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"Today, the whole truth will be revealed to the public!"

"Our army flew across the ocean and bombed the core stronghold of the Japanese invaders, punishing the aggressors with thunderous force."

"Not only did the Japanese invaders not dare to send troops to retaliate, but they also issued a statement promising to 'no longer mistreat prisoners of war and civilians'."

"Ironclad facts prove that yielding will not bring peace, but will only embolden the aggressors; only by fighting back with a tooth and a tooth, and by hurting and intimidating the enemy, can we truly protect our compatriots!"

"Since the start of the full-scale War of Resistance against Japan, the Japanese invaders have massacred more than 20 million innocent civilians and tortured more than 500,000 captured soldiers! The Japanese invaders' so-called 'adherence to humanitarianism' is a complete and utter lie!"

"Those 'sober-minded people' who shout 'violence against violence is unacceptable,' have they ever spoken a word of justice for the victims of Wangjia Village? Have they ever shed a single tear for the millions of compatriots massacred by the Japanese invaders?"

"You remained silent when the Japanese invaders massacred our village; you remained silent when they killed prisoners of war; you remained silent even when they dropped bombs on our heads."

"Now that someone has stood up to avenge their compatriots, you jump out and accuse them of being 'too cruel' and 'disregarding the overall situation'."

"Question: If even avenging one's family is considered 'cruel,' then what is justice? If one doesn't even dare to resist invaders, then what is the greater good?"

"The reason the Japanese invaders have restrained their atrocities today is not because they've had a change of heart, but because Mr. Shen dropped bombs on their palace! It's because they've finally tasted the bitterness of being bombed!"

"Mr. Shen Mingyuan was not a reckless fool who 'played with his own hands'; he used his own shoulders to shield millions of compatriots from the Japanese invaders' butcher's knife!"

"Mr. Shen Mingyuan sacrificed his family's wealth to help our army in times of crisis, giving everything he had to send tanks, airplanes, artillery, food, medicine, and cotton clothing, saving the lives of countless soldiers and civilians."

"He personally went to the front lines to command the battle, recover lost territory, and drive the Japanese invaders into a series of defeats."

"He avenged his compatriots who died, and with his own strength, he forced the Japanese invaders to stop wantonly massacring villages and killing prisoners of war."

"If someone like that isn't a hero, then who is?"

"If someone like that doesn't deserve our respect, then who does?"

"This newspaper hereby solemnly declares: Mr. Shen Mingyuan is a hero of the Chinese nation! He is the backbone of the nation!"

"All statements that slander heroes and distort the truth are traitorous statements!"

"All those who advocate for the Japanese invaders and slander the avengers are traitors to the nation!"

Finally, we solemnly warn all aggressors: Those who offend China, no matter how far away, will be punished!

……

The moment the news spread throughout the country, all the cities that had not yet fallen erupted in deafening cheers.

Years of pent-up frustration and anger were finally released in this moment, transforming into a triumphant and exhilarating feeling.

. . .

On the streets of the mountain city, people read the words in the newspaper word by word, and their eyes reddened as they looked at the photos of the Wangjia Village massacre.

"So that's how it is! So the Japanese devils killed the whole village first!"

"Those newspapers lied to us! They only said Mr. Shen killed prisoners of war, they never mentioned the Japanese massacring the village!"

"What do you mean by 'playing with fire'! If it weren't for Mr. Shen, the Japanese would have killed countless more people!"

An elderly woman dressed in coarse cloth, looking at the four large characters "National Hero" on the newspaper, suddenly knelt down with a thud, kowtowed three times facing north, and tears streamed down her face.

"Mr. Shen, I'm so sorry! This old woman was confused; I even cursed you as the root of all evil a few days ago. I'm no good! Please, be magnanimous, don't hold it against me!"

Her son was killed by the Japanese in the occupied area. Before that, she had believed the rumors and cursed Shen Mingyuan's name for half an hour in a teahouse.

At that moment, she slapped herself hard in the face, and the people around her quickly helped her up. No one laughed at her; they only felt a deep sense of guilt.

"I was wrong too! I also cursed Mr. Shen!"

"Me too! I even said he would attract the Japanese to bomb the mountain city. Looking back now, I was so foolish!"

"Those experts and professors really fooled us!"

The crowd's anger instantly turned against those "sober-minded people" who had previously made outrageous remarks.

The professor from the National University who once publicly called Shen Wang a "butcher" had his doorstep littered with rotten eggs and vegetable leaves, and four large characters written in red paint on his gate: "Traitor and Lackey".

He hid at home, too afraid to go out, staring at the angry crowd outside through the window, his face ashen, muttering to himself:

"How could this happen... How is this possible... The Japanese devils are so powerful, how could they back down? They should have slaughtered more villages in revenge... How could this be..."

And then there was that writer who compared Shen Mingyuan to the "Japanese invaders in Nanjing" in his column, who packed his bags overnight to prepare to flee.

As a result, he was recognized by the people as soon as he stepped out of his house, and was surrounded in the alley and cursed for three hours. In the end, the police arrived and saved his life.

Those social elites who once shouted "Hand over Shen Mingyuan to quell the war" have all disappeared, their doors tightly shut, daring not to respond no matter how much they are shouted at from outside.

In the teahouse, Old Zhang, a customer who had previously championed "civilized resistance against Japan," tore his treasured collection of the professor's lectures to shreds and threw it into the stove.

"Pah! What kind of bullshit expert is that! It's all nonsense! When it really comes down to life-or-death situations, we still need tough guys like Mr. Shen!"

The surrounding tea drinkers chimed in, "That's right! These people are just talking without any real understanding of the situation! Let them try to be civilized with the Japanese devils; they'd shoot them dead!"

"From now on, if anyone dares to say a bad word about Mr. Shen, I'll be the first to fight them!"

The dockworkers spontaneously pooled their money to buy firecrackers and set them off on the riverbank for a full hour.

Amidst the sound of firecrackers, someone shouted, "Long live Mr. Shen!"

"Long live the Eighth Route Army!"

An elderly man, a former soldier, stood on the street leaning on his cane and loudly proclaimed to passersby, "I fought my whole life, and I've never felt so inspired!"

"Since the First Sino-Japanese War, when have we ever made the Japanese so afraid?"

"It's Mr. Shen! It's the Eighth Route Army! They've finally made us Chinese people stand tall!"

"Those who speak ill of Mr. Shen are spineless cowards! They're all bastards who have forgotten their ancestors!"

"Well said!"

Thunderous applause erupted from the crowd.

……

Overnight, the whole world changed.

The Japanese devils' bluster and cowardice revealed their true nature to everyone.

Public opinion has completely reversed!

The truth has finally come out!

The weapons technology that Shen Wang sold was like a boulder thrown into a calm lake, setting off a frenzy in global military technology.

The four superpowers—the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union, and Germany—were like four hungry sharks, frantically absorbing technologies from the future and accelerating their respective arms races.

Meanwhile, Shen Wang, the mastermind behind all of this, was celebrating Gao Zilong and the others' success.

"Mr. Shen, is this Moutai?"

"This is indeed fine wine!"

"Smooth on the palate, melts in your throat!"