Bright Sword: I took Li Yunlong to work in military industry

Chapter 223 Mass Grave

After taking the brigade commander to inspect the entire steel plant, Yu Ye no longer had any worries about completing the construction of the steel plant and putting it into production within a month.

Now it’s just a matter of time and personnel.

"Commander, our team started out as workers and farmers. There should be quite a few people in our team who used to work in a steel plant, right? See if you can help mobilize a group of people to come over. We need to speed up the construction progress."

After visiting the last workshop, Yu Ye did not make any requests, but only made this one request to the brigade commander.

"Okay, leave this to me. Within half a month, all 200 workers will be on site."

The brigade commander spoke to Yu Ye solemnly as if he was issuing a military order.

"Thank you, Brigadier!"

"Why are you so polite to me?"

The brigade commander patted Yu Ye on the shoulder and felt more and more that this young man’s importance was irreplaceable.

"brigadier."

"Ok?"

"I want to go and see the mass graves where the Japanese killed our fellow villagers."

"Okay, I'll go with you."

The brigade commander arranged for the 772nd Regiment to stay behind to clean up the battlefield and do some follow-up work. He brought Li Yunlong and all the soldiers of the first battalion of the independent regiment and followed Yu Ye to the back mountain of the iron mine.

This is a barren valley.

Even though it was already autumn, I could still smell the rotting corpse from a distance.

Yu Ye's nose twitched twice. It smelled very bad, but he did not avoid it. Instead, he led the team forward.

As we got closer, we could already see the white bones.

It is a turbulent time now, and it is very normal to see bones, but the number of bones really exceeded Yu Ye's psychological expectations before he came.

It can be said that with every step you take, there are at least one or two skeletons in front of you, and at most seven or eight skeletons.

Many of the bones even had traces of being hacked by knives and axes. It was obvious that these were civilians who were killed by the Japanese devils because they were unable to move during their lifetime.

As far as the eye can see, the entire valley is filled with white bones.

Three or five steps away, Yu Ye even saw a small skeleton less than 1.4 meters tall, with thin bones. It was obviously the bones of a child.

Damn the Japs.

In the weeds not far away, there were a few wild dogs watching the people coming.

These wild dogs are no longer afraid of people, because they have seen too many people coming here to deliver corpses on normal days. Today, there are just a few more people.

Some wild dogs even raised their heads and stared at these people with their green eyes. In their opinion, these people would soon put down the bodies, and they would pounce on them and bite them without even waiting for them to leave.

At least that's what they've been doing for the past year or so.

But this time, something seemed wrong.

In their eyes, the person standing in front of everyone seemed to be staring at them and saying something to the people around him. These wild dogs could feel the hostility from that person.

But, so what for these wild dogs?

Yu Ye was standing more than a hundred meters away, looking at these beasts that were no longer afraid of humans. For no reason, a surge of hostility rose in his heart. It was an emotion mixed with irritability and murderous intent.

"Damn little Japs, damn beasts!"

"Duan Peng, give me the Type 56 in your hand."

There was a suppressed rage hidden in Yu Ye's voice.

Following the 56 submachine gun handed over by Duan Peng, Yu Ye began to fire at the group of wild dogs more than a hundred meters away. The angry bullets tore through the unscrupulous beasts.

More than twenty wild dogs were killed in an instant, and their bodies were not intact.

The wild dog's body was blown up and its body parts were shattered and scattered everywhere.

After emptying two magazines of bullets, Yu Ye's mood finally improved, and the anger in his heart dissipated a little.

The brigade commander watched the whole process without taking any action.

If Yu Ye had not taken action, he would probably have ordered the elimination of all these wild dogs that had eaten human flesh.

Yu Ye took out a pile of paper money and incense sticks from the bag beside him, lit the incense sticks and stuck them on the ground. He had found these from the surrounding villages before setting out for Huanggu.

“I am an atheist, but I still burn this stick of incense especially for you. Your life is full of suffering, and you live in this era of suffering.

Before that, I was powerless to change.

After this, I promise you that I will bring peace and prosperity to China as soon as possible!"

After saying these words, Yu Ye squatted down, placed the paper money he brought on the ground, and lit them one by one.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew in the desolate valley.

The strong wind began to howl in the wilderness, but where the people of the First Battalion of the Independent Regiment were located, there was no dust at all and the whole place was peaceful.

It seems that this is an answer to karma and also a thank you to karma.

After the incense and paper money in front of him were burned out, Yu Ye asked the brigade commander, "Brigade commander, please ask everyone to collect the bodies of these civilians. I really can't bear to see them exposed in the wilderness."

"Don't worry, we will do it even if you don't tell us."

The members of the First Battalion of the Independent Regiment wore gas masks and began to collect the bodies of the civilians, gathering them into piles.

Yu Ye had people bring a few barrels of gasoline and pour them on the corpses. He turned on the flamethrower in front of everyone, and a hundred-meter-long fire dragon rose up.

The piles of bones were set on fire.

Under the evening wind, the corpses of the civilians who died unjustly in the desolate valley were burning, lighting up half the sky.

Yu Ye's face was tense. In fact, when he saw the bones all over the ground, his heart never relaxed for a moment. From the time he went back 40 years until today when he faced so many bones, he had a more intuitive understanding of the suffering of the people of this era.

Only then did he realize the weight of the saying "It is better to be a dog in peacetime than a man in troubled times."

The brigade commander was also looking at Yu Ye. Today, he used napalm bombs to create a molten city against the Japanese, and now he showed compassion to the people. This young man is really not simple.

There are ways to kill people, and there are ways to save people’s hearts.

Use thunderbolt means to practice the kindness of a bodhisattva.

In troubled times, only people like this can bring true peace.