"Didn't you say you could fight the Japanese? Why didn't you save him?" someone wailed.
"Oh, my poor son!" Some people cried loudly.
"Wow wow", some children cried loudly.
Faced with such questioning, Shang Zhen and the others remained silent.
The reason they remained silent was that the ones crying loudly were two women and two children who were three or four years old.
The honest-looking middle-aged woman was that person's wife, and the old lady who was crying so hard that she was crying was that person's mother.
And this was just crying. There were two and a half young men with tears in their eyes, but they didn't cry after all.
Just as the man shouted, he is old and young!
The two youngest children had their eyes covered by others, but what do children of that age know? They felt fear when their mother cried, and they cried together.
There was a trail of blood on the ground that led into the distance. Where the blood trail started, there really was a person's broken arm!
This is not a so-called scientist's laboratory, nor is it a place where human specimens are stored.
Where did the broken arm come from? Of course, that man really had an arm chopped off by the Japanese army!
What is the difference between this kind of atrocities committed by the Japanese army and the legendary live mutilation? It’s just a matter of too many knives and too few knives.
Faced with such a tragedy, it cannot be solved by threatening him with a gun like Qiu Bo did to the middle-aged man earlier.
Qiu Bo can point his gun at the man, but they can't be rough with the woman, because this is the character of Northeastern men.
Men in the Northeast usually don't hit women. If you, as a soldier, point your gun at a woman, let alone others, you will look down on yourself.
Old Mao Wang was angry but had no way to vent it. When he was angry, he turned around and walked away. Although Old Huo Tou still had his eyes closed, there was no cunning in his eyes this time. Just helpless.
If Shang Zhen and his group can be regarded as the "Big Three", two of them have already failed. Of course, all the soldiers don't want the people to cry like this all the time, so they all looked at Shang Zhen.
And Shang Zhen also noticed the gazes of his companions, and he actually lowered his head and came forward in deep contemplation.
How could Shang Zhen have any experience in dealing with this kind of thing? He had to think about it, and the only thing he could learn from it was that Qiu Bo pointed his gun at the people at the beginning.
"Cover the eyes of those two children!" Shang Zhen said with difficulty, as if he was making a very painful decision.
No one knew what Shang Zhen was going to do, not even these people, nor Shang Zhen's companions.
And at this moment, Shang Zhen actually took action.
He suddenly pulled out the bayonet he had been hanging on his waist, and then he pressed the bayonet directly on the neck of the crying child.
"Everyone who is crying, shut up, otherwise I won't be polite!" Shang Zhen shouted suddenly.
No one expected Shang Zhen to make such an action. At this moment, the scene was completely silent!
The middle-aged woman stopped crying, the old lady stopped crying, and the two three- and four-year-old children seemed to sense that something was wrong, and they also closed their mouths.
But Shang Zhen can draw out the sword quickly and retract it even faster!
Only his companions saw Shang Zhen pressing the bayonet on the neck of one of the children. He was actually using only the back of the knife.
"Listen to me!" Shang Zhen shouted again, "It's true that we are soldiers, but we can't save your people.
Not only could we not save your people, my own third brother died in front of me, and I couldn't save him. The only thing I can do is to avenge him and avenge us Chinese!
Do you want to avenge them? Give us a leader and we will take revenge! "
Shang Zhen's words worked, and finally there was no more heart-wrenching crying in the mountains and forests. The people began to look at each other, while Shang Zhen's companions were chewing on the three words Shang Zhen said: "Chinese people." ".
An hour later, Shang Zhen and the others were already marching in the mountains and forests, and they were still leading the horse and three mules. The horses and mules were carrying the weapons they had captured after defeating the Japanese artillery last time.
The direction they took this time was to the east, that is, towards Ningyuan County.
The atrocities committed by the Japanese army deeply stimulated all of them. As Shang Zhen said, they wanted revenge.
"As soon as you enter the Marquis Gate, it is as deep as the sea!" During the march, the scholar Chen Hanwen sighed in a low voice.
"I said you are a sour scholar, what are you talking about?" asked Qiu Bo, who was walking with Chen Hanwen.
There really weren't many educated people among them, so Qiu Bo didn't understand the saying, "Once you enter a noble family, it's as deep as the sea."
"Just don't become a soldier. If you become a soldier, we will have enmity with the Japanese, so we won't be able to stop fighting!" Chen Hanwen explained patiently.
Chen Hanwen also had a limited amount of ink in his stomach, so he borrowed the phrase "Once you enter the Hou family, it is as deep as the sea" to express it. It turns out that this is what he lamented. Entering the Hou family and becoming a soldier are just the same thing. Bi, in fact, is completely irrelevant.
But what Chen Hanwen said is undoubtedly reasonable.
The Northeast Army's resistance to Japan also went through a process.
The September 18th Incident was more like being pinned to the ground and rubbed than being forced to fight.
After the September 18th Incident, the Northeast Army finally began to resist and counterattack.
From avoiding war to being forced to fight, and then taking the initiative to fight, what is the purpose of this? In fact, the answer is very simple. There are only two words: hatred!
The Japanese invaders not only killed many Northeastern officers and soldiers, but also killed many innocent people. In this process, any soldier with the slightest bloodshed could not stay away from the incident.
As they had seen before, the man's arm was chopped off by the Japanese army while he was still alive.
And what happened next is completely imaginable. The man's other arm was gone, then one leg was gone, and then the other leg was gone!
But this was not the end, because at that time the Japanese army was still holding the same two other men in custody. If Shang Zhen and the others had not appeared, the two men would never have escaped the fate of being dismembered, or maybe those two men had lost all limbs. .
Because of hatred, there is a hurdle in my heart. If I don't kill the enemy, I can't get over this hurdle!
Again, there are things in this world that are more important than your own life and death.
If I don't do such a thing, I might be able to survive, but in this life, my energy will be gone, and I won't be as good as a dog that guards the house!
Although no one like Shang Zhen could tell the truth, they all felt it vaguely. Because of this, neither Lao Huo Tou nor Wang Lao Mao objected to Shang Zhen's proposal of revenge.
"Yeah, it's better to have ink in your belly. He speaks in a literate manner, and every time he speaks, he makes sense!" Qiu Bo sincerely began to praise Chen Hanwen's "eruditeness".
Of course people have different levels of knowledge and culture. Don't underestimate Chen Hanwen, a semi-talented scholar. At least in terms of reading and writing, no one can compare with them.
However, Chen Hanwen was self-aware. He still knew how much he weighed. His little ink was nothing compared to the few students they had escorted.
So Chen Hanwen thought about it and said, "What does this little ink mean to me? Don't you think our Shang Zhen can also speak about China?"
China is a word that is familiar but somewhat unfamiliar to Northeastern people nowadays.
This is a place outside the customs with very little cultural heritage.
Of course, it cannot be said that there is no cultural inheritance in the Northeast, but that kind of inheritance is mostly the kind of yellow-skinned fairy who protects the family, who can talk about China.
But with the invasion of the Japanese army, the Northeastern people, especially those at the lowest level, finally knew what China was and what the Chinese were.
"I also heard what Li Yajuan and several other college students said." Shang Zhen explained after hearing Chen Hanwen mention him.
