The 10,000-ton ship burned to the ship, and thousands of people died
Li Zonggui (retired employee of Nanxian Shipping Company):
I was 26 years old at the time of the incident, with my father, wife and I at home, driving a wooden boat of only 7 tons. I am a witness and victim of "Factory Cellar". **On the eve of the incident, that is, in early May 1943, my boat was loading broad beans at the mouth of the Mahe River, preparing to be transported out of Dongting Lake to Changsha through the factory cellar. At that time, it was rumored that the Japanese devils had fought through the Jingjiang River, and Shishou, Lotus Pond, Huarong, and Anxiang had all fallen, and they might come to Nanxian. This news weighed on my heart like a boulder, and I was deeply afraid that I would bump into this "ferocious" and suffer a catastrophe. So, I raced against time to grab the broad beans, pulled up the anchor and set sail. Who knew that it just happened to run into the ship.
Shortly after breakfast on the 9th, I sailed to the factory cellar, and saw that the river was full of boats and cranes. It took me a great deal of effort to put a bow in the wharf of the crossing, and like a duck chasing a lake, I cried my father and mother, called out to the heavens and the earth, and fled for my life to the shore in a swarm. It turns out that the Japanese devils are really here, but what about me?It just so happened that the meat was sent to the cutting board, and the time was backed. The family had no choice but to run ashore with the others and hide in a field of broad beans. The Japanese soldiers were really vicious, they killed people when they saw them, burned ships when they saw them, and raped women when they saw them.
The remains of Chinese civilians after being beheaded by the Japanese army. **From the Yenching Library of Harvard University, USA, the Battle of Songhu and Nanjing University***
In the entire "factory cellar", the deepest victims are our water boat people. At that time, the waters, especially those along the rivers in the east and southeast of the factory, were the key areas for the devils to sweep up. They believe that these ships are a tool for transporting the ** army, its guns, ammunition, and other military supplies, and that they must all be burned down, and only in this way can the ** army be annihilated. So, the devils used motorboats to block the downstream exits, and shuttled back and forth in the river to intercept them, chasing and beating our boats. Some boat people wanted to break through to safe ports such as Yuanjiang, Yiyang, and Jinshi, so they risked their lives to pull up their canopies and run. As a result, the ship was sunk, and none of the people ran away. The Japanese army coordinated by water, land, and air to carry out a brutal sweep of our boat people and refugees. During the day, Japanese troops on the shore and on the water went on board to search, loot, shoot and kill the boat people, then poured gasoline or other flammable materials on the boat, set fire to the boat, and so on.
Throughout the day, the planes dropped incendiary bombs and bombs in turn. In this way, the water along the river of the factory cellar was blown up with flesh and blood, and the smoke was billowing from the ground, which was really miserable. At that time, from Taibaizhou to the factory cellar and from the factory cellar to Gongjiagang, the boats berthed 15 kilometers along the river ranged from 3,000 to 4,000, with a total load of more than 10,000 tons. Most of these ships were from Hunan and Hubei, and most of them took refuge in other places because the Japanese army was forced to pass through the factory cellars.
The ship was loaded with some refugees who had fled with the ship from Gong'an, Shishou, Huarong, Anxiang, and other places, as well as daily necessities such as food, clothing, and quilts carried by the refugees, and some of them also contained valuable materials such as gold, silver, and soft goods. In addition, the ship was made of wood, and it had been wiped with tung oil and rust oil many times, the canopy was woven, and the sails were sewn with cloth, all of which were flammable substances, which burned immediately and burned as soon as they burned. As a result, in only two or three days, all but the boats captured by the Japanese army were burned down in the river.
In those few days, I saw thick smoke billowing from the river, and pillars of fire soaring into the sky, reflecting half of the sky. All that remains after the burn is the scattered floor of the ship that drifts with the waves and cannot be burned out. The Japanese army's ** to the boat people is even more **. They grabbed the boat people and refugees, or shot them, stabbed them with bayonets, or slashed them with oriental knives. Even those who ran to the shore for refuge were mostly found by them and killed.
Recalling, at that time, there were thousands or tens of thousands of people killed by the Kou army along the river more than 10 kilometers along the river. Particularly brutal is the concentration**. In addition to strafing with machine guns, the Japanese troops tied many people with strings of fiber ropes and pushed them into the river, and they also tied them to motorboats with ropes and dragged them alive in the water. Some of the boat people struggled in the water before they died, while the devils stood on the shore clapping their hands and smiling. There is a section of the river called Wukouli under the factory cellar, and there are hundreds of thousands of boat people and refugees who have been killed or drowned by devils.
There are also many people killed in other sections of the river. A boat man named Wu Shibusy, a family of 4 (including wife, son, and daughter-in-law), except for Wu who escaped from danger after going out and did not return, the remaining 3 were all killed by the Japanese army. As soon as the devil got on the boat, he wanted to ** Wu's daughter-in-law. Unwilling to be humiliated, his daughter-in-law committed suicide by throwing herself into the river. Wu's wife saw that her daughter-in-law was dead, and she knew that she would not escape her fate, so she immediately jumped to her death. Wu's son, who was in his 20s at the time, was in his prime and was stabbed to death by a knife. The boat was also doused with gasoline by the gang and burned. In this way, Wu Shi was busy with the destruction of his family ship and died. Later, Wu returned to the cellar, cried and laughed at the river, and went crazy for a long time. (Liu Yujia sorted out the excerpt from "Factory Cellar**".)
The body of a Chinese civilian killed by the Japanese army on the river beach looks like a teenager.
**From the Yenching Library of Harvard University, USA, the Battle of Songhu and Nanjing University***
**From the Yenching Library of Harvard University, USA, the Battle of Songhu and Nanjing University***
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