Chapter 10: Anqing (8)

The news of the fire at Anqing Airport quickly spread throughout China and around the world, and the response from all parts of society was mixed. The Japanese were clamoring frantically with great fanfare, hoping to create a momentum that would infinitely amplify China's hostility toward the Western powers and provoke contradictions between China and the Western powers. The result was not good, firstly, the sightseeing ship did not cause any damage, and then this sightseeing was not an act of the national government, and it was only intended to come and go quietly, not to make it known to everyone. This approach of the Japanese is too far-fetched, which makes the faces of the governments of the great powers a little embarrassed, and even quite unpleasant, because they do not know how to explain it to the Chinese government, and they hope to achieve the effect of covering their ears and stealing the bell. The major Chinese media also hyped up this, and the main propaganda point was the huge effect of the fire at Anqing Airport, how many planes were burned, how much fuel was reimbursed, and how many times the Japanese planes could be bombed over Chongqing. He also named and commended the troops and commanders of this operation, and called it a major victory of the anti-fascist alliance. For a time, Zhong Dingnai and the 3rd Battalion of the 526th Regiment of the 176th Division became heroes in the hearts of the people. It's just that there is one thing that is very interesting, that is, the Chinese media did not say a word about the sightseeing wheel, and the British and American powers sightseeing group never seemed to exist in Anqing.

When Zhong Dingnai was admiring the moon by the Shitang River, he sent a telegram to Mo Di, successfully setting Anqing Airport on fire and destroying the oil depot. It didn't cost a single shot, it only used a match, and it was a big victory.

In May, the Wangjiang County Government moved again and again, from Changlingpu to the Jin clan ancestral hall in Nanxi Township, in Xu Weiyi's lair, Mo Dou, who was waiting for the news, nodded silently, and a trace of joy flashed in the corner of his eyes, telling Ouyang Jin that Anqing had a good time, and it would be Wangjiang's turn tomorrow.

Wangjiang's plan is not much different from Anqing, as long as the sightseeing ship docks at Huayang Wharf, it will immediately start to act, and Luo Weibu will first present them with some greeting gifts, and then Ouyang Jin's first battalion will attack, Gao Gui will choose the second battalion to attack, Luo Wei's department will be tailed, and Wu Wannian's department will bloom in the middle, and then scare the big noses of the West.

Wangjiang is the focus of this sightseeing round, this place since the Japanese puppet army Fujita Brigade and Qian Kun Tuan occupied, nearly a year without war, is very stable, the market is prosperous, the people can be said to live and work in peace and contentment. The Japanese puppet army stationed here managed itself quite well, and there were basically no incidents of intrusion and disturbance, and in the Huayang market, it was common to see Japanese people in military uniforms bargaining with local vegetable vendors, and sometimes they could talk and laugh peacefully. After Wang Zhanlin came to Wangjiang, the situation has changed to a certain extent, first of all, Qian Kun led his troops to attack Taihu Lake at the instigation of Wang Zhanlin, although it was frustrated, but it was not too much damage to Wangjiang, and secondly, after Qian Kun left, Wang Zhanlin was fully responsible for the management of this place, and in order to recruit and expand the camp, some radical actions occurred slightly, accumulating some public anger.

Wang Zhanlin, the new official, was eager to behave in front of the Nanjing government, and his relationship in the new government of the Republic of China was very good, and the peaceful scene in Wangjiang was indeed very innovative, so he strongly requested that this sightseeing ship stop in Wangjiang, so that the guests could truly appreciate the atmosphere of greater East Asia co-prosperity.

"We want to create a stable rear, but instead put gold on Wang Zhanlin's face!" Xu Weiyi, the magistrate of Wangjiang County, shook his head and smiled bitterly, after Mo Di's report, he got a letter of appointment from the Anhui Provincial Government and officially became the magistrate of Wangjiang County, and the county magistrate was also moved from Changlingpu to the Jin clan ancestral hall in Nanxi Township. Mo Di saw that Xu Weiyi was also pitiful, a county magistrate had no subordinates, so he brought Tao Taiping, who was entrenched in Qingcao Lake, to the new county government, and threw it to the county magistrate Xu to make a personal entourage, and officially served as the captain of the Wangjiang County Garrison Brigade, although there were less than two hundred people, it was also justified. The attitude towards them was that they would neither supply nor annex, and in this operation, no tasks were assigned to them.

Mo Di didn't have a good impression when he saw Tao Taiping for the first time, this is a typical wall grass, the wind blows on both sides, and when he saw that Xu Wei was appointed by the Anhui Provincial Government, the first thing was to clean up all the New Fourth Army personnel in his team, and there was no one left, and handed it over to Mo Di. Mo Di did not embarrass these New Fourth Army personnel, and after eating and drinking well, they drove on the road, gave them travel expenses, and asked them to go to Chaohu Lake to join Zhang Yunyi.

"If it weren't for the existence of the Japanese, the surname Jiang in this place would be fine, the surname Liang would be fine, and the surname Wang would be fine, as long as there is peace and tranquility, and the people can live and work in peace and contentment." Mo Di said very indifferently: "Just with the Japanese, the nature is very different, the national struggle is irreconcilable, and the national struggle cannot be fooled." It is normal to destroy the country, the Manchu Qing Dynasty replaced Zhu Ming, the Republic of China replaced the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the dynasty was changed, which was the case in ancient times. It is absolutely impossible to exterminate the Chinese nation, and the Chinese nation has been civilized for thousands of years, how can it be allowed to be defiled by the monkeys on this eastern island! ”

Xu Wei smiled, he had already learned that Mo Di was an extremely narrow nationalist. Mo Di personally has no special hobbies and requirements, almost thirty years old, even lace news has not made trouble, do not smoke and drink, clothing is also very simple, if there is anything you love the most, it is the German M712 automatic barge gun, often see him inappropriate to carry a German-made M712 with guards up the mountain hunting, down the river fishing. However, his national ideology was extremely strong, and not long ago, Chen Gongbo of Nanjing sent people to persuade him to surrender to Mo Enemy and appointed him as the commander of the lieutenant general of the Anqing appeasement area, and Xu Weiyi was also present and saw with his own eyes the discussion between them Yue Fei, the general of the Song Dynasty. The other party believes that in a narrow sense, Yue Fei is a national hero, and if it is from the perspective of national integration, Yue Fei cannot be said to be a hero. Mo Di was very angry and told the other party that according to the other party's intentions, Shi Kefa blocked the Qing soldiers to prevent the fusion, Hao Mengling blocked the Japanese and also prevented the integration, and we fought bloodily with the Japanese in the Yangtze River to prevent the integration. After the other party was red-eared, Mo Enemy solemnly told the other party, if you are willing to integrate with the Japanese, just go, we are not willing to merge with humans like this beast.

The development of Wangjiang has always been carried out under the nose of Modi, and every move here is under the eyes of Modi. The number of Japanese troops here was not large, at most there were more than 1,000 infantry brigades, and there were many wounded soldiers, and some Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded in Qingcao Lake and Taihu Lake, which were not replenished, and this brigade became a shortage of 5 or 600 people. As for the founding army of a regiment, there were more than 1,000 people at the most, and in the first battle of Taihu Lake, the losses were heavy, and there were less than 500 people scraped together, and later Wang Zhanlin made every effort to expand the army and made up more than 1,000 guns. Wangjiang is a big county, and it is not a big problem to feed this little people, not to mention, their activity area is basically in Huayang Town, and they rarely come out. The biggest reason why Mo Di can tolerate them staying here is that with these people, as long as there are no accidents, the Japanese puppet army will not send more manpower, and it is more difficult to cover the sky with the limited manpower here, and can only turn a blind eye to some things. Originally, Qian Kun could also understand the attitude of Mo Enemy, Huayang Wharf seemed to have become shared, and the Jiangbei National Army could use it anytime and anywhere if it needed to cross the river, as long as it was not too blatant. Since Wang Zhanlin came, the situation in Wangjiang has changed a lot, and Mo Di consciously wants to teach this guy a lesson, and this is the opportunity.

Wangjiang, Shizhong's people have already been familiar with it, and they have opened a lot of shops in Huayang Town, and the specialties from Taihu Lake Tianzhu Mountain Dabie Mountain are basically Shizhong's people's business, early this morning, Wang Zhanlin's people swarmed to the dock to clean up, and Mo Enemy knew that the sightseeing boat was coming.

On the fifteenth day of August, it was moon cakes and tea, and I couldn't sleep after eating, and at the suggestion of the French, I cleared the deck and made a small dance hall. The ball was so lively and obscene that it was already two o'clock in the middle of the night, and the British minister's wife was almost unable to take a step under the touch of the French. Only Inu Yanghao sat on the side, not daring to dance, he was too short, and when he danced with these Western horses, his head accidentally hit other people's chests, although it didn't hurt but it was also rude.

It wasn't until today's three poles on the day that the distinguished guests on the sightseeing boat woke up after being woken up by the delicious beef noodles specially sent by Anqing, and they came back to their senses from last night's carnival, as for last night's airport fire and the big war in Anqing, they have completely forgotten.

After eating the refreshing beef noodles, the sightseeing ship departs for Wangjiang.

Wangjiang is not far from Anqing, only 80 kilometers, if nothing else, the sightseeing boat can be reached in three hours. Ken Tanaka is reporting the plan to Inuyohiro, in the afternoon in Huayang in Wangjiang to observe the people's feelings, feel the common prosperity of Greater East Asia, and then participate in the dinner co-hosted by Wang Zhanlin and Fujita Hou, after nightfall, go back to the sightseeing wheel, admire the moon and dance, the fifteenth moon and sixteenth bright, will definitely let the guests enjoy the pleasure of the full moon again. Inuyanghao is old, he can't accept too much nightlife, yawning all the way, his eyes are blank, his eyes are bloodshot, and he said to Tanaka Ken, back on the boat, prepare some local Anhui high-grade Anhui wine, and get these foreign devils drunk by two-thirds first. If they are not drunk, their energy will not subside, and the ball will not dissipate, especially the Frenchman, who is simply a rooster who wants to step on ashes everywhere, no wonder the French are called Gallic roosters, it turns out that this is the case.

Only this time, Mo Di didn't want them to get their wish, and had already prepared a table of big dishes to prepare for the arrival of the guests.

"This time, we will mainly eliminate Wang Zhanlin's troops, and it is best to let Wang Zhanlin get out." Mo Di said the purpose of this operation in one word. When Qian Kun was in Wangjiang, he was quite easy to deal with, but after being replaced by Wang Zhanlin, it was completely different, this person was not only a ruffian, but also a politician, he hoped to make a little success in Wangjiang, and then support the troops and send straight to Lujiang, and became his justifiable commander of the Lujiang District appeasement, not only that, but he also got in touch with his cousin, Wang Xianlin, a battalion commander under Hao Wenbo, and opened up the communication line from Wangjiang to Shipai Guogaohe Port to Tongcheng Lujiang, and isolated Liu Zuoxin in Anqing City. Because of the money, his men recovered quickly, and in a short period of time, from less than 500 people handed over to him by Qian Kun to more than 1,200 people, of course, more than 200 of them were Wu Wannian's people, who took advantage of Wang Zhanlin's blind expansion and sent in undercover agents.

With these more than 200 people, plus the group of stone weight and thin monkeys who do all kinds of evil, why worry about not being able to achieve a big deal!

So during the inspection of the sightseeing group in Wangjiang, a series of unexpected things began to happen inexplicably. First of all, when the Westerners visited the farm, they accidentally stepped on a dung bucket, and the lower half of the body of a Spaniard was covered with feces, which was smelly. Then another customer slipped and fell to the ground while watching the boom at the market, and a Brazilian was hit by the knock on the spot, and his mouth was covered in blood. I had no choice but to cancel all the procedures for visiting and inspecting the follow, and a group of people returned to the dock, and were about to be interviewed by reporters, and I don't know where a large pile of water flowed from, which happened to flow into a quicklime pond not far away.

Wang Zhanlin is not a fool, he knows that someone is playing tricks, what happened in Anqing yesterday is being staged in Wangjiang, at this time, the most important thing is still the Western guests, Wangjiang has no conspicuous military targets, and the other party has no way to make up his mind. So he went to discuss with Fujita Hou, thinking that the main job was still to protect the guests, but this work still required the help of the imperial army, and the founding army was afraid that it would not be useful. Fujita Hou knew that most of Wang Zhanlin's people were new recruits, the good and the bad were uneven, and the military quality was extremely poor, and it was a dream to expect them to protect the guests. Immediately gather all the Japanese, including the soldiers, local merchants and ronin, and defend intensively by the dock. Wang Zhanlin's men were concentrated in the area of Mengbo Mountain in the north of Huayang Town, and set up positions, with all guns facing north.

Sure enough, as Fujita Hou expected, the attack of the national army unfolded as planned, and the direction of the attack was the national construction army in the area of Mengbo Mountain.

When the gunshots rang out, Fujita Hou stayed by Inuyohiro's side and humbly told the other party that the enemy troops in the direction of Taihu Lake hated Wang Zhanlin to the core, and it became their goal to take Wang Zhanlin by taking advantage of the opportunity that all the Japanese troops were transferred to the riverside to protect him. Inu Yanghao nodded and said: These Chinese who can only fight in the nest lend them a hundred guts, and they dare not make a move to the distinguished European and American guests!

Even if, as Inu Yanghao said, he didn't dare to make a move on the European and American guests, but he still had the courage to do it to Wang Zhanlin, Ouyang Jin, who was attacking head-on, had just made a move, and the noble election of the side attack had already disrupted the formation on Meng Bo Mountain, and Luo Wei started from behind the mountain, Wang Zhanlin was already in chaos, and when Wu Wannian's people bloomed in the center, the entire Meng Bo Mountain completely collapsed. Except for Wang Zhanlin and more than 20 people who fled to Shipai in a panic, the others all surrendered and were taken to Changling by Ouyang Jin for reorganization.

When the news came, Inuyang Hao couldn't help but be frightened, and in less than twenty minutes, he took down a regiment-level combat unit, which is more than a thousand people, and it will take time to kill a thousand pigs. It was very clear to Fujita Hou that Wangjiang was not safe, so he immediately sailed away, and the destination was Pengze County, Jiangxi Province, 30 kilometers away, which only took an hour to arrive, where the 116th Division was occupied by a regiment, completely under military control, and was relatively safe.

Knowing that the sightseeing ship left Wangjiang within the planned time, Mo Di on Xiaogu Mountain finally showed a smiling face.