Chapter 12 11. Block the air-raid shelter and kill

Before the Japanese army attacked Nanjing, the defenders and the national government used various facilities to dig about 5,000 air defense bunkers in order to prevent the Japanese army from bombing.Some of these bunkers are for military purposes, some are purely for hiding bombs, and most of them are holes dug by civilians themselves in yards and under houses. The large ones can hide hundreds of people, and the small ones can be used by a few members of a family. One day, after the Japanese army entered the city, they discovered that some Kuomintang government and military departments had solid underground fortifications. At first they thought it was the place where Chiang Kai-shek and other treasures were stored, because these caves are generally not easy to be found. Unfathomable, some have locked concrete and steel gates, some have winding paths leading to secluded places, and even bunker-style military settings.The Japanese army was very afraid of this, and when they saw such a building, they blasted it with explosives or buried it directly.

"Someone! We have dozens of living people here!" A Japanese regiment placed heavy explosives at the exit of an underground fortification to explode. After a loud bang, there were only a few begging wailings from the collapsed cave, and a few bloody "clay figurines" rolled out of the cave with their hands raised. "Die, die!" Seeing this, the Japanese soldiers quickly took a few steps back, picked up their submachine guns and rifles, and fired a burst of fire. The mouth of the cave was quiet.Later, a few brave Japanese soldiers went in and saw dozens of corpses lying inside.There are soldiers and civilians, and they are all Chinese.

In the bulletproof bunker of the former Ministry of Communications of the Nationalist Government, the Japanese army found more than 100 Chinese soldiers who put down their guns, and then asked them to stand together and shoot with machine guns on tanks. In less than 3 minutes, more than 100 bodies were all lying in a pool of blood. middle.A Japanese tanker felt that the shooting time was too fast and not enjoyable at all, so he pulled his companion aside, took the machine gun by himself, aimed at the lying corpse again, and fired violently for 2 minutes until several strings were killed. Machine gun bullets run out.While fighting, he watched the corpses of Chinese soldiers shot by machine gun bullets flying all over the place, laughing loudly. This is what they played by "smashing watermelons".

Later, the Japanese soldiers stopped searching for such air-raid bunkers, and used explosives to blow up the bunkers and seal them up. No matter how many people were inside, or whether they were dead or alive, they were all buried. There are too many and too many small bunkers for the common people, which is very annoying and helpless for the Japanese soldiers.But they also have a way - there is a bathhouse near the Confucius Temple, and there is a cave at the gate of the bathhouse. When the Japanese army entered the city, a dozen wounded defenders who had no time to escape, several ordinary people and five children hid in it.The Japanese army entered the bathhouse, found a hole in the ground, and fired a burst of fire into the hole.Fearing that some people would still be alive, they poured gasoline on the bathhouse and set it on fire to burn them all.The house and the burrow were buried in the flames—no one alive could possibly exist.

Li Xiuhua, a survivor living in Xiganchang Lane on the outskirts of the city. At the age of 11, all the family members except her father hid in the air-raid shelter in the open space next to the house.When the Japanese soldiers came to search, but they couldn't find the adults, they gave the children candies and asked the children to tell them where the adults were hiding.The children didn't dare to eat candy, so the Japanese soldiers continued to search and found an air-raid shelter in Li Xiuhua's house.The Japanese soldiers threatened to block the entrance of the cave if the people inside would not come out, burned them with fire, and suffocated the people inside with smoke.Li Xiuhua's elder brother was 19 years old at the time. He had just been married for a few days. He was dressed neatly and his hair was well-cut. He was the first to come out of the cave. When the Japanese soldiers saw him, they immediately identified Li Xiuhua's elder brother as a "Chinese soldier." , So he hacked to death with a saber.The second person to come out of the hole was Li Xiuhua's cousin, who was also 19 years old. This time, the Japanese soldiers stabbed him to death with a bayonet.The third one to come out was Li Xiuhua's cousin, who had the same fate.After the Japanese soldiers killed the three men, they still seemed unrepentant. "They threw the corpses into the cave, put in yellow, square soap-like things, and set them on fire..." Decades later, Li Xiuhua recalled.

The first group of Japanese soldiers left for less than 2 hours, and the second group of devils also came to Li Xiuhua's house. This time, the Japanese soldiers captured Li Xiuhua's sister-in-law and raped her.Another relative of Li Xiuhua, the aunt, thought that the Japanese soldiers would not do anything to her when she was fifty or sixty years old, but she was raped and killed by wild beasts, and the naked body was "exhibited"... Wei Tingkun's family lived at No. 18, Tiao Lane, Changbai Street.After the Japanese soldiers entered the city, Wei Tingkun's father and his wife hid in an underground air-raid shelter under an unfinished building on Chengxian Street.Thirty or forty people were already hiding in the cave at that time.A fellow with fried tofu heard movement outside, so he looked around the entrance of the cave, only to hear a "bang" shot, and the person who fried tofu died.The Japanese soldiers found the hole now, and used guns to force the people inside to come out one by one.Just as the adults were going out, there was a little clever ghost in the crowd who took advantage of the unexpected and got into a chimney by the wall. This little clever ghost was Wei Tingkun.After Wei Tingkun hid in the chimney, he heard gunshots outside... In the middle of the night, Wei Tingkun quietly leaned out from the chimney. Under the dim moonlight, he saw his parents and more than 30 people lying on the ground , have been shot by the Japanese soldiers.

Japanese soldiers treated such sporadic bunkers, and they summarized them as the "three holes" tactic of "digging, digging, and burying holes".First of all, in the shops in the market and in the homes of citizens, dig holes with bunkers. If you see a man, you will be shot or stabbed to death on the spot. If you see a "flower girl", you will rape it-this is called "boring". The women who were gang-raped were thrown into the cave, and the cave was buried with grenades or bombs.This is the so-called "three holes". No one has counted how many citizens and prisoners were executed by the Japanese army in air-raid bunkers. This is just a form of massacre by the Japanese army.