In the years of chaos, it doesn’t matter if the troops are disabled. The organization must not be lost. If it is cancelled from the commander’s sequence, there will be no place to cry. Chen Zikun’s intention to send Chen Qilin to Wuhan is very obvious, that is, to preserve the organization of the Model 17th Division. The fire officers left behind before were used at this time.

Liu Xiaoyong and others escorted the division commander to Wuhan to rebuild the 17th Division. Chen Qilin was the direct descendant of Huangpu, and the 17th Division was fighting for cleanliness to defend Nanjing. I believe Chiang Kai-shek would not make things difficult for him.

The rest of the people stayed in Jiangdong to deploy to fight the enemy. Zeng Jiao was born as a water bandit. He was a talent for being the police chief. He was the only skill of hijacking ships and killing people on the water. With Chen Zikun's order, he pulled up the water rangers. They were all brothers with excellent water quality. Dark big guys were carried out from the warehouse of the Water Police Corps. This was not a local thing made by the Jiangdong Arsenal, but a water mine imported from Germany.

After attacking the British ship with the underwater Dragon King cannon last time, Chen Zikun paid attention to the mines. This thing is too cost-effective. It can block the water surface by getting a few, blocking the enemy's warships, and forming a surface ship force. It is impossible to afford the cost and time of using this thing to defend passively.

Imported thunder, anchor thunder, and sunken bottom mines entered the lower reaches of the Huai River and blocked the water surface. If Japanese warships want to pass, it will take at least several months to clear the mines.

Yan Su packed all the gold, silver and foreign exchange in the Jiangdong Industrial Bank vault and sealed it, sent heavy troops to escort it, and sent it to Wuhan according to Chen Zikun's order. However, he became more cautious. According to the current situation, Wuhan would soon be out of protection, so it would be better to ship it directly to Chongqing, a companion.

Xue Bin escorted a large group of families and took a whole boat of luggage to Beitai. It was the second line of defense in Jiangdong. It was located north of the Huai River, surrounded by mountains, easy to defend but difficult to attack, and much better than the provincial capital.

The families of senior officials retreated to Beitai, which was equivalent to sending a signal that the provincial capital was about to fall, and rumors spread the fastest this year. For a time, a ship of money was hard to find on the Huai River, and every household was busy running back.

If you don’t run away, the tragedy of the Nanjing Massacre will happen to you.

Liu Cunren's family also began to flee. The Liu family didn't have many other things, just two, with more books and more children. Lao Liu liked to collect ancient books and classics. Over the years, most of the salary was used to buy books. The family had a vast number of ancient books, including rare books. There were also many children. They gave birth to twelve children, four died, and eight left, and six daughters were occupied. Among them, the youngest daughter was only eleven years old, the second daughter and the third daughter had married and had children. The whole family was a jar and jar. How to get there was still a difficult problem.

Fortunately, the Liu family had a strong daughter. Liu Ting helped arrange a few tickets and took a steamship three days later to Beitai. There was only three days to pack her luggage. It was too late. Liu Cunren was worried about his thousands of books. He didn't want to throw away any of these books, but it was impossible to take them all away.

Books are still small matters, and it is a big matter that cannot be raised in the bank. Jiangdong Industrial Bank has a large number of people and the bank runs are serious. The Police Department has sent hundreds of police officers to maintain order, which is useless. The hard-earned money cannot be raised in the bank. Even the honest people have to be anxious.

Fortunately, Liu Ting solved the problem with a phone call, and Liu Cunren's deposits were all received, and they were replaced with fiat coins and sewn into clothes. The books at home were really unavailable, so she could only pick out the most precious ones and put them in a rattan box to take them away. On the day of the boat, the family dragged their big bags and small luggage and headed to the dock.

When I arrived at the pier, I was stunned. It was bustling with people. Not to mention carrying so much luggage, I couldn't even squeeze through it.

A steamer was parked by the trestle, with Italian flags planted. Italy and Japan are friendly countries, and the planes did not bomb the ship, so the tickets for this ship were the most in short supply.

There were crowds of people on the dock, and the passenger whistle was roaring. Liu Cunren and his family sighed. Suddenly, a horn sounded behind him. Liu Ting jumped out of the car: "Why haven't you got on the boat yet?"

Liu Cunren smiled bitterly and pointed at the front: "Can't walk."

Liu Ting frowned and thought for a while, and whispered a few words to the adjutant beside her. In a short while, another truck drove up. Eight large and round soldiers got out of the car. Without saying a word, they picked up their luggage and squeezed forward. Even with their help, it took a lot of effort to squeeze into the boat. The cabin was already full, and the deck was full of people. The ship company didn't care about that much, and could get in as long as they gave them money.

Liu Cunren and his family were sweating profusely and panting. Liu Ting stuffed a piece of paper into his father's hand: "After arriving in Beitai, I have already arranged this place. OK, I'll leave."

"Ting'er." Liu Cunren shouted, his voice a little dry.

Liu Ting turned around: "Dad, it's okay."

"Be careful." Qian Yanwan's words came to his mouth and turned into two words.

The ship finally drove away, and the fleeing people left the provincial capital wharf. The family finally breathed a sigh of relief, sat on the back deck luggage pile, took out dry food and a kettle to eat.

In a drowsy mood, Liu Cunren was awakened by his youngest daughter: "Dad, what is that?"

Liu Cunren put on his glasses and couldn't help but feel moved. The road on the bank of the river was full of people, walking with the elderly and young, with cars, mule carts, and more walking, carrying luggage and children, and sheep and dogs. The team was nowhere to be seen in front of the head and no end behind.

"That's a rebellion," said Liu Cunren.

"What does it mean to run away?"

"Running and rebelling is a means for the people to avoid war," Liu Cunren explained.

The little daughter stared at her bright big eyes: "Then are we running away too?"

"Yes, our family is also running back."

"Then why do you have to go against it?"

"Because the Japanese have fought, our army cannot defeat them, so we can only run away and rebel, otherwise we will be harmed by the Japanese devils." Liu Cunren tried his best to explain to his curious young daughter in plain language.

"Why can't you beat the Japanese devils?" the youngest daughter asked to the end.

Liu Cunren sighed and touched his little daughter's hair: "My mother, you will understand when you grow up."

The ship was overloaded and the speed was extremely slow. The passengers on the boat did not bring much dry food. The sailors took the opportunity to sell extremely unpalatable food. They were poor and rich. In order not to be hungry, Liu Cunren had to spend money to buy one, and while eating it, he scolded these bad guys who made money from the national crisis.

At noon on the third day, the boat arrived in Beitai, and the dock was still crowded. This time there was no help from the army, but it was easier to get off the boat than to get on the boat. Liu Cunren's family dragged their luggage and found a house according to the address given by Liu Ting. They settled it down. The rent was very expensive, which was as expensive as the lively area of ​​the provincial capital. However, at this time, Beitai's house was in short supply, so it was already very good to rent a house.

After finally settled down, eating became a problem again. The house was newly built and had gas pipelines, which was more advanced than the provincial capital. However, war was imminent. The coking plant had been shut down and the supply of gas was stopped. I could only buy a coal ball stove to make a fire and cook. The pots and pans had to be rebuilt. The money went out. My daughter went out to buy rice, but she came back with an empty bag. It turned out that the rice price soared, and the money she brought was not enough. Not only the food price rose, but everything was rising. The little money she had accumulated was about to come to an end.

Just when Liu Cunren was at a loss, the staff of Beitai Municipal Government found him and said he needed to find someone who wrote official documents. He heard that Mr. Liu was doing this in the provincial government, so he came to invite him.

Liu Cunren knew that this was also arranged by his daughter, so he secretly sighed that he had a good daughter.

Everyone lives in a humble room and touches their legs when walking, but they are much luckier than the refugees on the street. In the past two days, three babies were discarded. The trauma caused by the war is just the tip of the iceberg.

The door of the Liu family was knocked, and the sound was very small, so it was simply ignored. The little daughter went over to open the door. A woman in an old cheongsam stood at the door with her lower abdomen bulging, obviously pregnant. She smiled a little embarrassedly: "Hello, there is no food at home, I want to borrow some rice..."

The Liu family looked at each other. Can the food be borrowed so precious? But seeing her pale and thin face, she should have been so hungry that she fell down and asked for help.

"It's nothing if you're hungry, but you're afraid of being hungry for children." The woman stroked her belly and her voice was low. Her cheongsam was very old, with a green satin texture. She must have been a lady from a rich family before.

Liu Cunren's wife did not say a word, and went to serve a bowl of rice, compacted it with a rice shovel, added a little more, and continued to compact it, and handed over a bowl of sharp rice.

"Thank you, thank you." The woman in the cheongsam thanked her repeatedly, and returned to the next door with her bowl, and started eating voraciously.

The door opened, and the husband came back with tired steps. The woman pushed the job over and said, "Eat it, leave it for you."

"I'm not hungry, you eat, don't starve our children." Wang Zeru pushed his job back and looked at Hongyu lovingly.

...

The people in the provincial capital were panic and ran around and turned into an empty city. The security headquarters raised the recruiting flag and recruited only dozens of people in the past ten days, all of whom were homeless. No wonder, all the children of Jiangdong were lost in Songhu and Nanjing. The young man was running wild and frantically went out and a can of ashes came back. No one family wanted to send their children to the army again.

Chen Shou was at a loss and could only send all the guns and bullets in the arsenal according to Chen Zikun's instructions, regardless of whether it was the flintlock guns and the miscellaneous brands of Manlisha, Remington, and Martini of the Beiyang period. As long as they were security teams and militia armed forces who were willing to fight against Japan, they would be distributed for free.

That's all we can do. Whether Jiangdong fell depends only on whether the Japanese came or not. Everyone knows this.

Fortunately, the Japanese still don’t care about the barren Jiangdong Province for the time being. China is too big. They are like jackals pounced on the corpse of an elephant. They are full of fresh meat, so they can’t care about bones.

Jiangdong is the bone, while Xuzhou, at the intersection of Jinpu Road and Longhai Road, is a piece of fat. The Fifth Division of the Japanese Army heading south and the 10th Division heading north fought a battle with the Central ** team and fought fiercely in Taierzhuang. The war was huge and lasted for several months, winning time for the people of Jiangdong to run away and fight.

The important military machinery in Beitai was loaded and shipped to Chongqing Dakou. Chen Zikun drove to Wuhan to meet Chairman Jiang. He looked at the three towns of Wuhan from the air. He was devastated and was the result of Japanese bombing.

Chen Zikun was filled with righteous indignation and an idea emerged. He was bombarded by the Japanese all day long. Why not let them taste the bombing?


Chapter completed!