The two puppet company commanders knelt down and cried for a while, then suddenly stood up and rushed forward.
The Sichuan Army veterans who maintained order would not let them go and immediately stepped forward to stop them.
"Get out of my way!" The two puppet company commanders, who were like little sheep just now, turned into two wolves in the blink of an eye. They stared at the two Sichuan soldiers blocking the way with blood-red eyes and yelled, "Get out of the way."
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That look in his eyes, that aura, as if he will fight you tooth and nail if you don't get out of the way.
Suppressed by the momentum of the two puppet company commanders, the two Sichuan Army veterans instinctively took a step back.
But after reacting, the two Sichuan Army veterans immediately became angry. They immediately picked up their rifle butts and smashed them at the two puppet soldiers. However, before the two Sichuan Army veterans' rifle butts could be smashed down, Zhao Baishi stepped forward to block them.
In front of them, two Sichuan Army veterans quickly put away their guns and then retreated bitterly.
Zhao Baishi turned back and glared at the two puppet company commanders and asked, "Do you want to rebel?"
"Let me go!" a puppet company commander roared, "I want to go to the city to avenge my father!"
"I'm avenging my wife!" Another puppet company commander also yelled, "I want to kill the Japanese!"
"Count me in again!" Gou Ligui stood up from the ground and said through gritted teeth, "I'm going to skin the little devil!"
"You can leave if you want. What kind of place do you think this is?" Zhao Baishi said angrily, "And who do you think you are? You are just a bunch of traitors and lackeys, and you actually dare to stare at your nose and face? Are you looking for death?"
"Then take action." Gou Ligui said coldly, "Either kill us now or let us go."
Zhao Baishi looked at Gou Ligui and the two puppet army commanders with strange eyes, but felt a little incredible in his heart. Not long ago, these guys were as cowardly as sheep, they were simply soft and weak.
There was no manliness at all, but in the blink of an eye, they turned into men as fierce as wolves.
What's the point of this? How can a person change drastically in such a short period of time?
Zhao Baishi didn't read much and couldn't figure out the reason, but Xu Rui knew the reason.
The reason why these puppet soldiers are willing to become traitors is because they have no education and lack basic identification with the country and the nation.
In fact, until the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's educated population was very small. Many public intellectuals in later generations touted the educational achievements of the Republic of China as nothing. Some even praised the schools run by the Beiyang warlords, saying that Wu Peifu misappropriated
The Beiyang Army spends a lot of money on education, but in fact this is all bullshit!
An indisputable fact is that during the Republic of China, the illiteracy rate in China was as high as 90%!
In other words, out of the 450 million Chinese people at that time, only over 40 million were literate. A considerable number of these over 40 million people were only literate, and very few people had truly received systematic primary education.
There are few, and those with higher education are even rarer. This can be known by counting the number of universities during the Republic of China.
From the establishment of the Beiyang Government to the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, China established a total of 13 national universities.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Peiping, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Wuhan fell successively. Teachers and students in the occupied areas moved inward and 12 universities were founded in the rear areas. Adding the two together, there are only 25 national universities in total, and
The scale of the school at that time was far less than that of later universities. Tsinghua University was the only one with more than 10,000 teachers and students.
In fact, during the Republic of China, the total number of college students in school was only 130,000 at most!
These hundreds of thousands of young students who have received systematic higher education naturally have strong national and national concepts. This is why every time the country is in trouble, students are the first to stand up and speak out, and the first to stand up and resist.
, because these young students don’t want to see their country being bullied, and they don’t want to see their nation being bullied.
But the vast majority of the remaining Chinese people have very weak concepts of the country and the nation. For these people, fighting for the survival of the country and dying for the survival of the Chinese nation is a bit hypocritical. But on the other hand, these people
Their family values are very strong, especially filial piety, which has been integrated into their bones.
Even a peasant who cannot read half of Chinese characters still knows how to be a filial son and a virtuous grandson.
Therefore, when their relatives were harmed and their homes were destroyed, these people who had just watched indifferently started to resist. This is why the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army were able to develop and grow in such a short period of time after advancing behind enemy lines.
The main reason is that the Japanese have caused great harm to the people in the occupied areas, and they have the consciousness to resist, so when they climb up and shout, the people in the occupied areas will gather in the scene.
This is what happened to Gou Ligui and his two puppet company commanders.
These three guys have no national concept or national identity in their minds. In their eyes, the country and nation have nothing to do with them. In their minds, being ruled by the National Government and being ruled by the Japanese have nothing to do with it.
There is no essential difference, so they will listen to whoever can give them a good life.
However, if you bully their relatives, it will be different.
Especially they cannot bully their blood relatives, otherwise it will be life and death immediately!
"Do you really want to avenge your relatives?" Xu Rui took two steps forward and asked.
In just one day, after two injections of slings, Xu Rui was able to walk upright. His recovery was really fast.
"Yes!" Gou Ligui nodded heavily and said in a ferocious voice, "If the little devils don't give us a way to survive, we will not make it easy for them. We are not easy to bully!"
Xu Rui said: "But how can you take revenge with your bare hands?"
"Then we have to take revenge! The worst case scenario is death!" Gou Ligui's eyes flashed and he continued, "Of course, if the commander can trust us three brothers and is willing to return the weapons to us, that would be the best."
Xu Rui added: "Even if I return the weapons to you, how many Japanese can the three of you kill?"
Gou Ligui said: "How many can you kill? If you kill one, you will earn enough. If you kill two, you will earn one. If you kill three, you will earn two!"
"But this is the stupidest way to get revenge after all." Xu Rui said in a deep voice, "I have a better way to get revenge, which can help you kill all the Japanese in Jiujiang City!"
"Kill all the Japanese in the city?" The two puppet company commanders looked at each other.
Gou Ligui seemed to have figured it out, and said, "Sir, do you mean to let us go back?"
"No, they didn't let us go. They escaped when we were not prepared." Xu Rui shook his head and said, "After entering the city, the Japanese will definitely incorporate you into the garrison to coordinate the defense of Jiujiang City. Then, we will counterattack Jiujiang City.
When the battle is at its most intense, you stab him in the back and he will be dead!"
"Is this a fake surrender?" The two puppet company commanders suddenly realized.
Gou Ligui said, "Sir, can you really trust us?"
"I can't believe it." Xu Rui said, "So your father has to stay."
Gou Dafu immediately said: "Son, just agree. We can no longer be traitors. Being traitors in the past not only harmed your aunt and sister, but also made the villagers poke our spines and shamed our ancestors."
, we can't be confused any longer, son, just agree to this officer."
The old saying goes that a prodigal son never comes back with gold, and this is true.
No, once the traitor Gou Dafu woke up, he immediately became a staunch patriot!
Of course, the price for this sudden awakening was quite high. His three concubines and daughter were all ruined by the little devils, and he himself was beaten severely by the little devils.
With such a long title, he might be shot by the little devil directly. How could he still have the chance to go out of the city to ask for help from his son?
Gou Ligui frowned and thought for a while, then finally gritted his teeth and said, "Sure!"
Xu Rui immediately said to Zhao Baishi: "Captain Zhao, let them go and return their weapons to them."
However, Zhao Baishi was still a little worried and whispered: "Captain Xu, how about we discuss it again?"
"There's no need to discuss it." Xu Rui said firmly, "Captain Zhao, believe me, you won't be wrong."
Seeing that Xu Rui had made up his mind, Zhao Baishi said nothing more and immediately turned around and gave the order: "Go, release those idiots, and return the weapons to them."
Xu Rui said to Gou Ligui again: "Commander Gou, right? It's getting dark soon, so I suggest you wait until dark before going back to avoid the Japanese becoming suspicious."
Gou Ligui nodded and agreed, then turned around and left with his two company commanders.
Zhao Baishi came over and said: "Captain Xu, I can't trust this traitor. What if this traitor leads the troops back to the city and betrays him again? At that time, it won't be us plotting against the little devil, but the little devil doing the opposite.
They are plotting against us, this is really no joke, something big is going to happen."
Xu Rui said: "I couldn't trust him either, so I left him behind."
"Captain Xu thinks this is useful?" Zhao Baishi frowned and said, "Damn it, this traitor doesn't even care about national justice, so he still cares about his father's life and death?"
Xu Rui said firmly: "He may not care about national justice, but he must care about his father's life and death! Therefore, I predict that he will not play any more tricks and will definitely cooperate with us to take back Jiujiang!"
Xiao Taohong said happily: "Uncle, so we are going back to Jiujiang City again?"
"Yes, we are going back to Jiujiang City again." Xu Rui rubbed Xiao Taohong's pretty nose and said with a smile, "What did I tell you when I left the city before? It was a blessing in disguise. How could I know it was a blessing? Come here at that time
Look, losing Jiujiang City is definitely a bad thing, because we can no longer rely on Jiujiang to fight street battles with the brats, but looking back now, it turned out to be a good thing."
"Yeah." Xiao Taohong nodded and said, "Not only do we have the opportunity to retake Jiujiang City, but we also have the puppet Jiujiang Guard Brigade. This is really a blessing and a curse."
After a pause, Xiao Taohong continued: "But uncle, plug in the old man's lost horse. Although he came back by himself and brought back several horses from Hu people, his son later broke his leg while riding a Hu horse.
, do you think we will also get into trouble because of the surrender of the puppet troops?"
"That's not necessarily a bad thing." Xu Rui said with a smile, "Although the old man's son broke his leg, didn't he avoid military service and save his life because of this?"