The Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 was a premeditated war of aggression launched by Japan against China. It started with1July 25th, 894, and ended with1April 7th, 895, when the Qing government and Japan signed the treaty of shimonoseki.

As a result of this war, not only the fate of China and China changed, but also Japan quickly embarked on the road of militarism and became the source of the Far East War. It also brought an unprecedented national crisis to the Chinese nation and greatly deepened the process of Japanese society becoming a colony and semi-colony.

As one of the main battlefields of this war, Lushun suffered an unprecedented massacre after being occupied by the Japanese army. 1894,165438+1October 2 1 Sunday night, the Japanese invaders invaded Lushunkou and massacred the civilians for three days and four nights.

"Kill everyone, women and children are free", bones piled up into mountains and rivers of blood, and nearly 20,000 people died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Japanese aggressor army. This is the "Lushun tragedy" that shocked China and foreign countries.

2. Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China.

1900 Spring, the Boxer Rebellion became the fuse of Eight-Nation Alliance's war of aggression against China. Under this pretext, Eight-Nation Alliance carved up and plundered China in the name of suppressing the Boxer Rebellion.

The total number of troops invading China is about 50 thousand, which is well-equipped and powerful. 1900, 14 August, Beijing completely fell, and wherever Eight-Nation Alliance went, he killed, set fire to, raped and plundered!

There are countless treasures stolen and looted from the Forbidden City, Zhongnanhai and the Summer Palace! Among them, the famous Yuanmingyuan, after the British and French allied forces, was looted and eventually became a ruin.

3. Nanjing Massacre

1937 12 13. Japan occupied Nanjing. Subsequently, the people of Nanjing and the Kuomintang soldiers who laid down their weapons were brutally slaughtered.

Under the command of the commander of the Japanese Central China Army Matsui Shigen and the commander of the 6th Division Gu Shoufu, they carried out a bloody massacre in Nanjing for more than 40 days, killing more than 300,000 civilians and captured soldiers in China by collective shooting, buried alive, chopping with knives and burning.

4. Panjiayu tragedy

During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, the Eighth Route Army went deep behind enemy lines, went to the battlefield in North China, mobilized the masses, established anti-Japanese base areas, and launched a wide-ranging people's war.

Panjiayu Village, Fengrun District, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, is a small mountain village on Yaozhai Mountain and the earliest and strongest fortress village in eastern Hebei during the Anti-Japanese War. The anti-Japanese struggle of Panjiayu people greatly angered the Japanese aggressors. Facing Panjiayu, an unbreakable and impenetrable fortress against Japan, they are in a state of panic, and they will try to get rid of it before getting rid of it. They frantically tried to exterminate Panjiayu people.

194 1 year, the Japanese invaders created the Panjiayu tragedy that shocked the world here, 1298 villagers were killed. Most of the villagers in the village were brutally killed by the Japanese army, and only over 300 survivors escaped from the clutches of death and the Japanese army.

5, the factory pit tragedy

The Japanese factory cellar massacre in Yiyang, Hunan Province was not lost to the Nanjing massacre, and the ferocity of the Japanese army almost destroyed the town. The factory pit tragedy is the second largest tragedy after the Nanjing massacre.

After the Japanese army launched the "war of annihilation in the south of the Yangtze River", several troops invaded Hunan from Hubei, and the factory cellar in Yiyang, Hunan was besieged by the Japanese army.

During the three days from May 9, 1943 to May 2, 1943, the Japanese invaders who had no conscience brutally killed more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians in China, destroyed and injured more than 3,000 people, raped more than 2,000 women, burned more than 3,000 houses and bombed more than 2,500 ships, which shocked China and foreign countries!

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