Chapter 97 Facing the Tragedy
To put the things down, thousands of people spent two days building the house and putting the things away.
Then slowly dig a hole in the mountain, but how?
You have to complete the task first and get the arsenal design drawings designed based on the rock distribution of this mountain range.
The brigade commander should have left a long time ago. As a brigade commander with so many things to do, it is impossible for him to be lazy all the time.
"Don't leave in such a hurry. Go watch a movie first. You, the brigade commander, don't lack that little time!"
The brigade commander thought so too. After all, they had wasted a few days and half a day wouldn't matter.
He knew that no matter what Chen Xiao did, there was a certain meaning behind it and it was impossible for him to do something for no reason.
What he had to do now was to ask these prisoners to watch a movie.
Movies these days, except in Shanghai cinemas, can only be shown after dark.
In the past two days, Feng Lin has led people to build a water wheel on the creek to drive the generator to provide electricity.
Although the slightly larger eddy current generator set produced by that system that can drive the iron smelting furnace has not yet been installed, it has no effect on electric lighting and movie screenings.
Now you don’t have to bother cranking the generator by hand, which is very tiring!
All the prisoners were sitting in the middle of the flattened playground. A screen had been hung at the edge of the playground, and the movie projector had been placed in the most suitable position and adjusted.
"Hey! What on earth are these Eighth Route Army officers thinking?
They also showed us this movie called something, what is a movie?"
"You ask me, how would I know?"
"You tell me, these Eighth Route Army soldiers have used us up and want to kill us here, right?
After all, they are worried about letting us go back, but if they keep us, they have to give us food!
This can only get rid of us!"
"No! Otherwise, why would we kneel so resolutely? We just thought they were the Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army was famous for treating prisoners well!
Later, when I saw the collar badge, I thought I had seen it wrong. I didn’t expect that he was actually a member of the Eighth Route Army.
So don't worry, we will be released soon!"
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400 people sitting on the small playground does not seem like a lot. There are 50 people in a team, and there are eight teams in total, which fill up the small playground.
Everyone was talking at once, and no one stopped them.
They were notified that they would be given benefits and watch a movie tonight.
You don't even know what the movie is?
These days, there are so many people who don’t know what movies are .
They said they were going to show them a movie and gathered them together in this small playground, so it’s no wonder they had all kinds of wild thoughts.
After all, it was not uncommon for the Japanese to kill prisoners.
However, it doesn't look like that, and if they must be disposed of, it would be impossible for them to eat so well these past few days.
But they saw that what they ate was no different from what the Eighth Route Army soldiers ate.
And when they were working, except for a small number of Eighth Route Army soldiers who were guarding, most of the other soldiers were also working and building houses.
But even now, they still couldn't believe that this strange group of well-equipped and powerful troops were actually students from a school of the Eighth Route Army!!!
And one of the reasons why they were not worried was that behind them, there were five or six squadrons sitting there. They also sat down as ordered, waiting to watch the movie with that strange school cadet soldier.
This made them feel much more at ease. Although there were still many guards around, they were prisoners after all, so it was certain that someone was watching them!
They believed that when the Eighth Route Army had built the houses and no longer needed their labor, they would likely let them go.
After all, the puppet soldiers who were captured in the past said the same thing when they returned.
After educating them, they were asked to promise not to work for the Japanese again, and then they were released.
But who can guarantee this?
How will you eat if you don’t work hard for the Japanese?
Just to make a living!
If the Japanese take over the world in the future, they will also be able to rise to prominence.
Almost all puppet soldiers thought this way. In their hearts, it doesn’t matter who they join, but how many people understand the great cause of the country and the nation in this era of underdeveloped education?
"Okay, everyone, stop arguing!"
The one who spoke out was Zhao Gang. This was his job. After all, his job was a political cadre.
"Our principal will personally play a movie for everyone next. I have heard of this movie, but I have never seen it.
I didn’t have the spare money or time to study before, but now that I have the spare money and time, I have joined the army.
So, today is my first time watching a movie, and I believe it is also the first time for many of you to watch a movie.
Then, everyone please keep quiet and watch the movie that our principal will play for you personally."
After saying that, he came down, walked to Chen Xiao and the brigade commander, and sat down.
Then I watched Chen Xiao plug in the power and plug in the big speakers. At that time, there were no speakers like we have today. They all relied on speakers, and they were very big.
Then, turn on the power of the projector, take an empty tape reel, pull out the end of the film, stick it on the empty tape reel, hang it up and prepare to start playing.
“Turn off the lights!”
For a moment, all the lights in the venue dimmed, leaving only a beam of light shining from the projector onto the large screen hanging at the edge of the playground.
A figure appeared on the screen.
"Hey, there's a person on the cloth!"
"Hey, look, look! There is a person on the cloth, very clearly."
"Hey, isn't that Japanese?"
The movie showed groups of Japanese attacking Nanjing. There were subtitles and Japanese commentary, which showed the process of the attack on Nanjing.
In the film, the troops who were blown up and covered in blood and broken limbs were our army, but they were truly brave.
“You may not understand, but some of you may have read the book and can understand the subtitles next to the movie. After all, although the language is different, the words are still the same.
This is a Japanese battlefield documentary, recording what happened after they captured Nanjing.”
Chen Xiao's voice came through the microphone in front of the projector.
Although the war was brutal, almost everyone present was a veteran. No matter if they were prisoners or Eighth Route Army soldiers, they had seen many bloody scenes, so apart from feeling something new, they had no other feelings.
But then, it wasn’t.
The city was captured and the Japanese continued to massacre the citizens.
Subtitles appeared on the movie, a 100-man slaying competition.
“Maybe many of you are illiterate and can’t understand the subtitles. Let me explain. This is a Japanese record of the Nanjing Hundred-Man Killing Competition.
There were two Japanese officers who were competing to see who could kill 100 people first.
You must remember these two people, Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda, these two people's names.
The Hundred-Man Killing Competition was proposed by these two people. The winner is the one who kills 100 Chinese civilians first.
In the end, Toshiaki Mukai killed 106 people, tied with Noda Takeshi who killed 105 people.
There is also this one , his name is Tanaka Gunji, he alone killed 300 Chinese civilians.
Next, remember these three people and take a look.
Remember the people they killed, including the elderly, children, women, and even babies less than one year old.
I don’t want to say too much, just let you see for yourself!”
Historically, there were cameras during the Hundred Man Killing competition, but it is not known whether there were video cameras.
But probably not.
However, the system restored the images at that time, allowing the people present to truly see how these three beasts killed people.
No old people, children or women will be spared if they are still alive. For them, this is just a competition, a game.
However, those shattered limbs indicate that before that, they were living lives!
