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Chapter 37 Chapter 037, Eternal Pain!!
"I heard that you are a good shooter, can use a grenade launcher, and have medical skills. This shouldn't be something that a gangster can understand, right?" The person asking the question was a gentle-looking man, and it was unknown what kind of official he was.

"Who says that people in the underworld can't use guns? How can you survive in the underworld without any skills? All I have is a Mosin Nagant. If you give me a 20-shot box gun, I will be the king of hell within 50 meters!" Li Yuexuan asked back.

"As for medical skills? It's very simple. I have learned some knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. Learning martial arts is not just practicing blindly. It needs the help of medicine! Then when we arrived in Nanjing, my master was old and I had to make money to support him in his old age!"

"It just so happened that a foreign doctor was recruiting bodyguards, so I worked with him for five years! Five years, from being a bodyguard to an assistant, I also learned some Western medical skills. Oh, and this doctor is also a researcher. He studied the formula of a sulfa drug, which is why he asked me to be his bodyguard."

"But... this doctor was unlucky. He was assassinated right after he developed sulfanilamide, and the sulfanilamide technology was stolen. Yes, it was the Japanese who did it. Otherwise, how did they get sulfanilamide? With their little brains?"

At this point, Li Yuexuan sighed and then said, "Afterwards, the Japanese attacked the Marco Polo Bridge, and there was also a war in Songhu. They recruited men everywhere to serve as soldiers, so I joined the Tax Police Corps. That's where I learned how to use a grenade launcher and machine guns."

"Later, the troops were crippled in the Battle of Songhu. Only a few people were left. They were defeated and retreated. I followed the team back to Nanjing. Later, the Battle of Nanjing failed and the Japanese invaders massacred the city. I found an opportunity to leave Nanjing and returned to my hometown. Then I am now."

"So, what did you experience in Nanjing? I mean, what did the Japanese devils do in Nanjing?" The question was asked by the gentle-looking cadre.

"Do you really want to know?" Li Yuexuan looked around, then smiled bitterly and said, "I really don't want to talk about my experience in Nanjing City again! That place is the pain of our nation, an eternal pain! Then let me talk about my last battle..."

"At that time, I followed a few defeated soldiers of the Tax Police Corps back to the city and separated from them. I still had a master to support, and my master was planning to find me a wife and have children!"

"But the Japanese came. That damned Elder Tang burned all the boats and refused to let the people evacuate, saying he would defend Nanjing to the death! What happened? He took the lead and ran away on the small steamer he prepared! The Central Training Corps was guarding the Central Gate, and the battle was so tragic, but their captain Gui Yongqing ran away on his own! There was also the 88th Division, but the commander was nowhere to be found during the battle... Then, the so-called German-equipped divisions were basically destroyed, leaving only the 36th Division intact."

"Now, here comes the point! The Japanese devils directly issued a massacre order, that is, to massacre the whole city... massacre the whole city, regardless of gender, age or young, just kill anyone you see! In Caoxie Gorge and Hanzhong Gate, the bodies of civilians and those surrendered soldiers filled the river surface! Do you know what a mass grave is? It is to dig a big pit filled with the bodies of innocent civilians, 10,000 people!"

"My master, a 70-year-old man, killed three Japanese soldiers with his own hands and was killed by a machine gun! I was not bad, I killed five Japanese soldiers and grabbed a gun, then I kept fighting! I saw with my own eyes that a boatman was nailed to death by the Japanese soldiers on the river bank; I saw with my own eyes that a pregnant woman with a big belly had her belly cut open and the baby was still moving; I saw with my own eyes that after a woman was raped, a big wine bottle was taken and smashed directly into her lower body..." "I fired and fought, but the city was full of Japanese soldiers! If I hadn't used the Type 5 rifle, the sound of my gunshots was the same as the Japanese soldiers', I might have been surrounded and annihilated long ago!"

"Do you know how the Japanese train new recruits? They capture our civilians, tie them to pillars, take off their shirts, and then draw a circle on their chests. This is the spot where you will die if you stab them! Then, the new recruits go up to fight with bayonets, but they cannot put their bayonets into the circle, just to be able to stab more people!"

"Many innocent people were buried alive by the Japanese, with only their heads exposed. They were slowly suffocated to death... Some Japanese couldn't wait and chopped off people's heads with their command knives. The blood spurted out and the Japanese clapped their hands and laughed!"

"Women suffered the most! The students of Jinling Girls' Middle School were captured, and then... they were taken to the Japanese army camp and raped one by one..."

"I was all alone, with only one gun. I couldn't cross the river, so I just kept fighting... Finally, I ran out of bullets, and Nanjing became a ghost town. I hid in a foreigner's shelter and managed to survive until the beginning of the next spring. The funny thing is, just as the devils had finished killing people, traitors set up a puppet regime in Nanjing, not caring at all that the blood of our compatriots had not yet been wiped clean!"

"I lived until the devils stopped killing people and established a puppet regime. Then, I had to take revenge! My master's, the landlord's family of seven, the Wang family next door, and the kind-hearted Mr. Tang's family. There must be someone to help the devils collect the blood debts, right? That's the people of the whole city, and they're gone just like that!"

"Oh, then I saw a Japanese newspaper. There was a photo on it, which said that two second lieutenants, Toshiaki Mukai and Takeshi Noda, from the Nakajima Unit of the 100th Division of the Japanese Army, were encouraged by their superiors to have a "killing competition" with each other. They agreed that whoever killed people first when they occupied Nanjing would be the winner."

"They fought their way from Jurong to Tangshan. Mukai Toshiaki killed 89 people and Noda Takeshi killed 78 people. As neither of them had reached 100, the "competition" continued. At noon on December 12, the two met at the foot of Zijin Mountain, with each other's swords already nicked. Noda claimed to have killed 10 people, and Mukai claimed to have killed 105 people. As they could not determine who reached the number of 106 people first, they decided to have no winner in this competition and to re-compete to see who could kill 100 Chinese. These atrocities were serialized in newspapers with pictures and texts, and they were called "heroes of the imperial army."

"Hero? I only regret that I didn't see these two beasts on the battlefield, otherwise I would have killed them one by one!"

"Oh, by the way, I also saw some very tall Japanese soldiers who didn't speak Japanese language, but they were even more cruel than the Japanese in killing and insulting women. Later I found out that this was the Shigeto Detachment. Except for the officers who were Japanese, the rest were Taiwanese soldiers! There were also some Japanese soldiers who were also very tall and spoke Korean language. The evil things they did were even more cruel than the Japanese!"

(End of this chapter)