Chapter 53: Always Be Ready
"Get out, get out, you're all rice buckets, all rice buckets. It's been so long since the matter came out, and you haven't found a clue yet, tell me yourself, what is the party-state raising you for? What can you do? A few minutes later, several captains of the military command action team came out of the director's office one after another with black faces, and they didn't dare to stay in the building for long, so they walked away with their respective subordinates without a trace.
The angry Dai Li, this was the first time he was angry in front of his subordinates, for no other reason, but he was called by Chiang Kai-shek to the presidential palace to bargain for a beating, and the cause was those leaflets that appeared in the city. Dai Li has always said that he is the most loyal dog leg around Chiang Kai-shek, but anyone like him can't stand being scolded three times a day, not to mention that Dai Li is also a person who loves face very much, so the scene just now appeared in the military command building.
Whether to defend the city of Nanjing or not, the high-level leaders of the Nationalist Government have already reached an agreement that Nanjing is the capital of China, and there is also the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum here, which must not be occupied by the Japanese army. However, on the question of who should be the commander of the city, and how to defend the city, the Nationalist Government has not reached a conclusion for a long time. The battle in Shanghai was tense, the Nationalist troops suffered heavy casualties, and several German armies under the chairman Chiang Kai-shek also fought very hard. It was precisely because of this that Chiang Kai-shek, who was already anxious, paid more and more attention to the leaflet, because what it said was about to become true.
The chairman of the committee became angry, and the people of the military command had no good fruit to eat, and all the spies, large and small, went out to Dai Li to look for clues, and there were many more people of all religions and nine ranks in Nanjing these days, and these people also received orders from the military commanders, asking them to cooperate in finding clues related to the leaflets. What the military commanders did not expect was that the CCP's underground party in Jiangbei had also begun to pay attention to this matter, but this also confirmed Dai Li's previous inference that the leaflet matter was not done by the CCP.
Since it is not the CCP, and the military commander has not received any rumors that this matter is related to the Japanese, who will do this? Just when the military commanders and the CCP's intelligence agencies were showing their powers in Nanjing, the black dog and Brother Shui, who were specifically handling the matter, had already crossed the river to Xuzhou with their cronies, and Zhuo Fei, who planned this matter, also drove out of Nanjing City with Angela and two male escorts and went to Suzhou.
Angela, who was carrying a portable medicine box, was still a little reluctant, since the situation in Shanghai had deteriorated further, why did her boss rush to Suzhou, Shanghai and Suzhou were not far away. In the private room on the third floor of the Cyclamen Restaurant, standing in front of the window facing the street, looking at the bustling flow of people on the street outside the window, Zhuo Fei's heart gradually calmed down. This is Suzhou, only 100 kilometers away from Shanghai, and the four of them have stayed in Suzhou for two days.
The situation in Shanghai may change at any time, and once a large number of Nationalist troops in Shanghai break out, Suzhou, which is only 100 kilometers away from Shanghai, will bear the brunt of the attack of the Japanese army. However, Zhuo Fei will not regret it, this game has been foreseen since he decided to place a bet, and he has foreseen anything that will happen in the future, even if he encounters the Japanese army here, Zhuo Fei, who has already prepared, will not be surprised at all.
Zhuo Fei, who had been standing without speaking, suddenly turned sideways and glanced at Angela, who was in a depressed mood with his head down, and then beckoned to the other party and said, "Angela, come here, stand beside me and look below." Angela walked over slowly, Zhuo Fei didn't know Angela's mood at this moment, just stretched out his hand and pointed to the heads of the people on the street outside, and said softly, "Do you see these people outside?" ”
Angela didn't speak, just nodded and replied softly, but Zhuo Fei continued with a smile, "They are all ordinary people, but they are also the most basic part of this society. If this society is compared to a machine, then each of them is the most basic part of the machine, of course, these parts will also have a more advanced assembly or something else, to assemble other parts to form a part. This part is only a little higher grade than the other parts, and many of these parts are eventually combined and assembled by a frame to form a single part. The assembled parts, which are made up of the parts managed by these parts, will eventually become the most important parts of a machine, assembled by the control system. ”
"Look at their expressions, the big war is coming, some of them are already aware of the approaching danger, maybe they will run away, maybe they will resist. But what I saw was more of an expression of indifference, they didn't care whether the Japanese army attacked Suzhou or not, and they didn't care whether the national army was an opponent of the Japanese army. Of course, they are not inclined to be pro-Japanese, they are actually just numb, and they have become numb to the point of starting their own lives in the last days. ”
"These people are just some inconspicuous part of a machine called 'Zhonghua', when this part has begun to develop a tendency to self-destruction......" Zhuo Fei spit out an onomatopoeia with an expressionless face, his thumb and index finger seemed to grasp a very small thing in the air, and after a loud whistle, he stretched out his finger and flicked it, "Replace it, only in this way can the normal machine be kept running well, otherwise the whole machine will collapse." ”
Just as Angela's thoughts were immersed in Zhuo Fei's words, Zhuo Fei suddenly turned to face Angela again, with a warm and confident smile on his face. Before Angela could react, Zhuo Fei suddenly stretched out a hand and pressed it on Angela's head. Although Angela is a few years older than Zhuo Fei, she is not particularly tall, and feeling the heat emanating from the palms of the intimate contact above her head, Angela's face turned red uncontrollably.
Reaching out and rubbing Angela's neat hair, Zhuo Fei said with a smile, "Miss Angela, you are now my secretary and personal ambulance, if I am the general controller of a machine, then you should be an important part of me." You must keep in mind my words, this is very important, the parts can be replaced casually if they are broken, but the controller cannot be replaced. Miss Angela, please cheer up, maybe we'll be busy tomorrow. ”
Angela broke free from Zhuo Fei's fiery palm with a smile, sorted out her messy hair with a little regret, and said in her mouth, "I hate it, can you not suddenly change your style?" Really, I've been dressed up for more than half an hour......" I couldn't help but laugh as I said it, and I don't know why, I felt a warm current of heat swirling in my heart.
"Wai Rui Good, that's right, Miss Angela, your future is in the sea of stars!" As he spoke, Zhuo Fei seemed to take a step forward, as if he wanted to fiddle with Angela's hair. The latter then screamed and covered his head and ran out, leaving only Zhuo Fei's arrogant laughter in the private room, which lasted for a long time. About half an hour later, the figures of the American Mike and the German Huffmann, who had followed Zhuo Fei from Nanjing, appeared in the Cyclamen Restaurant, and they were sent by Zhuo Fei to escape from the city of Suzhou with those foreign foreign companies.
Since the end of the Qing Dynasty, the trading houses opened by European countries in Asia have actually been tasked with helping their own governments collect intelligence, and until the Nationalist Government came to power, these foreign trading houses have not stopped their intelligence collection work, but their methods and actions have become more secretive. "Boss, the situation is not very good, there are only two foreign trading houses left in Suzhou City, and they are also preparing to withdraw to Nanjing, and there are many more wounded soldiers in the city, I heard that they are all withdrawn from Shanghai." Mike and Huffman's faces were not very good, and after listening to the news they brought back, Zhuo Fei didn't speak at first, but just took the teapot and poured a cup of tea for each of them, and then gently knocked his fingers on the table. Mike and Huffman didn't say anything when they looked at each other, just took a sip of tea from a teacup, and after about three or five minutes, Zhuo Fei finished his contemplation and finally spoke, "In this way, our original plan remains the same, and we will leave the city early tomorrow morning." Seeing that Mike seemed to have something to say, Zhuo Fei said, "Mr. Mike, I probably already know what you want to say, but please believe me, I have no intention of dragging you into this war, I have a reason why I have to do this, but I can't tell you the reason yet." But I can assure you, as I promised before I asked you to follow me out of Nanjing, that I would never order you to take part in the battle or confront the Japanese directly. Zhuo Fei has already said to this point, Mike and Hefman, who have been living in China for several years and are half-China, are not easy to say anything, so the two can only pray secretly in their hearts, praying that their young boss will not take themselves to do stupid things. Zhuo Fei did not come to Suzhou to hang out, of course, because on 16 August, two batches of 24 sorties by Japanese planes bombed the barracks outside the gate of Suzhou and the areas around Daoqian Street, Xishanchang Lane, and Bachelor's Street in the city, and by the end of October, Japanese planes bombed the urban area of Suzhou more than 130 sorties. Changmen, Kinmen, Fengmen, Qimen, Shilu, Daoqian Street, Guanqian Street, Canglang Pavilion, Railway Station and other places have been seriously damaged, until November 15, Suzhou urban area has been hit by more than 4,200 enemy bombs, thousands of dead and wounded, countless damage to market buildings, schools, hospitals, factories, Shilu commercial area has become a scorched earth.
When the people of Suzhou were either indignant, numb, or moved their families south, Zhuo Fei knew very well that the war in Shanghai was coming to an end, and Zhuo Fei, who had the ability to defy the sky, did not want to be a bystander, he wanted to participate in this national war, and Zhuo Fei was also looking forward to the upgrade of the light curtain again.