Chapter 226: Actively Preparing for War
To be honest, Qin Di is looking for someone to post notices everywhere, but there is actually no use for birds!
A notice was posted on the front, and the back was torn up!
The Qingbai Party said that the notice and the fallacy confuse the public and disturb the peace of the people!
Even if some people read the notice, not many people actually fled ahead of time! Because it was not so easy to flee for a job! Leaving one's hometown is an unbearable burden for ordinary people! As the saying goes, breaking one's home is worth a thousand dollars, and who is willing to leave behind the bottles and cans? Will they not be able to survive in a new place?
However, the rumors in the market are getting louder and louder, and some wealthy people have responded.
"The child's father, in my opinion, should send his daughter to the countryside!
"Is our family's money hidden? Is it safe to hide it in the pillar? I think it's best to bury it in the soil!"
"Oh, this old painting of mine is worth a lot of money! Where should I hide it? It's so worrying!"
"Madam, your mink coat must also be put away, put it in the box in advance, and take it and leave when you flee!"
"Master, do we really want to escape? How can the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River suffer? Back then, King Chuang and Long Hair didn't come here!"
"Who knows, the wind is out there, and people are scared when they hear it!"
At the same time, the local government is still desperately trying to reassure: "Don't mess up, don't panic, don't listen to rumors! We have a large army to protect us, and it is very safe and ......."
Soon, half of the fifty people sent out by Qin Di were arrested by the government, and the rest fled back to report.
"Mr. Qin, the notice can't be posted, the government will see one, catch one!"
Qin Di glared and shouted: "Keep posting, for each poster notice, I will give 5 yuan! What are you afraid of if you are caught? It is not the crime of killing your head!"
There must be brave men under the heavy reward, Du Yuesheng sent another 100 gangsters to post notices all over the world.
With the repeated prohibitions of the notices, Nanxun Sixiang, Baniu, and Seventy-two Dogs panicked one by one, and moved their property and family members to remote places.
At the same time, there are also more young people who are angry and go out of their homes, asking to join the army and defend their families and the country.
In some places, militia groups were organized to prepare for a death war against the Japanese.
The armed forces in various localities took the opportunity to select a number of outstanding soldiers and weed out the old, weak, and remnant soldiers.
Taking advantage of the panic in people's hearts, Qin Di went to Jinling.
He bought 80 properties in Jinling, and then found someone to dig holes in the ground, which was a temporary safe house, hoping to shelter some people.
He also found two disciples, Du Rong and Du Lan, who were martial arts instructors in the CSKA Women's Corps and were also hired by Dai Li as martial arts instructors for the military commander's female spies.
Not only did the Republic of China have female soldiers, but the Whampoa Military Academy also recruited female officers. Before the liberation, the Whampoa Military Academy enrolled 800 female students, including Zhao Sanman, Li Qiuyue, Hu Lanqi, Peng Yuanhua, and so on, all of whom became members of the Red Party.
As for how many female spies are there in the military command?
This question is not easy to answer, and since 1926, the Wuhan branch of Huangpu has begun to train female confidential officers, newspaper forwarders, and confidential officers. Since 1932, Dai Li has held training courses all over the country and trained many female spies, such as Jiang Yiying, the only female general of the Republic of China Military Command, who cracked Japan's important secret messages many times during World War II, and also deciphered the intelligence that Japan was about to attack Pearl Harbor, and made contributions to the War of Resistance.
The word spy is not necessarily derogatory, and it may also be a hero of the country and the nation in a specific period.
Qin Di told Du Rong and Du Lan the location of the eighty safe houses, telling them that in case Jinling fell, they could hide in the underground secret room, and if used properly, they might be able to protect thousands of women.
Of course, this is just his expectation, when the time comes, the Du family sisters don't know where they are.
In the spring of 1937, Zhang Zhizhong resigned from the post of director of education of the Central Military Academy and became the commander of the Beijing-Shanghai Division. In order to prevent the Japanese army from landing on the north shore of Modu and Hangzhou Bay, the Nationalist Government mobilized the 36th, 87th, and 88th Divisions to build positions between Wuxian, Fushan Town, Wuxi, and Jiangyin in Suzhou.
The Songhu line is from Modu to Wusongkou, the Sufu line is from Suzhou to Fushan Town, and the Xicheng line is from Wuxi to Jiangyin, all of which were completed in extreme secrecy. In addition, the Zhapingjia line between Zhapu, Pinghu Town, and Jiaxing (the 57th Division Ruan Zhaochang was responsible for the construction), and the Haijia line defense fortifications from Haiyan to Wujiang through Jiaxing.
Both Mr. Qing and the German adviser Alexander von Falkenhausen understood that there was no danger to defend in the southeastern plain, but the streets of Modu and the surrounding area were full of waterways, which was beneficial to China's lightly armed forces.
Falkenhausen believed that the idea of a protracted war of resistance would cause the coastal areas to be abandoned prematurely, and that foreign sources of goods would be cut off. Its proposal was adopted by the Nationalist Government, and in 1936 it began to build defense fortifications in Beijing, Shanghai and the Yangtze River.
Because Qin Di posted notices everywhere to spread rumors, the people panicked, and put a lot of pressure on the Qingbai government, thus speeding up the construction of national defense fortifications. Many fortifications were built ahead of schedule!
At the same time, Mr. Qing dispatched troops and actively prepared for war.
On May 8, Nagatsu Sachi, head of the China Division of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, reported on the situation in China, saying: "The New Life Movement led by Mr. Qing has been transformed into a national military mobilization movement. ”
On June 8, the two parties held talks in Lushan to discuss the "Draft Program for National Reunification to Resist Insults, Save the Country, and Rejuvenate China."
On June 12, the 51st Army of Yu Xuezhong's division moved from Anhui to Jiangsu.
When Mr. Qing was preparing for the southeast, when the Japanese army was exercising near the Lugou Bridge in the southwest of Beiping, under the pretext that a soldier was "missing", he asked to enter Wanping County to search, but the 29th Army of the Chinese defenders sternly refused, and the Japanese army then shot at the Chinese defenders, and shelled Wanping City, the 29th Army rose up to resist the war, and the Qiqi Lugou Bridge Incident broke out first.
The next day, the Great Red Party sent a telegram to the whole country, appealing: "Compatriots of all China, Pingjin is in danger! North China is in danger! The Chinese nation is in danger! Only when the whole nation carries out the War of Resistance is our way out!" and put forward the loud slogans of "not allowing Japanese imperialism to occupy an inch of China's territory!" and "Shed the last drop of blood for the defense of the country!"
Mr. Qing called Song Zheyuan, Qin Dechun and others, "Wanping City should be held and not retreated", "Lugou Bridge and Changxin Store must not be lost".
On July 17, Mr. Qing made a speech in Lushan, pointing out that "the Lugou Bridge Incident has reached the last moment of concession" and that "there is no chance of compromise, and if you give up your land and sovereignty, you will be a sinner of the Chinese nation through the ages." ”
At this time, the 14 divisions of the Sichuan Army and two independent brigades were organized into two group armies and were ordered to leave Sichuan! This included the brigade where Gu Ruhu and his father Gu Han belonged. They went to Suzhou and Wuxi to set up defenses.