Chapter 934 933 [Big Bombing and Report]
Time came to May in a blink of an eye, and the reporters responsible for the interviews in Sichuan came back one after another and compiled a 70,000-word investigative report on the young man.
Throughout May, Chongqing citizens spent their time amid bombings.
The Japanese base camp formulated the "101 Operation Agreement", which was led by the Naval Air Force and executed by the Army Air Force. The Japanese invaders mobilized nearly 300 aircraft from various fronts to carry out concentrated and persistent bombing of Chongqing. Chongqing Guangyangba Airport was no longer used. Japanese planes continued to bomb Baishiyi and Liangshan Airports, and carried out heavy bombings in Chengdu, Wenjiang, Nanchong, Yibin and other places.
Any Sichuan city with an airport could not escape the fate of being bombed by Japanese planes. The goal of the Japanese invaders was to completely destroy the Chinese air force.
The Chinese Air Force athletes fought hard, but were ultimately outnumbered.
For more than half a month, there have been air battles almost every day, and the Chinese fighter planes have been exhausted. More than half of the 14 young pilots who were guests at Zhou's residence were now killed in action, leaving only five alive. Lin Huiyin, who received death notices one after another, cried countless times.
After wiping out China's air power, the Japanese invaders immediately turned their target to the main urban area and carried out indiscriminate bombings on Chongqing in two to three batches every day for as long as 10 days.
The city of Chongqing was filled with smoke, corpses strewn on the ground, and ruins everywhere. People were so numb from the bombing that they didn't even bother to carry out repair work. Anyway, they would be repaired today and destroyed tomorrow. Every household lives in a shack and is ready to run to a bomb shelter at any time.
The Zhou Mansion was also bombed once, with bombs falling on the back gate and garden. The blast shattered all the windows. Fortunately, no one was injured or injured as everyone hid in the basement.
By June, the Japanese bombing of Chongqing finally slowed down, and people began to carry out recovery and reconstruction work.
The back gate and fence of Zhou Mansion needed to be repaired, and the big hole in the garden had to be filled in. The house suddenly turned into a noisy construction site.
Amidst the clanging sound of knocking, Zhou Hexuan was sorting out the report data - reporters sent outside the province also came back one after another.
"It's absolutely crazy!" Lin Guoda suddenly cursed loudly.
Zhou Hexuan raised his head and asked, "What's wrong?"
Lin Guoda said angrily: "Teacher, look, this is an interview report brought back by a reporter from Henan. The officer in charge of recruiting soldiers there has been smuggling mercury and selling it to the Japanese since last year. Because of the huge profits, this kind of behavior is colluding with foreign enemies." It has become a common practice and has become an unspoken and unspoken rule of the Henan military recruitment agency. The young men do not have enough to eat or wear warm clothes, and they have to carry supplies for the officers thousands of miles to Chongqing for sale. Often, 1,000 young men set out from Henan and only walked to Chongqing. There are less than 500 people left!”
Zhou Hexuan had already read similar historical information, but when he read it again, he was still trembling with anger.
"Sir, Mr. Zhang Henshui is here." Ma Jue suddenly knocked on the door.
Zhou Hexuan said: "Invite him in."
Zhang Henshui opened the door and entered the house with a dusty look. He picked up Zhou Hexuan's tea cup and drank from it. Then he said angrily: "I'm so angry, so angry! I've been interviewing and investigating in Hunan for more than a month, and what I saw and heard was shocking. The method used over there is to draw draftees into the army, but less than 80% of the actual draftees are all imposters. The local wealthy gentry colludes with gangsters to recruit the helpless people to become strong men, and even those with epilepsy, lunacy, etc. I was caught to make up the numbers. I personally visited a rural family. The eldest brother was sick, the second brother was disabled, and the third brother was only 14 years old. It stands to reason that there is no need to draw a ward in such a situation, but the security chief insisted that the third brother had falsely reported his age. That family The old parents had no choice but to sell their only daughter to someone else as a child bride in exchange for money to hire someone to take her place. From randomly arresting young men, to paying off medical examiners, to impersonation, and subsequent extortion, the situation has taken shape in Hunan. an industry.”
Zhou Hexuan wanted to come to Zhang Henshui's interview report. It took him more than half an hour to read it, and he even said: "It's okay, it's okay!"
"Is this okay?" Zhang Henshui glared at Zhou Hexuan.
Zhou Hexuan smiled bitterly and said: "Eighty percent of the recruits are in the normal draft, and the mortality rate along the way is less than 30%. This is already very rare. Just look at the report brought back from Henan."
"Mr. Zhang, please take a look." Lin Guoda helped hand over the interview materials.
Zhang Henshui only watched it for less than ten minutes before he threw out the interview materials and cursed: "You bastard!"
During the entire Anti-Japanese War, Sichuan had the largest number of young men arrested, followed by Henan and Hunan. The people in these three provinces suffered a lot.
Ma Jue carefully picked up the information, looked at it curiously for a while, and his face became extremely cold. She said to Zhou Hexuan: "Sir, this matter must be reported to President Jiang!"
Zhou Hexuan said: "Wait until I finish writing the summary report."
In fact, Zhou Hexuan was quite pleased. At least the situation in 1940 was not so bad that it could not be dealt with.
It was really bad in 1944. Many local gangsters directly engaged in kidnapping in the name of catching young men. In fact, it had nothing to do with the national conscription. The people responsible for transporting young men were even more messy. For example, when they were sent from Chongqing to the front-line military station, because too many people died along the way and it was difficult to communicate, they actually directly arrested the trackers who were helping them pull fibers, insisting that those trackers were deserters. The farmers they saw farming on the road were also arrested. Anyway, they said that everyone was a deserter.
In mid-June, all the dispatched reporters returned, and Zhou Hexuan's "Investigation and Several Suggestions on the Issue of Young Adults" was finally completed.
Zhou Hexuan took a boat to Yunxiu Tower on the south bank. The secretary invited him to the reception room with a smile.
After waiting for about half an hour, Chang Kaishen came out with a smile: "Mingcheng, you expected everything. Germany indeed attacked Denmark and Norway, and then bypassed the Maginot Line and invaded France. This Frenchman is really It didn’t work, it was penetrated in less than a month, and hundreds of thousands of British and French troops were blocked by the Germans on the seaside.”
Zhou Hexuan asked with a smile: "Have the Americans and British reacted?"
Chang Kaishen said proudly: "The British and French coalition forces were completely defeated, but we, China, persisted in the war of resistance for several years and fought vigorously. We are the mainstay of the world's anti-fascist forces. The British and Americans will naturally come to friendly negotiations."
It seems that Chiang Kai-shek is really happy. The British and French forces have suffered a huge defeat, the situation in Europe is in danger, and the Chinese battlefield has become crucial in an instant. You can guess with your heels that the British and American diplomats stationed in China must have made some kind of promise to Chang Kaishen, or at least increase the amount of loans to China.
It was time to pour cold water on Chang Kaishen. Zhou Hexuan took out his report and said, "President, please take a look."
"What is this?" Chang Kaishen asked.
Zhou Hexuan said: "I encountered some situations some time ago and sent reporters to conduct interviews and investigations. The contents are all in this report."
Chang Kaishen opened the report with a smile and looked at it. The smile on his face gradually solidified. It took him a long time to hold back three words -
"Niang Xipi!"