At the end of War of Resistance against Japan, the story took place in a remote village named Gujiatai near Shanhaiguan, Hebei. One night, someone escorted two sacks with captives into the home of villager Ma Dasan. One of them was a Japanese soldier and the other was an interpreter. I had promised to pick up people in eight days, but there was no news since then.
After the two captives were kept in the village for a long time, the villagers discussed that they should be put to death to avoid trouble. The Japanese soldier Hanaya Kosaburo first decided to die for his country, while the translator Dong Hanchen used language barriers to fight for a chance to survive. After many attempts to execute the two men failed, the villagers decided that they should not be killed, and kept the two prisoners secretly kept in the village.
Six months later, Hanaya Kosaburo decided to repay Ma Dasan and the villagers for not killing, and proposed to complete a deal with the villagers: the villagers would return him and the interpreter to the gendarmerie, while the Japanese army provided two carts of food. In exchange. Under Ma Dasan's proposal, after some discussions, the villagers accepted the conditions of the flower house and signed the contract. The group escorted the two prisoners back to the gendarmerie.
After arriving at the gendarmerie, even though the captain Shiuzuka felt insulting the Bushido spirit, he agreed to fulfill the agreement and led the troops to send the food to Gujiatai. When the grain arrived in the village, the Japanese army called the whole village to drink and celebrate, sharing food and drink. When the celebration was halfway through, Shizuka suddenly announced to his men that the emperor had surrendered to the Allied forces and that Japan was defeated. The situation suddenly changed. The Japanese army began to kill innocent people. The entire village was turned into a slaughterhouse, and the mountain village was turned into a fire ash. In this catastrophe, Ma Dasan survived.
Soon, the Kuomintang army took over most of the Japanese prisoners, including Hanaya's troops. One rainy day, Ma Dasan pretended to be a smoker and rushed into the Japanese prison camp with a sharp axe. He was eventually captured by the Kuomintang soldiers and sentenced to death. The executioner was the Hanaya Kosaburo who had been with them day and night.
