Although Yang Zhen's tone was flat, his words made the two acting political commissars sweat coldly. Yang Zhen's estimate was not wrong, the cadres in the army, especially those grassroots cadres who were born as laborers, were very discriminatory against these soldiers from the puppet Manchu national soldiers, and even looked down on them. The reason why contradictions have accumulated to this day has a great deal to do with those grassroots cadres.

Looking at the two acting political commissars who were speechless by what they said, Yang Zhen, who understood that the truth of the matter was really what he said, shook his head and did not continue to speak, but said: "You go and find me the two people who did it first, and I will talk to them." Remember, it's finding, not grabbing. ”

When the two acting political commissars heard Yang Zhen's words, they hurriedly retreated as if they were amnesty. There wasn't much time, and the two noses were blue and swollen, and there was a fight with the pig's head. The military uniforms on their bodies were torn and tattered, and the two soldiers with the cotton exposed inside were sent to Du Kaishan's headquarters.

Seeing the two unbearable wolf bèi people, Yang Zhen smiled slightly, pointed to the two simple stools in front of him and said, "Don't be nervous, sit down." Don't think of me as a chief today, but as your brother. Let's relax and talk together, shall we? ”

Although the political commissar did not tell him who wanted to see him, he saw that the heads of the divisions who usually spoke their words were honestly standing aside and did not dare to squeak, knowing that it must be a big official who came, and the two of them were very restrained. Although Yang Zhen was very kind, in front of this big official, the two of them still looked very nervous. The stool under the ass has never dared to continue.

Seeing that the two people didn't dare to sit for a long time, Yang Zhen stood up and pulled his stool to the two people, and after pulling the two hesitant people to the stool, he did it in front of the two people and said, "Come and tell me, what are your names and where are you from?" How old is this year, and who else in the family have read books? How did you become a soldier? ”

The recruit on the left was very nervous, and he didn't dare to agree to Yang Zhen's question for a long time. However, the recruit on the right seemed much more straightforward when he heard Yang Zhen's question, stood up and said: "Report to the chief, my name is Yang Jicai, I am eighteen years old this year, and I am from Chengguan, Kaiyuan County, Fengtian Province. I just graduated from the Puppet Manchurian High School last year, and this year I was conscripted into the national army. ”

"Originally, there were eight people in my family, but now there are only five people left. My eldest brother, Yang Jixin, was originally in high school in Shenyang, just in time for the 918 incident. He was unwilling to be a slave to the country, and he entered the customs as an exiled student, and now he does not know whether he is alive or dead. My second brother Yang Jili joined the Liaoning People's Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Army, and I heard that he was later captured in Fengcheng with General Miao Kexiu and let the Japanese kill him. ”

"Now there are only five people left in the family, including me, a younger brother, a younger sister, and my father and mother. I was not included in the recruitment of national soldiers in Manchukuo this time, but the Japanese director of the prefectural police station said that my family has a tradition of opposing Manchus and resisting Japan. He must be a national soldier to show his allegiance to Manchukuo. If you don't go, you are an ideological criminal, and you have a tendency to oppose Manchu and resist Japan. I was also forced to be a national soldier out of necessity. You can't watch my old father being grabbed by the gendarmerie, can you? How many of the people who got in there made it out alive? ”

"It's not right for me to do it first today, but they can say anything, but I can't accept that ours is a dog. But if there is a way, we don't want to put on that yellow skin. Who doesn't know that it's shameful to be a traitor? But what can be done, the family is poor, and the money we pay for our studies is saved from between our teeth by tightening our belts, where is the money to buy off the conscription officers? ”

"They are hard and tired to be laborers. But where are we going to be? They live a life that is not as good as pigs and dogs, and our life is better? When the recruits were training, if one action was not done properly, the Japanese instructor slapped it with a big mouth. If you don't fight, your nose is bleeding, and you won't stop. ”

"I'm still dealing with it, I know Japanese, my comprehension skills are okay, and I'm a quick learner. But just like that, I often don't know why I get beaten. Sometimes the Japanese instructors were in a bad mood, so they let us slap each other's mouths. Don't stop if your face isn't swollen. It is also called Concord Mouth. ”

"Those who don't know Japanese are even more unlucky, and getting beaten during training is commonplace. People are often knocked unconscious. The Japanese instructor hits, and his own commander also hits. After the fight, he was not allowed to eat. When to do it right, when to let you go back to rest. When I sleep at night, I have enough kang with the Japanese instructor. After serving people, you have to serve dogs. How did we get through it, do they know? ”

This person talked about his family background, but Yang Zhen's heart suddenly moved. He had heard Xiaohuzi say before that when he was in the Eighth Route Army, when he chatted with him once, he once told him in detail about his family history. Speaking of his current hometown in the Northeast, he is in Kaiyuan County, Pseudo Fengtian Province. The name Yang Zhen was changed after participating in the revolution, and his original name was also Yang Jixin.

At that time, he also told him that he had three younger brothers in his hometown, and a younger sister of his age...... If he died in the War of Resistance Against Japan, let him go back to his hometown to take care of his parents for him when the revolution was victorious. At that time, he also joked that if he didn't marry a wife by then, he would marry his sister to him.

Xiaohuzi took advantage of his good mood two days ago, and once joked with himself and asked himself. The troops have now liberated the entire puppet Manchurian province of Sanjiang. If we continue to develop at this rate in the future, we will not be far from the day when we will reach Fengtian Province.

At that time, it will really be back to my hometown. If it comes to the day when he returns to Mukden, then he will not forget the promise he made when he was in Guannai, and promise his sister to him as his wife.

Could it be that this person is his own brother in this life? The name is right, the population of the family is not bad, and the place of origin is also the right number. Yang Zhen rubbed his face, and carefully looked at this recruit from the puppet Manchu national soldiers. Not to mention, there is really a bit of similarity between these eyebrows and eyes.

Seeing that the big chief in front of him looked a little distracted after listening to his words, Yang Jicai closed his mouth and didn't dare to say anything more. Just standing there in a straight Japanese military posture.

Yang Zhen's loss of consciousness didn't last long before he came to his senses. Looking at Yang Jicai, who was standing straight in front of him, Yang Zhen waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down, and then said to another person: "Don't be restrained, I said that I am your brother today, and I will say everything in my heart." He said it all, wouldn't it be a loss if you didn't say it? ”

This recruit, who was originally extremely cautious, also stood up after hearing Yang Zhen's words. But this one stands up and sees the gap. Yang Jicai stood straight, and at first glance, he had been strictly trained. And when he stood up, his body was far less tense than Yang Jicai's. It's not crooked, but it's not regular.

After standing up, he looked at Yang Zhen, then at Yang Jicai beside him, and said cautiously: "Report to the chief, my name is Liu Heiwa, I am nineteen years old this year, and I am from Tianjin. There is no one in the family, my father left early, and we are the two of us at home. I originally had an elder brother, who followed the 29th Army when it retreated south in the year of the 77 Incident, and I and an old lady were left at home. ”

"Originally, I was working as a laborer on the dock to carry big bags. The bitter point is a little bitter, but after all, there is still something to eat. At the beginning of spring this year, when I was waiting at the wharf with my friends, the little devil didn't know what was going on, so he suddenly surrounded the wharf of Tianjin Port and arrested all the laborers inside. ”

"After I got it, I didn't ask anything. After starving for three days, he was put on the train and transported directly to Fujin as a laborer. When I came, no one in the family knew about it, and I didn't know what happened to my wife. When we got here, we were whipped up from dawn in the morning, and we could go back to sleep at midnight. Two meals of acorn noodle porridge a day, after eating a bag of cigarettes, I was hungry and devoted myself to my back. ”

"I didn't even give my clothes, I wore them when I came. If it is worn out, you can only find a cement bag to put on your body. It was cold in the morning, and it was frosty in the evening of October. I had no clothes, only cement bags, and I couldn't sleep at night. If he is sick, he will not be cured. When the man was still angry, he carried him into the ravine and threw it away, leaving it to be bitten by wild beasts. ”

"More than 300 of us were arrested, and by the time we were rescued by the troops, there were only more than 100 left. If we wait for this winter, I am afraid that there will not be even more than 100 people left. Sir, it's true that we hate little devils. But we hate those two devils who work for the tiger even more. ”

"The leaders who led them are all authentic Chinese, and they are more ruthless than little devils. Work a little slower, and the pickaxe and belt will be knocked down to cover the face. The devils sometimes pay some wages, but they are all greedy. Our rations, they also deducted them badly. There is not enough to eat, they are greedy for half of it, and the rest is not even enough for the bottom. ”

"There is hardly any of us who have not been tortured by traitors. We are still almost repairing fortifications in Fujin, and the first part of the overseers are Japanese and Koreans. Those brothers who worked as laborers in the little devil garrison in Jiamusi were more guilty of traitors. These two dogs are sometimes more hateful than little devils. When I was in Tianjin Wei, I often heard people say that they were not afraid of little devils, but afraid of two devils. ”

"Today I scolded them for being wrong, but they shouldn't have said that we are elm lumps, that is, a donkey is smarter than us. It's only been less than a month since we were soldiers, are we compared to them? Although we are not educated, we also know that this meal is to be eaten in one bite. ”

After listening to the words of the two people, Yang Zhen didn't answer them, but smiled and asked, "How is it, now that the training task is heavy, can you eat it?" Is there enough to eat? Are the clothes warm? Is it cold inside the wooden stunned at night? This winter in North Manchu is not comparable to Fengtian in South Manchu and Tianjin in Guannai. ”

Yang Zhen's words fell, and the two of them obviously felt surprised. In particular, Yang Jicai, who has been accustomed to the stick style in the puppet Manchurian army and the training method of raising his hand, is even more stunned. After a while, he stood up and said, "Report to the chief, there is enough food to eat." During training, the commander never physically punished people. Although the training intensity was a little higher, it was much better than when it was in the puppet Manchurian army. ”

"In the evening, the governors at all levels also asked the fire cage to be boiled hot, and the water for washing the feet was boiled early. There are also regular inspections. If there is a quilt, they also help cover the quilt. As long as the commanders at all levels are not on the training ground, they are usually very concerned about our lives. There must be a meal of meat a day, although it is not much, and each person can only get a few pieces, but it is good to have meat. ”

Yang Zhen looked at the young man in front of him, who was probably his own brother, waved his hand and motioned for him to sit down, and said, "You have to remember, don't call your superiors, you can call your superiors directly." For our troops, officers and soldiers are equal. Nothing different except for the job title. We are all brothers, brothers who live and die together. ”

"Whatever your previous backgrounds were, now you're on the same battlefield. Now they all have a common ideal, that is, to fight devils and save China. You and me, why do you do this, because we are all Chinese, regardless of you and me. ”

"We are now fighting under one banner, we are comrades-in-arms, brothers, brothers who can block bullets for you on the battlefield. When you get to the battlefield, you are divided into this origin and that origin. But have you ever thought that the bullets of the devil will recognize people because of your different backgrounds? Just because of your origin, it can't hurt you? ”

"I'll tell you a true story. One of our fighters was born as a laborer. But the squad leader who saved his life on the battlefield was a puppet Manchu soldier who joined the army after being captured. However, this puppet Manchu soldier had watched him at the Fengman Hydropower Station, and the laborer-born soldier was still under the butt of his gun at the Fengman Hydropower Station. ”

"When they arrived in the army, they were just like you now, and they didn't like each other. Although there was no big fight on the surface, he didn't deal with it in private. The soldier who was born as a soldier in the puppet Manchu Army, because of his excellent military skills, became a squad leader not long after joining the army. And the soldier who had been on the little devil's construction site with the butt of his gun was assigned to his squad. ”

"There's a bigger gap between these two than you do now, right? But this squad leader from the puppet Manchu Army, when he attacked on the outside line of the defense of Qunce Mountain, in order to save his comrades, his chest was smashed by the devil's machine gun. And the man who came from a laborer, carrying the squad leader who he regarded as an enemy not long ago, ran more than 20 miles in one breath and sent his squad leader to the ambulance station. ”

"It can't be said that there are no grievances between them, but on the battlefield, you are all comrades-in-arms, comrades-in-arms who can give their lives for each other. Liu Heiwa, if your comrade-in-arms is injured on the battlefield, and you refuse to save him because he is a puppet Manchurian soldier, leave him alone? ”

"In the same way, if you are wounded, will you not need his help because your comrade-in-arms is from the puppet Manchu national soldiers? Can you guarantee that your comrades-in-arms are all people from the same labor background as you? Yang Jicai, you are the same. ”

"Those of us come from all over the world, but now we have come under the same banner for a common ideal, that is, comrades-in-arms and brothers. Why is it so clear? You should help each other instead of ignoring or even laughing at each other. Yang Jicai, you soldiers from the puppet Manchurian army have completed basic military training, why can't you help your comrades-in-arms more during the training? ”

"Who is born to walk in queues and shoot guns? When you first started military training, was there any difference between you and them? Isn't this also a step-by-step kick? Aren't guns a little familiar? You should help each other instead of laughing at each other. ”

"You have to understand the true meaning of the word comrade-in-arms. Although these two words are simple, they are not something that one person can afford. Perhaps, when you go to war one day, you will really understand the meaning of these two words. I only hope that it will not be too late for you to understand the meaning of these two words. ”