Chapter 8: Guerrilla (6)

In the evening, Mo Di and his entourage entered Guilin City, did not report to the garrison headquarters, but went directly to Zhang Xiangpu's mansion at the fork of East Lane and Jiangnan Lane on the left side of the south gate of Jingjiang Wangcheng. In the past two years, under the painstaking management of Zhang Xiangpu, Zhang Yongfa's development momentum is fierce, his cloth village began to radiate to the surrounding counties, merchants from all over the world came to Zhang Yongfa to adjust the cloth, a rate of first payment and then delivery of the way, indicating that Zhang Yongfa's reputation is very good, and the goods are in short supply. In Guilin City, it is common to hear a smooth saying on the street: Zhang Yongfa's dyed cloth water - never fades.

Guilin City is divided into the inner city and the outer city, the inner city is also called the royal city, the four city gates are southeast and northwest, and in the middle is the Duxiu Peak of a pillar in the south sky. Outside the four city gates is the outer city, the outer city is surrounded by water on three sides, and the ring city river composed of the Lijiang River, Shanhu Lake, Ronghu Lake and moat pond is the natural barrier of the three directions of the outer city of Guilin, southeast and west. Only there is no waterway in the north as a barrier, and several high mountains such as Diecai Mountain, Eagle Mountain and Tiefeng Mountain have become dangerous passes that cannot be opened. The city wall built by the mountain on the mountain of the dove mountain, extends to the west, is extremely dangerous, there is a triangular pavilion in front of the mountain, it is the location of the military command post in that year. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Mongol soldiers attacked Guilin, which was known as the cardinal of the "cardinal with soldiers", and from the sixth year of Baoyou of the Southern Song Dynasty (1258) to the eighth year of Xianchun (1272), it lasted 14 years to build a city for defense. Nanding Village, Garrison Village, Garrison General Ya, Wanghuo Tower, Duzuo Battalion, Small Teaching Field, Guilin Station, Ma Jun Village, Right Army Village, and Garrison Village are all on this front line. The Guilin Garrison Headquarters is also located in the Octagonal Pond between Diecai Mountain and Fubo Mountain, where there is a military guest house, and Mo Di and others can stay for free with Paisi.

The north of Guilin City is a mountain, surrounded by water on three sides, and there are bridges on the water, leading to all directions. There is the ancient south gate on the Rong Lake, there is the West Gate Bridge in the middle of the moat, and a pontoon bridge connects the two banks on the Li River in the east, the pontoon bridge is very strong, and the carriage can be walked.

The inner city used to be the palace of the king of Jingjiang, and now it is basically used as a government department station, and the outer city is where the ordinary people and merchants are located, and it can be close to the root of the royal city, indicating that the relationship with the government is not generally close, therefore, the east and west lanes have become the most golden location in Guilin City, Zhang Xiangpu can get a piece of land here, and build a mansion that covers an area of not small, which is also very powerful.

After receiving the report, Zhang Xiangpu hurriedly greeted him, and shouted: "Brother Tianzong, after a long time, I want to be a brother!" ”

Mo Di also took two steps, stepped into the gate of the mansion, and said, "I haven't seen you for a year, Brother Zhang is even more magnificent!" ”

Zhang Xiangpu walked to Mo Di's side and held Mo Di's right hand tightly, as if he would disappear as soon as he let go. After Zhao Guolong moved in the gifts prepared by Mo Di for Zhang Xiangpu, the group went to the military guest house in Bajiaotang, where there was a military horse boarding field. Early tomorrow morning, they will leave Guilin, each return to their hometown, and will not return until the end of January, so that they can rush to Hengshan before the end of the month, so that Mo Di can participate in the first tour cadre class on time.

"This mansion is quite magnificent!" Walking into the inner courtyard of the mansion, Mo Di admired from the bottom of his heart.

"Huh! It's passable. Zhang Xiangpu said: "The front is tight, but the rear has business opportunities, my cloth has been included in the unified procurement of the army, although the price is lower than the market, but the advantage is that the purchase volume is huge, small profits but quick turnover." This alone has made me a lot of money, and this mansion is just half a year's profit from military purchases. The implication is quite impressive.

Mo Di nodded, doing business, being able to do business, being able to do official business, military business, is very different from ordinary civilian businessmen.

Mo Enemy came back this time, time is very abundant, originally thought that from Anhui to Guilin on two legs, never thought that first on the train of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi line, the opening of the Hunan and Guizhou line trains, is a great shortening of the journey, is expected to shorten the one-month trip to five days to complete, the plan for two months of the brigade * is on the way is only ten days, the rest of the more than a month has become the enemy of the vacation, back home still enough time to stay in Guilin. Zhang Xiangpu knew that Mo Di had been in Guilin for more than half a month this time, and he was very happy, so he packed up the guest rooms of the mansion and let Mo Di stay here for a long time.

Early the next morning, Zhang Xiangpu called out all the old friends and ghosts who had eaten and drunk together before, drank Cantonese morning tea in the Weixiang Restaurant, and agreed to go to Guanghan Building at the foot of the Crescent Mountain to drink flower wine in the evening. Crescent Mountain is not far away, on the other side of the Li River, walk out from the East Gate of Guilin City, is the Water East Gate Wharf on the side of the Li River, the turquoise Li River is in the bottom of the eye, the extreme eye looks around, the south is Elephant Trunk Mountain, the north is Fubo Mountain. The other side of the river is Putuo Mountain and Crescent Mountain, Putuo Mountain and Crescent Mountain have a total of seven mountains, put into the shape of the Big Dipper, so they are also called Seven Star Mountain, there are holes in Putuo Mountain, also called Seven Star Rock. Crescent Mountain, because there is a hole on the top of the mountain, it is named after a round of crescent moon, there is a crescent pavilion in the middle of the mountain, there is a crescent moon building under the mountain, it is also called Guanghan Building, here is the red light district of Guilin City, full of wandering warblers and young prostitutes, at night, it is not lively. Not far from the crescent moon tower, lying on the small Dongjiang River is the famous stone arch bridge of the Song Dynasty, because many women in the wind and dust are here to show their flowers and branches, and call guests by the railing, so this bridge is also called the flower bridge.

Zhang Xiangpu arranged the banquet in the Guanghan Building at the foot of the Crescent Mountain.

Under the guidance of the subordinates arranged by Zhang Xiangyuan, Mo Di walked across the pontoon bridge, looked at the elephant mountain in the south in the middle of the bridge, really like a god drinking water, standing by the river, looking at the waves in the north, the river became calm here, and there was really the ability to wave down. Cross the flower bridge, walk up the famous widow's street, and soon come to the crescent moon pavilion. Zhang Xiangpu knew that Mo Di had a hobby of copying inscriptions, so he first took him to the Longyin Rock under the Crescent Mountain to watch and copy the cliff stone carvings, here, Mo Di could stay for a full day, and he could take the opportunity to deal with some affairs.

Sure enough, as soon as he arrived in the Dragon Hidden Rock, Mo Di immediately indulged in it, and he didn't even hear Zhang Xiangpu's people greet him and say goodbye to him.

Longyinyan, set Guilin stone carvings, there are Tang Dynasty Zhang Jun, Liu Chonggui's "Rhododendron Singing and Poems", there are more than 130 Song monuments, the famous "Yuan Yu Party Membership" tablet, "Pingman Three Generals Inscription" tablet, Shi Manqing's "Leaf Daoqing Inscription" 28 words, the penmanship is strong, it is a rare product. "Mi Fu Cheng Festival Gift Poem" is precious, Fan Chengda, Zhang Xiaoxiang, Lv Sheng, Xu Mengcui, Liang Anshi, Chen Yan, Chen Kongshuo and other inscriptions, all ink pen exquisite.

In addition to the boutique, the masterpiece, there are many strange products in the Longyin Rock, which makes people shoot the case amazingly, not only the calligraphy can be called a winning product, and some of the reliefs that promote Buddhism are also extremely artistic. The statue of Guanyin carved by Kangxi in the fourth year of the Qing Dynasty has fine lines, plump face, three small heads on the bun, a small eye between the forehead, and two whiskers on the lips, the image is very peculiar. Wang Jingshan of the Qing Dynasty carved a 70 centimeters high and 82 centimeters wide Buddhist cursive script in Longyin Rock, which attracted the strong interest of countless tourists. Looking from afar, it is like an old woman with her hair in a bun, holding incense in her hands, kneeling reverently to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and the cigarette smoke can be seen between the strokes. Looking closely, it is a four-stroke stroke of the word "Buddha". Combining calligraphy and painting as a whole, the ingenuity is unique, and it is quite appreciative.

Mo Di seems to have seen that for hundreds of years, literati and ink writers have happily painted here, written with their pen, and felt the depth and majesty of culture from between the lines. Such a vast culture, such a rich inheritance, but to face the trampling of the Japanese iron hooves, Mo Di couldn't help but have a sense of anger in his heart, in order to keep the great rivers and mountains from falling behind the Japanese, I am afraid that there will be three more points of killing in the future.

The fingers are tracing from afar, and the heart is trying to carve this stroke deeply, and the enemy will enter the realm of selflessness.

Suddenly, a loud explosion was heard, followed by bursts of explosions. A loud sound woke Mo Di from his intoxication. "Plane bombing!" Mo Di immediately reacted, got up, ran to the entrance of the cave, came to the Xiaodong River, and looked east, the Japanese plane was flying overhead, and the bombs from the plane were falling in the direction of Guilin City.

The explosion lasted for half an hour, and soon, there were a lot of people dodging in the Longyin Cave, Mo Di did not stay in the cave anymore, but passed by the crowd of people dodging the artillery, he wanted to go to the crescent moon pavilion not far away to see how much damage this bombing brought to Guilin.

The fire in the city began to spread, under the north wind, the fire expanded rapidly, looking at the crescent moon pavilion, the pontoon bridge had been blown up, and the fire had already burned along the river from Fubo Mountain to Xiangshan, he wanted to know if the East Lane where Zhang Xiangpu was located was within the range of the flames, but the billowing smoke accompanied by the fire blocked his vision.

In the city of Guilin, there was fire everywhere, and the Japanese bombing did not have any accurate targets, it was completely blind bombing, and whoever was killed was whoever was killed.

Mo Di trotted all the way, ran down Crescent Mountain, ran across the flower bridge, and stopped by the Li River, the pontoon bridge was blown off from it, half on the east bank and half on the west bank, some small boats that pad the pontoon bridge were blown up, and it seems that it will take a little time to restore the pontoon. Mo Di took a closer look, and there was no fire in the area of East Lane, but the fire in the area of Zhengyang Road became more and more intense, extending to the edge of Shanhu Lake. If the area around Zhengyang Road is burned with shops, then the fire is by the Shanhu Lake, and it is the cultural center of Guilin.

"Fight the fire! Why not put out the fire? Mo Di said in a hurry.

"Transition transition, the boat is cheaper!" A shout came, and Mo Di saw that several small boats were coming to the east bank of the Li River with guests, and the boss of the boat was shouting, wanting a few repeat customers, at this time, no one was willing to run to the city.

Mo Di rushed down the dock, jumped on the boat in one step, and asked, "A lot of money?" ”

The shipowner glanced at Mo Di and said, "The soldiers are free." ”

Mo Di glanced at the military uniform on his body, a soldier, he can still enjoy this treatment.

The return trip of the ferry went very fast, because in addition to Mo Enemy on the boat, there was only the boat owner who supported the boat, and it seemed that the boat owner had no money to collect this return trip. But it doesn't matter, the dock on the other side of the river is already crowded with people, and the boat boss has no business.

Mo Di squeezed the bow of the boat and rushed to get on the boat, walked to the East Gate of Shui, and ran to Jiangnan Lane, his first thought was to know what happened to the Zhang Mansion at the corner of Jiangnan Lane and East Lane.

At the door of Zhang's Mansion, Mo Di saw Zhang Xiangpu who was in a hurry and wanted to go out, and hurriedly asked, "Brother Zhang, how is the loss?" ”

"Not a big loss! Two were hit in Cross Street*, and shrapnel flew into my cloth village, injuring a guest. Zhang Xiangpu said.

"That's good!" Mo Di said, "If everything is normal here, I want to go to the garrison headquarters and see if there is anything I need help with." ”

"I don't have any problems here, this bombing is much more powerful than last month's, the garrison command must be very busy, you just have to go to the garrison headquarters to have a look." Zhang Xiangpu said: "I still have to go to the shop to see, I can't go to the crescent moon building at night, so I can only get some at home." ”

"Don't think about this at this time, I'll go first." After that, Mo Di walked in the direction of Octagonal Pond.

The city of Guilin is in chaos. Mo Di walked along the salt street along the east city wall of Wangcheng to the octagonal pond, which was even more chaotic, Mo Di didn't know who he should go to, standing at the door of the building, compared with other people who came and went in a hurry.

"Tianzhong?" A familiar voice came to my ears.

Mo Di looked back and saw that it was Zhong Ji, the chief of staff of the major general of the 31st Army.