Chapter 96: Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of a country
It was night, with dark clouds covering the moon and dim stars. Without the hustle and bustle of the day, the city was surprisingly quiet, with few pedestrians on the streets.
A theater in the city was still bustling with people at this time. Zhang Yuanlan was sitting at a table with a slightly thin young man.
"Comrade Yuan Lan, you have been back in Taiyuan for so long and you are only now contacting me. Did you encounter any special circumstances?" the man asked.
"Comrade Weimin, I was targeted by Ma Wu from the action team as soon as I got home half a month ago, and I have been unable to get away." Zhang Yuanlan gave a detailed report on the recent situation.
"So the military commander transferred you back to Taiyuan because he wanted to use your father's relationship with Harada Kazuya to get you into the Xinminhui. This is a good opportunity. Comrade Yuan Lan, the task given to you by the organization is to lurk
, the organization will wake you up when necessary.”
"You just said that Ma Wu from the action team was targeting you. Did anyone follow you when you came out?" the man said smartly.
"Ma Wu just fell in love with me and did not doubt my identity. The person who was following me has been thrown away by me." Zhang Yuanlan explained.
"This is a bad thing for you. If there is an unexpected situation, you don't have to talk to each other. You are just an ordinary woman without special training. How can you escape the tracking of the action team agents? Ma Wu is bound to have doubts about your identity now.
." The man said with a somewhat stern tone.
After Zhang Yuanlan heard this, she broke into a cold sweat: "What should we do?"
"There is no room for any luck on the intelligence front. As your superior, I suggest you evacuate immediately. I will report your situation to the organization." The young man said without refusal.
"Now I am making changes to your mission. I didn't want to do it so quickly. Your father is a well-known military expert in the country. The army is in urgent need of such talents. You must do your father's ideological work well and transfer as soon as possible."
At the corner of Zhang's courtyard, two figures flashed out one behind the other, approaching the courtyard wall. After listening for a moment, they looked at each other and nodded slightly.
Dong Jiang was squatting half-crouched, crossing his hands to set up the scaffold. Zhou Weihan raised his feet and stepped on the scaffold. The two of them exerted their strength at the same time, and a figure jumped up to the wall lightly.
Zhou Weihan waited until his center of gravity stabilized, then stretched out his hand. Dong Jiang jumped up, grabbed Zhou Weihan's outstretched arm, and climbed over the wall with force. At the same time, he supported his arm on the wall and pushed his body forward two feet.
Gravity was removed, and both feet landed silently on the ground.
The two people were as agile as civet cats. The whole set of movements was smooth and smooth, as if they had been practiced thousands of times. They turned over and entered the courtyard in an instant.
It had been two days since he came to Taiyuan. Zhou Weihan was afraid that something might change later, so he finally made up his mind to contact Zhang Fangyin tonight. If he didn't agree, he would kidnap him.
At this time, only the main room in the courtyard was still lit. Zhou Weihan nodded and quietly moved toward the main room.
The door was not closed, so Zhou Weihan pushed it in and went in.
Since Zhang Yuanlan had not returned home at night, Zhang Fangyin was very worried. Zhang Fangyin, who was reading, raised his head alertly and pretended to be calm and said: "Your Excellency, you refused to leave the main door and climbed over the wall. This is really not what a gentleman would do."
"Mr. Zhang, it's really presumptuous to come here late at night. The guards at the entrance of your residence are really tight, so I have no choice but to take this step." Zhou Weihan agreed and said politely.
Zhang Fangyin threw the book on the table and said with a cold snort: "I'm just a scholar. I'm not worthy of such a big fight. Tell me what you have to say."
It’s not surprising that Zhang Fangyin said this. In fact, in the past two years, the Japanese, covertly, and the Eighth Route Army and the Shanxi-Sui Army have sent people over many times.
Zhang Fangyin returned from studying abroad in Japan in his early years, and he was full of ambitions. He also played a great role in the establishment of the Taiyuan Arsenal. After the establishment of the Arsenal, there was intrigue within the Jinsui Army. He was transferred to the No. 1 Branch Factory as the deputy director, but he was happy with it.
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But later in the Taiyuan battle, Zhang Fangyin was really disappointed with the Jinsui Army. In terms of domestic equipment, the Jinsui Army was no worse than the Central Army. A strategic location like Niangziguan was lost at the drop of a hat.
Before the fall of Taiyuan, everyone with a discerning eye knew that Taiyuan could not be defended. Zhang Fangyin repeatedly suggested to the summit that the arsenal should be evacuated to the rear in advance. Yan Laoxi was ambitious, but the battle of Taiyuan ended in an anticlimactic manner. However, 90% of the equipment of the General Factory was lost.
Left to the Japanese.
Zhang Fangyin was so disappointed at that time that he simply refused to go south and stayed in Taiyuan. Watching the Japanese transfer most of the equipment of the Taiyuan Arsenal to China, Zhang Fangyin was so distressed that he could not eat for several days.
The professional books he had spent countless efforts bringing back from Japan were now covered in a thick layer of dust, but he had no mood to flip through them at all.
For him, the days of lofty ideals have passed. Now he just wants to live, and his only thought is his baby daughter.
"Mr. Zhang, let me introduce myself. I have been ordered by the Eighth Route Army Headquarters to come to Taiyuan to recruit technical talents. I heard that Mr. Zhang's name was mentioned, and I specially invite you to build the Eighth Route Army's arsenal." Zhou Weihan was afraid that the new Second Regiment's temple was small, so he let him go.
Not to mention the giant Buddha Zhang Fangyin, they simply put up the sign of the headquarters.
"Oh, the Eighth Route Army? Let's not talk about the past grievances between me and your Eighth Route Army. With your three melons and two dates, you dare to call an arsenal. Do you think you can build an arsenal with just a few people? Please go back." Zhang Fangyin sneered after hearing this.
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“Since the Anti-Japanese War, our Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army have been insisting on the front line of the War of Resistance, close at hand to the Japs, and the bloody battles have been constant, so that the Japs have to disperse most of their forces in the rear.
If you are in Taiyuan, you will know that, far away, the Japanese army carried out a large-scale raid on the southeast of Shanxi Province in 1939. Nearby, just a month ago, the Japanese army carried out a large-scale raid on our base area. The Japanese Army's Sakata Regiment was
Our army was completely wiped out.
We, the Eighth Route Army, are very poor, but we have been fighting against the Japs behind the enemy lines. If we don’t have guns, we will go to the Japs to rob them. We will rob whatever the Japs have." Zhou Weihan looked straight at Zhang Fangyin as he spoke.
There is a saying that when a scholar meets a soldier, it makes no sense.
Zhang Fangyin was a little frightened by the sight of him: "You are also an Eighth Route Army soldier? The head of your Eighth Route Army who came to see me last time was much more polite than you."
Zhou Weihan did not respond to Zhang Fangyin's rebuke, but looked at the professional books on the folder and said happily: "Mr. Zhang is really knowledgeable. Our base area is in need of talents like you, Mr. Zhang!"
Zhang Fangyin's nose was so angry that he snorted coldly: "Don't you understand human speech?"
"Of course I can understand people's words. I hope you can understand them too, Mr. Zhang!"
Zhou Weihan suppressed his smile, turned back and stared at Zhang Fangyin coldly and said: "Mr. Zhang studied in Japan and learned a lot of skills. At this moment when the country is about to be destroyed, does he really just want to sit back and watch instead of using this skill to serve the country?"
Do you want to contribute?"
"I'll say it again, no matter what you do, I, Zhang Fangyin, have no interest in participating!"
Zhang Fangyin snorted coldly: "Not reporting you to the Japanese is the limit of what I can do. I hope you won't bother me again!"
"Is it bothering you? The Japanese are attacking your mother's doorstep, burning, killing and looting. The mountains and rivers are bleeding and the lives are in ruins. Mr. Zhang, you don't mind it, but why are you annoyed when we come to visit like this?" Zhou Weihan sneered.
"I've said everything I need to say, now you can go!"
Zhang Fangyin issued an order to expel the guests and stopped talking nonsense with Zhou Weihan.
"Mr. Zhang, I hope you think about it carefully!"
Zhou Weihan stood in front of Zhang Fangyin and said with a serious face: "Don't think that I am asking you to do something. I am telling you a fact. Now is the most dangerous moment for our Chinese nation. Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the country. No one is responsible for it.
Who can sit back and watch while good men are shedding blood on the battlefield, ordinary people are tightening their belts, and even prostitutes have taken to the streets to march for the country. They all know that they will contribute to the war of resistance."
"Mr. Zhang, you have learned a lot, but you are unwilling to contribute to the country. What is the difference between what you do and those traitors who work as traitors and lackeys for the little devils?" Zhou Weihan said sharply, pointing to the point.
"presumptuous!"
Zhang Fangyin banged the table and said angrily: "Why did I betray my country? Harada Kazuya invited me to work for the Japanese several times, but I refused because I still remember that I am a Chinese and I can't forget being on the battlefield with the Japanese.
The soldiers who fought hard in the battle will never forget the folks who died under the bayonets of the Japs in Taiyuan City, and they will never forget the arsenal that was emptied by the Japs."
Seeing Zhang Fangyin so excited, Zhou Weihan lowered his voice and said: "Mr. Zhang, don't you guess, Zhou once studied at Yenching University, a scholar, and joined the army. Do you think I don't want to stay on campus? But the little devil didn't give us a chance.
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Hundreds of soldiers sacrifice their lives on the battlefield every day. They say we are Tubal. Do you think we are willing to fight hand-to-hand with little devils? Which soldier is not the son of a father and mother. That is why our Eighth Route Army develops military industry just for the sake of the soldiers.
Less bloodshed and fewer sacrifices on the battlefield.”
"It's now here. If you still cling to the old grudges and care about your small family and forget about everyone else, then you are a sinner of the Chinese nation." Zhou Weihan directly gave Zhang Fangyin a big hat.
"You're just messing around!"
Zhang Fangyin was so angry that he trembled with anger at Zhou Weihan's words, but he didn't know how to refute them.
"Get out, get out of here..."
"My mouth is almost worn out. Mr. Zhang, you still say that, but don't blame me for not following the rules!" Zhou Weihan was also so angry that he became dizzy and said harsh words in anger.
As the saying goes, evil always comes when one is bold. Having said this, Zhou Weihan simply did not do anything but continued. He shouted to Dong Jiang outside the door: "Dong Jiang, come in."
Zhang Fangyin never expected that Zhou Weihan would act so unreasonably. Zhou Weihan and the two men tore up the sheets and tied up Zhang Fangyin.
"Mr. Zhang, please excuse me for staying in the lower room. I will apologize to you again when I get to the base."
Zhang Fangyin, whose mouth was stuffed with rags, was hesitant and speechless.
Zhang Fangyin suffered from the common problems of those literati, but when he encountered Zhou Weihan, who was unreasonable, there was nothing he could do about it.
