Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 432 Dishonest Commander
Starting from December 8, 1937, after breaking through the first line of defense outside Nanjing City, the Japanese army quickly approached the second line of defense, which was the second line of defense with several city gates on the outskirts of the city as the defense zone.

Once the Fukuo position is broken, the city will fall and there will be no possibility of counterattack.

Because of this, the 88th Division, the 87th Division and the Training Corps that were defending these city gates held their ground under the Japanese artillery fire and at one point engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

Wang Yi went to the Fukuo position specifically to help, and used his newly created space method, which was named "The World in the Sleeve" by the old patriarch of the Wang family, to help fight the enemy.

But he could only help temporarily, not forever. What he had to do was to take advantage of the few days when the garrison troops in the city were defending the Fukuo position to open up a temporary space in the city as much as possible, and then start letting people from famous and upright families guide the people in the city to take dry food and take refuge in advance.

As for the method of maintaining the temporary space, it was developed by Wang Yi under the guidance of the old patriarch of the Wang family.

The way to allow ordinary people to stay in a temporary space for a long time is, to put it bluntly, to stimulate them with the great terror between life and death.

Ordinary people are different from practitioners. Although everyone has an innate qi when they are born, after the limbs and bones are formed, the innate qi is transformed into acquired qi and stored in the body.

But after a practitioner is able to build a foundation and obtain Qi, he can inhale and exhale the Qi of heaven and earth to replenish this innate-to-acquired Qi in his body, and use it for health preservation, fighting enemies, and all aspects.

But ordinary people cannot do this, as the barriers are there. Building the foundation and obtaining Qi are both hurdles that cannot be overcome. Therefore, the acquired Qi in their bodies will be used less and less as they age, get sick and injured. When the acquired Qi in the body is used up, the person's life will come to an end.

However, there are always exceptions, such as some common examples in later generations, such as an elderly person in his sixties who, when seeing his children and grandchildren about to be injured, burst out with a speed that was not suitable for their age and moved them away from the dangerous place, but then he may become depressed and may even die of normal causes a few months later.

Or a parent may burst into action like a strongman to save a child who is trapped under a heavy object, and then remain weak for a long time.

Medically it is defined as the adrenaline in the human body stimulating human potential, while in the spiritual practice circle it is defined as a situation where at a critical moment of life and death, the Qi that cannot be mobilized in an ordinary person's body is stimulated and naturally released, allowing them to enter into a state that only a spiritual practitioner can do by circulating true Qi for a period of time.

It's just that practitioners can replenish the Qi in their bodies by inhaling and exhaling the Qi of heaven and earth and eating. They can't do that. Weakness, or sudden death, can be understood as an outburst of ordinary people during this period, which quickly consumes a part of the Qi in their bodies. They can't replenish it, so naturally their lives end.

The Wang family's method of the Divine Paint Boundary Gate, if they want ordinary people to stay in the world in the painting without being affected, they need to cover the ordinary people with their own Divine Paint Qi. When the covering Divine Paint Qi is consumed, the target will automatically be ejected from the world in the painting and return to the three-dimensional reality.

With the guidance of the old patriarch of the Wang family, Wang Yi made fine adjustments to the world he created. Since Wang Yi knew what kind of disaster would happen in the city next, he magnified the sensory experience of the target person entering this temporary space.

This kind of stimulation, which makes them feel as if they are actually there even if they are hiding, causes the Qi in their bodies to unconsciously circulate and dissipate, thus maintaining the space where they can stay.

Otherwise, the maximum straight-line range of a temporary space is ten feet long, and it can accommodate a thousand people at most. With such a large number of people, even if all the Quanxing and Mingmen Zhengdao people around Wang Yi are put in, and they use the true qi they actively release to maintain it, how long can it last? Wang Yi himself can't bear this consumption.

He wanted to save people, but he also wanted them to save themselves.

Later, a professor named Ai once said this to his students when he was telling this story. There were so many soldiers and civilians in the city at that time. Not only were there civilians, but the defeated soldiers who did not escape were armed, but they chose to lay down their weapons and did not put up any decent resistance. They were slaughtered like poultry. How sad it was.

Although the statement is a bit extreme, Wang Yi, who has lived to this day in this era, can understand why the defeated soldiers in the city would make such a choice. He does not expect that he can unite these defeated soldiers, but at least he should not cause more trouble, and maybe he can save more people.

There are thousands of dangers and difficulties.

The fighting was fierce at the Fukuo position on the outskirts of the city. Wang Yi and a group of famous and righteous people in the city were also running around, creating a temporary space and arranging for the people to hide.

Wang Yi did not send Quan Xing and his group to do this kind of work. These people were not willing to do it and could not do it well. He could only ask Lu Ren and his group of famous and upright people from the north to help.

Using the alleys or slums in the city that are specifically designed to house middle and low-income citizens, the people in the surrounding areas who have no hope of leaving the city and can only hide at home are lured into those alleys and made to hide there.

With the help of the Wang family's disciples' divine method of painting the boundary gate, the common people who were deceived or chose to enter these alleys and courtyards in a panic did not notice anything wrong at the first time.

It just feels like there are too many people hiding here, and the lighting is a bit poor.

This is also a common point that Wang Yi and the old patriarch of the Wang family discovered during their discussion, that is, the world in his sleeves created by Wang Yi, the temporary space he opened up is actually the same space as the world in the painting connected to the Shentu Boundary Gate.

The Wang family's method of boundary gates is better than Wang Yi's in that their method of viewing is to regard these spaces as an endless book. Each boundary gate is a page, and two boundary gates are connected together. Even if the targets in the two boundary gates can see each other, they cannot interfere with each other.

If there is one more page between them, it will be completely invisible.

When the two methods were used together, the current situation arose. A group of people were under the same roof, but no one could see each other, except for the famous and upright people who were already inside and the Wang family members who were responsible for connecting them.

To erase the traces of the aliens' activities to the greatest extent possible, even if Japanese soldiers break in at that time, the two sides are not on the same level, close to each other, but unaware of each other. However, it can stimulate the people hiding here to the greatest extent, making the Qi in their bodies unconsciously emit and maintain this temporary space.

However, in this way, those children of noble families who came to help and wanted to justify their own positions would not be able to be active in the city like Quan Xing. What they have to do is to guard these safe zones and maintain their stability.

It was because of the chaos and the fighting that everyone was either busy escaping or finding places to hide. Otherwise, the actions of Wang Yi and the others would definitely be noticed by someone with ulterior motives and they would be able to figure out something.

As the last temporary safe zone was opened up, Wang Yi also looked at the old master Wang who had been helping him.

"Old man, I'll leave this one to you. I've also left you a good position. You can see how Wu Man died then."

"I remember you promised me that you would make Wu Man suffer for his crime, but now you let him die here. Isn't that too easy for him?"

"It's a bit too easy for him. In the end, only you, old man, know what he did in his lifetime. Others will not know. They will only regard him as an innocent person who died in this city, a wandering ghost. This is unfair to you, old man, but it is also the best way I can think of to punish him. You know what he did, but you will not overturn his verdict, and neither will I. The world also doesn't know, so this revenge has been taken.

If you still can't get over it, please come to me in the underworld a hundred years later, and I will let you do whatever you want with my king."

"A hundred years later? Young man, please be ashamed to live once. It's not easy for this world to have two top talents like you and Tianshi Mansion. Without either of them, the world will be less prosperous."

Wang Yi did not answer, but continued to look at the old patriarch of the Wang family with the respect of a junior.

Seeing this, the old patriarch of the Wang family no longer insisted. He just shook his head, turned his back, and drew a boundary gate on the gate of the house behind him with the divine Qi, then pushed the door open and walked in.

Everything was arranged, Wang Yi turned around and left, and returned to the dock a moment later. As soon as he arrived at the dock, Wang Yi noticed that something was wrong.

The people outside the dock who wanted to leave the city blocked the road, but the dock was empty. The sampans, ferries and boatmen were all controlled by the garrison troops in the city.

When Wang Yi arrived at the door and revealed his identity to the guards, the guards did not stop him and let him in. He then saw that Master Jin Guang and his group of Quan Xing were also surrounded by the garrison troops, and a war was about to break out between the two sides.

While the two groups were confronting each other, a middle-aged man wearing the uniform of a general of the Kuomintang government and a coat was drinking tea and waiting for him.

Looking at Master Jin Guang and the others who were in confrontation, and then looking at the blockaded ships, Wang Yi had already guessed the identity of this person and knew what he was going to do. He didn't expect that after all his efforts, this guy still chose this path in the end.

After several rounds of mental training, he had learned to accept this kind of force majeure. He winked at Master Jin Guang and then walked over.

"Commander Tang, why are you not in the city to command and dispatch at this time? What are you doing here?" "Boss Wang is so bold, killing officials, robbing food and money, and shaking the morale of the army. Even if you have an American background, have great connections and supernatural powers, do you really think that Tang can't do anything to you?"

"I don't understand what the commander is saying. Which crime is committed by me, Wang Yi? Aren't the officials in the city provoked Quan Xing and were retaliated against? Can you blame me for this?"

"Then how do you explain the whole nature here?"

"Then where did the commander get the evidence to prove that the Quan Xing who killed officials and robbed money and grain in the city a few days ago was the Quan Xing in my hands? It's easy to find a pretext to accuse someone of a crime. And how did you get the argument of shaking the morale of the army?"

"When I took over the post of garrison commander from the chairman, I swore to live and die with this city. Now Boss Wang is occupying the dock and transporting people by ship. Do you know that if your dock is open for one day, the soldiers fighting bloody battles in the front will lose their morale? Now is a critical moment. If this continues, how can we defend this city?"

"Ha, since the commander is confident that he can defend the city, why does the chairman want to leave? Wouldn't it be more useful for the army to stay here and supervise the battle?"

"That's different. The chairman is a person of great wealth. He is the leader of a country and he should not sit in a dangerous position."

"Ah, yes, yes, yes. He is a man of great wealth and will not sit in danger. So what do you think of him, Commander?"

"Burn the boats!"

"Burn the boat?"

"Yes! Since I have signed a military order and sworn to live and die with this city, I should give up all thoughts and fight to the death. In this way, the soldiers and civilians in the city will be united, and the military and the people can be used. Boss Wang, I am not here to discuss with you, but to give you a notice. If you don't agree, I also want to see Boss Wang's methods!"

Wang Yi picked up the teacup but did not drink it. He just looked at the city commander who was confronting him. Seeing his cowardly appearance, he finally asked him again.

"Commander, let me ask you again, do you really want to live and die with this city?"

"I am a soldier! To die on the battlefield and be wrapped in my horse's hide is my mission as a soldier!"

"Okay! Since the commander is determined, I, Wang Yi, will risk my life to accompany you. This dock is closed. As for the boat, why don't you do me a favor and make a last trip to Jiangbei. If you can, I will have someone light a big fire over there. The fire will be so big that you can see it from here. How do you think?"

"Yes, Boss Wang can understand me, and I can understand Boss Wang too."

The other party obviously didn't expect Wang Yi to agree so readily, and he was relieved immediately. Otherwise, if they really fell out, even if he dared to bet that Wang Yi wouldn't dare to do anything to him, he didn't want to experience it himself.

The next thing was much simpler. They came with soldiers, and they were determined to close the dock and burn the ships.

Wang Yi asked the other party to help open the gate of the dock and let the people who were blocking the way out of the city to come in. He did not charge any money. After explaining the reason, he asked the soldiers brought by the city garrison commander to maintain order. The people here were allowed to get on as many as they could, and then they took the ferry and the sampan headed towards the other side of the river north.

When the last sampan left the dock, the dock was cleared by the soldiers brought by the city garrison commander. The people who did not board the ship were also driven away and returned to their homes. The entire dock was blocked and under martial law.

It was not until around five in the afternoon, when night began to fall, that a blazing fire was seen on the other side of the river. It was the sight of the sampans and ferries that carried the hopes of the people in the city to leave the city being burned.

When the flames shot up into the sky, the city defense commander who had been commanding the ship at the dock was stunned. He never expected Wang Yi to do what he said and actually burn the ship!
Brother, I was just joking with you, trying to fool these people below.

You are a land immortal, and I am not!
"Boss Wang, you..."

"Since you, Commander, have said that you will live and die with this city, and we are both descendants of Yan and Huang, I, Wang Yi, will sacrifice my life to accompany you. Commander, do you look down on me like this?"

Hearing Wang Yi using what he had said during the day to stop him, the garrison commander didn't care about his own face and walked straight up to Wang Yi and started saying nice things.

"Boss Wang, I was a bit harsh during the day. Please don't take it personally. I had no choice. I know your ability. I hope Boss Wang will forgive us. When the city is broken, please lend me a hand because we are both fighting in the city. If you need anything in the future, I will do my best to help you, no matter how hard I try."

"Hahaha! What a great saying. You can't control yourself. You can't control your heart. How can you control your body? Commander, you are not sincere."

Hearing Wang Yi mocking him like this, the city commander smiled and did not dare to refute.

After Wang smiled, he moved his lips slightly and sent a secret message to the commander guarding the city.

"I'm not very capable, so I can't pull you, but I still have a boat, it's in the warehouse. Now this dock is all yours, Commander. Are you still afraid that you can't leave?"

"Thank you, Boss Wang, for considering me."

The commander wanted to thank him, but Wang Yi, who had already distanced himself from him, just bowed and said loudly.

"Now that the ship has been burned and the road has been cut off, the commander is determined to live and die with this city. I, Wang Yi, will also sacrifice my life to accompany you. I hope the commander will take care of himself."

After saying that, Wang Yi walked to Quan Xing who was on the side of Master Jin Guang, waved his hand, and asked him to follow him away.

"Hmph! Hypocrites, these officials are more disgusting to me than those righteous hypocrites!"

"Master, if you want to curse, just curse louder. No one can hear you if you speak so quietly."

"Why don't you kill him?"

"Will killing him save his reputation after death? I have already laid out the path for him. It depends on what he chooses. If he chooses right, his name will go down in history. If he chooses wrong, he will be infamous for eternity and bring disaster to his descendants. Some debts cannot be settled with him now."

"I don't understand. Where are we going next?"

"We're not going anywhere. We're just staying here."

"Guarding what?"

"Keep the gates of hell open. I will take you to fight these foreign evil ghosts and send them to the eighteen levels of hell, where they will never be reincarnated."

"really?"

"Really~"

On December 12, 1937, the Fukuo position was lost and the entire city fell into a stage of total collapse.

(End of this chapter)