Before the truck Zhou Hexuan was riding entered the city, another 18 Japanese planes flew in and carried out indiscriminate bombing of the urban area of Guangzhou.
"Get off, get off!"
"Lie down in the grass and stay away from the car!"
"Don't stand and run!"
Sun Yongzhen, Zhu Guozhen and Min Zhou, who were responsible for protecting safety, shouted loudly, protecting Zhou Hexuan and the two women and hurriedly got out of the car. People on the road also ran away with their heads in arms, and shouts were everywhere. Zhou Hexuan even heard a child crying for his mother.
Fortunately, the enemy plane's bombing target was inside the city. After dropping nearly a hundred heavy bombs, they swaggered away.
Zhou Hexuan stood up and patted the dust on his butt, and couldn't help but cursed: "Fuck little Japan, is it over or not? It was bombed twice in one day!"
Next to him, there was a local man who was escaping from the bombing. He was wearing silk and looked quite luxurious. He said in difficult Mandarin: "Choose a position first. If you smash two books in one hall, you will be wiped out. If you scream in succession, the whole hall will be wiped out."
Smash the four pieces of fertilizer. It seems that Guangzou can no longer be cooked, so I will move the fertilizer and cut it under the star."
Zhou Hexuan pricked up his ears and thought carefully before he understood that the other party was saying that two bombings a day was considered too little. Four bombings a day during the Chinese New Year. Now there is no place to live in Guangzhou, so he can only move back to his hometown in the countryside. Zhou Hexuan couldn't laugh or cry, and said in Cantonese
: "Fellow, how is the situation in Guangzhou?"
The other party replied in Cantonese: "Many people were killed in the bombing. From New Year's Day to Lantern Festival, at least several thousand people died. At first, the Japanese only bombed railways and mines, but now they bomb everything they see. They bomb two or three times a day."
Normally, at least 12 planes come every time, and at most there are forty or fifty at a time."
"The Japanese are hateful!" Yu Peichen said angrily.
Hearing Yu Peichen speak Mandarin, the other party switched to Guangdong Pu, waved his hand and said: "Don't instigate me, I missed it again, we are here in Guangzhou, and we are staying in Sensen. Renting a seat is enough!"
"Farewell!" Zhou Hexuan said, clasping his fists.
The closer to the city of Guangzhou, the worse the road conditions became. There were many potholes in many places, so Zhou Hexuan could only take people out of the car and push them around.
Entering the city, you can see the devastation, and many people are holding the bodies of their deceased relatives and crying loudly. Some government officials and civil organizations are leading the rescue work, and the citizens are also helping to exhume the injured and dead bodies.
Slogans such as "Fight to the End", "All People's United Front", "Vow to Live or Die with Guangzhou" are plastered everywhere on the streets.
Not long after walking, Zhou Hexuan saw another parade, shouting slogans to defend Guangzhou, and asking citizens to donate money to buy airplanes. People frantically surrounded the donation box, stuffing copper plates and banknotes into the box, hoping that the money could be turned into money immediately.
He turned into a plane and had some fun battles with the Japanese invaders' planes.
Yu Peichen was full of praise for this. She said: "I often see in newspapers that Guangdong is a 'United Front Model Province'. It seems that it is indeed true. Just after the bombing, the rescue team and medical team began to
work, the anti-Japanese enthusiasm of the people was also extremely high."
"Alas, it's just superficial." Zhou Hexuan shook his head and sighed.
Zhu Guozhen asked doubtfully: "Sir, why do you say that?"
Zhou Hexuan also didn’t explain: “You will know if you look more.”
Since the July 7th Incident broke out, the slogans of Guangdong Province have been extremely beautiful. The provincial government has carried out a series of united front work, such as releasing political prisoners, abolishing censorship of postal and telecommunications news, allowing people to organize rescue groups, forming local armed forces, launching pro-democracy movements, air defense, etc.
First aid training courses, etc.
Political freedom, nationwide resistance, and support from the people...this is the good impression Guangdong has left on outsiders.
But what is the real situation?
There are now three big bosses in Guangdong, namely Yu Hanmou, Commander-in-Chief of the Fourth Route Army, Wu Tiecheng, Chairman of Guangdong Province and Security Commander, and Zeng Yangfu, Mayor of Guangzhou. Not only do these three people not cooperate on anti-Japanese war affairs, but they restrict and compete with each other.
What to fight for?
Fight for face!
The three of them each set up several international and domestic propaganda agencies, shouting anti-war slogans loudly. You appoint a militia commander today, and I will appoint a national salvation general tomorrow. For more than half a year, militia commanders from all over Guangdong have been everywhere.
The number of civilian anti-Japanese volunteers is said to be in the hundreds of thousands.
But the provincial government did not give these civilian anti-Japanese troops a shot or a bullet, nor did they pay attention to training, let alone arrange defense. The result was that "there were more commanders than soldiers, more soldiers than guns, and more guns than bullets." When the Japanese invaders really came,
, the whole thing was like a rat running around.
As the Guangdong army was constantly being transferred to Wuhan, Guangdong's defense was actually extremely empty. Commander-in-Chief Yu Hanmou had difficulty restraining his generals, and he believed that Japan would not attack South China in the short term.
It wasn't until April that Chiang Kai-shek sent a warning that Japan intended to attack Guangzhou. Yu Hanmou was able to improvise and rush to repair the fortifications. At the same time, he used this as an excuse to ask for troops and food from the central government. But soon news came that Japan had changed its attack.
Regarding Guangzhou's plan, Yu Hanmou and his subordinates suddenly relaxed.
When Guangzhou was being bombed by Yueyue, the Cantonese generals were busy having fun and making money, and some even left the army and went to Hong Kong to travel. Military discipline was even worse, and the army became a tool for smuggling to make money. They smuggled goods from Guangdong
The tungsten mines were shipped to Hong Kong, and then the goods in demand were purchased from Hong Kong and returned to Guangzhou. Each one made a lot of money. The checkpoints set up on the border became a smuggling station for generals. A large number of Japanese spies sneaked in through the checkpoints, and the details of Guangzhou were clearly understood.
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As for the money donated by ordinary people to buy the plane, no one knows where it went. When Japan really started to attack, Yu Hanmou and others panicked, so they took the opportunity to make another round of money and changed the land tax from tax to grain, resulting in a severe shortage of grain and high prices.
The prices soared, and there was even a famine in the city of Guangzhou. They also implemented a scorched earth policy, burning what should be burned and destroying what should be destroyed. The people could not even get firewood, so they had to venture out of the city to cut down trees. Some even dug graves and stole coffins.
Sold as firewood.
Before the Japanese invaders officially started their offensive, Guangzhou was already in a smoky state, and the public security order was extremely bad. People were hungry, cold, and panicked, but Yu Hanmou and others actually ran away with the army after a slight resistance.
It's impossible to run away, the military is weak, the intelligence is wrong, the deployment is wrong... what a slap!
The most speechless ones were the leaders of the Cantonese army. Japanese warships had appeared on the sea, and the garrison officers were still playing everywhere. The defenders quickly called Guangzhou and Hong Kong to inform the officers there to return to the defense as soon as possible. Some of them could not be found.
, guess what method was used to inform? At that time, in major movie theaters in Guangzhou and Hong Kong, the words "The officers and soldiers of the 151st Division will return to the team immediately" suddenly appeared on the screen, which confused the moviegoers.
Well, the Japanese warships have sailed to the Guangzhou waters, and the officers are actually still watching movies. Some even watch movies in Hong Kong...
This is Guangdong, the model province of the united front!
