Workers Li San, Zhao Si, and He Liu were drinking a pot of inferior rice wine in a tavern, while drunkenly recounting the embarrassment of each family, and this morning, the owner of the yarn factory where they went to work committed suicide by drinking a bomb, because the warehouse where cotton yarn was stored was blown up by a small Japanese plane, and tens of thousands of oceans worth of goods were reduced to ashes.

"Nan Nan has a birthday today, and I said that I would buy her a red head rope, but ......" Zhao Si said that his eyes were red, and the boss had committed suicide, leaving a widow and a pair of young children who were waiting to be fed, not to mention paying them wages, and they had to help raise money to make up enough for the orphans and widows to go back to their hometown in Ningbo.

"And my mother, how can I get medicine if I don't have money." He Liu's face was full of sorrow, his eighty-year-old mother had been sick in bed for more than half a month, because the family was poor, so he had been holding on, he had been holding on, he had received his salary today to catch medicine, but he never thought that the owner of the yarn factory had committed suicide, and he had no salary, what did he take to catch medicine?

Li San took a mouthful of thick phlegm and said scoldingly: "I heard that Little Japan has landed from Zhang Huabin, and the whole of Shanghai is about to be occupied by them, how will the days go forward?" ”

Zhao Si and He Liu's faces became more and more sad, although more than ten years have passed since the May Day tragedy, but their old workers are still fresh in their memories, Westerners are not a good thing, but Orientals are not good birds, really let the little Japan occupy Shanghai, can they still have a way to live as workers?

In the eyes of the Japanese, the Chinese are pigs and dogs!

Two students passed in front of the tavern carrying a banner, and they couldn't read what was written on the banner, but they could still understand the slogan shouted by the students.

"The whole country will fight a bloody battle, and we will go to the national disaster together!"

"I'd rather be a ghost who died in battle, and swear to die than a slave to the country!"

"!" Li San put the wine glass on the table, got up and shouted, "I can't live this day, so Lao Tzu will join the army and fight with Little Japan!" ”

"Count me in!"

"Damn, I'll go too!"

Zhao Si and He Liuyi raised their necks and drank the turbid wine in their glasses, and also stood up.

"Let's go!" Li San waved his hand, suddenly lifted the short coat on his body, and strode out of the tavern, Zhao Si and He Liu wiped their mouths and resolutely followed.

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Yin Laoqi tiptoed open the door, not wanting to alarm his wife, who sat up from the bed with her three-month-old daughter in her arms, and asked extremely nervously: "Brother Qi, what are you doing here?" ”

Since the early hours of yesterday morning, Zhang Huabin's side has been shooting guns and cannons, but the residents of Yinhang Town have been frightened, except for a very small number of bold merchants, each family has closed their doors and locked, the Yin family is also closed doors, the second door is locked, and the family of three hides in the backyard quietly waiting for the judgment of fate.

Yin Laoqi said: "I'll go outside and take a look." ”

"Seventh brother, don't go, don't go, please."

Tears fell when the wife heard it, although she married into the Yin family not long ago, but also knew that the Yin family and the Japanese have a blood feud, in fact, the vast majority of the residents of Yinhang Town have a common enmity with the Japanese, five years ago in the 128th Shanghai Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese army slaughtered half of Yinhang Town, after the war almost every family is doing funerals.

The Yin family even died of seven people, Yin Laoqi's grandmother, parents, sister, brother, sister-in-law and nephew who was less than a month old, all died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Japanese army.

In the early hours of yesterday morning, Zhang Huabin's gunfire was loud, and Yin Laoqi began to sharpen the firewood knife in the firewood room with red eyes.

His wife stopped Yin Laoqi, shook her head, sobbed and said, "Brother Seven, don't go, if you have three longs and two shorts, how can we orphans and widows live?" ”

Looking at his tearful wife, and then at his daughter, who was sleeping soundly in his wife's arms, Yin Laoqi's eyes also turned red, and he said miserably: "Xiuniang, little Japan is not a human, they are just a group of beasts, if they let them occupy the town again, it doesn't matter if I die, but you two still have to suffer the sin." ”

His wife cried, "Aren't there still soldiers? ”

Yin Laoqi shook his head and said miserably: "No matter how many soldiers there are, when they are gone, the Nineteenth Route Army back then was so capable of fighting, didn't Zuihou also withdraw from Shanghai?" As long as I still have a breath of air, I will never let those beasts step into the town, let alone let those beasts bully you two, embroidery girl, I'm leaving. ”

After that, Yin Laoqi resolutely walked out of the door.

Looking at Yin Laoqi's resolute back, his wife couldn't help but cry like rain, and the toddler in her arms woke up from her sleep, babbling hoarsely, but she didn't know that her parents were experiencing a tragic parting of life and death.

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Yin Shangwen was rummaging through the cabinets in the attic where he stacked miscellaneous items, and Yin's mother followed the voice and asked, "Shangwen, what are you looking for?" ”

Yin Shangwen prevaricated: "I didn't look for anything, I just flipped through it casually." ”

Yin's mother was born in a scholarly family, and she is usually very strict with her son's education, as soon as she saw her son's expression, she guessed eight or nine, and then sighed: "Shangwen, tell your mother honestly, are you looking for the gun that your father left?" ”

Yin Shangwen's eyes dodged for a moment, but he immediately became firm, looked at Yin's mother squarely and said, "Mother, I want to go to the battlefield, I want to fight the Japanese devils!" ”

Yin's mother said: "Isn't there a national army in the war? ”

"Mother, look at this." Yin Shangwen handed a declaration rolled into a cylinder to Yin's mother, and said excitedly, "The national army fought very hard, with heavy casualties, I can't let them become Zuihou's national army, let alone make them Zuihou's heroes, so I want to join the army, I want to go to the battlefield, mother, do you know where Dad's gun is?" ”

Yin's mother didn't look at the declaration, and asked in a trembling voice: "Son, have you really thought about it?" ”

"Mother, I've thought about it." Yin Shangwen nodded heavily, and resolutely responded, "There are eggs under the nest, if the country is dead, where will the home be placed?" ”

Yin's mother nodded silently, her son is willing to fight for the country and the nation, which makes her feel gratified, but at the same time she inevitably feels sad, she is just a son, if there is a good ...... Mother Yin finally walked to the most conspicuous box by the door, opened the lid again, and found a mirror box from the flip bag of the lid.

Yin Shangwen took the mirror box, walked to the door of the attic, suddenly turned around and knelt down towards Yin's mother, and knocked his head on the floor again: "Mother, since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have been difficult to achieve, please forgive the child for not being able to do filial piety in front of his knees." ”

Looking at her son who knelt down in front of her, Yin's mother burst into tears.

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After the outbreak of the Battle of Shanghai on 1 August, the indiscriminate bombing of Japanese warships and planes killed many innocent civilians by mistake.

So, the merchant put down the abacus in his hand, the student put down the books in his hand, the worker put down the tools in his hand, and the peasants also said goodbye to their wives and daughters, and then resolutely went to the street, and the flow of people gathered behind the banners became more and more huge, and when they followed the gunfire all the way to Dingjia Lane, more than 2,000 people had gathered!

It is said that it is very dangerous for so many people to gather together, even if they are civilians, they will also attract wanton and indiscriminate bombardment by Japanese naval guns and planes, but the Japanese warships and warplanes "turn a blind eye" to this, and the reason is actually very simple, because at the same time, a regiment of the Central Military Academy's teaching corps was marching in a group by the Huangpu River, and the Japanese naval guns and planes bombed the teaching corps, and they did not care about Yin Xing's side at all.

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Xu Shijiu, who had just arrived at Dingjia Lane, was also really taken aback.

Xu 19 met a 61st division of communication soldiers at the intersection of Yingao Road, and only after asking did he know that the 19th Brigade was stationed in Zhou's house, but when he arrived at Zhou's house, he found that the 19th Brigade had already driven to Dingjia Lane, so he hurried to Dingjia Lane, and as a result, he encountered such a huge procession here.

Hearing the slogan shouted by the parade clearly, Xu Shijiu immediately scolded, it is right to mobilize the masses to fight a bloody battle for the whole country, but it should not be such a bloody warfare method, it is no longer the era of cold weapons, so many people are lining up and shouting slogans to move forward, and Little Japan can break people out with just a few machine guns!

If it weren't for the fact that the teaching corps had attracted the firepower of the Japanese army, this side would have been bombed in a terrible way.

Xu Jiu chased the parade team as fast as he could, and when he saw Shu Tongwen waving his arms and shouting slogans at the front of the team, he became angry, this stunned blue!

"Shu Tongwen!" Xu Jiu yelled.

"Captain Xu?" Shu Tongwen was overjoyed, "Are you injured?" ”

Shu Tongwen really admires Xu Shijiu, this is an officer who can really lead troops and fight.

"What's going on? Huh?! Xu Jiu ignored it, stretched out his hand to point at the procession, and asked, "With so many people gathered together, do you know that if little Japan drops a bomb, it will have to die?" You are taking the lives of your compatriots to send them to the muzzle of little Japan, you are committing a crime, do you know? ”

Shu Tongwen was speechless, and the misery of the Nanyuan military camp flashed through his mind like lightning.

Some students protested: "Sir, we are not afraid of death, we are here to fight!" ”

Japanese fighters may fly over Yin Xing at any time, Japanese naval guns may also turn at any time, and the thousands of people gathered here may be slaughtered by the Japanese army at any time. ”

Shu Tongwen and more than a dozen students nodded again and again, their eyes shining.

Xu Nineteen looked at the chaotic procession, and said in a deep voice: "I will give you a task now, as long as you can complete the task, I will promise you to join the Nineteenth Brigade!" ”

"Captain, give the order!" Shu Tongwen was overjoyed.

Xu Nineteen said: "Okay, give you ten minutes to evacuate the crowd, and then select the strong and armed ones from them, form a militia reserve, and wait for my dispatch at any time, and the rest will be organized into a civilian team to assist the 19th Brigade in digging trenches and fortifications, and if possible, get some materials for building fortifications!" ”

"Please rest assured, captain, to complete the mission!" Shu Tongwen stood upright, and more than a dozen young students split up, shouting loudly with a horn rolled up in cardboard, and the procession that was slowly advancing forward with slogans slowly stopped, and the deafening noise gradually subsided.

The noise here became smaller, but there was a violent explosion in front of him, as soon as he heard the sound of the cannon, Xu Shijiu's face immediately changed, the Japanese army on the opposite side was at least a large group or above, and he couldn't take care of this side of the box at the moment, so he threw off his stride and rushed to Dingjia Lane, Dingjia Lane, and the recruit company was already in a desperate situation.