Twenty-four: Tears the good heart

The scattered gunfire at the bottom of the mountain made my aunt very nervous, but she didn't mess up. "It's time to come," she said. The devil is here. Let's go, we're going to get away from the devils. ”

Wang Mingming said: "Auntie, the devil is at the bottom of the mountain when you hear the gunshots." It was close to us. Aunt is right, we have to avoid the devils, let's go. ”

As soon as her words fell, a woman's desperate cry came from the bottom of the mountain. The child's cry of pain. The man's angry cry. A miserable cry pierced the dark night. The night trembled in the valley.

Wang Mingming and his aunt looked down the mountain with wide frightened eyes. A heart-rending shout made them creepy.

Wang Mingming had never heard such a tragic shout. It's hard to imagine what terrible things are happening there. She was stunned. His nostrils shrunk and he gasped.

My aunt's kind heart was torn apart by the miserable screams, and it was as if she saw the dying people shouting angrily. My aunt trembled, her hands trembling and tears rolling down her face.

Wang Mingming hugged her aunt mechanically, she got comfort from her aunt's body and felt strength. At the same time, she passed on her concern for the Venerable Master to her aunt.

She looked at the mountain and said to herself, "Auntie, don't be afraid. We are not afraid, devils are ghosts, and they will not let us go. We have to go. ”

My aunt looked straight down the mountain with her upper teeth and lower teeth, saying, "I, I listen, listen to you." We go, we have to flee. It's horrible. ”

In a panic, she did not forget to close the door. She turned and closed the door. But his trembling hands couldn't pull the door.

The deafening sound of machine guns suddenly drowned everything out. The whole mountain trembled, and the dry leaves of the trees fell one after another. The birds resting in the forest screamed and ran for their lives.

The sound of machine guns woke Wang Mingming. She broke out in a cold sweat and quickly calmed down, she knew that the massacre of the devils had arrived, and she and the villagers had arrived at the last moment.

She has no strength to deal with all evil enemies. She couldn't protect herself and her aunt. She looked at the woods on the hill, where the only way to escape the devil was there.

Regardless of whether the back mountain can escape the devil. She wants to send her aunt to the back mountain, she wants to protect her aunt, and she must avoid the butcher's knife of the devil. I am not afraid to die, but I want to die with honor.

The sound of machine guns shook my aunt to the ground, and she was tied to the fate of the people down the mountain. No one can escape the bullet of the devil's sin. No one can help them survive the dead.

She trembled. The sky fell above my aunt's head. She trembled and said, "Devils are like devils, too cruel and terrifying." It's all over. ”

Wang Mingming hugged her tightly and comforted her: "Auntie, don't be afraid." Let's go, let's go. She hugged her aunt with all her strength, but she couldn't hold it.

The aunt grabbed Wang Mingming's clothes tightly in fear, and she said anxiously, "Obviously, you go quickly." Leave me alone. The child is obedient, listens to his aunt, and runs quickly to the back mountain. ”

She pushed Wang Mingming outward, but she couldn't push it. She gasped and said, "Child, listen to your aunt, you have to live." Run.

"Remember the suffering of the people of Nanjing. Remember the sins of the devils. Run! ”

Wang Mingming deadlifted his aunt up. She said, "Auntie, get up quickly, let's go." ”

Every house came out, and the men took the poles or hoes. Their expressions were nervous, and their eyes widened. They are ready to fight desperately to protect their families.

The women followed the man out of the courtyard, and none of them spoke, their eyes wide open and terrified as they conveyed a terrifying message to each other.

They need the protection of men, hoping that men can defeat the devil and drive him down the mountain. They don't want anything to happen to men. Their only glimmer of hope is that the devil will not go up the mountain.

The girls who came out with scissors in their hands, and they were ready for a last-ditch fight. They encouraged each other, hoping to kill one or two devils in the last moments of their lives.

The children who were already asleep were awakened, and they saw that there were no adults around them who did not call the adults with their cries as usual. They crawled out of the bed and quietly came out of the yard.

The child does not know what will happen, but terror has enveloped the young mind. Unable to cope with the impending disaster, they put their hopes in their mothers.

They came to her mother, hugged her leg tightly, and looked up at her with wide frightened eyes. Believe that the mother will protect them with her life.

Everyone understands that the devils under the mountain are killing people. The devil will definitely kill the mountain. Japanese soldiers and the Grim Reaper dance together. They will surely ravage their wonderful homeland.

Nanjing's last piece of pure land is about to be reduced to ashes in the flames. The blood of the villagers will stain the fertile mountains red.

The eldest cousin came home out of nowhere. He was exhausted, gasping for breath and covered in mud. Everyone surrounded him at once.

People looked at him in silence. No one asked him anything, everyone knew that he came down from the mountain and must have known about the dehumanizing massacre going on there.

The eldest cousin asked everyone, "How is my mother?" Everyone's faces turned to Auntie's side.

When my aunt saw him dying, she cried out, "My son, my son!" She cried and crawled towards him.

The eldest cousin rushed to his mother, knelt down and hugged his mother, and said, "Mom, my son is back." He escaped a gang of evil devils and escaped one massacre after another. My son escaped death and returned home. ”

My aunt cried and said, "My son, you're back, you're in a hurry, you're in a hurry, how good are you outside......

The eldest cousin said, "Mom, don't cry. There are tens of thousands of people in the Straw Shoes Gorge on the other side of Shangyuan Gate. The devils strafed with machine guns, it was too miserable.

"Many soldiers were tied in their hands, shouting slogans, holding their chests against machine gun bullets, and preferring to die unyieldingly. They took their last breath before they collapsed.

"I managed to escape and ran to the bottom of the hill in front of me, and the devil hit there. The devils under the mountain are killing people. ”

My aunt held back her tears and said, "Son, tell me where you have been these days." ”

The eldest cousin said: "I finished the fortifications of the ancient building and waited for the train at the Gulou railway station. I have a friend who is the driver of the small train, and I told him that I would take their locomotive to Dingjiaqiao.

"Our fortification of Dingjiaqiao has not yet been completed, and several of my workers are still working there. I'm going to help them finish sooner.

"A platoon commander who retreated from Taipingmen with a dozen fighters, their mission was broken up by the devils, and they lost contact with the troops.

"They were told to go in the direction of the fork in the road, and their large army was over there. They didn't have a map, and they couldn't figure out how they got to the Drum Tower.

He saw that other troops were going to Xiaguan, and he also wanted to go to Xiaguan to cross the river. But he didn't know the way, and he didn't know where to go. Ask me to help them.

"I told them to wait and told my friend about their situation, and my friend agreed that I would take them to climb the locomotive to Shimonoseki."

"When the locomotive arrived at Dingjiaqiao, the dispatch did not allow it to stop, and wanted to go directly to Xiaguan, so I had to follow it to Xiaguan. When I got to Shimonoseki, I realized that there were no boats there. Tens of thousands of people could not cross the river.

The platoon commander looked at the mess in the field. Repeatedly begging me for help. I can't help it. I said I can't help you. Figure it out for yourselves.

"They were even more anxious, and a soldier knelt down to me and said, brother, look at those corpses floating in the river, the soldiers on the shore who are depressed and can't find a way out, if you don't help us, we will die.

"I sympathize with them very much, and I said that I know an old king who fishes in the Yangtze River, and I will take you to him, and he may have a way.

"I took them along the river for a few miles and found Lao Wang. I begged him for help. He shook his head and refused to agree, saying that both of his boats had been given to the national army, and there were no more boats.

At this time, gunfire sounded on the river, and Lao Wang said Did you see it, the devil's warship. It's dangerous. You'd better find another way.

"I begged him with the soldiers to find a way."