138. Chapter 136

After the fall of Nanjing, the reporters accompanying the Japanese army in the invasion of China sent a "victory" to Japan as quickly as possible:

Allied News Agency, 13 Mar -- The troops of Ohno, Katagiri, Iza and Fujii broke into the city of Nanjing from the blasts on the left and right sides of the city wall with the center of the Zhongshan gate, rushed after and defeated the enemy, and rushed along the Zhongshan Road towards the enemy's central position in the Ming Imperial Palace, and turned into a fierce street battle, and the earth-shaking gunfire resounded incessantly in the eastern part of the city. The Japanese army concentrated firearms in the first main position in the Ming Imperial Palace in an attempt to stop the attack of our army, but met with stubborn resistance from our army.

On the same day, the Asahi Shimbun published a photo of the Japanese invasion of Nanjing, and the Yomiuri Shimbun's "Third Evening Issue" also carried a report under the headlines "Complete Suppression of Nanjing to the Death" and "A Great War of Annihilation Unfolded in Various Parts of the City":

As our left-wing troops crossed the Yangtze River and occupied Pukou, the frontal troops took the gates of Nanjing, and about 50,000 enemy troops under Tang Shengzhi completely fell into the encirclement of our troops. Since this morning, in order to complete the final stage of the Nanjing offensive battle, a heroic battle of street market and annihilation have been launched. Defending the northwest line of Nanjing was the Gui Army under Bai Chongxi and the Yue Army in the east of the city, and the 88th Division directly under Chiang Kai-shek continued to fight to the death in various areas south of the city, but after our army transferred to the general offensive in the city, by 11 o'clock in the morning it had taken control of most of the city and occupied the main organs of the city, leaving only the area north of the city that had not yet been occupied. The flames in all parts of the city were soaring into the sky, and our troops were shooting indiscriminately, which was extremely heroic, and the song of the unprecedented and miserable fall of the city in the history of the Far East was being played, and the city of Nanjing was completely put to death by the hands of our army.

Here, Japanese journalists unabashedly proclaimed that "the Imperial Japanese Army is turning the city of Nanking into a miserable death site unprecedented in the history of the Far East." Almost at the same time as these news appeared in the Japanese newspapers, the Japanese soldiers with bloody bayonets, guided by the blood-red sun flag, opened the prelude to the Nanjing Massacre, which was a terrible ancient city.

Scattered gunfire can also be heard in the city. The retreating Chinese defenders were still resisting sporadically. On the roads of the city, the defeated soldiers left behind countless military uniforms, guns, backpacks, bayonets and artillery. The victorious imperial army went on a killing spree, chasing and killing the Chinese like rabbits.

Hundreds of Chinese defenders who had been disarmed were taken to the Judicial Yuan, where they were burned to death by Japanese machine-gun fire and blazing fire.

Tens of thousands of hundreds of Chinese armed policemen and countless ordinary people became prisoners of the Japanese army. became the object of massacre by the Japanese army.

On the side of the Yangtze River cotton embankment, a Japanese army commander and his military horse were killed by the Chinese army, the body was buried here, the Japanese soldiers pulled out 13 Chinese people to kneel in front of the tomb, with an Oriental knife, cut off 13 bloody human heads, placed in front of the tombstone made of wooden boards, to pay tribute to the dead commander and his military horses.

From this day on, the city of Nanjing, under the banner of the sun, became a hell on earth. Since then, there has been no light in Nanjing. The workers of the power plant ran and died. During the day, although the blood-red sun flag was raised on the roof of the Japanese embassy in China, at night they had to celebrate the victory of the "Imperial Japanese Army" in the dim light of candles. Ambassador Katsuda Okazaki and Consul General Jun Fukui opened cans and bottles and raised their glasses to several besieging Japanese commanders, including Kumayoshi Harada, Isamu Naga, and Sasaki.

"Today, my detachment fired 15,000 rounds of ammunition, plus the annihilation of armored vehicles and the capture of prisoners by various units, a total of more than 20,000 enemy troops were eliminated!" Brigade commander Sasaki said proudly.

"Hahaha......" In a burst of laughter, the candlelight flickered like a ghostly fire.

In the midst of the demonic laughter, it was the sorrow of thousands of miserable creatures and countless souls, and the bloody saber rolled up a crazy whirlwind of killing.

Captain Gunyoshi Tanaka, the captain of the 6th Division's Tani Shoo Division, held his glittering "Sukehiro" saber and killed 300 innocent Chinese refugees in one fell swoop like chopping melons and vegetables. What's even more appalling is the world-shocking "killing competition" created by the two killer demon kings.

On December 13, 1937, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in Tokyo, Japan, published a striking photograph. The two men in the photo are Noda Iwa, an adjutant of the Toyama Brigade under Nakajima of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army, and Toshiaki Mukai, the leader of the artillery squad, who are shoulder to shoulder, both holding waist-high sheathed sabers in their hands. Both of them are in yellow uniforms, black leather boots, and beards, and their faces show the same arrogance and murderous aura.

Published at the same time as the photograph was an article titled "More than 100 people killed - Mukai." 106 people, Noda 105 people, two ensigns to extend the killing" news:

[Asami and Suzuki two commissioners sent to the foot of the Purple Mountain on the 12th] The warriors of Katagiri's troops, Toshiaki Mukai and Ensign Noda Iwa, entered the city of Nanjing to make the most precious "100-man killing competition" under the Purple Mountain, and now has a record of 105 to 106. The two lieutenants said this when they met on the afternoon of the 10th-

Noda: "Hey, I'm 105, what about you?" ”

Mukai: "I'm 106 people!" ”

The two laughed.

Since they didn't know when to kill 100 people first, the two decided to start over and changed to 150 kills......

The whole of Nanjing was turned into a meat grinder, and countless civilians died tragically under the guns and butcher knives of the evil gangsters, day and night. The Chinese nation has reached its darkest hour.

A prosperous Nanjing suddenly became a hell on earth!

Chiang Kai-shek's 150,000 Nationalist troops were in ashes less than a month. Less than 50,000 people actually crossed the river. The rest of the hundreds of thousands were shot by the Japanese in various ways. Less than 50,000 people actually died on the battlefield. If Chiang Kai-shek had not ordered a retreat, the tragedy of the Nanjing Massacre would not have occurred with the desperate resistance of the Chinese army of 150,000 men, coupled with the support of troops from all over the country. In this human tragedy, Japan was the killer, and Chiang Kai-shek gave little Japan the opportunity to make a tragedy. The Japanese bully the weak and fear the strong. China has tens of millions of troops, so why should it show weakness in front of small Japan, which is less than one million? China is a big country, why should it be afraid of a small Japan? How much blood debt did the Japanese owe to the Chinese in modern history! As the commander-in-chief of the Nationalist Army, why didn't Chiang Kai-shek stand up and kill the Kou in the autumn of national survival? People are bullying in front of the house, why don't they drive the robbers away? They also leave robbers at home, murder and arson, and rape their wives and daughters. The author often writes about why our historians, in writing about the Nanjing Massacre, only write about the Japanese army's killings, and take Chiang Kai-shek's weak military operations in Nanjing as an understatement. Chiang Kai-shek made many mistakes in the history of the Anti-Japanese War. The September 18 Incident Chiang Kai-shek only cared about suppressing the Communists, adopted a policy of non-resistance, and allowed Japan to occupy the three eastern provinces. In the Songhu War of Resistance, if Jiang Shijie resisted desperately and poured the country's military strength to prevent the Japanese army from attacking Nanjing, there would be no Nanjing Massacre behind. The national army has millions of troops, why can't it stop the attack of hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops? Who's responsible?

The numerous crimes committed by the Japanese army in China should be remembered, and at the same time, we should call on little Japan to pay off this blood debt! Japan is a bandit, a murderer, and has committed unforgivable war crimes, and it is time for us to reckoned with Japan for its war crimes against humanity. In the contest with Japan, whether today or in the future, the Chinese should draw lessons from history and must not make the slightest concession! The war crimes committed by Japan in China should be remembered by every Chinese! Someday, this blood debt must be settled!

Lin Feng and his special combat team, facing the muzzle and butcher knife of the Japanese invaders, could only keep the hatred and shame in their hearts. They didn't dare to walk around the city, they could only hide in the ruined houses during the day, and they could only come out at night, and the person Lin Feng was eager to find was Xiao Shanling, who was unwilling to cross the river, and was a senior general of the national army who really lived and died with Nanjing. He is the model of the Chinese soldiers! If all the Chinese military eight are like Xiao Shanling, China's history will be rewritten. In the next few days, Lin Feng and his falconry team searched almost every corner of Nanjing City, but they didn't find Xiao Shanling's shadow, where was he!