What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
One of the darkest scenes in Chinese history was the Japanese massacre, especially the Nanjing Massacre, which shook the world. However, long before the Nanjing Massacre, the Japanese army had already committed serious crimes in China, and this massacre was not elaborated in the history textbooks, so we could not imagine what kind of cruelty and injustice the people faced at that time.
For four days and four nights, only thirty-six people were left in the city, or was it to let them bury their bodies?
In 1894, Japan invaded Korea, and after completely controlling Korea, it invaded the northeast in two ways and sneaked up on Lushun's troop carriers, after which the Japanese invaded Dalian Bay all the way and directly approached Lushun.
The Qing army stationed in Lushun was frightened and scattered, but the patriotic general Xu Bangdao chose to die for China, and he led the Qing army to hold its position, although the enemy was outnumbered, it still repelled the Japanese army twice.
After the defeat of the Japanese army, they went back to transport hundreds of cannons, frantically bombarding the gate of Lushunkou, Xu Bangdao and the soldiers heroically resisted under the foothills of the White Jade Mountain, but where the human flesh was the opponent of the artillery and muskets, under the fierce artillery fire, the foothills of the White Jade Mountain became a sea of blood.
Because the number of Japanese tragic deaths was relatively large, they had a resentful and hateful attitude towards the Chinese, and the idea of revenge made them crazy, so they rushed into Lushun City and carried out a crazy massacre of the people in the city, and the massacre was carried out for four days and four nights.
"I saw a man kneeling in front of the soldiers, prostrating his head and begging for his life. The soldier plunged his speartail knife into the ground with one hand and cut off his head with a sword in the other. One of them shrank into the corner, and a team of Japanese soldiers fired bullets to break his body. There was an old man kneeling in the middle of the street, and the Japanese soldiers cut it down, almost in two paragraphs..." The report of the American reporter made the Americans who were outside particularly angry, they felt that they could not understand the Animal behavior of Japan, and they also mourned the death of the Chinese people.
The British reporter wrote in the published book: "The ground is full of corpses, we have to step on the corpses, creepy, everywhere there are cries, screams and groans, the Japanese pick up the two-year-old baby with a knife and kill it, let others see... The road was blocked by corpses, and we could barely cross the streets..."
Japan's torture and killing of Lushun is not written in many history books, and we can only see this scene from the historical records of foreigners, the Qing army that sacrificed was lucky, and the common people were much more miserable, because they did not have weapons, could not choose to die a dignified death, and could only be forced to end their lives in wailing and pleading.
Although the Qing army was heroic, their death was prepared after all, and the pain given to them by a bullet was far less than the pain of watching their loved ones die under the butcher's knife, many young children were stabbed to death while they were still swaddling, and those poor mothers would lose their lives with deep sorrow.
Twenty thousand innocent compatriots died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Japanese, and the surviving thirty-six were "anti-corpse team members", who took three days to dispose of the bodies of the dead compatriots, scatter the bodies in different places and cremated them, and the bodies of the people were buried in the foothills of the White Jade Mountain, along with the bodies of the fallen Qing generals.
The Japanese army erected a tombstone for them, which read: "The Tomb of the Qing Army Soldiers", the Japanese army did this to hide their eyes, they cared about the international perception of them, did not want to expose their ugly behavior of slaughtering the city to the sun.
However, this is the greatest crime under the sun, and under the bright sunshine of Lushun, the Japanese army unscrupulously exposes the ugliness and cruelty of human nature, which is difficult to forgive.
In 1869, the Qing army recaptured Lushun, and in November of the same year, the Qing army built three pavilions for the compatriots killed in Lushun, and the plaque of the temple was wrapped in iron sheets, written with the words "Wanzhong Tomb", and the plaque of "Never Forget Forever" was hung on the door.
Since then, officials and people have come here every year to offer sacrifices to express their condolences and remind themselves not to forget the national shame.
In 1905, when the Russo-Japanese War broke out and the Japanese army once again controlled the northeast, the first thing they did was to destroy the "Tomb of Wanzhong", and they wanted to destroy the "evidence". The "Tomb of Wanzhong" was stolen, the tombstone was vandalized, and later the Lushun people re-erected a tombstone, and the Japanese repeatedly destroyed it.
After the "918" incident, the Japanese army said that it would "relocate" to Lushun, but in fact wanted to destroy the "Tomb of Wanzhong", which aroused the anger of the Lushun people at that time, and the entire Northeast people began to create pressure on Japan. Under strong pressure, Japan tried many times, but failed to destroy the "Tomb of Wanzhong".