Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 400 Focus Interview Republic of China Edition

"Lu Ren?"

When Wang Yi and Liu Wei saw that the National Army officer lying on the simple hospital bed was Lu Ren, the eldest son of the Lu family, one of the four famous families in the alien circle, they were stunned.

Especially Wang Yi. After all, according to the timeline, the eldest son of the Lu family will die three years later, which is 40 years.

It was a period of strategic stalemate at that time. The Japanese ninja force, the Higashiyama Ninjas, relied on their sophisticated assassination techniques to carry out assassinations and win over important officials of the National Government to work for Japan.

Then the four families joined forces and cooperated with the three Putuo temples, Longhu Mountain, and Shangqing Maoshan to launch an ambush against the Higashiyama Ninjas. Both sides suffered casualties. In this ambush, Lu Ren was beheaded by Eita, the holder of the Higashiyama Ninjas' inherited demon sword Hirumaru.

But looking at his injuries now, if anything goes wrong, Ryu Ren will be dead without even waiting for Eita to take action.

"Zizhong?"

"I can save them, but there are too many people here. I can't take care of them alone."

"If you dare to give me the acupuncture, I will save their lives for you. Lao Liu, help me protect the law."

"Can you do it? You saved so many people in the Luodian battlefield before, and you've already lost your vitality. If you save them again now..."

"I was injured because I saved hundreds of people in one go. It's no problem for these dozens of people."

After saying that, Wang Yi also sat cross-legged on the spot. His reverse true Qi turned into tentacles that emanated from his body and connected with the dozens of seriously injured and dying soldiers. He used his own true Qi to replenish the Qi that was gradually lost in their bodies and stabilize their vital signs.

With Wang Yi, the temporary nurse, providing group treatment, Wang Zizhong no longer had to worry and began to treat each wounded soldier according to their conditions.

The combination of the two stunned Zhang Zhizhong and Huang Wei who were standing by.

The former is fine, after all, he has been exposed to advanced ideas. Although he is surprised by these extraordinary methods, he also understands that these methods are not without cost, and the role they play in the current Songhu battlefield is just a drop in the bucket.

The latter is doomed. Huang Wei himself has backward ideas, and his loyalty to the bald man has always been dominated by the feudal idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor. Although the generals of the National Government who entered Gongdelin at the same time as him were also like this, but the emperor changes his ministers in different dynasties, and now it is the Red Party that is in power, so he should honestly admit his mistakes and correct them.

This person knows he is wrong but refuses to admit it. He is extremely stubborn and in order to fool himself, he even comes up with the joke that he wants to develop a perpetual motion machine.

And now, looking at the treatment methods of Wang Yi and Wang Zizhong, which are completely different from medical methods, the backward and feudal ideas in their minds may have become more stubborn.

But now Wang Yicai didn't bother to care what Huang Wei, an outsider, was thinking. He had to rescue Lu Ren, the eldest son of the Lu family, first. It was not a good time to die here.

After a day of treatment, Wang Zizhong also performed surgery to remove bullets from the bodies of the remaining dozens of wounded soldiers under Huang Wei, including Lu Ren, and sutured their wounds.

With Wang Yi around, Wang Zizhong doesn't need to worry about any heavy bleeding during the operation, or even blood transfusion, because Wang Yi can use his reverse Qi to help the wounded produce their own blood.

After working for a whole day and making sure that the vital signs of dozens of wounded people, including Lu Ren, had stabilized, Wang Yi finally stopped and exhaled.

Wang Zizhong was also wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"My life is saved. I just need to rest for a while..."

The patient had not eaten anything since Wang Yi and Wang Zizhong started the joint treatment. Huang Wei, who had been watching from the side, heard the good news and was so direct that he knelt down in front of Wang Yi and Wang Zizhong.

Not to mention anything else, just because Huang Wei cares so much about the safety of his soldiers' lives, Wang Yi has to praise him and say that he deserves to be sent to Gongdelin.

"Master Huang, you don't have to do this. This is what we should do."

"Teacher... Master? Wang Yi?"

Just as Wang Yi once again tried to stop Huang Wei from kneeling down to him and others, Lu Ren on the hospital bed also woke up from his coma.

As soon as Wang Yi heard Lu Ren's address to Huang Wei, he knew why the eldest young master of the Lu family had encountered this fatal disaster. It seemed that his troubles over the years had somewhat influenced the thinking of the younger generation in the current circle of extraordinary people.

Lu Ren, who was supposed to be in Lujia Village, joined the army and became Huang Wei's student, and appeared on the Songhu battlefield.

"Master Lu, we haven't seen each other for many years. I never thought that you and I would meet here. How is your brother Lu Ci?"

"Lü Ci? I've been away from home for more than a year and a half, and the only correspondence with my family is through letters. With my father and brothers around, the kid should be doing well. Master, are these the only ones left of our people?"

Huang Wei remained silent as he listened to the questions from his student and personal soldier.

"Master Lu, take a good rest first. It's not easy to survive. There's still a battle to be fought, and your team's number is still there. Commander Huang, why don't you go and rest first? General Zhang, do you mind if we move our conversation to the evening?"

"I have some free time now, so it doesn't matter if I come a little earlier or later, as long as I can help my colleagues on the battlefield."

"Wenbai, what do you want to say to Boss Wang?"

"Nothing, just to talk about why we lost so badly in the Battle of Songhu, and how we can win the next battle against the Japanese. Wu Wo, you just came down from the battlefield, just take a good rest here."

After a brief explanation, General Zhang left with Wang Yi. Huang Wei watched the two men leave, thought for a while, and told Lu Ren to rest well, then followed them despite his physical and mental exhaustion.

Seeing Huang Wei following, Wang Yi didn't say anything. He just asked the two to get in the car and drove towards the radio station building in the concession.

Looking at the radio station building, General Zhang in the car also expressed his confusion.

"Mr. Wang, I thought it was just an interview."

"It is both an interview and a conversation. I call it an interview. General Zhang, all sectors of society need to understand the current situation of the Songhu battlefield. Can we still fight? Why did we lose so badly before? How to fight next? These are all concerns of everyone. Nothing is more convincing than a general who commanded this battle to speak out.

If the general is worried about being eavesdropped on, there is no need to worry. I have already informed the radio station that no one except our own people will see you coming here tonight."

"Ridiculous! The war isn't over yet, how can you jump to conclusions and shake the morale of the troops!"

As soon as Wang Yi finished his explanation, Huang Wei became restless. But before Wang Yi could explain, General Zhang stopped his colleague from getting angry.

"Understand me! It is precisely because the war is not over that we need to summarize the reasons for our current defeat. You have just withdrawn from the battlefield. Look at the Songhu battlefield now. Our generals don't know the soldiers, and the soldiers don't know the generals. The reinforcements from all over the country didn't even find their own superiors and ran into the Japanese directly. They were beaten so hard that they didn't even know where they were.

Isn't that how your 67th Division was destroyed? An entire division, but after a few days, less than a regiment was left. Isn't this a lesson enough? Wars cannot be won with bravery alone!"

Huang Wei felt embarrassed after being lectured by Zhang Zhizhong, but when he thought of the thousands of brothers who fell on the battlefield, he had nothing to refute.

"Captain Huang, let's not talk about the final outcome of the Battle of Songhu. To put it bluntly, even if we lose, will we not fight the Japanese later?"

"Of course we have to fight!"

"Since we still have to fight the Japanese, if we win this battle, we must know why we won, and if we lose, we must also know why we lost. Chairman Chiang himself said that everyone, regardless of north or south, old or young, has the responsibility to defend the country and fight the war. Since we all have to defend the country and fight the war, we must let everyone know how to defend it and how to fight the war. This will not go against the Chairman's original intention." Huang Wei stopped talking when he heard Wang Yi bring up his immediate superior.

The car stopped in front of the radio station building, and Li Qiang, who had been waiting there, came over to open the door.

This is the person Wang Yi mentioned. He is a radio tycoon recognized even by the Russians. It is perfect for Li Qiang to be in charge of this radio broadcast.

"Everyone has made arrangements?"

"Don't worry, they only know that they are here to record a conversation. No one else will know who is here except you, me, and these two."

"Well, when you are ready, give me a signal and the interview will officially begin."

"it is good!"

Can we hold a Focus Interview during the Republic of China period? Yes, as long as it is not limited to the reception format.

Because this period was a time when traditional analog radios flourished, especially in Shanghai, the core area of ​​the Republic of China with numerous concessions and international influences, which was densely populated with radio stations.

Besides reading newspapers, the way people usually get information is by listening to the radio.

However, due to the price of the radio, only wealthy families could use it, while ordinary people could only listen and watch.

But this is also what Wang Yi wanted. In this way, he could publicize some intelligence so that comrades in the base could receive it. He could also secretly put pressure on Chiang Kai-shek to let him go back to Nanjing.

Why can pressure be put on the bald heads? Because the comprador class and the landlord class who sent the bald heads to this position must own luxury goods such as radios.

They are also the people from all walks of life who hold the right to speak in the Republic of China. There are dirty tricks among them. Some are concerned about national affairs, while others are trying to make a fortune from the war.

But no matter what, they could not accept one outcome, that is, the Battle of Shanghai destroyed the core area of ​​Shanghai, and after that, everyone would not be able to make any money.

As long as you can make these people think that you, the bald man, are here in the Third War Zone of Songhu and can do nothing but cause trouble, they will spontaneously use their connections to make Chiang Kai-shek return to Nanjing and stay there honestly.

After going upstairs and sitting in the specially prepared room, Wang Yi also gave the two generals a reassurance when he heard Li Qiang knocking on the door.
"Everything is ready here. If you are still worried, General, I can also tamper with your voice so that the Chairman can't tell it's you, Commander Huang..."

"Don't worry, I trust you."

"Mr. Wang, just because you saved dozens of my brothers today, I will never do such a mean thing!"

"That would be my own fault. Let me manipulate your throats for now, both of you. Once the interview is over, I'll return to normal."

As he spoke, Wang Yi pinched the throats of the two men using the bone-pinching and skin-painting technique he learned from Quan Xing's face-maker Liu.

The two of them tried to say a few words, and after making sure that the voice had changed, they sat down with peace of mind.

Before Wang could give any signal, General Zhang exploded.

"This was a battle with chaotic organization and decision-making! The Battle of Songhu has become what it is now, all because of the hesitation and confusion in the decision-making of the top leaders of the National Government, and the failure of government orders! The National Defense Military Commission should bear half of the responsibility for the lives of the soldiers who died in this war!!"

General Zhang’s outburst directly put Wang Yi at a loss. Should the National Defense Military Commission bear half the responsibility?

Everyone knows that the orders of the entire National Defense Military Commission need to be approved by the bald man before they can be passed on. What you said is the same as pointing at the bald man's nose and cursing, saying that it is because of you, an idiot, that the war has turned out like this!

But when I think about how General Zhang Zhizhong in front of him had been blamed by the bald guy many times in the history of the original time and space, even being blamed for being "incompetent in both literature and literature, and losing sovereignty and humiliating the country", I can understand General Zhang's sudden outburst. He has definitely tolerated the bald guy for more than a day or two.

I didn’t dare to say it before because there was no other way. When you are under someone’s roof, you have to bow your head. Only after the whole country was liberated could I secretly point out the bad things that Baldy did in my memoirs and let myself take the blame.

Now that he finally has this opportunity to speak freely, how could General Zhang not let it go?

Ignoring Huang Wei's frightened expression at General Zhang's outburst, Wang Yi sat upright, moved the microphone forward, and motioned for General Zhang to continue.

This interview on the military focus of the Republic of China began with General Zhang's outburst of indirect criticism, and the conversation lasted for an hour...
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Under the cover of night, Wang Yi and Li Qiang watched General Zhang and Huang Wei leave the concession by car under the street lights.

"I didn't expect that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was so unpopular among the officers in the National Government. I heard that General Wenbai was also a Confucian general and a famous general. I didn't expect that he still felt so wronged."

"Hey, you are an old comrade, how can you not know what kind of person that bald guy is? The word stubborn and self-righteous is a compliment to him. The curse words passed down by our ancestors have to be written into a whole book because of this thing. Do you think that many generals working under him would think well of him?"

"Then why are there so many people working under him?"

"The situation is stronger than the man, and he is in the right. Many generals in the government have backward and feudal ideas. Add to that the bald man's privacy methods. Don't forget that he has an organization under his command that specializes in monitoring his own people. Heroes investigate heroes, and good men investigate good men. Everyone is in a panic. Isn't he sitting on the Diaoyutai? If I wasn't afraid that killing him would easily lead to a war among warlords, I would have taken action against him a few years ago. How could I have tolerated him until now?"

"From what you said, it seems like you have a deep grudge against Generalissimo Chiang and know him very well. No, there are only a few people in the organization who have had contact with him and know him well, and you can count them on one hand. You..."

"Don't worry about these minor details. We still have to go back and record what General Zhang said and publish it in the newspaper on a certain day."

"is that useful?"

"It is still somewhat useful. According to what General Wen Bai said just now, the entire Songhu Battle National Government command system has now been divided into six levels: theater-corps-group army-corps-army-division. Once an order is issued from the highest level, it is outdated by the time the division-level units receive it. Many local troops did not even grasp the specific orders, and they ran into the Japanese and were ambushed. No matter how many people came, it was useless.

If the bald man could be removed, at least one level would be reduced, and the number of invalid orders would be reduced by more than half. Even if he was not removed, after the defeat in Songhu, they would have to fight the Japanese again. For both public and private reasons, these generals of the National Government had to stop the bald man from taking charge of the overall situation. This way, the battle might be easier to fight.

The second is the people. I know that no matter it is radio broadcasts or newspapers, there are only so many places where the news can be spread. Apart from the people in the city, the people at the bottom of the countryside have no idea that there is a war here. They only know that the Japanese are coming to collect taxes and grain. This is also an obstacle for our comrades in the base area to carry out mass work, because they can't read a single word and don't know what the difference is between us, the Japanese and the Japanese. This is a very bad thing.

The reason why I want you to lead the team to transfer these comrades, activists and progressive students here from the base area is to let them have a clear understanding of the current situation between the Kuomintang government, us and the Japanese. Without investigation, there is no right to speak. Only in this way, when they return, they will know how to help the comrades in the base area to carry out mass work and let the people know who is on their side and who is the enemy that everyone needs to defeat together. Even if we really encounter the Kuomintang army and there is a conflict, we will know which ones can be reformed and which ones must be resolutely eliminated.

"Talking without practice is just empty talk, but if you just do it without talking, no one will know what you are doing, right?"

"Wow, you have all the tricks up your sleeve. You look like a political commissar."

"Don't flatter me. I'm fine as a clerk. Political commissar? Forget it. I'm not as shameless as the bald guy."

Listening to Wang Yi's constant sarcasm towards the bald man, Li Qiang didn't know what to say.

It was not until he personally experienced the various anti-human things that Baldy did that he realized how correct Wang Yi's evaluation of Baldy was.

But for now, he still had to review with Wang Yi overnight the manuscripts that would be published in the next mainland daily newspaper.

The next day, the mainland daily newspaper published another report with a headline of several large characters: "Disastrous Defeat! Whose fault is it for the current defeat in the Battle of Songhu?"

(End of this chapter)