The 14-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was only a moment in the long river of history, but it was the memory of the homeland that every Chinese son and daughter has engraved in their hearts, and they cannot forget it or dare to forget it.
Although the smoke of war is long gone, history still has an echo. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the reporter re-read the "Rivers and Mountains Cannot Be Trampled - Records of the Years of the Nanyang War of Resistance" edited and published by the Party History Research Office of the Nanyang Municipal Party Committee in 2011, and many detailed historical materials and more than 500,000 words of written records truly showed the arduous history of the Nanyang Military and people's War of Resistance. In the blurry black-and-white old photographs, we are led into the wartime Nanyang, which is soaked with blood and fire; more than 80 indictments of survivors and witnesses of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression are full of blood and tears, allowing us to witness the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army invading China...
The tragic situation after the Beizhai Street at Xixiakou was burned by the Japanese army (Courtesy of the Party History Research Office of the Municipal Party Committee)
"No matter how far we go, we must not forget the way we came". Let us remember history, never forget the national shame, cherish peace and create the future.
Rescue of "living materials"
The publication of this book is the result of the joint efforts of the staff of the city's party history department for many years. Some of the testimonies of witnesses and survivors of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression collected in the 1980s were collected by the old comrades of the Party History Research Office at that time who went from village to village and visited the field. It can be said that they have done a lot of hard work. Talking about the book "Rivers and Mountains Cannot Be Trampled -- Records of the Years of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in Nanyang", Wu Xiaoqing, the responsible editor of the book and a retired member of the Party History Research Office of the Nanyang Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, said that as a party history worker, she was very pleased to be able to make a little effort to remember and inherit the tragic and brilliant history of this period.
With the old comrades, survivors and insiders of the War of Resistance Passing Away in old age, it is urgent to rescue "living materials". In the 1980s, the city's party history workers carried out the collection of "living materials" in the minds of war witnesses, mainly in view of the process of the anti-Japanese war and the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in the local area, listening to the stories of old comrades, combat witnesses or local people's witnesses in various places, and recording their individual memories such as what they saw, experienced, and heard in the form of words, sounds, and videos, so as to make history more comprehensive, true and concrete.
In May 2005, the Party History Research Office of the Nanyang Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, in line with the attitude of being responsible for the party, the nation, the people and history, in accordance with the standard requirements of "basic engineering, warning project, high-quality project, and inheritance project", began to investigate the topic of population casualties and property losses in Nanyang during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and successively visited more than 300 survivors and insiders of the tragic case of that year, and went to the Second Historical Archive of China in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, the Henan Provincial Archives and related places, city (county, district) archives, libraries, Fang Zhiguan and others consulted more than 2,000 volumes of archives in the early days of the Republic of China and the founding of New China, consulted more than 100 kinds of books, newspapers and periodicals such as literature and history, Fang Zhi, etc., and obtained more than 20 interview records and memoirs.
Since 2009, the Party History Research Office of the Nanyang Municipal Party Committee of the Communist Party of China has extensively collected various materials such as characters, stories, pictures, memoirs, and commemorative articles from the Nanyang Anti-Japanese War through various channels and forms, and has conscientiously sorted out and revised them, and finally published them into books.
The crimes of the Japanese army are too numerous to count
"Once called a province with a rich population, it is now the place with the largest number of victims. The peak cultural relics are already passing through the clouds, looking at the whole territory, only to see the desolate vines. ”
Father and son joined the army together (Courtesy of the Party History Research Office of the Municipal Party Committee)
From 1939, when the Japanese invading army stepped into the Central Plains, to August 1945, when the Chinese people won the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army repeatedly raided and invaded Nanyang, bringing unprecedented disasters to the people of Nanyang. The industrious, kind, and innocent people of Nanyang, whose homes were destroyed, their compatriots killed, their sisters humiliated, their property plundered, and the crimes committed by the Japanese army in Nanyang, were innumerable and difficult to count, constituting a mountain of ironclad evidence of Japanese imperialism's invasion of China and humiliation of China.
A letter of complaint in the blood and tears of the witnesses
The history of the Japanese invaders' aggression in Nanyang is a history of the bloody and tearful suffering of the people of Nanyang. Frenzied bombings, criminal arson, barbaric plunder, brutal sweeps, horrific massacres... During the six years of the Japanese invasion of Nanyang, the Japanese army committed one crime after another, causing a tragic scene, which could not be said endlessly, and the road could not be finished, and it is still full of indignation and anger when mentioned to this day.
Testimony accusing Japanese atrocities (partial)
ShimenGuan Potou massacre
On August 7, 1983, Hu Shiqiang, a villager in Xiaoquangou Township, Maotang Township, Huaichuan County, testified
On June 19, 1945, three japanese companies and some Japanese puppet troops of about 10,000 people set off from the old city of Huaichuan in three ways to go north, preparing to meet Maotang Street. One of them took the Yangtian, turned over Lei Fengyao, and when he reached the Maotang Shimen Temple, he encountered a certain company of xiao Hongyun's department of the Huaichuan Militia Regiment, and the Japanese army surrounded the company by virtue of its advantages. The company rose up to resist, and except for more than 30 people killed and 25 captured, the rest scattered to break through. After brutally torturing the captives, the distraught Japanese Kou were all taken to Shimen Guanpotou for execution, one seriously injured but not dead, and the remaining 24 were all hacked to death. (The undead were named Yu Jingui, a native of Xiju, who died of illness in the 1970s)
Shi Zhuang tragic witness record
In August 1985, Shi Juchang, a villager in Shizhuang Village, Chaopi Township, Zhenping County, told the story
On March 12, 1945, more than 100 Japanese troops surrounded Shizhuang Village in Chaopi Township, Zhenping County, shooting and killing Yang Linwang, Shi Youli, Zhang Erwa, Sun Lanfu and others. I personally saw the Japanese army stab Shi Jingzhi fifty or sixty times from the head to the leg, becoming a bloody man, and killing Guo Guangcai's son Yufu. I slipped under the mill by the door and slipped out. At about 11 a.m., the Japanese devils began to set fires to the people who had been imprisoned, including my father and uncle. Villager Guo Xiudao struggled to climb out of the doorway, and two Japanese devils used bayonets to pick him up on the fire at the door and burn him to death. It wasn't until after 3 p.m., after the Japanese devils left Shizhuang, that people began to cry and carry water to extinguish the fire. This time, the Japanese army killed and burned 36 villagers in Lizhuang and burned 42 houses, known as the "Shizhuang Massacre".
The Japanese committed numerous atrocities
In May 2006, Duo Zhangwen, a villager in Moyuwan Village, Dashiqiao Township, Huaichuan County, testified
On February 18, 1945, the Japanese army entered our village and committed the following crimes: He Jialing and He Mingzhu were killed as live targets; Quan Bao, Duo Zuowu, and Duo Chao were robbed of grain and starved to death; Zhang Jingchang's mother and sister were robbed and insulted by the Japanese army for more than a month; Duo Jianxun's fiancée was stripped naked and killed by the Japanese army; more than 100,000 trees were cut down in the whole village for construction and runways; more than 500 houses were bombed by aircraft, and all the floor slabs were demolished.
Blood feuds cannot be forgotten
On November 30, 2007, Qi Qunyou, a villager in Qi Garden Village, Shanggang Township, Xinye County, testified
In 1945, when the Japanese army swept up, my father Qi Shunqing hid in a cemetery, and when he looked out from the grave, he was killed by the Japanese army; my father-in-law Qi Qiuxi, who was captured by the Japanese army in 1945 and went to the small five villages in the same village to pick up the land, was stabbed by the Japanese army with a bayonet and did not die, and was pushed into the pit to be buried alive.
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All-media reporter / Yu Xiaoxia
Editor / Li Jingyang
Preliminary Trial / Huang Xing Yang Dongmei
Final Judgment / Wang Xiaohe