History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, ChuXian was one of the occupied areas. At that time, there were 62 counties in Anhui Province, of which 48 counties were occupied by the Japanese. The first county to fall was Guangde County, and Chu County, which we want to talk about today, was also one of the earlier areas that fell.
In March 1938, it snowed in Chu County, Anhui Province, and a Train of Japanese Soldiers was preparing to go north
As for Chu County, it fell on December 18, 1937, and as early as December 13, the Japanese Kou Hua Central Front, with the 13th Division regiment as the forward, under the command of the division commander Lieutenant General Di Zhou Libing, crossed the river from Nanjing, along the Jinpu Road north, facing the fierce Japanese Kou, Chu County Governor Yan Xijiu and the county government personnel fled to the xianjian town of Hanshan County.
On December 18, the Japanese occupied the county seat of Chu County without encountering resistance. When the Japanese Kou entered the city, the residents stranded in the city fled into hiding, but the arrogant Japanese Kou felt that it was not an invasion not to kill people, so they went around hunting down the hiding people. Especially in front of the Guandi Temple and beside the Luohong Bridge, historical records record that after the Massacre of the Japanese Kou, "the corpses were lying in a vertical and horizontal manner, and their shape was miserable." ”
In March 1938, in the snow of Chu County, Anhui Province, two Japanese soldiers
In all the aggressive atrocities committed by the Japanese Kou, the killings were often accompanied by arson, and in the same way, in Chu County, the Japanese Kou also set fires everywhere, burning hundreds of houses in the Ximen area alone. After the Japanese occupied Chu County, they also set up a killing field and killed countless innocent people with extremely cruel means, so it was called a "mass grave".
On the second day after the fall of Chuxian County, in order to further expand its sphere of influence, the Japanese Kou successively occupied the townships of Wuyi, Zhulong, and Shaheji around the county seat, and carried out a series of massacres in the urban and rural areas of Chuxian County.
In the face of the madness of the Japanese Kou, the heroic Chinese people never gave in, and the anti-Japanese salvation movement of the people of eastern Anhui was also surging with wind, and people fought to the death against the invaders with large knives, spears, red guns, and earth guns and earthen cannons.
On January 29, 1938, the Japanese invaded Bengbu. The Japanese troops in Chucheng and Quanjiao also sent troops to attack Dingyuan, and were blocked by the "Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Propaganda Group" in the area of Xiaoma Factory, Crow's Nest, and Black Wolf Temple. Although due to a lack of weapons and combat experience, the propaganda corps was eventually broken up. But it also made the Japanese Kou see the determination of the Chinese people to resist Japan.
In mid-June of the same year, the anti-Japanese troops ambushed the Japanese in the waist section of the Chuquan Highway, blew up 1 Japanese car, and captured a batch of military supplies. In the spring of 1939, a part of the Jiangbei guerrilla column of the anti-Japanese army attacked the Japanese Kou in succession around Chucheng, Wuyi, Danzi, WaistPu, Steep Gang, and Shahe, killing dozens of enemies.
In the face of the Chinese people's sworn resistance to death, the frenzied invaders were certainly not willing, but all they could do was organize encirclement and suppression and sweeping; according to historical records, in the Spring Festival of 1941, the Japanese Kou drove from the direction of Zhulong Bridge to Lotus Pond to "sweep", slaughtered more than 20 innocent people in the Jiepaiji, and burned down all the houses on the street.
The road of history is full of twists and turns, and there is a lesson: "Conscientious and strong, the wind is the death"; "the prosperity is not sluggish, and strive to be strong". Only by keeping history in mind, taking history as a mirror, and being brave after knowing shame can we make our motherland prosperous and forever stand tall in the east of the world!