War of Resistance

Chapter 217 The Kneeling of the Common People
Ma San is an aborigine in Nanjing, 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 those native Nanjing people, they have never been to other places except Nanjing. Although Ma San saved some money, he did not dare to spend it recklessly. Young and old will starve to death.

After all, this is a chaotic world, a chaotic world where people eat people!It's easy to do things with some money, but if you don't even have money, you really can't live...

In a troubled world, life is worse than a dog. This sentence is vividly reflected in Ma San. The old clothes on his body are dirty and there is no place to wash them. It is not because there is no water in the house, but because the house was bombed by Japan...

The changes that the war brought to Ma San, a commoner who lives at the bottom, are obvious: before the war, even if Ma San ran a rickshaw every day, when he was lucky, he could still earn one or two oceans a day, which was enough for the whole family to spend for a few days After the war, the merchants withdrew and the price of rice soared. Even though the government tried its best to suppress it, it could not do enough. Most of the government staff had already moved out.

Ma San’s family can only rely on the surplus food they saved before, but it didn’t take long before the Japanese bombers bombed his home and the Zhonghua Gate near his home. They believed that Nanjing was the capital of the Republic of China, and Chief Tang, the commander-in-chief of the garrison in the city, also said that they would live and die with Nanjing.

But when the Japanese army reached the outside of Nanjing, the atmosphere of despair enveloped the whole city of Nanjing. Ma San's family even thought of fleeing into the refugee camp, because they heard from the refugees that Director Hang in the refugee area would do his best Protect their safety, and the Japanese commander also promised not to embarrass the refugees.

But Ma San always felt that Director Hang was unreliable. Can these little Japanese believe it?Shanghai has been fighting for more than three months, and Nanjing is also fighting. Rather than pinning hopes on himself in vain, it is better to seek a way out by himself. So starting on the morning of the [-]th, he took his family members Xiao Pao came out and wanted to run to Yijiangmen to see if there was a way out, but when he arrived at Yijiangmen, he heard gunshots. It was his own people from the national army who were beating their own people, as if an army was trying to escape from Yijiangmen. Jiangmen went out, and then crossed the river to escape, but before he could go out, he was shot back by the troops guarding the gate.

At that moment, Ma San finally knew what true despair is, that there is no hope in heaven, and there is no way to go to earth.

Just when Ma San felt that his whole family would be buried in this war, hope appeared——I saw a heavily armed, well-equipped and heavily armed army marching in their direction. Come, and they are all wearing a yellow cuff, the kind of cuff that Ma San has seen before, and it is the cuff that only the troops directly under the commander's department of the garrison are qualified to wear.

Ma San is a person who travels in the rivers and lakes, and he has a bit of insight. The equipment of this army is comparable to that of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps in Nanjing. It must be the army directly under the Commander's Department. He must seize this opportunity. He It is the person who fell into the water, even if it is the last straw, he must seize it, otherwise he will not only be buried, but also his wife, his young daughter and his elderly grandma, a family of four His hopes rested upon him.

If this life can be happy and stable, who is willing to suffer from ups and downs?
This army is slowly approaching them. He may have been running rickshaws in Nanjing for a long time, and he has also picked up many officers. Through these officers, he gradually learned how to judge the size of an officer's rank. Depending on the size, you can probably judge what position this officer can achieve in the army.

Men, they should be interested in things like these guns and cannons.

After seeing the direction in which this army was heading, he instinctively told Ma San that this army was going to Yijiang Gate. Perhaps this army was going to pass through Yijiang Gate under the order of their commander. way of life.

Anyway, you have to give it a try, what if it succeeds?
Ever since, Ma San began to pay attention to the commander of that army. The size of such an army, judging by the number of people, definitely does not seem to be the size of only one or two battalions. This army must be at least a regiment.

Not only Ma San noticed this army, but also the refugees around Ma San. To be precise, these people were Ma San's neighbors. Of course, there were also many Ma San didn't know. They had the same purpose as Ma San. They wanted to escape through Yijiangmen, but they were also blocked by the supervisory team of the 36th Division and couldn't get out.

Soon, Ma San found the officer of this army. He was tall and handsome. The most important thing was that he was wearing a woolen coat, which was not something that the lieutenant officers he usually brought could wear. Affordable, this is at least the regiment leader or brigade commander!

Ma San must seize this only chance.

So, when the officer passed by them, he made a movement that no one else expected - he jumped to hug Zhang Tianhai's leg, and cried with snot and tears.

To be honest, Zhang Tianhai never expected this kind of situation to happen. He was already extremely nervous, and even in a conditioned reflex, he took out a pistol and pointed it at Ma San's head, and the bullet shot instantly Loading and opening the safety, this series of actions was completed almost instantly.

Ma San didn't know, he almost died, but he had no other way out, what else could he do except fight?
"Sir, please save us poor little people! We really can't do anything, we don't want to die, please save my family!" Ma San burst into tears, this is not pretending, if he If you don't tell the truth to win the sympathy of the young officer in front of you, I'm afraid his whole family will really die. The scene where his parents died under the bombing of the Japanese army a few days ago is still the same. vividly.

He must save the lives of his grandma, wife and children. The man has gold under his knees. If he hadn't reached this situation, how could he kneel down and beg for help?

Seeing Ma San's actions, the nearby common people also seemed to see a glimmer of hope, and hurriedly followed Ma San to kneel down to Zhang Tianhai, knelt down and cried, begging the young officer to save them.

"Sir, please show kindness! Hurry up and save us ordinary people. The chairman is gone, and the government is gone. We ordinary people have nothing to do."

"Sir, please save us, if you don't save us, our whole family will die at the hands of the little devil..."

"That's right, sir, even the government is gone, and the little devil is about to enter the city, we have nothing to do, the whole family has no way to survive... Sir, please show kindness and help us poor people The miserable person..."

Looking at the poor people kneeling in front of him, Zhang Tianhai felt mixed feelings and felt very sad. The food and military expenses of the soldiers were also accumulated bit by bit from the taxes paid by the common people. However, these soldiers were helpless in the face of the brutal Japanese invaders, and could only retreat passively. The Japanese army was about to break through Nanjing. Even if they all went up, it would not help, but what about the lives and deaths of these poor people after the city was broken? where?

The ferocity of the Japanese army and the lives and deaths of the people made him even more hesitant, even more determined.

The words "people's soldiers" are not empty words, what's more, he was already a soldier in his previous life. At this moment, his understanding of this sentence is not generally profound.

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