Chen Cheng and Zhang Zhizhong got out of the car and walked quickly towards everyone. The expressions on the faces of the two were very serious, especially Zhang Zhizhong, whose face was gloomy as if it was frozen, and a pair of eyes stared at Yu Yi and the others fiercely, eager to eat them alive.

It is no wonder that Zhang Zhizhong is like this, Changsha under his leadership, such an "oolong" incident occurred, although for various reasons, he was not in the city last night, but as the number one, he always has to bear the main leadership responsibility when something happens, no matter how he justifies this, it is unreasonable.

And Xu Kun and others were like mice seeing cats, especially when they were swept by Zhang Zhizhong's fierce eyes, they were even more frightened, and cold sweat couldn't stop flowing from their sideburns.

Zhang Zhizhong obviously didn't care about saying anything else, and when he walked up to everyone, he shouted: "Come on, arrest the main responsible persons for the fire first, such as Xuyi, Wen Chongfu, and Xu Kun!" ”

Zhang Zhizhong can only lose the car to protect the handsome now, although he was not in the city last night, but before entering the city just now, he already knew everything about what happened in the city. And the consequences of the fire, all kinds of disasters should not be underestimated. The situation today is much smaller than the damage caused in history; But even so, hundreds of casualties, the burning of more than 1,000 buildings, such a loss, is enough for Zhang Zhizhong to drink a pot, if you don't want to be unlucky, then you must push the responsibility out first.

Zhang Zhizhong gave an order, and the special agent battalion behind him immediately stepped forward and escorted Yu Yi and the others one by one. Just now, he was about to arrest Xu Kun as a criminal sheep, but in the blink of an eye, he had already changed roles.

"Wronged, Chairman Zhang is wronged, last night's fire had nothing to do with me, before the fire, we and General Bai Zhenyu and Changsha Mayor Xi Chulin were discussing things in the garrison headquarters, after the fire, we have also been organizing people to actively participate in the firefighting, at this time it really has nothing to do with us."

Knowing that once he was caught, there was a chance that this matter would fall on his head, he was very anxious in his heart, and tried his best to justify.

Wen Chongfu was also frightened, and then said: "Yes, yes, we were indeed together last night, and when there was a fire in the city, we were with General Bai, and he can testify." ”

"Zhenyu, are they telling the truth?"

Zhang Zhizhong is actually anxious now, and he doesn't care whether they are directly involved in this matter or not, but just wants to find some people to come out and block Youyou's mouth. But now that Bai Fei is involved, he has to make an appearance, not to mention that Chen Cheng is watching from the side.

Bai Fei actually didn't look down on the bureaucratic style of Yu Yi and Wen Chongfu and others, but now he couldn't bear to see the pitiful look of them casting a plea gaze on him for help. In addition, this matter is indeed true, and he will not lie against his will, so he nodded lightly.

Zhang Zhizhong was silent for a while, and suddenly said: "Despite this, as a key member of the Changsha garrison, you have neglected your duties and made a lot of noise, causing Changsha to suffer such a huge loss of life and property, no matter what, you can't shirk your responsibility." ”

Zhang Zhizhong's words were reasonable, but Yu Yi and Wen Chongfu were obviously unwilling, so they only heard Wen Chongfu say again: "Although we have the responsibility of dereliction of duty, after the fire broke out last night, we have been actively cooperating with General Bai to save people, so that the fire can be controlled." And in this man-made fire, no one in our police system participated in the arson, and the responsibility lies entirely with the Second Garrison Regiment, and it was their people who lit the fire all over the city, which led to the tragedy. ”

Xu Kun listened to it on the side, and couldn't wait to bite Wen Chongfu to death, and hurriedly defended: "My Second Garrison Regiment set fire only after obeying the orders of the garrison headquarters, if there is no order, how dare we set fire!" ”

Several people went back and forth, and finally kicked the ball to the drunk. As the commander of the garrison, if he confirms that the order is issued by the garrison headquarters, he will naturally have to bear heavy responsibility. However, apparently he did not give the order, so he scolded loudly: "Xu Kun, you bastard spewing blood, fortunately, before the fire broke out in the city, I had been with General Bai and others, he can testify with me, I have not given an order." ”

Zhang Zhizhong saw that his subordinates were ugly and ugly, and his face was as dark as the bottom of the pot, and he was about to order a few people to be escorted down, but he saw Chen Cheng, who had never spoken, walking towards Bai Fei.

Bai Fei saw Chen Cheng coming over, raised his hand and saluted: "Chief Chen was sluggish just now, I don't know when he arrived in Changsha, has the battle situation changed?" ”

Chen Cheng smiled and put his hand down, and said, "You're welcome, the battle situation in Wuhan is okay for the time being, and we'll talk about this later." I also arrived in the second half of the night last night, but before I entered the city, I saw Changsha in flames, I was going to enter the city, but the security staff did not let me, so I came with Chairman Zhang this morning. ”

Seeing this, Zhang Zhizhong had no choice but to put down the words on his lips, walked over, and said to Bai Fei: "Zhenyu, thanks to you last night, if you hadn't made a quick decision, Changsha City would probably have been destroyed." As the provincial chairman, I have an unshirkable responsibility for this matter. Then he added: "Yesterday there was news that the Japanese army had destroyed our communication line with the front line, and I was anxious, so I went out of the city to supervise the repairs. If I had been in the city, this man-made plague would not have happened. ”

Zhang Zhizhong is obviously dissecting himself, and at the same time, he is also reducing his responsibility from the side.

Bai Fei nodded and didn't speak. Chen Cheng didn't know whether it was okay or not, but said: "Now this matter is not small, and the top priority is to comfort and rescue the victims as soon as possible, find out the root cause of the incident, and strongly advocate minimizing the impact." Otherwise, once it is used by someone with a heart, the consequences are self-evident. ”

Zhang Zhizhong said: "What Ci Xiu said is very true, so I will send someone to investigate." ”

When Bai Fei heard Zhang Zhizhong say this, his good impression of him was slightly discounted. It is rumored in history that after the Wenxi fire, Zhang Zhizhong was extremely irresponsible, but showed a posture of shirking responsibility several times openly and secretly. Chiang Kai-shek also said because of this incident that he did not know anyone. Therefore, it can be said that the Wenxi fire was one of the few failures in Zhang Zhizhong's entire revolutionary career and personality charm.

If it is said that the matter has come to this point, as a responsible ruler, the first thing he should consider is the rescue and pacification of the people, but he is staring at the matter of accountability, obviously he still takes his own honor and disgrace a little seriously.

So Bai Fei said: "The investigation of this matter is actually not difficult, as Commander Yu and Director Wen said, we have been together before the fire broke out last night, and Commander Yu has never ordered Commander Xu to set fire to him." But now Commander Xu has repeatedly insisted that he is acting on orders, so he only needs to find out whose orders he is on, and the truth will be known as soon as he checks it. ”

Seeing this, he hurriedly said: "What General Bai said is very true, Xu Kun, you keep saying that you are under the order of the garrison headquarters, you say, who gave you the order?" ”

Xu Kun knew at this time that no matter what the outcome of the investigation was, as the commander of the arson unit, he was the person concerned, and he couldn't run away from this responsibility, but now, he could only tell the truth.

It turned out that since Chiang Kai-shek secretly issued an order to Zhang Zhizhong to "fortify the walls and clear the wilderness," all levels in Changsha under the leadership of Zhang Zhizhong have actively made preparations for setting fire to the city, and the task of assuming the responsibility of setting fire has fallen to the Second Garrison Regiment of Changsha and the police force of Wen Chongfu after several twists and turns.

Xu Kun graduated from the Central Training Corps Police Class, but after the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, he did not have any outstanding achievements, and although he was appointed as the head of the Second Changsha Garrison Regiment, he was mediocre and only knew how to do some ready-made things. This time, he was given the task of setting fire, and he was well prepared, and because the Japanese army was moving south, the situation was urgent, so he became more cautious.

Last night, Xu Kun was resting at the garrison when he suddenly received a telephone call from Xu Quan, chief of staff of the Changsha Garrison Command, saying that the communication line connecting the front line that had been destroyed by the Japanese army in the past few days had been repaired, and he was informed that he had just received information from the front line that the Japanese army had arrived near Xinhe.

As mentioned above, Xinhe is located in the suburbs of Changsha and is very close to Changsha City.

When Xu Kun heard the news, he was immediately shocked and almost jumped out of bed, and just as he was packing up his belongings and preparing to run away, the phone rang again, but it was Shi Guoji, the chief of staff of the headquarters, calling. Shi Guoji told him on the phone that the Japanese army had come to the city and asked him to hurry up and carry out the task of burning the city.

Xu Kun was mediocre, and at this time, he was even more frightened by the Japanese army, and he was ready to run away, how to distinguish the true from the fake. So he immediately ordered his subordinates to set fire, and he himself ran out of the city with a hundred or so people in the name of carrying out a mission.

It wasn't until dawn this morning that he received news outside the city that the Japanese army was still on the front line of the Xinqiang River at all, and it was still far from Changsha. Immediately hearing the news that his subordinates were killed by the central military police in the process of arson, Xu Kun was immediately furious, and immediately ran into the city again, ready to find Bai Fei's theory.

Of course, this is not to say how much Xu Kun loves his subordinates, but that he is very jealous of Bai Fei. In his opinion, although Bai Fei is a military policeman, he is from a wild road, and he is a graduate of the police and constitutional class of the Central Training Corps, and he thinks that when he was mixed in the gendarmerie sequence, Bai Fei didn't know where he was. However, Bai Fei's wild way is obviously much better than him, not only is he also the head of a regiment, but he is also directly under the central government, and in terms of military rank, he has been promoted to major general Quanxu, who is higher than him, the lieutenant colonel, I don't know where it is.

Therefore, Xu Kun has been full of jealousy since Bai Fei came to Changsha to deal with him.

Of course, Xu Kun didn't dare to say all this, he just insisted that he was ordered by the phone from Shi Guoji of the garrison headquarters to act on orders. I just hope that when I implement the responsibility and play the board, I can avoid two blows.

After listening to Xu Kun's narration, everyone frowned, obviously everyone felt that this matter was not simple. Especially Bai Fei, when he heard that Shi Guoji and Xu Quan were related to the incident, he had an indescribable feeling.

Zhang Zhizhong was furious and asked drunkly: "Shi Guoji, as the chief of staff of the Garrison Command, where is he now?" ”

"It's... I don't know..."He didn't know what to do, he had been busy dispatching people to participate in the firefighting since the fire broke out in the city last night, where could he care about anything else, at this time, he remembered that Shi Guoji left before the fire, and he has not shown up until now, which is really suspicious.

"Rubbish!" Zhang Zhizhong scolded secretly and immediately ordered his subordinates to look for it. But after a while, news came back, not only Shi Guoji could not be found, even Xu Quan was not found, and even their family members had left Changsha a few days earlier.

At this point, it's already obvious. The main culprits of the Changsha fire are Shi Guoji and Xu Quan, and they have been planning for a long time. As for why they did such a thing, unless they were caught and asked, there was no way to know, and now that the army was in chaos, how difficult it was to find them, so they had no choice but to do so.