The whereabouts of his nephew Yu Hong were unknown, and his eldest son Yu Min was deceased. Yu Ye, who had already lost two relatives, could not bear the risk of losing his beloved relatives again. So the next day, the news that Wanping was besieged by the Japanese army came to the capital.
He regretted letting Lei Sheng out of the city so much that he had to go to Li Yaochen for help.
Li Yaochen was not one to shirk, so he immediately ran to Xizhimen with Yu Ye. Unfortunately, all the city gates were closed tightly, and no one was allowed to enter or exit the city. Soon, even the streets declared wartime martial law. Yu Ye and
Li Yaochen could not move any further, so he had to return home.
Fortunately, Li Yaochen had a very close relationship with the 29th Army. After several twists and turns, he finally contacted the military headquarters of the 29th Army. After many searches, the other party sent back a message a few days later, claiming that Yu Min and Lei Sheng
Now they are all under the command of Commander Ji Xingwen of the 219th Regiment in Wanping City. They have not only participated in the battle to defend the Marco Polo Bridge, but also killed eight Japanese in the night attack on the bridgehead on July 8. However, it is precisely because the two of them are so capable
After being beaten, Ji Xingwen would rather disobey his life than let him go. Everything can only be done after the battle is over...
After the news came back, although he knew that his son's apprentice was safe and had made great achievements in battle, Master Yu not only didn't feel at ease in his stomach, but instead became more upset and worried.
Yu Ye comes from a military family and knows what war is like far better than ordinary people. Intellectually, he is willing to resist. He knows that the armaments of his country's army are no match for Japan. If there is a war, he will definitely suffer a big loss. Therefore,
You need to resist immediately, or even fight back with all your strength! Because if you delay for one more day, the Japanese will take advantage of one more day. When the enemy is completely arranged, it may be too late to fight back! But if you attack first and use strong force, you may be able to stop it.
Stop the enemy's rash moves!
But on the other hand, emotionally, he does not want to really go to war with Japan. Because even if it is an evenly matched war, people will die in the war. The ruins of the walls and the corpses lying thousands of miles away are really not fun.
.His son and apprentice are now at the forefront of the battlefield. He has no doubts about their courage, but it is precisely this that scares him the most...
For more than half a month after that, Master Yu was like an ant on a hot pot, restless in and out of the house. He lost his usual calmness and didn't want to hide it. In addition to going to the West Wing Cinema to kneel down at a fixed time every day
In addition to offering incense and praying to the ancestors for the protection and safety of their sons and apprentices, the rest was to pay close attention to the evolution of the situation outside the city.
His mood has been completely controlled by the news he heard, rising and falling suddenly, sometimes happy and sometimes sad. One moment he heard that Song Zheyuan, commander of the 29th Army, rushed back to negotiate with the Japanese army, and the next moment he heard that Wanping was still shelling
Continuously, I heard that the reinforcements of the Central Army had arrived in Baoding, and then I heard that Japanese aircraft flew over the capital. Finally, after learning that Tong Linge and Zhao Dengyu had died in Nanyuan, Army Commander Song Zheyuan ordered to preserve his strength.
After the bad news that all the troops defending the capital had withdrawn, he sat down on the chair...
On July 29, 1937, the capital fell!
The night before, the patrol police went door to door, telling them to plug up the cracks in windows and doors to prevent Japanese planes from releasing poison gas at night. Some veteran police officers even specifically told them, "Be prepared to put down a piece of white cloth! If
When the Japanese enter the city, if the flag must be hung, just paint a red ball with rouge! We will hang it in the Gengzi Year!"
Li Yaochen was worried about Master Yu. After he settled in his home, he came to visit Master Yu's home early in the morning. But in this situation, everyone felt bitter in their hearts. After only chatting for a few words, they all felt
They lost interest in talking and just sighed at each other while holding bowls of light tea.
But suddenly, there was a "chunk" sound from the distance. And the sound was quite loud, making the air and the ground tremble.
Li Yaochen finally frowned and said, "What's the sound? Listen!"
"It must be armored cars and tanks. The Japanese have entered the city. This is a demonstration on the street!" Yu Ye said angrily, and then showed a sad smile with trembling lips, "I didn't expect that my son and apprentice were both
He didn’t come back, but the capital was still lost.”
The tanks and armored vehicles on the street were making noises like monsters going crazy. Li Yaochen and Yu Ye seemed to be deafened.
"It's good to go!" Suddenly, Li Yaochen seemed to respond and shouted as if he was inspired.
"Ah?" Master Yu tilted his head a little, but he couldn't hear clearly amid the noise.
"I said it would be better for the two children to leave. They cannot stay here and become slaves of the subjugated country! And now not only do they have to leave, we also have to leave!" Li Yaochen approached Yu Ye and said loudly with his fists clenched.
"Let's go?" The sounds of tanks and armored vehicles have become quieter, but Yu Ye's heart is still following the noise.
"We have to leave! Run away! Brother, come with me to Tianjin! There is a concession there. Even if it falls, the Japanese will not dare to do anything too recklessly. Besides, we can still find a way to take a boat from there and go to Nanjing to find it."
"Mr. Big" and "Mr. Second"..." Li Yaochen said with light in his eyes again.
The sounds of tanks and armored vehicles were like light thunder in the distance, but Master Yu fell silent again, seemingly hesitant.
After a moment, he thought clearly. "We have to go. There is no better place than living under the plaster! But Brother Li, you can leave, your whole family can leave, but I can't. I have to stay here..."
Li Yaochen found it unbelievable and opened his eyes wide. "You didn't think you could solve it 'peacefully', did you? Brother, this is no longer our home, we can't stay..."
"How could I be so confused? I know that if the Japanese can seize the capital, they will never let it slip!"
Master Yu's shallow and sad smile showed on his helpless face again, "But how can I leave? If I leave here, if the two children come back one day, where will you tell them to find me... I... I don't
There’s a way!”
"Alas!" Li Yaochen looked confused and could only sigh.
On this day, there were no planes flying over the capital, and there was no sound of gunfire outside the city. The sky was so blue, and the sun was so bright, but this sunny and sunny day represented a harbinger of the country’s subjugation!
The spring water of Yuquan Mountain is still gurgling, the pink lotus flowers of Jishuitan, Shichahai, and Tongzi River are still exhaling their fragrance. The turrets of the Forbidden City, the corridors of the Summer Palace, and the White Pagoda of Beihai still present fascinating and magnificent scenery, but the capital city
But the people have lost the relationship with the capital in the past - the capital is no longer the capital of the Chinese people. Above the green pines and cypresses and the glazed gold tiles, the Japanese flag hangs!
This day was the beginning of the history of humiliation for all the people of Beijing. For the next eight years, the people of Beijing, who had always been peaceful, had a piece of lead stuck in their chests and lived a miserable life in humiliation. Because since the Japanese soldiers carrying plaster flags
As they drove into the capital, passing the Dongsi Archway, the Jin'ao Yudong Bridge, the Qianmen Building, and East Chang'an Street, the lives of the people in the capital were completely ruined.
The most direct feeling that people in the capital felt about the Japanese intervention was that there were fewer people on the streets. At all important intersections on the street, such as Sipailou, Xinjiekou, and Huguosi Street, there were fully armed Japanese soldiers standing guard.
Rows of bayonets gleamed coldly in the sun, and the faces of the Asians bore the pride of the invaders.
On the contrary, the people in the capital all had heavy faces, because as long as they passed these streets, they had to bow deeply to the invaders, otherwise they would be beaten.
In addition, the Japanese hate people who study, and they do not allow Chinese people to express their thoughts. Therefore, whether it is the Three People's Principles or foreign documents, they were all burned after they entered the city.
For this reason, the Japanese also want to "improve" schools and spare no effort to promote enslavement education. They hope to train the people in the capital like the people in Manchukuo to be "dogs" who can pick up bones and be beaten and scolded by their masters.
Then, the Japanese blocked the ears of the people in the capital. They were not allowed to hear the central broadcasts. Instead, they used opera reviews, cross talk, and Japanese songs that sounded like ghosts and wolves howling to anesthetize the hearing of the people in the capital.
The most abominable trick is that the Japanese not only plundered various resources frantically, but also charged legal tender to exchange for foreign exchange. At the same time, they only used some waste-paper-like "bank coupons" to deceive the people. As a result, the blood of North China quickly disappeared.
Completely sucked dry.
Yes, the capital has lost its dignity, ideas, education, and money!
And soon, even the food was gone, and people all over the city began to eat the rationed "mixed noodles"!
The so-called "mixed noodles" are a mixture with bran and bran, and are composed of ground bean cakes, moldy corn, sorghum and many other messy things. This kind of thing cannot be kneaded into shape after being mixed with water, and will always fall apart.
I couldn't even hold the buns in my hands. After they were cooked, they smelled even worse and were irritating to my teeth, making them very difficult to swallow.
The Japanese used this kind of food as food and sold it to the people in the capital. However, the good food was used to support the so-called "Greater East Asia War". But this is not something you can buy if you want. You have to
Queued up to buy it in the middle of the night.
In all the alleys in the capital, people line up every day before dawn to serve mixed noodles according to the residence area. The patrol police will write a chalk number on everyone's back and come one by one. Many people can't buy it and often leave empty-handed.
.And the situation when buying them was not much better. You couldn’t poop out the mixed noodles after eating them. People at that time regarded defecating as a very difficult task. Later, some cross talkers made up a joke about this, saying that mixed noodles
I ate the noodles and couldn't pull them out. I drank half a bottle of combing oil before I pulled them out. When I saw them, I pulled out a wood splitting stick. I was so surprised that there was sawdust in the mixed noodles...
In this case, Li Yaochen and Liu Boqian were undoubtedly wise and lucky, because they all left quietly shortly after the fall of the capital. But Rui Wuye, Wan Baye and Yuye were all unlucky, because they
They all chose to stay.
Those who stayed behind inevitably had a feeling of resentment and dissatisfaction with others, especially the Japanese.
As a result, Mr. Rui Wu was so angry that he never got up from bed. Mr. Wan Ba drank alcohol every day, smashed the house and cursed his mother every day. But Mr. Yu chose to cover himself in a big tank where he could not see the world and shut himself up completely.
Without leaving the house, he only had to collect straw and rope every day to make food for the rope shop.
In the days when the whole city was feeling panic and uneasiness, the only thing Yu Ye was still paying attention to was the evolution of the war situation. His most urgent hope was that the war against Japan would turn around as soon as possible and that the country's army would drive the Japanese back as soon as possible.
One day, his son and his apprentice will be able to ride the ocean horse and return home safely. It's just a pity that the development of things is often contrary to people's wishes.
First of all, Jinmen fell almost simultaneously with the capital.
Then came "August 13". The sound of artillery in Shanghai and the news of the dispatch of the domestic air force just made Yuye think a little, but it was over after a few months.
At this time, Master Yu began to realize that although he looked down on the Japanese, it was true that his own army did not fight well. Shanxi, Shandong, and Hebei all did not fight well, which made him have to worry about Nanjing.
Khan, he dug out a map of Nanjing from Yu Min's textbook overnight and looked through it, eagerly looking for any natural dangers that could be defended...
But only one month later, before the New Year had even turned over, the big balloon on the Beijing radio station again had a big slogan "Celebrate the Fall of Nanjing" and was raised proudly for the Japanese, making everyone in the capital excited.
Dare to look up...
Soon, another disciple of Li Yaochen who stayed in Beijing came to tell Master Yu specifically that there was news that during the fall of Nanjing, "Mr. Big", "Mr. 2" and some members of the martial arts hall who refused to evacuate, because
They all joined hands to defend the country and killed the enemy, but they all died for their country.
Especially Luo Heling, during the urban guerrilla war against the Japanese army, he broke a total of eleven knives and killed more than a hundred enemies. Although he did not fall into the hands of the Japanese army, he died of excessive bleeding due to being shot and wounded.
In order to prevent the Japanese invaders from invading Luo Heling's body, his disciple Shen Congxi had to quietly bury the body on the spot, and there has been no news since. It is not known whether he is dead or alive...
On New Year's Eve in 1938, there was no festive atmosphere at Master Yu's home. Instead, it was filled with smoke and hung with curtains. On this day, Master Yu specially paid homage to Luo Songling and Luo Heling at home.
To be honest, his mentality has completely changed now. Although his heart is dark at this time, he no longer complains about Yu Hong's mentality of leaving home without permission. Instead, he is deeply proud of his son's original decision, and at the same time, he is also proud of himself.
You can't feel ashamed like Luo Heling who went into battle to kill the enemy personally.
Good boy! We will never be done with the Japanese!
If you lose, just fight again! As long as you fight, there is a way out!
Kill them properly for me! Just cut them into pieces!
That night, there were no New Year's Eve dumplings on Master Yu's table, only two bottles of Laobaigan. He drank one glass after another and talked to Luo Heling's memorial tablet all night long.