The old man recalled the atrocities of the Japanese invasion of Ruyang
The old man exposed the brutality of the Japanese invading army in Ruyang.
More than 70 years ago, the Japanese invading army invaded Ruyang, leaving behind countless pains and humiliations. Today, there are fewer and fewer people who witnessed the atrocities of the Japanese invading army.
In order to remind people to cherish their lives now and remember that history that should not be forgotten, we conducted a historical archive review and village visit based on the Japanese trenches.
We interviewed more than 40 people, experienced the ruins of the Japanese trenches, and recorded the criminal behavior of the people of Ruyang, who were ** by the Japanese invading army at that time, digging trenches. According to the records of Ruyang County, in the spring of **33 (1944), the Japanese army launched the Henan Campaign, and Ruyang suffered serious damage.
Today, although a long time has passed, we still need to remember that period of history and be wary of the repetition of history.
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army established two strongholds in Yiyang: Pipa Village in the north of Erma Mountain, Huabao Village and Niangniang Mountain, which were defended by the First Brigade of the 139th Wing and the Ono Brigade directly under the unit.
The small terraity brigade stationed in Pipa Village has three squadrons, Kanazumaku, Akino, and Harada, and an armed intelligence department, whose main tasks are to secretly plot rebellion, search for traitors, and monitor the puppet regime.
Under the threat of the Japanese army, the Kuomintang county and township government dignitaries and local gentry defected to the enemy, and established the Japanese puppet regime and armed forces, the "Imperial Allied Army Temporary Mixed Division", which controlled Yiyang.
They burned, killed and looted everywhere, brutally oppressed the people of Yiyang, and turned Yiyang into a hell on earth. According to survey statistics, during the year and four months in Yiyang, the Japanese devils killed 454 innocent residents, burned and demolished 3,700 houses, 426 women, 253 cattle, 70,000 pigs, sheep and chickens, destroyed 350 acres of wheat fields, looted 120,000 kilograms of grain, and arrested more than 4,600 Dingravs.
1.Ma Che and Wu Wenhua and his wife, two elderly people in their eighties, had witnessed the atrocities of the Japanese invasion of China. In his recollections, the carriage denounced the Japanese soldiers as "a bunch of wild beasts", took them to do hard labor, beat and kicked them, and left him with a lifelong disability.
Wu Wenhua told that she was chased by Japanese devils and saw many innocent girls being locked up in strongholds and being subjected to Japanese devils, and their families should be like us, with parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends.
Are these beasts really inhuman? 2.They used to be innocent teenagers and girls, but they fell victim to Japanese devils. At the age of 11, he was arrested to do hard labor, and he saw the Japanese soldiers beating the hard laborers, the overseers were vicious, the old Japanese soldiers kicked them, or smashed people with the butts of their guns, and the beaten people were often disabled for life.
When Wu Wenhua was young, she was also chased by Japanese devils, watching the Japanese devils lock up many girls in strongholds, and then rape them, most of them were tortured to death.
Are they really inhuman? 3.The carriage and Wu Wenhua couple, they are innocent victims, and their stories remind us of that era of dehumanization.
The carriage said that the Japanese soldiers were "turtles", a group of wild beasts, and he saw them beat up the hard laborers, while Wu Wenhua recounted that he was chased by the Japanese devils, watching them lock up the girls in strongholds, rape them, and then torture them to death.
Their family should also have parents, siblings, relatives and friends, just like us. Are these beasts really inhumane? 4.They are innocent victims, and their painful experiences remind us of that time when humanity was lost.
In his recollections, the carriage denounced the Japanese soldiers as "a pack of wild beasts", and they took them to do hard labor, beating and kicking them, leaving him with a lifelong disability. Wu Wenhua told that she was chased by Japanese devils and saw many innocent girls being locked up in strongholds and being subjected to Japanese devils, and their families should be like us, with parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends.
Are these beasts really inhuman?
Wang Kuan, an old man in the village of West Lijiagou, recalls that in the summer of 1944, Japanese troops occupied their village. These Japanese soldiers caught chickens and dogs when they saw them, beat cattle and sheep when they saw them, and snatched food and supplies, even sparing wooden planks.
Wang Kuan, who was only 11 years old at the time, witnessed the killing of a dog by Japanese soldiers, and he was too frightened to move. The Japanese soldier came up to him, patted him on the buttocks, and said "Chicken Guy Missy" in Japanese.
Wang Kuan also said that at that time, on the Stone Monkey Mountain north of the village, the Japanese soldiers captured thousands of people and asked them to dig trenches there. His father, Wang Mao, who knew how to trade as a carpenter, was also arrested to dig trenches and did not return home for several months.
When my father was working, because he couldn't understand Japanese, he was beaten by Japanese soldiers many times, and after contracting the disease, he was arrested and dug trenches in his place. If anyone was late to the construction site, the Japanese soldiers would have them stand with a big stone on their heads.
Ge E, an old man from Sunjiagou in Longquan Village, had the same experience. She recalled that when Lao Ri came, her niece Feng Lan was seventeen or eighteen years old, and she was just going home from the field when she was intercepted by a group of Japanese soldiers.
Feng Lan's clothes were torn, and she broke free and fled home, but the Japanese soldiers still chased her home and forced her to let them **. Feng Lan escaped over the wall and hid in her house, Japanese soldiers searched her house, and her pots and pots were smashed.
At that time, the men in the village were all captured by the Japanese soldiers to dig trenches, and the siblings could be ruined at any time at home. These two experiences have given people a deeper understanding of the brutal rule of Japanese militarism, and they have also reminded us to cherish peace and resist war.
Xu Shengxiang, an old man who is 96 years old this year, was caught by the Japanese invaders in 1944 and sent to Ermashan to work as a laborer digging trenches. He has experienced hardships for more than a year, but he has always maintained an optimistic and tenacious spirit, and used his experience to educate his children and grandchildren to cherish the good life now, work hard, never forget history, and remember the crimes of the Japanese invaders.
Even at the age of 100, he still insists on telling his story to his children and grandchildren, hoping to inspire and enlighten them.
Zhang Songlin, an old man from Shangyao Village in Longquan, recalled that dark days, when he was forced to dig trenches by Japanese soldiers and suffered countless beatings and tortures. One day, on the way up the mountain to dig a trench, he met a Japanese soldier with loaded guns, and when he saw that there was no one around, the anger in his heart burned, and he suddenly grabbed the Japanese soldier and threw him to the ground.
The Japanese soldier's buttocks were stuck right on the stubble, and blood flowed. Hearing the gunshots, other Japanese soldiers surrounded him, grabbed Zhang Songlin, beat him all over his body, and finally imprisoned him in the water prison of the Japanese stronghold in Daao.
However, three days later, he was rescued by Hsiedva and managed to escape.
When Xu Zhuang recalled the painful experience during World War II, his heart was very heavy. When he was still a child, the Japanese soldiers took them to the mountains to dig trenches, and witnessed the Japanese devils brutally kill the pigs of the Yang family in Yangjialing, and wounded Wang Wanwa and Wang Lei in Longquan Village.
He vividly remembered that after the autumn harvest that day, when they were digging trenches, a Japanese soldier saw the dry tobacco pouch and the lighter sickle around Wang Lei's neck and wanted to smoke. But Wang Lei couldn't understand Japanese, so he ignored the Japanese soldiers.
The Japanese soldiers became enraged and committed violence against Wang Lei, breaking his legs and causing him to faint. The old man Xu Zhuang said with emotion: "If it were not for the surrender of the Japanese devils, there would be more people in this world who would suffer such suffering." ”
Yang Funian: Japanese devils are not people, they are a group of beasts Yang Funian, an 82-year-old man in the Yangjialing Group of Ziluo Village, who is furious when he talks about Japanese devils. He said: "The Japanese devils do all kinds of evil in our villages, they are not people, they are a bunch of animals. ”
When the Japanese invaded the village, Yang Funian was only 12 years old, and his brother Yang Nian was 17 years old. Both of us brothers were taken to repair fortifications for the Japanese devils. We built a barracks in the Japanese stronghold of Niuxinzhai, and the leading Japanese devil was the squad leader Kamemura.
Kamemura and the devil soldiers he led did all kinds of evil, often beating up laborers. After my brother was beaten by the Japanese devils, he was bent on revenge. One night in the summer, my brother caught a couple of scorpions.
The next day, my brother took the scorpions to the construction site and stuffed a few scorpions into the pockets of the ghost soldiers while the ghost soldiers were not paying attention. When it was almost noon, the devil soldier was stung by the scorpion, and rolled on the spot, and after a while, his whole body was black and purple, and he lay on the ground and did not move.
The other Japanese devils were also helpless, watching the devil soldier who was stung by the scorpion dying. Because of the acute illness, my brother and the laborers said that the devil soldiers had cholera and could spread it from person to person.
The squad leader, Kamemura, also believed it and ordered the ghost soldiers to be cremated. Later, my brother and his companions often talked about scorpions screwing devil soldiers to death. "In the area of Huzhai Village, Ziluo Village, and Longquan Village, which has a population of less than 800 households, the Japanese devils killed more than 20 innocent people, raped and abused more than 60 women, and severely beat more than 560 peasants.
More than 250 houses were burned and demolished. More than 400 head (only) of cattle, sheep, pigs and other domestic animals were plundered. In order to consolidate this stronghold, the Japanese invading army built a number of fortifications on the hills around Ziluo Village and Longquan Village, from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain.
These fortifications were soaked in the blood and tears of the people of Yiyang.
The brutality of the Japanese was outrageous. In Wujiagou, Longquan village, Wu Hedgehog, a 78-year-old man, recalled that when the Japanese army arrived, there were only a few families in their village.
With the exception of women, all were forced to build fortifications and dig trenches for the Japanese army. The requisitioned coolies worked from morning to night, eating only one bowl of porridge at noon each day. For those who did not obey, the Japanese forced them to work with wolf dogs, whips, and knives.
At the time of the construction of the fortifications, it was the hot summer of June. The stones on the mountain were so hot that the Japanese soldiers stood in the shade of the trees to supervise the work, forcing the captives to take off their straw hats, take off their clothes, and work naked.
The common people were brutally tortured by the Japanese until the Japanese surrendered. Wang Fahai, an 82-year-old man from Yanjiao Village, Huzhai, recounted his father's experience of being captured to dig trenches.
He said: "My home is in the mountains of Dama, and my father was captured by Japanese soldiers to dig trenches, and I brought food to my father at noon every day. In the autumn of 1944, on my way to deliver food to my father, I met three or four Japanese soldiers, and they asked me to go up to the tree to pick persimmons for them to eat.
I was making a gesture to deliver food to the mountains, and a bearded Japanese soldier snatched my rice can, threw it on the ground, and beat me to go up the tree to pick persimmons. I cried sadly, but the Japanese soldiers were eating persimmons and laughing.
Japs are really not people. Wang Yun, a 78-year-old man from Huzhai Village, recalled that when he was young, he only remembered that the Japanese soldiers took all the people in the village to dig trenches, cut down big trees, pick door panels, and ask for eggs in the village, and the villagers were severely beaten if they resisted the slightest.
Li Xueyi, an 86-year-old man from Nansi Village, is a retired cadre of the Ruyang County Taxation Bureau. He recalled: "In the summer of 1944, at the age of 15, I was forced by the Japanese army to dig trenches with adults on Mount Dama.
The thousands of people who went up the mountain to dig trenches were basically beaten and scolded by the Japanese army. At that time, the trenches built were more than 20 kilometers long, and they were surrounded by mountains from Dama Mountain, Erma Mountain, Sanma Mountain, and Shihou Mountain.
The masses brought their own dry food every day, and they were forced to work as soon as dawn until the sun went down. When he was 12 years old, he and his eldest brother Sun Deming and his second brother Sun Tianwa were conscripted into labor by the Japanese army to build Japanese forts and trenches in Shihou Mountain, and they worked for one year and four months.
The old man Sun Kexin still has scars on his body that were burned by Japanese cigarette butts. When he talked about the past when he was beaten by the Japanese army when he was a teenager, he couldn't help but cry. The three brothers and more than 100 villagers from the same village were dragged by the Japanese army to build forts and trenches, working from 4 a.m. to dark, working for more than 10 hours a day, and bringing their own food.
The Japanese army sent overseers to supervise the labor every day, and if the laborers moved a little slowly or did not meet the deadline, they were severely beaten. One day they were digging trenches in the mountains when the Japanese soldiers suddenly told them to go down the mountain to build a road.
They arrived a little late, and the bearded overseers of the Japanese army made them stand in a line and hit them on the head with wooden sticks. Zhang Youtai's head deflected and hit him on the shoulder. The bearded overseer pulled Zhang Youtai out and hit him on the head and chest again.
Zhang Youtai, who was only beaten, broke his head and bled out, fell to the ground and passed out, and the bearded overseer stopped. Many laborers could not bear the physical torture, and countless deaths and injuries were innumerable.
In Sunjiagou Natural Village, Longquan Village, at the foot of Shihou Mountain, three old people, Sun Longshun, Sun Kexin and Sun Guangdan, recalled the experience of digging trenches. The old man Sun Guangdan said: "My brother Sun Dejun and Li Yindou from a neighboring village have been digging trenches in the mountains for more than a year, and Japanese soldiers have attacked them many times. ”
The elder Sun Longshun recounted the experience of Sun Guanglin and other villagers in his village: "Once, when Sun Guanglin and several villagers in my village finally arrived at the construction site, the Japanese soldiers forced them to lift purlins weighing more than 200 catties above their heads, and they could not bend their arms and waists.
When the child goes late, he must put a stone on his head. In short, the Japanese soldiers tried their best to torture people. ”
Cui Jichuan, a retired veteran teacher in Guyan Village, recalled the experience of being captured by the Japanese devils in 1944 to repair trenches.
In order to avoid being wronged, I deliberately wore my hands out. At lunch, there was not even saliva, and the devils did not even have humanity. What I hated the most was the criminal act of the Japanese devils who entered the ancient world on April 12, 1944.
At that time, I heard that the devil entered the village, and the people fled in all directions, and there was a woman surnamed Zhao in the village, who had not yet come out of the full moon, was weak, and hid in a nearby earthen kiln, and was found by the devil.
As a result, they were ruined to death by those Japanese soldiers who were inferior to beasts. There was also a twenty-two-year-old young daughter-in-law surnamed Sun who ran halfway and was caught by the Japanese devils, and the beasts carried out ** on her, causing the woman to fall seriously ill and almost die.
Zhang Dezhong and his wife ran to Yangzhuang, were caught by the devil, and after the implementation, a man named Yang Wang looked back, was also injured, and died as a result.
My family also ran away at that time, and I led a few dependents across the Ru River, ran to Genggou, and lived in the field at night, where I hid for a few days, and then quietly walked east along the south bank of the Ru River at night to the water curtain cave to cross the river, and reunited with my family in Pangzhuang.
After a few days, the devils left the village, and I dared to go back. When I got home, I saw that the house was in shambles: all the doors had been torn down, the lid of the box had been smashed, the quilts had been torn into pieces, the pigs and chickens had been killed and eaten, the food had been snatched away, and the calligraphy and paintings had been looted.
There is also a cruel incident: after the Japanese devils invaded and occupied Ruyang, they established the Japanese puppet armed organization "Self-Defense Group" in Ruyang. Since the incident of Guo Shaoxu killing devils in Shanbei, the Japanese devils are all soldiers, frightened, and begin to distrust the traitor organization in Ruyang.
One day, the captain of the Japanese army informed the leaders of the Self-Defense Regiment, Zhang Ding, Zhang Qingzheng, and more than 10 others to hold a meeting, during which a group of Japanese soldiers suddenly rushed in, fiercely pointed their guns at the leaders of the meeting, tied them up, tied them in a hut, and hung them head down and foot up.
Two days later, the dozen men were dragged out and shot. On the one hand, this shows that the devil is vicious and cruel, and at the same time, he deserves to be a traitor!
Title: The old man Cui Jichuan restores the crimes of the Japanese invasion of China, painfully expresses the pain of digging trenches, and hopes to protect historical relics to alert future generations Content: The Japanese invasion of China more than 70 years ago was the most painful time for Sun Kexin and his former friends, who were forced to dig trenches for the Japanese army and were beaten and scolded by the Japanese army, which became the most painful memory of their lives.
Now, they all hope to protect the Japanese trenches and other historical sites, so that future generations can understand this tragic history, so as to inspire the people of the country to work hard. History is the best textbook and the best sobering agent.
The Chinese people have an unforgettable memory of the suffering brought about by the war and a tireless pursuit of peace. As the old man Cui Jichuan said: "Aggression and expansion will eventually fail, this is the law of history." ”
China will unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development, and hopes that all countries in the world will follow the path of peaceful development together, so that the sunshine of peace will always shine on the planet where mankind lives.
The scars of history should not be forgotten; The dream of peace is worth pursuing. Let us work together for peace and for a better future!