On the night of September 18, 1931, the Japanese army blew up two railways in Shenyang, planted stolen goods on the Chinese army, and used this as an excuse to shell the north camp of Shenyang. After the "July 7 Incident," Japan launched an all-out invasion of China, and on August 13, the Battle of Songhu began, Shanghai could not be attacked for a long time, and in November the war situation took a sharp turn for the worse, and our army fell into crisis.
Retreat to Nanjing
In the same month, Japan broke through the ethical bottom line and issued the heart-wrenching and crazy stipulations in the history of human warfare, carrying out indiscriminate bombing of the Nanjing area, mainly civilians, with the purpose of deterring the Nationalist army. Chiang Kai-shek vainly tried to wait until the Soviet Union intervened militarily, hoping for diplomatic mediation and decided to hold on to Nanjing, and the high command hurriedly mobilized 150,000 troops before the Japanese army approached Nanjing, most of whom were new recruits who had not yet completed their training, and most of the remaining veterans were demoralized after the Battle of Songhu.
tragic
Army General Tang Shengzhi decided to defend Nanjing in a battle against the water, and in order to prevent individual troops from withdrawing privately, he directed the retreat ferry to Wuhan and blocked the only retreat channel, Rujiangmen, which also laid a tragic foreshadowing for the future Nanjing massacre. On December 11 of the same year, Chiang Kai-shek ordered a retreat, But Tang Shengzhi failed to give an accurate order, and the breakthrough and retreat contradicted each other, and only the 66th Army and the 83rd Army broke through head-on, successfully breaking through the Japanese army after paying a heavy price. The rest of the army in the city was in disarray, and because of the previous death order, the army that insisted on retreating the passage did not receive the retreat order, and there were clashes between the troops, with many casualties, and Tang Shengzhi fled Nanjing in small boats, and the subordinate army became chaotic and scattered, and since then Nanjing has fallen. On December 13, the Japanese army invaded Nanjing and began a massacre that lasted for more than 40 days.
This massacre is an indelible wound for the Chinese people, and it should be remembered in our hearts and the alarm bells should always sound. The details of the massacre are now debated on the Internet, and the most common thing that Xiaobian saw was that in a Nanjing survivor's recollection, it was mentioned, "5 Japanese soldiers escorted 2,000 Chinese to the riverside to massacre, and there was no restriction on the hands and feet of the Chinese." Most people can only lament that the Chinese people are not bloody, smart is mistaken by smart, and so on.
However, this was not the case, according to the Japanese veteran Okomiya Masatake in "The Nanjing Incident I Saw", he personally witnessed the Nanjing Massacre. Chinese was dragged to the river like an assembly line and slaughtered, and the cascading corpses blocked the river, flowing downstream in an almost static posture, there were not yet dead struggles to survive, the shore already had bayonets and guns waiting, and the river was stained with a sea of blood. The massacre was orderly, and no one even dared to speak loudly during the massacre, and Masatake Okuniya asked, "How did you bring this group of Chinese so quietly?" The Japanese soldier replied: Shouting at these Chinese who are cleaning up the rubble, if you are hungry, please raise your hand, and if you want to eat, come with me, and then pull the china who raised your hand into the truck and pretend to take it out to eat, so that you can do it.
In this way, it seems that several Japanese soldiers were escorted into a thousand Chinese and no one resisted, it can be understood that the Japanese devils were too cunning, and they had long expected the situation of resistance, so they made up lies in advance of these innocent people, not Chinese without blood. Judging from the records of "The Nanjing Incident I Saw", Chinese not everyone was left to be slaughtered, and on December 23, after the fall of Nanjing, a brave Chinese quietly infiltrated the Japanese officer's dormitory and took advantage of the night to kill a number of Japanese officers with a knife, and only the 36th Wing known to Okomiya Masatake was killed by this Chinese more than 10 non-commissioned officers at the captain level or above.
Although the Japanese army has since carried out bloody revenge on Chinese, I am still proud of this indomitable Chinese, who still shines with the blood and glory of our nation in the darkest days of China.