Ma San is an aborigine of Nanjing City. To put it bluntly, he is an aborigine.
He also belongs to the group of people who are reluctant to part with their homeland. For these native Nanjing people, they have never been to other places except Nanjing. Although Ma San saved some money in his hand, he did not dare to spend it arbitrarily. Young and old must starve to death.
After all, these are troubled times, where people eat people! It's easy to do things if you have some money, but if you don't even have any money, you really can't survive...
In troubled times, a human life is worse than a dog. This sentence is vividly reflected in Ma San. The shabby clothes on his body are dirty and there is no place to wash them. It is not that there is no water in the house, but that the houses have been bombed by the Japanese...
The changes brought by the war to Ma San, a common man living at the bottom of the class, are obvious: before the war, even if Ma San ran a rickshaw every day, if he was lucky, he could still earn one or two yuan a day, which was enough to cover the expenses of a family for a few days. ;After the war, businesses withdrew and rice prices skyrocketed. Even though the government tried its best to suppress it, it was unable to do anything. Most of the people in the government had already moved away.
Ma San and his family could only rely on the surplus food they had saved in the past. However, even this life soon changed. Japanese bombers bombed his home and the Zhonghua Gate near his home. It was a mess, but they were still able to hold on there nearby. They believed that Nanjing was the capital of the Republic of China, and Chief Tang of the garrison commander's department in the city also said that he would live or die with Nanjing.
But when the Japanese army reached the outside of Nanjing, a feeling of despair enveloped the entire city. Ma San and his family even thought about escaping into the refugee camp because they heard from the refugees that Director Hang in the refugee camp would do his best. Protect their safety, and the Japanese commander also promised not to embarrass the refugees.
But Ma San always feels that Director Hang is unreliable. Can these little Japanese believe it? The fighting has been going on in Shanghai for more than three months, and now Nanjing has also started fighting. Instead of pinning hopes on himself, it is better to seek a way out by himself. So starting on the morning of the 12th, he took his family with him. He trotted out and wanted to run to Yijiang Gate to see if there was any way out. But as soon as he arrived at Yijiang Gate, he heard the sound of gunfire. It was his own people in the national army beating their own people. It seemed that a unit wanted to escape from Yijiang Gate. He went out from Jiangmen, then crossed the river to escape, but before he could get out, he was shot back by the troops guarding the city gate.
At that moment, Ma San finally knew what true despair was, no hope in heaven and no way to earth.
Just when Ma San thought that his whole family would be buried in this war, hope appeared - he saw a heavily armed, fully equipped and carrying a lot of heavy weapons troops marching neatly in their direction. Come, and they are all wearing a yellow cuff, the kind of cuff Ma San has seen before, and it is the cuff that only troops directly under the garrison commander's headquarters are eligible to wear.
Ma San is a man who has made a fortune in the world, and he also has some discernment. The equipment of this unit is comparable to that of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps in Nanjing. It must be a unit directly under the commander's department. He must seize this opportunity. He The man who fell into the water, even if it was the last straw, must grasp it quickly, otherwise not only he will be ruined, but also his wife, his young daughter, and his elderly grandmother, a family of four The hope fell on him.
If you can find happiness and stability in this life, who would want to suffer displacement?
This unit is slowly approaching them. He may have been running rickshaws in Nanjing for a long time, and he has picked up many officers. Through the officers he picked up, he gradually learned how to look at the rank of an officer. By size, you can probably judge what status this officer can achieve in the army.
Men should always be interested in these guns and cannons.
After seeing the direction of this army's advance, Ma San intuitively told Ma San that this army was going to Yijiang Gate. Maybe this army was ordered by their commander to pass through Yijiang Gate. As long as they passed Yijiang Gate, maybe the front was A way out.
No matter what, you have to give it a try. What if it succeeds?
As a result, Ma San began to pay attention to the commander of that unit. The size of such a unit and the number of people definitely did not look like it was only one or two battalions. This unit had to be at least a regiment.
Not only did Ma San notice this troop, but also the refugees around Ma San. To be precise, these people were all Ma San’s neighbors. Of course, there were also many whom Ma San didn’t know. These people They had the same purpose as Ma Sandu. They wanted to escape through Yijiang Gate, but they were also blocked by the 36th Division's supervising team and couldn't get out.
Soon, Ma San discovered the commander of this unit. He was tall and handsome. What was more important was that he was wearing a woolen coat, which was not something that the lieutenant-level officers he usually attracted could wear. If you can afford it, you are at least a regiment commander or a brigade commander!
Ma San must seize this only opportunity.
So, when the officer passed by them, he made an action that no one else expected - he jumped up and hugged Zhang Tianhai's legs, and started crying with runny nose and tears.
To be honest, Zhang Tianhai never expected that this situation would happen. He was already extremely nervous, and even in a conditioned reflex, he took out his pistol and pointed it at Ma San's head, and the bullet instantly The gun is loaded and the safety is opened. This series of actions is completed almost instantly.
Ma San didn't know that he almost died, but he had no other way out. What else could he do except fight?
"Sir, please save us poor people! We really have no choice. We don't want to die. Please save my whole family!" Ma San burst into tears. He was not pretending. If he If he didn't tell the real situation to win the sympathy of the young officer in front of him, I'm afraid that his whole family would really be dead. The scene where his parents died in the Japanese bombing a few days ago was still... It’s vivid in my mind.
He had to save the lives of his grandmother, wife and children. The man had gold at his knees. If he hadn't already been in this situation, how could he kneel down and beg for help?
After seeing Ma San's actions, the nearby people seemed to see a glimmer of hope. They quickly followed Ma San and knelt down to Zhang Tianhai. They knelt down and cried, begging the young officer to save them.
"Sir, please show your kindness! Hurry up and save us ordinary people. The chairman is gone, the government is gone, and we ordinary people have no choice."
"Sir, please save us. If you don't save us, our whole family will die at the hands of the little devil..."
"Yes, sir, even the government has left, and the little devils are about to enter the city. We have no choice. The whole family has no way to survive...Sir, please show your kindness and save us poor people." You must be a miserable person..."
Looking at the poor people kneeling in front of him, Zhang Tianhai felt mixed emotions and sad. The soldiers' food and military expenses were accumulated bit by bit from the taxes paid by the people, and in these critical moments , these soldiers were powerless in the face of the ferocious Japanese invaders, and could only retreat passively. The Japanese army was about to break through Nanjing. Even if they all went up, it would be of no avail, but what about the life and death of these poor people after the city was broken? At home?
The brutality of the Japanese army and the lives and deaths of the people made him even more hesitant.
The words "people's soldiers" are not empty words, not to mention that he was already a soldier in his previous life. At this time, his understanding of this sentence is not ordinary.
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