As soon as Yunosuke Yamashita walked away with the interpreter who had been beaten to the point that half of his face was sunken and the guard at the door, the sound of a stool falling down came from the room.

Xiao Siming and Chen Desheng, who saw Yunosuke Yamashita and the three of them out of the courtyard, were startled, glanced at each other, turned around and rushed into the main room, and saw a white ribbon tied to the elbow steel bar of the flower basket hanging on the ceiling of the bedroom, and the woman's head was stretched out in the trap made of the white ribbon, and her tongue was about to stick out.

This woman, who is still quite bloody, unbearable to be humiliated, and even more unbearable to be humiliated fell into the eyes of the guests, and actually took advantage of the opportunity of Xiao Siming to supervise Yunosuke Yamashita to leave the yard and hanged herself!

With Xiao Siming and Chen Desheng here, women will definitely not be able to die!

After saving the woman from the trap on the steel bar on the elbow of the ceiling, Chen Desheng walked to the door and called Zhao Changshou and Chen Mingbo, who were still standing in the courtyard, to enter the house.

After Chen Mingbo entered the house, he saw the woman who was already lying on the tatami mat and was angry, and he immediately cried, threw himself in front of the woman, and slapped himself while crying, scolding himself for being a wreck, not a man, having no ability, and not being able to protect the poor woman.

Xiao Siming looks down on a bloodless man the most, and he regrets it a little at this moment, he shouldn't come to Chen Mingbo with Zhao Changshou. This kind of man, the devil has bullied the door and insulted his wife, not only did he stand up to resist, but stood in the yard and let the little devil close the door and tease his wife, is this still a man? Such a person, even if he is an expert in explosives, even if he is full of learning, what is the use of coming? In the future, it is really an arsenal in the base area, and if the devils find the arsenal during the sweep, will such people who have no seeds surrender directly?

As soon as he thought of this, Xiao Siming turned his head and left, walked out of the house, and stood in the courtyard and smoked silently!

After taking a while, his mood calmed down, and Xiao Siming also figured out that there were more Chinese, and not everyone had the determination, courage and courage to resist the atrocities of the Japanese army. If that's the case, the little devil won't be able to occupy Taiyuan!

You can't blame everything for everything, and employing people's strengths is the last word! Chen Mingbo is an engineer who can make smokeless explosives, and with him, the future of making artillery shells, bombs, grenades, explosive packs, and mines will be guaranteed. You can't blame and miss talents!

It may be that the woman has relieved herself, Zhao Changshou walked out of the house, and asked Xiao Siming if he wanted to show Chen Mingbo his identity and explain his intentions.

On the way to Chen Mingbo's house, Xiao Siming thought that the reason why Chen Mingbo did not retreat south with the arsenal was probably because he had gone to Japan to study, understood Japanese, and was a professional and technical talent, not afraid of the Japanese army. If such a person wants to mobilize him to join the Eighth Route Army, which has no salary, and to manufacture weapons and ammunition for the Eighth Route Army, I am afraid it will be very difficult, and the work will not be easy to do! At that moment just now, Xiao Siming looked down on Chen Mingbo so much that he almost turned around and gave up the idea of mobilizing Chen Mingbo. Now that Xiao Siming is calm, he has thought through it, and he wants to recruit talents, so he naturally wants to get to the point.

Xiao Siming nodded!

Zhao Changshou and Chen Mingbo were classmates, and seeing that Chen Mingbo was living such a life in Taiyuan, he wanted to pull his old classmates out of the fire pit. After Xiao Siming nodded in agreement, Zhao Changshou turned around and went into the house to have a deep talk with Chen Mingbo.

After Zhao Changshou came out again and called Xiao Siming into the house, Chen Mingbo's wife had already eased up and sat up from the tatami mat, but her eyes were still a little dull and her face was pale.

Zhao Changshou is likely to introduce Xiao Siming's identity to Chen Mingbo and his wife.

As soon as he saw Xiao Siming, Chen Mingbo asked eagerly: "Battalion Commander Xiao, can your Eighth Route Army guarantee the safety of me and my wife?" ”

Chen Mingbo must have asked Zhao Changshou repeatedly, and when he saw Xiao Siming, he couldn't help but ask.

Xiao Siming replied, "Absolutely!" ”

At this time, Chen Mingbo and his wife, when they met Xiao Siming, Chen Desheng, and Zhao Changshou, it was like a drowning person suddenly grabbing a wooden rafter, arousing infinite hope!

After receiving Xiao Siming's affirmative reply, Chen Mingbo said that Yunosuke Yamashita was the younger brother of a friend he had known when he was studying in Japan. Before the Japanese army occupied Taiyuan, his classmates wrote to him, telling him not to panic, not to run away and live a life of exile, and that the imperial army would protect useful talents like him. In the future, the Imperial Army will definitely rebuild the arsenal in Shanxi, and it needs management talents, who can assist the Imperial Army in managing the factories and work together to achieve the expulsion of European and American forces from Asia! Therefore, he had the technical personnel of the enterprise to withdraw south. Not only him, but also technicians from all factories of the Taiyuan Arsenal who had returned from studying in Japan also received letters from their old classmates and did not retreat south.

I see!

Chen Mingbo should have been full of remorse at this time, and his voice was very low and intermittent when he spoke: "When I was studying in Japan, the Japanese army I saw was an imperial army with strict discipline and high morale. I never thought that after the Japanese army captured Taiyuan, the Japanese army I saw turned into a beast army, burning, killing, looting, raping and adulterating women, and doing all kinds of evil! I saw with my own eyes that after the Japanese army entered Taiyuan, they committed murder in the city of Taiyuan for 40 days! Most of those who did not run out were killed by the Japanese army, and the streets were littered with corpses. At that time, I realized that I had been fooled, and it was wrong not to retreat south! ”

"Yunosuke Yamashita came to me with a letter from his brother asking me to help him find the lost technicians and workers of the Taiyuan Gunpowder Factory. I didn't expect Yunosuke Yamashita to be a villain, a scoundrel, and a hooligan, and he came to entangle him every day! Later, Yunosuke Yamashita actually fell in love with my wife, and he teased me with words and moved his hands and feet, which was very impolite! I also reasoned with him, and I also had to go to the Japanese headquarters to sue him, but I was beaten by him and his guards! Yunosuke Yamashita even threatened to send my wife to the comfort station of the Japanese army and let a thousand people ride and cross it. In desperation, I could only compromise and watch Yunosuke Yamashita, a hooligan, bully my wife, and be a living king! ”

Chen Mingbo is a high-level intellectual who studied in Japan, and he speaks in a crepe, such a bloody and tearful accusation, without a single dirty word from beginning to end!

Xiao Siming understood that this Yunosuke Yamashita coveted the beauty of Chen Mingbo's wife is only one aspect, and on the other hand, Chen Mingbo has not seen it clearly until now, Yunosuke Yamashita wants to destroy his will by bullying Chen Mingbo's wife, so that he will completely become a tamed tool for the Japanese to govern the arsenal!

Xiao Siming didn't come to listen to Chen Mingbo's crying, just listen to it for a while, you have to get down to business!

Xiao Siming asked about the situation of the Taiyuan Arsenal and asked Chen Mingbo if he knew about it?

As soon as he talked about the arsenal, Chen Mingbo spoke fluently, and he didn't stumble anymore.

Chen Mingbo said that in 1930, when the Taiyuan Arsenal was in its heyday, it had 3,800 machines, 15,000 employees, and a monthly output of 35 light and heavy guns, 100 mortars, 3,000 rifles, 15 machine guns, 900 submachine guns, 15,000 artillery shells, 9,000 mortar shells, and 4.2 million bullets. Later, Yan Xishan was defeated in the Central Plains War, the arsenal was suspended, and the number of employees was reduced to 1,500. However, at that time, he had not yet entered the arsenal. It was already 1934 when he entered the arsenal, and the Taiyuan arsenal was nominally owned by the private Northwest Industrial Company. Before the 77 Incident, Taiyuan Arsenal had a total of 7,000 employees and more than 5,000 machines of various kinds, and the weapons manufactured were more sophisticated! Unfortunately, due to the special reasons of Chinese politics, Yan Xishan was afraid of arousing ****** suspicion, and the Taiyuan Arsenal increased civilian production, and military production accounted for only a part of the concentration.

After the "77" Lugou Bridge Incident, Japanese planes began to bomb Taiyuan frequently, and all factories in the arsenal stopped production, and the personnel were scattered, going their separate ways. Before the Japanese army captured Taiyuan, Yan Xishan woke up like a dream and wanted to relocate the arsenal to the rear, but only found 500 workers to assist in the relocation, and only urgently transported 200 power machines and 1,000 manufacturing machines, and the large equipment was too late to be transported away.

After Chen Mingbo introduced the basic situation of the arsenal, Xiao Siming asked him if he could contact some technical personnel from various factories in the arsenal?

Chen Mingbo said that there is no problem, the arsenal is now suspended, and no one knows when production will resume. The technicians and skilled workers who stayed in the factories in Taiyuan did not have a place to receive salaries, and some people had a very difficult life.

When he said this, Chen Mingbo asked a question that seemed to Xiao Siming and Chen Desheng to be very idiotic: "Battalion Commander Xiao, I don't know how much salary you Eighth Route Army can give me?" ”

The Eighth Route Army implemented a supply system, and neither the commander-in-chief nor the deputy commander-in-chief had a salary, and only had a monthly allowance of 5 yuan. At the level of a battalion commander like Xiao Siming, it is only an allowance of one or two yuan per month. That's it, it has to be the units of the six brigades and the twelve regiments of the three main divisions, and the other troops have no military expenses for a dime because they don't have numbers and establishments in Chiang Kai-shek's place, let alone any allowances!

Xiao Siming truthfully told Chen Mingbo that the Eighth Route Army had no salary, but it was a supply system for food and clothing. As a professional and technical personnel, the headquarters may formulate some special policies to tilt a little in terms of allowances, which are higher than the officers and men of the combat units of the Eighth Route Army, but they will definitely not be too high.

"That's right!"

Chen Mingbo's tone was suddenly full of disappointment.

Xiao Siming patiently enlightened and said that when the national disaster is at hand, the little devils are about to perish in China, and all Chinese people should rise up to resist Japan! Chairman Jiang Lushan said in his speech that there is no distinction between north and south, and people are not divided into old and young, and they all have the responsibility of resisting the war and defending the land! Now is not the time to talk about whether there is a salary or not, but how to kill devils and protect the homeland!

Xiao Siming doesn't say these big truths, but Chen Mingbo also knows them. But he asked rhetorically: "This home is the home of ******, Yan Xishan and the like, does it have anything to do with us ordinary people?" ”

Xiao Siming became angry all of a sudden, stood up suddenly, pointed at Chen Mingbo and shouted: "People like you and this kind of thinking can only be the Japanese army's sword ghost and slave!" You don't deserve to be the Eighth Route Army! ”

After yelling, Xiao Siming turned around to leave, and at this time, Chen Mingbo's wife said softly: "Chen Mingbo, you stay here and wait to receive your salary from the devil, I will follow the Eighth Route Army, and we will divorce!" ”

Chen Mingbo's head hung down and whispered, "I'm just talking!" I will do it without a salary, I will follow Battalion Commander Xiao, and dying on the battlefield is better than staying in the city to be the top eight of the living kings, and I will lose my ancestors! ”

Chen Mingbo's wife burst into tears with a "wow".