Workers Li San, Zhao Si and He Liu were drinking a pot of inferior rice wine from several big boys in the tavern, while drunkenly talking about the difficulties of each family. This morning, the boss of the yarn mill who worked in the workplace committed suicide because the warehouse where cotton yarn was stored was blown up by the Japanese plane, and the cargo worth tens of thousands of oceans was turned into ashes.

"Nannan celebrated her birthday today and agreed to buy her a red-headed rope, but..." Zhao Si said the eyes turned red. The boss had already committed suicide, leaving behind a widow and a pair of hungry children. Not to mention paying them wages, these workers still had to help raise money to make up for the orphan and widowed mother to get enough money back to their hometown in Ningbo.

"And my mother, how can I do it if I don't have money to get medicine?" He Liu was full of sorrow. His 80-year-old mother had been ill in bed for more than half a month. Because her family was poor, she kept holding on. She originally pointed out that she had received wages to get medicine today, but she never thought that the boss of the cotton mill committed suicide. If he had no wages, what would he take to get medicine?

Li San spat out a thick phlegm and cursed, "I heard that the little Japanese has landed in Zhang Huabin, and the whole Shanghai is about to be occupied by them. How can we live in the future?"

Zhao Si and He Liu's faces became more and more sad. Although more than ten years have passed, these old workers still remember them freshly. Although Westerners are not good things, Easterners are not good birds. If Japan really wants to occupy Shanghai, can they still have a way out for them?

In the eyes of Japanese people, Chinese people are pigs or dogs!

Two students were carrying banners by the tavern. They couldn't understand what was written on the banner, but the slogans shouted in the mouth of the students could still understand.

"The whole country is fighting bloody, and we will go to the national crisis together!"

"I would rather be a dead ghost in battle than a slave to the country!"

"Damn!" Li San paused the wine glass on the table, stood up and shouted, "This life is impossible, so I will join the army and compete with the Japanese!"

"I'm the one!"

"Damn, I'll go too!"

Zhao Si and He Liuyi raised their necks and drank the glass of wine, and stood up.

"Let's go!" Li San waved his hand, then suddenly lifted the short jacket on his body, and walked out of the tavern with great strides. Zhao Si and He Liu wiped their mouths and followed resolutely.

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Yin Laoqi tiptoed to open the door, but he still alarmed his wife. His wife sat up from the bed with her three-month-old daughter in her arms and asked extremely nervously: "Brother Qi, what are you going to do?"

Starting from the early morning of yesterday, Zhang Huabin was shooting guns and cannons, which scared the residents of Yinxing Town. Except for a few brave businesses, each of them closed their doors and locked them. The Yin family was also closed, and the second door was locked. The family of three hid in the backyard quietly waiting for the trial of fate.

Yin Laoqi said: "I'll go outside and take a look."

"Brother Qi, don't go, don't go, please."

When his wife heard this, she burst into tears. Although she married into the Yin family, she also knew that the Yin family had blood feuds with the Japanese. In fact, most of the residents of Yinxing Town had irreconcilable hatreds with the Japanese. Five years ago, the Japanese army slaughtered half of Yinxing Town, and almost every family was holding funerals after the war.

The Yin family even died in seven people. Yin Laoqi's grandmother, parents, sister-in-law, sister-in-law and nephew who were less than a month old all died tragically under the butcher knife of the Japanese army. Yin Laoqi happened to be doing farm work in the cotton field at that time, so he escaped the death disaster. Since then, he went to the blacksmith shop to make a huge hatchet.

In the early morning of yesterday, Zhang Huabin's gunfire sounds were heard, and Yin Laoqi began to sharpen the hatchet in the woodshed with red eyes. He just now secretly put the hatchet behind his waist. How could his wife not know what he was going out?

The wife stopped Yin Laoqi, shook her head, and sobbed, "Brother Qi, don't go. If you have a few shortcomings, how can we orphans and widows live?"

Looking at his wife who was crying and looking at his daughter who was sleeping soundly in his arms, Yin Laoqi's eyes turned red and he said with a tragic expression: "Embroidered lady, little Japanese are not humans, they are just a group of beasts. If they are allowed to occupy the town again, it doesn't matter if I die, but you two will still suffer from the life."

The wife cried, "Are you still soldiers?"

Yin Laoqi shook his head and said tragically: "No matter how many soldiers are in the army, they will be wiped out. The 19th Route Army was so capable of fighting back then, and in the end they also withdrew from Shanghai? As long as I have a breath, I will never let those beasts step into the town, let alone let those beasts bully you, mom, embroiderer, I'm leaving."

After saying that, Yin Laoqi resolutely walked out of the door.

Looking at Yin Laoqi's back as he left resolutely, his wife couldn't help but cry like rain. The child in her arms woke up from her sleep and screamed in a mute manner, but she didn't know that her parents were experiencing a tragic separation of life and death.

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Yin Shangwen was searching for something in the attic where the miscellaneous items were piled up by her house. Yin's mother came up and asked, "Shangwen, what are you looking for?"

Yin Shangwen extorted: "I didn't look for anything, I just flipped through it."

Yin's mother was born in a scholarly family and was very strict in educating her son. When she saw her son's expression, she guessed it almost everything and sighed: "Shangwen, tell me honestly, are you looking for the gun left by your father?"

Yin Shangwen's eyes dodged for a moment, but they immediately became firm and looked at Yin's mother and said, "Mom, I want to go to the battlefield, I want to fight the Japanese devils!"

Yin's mother said: "Isn't there a national army in war?"

"Mom, look at this." Yin Shangwen handed a report rolled into a tube to Yin's mother and said excitedly, "The national army fought very hard, and the casualties were heavy. I can't let them become the last national army, let alone make them the last heroes. So I want to join the army, I want to go to the battlefield, Mom, do you know where my father's gun is?"

Yin's mother didn't read the declaration and asked in a trembling voice: "Son, have you really thought about it?"

"Mom, I've thought about it." Yin Shangwen focused his head and responded resolutely, "How can there be a complete egg under the collapse of the nest? If the country dies, where will the family be placed?"

Yin's mother nodded silently. Her son was willing to fight for the country and the nation, which made her feel relieved. At the same time, she was inevitably sad. She was only one son. If she had any good or bad... Yin's mother finally walked to the most conspicuous box by the door, opened the lid and took out a mirror box from the tumbling bag of the box.

Yin Shangwen took the mirror box, walked to the attic door, suddenly turned around and knelt down at Yin's mother, and knocked heavily on the floor: "Mom, since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety are hard to achieve both loyalty and filial piety. Please forgive me for not being able to be filial to my knees."

Looking at his son who was kneeling in front of him, Yin's mother burst into tears.

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Shanghai people suffered a great loss from Japan five years ago. After the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai in August 13, Japanese warships and planes bombed many innocent civilians by accident. As the saying goes, old hatred adds new hatred, the workers, students, merchants and farmers who lived in Yinhang Town broke out immediately after being instigated by Shu Tongwen and more than a dozen students.

So, the businessman put down the abacus in his hand, the students put down the books in his hand, the workers put down the tools in his hand, and the farmers also parted with their wives and daughters, and then resolutely went to the street. The crowd gathered behind the banner became larger and larger. When they followed the gunshots all the way to Dingjia Lane, more than two thousand people had gathered!

In theory, it is very dangerous for so many people to gather together. Even if they are all civilians, they will also attract Japanese naval guns and bombard them by planes. However, the Japanese warships and fighter jets "turn a blind eye" to this. The reason is actually very simple, because at the same time, a regiment of the Central Military Academy's Teaching Corps was marching on the Huangpu Riverside Group. The Japanese naval guns and planes bombed the teaching Corps, and they didn't care about Yin Xing's side at all.

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Xu Shijiu, who had just arrived at Dingjia Lane, was really shocked.

Xu Shijiu met a 61st Division correspondent at the intersection of Yingao Road. After asking, he found out that the 19th Brigade was stationed in Zhouzhai. However, when he arrived at Zhouzhai, he found that the 19th Brigade had already gone to Dingjia Lane, so he hurried to Dingjia Lane. As a result, he encountered such a huge parade team here.

After hearing the slogans shouted by the parade team, Xu Shijiu immediately cursed. It was right to mobilize the masses to engage in a bloody battle across the country, but it shouldn't be such a bloody battle. Now is no longer the era of cold weapons. So many people line up and shout slogans and move forward. The little Japanese can only rattle all the people with just a few machine guns!

If the teaching corps had not attracted the Japanese firepower, there would have been no idea what the bombing would have been like.

Xu Shijiu caught up with the parade team as fast as possible. When he saw Shu Tongwen waving his arms and shouting slogans in the front of the team, he became popular, this naughty man!

"Shu Tongwen!" Xu Shijiu shouted loudly.

"Captain Xu?" Shu Tongwen said happily, "Have you been injured?"

Shu Tongwen really admired Xu Shijiu. This is an officer who is really good at leading troops and fighting.

"What's going on?!" Xu Shijiu ignored it, pointed to the parade and shouted, "So many people gathered together, do you know that the little Japanese would die if they dropped a bomb? You are sending the lives of your compatriots to the gun of the little Japanese. You are committing a crime, do you know?"

Shu Tongwen was speechless, and the tragic elephant of Nanyuan Military Camp flew across his mind like lightning.

Some students said in a voice: "Sir, we are not afraid of death, we are here to fight!"

Japanese fighter planes may fly over Yinxing at any time, and Japanese naval guns may turn at any time. Thousands of people gathered here may be massacred by the Japanese army at any time. Xu Shijiu no longer cared about theories of these nerds, so he could only change the blockage to silence and said, "Don't you always want to join the army and go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese?"

Shu Tongwen and a dozen students nodded repeatedly, their eyes lit up.

Xu Shijiu looked at the chaotic parade and said in a deep voice: "I will give you a task now. As long as you can complete the task, I will promise you to join the 19th Brigade!"

"Captain, please give orders!" Shu Tongwen was overjoyed.

Xu Shijiu said: "Okay, I'll give you ten minutes to evacuate the crowd, and then select strong and weapons from them to form a militia reserve team. I'll be ready to listen to my condemnation at any time. The rest will be organized as a civilian team to assist the 19th brigade in digging trenches and fortifications. If possible, get some materials for building fortifications!"

"Please rest assured to ensure that the task is completed!" Shu Tongwen stood at attention, and more than a dozen young students left separately, shouting loudly with a loudspeaker made of cardboard. The parade that was slowly advancing forward with slogans stopped slowly, and the deafening noise gradually subsided.
Chapter completed!