“It’s started! It’s started!”
The old sergeant’s analysis was indeed correct. Two days later, just as we were resting under the big locust tree after an hour of bayonet practice, Monkey rushed up to us and said, “Brothers, it’s started! It’s started in Shanghai!”
“What?” Hearing this, the soldiers were stunned, then swarmed around him, asking all at once, “It’s really started? What’s the situation?”
“Damn those Japanese! They were just talking to us about negotiating, weren’t they? And now they’ve started?”
“No…no!” Monkey said breathlessly, “This…this time, it was us…we started it!”
“What?” Hearing this, the soldiers were all dumbfounded, even the old sergeant looked at Monkey in surprise.
"Impossible!" After a long while, Li Wenxi finally came to his senses and said, "How could thi
