At the end of May 1938, the iron hooves of the Japanese invading army set foot on the land of Sui County. The people of Sui County have endured an inhumane massacre and plunder. The scene is terrible and the incident is terrifying. It still makes people unforgettable to remember those tragic years.
On May 16, 1938 (April 17th lunar month), three aircraft of the Japanese invading army came to the airfield over Sui County to reconnaise and dropped three bombs. Since then, people are in panic all day long. The residents in the city have left the city to hide from the sky and dare to return to the city to guard their homes at night.
There are even rumors in the countryside, saying: "Japan is here, and you will kill the sheep's head when you see it." For a moment, the masses killed the sheep one after another; the people who went to the barber shop to scrape the "foreign head" were overwhelmed.
On the morning of May 30, 1938, the Lai Guqi Detachment of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army was attacked from the west along Sui Shang Highway from Ningling County. People shouted and neighed, and the horse was neighing, and it was full of smoke and dust. It was fierce and arrogant. Many people panicked along the way to escape.
Yutun Village, bordering Ningling County to the east of Sui County, is located about a hundred steps north of Sui Shang Highway. When the Japanese army arrived here to have breakfast, they entered Yuzhong with a fierce look. In order to do their best to do their best to be cruel and cruel, seventeen villagers were shot and many women were insulted.
Among them, Yu Hanbang was stabbed and fainted on the ground several times. The Japanese army still sneered and peed on the wound. When he had a chance to wake up, he shot him to death with a gun. The Japanese army boiled water and cooked rice, using the villagers' tables and cabinets smashed by them as firewood. After a breakfast, I was eaten by chickens and pigs, and I even peeled the farmers' cattle and horses for several times. When they were about to leave, they ignited more than twenty houses. What's more, the wheat stacks that the farmers had just harvested and entered the farm were also lit more than twenty places, causing the fire to soar into the sky. These jackal-like enemies were fed and drank, and then shitted into the crowd. Afterwards, Wang Zhixin returned home and saw that the family was empty and the yard was in a mess. When he entered the kitchen, he saw a piece of cloth covered with the pot. He revealed that it was a bubble of manure.
The Japanese army left Yutun and continued to invade the west. A cavalry on its left approached Liuguanmiao Village in the east of the city. The farmers working in the fields saw the army horses coming and hurriedly hid in a temple courtyard at the entrance of the village. The Japanese army was suspicious, so they drove their horses around the temple and entered the search with guns. When they saw the villager Sun Jiming tied a belt, they shot them immediately. The rest of the people fled out in horror. The Japanese army leaped over to chase and shot them. In an instant, twelve villagers died under guns.
On the morning of that day, the Japanese army had already arrived at the Dongguan of Sui County. Huang Jie's troops of the Kuomintang army guarding Sui once went out of the city to fight, but failed to support them, retreated to defend the city. Until the afternoon of May 31, a section of the city walls in the east gate and northeast corner of the city were destroyed by heavy artillery by the Japanese army. The Kuomintang army abandoned the city and retreated westward, and the Japanese army then rushed into the city.
They were angry with resistance and entered the city. They all carried guns and ammunition, searched through the streets and killed everyone they saw. There was a former Qing juren, Chen Jixiu, who was overly pedantic and wore a boot, hat and orchid shirt to welcome the enemy with courtesy, and attempted to forgive him. How could the Japanese army understand what kind of person he was? He then killed Chen Zha with a bayonet. They searched door to door and rushed to the ten thousand people monument (now Shuikou Road). They saw that most of the residents had run away, and they stopped.
According to the old man's recollection, more than 200 residents in the city were brutally killed, more than 80 women were insulted, and more than 30 people were missing. More than 160 houses have been turned into ashes. The eastern half of the city was broken, with broken walls, fireworks and blood corpses everywhere.
Even elderly people are not spared. Li Zhanyuan's grandmother was 97 years old and Chen Xiaozhen's grandmother was 83 years old. Both were buried alive by the Japanese army. Hui tribe resident Wu Xiaoming, a family of four died at the hands of Japanese soldiers. His mother, elder brother and sister-in-law were shot and killed. The third brother was put into a sack and tied his mouth and threw it into the water to drown.
Xu Shuzeng and Han Jinglu poured kerosene on their bodies and burned them to death. Wu Xiaoqian's brother was tied up and called a military dog and bitten to death. Many people have seen with their own eyes that Xu Laotun's wife died naked at the west gate of the city. Yuan Chuanxiang, a resident of Nanguan, was honest. The Japanese army forced him to commit sexual intercourse with his neighbor's daughter. Yuan resisted but refused and was tied to a pillar in the temple and killed. There are so many miserable things, it is really hard to list them one by one.
On June 2, 1938, after the Japanese army invaded Sui County, they continued to invade Wulou Village in the west.Wu Tinglian's eldest son and second son hurriedly hid in the yard outside the yard. Wu Tinglian and his wife were anxious and locked their daughter and third daughter-in-law into the small hall. Only two old people were left in the courtyard to observe the movements.
Who knew that after the Japanese army entered the courtyard, they saw that the small house was locked, so they forced the door to break the lock and entered. Seeing that it was two young women, they immediately insulted them. Tinglian and his wife were helpless and begged for every kind of obstacle. The Japanese army tied the two old men with ropes and threw them outside the hand door into the wheat grass and burned them to death.
Two sons hiding in the macaque outside the yard heard the violent howling at home, and ran back home to fight against the enemy with bare hands and were shot and killed by the enemy one by one. In an instant, four people in the family died and the two women were defiled. Afterwards, the two girls hanged themselves, but fortunately they were rescued by their neighbors. When the villagers talked about this matter, they were still sad and pitiful.
After the fall of Sui County, during the eight-year bloody rule, it was even more colluded with the enemy and puppets, and often harassed villagers. According to incomplete statistics, about 5,000 people were tragically killed in the county. The various crimes of the Japanese invaders in Sui County are really unspeakable.
