Seeing they had no chance of ever reaching the interior and the seat of the Nationalist government, many people simply decided to return to their hometowns and live their lives gingerly under the boot of the Japanese.
眼看「大後方」遙不可及，許多人又只好調轉頭回到家鄉，在鐵蹄下戰戰兢兢過日子。