One-Armed Hero

In the autumn of the 19th year of the Republic of China (1930), Wu Zhenbei returned home from the Xuyi Navy with a broken arm. He squatted on the ridge of the field and twirled dirt, his empty sleeves fluttering in the wind. He was forty years old this year, his left arm was gone, and his future was bleak. He attended Suiying School, handed over Fengjun's gun, and suppressed bandits in Hongze Lake. But that's all in the past. He was not willing to just sink and make no further achievements. For the next seven years, he practiced his right hand and his spear - squatting in Nanwuji, waiting for an opportunity. In 1937, the Marco Polo Bridge cannon fired. He went out of the mountain with one arm and led a team to the anti-Japanese front line. During six years of guerrilla warfare, more than 100 people fought against 3,000 people, severely inflicting heavy losses on the Japanese puppets. The "one-armed hero" is widely known in the plains of northern Jiangsu. In the spring of 1943, after seven days and nights of bloody fighting at Jingkou, he was severely wounded and captured after running out of ammunition and reinforcements. Two years later, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he returned to the ranks of the national army and was ordered to guard Huai'an City. Knowing that he couldn't defend it, he chose to die. The city was broken, and they retreated to the Bell and Drum Towers, fighting to the last shot. After his death, one person and two names entered two lists respectively. On the list, it was written: Wu Zhenbei, from Nanwuji. Everyone in Nanwuji knows that it is the same person. This story is purely fictional.