The story of the Tenth Army soon spread throughout the country, and Yan'an expressed an extremely positive evaluation of it, and also expressed respect for the price paid by the people of Hengyang against Japan. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Battle of Hengyang ended with the Japanese army occupying Hengyang.

Hengyang was lost, and the gateway from the Central Plains to Guangdong and Guangxi was wide open. It can be said that more than half of the Japanese army's goal of opening up communication lines has been achieved. The next step is to occupy Guangxi, start Guizhou, enter Chongqing and Sichuan from Guizhou, and eliminate the Chiang government. There is intelligence that the Japanese army is already reorganizing its army, preparing supplies, and preparing to attack south. Their next targets are Guilin, the capital of Guangxi Province, and Liuzhou, the important town of Guangxi.

The capital of Guangxi Province was moved from Guilin to Nanning in 1912 and back to Guilin in 1936. During the entire Anti-Japanese War, the provincial capital was in Guilin. Three hundred and fifty miles west along the railway, Guilin is Liuzhou. Liuzhou is the hub from Guangxi to Guizhou, and after the construction of the railway, Liuzhou has become an important hub on the railway line. When entering Guizhou, you must go down to Liuzhou. Liuzhou coffin is famous, and the so-called death in Liuzhou means this.

A lot of eyes are on here.

Yan'an naturally also focuses here, and today it discussed with the Northeast Bureau the countermeasures in this area, and exchanged telegrams, I don't know how much.

Xiaolu's suggestion was to take the Japanese invasion of this place as the best opportunity to develop the strength of the Southwest Bureau, mainly the base area. Guerrillas can develop in the form of militias.

The Americans also paid attention to Liuzhou, and they felt that Chongqing was already difficult to control this area, the Japanese offensive was unstoppable, and it would be a matter of time before Guizhou fell. As a result, they evacuated the expatriates from the relevant facilities in Guilin, Liuzhou, as soon as possible.

Chongqing is also paying attention here. They mobilized a large number of troops, including the Tang army, which had just been defeated from Henan, to Guizhou and let them stop the Japanese army.

Local governments in Guizhou are also paying attention. They were discussing which county town to burn and how to conduct a scorched earth battle.

For Yan'an, the opportunity to dig up the old roots of the Guangxi warlords has come.

August 20, 1944. Luzhai County, Guangxi Province.

Luzhai County is located between Liuzhou and the provincial capital Guilin, and is passed by a railway. There are two villages near Luzhai County, one is a Hakka village and the other is a local native village. Both stockades are at the foot of the hill, separated by a small river ditch. A road passes in front of the stockade, and in the distance is a railway, which connects Liuzhou and Guilin.

From time to time, there are vehicles and pedestrians walking on the road. Because the Japanese occupied Hengyang, they were always ready to fight along the railway to Guilin and Liuzhou. These people are all refugees from Guilin, Hunan, and their goal is Liuzhou, from Liuzhou to the north, to Dushan in Guizhou, and then to Guiyang.

The two stockades used to be at odds with each other, and once developed into large-scale fights. The reason for the fight is to compete for water. A small river is the source of water, when there is more water, there is a competition for irrigation water, and when there is less water, drinking water has to be fought for.

1924, 1932, and 1937 were all years of great drought in Guangxi, and people died in armed fights.

Guangxi is a rainy region, why is there still a shortage of water? The reason for this is the limestone terrain. Limestone terrain with little soil on the surface, rainwater seeps into the ground along limestone fissures. Water forms underground rivers in the ground, with abundant water and a lack of water on the ground. The so-called groundwater is rolling and flowing, and surface water is as expensive as oil.

This kind of limestone landform, academically called karst landform, is the kind of landform in Guilin's landscape, which looks good, but the surface water cannot be retained, and the rainy areas lack water, and the natural conditions are not good.

Actually, this is not something that cannot be changed. In the limestone area, there are also local areas where some works can be done without limestone to store water.

Leaving the stockade, a few miles north along the river ditch is the mountain. Unlike the panicked people on the highway, people here are happily holding a celebration, and a group of student-looking people are putting up signs on the makeshift sheds: "Unite to resist Japan!" Unite to defend your country! Unity is strength. The Hakka Zhuang family, the Miao family, and the Han family are one!

There is a newly built earth-rock dam on the ravine, which is more than ten meters high and more than 100 meters long, and there is a sluice gate on the left and right banks. A concrete sluice was built on the next mountain beam, and there was a sluice gate made of wood, covered with iron sheets, and a large roulette to twist the sluice up. Downstream of the spillway is an aqueduct, made of stone.

One man shouted, "The auspicious time has come!" "It's the master of ceremonies.

Several young people raised the firecrackers that had been prepared long ago and lit them, and the firecrackers rang out.

The firecrackers set off when the people of Guangxi celebrate, the confetti is red, a firecracker is put down, red is everywhere, and gunpowder smoke is heard far and near, just like the end of a small world war, the end is spectacular.

After the firecrackers were fired, a villager stood up and said: "Fellow villagers, today is the ceremony of releasing water from our unity reservoir and the beginning of the ceremony of our two villages uniting to resist Japan. We thank Engineer Zhang of Fuxian Company, and thank you Fuxian Company for investing 10,000 oceans for us. Since then, we have united to resist Japan and defend our homeland. ”

The gongs and drums sounded.

Another villager from another village said: "Our Hakka village must do a good job of unity and build a new countryside." All the remaining rice we sold to Fuxian Company to help Fuxian Company do good deeds and fight against Japan! ”

The gongs and drums sounded.

During the Qing Dynasty, armed fights between Hakka and locals often took place. There is a special term, called the guest soil weapon fight, especially the two wide. In addition, it is not uncommon for local families to fight and villages to fight for survival resources.

One of the most important inducements for fighting is the competition for water.

The master of ceremonies shouted: "Please speak, Engineer Xiao Zhang, a noble man of Fuxian Company!" ”

A young man wearing glasses, Engineer Xiao Zhang, stood up and said, "Fellow villagers, I am Xiao Zhang of Fuxian Company. After graduating from Southwest Associated University, I originally wanted to join the army, but I never thought that I could use the skills I learned to benefit the villagers. Now that the reservoir has been built, I hope that the villagers will do a good job of unity. Fight against Japan together. ”

One man shouted, "Our militia is willing to obey you!" ”

One man shouted, "I'm willing to work on the farm!" Earn a wage! ”

Engineer Xiao Zhang said: "That's great. The hundreds of acres of wasteland opened up by our Fuxian company, plus this reservoir, each of the two villages has shares, and when they make money, everyone will share dividends. In this way, everyone will treat the reservoir as their own property, and will not release water indiscriminately, and will not fight for the reservoir. Everyone must go to night school, and if you don't study, you won't have the ability. ”

The crowd cheered.

Engineer Xiao Zhang said: "But now, the devils are attacking from the north to the south, and the one in the north has broken Hengyang, and it is about to hit Guilin." Guilin is the provincial capital and the core of our Guangxi. We want to support the army and defend Guilin! ”

The crowd cheered.

Engineer Xiao Zhang said: "How can we defend Guilin?" We ordinary people don't need to go to the front line, we only need to transfer the food and property in the stockade to the cave, and as soon as the devils come, all go into the mountains. Don't give the devil a grain of grain. This is anti-Japanese. ”

Because there is limestone on the surface and underground, and limestone is easy to dissolve in water, there are many caves and underground rivers in the limestone. The soil on the surface is left behind by water erosion and is very poor. The underground caves can hide people and soldiers, outsiders can't touch the door when they come, and the locals hide inside, and no one can find them. This is what Xiao Zhang said, the way to hide the grain.

One shouted, "What's the use of that? I'm going to war! Fight the Oriental! ”

Engineer Xiao Zhang said: "It's useful." First of all, you can protect the people, protect your sisters from being bullied, and also, devils are not beaten with iron, they also need to eat. We didn't give him food, we didn't let him find it, and he starved to death. ”

An old man shouted: "You won't be wrong to listen to Engineer Zhang." What are you yelling about? ”

End of the ceremony.

The villagers watched the water flowing in the canal, as if they saw the food flowing, and they went home to drink new water happily. Two village elders, as well as two self-defense captains and engineer Xiao Zhang, remained on the dam. Engineer Xiao Zhang said: "Two captains, the military instructors and political instructors we sent, are you still satisfied?" ”

"Good. He also taught us to read and understand the truth. ”

"Don't worry, we know who you are. You are good people. ”

Engineer Xiao Zhang said: "That's good." I'm done here, I'll be going to Guilin right away. ”

An old villager said: "You are gone, we have no bottom in our hearts, who to turn to if we have something?" ”

Engineer Xiao Zhang said: "Find the farm manager and instructor of the farm, and they will fight against Japan with everyone." Protect our homes together. ”

Another villager said: "Engineer Xiao Zhang, you must eat before leaving, our Hakka village has the most mellow rice wine and the freshest hot pot." "The evaluation of rice wine here is whether it is mellow or not: this rice wine is very mellow.

There are some skills in eating hot pot, such as pork belly, which is sandwiched into the pot of boiling water with chopsticks, as long as the pork belly is deformed and straightened, it can be eaten.

Engineer Xiao Zhang said: "I don't eat it." When I come back after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, I will drink with everyone again. Now, the Japanese are coming. Everyone hurry up and prepare. ”

Engineer Xiao Zhang jumped into the car waiting in front of the stockade and went to Guilin.

Engineer Xiao Zhang graduated from Southwest Associated University two years ago, originally graduated from Guilin Normal University, and was sent by Fuxian Company to Southwest Associated University for two years of study, obtained a diploma, and worked in Fuxian Company. Because he is from Guangxi and knows the Guangxi dialect, he was sent back to Guangxi to work.

In many parts of Guangxi, it is rainy in summer, and in the dry season, there is a shortage of water due to karst landforms. Fuxian Company has been engaged in farms, promoted improved seeds, and built water conservancy, which has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in Guangxi. Because every farm has evening schools, there has been great success in literacy in the past two or three years.

Because Fuxian Company has a lot of shares of important party-state officials, there are not too many obstacles to entering Guangxi. Rao still encountered some difficulties, and it was not until he co-founded several factories with a few Guangxi bigwigs that it went smoothly.

The factories co-founded with the bigwigs, the most prosperous are the production of bristle brushes, soaps, soaps, candles and other factories. The farms provide raw materials to these factories, and the bigwigs don't stop them. They are smart: the farm does not make money, but provides raw materials. I only need a factory, what kind of farm do I care? Feel free to develop it.

Now, the Japanese army launched the No. 1 campaign, and the company personnel near Guilin gathered in Guilin for a meeting to discuss countermeasures. During the Republic of China, the provincial capital was also selected in Nanning, but mainly in Guilin. Guilin and Liuzhou are the most economically developed regions in Guangxi Province.