Note 1: Lei Zhen, Colonel and Deputy Brigade Commander of the Third Brigade of the National Revolutionary Army Teaching Corps. A native of Pujiang, Sichuan. On December 12, 1937, he led a lone army to fight in the streets of Nanjing with the Japanese Guards Division and died in a bloody battle. Posthumously awarded to Major General.

Note 2: Xie Chengrui, colonel commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Brigade of the National Revolutionary Army Teaching Corps. A native of Nankang, Jiangxi Province. Graduated from the Army Major of the University of China and France in Lyon, France. At the beginning of the Nanjing Defense War, his headquarters defended with the 260th Brigade of the 87th Division.

Engineer School. On December 9, the 51st Division defending Chunhua was defeated and retreated to the city. Under the fierce attack of the pursuing Japanese 9th Division, its position fell and it retreated into Guanghua Gate with the 87th Division and the 156th Division.

The Military Police Teaching Regiment 2 and others held fast to the city wall and forced the Japanese troops to retreat outside the city. On December 10, they repelled the Japanese troops who broke into the city twice at Guanghua Gate and annihilated the remaining enemies. However, they were also injured in the battle. In the early morning of December 13, they were ordered to go to Xiaguan.

After retreating, Yu Yijiangmen was trampled to death by the out-of-control crowd due to his physical weakness. He was awarded the posthumous title of Major General.

Note 3: Xiao Shanling, deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Police Headquarters and acting director of the Capital Police Department, mayor of Nanjing (served as December 1937). A native of Yiyang, Hunan. The third phase of the Baoding Army Military Academy. Responsible for the defense during the Nanjing Defense War.

Xinhe, Yuhuatai, Guanghuamen and other positions. On the morning of December 12, Xiaoshan ordered his troops to fight fiercely with the Japanese army, killing all the Japanese troops that day. When preparing to fight with the Japanese army in the streets, he received an order from his superiors to retreat. That day and night, he commanded Xian outside Yifengmen.

The police fought fiercely with the pursuing enemy. As they were crossing the river, they were shot by machine guns from a Japanese motorboat.

Note 4: When the Japanese army attacked Nanjing, the total strength was more than 50,000, and the total strength of the Chinese army was more than 100,000. After the Japanese army invaded Nanjing, there were still 90,000 besieged Chinese troops in Nanjing.

The Japanese realized that it was not easy to kill so many Chinese prisoners of war: it was extremely difficult to deal with one thousand, five thousand or even ten thousand people, even to disarm them. If the prisoners of war caused trouble, the consequences would be disastrous. So.

The order to eliminate all Chinese prisoners of war was not only printed in documents, but also distributed to junior officers, requiring all soldiers to resolutely implement it.

For example, on December 13, 1937, the 66th Brigade of the Japanese Army received the following order: In accordance with the order of the brigade headquarters, all prisoners of war must be killed. The execution method is: divide the prisoners of war into groups of 120 people each, and one group per group.

The group was shot to death, and the prisoner-of-war holding area must be strictly guarded. Our intentions must not be discovered by the prisoners of war. Due to limited manpower, the Japanese army tried their best to fabricate a scam. They first promised the prisoners of war that as long as they stopped resisting, they would be treated well, and then deceived the national soldiers into telling the Japanese
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