Chapter 178: Looting
During the conversation, the group of Qinhuaihe women threw their luggage from the broken wall into the courtyard, the women below dragged it, and the women on the top climbed up.
Under the beautiful coat, the legs in stockings, stepping on the boots, struggling to climb up.
Someone climbed in and opened the door.
"Let's go in again tonight, the target at night is small, it's not easy to be exposed, if we are exposed, these female students will all die." Xia Yuan said in a calm voice: "Leave a squad to guard here, and if you see the Japanese devils, shoot them away." ”
"What if the Japanese devils are suspicious??" Instructor Li said uneasily.
"What do they suspect, they won't suspect, the focus of the Japanese devils is still looking for the rebels, slaughtering the poor people, but they are doing it." Xia Yuan said in a calm voice, he didn't want to go in and contact these plot characters.
The entire Jinling City has been in chaos, the Japanese devils are burning, killing, and plundering everywhere, doing all kinds of evil, and the blood gathers into a river and flows along the root of the wall.
The Jinling Massacre took place for a long time before it became known to the outside world, and he wanted to keep enough evidence to stay.
"Let's go."
Xia Yuan left a squad here, and once the Japanese army touched it, they would attract the attention of the Japanese army.
At this time, the sky above Jinling City was shrouded in a layer of gray smoke, and the smoke from the burning houses rose from all directions, filling the sky.
People choked by the pungent smoke can't open their eyes.
Sporadic gunshots rang out intermittently, accompanied by bursts of screams from time to time.
A woman is blocked in a corner by six Japanese devils, laughing and about to untie her clothes.
Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire behind him, and a small group of Nationalist soldiers rushed out, they were in tattered clothes, but they acted quickly, killed six Japanese devils, and quickly removed the guns and ammunition from their bodies.
A soldier looked at the disheveled woman in the corner, and her expression was so frightened that he left a grenade behind and disappeared into the smoke without looking back.
Xia Yuan pursued guerrilla warfare, which was deeply imprinted in his body and mind from the time he was first born in battle, and could not be erased.
Interspersed and guerrilla, Xia Yuan has already become superb.
Xia Yuan divided the team into five groups, a group of ten people, and cooperated with each other to search for the lone Japanese army and look for these Japanese devils to practice.
In just two hours, they cleared an area of Japanese troops, but similarly, the disappearance of unusual soldiers quickly attracted the attention of the Japanese army.
This area entered a large number of Japanese troops, searching for missing Japanese soldiers.
Soon, they found the corpses of Japanese soldiers in the streets and ruins, their bodies stripped naked, exposed to the cold air, and their guns and ammunition were removed.
This move is absolutely a great shame for the Japanese devils.
The squadron leader ordered that this group of people must be found and all of them killed.
More than 200 Japanese troops entered the area, but did not find any traces of enemy activity, and there were ruins everywhere, and the group of Shina people seemed to have disappeared.
While moving, guerrilla warfare, naturally not limited to one area, Xia Yuan with dozens of people, long ago fled from this area, and fought in another area a few streets away, sweeping up the Japanese troops who had fallen behind, in just one day, they eliminated more than 200 Japanese soldiers, captured a large number of weapons and equipment, and canned food.
Towards evening, they hid in a relatively secluded ruin.
Screams could be heard dimly in the dark town, then subdued again, and sporadic gunshots echoed over Jinling City.
Those who can run have already run, and those who can't run away are still in Jinling City.
In the security zone, a large number of refugees poured in, roughly estimated at least more than 200,000 people, and there were still many people who did not come in, there were foreigners in the security zone, and the Japanese devils did not dare to shoot in the security zone, so on the first day, the Japanese army did not enter the security zone, nor did they move the people in the security zone.
But not moving today does not mean not moving in the future.
The cunning Japanese have already figured out how to trick the people in the safe zone out.
They've always been so cunning.
In addition to causing large-scale massacres and raping women in Jinling City, the Japanese devils also plundered valuable items in Jinling City on a large scale.
For a long time before the Japanese invasion of China, many history teachers always took out a picture and hung it on the wall when teaching their students, which showed a gold bowl made of gold, and a pair of chopsticks made of gold were placed next to the gold bowl.
The history teacher asks the students what the objects in the pictures are, and then asks where they are made.
Later, the history teacher will tell the students: "The origin of the golden bowl and gold chopsticks is in China, and the Chinese have had gold in every family since the Tang Dynasty, and they all lived in the golden house before their deaths, using gold bowls and golden chopsticks, and even if they died, they used gold as coffins and burials." Students, do you want these things? ”
The students will answer 'yes' in unison.
Since the September 18 Incident, the Japanese army invaded China, especially after coming to Jinling, they first washed Jinling City in blood, killing people when they saw them, and robbing things when they saw them.
When they encountered someone in the house, they used bayonets to ask for something valuable, and when they got it, they killed the man and dragged the woman outside to kill him.
Since December 13, the devils have been walking through the streets and alleys in twos and threes, carrying large and small packages on their backs or carrying large and small packages, officers with horses, and large bags on their backs.
An American reporter captured a picture on Zhongshan East Road, a Japanese devil with a large burden on his back, pushing a stroller full of things in his right hand. The stroller was too low, so he had to bend over and push, the four small wheels could not bear the load on the car, and the four wheels were crooked and crunched.
After the 918 Incident of the Japanese devils, the Japanese had a complete plundering plan, they plundered gold, silver, jewelry, timber, coal mines, iron ore, etc., so when they entered Jinling, the Japanese devils had already formulated a detailed plan, the Japanese allowed the soldiers to take the looted gold and silver jewelry as their own, but there was a certain amount, and they had to hand over valuable civil and guards, jewelry, and so on to the troops.
The superior told the soldiers below that if you get something in Jinling, don't forget to write your home address or the home address of your relatives and friends on the package, and all of it will be gathered at the dock and transported back to China by mail ship.
And let everyone remember that in Shanghai, it should be sent to Shiliupu Wharf, and in Jinling, it should be sent to Xiaguan Wharf.
There were Japanese warships and merchant ships with sun flags moored on the river, and the cabins were filled with all kinds of packages, and many officers used trucks to transport the looted machinery and furniture to the ships, which did not need to be handed over and belonged to personal belongings.
Such a Japanese officer had a certain brain, and when the machine was brought home, he could start a factory and make a fortune.
When the Japanese entered Jinling, they had already inquired about it, and in the prosperous Jinling, Confucius Temple, Xinjiekou, Taihang Palace, Drum Tower, Taiping Road, and Zhongshan East Road had the most merchants and the most banks.
Naturally, the wealth gathered here is the most.
Therefore, after the Japanese army entered Jinling, the Japanese devils who were not satisfied with burning, killing, and plundering, but only wanted to make a fortune would rush into these places, and they were like swarming leeches, staring at these areas, and they looted and grabbed red eyes.
Because, there are too many gold, silver and jewels here, and whoever dares to stop them will become their guns.
From robbing valuables such as gold, silver, and antiques, to less valuable items such as cotton, sugar, cigarettes, rice, clothing, and food, you can rob whatever you see.
Ordinary people did not have so many valuable things in their homes, and they quickly swept away the homes of most of the ordinary people in the city, and then targeted the hospitals.
There are quite a few survivors in the hospital who have survived the burning and killing of prostitution and plundering in Jinling, and they thought that they would be able to escape the catastrophe by luck, but the Japanese devils who had ever thought that they would be mad did not care what the hospital was, and after the valuables in other areas were robbed, they rushed into the hospital, forced the doctors and nurses with bayonets, and took out the valuable items on their bodies.
These Japanese devils think that they can work in the hospital, and they are all rich people.
As everyone knows, these doctors and nurses are just poor and can't take out anything of value at all, so these Japanese devils don't believe it at all, and they start to sweep the hospital and take away all the valuable things.
Flashlights, ordinary watches, pens, and the few little pocket money, even the ribbons with pigtails.
The Japanese devils who refuse to let go of the first courtyard will naturally not let go of the organs, banks, post offices, and libraries
Some Japanese devils even rushed to Jiang's official residence on Huangpu Road and took away Jiang's radio, Soong Meiling's leather shoes, slippers and cosmetics.
A Japanese veteran wrote in the diary he carried with him: "After we arrived in Jinling, there was an official document on it informing the troops, which said that the officers and men of all units had made great contributions in the battle of Shanghai, and had also undergone severe tests in the battle of attacking Jinling, and that they could plunder things as a reward for every soldier." Therefore, some troops specialized in robbing banks, blowing open safes with grenades, and looting silver coins and gold nuggets. Some troops looted libraries and museums by truck. ”
The 16th Division of the Japanese Army received an urgent notice from the Central China Dispatch Army to 'immediately inspect and rush to transport Jinling books and cultural relics.'
The 16th Division dispatched more than 200 men and 18 trucks to search the library and cultural relics.
They inspected more than 80 valuable libraries, including university libraries, provincial libraries of Chinese studies, and the Academia Sinica.
Only Shi Yunxuan, an old Chinese medicine doctor on Shiba Street, was robbed by the Japanese army of four large boxes of precious books, more than 2,000 pieces of calligraphy, paintings and antique cultural relics.
Plundering in the name of 'receiving', they loaded the scattered books they collected onto trucks, a dozen truckloads a day. On the first, second, and third floors of the main building of the investigation center, more than 200 mountains of books were piled up, and Japanese soldiers came in and out every day, constantly carrying and looting books day and night.
When you arrive at Xiaoying, you can clearly see the Zhujiang Road Geological Survey in Purple Mountain, which is a three-story stone building with books stacked up to the ceiling in each room.
It is said that there were 700,000 books at that time, and they sorted and sorted many books and magazines, wrote 00 and 03 on the cover of the books with chalk according to the decimal book classification system, and then moved them to designated places by hired coolies, just sorting out the books looted from Jinling, and it took Japan more than two months just to sort out the books looted from Jinling.
Among these books, there are a wide variety of national and local communiqués of the Chinese government, and they are very complete, all the way up to the communiqué before the incident. The National Economic Commission's publications account for most of the recent surveys and business plans on China's economy and industry, which are very valuable.
There are also more than 3,000 copies of the "Records of the Emperors of the Qing Dynasty".
After sorting out all the books, the Japanese learned that they had plundered 880,000 books in Jinling.
At that time, the Ueno Imperial Library in Tokyo, the largest in Japan, had only 850,000 volumes.
The Osaka Prefectural Library has a collection of 250,000 volumes.
The Japanese not only wantonly looted the things of the common people in Nanjing, but also dared to rob the things of foreigners, and most of the foreigners were very rich, and they could find a lot of valuable things in their houses.
Yihe Road, between Xikang Road and Sujiang Road, is the area of foreign consulates.
The people of the embassy had already moved west with the Nationalist Government, but the things inside had not had time to be moved, and the Japanese army came here to loot like robbing the Chinese.
But the only difference with robbing the Chinese is that they did not burn down the houses.
They know that it's okay to grab things, and it's not okay to burn down the house so as not to cause trouble.
14 days and nights.
The Japanese army stopped burning, killing, and looting, but the Shimonoseki wharf was brightly lit, the Japanese warships anchored along the river, and the merchant ships were piled up with goods, and the Japanese hired a large number of coolies to transport the looted goods from China to the merchant ships.
Trucks loaded with goods, cultural relics, gold and silver kept heading towards the Shimonoseki wharf.
The Japanese set up a large number of checkpoints along the way.
In the silent night, a team was approaching, and Instructor Li observed the Japanese truck with a scope, and vaguely through the burning houses on both sides of the road, he could see that the truck was full of things, but it was covered with a black cloth, and he didn't know what was inside.
"What's in this truck? The corpse of a Japanese devil? A veteran of the 88th Division held a gun, put his hands in his cuffs, squatted in the rubble, staring at the moving trucks in the distance, a little confused.
"It's not like a corpse." Instructor Li saw clearly and saw that some of the black cloth packages on the truck were propped up, and some were dented, not like a truck pulling corpses.
Moreover, when the Japanese army entered Jinling City, the ranks of the national army were all fleeing, and there were very few teams resisting, and the casualties of the Japanese army outside the city would be more, but the casualties inside the city were not many.
It was clearly not a corpse pulled in the truck. (End of chapter)