Since the 1990s, a large number of first-hand archives and documentaries about the Nanjing Massacre have emerged at home and abroad, such as the German Archives collection of materials on the atrocities of the Japanese army invading China in Nanjing, the literature on the Nanjing Massacre collected by the Library of Yale Theological Seminary in the United States, and the testimony of the newly discovered survivors of the Nanjing Massacre. A number of influential foreign diaries, such as "Rabe's Diary", "Toshiro's Diary", and "Weitlin's Diary", have also been discovered and officially published.
After entering the 21st century, China has intensified its research on the Nanjing Massacre. The Research Center for the History of the Republic of China of Nanjing University and the Institute of The History of the Nanjing Massacre of Nanjing University organized a research team of the Nanjing Massacre to collect materials extensively in Europe, the United States, Japan and other places, and edited a total of 72 volumes of the "Collection of Historical Materials of the Nanjing Massacre". The Nanjing Massacre History Research Association and the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre victims of the Japanese invasion of China edited a total of 35 volumes of the "Nanjing Massacre History Research and Literature Series". These books record many Japanese atrocities, such as the use of Chinese as targets to practice assassination. The Japanese army used Chinese as a target to practice assassination must be more than one, and the following is the story of one of them.
Xuxiang Village, located on the outskirts of Nanjing, is a larger village with about 200 households. On December 16, 1937, a heavily armed japanese soldier stormed the village like a wolf. Armed with dangling bayonets, they went door to door and arrested more than 100 men on the threshing ground. While escorting the innocent peasants in the village to the threshing ground, the Japanese soldiers shouted in the unpleasant Chinese language: "The Chinese soldiers are very big!" ”
In fact, there was not a single Chinese soldier hiding in the village. Those who were arrested by them as "Chinese soldiers" were all native farmers from their own villages. The fathers, mothers, grandfathers, and grandmothers of the young people who were taken away were all worried about the fate of their children and grandchildren. They all found a place where they could clearly see the threshing ground, and looked at their relatives and countrymen from a distance through the cracks in the doors, in the windows, behind the grass piles.
I saw that the Japanese soldiers ordered more than 10 young people in the front to undo the cotton clothes and shirts on their upper bodies and expose their breasts. The Japanese soldiers, one by one, pointed bayonets at the chests of the youth. A Japanese leader with a saber in his hand lectured the soldiers. He was explaining the essentials of assassination to the soldiers.
The reason why the Japanese army let the young people show their chests was to explain and find the location of the assassination. Practicing assassination with living people in this way is more about practicing the courage and fierceness of Japanese soldiers, and after practicing assassination with living people as targets, it will become more crazy and fierce.
At the sound of an order, more than 10 Japanese soldiers, armed with bayonets, screamed and rushed to the first victims. The sharp bayonet was stabbed into the chest of the young peasant, and the youth closed their eyes in horror. With a tragic shout, more than 10 young people fell one after another.
Some of these Japanese soldiers who used living people as targets stabbed the key points, and the victims twitched a few times and then stopped moving. Some of them were not accurate, or they did not use enough force, or because the stabbed people instinctively avoided, the peasants who had not died after being stabbed struggled on the ground, and they were unbearable to see. The Japanese soldiers repeated the assassination, causing the wounded peasants to slowly die in a blur of blood and flesh.
The young people were taken to the center of the threshing ground one by one, and one by one they were brutally stabbed to death by the Japanese army. After a young man named Shi Dalin was stabbed down, the Japanese soldiers found that he was not dead, so they stabbed him several times in a row. With each cut, he shouted, "My mother! Shout a few times until you can't shout anymore.
Shi Dalin's mother couldn't stand it anymore, and she was going crazy and wanted to break the door... The poor mother was pulled by others, and people were crying and pulling her, while she frantically hit the door panels and walls with her head. She didn't want to live anymore and wanted to leave this world forever.
This mother's actions represent the mentality of all people who have lost loved ones. "If you commit iniquity, you must not die well!" An old grandmother cried and scolded. "Flutter!" A wife who had lost her husband fainted on the ground. The villagers watched as their flesh and blood and relatives were mutilated one by one, and their spirits suffered tremendous torture. The massacre was over, the Japanese army fled, leaving the bodies of more than 100 young people in the village on the threshing ground.