Chapter 129 Turning around

("...From the beginning of your pick-up and killing the first person, you have been branded with guns in your life and you can't escape, because you are already a soldier and no longer an ordinary person... Excerpted from "Grandpa's Memories of the War of Resistance")

"...The Japanese soldiers asked us to take off the money, even the earrings and bracelets, and put them in their large wooden basin. They said that if anyone has gold, silver and jewelry in the future, the whole family would kill them all... The commander wants to make the decision for us, we will ruin the Japanese..."

"...Sir, please save my Chun'er. The Japanese took her away, and I don't know if it's dead or alive..."

"...Sir, we haven't eaten for a day, is there anything we can do to cushion our stomachs first..."

The 1,703 people rescued by Liang Xiaokuan (number of the Japanese) included farmers in the Shangyuanmen area of ​​the Mufu Mountains, as well as refugees from the city and other northern suburbs. When they saw Cao Xiaomin, they never mentioned the Japanese situation, but just kept complaining and complaining about the injustice. Some people actually wanted Cao Xiaomin to take people to take back their plundered property!

The surging crowd rushed to the front of the commander and cried, almost hitting Cao Xiaomin. If it weren't for the fact that a few naval soldiers "Kara" pulled the bolt and loaded the bullet, those people might have really pushed Cao Xiaomin down, who was already weak!

"What! Only three Japanese soldiers have watched over 1,700 of you!?" Cao Xiaomin, who had finally figured out the situation, was so angry that he wanted to cry! The Japanese soldiers rushed to the village ancestral hall like sheep. There were only three left-behind troops in the entire village! No wonder Liang Xiaokuan and the others could succeed. It is said that there are as many as five villages that are in control of refugees, so Liang Xiaokuan and the others simply continued to move forward to save people!

When will the Japanese arrive? There are nearly 6,000 people behind Cao Xiaomin now. If Liang Xiaokuan is successful, there will be more and more people. There will be ships and navys that can drive ships. It is like a hand in the dark asking Cao Xiaomin to rewrite this sad tragedy of the nation. But the total number of officers and soldiers he can use, plus those navys less than 110! Cao Xiaomin's forehead and palms were covered with sweat.

Because the area of ​​Grasssha Gorge is narrow and difficult to walk, all the Kuomintang troops on the river have crossed the river again. The Japanese who were so tired that they wanted to fall would rather go back to the city to rest rather than pass through this large section of mud and attack the refugees. They only kept the few troops behind the refugees they caught.

The butterfly's wings are quietly flaming hurricanes. The Japanese in this time and space have been beaten much worse than the time and space where Cao Xiaomin used to be. When he knew that he had achieved a decisive victory, the first thing these Japanese soldiers wanted to do was lie down and sleep. It is best to stuff two rice balls into their stomachs before going to bed!

The Japanese did not use the tactics of attacking Yijiangmen on both sides as Cao Xiaomin imagined. The Japanese from the Sixth Division and the 101st Division believed that it was their credit to capture Yijiangmen and should not be interfered with others. The 13th Division, the 16th Division and the 18th Division on the northern line were tortured by fatigue and hunger, and had long been looking forward to a great rest. I learned that the troops in the south wanted to take Yijiangmen alone and wanted to win!

There were crowds of people on the Coal Port Pier, standing in the dark, exceeding the range of lights. Cao Xiaomin stood on a pile of coal holding a microphone and shouted to everyone: "Listen, don't mess around, don't squeeze; the boat will come back after leaving, and will transport everyone away from here to Jiangbei... Everyone was plundered by the Japanese, but don't you still have a pair of hands? Just use these hands to rebuild a new home; or use it to grab the gun to avenge the Japanese... Don't panic, my troops guard the roads to this place. They will not take a step back until everyone leaves safely!"

In the dim lights and in the darkness, pairs of tears, and trembling mouths with trembling and speechless mouths; everyone was called back to their lost souls at this moment. What is a hero? The officer on the coal pile is the soldiers scattered in the dark night and silently guarding the important roads. It doesn’t matter how many people you have killed, it just depends on whether you dare to stand up when the public needs it! The whole body was blackened by the fire of war, and was injured, wearing military uniforms that were so tattered that they could not even see clearly; this is the image of a hero, the image of a Chinese Democratic Party soldier!

Suddenly, the Vietnamese people in the crowd walked out of the crowd trembled. The three of them used their palms without hesitation when they squeezed away the others, as if they were afraid that other parts of their bodies would be touched. They walked up to the pile of coal and went to Cao Xiaomin, looking at each other's familiar faces - they were all blackened by the fire of war; they felt each other's pain - they were all covered in their clothes... They were soldiers wearing ordinary people's clothes!

One of the three suddenly turned around and shouted to the crowd: "Brothers! Are there any of my brothers here? Brothers who have retreated from the Shangyuan Gate from the Mufu Mountain!...Don't we all know that the Japanese want to massacre the city? Don't we know that this injury will reveal our identity? Why do we still have to hide in the crowd? Why do we still have to compete with the people for a position?! We are also soldiers! Brothers, stand up, maybe we will die in battle; if we just cross the river like this, we will never be able to raise our heads for the rest of our lives, and we will dream of Chief Cao... Everyone stand up, it is soldiers, and brothers stand up!"

Nearly four hundred people, lowered their heads and moved their steps slowly. Maybe they were still thinking about whether to stop, but the people around them noticed their movements and automatically moved away... Four hundred people retreated from the Mufu Mountain and from the Shangyuan Gate; they had ambitions, and they once vowed to fight to the death; but when the brothers around them fought less and less, when the Japanese artillery fire became more and more fierce, they suddenly collapsed.

They did not live and die with the positions. They left the bodies of their brothers who died in battle and threw the guns with bullets into the pond. They even wrapped their military uniforms on the guns... They lowered their heads, but they really didn't want to lower their heads; before they knew it, their slowly moving steps took them to the front of the coal pile, and they didn't dare to raise their heads...

"Welcome back, my brothers..." Cao Xiaomin did not have a gorgeous remark to welcome these returning soldiers, nor did he express more gratitude and emotion to them, but many of the soldiers' shoulders were already shaking because of the two words "brother" and the two words "back"!

...From the time when you picked up the gun and killed the first person, you were branded with guns in your life and you couldn't escape, because you were already a soldier and no longer an ordinary person... Cao Xiaomin himself once dropped the gun, but as the grandfather said in his memoirs, it was a curse. After killing the first person, he was no longer an ordinary person.

In Sixingcang, Suzhou, Wuxi, Nanjing... He has seen too many soldiers who have thrown away and picked up their guns again. Such soldiers are even more reliable than those soldiers who are full of bold words!

"I haven't reached the trenches yet, so there is no need for everyone to lower their heads..." When Cao Xiaomin passed through the returning soldiers, he did not forget to joke with them to relieve their nerves and intense emotions. The soldiers of the Navy came to report that the left-behind British squad at Hutchison Foreign Company asked to see the highest commander of the Chinese Democratic Party army, so go, it's best to take everything on yourself.

"You have to know that every citizen and citizen's property of the British Empire is protected. If you want to requisition, I mean requisition is not robbery, then it must be filed..." A thin man who looked very much like the later Sloke star Davis sat behind a large class chair, stirring his ten fingers together, and his pale face stared at Cao Xiaomin with a little arrogant attitude: "You should sign some documents..."

It's that simple? Cao Xiaomin originally thought that he would face a mad cow and would be sprayed on his face by the other party. But everything was unexpected, and the other party just asked him to sign a name!

What if he doesn't matter, he can't represent the National Government or the Chinese people. Even if you want to extend the Hong Kong lease period by one hundred years, sign it as soon as possible! Cao Xiaomin took a rough look at the document written in English, about the Chinese Democratic Party army that had to ask Hutchison to lend their freighters, barges and weapons to the people; the undry signature of the "Davis" in the column of agreement was already on it. Cao Xiaomin signed his name after a few strokes.

"Well, there is another place that needs to be signed here, which is what my little daughter wants... Are you really the Cao Xiaomin mentioned in the newspaper?" The British actually handed Cao Xiaomin a handkerchief with fragrance! Cao Xiaomin was stunned: A Chinese hero of the War of Resistance Against Japan actually has British fans!?

"good!" The British man happily took the two signatures, and looked at the Chinese characters with an admiring expression and the special "seals" mixed with blood, sweat, dust, etc. on his hands left by Cao Xiaomin when he wrote next to the Chinese characters: "You must know that if we really disagree, you can't get those ships and weapons, we are very powerful... I'm not scaring you, right in the door behind me, the inner room of my office is the gun library, I have fifty rifles and two heavy machine guns, and 80,000 bullets... Really, if we disagree, you can't get anything..."

"Davis" opened the door with his own hands: "May the Lord bless those Chinese..."
Chapter completed!