Chronicle of the Republic of China

Fang Wuyu woke up in the safe zone.

A nurse was helping him change the dressing. Seeing that he was awake, she smiled at him and said a few words, probably related to wound treatment, and told him to be careful.He was in a simple ward in the safe area, and there were several wounded civilians lying on the surrounding beds, one of whom was almost covered in bandages, lingering on the hospital bed.Fang Wuyu vaguely heard someone say that when the shells fell, the person had no time to escape.Fang Wuyu looked at him lightly, then closed his eyes.

The man died in the early hours of the morning, and his relatives carried the body out crying.Grandpa just came in and passed them by.

Fang Wuyu was helped out of bed by his grandfather, went to the window, and saw gunpowder smoke billowing in the distance.

Grandpa told Fang Wuyu that he had been in a coma for two days, that the Japanese had broken through the Nanjing defense line, the army had advanced into Nanjing City, and the two armies were fighting fiercely.

There are a total of 25 safe zones like this in the city, surrounded by fences, like small islands in a shipwreck.They were provided by foreigners staying in Nanjing. There were food and guards here. Hundreds of thousands of civilians lived here. According to the agreement between the enemy army and the International Committee, the safe zone was protected by international law and the enemy army could not invade.

No one knows what's going on outside, and the foreigners who come and go keep it secret.

Until one day, the artillery fire suddenly stopped strangely. From that day on, the whole city of Nanjing fell into a dead silence, and the occasional gunfire was far away, as if it was just to fly a few chirping sparrows away.Later, civilians were sent into the safe zone one after another, and the news outside spread like sparks.

From the trembling eyes and fearful descriptions of these people, everyone finally understands why those foreigners always shy away from mentioning the outside situation.

This frightened everyone, and several people who could not bear it began to cry. The crying was not very heartbreaking, but the fear was contagious, like a sharp sword hanging above the head, and tens of thousands of people crowded in the crowd. Together, the safe zone is even more cramped.Fang Wuyu looked out the window of the hospital bed, the night was dark and deep, and the atmosphere was gloomy, almost suffocating.

December passed in a panic, but no matter what happened outside, the safe zone was truly safe.This made everyone relax a lot. In 12, at the beginning of the new year, we met and congratulated each other a few times for a happy new year.

Grandpa missed Meng Xisheng, said he didn't know if Xiaoxi was safe or not, worried a few times, and sighed frequently.Fang Wuyu was able to get out of bed, and limped to walk outside.He wandered around purposefully, but didn't find what he needed. He returned to the ward disappointed, and reached out to touch the hidden revolver.

He tried to find someone with ammunition to fill the revolver in case he needed it.He had to protect himself and find Meng Xisheng alive.

Only two days after the New Year, the Japanese army suddenly came to the door.They asked to open the fence of the safe zone on the grounds of searching for Chinese soldiers, but the guards refused.The next day, they clashed with the guards. Three minutes later, most of the guards were killed, and the Japanese army rushed into the safe zone to search for people.

Twenty minutes later, in a small attic, a boy and a wounded Chinese soldier were killed, and their bodies were dragged in broad daylight.This boy is probably the soldier's younger brother, and no one knows how he secretly placed him in the attic. For this reason, the Japanese army asked to take over the safe area, conduct an interrogation of everyone, and put all the remnants of the soldiers Catch them all.

Grandpa and Fang Wuyu were forced to separate, and Fang Wuyu stood in the line with several black guns pointed at them.

Everyone stood from morning to night, unable to sleep, eat, or drink. The crowd was pulled out of the safe zone for interrogation, but no one came back.

Fang Wuyu looked at the fence of the safety zone from a distance, knowing that once he was escorted out, he would never be able to see Meng Xisheng again.He was heartbroken, but there was nothing he could do.

Early in the morning on the third day, many people collapsed from dehydration.Fang Wuyu saw that the man beside him was pale, staggering, and fell on him several times, trying to get him to support him.Fang Wuyu also backed away several times, not wanting to be troubled by him, until a Japanese soldier patrolling past them with a machine gun, Fang Wuyu's eyes sharpened, he suddenly grabbed the man's arm, and gently pushed him away. He slammed him into the Japanese soldier.

Where did the man get the strength to resist, Fang Wuyu pushed him, and bumped into the Japanese soldier from behind. The Japanese soldier thought he was being attacked, so he raised his gun and opened fire. Several bullets pierced through the flesh and blood, and the sound of the gun was loud. , scared the crowd crazy, and shouted mournfully.

In the chaos, the Japanese soldier greeted his companions in Japanese that Fang Wuyu couldn't understand, and said something in cannonball, probably saying that this person was a hidden Chinese soldier.

Many people rioted, and the team became chaotic. The Japanese soldiers angrily ordered them to restore order.Fang Wuyu saw the right moment, retreated to the rear, and covered himself with layers of crowds.He ran into the medical building, found the revolver he had hidden under the bed board of the ward where he lived, and held it tightly in his hand. Then he went up to the top floor and hid in the attic where the Chinese soldiers had been searched out.

The attic is low, with a transom window open, and the old wooden floor is stained with dark blood.Fang Wuyu collapsed on the ground. After a while, he recovered a little strength, dragged his body to sit in the corner, raised his head blankly, and kept staring at the only sliver of sky left in the transom.

In the middle of the night, Fang Wuyu was thirsty and hungry, and dizzy. Seeing the night fall through the transom, he dared to stand up and groped drowsily to the corridor and entered a doctor's office.There was a thermos bottle on the table. He was like a thirsty person in the desert. He drank from the thermos bottle. The water in the bottle was cold after several days. It was poured into the stomach and intestines, and Fang Wuyu shivered violently from the cold.

This is the second floor. He heard two Japanese soldiers talking downstairs, so he quickly lowered his body and walked all the way to the window.This window was opened on the southwest side of the medical building, separated by a wall outside, and turned over to exit the safe zone.

The two talking Japanese soldiers patrolled downstairs, Fang Wuyu put his head on the window, watching the scene outside.

Every 100 meters outside the window, there is a Japanese soldier stationed there. If he turns out the window, he will definitely attract the attention of those people.

But now he has no other chances except to escape from the window and jump up the wall to get out of the safe zone.Walking out of this medical building, you will meet more Japanese soldiers.

Fang Wuyu measured the height of the wall with his eyes, and measured how many steps he needed to run to reach the wall.The wall said whether it was high or low, and he had a leg injury, so he couldn't run too fast.

After a long time, he rolled up his sleeves and kissed the gold chain.

Fang Wuyu pushed open the window, kicked up the window sill with his good leg, and jumped down with his strength.At this moment, he suddenly felt ridiculous, because he remembered how good he was at climbing over walls and trees.He is a dandy who deserves his job. He has been crazy all over Yuncheng since he was a child, climbing people's walls and throwing rotten eggs in the yard, and picking up the fruits on other people's trees. He has committed countless crimes.Unexpectedly, today, the skills left behind when he was a dandy can still come in handy.

As soon as Fang Wuyu landed, he caught the attention of a Japanese soldier, who turned his head and yelled at him, raising his gun to aim.During this series of actions, Fang Wuyu dragged his injured leg and ran under the wall.Just as he was hanging on all fours over the edge of the wall, the first shot was fired.The night became his protective color, making this shot fail.Fang Wuyu's injured leg became excruciatingly painful, and everything suddenly became a slow-motion cassette. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw several Japanese soldiers rushing towards him, pointing guns at him, and he lifted the injured leg vigorously. Leg, finally used it to step on the high wall, a bullet whizzed past his head and embedded in the wall.

Fang Wuyu turned over from the wall.

He started to run, and the violent movement opened the wound, and blood ran down his leg.

Fang Wuyu fled for his life in the streets and alleys extending in all directions in Nanjing City. He had lived in Nanjing City for several years, and he never knew that there were so many winding alleys.

At this moment, Fang Wuyu knew that the fears spreading in the safe zone were true. He saw the corpses laid out all the way across the alleyway, and the buildings were burned to ruins. The street lights were still on, and the dusty smell , devastated.

Fang Wuyu couldn't run anymore, not because of physical strength, but because of nausea and fear.

He was finally afraid, unable to move an inch in the mess of corpses, the double attack of hunger and vomiting made Fang Wuyu almost faint.

Vaguely, it seemed that someone was calling for help, Fang Wuyu saw a Japanese soldier in a room being violent.He wanted to lift his feet and run away quickly, but somehow, he broke open the door and sent the last bullet in the revolver into the Japanese soldier's chest.

After killing people, Fang Wuyu turned around and left.As a result, he tripped over the threshold, fell head-on, and fell unconscious.

Not long after, he was dragged out of the threshold by a pair of hands.The other party's strength was obviously weak, and it took a lot of effort to drag him a dozen meters away.This shot alarmed the Japanese soldiers nearby, and the owner of those hands hid Fang Wuyu and himself in the pile of dead bodies, trembling beside Fang Wuyu.The Japanese soldiers who came over to inspect were furious, wandered around the area for a long time, but couldn't find the murderer, so they stabbed a few times in the pile of corpses with a stabbing gun, and passed away cursing all the way.

The man continued to drag Fang Wuyu, the savior, forward, very persistently, and stopped for a rest after dragging a hundred or so meters to see if there were any Japanese soldiers around.

Fang Wuyu was dragged by this man until the clothes on his back had a big hole, and finally woke up the next morning.

The other party actually had a few biscuits in his hand, and he fed them to Fang Wuyu, who stuffed them into his mouth hungrily.After waking up, he saw that the person he had inexplicably saved in front of him was about ten years old, with a ponytail and a handsome face.

She said that she sneaked out to look for her relatives, and the doctor forbade them to come out, but she missed her sister and father at home, but she didn't expect that the door of the house was blown up, and the bones of her relatives were gone. When she was sad, she couldn't help crying Get up, the result attracted the Japanese soldiers.

While Fang Wuyu slandered that there is such a stupid person, it is indescribably stupid that he made the enemy cry, and at the same time grasped the point of her words, he asked, "Doctor?"

The little girl nodded: "Doctor Andre, it's in a clinic." She pointed to the east of the sunrise, and turned around to tell Fang Wuyu, "Many people are hiding there."

Fang Wuyu's eyes sparkled.

"Take me there," he said.