck to the Yangtze River in Xiaguan, and then the Japanese army there carried out a mass massacre. There are different methods of "handling", some use machine guns directly, and there is another method-"There is a hillside over there, everyone pushes it a little bit, and the truck will roll down. The above said: 'Take these Throw the guy into the river!' So everyone pushed the truck and people down the Yangtze River." This is what a Japanese veteran named Masao Asakura said.

More and more Chinese prisoners were found in the city. Some of them were transported to the Xiaguan River by trucks and "disposed" directly, and some were prisoners of a whole battalion, regiment or even a brigade. The Japanese army also had some scruples, so first The prisoners were escorted to those abandoned warehouses by the river, and the prisoners were tricked into "placement" for them. In fact, it was also to cover their ears and steal the bells and carry out more cruel "treatments"-"The warehouses were full. After a few days, The sappers set fire there. Although it was an order, they were all killed or steamed to death. The warehouse in Nanking was made of bricks and galvanized iron sheets, so black smoke billowed everywhere from the warehouse windows The warehouse is full of Chinese people, and there is no more (warehouse for people), so let the Chinese line up in 4 rows, not tens of meters, but longer. They line up densely, and the number is amazing. We line up There were several heavy machine guns and light machine guns. With the command of 'hit', they started to shoot. Not only our squadron, but all the regiments there did it." The 16th Division of the original day Toshio Ota, a veteran of the 3rd Battalion of the 33rd Regiment, said so.

Eishiro Kondo, the captain of the 8th squadron of the 19th Regiment of the Rishan Artillery Corps, also recorded in his "Expedition Log" that he participated in a riverside "operation" on December 16: ... Tonight there was a fire in the shelter for twenty thousand prisoners.Go change shifts with the guard squadron.Finally, it was decided to shoot one-third of the captives, about 7,000 people, by the banks of the Yangtze River today.We went to guard, so everything was disposed of.The remaining survivors were bayoneted. The moon hangs on the top of the mountain.Under the bright and quiet moonlight, the pained groans of the dying are really miserable.If it is not on the battlefield, you will not see this kind of scene.Come back around half past nine.This scene will never be forgotten.

On the 16th, 17th, and 18th, the Japanese army used the same method to massacre more than 17,000 Chinese captives who surrendered from the Shogunate Mountain. In order to verify such a bloody incident, the author found the Japanese army's on-site records at that time from historical materials.For example, Nobutada Kurosu, who was in the same regiment as Eishiro Kondo, said in his "Diary" on the 16th: At one o'clock in the afternoon, 20 of our artillerymen were drawn to sweep up the remnants of the Shogunate.Some 5,000 Chinese soldiers captured two or three days ago were led to the banks of the Yangtze River and shot dead with machine guns.Later, he was assassinated wantonly with a bayonet.I also assassinated about 30 absolutely odious Chinese soldiers at this time.

The feeling when stabbing a dead person on the mountain is to show the courage to overwhelm the devil, and stab with all the strength.The Chinese soldiers were whimpering and moaning, both old and young, killing them all, trying to chop off their heads with knives.Such a thing is really a rare thing that has never happened before... I came back at 8 o'clock in the afternoon, and my wrist was quite tired. Listen, how cruel is the state of mind of such devils when they kill Chinese people, and their mentality of thugs and devils is vividly displayed! The "diary" of the soldier Fukuji Meguro is simple to remember, but it can't be more clear about the facts committed by the Japanese army and the number of Chinese prisoners killed:

16th: At four o'clock in the afternoon, Yamada's troops shot and killed about 7,000 captured enemy soldiers.The bank of the Yangtze River became a mountain of dead people for a while, and its shape was extremely miserable. 17th: Going to perform the mission at 5:00 p.m., and shot and killed about 13,000 enemy soldiers.In the past two days, Yamada's troops killed nearly 20,000 people.The prisoners of each unit seemed to be shot. 18th: It was windy and snowy around 3:00 am.When I got up in the morning, I saw that the tops of the mountains were covered with white snow. This was the first snow.There are about ten divisions of troops assembled inside and outside Nanjing.recuperate.At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, more than 13,000 remnants of the enemy were shot and killed.

19th: I was supposed to rest, but got up at six o'clock.Thousands of corpses of the enemy shot dead yesterday were thrown into the Yangtze River until one o'clock in the afternoon. There is nothing more cruel than such atrocities!In the eyes of the Japanese army, killing has become very commonplace, and the Chinese are even inferior to pigs and dogs. The pity of the captured soldiers is unimaginable.After the defeated Chinese soldiers from Shogunate Hill and other places surrendered, they thought that the Japanese army would at least respect the basic living rights of the captives in accordance with international practice, but the Japanese army completely ignored international law and basic humanitarianism.After the captives were taken to the riverside and locked up in the warehouse, they still did not know their imminent death. Some of the Chinese captives wrote a note to the Japanese officer guarding them begging for a little food. We can see from the text The tragic condition of these prisoners and the atrocities of the Japanese army who ignored them until they killed the prisoners.It was the second lieutenant of the Japanese army Saburo Amano who kept this pleading note from Chinese prisoners. At that time, he sent this thing to his relatives in China:

Oh, my poor surrendered Chinese officers and soldiers brothers, you are too naive and childish!As the "victors", the Japanese imperial army could not show the benevolent heart of "Great Japan". They who came to China with butcher knives did not have such basic kindness at all!Never possible! Hungry, cheated to the riverside, waiting for death is the only fate of Chinese soldiers. This is something that the tens of thousands of Chinese defenders who put down their weapons never thought of, and this is where their sorrow lies. At that time, the Japanese army believed that in addition to the Chinese defenders who fled to Xiaguan on the evening of the 13th and the morning of the 14th, there should be about 20,000 hidden Chinese soldiers in the city of Nanjing. Men, no matter what clothes you wear, what you dress up, or what occupation you say, you are basically arrested as a "Chinese soldier".If the number of people arrested is a few, dozens, or one or two hundred, they can find a place to "dispose" at will. Matsuda Goro and others from the 33rd Infantry Regiment of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army participated in the "sweep" in the city on the 14th and captured 25 prisoners in an alley.What to do after catching them became a difficult problem encountered by the Japanese army at the grassroots level. When I asked the commander, the commander said he didn't know, and said: "Anyway, let you handle it yourself." So the team leader ordered: Let the prisoners line up, and then stand in front of each of them with a Japanese soldier holding a bayonet. "I took the bayonet and stabbed it with a 'ho' sound, but the man was wearing a cotton jacket, and the knife couldn't go in. Instead, he was held tightly. I thought how could this work, so I pulled the trigger of the rifle, 'bang ', the man died immediately," Matsuda Goro said. "After I entered the city, I only captured the defeated soldiers. In the end, some young men changed their clothes. At that time, the captains of each branch went to listen to the orders. We soldiers didn't understand the details. The captains just said, 'Now go catch the prisoners' How do you tell if they are plainclothes soldiers? So we arrested the young ones..." Matsuda Goro remembered very clearly what he did in Nanjing. Decades later, he said with certainty: "In the city Killing people here is killing them on the spot.” That day their squadron captured more than 250 Chinese prisoners, all of which were "disposed". There was a Japanese navy recruit who was only allowed to go ashore on the 17th.The mood after going ashore can be described as "excited": "Seventeen or eighteen soldiers on each ship went ashore from Zhongshan Wharf, and the Marine Corps composed of less than 100 people walked into the city along Zhongshan North Road. You can see countless scattered clothes on the road, as if someone took them off and threw them away." After walking ashore for a while, they finally entered the city of Nanjing through the cracks in the gate of Yijiangmen, which was packed tightly with soil and grass. .After entering the city, the Japanese recruit was also stunned by what his "comrades in arms" did: "We went around and found a place in the square that looked like a tennis court and in the square that looked like a children's park." On the square, I saw corpses piled up very high, like a mountain of corpses. Some of the corpses had their hands tied behind their backs, and some were tied together with four or five people; It is unbelievable that many naked corpses were found in the pile of corpses in the winter. The marks left by shooting and assassination are very obvious, from which we can see that there are various methods of killing. It is obvious that the slaughtered corpses are piled up everywhere. In some squares there are 2 mountains of corpses, in some squares there are 3. In addition, in a home, I saw two headless corpses lying in a sea of ​​blood that had been congealed. The necks that had been decapitated were basically It shrank into the body, and the cut wound was so small that it was almost invisible. It was really horrible... This was an unbearable blow for me, a recruit who was only 18 years old." "What I can't forget is the deathly silence in the area north of Nanjing. There is no life here, needless to say, there are no living Chinese, and I haven't even seen free-flying birds." The Japanese soldier What the recruits saw later was even more unforgettable for him: "It should be December 18. When I was standing guard on the bridge, I suddenly heard the sound of machine guns, so I suddenly looked towards the Zhongshan Wharf. At this time, I heard the sound of shooting. Hearing screams and roars, I saw people falling down in response. This is what happened in Nanjing under the Japanese occupation. I intuitively think that the people who were killed were Chinese, but why did this happen? My mind was a mess." After returning to the ship, the Japanese recruit said: "As long as the ship is on guard, every day, from morning to night, I see groups of people who can't tell whether they are captives or ordinary Chinese being transported by truck. The pier was driven into the river and shot by machine guns. Although we can see clearly with the naked eye because we are only a few hundred meters away, we are very serious when we are on guard, and we all carry binoculars, so we can see more clearly with binoculars. Trucks are one car 20 people, 30 people in a car, transported the people to Zhongshan Wharf, and the Japanese soldiers shot them with machine guns and massacred them on the slope of the bank. The screams and roars were drowned out by the roaring gunshots, which lasted for tens of seconds After that, everything returned to calm. Some of the people who were shot jumped into the river to escape, but after a while they could not hold their breath and floated to the surface of the water, so they became the targets of Japanese soldiers shooting again. Those who were hit either sank on the spot. In the water, or drifting down the current, this situation has continued. Some of them wore white clothes, some wore black clothes, and it was impossible to tell whether they had served as soldiers just by their clothes, but they were 20 people in a car like this , 30 people were transported by truck. Why were they transported by truck to the place where they were massacred? This is a question for us. Somewhere to go. Otherwise, why not escape from the truck on the way, or don't have to get here, can be slaughtered elsewhere. No matter how I think about it, there seems to be only one answer: 'They were cheated in some circumstances Here.' This situation continued every day. Occasionally at night, there would be noises from the opposite bank. What I saw was the flames shaking and suddenly flying sideways. Looking carefully, it was a scene of arson and murder. On the second day, Using a telescope, you can clearly see the charred human-shaped things falling to the ground like charred stakes after a fire. At that time, the Yangtze River had entered a dry season, and the water level was dropping every day. So sometimes the front was slaughtered and then sank into mud The corpses of many people will appear layer upon layer on the shore. Sometimes we see Japanese soldiers forcing seven or eight Chinese to pack up layers of corpses, and some dig a hole and tie their heads or other parts of the corpse with ropes. They were dragged into the pit, and some were thrown into the river. At that time, I kept thinking, what happened to the lives of these Chinese who were forced to pick up the corpses, wouldn’t there be long-term protection for their lives?” This Japanese recruit especially emphasized: "The massacre at Zhongshan Wharf that I saw happened after the 17th...but I think the shooting by the Japanese soldiers continued until the 25th when I left there. Standing on guard for about two hours a day, the first The time of two days will change. Because other soldiers such as machine gunners are not on the deck, only sailors and other arms are on guard, so I will have my turn every day, at least once a day, sometimes twice. During the guard, every day, every other period Timely shootings and other murders and massacres have continued. When standing guard, other machine soldiers and other soldiers shouted, "Let us also see", and came to watch together..." After massacring the Chinese, after occupying Nanjing, the Japanese army seemed to watch and participate in the game, showing a "natural and excited" state of mind all the time.Obviously, this kind of game-style massacre is exciting and exciting to the "devils", which is completely animalistic, barbaric, and inhumane. They killed young men when they saw them. This was the most frenzied massacre since the Japanese army entered the city. down ghost. Jiangdongmen, the gate of the former Kuomintang "model prison", a group of more than 50 Chinese city guards held white flags and walked on the street with bare hands. A group of Japanese soldiers came in front of them. "We are captives, and we have come to obey your arrangements." The Chinese soldiers thought that they could escape unharmed. The Japanese army indiscriminately used guns to drive the more than 50 Chinese soldiers to a vegetable field near the prison and ordered them to line up.Suddenly, more than a dozen Japanese soldiers raised their swords and slashed at these Chinese soldiers... "I only remember the vicious image of a Japanese soldier slashing at me with a saber held high. I don't know anything else." Liu Shihai was the only one who survived the disaster. When he woke up, he found himself being crushed by two corpses. "I was the only one alive among the more than 50 people who went with me, and now I still have a 10-centimeter-long scar on my neck." The Chinese soldiers who surrendered no longer dared to appear in groups on the street, and all the men who walked in groups of three or five were within the range of the Japanese army shooting them on the spot. A dozen or so soldiers from a certain unit of the garrison army followed their company commander and pretended to be a group of migrant laborers pulling dung, trying to escape the robbers and flee into a nearby garbage dump.Several Japanese soldiers stopped him and ordered him to put down his feces, hold a shoulder pole, put it on his neck, and line up.However, a few shiny sabers chopped off the heads of these Chinese soldiers like peeling garlic... When the blood spurted from the headless body, the devils standing aside laughed and called it "the stinky red spring". At this time, a Chinese male citizen passed by, but was stopped by the Japanese army again. After checking his palm, he found that his palm had calluses, so he untied the tape on his padded jacket and wrapped it around his neck. However, two Japanese soldiers held one end each. Start the "tug of war"... After the Chinese citizen died, the two Japanese soldiers raised their sabers and chopped off his head.When the bloody heads rolled on the street, the Japanese soldiers played "kicking football" again. On the street, blood was splattered all over the place, and the Japanese soldiers "smiled all over their faces". The Japanese army's guessing and probing defeats are very similar to the scattered Chinese soldiers.Check palmistry - to see if there are calluses, those who have calluses can't help but tell, all of them are regarded as former soldiers with guns, no matter how you justify.Getting hacked and eating bullets all depends on what tricks the devil wants to play. But sometimes not quite.When someone is walking in the streets and alleys, when they see the Japanese soldiers and run away in fright, the Japanese soldiers will raise their guns and shoot until they watch you get shot and die.This is not the end - one more cut, two cuts, or even ten or eight cuts, all according to the mood. The desolate Chinese soldiers are hiding in the middle of the city, and there are still many people who have nowhere to hide, nowhere to hide, so they have to pretend to be innocent citizens on the street. Seeing this, the Japanese army suddenly said, "Stand at attention!" The Chinese soldiers who are accustomed to obeying the orders of their superiors in the army were stopped by such "orders" and stood upright in place. "Hahaha..." The Japanese army laughed excitedly when they saw this.Then, it's a "bang" bullet to finish the job, or step forward to "peel the garlic" or "open the melon". As a result, red blood and white brains flowed all over the place. The Chinese soldiers died in Huangquan when the robbers gave the command "stand at attention" one by one. There was a Chinese military officer who responded quickly.When the Japanese army suddenly uttered the unconventional Chinese "stand at attention", he knew it was a fraud, and immediately loosened the leg he had just closed, pretending to be lame. "Your, soldier's work!" The Japanese army slashed down with a general sword. The Chinese soldier's left leg was broken. "Aren't you standing at attention?" The Japanese army ordered the Chinese soldier missing a leg to stand up straight. Definitely not standing up straight.Then, "Kacha", another leg was broken under the saber, bloody... "You stand at attention!" The Japanese army once again ordered the Chinese soldiers to stand at attention with their broken legs. It must be impossible to "stand at attention".So, the saber fell from the top... Many Chinese soldiers who "stand at attention" fell under the "command" of the robbers in this way. Some Chinese men did not die when the Japanese army yelled "stand at attention", they were stripped naked and brutally massacred in broad daylight and cold wind. One day, two Chinese men walked out of an alley with a flustered look on their faces, because they were indeed Chinese city guards, and they were machine gunners in the army. They encountered the Japanese army. "Stretch out your hand!" The Japanese soldier gestured. The two held out their hands.Looking left and right, the Japanese soldiers did not seem to be people holding guns all day long.These two Chinese men were also considered clever, and they also gestured and pointed to the burden on their shoulders, signaling to prove that they were hawkers. The Japanese soldiers didn't believe it and ordered them to take off their clothes. In Nanjing in late December, the first snow fell.The two Chinese men were naked and shivering from the cold.The little Japanese soldier watched and laughed, making the Chinese man turn around and keep turning around.Then suddenly make it "stop"! Two sabers rest on the right shoulder of the Chinese man. "Your, soldier's work!" "We are not, we are soldiers. We are businessmen..." The Chinese man argued in fear. "You have calluses on your shoulders! Work with guns!" The Japanese soldiers began to pick and peel the shoulders of the Chinese men with sabers, and the blood immediately flowed to the chests of the Chinese soldiers, and then to the lower body... The saber was placed on the lower body of the Chinese man and slowly moved to the genitals. The blood dripped down the genitals again, like raindrops, but it wasn't rain, it was bright red "rain"... The Chinese man began to shiver and tremble all over. The Japanese soldier laughed again.In an instant, a more cruel scene appeared: two sabers were seen spinning one by one... The genitals of the two men disappeared and fell to the ground. "Oops!" Before the Chinese men could cry out the pain, their heads had already fallen to the ground.The Japanese soldiers on the side were comparing the sharpness of their sabers. A body, divided into three parts, fell to the muddy ground. The Japanese soldiers took turns kicking three things: head, body and genitals. Many Chinese men were killed by Japanese soldiers in this way.Here's another "kill the young man on sight" situation— The upper-ranking Heijing family cooked and ate together with his teammates in a private house. Because of the cold weather, several Japanese soldiers wanted to eat flour mixed with green onion juice. Where are the green onions?So they saw Chinese men walking on the street, arrested the squadron, and told them to go to a nearby vegetable field to pull onions.At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, when it was getting dark, Jing's family was notified to gather at the brigade headquarters and "bring the Chinese who pulled the onions there."The superior asked them to escort 15 Chinese men to the brigade. "When I went over, I saw 161 Chinese people staying in the courtyard of the brigade headquarters obediently. They looked at us, completely unaware of the approach of death." The Jing family recalled again. Later, these Chinese were beaten and scolded and driven to a bunker near Gulin Temple.There are several houses there. 161 Chinese men were locked in a single private house by the pond. "Then groups of five were brought out and stabbed to death with bayonets. Some screamed, some mumbled as they walked, some cried, and some lost their minds knowing that death was imminent. The final belonging of the defeated soldiers is to be killed Killed by the Japanese army." The Jing family participated in the whole process of the massacre. He described the tragedy like this: "I tied their wrists with iron wires, tied their necks, beat them with wooden sticks, and pulled them away. There were also brave people who sang Soldiers striding forward while singing songs, some jumped into the water and struggled, and some hugged the beams of the roof to hide for their lives, and couldn’t get down no matter how much they shouted. So we poured gasoline on the house and burned the house. As soon as the three burnt people ran out, they were suddenly stabbed to death with bayonets..." In a short while, this place became a hell on earth again.In order to cover up, the Jing family waited for the Japanese soldiers to pour gasoline on the corpses scattered all over the place, and then set them on fire, burning all the houses together. Another one of the Jing family and their methods are not the most surprising.Fu Liqin, a survivor who lived in Yuhuatai, saw with his own eyes a dozen poor people who lived near his home at that time. Because they were men, the Japanese soldiers forced them to be arrested as "Chinese soldiers".Then let these dozen or so people line up, this time the Japanese soldiers didn't raise their guns and shoot, but shot the head of the first person with a bullet, and then aimed at the second and third... When the Japanese soldiers discovered that sometimes one bullet could kill two or three "Chinese soldiers", they danced and shouted with "joy and encouragement" on their faces. "There was a man who was not shot in the throat and was still alive after liberation. He was nicknamed 'Four Eggs'." Fu Liqin said, "The man who survived the gunpoint of the Japanese soldiers is really a miracle."