Chapter 130: The Fall
The whereabouts of his nephew Yuhong are unknown, and his eldest son, Yumin, has passed away. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Yu Ye, who has already lost two relatives, can't afford to lose his beloved relatives anymore. So the next day, as soon as the news of Wanping being besieged by the Japanese army entered the capital, he regretted it for letting mine out of the city, and had to go to Li Yaochen for help.
Li Yaochen would not shirk himself, and immediately ran to Xizhimen with Yuye, but unfortunately all the city gates were closed, and no one was allowed to enter or leave the city. Soon, even the streets were declaring wartime martial law. Yu Ye and Li Yaochen couldn't move an inch, so they had to return home.
Fortunately, Li Yaochen and the 29th Army had a deep friendship after all, and after several turnovers, he finally contacted the military headquarters of the 29th Army. After many searches, the other party came back a few days later, claiming that Yu Min and Lei Sheng were now under the command of the head of the 219th Regiment Ji Xingwen in Wanping City. Not only did they take part in the defense of the Lugou Bridge, but they also killed eight devils during the night attack on the bridgehead on July 8. However, it is precisely because the two of them are too capable of fighting that Ji Xingwen would rather disobey the order than let him go, and everything can only be said after the battle......
After the news came back, although he knew that his son's apprentice was still safe, and he made great achievements. But Yu Ye not only didn't feel like a snack in his stomach, but became more and more troubled and worried.
Yu Ye was born in a family of martial artists, and he knew far more than ordinary people what it was like to fight. Intellectually, he was willing to resist. He knew that the armaments of his own army were not Japan's opponents, and if he really fought, he would definitely suffer great losses. Therefore, it is necessary to resist immediately, and even fight back with all their might! Because if we delay for one more day, the Japanese will take advantage of one more day. If you wait until the enemy is completely arranged, it may be too late to fight back! But if you strike first and use force, you may be able to stop the enemy's reckless move!
But on the other hand, emotionally, he was reluctant to really go to war with Japan. Because even if it is a war of equal strength, it will kill people when it starts. Broken walls and ruins, thousands of corpses, that's really not fun. His son and apprentice were now at the forefront of the battlefield, and he had no doubt about their courage, but it was precisely this that scared him the most......
For most of the next half a month, Yu Ye was like an ant on a hot pot, coming out and going in at home, restless. He lost his usual composure, and he didn't want to hide it. Every day, in addition to going to the Westinghouse Shadow Hall at regular times to bow down and worship incense, asking the ancestors to bless the safety of their sons and apprentices in the sky, the rest is to pay close attention to the evolution of the situation outside the city.
His mood was completely controlled by what he heard, rising and falling, happy and worried. At one time, I heard that Song Zheyuan, the commander of the 29th Army, rushed back to negotiate with the Japanese army, at another time I heard that Wanping was still shelling, at another time I heard that the reinforcements of the Central Army had arrived in Baoding, and at another time, I heard that Japanese planes flew over the capital. Finally, after knowing that Tong Linge and Zhao Dengyu had died in Nanyuan, and that the army commander Song Zheyuan had ordered the entire army to abandon the capital in order to preserve his strength, he sat down on the chair......
On July 29, 1937, the capital fell!
The night before, the patrol officers went door to door to inform them that the cracks in the windows and doors should be plugged to prevent the Japanese planes from discharging poison gas at night. Some veteran policemen even specially instructed, "Prepare a piece of white cloth! If you wait for the Japanese to enter the city, if you have to hang a flag, you can just paint a red ball with rouge when the time comes!"
Li Yaochen couldn't rest assured of Yu Ye, and after he settled his home, he came to visit Yu Ye's home early in the morning. But in such a situation, everyone's heart is bitter. After only chatting for a few words, they all felt that they were not interested in talking, and they only sighed relative to each other with a bowl of weak tea.
But suddenly, there was a "sudden" sound in the distance. And the voice was still quite loud, and the air and the ground trembled.
Li Yaochen finally frowned and spoke, "What sound?"
"Presumably armored cars and tank cars, the Japanese have entered the city, this is a demonstration in the street!" Yu Ye said indignantly, and then showed a miserable smile with trembling lips, "I didn't expect it, my son and apprentice didn't come back, but the capital was still lost." ā
The tanks and armored vehicles on the street were loud like monsters going crazy at this time, and Li Yaochen and Yuye seemed to be all deaf.
"Let's go!" Suddenly, Li Yaochen shouted as if he had responded, and as if he had a feeling.
"Huh?" Yu Ye's head tilted a little, and in the noise, he couldn't hear clearly.
"I said that the two children should go, and they can't stay here as slaves! And now not only do they have to go, but we also have to go!" Li Yaochen approached Yuye, clenched his fists and said loudly.
"Let's go?" The voices of tanks and armored vehicles have been quieter, but Yu Ye's heart is still moving forward with the noise.
"You have to go! Escape! Brother, come with me to Jinmen! There is a concession there, and even if it falls, the Japanese will not dare to come too nonsense. What's more, we can still take a boat from there and go to Nanjing to find 'Mr. Big' and 'Mr. Two'......" Li Yaochen said, his eyes lit up again.
The sound of tanks and armored vehicles was like light thunder in the distance, but Yu Ye was silent again, as if he was hesitating.
It took him a moment before he figured it out. "Yes, we have to go. It's better to go anywhere than to live under the plaster! But Brother Li, you can go, your whole family can go, but I can't. I've got to stay here......"
Li Yaochen felt incredible and his eyes widened. "Don't you think you can still solve it 'peacefully', do you? brother, this is not our home, we can't stay......"
"Where can I be so confused? I know that if the Japanese can hold the capital, they will never talk about it!"
Yu Ye's shallow and miserable smile appeared on his helpless face again, "But how can I go?" If I leave here, if the two children come back one day, where do you let them go to find me...... I...... I can't help it!"
"Alas!" Li Yaochen's expression was entangled, and he could only sigh.
On this day, there were no planes in the sky over the capital, and there was no cannon sound outside the city. The sky is so blue and the sun is so bright, but this kind of sunny day represents a harbinger of the death of the country!
The spring water of Yuquan Mountain is still murmuring, the pink lotus flowers of Jishuitan, Shichahai and Guanzi River are still spitting out the fragrance, and the corner tower of the Forbidden City, the promenade of the Summer Palace, and the White Pagoda of Beihai still present a fascinating and magnificent scenery, but the people of the capital have lost the relationship with the capital in the past -- the capital is no longer the capital of the Chinese people. On top of the pine and cypress and glazed gold tiles, the Japanese flag is hung!
This day is the beginning of the history of humiliation for all the people of the capital. For the next eight years, the citizens of the capital, who had always been peaceful, had a piece of lead in their chests and lived a miserable life in humiliation. Because since the Japanese soldiers with plaster flags marched into the capital, walked through the East Fourth Archway, walked through the Jinao Yudong Bridge, walked through the Qianmen Building, and walked through the East Chang'an Street, the lives of the people in the capital were completely ruined.
The most direct feeling of the people of Beijing about the involvement of the Japanese is that there are fewer people on the street. At all the important intersections on the street, such as the fourth archway, the new street, and the Huguosi street, there are heavily armed Japanese soldiers standing guard, rows of bayonets flashing in the sun, and the faces of Oriental people are carrying the pride of invaders.
On the contrary, the people of the capital all had heavy faces, because as soon as they passed through these street crossings, they had to bow deeply to these invaders, or they would be beaten.
In addition, the Japanese hate those who study, and they do not allow their Chinese people to express their thoughts. Therefore, whether it is the Three People's Principles or foreign documents, they were all burned after they entered the city.
For this reason, the Japanese also wanted to "improve" the schools and spare no effort to promote slavery education, hoping to train the people of the capital to be like the people of Manchukuo into "dogs" who could bite bones and be beaten and scolded by their masters.
Then, the Japanese closed the ears of the people in the capital, they were not allowed to hear the central broadcast, and used commentaries, cross talk, and Japanese songs like ghosts crying wolves to anesthetize the hearing of the people in the capital.
The most hateful trick is that the Japanese not only frantically plundered all kinds of resources, but also collected fiat currency to exchange foreign exchange, and at the same time only used some waste paper-like "Union Bank Coupons" to deceive the people. As a result, the blood veins in North China were quickly and completely drained.
Yes, the capital has lost its dignity, ideology, education, and money!
And soon, even the food was gone, and the people of the whole city began to eat the rationed "mixed noodles"!
The so-called "mixed pasta" is a mixture of chaff, bran, and a lot of messy things such as ground soybean cake, moldy corn, sorghum, and so on. This kind of thing can't be pinched after water, and it will always be scattered, and it can't even hold the head of the nest. After cooking, it has a foul smell and teeth, which is very difficult to swallow.
The Japanese sold this kind of thing as grain to the people of the capital, but the original good grain was used to support the so-called "Greater East Asian War". But this is not something that can be bought if you want to, and you have to queue up in the middle of the night to buy it.
In all the hutongs in the capital, there are people queuing up before dawn every day, and mixed noodles are supplied according to the residential piece. The patrolman would write a chalk number on each person's back, and they would come one by one. Many people can't buy it, and often they go home empty-handed. And the situation of buying it was not much better, and the mixed noodles could not be pulled out after eating, and people at that time regarded as a great difficulty. Later, there was a cross talk guy who made up a joke for this, saying that the mixed noodles couldn't be pulled out after eating, and they drank half a bottle of comb oil before pulling them out, but when they saw it, they pulled out a wood-splitting stick, and there was sawdust in the mixed noodles......
In this case, Li Yaochen and Liu Boqian were undoubtedly wise and lucky, because they both quietly left soon after the fall of the capital. But Rui Fifth Master, Wan Eighth Master and Yu Ye are all unlucky, because they all chose to stay.
Those who stayed behind inevitably had a sense of anger in their hearts, a resentment of disobedience, especially the Japanese.
As a result, Rui Wuye was sick because of anger and never got up from bed, and Wan Baye was drunk early and night, smashing his family and scolding his mother every day. And Yu Ye chose to cover himself in a large vat where he couldn't see the world, completely closed his house, and only relied on beating grass ropes every day to change food for the rope shop.
In the days when the whole city was confused and uneasy, the only thing Yu Ye was still concerned about was the evolution of the war situation. His most urgent hope was that the war against Japan would take a turn for the worse as soon as possible, and his own army would quickly drive the Japanese devils back. One day, his son and apprentice will be able to ride a large ocean horse and return home safely. It's just a pity that things often go against people's wishes.
First of all, almost at the same time as the capital, Jinmen fell.
Then came "August 13", the sound of artillery in Huhai and the news of the dispatch of the country's air force just made Yu Ye's heart have a little thought, but it didn't last a few months and it was over.
At this time, Yu Ye began to discover that although he looked down on the Japanese, it was true that his country's army did not fight well. Shanxi, Shandong, and Hebei all did not play well, which made him have to sweat for Nanjing, and found a map of Nanjing from Yuyi's textbook overnight, desperately looking for all the natural dangers that could be guarded......
However, only a month later, before the New Year, the big balloon on the Beijing radio station was hung with a big slogan "Celebrate the fall of Nanjing", and it was proudly raised for the Japanese, so that the people in the whole capital did not dare to look up......
Soon, another apprentice from Li Yaochen who stayed in Beijing came to tell Yuye. It is said that there is news that in the season of the fall of Nanjing, "Mr. Big", "Mr. Two" and some personnel of the Guoshu Museum who refused to evacuate have been martyred because they worked together to kill the enemy in defending the country.
In particular, Luo Heling, in the urban guerrilla war with the Japanese army, he cut a total of 11 knives and killed more than 100 enemies, although he did not fall into the hands of the Japanese army, he finally died of being wounded by bullets and bleeding too much. In order to prevent the Japanese from infringing on Luo Heling's corpse, his disciple Shen Congxi had to quietly bury the body on the spot, and there has been no news since then. I don't know if it's death or life......
On Chinese New Year's Eve in 1938, Yuye's home did not have the slightest festive atmosphere, but was filled with smoke and hung with banners. On this day, Yu Ye specially paid tribute to Luo Songling and Luo Heling at home.
Seriously, his mindset has completely changed now. At this time, although his heart was dark, he no longer complained about Yuhong's mentality of leaving home without permission, but was deeply proud of his son's original decision, and at the same time ashamed that he could not personally go into battle to kill the enemy like Luo Heling.
We will never be done with the Japanese!
If you lose, you can fight again! As long as you fight, there is a way out!
Kill them for you!
On this night, there were no dumplings for Chinese New Year's Eve on Yuye's table, only two bottles of old white dry. He drank wine one by one and said to Luo Heling's tablet for a night.
At the end of the day he was tired of crying and drunk......