During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the villagers were not alone, they were afraid of the Japanese devils coming to sweep up, and even the livestock were very afraid. As soon as the ghost gun that came to sweep up sounded, the pigs and sheep were busy running outside the circle, and the cattle were lying in the wheat field, silent, very quiet. When the villagers buy donkeys, they must first ask whether the donkey will jump the ditch, and if it will not jump the ditch, it will have to be sold at a reduced price, and the Japanese army will sweep up the real situation. Who would have thought that the Japanese would tie live cattle to two wagons and burn them?
Beginning on May 1, 1942, Okamura Ningji led 50,000 Japanese troops to press into the anti-Japanese base area in Central Hebei and carried out a dragnet sweep, almost the villages and villages were not left behind, and the enemy aimed to eliminate the anti-Japanese armed forces in Central Hebei. Jizhong was occupied by the Japanese army, and the people were slaughtered.
So, what exactly is the enemy's "drag-net sweep"? How do the military and civilians in the base areas avoid the enemy's cruelty?
An old man in Jizhong, after more than 60 years, recalled his childhood, when ordinary people fled the Japanese army to sweep, when he was only eleven or twelve years old.
Li: My name is Li Qihuang, and my hometown is in Daguanting Village, Raoyang County, Jizhong Province. In the north of Raoyang County, not far from Suning, is a large village. The Party, government, and military organs of the Jizhong Military Region, the Bureau, the District Party Committee, and the Sub-district Party, Government, and Military Organs, which often lived in our area, also visited later, and it is the heart of the heart of the Jizhong Hinterland.
Q: That's the center of the Japanese "May Day Sweep."
Lee: No. In the year of the "May Day Sweep", I was only ten or two years old, I was in high school, and I was a member of the children's group. Like to sing, come to work comrades, always with others to print songs. Book it yourself, two big Ben as a baby. Before the "May Day" and "sweeping", people lent it away, always thinking about how to not pay me back. Whoever will have more anti-Japanese songs will be popular and who will progress. Go to school to learn new songs, string relatives to learn new songs, and ask you what songs you will have when you meet.
That would "sweep" is a regular occurrence. The Tuotuo River hit our county, raoyang county is in Henan, and there are ghosts in the county seat. Our village is in Hebei, about fifteen or sixteen miles from the river embankment. The south of the village is a depression, the largest depression in the county, about fifteen or sixteen miles long from north to south, and more than thirty miles from east to west. In the depression, there are crops from various villages, some towering poplars, sparse elm trees, and tsubaki trees.
Q: Are there many trees? I heard that after the water was released in 1939, the families completely lit up the trees in order to benefit the house.
Li: Probably cut down some trees, I don't remember exactly. At the beginning of the "May Day" and "sweeping", the villagers took sorghum cakes every night, brought some water, carried quilts, and spent the night in the depression. It was a real sin, in the wilderness, at night when it was cold, and the mother took the child in her arms. When it rains, they drape the quilt, and everyone is one head of soil and one head of water. My dad was still holding the cow, which was the family's baby.
When dawn comes, I still have to do farm work in the field, and I can't help but work. The land of our house is in the middle of the depression. I don't remember the day of May, it was about mid-May. Because the wheat at that time could already be blown and eaten. I remember that I still slept in the depression that day, and when dawn was about to dawn, I waited for the family to deliver food, and the old man could not come.
That morning it was strangely quiet, so quiet that it hurt people, and people felt that something was going to happen. We all looked to the north, and the shadow saw a team coming out of the west of the village. At that time, my eyes were still very good, but I couldn't tell whether the Eighth Route Army or the Japanese were japanese. The Japanese either wore steel helmets or pointed combat hats, and the hats of the Eighth Route Army were square, as can be judged from the hats. But I can't see it clearly.
Then he saw dust behind him, and it was the cavalry who came. The front line suddenly dispersed, and the sound of gunfire was also "grunting" and "grunting". At this point, we all understood that the team in front of us must be our Eighth Route Army, and the Japanese on horseback in the back.
Only to see the Japanese cavalry coming from both sides in a lone shape, the people also ran towards the depression like water that had broken the embankment.
The depression called out to father and mother, and it was a mess. My dry father and brother saw that the Japanese were not good at this situation today, and said let's run. Many people ran to the other side of the river and felt that it was safe to cross the river.
But the situation on the other side is not clear, not safe. My brother said that he would first go up the river embankment, go up the river embankment, and decide not to cross the river according to the situation. Even if it is not a river, the embankment can also block bullets.
On the embankment, from high to low, the depression was full of people running, the Japanese cavalry was still running along the arc, and the northern infantry also appeared, lined up in a line, pressing from north to south.
There was a farmer with a shovel in his right hand, and the Japanese looked at him from a distance, probably thinking he was holding a gun, and the bullets were rattling down beside him. The peasant woke up to this, threw away the shovel, and ran without a life.
My father, my brother, and I, still holding the cattle, ran fast, ran to the embankment, walked east along the embankment, did not cross the river, and finally jumped out of the encirclement of the Japanese.
In the distance, I saw that the Japanese army was converging, and the infantry was also pressed against the embankment, and many civilians did not run out and were surrounded inside.
Q: How can this man run over a horse? Besides, how can this woman and child run?
Li: There are people running on their backs, running between them, you didn't see, whether it was adults, children, men, women, running so fast...
So unconsciously ran for most of the day, the sun pressed the treetops. At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, I don't know how the Japanese will toss and turn, where to go next?
My brother was bold and knowledgeable, and said that it was safer for the Japanese to pass through the place where they had just pulled the net, so a few of us folded back. At this time, the sky was already dark, running for a day, turning around in circles for dozens of miles, not eating a mouthful of food, not drinking a mouthful of water. When I got to the ground, there was nowhere to drink. It seemed to rain a little that day, so I drank a few sips of rainwater from the hollows on the ground. The bread was dry and could not be swallowed, so he pinched some wheat and blew it and ate it.
I heard that the Japanese were still making trouble in the southern village, and I didn't know what was going on at home? I don't know what kind of mood it was.
Q: Listening to the old man in Jizhong, in early May, the wheat grains were still being filled and could not be eaten. They crawled in the wheat ridge and could only pluck some vinegar willows and green cabbage to eat.
Lee: We've all eaten this.
Q: Are there dead people in the depression?
Li: The depression is full of dead animals, thrown away bags, broken water cans and so on, but there are no dead people, but there are no living people. The night was quiet again. We were all lying in the wheat field, and the cattle were lying in the wheat field, and the wheat was two feet high at that time, and the cattle were lying inside, and the Japanese could not see it. The cow was also honest and obedient. It is strange to say that chickens and cows have made a lot of noise in the early days, and this will be silent.
Question: I heard the old people in Ji say that the sexual mouths of the meeting are all spiritual, and as soon as the Japanese guns are fired, pigs and sheep are all anxious to run out of the circle. Buy a donkey first have to ask if they will jump the ditch, will not jump the ditch, the price has to be reduced. The cattle of the society were also sinned, pigs and sheep, and when the Japanese saw it, they cut off a leg, even dug up a piece of meat, and died of pain. When the devil saw the cattle, he erected two large carts, tied the cattle in the middle, and burned the cattle alive.
Lee: That's right. That day the cow was honest, and maybe it was afraid of falling into the hands of the Japanese. After spending the night in the depression, the Japanese came out of the village early the next morning and headed north to their stronghold. Many of the ordinary people who are in custody are young daughters-in-law and young adults, and the old and the young are not. The Japanese want young adults and livestock, food. We lay in the wheat field and could only watch from a distance as the Japanese escorted the people away.
Now that I think about it, the Japanese gathered around that day to try to catch our team, but they didn't. For some reason, the Japanese in the southern county did not come out. Otherwise, even fewer people can run out at a single stop on the embankment, killing as many people as you want.
In fact, the Japanese did not have many troops, even the horse team with infantry, but also a squadron, plus some puppet troops. If you hit him hard, you would never dare to make such a fuss.
Record the big history and don't forget the history.
Reference: "Documentary of the Devil's May Day Sweep into the Village". Welcome friends to leave a message forwarding, pay attention to support.