The Baijiabaozi tragedy is a personal account
Li Zhongchang
I am the one who survived the Baijiabaozi tragedy, and I have personally experienced and witnessed the Baijiabaozi tragedy. On the morning of 20 May of the lunar calendar in 1936, our anti-Japanese coalition forces ambushed the Japanese garrison at Wang Zhiming Xiaokan and killed 11 Japanese invaders.
Not long after, in the name of "bandits," the Japanese garrison designated Deshenggang, Jiaolugou, and Hei Blind Ditch, which are four weeks around Baijiabaozi, as well as the big poplar trees outside the south gate of Dahuanggou, as "forbidden areas." A strict blockade has been imposed on the people in this area. On 26 May of the lunar calendar, under the pretext of providing supplies, the Japanese garrison deceived more than 20 able-bodied civilians from Baijiabao into going to the Dahuanggou Police Station to extract confessions by torture.
The next day, before dawn, the devil soldiers, armed with bright bayonets, drove groups of ordinary people out from the north fork of the south ditch. After a while, the devil rushed to our house, and one devil grabbed me by the arm, and the other devil put a shot on my chest, and then tied me up, and then tied my sister and nephew and more than a dozen other people to this rope. Even Shen Guishan, who had come from other places to visit relatives, and Lao Chen's family (a family of seven), who had moved from Dongfeng to Linjiang, passed by and were arrested together. Those who could not walk were stabbed to death on the spot. The devil drove the villagers to the great wilderness ditch with bayonets, and along the way, the villagers punched, kicked, and scolded the villagers when they walked slowly.
Diao's sister-in-law, who is in her thirties, led two children, the eldest was five years old and the younger was just two years old. Diao's sister-in-law held her two-year-old child in one hand and grabbed the devil's gun with the other hand and cried bitterly. Diao's sister-in-law fought desperately with the devils, and another devil came up and stabbed Diao's stomach with a knife, and Diao's intestines flowed out, and the two devils lifted her up and threw her into the river. Then he threw the five-year-old into the river, and then he threw the child who fell to the ground into the river.
The devil kills the anti-log soldiers. Image from Baidu.
When we walked to the old Yang's house in Xiaomosquito Goumen, everything that the Yang family could walk was kidnapped, and only a "confinement" mother was left lying on the kang. The devil held a bayonet and did not allow her to get up, so he viciously stabbed her in the stomach several times and stabbed her to death on the spot, splashing blood on the baby's face.
At dawn, we were driven to my father-in-law's house Tao Yuchun in Goumen. My mother-in-law was sick all the year round, and a devil broke into the house and told her to hurry up with a gun gestural gesture. My mother-in-law's illness is not only difficult to get out of, but also to get up. The devil picked up the bayonet and stabbed her head and stabbed her head indiscriminately, and she screamed a few times before she choked out. The devil soldiers set the house on fire when they went out. Along the way, the Japanese devils were like wild beasts, killing and burning. The devils drove the more than 400 unarmed innocent people who were living in the ditches up and down the Baijia Fort into the courtyard of the garrison. The devils on the roof of the house set up machine guns, and the devils in the courtyard held bayonets, tightly surrounding us, and the whole courtyard was like a gloomy killing field.
The interrogation began. Through the right door of the upper room, the devil entered more than a dozen strong tough men and tortured them to extract confessions. However, the people of Baijiabao did not give any information about the anti-Japanese coalition forces. After a while, more than a dozen bloody corpses were dragged out of the left door. When Wang Wanshan, Da Lao Xu, and Lao Hu were interrogated, the dog translator Li Da Man, the squadron leader of the garrison squadron for his master, asked: "Where is the Anti-Japanese Union? Wang Wanshan said indignantly: "Where is the Anti-Japanese Federation? The Anti-Japanese Federation is everywhere, and you will not be able to catch and kill them endlessly!" After Li Dazi translated these words to Zhongshan, Zhongshan was so angry that he howled like a wild wolf; "Your bandits, there are dead and dead!" Then he screamed like crazy: "Kill me! Kill them all!" A group of jackals rushed up, gagged their mouths, kidnapped them, and forcibly hung the three men to the horse-tethered stake, and as soon as the stools were removed, the three of them were strangled to death.
Then, the interpreter Li stretched his slender neck and shouted on behalf of his master, Zhongshan, and said: "People, the imperial army asks where the anti-Japanese coalition forces are? Zhongshan howled, kicked her down, stabbed her in the heart, listened to her scream, and then saw Zhongshan dig out a bloody human heart and pick it into the air, and said viciously: "The hearts of the Chinese are greatly broken!"
Then the children cried and the women screamed in the courtyard, and the people were in chaos. As soon as the devil Zhongshan saw that the situation was not good, he got together with the interpreter Li Dazi, and after a while of muttering, the south gate opened. The devil forced us to come out of the corner gate and rush to the root of the mountain. Zhao Wenhua, who was following me, whispered in my ear, "Oh no, we can't wait for death, let's escape." After he finished speaking, he broke free of the rope and ran into the woods, and after running more than 20 steps, he was shot and killed by the devil.
We moved slowly. Andy Chen's wife, a pregnant woman, broke the rope and tore up with the devil, and she bit the devil's finger with her teeth, only to see another devil's bayonet stabbed out violently, and the pregnant woman fell, and another bayonet broke the pregnant woman's belly and picked the unborn fetus on the tip of the bayonet. This kind of tragic situation is really unbearable for people to see.
The devil killed the anti-Japanese fighters and cut off their heads for public display. Image from Baidu.
When we were driven to the foot of the east mountain, some devils with bayonets held us tightly, and machine guns were still set up on the top of the mountain. The massacre began. The devil howled with bayonets and stabbed down a row of tied people in front of him, and then, as soon as the machine guns rang out, the people behind also fell. At that time, I was in the middle of the middle, and the devil stabbed me in the back, and I felt a sharp pain, and my whole body trembled, and I leaned forward, and then I was stabbed twice in succession, and I fainted.
When I woke up, I felt the wood on my back swell. When I opened my eyes, it was dark. As soon as I struggled to sit up, I felt a sharp pain in my back, and I passed out again. After some time I woke up again, and when I broke the rope, I climbed out of the pile of dead. There were corpses all over the front, back, left and right, blood all over the ground, and the hands were slimy to the touch. I crawled, crawled, crawled for more than half the night, and finally crawled out. I walked slowly into the ditch with a stick and in severe pain...... Later, I learned that all of the more than 400 people in Baijiabao had been killed, except for me, Guo Hanchen, and Hui Lianfang, who escaped death. (Compiled by Tonghua County CPPCC)
The text is excerpted from "Jilin Literature and History Materials Selected Volume 17 History of Blood and Tears" (Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Jilin Provincial Committee Literature and History Materials Research Committee)
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