War of Resistance: Glory of the Beasts

Chapter 409: Cruel! (Thanks to '金迷纸醉' for the 2900 reward!)
Historical events still happened, but the development process is somewhat different from real history.

In March 1937, Bai Jianwu finally couldn't bear it anymore and led his troops to create a riot in Fengtai Town, Wanping County. The Japanese took advantage of the riot and completely occupied the Fengtai Railway Station in the name of "affecting the safety of the Fengtai garrison", squeezed out the last battalion of the 3th Army, and cut off the railway traffic in Wanping County.

The historical fact should be that when Bai Jianwu established the Hebei-Chahar Political Affairs Committee, he was pulled into the management by the blind Song Zheyuan and became a senator. He colluded with the Japanese and led more than 1935 people to provoke a conflict and attack Beijing in 1937 to provide an excuse for Japan to start a war. But the "Shangzhen" suppressed the rebellion too quickly, and the Japanese did not have time to react before the rebellion was quelled. Later, Bai Jianwu instigated Song Zheyuan to surrender to Japan in , but failed. He was lured and shot by Lao Feng.

But after Xu Chaoyang suppressed the armored car rebellion and the Tongxian incident, Bai Jianwu seemed to be frightened by this riot, and it never appeared. It was not until March 1937 that it finally appeared.

"Chaoyang, something happened!"

The person who came to report the news this time was not Yang Jingyu, but Li Hansheng (who came from the Soviet area to establish a trade union).

Xu Chaoyang had only met this guy twice since he came to Dagu. One was when he first arrived, and the other time was after he took over the thermal power plant and Jingxing Coal Mine, when he discussed with him the establishment of a trade union.

"Bai Jianwu rioted in Fengtai and provoked the 29th Army stationed at Fengtai Railway Station, causing a fierce conflict between the two sides. The Japanese took the opportunity to intervene and forcibly attacked Fengtai Railway Station!"

Xu Chaoyang slowly raised his head, put down the cigarette box in his hand, and waited for Li Hansheng's next words.

"Why are you so calm?"

Li Hansheng looked at Xu Chaoyang and was very surprised at the emotionless expression on his face.

Xu Chaoyang said calmly: "I have dealt with Bai Jianwu before, and I know very well what kind of person he is."

Li Hansheng looked at him meaningfully, and then said, "Originally, this matter had nothing to do with the 29th Army, but in order to give the devils enough excuses, Bai Jianwu burned, killed, looted, and harmed countless civilians in Fengtai..."

Things seem to be back on track!

The 300-strong plainclothes team formed by Bai Jianwu are actually local land grabbers. In the eyes of these people, "country" and "home" are not important. The most important thing is profit. How can they not take advantage of the situation to rob?

According to legend, when the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, it was this group of people who took advantage of the situation to loot the Old Summer Palace that caused the most damage!

"You..." Li Hansheng looked at Xu Chaoyang again in disbelief: "Don't you feel angry?"

Sitting in his office, Xu Chaoyang asked him, "What's the point of being angry?"

"Twelve houses were burned in Fengtai Town, 12 ordinary people were killed, including six children aged 84 to 12. Are you not moved at all?"

"That group of people appeared at night like demons, killing their compatriots with a grin, and robbing without any reason... Why do you make me feel that it is not..."

Xu Chaoyang shook his head and said in a cold voice: "Tell me about the situation at Fengtai Railway Station."

"Xu Chaoyang!"

Li Hansheng put his hands on the table of Xu Chaoyang's desk and stared at him.

Xu Chaoyang remains calm until now, and he doesn't know why... In the end, he can only blame it on the fact that he has seen too much.

In Dashuyingzi, amid the flames of the bombing by the Japanese air force, he saw a mother holding her hungry child, sitting on the snow in front of her house and crying loudly, shouting: "I have worked hard for four years to save money to renovate the house...ah..." She didn't know that if she didn't leave, she would die, and she was still crying for the house she had renovated.

In the small street, under the bombardment of tanks and heavy artillery, he saw his father, who had all his limbs intact, running for his life in front of him, and his child, who had just learned to walk, stretched out his chubby little hands to his father's back among the ruins. Before he could even shout "Dad", a shell fell, and everything was annihilated in the dust. Xu Chaoyang still remembers the tiger-head hat on the child's head, which is called a "tiger head and tiger brain" in Northeast China.

He had seen all of this. He had seen refugees fleeing during a war, grabbing a woman with a gold earring by the ear, tearing it apart and causing blood to flow.

He had seen that on a quiet afternoon, several Japanese soldiers from the puppet Manchukuo area rushed into a peaceful courtyard in the northeast. Just because the daughter-in-law was beautiful, they disrupted the harmonious life of the family and finally left four corpses.

Isn't this enough?
When the war came, in the flames of artillery fire, Xu Chaoyang saw with his own eyes that the human figure turned into a demon in the reflection of the fire, and kept shaking. This time, is it enough?
But what Xu Chaoyang needs now is calm!
"Say what you want."

Li Hansheng's prepared emotions seemed to have disappeared, and he just said dully: "The Fengtai garrison troops used this riot as an excuse to march into the Fengtai Railway Station. The 29th Army's battalion stationed at the railway station exchanged fire with the local garrison troops, but was ultimately defeated and retreated to Wanping City."

Hearing this, Xu Chaoyang laughed again: "Believe it or not, this time the Guizi's biological father and grandmother are going to be lost again."

This has become a routine!

"Yes, the devils lodged a protest to the Hebei-Chahar Political Affairs Committee this morning, demanding that... the Wanping garrison hand over the bandit, Bai Jianwu."

"What a great way to put the blame on someone else!" Xu Chaoyang was amused.

But he did not continue to ask, but opened his mouth to ask something else: "How is the situation in my hometown? Have you received the food and people I transported over?"

"We have received it. In order to receive this batch of grain, when the train entered Shanxi, our people climbed onto the train in the wilderness and unloaded all the grain on the train along the way."

"You can't throw people off a train like that, can you?"

"That can't be."

Li Hansheng explained: "The reason why we didn't wait until we entered Shanxi to accept the inspection by the Jin army is because we were afraid that they would see the food and become jealous, which would lead to unnecessary conflicts. Food is too important to us and we can't afford to lose even a little bit."

"The person is fine. He got off the bus in Taiyuan and was taken to northern Shaanxi by our people. You can rest assured."

"The families of the 217th Regiment and the 570 children have all arrived safely. We have received all the food you transported, which was more than ten trainloads."

Xu Chaoyang waved at him and picked up the phone: "Hello? Bi Sheng? Ask the first batch of people who entered the shipyard, who worked as workers for a period of time and then became soldiers of the 217th Regiment, to withdraw from the training ground. From today on, all the machinery in the factory will be dismantled into parts. Each piece will be padded with cotton, more cotton, and then wrapped with oilcloth, and finally wrapped with rags on the outside to make it firm."

"Don't worry about why, just do it." He was really afraid that these precious machines he had collected would be broken.

After hanging up the phone, Xu Chaoyang looked at Li Hansheng and said, "Some of the machines in Dagu Shipyard can be dismantled, but some cannot. For example, the Martin furnace in the smelting plant cannot be dismantled. I will use official channels to transport those that cannot be dismantled by train. At that time, I can only ask people in my hometown to hijack the train and rob it together with the train."

“I’m afraid there will be considerable sacrifice.”

Li Hansheng had worked at the Dagu Shipyard before, and there was indeed no way to dismantle the 30-ton Martin furnace. He nodded and said, "It's okay to sacrifice some manpower, but I'm afraid Song Zheyuan won't let you transport the things away."

“So what comes next is the most important thing.”

Xu Chaoyang stood up from behind his desk, pointed at the map and said, "I'll figure out how to get the stuff onto the train, and then I'll tell you which train and which railway to take."

"If I'm not mistaken, these things should be transported to Baoding or Zhangjiakou."

"What I need is for people from my hometown to climb onto the train when it passes the ambush site and hijack it. Then, we can divide our forces into several groups to forcibly seize all the ambush points that intercept the train, force our way through, and drive the train into Shanxi."

"As for the distance from Shanxi to northern Shaanxi, I can't do anything about it. How to transport these Martin furnaces and machines that cannot be disassembled can only be solved by people in my hometown."

Li Hansheng looked at the map and thought for a long time before nodding and saying, "Okay, I'll go back and report immediately."

But after saying this, Li Hansheng looked at Xu Chaoyang: "What about the 217th Regiment?"

"How do we move?" Xu Chaoyang asked back, "This is a regiment, not a company. If we hide in the woods, they won't be able to see us."

"Wait for the opportunity."

"Once we have a reasonable opportunity to set off, we will immediately enter Shanxi and head straight to northern Shaanxi after all the machinery at Dagu Shipyard has been transported away."

In front of Xu Chaoyang was a national map, but his eyes were always on the Tianjin map next to it.

go?
He had to leave of course, but if he left without teaching the Japanese a lesson, would that still be Xu Chaoyang's style?

"Chaoyang, you must not move rashly in such a tense situation. I didn't let Lao Yang pass on the news this time. The commander asked me to come here to tell you in person, just to remind you not to be reckless."

Xu Chaoyang turned his head very calmly and said with a smile on his face: "Don't worry, we have come all the way from the Northeast to today, and we have never changed our original intention." He was talking about 'anti-Japanese'.

"That's good." What Li Hansheng was talking about was 'obedience'.

But the map in Xu Chaoyang's eyes had been slowly ignited under the temperature of the war that was about to burn, and bursts of green smoke rose. Then the war burned the entire Dagu, the entire Tianjin, and the entire North China. Tianjin was shaking in the sound of artillery fire, and Peking was burning in flames. It swept across the country madly, and there was a huge explosion in Songhu and Nanjing.

And this proves that "no one is unaffected in war, otherwise, how can we show the cruelty of war"? !

　Thanks to '金迷志醉' for giving a total of 2900 rewards three times. It's too much, really, too much, but thank you anyway. In fact, just a like will be enough. I am very grateful. Thank you a thousand times.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)