This scene, according to the diary of a Japanese shozo Tano who returned home after the war: this bloody massacre was no less than 30,000 people. Standing at the Xiaguan Wharf, in the moonlight, he looked at the Yangtze River in the telescope, and the Yangtze River became a blood river. The corpse could not be seen.

The following is a scene of a Japanese war correspondent, Kotamari Yukio, witnessing the Chinese prisoners being taken to Shimonoseki and lined up along the river:

The first platoon was beheaded, the second platoon was forced to throw these bodies into the river, and then they themselves landed on their heads. This slaughter continued from morning to night. The interval was less than a minute, but the Japanese killed only 4,000 people in this way. The Japanese army felt that the killing speed was too slow, and the next day, the Japanese army immediately changed to a new killing method: all the prisoners were gathered together and strafed with machine guns, and the efficiency was increased by more than ten times at once, reaching tens of thousands of people in one day. In desperation, some of the prisoners wanted to jump into the river and escape, so the Japanese soldiers drove small yachts to replenish their guns, and according to the records of Japanese reporters, none of them swam to the other side alive.

Here's what a Japanese photojournalist Kono has to say:

Before the "celebration of entering the city", I saw with my own eyes 50-100 corpses drifting down the river. On the entire river, the smell is abnormal, and no one buries the body. How did they kill them? It cannot be verified.

I remember a small pond outside Nanjing, which looked like a sea of blood and had dazzling colors. If I had been carrying film, it would have been a shocking photograph. There are so many bloody scenes of this kind that the Japanese military department strictly ordered them to be photographed!

The following is an account in the diary of a man named Shotaro Shino:

The Japanese took the captives to nearby villages. When some Chinese were driven into big houses, they already felt that the day was coming and refused to enter them. Knowing that this place is where they end up is like a "slaughterhouse". However, under the pressure of the Japanese army's assassination and slashing with sabers, he reluctantly entered the gate. It was only when the Japanese took away the blankets and straw mats of the Chinese captives that they fought desperately. But it was too late, the Japanese poured gasoline around the house, the house was a wooden structure, and as a Japanese shozo shot and burst a gasoline barrel, a fiery snake surrounded the wooden house at once, and soon the wooden house was engulfed in flames, and the prisoners of the wooden house were not less than 1,000 people. Their cries of pain were shocking.

The largest mass massacre of prisoners of war in the Nanjing atrocities should be counted as the one near Shogunate Mountain. The mountain is just north of Nanjing, between the city of Nanjing and the south bank of the Yangtze River; The most conservative estimate is that more than 57,000 citizens and captives were killed here.

The killings were carried out in secret and in stages. On December 16, Yokota, a reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, reported that the Japanese had captured 14,777 soldiers in artillery forts near Mt. Seiryu and Mt. Shogunate, and that what to do with so many prisoners of war had become a headache for Japan. On December 17, the Japanese received orders to kill the prisoners of war, and with great care, they decided to transfer them to a small island in the Yangtze River called Bafengzhou.

Between 4 and 6 p.m., the Japanese divided the POWs into four groups and headed west, rounding several hills and stopping at the river. The prisoners waited for three or four hours, not knowing what was going to happen. They had no idea that the Japanese would execute so many prisoners. The weather gradually darkened, and they had no idea that the Japanese troops had formed a half-moon encirclement along the river, and the machine guns were already aimed at them.

When the machine guns roared, they learned that the Japanese were going to shoot them here. But it was too late, the gunfire continued for more than an hour, and finally no sound could be heard from the crowd, and then the Japanese stabbed the still angry prisoners one by one with bayonets, from night until dawn, and no one was spared.