According to the principle of only accepting civilians, all civilians entering the security zone need to be screened by volunteers, which is related to the personal safety of more than 200,000 civilians in the security zone, and all the recruited volunteers dare not relax at all. Several trucks came from afar, and Martin and others, who were guarding the checkpoint, immediately drove away the refugees who were blocking outside the checkpoint and made way for the trucks that were coming.

A strong male civilian wanted to take advantage of the truck to rush into the safe zone, but was grabbed and driven out by the guards who were waiting for him, and for a while, the checkpoint was full of noise and noise. "Everyone's quiet, everyone's quiet, listen to me." A truck full of food was blocked outside the checkpoint, and the volunteers in charge of the checkpoint, with the help of their companions, climbed onto the wooden horse and shouted with a tin horn.

"The main reason for the identification of everyone is that there are regulations in the security zone, and military personnel will never be allowed to enter the security zone. Everyone thinks about it, the Japanese soldiers have already entered the city, if they know that there are soldiers hidden in the security zone, can you still expect the dozens of people in the security zone to fight with hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers? Without the protection of the safety zone, do you really think that the guns in the hands of Japanese soldiers do not kill civilians? The high-pitched shouts echoed back and forth here and there, and the refugees who were blocked outside the checkpoint were only quiet for a moment, and after a moment they resumed their hustle and bustle, everyone shouting that they were not soldiers.

Martin and the others looked at it coldly for a while, and when they saw that the volunteers couldn't control the scene, they raised their guns and fired a few shots in the air, and then gathered all the guards with weapons to rush out of the checkpoint, and finally picked up the truck blocked outside the checkpoint. There are more and more refugees in the security zone, and if we can't get enough food before the Japanese army completely occupies the city, the security zone may collapse early due to civil strife, so these food trucks have always been the top priority of the security zone.

Half an hour later, the truck that had entered the safe zone drove out again, perhaps because of the chaos outside the checkpoint, and the truck came to a distant stop. Zhang Xiaodong, who was replaced for dinner, looked at Martin who ran towards the truck with some doubts, these foreign guards on the checkpoint are not easy to deal with, everyone is loaded with guns, and they don't take care of people very much, Zhang Xiaodong has been a volunteer at this checkpoint for a whole day, but he has not seen Martin take the initiative to cater to anyone like now.

I saw Martin leaning against the back of a truck, and I couldn't see it very clearly from Zhang Xiaodong, but seeing Martin's frequent nodding movements, Zhang Xiaodong guessed that Martin was talking to the people in the two truck compartments. After a few moments, a smiling Martin ran back and gathered the foreign guards and police officers at the checkpoint together and whispered something. "Zhang, you come too, let's discuss the matter of screening refugee status." It seems that because Zhang Xiaodong, who had just finished eating, was idle at the moment, Martin also called Zhang Xiaodong over.

"My method is very simple, set up a cordon 100 meters outside the checkpoint, and most of the refugees are dragging their families or traveling with relatives and friends, so we will first divide the civilians who enter the cordon into a unit. First, the elderly, women and children in this unit are singled out, and then the children are asked to identify their family members among the men in this unit, and the remaining men who are not identified have to be identified by women and the elderly. In the end, what is left unclaimed by your family is your volunteers and the police, and all the refugees who have gone through this step will be placed together, and if there is a problem, all the refugees in the same unit will have to sit together. ”

Listening to Martin's plan, Zhang Xiaodong's heart couldn't help but beat wildly, Chinese are not unfamiliar with the system of continuous sitting. When the Qin State changed the law, Shang Ying promulgated the Law of Lian Sitting in order to consolidate the rule of the monarch. Martin's purpose in adopting the joint sitting method was to get the refugees to promise each other not to let the soldiers into the safe zone, and if there was a problem, the refugees in the same unit would be implicated. It's like having a knife hanging over a refugee's head and a rope tied to his foot, so people don't dare to do anything that endangers the safe zone.

"What if someone doesn't have a family to claim and the features on their body match the characteristics of a soldier? I mean, what are we going to do if they break in? Zhang Xiaodong asked a very stupid question at this time, which caused Martin and the foreign guards to take the goods laugh in unison, and even the Nanjing policemen who were summoned looked at Zhang Xiaodong with surprised eyes.

"Zhang, I know you, you're a university teacher." Martin smiled and took out a cigarette and lit a few puffs, "I'm not making fun of what you just said, in fact, you are not the only one who has such doubts, in other checkpoints in the safe zone, there are also people who ask the same questions as you, do you know how I answered them?" Martin then smiled and flashed his weapon, "This thing can kill, my boss said that for the safety of hundreds of thousands of civilians in the safe zone, killing a few people should and necessary." ”

Martin said it easily, but it was very different in Zhang Xiaodong's ears, no Chinese wanted to see their compatriots die in front of them. Zhang Xiaodong also wanted to argue with Martin, but was stopped by a policeman, "Mr. Zhang, we all know that you are a good person, but they are not bad people with big noses." When we went out to pick up the truck at noon, we saw with our own eyes that the streets were full of weapons, ammunition and military uniforms thrown by the national army, and the city is quite safe here now. ”

Zhang Xiaodong's mouth opened a few times, but no sound came out, he wanted to say that Martin and them were kidnapping threats, but the words lingered in his mouth for a while but did not say it. "Zhang, for the safety of most of the people in the safe zone, we have to give up a small number of people. You're a well-educated person and should know I'm right, and I want you to work with other volunteers to keep the safe zone safe. Maybe in the future, someone will be sick with us in turn, but my boss and I will never bow down to anyone, because what we are doing now is not wrong. ”

Regardless of whether Zhang Xiaodong smoked or not, Martin took out a cigarette and handed it into Zhang Xiaodong's hand, "War should never be tied together with peace and benevolence, although their children, their husbands, their fathers and brothers will become soldiers, but soldiers are soldiers, and civilians are civilians." The Japanese are now insane, they simply do not accept this point of view, and it is up to us ourselves to maintain the purity of the security zone, otherwise the security zone will be threatened by the Japanese. ”

"The foreigners in the security zone are also civilians, and the Japanese in Shanghai don't even pay attention to the mediation of the concession and public works bureau and other countries, let alone the commissioners in the security zone. For the safety of everyone here, Zhang, you have to be tough, or I will suggest that the safe zone be replaced with a group of volunteers who match my heart. For the sake of the safe zone, our boss is on the verge of bankruptcy, and I can't let the actions of a handful of people jeopardize the entire safe zone. ”

This was the first time Zhang Xiaodong heard Boss Qin's name, and after asking a close policeman, Zhang Xiaodong learned that Martin and their foreign guards were not under the leadership of the security zone at all, but directly accepted the command of Boss Qin. Thinking of the scene where Martin leaned on the back of the truck and talked to people just now, Zhang Xiaodong immediately deduced that there must be someone from Boss Qin in that truck.

Martin's system of sittings was implemented very smoothly, and when he learned that his people entered the safe zone, they were subject to the sitting, and as soon as there were soldiers among them, they would be immediately driven out of the safe zone. The refugees who were congested outside the checkpoint immediately became honest, honestly accepted the volunteers' orders, and honestly tied the strips of cloth with numbers sent by the volunteers to their wrists. It's just that they don't know that these things only apply when they enter the level, and once they enter the level, the so-called joint sitting system is gone.

"We don't have a lot of people to track down what happened to them once they entered the safe zone, so I'll tell you the truth, it's just a small white lie." Seeing that the efficiency of the checkpoint here has been greatly improved, the triumphant Martin said all the intentions of this approach, and Zhang Xiaodong and the others couldn't help but scold themselves. "It's just that I want them to recognize the facts, and not to harm their own families in order to protect the soldiers hiding among them."

The checkpoint here gradually resumed unblocked, and several trucks that had been parked far away finally drove over, Zhang Xiaodong kept staring at one of the trucks, and when the truck drove to his side, Zhang Xiaodong suddenly made a bold move. "Ah" When Zhang Xiaodong lifted the corner of the tarpaulin of the carriage and looked inside, before he could see anything, he was already pressed against the door of his head by a rifle, and the frightened Zhang Xiaodong screamed and fell backwards at the same time.