The Japanese army in World War II was the most barbaric, cruel, and stubborn fascist army. Recently, when some netizens were sorting out the old photo album of the Japanese army during the War of Resistance, they accidentally found a very clear photo of the atrocities of the Japanese army.
In the photo, a Japanese soldier with a long bayonet of a Type 38 rifle pierces the atrium of the heart of a Chinese prisoner of war on one knee with his hands tied behind his back. This photo has been seen in the photo album of military journalists who took the fall of Nanjing, but it is a small size, the image is relatively blurry version, and the photo found this time is clear and heinous, and the tip of the knife pierced through the chest of the Chinese prisoner of war by the Japanese army can be seen.
During the 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Japanese fascists committed countless war crimes in China. Countless Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed, the Nanjing Massacre alone killed Chinese 300,000, and the atrocities included burial alive, assassination of prisoners of war, beheadings, etc., as evidenced by photographs.
In 1938, the American "Lookout" magazine published a photo of the Japanese army using Chinese prisoners for assassination training.
In May 1942, the Japanese army launched a surprise attack on the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and the northern bureau were surrounded by the Japanese army, Deputy Commander-in-Chief Peng Dehuai broke through from a mountain road under the cover of a guard company, and Zuo Quan, deputy chief of general staff of the Eighth Route Army, who was a high-caliber student of the Frunze Military Academy of the Soviet Red Army, was unfortunately killed at the age of 37. During the Japanese army's sweep of the Taihang Mountains, about 500 officers and men of our Eighth Route Army were captured, of whom up to 200 were captured during the raid on the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, including Zhang Youqing, secretary general of the Northern Bureau of the CPC and secretary general of the Forward Headquarters of the Eighth Route Army; Sun Yuting, political commissar of the Taiyue Third Military Subdistrict; Peng Mengyu, youth member of the Northern Bureau of the CPC; and Zhao Peixian, chief of the confidential section of the Eighth Route Army Headquarters.
Major General Tsuda Shouya, commander of the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Fourth Brigade of the Japanese Army garrisoning Taiyuan, ordered: "In order to temper the courage of new recruits on the battlefield, all units should use live people as targets to test the courage of newly recruited recruits from China." Since then, the Japanese army has frequently begun to "test the guts coach". The so-called "test gall coach" is that the Japanese devils tie up the Chinese prisoners of war, remove the tops of the prisoners of war, and expose the chest to show the heart part for the Assassination Training of the Japanese Devils recruits, and the training subject is called "Test Gall Coach".
On July 26, 1942, the Japanese army reviewed the results of the recruit training and the "morale assessment" of the recruits. Lieutenant Koike, director of education for the Taiyuan Engineering Corps, brought up 120 prisoners of war of the Eighth Route Army from the Taiyuan concentration camp, including even 50 female anti-university members. He was sent to a Japanese barracks on the outskirts of Taiyuan to conduct training in the assassination of living people. More than fifty prisoners of war of the Eighth Route Army were brutally killed, and during the japanese army's brutality, Zhao Peixian, chief of the confidential section of the Eighth Route Army headquarters, took advantage of the lack of preparation of the Japanese army, took out the scene of the massacre, found the guerrillas on the Taihang Mountain, and returned to the troops.
After Zhao Peixian returned to the base area, through our party's "Jinsui Daily" and other newspapers, he exposed this inhumane massacre of the Japanese army, and the radio station in the base area also broadcast this appalling news. The Political Department of the Eighth Route Army also held a special mass meeting to mourn the martyrs who died under the bayonets of the Japanese army.
In 1953, the Supreme People's Court of China formed a special military tribunal to conduct a public trial of 1,113 Japanese war criminals in Shenyang and Taiyuan, respectively, and Zhao Peixian testified in court, identifying several Japanese officers who were stationed in Taiyuan and used live assassination training to brutally kill soldiers of our Eighth Route Army.
Only a unit of the 4th Squadron of the 244th Brigade of the 14th Independent Infantry Regiment of the Japanese North China Front, Yoshiichi Sumioka, used Chinese prisoners of war in the Taiyuan concentration camp, mainly prisoners of war of the Eighth Route Army, to carry out live assassinations of "test coaches", and in july and august 1942, they were carried out twice, killing more than 340 prisoners of war of our Eighth Route Army.