Chapter 13 12. Kill if you break into the gate of the house

This was the most criminal act in the whole city during the first week of the Japanese army's entry into the city—— In a courtyard at the Xinlu intersection in Zhonghuamen, a Muslim family of 4 lived, and the Xia family, a family of 9, lived in the other.Xia Shuqin, the third daughter of the Xia family, is 7 years old and her younger sister is 3 years old. Because she and her younger sister are still young, they survived. On December 13, Japanese soldiers suddenly broke into Xia's courtyard, shot and killed the Huimin family man and Xia's family man first, then raped Xia Shuqin's mother and two older sisters, and shot them to death again.

Xia Shuqin and her 3-year-old sister hid under the quilt, and the younger sister fainted from fright.Xia Shuqin was crying out of fear, and was stabbed three times in the back by a Japanese soldier with a bayonet, and then passed out.At dusk, Xiao Shuqin woke up and realized that she was still alive.Except for her and her 3-year-old sister, the other seven adults were all killed by Japanese soldiers. Boss Qin, who lives in the south of the city, has three entrants in the house, which is a family property passed down from his ancestors.Before the Japanese soldiers entered the city, many neighbors fled for their lives. Boss Qin was reluctant to part with the family property, so he hid at home with his wife and children. Early on the morning of the 15th, several Japanese soldiers kicked open the gate of Qin's house with guns in hand.Although Boss Qin was terrified, he still greeted him with a smile.The Japanese soldiers saw Boss Qin wearing glasses, flattened hair, and a long gown. He was polite and did not look like a "Chinese soldier." They also saw an old man with white hair standing behind Qin, "What are you doing?" The Japanese soldiers were aggressive. asked.

Qin quickly replied, "I'm a businessman and I run a tofu shop. He's our tenant and our postmaster." "Do you have any Chinese soldiers in your family?" the Japanese soldier asked. "No. We are all good citizens." Qin replied. "Do you have any flower girls?" The Japanese soldier continued to ask. "No, no." Qin replied with a guilty conscience, because his wife and children were hiding at home.The old man's wife is also in it. The Japanese soldiers seemed to be angry. They dragged Qin and the postmaster Xu to the entrance of the alley.Unwilling to return empty-handed like this, the Japanese soldiers stepped into Qin's house again, and quickly found Mrs. Qin and Mrs. Xu. "Hahaha, the flower girl has it!"

A few Japanese soldiers swarmed up regardless of what happened, stripped the middle-aged Mrs. Qin and Mrs. Xu naked, and gang-raped them in front of the four children of the Qin family... Boss Qin and Director Xu, who had been knocked unconscious on the street, woke up at this moment. When they heard the child crying and the woman screaming at home, they knew something had happened and hurried back.The young Boss Qin walked quickly. As soon as he stepped into the door and saw his woman being raped by the Japanese soldiers, he wanted to step forward to fight the Japanese soldiers, but before he could do anything, he was stabbed to death by two Japanese soldiers with bayonets at the door of the house.

The successful Japanese soldiers swaggered away.Mrs. Xu felt that she had been humiliated by the Japanese soldiers at an early age and had no face to live on, so she wanted to commit suicide by jumping into the pond. "What are you doing? I didn't leave, don't you want to die!" Director Xu, who is nearly 60 years old, sighed and stopped his wife. The naked Mrs. Qin felt that she had been raped by Japanese soldiers in front of her children, and she was shameless to live in the world, so she dragged four children, the oldest of whom was 11 years old, into a nearby pond one after another while crying... Fortunately, she was A passer-by saw and rescued him, but the poorest 1-year-old child died of drowning.

Li Fuyi and his son lived at No. 22 Yudai Lane. Other families had already fled to the countryside. Li Fuyi was reluctant to part with the two old residences, so he did not leave home after the Japanese army entered the city. Li Fuyi was usually timid. One day, when Japanese soldiers knocked on the door, Li Fuyi did not dare to open the door. The enemy was angry and fired several shots into the house.Li Fuyi had no choice but to walk forward to open the door... "Baga!" Before Li Fuyi could open the door completely, the Japanese soldiers kicked him in the chest, and then dragged the fallen Li Fuyi to the entrance of Yudai Alley. He took a step and stabbed him once, dozens of times in a row, until he died.

His son Li Xuecai, who was staying in the house, was already trembling with fright.The Japanese soldiers did not let him go. After killing Li Fuyi, they turned back to Li's house, took their guns straight to the back room, and stabbed Li Xuecai's chest with a few shiny bayonets. "Ah! Ahh——" Li Xuecai was dying of pain, dragging his blood, and planned to escape to the backyard.The Japanese soldiers chased after Li Xuecai with strides, and pressed Li Xuecai to the base of the wall, then aimed at his throat and head, and fired several times until his brains were scattered everywhere...

There is a deep house compound in Xinjiekou, in which lives an old gentleman named Yang, who is an old-fashioned old intellectual and a descendant of a wealthy family.It is said that Mr. Yang's ancestors used to be servants in the imperial court during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, so his old house is a large and decent courtyard.After the establishment of the national government, it wanted to requisition the location of a military institution, but because of Mr. Yang's "hard roots", even the government failed to requisition this piece of geomantic treasure land from the Yang family.

When the Japanese came, everyone in the Yang family fled to other places, but Mr. Yang insisted on not leaving. "It's just Little Japan! There's nothing scary about it, and I don't owe them anything." Old Mr. Yang didn't care. Helpless, the Yang family only left two servants to guard the courtyard with Mr. Yang. When the Japanese entered the city, large searches and robberies were everywhere.Naturally, a compound like the Yang family is also unavoidable. "Boom, boom, boom!" The Japanese soldier slammed on the gate with the butt of his gun. Stand still.

"Boom! Boom! Boom——" "Boom boom boom! Boom boom boom! Boom boom—" The sound of Japanese soldiers banging on the door was like thunder. "Mister, it seems that someone is knocking on the door. Can you open it?" the servant asked for instructions. "Let's go! No indecent assault." Mr. Yang said with his eyes half closed, smoking a hookah. The servant hurried to open the door.Five or six Japanese soldiers stared at the servant who opened the door with a few bayonets. "First——" before the servant could utter the word "birth", he fell dead in a pool of blood.

Japanese soldiers broke into the vestibule, entered the second courtyard, and then entered the backyard where Mr. Yang was sitting. "What are you doing? Why don't you open the door?" The Japanese soldier pressed his bayonet to the tip of Mr. Yang's nose, and picked out the hookah in his hand with the bayonet. Mr. Yang raised his eyelids, and said calmly: "I, a Chinese, a citizen of Nanjing. I don't do anything in my own home! Is it okay to smoke?" The Japanese soldiers were horrified because Mr. Yang answered in Japanese. "Your, our big Japanese friend?" The Japanese soldier waited for an answer with frightened eyes. Old Mr. Yang smiled contemptuously, and said, "Mine is not your friend. My grandfather was the translation secretary who negotiated with you Japan on the follow-up treaty of the Sino-Japanese War..." "Yo Xi! You are amazing!" The Japanese soldiers booed after looking at each other. "Does your family hide Chinese soldiers?" the Japanese soldier asked. Mr. Yang shook his head and said, "Our family never asks about politics or state affairs." "Then why didn't you open the door for so long?" the Japanese soldier asked again. "What did you say?" Old Mr. Yang didn't seem to hear clearly on one side of his ear. "Ask why you don't open the door quickly?" The Japanese soldier became violent. Old Mr. Yang understood, smiled lightly, and said, "I'm deaf and hard of hearing." The Japanese soldier felt that the old Chinese man who could speak Japanese was playing tricks on them, so the victor's robber's possessiveness came up. Without any explanation, several spears stabbed Mr. Yang's chest... "You dogs—!" Mr. Yang widened his eyes angrily, cursing the Japanese soldiers. "Die, die!" The Japanese soldier drew out his bloody bayonet and stabbed at the unyielding old man again. "Devil!" Mr. Yang, who fell down instantly, cursed again this time in a language that the Japanese soldiers could understand. Mr. Yang, who thought he was sacred and inviolable, was deprived of his life, and the old house of the Yang family, which he had inherited for hundreds of years, was burned to ashes by the Japanese soldiers... The family could not stop the Japanese robbers.What about Buddhism? The Changsheng Temple outside the Zhonghua Gate is located in Fangjia Lane.After the Japanese soldiers conquered Yuhuatai, they approached the temple on the 14th or 15th.The little monk Hongliang asked his master, Fangen, "Should we hide behind closed doors?" The master told him, "The Japanese also believe in Buddhism, and they are all disciples of Buddhism. They are so good." Fangen Linghongliang and other monks from all monasteries, big and small, went to the main hall to chant scriptures and sing Sanskrit sounds with incense and candles.So Hongliang and other monks knelt on the futon one by one, and worshiped the benevolent Buddha. At this time, there was a sound of leather boots, and a group of Japanese soldiers with guns and knives surrounded the monks. One of them, who looked like an officer, walked into the hall and patted a monk on the shoulder, meaning to let him go to the courtyard. Dan Chi knelt down. After the monk knelt down in the courtyard, he was still chanting "Amitabha". "Bang!" The kneeling monk was shot dead by the Japanese soldiers. The second monk was called out again, and also knelt on the ground to chant scriptures.Another "bang" shot... In this way, monks were called out one by one and killed one by one. 17 monks fell in a pool of blood one after another, their yellow cassocks were stained with blood. "You—there is one who recites sutras!" The Japanese soldier found that a man was not like a monk, so he also asked him to recite sutras. That was a layman, the local old man Wu who sold deep-fried dough sticks.Because the Japanese soldiers came quickly, the old man Wu had nowhere to hide, so he came to ask Master Fan Gen.Saving a life is better than building a seven-level pagoda.Master Fan Gen was kind, so he took in old man Wu and temporarily gave him a monk's robe to pretend to be a monk.Unexpectedly, the old man Wu, who could not recite sutras, was hacked on the back of the neck by the Japanese soldier on the spot. As a result, the neck bone was severed, the trachea was still connected, and the head drooped, bleeding profusely.Old man Wu rolled on the ground in pain... At this moment, two other Japanese soldiers who were watching the excitement stepped forward and stabbed him twice in a row, and old man Wu suddenly lost his head and died. "Yo Xi, your flower girl is so good!" The Japanese soldier was suddenly attracted by a monk with fair skin.This monk is called Long Hui, a bannerman, in his 40s and without a beard. Several Japanese soldiers thought he was a woman, so they were happy for a while, and hurriedly took off the clothes of the monk Long Hui, and it turned out that he was a man. The little devil was so angry that he pulled Monk Longhui naked onto the big stone sill of the Dharani Gate, and then several people lifted him up together, and then fell down on the stone—Monk Longhui’s brains were splashed all over the place. Died. The Changsheng Temple, which had been safe for hundreds of years, was destroyed in an instant, leaving only thirteen or fourteen-year-old Hong Liang and his younger disciple Miao Xing. The young Hongliang was so frightened that he had nowhere to hide, so he fled to Puzhao Temple.The Puzhao Temple located in Mochou Lake is a thousand-year-old temple. At that time, many people also hid in the temple, including many old people and women.That is, on the 15th or 16th, Japanese soldiers stepped into this Buddhist holy place.They caught an old woman in her 60s for sexual intercourse, which led to a group of young women hiding behind the Buddha statue. The youngest of them was only eleven or twelve years old. None of the women escaped from the clutches.The hateful Japanese soldiers still didn't give up, they insisted on playing tricks-to make the monks and those women "happy and happy".A monk clasped his hands together and said "Amitabha".The Japanese soldiers laughed at him as "useless", so they cut off his genitals with a bayonet. The poor monk rolled on the ground in pain, and finally died of exhaustion. The iron hooves of the Japanese soldiers marched in regardless of their sect, and they committed atrocities.There is a 70-year-old Mrs. Longhua in Nanjing Xiaoxiaoqiao Centenary Palace. She saw that Japanese soldiers ignored the religious rules, did a lot of evil, and tortured and killed people. After the palace, Teacher Longhua set himself on fire and turned into ashes together with the Centennial Palace... The Japanese soldiers were stunned and fired their guns in salute. No family or Buddhism could stop the massacre swords and guns of the Japanese soldiers.Xu Changfu's home is on a tugboat by the river. Will Japanese soldiers break into his home? On the second day after the Japanese soldiers entered the city, Xu Changfu took a family of seven in a broken "small boat" and went up the Huimin River to hide in the Shuiximen area. However, the small boat leaked halfway, and Xu Changfu hurriedly took another The whole family went to the embankment and temporarily built two reed nests on the river beach, tens of meters apart.Xu Changfu lived in the same nest with his second and third daughters, and his wife and four young sons lived in the same nest.At night, Xu Changfu's youngest son, who was only a few months old, cried because his mother had no milk. The Japanese soldiers discovered the sound.The flashlight shined on Luchaiwo of the Xu family. When the Japanese soldiers saw Xu's wife, they became lustful.Xu's wife hugged her youngest son for several months and refused to let go. The Japanese soldiers shot twice, killing Xu's wife and youngest son on the spot. Xu Changfu and his two daughters, who were in another Luchaiwo, just tens of meters away, did not dare to say anything, they could only weep and weep.In the middle of the night after the Japanese soldiers left, Xu Changfu took his daughter to his wife’s shack, packed his wife and young son in a wooden box nailed to the door with tears in his eyes, and put them on the embankment, waiting for dawn before doing anything. .Unexpectedly, after dawn, another group of Japanese soldiers passed by, saw Xu Changfu, grabbed him and left. From then on, the Xu family's children never knew whether their father was dead or alive. The five children of the Xu family, who lost their parents, had to be led by the eldest 13-year-old second daughter, looking for food on the embankment to find a way to survive.Before dark on the third day, the second daughter wanted to find something to eat for her younger siblings, so she went up to the embankment, but was discovered by Japanese soldiers just as she was showing her body. "Flower girl!" The Japanese soldier immediately made her stop when he saw Xu's second daughter.The little girl was so frightened that she ran desperately in the direction of Heyun School. The little girl was no match for the Japanese soldiers, and she was caught by the bandits within a few strokes.The Japanese soldiers wanted to take off her clothes and rape her, but the little girl refused to do so, and even slapped a Japanese soldier.This angered the little devil, and he drew the knife and split the head of the second daughter of the Xu family in half... There are only four pitiful children left in the Xu family. Since then, the 11-year-old third daughter has become the "parent", and behind her are three younger brothers who are five or six years old.A few days later, the third girl was taken away as a child bride-in-law, and she hanged herself because she couldn't stand the abuse.The three surviving youngest sons of the Xu family were also taken away, and their surnames were changed. The tragedy of the Xu family represented the fate of thousands of families in Nanjing under Japanese occupation.