Chapter 15 In the third quarter, the bomb fell on Liang's house

In the face of national crisis and national crisis, the intellectuals in exile in Changsha, like the top leaders of the government, developed a feeling of grief and anger from the bottom of their hearts, and this feeling quickly forged into the strength of mourning soldiers who must win, put to death and survive Faith, a kind of heroism that lives and dies with the nation, spreads, rises, and collides rapidly in this group.Liang Zaibing, the daughter of Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, still remembers this passionate and soul-stirring emotion and spirit decades later: "At that time, many of my father's old friends also came to Changsha, most of them were from Tsinghua University and Peking University. My professor is planning to go to Kunming to organize the Southwest United University. My third uncle Liang Siyong’s family is also here. We often come to our house to discuss the war situation and the situation at home and abroad, and at night we sing many salvation songs together. There are men, women and children in the team, and the father is always the 'leader'. We always start with the song 'Arise, you who will not be slaves!' and continue to 'Go forward, don't back down, life and death have come The last moment!' That high-pitched singing voice and the spirit of the conductor's strict requirements are still burning in my heart like a cluster of unquenchable flames."

Now that the flames of war have been raging all over the country, the national army has lost its troops and retreated steadily, Changsha is naturally not a paradise.After the fall of Shanghai, the Japanese army besieged Nanjing and sent planes to bomb the western cities along the Yangtze River. Changsha was within the attack range.Soon, Liang Sicheng's family was violently attacked by bombs from enemy planes, and disaster struck. Liang Congjie recalled that one day, suddenly there was the sound of planes overhead, and a large number of Japanese planes raided Changsha for the first time.Since there was no warning in advance, Liang Sicheng thought that the planes from the so-called Soviet Union to aid China had arrived, and these planes were probably guarding over Changsha specifically to protect the people and intellectuals in exile. Pergola for air viewing.The plane flew over the buildings, and there was a round bloody devil emblem on the wing.

In an instant, several small black dots sprayed out from the belly of the plane and "swished" towards the train station. It was obviously the target of the bombing, but this city that had experienced the baptism of war for the first time did not send any messages to the citizens. alarm.The little black dot quickly turned into a "shiny guy" as big as a child with round head and round feet. Only then did Liang Sicheng realize what it was, and fireworks erupted around the station.The huge explosion and the blasted debris made his body and mind tremble violently, his head shook with a "buzz" and he turned sharply and rushed into the house, shouting "bomb, run!" , A "shiny guy" flew to the front and exploded on the ground.As a ball of fire rose into the sky, Liang Sicheng instinctively picked up his 8-year-old daughter Liang Zaibing. His wife Lin Huiyin, who was in the house, was stunned for a moment by the flames outside the window. The mother who lived by herself ran downstairs.At this moment, the huge shock wave after the bomb detonated knocked down the doors and windows with a bang, and wooden sticks and glass shards flew everywhere.The family dragged and tumbled to the corner of the stairs, and several bombs fell into the courtyard.In the explosion of "Long, Long", the bricks and stones on the courtyard wall flew outwards with the rising flames. Lin Huiyin was shaken down the stairs and rolled into the courtyard on the spot holding his son, and the whole building began to crumble. There was a chaotic sound, and wooden decorations such as doors, windows, partitions, roofs, and ceilings collapsed in an instant, and they smashed into Liang Sicheng and the daughter in his arms... When the Liang family rushed out of the room, they came to a place where flames were rising and black smoke was billowing. On the street, the Japanese plane dived again, and the bomb roared in the third round. Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin, who were extremely frightened and exhausted, felt at the same time that "the family may be doomed", so they hugged each other, closed their eyes, and waited for the call of death. .Unexpectedly, the "shiny guy" who fell in front of him stopped making a sound after rolling a few times in the ground-it turned out to be a dud.The sky has eyes, and life should not be terminated. The Liang family escaped by chance.

After the enemy plane flew away, the education and academic colleagues in exile in Changsha heard that Liang Sicheng’s home was bombed, so they went to visit together. According to Shi Zhangru, a researcher at the Institute of History and Philology of the Academia Sinica, “When I went to Liang’s house, I saw the stairs in the small building. It was blown up, and things were still hanging, but there were no stairs to go up. It was very miserable. Fortunately, the family members hid in other places, and nothing happened. Another tragedy was that they found someone on the road who didn’t know where they came from, and was still wearing stockings. The woman's thigh was broken, it's really miserable."

That night, several members of the Liang family were homeless, and Liang Sicheng's position of "chorus conductor" naturally disappeared accordingly.Faced with such a miserable situation, Professor Zhang Xiruo of Tsinghua University gave up one of the two rented rooms to the Liang family, while the five members of the Zhang family lived in another small room.The next day, Liang Sicheng recruited several people to slowly dig out the daily necessities at home from the mud and rubble.According to Liang Congjie, when Liang Sicheng returned to the bombed house, he found a clear blood mark in the shape of a human on a ruined wall.According to eyewitnesses, this person was thrown flat by the shock wave of the bomb and hit the wall heavily, leaving this bright bloody mark, and the person on the wall naturally became a fuzzy meatloaf.

The day Liang Congjie mentioned was November 24, 1937, and the bombing started at about 1:30 in the afternoon.Apart from the rough records in the official documents and archives, Wu Mi, a professor of foreign languages ​​at Tsinghua University who went into exile with the school, disclosed in his diary a more detailed account of the incident.Wu Mi records that: This day is Wednesday, and the weather is fine. Every year on this day, I encounter strange and important things. This year I pay special attention to it, but "I don't know why it happened." At ten o'clock in the morning, Wu Mi went to Mingde School and invited his friend Yao Jiawen to take a rickshaw to the Xiangjiang Pier, transfer to a ferry to the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, then walk past Hunan University, climb Yuelu Mountain, and sit at the famous Aiwan Pavilion.In the valley, there are towering green trees, the sun is shining, and the red leaves are everywhere, which is really a beautiful place.As far as Huang Xing and Cai E's tomb temples.After drinking tea, they crossed the Xiangjiang River and entered the city. Yao Jiawen hosted a banquet at Li Hesheng Beef Restaurant, and invited Mrs. Hu Zheng to have dinner together.At 1:30 p.m., just as they left the dining table, the "strange and important encounter" that Wu Mi has been thinking about all the time happened.

Wu Mi’s diary narrates that at this time, “Japanese planes suddenly arrived and dropped bombs at the East Railway Station, destroying the transportation hotel (where the wedding was held) and the warehouse of the Bank of China. More than 200 people died and many were injured. This was the first time in Changsha. Air raid. At that time, I heard the sound of bombardment in the distance, the building walls trembled slightly, and the streets were noisy. I went downstairs and walked north. Walked to Zhongshan North Road, Biezheng, etc., Mi Du walked east along the street. The police prohibited movement, and the people in the street Crowded and rushing. Mi walked in slowly according to the eaves. When he arrived at the entrance of the Hunan Commercial and Pharmaceutical Bureau, he was ordered into the bureau by the police. Everyone stayed in the bureau for a long time until the alarm was lifted. At this time, there were more people in the street, and Gai Qun went to the station to watch the bombing The real situation is that there are no spectators, and the roads are congested. And Mi arrived at the Bible College at 4:00. Although Mi was calm at the time, he was worried about K (K went out on that day and was blocked to return the money to Liu Peilan's sister. In the street. Mi knew it afterwards and was deeply responsible.) From then on, every time there was an air raid, Mi prayed devoutly to God. Briefly said: "Mi is also afraid of death, but I dare not regret death. Today, Mi should die, only God orders , Mi died in peace of mind, without any regrets. May God bless K, so that no misfortune will happen to K, and that he can return to his mother's house alive, so that Mi can live up to K's mother's trust."

K in Wu Mi's diary is Wu's female student and love interest in Tsinghua University. After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, she was hired by the Peking Library.Facing the enemy's bombing, Wu Mi worried more about K, who had no experience in social life and was as immature as a duckweed in troubled times, than himself.According to Wu Mi, K's going south was the result of her own persuasion, and Wu must shoulder the responsibility of caring and protecting, so as to be worthy of K herself and her family.Wu Mi thinks that "although she loves K, but because of the age difference, she will never force her. She only wants to protect and help him with a pure heart. Only God can see my loyalty and bless K's mother and daughter."

Wu Mi, who was 44 years old at the time, traveled from Beiping to Changsha, and then to Southwest Associated University in Kunming. The woman he fell in love with was not just one K, but more than a dozen women. Knowing the fate of the year, not only did not have a fruitful harvest, but even a few beauties were brought home, and not even a single hair was obtained, which only made the people of the time and the future feel sorry - of course, this is something for later, let's ignore it for the time being, and then continue to look at Wu Mi The diary describes the bombing of Changsha by enemy planes:

On November 25th, "Mi returned to the Bible College at 12:00 noon, but Mr. Mao Yingdou still insisted on inviting Mi to a banquet, so he went to Zhongshan North Luyi Hongfa Restaurant at the same time, and had Western food. He ate a soup and a dish (time 1 : 30), the alarm suddenly sounded, and the plane arrived. It was the day but no bombs were dropped. Mi sat quietly in the dining room, Mao Jun was very frightened, and ran to the front and back of the hall. Mi prayed as before, and with the officers among the guests (Nanjing comer) talk. At 3:00 the alarm is lifted, and we will return with Mr. Mao.”

On November 26, "at 1:00 p.m., Mao Yukun and I took a rickshaw to go to Xiangya Hospital to investigate Wattendorf's disease. On the way, the alarm suddenly sounded, and the city people rushed. As far as Beida Road, it was blocked. Because the police rushed into the Hengcui Women's School, Jianhu, and sat in the hall with the refugees, the time shifted and the alarm was lifted." Saturday, November 27.Overcast, light rain. "At 11:00 in the morning, the alarm came. Mi Shi was in the Bible College, so he hid in the basement of the office building with the crowd. All the teachers and students in the school gathered there. Or they were new acquaintances, exchanging greetings and expressing affection. This underground room is like a social meeting. Mi recalled "Zuo Zhuan" "In the big tunnel, the joy is also harmonious." Mi Wei worried about K. Shouhe (South Press: Yuan Tongli, director of the Peking Library, to K Miss also had the intention of taking it down with one fell swoop, Wu Mi was very angry and anxious about this) and went back and forth to look for K. Mi saw Ci (South note: the girl Wu Mi once loved), etc., but K was missing. The plane returned to the sky. The courtyard outside the building In Zhongcaochang, a huge American flag was laid flat. The alarm was lifted at 12:00. Mi waited to get out. "Besides the big tunnel, the joy is also vented." The enemy planes continued to go to Changsha to bomb and spread around the Bible College for a period of time. They were obviously prepared, or they were specially prepared to deal with the senior personnel of the three schools and the Academia Sinica, so there was a saying that "internal spies guided the Japanese planes" outgoing. In view of this situation, the Temporary University and the chairman of the Changsha Management Committee of Academia Sinica jointly sent personnel to organize a patrol team. When the alarm was issued, everyone rushed to the basement of the Bible College to hide, and the patrol team patrolled the ground to see if there were any spies or traitors. Hiding in a certain corner, or explicitly or covertly signal to guide the enemy plane.According to Shi Zhangru, a patrol member sent by Shi Yu, the patrol is a highly dangerous job. If he fails, he will be bombed and his life is in danger. But since he is young, he doesn't care too much.Whenever the alarm sounded and enemy planes approached, Shi Zhangru and Liu Yao, a young researcher from the Institute of History and Philology, patrolled the streets and every corner with the patrol team.But after a few times, no spy was found, and everyone felt a little discouraged.At this moment, something happened. One day, the alarm went off, and everyone fled to the basement of the Bible College. The inspectors took their positions, watching the fleeing crowd and the abnormal situation everywhere with vigilant eyes.When the crowd was rushing and panicking, a young man with a long purplish red object in his arms was scurrying aimlessly among the crowd, stopping from time to time to look around, his appearance was very suspicious.The captain of the patrol team shouted loudly: "The person holding the object in front must be a spy, take it down!" After saying that, several young team members rushed forward and threw the young man holding the object to the ground.Seeing this, Shi Zhangru and other patrol members rushed from all directions to capture the young man, twisted his arms and sent him to a room in the Bible school where he was detained. When the alarm was lifted, the patrol members couldn't wait to bring the young man up for interrogation.Unexpectedly, the young man claimed his surname was Liu and his name was Zhiping. He was a member of the construction society led by Liang Sicheng.The interrogators inspected it in detail, and found that it was indeed an ordinary oil-paper umbrella, and there was no sign of tools used by secret agents such as hidden transmitters.After detailed interrogation, it was found out that Liu Zhiping was a student of Liang Sicheng when he was teaching at Northeastern University, and later defected to Liang and Lin's couple to work as an assistant in the French Department of the Chinese Academy of Architecture in Peking.When Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin's family went south, Liu Zhiping also came to Changsha to seek refuge. Because he was new here, he had no experience in running the alarm.When they ran to the street and didn't know where to hide, they stopped from time to time to look around to attract attention, so some patrol members suspected that the oil-paper umbrella in their hands might be a secret tool for sending reports, and they were arrested and imprisoned as spies.When the situation became clear, the patrol team came to Liang Sicheng to identify him. After Liang Sicheng came, he gave an explanation, released him on bail, and the matter was over.Later Shi Zhangru said: "Liu is from the Northeast. Because of this kind of incident, we got to know each other well, and then we know that he is also a very accomplished person." Enemy planes continued to bombard Changsha, and Changsha was in turmoil. Facing the threat of family destruction or death every day, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin realized that it was difficult to accomplish anything here, so they came up with the idea of ​​leaving Changsha for Kunming.According to their vision, Kunming, which is far away in the southwest of China, may still be some distance away from the smoke of war. It can not only take refuge temporarily, but also quiet down and do some learning. It is an ideal place to kill two birds with one stone, so they decided to go to Kunming.At that time, Changsha Temporary University had insufficient campuses, so the College of Liberal Arts was relocated to the branch of Hengshan Bible School in southern Hunan, called Nanyue Branch.The Linda University requested more than 30 faculty members and about 200 students to go to Nanyue to attend classes as soon as possible. On the evening of December 1, Wu Mi, Li Funing, Chen Ci, Zhang Wanying, Zhao Shiyan and other teachers and students rushed to Changsha Railway Station with their luggage in the cold wind and rain, intending to take a passing train to Nanyue Literature College.The train that was originally scheduled to arrive in Changsha at eleven o'clock that night did not disappear until five o'clock in the morning the next day.According to "Wu Mi's Diary": "The military vehicles in the middle drove through several rows, and the wounded soldiers made a scene, and they wanted to beat the station master. This night, Mi and others were extremely exhausted and majestic, and they couldn't bear it. So Mi proposed to return to the Bible College. "After the personnel returned to the school, they huddled in the classroom until dawn, and dispersed separately. On the evening of December 4th, Chen Zhimai, a professor of political science at Tsinghua University, and his fiancée Li Xianchu (according to the south: the daughter of the famous scholar Li Jinxi, who is also one of the women Wu Mi loves and pursues, were unexpectedly caught by Chen Zhimai. Annoyed, Wu Mi wrote a secret letter to Li Xianchu from the Hengshan branch school, revealing that Chen Zhimai had been living with his widowed sister-in-law before, and that his widowed sister-in-law wanted to come and make trouble after hearing about Chen's marriage change, so as to disturb Chen Li's marriage. Unexpectedly, Li Xianchu accepted In 1949, Chen Zhimai and Li Xianchu went to Taiwan and served successively as "Minister to the United States", "Ambassador to Japan", and consultant to the "Ministry of Foreign Affairs". Died of illness in Taipei in 1978), Liang Sicheng, Lin Huiyin and his wife, as well as professors such as Gu Yuxiu and Wu Mi, were invited to a banquet at Xiaoxiang Restaurant as a farewell farewell.At that time, the cold wind was severe and the drizzle was continuous. Although the wine was warm during the banquet, looking forward to the future, it was difficult to hide the loneliness and sadness in my heart.The banquet dissipated in the warm eyes and the mutual exhortations of "Take care of the future", and each felt sad in their hearts.As Lin Huiyin wrote to his friend Fei Weimei: "We have decided to leave here and go to Yunnan....Our country has not yet been organized to the extent that we can be effective in war, so far we have It's just a 'war burden'. If so, why not make room and go to a farther corner? Someday even that place will be bombed, but there is no better place to go right now.  … Except those Everyone we knew and their families, apart from those who were already here, were separated and lost somewhere." On December 6, Wu Mi and other teachers and students finally squeezed onto the train and headed for Hengshan Nanyue Branch School. Two days later, on December 8, in a windy and starry dawn, Liang Sicheng and Lin Huiyin's family of five took an overloaded bus to Kunming, an important town in the vast southwestern border.