Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

Ma Erge was originally an honest farmer, with a dark face and a sturdy body. He was very filial. Seeing his mother so angry, he quickly pleaded loudly:

"Mom, I know I was wrong. Please don't be angry. Don't get sick from it."

"I won't mention money again. I'll go back to the house to get some food and apologize."

After he entered the house, Aunt Ma held her eldest grandson in her arms and cried softly, with big tears dripping down her face and she couldn't stop them.

Ma Xiaobao reached out his hand, touched grandma's face, and asked curiously:

"Grandma, why are you crying? Please don't cry."

"Xiaobao, remember this in the future. If other children say this again, you have to endure it and never fight again. This is what we owe to others."

"But why?"

Looking at the innocent eyes of the child, Aunt Ma's heart was broken again. She didn't know how to explain to the little guy what a traitor was, so she could only hug her grandson and cry.

At this time, Majia Village encountered a major crisis. Three Japanese devils led fifteen puppet troops marching towards the village.

Fortunately, they were discovered by the militiamen on guard on a nearby mountain, who quickly knocked down the message tree and informed the villagers that there was an enemy attack.

At this time, the village chief of Majia Village was angry because his little grandson was beaten, especially when he heard that it was Ma Xiaobao who beat him, which added fuel to the fire.

Captain Ma has four children. The eldest son is farming at home, the second son is in the main force, the third daughter is in the county, and the youngest son joined the guerrillas last year. Unfortunately, he died in a battle with the Japanese.

The child who was beaten was from his second son's family. The little guy had always been proud of his parents, especially his uncle who died, who was his role model. At the same time, he also looked down upon those spineless people who worked for the Japanese devils.

Ma Xiaobao's family was the only one in the entire Majia Village that joined the puppet army, so this little guy named Ma Tiedan had always targeted Ma Xiaobao. In the past, they had only had verbal conflicts, but this time, the two little guys were so angry that they started fighting.

Now he saw his own child being beaten. Although he heard from Tiedan that Ma Xiaobao was the first to attack, what the child said was not entirely credible, and the two of them had to confront each other face to face.

Ma Xiaobao has always been a good boy in the village, but his third uncle Ma Gousheng was so spineless that he joined the puppet army and was said to be a company commander.

This is unacceptable in any way for the simple-minded people of Majia Village. It is understandable that Ma's family is targeted in the village, because there is a traitor in her family.

In fact, he watched Ma Mingde grow up. He has always been a good and motivated child. Before, when they heard that he joined the National Army to fight the Japanese, the whole village was proud of him.

But no one would have thought that in less than half a year, he actually defected to the Japanese and became a traitor. This feeling of going from heaven to hell made everyone in Majia Village extremely sad and angry.

All the villagers were cursing in their hearts, asking how could Ma Mingde be so spineless as to become a traitor and why he didn't die on the battlefield.

If he died on the battlefield fighting the Japanese, Gousheng would be the glory of their Majia Village. Even if all the men, women and children in the village wore mourning clothes for him and built a grand tomb for him, it would be fine.

Now that a traitor has emerged from Majia Village, he has become the laughing stock of several nearby villages. They always keep their heads down when they go out, as they are too embarrassed to see anyone.

If Aunt Ma had not been a kind person and had never had conflicts with her neighbors, others would have directly stabbed their family in the back.

After all, having a traitor in the family is a shame for our ancestors. If nothing changes, we will be cursed forever unless the whole family moves to a strange place.

However, in this war-torn era, it is difficult for a single family to survive without the care of relatives, especially for outsiders, who find it difficult to survive in an unfamiliar place.

Just as Village Chief Ma was about to leave the house, the gate to the courtyard was pushed open, and a militiaman carrying a musket ran in, shouting as he ran:

"Captain, it's bad. We found the Japanese and puppet soldiers near the village. There are three Japanese and fifteen puppet soldiers in total. They seem to be heading for our village."

Upon hearing this shocking news, Village Chief Ma didn't care about the children playing around and quickly gave a loud order:

"Ring the bell to tell all the villagers that the Japs are coming. Everyone should quickly hide in the tunnels."

"Also, have all the militia gather together. We will go to the village entrance to buy time for the villagers to move their supplies into the tunnel."

Although he said it lightly, the actual situation of the village militia made him extremely worried. After all, the three Japanese devils and thirteen puppet soldiers were too powerful for their militia team and they could not contend at all.

After all, they were just some militiamen protecting the village. Although there were more than twenty people in total, their weapons were only an old rifle and three bullets, five muskets, six swords, a bow and seven or eight feather arrows that were left behind at some unknown time, and the rest were only dung forks and hoes.

This is the real situation in the rural areas of the North China Plain. The militia's weapons are so crude that they are even a little ridiculous.

At present, there are roughly two types of militias. One is the village protection militia, which consists of 10 to 20 people. Their main purpose is to prevent a single puppet army or Japanese invaders from coming to the village to rob things. Sometimes, when a large Japanese invader force comes to raid, they also have to cover the villagers and take refuge in the back mountains or tunnels.

The other type is the guerrillas. This type of team is relatively strong, with better weapons and equipment. It usually has 20 to 30 people and has no fixed base. It can wipe out a squad of puppet troops or 2 to 3 Japanese devils in the wild.

But now that so many enemies have come at once, we can only find a way to hide and hope that these enemies will choose to leave if they find that there is no one in the village.

As the big bell at the entrance of the village rang, everyone in Majia Village immediately put down what they were doing and headed for the secret entrance of the tunnel with their families.

Aunt Ma's family was no exception. Second Brother Ma hurried out of the house, asked his wife to hold Ma Xiaobao, and asked his mother to go to the tunnel located at the entrance of the village well.

He turned around and took out a dung fork from the barn next to him, then walked out of the house and headed for the assembly point.

This was something they had agreed upon long ago. Once the enemy attacked, all adult men, except women, children and the elderly, had to pick up any usable weapons at home and assemble at the designated location.

If the enemy comes in small numbers, they will cooperate with the militia in the village to deal with the enemy; if the enemy comes in a large force, they will find ways to lure the enemy away.

In a word, unless all the men in Majia Village were dead, no old man or child would be allowed to come to any harm.

As for the young people in the village, they were basically sent to the army. Some joined the main force of the Eighth Route Army, some joined the guerrillas, and some even joined the National Army. Now there is no young person left in the village.

This was a national war, and all the Chinese people were holding their breath. I remember a ballad that went like this: "The last bowl of rice is used as military rations, the last piece of cloth is used as military uniforms, and all the men will go to the battlefield together to defeat the Japanese pirates and their ambitions."