Chapter 430: Shelling Nanjing
He Yingqin naturally would not take the ball kicked, and he kicked Sanhe to the civil court again, and this person who had embarrassed the court and others also faced the political risk of trying the anti-Japanese soldiers.
Sure enough, this storm was getting more and more intense, and on the second day after Sanhe was transferred to the local court, Shanghai's "Declaration" began to introduce at length the details of the bloody battle between the 57th Division and the Second Army and the Japanese army in Shanghai, and even every detail, every bloodshed and sacrifice, until the entire Zhabei District was destroyed into rubble and ruins by the Japanese army's fierce artillery fire.
Soon, Nanjing's major newspapers reprinted it one after another, and for a time the news of the 57 th Division and the Second Army's killing of the enemy in Shanghai was widely known to the citizens of Nanjing, and under the suppression of some people with ulterior motives in the Military Commission, these news were the key targets of the blockade, so the citizens knew very little about this foreign unit, and in the case of the 57 th Division's looting of ammunition depots, the citizens naturally vented their resentment against the bandits and ruffians to the 57 th Division because they had suffered greatly from the war for many years.
But the common people were the most innocent and kind, and when they learned that these people were patriotic officers and soldiers who were torn down from the anti-Japanese battlefield in Songhu, they easily forgave them.
When the citizens talked about this matter, they were all inexplicable and puzzled.
"I heard that the 57th Division fought the hardest in Shanghai, and more than half of the soldiers were killed, but I was stunned that the Japanese devils did not take a step forward."
"I've heard that the Japanese devils have been beaten back several streets!" Then he pretended to be mysterious and said: "You know who arrested the Japanese commander." ”
Everyone loved to hear about this kind of secret thing, and immediately someone gathered around and shook their heads and asked, "Who is it?" ”
"Come on, don't sell it......"
The man looked proud, and said slowly: "I have a relative who works in the court, and he is the mastermind of the arms robbery that caused a stir a while ago, what is it called Yu ......" He thought for a while and patted his head, "Yes, it's called Yu Sanhe"
It turned out to be him, that was a big anti-Japanese hero, the anti-Japanese hero went to rob the arsenal, this thing itself is weird, even if you rob it, you have to rob the bank.
After a few days of uproar, an unknown tabloid newspaper revealed an astonishing inside story: The reason why the 57th Division seized the ammunition depot and arms was entirely because the Nationalist Government authorities did not reward them for their merits and refused to supply the 57th Division, which had suffered heavy losses.
At this point, the truth of the whole incident was outlined in a rough outline, and people suddenly realized that the initiator of this qiē after a long time was actually the authorities, and the kind and simple people preferred to believe that it was the authorities who persecuted too much, and these soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to the Japanese had no choice but to snatch the ammunition depot, because only when the ammunition was sufficient could they once again set foot on the anti-Japanese battlefield to fight the Japanese devils.
The idea was very simple, but it was logical, and in just a few days, the direction of public opinion in Nanjing City turned a 180-degree turn, and from blaming the 57th Division to accusing the authorities of being stupid.
The court was forced to try the case of Yu Sanhe's instigator robbing the ammunition depot in order to get rid of this hot potato as much as possible, and on the day of the trial, a large number of citizens gathered outside the gate of the court to support Yu Sanhe, the beloved ** officer who captured the commander of the Japanese army.
The trial on the first day ended in a hurry, and in the garrison of the 57th Division, Li Zejun smiled at Wu Xiaoliang and said:
"Such a big stroke, at first glance, it is the chairman's style."
Wu Xiaoliang smiled, did not admit it, and did not object.
"The citizens have the right to know the truth of the matter, but I can't intervene in what they do, and the power dumping within the national government is only the tip of the iceberg, only when we are strong can we make our opponents have scruples, and we will not be hindered everywhere."
Li Zejun nodded in agreement, if it weren't for the rush to the Songhu battlefield to fight the Japanese this time, they would probably have firmly controlled the two provinces of Shandong and Henan, and now Henan has been completely in the hands of the central army, and it will be even more difficult to get involved.
Wu Xiaohao seemed to see through what Li Zejun was thinking, "Qianting, it's not a pity that the land of the four wars in Henan is lost, but in our hands, the burden is still greater than the gain, so why bother to get a chicken rib in your hands." ”
Indeed, Henan is located in the Central Plains, connecting Shanxi and Hebei in the north, Hubei and Anhui in the south, and Shaanxi in the west.
Li Zejun understood that the situation in the Central Plains had been decided, and Feng Yan was not the opponent of Jiang Zhongzheng in Nanjing after all.
"Yu San and let's just watch him be sentenced." He brought the topic back to Yu Sanhe, he desperately wanted to save this general, so he asked Wu Xiaoliang's opinion.
Wu Xiaoliang smiled indifferently: "Qianting doesn't have to be anxious, within three days, Yu Sanhe will definitely be acquitted." ”
Li Zejun was surprised: "Why are you so sure that you will be acquitted within three days." ”
"I spilled all this money, and I made such a big move in Nanjing City, I always have to get back some returns."
Only then did Li Zejun understand that Wu Xiaoliang had put so much effort into it, and his original intention was not only to restore the reputation of the 57th Division, but more importantly, to rescue him from Sanhe, and the judge would not dare to sentence him to a heavy sentence under the pressure of strong public opinion.
Wu Xiaoliang sighed softly in his heart, public opinion interfering in the judiciary is really a last resort, and this is an extremely unhealthy state, but in a country like China, where the rule of man is greater than the rule of law, public opinion can still successfully influence the judiciary after all.
In the end, the court was forced by the trend of public opinion in Nanjing, and sentenced everyone to be stunned, and in view of the lack of evidence in this case, the court pronounced the defendant suspect not guilty.
The citizens were originally going to protest, but now they had a sense of prostration with a heavy punch, and the handful of people in the military committee gritted their teeth with hatred.
Just when everyone thought that Nanjing should be calm again, the whole city of Nanjing was trembling with the earth-shattering cannon fire, and the citizens and the senior members of the military committee were confused as to where the artillery was fired.
It wasn't until someone stumbled down from the head of Nanjing that people learned that the warship with the sun flag had gone up the Yangtze River and reached the bottom of Nanjing, and the earth-shattering shot was fired by this battleship, and after a shot, the Japanese ship corrected the impact point, and the 3o5 mm caliber naval gun on the turret spat out a formidable tongue of fire, and launched a plough-like shelling of the entire Nanjing.
Suddenly, the sky over Nanjing changed color, and the battle clouds were dense.
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