When the Japanese soldiers opened one of the carriages, they couldn't help but be stunned. The carriages were piled high with Japanese soldiers' backpacks, miscellaneous bags, amulets, grenadiers, and plenty of photographs of captured Japanese troops.
Higashi Shiro described it this way: "From the photographs of the captives, one can peek into the barbaric and brutal behavior of the enemy; from the faces of the Japanese soldiers in the photographs, shame and anger can be seen." Seeing everything in front of them, the Japanese troops at the scene immediately became angry.
Suddenly, someone shouted, "The Army of China! A train of indochina wounded soldiers! "All the Japanese troops were like electric shocks, loading their bullets and running toward the wounded train.
On May 19, 1938, the Japanese army occupied Xuzhou without bloodshed. The Japanese attacking Xuzhou Railway Station was the 20th Regiment of the 16th Division. At the empty station, the Japanese found a carriage stockpiled with Japanese supplies captured by the Chinese army. But what surprised the Japanese army even more was that there was a special train of wounded soldiers who did not leave, and there were more than 3,000 Chinese wounded soldiers stranded.
In the carriage of this wagon that served as a train for wounded soldiers, it was as miserable as hell on earth. The floor was covered with the inactive and seriously wounded, the wounded were wrapped in blood-soaked gauze, the ragged uniforms were stained with blood, the thick pus and blood on the floor glued the wounded soldiers' clothes together, and dense flies and a strong fishy smell filled the carriage. The wounded soldiers groaned, screamed, and wailed incessantly.
"Kill them!" "Kill these abominable soldiers!" The Japanese troops, who had not yet calmed down from the anger of witnessing the Japanese prisoners' supplies, howled in anger. As a result, the demon unit that killed the largest number of Chinese soldiers and civilians in the Nanjing Massacre, the orcs of the 16th Division rushed into the carriage and brutally stabbed the wounded soldiers who were desperately struggling with wounds and life and death with bayonets, and in a short time, more than 3,000 wounded soldiers died tragically under the bayonets of the Japanese army.
This bloody massacre, which occurred in the late stage of the Battle of Xuzhou, killed more than 3,000 wounded soldiers at one time, and was called the three major atrocities of the Japanese army in China, together with the Nanjing Massacre and the Factory Cellar Massacre. But inexplicably, this angry sin was deliberately downplayed for a long time afterwards, and therefore little known.
The reason for this is not unrelated to the incompetence of the National Government and the serious dereliction of duty of the Fifth Theater. At the end of the Battle of Xuzhou, hundreds of thousands of Nationalist troops successfully broke through the siege, the Nationalist government and Chiang Kai-shek finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the fate of more than 3,000 wounded soldiers was not mentioned, I don't know whether they did not pay attention or did not understand the situation. However, when Lu Han, commander of the 60th Army, withdrew from Xuzhou, he learned that there was still a wounded train stranded, and he also instructed the local police to urge the relevant personnel to drive the train away from Xuzhou as soon as possible. But for unknown reasons, more than 3,000 wounded soldiers were ruthlessly abandoned after all.
The extreme brutality and anti-humanity of the Japanese army are extremely angry and resentful, so it is really intolerable not to eradicate the little devils from the human world. However, the Military Commission of the National Government and the Fifth Theater of Operations could not escape the blame for this tragic incident.
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