Full of devastation, a city of tragedy, I do not know how many innocent people’s souls in the streets of Taiping weeping in sorrow.
Looking at the Japanese scourge of Taiping County, Zhu Pingan stood in the street sighing for a long time, the mood is bad and difficult, can not be calm for a long time.
The dead are gone, the living are like this; the past cannot be reminded, but the future can still be pursued! There must still be surviving people in the city of Taiping County who are in dire need of rescue, thinking of this, Zhu Pingan reenergised his spirit.
“Brothers, in groups of twenty, patrol the streets and lanes of the county, firstly, to check that there are no escaped Japanese pirates in the city, if any are found, kill them without asking for permission, and secondly, to search and rescue the surviving people. Big Gun, allocate fifty men to you, by your own arrangement, to pull the provisions we are carrying to the grounds in front of the Taiping County government office, and make congee and cook there for the surviving people of Taiping County City.”
Zhu Pingan turned around and arranged for the deployment of the crowd of young and strong men in groups of twenty to patrol the streets and lanes, and also arranged for Liu Dajun to administer congee at the county courthouse.
As per Zhu Pingan’s instructions, the crowd of young strongmen formed a group of twenty and dispersed to patrol the streets and alleys.
Liu Dazhun selected fifty youths with cooking experience to pull fifty carts of grain and grass to the county office.
Zhu Pingan, on the other hand, took Liu Dajian and the other fifty men and headed to the Taiping County Office to sit in command of the Taiping County Office.
“Help, help ……”
On the way to the Taiping County Yamen, Zhu Pingan heard a sound of women and children crying for help, the sound was very unclear, as if their mouths were blocked, Zhu Pingan was busy bringing Liu Dazhou and the others to follow the sound and go to the rescue.
The cries for help came from a high-gate mansion, which had a high, opulent courtyard wall.
It could be imagined that before the fall of Taiping County, this high gate mansion should be very beautiful.
However, at this moment its scenery is no longer, the vermilion red gate has more than a few traces of knife and axe chopping, five or six corpses lying horizontally in front of the entrance, the steps are bloodstained, and the stone lion in front of the door has also been overthrown by someone.
Zhu Pingan led the men to break open the courtyard door and walked in, the courtyard was in a mess, the first thing that caught his eye was the five bodies lying in the courtyard, among them there was also an old woman in dishevelled clothes, obviously being violated by the Japanese invaders and mutilated to death.
“The Japanese should be killed by a thousand cuts, they are really animals, they don’t even let go of such an old woman!”
Seeing the old woman who was violated and killed by the Japanese invaders, all the young and strong people couldn’t help but gnash their teeth and curse the Japanese invaders.
“Alas ……”
Zhu Pingan sighed and took off his official robe, covering it over the unclothed old woman.
“Rest in peace, old man, I, Zhu Pingan, swear that one day I will avenge your deaths.”
Zhu Pingan got up and bowed long and hard.
Behind these five sprawling corpses was a group of bound women, about a hundred of them, with their hands and feet bound and their mouths stuffed with rags, which was why their cries for help were not so clear. They were all teenage girls and young women in their late teens to early thirties, all of them slightly good-looking.
Seeing Zhu Pingan and the others come in, the bound women became even more agitated, bursting into tears and whimpering for help.
“Quickly go save the people.”
Zhu Pingan said to Liu Dazhou and the others, causing the crowd to go and rescue the bound women.
Liu Dazhou and the rest of the youths came forward, removing the cloth balls in their mouths and helping them untie the ropes.
“Oooh ……Thank you, thank you Enjun, I don’t know Enjun’s name, so that the slaves can repay him.”After the women were rescued by the crowd and regained their freedom, they all cried tears of joy and knelt down to thank Zhu Pingan and the others.
“That’s our Jing’an County Governor’s Grand Master – Lord Zhu. Lord Zhu led all of us to rescue your Taiping County city and drove the Japanese invaders away, just now we even killed dozens of Japanese invaders on the city wall, so we can be considered to have avenged you a little.”The crowd of young strong men said in a chorus.
“Many thanks to Ta-Jen Zhu, many thanks to Ta-Jen Zhu for rescuing our sisters from the sea of misery, oooh oooh oooh ……You are our regenerative parents, our sisters knit grass and ring, we also want to repay Lord Zhu’s regenerative grace.”The women knelt in front of Zhu Pingan and kowtowed more than once, paying more than once to Zhu Pingan.
After being taken captive by the Japanese invaders these past few days, they had been living in a nightmare hell, ravaged and destroyed, miserable and unbearable to look back on. In the daytime, they were forced by the Japanese to weave, wash and mend clothes, and at night, they were even worse, being violated and ravaged by the Japanese, and if they didn’t comply, they were brutally beaten and killed by the Japanese to death. In the past few days, more than ten sisters had been brutally killed by the Japanese.
Early this morning, they were tied up by a group of Japanese pirates, who threatened to drive them to Taizhou Prefecture at noon to join two other groups of Japanese pirates, and by then, they would be the best delicacies at the party feast.
They had despaired, thinking that their lives would be a nightmare, tortured until a humiliating death.
Never in their wildest dreams did they think that heaven had sent the governor of Jingnan County to rescue them from hell. Now that I think about it, the reason why the Japanese pirates who were guarding them came out in a hurry was because Lord Zhu called and drove them away.
“Please rise, please rise quickly. Mister Zhu was incompetent and failed to rescue you all early, so I can’t take your thanks.”
Zhu Pingan hurriedly helped the people up, feeling guilty in his heart for failing to rescue them from their misery early.
“You are the Great Master of the Governor County of Jingnan, despite the dangers, you came a long way to our county town of Taiping to rescue us.”
“Great Master Zhixian, my name is Liu, thank you for rescuing my family, thank you for protecting my grandmother’s last ounce of dignity, on behalf of my Liu family, I kowtow to the Great Master Zhixian.”
A young woman around twenty years old in the crowd could not be pulled up, kneeling long enough to kowtow to Zhu Pingan in thanks.
Behind her, there were also two maid-like young girls who followed her and knelt for a long time.
Zhu Pingan learnt that the young woman, Xiao Liu’s, was the eldest daughter of the family, and was now the only survivor of the Liu family. The day the Japanese invaders broke through Taiping County, it so happened that Xiao Liu’s family came to her mother’s home to visit her relatives, a small group of Japanese invaders robbed the Liu residence, due to the resistance of the Liu residence, the small group of Japanese invaders attracted a large group of Japanese invaders, killing all the people in the Liu residence, but only because of Xiao Liu’s beautiful looks, the Japanese invaders left her alive.
The two maids behind her are the surviving maids of the house.
After pacifying Little Liu, Zhu Pingan left five people to help Little Liu and her family clean up the Liu residence and bury Liu’s family, while Zhu Pingan took the rest of the rescued women with him and rushed to the Taiping County Office. Liu Dazhun is there to prepare congee, let them fill their stomachs first, and then send people to escort them home.
All the way to the Taiping County Office, Zhu Pingan’s team saved more than a hundred people. Thinking that the other teams should have also rescued a lot of people, thinking of so many people being rescued, Zhu Pingan’s mood was much better.
“My lord, the Japanese pirates piled up a lot of firewood outside the county office, and also poured a lot of oil in the ditch, pouring it all the way down two streets, these damned bastards, they are trying to set fire to the county town of Taiping. If not for the fact that we drove the Japanese away in advance, and the Japanese fled in haste, fearing that we would find them running away if they set fire to it, Taiping County would be a sea of flames right now. I had the people carry away the firewood and bury the oil with earth.”
Just after Zhu Pingan led the crowd to the Taiping County Office, Liu Dazhun reported to Zhu Pingan with a look of fear on his face.
“Big Gun, well done.”
When Zhu Pingan heard Liu Dazhun’s words, he could not help but look scared, it was fortunate that he had brought people here, or else Taiping County would have been torched by the Japanese, and the surviving people in the county would have been buried in the flames.
That is really unimaginable!
