At two o'clock in the afternoon of February 14, 1938, 7,000 or 8,000 Japanese puppet troops invaded Yangjing Village in Ji County along the Pinghan Line. The village is twenty miles northwest of the county seat and has a population of less than five hundred. The Japanese first bombarded with heavy artillery, then indiscriminately bombed by aircraft, opened the way with tanks in the front, followed by horses and infantry, and rushed straight to the village in a murderous spirit.
A battalion of the Nationalist Twenty-ninth Army stationed here took advantage of the favorable terrain and killed more than two hundred enemy soldiers. Later, due to the fierceness of the Japanese army, in the evening, the Kuomintang army withdrew from Yangjing Village. After the Japanese army entered the village, the massacre began at twelve o'clock in the night.
They first burned a number of houses in the village, and then used various cruel means to maim innocent people. After the beast soldiers caught the women, they killed them first, and when they caught the men stabbing them to death with bayonets, they were burned on the fire.
Li Chihu was killed on the spot because the Japanese army forced J and his wife to come forward to stop him. His wife was stabbed to death after being wheeled by the Japanese army. Li Xiaoliu's younger brother and son were killed, and he was also hanged from a tree by the Japanese army and beaten to death with a wooden stick. Wang Tonglin's father, who was in his sixties, was stabbed to death by his seven-year-old son, his uncle was shot to death, his brother was thrown into the fire and burned to death, and his sister-in-law was dissected by J and died.
Wang Tonglin was also stabbed five times in the chest and head with a bayonet, and passed out in a pool of blood. When he woke up and climbed up in pain, he was discovered by the Japanese army, and the inhuman Japanese army stabbed him twice and pressed a large stone on him. Fortunately, he is still not dead, and became a witness to the massacre of the Japanese army in Yangjing Village.
The Japanese army brutally killed more than 60 people in the village, burned more than 60 houses, and snatched more than 60 heads of livestock, turning Yangjing Village into a ruin, with black smoke billowing and corpses strewn everywhere. The horror of a baby who was only a few months old, still crawling in a pool of blood next to his dead mother, was truly chilling.
On March 6, more than 400 Japanese puppet troops burned more than 300 houses in Yulinzhuang. The entire village is homeless and displaced.
In May, the Japanese army went to the village of Otani to burn and kill. As soon as they entered the village, they went door-to-door searching for women, even teenage girls and women in their sixties. When the young peasant Li Shiwen saw a Japanese soldier chasing his sister, he and his seven brothers twisted the Japanese soldier to the ground and let his sister escape.
However, the Japanese army was increasing, and the seven Li Shiwen brothers were outnumbered, and all but one of them escaped and were killed. Li Shiwen was tied to a tree by the Japanese army and stabbed several times with a bayonet to death. This time, the Japanese army killed more than 20 people in the village and burned more than 50 houses.
At the end of February 1939, more than 200 Japanese puppet troops went to Baihe Village to carry out massacres. When Li Pigyou saw that the Japanese army had entered the village and beckoned her family to flee, she was shot and killed outside the door by the Japanese army. Li Haoshan, Zhang Junran, and seven other people who had time to escape in the future were captured, and the Japanese army set them on fire and burned them alive, and the cries were unbearable. When Zhang Faxiang's wife fled outside the village, she was chased by Japanese wolf dogs and bitten to death on a sand hill north of the village.
In June 1941, a Japanese soldier went to a certain place in Balitun Feng in Jixian County to grab a watermelon, and was killed by Feng's father and son in the watermelon field. After the Japanese army in the city heard the news, they immediately drove more than 100 people, killed the Feng family and his wife, threw them on the fire and burned them, and burned more than 500 houses in the village. At this time, it was the flood season, and it rained for several days, and more than a thousand suffering villagers could not find a place to stay.
On the afternoon of October 21, 1942, more than 400 japanese puppet soldiers drove into the village of Dasima in a car with machine guns on board. People in the village hid, and adults and children cried and cried. The Japanese army caught people when they saw them, and when they resisted slightly, they stabbed them with bayonets. The whole village was caught in a large pit at the west end of the village.
On the edge of the pit, the machine guns were one by one, and the Japanese climbed on the ground and aimed their guns at the masses. The Japanese army first divided women and children into groups. After a burst of gunfire and crying, women and children fell in pools of blood. The Japanese army was really ferocious to the extreme, and they were afraid that there would be no one, so they stabbed each person with a bayonet.
Then, the Japanese divided the men into three groups and stabbed them alive with bayonets one by one. There was a powerful man in the crowd nicknamed "Half a Car", who rushed out of the crowd and fought hard with the Japanese army, knocking out several Japanese troops in a row. Five or six Japanese soldiers with bayonets surrounded him and poked randomly, and finally they were killed by the Japanese army because they were outnumbered. Later, when he buried his body, he still had his eyes wide open, and when he fought with his hands and the Japanese army, he tore off the two sleeves of the Japanese army, and his body was full of blood that was stabbed by the Japanese bayonet.
In this massacre, the Japanese army mutilated a total of 46 villagers. After the disaster in Dakouma Village, the surviving masses did not dare to stay at home, walked, fled, and the village of more than 600 people was finally left with only a few families. The land is barren, the village is overgrown with weeds, and it is a desolate scene.
In order to strengthen its fascist rule, the Japanese troops stationed in Japan also established a huge secret service agency. Among them were the Jixian Armed Special Task Force of the Chengchuan Army, the Nakamura Advisory Intelligence Team of the Kixian Office, the Special Agent Group of the 1481 Unit, and the Joint Inspection And Investigation Of the Military and Police of the Kiji. They spied on our army's intelligence, reconnoitred our underground party organizations, arrested and assassinated Communists and the anti-Japanese masses, and in the name of investigating the suspects of the Eighth Route Army and anti-war elements, interrogated and extorted confessions from innocent people, and imposed punishments such as sitting on a tiger stool and pressing a pole!
The Wangjia Building on Ximen Avenue in Jixian County is the general organ of the Japanese secret service, which is heavily guarded and creepy. The basement below the building is a torture chamber and a killing site for Japanese secret services. As long as you are caught here, there is no chance of survival. Many Communists and patriotic people "disappeared" here after they were arrested.
Behind the building is a large pit that is 100 meters long, 60 meters wide and three meters deep. Here there are white bones and reeds, which the masses call "mass graves". In August 1945, after Japan surrendered, the Army stationed in Jikou secretly executed nine Chinese workers serving it in order to cover up its criminal activities. The method of execution is more brutal. The Japanese first forced the workers to dig their own pits and jump into them, and then buried them alive inside. Before withdrawing, the Kou army burned all the documents and archives in an attempt to destroy the evidence of the crime.