All this happened in Chongqing, not only Sun Yumin did not know at all, but even Liu Wenzhi, who was about to leave for Hunan, did not know.

Here Dai Li is busy planning and organizing the assassination of Liu Wenzhi, after all, he is a veteran who has been fighting on the battlefield for more than ten years, and naturally there will be no fewer people around him, and his skills will not be bad.

On the other side, Sun Yumin was dealing with Xue Yue, although he was not familiar with this nominal boss, but since they came, they couldn't ignore them.

Silly bears can be regarded as lucky, thanks to Xue Yue's arrival, they are spared the pain of continuing to bear the flesh and skin, but even so, they are still not lightly injured, although it is only an injury on the surface, but to get better, it will take some days. Fortunately, at the beginning, someone called Dean Su, and she waited outside early with a medicine box and a nurse. After Xue Yue stopped Sun Yumin, Silly Xiong and Dai Cunxiang had to get out, and as soon as they left the headquarters, with the assistance of the staff officers, they removed the thorns tied to their bodies, and the process still hurt so much that they grinned. When Dean Su applied wound medicine to them and opened their wounds, they suffered a deep sin, all of which were small flesh wounds, all of which had to be debrided, and this toss was more painful than cutting two pieces of flesh with a knife.

Xue Yue was very grateful to Sun Yumin in his heart, if the Battle of Changsha was not withstood by the Twelfth Army at a critical moment, the consequences would be unimaginable, so he stared at the medicine that Dr. Su gave to Sun Yumin, and waited until he got dressed, Xue Yue asked him to rest first, no matter how polite Sun Yumin was, Xue Yue just said: "It's good to be accompanied by Chief of Staff Deng, you can recuperate with peace of mind." ”

In order to soothe and stabilize him, under the supervision of Xue Yue's request, Deng Dongping arranged a large mourning hall to commemorate the highest military rank of the national army who died in this battle, the deputy commander of the 12th Army and the commander of the 81st Division. When Sun Yumin saw the process of the memorial ceremony, he added an important content: to pay tribute to all the soldiers of the national army who died in this battle.

The grand memorial ceremony was presided over by Deng Dongping, as the commander of the Ninth Theater of Operations, Xue Yue also delivered a eulogy at the ceremony, and the ceremony of awarding the medal awarded by the state government to the Zhanshutang and the order of the posthumous award of the lieutenant general of the army was also held. Now there is another blood debt, and I, Sun Yumin, swore in front of Deputy Commander Zhan and thousands of anti-Japanese martyrs that I would not expel the Japanese from the land of China, and swore not to be a man. ”

Strange to say, it was originally a sunny day, but when the burial of the exhibition hall and the cemetery of the fallen soldiers were about to fall to the ground, a light rain fell from the sky, as if they were crying for these soldiers who died bravely for the country. All the people who participated in the memorial ceremony were in a gloomy mood like this rainy day, and it was not until the soldiers of a battalion of the guard regiment fired the guns to see off the warriors that everything really ended successfully in the Second Battle of Changsha.

It was also thanks to Chen Cheng's Sixth War Zone that launched a large-scale attack on Yichang, which finally made the Ninth War Zone's already defeated situation recover.

In addition, Sun Yumin's 12th Army shook the two main forces of the Japanese army with its own strength, and the strong combat effectiveness it showed made all the national army troops and generals look sideways, and Chen Cheng was in the limelight for a while. Although Chen Cheng wanted to transfer the Twelfth Army to the Sixth War Zone after the war, Lao Jiang refused on the grounds that the situation in the Ninth War Zone was not stable and there were still fierce battles on the side of Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, and he still allocated a large number of rewards to the Twelfth Army in his private name, the purpose of this was very simple, that is, to announce to everyone that the Twelfth Army was the unit of his Chen Cheng Civil Engineering Department, although Sun Yumin did not have the idea of becoming a certain department at all, but under the persuasion of Zhao Lei and others, he still accepted these things. It's just that this makes Xue Yue unable to come to the stage, and he also wants to win over Sun Yumin, but Chen Chengqi has no choice but to take the lead. In fact, if it weren't for Sun Yumin's respect for Luo Zhuoying, he would not have acquiesced to Chen Cheng's high profile.

Sometimes I think about it, instead of becoming the target of the public, why not find a big tree to enjoy the shade, although Chen Bui has been taking care of it, but he has no real power in his hands, once there is any problem, in fact, he can not do much, but if he relies on Chen Cheng and other officials with military power, there are many troubles that can be avoided.

It is good to be concerned, this Zhang Xiaohu is deeply touched, when the Chengzi Zhenjiang River was fought, when the 20th Division broke the Botian Detachment, such a big loss, but it was as if it was not seen above, if it were not for Sun Tongxuan Gu Nian 20th Division is his starting force, giving some funding and supplies, the 20th Division would hardly survive. And now, before Chen Cheng's reward arrived, a batch of supplies transported by Luo Zhuoying from Jiangxi arrived first, and the supply of the 19th Group Army was very tight, but Luo Zhuoying regarded Sun Yumin as his "student", so he squeezed out such a large batch of supplies, although there were no weapons and ammunition, Sun Yumin was already very happy, because he was short of food and bedding.

Only then did Luo Zhuoying's supplies be collected here, and the Ninth Theater also issued a batch of supplies under the order of the Ministry of Military Affairs, and also supplemented a batch of recruits, which were originally to be replenished to the 37th Army, and Xue Yue intercepted Hu and supplemented the 12th Army first.

In this way, Chen Cheng's things arrived last, and Sun Yumin, who was busy during this period, received a telegram that surprised him very much: Liu Wenzhi was coming to Hunan.

For this old partner, Sun Yumin has always been concerned, if it weren't for the fact that he and Sister Gu got married, Sun Yumin would have urged him to come many times.

For more than half a year, Sun Yumin has not been in contact with that side, he is so busy, so busy that he almost forgets that he still has a base, and he forgets that he has a good brother and good partner, and now he is very happy to learn that he is coming.

As soon as he received the telegram, he was looking forward to Liu Wenzhi's arrival, although the telegram did not say that Sister Gu was coming, but Sun Yumin was sure that she would also come together, if they came together, then Zhou Shanjun and Wang Yanru would definitely come together, this group is small and big-bellied, (Sun Yumin evilly, took it for granted that Gu Hongying already had a big belly, after all, the two have been together for so long, if the belly is not big, this is not equivalent to saying that Liu Wenzhi is not good.) It will definitely not be very convenient, and it is also very unsafe, so at the first time, Sun Yumin asked the guards and soldiers to call the gang lengzi over, and the bayonet detachment will not play at this time, and when will it stay?

Sun Yumin did not know that his temporary decision had an unexpected effect, not only bringing down the drain of Dai Li's conspiracy, but also deepening his disappointment with the government.

Sun Yumin's disappointment with the government was not only due to the unilateral factor of the bursting of the embankment at Huayuankou, he was a native of Hunan, and as early as the 27th year of the Republic of China, when the Changsha Wenxi fire in November 1938 AD, he had already disappointed the corrosive Nationalist government.

The Changsha Wenxi fire, one of the three major tragedies of the Republic of China, whether it was Li Wei in the previous life or Sun Yumin in the later life, could not be forgiven.

On October 13, 1938, He Yaozu, director of the first division of the chamberlain office of the chairman of the Military Commission, and Dai Li, deputy director of the Military Command Bureau, jointly sent a telegram to Chiang Kai-shek, reporting that the Japanese army had obtained a large amount of supplies for failing to carry out the scorched earth operation before the fall of Jiujiang, Jiangxi; In late October, Guangzhou and Wuhan fell one after another, and the government strictly ordered the implementation of a scorched earth policy. However, there was disagreement within the Kuomintang, and the commander of the Wuhan garrison, Guo Cheng, retreated first without authorization, and finally the airport was used by the Japanese. Dai Li's telegram in support of the scorched earth policy finally led Chiang Kai-shek to rule out other proposals and make a painful determination to burn down the ancient city of Changsha.

On October 25, 1938, Wuhan fell. After the defeat in the Battle of Wuhan, Wuhan's organs, factories, and a large number of refugees and wounded soldiers poured into Changsha, causing Changsha's population of more than 300,000 to increase to more than 500,000. In addition, Changsha used to be the rear of the battles of Shanghai and Nanjing, Changsha has accumulated a lot of strategic reserves, and business is also very prosperous. However, Changsha's limited railway, road and waterway transportation simply could not carry such a large number of inroads, which laid the hidden danger for huge losses in the future.

On November 8, 1938, the Japanese army invaded northern Hunan and bombed Changsha and Hengyang. On the 9th and 11th, Linxiang and Yueyang were lost one after another, and the Chinese and Japanese armies confronted the Xinqiang River, and the situation in Changsha was very grim.

The first person to mention the strategic idea of "scorched earth resistance" in the War of Resistance was Li Zongren. He published "On the War of Resistance in Scorched Earth", which formally put forward this completely anti-Japanese proposition, and then published a series of articles, which clearly put forward; "The whole country is unanimous and determined to shed the last drop of blood, and even more so to turn the whole country into a scorched earth in order to fight the invaders to the death."

At that time, in order to prevent military supplies from being obtained by the Japanese army, the government stipulated that the operational concept of the scorched earth war of resistance was that when the enemy army entered within 30 miles of the outskirts of the city, it would implement a scorched earth policy for active defense.

At 9 o'clock in the morning of November 11, 1938, Lao Jiang's secret order reached Zhang Zhizhong, then chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government: "If Changsha falls, the whole city must be burned. Immediately, Zhang Zhizhong received a phone call from Lin Wei, deputy director of Jiang's chamberlain, with the content of "A scorched earth policy should be used for Changsha." ”

Zhang Zhizhong summoned the garrison commander Yu Yi and the provincial security director Xu Quan, and the two came up with a "city burning plan" at 4 pm on the 11th.

The plan consists of 13 articles, which clearly requires: "Before abandoning the defense, all public and private buildings in Changsha City and all materials that are not ready to be transported must be burned and not used by the enemy", "the Second Garrison Regiment of the Provincial Capital Garrison Headquarters and the Changsha City Social Training Corps shall be responsible for implementation", "before two o'clock in the morning on November 13 (1938)", and "enter the preparatory position". In addition, the process of burning the city, such as the distribution and control of ignition materials, the order, signal, order, and discipline of the fire, were also specified. The location of the fire was selected as Tianxin Pavilion.

According to Xu Quan, chief of staff of the Changsha City Garrison Command, who drafted the plan, Xu Quan's revised plan (a total of 13 articles) clearly demanded that "before abandoning the plan, all public and private buildings in Changsha City and all materials that are not ready to be transported must be burned and not used by the enemy." "The Second Garrison Regiment of the Provincial Capital Garrison Headquarters and the Changsha City Social Training Corps were sent to be responsible for the execution", "before two o'clock in the morning of November 13 (1938)", and "entered the preparatory position".

The plan also specified the entire process of the burning of the city, such as the distribution and control of the fire materials, the order, signal, order, and discipline of the fire. The location of the fire was selected Tianxin Pavilion, which is the highest geographical location in Changsha City. Zhang Zhizhong instructed: "The preparation is completed at 4 o'clock tomorrow morning (13th), and I will review." ”

Zhang Zhizhong, together with Yu Yi and Xu Quan, studied and set up the "Destruction Changsha Command". It was decided that Xu Kun, head of the Second Garrison Regiment, would be the commander-in-chief, and Wang Weineng and Xu Quan, deputy commanders of the Municipal Social Training Corps, would be the deputy commanders.

At about 2 o'clock in the morning on November 13, 1938, a fire broke out in the wounded soldiers' hospital outside the south gate of Changsha.

Xu Quan called the police chief, Wen Chongfu, to ask for firefighting, and the reply was: The police have been evacuated, and the firefighters have also been evacuated. In addition, due to the scorched earth policy, all fire trucks have replaced their water with gasoline. The fire caused by accident was not extinguished quickly.

Less than a quarter of an hour later, three more fires broke out at the south gate. The city garrison headquarters, which did not know the truth, saw the fire outside the city and thought it was a signal, and threw lit torches at oil drums or residents' houses. Not long after, even Tianxin Pavilion was on fire, and then the whole city caught fire.

Seeing that the fire could no longer be extinguished, the city could only be abandoned. In the end, the Changsha fire burned for five days and five nights before it went out on its own.

Since the plan to burn the city was strictly secret, the burning of the city took place suddenly and without receiving orders. Therefore, when the fire started, the people who stayed in the city were still asleep. When I woke up from my dream, I thought it was the Japanese army that had entered the city. He was about to flee for his life, but the flames were already on the way, and most of the streets and alleys had been blocked by fireworks.

People fleeing for their lives in the raging fires were trampled to death by the crowd, crushed to death by cars, and burned alive by the fire. The Wenxi fire destroyed the accumulation of historical relics of the Chu State in Changsha City since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the cultural relics on the ground were destroyed to almost zero. As one of the few ancient cities in China that has remained unchanged for more than 2,000 years, Changsha's cultural inheritance has also been interrupted here, causing immeasurable losses in historical research. (The above is excerpted from the Changsha Wenxi fire tragedy)

Although Sun Yumin was still in Jining, Shandong Province when this happened, as a later generation, he knew the ins and outs of this matter very well, so in his heart and in his consciousness, even Lao Jiang trusted him no matter how much; No matter how much Chen Bui values him; No matter how Chen Cheng and Luo Zhuoying want to pull him away, Sun Yumin will not be able to be in the company of these people who treat people's lives like mustard.

He is now committed to the ranks of the national army, because he knows very well that a team of the size of the Twelfth Army cannot exert its maximum strength without strong support. Once the time is ripe, he will certainly not hesitate to take the whole team and throw himself into the arms of the party and the people.