In November 1994, a newspaper in Zunyi published a short message that read, "The crew of the Nanjing Massacre went to Japan to select actors to play Matsui Ishigen, and there were many Japanese applicants, and the crew was difficult to decide." A week after the newspaper was published, a reader named Zhang Xueming wrote a letter to the editorial board of the newspaper.
In this letter, Zhang Xueming said emotionally: "China has a population of more than 1 billion people, so many film companies, can't we find someone who plays Matsui Stone?" Zhang Xueming further said: "Let the Japanese play the commander of the Japanese army invading China, Matsui Ishigen, and reproduce the tragic scene of the massacre Chinese, I really can't accept it, because I hate the Japanese, hate those devils who kill people without blinking!" ”
At the back of the letter, Zhang Xueming attached several pieces of paper with densely packed words that recorded the tragic scene of his escape from the Nanjing Massacre...
One day in the spring of 1937, Zhang Xueming, who was only 17 years old, picked firewood into Zunyi City to sell Zhuang Ding, who was arrested. He Zhizhong's unit of the 103rd Division of the 25th Army was assigned as a caretaker. After the outbreak of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the 103rd Division and the 102nd Division of Bai Huizhang's troops went out to resist the War of Resistance and participated in the Battle of Songhu in the "August 13th", and after the fall of Shanghai, the whole army withdrew to Henan.
On the eve of the Battle of Nanjing, Tang Shengzhi, commander of the Nanjing garrison, vowed to "coexist and die with the city." In order to strengthen the defense of Nanjing, the 103rd Division was transferred to Nanjing to deploy and be responsible for the defense of positions around Zhongshanmen. In order to show his determination to fight a battle against the water, Tang Shengzhi demanded that all the ships along the river be towed away, and all those that could not be dragged away were burned down, cutting off the retreat route of the Nanjing defenders.
When the Japanese army attacked Nanjing, it did not fight a frontal decisive battle, but advanced the encirclement from three sides layer by layer. The Japanese army first captured the villages around Nanjing, and then gradually blocked and encircled Nanjing. The battle for the defense of Nanjing ended after only a week, and Tang Shengzhi, who had declared that he would coexist and die with the city before the war began, ran to the north bank on a small steamer before the Japanese army actually entered the city.
The most fatal thing is that in the process of hasty retreat to the north, he did not issue a timely retreat order. However, when the defenders received the order to retreat one after another, the Japanese army had already broken into the city, the officers had already withdrawn from Nanjing two or three days in advance, and the defenders in the city were leaderless and began to abandon their guns and weapons to flee to the Xiaguan area of Nanjing.
Hundreds of thousands of troops in the city are pouring out like a tide, and in the terrible crowd, even if your legs are not on the ground, you will be carried by the crowd. Once a person falls, he will be trampled to death on the spot. When Zhang Xueming and the others rushed to the city gate, the two devils had already blocked the city gate with machine guns. Zhang Xueming and the others had no choice but to untie their leggings and hang themselves from the city wall and run toward the river in groups of three or five.
The crowd by the river also gathered together like ants at this time. Panicked people got door panels and pillars to make rafts to cross the river, and almost all the buildings along the river were demolished, but there were still many people who could not find a plate to cross the river. Zhang Xueming and a few brothers had good luck, they found two door panels by the river, and relying on the simple rafts made of these two door panels, they crossed the river to Jiangxinzhou. It was dark and they thought they had reached the north shore, and one by one the sleepy people fell asleep. At dawn the next day, they woke up to find that they had not yet crossed the river.
Jiangxinzhou is a large area, and there are about 2,000 scattered soldiers gathered here without command. In order to escape with a small life, they had to continue to cross the river. At this time, it was a cold winter moon, the rolling Yangtze River was cold and bone-chilling, many people who crossed the river were frozen to death in the river, many people were killed by the Japanese warships, and almost no one could get lucky enough to cross the river successfully.
Crossing the river nine died all their lives, and many people did not dare to take risks easily, choosing to hide on Jiangxinzhou. Every day they nibbled on the raw grain planted by the common people in Jiangxinzhou and lived in the grass nest at night. Seven days later, all the grains on Jiangxinzhou were eaten and the houses were demolished. Some of the common people living in Jiangxinzhou escaped, and when they fled to Banqiao, Jiangnan, they were captured by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army learned from them that there was a defeated army in Jiangxinzhou.
Two days later, a large number of Japanese troops arrived in Jiangxinzhou on warships and escorted all the more than 1,000 defeated soldiers on the continent to Banqiao. After landing ashore, Zhang Xueming and the defeated soldiers were escorted to sit on the side of the road for more than 6 hours. The Japanese army did not give food or drink, and everyone was so hungry that their chests were pressed against their backs, and they did not have the slightest strength to resist. Along the way, there were dead people everywhere, and the corpses under the bridge of a small river were piled up into hills, blocking the river water and not moving, and the blood flowed into a river that was unbearable to see. Most of these dead people were ordinary people, and some of them were mixed with some soldiers.
Next, they were escorted to a desolate open area with a railway in front and mountains in the back. Experienced veteran soldiers sensed the danger and shouted for the crowd to shout "We are willing to surrender!" We are willing to surrender! At this time, some puppet soldiers set up guns to force everyone to squat, and those who did not crouch were picked up by the puppet soldiers and smashed, and some were smashed to the head and bleeding.
Just after everyone was crouching, the Japanese army appeared. The Japanese army had long been ambushed in the middle of the mountain, and those who understood knew at a glance that the Japanese army was going to massacre these unarmed people. Zhang Xueming was small and young, and he stood in the middle of the crowd, and the Japanese army fired more than 10 machine guns at them, and he fell down with the rows of people. Fortunately, Zhang Xueming was crushed in the middle by the body, and the bullet did not hit him.
About half an hour later, the Japanese came down from the mountain to examine the corpses, and when they found that they were not dead, they stabbed them to death with bayonets, and then poured gasoline on the piles of the dead and set them on fire. Zhang Xueming was pressed underneath, he was overwhelmed and wanted to move his body. When he saw the Japanese soldiers stabbing the living people to death one by one, he was too frightened to move again. Lying in the pile of dead people, he saw with his own eyes a man who was not dead, his whole body burning with fire, and he jumped into a nearby cattle rolling pond in pain, rolling sideways inside. The flames on his body were extinguished, but his life was gone.
The Japanese soldiers came to Zhang Xueming's side and found that he still had breath. Zhang Xueming's body was crushed by the corpse, and his head was exposed. The Japanese soldier raised his bayonet and stabbed him twice in the head, one into the lower neck bone, one into the middle of the neck, the tip of the knife came out of the mouth, blood flowed all over the cheek, Zhang Xueming immediately passed out.
I don't know how long it took for Zhang Xueming to wake up. He crawled with all his might out of the stinking, smoke-filled pile of the dead, witnessed people who had not yet been burned groaning and struggling in the fire, and some people with broken hands and feet and blind eyes sitting on the ground crying and cursing, who luckily survived, but lived extremely miserable. Many people can't stand the pain and choose to commit suicide after getting rid of death.
Zhang Xueming was very difficult not to die, because the Japanese stabbed in the wrong direction, and the weather was too cold to coagulate the wound, he luckily saved a life. Zhang Xueming did not give up hope, he struggled to climb over a hill, and saw several families in front of him, each with a "sun flag" hanging at the door.
The kind people saved him, brought him some local medicine to stop bleeding and anti-inflammatory, and sent him a little food, and the kind people hid him in the air raid shelter on the mountain. The next day, the people came to bring him food and told him to hurry to the river, where there were boats to cross the river. Zhang Xueming thanked the people for saving their lives and came to the riverside. He waited more than three hours by the river before he saw a small wooden boat rowing over.
Zhang Xueming waved his hands and shouted for help, and the people on the small wooden boat pulled him onto the boat. When the boat rowed to the center of the river, they collided with a Japanese motorboat. The boatmen rowed desperately and cleverly dodged the Japanese motorboats. No sooner had they crossed the rapids than the Japanese began to shout at them and strafe them with machine guns. The small wooden boat was hit by 18 gun holes, but fortunately the god of luck took care of them, and none of them were injured. The boat reached the north shore smoothly, and as soon as they came ashore, the boat sank to the bottom of the river.
Later, Zhang Xueming begged for food along the way, passing through Quanjiao, Hefei, Shucheng and other places, traveling more than 1,000 kilometers to the army, and he survived after receiving treatment from doctors. After the Nanjing Massacre, Zhang Xueming endured nine deaths and finally escaped with one life. He was one of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, and he was able to save his life by being pierced in the neck, which is a miracle within a miracle. After liberation, the elderly Zhang Xueming worked as a farmer in the countryside of Zunyi and lived a plain life. But he never forgot his life and death experience, let alone his hatred for the Japanese army.
The experience of the elderly Zhang Xueming is infuriating and heart-wrenching, and he is living evidence of the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese army. When he learned that he was going to Japan to select actors for the Nanjing Massacre film, he remembered again what happened to him, so he angrily wrote to the editorial board in protest of the move. The protest of the elderly Zhang Xueming was taken seriously, and the film did not let the Japanese play Matsui Ishigen at the end.
History cannot be forgotten, nor can it be forgotten. Released in 1995, "The Black Sun Nanjing Massacre" is an excellent film that records the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing. For the success of the film, the old man Zhang Xueming said: The film is always virtual, there is no bayonet piercing the neck, you don't know how deep the pain is, how strong the hatred is, you don't persuade me to forget, I will never forget in this life...