No. 309 Guangzhou Bay

On March 19, 1943, the Japanese army handed over the blockade line on the outskirts of Mocheng City to the management of the Wangfu City Police Station.

On April 16, the three film companies of Zhonghua, Zoomlion and Magic City Cinema, which were established after the fall of the magic capital, were merged into the pseudo China Film Co., Ltd.

Before that, during the isolated island period, the film company made many anti-Japanese films, such as "Defend Our Land", "Eight Hundred Heroes", "March of Victory", "Young China", "Plug the Storm", "Return to My Hometown", "Song of the Soul of the Police" and other films that show the heroic resistance of the military and civilians, as well as news documentaries such as "Long Live the Nation".

In 1938, private film companies such as Xinhua, Yihua, and Guohua shot films. With the blockbuster of the film "Mulan in the Army" produced by Xinhua, a wave of costume film shooting has been formed. In 1941, fashion films replaced costume films, and more than 10 film companies such as Xinhua, Yihua, Guohua, and Jinxing produced more than 80 films, and there were 60 fashion films. The cartoon "Iron Fan Princess" drawn by Wan Laiming and Wan Gu Toad is the first longer cartoon in China.

Since the Japanese entered the concession, they soon took control of the film industry, established Zhonglian and Huaying, and shot nearly 130 feature films in four years, including films such as "The Hatred of Chunjiang", which advocated the so-called "Sino-Japanese friendship" and "coexistence and common prosperity".

The Japanese also took control of the radio station.

The music played on the radio is becoming more and more decadent, self-defeating, flirtatious, and sassy, which is the standard "glamorous sound".

At this time, Li Jinhui listened to Qin Di's advice and had already left the magic capital and went to Malaysia to live in seclusion. His Mingyue Song and Dance Troupe, part of which is contracted by the film company, and part of which has become a contracted singer of EMI.

As famous as Li Jinhui is, there is also a Chen Gexin, who is also an important figure in the history of modern Chinese pop music.

Chen Gexin, who also worked with EMI, was a controversial figure who was trapped in the magic capital and had to work in the music department of Huaying, which was directly under the puppet government of Wang, and in his works there was a content singing praises for the Japanese invaders.

Later, after Japan's surrender, he also composed many good songs, one of which is a Chinese New Year song that is sung every festive festival: "In every street and alley, in everyone's mouth, the first sentence they say is congratulations and ......congratulations."

Originally, he also had a song "Rose Rose I Love You", because it was jazz, it became a popular song in the United States, and the royalties were said to be more than one million dollars, but unfortunately the relationship between China and the United States broke down after the liberation, and he couldn't go abroad to ask for the money.

In 1943, the Wang puppet regime did one more thing in the magic capital, which cannot be said to be a bad thing, Chen Gongbo ordered the name of the road to be changed, and all 240 roads named after foreigners in the city were changed to new road names named after Chinese place names. Since then, the names of Xiafei Road, Petain Road, and Aidoya Road have been thrown into the dustbin of history. This is very necessary. Comparatively speaking, until the 21st century, Hong Kong still retains too many foreign landmarks, so it is difficult to eradicate the traitor culture

1943 was the year of World War II.

On January 18, the Soviets launched a counterattack in Leningrad and broke through the German blockade. On February 2, the Germans surrendered at Stalingrad. Field Marshal Paulus and 90,000 men of the German army were taken prisoner. The Battle of Stalingrad ended.

On April 18, the U.S. Navy killed Isoroku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Combined Forces.

On 13 May, German and Italian troops in North Africa surrendered to the Allies.

On 10 July, Allied forces landed in Sicily.

On July 12, the Soviet and German armies engaged in the largest tank battle in history at Prokhorovka, with more than 1,000 tanks thrown in, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

On July 25, a coup d'état took place in Italy, and Benito Mussolini was arrested.

In China, the base areas behind enemy lines led by the Great Red Party are constantly developing and growing, while the Qingbai Party in the south has published the book "The Fate of China" written by Tao Xisheng in the name of Mr. Qing. The book falsifies and alters Chinese history, celebrates feudalism, and hints at the elimination of the Great Red Party within two years. Its publication was a public opinion preparation for the start of a civil war.

On the frontal battlefield, although they were in a state of stalemate, in March 1943, Guangzhou Bay was occupied by the Japanese.

This Guangzhou Bay is not Guangzhou, which had already fallen in 1938.

Guangzhou Bay, equivalent to the later city of Zhanjiang, became a leased land on November 16, 1899 due to the Sino-French Treaty of Concession of Guangzhou Bay signed between France and the Qing government, and was the largest French concession in Chinese mainland in history, with a total area of 1,300 square kilometers.

Since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, China's coastal Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hainan, Hong Kong and other port cities have fallen, maritime traffic has been basically cut off, Guangzhou Bay has become the only port in China that can trade freely at that time, and the highway from Guangzhou Bay to Liuzhou, Guangxi has been communicated, the materials required by the mainland are transshipped by Guangzhou Bay, and it has become an important commercial town and shipping center in and out of China.

Due to the surging capital from all over the world to Guangzhou Bay, all kinds of restaurants, foreign banks, silver brands, department stores, miscellaneous loans, gold shops, theaters, dance halls and other industries are all available, and business is booming. In the heyday of Guangzhou Bay's commerce, there were 161 well-known shops on Chung Hing Street just a few hundred meters away, which was known as the second Hong Kong.

In 1943, Japan announced its entry into Canton Bay, taking over Canton Bay and detaining all French officials. Due to the outbreak of the Pacific War, overseas transportation was cut off for a while, and the shopping malls were suddenly in a state of panic, and the merchants who fled from all over the country to Guangzhou Bay began to choose their own way home, and the large merchants who operated large businesses and silver villages in Guangzhou Bay returned to their original places one after another, and the business of Guangzhou Bay began to go downhill and gradually became cold.

After Gu Ruhu withdrew his troops from Burma and returned to Yunnan, he did not continue to participate in the second expeditionary force, but was ordered to go to Guangxi to garrison.

In late March, he received a distress letter from Uncle Gu Lang from Guangzhou, so he personally led a regiment of elite troops, day and night, and quietly infiltrated Guangzhou Bay.

At this time, the Japanese army stationed in Guangzhou Bay was a mixed 23rd Brigade composed of the 48th Division Yamada Wing, with about 6,000 men, under the command of the brigade commander Kenro Kawabe.

On 9 April, the US Army Air Force dispatched nine fighter planes from an air base in Yunnan to attack Japanese naval gunboats in Guangzhou Bay and Japanese garrisons in Guangzhou Bay at night. Fighter jets skimmed over the city and sank Japanese ships. Bombers continued to bomb Japanese military facilities.

Gu Ruhu took advantage of this opportunity and led his troops to raid Guangzhou Bay.

He took advantage of the night, took the lead, entered the enemy camp, killed dozens of Japanese officers in one go, and seriously injured the brigade commander Kenro Kawabe, but because the number of troops was small and he was not familiar with the terrain, he failed to expand the results of the battle, and had to withdraw in the second half of the night, and rescued Gu Lang and some people who were blocked by the Japanese army in the concession.

This raid added a few more gunshot wounds to Gu Ruhu, after which he had to honestly retreat to Guangxi, and then take time to go to Jiuzhaigou to cultivate.