Chapter 233: Guling Coal Mine
The villagers of Hujiayu returned to the village one after another, and the tragic situation in the village almost broke them.
"Mom! Heaven, please open your eyes and take a look!"
"Second treasure, second treasure! Open your eyes and look at grandma. How will grandma live if you leave!"
"Damn you little devil, she's only twelve years old!"
Sister-in-law Hu Qi held her daughter who died tragically, and her cries tore through the countryside that had survived the disaster.
In the Hujia Village, which has always kept aloof from the world, almost every family has a filial piety, every household has a new age, and all their homes have been destroyed.
At this time, they finally understood that this was not a change of dynasty, but the annihilation of the race.
Either resist or die!
Hu Dashan is the largest landowner in Hujiayu. His family owns more than half of the land in Hujiayu. Because he occasionally gives porridge and food in times of famine, he has earned the title of "Hu Dashan"
.
For dozens of miles around, Hu Dashan's name is still very appealing.
When the Sanlian entered Hujiayu to establish a base, they were also resisted by Hu Dashan. Since he was quite prestigious in the area with a radius of dozens of miles, he had not done any serious evil, and he had some good reputations, so the Sanlian temporarily
There is no good way to deal with him for a while.
Due to the resistance led by Mr. Hu Dashan, the various mass work of the Third Company in Hujiayu was not carried out smoothly. Few soldiers were recruited, and a militia company was not established. The mass work has always lagged behind other villages.
Hu Dashan's real name is Hu Ronghui. His family owns more than 3,000 acres of fertile land. His concubine has five wives and three sons and five daughters. It is a typical gentry family.
Hu Ronghui was very resistant to the establishment of the Anti-Japanese Base Area by the Third Company in the Hu family. In his opinion, anyone in the world needs scholars and the support of the squires. The most important thing for the Hu family to cultivate and inherit the family is scholars.
When the Japanese come here, they just want another person to pay taxes. The Hu family has a big business and can afford to pay taxes;
The Eighth Route Army established a base area to fight the Japanese, which would anger the Japanese and bring disaster to Hujiayu.
Due to the resistance and incitement of the Hu family, the people in Hujia Village did not cooperate with the mass work of Sanlian.
This time the Japanese came for a raid, and the Third Company's main force was to stop them and send a platoon to evacuate the people. Hu Dashan's family did not want to abandon their home and business and leave. He felt that the Japanese were just looking for money, and they could not rob the entire Hu family.
To win over a country gentleman like him.
Many ordinary people, the Hu family, who had a great family and a great career, did not follow the Eighth Route Army up the mountain. They also took a chance and did not want to go through the trouble. Some elderly people in particular were unwilling to leave no matter how much they were persuaded.
The commander of the third company and the first platoon had no good solution, so he had to organize the fellow villagers who were willing to leave to go up the mountain first. Only the third daughter of Hu Ronghui's family followed her seventh sister up the mountain along the eighth road.
A small group of Japs came in from the alley, and they first rushed into Hu Ronghui's house. Because Hujiayu was just inside their high-gate compound, the Japs naturally knew whose house they could get good things from when they robbed things.
Hu Ronghui originally wanted to pretend to be a country squire with the Japanese, but he knew that the Japanese leader was a miner's son from Kumamoto. He didn't know this, so with a wave of his hand, more than a dozen Japanese rushed into Hu's house.
Searching for valuables everywhere, Hu Ronghui hurriedly stopped him, but was knocked to the ground by a Japanese sergeant with the butt of his rifle.
The Hu family's five-bedroom concubines, who were as beautiful as flowers and jade, completely aroused the Japanese's animalistic desires. One by one, the Japanese attacked Hu Ronghui's female family members, including his three daughters who did not escape, his five concubines, and even his 50-year-old first wife.
Didn't even let it go.
Several of his sons were stabbed to death by the Japanese with bayonets when they tried to stop them, including his most beloved son, who was only 5 years old. It was only then that Hu Ronghui understood the bestiality of the Japanese. Unfortunately, it was too late, and the Hu family became a hell on earth...
Then the brutality of the Hu family spread to the entire Hujiayu. The red-eyed Japs killed people they saw, burned down houses, and robbed everything they saw...
Hu Ronghui's centuries-old mansion was also burned down by the Japanese. They needed fire to cover up the heinous crimes they committed in the Hu family's compound.
There were a total of 35 members of Hu Yaohui's family and their servants. Except for the third lady and the seventh lady, all of them were killed by the Japanese and then burned to ashes.
When the third daughter of the Hu family, Hu Jingwen, took her seventh sister back to her home in ruins, she almost fainted. The Hu family was gone...
"Comrade, Li let me in, I want to join the Eighth Route Army, I want to fight the Japanese! I want to avenge my brothers and sisters!"
After Hu Jingwen entrusted her young Seventh Sister to the eldest sister who was married to Zhaojiacun, she went to the Third Company and asked to join the Eighth Route Army to fight against the Japanese.
But the Third Company does not accept female soldiers. They have just been rebuilt and do not have so many weapons yet. They only recruit some young students, and each of them is only issued a spear.
Many girls were persuaded to go back, but Hu Jingwen refused to leave even if she was beaten to death. Either she would be treated as a traitor or she would die!
The third company commander really couldn't do anything with her, so he handed her over to Li Chenxi's second squad.
When Li Chenxi saw Hu Jingwen, a pretty eldest lady, she also had a headache. This was about fighting Japanese enemies, not playing house.
"Monitor Li, you look down on people!"
Hu Jingwen was unhappy when she saw Li Chenxi's disgusted eyes, and she immediately protested.
"Hu Jingwen, tell me why I look down on you?"
"Squad leader Li, don't you just think I'm a girl? Our Eighth Route Army has policies. Since the company commander assigned me to the second squad, I will be your soldier! You have to teach me to fight Japanese soldiers!"
"Fighting Japanese is our men's business. Why do you have to fight Japanese? It's so inconvenient."
Li Chenxi accidentally let it slip that it was really inconvenient for him to have a dozen men in a class and put a girl in.
"Captain Li, Hua Mulan joined the army for her father in ancient times. Is the Eighth Route Army inferior to the emperor's army in ancient times? All the thirty or so members of our family were killed by the Japanese butcher knife. I want to avenge my family!"
Hu Jingwen's words made it impossible for Li Chenxi to shirk anymore. No one had the right to deprive Hu Jingwen of her right to fight the Japanese.
Li Chenxi took out a grenade and handed it to Hu Jingwen, and asked softly:
"Will the grenade work?"
Hu Jingwen took the grenade and turned the safety cover on the wooden handle to prove that she knew how to use the grenade.
Li Chenxi quickly grabbed it and said nervously:
"My aunt, this can explode. It's just this grenade. I don't even want to use it myself!"
When Hu Jingwen heard this, she snatched it away, then stretched out her little hand and said to Li Chenxi:
"Captain Li, where is my gun? I know how to shoot. I learned it when I was a boy scout in school!"
"No gun! I do have a red cherry gun. Do you want it? Can you dance with it?"
"If you want a gun, ask the Japanese to take it away!"
Li Chenxi's words made Hu Jingwen completely dumbfounded. She secretly thought that the Eighth Route Army was too poor.
"You think the Eighth Route Army is poor. It's too late for you to regret now. The grenade was just returned to me."
Upon hearing this, Hu Jingwen quickly hid the grenade back and forth, fearing that Li Chenxi would snatch it back again.
Chapter completed!