Seventeen: The Dead

On the walls of the Peace Gate is a large white slogan: 'Defend Great Nanjing!' ''Swear to live and die with the capital!'' Each word is two people tall.

The houses near the gates were burned down, and there were broken walls everywhere, and piles of corpses piled up on both sides of the road. There were fighters, wounded soldiers. There are also Boy Scouts.

Wang Mingming saw young men in school uniforms and volunteers with signs in the corpses. She suddenly remembered the group of volunteers she had seen a few days earlier.

They marched through the streets in a neat pace. The young female captain was very powerful and extremely chic and walked in front of the team. How are they. Retreated.

A volunteer wearing a white red cross armband with a bandage in his hand, he was wearing a blue overalls, and his face blackened by the fire was very serene.

A female volunteer was lying on the ground with an automatic gun facing forward, as if she was still fighting, desperately shooting at the army.

The north wind caressed her hair bitterly, her soft hair gently scattered on her beautiful face.

Lao Liang said: "Last night's war was here, and a barricade battle was extremely fierce. They were defending the people behind them and stopping the army from attacking north.

"They all died, and they were the victors. The retreat order did not shake their determination to hold the city. They used their blood and lives to compose an epic of coexistence and death with Nanjing. ”

Wang Mingming raised his hand to salute them, great volunteers, you will always be the pride of Nanjing people. The people of Nanjing will not forget you.

The car was getting closer and closer to the city gate, and the north wind came in through the city gate, and the wind blew under the gray city wall and looked particularly dry and cold. Wang Mingming wiped his tears.

In front of them, stiff corpses piled up higher than the car, and not far away there were more than a dozen large carts, all of which had been opened and turned over.

Wang Mingming saw the corpses of old people, women and children on and off the car. A girl's little face, distorted by pain, her heart tugging.

Lao Liang said: "The barricades were broken by the Japanese army, and the people who did not have time to withdraw from the city were slaughtered. Most of those killed were refugees. They didn't escape the devils.

"The army rushed over, machine guns, rifles fired at the unarmed civilians, and sabers and bayonets slashed at children and old people. The iron hooves of the army trampled on corpses and blood.

"One by one, people fell. Behind a row of fallen people with sticks, poles and farm tools, men lined up and suddenly killed the devils.

Behind them were young lads and girls' daughters-in-law, who were holding the same things and shouting and rushing towards the devils. In an instant, they mingled with the devils.

"For the sake of the big car gathered behind them, for the sake of the children, the elderly and pregnant women in the car, they are determined to fight with the devil.

"The army is killing with strength, and I didn't expect to meet desperate people when I died. They hadn't figured out what was going on, and seven or eight had already fallen.

The army was also afraid of his life, so he hurriedly retreated. The panicked devils used machine guns to shoot desperately at the people who rushed up. The people who rushed up fell one after another.

The army marched forward again with arrogant steps, shooting at those who were wounded and not yet dead. The wounded woman and her daughter-in-law were dragged out.

They surrounded the cart. The people in the car helped each other to stand up, and when the last moment came, the old man stood in front of the others, he took off his hat and waited for the bullets fired by the army.

"The army jumped on the cart and slashed the old man with a knife and stabbed the child in the woman's arms. Pick open the belly of a pregnant woman. Family after family extinguished here. ”

Wang Ming didn't dare to look at the corpses anymore. It's horrible. She seemed to hear it in the midst of a brutal slaughter. The children were crying loudly because they were afraid, and the women were crying out for help because they were struggling.

The guns of the devils drowned out all the cries and shouts and scolding. Eventually, all voices died down

Lao Liang said: "The blood-stained Yue soldiers were exhausted, and they bent over with guns or knives and panted, constantly wiping the blood sprayed on their faces by the dead.

They looked at the corpses all over the ground and smelled the pungent smell of blood. This is the greatest work they dedicated to the emperor. ”

Wang Mingming couldn't help but be creepy. She had goosebumps all over her body, and her hairs stood on end. She trembled and said, "It's so miserable." ”

Lao Liang saw that Wang Mingming was tightly grasping the neckline of his clothes with one hand and the seat of the car with the other. "This is the beginning, and the Holocaust does not know when it will end," he said. ”

The car traveled along the road by the city wall among the corpses, and the road was empty without a sound, no one, not even the devil.

Wang Mingming looked ahead, and she saw the bright bayonets in the cave of the city gate. This is the final level, and she's safe when she's out of the gates. Can you get out of this gate?

She looked at Lao Liang, who was driving the car attentively. It seems to say don't worry, no one will stop you.

The soldiers set up a guard at the gate of the city, and they saw a car coming and stretched out their hands to signal to stop. The soldier looked into the car, took the document that Lao Liang took the initiative to hand him, and opened it.

When he returned the documents to Lao Liang, he said a few words to Lao Liang and beckoned him to let him go.

The car went out of the Peace Gate, and the bridge over the moat was still there.

Lao Liang said: "I heard that the Chinese [***] team guarding the city gate resisted desperately and all of them died. They didn't have time to blow up the bridge, or we wouldn't have been able to cross the river.

"Just now, the soldier at the gate of the city asked us where we were going, and I said that there was a mission. He said that there was no army ahead, so be careful.

"I said thank you for the reminder, I'll pay attention.

"He also said that this road had just been cleared by his own soldiers, and that the squadron and refugees who had escaped from the city were concentrated there, and that clearing the road was to prepare to attack there."

The car crossed the railway into a small street, where the shops and houses were closed and there was no one on the road. The road is so quiet that it makes people's hearts hairy.

Lao Liang said: "This is a three-way intersection, and our car keeps moving forward or turning right. ”

Wang Mingming said lightly: "Drive forward." Continue north. Thank you for letting me escape from Nanjing alive. Thank you Bodhisattva for calling you to help me. ”

Lao Liang sent Wang Mingming over for a while, stopped the car and said: "I can only send you here, that side has not been occupied by the local soldiers, and there is no fortification of the [***] team, so there will be no problem with the safety of your road."

"It is estimated that this soldier will come over in the next two days. You should go home early. Remember, safety comes first. Protect yourself. ”

Wang Mingming said, "Thank you." Without you, I would not have been able to get out of Nanjing City today. I'm afraid that the corpses have already been violent on the streets. ”

Lao Liang said: "No thanks. If I'm not mistaken, you're a real Chinese fighter. You have fought and killed invaders. It's good. ”

Wang Mingming asked him, "On what basis do you conclude this?" ”

Lao Liang said: "I believe in my judgment. You know I'm myself, and you'd rather risk your life than get into my car. It shows that you love and hate clearly, and you regard death as home.

"During the meal, you saw the flame of revenge burning in the eyes of the soldiers, and if you have a weapon, even if there is only one grenade, you will definitely kill it. I can't stop it. ”

Wang Mingming sighed and said, "I am not a soldier, but an ordinary person. I did fight. I fought devils on the battlefield with [***] soldiers.

"It's a pity that the battle was not over, and the army guarding Nanjing suddenly retreated, and I was alone...... The Battle of Nanjing was defeated, and I had no choice but to go home. ”

Wang Mingming suddenly remembered Pingxingguan, why could the battle of Pingxingguan win the battle to defend Nanjing, but he couldn't win.

Wang Mingming asked him: "Do you know Pingxingguan, there was a big victory there." That was the Eighth Route Army's fight in September this year, [***] team.

"They ambushed the rearguard and baggage of the army on the high ground on the right side of Pingxingguan, annihilated more than 1,000 enemies and destroyed more than 100 cars.

"The reinforcements of the army were blocked by the ambush and retreated. The air force of the Japanese army saw that the two armies were in close contact on the battlefield and could not support each other, so they flew back.

"The army was defeated."