Chapter 827: 826 [Death Flag]

Zhou Hexuan stayed in the three towns of Wuhan for a full week. In addition to inspecting the construction progress of the Yangtze River Bridge, he also went to the "Ta Kung Pao" and "Fei Gong" magazines.

"Ta Kung Pao" was forced to close the office of the Tianjin General Newspaper because of its anti-Japanese propaganda, and the general manager Hu Zhengzhi led some employees to withdraw southward overnight.

Now the Wuhan branch of "Ta Kung Pao" is presided over by Hu Zhengzhi himself. As for the "Ta Kung Pao" in Shanghai, it can last until the end of the year, when Zhang Jiluan will also have to evacuate, Zhou Hexuan plans to let Zhang Jiluan take charge of the Chongqing branch.

As for "Fei Gong" magazine, the current editor-in-chief is Gao Han, who is also the dean of the Philosophy Department of Wuhan University.

At the beginning, "Feigong" magazine was suspended in Tianjin, and after it moved to Wuhan to resume publication, it immediately received full support from Wuhan University. Not only Gao Han, the editor-in-chief of the magazine, is a professor of Wuhan University, but Wu Qichang, the deputy editor-in-chief, is also a professor of Wuhan University-Wu Qichang is a disciple of Liang Qichao and Wang Guowei, and Xu Zhimo's cousin. After the September 18th Incident broke out, Wu Qichang took his wife and brothers to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum to cry and go on a hunger strike to force Jiang to resist the Japanese. He was dismissed from Tsinghua University and became a professor of history at Wuhan University.

As for Li Shoumin, who was originally responsible for editing "Feigong" and "The Great Earth", he was still in Tianjin at this time. His mother, brother, and father-in-law are all in Tianjin, and his circle of friends is also in Tianjin, so he is a bit reluctant to leave.

Li Shoumin is now very famous. His "Swordsman of Shu Mountain" is even sold in Southeast Asia, and his Peking Opera is also widely sought after by fans. Because of this, after the Japanese occupied Tianjin, they immediately asked Li Shoumin to co-organize a publication, hoping that he would betray the country and become a cultural traitor.

Li Shoumin declined several times, and the Japanese, in a rage, took him into prison and tortured him.

At this moment, Li Shoumin's eyes had been half-blinded by the hot pepper water, and he was still unwilling to agree to cooperate with the Japanese. His father-in-law and friends were asking for help everywhere.

Just like in history, even if Li Shoumin is released from prison, he can only rely on dictation for the rest of his life to create.

When Zhou Hexuan left Wuhan and returned to Chongqing, the reorganization of the Chuankang armies had been completed, and Liu Xiang was ready to lead his troops out of Sichuan to fight against Japan.

In fact, as early as June, the Sichuan Army had already begun a comprehensive reorganization.

On July 6, Chuankang officially reorganized the army.

On the third day of the Army Reorganization Conference, news of the July 7th Incident came. Liu Xiang immediately sent a telegram, advocating a nationwide mobilization and a desperate showdown with Japan.

On August 7, Liu Xiang went to Nanjing to attend the National Defense Conference. When all parties were arguing about the war and problems, Liu Xiang stood up and gave a two-hour speech, saying: "In the war of resistance, Sichuan can send 300,000 troops, supply 5 million strong men, and supply tens of thousands of tons of food."

On August 26th, Liu Xiang returned to Sichuan and published the "Letter to the Army and People of Sichuan and Kang", calling on the soldiers and civilians of Sichuan to make sacrifices for the War of Resistance: "When the National War of Resistance has been launched, the responsibilities of the people of Sichuan are more important than those of other provinces!"

The generals of the various departments of the Sichuan Army volunteered to fight the war one after another, and Fan Haer was particularly active.

Because Fan Ha'er offended Liu Xiang, he was stripped when the army was reorganized. Although he was named deputy army commander, he couldn't even command a big soldier. He shouted anti-Japanese slogans and jumped up and down, but Liu Xiang didn't dump him. Fan Ha'er could only go to the front line of the Anti-Japanese War—Shanghai alone, and wanted to ask his brother Du Yuesheng for help, so that Lao Jiang could find him a powerful general.

Regardless of Fan Haer's anti-Japanese intentions, he did make great contributions to the war of resistance.

Historically, Fan Haer was appointed by Lao Jiang as the commander of the 88th Army, and recruited soldiers at his own expense. The unit he brought out later killed Naoji Sakai, making Naoji Sakai the first serving division commander killed in action in the history of the Japanese Army.

Naoji Sakai committed numerous crimes in China. He once implemented the Sanguang policy in the three provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Huizhou. He even asked his subordinates to conduct a rape competition to judge tigers, leopards, and jackals, namely the first, second, and third prizes. award.

It was such a conscienceless bastard who died under the mines of the 88th Army. Although Fan Haer had already been transferred from the Eighty-eighth Army for two months, there was no doubt that the Eighty-eighth Army was brought out by him at his own expense, and under Fan Haer's command he had repeatedly made military exploits. The miscellaneous army was upgraded to a Type A army commanding 3 divisions.

The times make heroes, if there is no Anti-Japanese War, Liu Xiang is just a local warlord who specializes in civil war, and Fan Haer is just a small warlord leader who does bad things.

Just like the aforementioned Dr. Xu Chuanyin, he was not that great at first. He was allowed to move freely in Nanjing by the Japanese invaders. In fact, he was allowed to collect corpses on the streets. Because of his identity as a Chinese, Xu Chuanyin was almost dragged to be shot by the Japanese army several times. But not only was he not timid or afraid, but because he witnessed the tragic death of his compatriots, his whole soul was sublimated, from an ordinary person to a hero, and he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the rescue of his compatriots.

Heroes, in fact, can also be ordinary people.

Qushan Town, Anxian County, Sichuan Province.

This is the hardest-hit area of ​​the severe drought in Sichuan, and the common people have not recovered from the famine.

Elementary school teacher Wang Jiantang saw Liu Xiang's "Letter to the Army and the People in Sichuan and Kang", threw down the newspaper and came to the town. This day coincided with the fair, Wang Jiantang climbed onto the Sichuan opera stage, and in the eyes of the actors, he shouted to the audience: "Brothers, sisters, listen to me! Little Japan has already We hit Shanghai, and sent planes to bomb everywhere. I don’t know how many compatriots were killed. Sichuan is far from Shanghai, but it’s also very close. If we don’t resist, the Japanese devils will soon hit Sichuan. The Japanese devils are very bad , Burning, killing and looting can do anything. If the folks in Sichuan are not to be murdered by the little Japanese, we Sichuanese should stand up and join the army with me if we are men, and drive the **** little Japanese devils out of China! Everyone said, my words don't matter!"

"It makes sense!" There were sparse responses from under the stage.

Wang Jiantang also said: "In the past, the Sichuan Army only knew how to fight civil wars, but now the Sichuan Army is going to fight against Japan. I am a primary school teacher, and I can live a good life, but I am not a teacher anymore. Do you still have a chance to study? Come with me to fight against Japan!"

"Mr. Wang (specifically referring to the teacher), I'll go with you!" Someone in the audience raised their hands in response.

"Very good, which one else?" Wang Jiantang said happily.

"And I!"

"I'll go too! Anyway, life is hard to go on, why not join the army and fight devils."

"Count me in!"

"..."

In this remote town in northwestern Sichuan, most of the people were ignorant, but hundreds of people stood up on the spot.

Wang Jiantang took these partners and spread the anti-Japanese ideology everywhere in the town. In just one day, he summoned 176 strong men. They found a piece of coarse cloth, bit their fingers and wrote a blood letter, and sent it to the county magistrate Cheng Yunzhang the next morning.

Cheng Yunzhang was greatly moved, and immediately approved the letter of challenge from Wang Jiantang and others, unified them into the An County Volunteer Supplementary Team, and set a date for a grand farewell party.

It was already autumn when the An County Volunteer Team left their hometown. Changing from the drought since last year, it rained heavily on this day, and more than 3,000 ordinary people spontaneously braved the rain to see off the soldiers.

Wang Jiantang's father was over 60 years old, old and sick, unable to see him off in person, so he had to send a flag through the post office.

The post office clerk ran wildly with a piece of white cloth, stopped in front of the team that was about to leave, and said, "Wait a minute, wait a moment! Wang Jiantang, stand up quickly, your old man (father) is here to bring you a flag!"

The county magistrate, Cheng Yunzhang, walked over with an umbrella and said, "What kind of flag, show me."

The two attendants immediately took over the flag and opened it in public, only to see the big word "death" written in the center of the white cloth, and the two lines of small characters on the right side read "I don't want you to be filial in front of me, but I only want you to be filial in front of me." Loyalty", the small characters of the five elements on the left read "National calamity is at the head of the Japanese invaders. The country rises and falls, everyone has a share. I want to serve, but I have passed my age. Fortunately, I have a son, so I consciously volunteer. Give a flag and carry it with you at all times. When you are injured, wipe the blood. Wrap your body after death. Go forward bravely, don't forget your duty! ——The father's handbook".

The scene was silent for a while, and then there was a sudden explosion, and those who could read read the content of the dead flag to those who could not.

County magistrate Cheng Yunzhang, with rosy eyes, threw away the umbrella, and handed the death flag to Wang Jiantang himself, choked up and said, "Take care, strong man!"