During World War II, when Japan invaded China, the supply of troops was very tight, and there was a serious shortage of domestic labor, so it came up with a way to arrest Chinese and send them to Japan as laborers. During the Japanese invasion of China, they often went into the villages to make sweeps, which not only snatched all the grain, but also arrested some men with labor. The one we are going to talk about today is one of the Chinese who was captured by the Japanese.
His name was Liu Lianren, and when he was arrested, his wife was pregnant and was taken away by the Japanese army before she had time to say goodbye. Along with him were many Chinese, who spent dozens of days on the road and were transported to the Showa Coal Mine of the Meiji Mining Company in Hokkaido. We all know that digging coal is a hard job, and the Japanese treat them badly and don't give them clothes. Often because of a small mistake, the Japanese army will beat up fiercely, and the wounds on the body will not be better.
It was not until July 1945 that Liu Lianren, along with four laborers, knocked down an overseer while resting and escaped. They hid in the mountains to find a raft and wanted to float back to China, but they did not get their wish, and then they were found and scattered in the process of escaping, so Liu Lianren hid in the deep mountains and old forests and began a 13-year cave life. During this period, the only full meal Liu Lianren ate was a meal of baked potatoes.
The place where he lived every day was very small, and he could only sleep half squatting and half sitting, which was very uncomfortable. He was not discovered until 1958, when hunters were hunting. When the person in charge Xi Zhanming found him, he found that he had lost the ability to speak Lian, and later, under careful and good inducement, he learned that his name was Liu Lianren, and he was a high-density laborer in Shandong. On the day of his return, countless people greeted him, and at that moment, he felt the warmth of the motherland.