"Yes, it's a dead end, it's a dead end. At this time, we can only survive this catastrophe by living towards death. Someone was on my side, responding lightly and coldly.

I turned my head, and the man, the man who showed me the map in the Temple of Wind and Snow, was holding a bullet-mottled green military water can, looking calmly north.

"Is that you?" I asked, "meeting again." ”

"yes, it's not easy. He said.

"How do you solve the death situation in front of you? It is too easy for one person to die, but how do you do it in exchange for the life of the people in the city?" I asked.

In fact, the old Jinan people are all familiar with the shame of the city in 1937, hundreds of thousands of defenders did not make any resistance, they abandoned the city to the south, and handed over the city of Jinan to the enemy. This is the shame of the old government, and it is also the shame of all men in Jinan. You must know that when any big warlord was in charge of Jinan, the common people paid their taxes on time, honestly supported those officials and soldiers, and became the blood-making machine of the old government.

Why are the common people willing to do this? Isn't it just to find a shelter in troubled times? I hope that when the enemy invades, these people with guns who drink the blood of the common people can stand on the city tower and fight against the enemy?

The people of Pingtou don't want much, just a stable life. To this end, like donkeys, they push and pull carts without complaint, producing food for those with guns. As a result, they got nothing, and in exchange for a large group of panicked deserters.

Isn't this pain of faith more bloody than physical pain?

"Don't say, heaven. The man said.

"Don't let the people down. I only responded with one sentence.

I don't know exactly what he will do, but I do know that the history of the "fall of Jinan in 1937" is bloodily recorded.

History will be omitted, but it will not be misremembered.

"It is up to man to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen. He pointed the flask in his hand to the sky.

"That's an excuse, just like the hundreds of thousands of people in the Northeast Army retreated through the Shanhaiguan. He did not let go of a single shot against the enemy, but he refused to let go of his compatriots. I hope that this time you will do what you promised. I said.

At the moment, my heart is strangely heavy.

As a native of Jinan, everyone wants their hometown to have a glorious history, a splendid civilization, and a long heritage, rather than a humiliating, dirty, and tragic past that cannot be written. If Jinan had not fallen, then today's old city lanes and mansions would not have left the footprints of the colonists, and many ancient houses, ancient books, ancient plaques, and ancient scenic spots would have been able to stand innocently on the land of North China.

"You are too extreme, there is no 100% of the world's affairs. There are variables in everything, and variables are the basis of the Qimen Dunjia array. Especially in war, if there are no variables, then it will completely become a wrestling between the two sides in numbers, and what other strange soldiers are available? Young man, you are not standing here to complain or accuse others of what they have done. Tell me, why are you standing here?" he asked.

I stared at his weather-beaten but clear eyes, unable to answer for a moment.

"Everything in the world has its king. The throne and the crown are the common goals of the world, but in the end, who can be the king? Who can be invincible? Can you tell me?" he asked again.

I immediately replied: "The benevolent are invincible, and the virtuous are loaded." In the end, of course, the one who wins the hearts and minds of the people is the king. ”

The history of wars in all dynasties proves that the person who finally ascends the throne with his back to the north must be the one who has won the hearts of the people of the world, and has achieved hundreds of years of imperial achievements in the cheers of all the people.

"If you want to be king, you must endure loneliness and settle your heart. Can you? Where is your heart at this moment?" he looked at my chest.

I could feel that my heart was beating so fast that I couldn't calm down.

"Tranquility is far-reaching, indifferent is ambitious. He said, "Whoever is finally the king must be ambitious, not to 'be the king' as the goal, but to 'save the world, save the people, save the people' as their own responsibility, travel thousands of miles, this heart is still the same." ”

I suddenly understood something, because I put all the indignation and pathos on my lips, and everything I just thought and said was all superficial, and turned into a sharp-tongued "bickering" behavior, only attacking the other party and the old government in history verbally, and it seemed that I sympathized with the people, but in fact I had fallen into the ridiculous situation of "hard white theory".

"Okay, I was wrong. As soon as I thought about it, I immediately apologized.

"Look at your heart. He said, "If your heart is biased, the world in your eyes will be turned upside down, won't you?"

I raised my right hand and put it over my left chest.

At this point, my heartbeat became chaotic, neither wild and aggressive, nor calm and soft, but chaotic and indefinite.

"Keep your heart, keep your heart, and only then can you get a glimpse of the mysteries of the universe. He said again.

I quietly bit the tip of my tongue and slowly exerted my strength, allowing the pain from the tip of my tongue to spread throughout my body.

"Everything has a king. Today, only the 'King of Thaumaturgy' can save this lonely city in the snow. Are you?" he asked with a nonchalant smile.

"Am I ...... What does it matter? Now you're going to save this lonely city, aren't you?" I whispered bitterly.

"It has nothing to do with you, and why are you here for?" he asked.

"I-" I couldn't answer because it was a question that didn't need to be answered at all. I came here only because of the "mutation" in my thoughts, which can also be explained as the cross-border connection of brain waves.

In my judgment, I was able to see him because the mind had intruded inadvertently, a mere hallucination, not a physical entry.

"Everything is a false illusion. I said.

I looked up to the sky and watched the swirling snowflakes.

There is little snow in Jinan, and since I can remember, I have never seen such a big snow. Therefore, people who love snow will take the train north in winter to see the snow in the three eastern provinces.

I love snow, and if I saw such a big snow in Jinan, I would be ecstatic. However, now it is clear to me that everything is false and has nothing to do with reality.

"Everyone takes their eyes as the boundary, and the illusion in your eyes is not necessarily an illusion, and the truth in your eyes may not be the reality. It's all in the middle of this snow, and you always stubbornly think it's an illusion in your head, why is that?" he asked.

"Truth and falsehood cannot be changed. I replied.

"What is true and what is false?" he asked.

"I'm real, you're false. I'm true in the 21st century, and I'm here to see if the snow is fake. I said.

He frowned slightly, stretched out his hands, and watched the snowflakes fall all over his arms.

"You can't get rid of the siege of this lonely city, admit defeat. I said.

I have read history and know history well, so I know that when the whole country flees south, no one can hold the mountains and rivers on both sides of the Yellow River. This defeat was not a crime of war, but a result of the centralization of the old government. Therefore, it is the general trend, the environment, and the tide that the army is defeated like a mountain, and a person standing here is just a mantis arm blocking the car, and he is bound to be trampled like mud by the sun's hoof.

"I said, I can, anything is possible. He smiled faintly.

That smile made me feel sad in my heart, because as long as the person with this smile on his face has actually decided to fight a battle, he is about to die with the enemy.

"Well, according to what you said, after this battle, there are only two outcomes. I said.

"Which two?" he perked up, as if he saw hope.

I shook my head: "I'm sorry, but both outcomes are bad results, and there won't be any miracles." The first is that if you die, the enemy will drive straight in, and the second is that if you don't die, the enemy will drive straight in. Although there are two results, they have the same end, and the ending is that the enemy broke the city and trampled three thousand fathers and brothers under their feet. Believe me, you can't change this result, let's go, go to a brighter place, unite all the like-minded people who are willing to resist the enemy and protect the country, and wait until the time is ripe to fight again. ”

What I'm talking about is a universal truth.

During the war years, the same story was played out in every city-state. Those who were unwilling to be slaves of the country, when the city was broken, all fled to the Holy Land, and used the spark to rekindle ideals and hopes.

In my opinion, he should also go, not fight to the death.

"Thank you, I understand what you said. "But I can't go, I can't watch the city slaughter." For the sake of the people of the lonely city, I have to take a gamble. ”

"To gamble is to die, no surprises. Yalu River, Shanhaiguan, Great Wall, Beijing, Yellow River...... The Great Wall once blocked the Hu people from roaring south and herding horses, but it could not stop the enemy's armored vehicles. You should be able to see the situation clearly, and this general trend is not something that can be controlled by one person, but-"

I can't go on, the history of the Second World War is very complicated, the victories and defeats are full of mysteries, and no one can sort out the context of it, so it can only be attributed to the "Mandate of Heaven".

The enemy was brutal and the heavens wanted to punish them, so there were two atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

If we think about it another way, if the German atomic bomb had been shipped from Berlin one step earlier and arrived in the skies over New York and London by a large airship, the history of World War II would have been turned upside down in an instant.

Perhaps, the will of heaven is like this, evil is invincible, and there is a harmonious and prosperous world of great harmony in the world today.

"Don't say it, I have a knack for winning. He said.

I sighed three times and smiled bitterly unconsciously.

"You don't believe me?" he asked.

I couldn't bear to hit him again, and it was useless to say more, because his expression was so resolute that he seemed to be confident in the "winning technique".

"Surrendering without a fight is the highest state of war. Right now, I just have this kind of winning technique, but it's a heavenly opportunity, and I can't say it. He said, "But, you see—"

He shook the snowflakes off his arms, clenched his hands into fists, and reached out to me.

"What do you mean?" I wondered.

"My winning skills are in the palm of your hand, do you want to see them?" he asked.

I nodded, looking at the two clenched fists.

He slowly opened his hands, but those palms were empty, except for tiny droplets of water after the snowflakes had melted.

I looked at his palms for ten seconds, but in the end, I saw nothing.

"Nothing. I said.

"Yes, nothing, that's where the heavens come in. He said.

I don't want to say more, but the sound of gunfire in my ears seems to be getting more and more intense, and the enemy front is advancing to this side.

"Let's go, don't touch the stones with eggs, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood. I said, "Those who know the times are handsome, and those who don't know the times have no place to die." ”

From the bottom of my heart, I hope that he can live well, and when the flames of the Holy Land burn all over the country, he will bring back with the guerrilla fighters.

It is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge, and there is absolutely no need to sacrifice his good body in vain to this war here and now.

(Tianjin)