I walked along the outer wall of the Judge Advocate General's Office, and Duan Biao and I were only separated by a wall, except for physical freedom, in fact, they were just two similar paths to death.

Under the dark walls, you can always see some refugees from other countries. The Japanese occupied most of China, and the displaced refugees followed the defeated army to the lands that had not yet been conquered. Overnight, Yunnan not only relocated famous universities and factories, but also refugees from all over the world with different accents.

Refugees are also different, those who are relatively wealthy to escape the war, they bring their wealth and move their families south, more for a sense of stability. The real refugees are already struggling with poverty, exacerbated by the arrival of war, and on the way to escape, their fate is as fragile as a boat in the ocean, which can capsize at any time.

Not far away, a family of three huddled in a corner, with two packages beside them, and the child was only five or six years old, crying and crying. This is also a refugee who doesn't know where he came from, thinking that he would live a stable life if he fled to this side, but he never thought that there would be the same artillery fire here.

As I was about to walk past them, the woman suddenly spoke: "Sir, it's all right, give me a little money......"

The man hurriedly reprimanded in a low voice: "What are you doing, we are not beggars......

Listening to the accent, they are people from somewhere in the north, women have thrown away their dignity in order to survive, and men are still trying to maintain their last face as a man.

The woman cried: "We haven't eaten for a day, and the child is hungry like this!" We are not beggars what it should be! ”

This was the reality that embarrassed and grieved the man, and the man sat down with his head in his hands.

I fumbled in my pocket, but I barely found a silver dollar, and I gave them a few national coins: "You should find a livelihood as soon as possible, otherwise it will be difficult to survive in Linmeng." ”

The man raised his head and was stunned, and the woman was busy: "Thank you, sir, thank you, sir." ”

I sighed in my heart, I am not one of those rich people who have the ability to open a porridge shed to help the victims, and I can't save anyone.

I walked a few dozen meters away, and the man caught up with me: "Sir, can I go to the army?" ”

I know his thoughts, he may think that being a soldier and eating food is too simple, so I said to him: "The little salary of being a soldier is also very difficult to feed your family, and the bullet does not have long eyes, you may lose your life at any time, do you really want to be a soldier?" ”

The man looked back at his wife and children, and he seemed to be a little shaken and hesitant by my words.

"Settle your family first, if you still want to be a soldier in two days, come to the Longwan position to find me, my surname is An." I hesitated to stop looking at him and walked away.

I crossed the entrance of the Western Vegetable Market and turned into the alley to Yinghui's house, and a man wearing a straw hat followed me into the alley. I glanced back, and the brim of the man's hat was pressed very low, and I couldn't see his appearance clearly, and I didn't pay much attention to it, maybe it was just a fellow traveler, I thought to myself.

The courtyard where Yinghui lives is already very remote, I stopped, and the person also stopped, which made me have to be suspicious, could it be that those thieves who beat the sticks are trying to calculate me?

I turned around and stood still. The man also stood still, neither forward nor backward, just there.

Me: "Who are you?" Why are you following me?"

The man didn't speak, just stood there.

I got a little closer and pulled out my Mauser pistol, and my voice was already stern: "Take your hat off!" ”

The man hesitated, slowly took off his straw hat, and then she said, "Can I go to the army?" ”

- Ani said what the man had just said, but Ani's expression was much more resolute, without the slightest hesitation.

Ani's appearance is probably the biggest surprise I've gotten in recent times: "Ani, why are you here?" ”

Ani, who has always loved to laugh and make trouble, had a flat mouth, and she cried: "Brother An, Rhonda is dead, and everyone in Eighteen Mile Village is dead......"

- The Japanese were not as stupid as Rhonda thought, they had lost several soldiers, in fact, they had been looking around for clues, and finally the scouts of the Japanese army found the bodies of those Japanese soldiers in the back ravine of Eighteen Mile Village. So the Japanese began both crazy and cruel retaliation, in a quiet early morning, the Japanese army suddenly attacked the eighteen-mile village, after they broke into the village, burning, killing and looting all kinds of evil, the whole village was full of screams and sorrows, and for a while the eighteen-mile village seemed to have become a hell on earth.

Although Rhonda and his Self-Defense Forces had the opportunity to enter the tunnel, they were red-eyed when they saw the whole village being so brutalized by the Japanese, and they desperately engaged in a firefight with the Japanese army. For the Japanese army in its entirety, more than a dozen ordinary people who have not undergone systematic training will be their opponents, and before they arrive half an hour, the Self-Defense Forces have all been killed.

By the time Ani came back, the village had been burned to the ground, and the Japanese had slaughtered the entire village after the evil had done the worst, and there was no survivor in the village. People from neighboring villages rushed to help rein in the villagers, and Ani was able to find the burned and unrecognizable Rhonda through the identification of the relics. After burying her brother, a heartbroken Ani, with a heart of revenge, sneaked into Xin'an County at night, shot and killed two Japanese sentry posts, and then escaped from Xin'an along the path.

"Brother An, I came back to you this time, I just want to be a soldier and kill devils! …… I'm going to avenge my brother and them......" Ani lay on my shoulder, wailing.

The courtyard door opened, and Yinghui, who heard the voice, walked out.

I wiped Ani's tears and said to Young-hui, "Ani." You've seen it, the ...... who used to live next door to you in Kunming"

Ani looked at Yinghui with tears in her eyes: "Sister Yinghui." ”

"Ani, yes, yes, I remember...... When did you come to Linmeng? Come in and talk. ”

Yinghui showed unusual enthusiasm for Ani's appearance, I think maybe she has lived alone for a long time, she is really a little lonely, and suddenly a little girl of the same age is her countryman, naturally very happy.

I arranged Ani in Yinghui's house first, but I was a little embarrassed that she wanted to be a soldier, although many regiments have female soldiers such as female soldier companies and female soldier brigades, but our new 200 regiment does not have such a structure.

"I don't care. Brother An, can you go and talk to your Huang Regiment Leader, anyway, I must be a soldier. If you don't let me be a soldier, I'll take a gun and kill the devil myself! Ani fiddled with the dead Southern-style pistol.