Major General Tian Lu raised his respects and ordered people to serve Xiao Lang. The wine and food were very simple. Military lunch boxes were filled with plums, dried fish, and a pot of sake. It was autumn. The adjutant placed more than a dozen pots of crab claw chrysanthemums next to him to soothe the murderous atmosphere brought by the war.

"Mayor Xiao, I'm neglected. Please take your seat." Major General Tian Lu sat on the military stool with a golden sword. His brown horse boots were covered with dust. The **** saber and other things were taken off. He only wore a white shirt. The two sat opposite each other like friends.

"General Tian Lu speaks Chinese very well." Xiao Lang praised. It was not that he deliberately complimented him. At least for a fifty-year-old army major general, this level was already considered good.

Tian Lu was very happy: "Where, I once studied Chinese at the Army University. Later, when I was the leader of the corps, I was stationed in Nara and became very interested in the ancient Chinese Han and Tang culture. I have studied it. Has Mayor Xiao been to Japan? I think Japan has inherited a lot of the essence of Chinese culture, and now China only has the inheritance of Manchu culture."

Xiao Lang said: "This is a bad saying. Manchuria is also a part of China. Cheongsams and jackets are also one of Chinese culture. Culture is in the heart, not in clothing and architecture... Speaking of you Japan, I applied for Waseda, and later Japan occupied Qingdao. A classmate said to me, Xiao Lang, our country also has universities, why do you have to study in Japan? So I chose Tsinghua."

Tian Ludao: "Oh, Xiao Lang? But as soon as the marquis enters the deep sea, Xiao Lang is the passerby from now on."

Xiao Lang said: "This is a poem by Cui Jiao, a poet in the Yuanhe period of the Tang Dynasty. However, Xiao Lang is just a synonym. There are two allusions. One is due to the story of the Phoenix in Liu Xiang's "Biography of Immortals" in the Han Dynasty. There is also a saying that Xiao Lang is Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang. No matter which statement, Xiao Lang refers to the man that women love, rather than a specific person."

With Tian Lu Chaoyi's knowledge, he would not think that Xiao Lang in the poem is Mayor Xiao in front of him. He just showed off his skills at the right time. At this time, he nodded and said, "Xiao Sang is very knowledgeable about the past and the present. My great admiration, Chinese culture is profound and profound, and I am ashamed."

Xiao Lang said: "General, you are polite. Actually, I am just an engineering student. I just studied some ancient Chinese in a private school when I was a child. The Chinese professors in universities in Nanjing, Peking are really well-versed in the past and the present. Unfortunately, they were forced to the southwest by the army. They were bombed all day long and couldn't do anything to study."

Tian Ludao: "Xiao Sang, today we don't talk about politics, but we do things like romance."

Xiao Lang smiled faintly and continued to talk about Fengyue. From culture to his old civil engineering, and when talking about the construction of Beitai City, in order to deal with the war, many buildings were reinforced with reinforced concrete. There were preset shooting holes on the walls facing the streets, and even the location of the telephone poles was very particular. Bending it down was to block the roadblocks of the tanks. Tian Lu suddenly realized: "My finally understands that Beitai is difficult to conquer, and you have made great contributions."

Xiao Lang said: "It's shameful to say that the budget has been added again and again. The money I spent is astronomical. I am most happy that I am the importers who sell concrete. Half of the concrete in China is bought by the Beitai Construction Committee."

Tian Lu laughed loudly and finally turned to the topic: "So, Xiao Sang, come and negotiate, what are the conditions for surrender?"

Xiao Lang said: "I'm not here to negotiate, nor to surrender. I'm here to make a deal with the general."

"Oh, tell me."

"I ask the general to let more than 100,000 innocent citizens of Beitai and not to make the Nanjing tragedy happen again. The real warrior is compassionate. General, please."

Tian Lu picked up a glass of sake, thought for a long time but let it go: "Xiao Sang, since it is a transaction, what is your price? What is it to exchange for the lives of the people."

Xiao Lang said: "I will give you the factory in the Eastern Industrial Zone. I have already installed **. As long as I give the order, it will be turned into ruins. Even if you occupy Beitai, you will only get a scorched earth."

Tian Ludao: "The cost of a mere factory building is not enough, I have two conditions."

"Speaking."

"First, return the captured forty-five rebel flag, and second, surrender."

Xiao Lang said: "The first item is impossible. There is no gang flag in our army's spoils, and the second item is even more impossible. There are only soldiers who died in battle and warriors who surrender. I think the general can understand it."

Tian Lu stood up and walked a few steps, saying, "Okay, I will fulfill your wish and let you die in a decent battle, but I still have a request, please be sure to agree."

Xiao Lang was slightly stunned. Tian Lu actually used the word "request", which was very strange.

“But it’s okay.”

"I ask you to continue to serve as Mayor of Beitai and be responsible for reconstruction. If you do not agree, I cannot guarantee the safety of the citizens."

Xiao Lang said without hesitation: "Okay, I promise you."

Tian Ludao: "Then you don't have to go back, you are here to supervise the evacuation of citizens."

A team of Japanese communication soldiers entered the ** position with white flags and connected the telephone line. Major General Tian Lu and the commander-in-chief of the Central *** Chen Zikun had a call. The two sides agreed to a day of quit and let the citizens in the encirclement evacuate.

Xiao Lang and Chen Zikun also had a final call.

"Commander-General Chen, I promised Tian Lu to stay and watch the citizens evacuate with my own eyes. It's safe, you don't have to worry about me."

There was a rustling sound in the microphone. Chen Zikun knew that Xiao Lang had made plans to sacrifice this time, and felt sad, and only one word of care was taken.

The news came out that citizens who were suffering from war hurriedly helped the elderly and children to evacuate from the city, but many people would rather die than evacuate. Most of these people were the families of officials and soldiers, as well as wealthy people with some assets. Anyway, there were troops in the city and the airport was still under control, so they were not worried.

When citizens evacuated, the Japanese army was monitoring the side, strictly preventing them from being mixed. When they saw a young man, they pulled out to check his fingers and shoulders to see if there were any traces left by carrying a gun and firing a gun. If they were found to be shot on the spot, fortunately the refugees had expected that the evacuated were all the elderly, weak, women and children.

The propaganda team had been disbanded. Wang Zeru and Hongyu walked in the team with their newborn child in their arms. The messy long hair, thin face, round-framed glasses and bamboo cloth gowns all proved that he was an intellectual, and the Japanese army was too lazy to pull him out to check.

At the top of a building, Tian Lu observed the refugee team with a telescope. He noticed that the lips of the refugees were dry and realized that the city might be extremely short of water. The Chinese army should not last long, and the victory was ahead.

The refugees left Beitai, and helped the elderly and the young, and went straight to Nantai.

The city suddenly became empty, the battle continued, and the people were less dragged down, and ** was even more relaxed and regained the Liberty Avenue in Linjiang for a while. However, overall, the city was still eroded by the Japanese army step by step, and the control area became smaller and smaller, with only the city hall to the narrow zone of the airport.

The last moment is coming, and Chen Zikun is working on the retreat. The first ones to evacuate were the families, Lin Wenjing, Yao Yilei and her daughter, Jian Bing, Xia Xiaoqing, Chen Qilin, Yan Su, Chen Shou and others, who were pregnant and waiting for childbirth, and the wives and children of the wife and children of the others, who happened to be able to put a DC3 plane in place.

The airport runway was bombarded by Japanese guns, but fortunately they were all craters of small-caliber artillery bombardment, and they could be used after overnight repairs.

Behind the barricade outside the city hall, Xia Jingqi and several of his backbones were holding a meeting quietly. They were commanded by the Special High School Section of the Central China Expeditionary Army Gendarmerie. Their mission was to conquer Beitai as an internal agent and assassinate the head of the Central **. However, as the front narrowed, it became increasingly difficult to act without authorization. He really could not find a chance to start. The brothers were killed by artillery shells, and their strength was greatly damaged, so they could not cooperate with the Imperial Army.

One person suggested: "I heard that the family of the mind is about to evacuate, so it is better to sell this information to the Japanese, which is also a credit."

Xia Jingqi said: "It's reasonable."

...

The moment of separation has come, and the generals covered in smoke came to the air-raid shelter to say goodbye to their relatives. Yan'er looked at her father with a gaze: "Dad, aren't you going with us?"

Chen Zikun touched his daughter's head lovingly, and the surrounding circle was seriously deficient. Yan'er hadn't washed her hair for a long time and turned into a sloppy child.

"Beitai is like a big ship. Dad is the captain. The ship leaks. Of course, the captain wants to be the last one to leave. Yan'er said that's the reason?"

Yan'er nodded vigorously.

"Okay, let's go while it's not dawn." Chen Zikun looked at his watch and gave an order.

The pilot from Chongqing was anxious: "Director Chen, if you don't leave, I can't explain to the Chairman."

Chen Zikun said: "I am a soldier, my battlefield is here. If you take the wounded first, I have a way to evacuate."

The pilot had no choice but to do so.

Suddenly, the front line called and said that the Japanese army launched an attack. Chen Zikun's eyes swept over his relatives and said, "I won't give you away, be careful all the way."

He touched Lin Wenjing's belly again: "Protect our children."

Lin Wenjing nodded with tears in her eyes.

The family took advantage of the darkness before dawn and walked to the airport with rubble. Lin Wenjing walked in the middle with her big belly that was about to give birth. Wang Ma and Xia Xiaoqing supported her left and right. No one spoke, only the sound of hurried footsteps.

Chen Zikun's Douglas DC3 has been hidden in the half-underground hangar. Although it was bombed, the plane was unscathed. Everyone entered the hangar and started boarding. Perhaps because of the long-distance movement, Lin Wenjing was sweating profusely and unable to move. Wang Ma had experience and hurriedly said: "It's not good, I'm going to give birth!"

The propeller of the plane has begun to rotate, and the families who have boarded the plane are impatient. Yao Yilei said: "I stay, you go first!"

Xia Xiaoqing said: "I still have me here, it's not your turn to stay. Yan'er needs someone to take care of her. You can go first, let's take the second flight."

Yao Yilei bit her lip tightly. She can't act voluntarily at this time. Xia Xiaoqing's ability to deal with emergencies is better than herself, and she stays much more effective than herself.

"You guys are careful." Yao Yilei hugged Xia Xiaoqing hard, then touched Lin Wenjing's belly: "Don't be afraid of pain, just use force."

Lin Wenjing was covered in sweat and said in great weakness: "You guys go quickly."

There were dense gunfires outside the airport, and the Japanese army began to attack the airport. The pilot eagerly poked his head out of the cockpit: "It will be too late if you don't leave!"

Yao Yilei hurriedly boarded the plane, snatched the cabin door and looked at them with tears in her eyes.

The plane left the hangar and taxied on the runway. The Japanese observation post found that an aircraft was trying to take off and summoned a mortar to bombard it. The shells exploded next to it. The DC3's engine roared and finally rose up from the ground and flew westward.

Those who stayed in the hangar to deliver the baby were Xia Xiaoqing, Aunt Wang, Gong Zijun's wife Xia Jingxi, etc. Everyone helped out with all their might, and suddenly there was another roar of planes outside.

"Are they back?" Xia Xiaoqing ran out and saw a plane covered with red plaster landing on the Beitai Airport runway, and there were three more hovering in the sky waiting to land.

The Japanese troops attacking the airport on the periphery were also a little confused. They did not receive any notice and did not know what air force plans for aircraft landing operations.


Chapter completed!