In the blink of an eye, it was May, and the reporters in charge of reporting in Sichuan came back one after another, compiling a more than 70,000-word Zhuangding investigation report.

And throughout May, the citizens of Chongqing spent the whole month under bombing.

The Japanese army base camp formulated the "101 Operational Agreement", which was led by the naval air force and coordinated by the army air force. The Japanese invaders mobilized nearly 300 planes from various fronts to carry out concentrated and persistent bombing of Chongqing. Chongqing's Guangyangba airfield was no longer ready to be used, and Japanese planes bombed Baishiyi and Liangshan airfields in succession, and carried out large-scale bombing of Chengdu, Wenjiang, Nanchong, Yibin, and other places.

However, all Sichuan cities with airfields could not escape the doom of being bombed by Japanese planes, and the goal of the Japanese invaders was to completely destroy the Chinese air force.

The Chinese Air Force fighters fought hard, but they were outnumbered in the end.

For more than half a month, there have been air battles almost every day, and the Chinese fighters have been exhausted. More than half of the 14 young pilots who came to the Zhou Mansion as guests are now dead, and only 5 are still alive.

After destroying China's air power, the Japanese invaders immediately turned their attention to the main city and bombed Chongqing in two or three batches a day for up to 10 days.

The urban area of Chongqing is filled with gunsmoke, corpses are strewn all over the ground, and ruins are everywhere. People were even numb by the bombing, and they didn't even bother to carry out the repair work, anyway, if they were repaired today, they would be blown up again tomorrow. Every family lives in a shack and is ready to run a bomb shelter at any time.

The Zhou Mansion was also bombed once, and bombs fell on the back gate and garden, and the explosion shattered all the window panes, but fortunately they were all hiding in the basement and there were no casualties.

By June, the Japanese bombardment of Chongqing had finally slowed down, and people were working on recovery and reconstruction.

The back gate and wall of the Zhou Mansion needed to be repaired, and the big holes in the garden had to be filled, and the home became a noisy construction site for a while.

Amid the clanging sound, Zhou Hexuan was sorting out the data of the report - the reporters sent to other parts of the province were also returning one after another.

"It's madness!" Lin Guoda suddenly scolded loudly.

Zhou Hexuan raised his head and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Lin Guoda said angrily: "Teacher, look, this is an interview report brought back by the reporter from Henan. The officers in charge of conscription there began to smuggle mercury and sell it to the Japanese last year, and because of the huge profits, this kind of behavior of colluding with foreign enemies has become a common practice and has become an unspoken rule of the Henan conscription agency. The strong men did not have enough to eat and wear, and they had to transport materials for the officers to sell in Chongqing, and often 1,000 strong men set off from Henan and walked to Chongqing with less than 500 people left! ”

Zhou Hexuan had already read similar historical materials, but at this time, he was still trembling with anger.

"Sir, Mr. Zhang Hatshui is here." Ma Jue suddenly knocked on the door.

Zhou Hexuan said, "Please let him in." ”

Zhang hated the water and the wind and dust pushed the door into the house, picked up Zhou Hexuan's teacup and drank it, and then said angrily: "I'm angry, I'm angry!" I interviewed and investigated in Hunan for more than a month, and what I saw and heard was simply shocking. The method of enlisting in the army was adopted, but less than eighty percent of the real people were drawn, and the rest were all impostors. The local gentry colluded with hooligans and gangsters, and specially arrested the helpless to be strong men, and even sheep epilepsy and neurosis were arrested to make up the numbers. I personally visited a rural family where the eldest brother was sick, the second brother was disabled, and the third brother was only 14 years old. It stands to reason that there is no need to smoke in such a situation, but the chief of the security department insisted that the third brother had falsely reported his age. The old parents of the family had no choice but to sell their only daughter to others as a child bride in exchange for money to hire someone to replace them. From the indiscriminate arrest of strong men, to the bribery of medical doctors, to impersonation, and subsequent extortion, an industry has formed in Hunan. ”

Zhou Hexuan wanted to come to Zhang Hatshui's interview report, and it took him more than half an hour to read it, and he even said: "It's okay, it's okay!" ”

"Is this alright?" Zhang Hatshui glared at Zhou Hexuan angrily.

Zhou Hexuan smiled bitterly: "Eighty percent of the recruits belong to the normal drawing, and the mortality rate along the way is less than thirty percent, which is already very rare." Look at the report brought back from Henan. ”

"Mr. Zhang, please take a look." Lin Guoda helped hand over the interview materials.

Zhang Hatshui only watched it for less than ten minutes, then threw out the interview materials and scolded: "Bastard bastard!" ”

During the entire all-out war of resistance against Japanese aggression, the number of strong men arrested in Sichuan was the largest, followed by Henan and Hunan, and the people of these three provinces suffered a lot.

Ma Jue carefully picked up the information, looked at it curiously for a while, and his face became extremely cold. She said to Zhou Hexuan: "Sir, this matter must be reported to President Jiang!" ”

Zhou Hexuan said: "I'll wait until I finish writing the summary report." ”

In fact, Zhou Hexuan was still relatively relieved, at least the situation in 1940 was not so bad that it could not be controlled.

It wasn't until 1944 that it was really bad, and many local snakes directly engaged in kidnapping in the name of catching strong men, but in fact, it had nothing to do with national conscription. And the people who are responsible for sending strong men are even more chaotic, such as sending people from Chongqing to the front-line military station, because there are too many deaths along the way, they actually directly arrest the slender men who helped them pull the fiber, and insist that those slender men are deserters. On the way, I saw that the peasants who were farming were also arrested, anyway, in their mouths, all of them were deserters.

In mid-June, all the reporters sent back to Zhou Hexuan, and Zhou Hexuan's "Investigation and Some Suggestions on the Problem of Zhuangding" was finally completed.

Zhou Hexuan took a boat to Yunxiu Tower on the south bank, and the secretary of the chamberlain smiled and invited him to the reception room.

After waiting for about half an hour, Chang Kaishen walked out with a smile: "Mingcheng, everything was expected by you." Sure enough, Germany attacked Denmark and Norway, and then bypassed the Maginot Line and invaded France. The French were really useless, they were penetrated in less than a month, and hundreds of thousands of Anglo-French troops were blocked by the Germans on the seashore. ”

Zhou Hexuan smiled and asked: "Have the Americans and the British reacted?" ”

Chang Kaishen said proudly: "The Anglo-French coalition forces were completely defeated, while China, China, persisted in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression for several years and fought with great success, and it was the mainstay of the world's anti-fascist struggle, and the British and Americans would naturally come to friendly negotiations. ”

It seems that Lao Chiang is really happy, the Anglo-French alliance has suffered a big defeat, the situation in Europe is precarious, and the Chinese battlefield has become very important in an instant. As you can guess with your heels, British and American diplomats in China must have made some kind of promise to Chang Kaishen, at least they will increase their loans to China.

It's time to pour a basin of cold water on Chang Kaishen, Zhou Hexuan took out his report and said, "President, please take a look." ”

"What is this?" Chang Kaishen asked.

Zhou Hexuan said: "I encountered some situations some time ago, and I sent reporters to do interviews and investigations, and the content is all in this report. ”

Chang Kaishen opened the report with a smile, looked at it, the smile on his face gradually solidified, and it took a long time to hold back three words-

"Niang Xipi!"