Before the Japanese came, my grandfather was the patriarch of Yujia Village and a famous squire. In the spring of 1939, the Japanese army landed from Ershenggang and soon occupied the county seat of Guanjiang and the vast countryside on both sides of the Guanhe River.

In the summer of 1940, the Japanese puppet army stationed in Guanjiang County suddenly besieged Yujia Village. The Japanese forced his grandfather to become the vice president of the county maintenance committee, and if he did not comply, he would burn down the Yu clan ancestral hall and burn his wife and his whole family to death.

The grandfather who was in his prime did not hesitate, although he was only a squire, in the face of life and national righteousness, he chose the latter. When the glorious ancestral hall of the Yu family and the old house of the Yu family were set on fire by the Japanese puppet army and were about to turn into a sea of fire, the grandfather did not have the slightest timidity, but he held his long beard and smiled at the sky in the face of the bayonets of the Japanese invaders.

He walked on crutches, wore a melon skin hat, and carried his grandmother in full costume, and under the attention of hundreds of villagers in Yujia Village, step by step, trembling, into the flames. The whole family of more than 20 people, young and old, hugged together, together with the Yu ancestral hall and the old house of the Yu family, was burned to ashes.

That year, my grandfather was in my early fifties, and my grandmother was less than forty years old.

The old people said that after the Japanese withdrew, the fire burned for most of the night, and the ancestral hall of the Yu family and the old house of the Yu family became a ruined wall, and hundreds of men, women, and children in Yujia Village all knelt down in front of the ruins, crying bitterly. In the early hours of the morning, it rained heavily and whimpering, crackling and raining, and it rained for two days and two nights.

When the fire broke out in the ancestral hall of the Yu family and the old house of the Yu family, Yu Xinhe took his younger brother Yu Xinmin, She Wenfang and She Wenxiu sisters to hide under the dry well in the inner courtyard of the family school. There was a small brick room at the bottom of this dry well, in which a small amount of water and food was always stocked. The wellhead is hidden within the sandwich wall, which is relatively hidden.

After the Japanese came, my grandfather specially rebuilt the school school as a precautionary measure, and secretly built this facility as an escape route for his children in times of crisis, which really came in handy.

The Japanese army suddenly entered the village, and when they captured the grandparents, they had already sealed off the whole village. Mr. She, a teacher at the home school hired by his grandfather, quickly pushed the four children into the wall and let them hide in the dry well before the Japanese invaders entered the school to search. And he himself, sitting in the family school safely, followed the old man Yu and his wife to the west.

Mr. She is also from a large family, an old-style literati who fled from Shenyang, and a talent in the former Qing Dynasty. A subset of scripture and history, hundreds of schools of thought, astronomy and geography, know everything.

After the Lugou Bridge Incident, he took his two daughters and fled from Beiping along Longhai Road all the way to northern Jiangsu. At that time, there was starvation and refugees everywhere. Grandma opened a porridge shack in the village to help refugees fleeing famine.

It is said that when Mr. She took his two sibling daughters, who were in their early teens, to Yujia Village, the three of them could not walk. Or maybe this is fate, when grandma saw Mr. She's two twin daughters like mud monkeys in the porridge shed, her little feet couldn't move.

The two little sisters had messy hair like a pile of straw, their bodies dirty like two clay figures, and they looked at their grandmother timidly with two pairs of big frightened eyes. Grandma took them home, bathed and changed their clothes, and took in the father and daughter.

Grandpa only talked to Mr. She once, so he asked him to be a teacher in the family school, and grandma accepted the She sisters as daughters. Since then, Mr. She has settled down in Yujia Village and worked as a tutor for more than two years, teaching Yu Xinhe, Yu Xinmin brothers and his two daughters to read.

On the night when the Yu family's ancestral hall and the Yu family's old house were burned down, in the early hours of the morning, Yu Xinhe took his younger brother Yu Xinmin and two little sisters to brave the heavy rain to get out of the ruins and escape from the village. They hid, avoided villages and pedestrians, and walked east for a day and two nights until they came to a small village in the reeds of the sea.

Yu Xinhe's aunt and uncle's house is in this small village called Bansha Village. Yu Xinhe, who is already 14 years old, with his three younger siblings, all 11 years old, hid in his aunt's house for two years. After the Spring Festival in 1943, they left their uncle's house and began to wander to Lang Sixiang, only after the Japanese surrendered, and then returned to Yujia Village.

Although my father, mother, and aunt have been very strict about their experience in the past two years, they have never revealed anything to the public. But the old people in the village all swore that in the past two years, the county seat and the county's strongholds have not been at peace for a day, and once the Japanese and traitors are singled, they will be killed. Before the surrender of the Japanese, the Japanese and traitors who participated in the Yujiacun Massacre were basically hunted down and killed.

Yu Songyuan was skeptical and unimaginable. My father was only 16 years old at the time, and my mother and aunt were both 13 years old, and they were only four children, how could this be?

Bansha Village, where my uncle's house is located, is only more than 30 miles away from the Japanese stronghold of Ershenggang. It is sparsely populated, and the village is surrounded by grassy flats and reeds, and it is remote and desolate, and it is a guerrilla zone. Less than 20 kilometers away from here, the waste Yellow River and the south of the Zhongshan River are the base areas of the Third Division and Eighth Brigade of the New Fourth Army.

His uncle's name is Zhang Wenbo, a small landlord, and like Yu Songyuan's grandfather, he is a courageous, knowledgeable and bloody progressive squire in northern Jiangsu. He has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, has a strong personality, and served as a battalion commander in the army of warlord Zhang Bangchang for two years.

After the Second Zhifeng War, the Feng army Chen Shi Changjiang. In October 1925, Sun Chuanfang blew the horn of anti-Feng, the Feng army was defeated, and Yang Yuting, the governor of Jiangsu, fled north in a hurry. In this battle, the direct army won a great victory, Sun Chuanfang became the commander-in-chief of the allied forces of the five provinces, and the entire territory of northern Jiangsu was occupied by the direct army. The soldiers went directly to Xuzhou and confronted Zhang Zongchang, the governor of Shandong.

The uncle was seriously wounded and had to leave the Northeast Army. He took his family to hide in the barren grass and reeds on the seashore, cultivated the wasteland, and gradually had a family business. My uncle is strong by nature, he would rather bend than bend, and he has been in the Northeast Army for several years, and he has a lot of pride in his bones. In my aunt's words, there is no room for sand in my eyes.

In his uncle's house for two years, Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin's brothers followed their uncle to practice martial arts and marksmanship, and their strength, martial arts, and marksmanship have made great progress, especially Yu Xinhe's long and short gun marksmanship, and Yu Xinmin's flying knife skills, almost to the point of 100 shots. The She sisters, who are bent on revenge, also follow their brother to practice martial arts.

On the night of the sixth day of the second lunar month in 1942, the weather was gloomy and dark clouds rolling. A squad of Japanese troops stationed in Ershenggang, plus a pseudo-salt police team, totaling more than 150 people, swept the countryside around Ershenggang.

The devils came from the direction of the three tombs outside the village, and the villagers in the village and the surrounding villages ran away. The uncle didn't run, he took Yu Xinhe, Yu Xinmin's brothers, as well as his two sons and five nephews, and decided to use the dark night to attack this Japanese puppet army.

The Japanese puppet army carried more than 100 small carts, which were loaded with food and supplies looted from villages along the way. They quickly surrounded Bansha Village, and when they saw that the villagers had already fled and there was no sound in the village, they prepared to enter the village to rob. The uncle took his two sons and a nephew to the west end of the village. Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin took the others to guard the east end of the village.

The 13-year-old She sisters each carried a box gun, and each of them had two Japanese-made melon grenades hanging from their waists. They guard the door of the inner house and are responsible for the safety of their aunt. My aunt also had a pistol in her waist, and according to her uncle's arrangement, she would pack two burdens and be ready to move to the south bank of the Zhongshan River at any time.

"Bang!"

When the puppet army swaggered close to the village, my uncle's box cannon was the first to go off. More than a dozen long and short guns immediately rained a rain of bullets, and several Japanese-made melon grenades exploded in the enemy bushes. The enemy was defenseless, and eight or nine people were knocked down at once, and the remaining enemy immediately fled back to the trench outside the village.

The Japanese puppet army quickly assembled its ranks and began to attack the village. Two grenadiers shelled the village from time to time, as if they had eyes, and both of my uncle's nephews were wounded and three of his family members were killed. Yu Xinhe's hands are one long and two short, and he took Yu Xinmin, who was only 13 years old, and quickly climbed to the roof of the grass house. The two aimed accurately, and killed the Japanese grenadiers with several shots in succession.

The Japanese machine guns quickly rained down on them as if they had eyes, and the brothers quickly moved to the roof of the adjacent house and killed the two enemy machine gunners with precision. They kept changing positions, jumping from one house to the top of another, and constantly shooting at the Chang puppet army with their heads exposed.

Yu Xinhe had good eyesight, and vaguely saw a Japanese soldier raise his command knife from time to time, and after taking careful aim, a shot exploded the head of the Japanese officer. Due to the sweep of the surrounding countryside, the Japanese had only one infantry squad and did not carry mortars. The grenadiers and machine guns were suppressed, the fire was affected, and several rounds of attacks were repulsed, leaving a few more corpses.

Under the cover of the dark night, for more than two hours, more than 100 Japanese puppet soldiers were suppressed in the trench outside the village by more than a dozen villagers and more than a dozen long and short guns. At a time when the two sides were facing each other and stalemate, a battalion of the 24th Regiment of the Eighth Brigade of the 3rd Division of the New Fourth Army stationed in Yangji and Jiebei areas in the east of Zhongshan Hedong, after receiving information that the Japanese army was going to the countryside to sweep up, rushed all the way, and the Japanese puppet army had to retreat in embarrassment.

In this battle, my uncle and more than ten sons and nephews fought against more than 150 Japanese puppet soldiers for more than two hours. Eleven Japanese puppet soldiers, including the Japanese squadron leader Kemu Shaozo, were killed, more than 30 people were wounded, more than a dozen long and short guns were captured, and an adjutant commanded a knife. And I only had three dead and six or seven wounded.

At the beginning of 1942, the New Fourth Army's "Yanfu Popular Daily" specially reported the heroic deeds of the squire Zhang Wenbo against the Japanese invaders.

During the Japanese occupation of northern Jiangsu, Yu Xinhe and Yu Xinmin brothers never returned to Yujia Village. However, the old people in the village said that they came and went without a trace on the coastal land, and they were haunted, and from time to time they killed scattered members of the Japanese puppet army. Liu Mazi, the notorious and blood-indebted captain of the Guanjiang County Investigation Team, was cut by them in the old nest of Guanjiang County in a dark night under the noses of the Japanese criminals, and died a very miserable death.

Liu Mazi is nine feet long, he is a Guanhe River bandit, has strong martial arts, is good at using two guns, and kills people like hemp. After the Japanese occupation, he surrendered to the Japanese army and became the captain of the reconnaissance team, the New Fourth Army and the progressive people, and hundreds of people died at his hands. He participated in the Japanese army's burning of Yujia Village, and later threatened to capture the Yu brothers alive and eradicate the grass.

On the night of the Dragon Boat Festival in 1943, the compound of the reconnaissance team located in the Japanese barracks in the county was attacked at night. Not a single shot was fired in the camp that night, and there was nothing abnormal, but the 17 members of the reconnaissance team from top to bottom, these habitual bandits who followed Liu Mazi to kidnap and kill people and have a lot of blood debts, were all killed at close range. The wounds are all in the throat and are extremely accurate, with only one cut.

Although the "perpetrators" did not leave any traces of these earth-shattering actions to eliminate traitors or kill the enemy, the Japanese puppet army and the people around the county knew that they were committed by the Yu brothers, who had great enemies. Within two or three years, the county seat and the strongholds were disturbed, and the grass and trees were all soldiers. At the mention of "Double Gun Yu Xinhe" and "Little Knife Yu Xinmin", the Japanese puppet soldiers were terrified and lost their souls.