Although the national army has a bad reputation among the people, under the general situation of unanimous external conditions, the people still showed their enthusiasm and generosity beyond our expectations.

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"My fellow villager, fellow villager... open the door!"

"My fellow, open the door!"

...

In the darkness, even I didn't know which direction and which street I was taken.

This is a bit ironic because the whole plan seems to be my conceived, but now I am confused and don’t know where I am. I only know that the team sneaked silently on the street for more than ten minutes, and then spread out in rows and gently knocked on the people’s doors...

Why knock on the doors of the people? The houses in this area are connected to each other. If we want to ambush on both sides of the street, we will only enter the houses of the people!

At first I thought the people would have resistance to us. After all, it was their own house. How could the whole family lent the rain to you as a battlefield? If there was a loan or a lent, it wouldn't be a battle, but when the battle started, there were guns, cannons and grenades. Is there any more to this house? Not to mention this house, I'm afraid that the safety of the people's own lives would not be guaranteed!

In fact, this is true. The people generally have some concerns about us knocking on their doors in the middle of the night. Isn’t this? We knocked on the door for a long time, but no one responded...

Because the troops were arranged in platoons, I, the platoon leader, had to gently knock on the door of a family with my scalp.

Like other people, no one responded, but the difference was that there were a few depressing crying vaguely from inside... The people were obviously frightened by our actions.

"Membersman, we are our own people!" Chen Dali couldn't help it anymore, and snatched it up and lowered his voice and shouted inward: "We are the troops of the National Army, not the Japanese!"

But it was okay if Chen Dali didn't say it. The crying sounded louder when he said this, and the soldiers looked at each other and didn't know what was going on.

"Each platoon follows the order!" Company Commander Xu took out his pocket watch and looked at it, saying anxiously: "If you don't open the door, just smash it in!"

But everyone knows that this is not a good idea. First, breaking the door and entering the door cannot get the support of the people. Second, the sound of smashing the door is likely to make the Japanese army discover that although it is in the dark. Time forces us to do this, because the Japanese army will soon come. If we have not ambushed yet, everyone knows what will happen...

Why are the people afraid of us? We are our own troops, aren’t we?

Thinking about it, I quickly understood that just like when we are guarding the defense line, the people will smash us with rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs. They have generally believed that the army left in Peiping is a traitor who surrendered to the Japanese army. At this moment, they might be trying to catch them and ask for credit from Japan for rewards!

Thinking of this, I whispered through the crack in the door: "My fellow villager, we are not traitors, we want to borrow your house to fight against Japan..."

As soon as I said this, it turned out to be effective. The crying in the room stopped quickly. Then a girl asked, "What did you say? Borrow our house to fight against Japan? Are you serious?"

"Yes!" I replied, "Little Japanese is about to call me. Can you..."

With a creaking sound, the door opened before I finished speaking. A young girl with messy hair appeared in front of us. She waved at us without even looking at it, saying, "Hurry! Come in..."

This change was a bit too big, and the soldiers and I couldn't help but be stunned... But because of time, I dare not be polite. With my order, the soldiers grabbed guns and carried bullets and entered one after another.

"Thank you!" I didn't forget to thank the girl when I entered the room.

"So it was you?" A smile suddenly appeared on the girl's face.

"You are..." I was a little confused.

"Did you forget?" The girl tied up her hair, then took out a hairpin from somewhere like a magic trick and put it on.

"Oh! It's you..." Only then did I remember the female college student who handed me tea and water at the city gate.

"Yes! What a coincidence!" the female student nodded and said, "I didn't expect it was you... why didn't you say it earlier? Or I'd opened the door long ago!"

I couldn't help but smile bitterly. She thought I was a god who could see through. She could see the person behind the door?

"Platform Commander Fang!" Company Commander Xu called out outside the door and gave me a wink.

I quickly understood what he meant, turned around and said to the female student, "Classmate, little Japanese is coming. Look at this military emergency, can you..."

"No problem!" The female student was also a smart person. She quickly understood what I meant, nodded and rushed out to shout for us in the rain.

"Master Wang, please open the door! It was our army who came to fight the Japanese!"

"Aunt Zhang, don't be afraid! Our army wants to borrow a house to fight the Japanese, please open the door!"

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Soon the door opened one after another, and the soldiers who were originally stranded on the street disappeared into the darkness one after another.

Although the national army has a bad reputation among the people, under the general situation of unanimous external conditions, the people still showed their enthusiasm and generosity beyond our expectations.

"Hey! Our platoon leader is really good!" Chen Dali looked at me with a bad smile in his eyes.

"That's not?" The monkey also joked: "If I had known, I would have asked the platoon leader to come out and use the handsome man's plan..."

"Go and go... what are you talking about?!" I glared at the monkey fiercely, scaring him to swallow all the words behind him.

But this seemed too late, and the soldiers all looked at me with strange looks.

"What are you looking at?" I blushed and ordered: "Everyone is ready for me to fight, when will they still be joking!"

"Yes!" The soldiers did not dare to neglect, grabbed their guns and spread them upstairs and downstairs, but there were only a few laughs of laughter from them.

Soon a handful of guns were installed in the windows, door cracks, and even on the roof. The soldiers carrying the ammunition were busy running around to distribute the ammunition to the soldiers.

When I walked up the floor, I found that the windows and roofs were already full of soldiers who were ready for combat with live ammunition, and there was no place for me to stand. So I had to pull out the military sting and dig a hole the size of a bowl on the wooden wall leaning towards the street, and then stretched out the rifle...

"Sir!" At this time, the female student ran behind me panting, with two people, one old and one young, following behind me.

Just when I was confused, the female student introduced to me: "This is my father, this is my brother... Sir, please give the order! What are we going to do?"

"Help?" I refused without thinking: "You lend us the house to us for use, even if you have helped a lot. Now the most important thing is to find a place to hide it! In addition... After we have driven away Japan, you'd better pack up your things and live with your relatives..."

There is a reason for me to say this. Not to mention whether the house can be kept after this battle, even if it can be kept... This house was a place that was once used to block the Japanese, so the owner could not escape the charge of "collusion with the enemy". Of course, the Japanese's cruelty would not let them go.

"Sir!" the female student replied indifferently: "What is a room? My father said that it doesn't matter if you need it!"

"Yes, sir!" The old man wearing a green cloth gown with a crutch nodded and said, "We are all going to be slaves of the country to destroy the country. What's the use of leaving this dilapidated house? As long as you can drive the Japanese out, let alone this room, it's okay to put my old bones in it!"

Upon hearing this, the soldiers and I couldn't help but remain silent, because we all knew very well in our hearts that the strategic purpose of our battle was not to recover Peiping but to break through... In other words, the people of Peking were destined to be slaves of the country...

"Plane leader!" The old squad leader looked at me and signaled me not to tell the truth.

I know what the old squad leader meant. It is obvious that we need the support and cooperation of the people of Peking now, which will provide us with many conveniences and even conditions for victory. If I tell the truth... it is very likely that the enthusiasm of the people will be reduced!

But I don’t want to continue hiding it from them like this, because I can’t pass this level of my own. I can’t watch the people help us so enthusiastically, but we hide something from the people, and it can even be said to be a deception and use!

"Old sir!" I stood up and put on my military uniform, and plucked up the courage to say, "We... aren't we going to beat the little Japanese out of Peking, we are going to break through!"

"Breakthrough?" The old man couldn't help but be stunned, and then he quickly understood what I meant, and his whole body softened like a deflated ball. The female student and I hurriedly snatched up and supported him left and right...

But unexpectedly, the old man shook my hand hard and pointed it at me with a trembling hand and said unhurriedly: "Okay! OK! Breakthrough... What are you talking about breaking through? Rather than breaking through, it is more appropriate to escape! You just have the heart to leave us alone? You just have the heart to watch the great rivers and mountains and let the Japanese trampled on it? You just have the heart to watch your fellow villagers die tragically under the Japanese butcher's butcher's knife? You... I'll kill you useless things!"

As he said that, he raised his crutch and called me, but the female student stopped me in time.

"Dad, let's go down. Don't get angry. The sir has their reasons..."

Although the female student said this, the look when she looked back at me when she left revealed infinite disappointment, which made my heart tremble, and an inexplicable self-blame quickly filled my entire head.

After the old and young people left, the room was silent, and no one knew what to say.

After a long time, Chen Dali cursed: "Damn it! I really can't think about it anymore. Stay in Peking and fight with the little Japanese!"

"No!" I shook my head: "We are leaving! And we are going to leave beautifully!"

The reason is very simple, keep useful bodies for future plans. Only in this way can the sufferings suffered by the people be as much as possible...

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Chapter completed!