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Chapter 481 Hot Summer (2)

"Tao Weng, we meet again."

"Brigade Commander Li can come, and it will be full of glory."

In the courtyard of Tao Qian's bungalow, Li Chong and Tao Weng exchanged hands and said.

In the evening, five people, Li Chong, Lin Wanru, Li Yinqing, Tao Qian and Tao Ningning, were in the living room. As Changsha's leading wealthy businessman, there were guests at home again. A dinner full of six cold dishes and eight hot dishes was indispensable.

After dinner, Li Chong moved two chairs and placed them one on the left and the other on the right. The two of them lay on the wicker chairs, with a moonlight above their heads, and their words floated from time to time.

Bit by bit, Lin Wanru seemed to want to tell him everything that happened in Chongqing, and she talked about the big bombing that happened in mid-May.

".It should be NO.18 in May. Many Japanese bombers flew over Chongqing. It was early in the morning. Fortunately, we were all at home at that time, but we were not bombed by the Pearl Mountain, but the city Families who have not yet woken up will suffer, and many people have not had time to get up and hide in the air-raid shelter.”

Li Chong's fists tightened involuntarily. He could imagine the urgency of that day. If the bombing happened at one o'clock in the evening that day, the second brother and third sister would definitely have to go to school. One can imagine the danger of being bombed while walking on the road. That day was really lucky. .

Lin Wanru looked at the clear moonlight and murmured, "After the bombing, there were a lot fewer people living in the city, and the cost of living outside the city was higher than in the city. You know, like at the foot of our Pearl Mountain, there are quite a few People live in huts, and everything is messy."

Li Chong held Lin Wanru's hand and said, "Don't worry, everything will be fine."

"In fact, what we are most worried about is your safety. At the end of May, the coffin of General Zhang was transported to Chaotianmen Wharf in Chongqing. 10 people greeted the coffin at the wharf and along the coast. My father and I watched such a large official coffin at the wharf. They are all dead, you are just a little deputy brigade commander, you must be careful on the battlefield, don't show yourself in anything, I don't want you to be a hero."

Lin Wanru described in her mouth the scene of General Zhang's state funeral that day, and then reminded Li Chong.

There was no reply for a while.

"Did you hear that?"

Lin Wanru who didn't get a response tugged at Li Chong's hand.

"Well, I heard, I'm not a hero."

Li Chong came back to his senses, and put his other hand on Lin Wanru's
When the moon was high, Li Chong stayed at Li Yinqing's house.

Early the next morning, Li Chong came to pick Lin Wanru up for a stroll.

Changsha, as a city through the ages, has many relics left by the ancients. After experiencing the Wenxi fire and multiple bombings by enemy planes, there are still some that remain.

At noon, the two stopped in a restaurant and had a snack.

When I came out to digest food, suddenly the wind swept through the dark clouds, and the bean-sized raindrops suddenly fell, and a summer rain came suddenly.

"Oh, run, run, run."

Li Chong blocked Lin Wanru's head with his hands, and surrounded Lin Wanru and ran up to the roof.

Lin Wanru looked up at the name of the shop hanging on the eaves. "Yuelu Bookstore" has four big characters in italics. "There is also a bookstore here."

Li Chong located the location of this place in the entire Changsha city in his mind, and suddenly realized that this "Yuelu Bookstore" was named after the Yuelu Academy not far away.

The two went in to have a look, and there were quite a few old books. Lin Wanru spent three silver dollars to buy a printed book of The Book of Songs that was out of print.

The reason for the broken edition was that although the printing factory that printed this book escaped the Wenxi fire, it was turned into ruins under the presence of Devil bombers, and the century-old printing factory was wiped out.

After buying this book, I asked the shopkeeper to take a bench and sat under the eaves.

Lin Wanru flipped through the Book of Songs in her hand, reading softly from time to time.

Pedestrians on both sides of the road hurried to hide from the rain, and water gurgled under the eaves.

At the moment, well.

After sending Lin Wanru away, Li Chong rode back to the brigade headquarters of the temporary brigade outside Changsha city, ended his short vacation, and started his daily life in the brigade.

Since the Zaoyi battle, it seems that the two sides have fallen into a state of confrontation rather than combat. The devils have not mobilized their troops on a large scale. Although the national army troops around Changsha are training troops in the scorching summer, their mentality is much more relaxed.

In the brigade, when attacking the Xinqiang River, the whole brigade tasted the sweetness of small infiltration and interspersed encirclement, so in addition to daily training, it continued to carry out military skill competitions among the regiments and battalions, and selected outstanding soldiers from the whole brigade to form Reinforced battalions for special missions in wartime.

Although the summer in Changsha is hot, the Central Army has very high requirements for military appearance. They must be dressed neatly from top to bottom. There can be a layer of salt flowers.

On the morning of mid-July, the newspapers outside were delivered to the brigade headquarters every day.

Li Chong, who had finished a set of punches and kicks, grabbed a bench and sat under the eaves to blow the air. His eyes scanned the newspaper, and he saw the news that the British government officially announced the closure of the Burma Road for three months.

The chairman pointed out that the West severely reprimanded the British for this kind of behavior. The photo was published on the cover, and the Central Daily News also wrote a large paragraph of sharp criticism under the photo.

Li Chong snorted lightly, "Unexpectedly, the so-called British Empire would bow its head at the request of the Japanese."

"Old Li, what did the newspaper say today?"

"The British government has now bowed to the demands of the Japanese and sealed off the Burma Road."

Previously, the Japanese launched the Battle of South Guangxi to block the roads in China, and now the British government has also blocked the roads in India, which is completely blocked from beginning to end.

Li Chong handed the newspaper to Chen Tinghe and said, "The British think that if this is the case, the Japanese will not covet the land they occupy? A piece of India and Bangladesh. If the British fight with Germany, I don’t believe that the Japanese are not greedy for this piece of land that is ripe for three seasons occupied by the British.”

"In the photo, the chairman looks very angry."

Chen Tinghe looked at the big picture on the front page of the newspaper and gave a general feeling, and then continued:

"It's no wonder that the chairman has always hoped that the British and American countries can provide assistance. Now the British have taken the initiative to cut off our land throat. Anyway, our road has been cut off by the Japanese. The chairman is angry. The attitude of the British guys is to stand on the side of the Japanese."

Li Chong stood up from the stool and said:
"The British guys have compromised with the Japanese. Now Europe is overthrown. At the beginning of May, the Germans beat Poland and France. The French laughed at our huge country being crushed by a small country, but How are they doing?"

"Isn't the French army that claims to have the "world's strongest army" also being chased and beaten by the Germans? France can't hold on anymore, the capital Paris is gone, and the British will definitely not feel well next time, so the British army in India I tried my best to avoid conflict with the Japanese."

(End of this chapter)