"Didn't you say you could fight the Japanese? Why didn't you rescue him?" someone cried loudly.
"Oh, my poor son!" Some people also cried loudly.
"Wa wah", there are also children crying.
Faced with such questioning, Shang Zhen and others remained silent.
The reason they remained silent was that the ones crying loudly were two women and two children who were about three or four years old.
The middle-aged woman who looked honest was the man's wife, and the old lady who was crying and shouting was the man's mother.
And this was just crying. There were two little boys with tears in their eyes, but they didn't cry in the end.
Just as the man shouted, he has old people above him and young children below him!
The two youngest children had their eyes covered by others, but what did they know? When their mother cried, they felt fear and cried along with her.
There was a trail of blood on the ground that stretched into the distance, and at the beginning of the trail, there really was a person's severed arm!
This is not a so-called scientist's laboratory, and naturally it is not a place to store human specimens.
Where did the broken arm come from? Of course, that man had his arm chopped off by the Japanese army!
What's the difference between this atrocity committed by the Japanese army and the legendary skinning alive? It's just a matter of using more or less knives.
Faced with such a tragedy, it is definitely not something that can be resolved by threatening with a gun like Qiu Bo did to the middle-aged man before.
Qiu Bo could point a gun at the man, but they couldn't use violence against the woman because that was the character of Northeastern men.
Normally, Northeastern men don't hit women. But if a soldier points a gun at a woman, not to mention others, he will be looked down upon.
Laomao Wang was furious but had no way to vent his anger, so he turned around and walked away. Although Lao Huo was still staring, this time there was no cunning in his eyes, only helplessness.
If Shang Zhen and his group were considered the "Big Three", two of them had already lost their temper. All the soldiers certainly didn't want the people to keep crying like this, so they all looked at Shang Zhen.
Shang Zhen also noticed the gazes of his companions, and he actually walked forward with his head lowered and in deep thought.
Shang Zhen had no experience in dealing with such a thing. He had to think about it, and the only reference he could make was Qiu Bo's initial use of the gun to point at the civilians.
"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 the people, and not even his companions.
And at this moment, Shang Zhen actually took action.
He suddenly pulled out the bayonet that had been hanging on his waist, and then he pressed the bayonet directly against the neck of the crying child.
"Everyone who is crying, shut up, or I will not be polite!" Shang Zhen suddenly shouted.
No one expected Shang Zhen to do such a thing. At this moment, the scene fell into complete silence!
The middle-aged woman stopped crying, the old lady stopped crying, and the two three or four-year-old children seemed to sense that something was wrong, and they also shut up.
But Shang Zhen drew his sword quickly and put it away even faster!
It was so fast that only his companions saw that when Shang Zhen pressed the bayonet against the neck of one of the children, he was actually only using the back of the bayonet.
"Listen to me!" Shang Zhen shouted again, "It's true that we are soldiers, but we can't save your people.
Not only can 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 all Chinese people!
Do you want to avenge them? Send us a leader and we will go and take revenge!"
Shang Zhen's words worked, and the heart-wrenching cries finally stopped 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".
An hour later, Shang Zhen and his men were already marching through the mountains and forests, and they were still leading the horse and three mules. The horses and mules were loaded with weapons that they had captured from the Japanese artillery when they defeated them last time.
This time, they were heading east, towards Ningyuan County.
The atrocities committed by the Japanese army deeply shocked all of them. As Shang Zhen said, they wanted revenge.
"Once you enter the mansion of a marquis, it's like entering a deep sea!" As the scholar Chen Hanwen walked, he sighed in a low voice.
"I'm calling you a sour scholar. What are you talking about?" asked Qiu Bo, who was walking with Chen Hanwen.
There were really few educated people among them, so Qiu Bo didn’t understand the saying “Once you enter a noble family, it’s like entering a deep sea.”
"Just don't join the army. If you become a soldier, we will make enemies with the Japanese, and we will have no choice but to fight!" Chen Hanwen explained patiently.
Chen Hanwen's knowledge is limited, so he borrowed the phrase "Once you enter a noble family, it's like entering a deep sea" to express it. It turns out that what he was lamenting was exactly this meaning. Entering a noble family and becoming a soldier are just analogies, and in fact, they are completely unrelated.
But what Chen Hanwen said undoubtedly makes sense.
The Northeast Army's anti-Japanese war also went through a process.
The September 18th Incident was more like being pinned to the ground and rubbed rather than being forced to fight.
After the September 18th Incident, the Northeast Army finally began to resist and fight back.
From avoiding war to being forced to fight, and then to taking the initiative to fight, what is the reason behind this? In fact, the answer is very simple, just two words: hatred!
The Japanese invaders not only killed many officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army, but also killed many innocent civilians. In this process, any soldier with a little bit of blood in his veins could not stay out of it.
Just as they had seen before, the man had one of his arms chopped off by the Japanese army.
And what happened next is completely imaginable. The man lost his other arm, then one leg, and then the other leg!
But that's not all, because the Japanese army was also holding two other men at the time. If Shang Zhen and the others hadn't appeared, those two men would have been dismembered, or perhaps, those two men had already lost all their 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!
As I said, there are things in this world that are more important than your own life and death.
If I don't do such things, I may be able to survive, but my energy and spirit will be gone in this life, and I will be worse than a guard dog!
Although none of Shang Zhen's friends could explain this, they all felt it vaguely. Because of this, Old Huo and Laomao Wang did not object to Shang Zhen's proposal for revenge.
"Oh, it's good to have knowledge in your head. You speak in an elegant and refined way, and every time you speak, it makes sense!" Qiu Bo sincerely began to praise Chen Hanwen's "erudition".
Of course, people have different levels of knowledge and culture. Don't underestimate Chen Hanwen, a half-scholar. At least in terms of reading and writing, no one can compare to him.
However, Chen Hanwen is self-aware. He knows his own worth. Compared with the students they had escorted before, his knowledge is nothing.
So Chen Hanwen thought about it and said, "What's the point of my little knowledge? Look, our Shang Zhen can also talk about China, right?"
China is a word that is familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar to people in Northeast China today.
It is a place outside the Great Wall and has very little cultural heritage.
Of course, we cannot say that there is no cultural heritage in the Northeast, but that kind of heritage is mostly about the yellow-skinned guardian deity and the like, and no one would talk about China for no reason.
But with the invasion of the Japanese army, the people of Northeast China, especially those at the bottom of society like them, finally understood what China was and what the Chinese were.
"I also heard it from Li Yajuan and other college students." Shang Zhen explained when he heard Chen Hanwen mention him.