History will be dusted, but it will not be covered up, and it will not be distorted, and veterans will restore those real crimes for you.
In the first two days, the veterans recalled the story of the people of Gaoyou in Jiangsu Province who resisted the Japanese Kou during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. But Gaoyoucheng still could not escape the fate of the fall.
The following veterans will share a flight experience of the local people Zhang Shenmin when Gaoyoucheng fell.
On October 8, 1939, Zhang Shenmin, a Gaoyou resident who had taken refuge in the countryside, quietly sneaked home, and although Gaoyou City was very dangerous at that time, he thought that it would not be so coincidental, and as soon as he returned home, he encountered the Japanese Kou, so he stayed at home for one night. Whoever wanted to sleep without waking up, Nichiko's plane came, and he was first awakened by the sound of gunfire in the south, and then heard the roar of the plane. Zhang Shenmin and his brother-in-law Li Heng hurried out of the house and ran northeast, and if they wanted to leave the city, they would be fine.
However, Zhang Shenmin and they ran to the vicinity of the wheat flour factory, and the Japanese plane caught up with them, at which time the Japanese plane did not drop bombs, but strafed with machine guns against the ground. The Japanese planes were condescending, and the fleeing people had nowhere to hide and were knocked down. Hundreds of bodies of victims were already lying on the side of the road, some still bleeding, all of whom were killed by Japanese aircraft strafing when they fled to escape. Zhang Shenmin and his brother-in-law were still clever, and quickly ran into a grass hut next to the road, escaping the sight of the Japanese pilots, and finally saved their lives temporarily.
It was around 8 a.m. The Japanese plane was still circling overhead, when suddenly someone knocked on the door, saying that the Japanese Navy had arrived at the door and asked Zhang Shenmin to open the door and go out. In desperation, they could only open the door and go out, only to see that the field outside the door was already full of ordinary people who had fled like them. There were also several Japanese machine guns around.
Under the threat of rikou, Zhang Shenmin sat down in the crowd. At this time, the Japanese troops on the ground began to fly small flags, waving flags at the aircraft in the air, and the aircraft hovering in the air dispersed.
Zhang Shenmin saw a Japanese officer with a saber and a short gun coming out, he called out to a rickshaw driver, the rickshaw driver walked over, to the front of the Japanese Kou, the Japanese Kou asked him to turn, as soon as he turned around, he was shot in the back of the head, and the rickshaw driver instantly fell in a pool of blood. This was the first time Zhang Shenmin had seen the Japanese Kou kill people. Scared out of the atmosphere.
At this time, the Japanese officer who killed the man shouted out Zhang Shenmin's brother again, and then the Japanese Kou called out to him, and the Japanese army saw that they were both young people and wearing new cloth robes, so they said that they were "Zhi Na soldiers", although the two repeatedly explained that they were only people doing business, but the devils still did not believe it. At this time, thanks to an old man who came out and said a few words of Japanese to the Japanese officers, the devils believed it and stopped killing them.
Zhang Shenmin remembered the old man's name, his name was Wu Erzun.
However, Rikou did not kill them for the time being, but did not let them go, and when it was close to noon, the people at the scene were all released home, but the two of them were left in the wheat flour factory to clean up, in order to save their lives, Zhang Shenmin could only listen to Rikou's orders and work hard. Fortunately, at this time, another old man secretly called them over, telling them that they should find a way to leave the wheat flour factory quickly, and pointed out that they had deceived the Japanese and said that they would go to the street to help them buy wine and drink, and the Japanese sentry would definitely agree.
In this way, Zhang Shenmin and his brother-in-law escaped from the Rikou Demon Cave and saved their lives.
Decades after the war, Zhang Shenmin often remembered the life-saving grace of the two old men on that day.