"The new army has recruited mercenaries. They will be rewarded with a thousand eagle eagles for a night of hard work... Those who are killed or disabled in battle will be rewarded with 2,000 eagle eagles. Your wives, children, parents will be raised by you in the special zone..."
"Have you signed up? Folks, we are here to protect our own home. No eggs will be left intact when the nest is overturned..."
The refugees around the special zone are basically concentrated in the northwest corner. It is protected by tall walls and is also an area that is difficult to cover by sea shells. More than 10,000 people who were raided by Mailer are hiding here.
In the chaotic Luxi shantytown, several civil servants from the Special Administrative Region were shouting, but their results were minimal. Their mouths were dry from shouting, and only a little over a hundred young men bravely came out.
More people have numb expressions on their faces. Even if there are a few who are ready to move, they will be held down by their families. The white-haired old mother, the crying wife and children, even if they let you continue to be a slave, they will not You risk your life.
"Baby...Mom doesn't ask you to be rich and powerful, but I just want you to live safely...As long as you live, we must live..."
This is the common wish of the Chinese people for thousands of years. As long as people live, no matter whether they are noble or humble, living is enough.
The civil servants circled around three times, and finally sighed and left, bringing more than a hundred 'mercenaries' back to report their orders to General Liu Lang.
Liu Lang went crazy when he saw it, "That's it? The Prime Minister's kindness is so small. Are people willing to repay the kindness? Damn... Mailer killed their relatives and burned their homes. It was the Prime Minister's special zone that saved their lives. Even if you are not the prime minister, you should still stand up and fight the enemy for their own sake, right?"
Tietoutuo patted Liu Lang's shoulder and comforted him, "General, don't be excited. The Prime Minister said that the people under the Manchu Qing rule had already been frightened to death by the killings and slavery, and numbness was inevitable. When the special zone bought the land, , the commotion caused by this group of common people is quite big, it’s all a joke..."
"Look at it openly. China is so big. It is impossible for every one of the hundreds of millions of people to awaken. All we can do is to use our efforts to make more and more people awaken..."
Tietutuo looked at the dead shanty town. He knew that many people were peeping and listening with their ears pricked up. Tietutuo sighed and raised his voice.
"Folks, it's hard to leave a small family. No one wants their loved ones to die, so you muddle along, so you take things as they come, so you always imagine that the butcher's knife will not fall on your head. When your fellow countrymen , neighbors, relatives and friends died tragically, you even felt a little inexplicable relief in your hearts..."
"You don't have to admit it. You think that the butcher has killed many people and has eaten enough mutton. He will never kill you again. What you are pursuing is just to be the fish that slipped through the net..."
Iron Toutuo banged his fist on the table, "But have you ever thought about it, your so-called luck is based on the tragic death of your fellow tribesmen. How many times can you be the one who slipped through the net? Your home outside the special zone was destroyed. , you fled into the special zone, but what if the special zone is breached? Where else can you escape to..."
"Are you waiting for the walls to be blown down and the enemy's knife to your necks, do you still expect to be the fish that slipped through the net? You just hide your heads in the hole and pretend that nothing exists, and put your lives on What else can you do besides the mercy of the enemy?"
"Can't you fight for yourself...as a human being...for once? Even once, you can taste what it's like to be a human being...is it addictive to be a slave..."
These heartbreaking words made all the hot-blooded men unable to hold back. At that time, many people rushed out, "Damn, I am also a seven-foot man. I did it..."
"Count me in... and me... and us..." There was an uproar in the shanty town.
But no matter how passionate a warrior is, he is still afraid of his mother's tears and the cries of his wife and children. Countless old people fell to the ground, holding their children's laps and crying bitterly.
"You are not allowed to leave, I won't let you go... If you leave, you are unfilial and rebellious... I don't understand anything, I don't want to hear anything, I just want you to live, just live..."
"Family, you can't leave. We can't survive if we are left with orphans and widows... Please, for the sake of the suckling child, come back... come back..."
The whole refugee camp was in chaos, with children crying and adults yelling. A man who wanted to leave was kidnapped alive and brought back with family affection. In the end, only more than fifty people got out.
Liu Lang and Tietoutuo looked at the more than a hundred people in front of them and couldn't laugh or cry in their hearts. At that moment, they even had doubts about the great cause described by the prime minister. Considering the cowardly nature of the Chinese people, can the nation really rise? Can a country really be prosperous and strong?
"That's all, I'll leave the Tietutuo Special Zone to you. I'll take these more than a hundred brothers across the river to support the fort... I made a promise to Ye Qiu and the others, so I can't break my promise..."
At this moment, pairs of white lights suddenly flashed out in the darkness, blinking towards them. Before Tietoutuo could ask, several figures emerged from the darkness, making everyone jump.
It turned out that what came over quietly was a team of black technicians, led by the first black uncle Jim who was hired by Xiao Letian to travel across the ocean.
Uncle Jim is a famous man in Tanggu. He came to China with the clipper ship Fortune. He also personally operated an advanced minting machine for Xiao Letian. He was responsible for the production of the ship Fortune on the sea. .
Jim is a black technician from Pittsburgh, USA. He has been immersed in mechanical manufacturing all his life. If you ask him about theory, he is definitely not as good as white engineers, but when it comes to practical operations, even an engineer is no match for him.
Later, as shiploads of black technicians traveled across the ocean to East Asia, Jim's identity also changed. Not only did he have to work, but he was also responsible for managing the subsequent black people. He seemed to have become the black leader in Tanggu.
Now that the industrial zone has begun construction, many complex machine tools require his help in installing and debugging, so he has not been floating on the sea in the past six months.
"Mr. Jim? Why are you here..." Liu Lang asked in surprise.
"General Liu, the two hundred black technicians behind me and I have decided to join the war... I hope you can allow it..." After Jim finished speaking, a neat three-row square appeared behind him, and all of them were actually working in the special zone. of African American mechanics.
"This, this, this... how can this be done? You are the backbone of the construction of the industrial zone. We cannot do without you here, and you have no obligation to help us fight?" Liu Lang rejected the proposal at the time.
"Why not? Haven't their white businessmen and engineers already been on the battlefield? Do you also discriminate against skin color in the ancient East?"
"No, no, no... that's not what I mean. What I mean is that those white businessmen and engineers have a lot of interests in the special zone. The businessmen have money to invest in the special zone, and the engineers also have technology shares that can be distributed as dividends, so Said they were all fighting for their property..."
"But gentlemen, you are all skilled workers hired by the special zone. There is no need for you to get involved? As long as you remain neutral, even if the enemy breaks through here, they will not do anything to you..."
At this point, General Liu Lang suddenly stood up and saluted these black technicians, "Chinese people will not discriminate against anyone. You are here to help us build the special zone. We need your help. Please use the power called 'industry' Stay, this is your battlefield..."
Jim smiled and said, "Sir, thank you very much for your respect for us, but we have just learned about the danger of the war situation. As friends, we have an obligation to help..."
"Sir, don't reject us. We know that you are in urgent need of soldiers now. Don't blame these refugees. After all, they have not received organized training. They only have the concept of home and no concept of country in their hearts. This needs to be slowly changed. …”
"But we are different. When we were in the United States, we all worked in factories and mines in the north. We are not only familiar with machinery but also with various rifles...because we can make guns ourselves. The most important thing is that we are Workers, we have received organized training, we know what discipline is..."
"You can defeat the enemy by bringing us, instead of bringing a group of common people who have never been on the battlefield..." At this point, Jim smiled evilly, "For no other reason, I will always fight for our work. A high salary of two to three hundred dollars a year is enough to recruit mercenaries in the United States. We have to keep our jobs..."
"Besides, let's leave the station tonight. I want the reward of a thousand eagles..."
If there was anything else to say at this time, Liu Lang could only nod hurriedly, "I have them all. As long as they fight with me, I have them all..."
In this way, the 200 black legions plus 150 young men, as well as 50 Liu Lang's soldiers, a total of 400 people began to rush towards the Haihe River under the cover of night.
No one had a Spencer, they had enough bullets, and their waists were full of grenades. A group of people walked through the quiet Tanggu neighborhood, broke through this dead city, and soon arrived at the edge of the Haihe River.
The ships that transported supplies during the day were still there, and the four hundred people easily crossed the river in one go. By the time they reached the eastern edge of the fort, the tragedy of the battlefield was beyond description in words.
When the more than a hundred peasant men saw the broken limbs, countless dead bodies and blood all over the ground, they all vomited, and the gall almost came out of each one of them.
"This is hell, this is Shura hell... I want to go home, I'm afraid..."
"Shut up, it's already a battlefield. Anyone who dares to be a deserter will be killed without mercy..."
Liu Lang's soldiers hit them with the butts of their rifles and kept cursing, finally stabilizing the team. Liu Lang looked at the raging cavalry on the fort with anger in his eyes.
"Brothers, rush up with me and kill all these cavalry Tatars. We will win..."
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