When was Hubei Huangpi occupied by Japan?

Blood Evidence - Hubei

In late July of the 26th year of the Republic of China, three Japanese military planes bombed the Hanyang Arsenal and Iron Works in Hubei, killing and injuring more than 100 citizens.

On October 31, the 26th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army captured Yingcheng, Hubei Province. The Japanese army ruled Yingcheng for seven years. According to incomplete statistics, 1,050 people were killed in the county, including 293 women and children, and 13,971 houses were burned down. Dong, robbed and killed 4,704 cattle.

In the four years from December 26 to 29, Japanese aircraft raided Xiangyang County 120 times, dropping 4,079 bombs and killing 2,440 people. One hundred and sixty people were killed, 3,548 people were killed, and 6,463 houses, 46 boats, and 14 cars were destroyed.

The 27th year of the Republic of China

On January 4, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Japanese planes launched air raids on Hankou and Hanyang, dropping more than 70 bombs; on the 6th, 38 Japanese planes launched air raids More than 40 bombs were dropped in Wuhan, killing and injuring more than 100 civilians.

On January 24, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Japanese aircraft carried out 24 sorties for the first time in their air raid on Yichang, killing more than 200 migrant workers who were expanding the airport. Subsequently, on February 8, Japanese aircraft attacked Yichang again, destroying a batch of aircraft that were being assembled.

On March 28, the 27th year of the Republic of China, three Japanese planes bombed Wudi in Zaoyang. They bombed back and forth from outside the east gate to Xihekan. At the same time, they strafed wildly, killing and injuring one hundred innocent people. More than ten people.

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On March 29, the 27th year of the Republic of China, five Japanese planes invaded the sky above the town of Hanyang. They first fired with machine guns, then dropped bombs, and finally dropped bombs. More than 20 people were injured, more than 50 houses were blown up, more than 130 residents were killed, and more than 300 people were injured. Subsequently, two of the Japanese planes flew over Parrot Town, blindly dropped bombs and fired machine guns, killing and injuring more than 400 people.

On April 5, the 27th year of the Republic of China, at about 12 noon, four Japanese planes flew over the bustling urban area of ??Yuehu Embankment in Hanyang and carried out indiscriminate bombing, destroying more than 20 private houses. More than eighty people were killed.

Around 2:00 pm on April 13, the 27th year of the Republic of China, nine Japanese planes invaded the sky above Hanyang and bombed Qingchuan Street and Gulou East Street in turn, destroying more than 40 houses. The bombing killed more than 240 people (one estimate is more than 260 people).

On May 4, the 27th year of the Republic of China, six Japanese planes flew to Hanyang and dropped bombs on Fushan Street. The Japanese bombed more than 40 houses, killing and wounding six residents.

On the 13th day of the 27th year of the Republic of China, three Japanese planes invaded the sky over Hanyang and dropped more than ten bombs on Qianlong Lane. The Japanese bombed more than ten houses and killed more than 20 residents.

From June 15th to October 4th in the 27th year of the Republic of China, more than 100 Japanese planes bombed Qichun, dropping more than 300 bombs, killing and wounding 718 soldiers and civilians. One thousand one hundred and ninety-seven houses were blown up.

On June 17, the 27th year of the Republic of China, a large number of Japanese planes bombed Hanyang, focusing on the Hanyang Arsenal and Iron Works in the north of the Dabie Mountains (today's Guishan). Key industries in our country's modern history were bombed into ruins . Residents in the Qianlong Lane and Gaogongqiao areas adjacent to the factory also suffered tragic disasters, with corpses strewn everywhere and countless houses destroyed by bombs.

On July 6, the 27th year of the Republic of China, three Japanese planes invaded Hanyang, dived and dropped four bombs on the famous Guqin Terrace in Hanyang, blowing up the front half of it, and the ancient cultural relics in it were instantly reduced to ash. Two neighboring houses were blown up, and six residents were killed or injured.

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On July 12, the 27th year of the Republic of China, more than 40 Japanese planes bombed Wuchang East Changkou, Rouge Road, Liangdao Street, Xiaodongmenwai, etc. Located in a densely populated area, more than 50 bombs were dropped, killing and injuring more than 500 people.

On July 13, the 27th year of the Republic of China, dozens of Japanese military aircraft were dispatched in consecutive days to bomb Dazhi County and Huangshi Port, Shuikiln, Qilijie, Baoan Town and other areas, blowing up dozens of houses. The explosion killed and injured hundreds of residents.

On July 19, the 27th year of the Republic of China, 39 Japanese planes bombed three towns in Wuhan, destroying more than 500 houses in the Xujiapeng area, killing and injuring more than 1,000 people.

On July 20, the 27th year of the Republic of China, nine Japanese aircraft dropped more than 100 incendiary bombs on Jin County, Hubei Province, destroying more than 200 houses and killing and wounding more than 500 civilians.

On July 27, the 27th year of the Republic of China, six Japanese planes bombed Yong'an Town, destroying 14 houses and three train carriages, killing and injuring more than 520 soldiers and civilians.

On July 29, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Japanese planes bombed Daye Chengguan, killing almost all the more than 300 Kuomintang wounded soldiers and medical staff living at the grain depot.

From July of the 27th year of the Republic of China to October of the same year, more than 80 Japanese aircraft raided Yingshan. The losses are well documented: more than 1,400 houses were blown up, and two trains were blown up. Festival, killing 58 people, injuring 157 people, and killing more than 30 livestock.

On August 2, the 27th year of the Republic of China, eight Japanese planes raided Guangshui, killing and injuring more than 200 Chinese residents and destroying more than 20 houses.

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On August 3, the 27th year of the Republic of China, after five Japanese planes bombed the urban area of ??Hankou, they flew to Hanyang and dropped bombs, blowing up the houses in Hexinxiang area. In more than 20 buildings, four residents were killed and six injured.

In early August of the 27th year of the Republic of China, six Japanese aircraft bombed Jingmen Duohenshi Airport for the first time. They dropped more than ten bombs, destroyed more than 20 houses, killed and injured more than 20 residents, and killed three or four farm cattle. Ten heads.

At 9 a.m. on August 13, the 27th year of the Republic of China, twelve Japanese planes bombed Yangxin City, causing more than a thousand military and civilian casualties and the destruction of 150 houses.

On August 17, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army occupied Gaonao and immediately massacred the unarmed people. In less than half a day, the Japanese killed more than 130 people and wiped out 18 households. . In addition, Japanese bombs destroyed more than 20 houses, resulting in a loss of no less than 150,000 kilograms of food, and all pigs, chickens, and cattle were stolen.

On August 24, the 27th year of the Republic of China, at about 8 a.m., three Japanese planes flew over Tongcheng, bombing the city indiscriminately and sweeping across with machine guns, killing more than 40 residents. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese planes returned and dropped many incendiary bombs. The whole city was on fire and many houses were blown up. Since then, no one has left the city and it has become a dead city.

On August 29, the 27th year of the Republic of China, from early morning to 11 o'clock, 57 Japanese planes bombed Jingshan County in two batches, dropping more than 200 bombs and cutting off the streets. On the wall, dozens of boats on the river outside the city were all blown up, corpses drifted, and the river turned blood-red. Of the 1,260 houses in the city, 1,165 were destroyed. According to reports from those who participated in the burial, a total of 1,964 corpses were buried. Including the boat people and farmers outside the city, more than 2,000 people died and more than 3,000 were injured.

On September 6, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army violated international conventions and massacred more than 300 wounded Kuomintang soldiers and 30 medical staff in the Baoguo Nunnery in Meichuan Town, where the Red Cross flag was planted.

From September 13, the 27th year of the Republic of China, to August 10th, the 32nd year of the Republic of China, Japanese military aircraft carried out large-scale bombings in the Dawu County area. The disaster area covered 60% of the county. area of ??five. According to only four statistics, Japanese military aircraft dropped 80 bombs, killing 88 civilians, destroying 349 houses, and causing losses of 1,295,300 yuan.

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On September 16, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army went out in force to massacre Feijiatun. They first looted things and then set fire to them. More than 400 houses in the whole village were destroyed. For ashes. The people were forced to gather on the rice field at the head of the village. The Japanese army chopped with sabers and bitten them with military dogs, killing twenty-two people. The Japanese army raped two old women and hanged them to death. A few days later, the Japanese army raped a woman and was beaten to death by the peasants. When the Japanese army found out, they captured six more civilians, dragged them to the beach, buried their lower bodies in sand, exposed their upper bodies, and then released military dogs to bite them to death.

The Japanese army invaded Zhangcaiyuan, Xiagang, Wuxue County and massacred about 300 residents. Seven hundred houses were burned down.

On September 21, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army massacred more than 200 people captured from other places at Lijiabian in Yangcheng, and also killed more than 30 residents of Lijiabian.

On September 29, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army occupied the Tianjia Town Fortress. After that, Japanese planes invaded Huangpi and dropped incendiary bombs, knocking down and burning down more than 500 houses, killing and wounding more than 600 civilians.

In September of the 27th year of the Republic of China, thousands of Japanese troops attacking Wuhan passed through Xinzhou. Many people were killed by the Japanese troops along the Han-Ma Highway. In the nine-kilometer section of the Liji area alone, five civilians were killed and injured. More than a hundred people. In the same month, three Japanese planes dropped a large number of bombs and incendiary bombs over Liuzi Port, Cangbu and Yangyang, burning down more than 760 houses and killing 57 people.

The Japanese army was unable to conquer Yangcheng Mountain and brutally poisoned the residents of nearby villages, killing more than 400 people.

More than ten Japanese troops occupied Dafeng Village in Wuxue, and used poisonous gas to massacre 49 residents in Shangyuxun Village.

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On October 8, the 27th year of the Republic of China, twelve Japanese planes attacked Shangbahe Town, Huanggang County. They took turns bombing and strafing for more than an hour, killing five soldiers and civilians. More than a dozen people blew up more than 40 houses.

On October 20, the 27th year of the Republic of China, twelve Japanese planes bombed Huangpi County in the morning, burning more than 500 houses, killing and injuring more than 600 people, and Shizi Street and Marry Street became A ruin.

At 9 a.m. on October 21, the 27th year of the Republic of China, eight Japanese planes bombed Ninghe Town, Jingshan, killing more than 300 people. The Yangjiashu air-raid shelter collapsed, killing more than 70 people in the cave. Distressed.

Nine Japanese planes bombed Yunmeng County, killing more than 300 residents and injuring hundreds.

On October 23, the 27th year of the Republic of China, personnel from the "Xinhua Daily" and the Eighth Route Army Wuhan Office in Wuhan evacuated to Yichang by boat. They were bombed by Japanese aircraft on the river near Yu, and the boat was sunk. Six people were killed.

At 10 a.m. on October 23, the 27th year of the Republic of China, two trains loaded with refugees were heading south from Wuchang Station. When they arrived at Zhifang Railway Station, three Japanese military planes bombed and strafed them wildly. In the carriage, corpses were everywhere under Bagong Mountain, it was too horrible to see.

On October 25, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army occupied Wuhan, and then occupied Wuchang and Hanyang. According to statistics, from the autumn of the 26th year of the Republic of China to the day Wuhan fell, Japanese planes invaded Wuhan 61 times, with 946 bombs, and about 4,590 bombs dropped, killing and injuring eight people. More than 1,600 people. Among them, 3,389 people died and more than 4,900 houses were destroyed. During the seven years that the Japanese invaded Han Dynasty, they destroyed 43,025 houses, massacred 13,508 people, and looted 976 trillion yuan of property (calculated based on prices in the 34th year of the Republic of China). ).

On October 26, the 27th year of the Republic of China, after the Japanese army occupied Wuhan, they killed, set fire to, raped and looted everywhere. In front of the Jianghan Pass customs, eighty people were arrested, several were killed on the spot, and the rest were pushed into the Yangtze River. The survivors were massacred with machine guns (the Japanese army set up the "Hankou Field Post Office" in Hankou to remit the looted proceeds of the Japanese soldiers in late November The stolen money was equivalent to 600,000 Japanese yen and was remitted back to Japan).

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On October 28, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Japanese military planes bombed Tongshan County, dropping 45 bombs and killing 37 residents. Fifty-two people were injured and more than half of the houses in the city were destroyed.

The Japanese army invaded Jinkou Town and burned down more than 300 houses on half the street of Dongzhen Temple, leaving thousands of people homeless.

On October 30, the 27th year of the Republic of China, after the Japanese army invaded Yuyue Town, Jiayu County, they burned 28 shops such as Silver Building on Xizheng Street, demolished 82 private houses on South Street, and brutally killed There are countless common people and adulterous women. In order to vent their animalistic desires, the Japanese army set up "comfort stations" to abduct young women from other places and locals for them to ravage.

On October 31, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese Army from Central China sent the Cangsong troops of the Third Division to invade and occupy the Yangtze River Port of Yingcheng County. They burned, killed, and looted everywhere, and shot and killed small traders and boat owners. Dozens of people set fire to houses in Gongjiawan and Chenjiawan.

The Japanese army put bacteria into ponds and wells in the Yangtze River Port area of ??Yingcheng County. Plague spread everywhere. Many people suffered from dry heat, cramps and suffocation. In Japanese military field hospitals, Chinese people were often arrested for anatomy experiments and bacterial experiments, and their livers were dug out to make medicine. Many people died violently.

Since October of the 27th year of the Republic of China, Japanese military planes have bombed Wuchang County 34 times, dropping 1,148 bombs, killing 853 residents and injuring 1,500. One hundred and eighty-three people blew up more than 110 houses and killed 5,572 livestock.

On November 1, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army that occupied Fenghuang Village carried out a bloodbath in Yuba Village, killing 36 and a half Chinese people (and also slaughtered a fetus).

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On November 5, the 27th year of the Republic of China, six Japanese military aircraft bombed Dangyang County for the first time, killing and injuring 93 people and destroying many houses.

From early November of the 27th year of the Republic of China to December of the 31st year of the Republic of China, Japanese aircraft bombed the urban and rural areas of Zaoyang 21 times, and the Japanese dropped 603 bombs (including Fifteen incendiary bombs), killing 224 people in Zaoyang, injuring 354 others, and destroying 2,557 houses.

On November 7, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese troops entrenched in the Xihe stronghold sent troops to surround Feijiatun. They set fire to more than 400 houses and killed 22 innocent people.

The Japanese army captured Linxiang County. During the seven-year occupation of Linxiang, more than 20,000 people were killed and robbed, and nearly 10,000 houses were burned and demolished.

In mid-November of the 27th year of the Republic of China, Japanese planes bombed Fengkou Town, Honghu County, killing and injuring more than 200 residents. Houses in the town were destroyed and more than 40 families were wiped out.

On November 22, the 27th year of the Republic of China, at about 8 a.m., three Japanese planes bombed Shayang Town, Mianyang, destroying more than 80 houses and killing more than 190 people. More than thirty people were injured.

On November 21, the 27th year of the Republic of China, twenty Japanese planes dropped more than 400 bombs at the entrance of Honghu Lake, killing more than 150 soldiers and civilians and injuring more than 45 people. , five hundred houses were destroyed.

Nine Japanese planes carried out indiscriminate bombing on Fengkou Town. More than a thousand residents were killed, at least 48 households were wiped out, countless houses were blown up, and various properties were damaged.

More than a hundred Japanese troops entrenched in Jinniu Town, Daye County harassed Wengjia Mountain and Sangen Temple at the foot of Nanshan Mountain. They captured 75 farmers who were shot dead on the mountain and beheaded them. They were all killed by cruel means such as cutting their throats and stabbing their hearts. In this massacre, eleven households in the entire village were wiped out.

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On November 23, the twenty-seventh year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army invaded Yingshan County and on May 12, the twenty-eighth year of the Republic of China. They once again harassed East Yaojiawan, West Yaojiawan, Lower Yaojiawan, and Liujiawan, burned more than 120 houses, and killed 27 villagers.

In early December of the 27th year of the Republic of China, six Japanese planes bombed Shahu Town in Mianyang, killing and burning more than 40 residents and injuring more than ten others. More than 100 houses were destroyed.

On December 7, the 27th year of the Republic of China, after a group of Japanese soldiers bloodbathed Dingwang Bay and burned Li Jiaying, they invaded Zhou Lijia Tian, ??burned ten villagers to death, and burned down six houses. One of the family's nine members, old and young, were killed in the flames at the same time.

On December 11, the 27th year of the Republic of China, three Japanese troops stationed at the Xiaogan Garden South Bridge went out to take prisoners, and one of them was killed by the Lujiaganglouziwan militiamen. A few days later, the Japanese army carried out bloody revenge and sent troops to surround Louziwan. After capturing 26 villagers and three passers-by, they tortured them with bayonets, cut off ears, beheaded fingers and other cruel methods to extract confessions, but to no avail. In the end, the Japanese army tied the 29 people with straw, poured kerosene on them, and burned them all alive. At the same time, they also set fire to more than 20 houses.

On December 14, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army massacred 66 people and burned more than 100 houses in Xiaolongtan, near Yongan Town.

On December 26, the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army invaded Wuhan, burned, killed, raped and looted everywhere, and adopted various brutal methods. In the air-raid shelter in Xiaxinhe, Wuchang, the Japanese army gang-raped and killed more than a dozen Chinese women who had taken refuge.

After the fall of Wuhan, the Japanese military police stationed in Hankou killed Chinese people. Their methods were extremely cruel and vicious, including digging, skin-cutting, flooding with water, and collective massacres. Once, the Japanese military police stationed in Wuchang took imprisoned Chinese civilians from prison and drove them to the riverside outside Wenchangmen in cars. After assassinating them, they pushed them into the river and washed them away with the river. Most of those detained in the Japanese Military Police were tortured to death, and even if they were released by chance, most of them would be disabled and unable to survive.

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In the winter of the 27th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese garrison entrenched in Huangpi Cangzibu and Gantang harassed Linjiada Bay and captured all the young and old who stayed in the bay. When thrown into the fire, babies and pregnant women were also inevitably thrown into the fire. Hundreds and dozens of people were burned alive.

In the 27th year of the Republic of China, during the battles outside Wuhan, the battles in which Japan used poison extensively included the battles of Ruichang and Langjunshan, the battles of Guangji and Songyangqiao, and the battle of Xishui. In the battle of Guangji alone, the Japanese army used a large amount of poisonous smoke, causing poisoning and casualties of more than 2,000 Chinese soldiers defending the frontier.

After the Japanese army occupied Wuhan, they opened comfort stations all over Doujiying Street in Wuchang, forcing Chinese women from good families to serve as military prostitutes. Every Sunday, Japanese soldiers came here in groups to vent their animal desires.

After the Japanese army invaded Yingshan County in the 27th year of the Republic of China, they used brutal fascist methods to massacre civilians and anti-Japanese patriots. According to statistics from the Yingshan County Government of the Kuomintang in February 1996 and May the following year, during the Japanese occupation of Yingshan, 8,500 people died in the villages and towns in the county due to massacre and torture by the Japanese army. One hundred and nine people. The Japanese Military Police of the Third Division alone massacred more than a hundred people at Chengguan in less than a year from the 27th to the 28th year of the Republic of China. The Japanese army used torture indiscriminately and cruelly, including shooting, chopping with knives, being tortured, burning with kerosene, bitten by dogs, hanging upside down, corroded with sulfuric acid, sunburned, burned, hanged, crushed with stones, and seated. Death caused by suffocation, drowning, rolling on the ground, etc. in water prison or lime prison.

After the Japanese army took hold of the Jingling area of ??Hubei County, they became bloodthirsty and regarded the lives of Chinese people as nothing. Every time they went to the countryside to raid, they would massacre them. After the 31st year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army massacred more than 130 people three times, burned more than 1,400 houses, and left homeless refugees living on the streets. Countless people died of cold and hunger.

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The Japanese army occupied the Jingling area of ??Tianmen County for seven years, burning, killing, raping and looting, and committing numerous crimes. In the past seven years, the Japanese army forcibly recruited Laf and formed a permanent engineering team to build the Tianhuang, Tianyue, Tianyu and other highways. Once, because the progress of the project was slightly delayed, more than 30 bricklayers were assassinated on the spot.

The 28th year of the Republic of China

On January 11, the 28th year of the Republic of China, more than a hundred Japanese troops entrenched in Xinzhou City went to Wangjiazhai, Panhe Township to search for the anti-Japanese guerrilla leader Wang Yuting. After being captured, 21 villagers were killed and more than 20 houses were burned down.

On January 18, the 28th year of the Republic of China, two Japanese soldiers who invaded Liu Chongwu’s Shanglin Brigade chased a woman to Linjiadawan and attempted to rape her, but were beaten to death by the common people. On January 18, the third captain of the Japanese army led a squadron and more than 100 people in three groups went straight to Linjia Bay, arrested more than 160 people, and gathered in the yard of Lin Defa's house for brutal interrogation. In the evening, the Japanese army tied the remaining sixty-nine civilians with iron wires through their collarbones and strung them together one by one to Liu Chongwu's stronghold. On the 22nd, the Japanese army took eight people out of the captured people and transported them to Yangfu in carriages for massacre. On the 23rd, the Japanese army took the remaining 61 civilians back to Linjiadawan and killed them all. After the attack, the Japanese army set fire to the house and burned an 80-year-old woman alive. In addition, the Japanese army killed three civilians in Mishai Lake. In total, the Japanese army massacred seventy-three compatriots in this tragedy.

In January of the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army in Yingshan rounded up more than 30 civilians near Yanghu Temple and stabbed them all to death with bayonets. The Japanese military police in Yingshan killed more than 100 people from the 28th to the 29th years of the Republic of China. The Swallow's Nest behind Yintai Mountain was the execution ground.

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On February 21, the 28th year of the Republic of China, Japanese planes bombed Yichang, destroying more than 600 houses, killing and injuring more than 1,000 citizens.

In February of the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army attacked Yanmenkou, Jingshan, and killed more than 60 farmers hiding in the cave during the search. At the same time, six Japanese cavalrymen used machine guns to kill more than a hundred farmers hiding in caves at Chenjiaqiao, about two miles west of Xiayang Port.

The Japanese army massacred Zhujiawan. More than 200 houses of more than 50 households in the village were basically destroyed, more than 30 women were raped, and 31 people were shot to death. Not long after, the Japanese army went to Xiaohejiawan in Weigand to commit evil. Seeing people transferring their belongings and fleeing, they immediately fired machine guns and killed more than 30 people.

In February of the 32nd year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army dispatched 103 aircraft to bomb the towns and villages in Jiangling County, killing 392 people, injuring more than 1,000 people, and destroying 40 houses. One hundred and sixty-four rooms.

In the early morning of March 1, the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army attacked Chenjiachong in Sanyang, Beijing. They put Chen Tianqing and eight others into sacks, tied them to wooden ladders, and used them as targets for assassination practice. They stabbed them alive. die. In the same month, the Japanese army in Jingshan County captured 32 people from nearby villages, claiming to be salt dealers, and buried them all alive. People were gathered to watch as they were buried.

On March 5, 2018, Hirose, the leader of the Japanese army in Tongcheng, led 200 people to "mopping up" at Xiangu Mountain in Beigang. He shot more than 50 villagers with machine guns and burned hundreds of houses.

The 10th Regiment of the 16th Division of the Japanese Army invaded Zhongxiang Yingzhong Town. After that, the Japanese army demolished houses and destroyed cultural relics in this ancient town with a history of more than 2,000 years, making this town a Piles of ruins.

According to statistics, during the six and a half years that the Japanese troops occupied Yingzhong Town, the town lost property equivalent to 25,615,202 thousand French dollars.

In March and December of the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army occupied Ma'anshan and Xihe River and then invaded westward. On that day, the Japanese army surrounded Liangjiawan in Wandian. When they saw civilians escaping, they fired machine guns at them. Those they caught were immediately hacked to death or shot with sabers. They shot more than 300 civilians along the way.

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On March 13, the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army went on a rampage, burning, killing and looting, killing 26 residents in Guanzhuang and nearby Zhujiawan. , and killed 24 villagers in Zengjiawan area with shooting and knives. At the same time, they also set fire to 26 households in Guanzhuang and seven households in Hejiazui, totaling more than 200 thatched-roof houses.

On March 15, the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army entrenched in Hanyang dispatched more than 270 soldiers in two groups of motorboats and cars to invade the villages near Xinglongji, burning 57 There were more than 380 houses in ten households, more than 3,000 people were victims, 17 villagers were killed, and countless properties were robbed.

In mid-March of the 28th year of the Republic of China, under the pretext that two people were killed, the Japanese army retaliated by setting fire to more than 100 houses in Dongjia Lane, killing six residents, and then set fire to Beixinji Ertiao. More than 200 households and more than 500 houses on the long street were burned down, and the eyes of 15 compatriots were gouged out with bayonets to show the public.

In March of the 28th year of the Republic of China, the intersection of Xiang (Yang), Dang (Yang) and Sha (City) highways in Jianyangyi was bombed by three Japanese planes, burning more than 20 houses and killing two people. More than ten people.

One day, thirty-six Japanese planes bombed and strafed Mianyang Shahu Town in turns from dawn to dusk. The rural areas within a radius of fifteen miles outside the town were not spared, and forty houses were destroyed. Yudong, killing and injuring more than 60 people. Among them, a pit behind Shahu Primary School was blown up, burying more than ten people alive.

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The Japanese invaders Yagi Souchang (Sergeant) who was entrenched in Jingshan captured 32 farmers from far and near rural areas, falsely accusing them of being salt dealers, and then dragged them to Nanyuan was buried alive.

On April 19, the 28th year of the Republic of China, more than 220 Japanese troops invaded Jiaoxia Village in Tongshan and massacred 23 young, old, women, and infants with machine guns and bayonets.

From April 22 to August 15 in the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army bombed Shiziwan in Gui County eight times, sinking and damaging five warships and merchant ships, and killing 36 people. , injuring forty people.

In mid-April of the 28th year of the Republic of China, more than 100 Japanese troops entrenched in Caidian Town, Hanyang County, in four military vehicles, pounced on Hanyin Mountain (commonly known as Ma'anshan). Please note that machine guns and grenade launchers were aimed at Shot at the fleeing villagers, both male and female. After breaking into Yuhe Bay, the Japanese army killed everyone they saw. Even the old, weak, sick and disabled, children of several years old and infants were not spared. Not only was Wanghewan burned to the ground, but more than 2,000 houses in nearby villages within 20 miles were also set on fire, and more than 340 men, women, old and children were massacred. Japanese beast soldiers dragged young women to a rice field to expose their bodies, gang-raped them crazily and then threw them into flames. The ruthless Japanese soldiers stabbed two babies with a bayonet and waved them in the air as a show, causing their livers and intestines to be severed. They were scattered on the ground and eaten by police dogs.

On April 22, the 28th year of the Republic of China, in retaliation for the attack by the anti-Japanese guerrillas, the Japanese army dispatched more than 200 people, bloodbathed and set fire to the houses of forty households in Dunhuang, Huang'an County. Some young and old who were hiding in the house were burned alive. Later, five houses in Fanshangwan to the east of Dunwang's house were burned down, and eleven villagers were killed. Then seven houses in Zengjiawan and Xuewuwan to the west of Dunwang's house were all burned down, and his mother was burned to death. Two women. The seven villagers who were later arrested were taken to the county seat and buried alive.

On April 25, the 28th year of the Republic of China, a small team of Japanese troops stationed in Tingqiao went to Puqi Shenshan for "mopping up". Passing by Shijia Village in Guishan, they set fire to 48 houses and 7 cargo ships, killing 48 villagers. people, eleven households among them were killed. Only three people in the village survived.

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In April of the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army killed 36 wounded and civilians on their way to Shibi Lake in Tongshan County.

The Kuomintang's 37th Division Ji Xing Wenbu, who was guarding Xianghexi, organized a death squad of 508 people to besiege the Japanese troops stationed in Jiukou Town in three groups. Due to the enemy's strong fortifications and sufficient firepower, the Chinese army suffered heavy casualties and retreated to its original position. After the war, the Japanese army killed all 35 captured Chinese wounded soldiers.

On May 1, the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army invaded Huang'an Gaoqiao. On the 12th, they arrived at Laojiao Village. They arrested ten villagers, including Yang Chuan, and dragged them to the outside of the village. They were shot with machine guns. Except for Yang Chuan, the rest of the villagers were Nine people died. On the second day, three people were killed in Yangjiacha Village. In May of the same year, Japanese troops invaded Piaolindian and massacred eight villages, killing more than 300 people.

On May 7, the 28th year of the Republic of China, hundreds of people from the Japanese Army's Nishina Division surrounded a large house. They shot the captured civilians with machine guns, burned them with gasoline, or blew them up with grenades. They massacred the unarmed civilians. A crowd of 108 people burned down more than 420 houses, creating the appalling "Ten Thousand Murders"

On May 8, the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese soldier Takahashi Tatsumi stationed in Xinzhou City Two soldiers from the Jilin Regiment went to the north of the city to take prisoners and were ambushed by the anti-Japanese guerrillas. The Japanese troops mobilized in full force and harassed twenty-six villages from morning to evening. They burned down 735 houses and captured 76 people. They were taken to the foot of a big tree in Beihu, stabbed randomly with bayonets, and then thrown into the Jiushui River. Except for one person who survived, most of the bodies of the victims were missing.

Twelve Japanese aircraft bombed Yichang City and dropped bombs along the road along the river, east gate, north gate, and Ermaheng Road. The houses and shops in the center of the city were almost razed to the ground, killing and wounding citizens and vegetable farmers. Quite a few.

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On May 11, the 28th year of the Republic of China, 700 or 800 Japanese troops killed 25 people in Dawushao and burned down more than 800 houses. .

On May 18, the 28th year of the Republic of China, 27 Japanese planes bombed the town of Guan, the county seat, dropping 150 bombs and firing machine guns back and forth. Nearly 800 people died. In just two alleys at the back entrance of the Wuji and Liujishan goods stores at the intersection of Grand Cross Street, more than 300 fellow villagers who trafficked sesame oil from Henan were killed.

On May 22, the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese troops entrenched in Nanlin rushed into Tongshan County, massacred more than 70 people three times, and set fire to the corpses and houses.

On May 24, the 28th year of the Republic of China, more than 40 Japanese troops stationed in Maqiao massacred 72 people in Zhongtianfan, including 18 families who were exterminated and 190 houses were burned down. Fifteen rooms.

In May of the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army invaded Xiangyang and its suburban villages, killing forty residents in the county; at the bridgehead of Liqiao Village, Jiahetao, thirty-eight young men were massacred; Eleven farmers were killed in Zhuang, Sangshugang and other villages.

After the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese military's method of poisoning changed to artillery poison gas bombs, chemical mortar bombs and throwing poison gas bombs. The types of poison gas used include corrosive mustard gas and Louis zone gas. In the 28th year of the Republic of China, Japanese Major Generals Sasaki and Gan Gan led two gas regiments of 2,400 people separated from Shanghai, Dagu and other places; in May, the Japanese army transferred the "Special Chemical Corps" from Tianjin; In September, 120 technicians were transferred from the Osaka Chemical Arsenal to serve as gas instructors. In October, the 9th Chemical Corps was mobilized from Osaka to Shanghai. In March of the 29th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army mobilized the First Independent Chemical Battalion from Yokohama to station in Guangzhou, and the Second Independent Chemical Battalion to station in Hankou. In the 30th year of the Republic of China, about 3,000 people from the newly-organized Fourth Chemical Corps were transferred from Tokyo and stationed in Nanchang, Yueyang, and Yichang; in November, 3,000 people from the 31st and 32nd Chemical Corps Regiments were transferred from Japan. Stationed in Hankou. In the same year, more than 80 chemists were sent from Tokyo to organize a gas coaching class in Hankou.

The Japanese army invaded Zaoyang. According to the "Statistical Data on Losses of the Anti-Japanese War in Hubei Province" co-edited by the Hubei Provincial Social Affairs Department and the Statistics Department in December of the 34th year of the Republic of China, by May of the 30th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army invaded Zaoli for three consecutive years, and the losses were as follows (including the Japanese invaders) Entry and Japanese bombing losses): 91,747 refugees killed, 4,154 dead, 2,217 disabled; property damage, food 100 605,474 (city) stones, 260,000 bolts of cotton cloth, 76,812 (city) loads of cotton, 1,651 cattle, farm tools Ninety-three thousand six hundred and sixty-six buildings and 3,838 houses were lost, among which urban houses suffered the most losses.

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On June 3, the 28th year of the Republic of China, more than 100 Japanese troops surrounded Zhuqiao, killed 51 civilians and 10 cattle with machine guns, and burned down their houses. More than forty rooms.

On June 7, the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army massacred 21 villagers in Tongshan Ridge.

On June 16, the 28th year of the Republic of China, three Japanese soldiers who were entrenched in Huangpi rushed to Shenjiatian to rape women. Villagers killed two Japanese soldiers and another Japanese soldier escaped from the stronghold.

Late at night, a team of Japanese troops stationed in Huangpi County made a sneak attack on Shenjiatianwan Village, set fire to the village, arrested innocent farmers, burned more than 110 houses, and stabbed 18 villagers to death with bayonets. The Japanese army's methods of torturing and killing women were even more cruel. The Japanese army caught a pregnant woman, forcibly took off her upper and lower clothes, and tied her hands behind her back. Then the beast soldiers formed a circle and insulted and teased her aunt. Afterwards, the Japanese soldiers cut off her breasts with sharp knives, pierced her vagina with bayonets, and cut her neck until the fetus was attached to the ground and her intestines flowed out.

On July 11, the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese troops stationed in the stronghold of Hujia Village, Dayanjiao, Zao City, in retaliation for the attack by the anti-Japanese guerrillas, set fire to Caijiawan (now part of Yangling District, Yingxian County). Town), fourteen villagers, old and young, were killed and burned to death in six villages around the town, and three households among them were exterminated.

On July 15, the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army set out from Luohan Temple to "sweep" Shuihu. More than 110 innocent people were killed indiscriminately in places such as the Taishan Temple and Taishan Temple. Immediately, more than 50 people found along the way were brought to the Zhujiapo River at Duanshan Pass and fired wildly with machine guns. Except for one person who narrowly escaped death, all the others were killed.

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On July 20, the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army came to Suixian County to "clear the countryside" and killed 54 people, including farmers who were killed with sabers and machine guns. Forty-one people were buried alive and thirteen Kuomintang scouts were dismembered with sabers.

On July 28, the Republic of China, six planes bombed Leguan Township, Zhongxiang County, killing 13 residents, injuring 15 others, and destroying all the houses in the street.