On July 7, 1937, the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression broke out in full swing
On August 15, 1945, the Emperor of Japan issued an edict announcing surrender, and on August 17, the Japanese headquarters ordered the Kwantung Army to stop fighting. However, in some places, the Japanese invading army still did not put down the butcher's knife, and even continued to massacre the Chinese residents in a frenzied manner while fleeing for their lives.
On the west bank of the Nannen River in Heilongjiang Province, there is a village called Sanjiazitun. At that time, it belonged to the Touzhan District of Jingxing County (now part of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Zhalai Special Banner). One day after Japan announced its surrender, several Japanese soldiers broke into Sanjiazitun . They claimed to have no food to eat and were exchanging two rifles and three hundred rounds of ammunition for some money. After the villagers gave them money, the Japanese soldiers only handed over their guns and said nothing about bullets. Clashes broke out between the two sides. During the clashes, several Japanese soldiers were killed and two Japanese soldiers fled.
The two fleeing Japanese soldiers happened to encounter nearly 400 unarmed Japanese soldiers from Wangye Temple (Ulanhot, Inner Mongolia). As a result, the Japanese army carried out a massacre of sanjiazitun to exterminate humanity. The survivor of Sanjiazitun, Tao Yongfu, recalled: That day was more than 3 p.m. on the 19th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. The Japanese soldiers, fearing that they would expose their targets, killed 83 people and fired one shot. The rest are all cut with a knife. There are only 3 survivors in Quantun.
Opposite the Three Zitun across the Nen River is the Shendi House (now part of Tailai County, Heilongjiang Province, also known as the Shenjiayao). There are also Japanese soldiers who come to this tunzi to eat something. The people did not give and refused to let them into the village.
After the bloodbath of the three families, they crossed the river and carried out a massacre of the Shendi house. Ma Rongchun is a survivor of the Shendi House Massacre. He recalled that on the night of the nineteenth day of the eighth lunar month, he heard that Sanjiazitun had washed the blood of Japanese devils, and the whole village was ready to run at dawn. Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, I suddenly heard chaos in the tun, and when I looked out of the window, there were all Japanese soldiers outside. As a result, more than 80 people were slaughtered in this tun, and there were only 3 survivors in the whole tun.
In total, more than 160 people were killed by the Japanese army in Sanjiatunzi and Shendifangtun.
According to the 86-year-old wang Yuwen, who witnessed the incident, Wang Yuwen's father went to Shenjiayao to ask for a doctor, but he never returned. He heard that the Japanese had washed the Shenjiayao in blood, so he went to the Shenjiayao to find his father. On the way, I met a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl who had been stabbed several times in her body. There was no sound in the tun at all. Wang Yuwen went into the tunzi to take a look and found that the tun was full of dead people, and in a large house, the dead people were piled up more than a meter high.
Dapingfang Village, not far from Shendi House, was also slaughtered by the Japanese Kou, like Sanjiazitun and Shendi House Tun. At that time, more than 100 Japanese soldiers with live ammunition copied from the east, north and west. After entering the village, the Chinese is to see one to kill one, shoot from a distance, and pick a bayonet to death near. A pregnant woman hiding in the haystack was also searched by the Japanese for an abdomen. Almost all the old, sick and disabled in Dapingfang Village were killed.
People can only flee to the south, but across the woods is the mighty River. During the flood season, the water is so deep that it is impossible to cross the river. People had to hide in the woods, and when they were discovered by the Japanese, they were strafed by machine guns and died. After washing the large bungalows in blood, these Japanese Kou burned down all the houses in the village. According to statistics, 84 people were bloodily slaughtered in Dapingfang Village, and 246 houses were burned.
Tao Yongfu, who survived the three families of Zitun, took his injuries to Lintun to find someone to help. By this time it was already dawn, and in the distance i saw a group of ironclad cars coming. Recognizing that it was the Red Army, he took off his hat and shook it.
The Red Army helped him into the car, bandaged him, and asked about tunzi. It turned out that this Japanese army was a die-hard element who refused to surrender their weapons, and these Red Army troops were pursuing them, and when they heard the gunshots, they chased them in this direction.
When Tao Yongfu led the way to the Nen River for the Red Army, the Japanese robbers had already washed the House of Shendi in blood. The Soviet Red Army could see these devils through the telescopes, some smoking, some wiping knives, some resting.
The officers and men of the Red Army of the Soviet Union immediately contacted their superiors by radio and requested support for the equipment for crossing the river. At the same time, artillery bombardment was fired at the Japanese.
Subsequently, four trucks transported a company of Soviet Red Army officers and men from the direction of Zhujiakan (present-day Longjiang County) in the west.
The Red Army began to cross the river and launch an attack on the other side of the Nen River. After a barrage of shelling, about 30 Japanese pretended to surrender. The Soviets relaxed their guard and opened the way with tanks and infantry following. When we were marching to the front avenue of The Shendi House, suddenly, a large group of Japanese soldiers jumped out from behind an earthen trench.
It turned out that these Japanese soldiers had run out of ammunition and were afraid of shooting and exposing the target, and they wanted to wait for the Red Army to approach and start a white-knife battle with bayonets. The Japanese soldier screamed and rushed up with his bayonet. The Soviet Red Army was caught off guard, and heavy weapons could not be used, so they could only engage japanese soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. Many Red Army soldiers used submachine guns, did not have bayonets, and could only fight with the butts of their guns, and the fighting was very fierce.
Later, the Red Army reinforcements from Daxing, Fularki, and Ang'angxi arrived and surrounded the Japanese regiments, and only then did they eliminate the red-eyed Japanese. In this battle, more than 300 enemy soldiers were annihilated, and more than 20 Japanese soldiers rushed out of the encirclement and fled eastward, and were later eliminated at Taikang.
In this battle, 13 officers above the second lieutenant level and 111 soldiers below the sergeant level of the Soviet Army, a total of 124 people died heroically, and the blood stained the land of China. This was the last group of Officers and Men of the Red Army to give their lives in World War II.
According to survivors Tao Yongfu, Ma Rongchun and Wang Yuwen, the time of the battle in The House of Shendi should be the 20th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, that is, september 25 of the Gregorian calendar. At this time, it had been more than a month since Japan announced its surrender, and more than 20 days after the signing of Japan's surrender on September 2, nearly a month later than august 28, when the Soviet army captured the Dongning Hutou Fortress.
During the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese "annihilated more than 2.6 million Japanese troops." But the brutal war also cost the Chinese people great sacrifices. According to incomplete statistics, "the Chinese army suffered more than 3.38 million casualties in the War of Resistance Against Japan, more than 18 million casualties among Chinese, and property losses and war consumption amounted to more than 100 billion US dollars."
References: Archival materials