Mr. He Jian Ming, vice president of the Chinese Writers Association (a high-ranking director-level official in China) said:
"The Chinese army that defended Nanjing at that time was a Kuomintang army with 150 thousand soldiers, 20 thousand of whom were killed in the battle and the remaining 130 thousand escaped without fighting.
As the commanders escaped first, the chain of command of the left-behind army was completely destroyed and paralyzed.
A fierce battle was fought between the soldiers who had not received a withdrawal order and the ones who had.
(That is, a combat situation arose within the Kuomintang army.)
The battlefield was around the castle gate of Nanjing castle, which was the only traffic gate, where more than 5,000 soldiers and commoners lost their lives.
People ran away from different places for their lives and finally reached an area around the Yangtze River, but there were only two or three boats carrying them to the other side.
Again, a fierce bloody fight began for scrambling them.
Those with a fear of death were desperately struggling to evacuate without choosing the means: some pushed others from the boat to the river, some fell into it and, unable to go up into the boat, was hanging on to its edge, some were cast out from an upset ship overloaded with people and crying out for help, and others were floundering around in the river holding on a desk or a chair.
The most brutal is that the soldiers who could not get on the ship swept the people on the ship with machine guns like a crazy wild beast and killed a tremendous number of people.
Corpses floating on the surface of the river turned it into a sea of blood. It is estimated that the number of the dead reached tens of thousands.
I do not know how to interpret this bloody killing among Chinese themselves. I just feel confused and angry. "
(cited from 邱 海涛「ついに中国で始まった大崩壊の真実」)
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