Chapter 920 919 [Sichuan Cauliflower Yellow]

In February, Chang Kaishen went to Guangxi in person because the fighting there was too ugly.

The so-called "Victory at Kunlun Pass" was promoted to make the people happy. It was the only bright spot in the entire Guangxi Battle.

The real situation is that the Chinese army counterattacked Nanning with superior strength. Since Kunlun Pass is located to the north of Nanning, the two sides fought here first. Tens of thousands of Central Army elites launched an attack on Kunlun Pass, but there were only 800 Japanese invaders at the pass. They attacked Kunlun Pass for more than 40 days and paid a heavy price before finally taking Kunlun Pass.

Even more nonsense is coming. At this time, the Japanese reinforcements have arrived and detoured back to the left flank of the 37th National Army. Li Yannian, the commander of the 2nd Army who was ordered to garrison Kunlun Pass, had to give up the Kunlun Pass, which was finally captured, because his retreat was cut off by the Japanese army. The 9th Division of the 2nd Army ran into the Japanese pocket formation and was defeated. The division commander Zheng Zuomin personally broke through with a machine gun. After the battle, the officers and soldiers discovered that the division commander was killed and quickly sent the cavalry back to recover Zheng Zuomin's body. Come.

The battle of more than two months was in vain!

Before Chang Kaishen arrived in Guangxi, Bai Chongxi and Chen Cheng were kicked off and replaced by Zhang Fakui as the frontline commander. When Chiang Kai-shek arrived in person, Bai Chongxi and Chen Cheng were immediately punished by reducing their salaries and keeping their posts (both were demoted to second-level generals). A total of eight generals of the 38th Group Army, including the commander-in-chief, were dismissed from their posts for investigation, and the commander-in-chief of the 37th Group Army was handed over. In the military court, the 9th Division of the 2nd Army was directly revoked (renamed "Unknown Division").

This battle made Chiang Kai-shek feel embarrassed. China had an absolute advantage in terms of military strength, firepower, and even air force (more than half of the Chinese fighter planes were transferred to the southern Guangxi battlefield). As a result, the fighting lasted for more than two months, and the Central Army's elite suffered heavy losses. Only one person was killed in the "Kunlun Pass Victory" or 3 for 1.

Well, it can only be said that the Chinese army won strategically and shattered the Japanese army's intention to completely block China. The specific results cannot be looked at in detail.

The most ridiculous thing is that Chang Kaishen's itinerary was clearly known by the Japanese invaders. He was bombed four times by Japanese planes in three consecutive days, and 12 of Chiang Kai-shek's bodyguards were injured. Needless to say, there must be a traitor informant here in Guangxi, and his position is very high. Especially during the bombing on the 21st, Chiang Kai-shek was in the wilderness and among the mountains, and the Japanese planes were able to find his residence accurately.

Compared with the Guinan battlefield, which was a mess, Yu Hanmou, who lost Guangzhou in a panic, learned his shame and became brave. The Japanese army dispatched 70,000 troops to invade northern Guangdong to coordinate their offensive in southern Guangxi. However, Yu Hanmou only had 120,000 troops, and the weapons and equipment were very backward.

Under this situation, Yu Hanmou relied on the mountains of northern Guangdong to resist hard. After learning that a Japanese army had left Guangdong to support southern Guangxi, Yu Hanmou immediately launched a full-scale counterattack and won his first major victory on the Guangdong battlefield.

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Just after the Lunar New Year, Zhou Hexuan was dragged to Chengdu by Feng Yuxiang, along with Lao She, director of the All-China Literary and Art Circles Anti-Enemy Association.

When the All-China Association of Literary and Art Circles Against the Enemy was established, Zhou Hexuan was not in the country, but he was invited to join last year, and he was given the position of honorary director. In addition to Zhou Hexuan, Zhou Gong, Sun Ke and Chen Lifu are also honorary directors.

This organization has dozens of branches across the country. Its main tasks are: leading anti-Japanese propaganda, relieving poor literati, rescuing progressive people, etc.

The anti-Japanese front was fierce with real swords and guns, and the literary and artistic front was not easy either. For example, the Japanese army often organized traitors to promote the Sino-Japanese friendship to the people at the bottom through folk arts, cross talk, storytelling, songs, etc. These performances often included pornographic jokes and were very popular among the masses.

Cultural soft knives are sometimes more terrifying than real knives and should never be taken lightly. Lao She recruited a group of crosstalk artists and wrote crosstalks himself to wage a crosstalk propaganda war with the cultural traitors. Lao She even went on stage in person and invited Liang Shiqiu to talk cross talk together, and rumors spread that Liang Shiqiu had a unique skill.

In fact, Liang Shiqiu didn't know how to speak cross talk at all, so he was forced to participate in the show. They performed several performances for two nights in a row. At the end of the second night, Lao She accidentally knocked off Liang Shiqiu's glasses, and Liang Shiqiu caught them easily. The two people's unintentional actions coincided with the performance, and the audience thought they had done it on purpose. Dropping glasses was their unique skill. The audience suddenly shouted: "One more time, one more time!"

From then on, the writer Liang Shiqiu became a crosstalk actor and often received invitations to perform from various groups and units.

When the car passed Qingmuguan, someone was selling roasted sweet potatoes.

Feng Yuxiang immediately said happily: "Hey, there are roasted sweet potatoes. I often ate them when I was a child in Peiping."

Lao She smiled and said, "What a coincidence, I used to eat sweet potatoes when I was a kid in Peiping."

"Then what are you waiting for? Go down and buy a few." Feng Yuxiang quickly opened the car door, walked to the stall in a few steps, turned around and said to Zhou Hexuan, "Brother Mingcheng, I'll pick a big one for you!"

Zhou Hexuan said happily: "I'll choose it myself."

The three of them were like beggars, squatting in front of the stall and eating roasted sweet potatoes together.

While gnawing on it, Feng Yuxiang said: "Why don't we write a poem criticizing Wang Zhaoming's treason and see who can write it best!"

Since the "Secret Appointment between Wang and Japan" was exposed, public opinion across the country has been filled with criticism. In early February, a meeting to demand Wang was held in Yan'an. The Communist Party called on people across the country to carry out a movement to demand Wang.

Lao She agreed: "Mr. Zhou, let's pick a topic and start working on it."

Zhou Hexuan pointed to the roasted sweet potato in his hand and said, "How about using roasted sweet potato as the title?"

Lao She opened his mouth and said, "Oh, Wang Zhaoming, it's not as fragrant as sweet potatoes!"

"Hahahahaha!"

Zhou Hexuan and Feng Yuxiang burst into laughter. Lao She often played with Feng Yuxiang. He was imitating Feng Yuxiang's "Qiu Ba Shi".

Feng Yuxiang urged: "Brother Mingcheng, please take the next sentence."

Zhou Hexuan continued the first two lines of Lao She's poem and wrote: "Not only does it taste bad, but traitors stink to heaven!"

"I'll pick them up," Feng Yuxiang said quickly, "If the flies stink, I'll slap them all to death!"

"Good sentence, good sentence!" Zhou Hexuan and Lao She praised sincerely.

After finishing the roasted sweet potatoes, the three of them moved on. On the way, Lao She saw rape flowers blooming all over the mountains, so he said, "How about we use rape flowers as the theme."

Poet Feng readily agreed. By the time the car arrived in Longchang, he had already written more than 100 lines: "It was twenty-nine days ago, and the cauliflower flowers in Sichuan were yellow. The brilliance was really pleasing to the eye, and the wind blew the fragrance. This flower is proud and dares to fight." Wind and frost. We are fighting the enemy at the front, but Wang Thief surrenders... Woohoo! Wang Zhaoming, his heart and soul are all dead! Woohoo, Wang Zhaoming is not as yellow as cauliflower!"

After Zhou Hexuan and Lao She finished reading, they gave thumbs up and praised: "What a poem!"

For Feng Yuxiang, it is very rare to be able to write a long poem of more than one hundred lines like this.

After Zhou Hexuan and Lao She thought about it repeatedly and helped Feng Yuxiang modify a few words, this long poem was named "Sichuan Cauliflower Yellow" and was planned to be published in newspapers and magazines after returning to Chongqing.