If you search for the word "Nanjing", the first place is not the duck blood fans, not the soup buns, but the Nanjing Massacre, and the five bloody words are reflected in the eyes, which is particularly dazzling.
In 1937, halfway through the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army invaded Nanjing, the Kuomintang army was frightened, and Chiang Kai-shek, as the supreme commander of the Kuomintang army, hesitated on the issue of whether to defend Nanjing. In fact, from the very beginning, he did not make up his mind to guard Nanjing.
Tang Shengzhi, as the supreme commander of the Nanjing garrison, due to personal mistakes and improper command, led to great chaos in the garrison army, and after receiving clear instructions from his superiors to retreat, the commander of the Kuomintang army left the troops and fled on his own.
The responsibility for the loss of Nanjing should not be borne by the 300,000 people defending the city, but by Chiang Kai-shek and Tang Shengzhi, commander of the Nanjing Garrison.
At the time of the Nanjing Massacre, why didn't the captured soldiers resist? Is it because they are cowardly and incompetent? In fact, things are not as simple as everyone thinks. 40 years after the Nanjing Massacre, a veteran who escaped death told the truth of the matter, and the mystery was made public.
The lies of the Japanese army
After the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, it surrounded 300,000 people and soldiers in Nanjing, frightening everyone to flee everywhere, and Tang Spectrum, who was a service soldier at that time, was among them, and in the process of escaping, he met a man named Tang Hecheng, and the two decided to take care of each other together.
They ran and ran like this, desperately running forward, until the night, really tired and had no strength, Tang Spectrum proposed to hide in the mountains first, sleep to replenish their strength, and then run the next day.
But I didn't expect the Japanese army to move so fast, early the next morning, just after dawn, I went into the mountains to search for them, and the Japanese army found them and imprisoned Tang Spectrum and Tang Hecheng in the base camp of the Japanese army.
When they arrived at the prisoner-of-war camp, the Japanese army tricked them, as long as they obediently surrendered, they would be treated preferentially, according to international law, the prisoners who surrendered their weapons would be treated kindly, coupled with the few days of escape, dripping water, physical and mental exhaustion, there was no extra energy to think about other things.
Tang Spectrum and the other prisoners of war believed the lies of the Japanese army, gave up resistance, and dreamed of drinking a bowl of water and eating a nest, but they did not expect that the nightmare had just begun, and the frenzied Japanese army shot at them mercilessly, and the city of Nanjing was full of bones and blood.
It's tragic
Then the Japanese army carried out an organized and systematic destruction of them, first imprisoning the soldiers, not giving them water to drink or food, consuming their will, and finally starving them to death.
At this time, there were women, children and unarmed men left in the city, and for more than a month, the crazy Japanese army began a large-scale burning and looting, and began their atrocities.
At the same time, the women and children in Nanjing City were also subjected to exterminating humiliation, from the 90-year-old to the 7-year-old child, and even the pregnant women. Some were brutally killed, some were ravaged to death, and the brutality was unprecedented.
In the book "Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten Catastrophe of World War II" published by Chinese journalist Zhang Chunru, this historical tragedy was recorded and elaborated in detail, describing the whole process of the Japanese army bombing Nanjing, attacking Nanjing, the Chinese army defending Nanjing, and the fall of Nanjing, as well as the various bloody atrocities committed by the Japanese army after occupying Nanjing, exposing the brutal and shameless crimes of the Japanese army to the whole world.
Tang Spectrum and the others in the prisoner of war camp starved to the fifth day in the prisoner of war camp, still dripping water, and they could not see hope, they gathered together, rose up to resist, and decided to set fire to break through the siege.
That night, they set the house on fire, and the crowd rushed out, and the cunning Japanese army dug a wide and deep water channel outside the cell to prevent anyone from escaping, and the soldiers who were familiar with water nature plunged into the water and swam to the opposite side.
The Japanese soldiers chased after them, and they swept at them in a chaotic manner, and Tang Spectra watched as layer after layer of people fell, and in a few moments the canal was dyed bright red. Seeing this scene, the rest of the people were too frightened to move, and they were escorted back to their cells by the Japanese army.
Close call
The next day, before dawn, Tang Pu was driven to the courtyard by the Japanese army, lined up in a row, the Japanese army strung their arms into a line with a rope, escorted forward, Tang Hecheng muttered in his heart, the Japanese army is going to sing which, this is where to escort them.
Because of the fact that he had not entered for so many days, he was so hungry that he had no strength, and he couldn't think about it so much, so he walked forward with a hard time with his head down, but he was afraid that he would not be able to walk any further.
Not only Tang Hecheng, but many other people like him, stood up and struggled, but they could not help but leave, a little slack, they would be stabbed to death by the Japanese army with bayonets, everyone was gritting their teeth and barely supporting, so they walked for more than ten miles to finally reach the place.
Tang Saw that in the vast field, there were already countless human heads moving, and he realized that the Japanese army was preparing for a mass massacre. Seeing this situation, everyone panicked and began to flee for their lives, only to see the Japanese officer give an order, in addition to the sound of machine gun fire, it was an incessant wail, and the people around them fell one by one.
Tang Spectrum and Tang Hecheng quickly fell down, hiding under the corpse and did not dare to move, I don't know how long it took, the machine gun stopped, Tang Hecheng asked Tang Spectrum about the situation, after the two confirmed that there was no injury, Tang Hecheng probed to see the situation outside, did not expect a new round of shooting to start, just like this, until the next morning.
After Tang Spectrum heard the Japanese retreat, he was ready to pull Tang Hecheng to escape, but Tang Hecheng was shot several times in the body and had been dead for a long time, and countless human heads tang Spectrum escaped, and the remaining soldiers slept forever on Tiger Mountain. Tang Spectrum, who escaped from death, traveled to many places and eventually settled in Zhuzhen, Liuhe County, Nanjing.
Daylight
In this way, in the blink of an eye, 40 years passed, and then a reporter interviewed him, mentioning the massacre of that year, the reporter asked curiously: At that time, 300,000 compatriots fought against 50,000 Japanese troops, and the disparity in strength was huge, so why didn't they want to resist?
Tang Spectrum sighed and said: Hungry for 6 days and 5 nights, it is difficult to stand up, how to resist. In fact, at that time, compared with Japan, China's strategic deployment was not rigorous, the strength of weapons and equipment was disparate, logistics could not be guaranteed, and comprehensive multi-faceted factors led to the loss of Nanjing and the loss of 300,000 compatriots.
We cannot blame and blame the Chinese soldiers who guarded the city of Nanjing because of the loss of Nanjing, the Nanjing defenders at that time did desperately resist, but the Japanese army was helpless, violating the convention, and poisoning 300,000 Chinese compatriots. We should remember history, take history as a mirror, not forget the national shame, and forge ahead for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.