After the Japanese army occupied Shanghai, it immediately marched into Nanjing in three ways. 1937165438+1On October 20th, the Kuomintang government announced that it would move its capital to Chongqing, leaving Tang Shengzhi, the garrison commander of Nanjing, to guard Nanjing with more than 1 10000 troops. At dawn on February 9, 65438, the Japanese army arrived in the suburbs of Nanjing and launched an attack. China's defenders fought bravely and repelled many Japanese attacks. At the same time, the Japanese navy also advanced along the Yangtze River to Nanjing. /kloc-on the afternoon of 0/2, Tang Shengzhi hastily ordered the whole army to break through, causing heavy casualties. Except for a few people, most people are trapped in the city.

12 13, the Japanese army occupied Nanjing, followed by a massacre that lasted for more than 40 days. They killed more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians in China by machine gun shooting, decapitation, brain chopping, belly cutting, heart digging, burning and burying alive. One third of the houses in the city were destroyed, and the whole city of Nanjing became a hell on earth, with bodies everywhere and piles of rubble.