Xuzhou, January 1938.

Early in the morning, it was plastered with the words "Get rid of imperialism!" "Give me back the rivers and mountains!" "I said get out of China! And so on, red, green, and green slogans.

There is a banner hanging above the main gate of the city tower in Xuzhou, which reads "All walks of life in Xuzhou support the front-line soldiers and support the national government to resist the war to the end".

Just after breakfast, it was already crowded with people, and the crowds who came to participate in the Xuzhou 10,000-person rally kept pouring in, as well as small traders and vendors, selling sugar cakes, watching the excitement, and begging for food. The police officers who maintain order have long been in place.

After the start of the 10,000-person solidarity anti-Japanese war meeting, the leaders of some political groups and representatives of various schools continued to take turns on the stage, and some of them burst into tears and gave speeches; Some were impassioned and took the lead in chanting slogans.

On and off the stage, they raised their arms and shouted in unison, especially the students and refugees from Shanghai, Nanjing, and earlier Northeast China, and the heart-rending crying and singing moved everyone.

At the beginning of the performance, I saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old woman in tattered clothes on the stage, playing the role of a singer. A few miserable and miserable Northeast accent songs were sung to people's hearts. Suddenly, the singer seemed to be exhausted by hunger and cold, and fainted on the stage. The man who played the father next to him took out the whip from his waist, stepped forward and whipped it a few times in a row, and ordered the singer to get up and continue to sing. The singer struggled to get up, but she didn't have any more strength and fell on the stage again. The father lifted up the whip again.

The people were so nervous that they could hear the whirring of the whip as it swept through the air, and the sound of the whip falling on the singer. At this time, the crowd playing the role of onlookers couldn't hold back any longer, and stepped forward to stop it, shouting to the man with the whip in his hand: "Put down your whip!" ”

The people in the audience couldn't help it, forgetting that they were watching a play, and shouted in unison: "Put down your whip!" ”

At this time, the man who played the father turned around and cried to the audience:

"Folks, it's not my heart to be a father." After 918', he occupied our hometown, burned and killed, and did all kinds of evil. Our whole family and fellow villagers fled to Kannai together, and now we are dead and scattered. It was snowing heavily that day, and the child's grandparents were cold and hungry, and they breathed in Beiping. When he took his breath, he pointed to the snowflakes drifting east, and couldn't close his eyes. Said that he rumbled, machine guns and cannons, and then went to Beiping. We had to flee again. When I arrived in Zhengzhou, there was another severe drought in Henan, and the child's younger brother couldn't survive and starved to death there. I originally wanted to go to Nanjing, but who would have thought that Nanjing had already fallen again. Now my family of three has fled here, and the child's mother is seriously ill and has not eaten or drunk for several days. We don't sing, how can we cure her mother and save her life! ”

When the man said this, he was already sincere and couldn't cry. Those who played the role of spectators also wept silently with their true feelings, and they took out the threads and threw them in front of the man. The people in the audience also wiped their tears, and some people also took out the money and threw it on the stage. The actors on the stage and the spectators under the stage all entered the roles, the actors didn't know that they were acting, the people watching the play didn't know that they were watching the play, and even some of the policemen sent to maintain order were wiping their tears on the side.

Suddenly, there was a burst of "Go back to your hometown!" "Down with imperialism!" The slogans shouted from the stage and off the stage, and the policemen wiping their tears next to them also shouted together. On and off the stage, there were many voices.

Then, some people came to the stage again and sang the "Escape Trilogy" together. The song of "My home is on the Songhua River in Northeast China" seems to bring people to the icy land of Northeast China

Finally, it was the students of the exiled institutions who took the stage, and they stood in a chorus and packed the stage to the brim. Singing together, singing impassioned battle songs such as "China will not die" and "The big knife cut off the devil's head". Those who can sing in the audience also sing together, and those who can't sing also shout, singing makes everyone's blood boil.

On and off the stage, that "kill!" Kill!! Kill!!! The shouts shook the heavens and the earth, and the earth shook the mountains.

More and more political groups and street citizens are coming to the rally.

After the rally, the whole procession began. The procession held large slogans and shouted slogans, and everywhere it passed, it was all downtown in the center, not only crowds of onlookers, but also the masses of people constantly participating. The procession grew larger and larger, like a raging tide. For a time, the number of people increased. Xuzhou City, a huge city, is already empty of thousands of people.

After that, the teachers and students were divided into groups and went to various streets and alleys to give speeches in small groups. The singing with the theme of "Wandering Trilogy" and the performance of "Put Down Your Whip" made the citizens of Xuzhou sad and indignant.

Pathos and fierce voices come and go, and the entire Xuzhou City is already a volcano.

In the afternoon, Li Zongren, commander-in-chief of the Xuzhou Battle and commander of the Fifth Theater, appeared at the gathering site, pushing the atmosphere of the 10,000-person gathering to the top.

"Everyone is responsible for defending the land and resisting the war!" After making a brief opening remarks, Li Zongren immediately briefly talked about the prospects for the Battle of Xuzhou and the current preparations of the various departments, and then said:

"Some people say that we have lost the Northeast, Beiping, Shanghai, and now, even Nanjing, and China's demise is only a matter of time. However, what I want to say is that China will not perish, and the War of Resistance has just begun!

Yes, our capital was lost, but even if the Japanese invaded Nanjing, our resistance continued! Here, I want to tell you about a man whose name is Goofy! ”

Gao Fei's deeds of his brothers came out of Li Zongren's mouth, this is Gao Fei's name, personally said by the supreme commander of a war zone, and in such a grand scene as a gathering of 10,000 people.

The crowd continued to erupt in exclamations, admiration, and tears, no, the image of a group of heroic and fearless people appeared in front of all the masses so vividly.

"China will not die!" Li Zongren suddenly said loudly: "In our China, there are thousands of Gao Fei, and there are thousands of Chinese soldiers as brave as Gao Fei, who are sworn to defend the homeland, and this is the duty of every Chinese!" ”

"China will not die!"

With this shout, the atmosphere of the scene reached its peak at once!

"China will not die, long live the War of Resistance!" The cries came and went, shaking the earth.

Goofy's name began to be known by more and more people, and this is an incentive for Goofy, but also a huge responsibility!