Chapter 340: Good and Evil
"Down with Japanese imperialism! Never sign a treaty of loss of power and humiliation of the country!"
"Down with Japanese imperialism! Never sign a treaty of loss of power and humiliation of the country!"
"Long live China!!"
"Long live China!!"
Su Shuwei on the side took a deep look at this temporary comrade, and turned around to raise his arms high.
At this moment, there is no distinction between communists and nationalists, only between the beloved Chinese and the hostile Japanese invaders.
Although we have different philosophies, I am still a Chinese who deeply loves my motherland!
At this moment, the noise fell silent, and the roar rose into the sky!
The unarmed Qingcheng citizens just puffed up their chests and pressed towards those jackals with black holes!
Their steps may not be consistent, their stature may not be neat, but their slogans, their patriotism, are so consistent.
This kind of momentum is about one of them, and it is unstoppable.
It turned out to be a real force to force the Japanese soldier with guns on the opposite side to go back slightly and wrong for a moment.
A kind of condescending bravery pressed on the heads of this group of Japanese.
The squad leader who was in charge of leading his army subconsciously took a step forward, squeezed away the two trembling Mayor Wang, and approached the Japanese consul and asked in a low voice: "Mr. Fujii, we are ...... now."
Is it really going to be shot?
I was already scared to death, but Fujii, who felt that his face had been pulled to the ground and stepped on his feet fiercely, suddenly found that he was the one with the gun!
It was precisely because of the side with lethal weapons that his fierceness was completely stimulated.
Annoyed and angry, this humiliation must be buried by himself, so Fujii almost madly issued a reckless order.
"Shoot!"
"Shoot them!!They're going to be killed, and you're asking me if I want to shoot??"
As soldiers, following orders is their essence.
Since the captain temporarily transferred the supreme command to Fujii, they only need to carry out the order.
So the captain of the squad who returned to the team again drew out the katana at his waist, and when the long sword was raised high against the sky, an order related to life and death was issued.
"Attention all soldiers!"
"Stand in line!Raise your gun!!"
Just when the squad leader shouted these preparatory orders, as the mayor of Qingcheng, Mayor Wang, who had already collapsed on the ground, but didn't know where he got the courage, suddenly jumped out of the back seat of the jeep, and in an almost ridiculous gesture, he stalked in front of the squad leader who issued the order: "No! You can't attack them!"
"I agree to sell the shares of the power plant, I am willing to buy China's Yantian in your hands at a high price, I just want a backer who can let me sit in the mayor's position for a long time!"
"But you are like this! You are like this! How can the mayor's position be preserved!"
"You're hurting me! You're trying to make me a sinner in Qingcheng!!"
This man, also from Shandong, was educated in a tiresome elite egoism even from an early age.
But as a person's conscience, he still has it.
Maybe he can sell the interests of the country at will because of his own interests......
But so many living people stood in front of him, and he watched his citizens die......
He still can't do such an animal-like thing.
So, the mayor, who has always been slick, rushed out at such a critical juncture......
Not to mention the Japanese who just had some contact, it was the secretary who had been with him for many years, and he was stunned on the spot for a while.
"Bastard!"
"Anyone who blocks the implementation of military orders, die!"
The squad leader, who had already raised his katana, did not have the emotion of the large group of people on the opposite side.
As the best soldier of the Empire, precision has been engraved in his bones.
To all those who stood in his way and kept the army from advancing, they were the enemies of his Great Japanese Empire.
'Whew!'
When the glittering sword fell, it was the moment when his enemies fell before him.
The squad leader's knife slashed diagonally from Mayor Wang's chest, and bright red blood gushed out from Mayor Wang's chest......
The cowardly man, who had finally become brave, slowly collapsed in front of everyone with an expression of disbelief.
With a terrible shout of "Mayor!!", it smashed on the land that I didn't know was still part of the Chinese concession area.
At this time, his little secretary, having exhausted all the courage of his life, climbed down from the back seat of the military jeep.
He grabbed Mayor Wang's arm and struggled to pull him towards the crowd of demonstrators.
It's safe there, the Japanese, the Japanese are all jackals without hearts!
"They killed the mayor! They killed the mayor of our Qingcheng City!!"
The little secretary, who had always thought that he had only succumbed to the temptation of honorary status, was in cahoots with Mayor Wang, and for the first time felt the true charm of the leader to whom he was loyal.
Although Mayor Wang is nepotistic, greedy for money, lustful, and selfish, he still has his own bottom line in the face of real right and wrong, and in the face of the killing of real thugs.
At this moment, a charm called personality emerged from this bloodied body.
The people who stood opposite them and never thought that Mayor Wang would stand up for them were suddenly stunned on the spot.
Of course, this was only a momentary reaction, and a more sorrowful but greater anger surged over them when the faithful little secretary took great risk to drag their troublesome mayor, who was basically the mayor he had provoked and who still had some conscience, to their place.
In their eyes, he is the governor of a state capital.
But the Japanese on the other side, who was just a small captain, dared not hesitate to raise their guillotine and slash at their mayor......
How arrogant is this kind of behavior!!
The angry citizens instantly accepted Mayor Wang into their own ranks, and when this matter was settled, they and Mayor Wang had a separate account.
But now, for the first time for Mayor Wang's safety, then they will inevitably return the favor and for Mayor Wang's safety.
So, the people closest to the Japanese military vehicle ran towards the location of the little secretary and Mayor Wang without any command.
Before Consul Fujii, who was standing high in the front seat of the military jeep, could react, everyone worked together to snatch Mayor Wang, who was covered in blood, back.
It was precisely because of everyone's reaction that Consul Fujii, who was also stunned, reacted.
He turned his head behind him, glared angrily at the squad leader with the bloody katana, and roared, "Bastard, I told you to slash at those mobs, why are you going to attack our friends?!!
But the squad leader who was standing in front of the rows of guns smiled evilly: "Consul Fujii, he dares to attack the soldiers of the Japanese Empire, according to the provisions of my country's military law, I have the right to dispose of the lives of such people!"
"But, bastard, this man is in very important negotiations with our Empire! There are many rights to this city, and we have to use this man's hand to get into the hands of the Empire!"
"Now you!!" Consul Fujii's hands trembled violently, and he angrily pointed at this muscular and small-minded martial artist: "It's all because of you that you cut a pro-Japanese Chinese official to a serious injury, and from now on, no one in the Chinese government in Qingcheng will dare to make a deal with us Japanese!"
"And our Japanese government's Huairou friendly policy towards China will also be dealt the most fatal blow because of what you did today!!"
"You! Your impulsiveness has caused irreparable damage to the Empire! You are the real sinner of the Great Japanese Empire!!"
Consul Fujii's angry roar not only did not frighten the captain behind him, but only received a very contemptuous sneer from the other party.
"Your Excellency Consul, you are really worried, it is precisely because there are too many officials like you in the empire that the pace of our empire is so slow!"
"In the eyes of our military lords, whoever has the biggest fist really has the right to speak. ”
"For a country as weak as China, it does not deserve such a vast land!"
"It's like their vassal state of Goryeo, hasn't it been destroyed and occupied by our Japanese army?"
"Now, our eastward army has reached Manchuria, and that large part of the country, including the Korean Peninsula, is under our Japanese territory. ”
"With such force, we can have any resources we want at our fingertips!"
"Minerals, land, people, money! It's all ours! I don't even have to exchange it with any Koreans, because it's already owned by us Japanese. ”
"In the same way, Qingcheng, such a beautiful city, is only a strait away from our Japan, and they should also be the land of our empire!"
"Today, we just need to let these Chinese know that our Japanese army is strong! Kill all these opposing mobs, then we will naturally get the power plant in Qingcheng." ”
"No, not only the power plant, but also the railroad here, the population here, the money here, all of them are us Japanese!"
"When the time comes, it will be me who has made the right decision. ”
"So, Consul, did I do anything wrong?"
Fujii, who was choked by the captain of the squad opposite, really didn't know how to refute this fanatical military diehard for a while.
His current position is as embarrassing as that of the Huairou officials in China.
In his opinion, even if this matter is sent to the country, no, there is no need to even send the news to it, this squad leader only needs to return to the garrison base of the Japanese army, and the guilt on him will be completely dissipated.
This is the biggest frustration of businessmen who only think about doing business and looting for the greatest profits.
After all, iron-blooded repression will not bring the maximum benefit they really want.
But what can be done? The militarists, who are becoming more and more hard-line in China, have squeezed the rights of the representatives of these interests of pure businessmen to a certain extent.
They don't have the right to speak, I'm afraid they really can't help the squad leader behind him who has a gun in his hand.
At this time, a helpless wry smile appeared on Fujii's face.
In the midst of his smile, the squad leader who had never put down the knife in his hand showed a smug and hideous smile.
"Attention !! all soldiers"
When he was about to give the order to launch a general attack, Deng Mingen, who was on the other side, opened his arms and planned to take the citizens behind him to go around both sides first, and then wait for the opportunity to move, but saw a distant whistle behind these demonstrative crowds.
"Doot toot!!
This is the voice that only the patrol officers in the concession area and ordinary urban areas make when they patrol and warn.
When the captain of the Japanese army paused because of this whistle, and when all the marchers subconsciously turned their heads to look back, they saw a large group of policemen and soldiers wearing pure black and gray-blue uniforms, slowly advancing towards them from the entrance of the lease.
A team of policemen in black uniforms, seventy or eighty people, stood at the front line of the advance.
The other team followed, and only by looking at the color of its military uniform, you could know that this was a garrison under Commander Wang, who was stationed around Qingcheng, had nearly 30,000 troops, and was entrenched in most of the inland parts of the Jiaodong Peninsula.
Leading these garrisons slowly was a young officer who was also standing on the co-pilot of a yellow-green military jeep.
A cockade with five-colored stars, a double-star epaulette with a silver bar on a yellow background on his shoulder, a very flat collar, and a tightly buttoned button.
The red badge between the collar marks the branch of the army he belongs to, which is the establishment of the regular army of the authentic army.
Don't look at the Qingcheng garrison commander Wang Hanzhang has already regarded Jiaodong as his own territory.
But they wear the ranks of the regular army of the northern government every day, and they wear the uniforms of the orthodox northern government army, and they are still members of the military recognized by the largest armed group in northern China.
And they still have the ability to make a difference in the current situation.
However, according to all the people in the field, neither the pioneers who were ready to save their flesh and blood, nor the Japanese who were rampant in the concession area, would have imagined that these two people would come together and appear here to wade into troubled waters that have nothing to do with them.
According to the people of Qingcheng who understand these warlords and policemen, at this juncture, they are eager to be deaf and blind, and they will never lose their vocal power for the sake of ordinary people.
But these people, who are least likely to be here, stand behind them at this critical juncture.
It's late, but it's not too late.