Forty: Bombing Nanjing

The air raid sirens tightened one after another, and the pedestrians on the streets were anxiously scurrying around like ants on a hot pot. Two girls were so frightened that they cried.

A car crashed onto the island in a panic. Some cars are making a U-turn and heading west, while others are turning around and heading east.

A bus stopped, and the people on the bus got out in a panic.

Several men with armbands and police officers on duty waved their hands and shouted at the people. They were directing the people to get out of here. There was chaos in the streets.

After all, my mother-in-law is old, and although I am afraid, I am not panicked. Her appearance gives people a very calm appearance. The driver quickly calmed down under the influence of his mother-in-law.

He looked back and forth and said, "Ancestor, this is not a drill, the streets are full of panicked people, those police are nervously evacuating the crowd, there must be a situation."

The mother-in-law observed the panicked crowds and cars in the streets, and she looked at the sky again and said, "On the day when the Japanese army started the war in Shanghai, my uncle called me and asked me to prepare for the Japanese bombing of Nanjing......

He said that from a strategic point of view, if the Japanese hit Shanghai, they would inevitably send planes to bomb Nanjing, and there was only 300 kilometers between Nanjing and Shanghai. It was easy for the Japanese to come to Nanjing by plane.

"I promised my uncle to be ready, and I also told him that Nanjing often conducts air defense exercises, and the anti-aircraft artillery units and the air force are ready for battle. I didn't expect the devil to come so quickly."

The driver said: "Ancestor, I think it's the devil's plane coming, and at this time, I'd rather believe it than believe it."

"The devil must have come to bomb Nanjing. If the good don't come, the good will not be good, what should we do? Let's go back and find a place to hide. ”

The mother-in-law said: "In such a big Nanjing city, no matter how many planes there are, it is impossible for all the devils to blow up." The devil's plane will come from the east, let's not panic and see the situation. ”

The driver was anxious, he said: "The alarm is desperately screaming, the street is full of panicked crowds, old ancestor, let's turn back."

"Ancestor, I am responsible for your safety. You see people all over the street looking for a place to hide. Can't wait any longer. It's too late for the devil to come. He started the car.

The mother-in-law looked at the sky again, and she said to the driver: "We have no place to hide when we drive back, we can't outrun the plane, who knows where the devil is dropping bombs."

"The devil's plane came to Nanjing for the first time, and the Japanese bombed the Chinese capital, indicating that the war had escalated. The devil will definitely blow it up desperately.

"We can't run all over the streets without purpose, the devil's plane will chase us when they see it. That's how we become targets for devils.

"We should brake with static, and respond to all changes with no change. Just find a place to hide here. ”

The driver said uneasily: "Ancestor, there is no place to hide here." Let's go. ”

The mother-in-law said: "One of the simplest ideas I have is that we can't let the devil's plane see us, and if he can't see us, he won't drop bombs."

"You get out of the slow lane and get under the trees. It's safer to hide under a tree than to run away in a car all over the street. ”

The driver thought about it and felt that what the ancestor said was also reasonable, and he said, "Listen to the ancestor." ”

He drove the car into the slow lane very calmly, choosing to lean under a large tree on the sidewalk. He parked the car as close to the trunk as possible and said, "Ancestor, here it is." ”

The mother-in-law said, "Let's not get out of the car." There don't seem to be bomb shelters around here, and it's even more dangerous to hide in those people's homes. ”

There were still a few cars on the road, and it could be seen that the driver didn't know what to do. The armbanded man and the policeman saw that their car was parked well under the tree, so they ordered them to split up and drive under the tree.

The people on that bus were finished. It also stopped under the tree. The driver saw it and said, "Oh no, his car is too close to us."

"His car is big, and it's easy for devils to spot. Once the devil blows it up, it will catch fire with neighbors. We're not safe anymore. I'm going to get rid of him. ”

The mother-in-law said, "Forget it." We don't have the right to drive him away. Besides, he's still some way from us. You see, the driver in the car also got out of the car and left. Let him be. ”

Wang Mingming has calmed down. She saw that there were very few pedestrians outside the car, and the men and police were still directing pedestrians and vehicles, and they were not nervous at all.

Although they have been trained, this is the first time they have encountered such a situation. Why are they so composed, so brave?

She suddenly remembered what her head teacher had said: We have a duty to defend our elderly parents, to defend our younger siblings, and to defend our country.

Wang Mingming thought of this, and there was a sense of responsibility in his heart, and now the battle was at the doorstep. In the face of a surprise attack by Japanese planes, one should be as brave as the men and policemen with armbands.

It is better to sacrifice oneself than to protect the elderly and children.

An old woman ran to the car panting with a five or six-year-old boy in her arms. She looked into the car. Apparently she wanted to come in.

The mother-in-law hurriedly said, "Open the door and let her in." Enemy planes are coming. ”

The driver opened the door and let her in and sat in the passenger seat. The child in her arms was crying with fright.

The old woman said vigorously, "Thank you, thank you." You guys are so nice guys, it's so much better inside the car than outside, and this alarm scares me.

"My home is not here, I take the bus with my children to play, who knew this would happen. I don't know where to hide. I'm in a hurry. ”

The mother-in-law said, "Don't be afraid when you get to the car." The inside of the car is safer than the outside. The Japanese planes will not necessarily come here, and they will not see us when they get here.

"When the devil's plane is gone, you will go home."

The child stopped crying when he heard his mother-in-law's words. He turned around and looked down at the street, which was already quiet. The man with the armbands and the policemen are also gone.

The alarm stopped, and Wang Mingming suddenly heard the rumbling sound of airplanes coming from the east. Others heard it too. Everyone looked to the east with a sigh of relief.

Wang Mingming was surprised and said, "Mother-in-law, look, plane!" In the distance, the sky is full of black dots, and the planes of the devils are flying towards this side. ”

They looked ahead together, and through the gap between the trees, they saw that the plane of the devil in the distance was getting bigger and bigger, and gradually flew into the blue sky of Nanjing.

The boy saw the plane, pointed to the plane in the distance and said, "Grandma, is that a bad guy?" Why did these villains come to Nanjing? Why are we afraid of them? ”

The old grandmother said: "That's the devil, the little Japanese devil came to Nanjing to kill people." At the beginning of today, I don't know when it will end. How will this kind of life be lived in the future! ”

The child looked at the plane in horror, and he said, "Grandma, the devil has come to kill someone, let's run away," and the nervous people in the car laughed at him.

The mother-in-law said, "I have never experienced war in my own life. To say that you are not afraid is false. When I saw the devil's plane, my heart fluttered.

"These robbers came out of nowhere today, and I don't know how many houses they are going to blow up, and they will definitely kill a lot of people. God, my great savior, bless the people of Nanjing. ”

The old grandmother saw that her mother-in-law was calling God, and she thought of the Bodhisattva, and she immediately closed her eyes and kept saying, "Bodhisattva bless." ”

In the blink of an eye, the blackened plane obscured the bright sunlight in the sky. The anti-aircraft artillery rang out, and the plane flew without the anti-aircraft artillery. When the plane came to the downtown area, it suddenly threw bombs like crazy.

They heard a series of explosions and the sound of machine gun fire from the plane.

After a while, thick black smoke rose from the southeast. The driver said: "There are no military facilities over there. The devils bombed residential areas. Where can the house in the south of the city withstand the bombing, it's too unusual. ”

The mother-in-law said, "These robbers have no humanity at all. People from the occupied areas say that devils kill people everywhere and set fires to do all kinds of evil, and I believe it.

"At that time, the Eight-Nation Coalition Army also burned, killed, and plundered in Beijing, and the devils of the East and the soldiers of the West were the same. All are aggressors, all are robbers. There is not a single good thing.

"Today I saw it with my own eyes and experienced it with my own eyes."