During World War II, the Japanese army did nothing on Chinese soil and committed many crimes. He even committed a terrible crime in Nanjing! However, after the war, the Japanese devils tried to distort the facts and refused to admit the heinous crimes they had committed.
The survivors of the Nanjing Massacre are living witnesses of history, and they personally exposed the vicious and vicious faces of the Japanese right-wingers in court, exposed their crimes one by one, and put the historical crimes they committed in front of justice!
There was a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, unlike the average survivor. She was a 7-month-pregnant mother who was unarmed and dared to fight three Japanese soldiers, surviving with 37 knives! She was a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre by the Japanese invasion of China, Li Xiuying.
Old Man Li Xiuying
Li Xiuying was born in Nanjing on February 24, 1919. His father, Li Songshan, was a native of Lijiazhuang, Juncheng County, Shandong Province. Because his family was too poor to survive, Li Songshan went to Tianjin as a soldier when he was young. Later, he was transferred to Nanjing and worked as an inspector at the Kuomintang Inspection Office in Hanzhong Gate. Li Songshan had never read a book, but he knew martial arts and was good at boxing. When Li Xiuying was a child, she saw her father boxing and practicing, and she also learned some fur.
Her mother, Li Tang, lived in Nanjing's Qingliangshan Dazhu Garden, and her father and mother married in Nanjing. When her mother gave birth to the youngest brother, Li Xiuying was only thirteen years old and the eldest, so she helped her father shoulder the burden of raising her brother and sister.
In October 1936, 17-year-old Li Xiuying was introduced to Lu Haoran by his father's friends. Lu Haoran, born in October 1911 in Erdao Street, Dongmen, Tianjin, came to Nanjing with friends at the age of 16 to apprentice and study, and after graduation, he was assigned to the Shanghai Chuansha County Government as a radio technician.
Li Xiuying's father made a special request that when she got married, she would take her brother with her to the Lu family.
In March 1937, Li Xiuying, who had reached the age of 18, took her younger brother Li Zhensheng to Chuansha County, Shanghai, to marry Lu Haoran.
After the Lugou Bridge Incident on July 7, Japanese soldiers attacked Shanghai on August 13, and the Songhu War broke out, and Chuansha County was no longer safe.
When they were newly married and on their honeymoon, the planes of the Japanese soldiers bombed the Shanghai area every day, and there was a Japanese aircraft carrier fifteen miles away from their place of residence, Chuansha County, and the planes that bombed the Shanghai area all came up from this aircraft carrier. When our army saw that the plane was flying low, it hit it, and this time it was impossible to do so, and the Japanese plane dropped bombs and strafed them with machine guns, and hit them fiercely. Chuansha County is not far from Shanghai, which is also the target of Japanese bombing, so Lu Haoran arranged for her and her brother to hide in the countryside, but the countryside is not safe, Lu Haoran asked a colleague to take them all the way back to Nanjing by train.
It was late August, the sun was sweating profusely, and she took her brother to bid farewell to her husband and sailed from the Waterway across the Huangpu River to Shanghai Nanshi, where a colleague who was working on a steamship in Shanghai helped them find a hotel.
Fortunately, the boat did not catch on August 28, and it was crossed by civilian boat on the night of August 29, because crossing the Huangpu River to Nanshi had to pass through the fork of the South Railway Station. On the 28th, Japanese planes bombed indiscriminately at the South Railway Station and Nanshi, and according to the news published in the newspapers, about 200 refugees were killed by Japanese planes, making the South Railway Station and Nanshi City a ruin.
They went to Nanshi on the evening of the 29th, only to see that it was blown up by Japanese planes one by one, and their colleagues took them to the vicinity of the West Railway Station to see, and the cars transporting the wounded on the road drove forward one by one, and dozens of cars drove in one after another. These wounded are so miserable! Shouting, shouting, some of them are still bleeding on their bodies, faces, and heads.
She and her brother found a hotel in Nanshi to stay, and wanted to stay for a few days, but when they saw the Japanese plane blowing up badly, she thought that Shanghai could not wait for a long time, so she quickly took the train to Nanjing. However, refugees want to leave Shanghai, and train tickets are really hard to buy! It took three days to get a ticket.
At two o'clock that afternoon, they went to the West Railway Station to wait for the train, but waited until it was almost 5 o'clock before the train came. Most of the refugees who get on the train go to the northern Jiangsu area of Jiangsu Province. As soon as the train came, everyone hugged up together, people crowded up, and things couldn't be squeezed up.
They had to jump down the toilet window hole on the train, pick up their luggage on the platform and run around the train, when they heard the delivery man in the red hat tell that there was a freight car behind it that was empty and could take passengers. So, the freighter helped them get their luggage to the truck, and finally squeezed into the car.
Who knows when you get on the car, there is no bench in the truck box, it is a flatbed, and people are crowded, and there is no place to stand. With all their might, they squeezed into a small open space with barbed wire at the entrance of the cave in the workshop, held the barbed wire with their hands, and stood with each other's bodies resting. Who knew that just five minutes after driving, the lights in the workshop were turned off, the carriage was all dark, some people said it was not good, the Japanese planes came to bomb again, no one dared to move, obediently stood, and after the machine gun fire of the Japanese planes was fired, the train "sounded" and started again. In this way, all the way to the road, stop, drive, all the way to hide from the Japanese plane, the train to Matsue it was dark.
Before the train arrived at Matsue Station, the Matsue Bridge over there was damaged by a Japanese plane, and workers were rushing to repair it. Li Xiuying followed her brother, carrying a package and a box to the Songjiang Bridge in the dark of night, when she was nineteen years old and pregnant for several months, and her brother was fourteen years old. When crossing the bridge, one person pulls and one person supports, walking in the dark on a sleeper made of wooden planks between the two rails, and if you are not careful, you will fall into the water.
When it was difficult to reach the end of the bridge, someone had to help to hook the foot pad and step on the board. As soon as I crossed the bridge, the train came, so I hurriedly squeezed into the train. The next morning they arrived in Jiaxing, at more than 8 o'clock in the morning to Suzhou, along the road there are constantly refugees on the bus, all fleeing in the direction of Nanjing, in the car is really crowded even breathless.
In the evening of the same day, when they arrived in Nanjing, they met their father at the place where they used to live at No. 30 Zhujiang Road, and she and her brother were so happy that they really couldn't say anything. Although coming out of Shanghai, the Japanese planes bombed all the way, and finally saved his life and came back alive to see his old father, who was so happy that he almost shed tears.
Originally, I thought that back in Nanjing, the capital of the Kuomintang Central Committee at that time, the Japanese soldiers would not be able to fight in! Who knows, the Japanese soldiers laid siege to Shanghai and hit all the way along the Beijing-Shanghai Railway to the outskirts of Nanjing.
At that time, the Kuomintang troops were prepared to hold on to the road, so the Japanese devils were also like fighting Shanghai, bombing with planes every day, and people hid from planes and drilled air raid shelters every day. It was a sad day! Sometimes just cooked rice, the dish has not been fried in the pot, a group of planes suddenly flew in, can not care about the rice and vegetables in the pot, hurriedly pulled out their feet to escape, drilled into the house next to the self-dug pit. Before the Japanese soldiers entered Nanjing, the rich people fled, Li Xiuying's family had no money, they could only stay in Nanjing, and there was an old father, she was pregnant again, holding a belly, how difficult!
Not long after, her husband also fled back to nanjing from Chuansha County in Shanghai, because he was a radio technician in the Chuansha County government and could not follow the Kuomintang army, so he had to follow the 118th Division to Zhoujiakou, Henan. Li Xiuying was pregnant and could not accompany him, so Lu Haoran took away his brother-in-law Li Zhensheng.
When her husband left, she didn't know whether she was dead or alive, she said goodbye to him with tears in her eyes and on her stomach, and the bitterness in her heart! Hate! It's hard! I can't tell you what it's like. If the Japanese devils do not invade, she and her husband have only been married for a few months, how can the sweet and sweet loving couple be separated? She really couldn't tell her hatred for the Japanese invading forces! ......
In mid-November 1937, when the Japanese soldiers were about to enter Nanjing, the 'Nanjing Safety Zone International Committee' was established in Nanjing. The security zone, also known as the 'refugee zone', is centered on the location of the U.S. Embassy and church schools such as Jinling University, and is bounded by a road on all sides, Hanzhong Road in the south, Zhongshan Road in the east, Shanxi Road and its north area in the north, and Xikang Road in the west.
Refugees are hosted in the Ministry of Communications Building, Wutaishan Primary School, Hankou Road Primary School, Army University, Judicial Yuan, Supreme Court and Jinling University. In the last two days before the fall of Nanking, thousands of refugees moved into refugee shelters. However, there are many people and few houses, and all the houses that can be vacated are full, and many people can only build a reed mat shed on the side of the road to live. At most, there were 290,000 refugees in the safe zone, the vast majority of whom were Nanjing citizens and refugees who had fled from other places, as well as a small number of soldiers who laid down their arms.
At the top of Zhongshan Mountain, the water of the Yangtze River is rushing, the shore of Xuanwu Lake, the stream is flowing, and on the boulevard of Zhongshan Road, the leaves of the sycamore that make a "rustling" sound in the wind are flying. The inhumane Japanese "beast army" lost its conscience. The city of Nanjing is full of ruins and seas of fire, like a living hell.
In December 1937, over a six-week period, the Japanese slaughtered more than 300,000 innocent citizens. Countless homes, shops, offices and warehouses have been looted, burned and destroyed, and about a third of the city's buildings and properties have been damaged and damaged. Li Xiuying's father found a fellow villager in Shandong and took their family of three to live in the basement of an American-run primary school for foreigners in Wutai Mountain.
This basement has two rooms inside and outside, and there are fifty or sixty refugees. Women live in one room inside, half by the horizon, half of the window, from the window to see outside. There are old women, young women and children. Li Xiuying is tall and strong, but she is seven months pregnant and has a big belly.
Her father and several elderly men were watching the gate outside the elementary school, and for the first few days the Japanese soldiers did not come in. On December 18, one or twenty Japanese soldiers came into the basement with guns, and they arrested several young people in a menacing manner. The women were in the inner room, and no one dared to say a word. The Japanese soldiers grunted and grabbed people in the outhouse, and Li Xiuying quickly curled up and hid among the women. I thought to myself, "I'm not alone, I still have a little life in my belly, I must not die under the bayonets of the enemy, I will fight with them!" ”
On the morning of December 19, Li Xiuying had just eaten porridge. Six Japanese devils, armed with guns and shiny bayonets, stormed into the house where the women lived, ready to take away Li Xiuying and more than a dozen other young women. At this time, the mother-in-law, sisters and children in the same room roared, crying and screaming, and panicked into a mess. The Japanese soldiers punched and kicked, threatened with bayonets, and forcefully captured several young girls.
At that time, Li Xiuying hid behind an old woman, her body was just leaning against the wall, she saw that the signs were not right, and she could not escape, she wanted to die rather than be humiliated, so anxious that there was no way, she crashed headlong into the wall, and her right forehead was suddenly hit with blood and passed out. When the Japanese soldiers saw her, they thought she was dead, so they didn't arrest her, so they escaped this disaster.
As soon as the Japanese soldiers left, my father and my compatriots in the same house saw that she was unconscious, so they shouted, shouted, shouted! This shout woke Li Xiuying from her coma. A bowl-sized bag bulged out of her forehead, and her hair was covered in blood. The hatred in my heart was eager to bite the Japanese soldiers to death one by one. Her father and several fathers and brothers and sisters helped her up from the ground and gave her the camp bed she slept on to her daughter.
At that time, there were only two old men sleeping on the camp bed in the whole house, and everyone slept on the cement floor with straw and covered the quilts they had brought. Her father's camp bed was right next to the wall, and Li Xiuying was lying on the bed, with a terrible headache, and the child in her stomach seemed to be injured, and her two little toes were moving wildly. I feel uncomfortable and uncomfortable! She remembered her husband who was far away from home, and she felt a pang of sadness, and the tears fell in a 'flurry'. I thought to myself, "If these Japanese soldiers, who are not even as good as animals, come back to arrest our women, I will fight with them, and I will never forgive them and be their victims." ”
Disaster is upon us again! After lunch at noon that day, three more Japanese soldiers broke in, and they first arrested the men and then pulled the women. At this time, Li Xiuying wanted to shrink her head into the bed and hide, but a Japanese soldier had already stared at her with the slippery eyes of a thief, and he had a bayonet hanging from his waist, and his face was flushed, and he pounced on her and grunted in his mouth.
Seeing him pounce on her like an evil ghost, Li Xiuying was extremely disgusted! It's also very angry! The anger in his chest attacked his heart, and with a burst of energy, he quickly jumped up from the bed, grabbed the handle of the bayonet on the devil's waist, and pulled the bayonet outward with all his strength. Want to fight with the devil!
The Japanese soldiers had imagined grabbing her like a chicken, but they never expected that this nineteen-year-old Chinese woman would be so tenacious that she would bravely grab his bayonet. So he suddenly panicked, so he grabbed her wrist with his hand, and Li Xiuying was leaning back against the wall, punching and kicking, and slamming his head into him. But the Japanese soldier's hand strength is not small, he pulled Li Xiuying's hand hard, Li Xiuying quickly bit him with his teeth, this bite, the Japanese soldier's hand was bitten out of the blood by her, and he screamed 'wow'. The Japanese soldier roared hard, alarming the other two Japanese soldiers who were arresting people, and they turned around and ran to this side. Li Xiuying hurriedly occupied the corner of the wall, and she thought to herself: "Anyway, if you give your life out, even if you have a few Japanese soldiers, I will definitely fight with you to the end!"
But how could a weak woman beat the three Japanese soldiers with bayonets? While punching and kicking, her body was hiding, and she didn't know what it was like for these beast soldiers' bayonets to poke her face and legs! She only felt the pain of the knife cut on her face and legs unbearable, and the blood flowed straight out drop by drop, and she was so angry that she spat out her blood into their faces. At this time, the japanese soldier who had lost his conscience stabbed the bayonet straight into her bulging belly, and the pain immediately made her feel the sky spinning, and she fainted on the ground, her eyes straight to Venus, and the surrounding darkness, nothing could be seen, nothing could be heard.
The Japanese soldiers thought she had been stabbed to death by them and dragged the other women away. She said, "That time, I went to hades to meet The King of Yama and returned to the Yang." After the Japanese soldiers left, Li Xiuying's father shouted that his daughter did not echo, and his heart was unbearable, and he and several old refugee friends went to the back hill to planer a pit, dismantled the door panel to make a stretcher, and carried her out to prepare for burial.
Just when going out, Nanjing in December was freezing cold, the cold wind blew, Li Xiuying's mouth bubbled up, they found that she still had some breath, so they rushed her to Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital. Robert Wilson, an American surgeon who was staying in Nanjing at the time, rescued her, and fortunately, Li Xiuying was rescued, but the child was miscarried. The doctor sutured her with a knife wound on her face and bandaged the wounds on her two legs, when Li Xiuying's head was swollen and big, her upper lip was broken, her teeth were lost, and food and drinking water flowed out of her nose. The doctor counted the wounds on her body and there were 37 knives.
At that time, the American Pastor John Maggie happened to be in the hospital. John Magee recorded in his diary on December 22, 1937: "Today I saw what kind of scene I saw in the Drum Tower Hospital, a 19-year-old girl who was 6 and a half months pregnant (the first child), due to resistance to the rape of Japanese soldiers, there were multiple knife wounds on the face, multiple places on the legs, and a stomach about 2 inches deep, and it was this knife that caused the miscarriage." Doctors are treating her. Mr. John Magee used a camera to record Li Xiuying's treatment at drum tower hospital.
Dr. Wilson also recorded the incident in his diary. The diaries and letters of Westerners who remained in Nanjing at that time, such as Rabe and McAllen, recorded Li Xiuying's injuries.
Dr. Wilson
Li Xiuying said:
"My father and the people in the room thought I was dead, and no matter how they shouted at me and pushed me hard, they didn't make me breathe. So my father asked a few fathers and brothers to help, dug a pit near the five platforms, found a door panel, and carried me out to prepare to send me out for burial. However, as soon as I was carried out of the door, after the cold wind outside blew, I breathed a sigh of relief, and I began to cry out ' humming and humming', and my father listened to me and rushed me to the Drum Tower Hospital. At that time, this hospital was run by americans, and an American doctor operated on me, and the child who was pregnant in july in my stomach miscarried, and I also had scars all over my body, and my face was reshaped and stitched several times. At that time, an American named Metch, when I was hospitalized for surgery, he showed thirty-seven wounds on my face, legs, and belly, and made a movie.
She said with emotion: "We Chinese to suffer from the Japanese invading army for a few days and nights!
Li Xiuying escaped from death under their care, miraculously survived, and stayed in Gulou Hospital for more than 70 days and was sent to the refugee area of No. 25 Luohe Road in Gulou for half a year.
Drum Tower Hospital
On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its surrender, and the Chinese people won the victory of the War of Resistance.
When the International Military Tribunal for the Far East tried Matsui Ishigen, the head of the Japanese army in the Nanjing Massacre, Wu Changde, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, went to the Tokyo International Court of Justice in Japan as a witness. He returned and said that the film that the Americans had filmed for Li Xiuying, who had been stabbed thirty-seven times by the Japanese army, was screened at the Tokyo International Court as evidence of the Japanese army's crime of insulting and killing Chinese women.
This shot is also included in the documentary "Nanjing Massacre", which is now filmed. ”
In 1947, the Nanjing Military Tribunal held a public trial of Gu Shoufu, the main criminal of the Nanjing Massacre, and Li Xiuying testified as a witness, victim and living witness of the Japanese militarist invasion of China and the massacre of 300,000 compatriots in Nanjing.
The Nanjing Massacre did Chinese, the people of Nanjing, Li Xiuying and his entire family.
Because of the injury, Li Xiuying lost the ability to work, could not work for a lifetime, and the destruction of her face was often met with abnormal eyes of people who did not know the truth, and the physical and mental injuries were accompanied by lifelong injuries.
Li Xiuying, she has bred 10 children in her lifetime, the most remembered is the eldest child, often said that if not cut off by the Japanese army, it should be born in February 1938.
Her second daughter, Lu Ling, said: "My mother gave us all her love to our 9 children. I was 15 years old to work in Nanjing Film Machinery Factory, I worked three shifts day and night, there was no clock at home, the next door neighbor had a grandfather clock, my mother sat at home to listen to the sound of the neighbor's clock, at 10:30 p.m., my mother woke me up and sent me to the factory gate, when the factory was in the suburbs, it took an hour to walk from our house to the factory, I talked to my mother while walking, I was not afraid at all, the doorman in the factory said your mother is so good, and then my mother walked back alone, and it was midnight at home.
"My mother's life is very hard, I began to help my mother wash clothes at the age of 10, the whole family of 11 people plus grandpa 12 people, a big basin a day in the summer, the age can not be washed, the neighbor let me put the clothes on the small table with a brush brush, every day to use a piece of soap.
The shoes were too late to make, so we wore wooden drags to school, and my classmates laughed at me and came back to tell my mother, who said she wanted to wear shoes and learn to do them by herself. When the class was over, my classmates went to jump on the cowhide bands, and I put on the soles of my shoes and mended my clothes. In the spring, the cotton clothes are dismantled and washed, and then turned into cotton clothes, so many people in the family, they have to be busy for a summer. My mother always warned us that difficulties do not seek people, life is not good, and ideas pass slowly.
Li Xiuying had scars on her legs and face, the scars were hard, and her legs were swollen. It brought pain and inconvenience to her body and life, and the eye that was poked and rolled by the Japanese army had poor vision and never went out to work. "She has been injured and troubled for many years, and when it rains, her eyes will be straight to tears, and the wound on her nose will make her more miserable, and when she drinks tea and eats porridge, she often goes in and out of her nose."
With her own personal experience, she has repeatedly told the bloody and unforgettable history on different occasions, unveiling her painful memories and scars of infatuation again and again, and crying out for the compatriots who died in the Nanjing Massacre. She has participated in many peace gatherings, lit the eternal lamp of not forgetting history, sounded the warning bell of remembering history's desire for world peace, and called on people not to forget history, oppose war, and love peace.
In 2003, CCTV filmed Li Xiuying as a folk hero.
On December 4, 2004, Li Xiuying died in Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital at the age of 86.
After Li Xiuying's death, she was buried in the Yuhua Gongde Garden in Nanjing, and the Yuhua GongdeYuan specially erected a statue for her. Written in two big words – Mother! The female is weak for the mother, the female is weak, and the victim is strong. The image of her bravely fighting with the Japanese "beast soldiers" will become another monument to be erected in the hearts of the people.
Although history will pass, it will not be erased, remember history, cherish peace, and forge ahead.
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