Nanjing** (2).
The Japanese army's ** did not only begin in Nanjing, but also carried out the entire process of attacking from the occupation of Shanghai to Nanjing. The most notorious is that Toshiaki Mukai, the leader of the second lieutenant artillery squad of the 3rd Brigade of the 9th Wing of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, and Takeshi Noda, another second lieutenant officer of the 3rd Brigade of the same wing, agreed on the "**100 Competition" to destroy human nature, whoever kills 100 people first, the prize of victory is just a bottle of wine. The 16th Division of the Japanese Army, where the two men belonged, was also the most evil of wanton Chinese people in the entire process of capturing Nanjing. The commander of the 16th Japanese Division, Nakajima Imago recorded in his diary: "Most of the defeated enemy entered the forests and villages in the area where the 16th Division operated, and on the other hand, there were also those who escaped from the Zhenjiang fortress, and the number was too large to deal with. "Basically, there was no policy of taking prisoners, and it was decided to adopt a policy of total extermination. "Sasaki's troops alone disposed of about 15,000 people, and a squadron leader guarding Taiheimun handled about 1,300 people. There were about seven or eight thousand people gathered near the Xianhe Gate. In addition, there are people who constantly come to surrender ......To deal with the above seven or eight thousand people, it is necessary to have a large trench, but it is difficult to find. It is scheduled to be divided into teams of one or two hundred men and taken to the appropriate place to be disposed of. "Most of the handling of these defeated troops was the responsibility of the 16th Division, so the division had no time to care about entering the city or camping, etc., and just blindly ran around. In addition, the commander of the 30th Infantry Brigade of the 16th Division, which occupied the area of Shimonoseki and Shogunate Mountains northwest of Nanjing, also wrote in his diary: "Prisoners continued to come and surrender, and their number was as high as several thousand. The agitated soldiers ignored the dissuasion of their superiors and killed the captives one by one. Thinking back to the blood shed by many comrades-in-arms and the hardships and hardships of the past ten days, not to mention the soldiers, I myself want to say, "Let's kill them all."
In addition to the 16th Division, another vicious killing force was the 6th Division of the Japanese Army, which was the first to invade Nanjing. From December 12 to the 21st of the same month, Tani's troops shot and burned tens of thousands of captured soldiers and civilians with machine guns. In the meantime, at 1 p.m. on December 15, more than 2,000 military and police officers were captured outside the Hanzhong Gate, and all of them were burned alive. At 6 p.m. on the afternoon of the 16th, more than 5,000 refugees from the overseas Chinese guest house were escorted to the Zhongshan wharf by the Japanese soldiers of the division, shot with machine guns, and then abandoned in the river.
In Nanjing, the 33rd (Kengo Noda) and the 38th Wing (Shizuji Sukegawa) of the 9th Brigade of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army were mainly responsible for the sweep, and the main force of the 9th Division was responsible for the sweep outside the city. The 9th Division's faceless defeat at Gwanghwamen made its retaliation even worse, and on December 14 alone, the Division's 7th Wing of Isao Kazuo assassinated 1,700 Chinese prisoners of war outside Gwanghwamen. During the sweep in the city, the Izo Wing killed more than 7,000 captured Chinese soldiers, and was the first to break into the "safe zone" to capture the Chinese soldiers who had changed into civilian clothes and put down **. The 114th Division, another Japanese army that captured Nanjing, was not to be outdone, and the division assassinated more than 1,300 prisoners of war at Yuhuatai. The Yamada detachment of the 13th Division, after occupying Longtan, Qixia Mountain, Wulong Mountain and Shogunate Mountain, created a number of collectives of more than 10,000 people in Shimonoseki Straw Shoe Gorge. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the seventeenth entrance ceremony and the safety of the royal family, the Japanese army accelerated wildly on the 14th and 16th**. On December, the 6th Division of the Japanese Army took 2,000 Chinese prisoners of war outside the Shuixi GateIn the coal port and outside the Hanzhong Gate, the 16th Division searched for more than 5,000 Nanjing policemen and poor people in the judicial refugee area, and shot them allThe Yamada detachment had more than 10,000 people at the foot of the shogunate mountain.
On December 17, the ceremony of the Japanese army entering the city was held as scheduled. Matsui Ishine led Hatohiko of the Asaka Palace, Heisuke Yanagawa and the generals to enter from the Zhongshan Gate in a majestic manner. Matsui Ishine was a supporter of the revolution of Sun Yat-sen, the father of the Chinese nation, and also responded to Sun Yat-sen's "Greater Asianism" in Japan, and withdrew from the military in 1935 due to the contradiction between the imperial faction and the unification faction. He could have lived out his old age in peace, but in his heart, he could not give up his fantasy of realizing the "Greater Asianism" he strongly advocated by conquering China. When the Songhu War broke out, Japan decided to fight a local war, so it decided to send military commanders from among the retired officers. When the 59-year-old Matsui was appointed commander, he knew this was his last chance. Therefore, when he left Japan, he declared to Prime Minister Fumihiro Konoe and Motoriku Sugiyama, "This time I will go to Nanjing no matter what!"”。Matsui Ishone, who was riding on a horse, must have been very proud that he had realized the great dream that many generations of Japanese generals had thought of but failed to realize. In Matsui Ishone's heart, he wants to teach China a lesson, raise a hammer and give Nanjing ** a blow, so that they can wake up and make them reflect. Therefore, in response to the Japanese army's continuous ** action, he reprimanded Nakajima Imago and Tani Shouo at the military discipline meeting held after entering Nanjing, but did not take any other effective means of control, as the military police to control the military discipline of nearly 200,000 military policemen were less than 100, and there were only 17 military police to control 50,000 soldiers who had completely lost military discipline in Nanjing, so that the Japanese army became more and more crazy and uncontrollable in the six weeks after the occupation, and he then chose to acquiesce and instigate.
Another evil deed committed by the Japanese army after invading Nanjing was looting and sabotage. The plundering of the Japanese army began in Taicang, Suzhou. They initially settled the problem of resupplying their troops by requisitioning them on the spot, but it didn't take long for the expropriation to turn into blatant looting.
Although most of the property was transferred to the rear in an organized manner before the Japanese army besieged the city, all public and private property that was too late to be transported and could not be transported became the object of robbery by the Japanese army, and most shops, warehouses, factories, and banks were robbed many times. Anything that cannot be taken is destroyed. And after being looted, Japanese soldiers often set fire to houses. The robbery of the Japanese army was not just an individual act of banditry, but an organized looting and arson by the troops. One-third of the buildings in Nanjing were set on fire, even the private residences of the staff of the American and German embassies were looted, and even the cars of the German consulates were looted. Regarding how the Japanese army went crazy to rob, Nakajima Imago recorded in his diary: