After this incident, Miss Tan seemed to have changed her temperament for a while at first, no longer causing trouble everywhere, going to and from school step by step every day, staying at home to review her homework, and even interested in learning to be some female celebrities.

Because of his daughter's sudden change, Tan Zhenshan was overjoyed, and when he talked about it with my father, his tone was full of unconcealed relief: "Qinrou seems to have grown up all of a sudden and become a big girl!" ”

But Miss Tan didn't let Tan Zhenshan feel relieved for more than a month, and she began to be restless again, and she participated in the most popular anti-Japanese salvation meeting in Linmeng.

This Anti-Japanese Salvation Association is not the kind of group that hides at home and makes socks and insoles for the front line. With students as the main body, they propagated anti-Japanese propaganda in Linmeng City every day, posted slogans everywhere, and organized hundreds or even thousands of students to march on the streets at every turn.

I saw their parade on the street of Linmeng, which was similar to the one I participated in when I was a student in Beiping. shouted something "The army and the people are united, and they will resist foreign humiliation together!" ”

"The Chinese nation must fight to the death for independence! The Chinese nation must fight to the death for freedom"

"Expelle the Japanese and return my rivers and mountains!"

Etcetera.

Whether students should put down their books and march on the streets is a matter of opinion. The top of the government does not support this kind of behavior of students, and they still hope that students can do their part and not confuse studying with fighting. In their view, it is the business of soldiers to fight against foreign enemies and shed blood and sacrifice, and each performing his duties and abiding by his duties is what a country should be, even if the country is already in tatters.

But because our army is losing ground on the front, the preachy appeals from the top are not convincing. In the young and stirring enthusiasm of the students, those words are not even the wind in their ears, they still strike every day and go to various schools to connect with each other, so that more students can join them.

There are only three colleges and universities in Linmeng, Linmeng Songpo Middle School named after General Cai Yi, which moved from Guangxi to Guangxi Institute of Technology in Linmeng, and then Linmeng Girls' Middle School. There were nearly 3,000 students from the three schools combined, and although it was impossible for all of them to participate in the march, people from all walks of life would continue to join in the procession, and at most they would gather about 2,000 people.

I don't know what kind of group the Anti-Japanese Salvation Association is, but they really did more harm than good in organizing this kind of rally, and if the rally of thousands of people was unfortunately hit by the cold artillery of the Japanese army, it would cause huge casualties.

Therefore, every time the students gathered, they would be confined to the east of the temple by the military police, because it was not a military zone, so there was very little Japanese artillery fire. Japanese shelling was generally marked with pre-coordinates, and given the limited number of shells they had, the chances of these DMZ targets being shelled were relatively small.

The students were always dissatisfied with the fact that they were always held in this area, and they wanted to go to places with more crowds, to reach a larger audience, to show and promote their anti-Japanese enthusiasm.

The Linmeng Police Station was in charge of guarding the student parade and rally, and because of the lack of police force, a company of soldiers from the New 200th Regiment was transferred from the nearest peak to supplement the vigilance force.

I have nothing to do every day, and I don't want to face Huang Wenlie all day long with a face of worrying about the country and the people, so I took the initiative to ask for orders to lead the team to participate in maintaining order.

The police set up barricades in the streets, pulled up barbed wire, and separated the students on the other side. The policemen lined up with shields and sticks behind the barbed wire, behind the soldiers of our new 200th regiment, just in case.

As it approached noon, the number of students gathered and the students began to ask the police to remove the barricades and let them pass. I sat in the truck and saw Tan Qinrou among them, holding a banner and shouting slogans. The leading student angrily scolded the police on the other side of the barbed wire: "You don't go to the front line to fight devils!" But they came here to suppress the students! Don't you feel ashamed! ”

The scolded policeman smiled bitterly: "Where are we suppressing you, we are protecting you!" You students, you don't know where to read! It doesn't matter if it's a bad thing! ”

After a few minutes of stalemate, students began to storm the barricades and people began throwing rocks and other debris at the police.

The police brought in the water hose team early to prevent such a situation from happening, and at the sound of an order, the thick water hose spewed out a column of water, pouring the students into soup chickens.

I saw Miss Tan being drenched all over by the water dragon, and I smiled kindly, I guess this is an experience she has never had in her life - how dare anyone splash water on Miss Tan!

More than a dozen male students bravely moved the barricades against the water dragons, and the policemen brandished wooden sticks and beat them headlessly, it was really impossible to stop them like this, if the students were allowed to rush through the barricades, it would be impossible for us to resist the 200 or so people alone.

A black Dodge car parked on the side of the student, and two middle-aged women with the appearance of stout servants got out of the car, holding Tan Qinrou right and right without saying anything, and dragged Tan Qinrou into the car.

In Linmeng, there are only a handful of people who have a car at home, and many people are familiar with this Dodge car, which belongs to Tan Bancheng's car. There were still people who didn't know how to read and posted notices all over the street, and after a few stunned young students were stunned for a moment, they rushed over and pulled Tan Qinrou back, and scolded: "Who are you!" How to arrest people casually! ”

Two servants pushed the students: "What are you messing with!" This is our young lady! ”

It's not good for the stunned young people to drag people anymore, Miss Tan came up with the eldest lady's temper, and shouted loudly regardless of it: "I don't know them, help me out!" ”

I sat in the truck and witnessed the whole process, laughing at Miss Tan's willful nonsense, but also laughing at these students for lacking a minimum of judgment, in broad daylight, there are hundreds of police and troops here, will there be bandits kidnapping on the street! Which bandit can afford to drive a car to kidnap a ticket!

It was a mess here, and a piercing air defense siren suddenly sounded in the sky over Linmeng, and I was taken aback, our air defense siren observation capability was limited, and when the alarm sounded, it was generally the Japanese bombers who had already flown over the Nu River, and they could appear in the sky over Linmeng in an instant.

I jumped out of the truck, pulled out my Mauser pistol and fired three shots into the sky, then shouted at the bewildered crowd, "The Japanese bombers are coming!" Everyone immediately dispersed, looked for shelter, and lay on the ground! Fast! ”

The sky was filled with the humming engine noise of the Zero and the whistling of the plane piercing through the air, and the crowd finally realized the danger, screaming and crying in chaos.

The students are still accustomed to a few people, a dozen people gathering together in horror and waiting for an unknown fate, they are like a flock of frightened sheep, they don't care about their heads and bones together, thinking that this is the safe way, but in fact it is just more convenient to be hunted.

"Don't get together! Disperse! Disperse! Can you understand it when you spread out! You pig brains! "I was so angry that I yelled and ran over and kicked the students to scatter in all directions to avoid being braised by the bomb.