Labor in Gyeong'an County began in the 7th year of Kant (1940). Since then, the number of laborers in the township has increased year by year, from 1940 to august 1945 before the surrender of Japan, less than 6 years, the number of laborers in the whole township reached 1058 (times), and the number of laborers in each year was 5 in 1940, 12 in 1941, 34 in 1942, 256 in 1943, 709 in 1944, and 42 before August 1945. Among them, in 1944, there were 3 secondary laborers.
There was a farmer named Zhang Lu in Qidaogang who had just returned home from a laborer's trip in 1943, and his brother was named a laborer, just at this time his brother suddenly fell ill and died. The police saw that Zhang Lu's brother did not report on time and broke into the Zhang family as usual to arrest people. When the policeman saw the corpse parked on the ground with his own eyes, he turned his face and said, "All the laborers who are named will not be able to escape, and the younger brother will die and the older brother will die!" The black-hearted police dog, despite the Zhang family's bitter pleas and no one to take care of the funeral, forced Zhang Lu, who had just returned home from the laborer, to be tied up with a rope and taken away. In this way, Zhang Lu took the place of his dead brother and went to work as a laborer for the second time.
The laborers were escorted to the construction site of hard labor, like falling into hell on earth. Miao Yuchun, who worked as a laborer in Sun Wu, recalled that the life of a laborer was too miserable. Together, they were escorted from Qing'an to Sun Wu as laborers, mainly to carry military supplies for Japanese soldiers, and some were to build fortifications. Transporting supplies, each person carries more than 30 kilograms, the distance is 30 kilometers, the morning to the afternoon back, and it is a round-trip load, carrying more than 30 kilograms of materials every day, on the rugged mountain road, walking 60 kilometers.
The laborers could not withstand the long-term continuous high-intensity physical exertion, and hunger and fatigue tormented everyone with yellow muscles, weakness, and shaking when they walked. Let alone carrying a heavy load, even if the empty hand travels 60 kilometers a day, it is difficult to support, especially in the hot summer season, carrying a heavy load to climb the mountain and wading, really can not move, want to breathe for a moment, the overseer said that you are intentionally "soaking mushrooms, grinding foreign workers", raising the leather whip and beating you fiercely. The laborers had to grit their teeth and sweat and let the people drive like cattle. Often people can't resist fainting on the mountain road, and some fall down there and never get up again.
Once Miao Yuchun and the brothers of the suffering labor carried the supplies to the designated place, hungry and tired along the way, and no longer had the strength to carry the same heavy items back to the same place, when he was lying outside the shed to rest, he saw that in the horse material jar, there were steaming beans that had just come out of the pot, he was really hungry and anxious, and his stomach was grumbling. He subconsciously walked over and grabbed a handful of horse feed, which he had just pressed in his mouth and was discovered by the Japanese soldiers. The fierce Japanese soldiers could not be separated, they went up and kicked him down, and then a chaotic stick split his head and covered his face, Miao Yuchun was beaten and rolled around with scars, thanks to the bitter pleas of the labor brothers, it was a great difficulty not to die, and he chose a life.
The laborers' clothes were even more tattered, and the old clothes they had brought with them had been worn for a long time and the wind, rain, and sweat had become rags and rag strips, and some of them were naked, so they picked up old ash bags, broken sacks, or grass curtains and wrapped them around their waists to hide their shame, and the soles of their shoes were worn and tied with ropes, and some people had no shoes to wear, their feet were, and they were barefoot and trekking on the mountain road covered with thorns and rubble. A laborer nicknamed Wei Da Garden in Qidaogang, no pants to wear underneath, around a broken grass bag out of the work, the legs were worn by the grass bag, the skin and flesh festered, for a long time did not heal, the kneecaps were exposed, the overseer still did not allow him to stop work for treatment, and continued to limp and do hard work.
As a laborer, the summer is not good, and the winter is even more difficult. The relentless harsh winter, the biting cold wind blowing into the air-breathing cold shed on all sides, the ice and snow, the shed outside the shed is as cold. At night, the thin broken quilt can not withstand the cold, and the hands and feet are cramped with cold. In the mid-winter of the Ninth Count, frostbite, frozen hands and feet, frozen, frozen almost every day.
The labor shed is like a living hell, and the cold, fatigue, and hunger torment and sickness, not only without proper rest and treatment, but also reduce the ration of food. Once the laborers who went to Sun Wu County were sick, they would give one less meal a day, and only one bowl of thin porridge per meal, so that the light illness was also starved into a serious illness. As soon as the laborers became seriously ill, few returned home alive. In order to survive until they are reunited with their families and contract general diseases, the laborers struggle to get out of the work, preferring to die of exhaustion on the construction site rather than wait for death in the shed as a sick number. However, due to the extremely harsh living conditions of labor, it is difficult for laborers to escape their doom.
Every harsh winter, a large number of laborers die. Zhang Lu, who has been forced out of labor twice, said: In 1944, when he went to heihe Shenxian Mansion to repair the airport, Qing'an went to 307 people to work hard for 5 months, and only 68 people returned alive. Except for a small number of those who fled, the rest were starved to death, exhausted or sick at labor sites. The laborers died at the construction site, were dragged to the wilderness, and even some of them had not yet stopped their qi, and were thrown into the mass grave of corpses in a seriously ill coma.
In order to survive, laborers have left the labor site, and there have been many incidents of escape. In Sun Wu, when they were laborers, they often risked death to escape, which was a very dangerous move, and most of the fugitive laborers failed to escape from the tiger's den and were killed. Because Sun Wu's labor site is in the barren mountains and wild mountains, there are no people for hundreds of miles. The fleeing laborers, unfamiliar with the mountain road, no food in the abdomen, weak and weak, could not get out of the mountain for several days.
When Japanese soldiers and overseers found out that the laborers had escaped, they had to send men and horses around to arrest them. As a result, even if the fleeing laborers are not caught, they are mostly exhausted and starved to death on the way to escape, and few have escaped from death. Once the laborers were captured, they were publicly executed by Japanese soldiers to suppress the laborers. When Miao Yuchun was working as a laborer in Sun Wu, his brother "Fifty or Seventy Sons" was captured because he had not succeeded in escaping, hung upside down on liang, and was pushed by Japanese soldiers to crash into the wall, smashing his head alive. The scene was unbearable.
Those laborers who have suffered all kinds of disasters and are lucky enough to return alive are also injured, sick and disabled, and some have returned home and cannot engage in labor for a long time, and some have become permanently disabled. Yuanbaogou Ma stuttered, and in the winter of 1943, when he was working as a laborer in Sun Wu, he froze his feet and became crippled, and after returning to work, he became a beggar because he lost his ability to work, crawling along the streets and begging for a living.
In the period of puppet Manchukuo, where the disaster was severe and the country was destroyed, how many laborers were driven by the skin whips of the invaders, carrying heavy supplies and falling on the bianhanshan road, in the gloomy mines, how many laborers were filled into the ravines in the groans of hunger and sickness, how many laborers were injured, maimed, and killed after all the hardships, and their whereabouts were unknown, and there were histories of the suffering of laborers everywhere in the villages, recording the blood and tears of the laborers.