preface
The Nanjing Massacre is a shame that the Chinese nation can never forget, and the blood that flowed at that time has not been wiped from the hearts of Chinese people until now.
However, in our history, there is another bloody incident in our history that is as cruel as the Nanjing Massacre, which was also committed by the Japanese army. That is
Lushun massacre
！
Lushun Massacre Memorial Hall
The Lushun Massacre occurred during the Sino-Japanese War.
On November 21, 1894, the Japanese occupying forces captured Lushun and carried out a massacre lasting four days and three nights.
It is reported that only 36 people responsible for burying the body survived, only 800 survivors were maimed and not dead, and the death toll was as high as more than 20,000.
From the numbers alone, we have already felt the horrors of the Lushun massacre.
But the real events are far more evil than imagined.
It can even be called one of all the crimes committed by the Japanese army in China
One of the most unconscionable
。
How shocking was the Lushun massacre?
Next, we follow the records of our witnesses and go back to 1894 together to witness this tragic incident that was nailed to the board of shame of the Chinese nation.
I. "Kill when you see Chinese, whether soldiers or civilians"
The following picture, I think everyone has an impression, it appears more than once in our middle school history textbooks.
Real photos of the Lushun Massacre
This is the precious image displayed in the Lushun Massacre Memorial Hall,
It is a true record of the ugly image of the Japanese army that wantonly maimed the local residents after occupying Lushun at that time.
Even after years of precipitation, we can still see through the blurry mottle of black and white photos
The tragic state of the Lushun massacre
However, according to the descriptions of many later survivors,
The Lushun massacre was far more inhumane than the photographs suggest
"After the Japanese came here, they killed Chinese, and they didn't ask whether they were soldiers or civilians, as long as they were living creatures, they would undoubtedly die." They are not human at all, they are jackals, tigers and leopards..."
This is the personal account of a survivor after experiencing the Lushun massacre.
This survivor was one of the 36 people who the Japanese army asked to "stay and bury the body".
And his wife, children, and mother all died under the cold weapons of the Japanese!
"When the Japanese came at night, we all knew there was going to be a war, so no one dared to sleep. Later, we heard the sound of gunshots and cannons disappearing, and it became a series of loud footsteps. ”
Group photo of officers of the Japanese occupation forces
They were all dressed in the same black clothes, and their accents were strange, and no one could understand them, so they guessed that they might all be Japanese soldiers
。 ”
"They were standing in line outside, and there was a man talking, as if on command. Later, they suddenly broke through the door, arrested me, and arrested many more men. They tied a white cloth head to our heads, which had words on it, but we couldn't understand it, and later we learned that the words on the cloth were supposed to remind the Japanese not to kill us.
Because we picked them out to help bury their bodies!
”
Lushun Massacre Burial Team
Speaking of which, we probably learned that the Japanese first arrested some zhuang ding, and let these zhuang ding follow them to help bury the body, where to bury it. In fact, according to later investigations,
The words on the white cloth he mentioned meant "to stay alive and bury the body" in Japanese.
Later, the survivor also mentioned that
Some of them even buried their half-moon-old children with their own hands!
At this point, the listener has already felt a strong shock and hatred.
However, these are just the tip of the iceberg.
The survivors' subsequent descriptions of the various pictures are even more shocking!
"Later, the Japanese went door to door to search, and when they saw people, they killed them, some of them directly cut off their heads, some of them cut off their ears, they went out of their eyes, and they tortured them to death little by little. Children were nailed to the wall with knives, women were raped and then killed, disemboweled, and the entire street of Lushun was covered in blood. They told us to clean up, and in a single village, the dead bodies could be piled up into a hill. ”
The bones of the Lushun massacre are piled up in mountains
Every word strikes the heart, like a picture, showing us the tragic acts of the Japanese army in front of us.
Descriptions like this were published in numerous major newspapers in the international community at that time.
A reporter from a well-known British newspaper wrote:
"I saw a man kneeling in front of the Japanese soldiers, constantly prostrating his head and begging for forgiveness. The Japanese soldiers laughed as they listened, and finally inserted a bayonet into his head with one hand, and then used their swords to put his head in a different place; some people hid in the corner, and the Japanese soldiers threw bombs to blow them alive; and there were old people kneeling in the street, and the Japanese soldiers cut him into two pieces with a knife. ”
For such accusations, the Japanese side has the audacity to say that these are all nonsense!
But history cannot deceive.
As the survivor said, the Lushun massacre was so cruel.
Lushun Massacre Wan Zhong Tomb
According to historical records, the Japanese army killed people regardless of gender and age, and countless babies and elderly people were killed. They gathered the bodies of most of the people killed together for cremation, filled the ashes with three coffins, and buried them in the eastern foothills of Baiyu Mountain, later known as
“
Tomb of Wan zhong
The descriptions of these survivors and witnesses alone are enough to grit one's teeth. Some time after the Lushun massacre, some people recalled the situation at that time.
The scene he described made the people of china even more resentful.
"Overnight, I went from being a student to a murderer"
This sentence came from the Japanese newspaper "Kokumo Shimbun" newspaper, which was a summary of the Lushun massacre by Jiro Ono, the Japanese occupation army at that time.
Yes, he was one of the demons of the Lushun Massacre.
At that time, many Japanese soldiers participated in the killing, and among them, many students who were in middle school were forcibly taken away during the conscription, and since then they have bid farewell to their hometowns and participated in the war.
"Student Soldiers" in the Japanese War
Jiro Ono was one of them, and when he participated in the massacre, he was just a student. However, after the Lushun massacre, he was directly insane, like a changed person.
So, what destroyed his mind?
From his diary, we seem to have found the answer.
According to his recollection, we learned that when Jiro Ono arrived at Lushunkou with the Japanese army, he was a middle school student who had just put on a military uniform. On the night of the invasion of Lushunkou, the Japanese army immediately began to carry out the massacre plan. Jiro Ono, who was still young and did not dare to kill people, was scolded as a coward by his fellow soldiers, which made him feel damaged and humiliated.
So he went crazy and joined the slaughter.
The first person he killed was a fruit shop proprietor. He recorded in his diary the state of mind at the time of the killing:
I closed my eyes and took out my bayonet and stabbed her. A stream of blood burst out and sprayed into my face. But strangely enough, I didn't feel fear, but on the contrary, there was an inexplicable pleasure. So I excitedly pulled out my saber and stabbed her again. After that, I stabbed the woman's body more than a dozen times, probably because it was too exciting, and after killing her, I also fainted. ”
The real scene of the Lushun Massacre
"Inexplicable pleasure"
、
"A dozen more stabs were made on the corpse"
These descriptions are like the psychology of a murderous demon, but they come from the mouth of a teenage child. It is not difficult for us to imagine that every Japanese army at the time of the Massacre should have held such a mentality.
And ono Jiro's diary behind it is even more chilling.
"I woke up with great excitement, and soon I started killing people with my compatriots. At this time, we are like wild beasts, killing people when we see them, unscrupulously. Among the people I killed were old men with white hair and babies who couldn't even speak. I feel happy to see their dying pain. I even shamelessly asked foreign journalists to help take pictures of the killings. ”
"Not only do we kill people, we also rob things." As long as it is something that can be taken away, or something that feels valuable, we will grab it. Although I was young, I also learned to rape women. Within four days, I had raped about seventeen women, the oldest of whom looked like they were fifty or sixty years old, and the youngest of whom was nowhere near my waist. ”
The Lushun massacre depicted by Japanese military reporters
This concludes the journal. Black and white characters record the crimes of the Japanese army in the Lushun Massacre. Jiro Ono, a child who has just entered middle school, under the inhuman experience of killing,
It has completely turned into a murderous demon without blinking, a cold-blooded killing machine, a beast that rapes women!
Later records of the Japanese army, we found information about Jiro Ono.
It turned out that on the last day of the massacre, Ono's unit went to a nearby village for a final search. A pregnant woman in labor, found by Ono and his accomplices, he
Expressionless
With a bayonet, he provoked the pregnant woman's stomach, pulled the fetus out, kicked the fetus's head apart, and stabbed the pregnant woman to death with a knife.
A series of actions flow smoothly, as if completing a certain task
At this moment, he suddenly took the bayonet,
Frantically slash at the accomplices around you
In the midst of the chaos, he was subdued by his accomplices pressed to the ground.
That's it
He was sent back to Japan and spent five years in a psychiatric room at a hospital in Hiroshima
Real images of the Lushun Massacre
Years later, Jiro Ono confessed his guilt and confessed to the actions of himself and his associates.
But
History will not forgive anyone
。 Whatever the trigger, Jiro Ono, like the Japanese troops who participated in the Lushun Massacre, was ultimately an out-and-out murderer.
Even if the blood on the hand is dried, the blood in the heart will be attached to the soul for the rest of the life.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Japanese army at that time was a beast.
Kreemann, a reporter for the American newspaper Le Monde, once commented:
"At that time, the Japanese army, cloaked in the cloak of civilization, was actually a monster with barbaric bones, and even among the beasts, it belonged to a rare other species."
Japan's brutal slaughter of innocent people is certainly a naked crime, both from the perspective of world military law and humanitarianism!
On what grounds did they do this? And for what purpose?
The truth is outrageous!
Third, "In fact, there is no reason, just want to kill people"
In the later Japanese materials on many aspects, there is such a summary of the reasons for the Japanese army to carry out the Lushun Massacre,
It is said that the defeat of Tuchengzi in the First World War was the root cause of the massacre
Japanese officials have said that in the Battle of Tuchengzi, there was an incident in which Qing soldiers insulted the corpses of japanese troops. It is said that eleven Japanese officials, including Lieutenant Zhongwandeji, were killed in the Battle of Tuchengzi. Postwar
The Qing soldiers carried out acts such as nose cutting, eye gouging and abdomen dissection of the dead of the Japanese army
, causing the anger of the whole army. And then after marching into Lushun,
The head of Lieutenant Zhongwande was discovered
This heightened the army's sense of hatred, and a large-scale vendetta was carried out.
Senior officer of the Japanese army
However, in Japan's statement of this matter, it seems to be reasonable and well-founded, but it is actually nonsense. First of all, "owl head" is a custom inherited from ancient warfare, and it was not completely abolished by the end of the Qing Dynasty. However, the historical records of the Qing army clearly record that the soldiers of the Arch Guard Army disregarded military regulations and cut off 11 heads, including Lieutenant Zhongwandeci, and immediately brought them back to the troops for burial.
Therefore, it is impossible for the first rank of Lieutenant Zhongwande to appear in Lushun.
In addition, since the Japanese army has been repelled by the Qing army, who saw the "nose cutting, eye gouging and abdomen cutting" mentioned by the Japanese army? From this,
The official statement of the Japanese army is obviously empty and self-defeating
It can be seen that the Japanese official catches the wind and shadows and creates the so-called "
a humiliation case
”，
It must be to confuse the public opinion, arouse public opinion in the world, and then cover up the various crimes committed in Lushun!
Yamajiji
Many years later, the general Yamaji Motoharu, who was directly commanding the Japanese army to launch the slaughter operation in Lushun,
The cause of the Lushun massacre was made public.
He said:
"The order received at that time was to eliminate all soldiers and civilians. There was no mention of any other groups in the directive, and although it was cruel, I did as I was told. The superiors did not give any reason, but actually wanted to kill people, in order to boost the morale of the army. ”
"There's no reason, it's just that you want to kill people and boost morale."
This is the cause of the Lushun massacre!
One instruction, one sentence "boost morale", washed the whole city in blood, and buried the lives of tens of thousands of people in Lushun! The despicable behavior of the Japanese army is simply heinous! This humiliating history will forever be remembered in the hearts of the Chinese people.
However, we also have to face the bloody reality.
At that time, the Beiyang Army Division stationed in Lushun was the strongest unit in the Qing army. In the face of the Japanese army's pressure, they did not choose to fight hard, but fled in a hurry.
The huge Beiyang Military Factory and tens of thousands of people were left behind, so that they fell into the mouth of the "Jackal, Wolf, Tiger and Leopard", which prompted the massacre of the Japanese army.
Advanced artillery of the Beiyang Army Division
According to the research of later domestic scholars, at that time, the invasion of the Japanese army belonged to the landing war, which was very favorable to our side. Moreover, the Beiyang Army at that time was very advanced. If the Qing army stationed in Lushun dares to fight the enemy to the end,
It is very likely to prevent the implementation of the Massacre of lushun by the Japanese army, and it is even possible to defeat the Japanese army and expel them back to the sea, without even having the opportunity to capture Lushun
Such results also tell us:
Weakness in exchange must be the wanton behavior of the enemy.
Fourth, remember history and forge ahead
Fifty years after the Lushun massacre, the Chinese nation is still there
Victory over Japan in World War II
, drove all the Japanese troops out of China's territory!
Japan signed its surrender during World War II
Behind the great happiness of the people is the determination of all the Chinese people to defend the country, to be ashamed of the snow and not to fear the strong enemy, and to fight to the death, and it is the burst of national cohesion that makes the enemy defeated!
Today, China has long since become a world-class power.
Perhaps, in the spirit of humanitarianism, we did not fight back in the same way that Japan once treated us.
But history is meant to remember and reflect.
We have no right to forget the shame of those who died under the atrocities of Japan.
Monument to the People's Heroes
Therefore, we should remember the history of shame and forge ahead,
Let the motherland become stronger with everyone's efforts
。 In this way,
A perfect answer to all those who died in the war