In 1937, after the Japanese army captured Nanjing, the massacre began, 300,000 people died under the butcher's knife of the Japanese army, compared with these 300,000 victims, Tang Shunshan is a very lucky one, he survived this massacre, and he also had a safe refuge when countless people were displaced, when he was a shoemaker apprentice, during the Nanjing Massacre, he hid in the homes of two brothers and sisters, just in an alley called Xiaomen in the north of Nanjing.
After the Japanese army entered the city, it burned and looted everywhere, for safety, the two brothers removed the door, and then blocked the door with bricks, from the outside it seemed that the outline of the door could not be seen, if the three of them had been hiding inside, maybe they could really avoid the massacre of the Japanese army, but listening to the guns and shouts outside, mixed with the screams of people, he did not know what the situation was outside, he was very curious about what the Japanese looked like, but he was curious about killing the cat, he did not know what kind of purgatory scene was outside.
On December 11, 1937, Tang Shengzhi, commander of the Nanjing Guards, received Chiang Kai-shek's withdrawal order, because at that time this retreat order was very hasty, some troops received orders, some troops did not receive, the whole city of Nanjing was in a mess, some people escaped from Nanjing City, some people surrendered to the Japanese army, but the Japanese army had no intention of accepting prisoners, they deceived the Chinese army into handing over their weapons and began to massacre. The city of Nanjing, which had lost the protection of the army, became a place for the Japanese army to slaughter and vent their anger.
Before Tang Shunshan had always heard that the Japanese and Chinese were very similar, so out of curiosity he wanted to see, and finally at his beck, the two brothers moved the bricks at the door for him to go out to see, but after he went out, he regretted it, the scene in front of him was the Shuluo Hell, the streets were full of corpses, men and women, young and old, the streets were covered with blood, as if it had rained blood, just when he was in a daze, a Chinese in front of him ran towards him, and behind him was a group of Japanese soldiers. Tang Shunshan immediately hid in the trash with this person, but was still discovered by the Japanese army.
The Japanese army came over without saying a word to rip open the straw they used to cover up, Tang Shunshan had not yet reacted, the person next to him had been beheaded, Tang Shunshan was too frightened to move, at this moment he regretted it immensely, if he was given another chance he would not leave the shelter, at this time a traitor shouted to him: "Get out!" At this moment, Tang Shunshan wanted to escape, but his legs had long since disobeyed, so Tang Shunshan was pushed into the middle of hundreds of Chinese, pressed forward by the Japanese army with bayonets, and the street was like a purgatory on earth, and he was afraid to the extreme, so they were escorted to a pond, where there was a large pit that had been dug long ago, there were already dozens of corpses in the pit, and wild dogs were eating corpses next to him, and he had a premonition that something bad was going to happen.
Then the Japanese let them stand in several rows at the edge of the pit, and the location of Tang Shunshan Station was relatively close to the edge of the pit, and it was his position that saved his life, at this time came out 9 Japanese soldiers, one of whom was on guard with a gun, the remaining eight began to kill, 8 Japanese troops were divided into four groups, one beheaded with a bayonet, the other took the head to the side and piled up, everyone was trembling, although the number was far more than the Japanese army, but no one dared to resist, and the scene often heard the harsh laughter of the Japanese army. And just when the Japanese army was able to kill, a pregnant woman began to resist, and then a Japanese soldier dragged her away, and none of the remaining people came out to help her, and the Japanese soldier brutally killed the pregnant woman, but none of the people present resisted.
Tang Shunshan recalled: "Sadly, of all the people standing around the grave, only the pregnant woman showed a little courage. Because there were too many people, the Japanese army no longer beheaded, they began to use slit throat instead, when a compatriot next to him was beheaded by the Japanese army after the body fell towards him, and Tang Shunshan took the opportunity to fall into the corpse pile, no one noticed this "accident", Tang Shunshan lay motionless on the corpse pile, the Japanese army slaughtered for more than an hour, except for Tang Shunshan, none of them survived, in order to ensure that there is no mistake, the Japanese army left a person to stab in the corpse pile with a bayonet, the purpose is to ensure that there is no living mouth, Tang Shunshan lay in the pile of corpses and was stabbed 5 times in his body, but in order to survive, he did not say a word, and his two brothers later found him, and he became a survivor of this massacre.
The Japanese army in Nanjing launched a massacre for 6 weeks, the massacre of civilians and soldiers more than 340,000 people, this death toll far more than the number of people who died under the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined, according to historians' estimates, if the victims of the Nanjing Massacre stand in a row hand in hand, this team can stretch from Nanjing to Hangzhou, the total amount of blood on the body reaches 1200 tons, the body can be filled with 2500 train cars, the degree of misery can be imagined, so today we must cherish peace and remember history. We must not allow the tragedy of history to repeat itself, and we must also be highly vigilant against the revival of Japanese militarism.
