In February, Chang Kaishen went to Guangxi in person, because the battle there was too ugly.

The so-called "Kunlun Pass Victory" was all publicized to make the people happy, and it was the only bright spot in the entire Battle of Guinan.

The real situation is that the Nationalist army counterattacked Nanning with superior forces, and since Kunlun Pass was north of Nanning, the two sides fought here first. Tens of thousands of central elites launched an attack on Kunlun Pass, but there were only 800 Japanese invaders on the pass, and they finally took Kunlun Pass after more than 40 days of onslaught and paid a heavy price.

Even more nonsense came, at this time the Japanese reinforcements had arrived, and they returned to the left flank of the 37th Army of the National Army. Li Yannian, the commander of the 2nd Army, who was ordered to garrison Kunlun Pass, was afraid that the Japanese army would cut off the back road, so he gave up Kunlun Pass, which had been fought with great difficulty, without resistance.

Retreat without permission, retreat without permission, you can't even retreat well, and the 2nd Division of the 9th Army crashed headlong into the pocket formation of the Japanese invaders. The 9th Division was directly defeated, and the division commander Zheng Zuomin personally broke through with a machine gun, and the officers and soldiers found that the division commander was killed after the battle, and hurriedly sent cavalry back to retrieve Zheng Zuomin's body.

More than two months of battle, in vain!

Before Chang Kaishen arrived in Guangxi, Bai Chongxi and Chen Cheng were taken down and replaced by Zhang Fakui as the commander-in-chief of the front. When Lao Jiang arrived, Bai Chongxi and Chen Cheng were immediately punished with reduced salaries and left on duty (both of them were demoted to second-class generals), a total of eight generals of the 38th Army Group Army, including the commander-in-chief, were removed from their posts and investigated, the commander-in-chief of the 37th Group Army was handed over to the military court, and the 9th Division of the 2nd Army was directly revoked (renamed "Anonymous Division").

This battle made Lao Jiang feel embarrassed, the Chinese side has an absolute advantage in terms of troops, firepower, and even air force (more than half of the Chinese fighters were transferred to the Guinan battlefield). As a result, after more than two months of fighting, the elite of the Central Army suffered heavy losses, and the "Kunlun Pass Victory" was still 3 for 1 heads.

Well, it can only be said that the Chinese army won strategically and shattered the Japanese army's intention to completely blockade China, and the specific results cannot be looked at in detail at all.

The most nonsense thing is that Chang Kaishen's itinerary was clearly understood by the Japanese invaders, and was bombed by Japanese planes four times in three consecutive days, and Lao Jiang's guards were all injured 12 people. Needless to say, there must be a traitor in Guangxi, and the position is very high. Especially during the bombing on the 21st, Lao Chiang was in the wilderness and in the mountains at that time, and the Japanese machine was able to accurately find his residence.

Compared with the battlefield of Guinan, which was a mess, Yu Hanmou, who threw Guangzhou in a panic, was ashamed and brave. The Japanese army sent 70,000 troops to invade northern Guangdong to cooperate with their offensive in southern Guangxi, while Yu Hanmou had only 120,000 men in his hands, and his weapons and equipment were very backward.

In this case, Yu Hanmou relied on the mountains of northern Guangdong to resist hard. When he learned that a Japanese army had left Guangdong to support Guinan, Yu Hanmou immediately launched a counterattack on all fronts and won the first major victory in the Guangdong battlefield.

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Just after the Lunar New Year, Zhou Hexuan was dragged to Chengdu by Feng Yuxiang, accompanied by Lao She, director of the All-China Association of Literary and Art Circles to Resist the Enemy.

When the All-China Association of Literary and Art Circles Against the Enemy was founded, Zhou Hexuan was not in China, but he was also invited to join last year, and he was also given the position of honorary director - in addition to Zhou Hexuan, Zhou Gong, Sun Ke and Chen Lifu are also honorary directors.

This organization has dozens of branches across the country, and its main work is to lead anti-Japanese propaganda, relieve poor literati, rescue progressives, and so on.

The anti-Japanese front line fought fiercely with real swords and guns, and the literary and artistic front was also not easy. For example, the Japanese army often organized traitors to publicize the idea of Sino-Japanese friendship to the people at the bottom in the form of opera, cross talk, storytelling, songs, etc., and these performances were often sandwiched with meat jokes, which were quite popular with the masses.

The cultural soft knife is sometimes more terrible than the real knife, and it must not be taken lightly. Lao She brought in a group of cross talk artists, and he personally wrote cross talk and fought a cross talk propaganda war with cultural traitors. Even Lao She came on the stage in person, pulling Liang Shiqiu to talk about cross talk together, and there was a joke that Liang Shiqiu had a unique trick.

In fact, Liang Shiqiu didn't know how to speak cross talk at all, and was driven to participate in the performance. They performed several performances for two nights in a row, and at the end of the second night, Lao She accidentally knocked Liang Shiqiu's glasses off, and Liang Shiqiu caught the glasses easily. The unintentional actions of the two just matched the performance, and the audience thought they were doing it on purpose, and dropping the glasses was a unique trick at the bottom of the box, and the audience immediately shouted: "One more time, one more time!" ”

Since then, the writer Liang Shiqiu has become a cross talk actor, and often receives invitations to perform from various groups.

When the car passed through Aoki Pass, it happened that someone was selling roasted sweet potatoes.

Feng Yuxiang suddenly said happily: "Hey, there are roasted sweet potatoes, I often ate them in Beiping when I was a child." ”

Lao She smiled: "Coincidentally, I often ate sweet potatoes in Beiping when I was a child. ”

"Then what are you waiting for, go down and buy a few," Feng Yuxiang quickly opened the car door, walked to the stall in three or two steps, turned back to Zhou Hexuan and said, "Brother Mingcheng, I'll pick a big one for you!" ”

Zhou Hexuan said happily: "I'll pick it myself." ”

The three of them were like beggars, squatting in front of the stall and collectively nibbling on roasted sweet potatoes.

gnawing and gnawing, Feng Yuxiang said: "Why don't we write a poem criticizing Wang Zhaoming's betrayal of the country, and see who writes the best!" ”

Since the "secret agreement between Wang and Japan" was exposed, public opinion across the country has been scolded, and in early February, Yan'an also held a meeting to fight against Wang, and the Communist Party called on the people of the whole country to carry out a campaign to fight against Wang.

Lao She agreed: "Mr. Zhou, let's start with a topic." ”

Zhou Hexuan pointed to the roasted sweet potato in his hand and said, "How about roasted sweet potatoes?" ”

Lao She opened his mouth and came: "Woohoo Wang Zhaoming, it's not as fragrant as sweet potatoes!" ”

"Hahaha!"

Zhou Hexuan and Feng Yuxiang burst into laughter, Lao She often played with Feng Yuxiang, this is learning Feng Yuxiang to write "Qiu Ba Poems".

Feng Yuxiang urged: "Brother Mingcheng, you come to the next sentence." ”

Zhou Hexuan continued the first two lines of Lao She's poems and wrote: "Not only does it not taste fragrant, the traitor stinks!" ”

"I'll pick it up," Feng Yuxiang hurriedly said, "The smell of flies will be slapped!" ”

"Good sentence, good sentence!" Zhou Hexuan and Lao She were sincerely admired.

After eating the roasted sweet potatoes, the three of them moved on. Halfway through, Lao She saw rape flowers blooming all over the slow mountain, so he said, "Why don't we take cauliflower as the theme." ”

Feng Dashi readily agreed, and when the car drove to Longchang, he had already written more than 100 lines: "When it is twenty-nine days, Shu Road cauliflower yellow." Brilliant and pleasing to the eye, the wind comes with a burst of incense. This flower has a proud bone and dares to fight the wind and frost. The front was resisting the enemy, and the thieves surrendered...... Alack! Wang Zhaoming, his heart and liver are dead! Woohoo, Wang Zhaoming, it's not as good as cauliflower yellow! ”

Zhou Hexuan and Lao She finished reading, and gave a thumbs up and exclaimed: "Good poem!" ”

For Feng Yuxiang, it is very rare for a long poem of more than 100 lines to be written like this.

After Zhou Hexuan and Lao She's repeated pondering, and helped Feng Yuxiang revise a few words, this long poem was named "Shu Dao Cauliflower Yellow", which was published in newspapers and magazines after returning to Chongqing.