After the fall of Shanghai, the Japanese troops attacked Nanjing in three ways. At that time, Nanjing was the capital of the Nationalist government and the mausoleum of sun yat-sen, the father of the country. Therefore, old Chiang was determined to stick to this place and appointed Tang Shengzhi as the commander of the Nanjing garrison, with full responsibility for the defense of Nanjing. At that time, although there were 100,000 nationalist troops in Nanjing, most of them were troops who had fought bloodily with the Japanese army in the Battle of Songhu, the casualties were very large, and the new recruits who were added had not yet undergone systematic training, and their combat effectiveness was very limited.
In order to boost morale, Tang Shengzhi ordered that all the ships be controlled, and no soldier could cross the river without his own orders. At the same time, he also ordered the two ferries docked at Shimonoseki to be withdrawn to Wuhan, and Tang Shengzhi planned to fight the Japanese army in Nanjing with the determination of breaking the ship. On December 1, 1937, the Battle for the Defense of Nanjing began, and the 100,000 Nationalist Troops and the Japanese Kou launched a bloody battle. On the morning of the 12th battle, a unit of the Japanese 6th Division attacked the Zhonghua Gate, and the situation was precarious.
Sun Yuanliang, commander of the 88th Division responsible for defending the Zhonghua Gate, saw that the battle situation was unfavorable and was timid, and even led his troops to flee to Xiaguan without asking for instructions. When Sun Yuanliang ran, a large gap appeared in the entire defense line of the Nationalist army, and soon the entire line collapsed. Tang Shengzhi had no choice but to order a breakthrough. However, due to the confusion of organization and the lack of prior preparation, many troops lost their formation and became chaotic scattered soldiers, so many people were unable to cross the river and were forced to stay in the city.
After the Japanese invaded and occupied Nanjing, they carried out an organized and premeditated massacre in Nanjing and the surrounding areas for 6 weeks, and more than 300,000 unarmed soldiers and civilians were brutally killed. Even more brutal, two lieutenants of the Japanese 16th Division actually launched a killing contest with Toshiaki Izumi and Takeshi Noda, agreeing that whoever killed a hundred people first would win. The Japanese media rushed to report, shamelessly calling the two "heroes of the Imperial Army." After Japan's surrender, the two executioners, stained with the blood of Chinese soldiers and civilians, were tried and executed by firing squad in Nanjing.
In addition to the massacre, the Japanese also committed many bestial acts in Nanjing, and many women were insulted by them, and Lei Guiying was one of them. She was born in 1928 and lives in Tangjia Village, Tangshan Town. When she was 7 years old, her father fell seriously ill, and the family's savings were all spent, and she was unable to cure her father's illness. After the death of his father, Lei Guiying and his mother depended on each other for their lives. Unfortunately, the mother was suddenly snatched away by a gang of bandits while visiting her father's grave on the day of Qingming.
Lei Guiying, who was only 7 years old, became an orphan, and in order to survive, she had to go out to beg for food, and was later taken in by a family in Tangshan Town and became a child bride. At that time, the child bride was similar to a small maid, washing and cooking, carrying water and chopping wood, and doing everything. Although suffering and suffering, the good villain has a place to live. When he was 9 years old, tragedy struck, and the Japanese invaded the town of Tangshan, and the bandits looted everywhere. Two Japanese invade Lei Guiying's house and insult her as she cooks in the hearth. Lei Guiying desperately resisted, and Riko became angry and left two permanent scars on her head with a bayonet.
Later, when Lei Guiying went out to dig wild vegetables, he was insulted by the Japanese Kou four times. More unfortunately, at the age of 13, she was captured by the Japanese army and sent to a comfort station, where she had to be tortured by the Japanese every day, and her body and mind were greatly traumatized. During this period, Lei Guiying tried to escape many times, but was captured by the Japanese army. In order to prevent Lei Guiying from escaping again, Riko stabbed her thigh with a bayonet, and in an instant, blood flowed like blood, and Lei Guiying passed out in pain. Riko only gave Lei Guiying a simple bandage, leaving her right leg with a permanent disability.
One night a year and a half later, Lei Guiying saw the opportunity and successfully escaped while the guards were napping, which was able to escape from the hell on earth. After Japan's surrender, Lei Guiying married a young man, but due to the loss of fertility, she and her husband adopted two children. In the following decades, Lei Guiying kept that painful experience that could not be looked back deep in his heart and never mentioned it to anyone. In his later years, when the elderly Lei Guiying saw that Japan refused to acknowledge the crimes of the Nanjing Massacre and the comfort women, he was very angry in his heart, took the initiative to tell his tragic experience, and gave a resounding slap to the Japanese invaders who tried to cover up this history. In 2007, the elderly Lei Guiying died of illness at the age of 79.