si-mexico Chapter 73 Public Memorial 2
Chapter 73 Public Memorial 2
The bodies of the Japanese soldiers were spread almost all the way to the edge of the forest. Under the strong push of the armored forces, these Japanese troops, who had lost almost all their heavy weapons, could only be ruthlessly slaughtered and crushed.
The main force of the Japanese 114th Division was completely wiped out, and a small number of soldiers fled deep into the forest, which made the soldiers of the 78th Army quite helpless.
They could only struggle to kill the remaining Japanese soldiers in the forest, risking the pain of being bitten by countless mosquitoes.
The battle lasted for almost a whole week before the gunfire at Guancen Mountain gradually subsided.
After the Japanese First Army Headquarters lost contact with the 114th Division, it felt that the situation was not good and no longer cared about the loss of fighter planes.
More than a dozen reconnaissance planes were sent into the mountainous area to conduct reconnaissance along the marching route of the 4th Division. At the cost of four reconnaissance planes being shot down, the battlefield was found based on some trees that were still emitting thick smoke.
The road at the edge of the forest was filled with trucks and cannons that had been abandoned and blown up by the Japanese army. Because the road was difficult to travel on, 78 had not had time to pull away all the things.
In an area of about several square kilometers in the center of the forest, Japanese pilots saw a building that terrified them.
A mountain of corpses made up of the bodies of many soldiers of the 114th Division was more than 30 meters high and covered a very large area.
Yes, this is the Jingguan that was built by more than 114 surrendered Japanese soldiers from the 3000th Division themselves after the war!
More than 3000 captured Japanese soldiers shed tears while they had to dilly-dally under the gunpoint of the Chinese soldiers to complete this chilling task.
Although it was already September, the temperature was still very high. Within two days, the stench from the corpses became unbearable for the Japanese prisoners of war and Chinese soldiers.
The Chinese soldiers had to wear gas masks, but the Japanese prisoners did not receive such treatment. Each of them only had a piece of cloth to tie around their mouth and nose.
Because the stench was unbearable for the Japanese prisoners, the work progress increased exponentially at an astonishing rate, and they completed this miraculous task in just three days.
They thought they would be forgiven after completing the work, until they were asked to dig a large pit nearly 100 meters long and five meters deep in another area.
Under the gunpoint of the Chinese soldiers, these Japanese soldiers wailed and knelt down begging for mercy, but no Chinese soldier paid any attention to them.
Buried alive! More than 114 soldiers from the th Division were buried alive by Chinese soldiers under the record of the cameras.
Wang Chun, the commander of the 78th Army, frankly admitted in front of the camera that it was he who gave the order to bury and shoot the prisoners of war alive.
At the same time, the huge Jingguan, which was built with the corpses of many Japanese soldiers, once again appeared in front of people all over the world.
This is not the most shocking thing, because the young general later narrated an event that made all Chinese people extremely sad and angry.
After the Japanese army invaded the Chinese capital in 37, they carried out a brutal massacre, in which more than soldiers who had laid down their arms and ordinary people were massacred.
More than 30 civilians and captured soldiers were collectively shot, burned, buried alive, or killed by other methods.
One third of the houses in the city were burned down, almost all the shops were looted, and the property losses were innumerable. Finally, this ancient city that had prospered for a thousand years turned into a dead city with corpses everywhere and a desolate sight.
The Japanese army carried out planned, large-scale mass killings, with hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands of people killed each time.
One month after the Japanese army entered the city, about 2 cases of rape and gang rape occurred. Even girls under ten years old and old women in their sixties and seventies were not spared. Many women were raped and then slaughtered and their bodies destroyed. It was a horrific sight.
The whole city turned into a desolate dead city with corpses everywhere.
In order to cover up their crimes, the Japanese army strictly blocked the news and burned the bodies to destroy the evidence.
However, there are still many righteous people, international friends and foreign journalists who, regardless of the risk to their lives, provide humanitarian assistance to the victimized women and children.
At the same time, he recorded the atrocities committed by the Japanese army that he witnessed in the form of diaries, letters, news photos, etc., and made them public.
The New York Times, the Chicago Daily News and other media promptly disclosed the brutal crimes committed by the Japanese army in the Chinese capital, causing shock and condemnation from around the world.
The brutal atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Japan are appalling crimes against humanity and a very dark page in human history.
When Wang Chun faced the camera, he recalled that tragic historical event, his eyes turned red, and tears flowed down his face unconsciously.
In front of the camera, Wang Chun recounted the heinous massacres committed by the Japanese army.
December 12 (the third day of the Japanese occupation): More than 15 military and police personnel who had laid down their weapons were collectively escorted to Wuhan. Machine gun fire was intensively fired outside the gate, and many people were killed on the spot.
The wounded but not dead were also cremated like the dead. That night, more than 9000 civilians and disarmed soldiers who went to the torpedo camp were massacred by the Japanese army, and more than 3 people were massacred in the Pagoda Bridge area.
December 12 (the fourth day of the Japanese occupation): More than 16 male and female refugees who were hiding in the Overseas Chinese Guest House in the safety zone were taken to Zhongshan Wharf by the Japanese army. They had their hands tied behind their backs and were arranged in rows. They were shot with machine guns and their bodies were dumped into the Yangtze River to destroy all evidence.
On the night of December 12 (the sixth day of the Japanese occupation), at Caoxie Gorge in Xiaguan, the Japanese army tied up all the refugees, men, women, old and young, who had escaped from the city and were detained in Mufu Mountain, except for a few who had starved to death or been beaten to death. They drove them to Caoxie Gorge in Xiaguan, where they intensively fired at them with machine guns and hacked those who were still groaning and struggling in a pool of blood with their swords.
On December 37, 12, the Tokyo Soni Shimbun (now the Mainichi Shimbun) reported a "killing competition" between two Japanese officers.
Encouraged by their superiors, two second lieutenant officers, Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda, of the Nakajima Unit of the 100th Division of the Japanese Army, agreed to a "killing competition" with each other, and agreed that whoever killed people first when occupying the old capital would be the winner.
They killed their way from Ju R to Tangshan. Toshiaki Mukai killed 89 people and Takeshi Noda killed 78 people. Since their totals were less than 100, the "competition" continued.
At noon on December 12, the two men met at the foot of Purple Mountain, with each other's swords already nicked.
Noda claimed to have killed 105 people, and Mukai claimed to have killed 106. Since they could not determine who reached the number of 100 kills first, they decided to have a draw and a new match to see who could kill 150 Chinese people.
These atrocities have been serialized in newspapers with pictures and texts, and they are called "Heroes of the Imperial Army."
Wang Chun recounted the heinous massacres one after another. The members of the 78th Army Propaganda Team who were responsible for filming all had bloodshot eyes and their hands were clenched so hard that they made a creaking sound.
Originally they had only heard of such an incident, but when the military commander told them the details including the time, place and people involved.
All the soldiers of the 78th Army regretted that they had killed fewer Japanese devils, especially when they heard the commander describe the scenes of sisters and children being tortured and killed.
Finally, some people could not help but kneel on the ground and cried out in pain. Many of them had once been accomplices of the Japanese devils.
When he learned about the Japanese devils' evil deeds, he was so ashamed that he didn't want to live anymore and planned to go out and fight them to the death immediately.
In the end, he was persuaded by Wang Chun, because his predecessor was the same as these soldiers, but now he has repented. As long as he persists in killing the devils, he can wash away his past shame.
A grand public memorial ceremony was held at Guancen Mountain. All the soldiers of the 78th Army, led by their commander, knelt in front of the ancestral tablets of the sacrificed Chinese people.
They swore to the heavens! They would never stop fighting and would not have the face to be buried in the ancestral temple after death until every Japanese soldier whose hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese people was killed!