“…… Dangdang ......"

The bell of the customs building startled the flocks of pigeons, and also pierced the mist of Shanghai in the morning - Shanghai woke up!

Next, the pigeon whistle of "Xi Walking", mixed with the whistle of foreign steamers on the Huangpu River, the "clanging" of trams, the "gang" of dung dumping trucks, mixed with the shouts of buying breakfast, passed through one alley after another, one Shikumen house after another.

-- This is Shanghai, the largest financial center in the Far East, an important economic and political center influencing Eastern China and Asia, a center of cultural exchanges and fierce collisions between modern Western European civilization and traditional Chinese locals, and a paradise where adventurers of all kinds of Shijie countries harbor dreams and expectations...... Of course, it is also the source of love and hatred, killing and smuggling, squalor and decay, decadence and confusion......

So, in the face of this filthy shijie, someone stood up and wanted to wake up the sleeping Chinese people with the pen and ink in their hands......

-- No. 9 Mainland New Village, a three-story red brick building, Lu Xun's residence in Shanghai.

At seven o'clock in the morning, the maid in Lu Xun's house went out early to buy breakfast. I saw her carrying a fried dough stick worn with a chopstick in one hand, and a steel pot containing soybean milk in the other hand, the lid of the pot was turned over, and there were a large number of Nanxiang small cages on it. Then he said hello to his neighbors, walked into the black tin gate with his legs, walked through the small flower garden in front of the house, and beckoned his master to come down to eat as he entered the living room.

However, until she put the table in the living room early, there was still no reply from the master upstairs.

-- Xu Guangping was still asleep in the unkempt bed, while Mr. Lu Xun was sitting on a wicker chair. Wearing glasses and holding a pen to write a letter to someone.

Compared with the sick face and haggard expression caused by tuberculosis before, Lu Xun's complexion seemed to have become much better at this time.

“…… When I first got this 'miracle drug' called streptomycin from Pastor Hu, I didn't believe it. Shanghai is a place full of Chinese and foreign. There have always been many swindlers of all kinds, and although Pastor Hu should not be a liar, I am always worried that he is a liar.

So, Pastor Hu introduced me to Ms. Jin Qina, who gave medicine, and it was only then that I learned that this lady had been exiled from the Northeast. It is the rookie 'Mr. Qiong Yao' in the literary world who caused a sensation in Shanghai two years ago. At first sight, it was indeed a woman among women, quite the sassy style of the Jianhu heroines in the past. The conversation was also quite bold. There is no cowardice (most modern girls will be regarded as female men when they still talk about three obedience and four virtues) ...... It just so happened that two of Pastor Hu's disciples were also suffering from tuberculosis and were anxious for treatment, so that I could be convinced of the efficacy of streptomycin. They will test the medicine first. As a verification, it was cured within a week or two, and at this time I knew that this streptomycin 'miracle drug' really lived up to its name......

Still, I was hesitant to try it. After all, tuberculosis is mostly recuperating in recuperation, and it is very disadvantageous to change one's course and change one's course, and it is disrespectful to Dr. Sudo. However, many comrades hope that I will recover as soon as possible, and they also have the responsibility to forge ahead. Don't be decadent, earnest. Touching; After a few days of medication, the results were miraculous, and my body is now much healthier......

…… I remember that more than ten years ago, I wrote the article "Medicine" to commemorate the revolutionary martyrs. When I said that the human blood steamed bun was born out of righteous indignation, I didn't expect that ten years later, I actually got this terminal illness myself, and when I got it, it was really painful. Fortunately, with this miracle medicine, he was healed after several years of depression with one injection. If we can take this opportunity to work hard and inspire the sick man with courage and courage, it will be enough to comfort the ardent feelings of all comrades......"

Near the end of the letterhead, Lu Xun couldn't help but put down his pen and sighed deeply.

-- Although his illness has now been cured, the whereabouts of the comrades who gave him medicine are unknown.

In the middle of last month, for some unknown reason, Pastor Hu, Ms. Jin and others were on the Kuomintang wanted warrant, and the recourse was very urgent. It is said that when the Blue Coat Society came to arrest them, they simply killed a vote of dogs and forcibly broke out of Shanghai Beach...... I don't know how they are living now, and whether they have been captured by the Kuomintang...... Well, since the wanted warrant hasn't been revoked, it should be that he hasn't been arrested yet!

No matter what it is, I hope that this "Mr. Qiong Yao", who was exiled from the Northeast, will not repeat the mistakes of Qiu Jin, the heroine of Jianhu Lake. A rare woman in troubled times like this really shouldn't wither in the dark prison......

Thinking of this, his eyes couldn't help but move to a Juanxiu note pressed under the glass table - this is the "Memories of Shenyang" created by Jin Qina on the spot when several people met in a café and talked about the fall of Northeast China and the reduction of 30 million compatriots to foreign slaves:

"Thousands of miles of sword light and shadow, hatred burns nine cities.

On the night of the full moon, no one returns, and there is no peace in the land of flowers.

Silent blood, thousands of wisps of motherly affection.

Go first for the shame of the snow country, reorganize the rivers and mountains for the next generation......"

-- Between the lines, there is a faint trace of sadness and heroism, showing the grievances and unwillingness to ruin the country and the family. Thinking of the current tragic situation of the country's decline, the nation's peril, the same room, and the rampant traitors, it makes people feel even more heartbroken and filled with righteous indignation.

Well, Mr. Lu Xun, who lives in this era, obviously doesn't know that this is the theme lyrics of "Four Generations in the Same Hall" copied by Jin Qina......

Just as Lu Xun sighed again and was about to finish writing the letter, he was suddenly interrupted by a noise outside.

He didn't want to pay attention to it at first, but then he heard that the people outside seemed to be shouting about himself, Lu Xun had to frown and push open the window to take a look, only to see an acquaintance of the junior writer standing outside the door downstairs, waving a newspaper and shouting at him:

“…… Mr! Mr! Something is wrong! Turn on the radio! Suzhou was already planted with a red flag yesterday! ”

So, in the face of this earth-shattering news, Lu Xun's mind fell into sluggishness and blankness in an instant......

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Shanghai Jiangwan, the government building of the Kuomintang Shanghai Special City

This is a luxurious building with a modern atmosphere. At this time, the solemnity and solemnity of the past were no longer the same, and the officials, military and police who were shuttling back and forth in the doorway all had ugly and frightening faces. In some offices. Flames and green smoke have even risen from the incineration of documents......

Wu Tiecheng, mayor of Shanghai Special City and commander of the Songhu garrison, stared at bloodshot red eyes and circled around the office like a trapped beast.

Looking at the thick arrow on the map that plunged from Suzhou into the Xiangshang Sea, he felt like he was going crazy!

- The damned Red Bandit is about to enter Shanghai from the west, and he doesn't have a defensive battle at all!

But no matter how desperate the situation is, Shanghai, a treasure of feng shui, is absolutely impossible to lose!

As a close confidant of Chiang Kai-shek, Wu Tiecheng knew it well. Shanghai is China's transportation hub and the gateway to Nanjing, and its strategic position is very important. At the same time, Shanghai is also the base camp of the imperialist countries in China and an important stronghold of the chaebols of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. It was the pillar on which Chiang Kai-shek's regime depended. Chiang Kai-shek specially reminded Wu Tiecheng at the beginning: "...... Shanghai is not an ordinary metropolis...... China's military, economic, and communications problems are all based on the Shanghai Special City, and if the Shanghai Special City cannot be sorted out, then China will not have a clue about its military, economy, and communications. ”

If it had been before the "128 Incident," Wu Tiecheng would not have felt such a headache -- Shanghai was China's largest city and an important port at that time. It is regarded as the second capital of China. Tens of thousands of troops were stationed all year round, and even during the Central Plains War, which decided the fate of the Nationalist Government in Nanjing, Chiang Kai-shek never relaxed his control over Shanghai...... But the problem was that with the outbreak of the 128 Incident and the signing of the Songhu Armistice Agreement, under the pressure of the Japanese. Today, Shanghai has been designated as a demilitarized zone, and the regular Kuomintang troops have long since withdrawn.

Therefore, Wu Tiecheng, the so-called commander of the Songhu garrison, is almost an empty shelf now. In addition to the Shanghai Security Corps and the Shanghai Police Corps, which are "irregular troops". There is simply no decent regular army to call on.

What's worse is that Shanghai's urban area is vast, flat and unsafe. Since the Republic of China, there has been a saying that "defend Shanghai without fighting in Shanghai". It is not fifteen years later, when Tang Enbo and Su Yu commanded hundreds of thousands of troops to fight Shanghai, and there is no such strong fortifications of reinforced concrete fortresses, trenches, and mines on the outskirts of Shanghai, let alone the stockpiling of arms and ammunition -- in fact, Shanghai today is simply an undefended city!

Therefore, with just this little "irregular army" in his hands, Wu Tiecheng had no way to hold the city of Shanghai that was divided by the concession.

The only reasonable countermeasure is to resist along the railway and highway lines, slow down the advance of the red bandits, and buy more time for the Shanghai Special City to ask for help from abroad...... And he did exactly that-Sun Liren's first wave of reinforcements had just arrived in Suzhou, and Wu Tiecheng tried his best to gather the remaining troops and rushed to Kunshan in the dark. It is not only a reserve for Sun Liren, but also a second line of defense just in case.

However, this morning, when he tried to listen to the anti-Japanese speech of the Red Bandits on the radio, the Kunshan side sent him bad news.

“…… After fighting with the red bandits for less than an hour, he threw away his armor and collapsed? What a rice bucket! Rubbish! Faced with the report of defeat from the front line in Kunshan, dozens of kilometers away, Wu Tiecheng angrily slammed his fist on the table, "...... Once Kunshan is lost, how can Shanghai be defended? ”

“…… Mayor, there were no defenders in Kunshan County at all, and the speed of the red bandits was too fast, and our army and the red bandits entered the city almost at the same time, so there was no way to defend the city...... "The sheriff, who even lost his hat, had to bow his head aggrievedly and tell his bitterness," ...... The Red Bandits are outnumbered, their firepower is fierce, and there are many cannons to help them fight (in fact, they are bazookas). The brothers have no fortifications to hide, and they can't stop it with just a few shell guns! Mayor, for the sake of today, there is only a way to ask for help! He boldly suggested.

“…… Help? Where to go for help? Wu Tiecheng snorted angrily and knocked the table with a bang, "...... In addition to the security regiments in the counties, the nearest reinforcements to us were surrounded by red guerrillas when they were in Nanjing-Yuji in Hangzhou! By the time the Central Army from Nanjing arrived in Shanghai for emergency loading and transporting to Shanghai, it would take four or five days, and most of them would have been in a hurry......

“…… Mayor, since we are in Shanghai, it seems that we can discuss it with foreigners. Wu Tiecheng's secretary interjected.

“…… Tried it, it didn't work! Wu Tiecheng continued to shake his head. …… Britain, France, and the United States were only willing to hold on to the concession and were unwilling to take care of external affairs. ”

“…… President Wang of the Executive Yuan has just sent a wireless telegram, suggesting that we contact the Japanese friendly forces in Hongkou. ”

“…… Japanese? Wu Tiecheng's brow furrowed deeply—he knew it very well. What kind of reputation would this move have in the current public opinion environment - but the grim reality does not allow him to pick and choose," ...... Hey, I really don't care about my reputation, so let's ask the Japanese for help! ”

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"Woo-"

With a long whistle, a steamer slowly docked at the Shiliupu Wharf on the Huangpu River. At the same time, on both sides of the ship's side deck. And next to every porthole, there are crowded heads lined up, greedily looking at the scenery of Shanghai on both sides of the Huangpu River.

In the eyes of foreigners. Shanghai is a free port, the Paris of the East, and in the eyes of the Chinese, it is entirely a foreign city.

-- After the steamer sailed into the Huangpu River. The scene changed in front of me. Advertisements for chewing gum and cigarettes flashed on the advertising table, while advertisements for jack-of-all-trades stood on wooden shelves on thatched-roof roofs. The former countryside has been replaced by factories, warehouses, and docks...... Passengers find themselves facing China in the traditional sense, but it is not purely exotic either—they are presented with the "magic capital of the East".

However, among these passengers who are greedy for the scenery of Shanghai, there is actually the languid face of a former "red bandit dignitary......

-- Zeng Hongyi, a native of Wan'an, Jiangxi, joined the Communist Youth League in 1923 and joined the party the following year. He actively participated in the May Day Movement, and was also selected by the central government to study at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow, the Soviet Union. After returning to China, he held important positions in the party for a long time, and once worked with Fang Zhimin. In 1934, he served as the secretary of the Fujian Provincial Party Committee, and then, as a "representative of the Central Committee", followed the Red Army of Suyu and Xunhuaizhou to the north to resist the Japanese advance team from Ruijin and moved to Fujian, Zhejiang, Anhui and other provinces.

On November 1, the Red Army's anti-Japanese advance team went north to enter the Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Soviet regions led by Fang Zhimin. Soon after, the advance team of the Red Army to resist Japan in the north, led by Fang Zhimin and Liu Chouxi, continued to resist the Japanese in the north, while Zeng Hongyi stayed in the local area and served as secretary of the provincial party committee and political commissar of the provincial military district of Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Soviet regions.

At this time, it was at the critical juncture of the fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign in Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi Soviet regions, and the Kuomintang troops from all walks of life were pressing forward step by step. Zeng Hongyi should have worked hard to boost his morale and lead the army and people in the Soviet area to fight a bloody battle against the Kuomintang army, but he was pessimistic and disappointed about the future of the revolution in the face of the successive defeats in the anti-"encirclement and suppression" campaign, and went so far as to spread pessimistic arguments everywhere such as "the dispatch of the field army (i.e., the Long March of the main force of the Red Army in the Central Soviet Region) is not a victorious sortie, but a forced cancellation," "the five encirclements and suppression of the enemy are victorious," "the Chinese Soviet movement has come to an end," and "the Bolsheviks must learn to retreat," and so on. He proposed to move the party, government, and military organs of the Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi Soviet regions to northern Fujian, and was ready to abandon this Soviet area and flee for his life.

Such a negative and pessimistic attitude is obviously intolerable to neither the Party Central Committee nor the revolutionary masses. Therefore, under the telegram of the party Central Committee, the provincial party committee of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi Soviet regions held an emergency meeting to severely criticize Zeng Hongyi's "vacillating capitulationist mistakes" and suspended him from his posts as secretary of the provincial party committee and political commissar of the military region. Then a resolution was made to demote him to the eastern edge of the Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi Soviet districts, and Jiangshan County (Dai Li's hometown) in Zhejiang Province served as the district party secretary. As a result, Zeng Hongyi took six people and seven shell guns with his head down in despair, and prepared to go to Jiangshan County to establish a revolutionary base.

However, after being transferred all the way to office, Zeng Hongyi, who was already lacking in enthusiasm, was even more depressed to find that Jiangshan County was located on a major transportation route, the Kuomintang ruled Liliang strongly, there were only three or four local party members, the mass base was weak, and he really did not know how to carry out the revolutionary work.

Several of the guerrillas he brought with him were originally very unconvinced by Zeng Hongyi, the leader of the nest, and seeing that he could not withstand the test of difficulties and setbacks, and only sighed all day long, they all returned to the Soviet area one after another, leaving him alone in Jiangshan County.

Seeing that his subordinates had run out and the road back to the Soviet area was blocked, Zeng Hongyi really couldn't stay in Jiangshan County, so he had to leave Jiangshan County with a depressed heart, and went all the way to the seaside, trying to find a way to get on a steamer, and preparing to go to Shanghai to find a higher-level party organization and try his luck.

Since he had been on the ship for half a month, he was not well informed, and he happened to miss some news about the movements of the Red Army.

Therefore, the tired political commissar Zeng Hongyi had just arrived in Shanghai and landed at the 16th Pu Wharf, and was shocked by an unprecedented "good news":

“…… Extra! Extra! The 10th Red Bandit Army invaded Suzhou, and the Shanghai Special City was in danger! ”

“…… Extra! Extra! The 10th Red Bandit Regiment issued an anti-Japanese declaration in Suzhou, claiming to declare war on the Japanese garrison in Hongkou! ”

“…… The Ministry of Public Concession issued an emergency statement, declaring that the International Chamber of Commerce was confident in safeguarding the safety of the concession and hoped that residents would not disturb the ......"

“…… Mayor Wu Tiecheng urgently issued martial law in the city, and at the same time asked for help from the Japanese garrison in Shanghai! It has been approved by the Japanese side! ”

“…… Shame! Shanghai Special City invites Japanese invaders to assist in the defense of Shanghai Huajie! Could it be that Chiang's government has become a puppet of Japan? ”

……

So, facing the cold wind blowing on the Huangpu River, listening to the loud shouts of the newsboys, the rattan suitcase that Zeng Hongyi was carrying in his hand suddenly smashed heavily to the ground, and his mouth was even wider enough to stuff a duck egg.

“…… actually hit Suzhou, and then hit Shanghai?! Lao Fang, as well as Su Yu and Xun Huaizhou, when did they become so capable? (To be continued......)