After Japan's surrender, China set up military tribunals in Baoding, Nanjing, and Shanghai to try war criminals. By February 1949, a total of 145 war criminals had been sentenced to death, including the notorious Nanjing Massacre executioner Gu Shoufu.
Gu Shoufu was born in 1882. In December 1937, his Sixth Division, together with the 16th Division, the 18th Division, and the 114th Division, created the Nanjing Massacre that shocked China and foreign countries. In Nanjing, his army killed 50,000 Chinese. After the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japan, Gu Shoufu was arrested as a war criminal by the Allied General Command and handed over to China. After more than a year of trial by the Nanjing Military Tribunal, he was shot and killed on April 26, 1947. When the escorting gendarmes got out of the car, the demons involved in the crime were too frightened to stand up, so they had to be supported by two gendarmes.
According to international practice at the time, it was usually sufficient to shoot a military war criminal in the back of the head, but in fact, the executioner fired three shots at that time. At that time, after the shooting, Zuo Tianni died. However, thousands of people around him still angrily shouted revenge. Excited by the crowd, the gendarmerie execution ended with two more shots.
Interestingly, he actually left a poem for his wife: "When the cherry blossoms bloomed, I lost my life, and I left my wife's room to cry." Willing to sacrifice this body to turn the mud, China no longer hates Japan. "How can the blood of this murderer make up for many of his sins!"