"Back off, back off! If you don't back off, I'll shoot."
Zhang Jie tried his best to prevent the influx of refugees, but those refugees tried to break through and enter Changshu City like crazy.
Obviously, they were sure that the sentries did not dare to fire. Otherwise, how many of them had the guts to wave their fists at the soldiers with live ammunition? They would have gone to fight the Japanese long ago.
The sentries were forced to retreat, and even the wooden poles blocking the road were broken.
The situation was in danger at this moment, but at this moment, a man suddenly emerged from the woods thirty meters away in front of the checkpoint.
The visitor chuckled and said, "What are you all doing?"
Hearing the laughter of the visitor, everyone stopped and looked towards the place where the sound was coming from.
I saw a young man with a bald head and no hat, wearing a military uniform, emerging from the woods with a scary smile.
The visitor was wearing a military uniform. It was difficult to see the color of the military uniform because he was too far away, but the Japanese sword slung around his waist could be clearly seen by ordinary people.
When some timid people saw the saber, they shouted: "It's the Japanese! The Japanese are coming to kill us!"
"Ah? The Japanese are coming, let's run!"
"Sir, go and fight the Japanese quickly, let us run away first!"
"Yes, you go and block the Japanese, let us run away first!"
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The people were panic-stricken. Just a suspected Japanese made their legs weak and they scrambled to escape.
"Brothers, prepare to fight and protect our fellow villagers."
Zhang Jie ordered and moved out of the way to let the villagers go first. They quickly entered the simple fortifications (just a dozen sacks piled up fortifications) and prepared to fight.
But unexpectedly, at this moment, figures with strong skills jumped out one after another in the forest.
Zhang Jie is counting: "One two, one two, one two,..."
The soldier on the side was puzzled and asked: "Sir, why can you only count two at most?"
Zhang Jie smiled bitterly and said, "I'm afraid you'll be scared if you talk too much!"
Because in just a few seconds, no less than two hundred people walked out of the woods, all of them loaded with guns and live ammunition. If these were the Japanese, not to mention that they only had more than thirty people, even if there were ten times more people, they would never be able to do it.
Is the opponent's opponent.
Zhang Jiezheng didn't know what to do. He didn't want anyone to come but shouted: "Brothers, don't shoot, it's one of our own, hahaha!"
The visitor shouted loudly. Zhang Jie checked carefully and felt that he didn't look much like a Japanese devil.
So Zhang Jie waved his hand and ordered everyone not to shoot without his order, so as not to hurt their own people.
At the same time, the people who were preparing to flee stopped when they heard that they were their own troops.
Zhang Jie straightened up and asked, "Who are you?"
At this time, a tall young man with a dark face replied: "This is our regiment, the Dragon Boat Festival Commander of the 88th Division. Now, on behalf of the Chairman, he is inspecting various war zones. What are you doing in all the chaos here?"
It was Daozi who asked the question, and it was Duanwu who was the first to show his head out of the woods.
Duanwu never wore a hat because it would block his sight. And wearing a hat on one finger would not determine anything. Even a German-style steel helmet could hardly protect against frontal bullets at that time.
Although the German steel helmet was reinforced in the late World War II, it was heavier and no one would like to wear it if it was not necessary.
What's more, there is no such reinforced German-style steel helmet in China.
So he simply didn't wear it at Dragon Boat Festival. He didn't even wear a military cap. Only his collar badge and shoulder straps could prove his identity.
Naturally, Zhang Jie knew the military rank, but when he saw that Duanwu was a regimental commander, he quickly saluted and said: "Zhang Jie, the sergeant platoon leader of the 44th Division City Defense Brigade, has met the commander."
"Very good. You are all outstanding. You dare to stand in front of the common people and have not embarrassed us Chinese soldiers."
Dragon Boat Festival loudly praised, Zhang Jie and others were very happy, they all puffed up their chests as if they had defeated the rooster.
But at this moment, someone in the crowd of common people said disdainfully: "What are you bragging about? You can't defeat the Japanese? You can't even defend the city of Changshu?"
As soon as these words came out, the people immediately expressed doubts:
"That's right, with so many troops, they can't even defend Shanghai."
"Yes, I also heard that it was a preemptive strike. But in the end, the army of 20,000 to 30,000 people was unable to defeat the more than 2,000 Japanese troops."
"I really don't know what we did with the taxes we paid? To support such a bunch of losers?"
"It's so shameful. I said before that the Northeastern Army is weak. I don't think they can be any tougher!"
"That is, in the Battle of Songhu, we couldn't run as fast as they retreated. How many people died tragically on the road?"
"Yes, the Japanese kill everyone they see. It's all their fault for being incompetent and not stopping the Japanese!"
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All the people had complaints, and some even spoke very loudly, as if they were just for Duanwu and others to hear.
Daozi couldn't hold back his anger after hearing this, and was about to argue with the people. But Duanwu stopped him.
"Hahaha! You are right, what we eat as soldiers is military rations. It is all saved by you people for us. I am here, on behalf of the committee, on behalf of all the soldiers, to apologize to all the folks.
.I’m sorry!”
After saying the Dragon Boat Festival, he bowed and saluted.
The common people who vented their anger suddenly softened their hearts. They said those words just now because their families were ruined and their families were being hunted down by the Japanese. The resentment in their hearts could not be eliminated.
But if you think about it carefully, although some officers of the army did escape before the Japanese came, most of the soldiers still risked their lives to protect them.
The human heart is made of flesh, and it’s okay to let it go once it’s vented.
I just didn't want to, but at this moment, two young men dressed as ordinary people looked at each other and said: "Don't listen to him, he is deceiving us. Is it easy to fool us ordinary people? It's hard for us to die.
, living a precarious life, just because of his apology, does it not count? "
"Yes, this brother is right. My wife and children died in the hands of the Japanese. Where were these soldiers at that time?"
"Yes, you are responsible. You have to escort us to a safe place."
"We need to eat. Some of us haven't eaten for several days..."
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In just a short moment, the people's emotions, which had just calmed down, became turbulent again.
At this moment, even platoon leader Zhang Jie has no choice. Facing the people of his own country, can he really let them fight with swords and guns?...