Zhou Hexuan stayed in the three towns of Wuhan for a full week, and in addition to inspecting the progress of the construction of the Yangtze River Bridge, he also went to the "Ta Kung Pao" and "Non-Offensive" magazines for a round.

Due to the propaganda of the anti-Japanese proposition of Ta Kung Pao, the Tianjin General Newspaper has been forced to close, and Hu Zhengzhi, the general manager, led some employees to retreat south overnight.

At present, the Wuhan branch of Ta Kung Pao is presided over by Hu Zhengzhi himself. As for the "Ta Kung Pao" in Shanghai, it can still be supported until the end of the year, and Zhang Jiluan will have to evacuate at that time, and Zhou Hexuan is ready to let Zhang Jiluan take charge of the Chongqing branch.

As for the journal "Fei Offensive", the current editor-in-chief is Gao Han, who is also the head of the philosophy department of Wuhan University.

At the beginning, the magazine was suspended in Tianjin, but after moving to Wuhan to resume publication, it immediately received the full support of Wuhan University. Not only is the editor-in-chief of the magazine Gao Han a professor of Wuhan University, but the deputy editor-in-chief Wu Qichang is also a professor of Wuhan University - Wu Qichang is a disciple of Liang Qichao and Wang Guowei, and a cousin of Xu Zhimo. After the outbreak of the 918 Incident, Wu Qichang and his wife and brothers went to the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum to weep and go on a hunger strike to force Jiang to resist Japan, so he was dismissed by Tsinghua University and became a professor of history at Wuhan University.

As for Li Shoumin, who was originally the editor in charge of "Non-Attack" and "Earth", he still stayed in Tianjin at this time. His mother, brother, and father-in-law are all in Tianjin, and his circle of friends is also in Tianjin, so he is a little reluctant to leave.

Li Shoumin is now very famous, his "The Legend of the Swordsman of Shushan" is even sold to Southeast Asia, and the Peking Opera he created is also widely sought after by ticket holders. In the meantime, after the Japanese occupied Tianjin, they immediately asked Li Shoumin to co-run a publication, hoping that he would betray the country and become a cultural traitor.

Li Shoumin refused several times, and the Japanese were angry and arrested him in prison for torture.

At this moment, Li Shoumin's eyes were half-blinded by chili water, and he was still unwilling to agree to cooperate with the Japanese, while his father-in-law and friends went everywhere to rescue him.

As in history, even if Li Shoumin is released from prison, he can only rely on oral writing for the rest of his life.

When Zhou Hexuan left Wuhan and returned to Chongqing, the various armies of Sichuan and Kang had been reorganized, and Liu Xiang was ready to lead his troops out of Sichuan to resist the Japanese.

In fact, as early as June, the Sichuan army had already begun a comprehensive reorganization.

On 6 July, Chuan Kang officially reorganized the army.

On the third day of the meeting on the whole army, news of the July 7 incident came. Liu Xiang immediately sent a telegram, advocating a nationwide general mobilization and a desperate fight with Japan.

On 7 August, Liu Xiang went to Nanjing to attend a national defense conference. When the forces of all sides quarreled endlessly over the war and issues, Liu Xiang stood up and made a two-hour speech, and said: "In the War of Resistance, Sichuan can send 300,000 troops, supply 5 million strong men, and supply tens of thousands of quintals of grain. ”

On August 26, Liu Xiang returned to Sichuan to publish the "Letter to the Military and Civilians of Sichuan Kang", calling on the military and civilians of Sichuan to make sacrifices for the War of Resistance: "When the national War of Resistance has been launched, the responsibility of the people of Sichuan is particularly heavy compared to other provinces!" ”

The generals of various departments of the Sichuan army have asked for the war of resistance, and Fan Harr has been particularly active.

Because Fan Ha'er offended Liu Xiang, he was turned into a bare pole when he was reorganizing the army, and although he was named deputy commander, he couldn't even command a big soldier. He shouted anti-Japanese slogans and jumped up and down, Liu Xiang didn't dump him, Fan Ha'er could only go to the anti-Japanese front line - Shanghai alone, wanting to find Bai Jiang's brother Du Yuesheng to help, and let Lao Jiang get him a real power general to be a general.

Regardless of Van Harr's anti-Japanese intentions, he did make great contributions to the war of resistance.

Historically, Fan Harr was appointed as the commander of the 88th Army by Lao Chiang and recruited soldiers out of his own pocket. The unit he brought out later killed Naoji Sakai, making Naoji Sakai the first in-service division commander to die in the history of the Japanese Army.

Sakai Naoji committed numerous crimes in China, implementing the three-light policy in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Hui provinces, and even having his subordinates rape women in contests, awarding tigers, leopards, and jackals, that is, first, second, and third prizes, and giving material rewards to the winners.

It was such a bastard who had lost his conscience, and died under the mines of the Eighty-eighth Army. Although Van Harr had been transferred out of the 88th Army for two months at that time, there is no doubt that the 88th Army was brought out of his own pocket, and under the command of Van Harr, he made many military exploits, and was upgraded from a miscellaneous army with uneven personnel to a type A army under the command of three divisions.

If there was no War of Resistance, Liu Xiang would just be a local warlord specializing in civil war, and Fan Haer would just be a small warlord who did bad things.

Just like the aforementioned Dr. Xu Chuanyin, it wasn't that great at first. He was allowed by the Japanese to move freely in Nanjing, in fact, he was allowed to collect street corpses, because of his identity as a Chinese, Xu Chuanyin was almost dragged by the Japanese army several times and shot. But not only was he not timid and afraid, but because he witnessed the tragic death of his compatriots, his whole soul was sublimated, and he turned from an ordinary person into a hero, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to the rescue of his compatriots.

Heroes, in fact, can also be ordinary people.

Qushan Town, Anxian County, Sichuan.

This is the hardest-hit area of the great drought in Sichuan, and the people have not yet recovered from the famine.

Wang Jiantang, a primary school teacher, saw Liu Xiang's "Telling Sichuan Kang Military and Civilian Book", threw down the newspaper and came to the town. On this day, Wang Jiantang climbed onto the stage where people were performing Sichuan opera, and shouted to the audience in the actor's confused eyes: "Brothers, sisters, everyone listen to me!" Little Japan had already hit Shanghai, and sent planes to bomb everywhere, but I don't know how many compatriots were killed. Sichuan is far from Shanghai, but it is also very close, and if we do not resist, the Japanese devils will soon reach Sichuan. The Japanese devils are very bad, the fart (harmony) eyes and hearts are black, and they can do everything to burn, kill and loot. If you want the Sichuan folks not to be poisoned by the little Japanese, we Sichuan people should stand up, and if we are manly, we will join the army with me and drive the little Japanese devils out of China! Everyone said, "I don't care about it!" ”

"Reasonable!" There was a sparse response from under the stage.

Wang Jiantang also said: "In the past, the Sichuan army only knew how to fight a civil war, but now the Sichuan army is going to resist Japan. I'm an elementary school teacher, and my life is okay, but I'm not a good teacher, and I'm going to go out of Sichuan to fight devils. Otherwise, when the devil hits Sichuan, which baby will have the opportunity to study? All those who have eggs come out and go with me to fight against Japan! ”

"Mr. Wang (especially the teacher), I'll go with you!" Someone in the audience raised their hands in response.

"Very good, which one else?" Wang Jiantang said happily.

"And me!"

"I'll go too! Anyway, life can't go on, so it's better to join the army and fight devils. ”

"Count me in!"

“……”

In this remote town in northwest Sichuan, most of the people are ignorant, but hundreds of people stood up on the spot.

Wang Jiantang took these partners to propagate anti-Japanese ideas everywhere in the town, and in just one day, he gathered 176 strong men. They found a piece of coarse cloth, bit their fingers and wrote a letter asking for blood, and the next morning they sent it to Cheng Yunzhang, the county magistrate.

Cheng Yunzhang was greatly moved, and immediately approved the petition of Wang Jiantang and others, unified them into the Anxian Volunteer Supplementary Team, and set a date for a grand farewell party.

On the day the Anxian Volunteer Brigade left their hometown, it was already autumn. After the drought since last year, it rained heavily on this day, and more than 3,000 people spontaneously braved the rain to see off the soldiers.

Wang Jiantang's father, who was over 60 years old, was too old and sick to see him off in person, so he could only send a flag through the post office.

The post office clerk ran wildly with a white cloth and stopped in front of the departing line and said, "Wait a ha, wait a ha!" Wang Jiantang quickly stand up, your old man (father) has sent you a flag! ”

Cheng Yunzhang, the county magistrate, went over with an umbrella and said, "What a flag, show me a ha." ”

The two attachés immediately took over the flag and opened it in public, only to see the big word "death" written in the center of the white cloth, the two lines of small characters on the right side read, "I don't want you to be filial piety before me, I only want you to be loyal to the nation", and the five lines of small characters on the left side read "The national disaster is at the head, and the Japanese are hideous." The rise and fall of the country has a share. I wanted to serve, but I was too old. Fortunately, I have a son, and I consciously ask for help. Give a flag and carry it with you at all times. Wipe blood when wounded, and wrap up after death. Go forward bravely, don't forget your duty! —Father's Message".

The scene was silent for a while, and then there was a bang, and those who knew how to read read the contents of the flag of dead words to those who did not know how to read.

The county magistrate Cheng Yunzhang's eyes were ruddy, he threw away the umbrella, handed the dead character flag to Wang Jiantang with his own hands, and choked up: "Take care of the strong man!" ”