Chapter 14 13. In order to meet the big lore of "entering the city"

For the Japanese invaders, the occupation of Nanjing was a "grand event in a thousand years" for them to "occupy the capital of another country for the first time since the founding of the People's Republic of China".In order to welcome this "thousand-year event", the occupying army followed the instructions of their superiors and within a few days from the 13th day of entering the city, began the so-called sweeping military operations to "renovate the city" and eliminate "remnants of the enemy". The original entry ceremony was on the 15th.It is said that the commander-in-chief, General Matsui Iwane, was in poor health in those few days and was often bedridden, and because "the order in the city has not yet stabilized", it was decided to postpone it until the 17th.

From the 13th to the 17th, these were also the few days when the Japanese army carried out the Nanjing Massacre with the largest number of people.In military terms, "mopping up" is a very clear word, which means to destroy the enemy when it sees it. Words such as "rectification" are news rhetoric spoken to the outside world. In fact, for gunmen and those who are jealous of killing, even the soldiers of the Japanese army later believed that this was a synonym for "massacre". Grasping and understanding the historical facts in this area, I found an unexpected discovery: what the author basically saw was the historical materials of the Japanese army.

Because the Chinese—the city defenders and civilians who were on the brink of life and death, only wanted to save their lives in those days, and it was unlikely that anyone could calmly record every detail of what happened around them.Only the Japanese soldiers who loved to keep diaries carefully and clearly recorded what they did every day at that time—this also allows us to clearly see the truth of the Nanjing Massacre from the perspective of the perpetrators. For example, on December 7 before entering the city, the supreme commander Matsui specifically mentioned in the order issued to the troops that after entering the city, "each division should use a regiment as the backbone force to sweep the city" such a clear order. After entering Nanjing City on the 13th, the orders issued by various troops regarding "sweeping up" became more and more specific.For example, Sasaki's 30th Brigade issued ten items of the "sweeping" order on the 14th. Among them, "the brigade will thoroughly sweep the northern urban area and outside of Nanjing today (14th)," and "all troops and divisions have Do not accept prisoners before instructions" and dispatch "independent light armored vehicles" and other content.Obviously, such "sweeping" meant massacres for the civilians and the Chinese defenders who put down their arms. The result, of course, was "dead, dead".

After 13 days, the subordinate regiments of the Japanese army that entered the city also issued more specific orders for their own "mopping up".For example, the author saw a report "Detailed Combat Report No. 12 of the 38th Regiment of the Japanese Infantry". In the afternoon, the specific task assignment of the "mopping up" order, the battle situation throughout the day and the results of the "mopping up" were signed by the regiment leader, Dazuo Sukawa.Three tables were attached to the "mopping up" report on the 14th. The second table listed the troops dispatched by the wing that day and the consumption of bullets. A total of 3,097 bullets from rifles, machine guns, and pistols were consumed.In the "Remarks" column of the third appendix, there is a very special and eye-catching sentence: "The 10th Squadron was ordered to guard the vicinity of the Yaohua Gate and stationed there. But at around 8:30 am on the 14th, several thousand enemies Came to the place with a white flag. Disarmed in the afternoon and escorted 7,200 prisoners to Nanking."

Regarding the 7,200 captives "accepted" by the 10th Squadron on the 14th, another Japanese soldier's "diary" clearly tells us that these captives were quickly taken to the riverside in Xiaguan and all were shot to death. In the "Detailed Battle Report of the 7th Infantry Regiment" of the Japanese army, the author also saw the content of dispatching mountain artillery and tanks. About two-thirds of the troops", "The tank squadron (cooperating with the two teams commanded by the engineering team leader) should be responsible for sweeping the roads with special marks."In the following days, such as the 15th, 16th, and 17th, this wing had relevant "mopping up" orders.In other words, in those days, basically two-thirds of the Japanese troops entering the city were mainly used to "sweep" inside and outside the city-participating in massacres.

During the period, the Japanese army massacred how many Chinese soldiers and civilians who put down their weapons in the name of "mopping up", or the Japanese army's "military situation" report and their soldiers' "diaries" revealed part of the content: The Kunizaki Detachment is the ace unit of the Japanese 10th Army. In our words, it is a "devil unit" with many executioners.In the "Military Report" of this detachment on December 14, there is this sentence: "Knowing that there are many remnants and defeated soldiers on Jiangxin Island, let the garrison be responsible for sweeping the island with the assistance of the 10th Independent Mountain Artillery Regiment. The mopping-up team arrived at the island that night and began to sweep. About 2,350 people were disarmed on the island..." That is to say, they killed 2,350 captives on this day—"disarming" followed by shooting, There is no concealment, the Japanese soldiers themselves have described it this way many times.

On the 15th, the "Military Intelligence Report" of the Kunisaki Detachment "reported" like this: "...there are still many remnants of the enemy in Jiangxinzhou, and the 3rd Brigade was sent to sweep the island again." This "report" did not specifically say that they " How many Chinese soldiers and civilians were mopped up, but only mentioned the remaining "enemy numbers and strength": (1) Near Jiangpu: mainly the 58th and 78th divisions, and the 18th, 80th, 85th, 88th, 138th, and 178th divisions One division each, with a total strength of about 3,000; (2) Near Pukou, mainly the 78th and 88th divisions, and one each of the 10th, 18th, 73rd, 80, 85th, 117th, 178th, and 181st divisions, with a total strength of 5,000 people.A total of more than 8,000 "remnants" were newly discovered in the above two places. Where did they go after being captured?Naturally, he had to be killed on the spot, and the Yangtze River was stained with blood...

The tragic scene after the bloody curtain was drawn has been described earlier in this chapter—but most of the "mopping up" mentioned was in the area around the Yangtze River in Xiaguan and in the city. In fact, there are too many "mopping up" actions in the vast suburbs of Nanjing lift. Here is the memory of a Japanese soldier who participated in the sweeping of villages on the outskirts of Nanjing: Once, because we suspected that guerrillas had sneaked into a certain village, we set fire to it and burned it down, leaving no household behind.Another time, just relying on intuition that there was an enemy in the village, the village was burned down, and all the villagers were killed, leaving no one alive.

For the residents, this is really a disaster without reason, but the Japanese army did this kind of unconscionable thing without any serious reason, relying solely on free testimony. My first major crime of burning down houses was in a neighboring village called "Jurong" on the way to invade Nanking.At that time, the large army to which I belonged was following the frontline troops as a reserve force. As it approached Nanjing, the Chinese resistance became more and more tenacious, and there was a stalemate not far in front of Jurong, so the troops temporarily stayed there.During that short stay, First Class Nolu in the detachment, together with soldiers from other detachments, went to collect food with a party of five.

At that time there were still many defeated enemy soldiers lurking nearby, and it was really dangerous for a few of them to move away from the streets.Moreover, when the situation of the battle was unclear and they didn't know when they would advance, they ignored this reason and went out to act without permission. I suddenly had an ominous premonition in my heart.It's fine if they come back safe and sound, but if something goes wrong, things will go wrong.Unfortunately, the general attack was about to start, and the Dayue team also received an order to advance. At this moment, I could no longer hide it, so I reported to the squadron leader with fear.Although the squadron leader was very angry, the matter had already happened and he had to deal with it.

If it was the captain who didn't understand human feelings, he might ignore them and lead the team out on the grounds that "big things are the most important", but Lieutenant Oyue, who was very considerate of his subordinates, immediately called the cadres to discuss and sent a search team. This temporary search team is composed of members of the unit and the Niwa unit where the problem occurred, and is commanded by the experienced squad leader Miyake. With only two detachments, it is really dangerous to dare to enter the area where the enemy and guerrillas are lurking.On the way, I passed two or three small villages without finding any signs. After continuing for about eight kilometers, I saw a village surrounded by earth walls, with about fifty or sixty families. "This place is very suspicious." As he said that, the squad leader ordered to stop the advance in front of the village, and then he took three soldiers to nowhere. After about 30 minutes, three men who looked like local residents were arrested. The squad leader seemed to be planning to get the news out of them.As expected, they called the interpreter Private Mizoguchi for questioning as soon as they came back. "Did you see a few Japanese soldiers around? Frankly, where did they go? Now what? If there's anything to hide, you're dead." The three residents saw the squad leader drawing a knife and threatening, probably because they were overly frightened, and couldn't answer for a while.The squad leader thought it was a wordless resistance, and yelled loudly: "Smelly guy, how dare you not cooperate, I want your life." Perhaps it was because I didn't think he'd actually cut down, so I did take a surprise when I saw his sharp saber skitter over the heads of the inhabitants. The sharp blade chopped off the head of one of the residents impartially, and it rolled down in the grass, and the blood sprayed from the cut stained the nearby grass and trees.The other two residents were now very frightened, and told all they knew.According to their accounts, the people living in the village ahead are ordinary people, but recently dozens of Chinese guerrillas have infiltrated.During the day today, a few Japanese soldiers suddenly came.Soon there was a burst of gunfire, but because the incident happened in the village, they didn't know the details, nor did they know what happened to those Japanese soldiers. Hearing this, everyone judged that First Class Yelu might have been killed because of expropriation.The next step is just to confirm and prepare for collection.However, with no more than 30 troops, it is too dangerous to challenge from the front, and they may all be wiped out if they are not careful. So the squad leader decided to wait until the villagers were all asleep at night, set fire to the village, and wiped out all the residents in one fell swoop while they were fleeing in embarrassment.The squad leader is a battlefield veteran with rich combat experience, and his combat strategy has never failed. In the middle of the night, when we decided that the villagers were fast asleep, we climbed over the earthen walls and set fires everywhere.Soon, the fire spread rapidly, and the fire blazed everywhere, burning down the entire village.The people who were awakened by the fire from their sound sleep rushed to flee in a hurry. At this time, we took advantage of the opportunity and launched a surprise operation. We saw one and killed one. Within ten minutes, we could no longer see a moving figure, and dead bodies were scattered everywhere.There were also guerrilla-like armed men, but we were not met with resistance.Perhaps it was because of a surprise attack in sleep, excessive panic, and mistakenly regarded the strength of the two detachments as a squadron, resulting in loss of combat consciousness. At the end of the battle, after examining the dead bodies under the light of the fire, it was discovered that they were almost all ordinary people.Among the corpses were a mother holding a baby, a child about 10 years old, an old woman, an old father-in-law... In fact, when the Japanese army "mopped up" the suburbs of Nanjing, it was the period of time when the most innocent people were killed.Usually, the "mopping up" by the Japanese army to the suburbs of the city is a sudden attack, and the people in the countryside lack the ability to prevent them. They are not like the people in the city hiding in Tibet - because in the eyes of these farmers, a few thatched huts are their only Therefore, once the Japanese army arrived in the village, most of them stayed at home, almost killing them at will. The author read several internal materials of "Nanjing Massacre Survivors' Oral Accounts" edited by Zhu Chengshan and others in 2005. This is the result of a social investigation conducted by a group of college students during their vacations. Most of them are those living in the suburbs of Nanjing Massacre. Autobiography of survivors.Here are a few for readers to read: Tao Changman (85 years old, from Dongge Village, Yongning Town): The Japanese tied 8 of us to a stool, and put a footbath next to them. After stabbing them to death, the blood flowed into the basin, and the basin was filled with blood, just like killing a pig!The devil also tied up four people captured in the village with ropes, and added a big pillar to the back, and pushed them down from the mountain, and all of them died.A man named Tao Longhe in the village, who was over 50 years old at the time, was shot and killed by the Japanese.There was also a man named Ye Weirong in the village who was mentally abnormal and was also shot to death by the Japanese.The other was Yu Xiujin, who was in his 50s at the time. The Japanese burned the house. He stayed inside, but the Japanese refused to let him out, so he burned to death inside. Fang Youjun (84 years old, from Dongge Village, Yongning Town): Our family has more than ten thatched cottages, and a large family lives together. There are more than ten people, including uncles, aunts, and more than a dozen brothers.When the devils came, we all ran to the other side of the river, and the house and everything in the family were all burned by the devils.I was 17 years old at the time, the eldest of four brothers in my family. I had an 11-year-old brother named Long Hai who was beaten to death by Japanese soldiers.My mother was bombed to death by the Japanese.There was a man named Liu Zhijun in the village. When the devils saw him, he ran away in fright, and the devils shot him. I saw him fall down and die. Zou Wanbo (80 years old, from Houchong Village, Yongning Town): When the devils came, they beat chickens and dogs everywhere, and if they killed them, they took them away. The devils asked the children to help them catch the chickens, and if they couldn't catch them, they beat people.I saw with my own eyes that the entire village of Wangjialouzi was burned down.There was a man named Xiao Jiahe, who was in his 40s at the time, and the Japanese soldiers stabbed him into the water with a long spear equipped with a bayonet and stabbed him to death.There was another man in the village who was Chen Dejiao's father. I can't remember his name. He was a scholar at the time. Seeing that he looked like an intellectual, the devils tied him up, poured gasoline on him, and burned him alive in Zhangjiabao. Ding Chengying (76 years old, from Gaoli Village, Yongning Town): My origin was in the eighth team last week.In winter, devils suddenly entered the village and set fire to the village.One family was having a wedding that day. The devils came and blocked the door, saying that the people inside were "bad guys." Zhang Jialin (from Hebei Village, Yongning Town): I was about six or seven years old when the devils entered the village.I only know that the devils kill everyone they see, and more than a hundred people in a village are killed.At that time, the devils occupied the entire railway. If adults crossed the railway line, the devils thought you were a bad person, and let the wolf dogs bite you, killing you alive.I saw a man from Nanjing who ran back here, and the Japanese stabbed him to death... ... Yongning Town is a small town, and it was not the area that the Japanese army focused on "mopping up". Even so, it was "mopped up" many times in the initial period after the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, and thousands of civilians died. The brutal tricks carried out by the Japanese army during the "mopping up" are even more outrageous.This has been sufficiently described and recorded in many Japanese "diaries" and "memories".The following Japanese veteran named Tiansuo Kozo was a first-class soldier in the heavy machine gun unit of the 114th Division of the 10th Army of the Japanese Army. He once said to others: I wiped out the remnants of the enemy in the city, tied the prisoners to trees, and the officers killed them while teaching us how to shoot and stab them.The officers and corporals beheaded the captives who were squatting in front of the dug pits.As for me, I was a second-class soldier at that time, and I was only allowed to stab with a bayonet... This kind of massacre continued in and out of the city for about 10 days. At that time, our troops were stationed in Xiaguan. We used the wires removed from the barbed wire to tie up every 10 captured people and pile them into well-shaped piles, and then set them on fire with kerosene. bag", it's like killing a pig.After doing such a thing, killing people is nothing, it's commonplace!In order to make the captives fearful, they also used methods such as cutting off ears, cutting off noses, or stabbing them into their mouths with a saber and then opening them.If you stab the knife horizontally under the eyes, something sticky like a fish's eye will immediately droop down.It's been a long time since I landed. If I don't do these things, what other fun is there? (Kohei Moriyama's "Nanjing Massacre and the Battle of Sanko", Sichuan Education Press, 1984 edition.) It seems far from enough to describe the brutality of the Japanese army with "cruel and inhumane". On the afternoon of the 15th, as soon as the father of Shijiayou in Dingjie Village, Pancheng Township, was stopped by the Japanese army when he walked out of his home, the Japanese soldiers raised their spears and stabbed Shijiayou's father in the throat, ribs and chest repeatedly. 4 knives, the victim died at the scene.Liu Qingying said that because her son Han Xiaobin and the two sons of the neighbor Zhang’s family were strong, “the Japanese soldiers insisted that they were soldiers and were killed by the Japanese soldiers on the spot. The Zhang family’s brothers were beheaded and died in front of their house. ; My only son was stabbed to death by Japanese soldiers with a knife, a total of 9 stabs, 4 stabs on each side of the stomach, and 1 knife on the arm.”Another survivor, Xu Jinfeng, said that after the Japanese soldiers burned her house down, they dragged her husband to the pond, "jabbed a bayonet into the heart, not counting that, and then shot him in the head until the brain came out. Finally, the devil laughed and let go." This is the case in the suburbs, and the urban area is the place where the Japanese army "showed their skills" with violence. Hou Zhanqing of Beiting Lane is a survivor.That day, four Japanese soldiers carried him to "burn him on the fire for fun. Burn him until he was covered with bubbles, and then throw him aside..." If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese soldiers saw a few other young people on the street The Chinese man passed by and chased him down. Hou Zhanqing said that he "would definitely be roasted as a 'roasted piglet'".Wang Ershun in Wangfu Lane was not so lucky. After he was caught by the Japanese army, he stripped off his clothes, first broke one leg, and then released a group of military dogs to bite him.Wang Ershun dragged his broken leg while fleeing and fighting with the military dog, but the beast seemed to be extremely hungry, and it crazily attacked and bit Wang Ershun, and soon Wang Ershun was no longer its opponent.Bloody and bloody, he begged the Japanese commander beside him to let him go. Unexpectedly, the Japanese officer not only failed to stop the dog from biting, but instead drew out his saber and cut off Wang Ershun's other leg.Wang Ershun, who had completely lost his ability to resist, was bitten to death by military dogs until his intestines were dragged to the ground.Such a disgusting scene made the Japanese soldiers overjoyed. At this point, the author has to recount the story of the two executioners in the "beheading competition" that was reported by the notorious Japanese war reporter himself, and which has been considered impossible in Japan in recent decades. In fact, this "beheading competition" case was first reported by Japan's own news media.On December 5, 1937, when the Japanese army was on its way to attack Nanjing, when the Japanese army reached Jurong in the suburbs of Nanjing, two Japanese military reporters, Asami and Mitsumoto, sent an article to the "Tokyo Daily News" entitled ""Hundred People Killed"" Big game brave!Second Lieutenants Mukai and Noda! 89:78" report. On December 14, 1937, which was also the second day after Japan occupied Nanjing, the Japanese "Tokyo Nihonichi Shimbun" published again in an important position: "Super Record" Mukai: Noda 106:105 Two second lieutenants enter playoffs [Commissioners Asami, Mitsumoto, and Suzuki from the foot of Zijin Mountain] The warriors of the Katagiri Army—Second Lieutenants Mukai Toshiaki and Noda Takeshi set a precedent for the "Hundred People Slashing Competition" before entering Nanjing.The two set a record of 106:105 in the hectic Battle of Purple Mountain on the 10th. At noon on the 10th, the two second lieutenants met with a Japanese sword with a curly blade in each hand. Noda said, "Hey, I killed 105 people, how about you?" "I killed 106 people," Mukai said. The two second lieutenants laughed out loud.As a result, no matter who killed more than 100 people first, the two immediately reached a consensus: "Then let's count it as a tie. But how about we kill 150 people?" On the 11th, the competition to kill 150 people really started. At noon on the 11th, on the Zijin Mountain overlooking the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Second Lieutenant Mukai, who was searching for the ruined army, talked about the whole story of the "killing a hundred people to tie the game". Guansun Liudao collapsed because I cut a man together with his helmet. After the war was over, I gave this Japanese sword to your company. At 3 o'clock in the morning on the 11th, in the rare tactics of the friendly army When I went to search for the remnants of Zijin Mountain, I was also discovered by the enemy. Standing in the rain of bullets, I thought to myself: Oh, let’s obey fate. But I didn’t get hit once, all thanks to this Guansun Liudao.” Mukai The second lieutenant showed the reporter this "Guan Sun Liu" that sucked the blood of 106 people in the flying enemy bombs. Next to this report, the "Tokyo Daily News" also published a photo of Mukai holding a saber.There is no doubt that such a report cannot be false.Why was there no report of "150 people beheaded"?Because the two "hundred people beheaded" reports aroused great resentment in the Western world. In order to protect its military image and national reputation, Japan banned such "killing contest" reports. Prohibition does not mean that there will be no continuation of "150 people beheaded". Judging from Mukai's "rhetoric words" in the latter report, the aggressive personality of the Japanese soldiers, and even the objective situation of the massacre of the Chinese people after the Japanese army occupied Nanjing , the author can be sure of one thing: these two Japanese executioners must have massacred countless Chinese people crazily. Didn't do anything after the city?Who can prove that when they watched the "friendly army" slaughter, they suddenly stopped doing it?That is absolutely impossible!The massacre of more than 300,000 Chinese by the Japanese army in Nanjing refers to the number of people they killed during the time after they occupied Nanjing. When Mukai and Noda competed for the record of "killing a hundred people", it was only December 10, two days before the massacre began. , The next few weeks were exactly the "great time" when almost everyone in the Japanese army participated in the massacre, rape and robbery. Will the two fierce gods who vowed to kill "150 people" in the game suddenly stop not killing?Even if Mukai and Noda are not killed, "Yamamoto" and "Matsui" will not be killed? "Yamamoto" and "Matsui" didn't kill 100 or 150 people?Who killed the "300,000 people" in the Nanjing Massacre?Simply deceiving yourself! The crux of the problem is: in order to cover up their heinous crimes in recent decades, the Japanese even wanted to deny the fact that these two notorious executioners had killed 106 and 105 people before the 10th!One said "reports are false", another said "No matter how good Guansun Liusao is, it is impossible to kill more than 100 people at once", and another said "Even if you kill 10 people a day, it is difficult to set a record of 100 people", and so on. The shamelessness of some people in Japan is also rare in human history!Although we don't know whether Mukai killed hundreds of people with the "Six Knives of Guansun", we also don't know whether the "Six Knives of Guansun" can be "rolled" by cutting off the heads of hundreds of people in a few days or ten days- ——It is said that "Kansun Six Knives" is a famous sword in Japan. It is famous because it was given the name by the emperor, but there is always one basic fact: the wartime reports of Asami and other military reporters did not write one or two articles. If their reports There are falsehoods, I believe that Japan and the Japanese military will never allow it to be published at will; besides, what is the difference between killing a hundred Chinese with one knife and killing a hundred people with ten knives? Mukai and Noda's "hundreds of people beheaded" to kill Chinese people is an ironclad fact. Even if some people in Japan try to cover up or obliterate the truth with the passage of time in various ways, we can only answer them with these words: Shameless!Scoundrel! A country's crime against another country should be thoroughly punished and condemned, and when this criminal country still wants to deny and deny the facts, it can only be cast aside by the whole world! Does Japan really want to be such a country forever? Justice ultimately triumphs over evil.History is always fair and objective. In early December 1947, the special court opened by China to try Japanese war criminals in Nanjing filed an indictment against the executioners Mukai and Noda: Toshiaki Mukai and Noda Iwa (namely Noda Takeshi) were subordinate to the Nakajima Force of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army during the battle, serving as the captain and adjutant of the second lieutenant.Junji Tanaka was affiliated with the Sixth Division of Gu Hisao's troops and served as the captain of the captain.In the battle of attacking Nanjing in December of the 26th year of the Republic of China, because of the strong resistance of our army, in addition to hating him, he carried out planned massacres to vent his anger.Junji Tanaka killed more than 300 captives and non-combatants in a row with the "Zhuguang" sword in the southwestern suburbs of the capital.Toshiaki Mukai and Iwa Noda were at the foot of the Zijin Mountain. They used the number of murders as a competition for entertainment. win.After Japan surrendered, Noda Yan and others were successively seized by the Allied Command in Tokyo, and sent to Beijing by our delegation in Japan, where they were investigated and prosecuted by the prosecutors of this court. After more than a month of deliberation, the court sentenced the two war criminals to death on January 27, 1948. On January 28, 1948, the two notorious executioners were taken to the Yuhuatai execution ground by the Chinese judicial police and executed.The citizens of Nanjing cheered.This is a deserved result. History no longer needs to pay homage to such ghosts.Those who call for peace for ghosts must be people with ghosts in their hearts. When the author finished writing the previous chapters, one day I read "Japanese Military Education: Hundreds of People Killed and Historical Materials of the Consulate in Ningxia" and made an unexpected discovery: the "Tokyo Nikichi Shimbun" on May 19, 1939 actually published published a report entitled "Lieutenant Mukai's sword "Guansun Liu" dedicated to the dead competitor on the Hanshui front".In this report from the Japanese occupation of the eastern area of ​​Hanshui, there is a passage like this: ... A reporter accompanying the army happened to meet Lieutenant Mukai who was fighting bravely here in a small village called Sizhuang. Lieutenant Mukai made a pact with his comrade-in-arms Lieutenant Noda to kill 100 soldiers in the Battle of Nanjing the year before last, and beheaded 107 enemy soldiers with his beloved knife Guan Sun Liu. He is a brave young officer.After the Battle of Nanjing, he shaved off his long beard, and made another agreement with his comrade-in-arms Lieutenant Noda to kill 500 people, and then moved to Xuzhou, Dabie Mountain, Hankou, and Zhongxiang to kill 305 enemy soldiers.However, Lieutenant Noda died in battle on Hainan Island (in fact, Noda did not die, and was tried and executed in Nanjing as a war criminal after the war).Now he (Mukai) is fighting hard alone in order to realize the promise of beheading 500 people. Lieutenant Mukai's wish was actually to kill 1,000 people.The reporter asked him, "Is Guan Sunliu sharp?" The simple and reticent lieutenant replied, "It's very sharp. The tip of the knife is a little uncomfortable, but I have self-confidence, so it doesn't matter. I haven't been sick since I went out. It’s incredible that I’ve never been wounded on the front line. Perhaps the body is born to be able to endure long-term wars…” Oh, this is the executioner that the Japanese militarists have always wanted to cover up!The report I saw above must not have been obtained during the Nanjing trial, otherwise more crimes would have been added to the indictment against Mukai and Noda.Another conjecture may be: since the prosecution of these two "hundred people beheaded" was limited to the time period of the Nanjing Massacre, it may not include the heinous crimes they committed in China in the following years.As I write this, my inner grief and indignation can’t help rising again, because the Japanese militarists, including some Japanese now, have always taken the crimes committed by their own people in China in the past. The attitudes of denial, non-speaking if you can, and non-speaking if you can, are why the Japanese side always makes completely different voices of denial and distortion regarding the Nanjing Massacre, a fact that is so clear and historically settled. The reason! In fact, "beheading" competitions in China were very common in the Japanese army at that time, and Mukai and Noda were by no means the only ones doing it.Because killing people with sabers on the battlefield is also a tradition and characteristic of Japanese soldiers.Sadly, the so-called "Japanese sword" used by the Japanese originated from our Chinese sword. On February 28, 1939, when the Japanese army was rampant in China, an article titled "Analysis of Japanese Swords" was published in "Tokyo Daily News", which read: The name of the Japanese sword was originally created by the people of China (that is, China - the author's note) more than 800 years ago, and the Japanese themselves began to use it at the time of national calamity at the end of the Shogunate era.In the autumn of the country's crisis, the name of the Japanese sword will inevitably appear in the minds of the Japanese. This is also due to the belief in the Japanese sword.No matter how advanced modern weapons are, the Japanese sword is absolutely indispensable in the hand-to-hand combat that determines the final outcome.In addition, it is also very important to stimulate people's fighting spirit. When the Japanese army invaded China, the saber became an important weapon of the Japanese army. Especially after fighting against the Chinese army with backward weapons, the Japanese officers and soldiers felt that using the saber to "kill" the opponent was "really enjoyable." "Sawatari embarked on the journey bravely, because in the pursuit battle near Nanjing, he broke into the enemy's line and killed 15 people in one go, and became famous in the whole team." ("Fukushima Minbo" April 17, 1938) "For the first time since he landed, he drew his sword and immediately entered the enemy's line, killing 7 people brilliantly..." ("Fukushima People's Daily" March 2, 1938) "During the attack on the fortress, Lieutenant Eiichi Tsunoda and I entered the enemy line and killed 26 people..." (Tokyo Nihonichi Shimbun, January 27, 1938) Such reports, in the later period of the Nanjing Massacre, the Japanese domestic newspapers continued to have such news promoting "war results", and published countless "deeds" of "killing people" with sabers. Show off!The skill of the devil! When the Japanese showed off the power and prestige of the precious swords passed down from the Chinese ancestors, they did not think about whether they should kill so many innocent Chinese people. On the contrary, they used such sharp weapons to massacre Chinese civilians and the Chinese who put down their arms. Soldiers, take pleasure in this and glory in it, what a devil! The ghosts under the Japanese saber will never forgive such sinners!The most hateful thing is: Japanese militarists and massacres even deny it! Let's go back and talk about the massacres carried out by the Japanese army after they entered Nanjing—— In fact, this kind of massacre was not only in the first few weeks after the Japanese army entered the city, but in the whole days after the fall of Nanjing.This is directly related to the acquiescence and connivance of the Japanese domestic base camp and the top commanders in front. In the 1930s, Tian Bolie, the reporter who was the first to expose the brutality of the Japanese army in Nanjing, wrote a representative opinion on this issue at the end of the book "Japanese Atrocities Under the Witness of Outsiders": Were the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in China the result of the escapades of the soldiers in the climax of victory?Or to what extent does it reflect the planned terror policy adopted by the Japanese military authorities?Some readers may have such questions.Facts tell us that the conclusion is the latter.The brutality of the army occurred soon after the occupation of the city, especially after the military operations of the exhausted army that this occupation has brought to an end, can be understood even if there is no room for discrimination.But take Nanjing as an example—this is an obvious example. The Japanese army’s atrocities continued for three months after occupying the urban area, and did not stop until the author left China in early April 1938. The facts are indeed as Tian Bolie said, the atrocities of the Japanese army have basically been in a state of no control, or the Japanese military authorities knew what they were doing but turned a blind eye to it. The Japanese army and the Japanese base camp have always kept a tight seal on what happened in Nanjing. Even to the Japanese themselves, they "speak all good things" and never say bad things. ’ and the beautiful aura of national morale.The outside world actually knows very little about the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing.At that time, there were only a dozen or so foreign journalists staying in Nanjing, and all of them were driven out of Nanjing by the Japanese army 15 or 16 days later, when the Japanese army committed the craziest violence.Even so, there are still some sporadic reports that shocked the whole world, and these were sent by foreign journalists who were evacuated from Nanjing through extremely difficult channels—— "Under foreign rule, the terrified people of Nanjing today live in fear of death, torture, and looting. The graves of tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers may also be the graves of all hope for the Chinese to resist Japanese conquest. " (The New York Times, December 18, 1937) "The Japanese army scoured the city for Chinese soldiers and 'plainclothes officers' as if with a fine-toothed comb. Hundreds of people were seized from refugee camps and massacred. Those who were executed were grouped by groups of two or three hundred They were taken to the nearest abattoir where they were shot with rifles and machine guns. On one occasion, tanks were deployed to execute hundreds of captives. "I witnessed a massacre. A group of hundreds of people who were about to be executed passed through the street holding a large Japanese flag. They were escorted by Japanese soldiers in twos and threes, drove into an open field, and were shot dead by small groups. A Japanese soldier stood on top of the pile of corpses, and shot at the still moving body with a rifle. "To the Japanese it might have been war, but to me it looked like murder." (Chicago Daily News, February 4, 1938) This is murder, and it was a massacre by the Japanese army in a very sober and rational state.This kind of targeted and planned massacre is the most deadly and terrifying. Killing people is horrific, and it's even more horrifying to kill while promiscuous, and to prostitute first and then kill.