Chapter 366: August 12, night (please subscribe and vote)
A sudden knock on the door made the three people in the house nervous.
Chai Xue winked at Liu Danian and Xiao Huo.
The two took out weapons from their bags. Liu Danian was holding a Mauser pistol, and Xiao Huo was holding a dagger.
The two of them walked lightly and lined up on both sides behind the door.
“Who is it?” Chai Xue walked behind the door and asked softly.
“Miss, I’m here to deliver a hot water bottle.”
“Leave it at the door.” Chai Xue nodded towards Liu Danian. She had an impression of the voice of the person outside. He was the hotel boy.
“Okay.” The boy agreed, and then heard the sound of the thermos bottle being placed on the ground.
Then there was the sound of footsteps leaving gently.
Chai Xue is about to open the door.
Xiao Huo suddenly made a gesture towards the two of them: the people outside did not leave.
At this moment, a lowered voice came from outside the door, "Is this Boss Pan from Chuzhou?"
The expressions of the three people in the room suddenly changed, and then they showed expressions of joy.
Liu Danian winked at Xiao Huo. Xiao Huo walked away quietly, took the gun and hid it under the bed.
Here, Chai Xue put her ear to the back of the door and answered through the crack of the door, "Is it Nanxiang's boss Bo?"
"Miss, our father's surname is Bai, the name of Bai tree is Bai Yongcai." There was a reply from outside the door.
The secret code is correct!
Chai Xue and Liu Danian looked at each other, and the latter nodded.
Chai Xue gently opened the door and saw a tall and thin middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties standing outside the door.
She was surprised. Wasn't it a male voice just now?
"You are Xiaoxue, don't you know your uncle?" Xiong Jiashang said with a smile and a male voice.
"Uncle Bai, please come in quickly." Chai Xue glanced at the woman in surprise, immediately reacted, stepped aside, invited the woman to come in, and immediately closed the door.
…
Xiong Jiashang glanced at Chai Xue and Liu Danian.
Comparing the two people with the description of the situation in the telegram, he reached out to Liu Danian and said, "Comrade Liu Danian, I am Xiong Jiashang, Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Red Party. Is the old house at home okay?"
"Hello, Minister Xiong." After hearing this, Liu Danian shook hands with Xiong Jiashang happily, "Secretary Tingfang (Jing Hua) often mentioned you before, saying that you are a heroine."
At this moment, Liu Danian finally felt relieved. Just now, Xiong Jiashang deliberately mentioned the old house, referring to Comrade Fang Jinghua, leader of the Hangzhou Red Party.
Xiong Jiashang worked with Fang Jinghua before. "Old house" is Xiong Jiashang's way of describing Fang Jinghua.
Fang Jinghua suffered from extremely serious gastric ulcers. In addition, because he had been arrested by the enemy and endured severe torture, he had serious physical risks. When Xiong Jiashang left Hangzhou, he was very concerned about Fang Jinghua's health and said that this old house of yours was going to be destroyed. Take care and hold on.
Later on, Fang Jinghua had a stomachache and vomited blood. He laughed at himself and said that his old house might not be able to support it for long.
The meaning of the ‘old house’ is something that only the Red Party in Hangzhou and Xiong Jiashan himself know.
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“How is Mr. Miao?” Xiong Jiashang asked immediately.
Liu Danian looked at Chai Xue. Chai Xue was a doctor in the army and had the most say.
"Mr. Miao relied on willpower to support him all the way. After landing at the dock, he finally couldn't support it anymore and passed out." Chai Xue brought Xiong Jiashang to the bedside and checked on Mr. Miao's condition. Now he is in a coma due to high fever and the situation is very dangerous.”
Xiong Jiashang bent down and reached out to touch Mr. Miao's forehead. It was frighteningly hot.
"We can't wait any longer." Xiong Jiashang said with a serious expression, "We must move immediately and take Mr. Miao to see a doctor."
"I agree." Liu Danian said immediately, "However, we have just opened the guest room and checking out now, will it arouse suspicion?"
“I can’t control that much anymore.” Xiong Jiashan waved his hand and said, “Move immediately.”
"Yes!" Liu Danian saluted. Xiong Jiashang was once the leader of the Red Party in Hangzhou and the political commissar of the guerrilla detachment in the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Border Region. Although Liu Danian had never met Xiong Jiashang before, strictly speaking, Xiong Jiashang was Liu Danian's double elder. lead'.
At this moment, Xiao Huo got out from under the bed.
Xiong Jiashan was startled.
…
“This is Mr. Miao’s bodyguard Xiao Huo.” Liu Danian quickly introduced him.
Xiong Jiashang nodded, glanced at Xiao Huo, and showed a thoughtful expression, and then his expression returned to normal.
Liu Danian was carrying Mr. Miao on his back. As soon as he went out, he saw a strong man standing outside the door.
“I’ll carry it,” the man said.
"I'll do it myself." Liu Danian said quickly. Although Xiong Jiashang's identity was confirmed and he was confirmed to be from the Shanghai Red Party, Liu Danian was still extremely vigilant. He would be most at ease only if he personally carried Mr. Miao on his back.
Chai Xue glanced at Xiong Jiashang, and she could tell that Xiong Jiashang had just imitated the strong man's accent.
Several people checked out of the room, and the hotel owner withheld part of the room payment.
Xiao Huo glanced at the hotel owner distressedly for several times. When he left the hotel, he couldn't help but cursed, "Black-hearted capitalist."
Xiong Jiashang glanced at Xiao Huo and was about to speak.
“Xiao Huo, shut up.” Liu Danian said with a stern expression.
Xiao Huo glanced at Liu Danian and opened his mouth, "Yes, I was wrong."
He also knew that he shouldn't have said that just now.
Liu Danian put ‘Mr. Miao’ on the rickshaw. The strong man smiled, picked up the towel from the handlebar, wiped the handlebar casually, then put the towel around his neck and pulled up the rickshaw.
Liu Danian also smiled. It turned out that this strong comrade was a rickshaw driver.
…
Nanxiang.
Zhang Wenbo got off the jeep and walked straight to the office.
The guards along the way kept raising their hands in salute.
Entering the headquarters, he took the towel handed by the adjutant and wiped his sweat.
Due to front-line combat and command needs, Zhang Wenbai moved the war room from Longhua to Nanxiang overnight.
“Have you received a call back from the high command?” he asked.
“Report to the commander, not yet.”
Zhang Wenbai frowned, took out his pocket watch and looked at the time.
“Call the headquarters in Nanjing and ask again!”
"yes!"
A combat plan has been formulated, and it is scheduled to launch a surprise attack on the Japanese strongholds on both wings of Hongkou and Yangshupu at dawn tomorrow to catch the Japanese army by surprise.
The most perfect situation is to form a mopping up situation, wipe out the Japanese Marine Corps in one fell swoop, and control the entire Chinese community in Shanghai.
The entire combat plan has been formulated and submitted to the headquarters for approval and distributed to all units at the same time.
It's just that the matter is so serious that before the war is finally launched, according to the requirements of the headquarters, it needs to be submitted to them for approval.
To be precise, the final order to fire still needs to be issued personally by Chairman Chang Kaishen.
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“Commander.”
Zhang Wenbai took the telegram and read the content clearly, and his face suddenly changed.
This is a telegram from the headquarters: No attack!
"Commander, what should we do? All the ministries have received orders to start at dawn." A major general officer said with a solemn expression in a low voice, "It is better to strike first. If you miss it, you will be beaten passively."
"Call back to Nanjing." Zhang Wenbai said with a gloomy expression, "Our army has been deployed and preparations for the attack have been completed. The arrow is on the string and must be fired. Please attack according to the established plan!"
"yes!"
Fifteen of an hour later.
Nanjing’s reply still contained only four words: No attack!
Zhang Wenbo was furious and ordered another telegram to Nanjing.
Soon, Nanjing called back for the third time, saying, "No attack."
However, Xu felt Zhang Wenbai's anger, and this call back gave a little explanation as to why he was not allowed to attack the Japanese army as planned.
…
The French Concession, the British and American Concession, and the diplomatic missions of other countries stationed in Shanghai were afraid that the outbreak of the Shanghai War would endanger their interests and personal safety.
Therefore, many diplomatic missions suggested that the Nanjing government change Shanghai into an undefended city and free port.
The recommendation was issued yesterday.
This morning the advice was passed to the Foreign Office.
This suggestion from the diplomatic missions in China made the peace faction within the government very happy.
They found Xue Zhichang, who had always been "prone to peace," and appealed for "peaceful negotiations."
Xue Zhichang met with Chang Kaishen and asked him to carefully consider the use of force to solve the problem.
Xue Zhichang said to Chang Kaishen: "If you can tolerate Japan, you should always try to tolerate it. Once the war begins, no matter whether a third country joins or not, the best result is that both sides will suffer losses, but after that Japan is an industrial country and can easily recover. On the contrary, I feel that there is a real danger of it falling apart out of control."
Chang Kaishen said that he has been enduring this for a long time.
Xue Zhichang said, "Don't forget to endure is a very difficult thing to endure."
Chang Kaishen said, "I'll think about it again."
Then, Chang Kaishen gave Xue Zhichang a small lecture on resolutely resisting Japan.
Xue Zhichang listened to Chairman Standing Committee’s speech and knew that this was a polite rejection of his suggestion of temporary forbearance.
…
Seeing that Xue Zhichang's persuasion was ineffective, many people went to Wang Chuanhai again.
Wang Chuhai was overjoyed to see so many people coming to see him. He thought this was a good sign that his political policy was widely supported. He immediately went to Chairman Chang Kaishen to advocate peace talks with Japan.
Chang Kaishen was polite to Wang Quanhai, but one word made Wang Quanhai angry.
What Chairman Standing Committee said is, "You don't understand military matters."
Wang Chuhai was furious.
He decided to bypass Chang Kaishen and contact the missions of various countries alone. If he successfully avoids war, this will also be an opportunity for his Wang family to replace Chang Kaishen and rise again.
Hence, Wang Chuhai directly approached Foreign Minister Wang Chonghao and said, "Under tolerable circumstances, it is always best to seek peaceful means."
Subsequently, many government officials and celebrities came to Chang Kaishen and requested that they do their best to seek peace.
In fact, because of the huge gap in national and military power between China and Japan, some people inside and outside the National Government actively advocated peace or tried to postpone the war.
Within the National Government, represented by Xue Zhichang, Standing Member of the Military Commission. He believed that the ratio of Sino-Japanese air forces was less than one to seven, and preparations for the war of resistance required at least six months.
In July, Xue Zhichang wrote to He Yingzhen, Minister of Military and Political Affairs, advocating that "peace still needs to be achieved through hard work."
Xue Zhichang even called Yang Xishan specifically, "Please campaign for peace."
Among the intellectual class, Hu Zhi, Jiang Menngling and others all advocated "bearing the pain to seek peace" and believed that "rather than seeking peace after defeat, it is better to do it before the war occurs."
To this end, Hu Zhi met with Chang Kaishen twice.
At the end of last month, he once proposed to Chang Kaishen that "the diplomatic line cannot be broken."
A week ago, Hu Zhi met Chang Kaishen again. He suggested to the Chairman of the Standing Committee that he should abandon the three eastern provinces and recognize "Manchukuo" in order to resolve all "unresolved issues" between China and Japan and exchange for long-term peace in East Asia.
Just this afternoon, Hu Zhi met Chang Kaishen again and asked Chang Kaishen to make the greatest peace effort before the war.
He proposed in his written proposal to Chang Kaishen:
The Konoe cabinet does not agree with a full-scale invasion of China now, so everything is negotiable and the opportunity cannot be missed.
In addition, Hu Zhi pointed out that Japan has basic financial difficulties and the Japanese cabinet does not want to fight a war.
The third point is that the Central Army of the National Government is the basis for maintaining national stability. Once a war breaks out, the Central Army will be quickly exhausted, the National Government will lose its military foundation, and the country may disintegrate, making it even more impossible to resist Japan.
So, if you have to be patient and have peace talks, you can lose some territory and interests and avoid war.
Whether it was Xue Zhichang, Wang Chonghao, or Hu Zhi, the peace negotiation strategies they proposed did not affect Chang Kaishen.
What really moved Chang Kaishen was the proposal put forward by missions from various countries to establish Shanghai as an undefended city.
Chang Kaishen may not necessarily agree with this suggestion, but the intervention of missions from various countries gave him hope that the League of Nations would intervene in the Sino-Japanese War. This was also the National Government's greatest expectation.
So, just when it was about to launch a thunderous blow against the Japanese army less than ten hours later, the Nanjing High Command urgently pressed the pause button on the Shanghai front-line troops.
Zhang Wenbai looked at the telegram in his hand with a sad and angry look on his face, and finally let out a long sigh.
“Order all ministries to be on standby and not to slack off.” Zhang Wenbai ordered.
"yes!"
…
Dolphus Road.
This is one of the secret bases arranged by Cheng Qianfan for the Shanghai Special Intelligence Team.
Cheng Qianfan dressed up in disguise and appeared here as "Mr. Xiao":
Cheng Qianfan was wearing a doctor's uniform and a mask.
Ying Huaizhen looked carefully at 'Mr. Xiao' who was deliberately sitting a little further away.
Because he was wearing a mask, his face could not be seen, but judging from his voice and beard, ‘Mr. Xiao’ should be a middle-aged man with a beard.
She is sensitive to smells, and she smelled a faint smell of disinfectant on Mr. Xiao's body.
“Report on the situation of each department.” Cheng Qianfan said in a deep voice.
“After meeting Cheng Qianfan for the second time, this person did not go anywhere else. He still went to the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai.” Hao Tsai replied.
“Have you figured out this person’s identity?” Cheng Qianfan asked.
“This person is Lieutenant Eguchi Hideya, the third-class military attaché of the Japanese Consulate General in Shanghai.” Hao Zai replied.
Ying Huaizhen, who came to the stronghold of Dolphus Road for the first time and 'met' Mr. Xiao, was quite shocked:
Other colleagues in the special situation team are indeed very capable. In just a few hours, they found out the identity of the Japanese who met Cheng Qianfan.
Comparatively speaking, she is a little stretched.
Ying Huaizhen's face turned cold and her teeth itched with hatred when she thought that today that **** Cheng Qianfan had taken advantage of her but she had not collected any more information.
“General Manager Ying, you had direct contact with Cheng Qianfan today. Could you please share your views on this matter?” Cheng Qianfan looked at Ying Huaizhen and asked.
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