Chapter 209: Apology
“It’s you? You’re the commander of these German-equipped troops? Zhou Wenhua?”
After Acting Mayor Zhang Zizhong saw that the commander of the German-equipped troops was actually Zhou Wenhua, whom he knew,
he too was immediately dumbfounded, stunned for a moment, then couldn’t hold back his inner shock and cried out.
“Yes! No choice, who told your 29th Army to all abandon this city? And they didn’t even first let the civilians here evacuate, but instead let the troops flee first? Don’t you know that if you do this, once the Japanese Army arrives in the city next, everyone here will suffer?”
“The Japanese Army loves arson, killing, looting, and plundering the most; I’m afraid by then this place will be a living hell!”
“Corpses everywhere, innocent civilians brutally killed by the Japanese Army all over, defenseless people, ruins everywhere, all kinds of miserable scenes—is that what you want?”
“Even if you wanted to evacuate, couldn’t you first notify the civilians in the city and let them evacuate first? Even if you can’t fight, you should at least think of the citizens in the city first!”
“So if I hadn’t stepped in, this place would probably already be a hellish scene of rivers of blood!”
“You still have the nerve to come see me?”
But regarding this acting mayor coming to see him, this time Zhou Wenhua showed no good expression to the other party, but instead scolded coldly.
Although he knew that the other party would later become a daring anti-Japanese warrior,
but now he despised those remnants who fled in the middle of the night without even notifying the citizens in the city.
So Zhou Wenhua couldn’t hold back his anger and vented his irritable temper at this innocent guy.
“.”
Acting Mayor Zhang Zizhong.
He was dumbfounded.
But after hearing Zhou Wenhua’s scolding,
his old face immediately turned red and burning, feeling deep guilt and shame, so the order to evacuate was not given by him personally, but by his high-level commander.
And at that time, his mood was also very complex and conflicted about his high-level’s evacuation order.
So he also risked his life staying in Beiping City, trying to negotiate with the Japanese Army high-level.
“Sigh!”
“You’re right to scold me!”
“It’s our fault!”
“So I am very grateful that you stepped in and protected the civilians in this city!”
“Thank you, Boss Zhou!”
So after feeling ashamed for a moment,
Acting Mayor Zhang also sincerely bowed respectfully to Zhou Wenhua,
thanking him.
“Don’t trust the Japanese invaders; they all have wolf’s ambitions, no matter what promises they give you, they are all false!”
“Once you have no use value left, that’s when they will kill you!”
“That includes all the traitors who surrendered to them—same thing! Once no use value, they are treated equally and will be killed!”
“They are not people of our land; they are invaders from overseas!”
“Maybe their ancient ancestors had blood ties to our ancestors, but now they are brutal invaders!”
“So we must resist them, beat them until they fear us, and drive them away!”
“Alright! I won’t say more, because I don’t know how long I and these high-priced German-equipped troops I hired can hold fast here, especially since the Japanese Army’s follow-up forces have already arrived continuously at Fengtai side, and are also coming toward us!”
“And the Japanese Army has also started deploying their air force for air strike bombing!”
“So I don’t have time to talk to you; I need to disperse the citizens here, let them evacuate immediately or hide to avoid the Japanese aircraft group’s air strike bombing!”
Regarding Acting Mayor Zhang’s sincere apology.
Zhou Wenhua also restrained his outburst of cursing,
but waved his hand, bid farewell to the other party, and told him to leave.
And he immediately gave orders to the officers under him for anti-aircraft operation,
and orders to immediately persuade the citizens to evacuate, persuading as many as possible to leave.
