Chapter 65: Murderous Intent

  In the woodshed in the backyard, a small team of scout soldiers who were clearing up the battlefield and eliminating the remaining enemies found more than a dozen female corpses under piles of firewood stacked haphazardly. The bodies were naked, with terrified expressions on their faces, incomplete heads, and bloodstains everywhere... The horrific scene left the soldiers stunned and unable to hold back tears.

  Hearing this, Gao Quan personally led all the officials and soldiers to see the atrocities of the Japanese army! To tell them what they are facing is a bunch of beasts, to tell them that if they do not fight against the enemy to the end, their loved ones will encounter what kind of fate.

  When nearly ten thousand soldiers witnessed the atrocities of the Japanese army and gathered at the city gate, everyone couldn't help but shed tears, with eyes full of anger and murderous intent almost tearing apart the Japanese prisoners and corpses placed under the podium. The hands gripping the steel guns were white-knuckled, and many soldiers would have hacked these Japanese into pieces with their big knives if not for the restraint of the older squad leaders and commanders below.

  The remaining Japanese soldiers also involuntarily shrank their bodies, the killing intent of nearly 10,000 people in front of them made them terrified and leaned against the podium, they didn't know what these dense Chinese soldiers would do to themselves? Would they be stabbed into a beehive with those towering bayonets?

  Actually, Gaoquan is not much better than them. Although there were records of the Japanese army's massacre in his long-term education, when he really faced everything with his own eyes, he truly felt that he was so incompetent and couldn't eliminate these little Japanese earlier, eliminating these two-legged beasts that still exist in the world! The blood-red eyes suddenly burst out with an unprecedented killing intent, and the only words left in his shocked and empty brain were "Kill Little Japan"!

  If it weren't for the political commissar who saw that Gao Quan's expression was very wrong, with a face full of murderous intent, and followed him closely, Gao Quan would have already cut those little devils into pieces! In order to better educate the people, he endured, killing the Japanese didn't matter if it was late by several hours, there were still eight years left! Good fight! So much blood debt needs to be repaid with blood! Needs to be repaid with the Tokyo massacre! Thinking about the Nanjing Massacre in just a few days, Gao Quan's heart was even more painfully twisted. Those who were brutally slaughtered by the Japanese were his compatriots after all!

  When the majestic and angry Gao Daquan stepped onto the podium, the soldiers below, who were originally filled with murderous intent due to extreme anger, reflexively looked up at him. They hoped that their brigade commander could break free from military discipline and kill these inhuman beasts once and for all.

  "Comrades! What did you say we came to the army for?" Gao Quan squeezed out a thunderous anger from his chest, and loudly roared at the soldiers below!

  "We used to be soldiers because we were exploited by the landlords and rich people, we couldn't eat or wear warm clothes! So we rose up in struggle, killed those who oppressed us when we couldn't eat or wear warm clothes, and overthrew them! But today we are soldiers to resist foreign invasion! We are fighting so that our fellow villagers can survive under the iron hooves of the Japanese invaders! Let them not be slaves to a lost country, let them not be slaughtered by the Japanese again!"

  "It was just over a dozen days ago that nearly ten thousand of our fellow villagers were killed by the Japanese invaders in Tianzhen, with blood flowing like rivers. We didn't see it with our own eyes, so we only felt extreme hatred for the Japanese army! But what did we see today? Our sisters were actually ravished and then killed by the Japanese army! It's utterly tragic!" As he spoke, Gao Quan suddenly covered his face and burst into tears, a big man squatting on the podium, wailing away.

  The simple soldiers under the stage were crying uncontrollably, and the wails of tens of thousands of people changed the color of the mountains and rivers! It was a tribute to those soldiers who died for their country, as well as to the ordinary civilians slaughtered by the despicable Japanese army.

  "Today's hatred will not be repaid, I swear not to be human!" Gao Quan shouted loudly as he stood up.

  "We swear to be the vanguard! We swear to be the vanguard!" The soldiers below shouted slogans one by one, excitedly! The icy bayonets rose like a knife mountain, surging in the crowd like waves!

  "For our fellow townspeople who died miserably, for our fellow townspeople to never again be slaughtered like livestock by the Japanese invaders! We will kill all the little Japanese who invaded China!"

  "Kill all the little Japanese!" The soldiers, like madmen, shouted, yelled and cursed, vowing to make the mountains and rivers change color, vowing to make it difficult for the enemy's iron hooves to advance even an inch! Countless soldiers, holding their steel guns, silently swore to the heavens, fighting until the last moment, until they died themselves.

  More than 270 dead Japanese soldiers had their arms and legs cut off, were stuffed into wooden barrels filled with feces, and were neatly placed at the four gates of the county town. The soldiers who hated the Japanese army did not forget to bury a large amount of explosives that could explode with just one move under those filthy wooden barrels!

  As for the dozen or so Japanese soldiers who were still alive, their limbs were cut off and they were soaked in salt water! The brutal torture that China had inherited for thousands of years was not something that these little Japanese, who had not yet completed their evolution from beasts to humans, could comprehend. In the end, these Japanese soldiers were buried in the ground, with a slit cut in the skin on top of their heads, and mercury was poured into them amidst their mournful curses. According to Japanese military history records, these people would eventually jump out of the ground due to the pain, leaving behind an intact human skin! (The little Japanese had done this before, and they were just getting a taste of their own medicine!)

  Listening to the miserable cries of his own soldiers, Bai Yi's goosebumps stood on end. In the midst of confusion and terror, he was tormented by the thought that at any moment his heart would be torn apart. Exhausting all his wisdom, he couldn't think of what method the Chinese, notorious for their cruel punishments, would use to deal with him! If there was one thing Bai Yi wished for at this moment, it was a quick and painless death!

  The anguished wails from next door lasted throughout the night, all his teeth knocked out, Bai Yi's hands and feet were bound, he spent a terrifying night, those Chinese women he murdered, one by one, came to him in his dreams demanding their lives back, but he couldn't even move! The dark dungeon, fear tormented this Japanese military officer who had turned white-haired overnight.

  When a dozen strong soldiers rushed into the cell, preparing to move out the white-haired and weathered Bai Yi. Bai Yi struggled frantically, cursing loudly, trying to escape. Tied up hand and foot, Bai Yi was no match for the robust soldiers.

  He could only watch in terror and helplessness as he was stuffed into the gasoline drum, then roasted alive in scorching heat between his skin and the cement. To prevent this bastard from dying too quickly, Gao Quan also arranged for someone to give him water to drink.

  When the Eighth Route Army withdrew from Lingqiu County, this unique cement barrel was placed at the gate of the Lingqiu County Government! The head with a painful expression exposed outside the cement barrel slowly died in agony. Of course, to prevent the Japanese army from rescuing this bastard, the engineers also laid several explosives inside the cement barrel. If the Japanese tried to rescue this "lotus flower", an explosion would occur!

  Looking at the ruined Lingqiu County Castle, there are still residents who were driven out of the city with a numb and reluctant expression. Gao Quan said with emotion: "I don't know when we can drive the Japanese army out of China completely! I also don't know when Bai Yizhen's lotus seed will grow into a lotus flower! Shouldn't it be soaked in water?"

  "The 116th Division, on September 25th, captured the city of Lingqiu County, annihilating over 300 enemy troops, without taking a single prisoner. Since the September 18th Incident, our anti-Japanese military and civilians have been fighting for seven years. Today, the enemy has launched an all-out invasion of China, attempting to bring our entire nation under their iron hooves! At this critical moment of life and death, I, as the commander of this division, solemnly declare to the military and civilians across the country: my troops will rise up to resist the enemy! We will not return home until the enemy is driven out of our borders! If our country perishes, I will perish with it; if our country survives, I will survive with it. With me, there are no enemies; without me, there are no enemies! I will die rather than surrender to the enemy, and my body will be wrapped in horsehide!"

  After capturing the county seat of Lingqiu, Gaoquan sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army and told the old chiefs that he would ambush the enemy's reinforcements between Wei County and Lingqiu, taking advantage of the opportunity to fight.

  Writing this chapter is heavy and my head feels a bit stiff. It's really stiff.

  There is still one chapter left