Chapter 9: Behind Enemy Lines (1)

After eating a casual meal, everyone went their separate ways, Mo Di asked Zhao Guolong to take eight people to take the car on Lingyun to send Guangyang back, and the people who participated in the smuggling this time all got a share, each person had 800 oceans, and the remaining more than 2,000 belonged to Mo Di and sent to Yongning Prefecture.

Liang Cailin went south, Luo Jinlun went west, and the other four walked together, Li Shigui and Zhang Zhinong followed Liu Jingzhi's suggestion and asked the guards to send Guangyang to Changsha and deposit it in Citibank.

It was not until the end of the exercise that the people of the You Gan class learned that the Battle of Nanchang had ended as early as 9 May, and that the 50-day battle from 19 March to 9 May was a mess, and that the combat methods of the Nationalist Army not only caught Chairman Chiang by surprise, but also surprised most of the people in the You Gan class. Abandoned Nanchang, but did not fight the imaginary sports war, let alone disperse the enemy through the pull of the west and north of Nanchang, and finally evolved into an all-out counterattack against Nanchang City as expected by Mo Di. According to the city and the defense is still and fails, it is not easy to attack the fortification, and the result can be imagined. After defeating Chen Anbao, commander of the 29th Army of the 32nd Group Army, Chairman Chiang saw that he could not do anything and ordered a retreat, so the participating troops withdrew from Nanchang like a tide.

Liu Jingzhi's Fourth Army also drew to the Nanchang area to help in the late stage of the battle, the purpose was to cover the withdrawal of the 32nd Group Army from the battle, after the battle, Shangguan Yunxiang retreated to southern Anhui, and the Fourth Army moved to the Mubu Mountain area, where it stopped is not known, Liu Jingzhi received an order to Changsha to wait for news.

Nanchang was lost, the Pingzhu Railway could no longer connect the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, and the third theater was cut with one cut, and only the road could be passed. Mo Di knew that he could reach Huizhou by car, and then cross the river from the area of Wangjiang Huayang and return to Qianshan. However, because the Battle of Nanchang had just ended, and the Jiangxi Theater was very chaotic, Liu Jingzhi invited Mo Di to Changsha together, not to venture into the war zone, and it was not a joke to accidentally become a prisoner. Mo Di thought about it, so he took the train to Changsha City together, and then made the next plan when he arrived in Changsha.

Changsha burned for five days and five nights in November last year, burning down the entire city, Changsha, as one of the few ancient cities in China with unchanged ruins for more than 2,000 years, the cultural inheritance was interrupted, and the historical relics of the Chu State since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were accumulated, and the cultural relics on the ground were destroyed to almost zero.

Half a year has passed, Changsha City still has strong traces of fire, from the dilapidated Changsha Railway Station, the hearts of the invincibles can't help but chill, they have seen the war burning the city, but they have not seen it burned so thoroughly! After the fire, Changsha City looks very empty, there are no living trees and no high-rise buildings, the streets are all some temporary sheds, there are not many people coming and going, and the face is as lifeless as the city. The sun was very bright and shining, and the air could still smell the burnt smell of the fire.

"I heard that the Changsha fire is a man-made disaster and not a natural disaster, does Brother Jing have more detailed information?" Li Shigui asked.

"There are natural disasters and man-made disasters." Liu Jingzhi said: "After the fall of Wuhan, there was a secret order from above, demanding that Zhang Zhizhong, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, burn down the whole city if Changsha falls. In order to carry out this secret order, Zhang Zhizhong summoned the commander of the garrison, Yu Yi, and the provincial security chief, Xu Quan, and came up with a plan to burn the city, making it clear that before abandoning the city, all public and private buildings in Changsha City and all materials that were not ready to be transported should be burned and not used by the enemy. ”

"It's really something!" Zhang Zhinong said angrily: "I heard before that it was a natural disaster, and some people said that it was a fire caused by the Japanese bombing, so our army also organized a huge oath to avenge the victims of Changsha, and it was their own people who set the fire for a long time." ”

"Calm down, listen to me." Liu Jingzhi said: "The plan has been completed, all kinds of preparations are basically ready, the distribution and control of ignition materials, the order, signal, order, and discipline of the fire have been specifically stipulated, and the location of the fire has also been selected in Tianxin Pavilion, with Xu Kun, head of the Second Garrison Regiment, as the commander-in-chief, and Wang Weineng and Xu Quan, deputy commanders of the Municipal Social Training Corps, as the deputy commander-in-chief. Only waited for the Japanese army to break through the defense line in northern Hunan and set fire to Changsha as soon as they arrived. ”

"I remember that the Changsha fire broke out in mid-November last year, when the Japanese army was still fighting in Xianning and the Ninth Theater of Operations, which was far away from Changsha, so this city burning plan should not be launched, right?" Mo Di guessed: "Is it really a natural disaster?" ”

"It's a natural disaster." Liu Jingzhi said: "The Japanese did not bomb Changsha that day, and it was the politicians' job to shift the responsibility to the Japanese, and they really wronged the Japanese." However, there are many bad things that the Japanese have done in China, and it doesn't matter if there is more or less, such as the digging of the embankment of the Yellow River, which has nothing to do with the Japanese, but the legend is that it is all caused by the Japanese bombing. Knowledgeable people know that the Japanese want to blow up the embankment of the Yellow River with airplanes, but they are afraid that they will not be able to do it in half a year. ”

Zhang Zhinong nodded and said: "It makes sense to say this, it was Shang Zhen and Jiang Zaizhen who dug the Yellow River, we know this." ”

"At about 2 o'clock in the morning on November 13, 1938, a fire broke out in the wounded soldier hospital outside the south gate of Changsha. What I didn't expect was that because of the implementation of the burning plan, the firefighters had already evacuated, and all the fire trucks had changed their water into gasoline, ready to set fire at any time. Autumn is high and dry, and an accidental fire has a tendency to spread. The city garrison headquarters, which did not know the truth, saw the fire outside the city and thought it was a signal, and threw lit torches at oil drums or residents' houses. Not long after, even Tianxin Pavilion was on fire, and then the whole city caught fire. Seeing that the fire could no longer be extinguished, the city could only be abandoned. In the end, the Changsha fire burned for five days and five nights before it went out on its own. ”

"I see!" Mo Di nodded: "Without any precautions, I suddenly suffered from this fire, I am afraid that the local people will suffer a lot." The planned plan has become the implementation of no plan, and these people in the Hunan military and government can be described as extremely evil. ”

Liu Jingzhi nodded, did not speak, he knew that when the fire started, the people in the city were still asleep, woke up from the dream, and thought that the Japanese army had entered the city, ready to take the road to escape, but the fire was already coming, most of the streets and alleys had been blocked by fireworks, and the people who fled in the raging fire were crowded and chaotic, some were trampled to death by the crowd, some were crushed to death by cars, and some were burned alive by the fire. An old lady in her 60s died tragically after being forced into a water tank by fire. A mother with her child took refuge in a water tank to avoid the fire and was both boiled alive. More than 30 employees of the Yu Taihua Gold took refuge in air-raid shelters and were all scorched to death. The terrible cries, terrifying screams, and explosions as the buildings burned, turned the thousand-year-old city of Changsha into a hell on earth. Although the commander of the Changsha garrison, Xu Kun, the commander of the Second Garrison Regiment, and the chief of the Changsha police, Wen Chongfu, were executed. Xu Quan, director of the Hunan Provincial Security Division, Shi Guoji, chief of staff of the Changsha Garrison Command, and Xu Quan, chief of staff, were dismissed from their posts and investigated. Zhang Zhizhong, chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, and Xi Chulin, mayor of Changsha City, were resigned and retained. The damage that can be caused can no longer be recovered, the Japanese have not yet entered Changsha, Changsha is already a scorched earth.

Liu Jingzhi didn't speak, and everyone didn't want to say any more, so he finally found a passable hotel in the dilapidated city, chartered it, and settled himself, the first thing was to find a bank. More than a dozen banks, including the Hunan Provincial Bank, Jiangxi Yumin Bank, Bank of Shanghai, Bank of Communications, and Bank of China, were reduced to ashes in the fire. On the former site of Jiangxi Yumin Bank, Citibank's fancy star-spangled flag is fluttering boringly. After the fall of Wuhan, the Citibank in Wuhan was divided into two, one went to Chongqing, and the other went to Changsha. Carrying Guangyang, who was almost 2,000 catties, almost scared the staff of Citibank, and smiled happily, he welcomed the big customer to the hall and posted an announcement at the door that it was temporarily closed. In these years, banks are the most willing to deposit money, because the owner of the money will die in the war if he is not careful, and a lot of money will become ownerless, and many thousands of years will still be there, becoming the bank's assets.

Deposited the silver in the bank and put the passbook away closely, Zhang Zhinong's guard captain looked at the passbook that belonged to him, although he didn't know any of the words on it, but he looked at it, stroked and touched, as if it was the face of a beautiful woman's ass child, looked at the brothers who were also holding the passbook with a smile, and said something that made people cry and laugh: Buddies have become propertied from now on. Zhang Zhinong said angrily: After the battle, there is still life, this property is yours, if there is no life, I don't know whose it is.

The bank gave them good news, every ten days, a Citigroup-flying American merchant ship would come to Changsha, deliver American goods, and at the same time concentrate the bank's money in Shanghai Citibank along the way, Mo Di and Li Shigui could go down to Anqing or other places with the ship, of course, a certain fee would be charged, and they could not wear Chinese military uniforms on board, let alone be fully armed.

This is good news, Mo Di immediately paid the corresponding fee, and when he arrived at Huayang Wharf in Wangjiang County, Li Ren was even more refreshed until Nantong.

Arrange all kinds of affairs, Liu Jingzhi's guard captain Li Linxiang took everyone out to find food, came to the ruins of the fire palace, here is also a dilapidation, Wenxi fire, in addition to the "Qianyuan Palace" archway, the fire palace temple and the statue of the god were burned, and even the big iron incense burner cast in the temple in the five years of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty did not know where to go. In the empty square, with two simple sheds, Li Linxiang said, this is the only place in Changsha where you can find food.

The invincibles looked at Li Linxiang in disbelief, Nuoda Changsha City, Changsha City, which is famous, has actually become like this. Li Linxiang laughed embarrassedly, as if he was the culprit of Changsha Dayan, and always repeated a sentence, make do with it today, and go to Yuelu Mountain on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River tomorrow to eat vegetarian food in the monk's temple.