"Comrade Liu Bo, thank you for your hard work." The commander took the initiative to shake hands with Liu Bo and said happily, "I have read the analysis documents of the enemy work you submitted last time. The analysis was very thorough and meaningful."
"The report to the commander is not only me, but also other comrades in the work team, who have summarized it based on their actual work experience." Liu Bo said.
The Japanese soldier with his hands tied up sat on the stool, watching the New Fourth Army commander talk to his subordinates expressionlessly, and snorted coldly from time to time.
"This Japanese soldier." The commander pointed to the Japanese soldier and explained, "After being captured, he was trying to commit suicide. After our soldiers seized his saber, he shouted, kicked and beat him, hit the head on the wall, and bit my medical soldier. There was no way, so he could only tie him up first."
"I heard that, I finally tied it to a stretcher and carried it back." Liu Bo glanced at the other party, and the other party looked at him fiercely.
"I'll ask, Comrade Liu Bo is responsible for the translation." The commander said, "If you know them better, you can ask questions."
"yes!"
Liu Bo sat behind a table, but found that the table was shaking. The commander laughed and walked to the door and found a small stone to plaster under the corner of the table.
"Get started." The commander clapped his hands, "ask his name and number."
"Your name, number and position of the army you belong to." Liu Bo asked.
The Japanese soldier looked at Liu Bo, as if surprised at the skillful Japanese language of the New Fourth Army officer in front of him, but finally snorted coldly without answering.
...
"How old are you this year?" Liu Bo continued to translate the commander's question.
The Japanese soldiers remained silent.
"Who are there in the family? Are your parents still alive?"
Still silent.
The commander glanced at the other party. This was a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old, with a hint of childishness on his face. However, this childishness was blocked by the fierce gaze that was deliberately displayed. Due to extreme tension, there were fine beads of sweat on his forehead.
"Are you a student? You were still in school before joining the army?"
After hearing Liu Bo's translation, the soldier's eyes flashed a little, and finally spitted thick phlegm on the ground.
"Please don't take our kindness for granted." Liu Bo angrily said.
"Good?" the Japanese soldiers raised their eyes, "Don't you kill me?"
"Why do you want to kill you?" Liu Bo asked back, and then whispered to the commander.
"We never kill prisoners." The commander added.
"Don't kill the prisoners?" The Japanese soldier showed a look of surprise and shook his head, "I don't believe it."
"If we want to kill you, you will not stop you when you commit suicide." Liu Bo said.
The Japanese soldiers were silent for a moment, looking at the two people in front of them, as if they were confirming the truth or falsehood of this sentence. Finally, they shook their heads, "I can't understand."
"You don't understand more." The commander snorted coldly.
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"Your name, number, position." Liu Bo asked again.
This time, the Japanese soldiers did not refuse to answer and said a long paragraph.
"He said that his name is Masao Kobayashi, he is from Shikoku Island, and he is a first-class corporal of the Third Division of the Japanese Army." Liu Bo whispered to the commander.
After looking at Masao Kobayashi, Liu Bo continued, "He asked us what we should do to him since we don't kill him?"
"What do you want?" asked the commander.
Masao Kobayashi lowered her head, thought for a moment, then raised her head again, showing a confused expression, "I don't know..."
After a pause, I said another sentence.
"He asked, can he ride a bicycle?" Liu Bo continued to translate.
The commander was obviously stunned. He obviously did not expect that the Japanese prisoner would ask this question.
"Why did you think of riding a bicycle?" Liu Bo asked in surprise.
Masao Kobayashi said another sentence.
"He said he was an excellent rider on the school cycling team when he was in Japan." Liu Bo whispered, "his dream was to participate in the cycling competition of the Olympic Games the following year."
After saying that, Liu Bo looked at Masao Kobayashi deeply. He thought it was so ironic and absurd. A Japanese prisoner with his hands covered in blood from the Chinese, after being captured, he learned that he would not be killed. He actually proposed to ride a bicycle and talked about his Olympic dream.
"You ask him why he didn't practice bicycles well in Japan, but came to China to kill and set fire?" the commander said with a puff of cigarettes.
"Because I love my motherland, I am responding to the call of the empire!" Kobayashi Masao said in a raised voice.
"Anyone has the right to love his motherland, but you love Japan but come to invade China." said the commander.
"Occupy China, Japan will become more prosperous." Masao Kobayashi said immediately.
Looking at Masao Kobayashi's appearance as if he was right, the commander got angry. He turned off the cigarette, stared at the other party, and angrily said, "You are the logic of a robber. As a Japanese, you love Japan, it's understandable, but you have to know that we Chinese also love our motherland! We will fight your barbaric invasion to the death!"
"This is not invasion, we are here to help China develop." said Masao Kobayashi.
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Bang!
The commander punched the table!
"Help China develop? The development you call is to kill our compatriots, bully our women, burn, kill, loot?" The commander was so angry, "From the Northeast, you burn, kill, loot all the way!"
He was so angry that he questioned Masao Kobayashi, "If your brothers and sisters, fellow villagers are slaughtered and the house is burned, even the baby in the cradle is killed, do you admit that this is helping you develop?"
"You are the logic of robbers. You are robbers and invaders!" Liu Bo also said furiously after translating the commander's words.
Masao Kobayashi stopped talking, obviously he didn't know how to make a quibble.
"Can I ride a bicycle?" After a while, Masao Kobayashi spoke again.
"You still want to ride a bicycle?" Liu Bo was so angry that he asked. He really couldn't understand his compatriots, who were so arrogant, no, so shameless.
"I can drive cars and repair cars. I can help you repair cars in exchange for rewards for riding a bicycle." Masao Kobayashi's eyes were filled with hope and pleading, "I don't want to miss the Olympic Games after the next year."
"Sorry, we don't have bicycles, nor cars." The commander stood up and looked at the captive soldier of the invader who made him angry. "When we seize the bicycle from you, we will ask you to see if it is your bicycle!"
After saying that, the commander waved his hand, Liu Bo shouted and asked someone to take away Masao Kobayashi.
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"It's stubborn!" Liu Bo was so angry that he sighed and said, "Commander, I am now more and more aware that the harm of germism is so great. They poisoned the Japanese people and destroyed their consciences, becoming unreasonable killing machines and unconscienced beasts!"
The commander nodded with a serious expression, "Yes, germism and fascist thought are the common enemies of the just people in the world."
On that day, the commander invited Liu Bo to have a meal together.
The commander gnawed the mixed grains and steamed buns and drank the vegetable leaf soup. He glanced at Liu Bo, who was a little silent, and said with a smile, "Compared to the time when he was fighting guerrillas in the south, this meal is already a fairy's day."
Liu Bo drank the soup in big mouthfuls, wiped his mouth, and said, "Commander, I now realize why I chose the red path. From the commander and his comrades, I saw hope that only red can save China, and only red can save the Japanese people who were blinded and hurt by the germism."
As he said that, he put down his bowls and chopsticks and said seriously, "Commander, I have a request."
"What request? Say it."
"Please give a lecture to our comrades from the enemy's Ministry of Works." Liu Bo said with a smile.
"No problem," said the commander happily. "I'm just about to have a chat with my comrades, thank you for your hard work."
On that day, the commander and comrades from the enemy work detachment of the First Detachment of the New Fourth Army's Enemy Work Department, including Liu Bo, talked at night. He summarized our army's experience in working against the enemy and put forward several requirements for the "enemy workers" personnel of the New Fourth Army.
First, we must be loyal and firm and have strong party spirit.
We must not be affected by the harsh environment, maintain the purity of the red, truly achieve "out of the mud without staining", and do not change the red position and essence in the most complex environment.
Second, be brave and not afraid of sacrifice.
Third, be alert and have a high degree of vigilance. Be able to flexibly use enemy contradictions.
Liu Bo sat down, biting the pencil tip, listening very seriously and his expression was extremely firm.
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After the meeting, he took the initiative to find the commander.
"Commander, I ask that Masao Kobayashi be handed over to me to take care of the custody." Liu Bo's eyes flashed with a firm light of fighting, "The Japanese warlords and fascists turned Masao Kobayashi from human to ghost, I want to turn Masao Kobayashi from ghost to human again!"
"Very good, your idea is very good." The commander nodded, "Are you confident?"
"Yes!" Liu Bo saluted, "What you said just now must be able to flexibly exploit the enemy's contradictions!"
To be continued...