On this day, 131 years ago, November 21, 1894 (October 24, 1894, the Japanese army captured Lushun during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 - 1894, and the Lushun Massacre began. Under the Japanese army's butcher knife, China corpses were scattered all over the ground. From November 21 to 25, 1894, in Lushun, the wind and snow were blowing, the chill was biting, bones were piled, and flames soared to the sky. More than 20,000 unarmed China soldiers and civilians were ruthlessly killed by the violent Japanese army. There was red blood and miserable wails... When the dragon flag of the Qing army was torn to pieces by war and bayonet, the gloomy sky of Lushun in 1894 witnessed such a world-renowned tragedy-the Qing army, which was preparing to defend for three years, defeated the humiliation of China's modern history, full of puzzling doubts. If the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing, which opened the door to China, was caused by the "strong ships and artillery" of foreign enemies, then the situation was switched to the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, but the situation was different. At that time, the Qing Dynasty's naval equipment ranked best in Asia. The two ironclad ships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, which the Qing government spared no expense and ordered by Germany, visited Japan. Their power shocked the Japanese government and opposition! At that time, the weapons and equipment of the first-class army of the Qing army were comparable to those of the European and American powers. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 - 1894, Japan, which was short of resources and poor financial resources, only equipped each soldier with 8 rounds of ammunition, while the shells and bullets of Qing soldiers piled up in warehouses. After the Westernization Movement, the Qing Dynasty, which advocated "learning from the barbarians to control the barbarians", imported a large number of advanced weapons such as serial cannons and muskets from abroad. When the Japanese army seized these spoils, they often felt inferior. There are records that when the Japanese army's attack on China was unsustainable, it was the Qing army's weapons and ammunition obtained in the battle to revitalize its military prestige. In Dalian Bay alone, which the Qing army easily abandoned, the Japanese army seized 120 large and small artillery pieces and 2.46 million shells abandoned by the Qing army! Exploring the internal causes of the fiasco of China during the Sino-Japanese War, the once-rampant "theory of weapons generation difference" seems difficult to establish. Lushun Port, which took the Qing court sixteen years to operate and cost tens of millions of dollars, was called the "First Military Port in the Far East" at that time. There are more than 20 artillery batteries and more than 150 artillery pieces deployed around the port. Before the war, Beiyang Minister Li Hongzhang threatened: "With sufficient ammunition, military rations, excellent artillery and the support of the Beiyang Navy, Lushun Pass can be held for three years!" What is ridiculous is that the tens of thousands of Qing troops with superior equipment and geographical advantages scattered like birds and beasts after only one day's resistance, making the world's greatest joke. The total strength of the Qing army stationed in Lushun was 14700 people. However, although the Qing army had strong troops and sophisticated weapons, the various armies did not communicate with each other and had no intention of defending themselves. What is particularly serious is that "the dragons have no leader". The eight commanders are not subordinate to each other and each goes its own way. Although Jiang Gui was publicly promoted as President before the war, this person came from the ranks and had no strategy for war and defense. He blindly begged for help. All the various departments of the Qing army watched and watched each other, almost a scattered sand. Before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 - 1894, the modern Japanese naval commander Heihachi Dongxiang once boarded the Dingyuan Ship, the flagship of the Qing Army, to observe and observe. He found that the Qing Army officers and soldiers were drying their washed underwear on the barrel. After disembarking from the ship, he asserted: "Although the Qing Army is well-equipped, the quality of the personnel and the combat strength of the army will be vulnerable to a single blow!" The Qing army restrained each other, but the Japanese army, on the other hand, was united, and the officers and soldiers carried out orders and prohibitions. The Japanese command regarded the capture of Lushun as "the key to ensuring peace in the East." It believed that as long as Lushun was occupied and a fleet was equipped, the Bohai Sea would become a locked bag. Not only can it kill China, but it can also control the development of the entire war situation in Northeast Asia. In the next step, we can burn the war to the Zhili Plain and Beijing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty. In order to fight this critical battle that determined the country's destiny, the Japanese army made careful arrangements. After occupying Dalian and Jinzhou, the troops were allowed to rest for 10 days. Motoharu Yamamoto, the commander of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army, carefully selected 1500 death squads to prepare for a decisive battle with the Qing army. A fierce battle between China and Japan is imminent, but the ruling Empress Dowager Cixi is obsessed with her own longevity celebrations and embezzles naval funds to expand the Summer Palace. Emergency documents flew in like snowflakes on the front line, and Li Hongzhang was anxious, while Empress Dowager Cixi regarded military affairs as child's play and warned court officials not to stir up trouble,"Whoever makes me unhappy, I will make them unhappy!" On November 20, 1894, Japanese commander Dashanyan held a meeting of generals and schools at all levels on the highland northwest of Lijiatun, Lushun, and decided to start the general attack at 2 a.m. on the 21st. At 6:40 a.m. on November 21, the Japanese army approached the batteries and quickly captured the three batteries on Yizhishan at 8 a.m. By evening, more than 20 fortresses on the Lushun Peninsula were all occupied by the Japanese army in one day, and more than 2000 Qing troops died. Li Hongzhang operated Lushun for 16 years and spent tens of millions. His dock, battery, and military reserve were at the forefront of the Beiyang Army, but he could not hold it for a day. In the end, he only caught a few "scapegoats" and handed them over to the Ministry of Punishment for punishment and summary treatment. An American reporter who witnessed the battle sighed: "If the Lushun Military Port is defended by American soldiers, the Japanese army will not be able to set foot in Lushun unless tens of thousands of casualties and attacks for several months!" Ten years later, in the Russian-Russian assault on the Lushun Fortress that was still breaking out in Lushun, the Japanese army attacked for nearly half a year, killing and injuring 60,000 soldiers before they struggled to capture the Lushun Fortress, which the Russian troops were defending. On the hillside of Highland 203 in Lushun, nearly 10,000 Japanese corpses were found. In the Sino-Japanese Battle of Lushun during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 - 1894, the Japanese army's losses were only a negligible 280 people... Higashiko Heihachiro's prediction of the poor combat strength of the Qing army was verified. During the Lushun Massacre, many bloody residents stood up and would rather die than surrender. The picture shows the unknown boy in Lushun who was only a teenager who put poison into a water tank to poison the Japanese army. After he attacked Lushun for four days and three nights, the Japanese army carried out an inhuman massacre for four days and three nights. In just four days, more than 20,000 people inside and outside the city were killed, and only 36 people whose bodies were buried (with white strips on their heads: this person will not be killed) survived. Later, after textual research, about 800 people survived through various channels. Alan, the Englishman, wrote in his "Under the Rolling Dragon Flag":"The Japanese soldiers chased the fleeing people, using gun barrels and bayonets to deal with everyone; they even stabbed those who fell fiercely. Walking on the street, you can step on dead bodies everywhere under your feet." "It's dark and the massacre continues. Gunshots, shouts, screams and groans echoed everywhere. The streets showed a terrible scene: the ground was soaked in blood, and corpses with mutilated limbs were lying everywhere; some small alleys were almost blocked by corpses. Most of the dead were city people." "Japanese military bayonets penetrated the women's chests, strung up children under the age of two, and deliberately lifted them high into the sky for others to watch." While carrying out the crazy massacre, the Japanese army carried out dehumanizing sexual violence against China women. Whether they were white-haired old women, pregnant women, or teenage girls, the Japanese army would not let go. Many women were violently and then killed. The degree of cruelty and madness was unprecedented. Many Chinese and foreign people who had heard and witnessed the Japanese army's beast deeds hated it and called it a "beast group." Japanese Musen disclosed this in detail in his book "The Lushun Massacre": At 9 p.m. on November 22, five Japanese soldiers broke into Zhang Xiulan's house, which lived in 48 rooms. At that time, her husband was out on business and did not come back. Zhang Xiulan was holding a two-year-old child and guarding her 62-year-old mother-in-law and her two young daughters at home. The two young daughters, Zheng Yufen and Zheng Yuhua, were only twelve or thirteen years old. After the Japanese army broke in, they first seized the two-year-old child and threw it into a water tank and drowned him. Then a Japanese army pressed Zhang Xiulan against the kang and rushed to rape her. At this time, Zhang Xiulan was in her menstrual period. The Japanese soldiers failed to rape her, so they inserted a bayonet into her vagina. Zhang Xiulan screamed and fainted. The Japanese soldiers drew out their military knife and cut off her head. The two little girls were so scared that they hid behind their grandmother and cried. Two Japanese soldiers immediately rushed forward. The old woman stepped forward to block her. The Japanese soldiers could not explain and stabbed the old woman to death again. Then he gang raped the two little girls for an hour. After venting his beast desires, he chopped the two little girls to death. Even people in Buddhism and Taoism were not spared from the barbaric atrocities of the Japanese army. Under the leadership of Taoist Priest Yuanjun, who was in his 70s, the Taoist disciples from Tianhou Palace in Lushun set up a grand Taoist temple in Taixu Hall to save the souls of the Qing soldiers who died while fighting the Japanese army. A group of Japanese soldiers broke through the door. The Japanese officer pulled out his sword from the sheath and pressed the tip of the sword against Taoist Priest Yuanjun's throat. He asked him to immediately change the Taoist temple of the Japanese soldiers who had died in battle. Otherwise, he would kill all the Taoist disciples here one by one. The Japanese army saw Taoist Yuanjun closing his eyes and lowering his head and no longer spoke. Two Japanese soldiers held a disciple in front of Taoist Priest Yuanjun. The Japanese officer raised his sword and chopped it in the face, splitting it in half from shoulder to waist. A stream of blood splattered all over Taoist Priest Yuanjun. But Taoist Priest Yuanjun sat there without moving, still closing his eyes and lowering his head. Angry Japanese officers asked the soldiers to penetrate the palms of the four Taoist disciples with large nails and nail them on the four columns nailed in the hall. Then they took off their pants and had the soldiers line up to compete in shooting to see who could hit these Taoist disciples. The genitals. For a moment, blood and flesh flew everywhere in the hall, and gunshots, the wild laughter of Japanese soldiers and the screams of Taoist disciples resounded. The Japanese officer once again sternly pressed Taoist Priest Yuanjun whether he would do a dojo for the fallen Japanese soldiers, but Taoist Priest Yuanjun remained unmoved. The Japanese officers were furious and ordered the soldiers to bring bundles of hay and pile them densely around Taoist Priest Yuanjun to light a fire. The dry grass immediately burst into flames, and Daoist Priest Yuanjun remained motionless until his entire body was burned into a ball of fire. He sat tall in the fire. The Japanese army also killed all believers such as the remains of the victims of the Lushun Massacre. During the massacre, Bao Shichang, the founder of Jinguang, knelt in front of the Buddhist hall with his followers, holding scriptures and chanting, praying for Buddha's blessing. The Japanese army broke into the door and saw that the scripture contained the word "abstain from killing", which became more and more murderous. The Japanese army drove Bao Shichang and more than a dozen followers to the southern foot of Baiyu Mountain, and a burst of bullets killed all the Buddhist disciples! Not only Japanese officers and soldiers participated in the killing, but also porters, chefs, even members of Congress and military journalists all took part in the killing. After returning home, a Japanese journalist shamelessly claimed: "I just killed people, not robbed like other people!" After the war, the Japanese army sent the spoils looted from Lushun back to the country for auction. Many merchants launched new products with the word "spoils". Among them, there was a "Empire Victory" trophy soap, which was "shaped like the head of the Chinese people", intended to "destroy the Chinese people". Its sales advertisements even used patterns like the Lushun massacre, which were full of violence and bloodshed. The Japanese officers and soldiers not only did not feel the slightest sense of guilt for their brutal killing, but were filled with pleasure. A soldier described in his diary: "I was a little scared when I first started to kill, but it was fine after killing the first person. With one slash, the enemy's head flew a few feet away and blood spurted out! Moreover, the more you kill, the more tricks you have, and the cleaner and agile your movements are. My conclusion is that killing is not about skill but courage!" In the end, no one could be killed. The Japanese army, who was addicted to killing, even killed the China people who were designated to bury their bodies! Jiro Ono, a Japanese soldier who participated in the massacre, was a middle school student before joining the army. Years later, he confessed to all crimes committed by himself and his companions. He said in his account: "Many years later, the ghosts of those who died still haunt me like demons. I am afraid I will never be able to drive them away in my life." Ono recalled that his boss threw him a knife and said to him, If you have the courage, go and kill that old woman! The insult from his boss aroused Oye's beast nature. When Oye stabbed the knife into the old woman's chest, a stream of blood sprayed straight into his face. On the contrary, Ono felt an inexplicable pleasure, and his sympathy and conscience as a human being disappeared. Within four days, Oye continued to burn, kill and plunder, not letting anyone go, from white-haired old people to hungry babies waiting to be fed. He even asked military reporters to take photos of himself killing people. Due to his meritorious service in killing people, he was quickly promoted to sergeant and could command a squad. Ono became even more crazy. On November 25, when Ono's subordinates cut open the belly of a pregnant woman, Ono finally completely lost his humanity. He waved the butcher knife at his subordinates. Later, the Japanese soldiers knocked him unconscious and tied him up. When he woke up again, he had been taken to a psychiatric hospital in Hiroshima. He lived here for five years, and in the rest of his life, he could not see pregnant women, or even the steamed buns being broken. All of this stemmed from those four days of inhuman massacre. Kliman, a reporter for the American "New York World", was very shocked by the Japanese army's brutal massacre of civilians in Lushun. He witnessed the Japanese army's massacre and atrocities for several days in a row: "I passed through various streets, and I saw corpses everywhere that were mutilated like wild beasts. The slain shop businessmen piled up beside the road, the tears in their eyes and the blood from their wounds had frozen into pieces. There are even dogs who know spirituality. When they see the rigidity of their master's body, they can't help but scream sideways. Their tragedy is obvious... "The Japanese army burned corpses and wiped out traces to conceal the world. The Japanese army's massacre in Lushun shocked the world. For a time, the tone that Japan is a" civilized country "declined sharply. Faced with the adverse influence of Western public opinion, the Japanese government first interpreted the massacre as "a normal response to the cruel behavior of China troops." Western newspapers began to report endlessly that when the Japanese army captured Lushun, they found that all the Japanese soldiers previously captured by the Qing army had been killed and dismembered. Carpente, an American freelance journalist who was bought by the Japanese government, defended him: "Even if the U.S. military has strict military discipline, will it be different from the Japanese army under the same circumstances? "Similar arguments hold that the Lushun Massacre was just an extreme blood-for-blood revenge." It is ridiculous to think that the Japanese have returned to their barbaric state!" According to post-war information, the tomb of Wanzhong, where the victims of the Lushun Massacre were buried, the Japanese commander issued a secret order before the war to "not leave alive","We cannot support so many prisoners. We must treat their injuries and provide food and drink, which is beyond our army's ability to bear!" Japanese commander Da Shanyan ordered. While paying heavy bribes in an attempt to beautify them, while trying hard to block real voices, journalists like Kerman who carry out real reports are isolated and cold treated by the Japanese government, and even their personal safety is threatened. At the same time, Japan also played a two-faced approach and refused all rescues from the International Red Cross, falsely claiming that "the injured have been sent to our military field hospital for recuperation, and the Red Cross has sent supplies to our military on its behalf." After the subsequent Battle of Weihaiwei, Japan's battlefield Red Cross took the initiative to provide medical services to the injured Qing army, released all prisoners, and allowed the China warship "Kangji" to be escorted by senior officers to carry the coffin of Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Navy, who had committed suicide in defeat. All these measures were carried out under the full view of Western journalists and military observers and disseminated to the world through open reports and secret intelligence channels, greatly reversing the bad impression created by the Lushun massacre. British legal magnate Hurland praised this as "a landmark event for Japan as a mature civilized country." But in fact, many members of this so-called "division of civilization" were the same people who participated in the Lushun Massacre. At that time, the Qing government suppressed the circulation of domestic newspapers and periodicals and strictly restricted domestic public opinion propaganda, allowing Japan to seize the right to speak and erase the massacres and atrocities from black to white. Japanese textbooks say nothing about the Lushun Massacre. Many years later, a Japanese writer came to Dalian to travel and found a book that contained detailed records of the Lushun Massacre. After reading it, he was horrified. After returning to China, after arduous investigation, he finally published a book saying that he would tell the historical truth of that year to Japanese citizens who were also deceived by the authorities. In order to cover up and destroy the evidence of the massacre, from late November 1894 to mid-January of the following year, the Japanese army first cleaned up and hastily buried the bodies of the victims in Lushun City Street, and then burned the bodies and destroyed the evidence. The Japanese army and its colonial agencies organized the China captured from city streets and naval camps into three groups of corpse carrying teams, and carried the bodies to three places for burning. The first one is under the ditch of Wanzhong's Tomb, where the most bodies are burned; the second one is the old kiln where the dock was built, which is now Shunshan Street Guli; the third one is the eastern foot of Huangjin Mountain, which is due to the Japanese army's massacre in Lushun. The first mass graves formed. The materials used to burn the corpses were coal and wooden boards and wooden blocks of wooden boats, supplemented with kerosene. During the incineration process, the Japanese military used iron bars and iron pipes to make brackets to support the bodies of the deceased so that they could fully burn. The ashes were concentrated in three large coffins and buried in the current Wanzhong Tomb. A wooden stake was erected in front of the "Wanzhong Tomb" with the words "Where the Qing Army Soldiers and Soldiers died in War" written in order to deceive the world and cover up the crime of slaughtering and burning civilians, including women and children, and prisoners. After the Japanese invasion of China, they tried to demolish and demolish Wanzhong's Tomb several times, but they were strongly resisted by the China people. Wanzhong's tomb was later excavated, cleared and reburied, revealing many little-known contents. The remains include adults, teenagers and children. There is a bone fragment in the tomb only 1 mm thick. It was identified by the famous archaeologist Mr. Sun Shoudao and proved to be a child's skull. The unearthed jade bracelets, glass bracelets, glass beads, jade ornaments, etc. are obviously ornaments worn by women and children. These ironclad facts expose the lie that the so-called victims were "fallen soldiers of the Qing Dynasty." The remains and relics of China compatriots who died at the Tomb of Wanzhong in Lushun are historical witnesses of the brutal massacre of the people of Lushun by the Japanese invading army! Today, when we re-read those bloody written records, we still can't help but feel scared and shudder. Is this a deliberate and unprecedented murder, or is it a collective unconscious crime that has been suppressed by a nation for a long time? In front of the blood-stained ruins of the Lushun massacre, how can we understand the complex human nature map of an island citizen with the dual personality of "chrysanthemum and saber"? Forgetting history is betrayal. The dusty history can also guide the future. Looking back on those miserable years that are unbearable to recall, let the confessor repent and let the reflective reflect!On this day, 131 years ago, November 21, 1894 (October 24, 1894, the Japanese army captured Lushun during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 - 1894, and the Lushun Massacre began. Under the Japanese army's butcher knife, China corpses were scattered all over the ground. From November 21 to 25, 1894, in Lushun, the wind and snow were blowing, the chill was biting, bones were piled, and flames soared to the sky. More than 20,000 unarmed China soldiers and civilians were ruthlessly killed by the violent Japanese army. There was red blood and miserable wails... When the dragon flag of the Qing army was torn to pieces by war and bayonet, the gloomy sky of Lushun in 1894 witnessed such a world-renowned tragedy-the Qing army, which was preparing to defend for three years, defeated the humiliation of China's modern history, full of puzzling doubts. If the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing, which opened the door to China, was caused by the "strong ships and artillery" of foreign enemies, then the situation was switched to the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, but the situation was different. At that time, the Qing Dynasty's naval equipment ranked best in Asia. The two ironclad ships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, which the Qing government spared no expense and ordered by Germany, visited Japan. Their power shocked the Japanese government and opposition! At that time, the weapons and equipment of the first-class army of the Qing army were comparable to those of the European and American powers. During the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 - 1894, Japan, which was short of resources and poor financial resources, only equipped each soldier with 8 rounds of ammunition, while the shells and bullets of Qing soldiers piled up in warehouses. After the Westernization Movement, the Qing Dynasty, which advocated "learning from the barbarians to control the barbarians", imported a large number of advanced weapons such as serial cannons and muskets from abroad. When the Japanese army seized these spoils, they often felt inferior. There are records that when the Japanese army's attack on China was unsustainable, it was the Qing army's weapons and ammunition obtained in the battle to revitalize its military prestige. In Dalian Bay alone, which the Qing army easily abandoned, the Japanese army seized 120 large and small artillery pieces and 2.46 million shells abandoned by the Qing army! Exploring the internal causes of the fiasco of China during the Sino-Japanese War, the once-rampant "theory of weapons generation difference" seems difficult to establish. Lushun Port, which took the Qing court sixteen years to operate and cost tens of millions of dollars, was called the "First Military Port in the Far East" at that time. There are more than 20 artillery batteries and more than 150 artillery pieces deployed around the port. Before the war, Beiyang Minister Li Hongzhang threatened: "With sufficient ammunition, military rations, excellent artillery and the support of the Beiyang Navy, Lushun Pass can be held for three years!" What is ridiculous is that the tens of thousands of Qing troops with superior equipment and geographical advantages scattered like birds and beasts after only one day's resistance, making the world's greatest joke. The total strength of the Qing army stationed in Lushun was 14700 people. However, although the Qing army had strong troops and sophisticated weapons, the various armies did not communicate with each other and had no intention of defending themselves. What is particularly serious is that "the dragons have no leader". The eight commanders are not subordinate to each other and each goes its own way. Although Jiang Gui was publicly promoted as President before the war, this person came from the ranks and had no strategy for war and defense. He blindly begged for help. All the various departments of the Qing army watched and watched each other, almost a scattered sand. Before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 - 1894, the modern Japanese naval commander Heihachi Dongxiang once boarded the Dingyuan Ship, the flagship of the Qing Army, to observe and observe. He found that the Qing Army officers and soldiers were drying their washed underwear on the barrel. After disembarking from the ship, he asserted: "Although the Qing Army is well-equipped, the quality of the personnel and the combat strength of the army will be vulnerable to a single blow!" The Qing army restrained each other, but the Japanese army, on the other hand, was united, and the officers and soldiers carried out orders and prohibitions. The Japanese command regarded the capture of Lushun as "the key to ensuring peace in the East." It believed that as long as Lushun was occupied and a fleet was equipped, the Bohai Sea would become a locked bag. Not only can it kill China, but it can also control the development of the entire war situation in Northeast Asia. In the next step, we can burn the war to the Zhili Plain and Beijing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty. In order to fight this critical battle that determined the country's destiny, the Japanese army made careful arrangements. After occupying Dalian and Jinzhou, the troops were allowed to rest for 10 days. Motoharu Yamamoto, the commander of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army, carefully selected 1500 death squads to prepare for a decisive battle with the Qing army. A fierce battle between China and Japan is imminent, but the ruling Empress Dowager Cixi is obsessed with her own longevity celebrations and embezzles naval funds to expand the Summer Palace. Emergency documents flew in like snowflakes on the front line, and Li Hongzhang was anxious, while Empress Dowager Cixi regarded military affairs as child's play and warned court officials not to stir up trouble,"Whoever makes me unhappy, I will make them unhappy!" On November 20, 1894, Japanese commander Dashanyan held a meeting of generals and schools at all levels on the highland northwest of Lijiatun, Lushun, and decided to start the general attack at 2 a.m. on the 21st. At 6:40 a.m. on November 21, the Japanese army approached the batteries and quickly captured the three batteries on Yizhishan at 8 a.m. By evening, more than 20 fortresses on the Lushun Peninsula were all occupied by the Japanese army in one day, and more than 2000 Qing troops died. Li Hongzhang operated Lushun for 16 years and spent tens of millions. His dock, battery, and military reserve were at the forefront of the Beiyang Army, but he could not hold it for a day. In the end, he only caught a few "scapegoats" and handed them over to the Ministry of Punishment for punishment and summary treatment. An American reporter who witnessed the battle sighed: "If the Lushun Military Port is defended by American soldiers, the Japanese army will not be able to set foot in Lushun unless tens of thousands of casualties and attacks for several months!" Ten years later, in the Russian-Russian assault on the Lushun Fortress that was still breaking out in Lushun, the Japanese army attacked for nearly half a year, killing and injuring 60,000 soldiers before they struggled to capture the Lushun Fortress, which the Russian troops were defending. On the hillside of Highland 203 in Lushun, nearly 10,000 Japanese corpses were found. In the Sino-Japanese Battle of Lushun during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894 - 1894, the Japanese army's losses were only a negligible 280 people... Higashiko Heihachiro's prediction of the poor combat strength of the Qing army was verified. During the Lushun Massacre, many bloody residents stood up and would rather die than surrender. The picture shows the unknown boy in Lushun who was only a teenager who put poison into a water tank to poison the Japanese army. After he attacked Lushun for four days and three nights, the Japanese army carried out an inhuman massacre for four days and three nights. In just four days, more than 20,000 people inside and outside the city were killed, and only 36 people whose bodies were buried (with white strips on their heads: this person will not be killed) survived. Later, after textual research, about 800 people survived through various channels. Alan, the Englishman, wrote in his "Under the Rolling Dragon Flag":"The Japanese soldiers chased the fleeing people, using gun barrels and bayonets to deal with everyone; they even stabbed those who fell fiercely. Walking on the street, you can step on dead bodies everywhere under your feet." "It's dark and the massacre continues. Gunshots, shouts, screams and groans echoed everywhere. The streets showed a terrible scene: the ground was soaked in blood, and corpses with mutilated limbs were lying everywhere; some small alleys were almost blocked by corpses. Most of the dead were city people." "Japanese military bayonets penetrated the women's chests, strung up children under the age of two, and deliberately lifted them high into the sky for others to watch." While carrying out the crazy massacre, the Japanese army carried out dehumanizing sexual violence against China women. Whether they were white-haired old women, pregnant women, or teenage girls, the Japanese army would not let go. Many women were violently and then killed. The degree of cruelty and madness was unprecedented. Many Chinese and foreign people who had heard and witnessed the Japanese army's beast deeds hated it and called it a "beast group." Japanese Musen disclosed this in detail in his book "The Lushun Massacre": At 9 p.m. on November 22, five Japanese soldiers broke into Zhang Xiulan's house, which lived in 48 rooms. At that time, her husband was out on business and did not come back. Zhang Xiulan was holding a two-year-old child and guarding her 62-year-old mother-in-law and her two young daughters at home. The two young daughters, Zheng Yufen and Zheng Yuhua, were only twelve or thirteen years old. After the Japanese army broke in, they first seized the two-year-old child and threw it into a water tank and drowned him. Then a Japanese army pressed Zhang Xiulan against the kang and rushed to rape her. At this time, Zhang Xiulan was in her menstrual period. The Japanese soldiers failed to rape her, so they inserted a bayonet into her vagina. Zhang Xiulan screamed and fainted. The Japanese soldiers drew out their military knife and cut off her head. The two little girls were so scared that they hid behind their grandmother and cried. Two Japanese soldiers immediately rushed forward. The old woman stepped forward to block her. The Japanese soldiers could not explain and stabbed the old woman to death again. Then he gang raped the two little girls for an hour. After venting his beast desires, he chopped the two little girls to death. Even people in Buddhism and Taoism were not spared from the barbaric atrocities of the Japanese army. Under the leadership of Taoist Priest Yuanjun, who was in his 70s, the Taoist disciples from Tianhou Palace in Lushun set up a grand Taoist temple in Taixu Hall to save the souls of the Qing soldiers who died while fighting the Japanese army. A group of Japanese soldiers broke through the door. The Japanese officer pulled out his sword from the sheath and pressed the tip of the sword against Taoist Priest Yuanjun's throat. He asked him to immediately change the Taoist temple of the Japanese soldiers who had died in battle. Otherwise, he would kill all the Taoist disciples here one by one. The Japanese army saw Taoist Yuanjun closing his eyes and lowering his head and no longer spoke. Two Japanese soldiers held a disciple in front of Taoist Priest Yuanjun. The Japanese officer raised his sword and chopped it in the face, splitting it in half from shoulder to waist. A stream of blood splattered all over Taoist Priest Yuanjun. But Taoist Priest Yuanjun sat there without moving, still closing his eyes and lowering his head. Angry Japanese officers asked the soldiers to penetrate the palms of the four Taoist disciples with large nails and nail them on the four columns nailed in the hall. Then they took off their pants and had the soldiers line up to compete in shooting to see who could hit these Taoist disciples. The genitals. For a moment, blood and flesh flew everywhere in the hall, and gunshots, the wild laughter of Japanese soldiers and the screams of Taoist disciples resounded. The Japanese officer once again sternly pressed Taoist Priest Yuanjun whether he would do a dojo for the fallen Japanese soldiers, but Taoist Priest Yuanjun remained unmoved. The Japanese officers were furious and ordered the soldiers to bring bundles of hay and pile them densely around Taoist Priest Yuanjun to light a fire. The dry grass immediately burst into flames, and Daoist Priest Yuanjun remained motionless until his entire body was burned into a ball of fire. He sat tall in the fire. The Japanese army also killed all believers such as the remains of the victims of the Lushun Massacre. During the massacre, Bao Shichang, the founder of Jinguang, knelt in front of the Buddhist hall with his followers, holding scriptures and chanting, praying for Buddha's blessing. The Japanese army broke into the door and saw that the scripture contained the word "abstain from killing", which became more and more murderous. The Japanese army drove Bao Shichang and more than a dozen followers to the southern foot of Baiyu Mountain, and a burst of bullets killed all the Buddhist disciples! Not only Japanese officers and soldiers participated in the killing, but also porters, chefs, even members of Congress and military journalists all took part in the killing. After returning home, a Japanese journalist shamelessly claimed: "I just killed people, not robbed like other people!" After the war, the Japanese army sent the spoils looted from Lushun back to the country for auction. Many merchants launched new products with the word "spoils". Among them, there was a "Empire Victory" trophy soap, which was "shaped like the head of the Chinese people", intended to "destroy the Chinese people". Its sales advertisements even used patterns like the Lushun massacre, which were full of violence and bloodshed. The Japanese officers and soldiers not only did not feel the slightest sense of guilt for their brutal killing, but were filled with pleasure. A soldier described in his diary: "I was a little scared when I first started to kill, but it was fine after killing the first person. With one slash, the enemy's head flew a few feet away and blood spurted out! Moreover, the more you kill, the more tricks you have, and the cleaner and agile your movements are. My conclusion is that killing is not about skill but courage!" In the end, no one could be killed. The Japanese army, who was addicted to killing, even killed the China people who were designated to bury their bodies! Jiro Ono, a Japanese soldier who participated in the massacre, was a middle school student before joining the army. Years later, he confessed to all crimes committed by himself and his companions. He said in his account: "Many years later, the ghosts of those who died still haunt me like demons. I am afraid I will never be able to drive them away in my life." Ono recalled that his boss threw him a knife and said to him, If you have the courage, go and kill that old woman! The insult from his boss aroused Oye's beast nature. When Oye stabbed the knife into the old woman's chest, a stream of blood sprayed straight into his face. On the contrary, Ono felt an inexplicable pleasure, and his sympathy and conscience as a human being disappeared. Within four days, Oye continued to burn, kill and plunder, not letting anyone go, from white-haired old people to hungry babies waiting to be fed. He even asked military reporters to take photos of himself killing people. Due to his meritorious service in killing people, he was quickly promoted to sergeant and could command a squad. Ono became even more crazy. On November 25, when Ono's subordinates cut open the belly of a pregnant woman, Ono finally completely lost his humanity. He waved the butcher knife at his subordinates. Later, the Japanese soldiers knocked him unconscious and tied him up. When he woke up again, he had been taken to a psychiatric hospital in Hiroshima. He lived here for five years, and in the rest of his life, he could not see pregnant women, or even the steamed buns being broken. All of this stemmed from those four days of inhuman massacre. Kliman, a reporter for the American "New York World", was very shocked by the Japanese army's brutal massacre of civilians in Lushun. He witnessed the Japanese army's massacre and atrocities for several days in a row: "I passed through various streets, and I saw corpses everywhere that were mutilated like wild beasts. The slain shop businessmen piled up beside the road, the tears in their eyes and the blood from their wounds had frozen into pieces. There are even dogs who know spirituality. When they see the rigidity of their master's body, they can't help but scream sideways. Their tragedy is obvious... "The Japanese army burned corpses and wiped out traces to conceal the world. The Japanese army's massacre in Lushun shocked the world. For a time, the tone that Japan is a" civilized country "declined sharply. Faced with the adverse influence of Western public opinion, the Japanese government first interpreted the massacre as "a normal response to the cruel behavior of China troops." Western newspapers began to report endlessly that when the Japanese army captured Lushun, they found that all the Japanese soldiers previously captured by the Qing army had been killed and dismembered. Carpente, an American freelance journalist who was bought by the Japanese government, defended him: "Even if the U.S. military has strict military discipline, will it be different from the Japanese army under the same circumstances? "Similar arguments hold that the Lushun Massacre was just an extreme blood-for-blood revenge." It is ridiculous to think that the Japanese have returned to their barbaric state!" According to post-war information, the tomb of Wanzhong, where the victims of the Lushun Massacre were buried, the Japanese commander issued a secret order before the war to "not leave alive","We cannot support so many prisoners. We must treat their injuries and provide food and drink, which is beyond our army's ability to bear!" Japanese commander Da Shanyan ordered. While paying heavy bribes in an attempt to beautify them, while trying hard to block real voices, journalists like Kerman who carry out real reports are isolated and cold treated by the Japanese government, and even their personal safety is threatened. At the same time, Japan also played a two-faced approach and refused all rescues from the International Red Cross, falsely claiming that "the injured have been sent to our military field hospital for recuperation, and the Red Cross has sent supplies to our military on its behalf." After the subsequent Battle of Weihaiwei, Japan's battlefield Red Cross took the initiative to provide medical services to the injured Qing army, released all prisoners, and allowed the China warship "Kangji" to be escorted by senior officers to carry the coffin of Ding Ruchang, the commander of the Beiyang Navy, who had committed suicide in defeat. All these measures were carried out under the full view of Western journalists and military observers and disseminated to the world through open reports and secret intelligence channels, greatly reversing the bad impression created by the Lushun massacre. British legal magnate Hurland praised this as "a landmark event for Japan as a mature civilized country." But in fact, many members of this so-called "division of civilization" were the same people who participated in the Lushun Massacre. At that time, the Qing government suppressed the circulation of domestic newspapers and periodicals and strictly restricted domestic public opinion propaganda, allowing Japan to seize the right to speak and erase the massacres and atrocities from black to white. Japanese textbooks say nothing about the Lushun Massacre. Many years later, a Japanese writer came to Dalian to travel and found a book that contained detailed records of the Lushun Massacre. After reading it, he was horrified. After returning to China, after arduous investigation, he finally published a book saying that he would tell the historical truth of that year to Japanese citizens who were also deceived by the authorities. In order to cover up and destroy the evidence of the massacre, from late November 1894 to mid-January of the following year, the Japanese army first cleaned up and hastily buried the bodies of the victims in Lushun City Street, and then burned the bodies and destroyed the evidence. The Japanese army and its colonial agencies organized the China captured from city streets and naval camps into three groups of corpse carrying teams, and carried the bodies to three places for burning. The first one is under the ditch of Wanzhong's Tomb, where the most bodies are burned; the second one is the old kiln where the dock was built, which is now Shunshan Street Guli; the third one is the eastern foot of Huangjin Mountain, which is due to the Japanese army's massacre in Lushun. The first mass graves formed. The materials used to burn the corpses were coal and wooden boards and wooden blocks of wooden boats, supplemented with kerosene. During the incineration process, the Japanese military used iron bars and iron pipes to make brackets to support the bodies of the deceased so that they could fully burn. The ashes were concentrated in three large coffins and buried in the current Wanzhong Tomb. A wooden stake was erected in front of the "Wanzhong Tomb" with the words "Where the Qing Army Soldiers and Soldiers died in War" written in order to deceive the world and cover up the crime of slaughtering and burning civilians, including women and children, and prisoners. After the Japanese invasion of China, they tried to demolish and demolish Wanzhong's Tomb several times, but they were strongly resisted by the China people. Wanzhong's tomb was later excavated, cleared and reburied, revealing many little-known contents. The remains include adults, teenagers and children. There is a bone fragment in the tomb only 1 mm thick. It was identified by the famous archaeologist Mr. Sun Shoudao and proved to be a child's skull. The unearthed jade bracelets, glass bracelets, glass beads, jade ornaments, etc. are obviously ornaments worn by women and children. These ironclad facts expose the lie that the so-called victims were "fallen soldiers of the Qing Dynasty." The remains and relics of China compatriots who died at the Tomb of Wanzhong in Lushun are historical witnesses of the brutal massacre of the people of Lushun by the Japanese invading army! Today, when we re-read those bloody written records, we still can't help but feel scared and shudder. Is this a deliberate and unprecedented murder, or is it a collective unconscious crime that has been suppressed by a nation for a long time? In front of the blood-stained ruins of the Lushun massacre, how can we understand the complex human nature map of an island citizen with the dual personality of "chrysanthemum and saber"? Forgetting history is betrayal. The dusty history can also guide the future. Looking back on those miserable years that are unbearable to recall, let the confessor repent and let the reflective reflect!