Chapter 10: Anqing (13)

What Mo Di didn't expect was that Tang Ruru's prophecy was not fulfilled, and his prediction was not established, and he stayed in Mabu for nearly half a month, and Mo Di lived even more unhappily in this half month. In the whole Mabu, except for Wei Yongcheng and Li Baicheng, no one has to answer him, he is like a merchant on Mabu Street, one more is not more, one less is not less, and it is dispensable. The weather is gradually getting colder, the fish in the river are sinking to the bottom, I want to get a few to pass the time, it is not particularly easy, a few frosts, get up early in the morning, a place is white, if you are in Baishou's hometown, this is winter.

Entering November, Mo Di became more and more lonely, created a record of not going out for three days, got some bamboo, broke one end to pieces, cut it into a pen, dipped in water and practiced the big characters on the red floor tiles in the living room for three days, whether the calligraphy is big into I don't know, only know, write a lot of bamboo. Every day, Qin Guosheng sent food and wine in, he ate and drank according to the food, and did not answer people, until Qin Guosheng sent in a telegram and said a word, only to pull him out of the artistic conception of practicing calligraphy, only to hear Qin Guosheng say: "Boss, the Japanese have entered the North Sea." ”

Mo Di stood up, twisted his somewhat sore waist, and asked, "What day is November today?" ”

"Five." Qin Guosheng replied. Pour out the old tea that had been frozen on the table, rebuild a cup of hot tea and put it on the table, and stand aside.

"It's almost time." Mo Di was not surprised, as if the Japanese had reported to him before attacking Beihai, he just spoke to himself, and at the same time said to Qin Guosheng: "The superiority of the Japanese army is not on land, but at sea, and the superiority of the Japanese navy is relatively more obvious. This time last year, a fleet crossed the Taiwan Strait, landed in South China, and captured Guangzhou as desired. The next progress did not satisfy the Japanese, and after a year of fighting, they were still blocked by Yu Hanmou in the south of the Nanling Ridge and could not advance an inch. I want to turn to the west, but I am afraid of Guangxi's military strength. You can't stay in Guangzhou and get moldy, you can only go west along the coastline, Zhongshan has been taken, Yangjiang has been taken, Zhanjiang is in the hands of the French, and the Japanese don't want to tear their faces with the French for a while, so they can only bypass. After bypassing Zhanjiang, the first thing to bear the brunt of is Beihai, and after taking Beihai, I am afraid that the next thing is Qinzhou Bay. ”

"Are you just watching the Japanese sweep away our coast?" Qin Guosheng didn't want to ask, but he couldn't help it.

"What's the way, the coastal area is the boundary of Guangdong, and now that Yu Hanmou in Guangdong is being dragged down by the attack of Nanling, where can he still take care of Qinzhou Bay, which is far away from the water." Mo Di sighed, glanced at Qin Guosheng, retracted his wild thinking, and began to discuss the defense of China's southern coastline with his guard company commander.

"Didn't the Military Commission already send Commander Bai to Guilin as the director of the camp, taking overall charge of the defense of the southern coast? Yu Hanmou can't disobey Chief Bai's order! Qin Guosheng asked puzzled, he is a typical student army, a theoretical revolutionary, and he doesn't understand some twists and turns.

"The chairman of the committee said that people are not divided into the south and the south, which means that people are divided into men and women, and the land is divided into east and west, and the Pearl River valley has always been divided between Guangdong and Guangxi." Mo Di made a joke about Lao Jiang's words, and then said: "After the June 1 Incident in the 25th year of the Republic of China, there was an agreement between the two Guangxi provinces, and without the consent of the Guangdong Provincial Government, Guangxi troops were not allowed to enter, and this agreement was not abolished because of the arrival of the War of Resistance Against Japan, at least not among the people. As far as I know, before Commander Bai took up the post of director of the Guilin camp, the Guangxi troops could only deploy defenses in the Nanxiao area of Yongning at most, because further south was Qinzhou Xiaodong, and the Guangxi troops could no longer enter. When I went back last year, I heard that General Mo Shujie of the 175th Division of the 46th Army had been expelled by the locals after being ordered to build fortifications on Guantouling in Beihai. The same is true of Qinzhou, Hai Yuming said that the residents in the Qinfang area all communicate in Cantonese, while the Gui army mainly uses the official dialect of Guiliu and is stationed in the Qinfang area, and it is very difficult to even buy grain and vegetables. After Chief Bai became the director of the camp, the situation improved to a certain extent, and the main force of a provisional division was placed in Xiaodong, and all supplies had to be transported from Nanning. ”

Qin Guosheng nodded, there is a great difference between the language of Guangxi and Guangdong, the official dialect of Guangxi is a northern dialect, and the local indigenous people must also use the official dialect to communicate in public. After Li Baihuang took charge of Guangxi, he vigorously promoted the Guiliu dialect, and in the Xijiang Xunjiang River Valley, he also vigorously promoted the official dialect, and Huang Xuchu of Rong County could also speak standard official dialect, and the previous Huang Shaojun was able to speak fluent Chinese, and there was no problem in dealing with northerners when he was in the northern parallel camp. However, Qinzhou, which is only a hundred miles away from Nanning, is different, they regard themselves as Cantonese, with Cantonese as the official language, the former Nantian King Chen Jitang is a native of Fangcheng Road Town, Qinlian area, people in charge of Guangdong Niuer abound, Chen Mingshu, Xiang Hanping, Wu Jianxiong and so on. With regard to Guangxi in the north, they have always had an extremely heavy mentality of precaution, because it is close to Guangxi and far away from Guangdong, and it may be invaded and annexed by Guangxi at any time, so they have always adopted an attitude of non-cooperation toward Guangxi's military and political circles.

"In March this year, when I was studying in Hengshan, I learned that the Japanese army occupied Weizhou Island and Xieyang Island, which are not far from Beihai, and then built an airport warehouse and wharf on the island, and it is said that the airport on Weizhou Island is larger than Guilin's Yangtang Airport, which can park more than 400 aircraft. After that, the Japanese army used Weizhou Island as a base and carried out tentative sexual harassment of Beihai Port several times. The first time, the enemy bombed the urban area with aircraft, and the second time, a Japanese warship rushed into the vicinity of Beihai Port and harassed it at the bottom of Gaode and Lingdi. For the third time, two motorboats collided and invaded Beihai Port and entered the coastal line such as Gaosharon and Baihutou. Seeing Qin Guosheng fall into thought, Mo Di began to analyze, he likes to use his brains very much, and thinks that a soldier with initiative is an offensive soldier, and then said: "After I returned to Anhui in May, I no longer know what happened next. ”

"Is it under such circumstances that Chief Bai was transferred to Guilin to camp?" Qin Guosheng asked.

Mo Di nodded and said: "The Fourth Theater Command is in Liuzhou, so all war predictions are based on the Japanese army attacking Liuzhou, attacking from Xijiang, from Zhanjiang, and from Qinzhou Bay, and the most unlikely thing that the General Staff thinks is from Qinzhou Bay." Hai Yuming is a staff officer in the camp, I have heard from him, and I told you about it before. ”

Qin Guosheng nodded, he knew that the layout of the Fourth Theater in Guinan was mainly composed of General Xia Wei's Sixteenth Group Army, with two armies, one was the 46th Army (composed of the new 19th Division, 170th Division, and 175th Division), and the other was the 31st Army (composed of the 131st Division, 135th Division, and 188th Division), except for the new 19th and 175th Divisions serving as coastal garrisons along the coast from Qinzhou to Hepu, the remaining 4 divisions were located on both sides of the Yongjiang River. The main ones in charge of coastal defense were He Xuan's 46th Army, of which Li Xingshu's 170th Division was Nanning's Imperial Forest Army, the 175th Division Mo Shujie was in Hepu, the new 19th Division Huang Gu was in Xiaodong, the new 19th Division was under the jurisdiction of Huang Tingcai's 55th Regiment to defend Qinzhou, Lu Jiyan's 56th Regiment to defend the city, and Liu Ziqiang's 57th Regiment to defend Xiaodong Town. Bai Zongxi wanted to transfer Wei Yunsong's 31st Army to Qinfang, but Yu Hanmou in Guangdong flatly refused, and he also made up a new military situation, saying that the Japanese army in Guangzhou was about to move, and there were signs of attacking Guangxi along the Xijiang River. The Fourth Theater ordered Wei Yunsong, commander of the 31st Army, to lead He Weizhen's 131st Division and Weizhen's 188th Division to reinforce Cangwu, Tengxian County, Xijiang, and block the mouth of the Xijiang River, leaving only one Su Zuxin's 135th Division to garrison in Yongning.

"Leaving only one regiment stationed in Qinzhou Fangcheng is the same as a blank, and the Japanese army will not have too much effort to take Qinzhou!" Qin Guosheng shook his head: "It is the same national land, how can it be like this, Guangdong can't take care of the land, Guangxi can't make a strong move, Yu Hanmou is only afraid that he will miss a big deal!" ”

Mo Di smiled bitterly, threw the bamboo pipe that was already bald in his hand into the garbage basket, and said: "Not in his position, not in his business, these events are not something we can worry about. ”

Qin Guosheng knew that Mo Di was saying the opposite, which was a manifestation of extreme hatred and pain, if it wasn't idle for more than a month, Mo Di would not have this kind of negative energy language. He was a little worried about Mo Enemy, people were all bad, Zhou Zuhuang was still complaining about the idle Songhua River, not to mention that a city government was far inferior to Zhou Zuhuang's Mo Enemy, a young man who was not yet in his prime.

"Let's go, go shopping!" With a wave of his hand, Mo Rival took the lead and walked out.

The streets of Mabu are still as lively as ever, and nothing has changed because there is a Beihai commercial port in the far south that was occupied by the Japanese army, and the tea merchants stand in the low storefronts, warmly greeting anyone who walks by the shop to come in and have a cup of tea. The water of the Xiwei River is good, the tea fragrance of Mabu, the faint tea fragrance soaks the middle street, walking on the bluestone paved avenue, I actually feel that the tea fragrance is blowing on the face, fresh and annoying.

"I'm curious, do the people in this place only drink tea, not alcohol!" Mo Di is a bit out of place with the harmonious environment of tea on Middle Street, and at this moment he just wants to find a wine shop and have a good drink. Qin Guosheng smiled, the boss wants to find wine to drink, this is easy to do! He turned to the guards beside him and said, "Go to Director Wei, just say that the boss wants to find wine to drink, and let him go to the sauce duck shop in the Fire Temple on Shunhe Street to drink in a while." Walking up to Mo Di's side, he said with a smile: "The country is people-oriented, and the people are food-oriented, how can there be no wine to drink!" Mabu is a well-known commercial port, eating, drinking and having fun, everything. There is a fire temple in the upper reaches of the Xiaobei River, the fire temple is full of large and small restaurants, there is a good taste of Lu'an sauce duck, the boss went to taste it. ”

"Okay, lead the way." With a wave of his short hand, there is not much momentum.

"From this side, there are few people here, quiet, and faster." Qin Guosheng pointed to Hongwen Lane and said: "There is a flower gauze shop here, I have been to see it, it is all Japanese goods, I heard the shopkeeper say that it is a genuine product transferred from Qianshan, I laughed when I heard it, isn't this the livelihood of Director He Degui of our regiment!" ”

Mo Di was really happy this time, saying, "We are also quite spoof sometimes, beating the Japanese while doing their business. But also, if you don't do business, you don't have money, and if you don't have money, you don't have the strength to fight them. Hehehehe, those student buddies who boycott Japanese products will never know why Japanese products are boycotted more and more. ”

Turn around Hongwen Lane, it is Shunhe Street, Xiaobei River flows from the front of the street, a row of weeping willows grows on the river embankment, the leaves have fallen away, only some craggy branches are left, the teeth and claws are not majestic, there are some stone tables and stone tables under the tree, it is estimated that there will be a lot of people here in the summer, chatting and gossiping, but also happy. Go north along Shunhe Street, pass through the Xinglong archway and hear the singing sound of Yiyi Ya not far away, that is the Tsing Yi of the small opera troupe in the throat, Mabu occasionally has some local operas, a few days ago Mo Invincible came to see, although it is not as good as the tone of the stone pai, it is not bad.

Turning around the small theater garden, the Fire Temple is in front of you, and you can see the words Lu'an sauce duck in the wind from a distance, and then there is the sauce fragrance that attracts people's appetite, and Mo Dou doesn't feel that his appetite is great. What's even more surprising is that Wei Yongcheng was already waiting at the door, looking at him with a smile on his face.

"I was improvised, I wanted to find something to eat, how could I meet you here?" Mo Di smiled.

"The army directly under the army just finished a meeting to discuss the Japanese army's capture of Beihai, after the discussion, I wanted to come to you, I wanted to hear your opinion, I couldn't find anyone in your yard, and I asked your guards to know that you might come to eat sauce duck, so I walked here one step earlier. The duck here is good, the color is orange and yellow, the oil is shiny, the aroma is rich, the salty and fresh, I have eaten it twice, and each time it has a long aftertaste. Wei Yongcheng said, took Mo Die's arm, and walked into the somewhat dim sauce duck shop.