The unprecedented looting reminisces about the past
Liu Bingguan
On 8 October 1937, two enemy planes bombed Suoling for the first time, and at that time, the citizens had no idea of making any preparations, and went out one after another to watch the excitement. Enemy planes vainly attempted to bomb the Yangsanshi Iron Bridge in order to sabotage the Zhejiang-Jiangxi railway communications, dropping five bombs near the Jiuzhuping Railway General Bureau, killing 10 people and wounding more than 10 others.
On 27 October 1938, Wuhan fell, and on 11 November, Yueyang was lost. On 26 November, enemy planes bombed Banshanpu Station and missed, and the bombs landed in the fields, resulting in no casualties. On 20 January 1939, six enemy planes bombed the Yangsanshi and Banshanpu train stations, dropping a total of 12 bombs, killing eight people, destroying more than 10 civilian houses, and destroying two sections of tracks, a material car, and a material factory. On 5 February, six enemy planes bombed Yangsanshi, Pukou City, and Yaojiaba. Sixteen bombs were dropped on Yangsanshi, but there were no casualties in all of them; eight bombs were dropped in Pukou City, destroying three houses in Lijiazhou at the end of the street, and there were no casualties; eight bombs were dropped on Yaojiaba, killing six people and wounding more than 10 people, and the stationmaster, his wife, and his daughter were all killed. On 1, 3, and 4 October, enemy planes bombed the county three times, killing five people and wounding eight others. This year, there were five bombings, killing 19 people, wounding more than 20 people, and destroying hundreds of houses.
On 5 January 1940, enemy planes dropped five bombs in the vicinity of Gua Sheping and Qiyantang, all of which exploded in the air, killing and wounding 18 people and knocking down one civilian house. On 3 August 1941, 27 enemy planes bombed the county seat, dropping more than 20 light and heavy bombs, killing and wounding more than 100 people, blowing up more than 10 shops on Beizheng Street, and destroying more than 1,000 houses in Liujiagang, Caojia Lane, Wujia Lane, Qiyantang, Lailongmen, Guanjia Lane, and Shangzundao Hospital at the East Gate. In September, the Japanese invaded Changsha again, and enemy planes frequently came to Liling to bomb and harass them, and air raid sirens continued all day long. At 7 a.m. on the 23rd, enemy planes opened fire with machine guns outside the south gate. 1 farmer was injured. At 8 o'clock, four bombs were dropped in the area of the nursery in Guanjia Lane, destroying dozens of houses. On the 27th, four bombs were dropped on Beizheng Street, Changjixiang Cotton Store was hit by a bullet and collapsed, and Chen Rongchang's Pharmacy and Taichang Zhainan Goods Store were hit by bullets and collapsed and caught fire. On the 28th, the station was bombed again, and several bombs were dropped, injuring two people, which was the last time. From 8 October 1937 to 28 September 1941, a total of 12 bombings were carried out, killing and wounding more than 300 people, destroying more than 2,000 houses, and losing countless other materials.
On June 18, 1944, Liling fell, and the county seat of Liling was burned down, and there was not one out of ten, and the number of people killed and injured is unknown. On June 13, 1944, the Japanese invaded Liling from Liuyang and Zhuzhou, and 10 days after the Japanese invaders occupied the county seat, that is, on June 28, they set fire to the city. The main streets in the southeast, northwest, and west, as well as the organs, schools, ancestral halls, temples, churches, and hospitals, were all burned down, and there was not a single one left in the hundreds. Liling Beixiang, close to Zhuzhou, where Japanese invaders come and go, and there are many military strongholds along the way, so the people in the Beixiang area have suffered the most.
On 21 August 1944, the Japanese invaders forcibly expropriated 6,000 stone of grain and grain in the Huangniao, Shiziling, and Banshanpu areas, shot and killed more than 300 civilians, killed about 200 people near Yaojiaba, and kidnapped more than 500 men to serve as husbands. In other places, it is not uncommon to hear of people who have been shot dead between 10 and 100 people at a time. Houses in rural market towns are burned down.
The Japanese invaders were murderous, brutal and vicious. Sifen Happy Ridge was captured by the Japanese invaders 16 people, tied to a tree, disemboweled, thought to laugh. The wife of Sifen Zhou, who refused to be raped by the enemy, was stripped of her breasts by the Japanese and tied to a tree, wailing for a day and a night, and died tragically. There was a teacher named Liu, who met Japanese criminals with his nephew on Plover Wan Road, and was tied to two pillars in an ancestral hall and executed by Ling Chi. In the vicinity of Yongsan Port, the Japanese invaders grabbed a woman, threw her baby to death, and then gang-raped the woman to death. Shanxian Yuchong was killed by the Japanese invaders at one time, and 6 of them were burned alive with cotton wool and kerosene. The older they get, the heavier the burden becomes, and those who are incompetent are killed. Dongxiang Zhai, 82 years old, was forced to weigh more than 80 catties. Zhai was panting and sweating, unable to walk, and was pushed into a well and drowned. Wu Zhaigong of Liquan Town, who was over 80 years old, was forced by the Japanese to carry a heavy burden to build fortifications on the West Mountain. Wu Zhai fell to the ground after less than two miles of public travel, and the Japanese invaders drew a knife and cut his abdomen and abandoned his body in the Banshan Pavilion. Liu, 75 years old, was forced to carry munitions to Youxian County, was weak and burdened, and his movements were slow, and the Japanese invaders used a leather whip to drive him away.
The distribution of food by the Japanese is the opposite of carrying the burden, and the older they get, the less food they have. It is heart-wrenching that the Japanese invaders abuse the elderly so wantonly. In addition to using the maintenance association to collect grain and distribute money to the people, the Japanese invaders also plundered everywhere day and night, rain or shine, and were often harassed by them within 30 or 50 miles of the city. Everywhere the Japanese invaders went, they broke down doors and windows, turned over boxes and cabinets, slaughtered pigs and cattle, opened warehouses and picked grain, and even demolished walls and dug the ground. Cooking without firewood, picking new lacquered wooden bed frames, doors and windows on behalf of the fire, precious things, looting, abandoned, not used to cut and tear up, mutilated and even in the oil tank, rice retort, or arson to the house, resulting in nothing at home, useless, the Japanese invaders digging ponds to release water to catch fish, let horses go to the fields to eat grass, digging meat on the buttocks of pigs and cattle to cook, so that pigs and cattle die of pain, ordinary farm tools, were made into damage and incomplete. (Excerpt from Liling Cultural and Historical Materials, Volume 2)
The mother took her two children back to her former home, trying to find a little food to wrap her stomach, but the once warm home had been burned down and dilapidated by the devils, and she really didn't know how they would survive. Image from Baidu.
Excerpt from "The Most Tragic Era: The Atrocities of the Japanese Invasion of Hunan Province" edited by Tian Fulong
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