Just as the so-called oppression, where there is resistance, the history of humiliation and resistance of the Chinese people is the main theme of modern times, because the Qing Dynasty's long-term isolation of the country has led to our country gradually falling behind on the world stage, the entire modern era has no dignity to speak of, and the Chinese nation is in deep trouble.
Since 1840, the continuous wars of aggression and unequal treaties have continuously accumulated anger in the hearts of the broad masses of the people, and the continuous compromise of the Qing government has finally aroused strong resistance, and the Xinhai Revolution directly overthrew the feudal imperial system of more than two thousand years, which shows that the Chinese people are not soft in the face of oppression.
But in the later war, Japan committed a heinous crime in Nanjing, so why didn't the captured soldiers resist? It wasn't until forty years later that a veteran told why.
Japan's heinous sins against China
Aggression may be a bad habit inherited from ancient times in Japan, this kind of bullying behavior is like engraved in their bones, the ancient Tang Dynasty flourished for a while, they carried out the so-called humble learning, after learning to bite you back.
In modern times, after the completion of the Meiji Restoration, he took the lead in embarking on the capitalist road and began to invade other countries continuously, and there was no way how his own small land of bullets could satisfy his ambitions.
Although China was weak and the government was incompetent, the angry benevolent men and patriotic generals all rose up in the face of aggression, and in the case of failure, they sacrificed their lives to repay the country.
Aggression is constant, resistance is not stopped. Beginning on July 7, 1937, the contradictions between China and Japan can be said to have risen to the peak, following the fall of the three northeastern provinces, the Lugou Bridge Incident broke out, after the blood stained the Lugou Bridge, Chiang Kai-shek organized a counterattack campaign in Shanghai, a total of more than 1 million troops on both sides into the battle, although the final casualties were heavy, but it dealt a fierce blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army.
The Battle of Songhu made the Japanese army's plan to destroy China in three months fail, and the Japanese imperialists, who were embarrassed and angry, extended their claws to Nanjing, and launched an attack in three ways, Nanjing, as the capital of the Then Ming government, of course, would not give up lightly, and the slogans were loud, the so-called coexistence and death with Nanjing, but Nanjing eventually fell.
The so-called defense of the capital lasted only thirteen days, and it is ridiculous that the Nationalist government, knowing that the war was inevitable, still pinned its hopes on foreign powers, eager to delay the time through German mediation and gain time for preparation, but there was no doubt that all this was in vain On December 13, the Japanese army captured Nanjing.
Beastly atrocities
For some time after the fall of Nanking, the Japanese army turned Nanjing into a hell on earth, and in order to boost morale, the Japanese army carried out a terrible and crazy massacre of Nanjing and its surrounding areas, and within six weeks, it carried out an organized, planned, and premeditated brutal massacre.
The cruelty of the means is unheard of, shooting, knifeing, burial alive, burning, and a series of cruel methods have carried out a cruel massacre that violates the basic principles of mankind against the residents of Nanjing, the soldiers and prisoners who have not been able to evacuate, and the bestiality of Japanese militarism has been exposed.
There was even a terrible killing contest in China, with the competition of who killed 100 Chinese first, and even shamelessly appeared in the military newspaper.
In just six weeks, there were 28 collective massacres, more than 190,000 victims, more than 850 scattered massacres, and about 150,000 victims, totaling more than 300,000 people. Foreign journalists also reported on the tragedy.
Why not resist
Some people say that in the face of such a brutal massacre by the Japanese army, the residents of the city always die, so why not rise up to resist? Mr. Lu Xun once said: Since ancient times, we have had people who have buried their heads in hard work, people who have worked hard with all their might, and people who have asked for the people's lives. We should know that Chinese people absolutely have to resist in the face of such cruel acts of the Japanese army.
But it is tantamount to a cup of water, first of all, the civilians in the city, the Japanese army's indiscriminate slaughter will not be merciful to your men because you are civilians, civilians are not without resistance, but resistance does not play much role, in the face of soldiers, unarmed people can be said to be unbound chicken power.
Among the people, in addition to the young and middle-aged, there are a large number of women, children and the elderly, so even if there is a thought of resistance, it may be shocked by the brutal massacre of the Japanese army, after all, others have guns, and the resistance of civilians is tantamount to giving up their lives in vain.
Of course, some people said that in addition to the residents who were stranded in the city at that time, there were also soldiers who laid down their weapons, and why didn't they attack the prisoners in the face of the Japanese army's treatment of the prisoners in this way, and break a fish dead net? 40 years later, a veteran of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression explained why.
First of all, their atrocities, as backbone soldiers, must be resisted, but although they are all soldiers, there is also a gap between them; first of all, as soldiers who were stranded in Nanjing after the defensive war, they have lost their original complete structure, and they are completely incomparable with the complete and well-trained Japanese soldiers.
Generally speaking, before the outbreak of the all-out War of Resistance, the two parties in our country were in a state of confrontation; due to the weakness of the Red Army's own strength, the Kuomintang mainly relied on the suppression of equipment and troop strength, and the physical quality and combat ability of individual soldiers were far inferior to those of the Japanese side.
In addition, judging from the non-resistance policy of the three eastern provinces, most of the combat units of the nationalist army basically lack confidence, so after the fall of Nanjing, the Chinese soldiers who chose to lay down their weapons were subconsciously afraid, so the resistance without self-confidence was tantamount to sacrificing in vain.
Finally, the cunning of the Japanese army itself, according to the veteran's recollection, Nanjing in December was cold, as prisoners they did not have any cold clothes at all, and felt that it was better to let go than to be frozen to death, and maybe they could win a glimmer of life.
So they joined forces to solve the soldier who was guarding them and fled en masse, but the cunning Japanese knew that they would behave in this way, and had already set a deep ditch trap on the periphery, and exhausted, they were captured shortly after fleeing.
After the capture, in order to prevent the escape from happening again, the Japanese army took them to the open field en masse and carried out a brutal collective massacre, only this veteran survived, and every time he recalled it, he was helpless, he said that he did not want to resist, but the environment and physical conditions at that time were useless even if they resisted.
The unyielding Chinese eventually won the war, but this unforgettable event we will never forget.