It was 70 years ago, and Takayoshi Hashimoto, a lieutenant of the military police stationed in Central China, had just reached a peak in his life, using the information provided by the renegades to capture alive Zhao Ziming, the leader of the local anti-Japanese armed forces, who had given his predecessor a great headache.

The war of aggression against China entered a protracted tug-of-war against Japan, and a large number of anti-Japanese armed forces under different banners sprung up in the areas controlled by the imperial army.

Takayoshi Hashimoto was born in Manchuria, he is a China expert, he took effective measures at the beginning of his tenure, first proposed a truce to the anti-Japanese rescue with a weak attitude, but secretly stepped up the search and arrest, and finally cracked the enemy's traffic station in the city, with torture and 10,000 oceans of soft and hard, subdued a certain determined enemy traffic officer, set up an ambush, captured Zhao Ziming alive, the whole operation only killed fifteen imperial troops and detective teams, the cost can be described as extremely low.

The anti-Japanese rescue leader was captured, and the anti-Japanese action suffered a great setback, so Lieutenant Hashimoto had an extra star on his shoulder, and from then on he became Captain Hashimoto, just when he was in high spirits and wanted to make persistent efforts to exterminate the entire guerrillas, the prisoner gave him a fatal blow.

The blow came from the psychology, originally in Hashimoto's mind, people are simply not worthy of being called people, this inferior nation is only worthy of the Yamato people as slaves, he firmly believes that he can subdue Zhao Ziming by his own means, but it turns out that he is wrong, this tall man has been tortured, still laughing and scolding, heroic, Captain Hashimoto will always remember that Zhao Ziming's majestic posture when he died generously on the execution ground, has lost his eyes, and he stood tall with his head held high when the pipa bone was passed through the wire, and said to himself with disdain: "Little devil, Don't shake your hands when you go under the knife, give your grandfather a sharp one. ”

Zhao Ziming's head was cut off by Takayoshi Hashimoto himself with a family heirloom knife in front of thousands of Chinese, in order to deter the locals, but in fact, on the contrary, after Zhao Ziming's sacrifice, the local anti-Japanese cause was in full swing, so that Captain Hashimoto, who had always been scheming, lost his demeanor and became as superstitious and violent and bloody as his predecessor, and the compound of the Nantai Line gendarmerie often barked at wolves and dogs all night, and sacks containing people were thrown into the Huai River at two ends in three days.

Takayoshi Hashimoto was soon retaliated against, and the plainclothes of Tohachi Road infiltrated the castle in an attempt to assassinate him, killing a room of detectives under the noses of the gendarmerie, and calmly retreating with the crooked handles they had captured.

The angry lieutenant dispatched a gendarmerie and a detective team into the mountains to search and arrest them, but instead fell into an ambush by the guerrillas, and this time it was not the anti-Japanese rescue that struck them, but the more determined and more powerful armed forces, the county brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

In front of the chain bridge in the wild boar valley, the gendarmerie lost soldiers, killed and wounded, Ono's father was missing in this battle, Hashimoto clearly remembered the situation, the other side had a sharpshooter, if you don't shoot, there must be a royal soldier casualties, this superb marksmanship can be comparable to the elite veterans of the Kwantung Army stationed in Manchuria.

The gendarmerie is a force that maintains local law and order and rectifies the discipline of the garrison, and its combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the front-line soldiers, and it has to be defeated in a hurry when the other side occupies the right time and place, and when they come here again with a whole squadron of Japanese troops, they find more than a dozen corpses of gendarmes that have been stripped naked, except for Ono Jun.

The frenzied Hashimoto led his army to surround the Boar Valley, set up machine guns on the threshing floor, and forced them to hand over the guerrillas and the captured Imperial Army, but there was only silence, and Hashimoto ordered the shooting, and 328 civilians fell in pools of blood, including the elderly, women, and children.

After the village massacre, Hashimoto collapsed, because he found that the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle in his mind would never succeed, the people of this land are not as weak and incompetent as he imagined, a month later, Hashimoto was attacked by a cold gun in the city, the bullet hit the thigh, almost killed him, and then he was disheartened and discharged from the hospital and transferred to the hot southern battlefield with the troops, the gunshot wound in the leg has not been healed, and finally the troops surrendered to the Allies in Burma, and he has been promoted to Shaozo and returned to Japan, He contacted the family of the old department, formed a sorority, and adopted the son of Ono Juncao as an adopted son.

During the period of American military rule, Japan was hungry and cold, and the lame Hashimoto often said to himself in order to support his family and work several jobs at the same time: Work hard, Hashimoto-kun! It is your responsibility to make sure to go back alive, find the bones of Ono and the other comrades, and bring them back for burial!

Now Hashimoto Takayoshi has finally returned to this land that has left him endless memories, Nantai County has long been a person, the city is no longer the city of the past, and the people are no longer the people of the year, those iron-clad heroes have long since passed away with the wind, replaced by a group of bureaucrats who tend to be inflammatory, their faces are no different from the traitors who betrayed Zhao Ziming with 10,000 oceans, and only 10 million yen made them bow their heads, thinking of this, Hashimoto Takayoshi even felt that the war was chosen at the wrong time, If we had fought now, we might have been able to defeat these people with Toyota and the yen without guns.

But when he saw the old man on the hillside, the long-lost feeling came again, and he saw the anti-Japanese heroes again, and he even suspected that this white-haired old man was the guerrilla who fought his own black gun back then.

Old Cheng Tou also saw Takayoshi Hashimoto on the sliding rod, the old man's pupils contracted, and the green tendons of the hand holding the steel fork suddenly appeared, and three words burst out from between his teeth: "Little devil!" ”

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Finally arrived at the wild boar valley haunted by dreams, Hashimoto Takayoshi has mixed feelings, compared to the county seat, the changes here are quite small, the house is still the previous house, the threshing floor is still the former threshing floor, the green mountains and green waters, the face is still the same, the heroic gendarmerie captain, but at this time he has become a dying old man.

"Mr. Hashimoto, where do you think the monument should be placed?" The interpreter conveyed Secretary Zhang's words to Hashimoto, who nodded, pointed to a dirt slope on the edge of the threshing floor and said, "It's right there!" ”

"Yes, with your back to the mountains and facing the village, it's a great location!" Secretary Zhang laughed.

Deputy County Magistrate Tang also flattered: "Mr. Hashimoto must have studied Feng Shui." ”

Old man Hashimoto shook his head and said, "Many years ago, I ordered more than 300 civilians to be shot here, and they were buried here. ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone was stunned, they only knew that Takayoshi Hashimoto was once an invading Japanese army, but they didn't expect that he was still a bloody executioner!

It was Secretary Zhang who reacted the fastest, and he said slowly: "War is the enemy of mankind, peace is the mainstream, we should not be confined to hatred, we should look to the future, build harmony, and contribute to the cause of peace between China and Japan." ”

The staff immediately applauded, and Secretary Zhang's very graceful hands pressed down, and said: "The monument is located here, which has more far-reaching significance, not only to commemorate the deceased, but also to symbolize the friendship between the two peoples has a long history." ”

The crowd applauded warmly again, and the Japanese old men and ladies who visited the group were all descendants of the soldiers of the Hashimoto Gendarmerie in those years, and when they came to the place where their ancestors sacrificed, they also had mixed feelings, and they all shed tears of excitement when they heard Secretary Zhang's touching speech.

"Zhang Sang, I want to meet the people who live in this village and talk to them." Hashimoto said.

After listening to the translator's relay, Secretary Zhang immediately ordered Township Chief Gao to ring the bell and call people.

Township Chief Gao personally knocked on a section of railroad tracks hanging under the big tree at the head of the village, and summoned the villagers of Wild Boar Valley to come to the meeting, and the villagers came to the threshing floor with their children in their arms, and chattered and said this, looking at this group of strangers waving the sun flag, and the staff of the county government and the township government stood around, and the Japanese guests stood in the place where the machine guns were erected, overlooking the villagers.

For a while, the old Hashimoto was in a trance, as if he had returned to the past, it was here many years ago that he ordered the slaughter of hundreds of villagers in Wild Boar Valley, and today he returned to this place again, but no longer as a conqueror, but as an investor, and the sharp weapon he relied on was no longer a machine gun, but a large amount of yen.

After all the villagers of Wild Boar Valley were gathered, Township Chief Gao shouted at the top of his voice: "Fellow villagers, be quiet, international friend Hashimoto Taijun has something to say." ”

After saying this, Township Chief Gao slipped his mouth, how could this broken mouth not be home, and the word Taijun slipped out unconsciously.

Takayoshi Hashimoto took a deep breath and said: "Gentlemen, I am Takayoshi Hashimoto, I commanded a military operation here many years ago, killed many innocent people, and caused you trouble, please forgive me!" ”

Not only is the female translator at the scene who understands Japanese, Deputy County Magistrate Tang took a Japanese course when he was in college, and the general content can still be understood, Hashimoto said, he quietly translated to Secretary Zhang, Secretary Zhang twisted his eyebrows and said seriously: "Playing the piano, how can you say that!" ”

The interpreter first explained the content to the leaders present, and looked at them with nervous eyes, she also knew that saying this might cause some trouble, especially in such uncivilized mountains.

Secretary Zhang and Deputy County Magistrate Tang, Township Chief Gao and others urgently consulted, and Township Chief Gao offered advice: "Anyway, the old devil can't understand Chinese, so let's deceive the superiors and subordinates, and change what he said." ”

Secretary Zhang nodded and praised: "Xiao Gao, you still have a way." ”

Since most of the people in the poor countryside like Wild Boar Valley had never entered the county seat, Secretary Zhang's authority was not as good as that of Township Chief Gao, so Mr. Hashimoto's words were transmitted to Township Chief Gao through translation, and then to the villagers by Township Chief Gao.

Township Chief Gao shouted in a loud voice: "Old and young masters, I am Gao Yishui, the head of our Tianjie Township, the county leaders are here today, well, there are international friends from Japan, Mr. Hashimoto, they want to invest in our county to build a factory, vigorously develop the tourism resources of our township, Wild Boar Yu is the first place to pick, people want to build a monument on this slope, the county pays, our village pays labor, a laborer is thirty yuan a day, take care of the rice!" ”

This is the content of the speech urgently formulated by the leaders, and the effect is really extraordinary, the villagers can work and make money without leaving home, and there are as many as 30 yuan a day.

Seeing this scene, Secretary Zhang and Deputy County Magistrate Tang both smiled, fortunately resolving a crisis, Hashimoto Takayoshi in a wheelchair also pouted the corners of his mouth and smiled, Ono Kosaku bowed to the side and asked in a low voice: "Father, what are you laughing at?" ”

"I'm laughing at the fact that people are as lowly as they were seventy years ago." Hashimoto said with a sneer.

As soon as the words fell, a shout came from below: "Can't be repaired!" That's the Japanese devil who killed our wild boar villagers! ”

An old man with white hair rushed up with a flying stride, the three steel forks in his hand flashed with cold light, and the public security personnel in charge of security work around Secretary Zhang immediately stepped forward, protected the county leader behind him, and stared at the old man vigilantly.

Takayoshi Hashimoto stared at the man as a sense of déjà vu came over him, and the soldier's instinct told him that danger was coming.

And Ono's gaze fell on the military kettle that straddled the old man's body, and Ono Jun's three faded words stimulated his eyes and nerves like needles.