A Fictional Version of the Republic of China (7)

While Master Xue Wu was digging the grave, Ji Changze was already listening to the spy's report with excitement.

The spies were all children.

They were the first group of subordinates to wear "special clothes". Each of them was small and flexible and ran fast. They were very proficient in hiding skills, such as the hiding skills that scared the five girls before. They could be called hiding masters.

Ji Changze assigned them to the highest mountain nearby, and their daily routine was to observe the surrounding situation.

Even if the surroundings were peaceful and peaceful, he never forgot that his country was now in a state of war, so he naturally had to send out a few more pairs of eyes to watch for him.

The spies placed in Liu Yanshan came back this time.

His face was very ugly, but he was not scared, but he was too angry.

"I saw the foreign soldiers heading towards Xiaohong Village from afar. I was wondering why these foreign soldiers came to our side, and then I heard the sound of the wooden cannon. I felt something was wrong, so I went over carefully to see what was going on. I just saw an old lady running out of the village with a child in her arms, and then she was stabbed to death by the foreigners who chased her."

The excitement on Ji Changze's face sank.

He asked, "Where is the child?"

The spy lowered his head and said uncomfortably, "I'm sorry, boss, those people had wooden cannons in their hands, I didn't dare to go over, and the child... couldn't be saved..."

He looked like he was about to cry, lowered his head and clenched his fists tightly, and his whole body was shaking.

"You didn't kill the person, it's not your turn to say sorry to me."

Ji Changze had a cold face and took out the wooden cannon from his bag for the first time.

He loaded the gun and said to his subordinates, "Let's go."

"After so many days, let's see how you have practiced."

The subordinates all nodded seriously, took their weapons, and quietly followed Ji Changze out of the secret passage.

This night was a good night from the weather point of view. The moon was bright, there were many stars, and there was a freshness in the air.

The subordinates didn't know what day it was, and they didn't know what time it was.

But the memory of this night was still fresh in their minds decades later, when they were old and had many children and grandchildren.

Everyone stood on a high place, looking at the stars in the distance.

The nearby villages were very poor, and they were reluctant to light kerosene lamps at night. Everyone worked in the dark.

And now, looking from the mountain, at least four villages were lit.

This means that at least four villages were occupied by those foreigners.

They didn't know whether their compatriots were safe, alive or dead.

But according to what the spies said, they didn't let the children come to see, and I'm afraid it's not good.

Ji Changze clenched the wooden can and forced himself to calm down. He took a deep breath and chose a village with the least lights.

Few lights meant that there were either few foreigners in this village, or some of them were asleep, and they had to pick the soft persimmons.

The group went down the mountain quietly and arrived at the entrance of the village in the dark.

Before entering, they smelled blood.

It was not the smell of killing chickens and rabbits, nor the smell of killing pigs every year when the New Year was approaching, but an overwhelming smell that seemed to drown people and make them want to vomit.

Ji Changze silently took out a face towel and put it on his face, and the others followed suit.

After making sure that these foreigners had not arranged anyone to guard the night, he whispered

"Follow the previous drill, they have a wooden warehouse in their hands, you must be careful, if you are discovered, your life is important."

He waved his hand, and in the dark, the small children rushed in quickly like weasels and hid in every corner.

They knew very well that they could not beat the one with the wooden warehouse, so they did not plan to confront him head-on. They just took various cloths for hiding and walked around the houses in the village without making any sound, observing the movements inside.

They had been trained before how to explore in the dark by moonlight, and the small subordinates were familiar with the route and it went smoothly because of the previous battle with bandits "to protect their families".

Ji Changze also sneaked into the village quietly, but he did not observe, but followed the movement and found the houses where the noises were coming from.

What else could a group of soldiers who had just bloodbathed the village do in the middle of the night without sleeping?

There were two or three soldiers in the first house, and a few girls who were crying and shouting.

Ji Changze hid under the window, listening to the movement inside, and took out a dagger from his bag. He found it in the "treasure house" of the bandits, and it was very sharp. In addition, he carried a whetstone with him during this period, and sharpened it whenever he found an opportunity. Now it is very sharp.

Then he took out the cloth strip, carefully wrapped it around his palm, and tied a knot.

After tying it, he took out a piece of cloth for wiping the slingshot, and then he held the cloth in his left hand and the dagger in his right hand, quietly hiding in the dark.

A soldier inside said a few words, opened the door and walked out.

He still had an expression of wanting more, while holding his belt, he walked towards Ji Changze.

Ji Changze stood quietly in the dark with an expressionless face, took out a silver dollar from his arms, and quietly threw it in front of him where it could be illuminated by the light. When it was reflected, the silver dollar shone brightly.

It was so bright that the soldier really noticed it, and a look of joy appeared on his face. He quickly walked over and squatted down to pick it up.

Just as he squatted down, a black shadow flashed before his eyes, and then his throat hurt. He opened his mouth to shout, but was covered by a piece of cloth. Then, something scratched his throat horizontally.

The cloth covering his mouth was removed.

Could there be any yellow pigs that were not extinct?

The soldier opened his mouth to shout to his companions, but found that he could not make any sound.

After making sure that the other party's vocal cords were cut and could not make any sound, Ji Changze held the other party down and stabbed him accurately in the heart. With a cold face, accompanied by the crying of the girl in his ears, he stabbed the soldier's heart into a hornet's nest.

After the other party had no reaction, Ji Changze stabbed a few more times, and then took off the wooden warehouse on the soldier's back and put it on himself.

This room was obviously used for these soldiers to "vent". They would definitely not stay here and open the door and walk out after "having fun".

One, two, three.

Ji Changze killed them one by one in the same way.

Someone had just died, so they could definitely smell the blood, but no one noticed anything wrong.

After all, the village had just been massacred, so who would have known that the bloody smell in the air would come from their own people?

After the last one fell, he covered several people with the "sward" he was carrying, glanced at the girls in the house with numb faces, and turned to leave.

Ji Changze went around the entire village and found a total of five houses for "letting people vent". He didn't say a word, and after killing the last soldier, he climbed onto the roof and imitated the night bird's call.

After a while, the subordinates gathered at the entrance of the village.

Everyone looked very ugly.

All the men and children in the village died, leaving only a few beautiful young girls.

This was something they had never experienced before.

Since being brought to Ji Changze's side, everyone has been smooth sailing. Although Ji Changze taught them to strengthen the country and explained the situation outside clearly, they only had a general concept.

Later, when they went to fight the bandits, they didn't see any bloody scenes because the bandits didn't rob that day. Even the girls trapped in the mountains didn't see much details.

And now, they saw it with their own eyes.

It seems that these soldiers only plan to stay for one night, so naturally no one will pick up the bodies of the villagers, and they will just throw them on the spot or in the open space outside.

Occasionally, the children will find a few familiar faces among them.

There is a young wife who married out from their village.

There is also an old lady whose daughter married to their village. Every time she goes to the city, she will stop by their village and call her daughter to go with her.

When the village chief of their village wants to discuss something with the surrounding villages, this village chief will bring a bench to their village, talk to their village chief for a long time, and then the two will leave together.

The young wife was a very shy person. She was too embarrassed to say hello to the children even when she saw them on the road. The old lady was very talkative and always muttered something in her mouth. The children didn't like her very much. The village chief might have been the village chief for a long time. He looked different from other people and had a bit of majesty. The children would hide from him from a distance when they met him.

But whether they liked him or not, these people were dead.

From a living person who could talk and walk, he became a hard body covered in blood lying on the ground or on other people.

There were also many children.

Big and small, some looked about the same age as them, and some were even younger than them.

They were killed together in the same house.

The trained children could easily see that the villagers saw that the situation was not right at that time, and hid all the children in the broken house in an emergency.

There were also several adults who died outside, all of them lying on the ground and crawling towards the house.

The children didn't dare to think too much.

Otherwise they would not be able to help thinking.

Maybe they wanted to crawl into the house to protect the children at the last moment before they died.

All the children were silent and clenched their weapons.

They were still young and naughty.

But no one could not think of something in their heart after witnessing the killing of their compatriots.

Ji Changze saw their depression and sadness, and said nothing, but took them quietly to the location of the body.

A group of people disappeared in the darkness and picked up the wooden warehouses of the soldiers killed by Ji Changze.

The wooden warehouses were not enough, and some children did not take them, including Ji Changze.

They quietly entered the darker darkness again and sneaked into each house.

These soldiers slaughtered the entire village, so they could naturally sleep without any vigilance, and then die in their sleep with a painful face.

This time, Ji Changze did not let the children disperse as before, but controlled everyone to enter three or two houses together. He stood in the middle and listened to the movement, making sure that if there was anything wrong, he would quickly go forward and kill the other party.

Fortunately, it went smoothly.

Those people probably never dreamed that the Chinese people who had been bullied by others would actually have the courage to come to their door. They wanted to sleep comfortably in bed, so they died in bed.

One night, Ji Changze led his men to kill those who killed their compatriots one by one quietly without making any sound.

In the early morning, a surviving rooster that was not eaten by the soldiers began to crow. The smell of blood in the air became heavier, and a soldier yawned.

He thought about the beautiful girls they left behind yesterday, and a smile of expectation appeared on his face. He planned to have fun in the morning.

After getting up, he pushed the door open and went out. After sneezing because of the blood in the air, he walked towards the room where the Chinese girls were imprisoned in his memory.

But from a distance, he suddenly saw several corpses in military uniforms lying on the ground.

The soldier was confused at first, and then suddenly alert. He raised his gun and looked around cautiously. He also bent down, observing the left and right, and walked forward carefully.

-- Bang!

The sound of the wooden box sounded, and he felt a sharp pain in his leg and knelt on the ground uncontrollably.

"Ah!"

The soldier screamed, and the wooden box fell out of his hand and fell to the ground.

He wanted to pick it up.

-- Bang! Bang!

After two consecutive gunshots, both of his palms were pierced by bullets, and the screams became even louder.

After making sure that the opponent had no killing power, Ji Changze put away the wooden warehouse and came down from the tree.

Other children followed him down one after another. Some children gritted their teeth and looked at the soldier. With red eyes, they wanted to go up and finish him off, but he stopped them.

"Leave this to those sisters."

Ji Changze still had some considerations. The people in the village had died in less than a day and a night, but the girls who were locked up had lost their human appearance. Although they were still conscious, their expressions were worse than those girls captured by bandits.

Bandits captured girls and locked them up for long-term "use", but these soldiers didn't care whether it was long-term or not. Ji Changze had heard from Master Xue Wu that most of the soldiers had to hurry on their way, and they might just kill people by chance. After playing with the girls, it was normal to kill them one by one.

Master Xue Wu told Ji Changze these just to inform the children of the brutality of these invaders, so that he would not underestimate the enemy.

But Ji Changze didn't expect that he could actually witness this with his own eyes.

He took a deep breath and calmed down a little.

Ji Changze was the only one who dealt with the soldiers who entered and exited the rooms where the girls were locked up last night. He was afraid that the girls would be frightened and make noises, so he always did it quietly.

They had been squatting here for a long time, and after making sure that there were no fish that slipped through the net, Ji Changze led people to those rooms to release the people.

When the door was pushed open, the girls tied up with ropes in the room curled up and tried to hide themselves, but because of the ropes, it was useless to do so, and they could only look at the door with fear on their faces.

It was not those terrible soldiers who came in, but some children.

The girls were all stunned, staring at these children blankly.

Their tears had long dried up, and they could not cry any more at this moment. Their voices had long been hoarse. They were in a trance and did not notice the expressions on the faces of these children or the weapons on their bodies. After a few seconds of silence, they suddenly reacted and cried to them in a hoarse voice.

"Go!!! Go!!! Run!! Run!! Don't stay here!!! Go!!!"

"Hide quickly, listen, there are bad guys here, go!!!"

They were tortured to the point that they could not tell the current situation.

In front of them, the villagers were chased and beaten like hunting prey, and in the next moment, all the children in the village were urgently hugged and fled for their lives.

There were also the loud laughter of those foreigners around, as if it was fun to watch people trying to escape in order to survive.

The sound of wooden boxes rang out.

One, two, three.

The villagers who had lived together day and night fell down one by one, and they were dragged into the house with terrible laughter and wooden boxes.

Then, it was a long torture that was worse than life and death.

Now, they couldn't even see the surroundings clearly, and could only mutter

"Go, run, don't stay here..."

Many of the children's eyes immediately turned red.

Ji Changze didn't cry. He wanted to kill the invaders one by one, but his hands were very steady. He took the dagger and cut the ropes on the girls one by one.

The next moment after they were untied, several girls who were still barely rational stood up in a trance, picked up Ji Changze and ran out, still muttering something like hurrying up.

Pushing the door open, she saw the soldier who had his legs broken and his palms injured, and was forced to kneel on the ground by several children.

"Ah..."

The moment she saw the military uniform, she collapsed to the ground.

She opened her mouth to shout, but couldn't make a sound for a long time.

If Ji Changze hadn't been close, he wouldn't have heard the short, subtle sound as if his throat was being strangled.

The girl who held her was shaking violently, and she hid him behind her with shaking hands, crying short and hoarsely.

She couldn't even scream in fear.

Her mind was blank, but it seemed to be filled with many things.

She wanted to ask, why?

Why do you treat them like this?

They just live quietly like usual.

The sky is blue, and the clouds are white.

Everyone works in the fields, and when they talk about funny things, they will laugh together. Children run in the fields, bringing water and food to their parents. She waits for the food to be ready while sewing the soles of shoes.

There were the laughter of children running by outside, and the second son of the fourth uncle's family ran over to her and said to her, "Third sister, my father told you to come to my house for dinner at noon."

Everything is so peaceful and beautiful.

Then, there was a wooden warehouse sound.

Then, bodies fell one after another.

Their eyes were wide open, as if they were looking at the sky and asking why?

Did we do something wrong?

Why kill us?

"why why why……"

Ji Changze was protected by her behind him. Hearing her rough voice repeating these words, his body was shaking violently.

She was so scared.

She doesn't understand.

They did nothing wrong, her parents, siblings, brother, sister-in-law, her niece who just learned to walk, and her infant nephew.

Why kill them.

Why should this be so.

"Why...we, we did something wrong, let's change it, we, let's change it..."

A child's hand suddenly fell on her shoulder.

"You did nothing wrong."

The girl's body trembled suddenly, and she turned around tremblingly to look at the child standing behind her.

There was no expression on his face, but his eyes were like those of an adult, with a gentleness and comfort.

He patted her shoulder gently and said, "It's the fault of these invaders."

"No matter how hard we try to please them, hoping that they will find their conscience and let us go, they will not let us go. The only way to prevent them from harming us is to kill them and drive them away."

"Kill them... drive them away...?"

The girl repeated this sentence blankly, her eyes full of confusion.

"Yes, kill them and drive them away. We can't drive them away except by using force."

"Sister, don't be afraid. Look, he has no weapons now. We have killed the others, so he can't hurt you."

Ji Changze's voice was low, and he slowly held the girl's hand, pulled her to stand, and guided her slowly to the front of the soldier.

"Don't be afraid, they can't hurt you anymore."

The girl stared blankly at the soldier in front of her who looked at her with hatred and fear.

Huge anger suddenly emerged in her heart.

"you……"

Opening his mouth, the tortured young girl with a haggard face looked at the other person, her eyes slowly filled with hatred, "Why do you hate me?"

"You killed my whole family!!"

"Die! Go die die die!!!!!"

Her body, which had always been very weak, seemed to suddenly burst out with powerful strength, and she rushed forward to punch and kick the soldiers.

She bites with her teeth, strangles the other person's neck with her hands, and tries her best to use all her available parts as weapons.

Then, the girls were brought out one by one.

They joined in.

The children stood aside and watched them vent.

Finally, Ji Changze held the wooden warehouse and pressed it against the soldier's forehead.

--boom.

There was a wooden sound, as if it was a signal, and the girls all fell to the ground.

They gasped for air, their tears long gone, but the huge sorrow in their hearts still made them breathless.

Family, friends, elders who watched them grow up.

All gone.

Nothing is left.

Ji Changze didn't know how to comfort them.

The best way he could think of to comfort them was to leave their abuser to vent their anger, but now it seemed that this method was not very effective for the girls who had everything ruined overnight.

"Boss! Boss!!"

Several subordinates in charge of the search quickly ran over. The one in the middle was holding something carefully, with a look of confusion on his face.

Ji Changze's sharp eyes were stunned when he saw what they were holding, "Is this?"

The child, who was only nine years old this year, was holding a baby that looked only a few months old. He also looked stiff and shocked, and answered stupidly.

"We found her in the weeds behind a house."

There were two adults in the room who had been lying dead for a long time. Judging from the scene and the violently opened door, it seemed that the group of foreigners were already outside the door. They had no time to hide the children in the broken house, so Open the window and throw the child into the weeds.

The child holding the child had red eyes, and told Ji Changze what he had discovered, "That window... adults can also run out, but they didn't run away. We guessed that they might have been seen by foreigners as two people entering the house, and they were afraid of themselves." If you run away and are chased by foreigners, you won’t be able to save your child.”

Therefore, even though a possible way out was right in front of them, the two of them could only hold back their fear and stay in the house, and finally both fell down.

When they died, they even deliberately turned their backs to the window. They did not dare to look at the position of their infant children before they died, for fear of attracting the attention of foreigners.

In fact, they may know that they cannot save their children by doing this.

Even if he escaped the foreigners, he was only a few months old baby. How could he survive alone outside?

But what if?

What if you can survive?

Their sacrifice was not in vain. The child lay quietly in the weeds for many days. Although her face was pale and her eyes were tightly closed, she was alive.

A few months old baby managed to escape so many foreigners.

Ji Changze carefully took the child from his subordinate, held her skillfully and looked at her face.

Touching her hot forehead, he said, "She has a fever. Take her back to see the doctor quickly."

The young girl who was holding Ji Changze before running away stared blankly at the swaddling baby. Suddenly, she quickly stepped forward and looked at the baby who was sleeping quietly. She thought she had no more tears, but her tears still fell down.

She opened her mouth and said excitedly in her hoarse voice, "This is my uncle's baby. This is my cousin. She, she is just two months old."

"Let me hug her, let me hug her, please let me hug her, I, I am her sister, let me hug her, okay?"

Even the other numb-faced girls behind him had a little more hope in their eyes.

The arrival of a little life is always full of anticipation.

Ji Changze handed the child to the young girl and watched as she took the child slowly and stiffly as if she were handling some rare treasure.

Looking at the baby in her arms.

Suddenly, she thought of Uncle Yao.

Yao Shu was weak and had studied, but only for a few years. He was always weak and sick, and he always went to the city to join the army, but he was rejected every time because of his weak body.

Uncle Yao never gave up and went to the city whenever he found an opportunity.

Everyone in the village knew that Uncle Yao wanted to join the army. They were afraid that if he really entered the army camp and died outside, no one would dare to marry him.

Uncle Yao couldn't find a wife. Once he went to the city and brought back a mute beggar. He said that she would be his wife from now on. The mute beggar's family was killed by a certain country. She also hated those invaders and supported Uncle Yao very much. Join the army.

Her parents didn't understand Yao Shu very much and tried to persuade him that he already had a wife, so why were he still thinking about joining the army all day long? What if he died on the battlefield? You should also think about your family.

She was there at that time. She remembered that Uncle Yao smiled. She forgot what his expression was when he smiled. She only remembered that Uncle Yao, who had always been thin and pale, had dark eyes and said:

"I want to join the army because I think about my family. Brother, if our country is really gone, no one in our family can be saved."

"When the country is here, the family can be here."

But now, my home is really gone.

At this moment, after losing her family, this Yao Shu child, the only one with whom she was related by blood, became everything to her.

With trembling hands, she wanted to touch the little hand of the baby in her arms. When she was about to touch it, she suddenly stopped. She looked at her blood-covered hand, then shrank back and took it back. She only cherished and carefully used her own hand. face, and carefully touched the child's cold little face.

Feel the child's weak breathing.

In an instant, tears fell like rain.

yes.

Only when the country is there can the family be there.