9.1 Wartime capitals

From Lanfeng to Wuhan, Huang Haoran walked on the road for a total of three days, and then rested for another day before going to his new yamen to take office. If such a lazy attitude of the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info resting on the previous Huang Haoran, it would never have happened! People, after all, are flesh and blood, and the double exhaustion from spirit and body has made Huang Haoran unable to take care of certain rules!

On 16 June, the day Huang Haoran took office, the "General Office for the Soviet Union," which he was in charge of, was "demolished" by someone who had photographed it by the Central Military Commission.

The reason for this episode was that Minister He of the Ministry of Military Affairs made a statement to the highest authorities, feeling that the name of the department "General Office of the Soviet Union" seemed to be somewhat inappropriate, especially the word "right" at the top of the head, which could easily make Soviet Ambassador Bogomolov feel unhappy. The supreme authorities, who were bent on getting more aid from the Soviet Union, were naturally "doing good as flowing", and the supreme authorities were happy to do what they could do if they changed their names!

So, with a stroke of the pen of the highest authority, the new department that Huang Haoran was in charge of became the "Aid Receipt Office".

Throughout the second half of June, Huang Haoran would often run to the gate to look at the sign hanging on the wall in his spare time, and whenever he saw the nine big characters "Aid Receiving Office", Huang Haoran would feel that he had been assigned to the logistics department by the highest authority.

Director of the Office of Aid Reception, this new title of Huang Haoran really sounds like a warehouse watcher!

The residence arranged by the Ministry of Military Affairs for Huang Haoran in Wuhan is located in Wuchang Town, which is an independent small building with a courtyard. Since the day he arrived in Wuhan, Huang Haoran has developed the habit of listening to the radio on time every morning.

Xu is because he has been listening to it for a long time, Huang Haoran no longer rejects the "weak" broadcast voice of those female announcers, and sometimes he can even appreciate this "demonic" voice as a "feature"!

After months of continuous operations, from a tense and depressed state to a relatively peaceful rear environment, Huang Haoran now feels that no matter what he watches or listens to, he feels that it is a kind of enjoyment!

"Central News Agency! Central News Agency! Under the leadership of Commander Cheng, all the officers and men of our 1st Theater once again won several great victories! Continuously recover Zhongmu, Weixian, Xinzheng and other places! Thousands of Japanese soldiers were killed, and weapons and ammunition were captured! In order to reward the soldiers who fought bravely on the front line, the Wuhan Military Commission allocated 10,000 yuan in legal currency to the 1st Theater, and awarded the 39th Army Commander the Baoding Medal of the Third Class, the 20th Division Commander Zhang Liuni, the 34th Division Commander Gong Bingfan, and the 24th Division Commander Li Yingsi and other Baoding Medals ......."

All these victories on the radio are true! After the embankment was dug at the mouth of the garden, the floods all over the mountains brought some fighters to Cheng Qian.

In the Zhongmu area, a mixed wing, an artillery brigade, and a cavalry squadron of about 2,000 people of the Tufeiyuan Division were the first to hear the earth-shattering roar of the flood. The cavalry squadron and the mixed wing were equipped with more than 10 chariots with longer legs, and hurriedly turned around and retreated southeast at high speed. The more than 1,500 devil foot artillerymen who soaked in the back did not have such good luck! As soon as they ran out of the county seat, they were blocked by the overwhelming flood! The embarrassed Japanese army had to turn around and retreat into the county seat, dismantling the door panels everywhere like madmen and loading sandbags, which reluctantly blocked the four gates of Zhongmu County! Cheng Qian seized the fighter and urgently ordered Liu Heding's 39th Army to attack the Zhongmu lonely enemy. After a day of fierce fighting, hundreds of Japanese troops were annihilated, more than 100 were drowned, and the remnants fled to Hanzhuang on the captured wooden boats. The 34th Division of Gong Bingfan took the opportunity to recover Zhongmu County.

In the area of Weixian, more than 3,000 people of the 16th Division were awakened from their dreams by the raging flood. Although these little devils are fierce on the battlefield, they can only be helpless in the face of the overwhelming flood! After receiving the retreat order from the division headquarters, the 3,000 Japanese troops who retreated to Weixian County searched everywhere for boats, door panels, water tanks, and all the swimming tools that could be used! The Chinese troops in the 1st Theater of Operations, which was on the outer front, once again seized the fighters and attacked from all sides. Cheng Qian ordered Zhang Liuni's 20th Division, Li Ying's 24th Division, to storm Weixian, kill nearly 1,000 enemies, and recover Weixian.

As for the Japanese cavalry that advanced to Xinzheng with about 500 people, the ending was even more tragic! This group of devils still resisted desperately when the back road was cut off, and Cheng Qian, who knew that the devils had no way to escape, unhurriedly brought in heavy artillery, bombarded this group of devil cavalry, and sent them to the west with men and horses.

These limited victories won by digging the Yellow River embankments were not worth the hype. However, in the context of mutual accusations between China and Japan, it was used by the propaganda department of the Wuhan government as a magic weapon to distract the public's attention!

The table clock in the living room rang eight times, Huang Haoran turned off the radio and stood up, and the guards on the side quickly took off Huang Haoran's military jacket from the hanger and handed it to Huang Haoran.

Huang Haoran waved his hand at the guards, signaling that he didn't want to wear this thick general's uniform, Wuhan in July was already as hot as a stove, and Huang Haoran, who was wearing a shirt, felt a little out of breath! He now misses the air conditioner of the afterlife.

"Commander, do you want to pick up the car?"

After Xu Zilong brought the guard regiment to the garrison of the 25th Group Army, he rushed to Wuhan with a platoon of guards to protect Huang Haoran. Xu Zilong can't look down on the gendarmes provided by the Ministry of Military Affairs, but he can't return them. In the end, Xu Zilong could only divide the garrison of this small courtyard into two, and all the small courtyards were guarded by Xu Zilong's subordinates, and all the military police troops were arranged outside the courtyard.

As for the work of personal guard Huang Haoran, it was held by several plainclothes guards sent by Wang Huanzhi, Xu Zilong felt that one of them was a little familiar, if he guessed correctly, these plainclothes guards should be "hidden" people!

Xu Zilong believes that the people who came to Wuhan "hidden" cannot be the only ones in front of him! I'm afraid that in the vicinity of Huang Haoran's residence, "Yin" has already arranged a lot of plainclothes! For this mysterious institution directly led by Wang Huanzhi, Xu Zilong should not and dare not ask! He now has to do his job.

Huang Haoran stood in the foyer and stretched his muscles, then turned around and said to Xu Zilong with a smile: "I won't take the car today! Let's go! ”

Xu Zilong nodded, and then instructed his subordinates to escort Huang Haoran according to the second set of plans. When Xu Zilong gave the order, he noticed that the few plainclothes guards standing beside Huang Haoran did not mean to move, didn't they need to notify the people outside to change the guard plan? Could it be that "Yin" really sent a few of them over?

Xu Zilong's doubts were not dispelled until he walked more than ten meters on the street with a platoon of guards to escort Huang Haoran. Several plainclothes guards standing beside Huang Haoran didn't know how to notify their companions, and Xu Zilong felt that at least half of the vendors and pedestrians on the street began to move with their pace! He glanced at it hurriedly, if not a hundred, at least eighty!

The "hidden" people are really deep enough! If the commander hadn't decided to walk today, Xu Zilong really didn't know how many of his own people were outside the house! Just after a quick sweep, Xu Zilong found a lot of familiar faces! He had dealt with all these people, but he didn't smell a trace of abnormality! What made Xu Zilong feel the most exaggerated was that the stall owner he patronized early for the commander every day was actually among the moving crowd!

It's no wonder that "hidden" people never check the early ones they bought! It turned out that the possibility of poisoning had been blocked from the source! Xu Zilong never thought that there would be craftsmen who could make breakfast in "Hidden"! And the breakfast taste is quite good!

God knows where Deputy Commander Wang got such a group of people!

Wuhan during the Republican period was more often referred to as Hankou. The city consists of three towns across the river: Hankou, Wuchang, and Hanyang. The Yangtze River divided them in two, with Hankou and Hanyang located in the north of the Yangtze River, and Wuchang being isolated in the south of the Yangtze River.

Located in Wuchang, south of the Yangtze River, there are many government buildings, private residences of important officials, and scenic spots and historic sites are everywhere; Hankou in the north of the Yangtze River is famous for its prosperity and noise, and as a large commercial port in old China, Jiangbei's fame is second only to that of Shanghai, so it has attracted many business travelers who come from the south to live in the north. As for Hanyang Town at the foot of Turtle Mountain, it is also extraordinary! The Hanyang Arsenal gathers the essence of the old Chinese arms industry! Today, at least half of the guns and ammunition in the hands of the Chinese army, in addition to those imported from overseas, are manufactured from the Hanyang Arsenal! As long as you have eaten military rations for a few days, there is no one who does not know "made in Hanyang"!

Wuhan is located at the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Han River, and the Pinghan and Guangdong-Hanzhou railways must pass through here. It can be said that it is the water and land transportation hub of the central region, and it is well deserved to be called the "thoroughfare of nine provinces"!

In a few days, the War of Resistance will be fought for a full year! With the fall of many big cities, the three towns of Wuhan have been given too much symbolic meaning! Now Wuhan is a veritable heart of China!

From Wuhan to the south, connecting South China, the international community's aid to China has been continuously transported to Wuhan through Hong Kong and Guangzhou. From Wuhan to the east, straight to Jiangsu, Anhui and Zhejiang, here is the bridgehead of the Chinese army to regain the lost territory in the future! Groups of businessmen and officials with gold and silver, desperate and helpless refugees and wounded soldiers, like a tide of Wuhan's gates. Although the government departments nominally moved to Chongqing, after arriving in Wuhan, they did not move westward!

Factories, schools, and civil society groups that moved west also naturally settled here. Smoke rose from factories, shops proliferated, and some of the government's military and political organs began to operate. Wuhan became China's de facto "wartime capital"!

Western-style private houses, hotels, and humble houses, as long as they are a place where they can shelter from the wind and rain, are crowded, and the streets and alleys are also full of people. The rent, grain, rice and vegetable prices are swarming with the crowd, and they are like spring seedlings emerging after the rain, "whirring" upward. Greater Wuhan has never been so crowded and swollen as if it was about to crack! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )