At the same time that Lin Rui led his troops to fight a bloody battle with the Japanese army at the Lion Forest Fort, the downtown area of Shanghai was also bombed by Japanese carrier-based aircraft.

Ma Mingkui is a native of Qingfeng Town, Jiaxing, in the 23rd year of the Republic of China, the old house was burned down by fire at home, and his parents were burned to death, and he was forced to take his young sister and leave his hometown to come to Shanghai to beg for a living.

Ma Mingkui, who has no relatives, has begged for food on the beach, carried a large bag on the dock, and also worked as a thug for the gang, and worked in the stormy Shanghai Beach for three years, before finally owning a rickshaw of his own and becoming a coachman with the help of the gang.

Relying on hard work, although it is hard, he can support his sister who depends on him.

Although in the suburbs of Shanghai, hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Japanese troops are in full swing, but Ma Mingkui is indifferent, he has no culture and only a younger sister, and he is not interested in family and country affairs and national righteousness.

He just wants to take care of his only relative in this world and let her live a good life.

In his world, his sister is his only motivation and hope to live.

After pulling a customer from the entrance of the British Concession, when he passed by a pastry shop, he took the money he had just earned and bought his sister's favorite snowflake cake, and ran to his home not far away.

Because of their meager income, he and his sister rented a slum on the border of the British and French concessions, where security and sanitation were poor, but the rent was cheap.

Just as Ma Mingkui was pulling his rickshaw and was about to return to his accommodation, there was a sudden roar of an airplane engine in the sky.

Immediately after that, a few shells, with a sharp and piercing whistling sound, fell from the sky and landed in the slum area in front of Ma Mingkui.

The next moment, slum houses were engulfed in explosions and flames!

Seeing this scene, Ma Mingkui was stunned, the rickshaw in his hand fell to the ground, and the snowflake cake hanging on the handlebar also broke open the package and scattered all over the ground.

"Ah Hua!!" Looking at the fire and smoke, Ma Mingkui let out a terrible cry.

Immediately ran forward with his legs, risked his life to run to his home, and picked up his dying sister Ah Hua from the ruins of the bombed house.

At this time, Ma Mingkui already had many burns and smashes on his body, but he turned a blind eye, and ran all the way to the hospital with his sister in his arms, and kept shouting: "Ah Hua, you hold on!" You hold on! Did you hear me! ”

Ah Hua, who was dying, heard her brother's call, and seemed to open her eyes in return, looking at Ma Mingkui with reluctance and pain, and said softly: "Brother, brother." ”

"Brother is here, brother is here, Ah Hua, you hold on, it will be fine, brother will not let you die! I promised my father and mother that I would take good care of you for the rest of my life! Ma Mingkui's anxious tears fell.

Because he ran too fast, he tripped under the ruins and fell directly to the ground, although Ma Mingkui struggled to save his sister and didn't let her fall to the ground.

Ma Mingkui immediately gritted his teeth and stood up with Ah Hua in his arms, but Ah Hua opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of blood, which frightened Ma Mingkui and hurriedly stopped, and asked repeatedly, "Ah Hua, how are you?" ”

When Ah Hua was dying, she raised her little hand and touched Ma Mingkui's somewhat dirty face, and said with affection: "Brother, I'm going to die, you have to live well!" ”

"No!" Ma Mingkui hurriedly shook his head, unwilling to accept it: "You won't die!" Brother will definitely save you! ”

However, Ah Hua's raised hand slowly fell, and her eyes closed slightly.

Ma Mingkui was stunned at first, then shouted a few times, and found that Ah Hua did not react again, so he reached out to her nose and tried it, but found that he had died of anger.

"Nope! Jen! Ma Mingkui let out a terrible scream, hugged Ah Hua tightly in his arms, and cried bitterly: "Ah Hua! ”

At this moment, Ma Mingkui felt that his hopes were shattered, and his motivation to live was gone.

After crying for a while, this man who had gone through hardships slowly raised his head, his eyes were red, his face was full of blood and tears in the direction of the battlefield in Pudong, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Little devil! Lao Tzu and you don't share the sky! ”

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On the battlefield of the Lion Forest Battery, the battle between the 12th Infantry Wing and the 2nd Regiment of the Tax Police and the Independent Brigade of the Guangdong Army has entered a white-hot stage.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the Japanese once again broke through the fire resistance of the defenders, and the two sides once again engaged in a white-knuckle battle in front of the positions of the three battalions.

Lin Rui, Zhou Weihan, Lin Feng, Yu Weiguo and others took the lead in the enemy formation and launched a bloody battle with the devils.

Sun Liren and other commanders also sent reinforcements to fight side by side with the front-line defense troops to resist the Japanese invaders.

In the bunker in the rear of the Japanese army, the commander of the 12th Infantry Wing, Anda Twenty-three, looked at the battle that had begun to fight hand-to-hand, his face was grim, his brows were frowned, and his expression was not good-looking.

Because he found that the Chinese army on the opposite side seemed to have become much stronger than before, both in terms of fighting spirit and fighting ability.

In fact, Anda Twenty-Three doesn't understand a truth, that is, when an army's fighting spirit rises, its combat effectiveness will naturally rise with it.

Chinese have never lacked the martial spirit of daring to die and fighting, but as Lu Xun said, the vast majority of today's Chinese are numb, and spiritual numbness brings depression.

Before the arrival of Lin Rui and the 3rd Battalion, the Independent Brigade of the Guangdong Army and the 2nd Regiment of the Tax Police had already been beaten by the combined fist composed of the powerful firepower of the Japanese Navy and Air Force.

Just like an NBA game, a team that was beaten 2-0 by its opponent in the semifinals has a predictable morale.

At this time, Lin Rui, the world-famous anti-Japanese anti-Japanese deserved, was like the arrival of the most powerful superhero in the whole league, and rekindled their fighting spirit through an impassioned speech.

He also proved himself through the previous white-knuckle counterattack, and completely activated the morale and fighting spirit of all the defenders on the Lion Forest position.

It made them glow with a powerful combat power beyond their original combat power.

Just imagine, anti-Japanese national heroes like Lin Rui are not afraid of death, fighting side by side with them, fighting bloodily.

So whether it is the officers and soldiers of the Independent Brigade of the Guangdong Army or the Tax Police Corps, what is there to be afraid of? It is inevitable to see death as home.

As the saying goes, one person is desperate, ten people are unstoppable, and now the Lion Forest defenders are thousands of desperate people, and the condensed and erupted combat power can be imagined.

No matter how strong the devils are, they won't be able to tear through their defenses in a short time.

Anda Twenty-Three didn't know that Lin Rui, a guy who had recently become famous, came to the Lion Forest, and when he saw that his 3rd Infantry Brigade was frustrated in attack and gradually fell into disadvantage, this old devil immediately put down his binoculars, turned his head and ordered the adjutant behind him: "Order the 1st and 2nd Brigades to go out immediately and rush to the aid of the 3rd Brigade!" ”