Xu Yuqing said: "If I don't leave, will you stay with me, even if we die, we will die together?"
Zhang Fengshan said: "You gave me my life. When will you take it back and listen to it?"
The two were talking, and there was a sudden uproar outside. It turned out that the wounded had been brought up. A nurse came over and said to Xu Yuqing: "There are a few wounded who are in urgent need of surgery."
Xu Yuqing nodded and said to Zhang Fengshan, "Fengshan, the location of the explosion just now is in the direction of Laojie. Go back and see if everything is safe at home?"
Zhang Fengshan hurried home, and he was relieved to see that the family was all right.
Zhang Fuhai said: "You came back just right, so hurry up and pack your things and go to Longwan."
Zhang Fengshan said: "Before it was time to withdraw, the enemy sent planes to bomb it for psychological warfare. They wished we could run away. They managed to occupy this place without a single shot."
Seeing his son's stubbornness, Zhang Fuhai said, "The bomb doesn't have eyes. If there is an accident, it will be too late to regret."
Zhang Fengshan said: "The county magistrate Shi went to the provincial capital for a meeting, and he will be back tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. It will not be too late for us to withdraw when we see him and see if he has the latest news."
All the valuable things in Zhang Fuhai's house have been moved away, and only some daily necessities are left. Once the war breaks out, he will leave at any time. He looked at his son's red face, remembering Song Tiejun's story about his and Xu Yuqing's love, and asked: "What's the matter between you and that Doctor Xu?"
"No, we are just in an anti-Japanese propaganda team, which is normal work and communication. Dad, have you heard any rumors?"
"Song Tiejun came just now to act as a matchmaker for you, but he was rejected by his father. Your father is not the kind of person who dislikes the poor and loves the rich, but he never promises you to find a female spy to be his wife." Zhang Fengshan is about to break into the enemy through Xu Yuqing. , The great opportunity was wasted by his father, and he retorted: "How do you know that she is a spy? Have you ever seen her kill someone or let it go?"
Zhang Fuhai said: "When your father never lost sight of people, I think you were fascinated and dare to talk to your father like this? I will leave the words here now. If you want to marry that woman, unless you Dad is dead." In his opinion, it is better to give his son a vaccination in advance so that he can cut off the idea early than to remedy it afterwards. From now on, the son will take over his mantle and do business. Neither the KMT or the Communist Party can touch it. If it touches it, it will cause trouble. This is not because he was alarmist and scared himself, but since Zhang Fengshan had the incident, he paid a lot of money to ask a fortune teller to calculate it. When he reported the birth date of his son, the fortune-teller pinched his fingers for a while. The first sentence said: "Your son is in jail," and Zhang Fuhai and his wife almost jumped up and admired the blind man. Five bodies cast the ground and let the blind man count the rest? The blind man said that Zhang Fengshan is still suffering from blood and light, and he must be cautious in all matters.
Shi Yong returned, conveying the spirit of the provincial meeting, and pointed out that Japan was about to attack Anton because Anton was the springboard for the Japanese invasion of Wuhan. At present, the provincial government is moving to Jinhuang County in the Dabie Mountains, and the county governments are required to make preparations for the relocation according to the situation.
Song Tiejun said: "Wencheng has a strong wall, three feet high and eight feet high, surrounded by a moat, and only one bridge is connected to the outside world. Since the Ming Dynasty, the rioters have attacked the city for dozens of times. Fame. This time we can hold on to the dangers and hold the Japanese army to prevent them from marching northward, in order to undermine their plan to encircle the provincial capital by land and water. If the county government is relocated, the military will be unstable and the people will be unstable, and there will be no way to fight. If you fight, you will definitely lose."
Shi Yong said: "The above has asked us to dismantle the city wall, so that the arrival of the Japanese plane will facilitate the evacuation of the masses in time."
There was a lot of discussion, and those who were in favor said that the above decision was correct. If the city wall is not demolished, the goal is very obvious, and the population of the city is very dense. Once the bomb falls, Wencheng will become a big tomb for the people in the city. Opponents say that Wencheng is in the shape of a golden tortoise. Once the city wall is demolished and Feng Shui is broken, the cultural fate for hundreds of years will be exhausted. It is better to die more people than to destroy Feng Shui.
While everyone was arguing, suddenly there was the roar of the plane, and then there was an explosion in the city.
Shi Yong announced the adjournment, and then led people to the scene of the accident.
One place was the North Street and the other was the gate of Nanmen City. The two Japanese planes each dropped two bombs and flew away. The Tang’s pawnshop and Li’s house on North Street were bombed, killing 5 people, wounding more than 20 people, and destroying 12 houses. The entrance of Nanmen City is much more tragic than Bei Avenue. The business here is prosperous and densely populated. It was a business, a tea shop, a fish shop and a hairdresser who were bombed. It is said that 70 people were drinking tea in the tea shop. Shi Yong directed the people to clean up the scene, and successively carried out 106 corpses and placed them in large rows in the small square for people to claim. The situation was terrible. The barber in the barbershop and a customer who had a haircut were blown up to blood and flesh, with intestines, broken hands, and feet all over the floor. After the business was blown up, it caught fire. Many people were burned to charcoal and could not be identified.
Song Tiejun also witnessed the entire scene, gritted his teeth with hatred, and said: "Take it apart, don't dismantle it quickly, our people will be called Xiaonippon. If we don't have this boss, let's fight with them."
Shi Yong issued an announcement to the county: In order to prevent Japanese plane bombing and facilitate the evacuation of residents, the people of the city took urgent action to demolish the city wall.
Overnight, the city wall that had existed for more than 300 years in Wencheng disappeared, leaving only one majestic gate—Dongzuo Gate.
On May 29, the Republic of China, the Japanese Army Ministry issued Continental Order No. 101, ordering "the Central China Dispatched Army to occupy the vicinity of Qing'an with a single unit"; the Japanese Navy Ministry also issued Dahai Order No. 120, ordering "the Chinese Fleet Commander to assist The army occupied the vicinity of Qing'an". On June 1, the commander of the Central China Dispatch Army commanded the Sakai Detachment of the Sixth Division to march from the north to the south to capture Wencheng and then occupy Qing'an; he ordered the Botian Detachment to cooperate with the navy to capture Qing'an along the Yangtze River west. The three-way army attacked Qing'an from three directions.
In order to prevent the Japanese army from going south, the Kuomintang 27th Group Army sent an additional 133 division to reinforce Wencheng. On June 13, the Central China Dispatched Army directly under the Sakai Detachment of the Sixth Division, including the 13th Infantry Regiment, the 47th Infantry Regiment, and the Second Independence Mountain Artillery Regiment, defeated the two divisions of the Kuomintang and prepared to attack Qing'an. After receiving the news that the Botian Detachment had successfully landed and occupied Qing'an, Sakai ordered an attack on Wencheng.
Liu Chenglong was ordered to defend the city. Before the war, Zhang Fuhai sent 10,000 yuan to the ocean labor force on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce. To boost morale, Liu Chenglong asked to distribute two oceans to each soldier. He said: "Keeping soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a while. Over the past few years, the folks in Wencheng have given us great support, and we must repay them with excellent results. Brothers, don't you think?"
The soldiers shouted in unison: "Anti-Japanese and kill the enemy, defend your home and the country!"
After the battle started, the Japanese artillery fire was extremely lethal, and in a short while, the corpses of the national army were everywhere. Liu Chenglong and Cui Shuqiang left their troops and took the lead in fleeing the battlefield, causing nearly 1,000 soldiers to be captured by the Japanese.
In the evening of the same day, the Japanese army occupied the whole city. On the tallest building in the city, the tower of Dongzuomun Gate, the invaders, to celebrate the victory, asked the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun reporters with the army to take photos.
At this time, Wencheng has almost become an empty city, most of the agencies have been withdrawn, and schools in the city have also been closed and evacuated. Some wealthy families and businesses have fled the city one after another. Only a few small merchants and peddlers, as well as elderly people with limited mobility and unwilling to evacuate, stayed behind in the city.
The Japanese army escorted the captured soldiers to the foothills of the city, set up machine guns, and stabbed them one by one with bayonets. When they found the silver dollars on the corpse, they searched all the silver dollars.
In the next few days, the Japanese army burned, killed, looted, and committed no evil.
A group of Japanese soldiers rushed into Wangyang Village, looted a large number of the villagers' livestock and poultry, and forced several villagers to be porters. The villagers refused to follow and were killed by rifle butts. The Japanese army slaughtered livestock on the spot, eating special food. Two of the soldiers entered the Lingyin Temple under Maogong Cave and dragged the nearly 80-year-old nun who had not escaped to the road and raped them. After their deaths, they left their bodies naked in a nearby cotton field.
A woman, Huang Sigu, in Shihe Village on the outskirts of the city, hid in a wheat field with her young child. Because the child was crying because of hunger, she was spotted by a few Japanese soldiers near the highway. They yelled "Flower Girl" and "Flower Girl", and then surrounded, Huang Sigu. The child in his hand was tightly held and curled up into a ball, shaking with fear. The child was forcibly taken by the Japanese soldiers, and he was erected in the wheat field with a bayonet. Then a few Japanese soldiers swarmed up and smashed the four aunt Huang, as their bestial behavior vented. After that, he stabbed Huang Sigu to death with a bayonet.
Zhang Fengshan saw similar reports about Japanese brutality in Shi Yong every day, and his teeth tickled with hatred.
A group of Japanese soldiers came to Wencheng Prison and gathered all the prisoners on the playground.
Chen Youliang was also among the crowd. He looked around and saw machine guns set up around him, knowing that the time of death was coming, but he was not reconciled to die like this. He quickly got out of the crowd, threw himself down on his knees, and yelled: " The imperial army is spared, as long as the imperial army does not kill, I am willing to be loyal to the imperial army."
A man with the rank of Grand Zuo spoke in slurred Chinese and asked, "Who are you?"
Chen Youliang kowtowed his head like garlic, and said: "I used to be the chief of the police here. I was framed and put in jail. I am willing to help the imperial army catch them."
The translator next to Da Zuo turned over Chen Youliang's words to him. Da Zuo showed a sinister smile on his face, and then babbled a few more words. The translator said to the crowd: "Da Zuo asks who else is willing to be loyal to the imperial army. Come to the front!"
There was a large swarm of people who came out, all of them gangsters. At this moment, they just wanted to save their lives and forgot the righteousness of the nation. Only a dozen people remained in place.
Da Zuo waved his hand, and the machine guns around him spit out long tongues of fire. The dozens of people fell down as if they had been cut wheat. The corpses were lying all around, and the surrounding land was soaked with blood.
Da Zuo spoke Japanese again, and the translator said to Chen Youliang: "Da Zuo let you continue to be the chief of the police. These people are under your control. From now on, you will be responsible for assisting the imperial army in arresting rebels and maintaining public order in the city."
Chen Youliang was grateful to Dade and said: "Thank you for not killing, I will swear allegiance to death!"
On the third day of the Japanese occupation of Wencheng, "Anmin Notices" were plastered all over the street.
This time the imperial army came to China in order to save the Chinese nationals. Today, the ruling Kuomintang government in China is extremely corrupt, squeezing the people's bones and blood, and the reddened Communist Party and bandits are in chaos everywhere, and the majority of the people are in dire straits. The imperial army is committed to uniting ordinary Chinese people and building the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Circle with us. The imperial army loves the people like children, and there is no rape that harms the people. In order to give you peace of mind, please cite the reputable people in the local public and cooperate with us to maintain local security and ensure your life and property. Spend your days of living and working happily.
The inscription is "The Propaganda and Cultivation Class of the Great Japanese Army."
Zhang Fuhai did not evacuate, not because he was unwilling, but because of his 80-year-old mother. The old man is in poor health and has a stubborn personality. She wants to guard these possessions, saying that she will not leave unless her eyes are closed. Zhimu Mo Ruozi, Zhang Fuhai knows what she thinks, she is afraid that so many properties will be occupied by others.