Comrade, Your Ingredients Are Too Complicated

Chapter 266 The eve of the tunnel tragedy

 “Woooooo!”

As a rapid and harsh air raid siren sounded throughout the city, the originally leisurely citizens immediately stopped all activities at hand.

 The city had been devastated for three years, and all those who survived were familiar with how to deal with the coming bombing.

The moment the alarm sounded, people staying indoors took their luggage and jars with dry food and headed straight for the air-raid shelter nearest their homes.

 No one knows how long the bombing will last, so bringing food will make you feel more confident.

Children also follow the steps of the adults. They all have a sign hanging around their necks with their detailed home address and even some of them with school information.

 During the war, it was difficult to prevent parents and children from being separated due to chaos and chaos.

What’s more, after three years of torture, many families have summed up an experience. That is, everyone should not hide in the same air-raid shelter, but should try to hide separately.

Although it sounds cruel, in this way, even if you encounter the most dangerous moment, there is a certain probability that you can leave a trace of incense for the family.

 During the evacuation process, if special circumstances or accidents occur. These things, similar to identification tags, are enough to save a vulnerable family.

 Suddenly, ordinary people with good eyesight noticed something unusual. The lantern at the highest point in the city center is not red or white, but black!

 “Hang the ball!”

 “Poison gas bombs! Poison gas!”

 “Run quickly! The stupid little devil is here to poison us again!”

 In the mountain city’s air defense propaganda, there are two types of lanterns.

 The first type is the red lanterns hung at commanding heights in the city. They are like the smoke emitted by ancient fire stations. They serve as air raid sirens and as signal flares for people to flee for their lives.

This is because the Japanese army often bombs in batches and is likely to destroy the power supply system during a certain attack, leaving the city's air defense sirens without power.

In order to avoid being unable to issue timely warnings at critical moments, the Air Defense Command set up wooden frames and hung large lanterns at commanding heights, traffic arteries and densely populated areas to issue air raid warning signals.

 When there is only one red lantern, it means that the Japanese bombers will arrive in the mountain town in two hours, and everyone should take their valuables and evacuate to the air raid shelter as soon as possible.

At that time, the rescue force will be on standby to support important bombed locations at any time. Medical staff and monks in some temples will also make preparations to treat the wounded.

 When two red lanterns are hung up, it means that the enemy is about to attack, and people should quickly enter the air raid shelter or go to an open area to avoid bombing.

 When the enemy plane leaves the sky above the city, there will be a dedicated person responsible for replacing it with a green lantern. It indicates that the alarm has been lifted and people can leave the air raid shelters and go home.

 The second type is the lantern at the highest point in the city center. Citizens can judge the enemy's situation based on its color.

The red lanterns represent bombs and incendiary bombs, the white lanterns symbolize the enemy's paratrooper troops are about to attack, and the black lanterns mean that the enemy will use poison gas bombs in this attack.

 For ordinary people who are unable to resist, gas bombs are the most terrifying weapon. After all, no one wants to die in pain.

 After seeing the black lanterns, the originally orderly people immediately became insecure.

There was chaos on the streets, and panicked crowds poured into the air-raid shelters. Even most of the people who were preparing to leave the city for refuge suddenly changed their minds and rushed towards the nearest cave as hard as they could.

 This is because there is a layer of tarpaulin at the entrance of the cave, which can resist the poisonous gas.

 “Who’s going to rob me of my cans? Don’t touch me!”

 “Don’t push! There are people in front of you! There’s no use in pushing!”

“Hurry up! The Japs’ bombers are coming soon! If you don’t get into the hole, everyone will die!”

 The original order during evacuation should be maintained by the military police, inspection and civil defense organizations.

 However, due to insufficient manpower at the grassroots level, General Pig transferred the original troops as early as a year ago. Now the head of the mountain city's protection team is actually a local gang member.

 As a gangster leader with no ambitions, he usually just wants to make money by taking advantage of his position. He is very irresponsible for his own work, and his management level is even disaster level.

And what the people didn't know was that the black lantern hanging at the highest point in the city center was not reliable intelligence received by the Air Defense Command.

 It’s just a mistake at work.

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 “Bang!”

 After a loud noise, the tunnel door was locked from the outside. before receiving instructions from superiors. No one is allowed in or out.

 In places where the sun cannot shine, ordinary people sat on the benches on both sides or on the stones in the aisles, spending every second in agony.

 The air in the tunnel became extremely turbid, and people with poor physical fitness soon became sweating profusely.

To avoid causing panic, women held their children in their arms and sang popular limericks in a low voice.

“At the nose of the plane, two ounces of oil, at Egongling, hang a red ball.”

"Japanese planes dropped bombs, and blood flowed everywhere in the mountain city. There were endless alarms, and endless revenge. The chimneys turned into anti-aircraft guns, and the plaster planes kowtowed." 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　也ded ground\' ”

 The current bad situation is mainly due to overloading of personnel.

The permanent population of Shancheng City’s urban area is 680,000, but the city’s air raid shelters can only accommodate 460,000 people, a difference of up to 220,000.

 This data still does not take into account the floating population, otherwise the overcrowding and crowding phenomena will be more serious.

 In Guozhou’s planning, the air raid shelter can only accommodate 3,000 citizens. But because the people were frightened, they all swarmed into the tunnel.

 Although several times as many people can be squeezed into the cave, the amount of air distributed per person becomes less.

What's more, due to corruption within Guozhou, the ventilation system originally planned to be installed in the tunnel has not been put in place, making the already precarious situation even higher.

Compared with the lives of the people at the bottom, the elites can be said to be living a peaceful life.

Those high-ranking officials and businessmen with huge wealth can even dance and play cards in the air-raid shelters, listen to plays and drink, eat, drink and have fun.

The scene is so polarized because the air raid shelters in mountain cities are divided into public caves and private caves.

 Private caves were built by the elite themselves, originally only for their family and friends to use during air raids.

 But after these morons discovered the business opportunities contained in this matter, they began to build paid air-raid shelters on a large scale, and introduced outrageous charging methods for sub-time, monthly, and annual passes.

 Emerging businesses are guaranteed to make money without losing money. It takes almost only one year to recover the capital, and the investment rate is astonishingly high. Even if the Japanese can persist for another ten years, these air-raid shelters can be put on the market as an industry.

Stimulated by huge profits, the number of private holes has increased tenfold in just three years, while the number of public holes has only increased by half.

Those ordinary people who are tortured by both commodity prices and enemies cannot afford the tickets to enter the spacious private caves, so they can only go to the public caves to gamble their luck.

This is why many people ran out of the city as soon as they received the air raid warning.

As for our bald heads, the reason for allowing the industrialization of air defense and sitting back and watching profiteers make huge war fortunes is also very simple. After all, it is a business and you can collect taxes. It would be nice to have a lot of money every quarter.

What’s more, the generals and staff at the top of the company are also involved in new industries.

 Making money is not shabby.

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Time goes back five minutes to the Eighth Office of Shancheng.

“Secretary! We can’t all evacuate to the air-raid shelter! There must be someone guarding the office!”

“If a bald man sneaks into the office to cause damage while the Japs are bombing, he will definitely cause huge losses to us!”

 After hearing the Army Logistics Master’s words, ideological crusaders and popular honorary leaders alike nodded.

The current relationship between our side and Bald Head is very delicate, and people may take action at any time. Before the Battle of Zhongtiao Mountain, the other party tried to detain the three of them.

What's more, there is a lot of valuable information in the Eighth Office, which must not fall into the hands of Guo Preserved. You must not have the intention to harm others, but you must have the intention to guard against others.

“Okay! I’ll bring someone to stay this time! It’s your turn next time, and the three of us will take turns.”

“And I think the office has to send people to evacuate people and try to do something meaningful.”

“No matter how the relationship between the two parties develops, the common people will always be innocent. Everyone knows the efficiency of preserved fruit, so I really don’t trust it.”

As soon as these words came out, the comrades of the Eighth Office responded positively one after another, and everyone immediately divided into three teams.

 The first team is led by ideological crusaders and is responsible for guarding the office from being plotted by people with malicious intentions.

The second team was led by army logistics masters and the injured comrades went directly to the nearest air raid shelter for refuge.

 The leader of the third team is a popular honorary leader. He will lead dozens of people to the city to help evacuate the people.

Before leaving, a comrade looked to the northwest and asked worriedly:

“Secretary, do you think our soldiers from the First Air Division can stop the bomber group before the Japanese attack?”

"According to the estimated time, they should have entered the mountain city's airspace half an hour ago. There is no result yet, whether there was any accident on the way."

 This battle plan is to kill the Japanese Eleventh Air Fleet once and for all.

 In order to discuss reasonable tactics and timing, several big bosses took Principal Chang and Captain Wang Hai to chat for three days.

 In the face of comrades who have no confidence, ideological crusaders are understandable. After all, having been bombed by the devils for so long, you will be more or less lacking in confidence.

“You must have confidence in your comrades, the Kongyi Division is far more powerful than you imagine.”

“I can guarantee that after this battle is over, no enemy plane will dare to come to the airspace of the mountain city unscrupulously.”

 “Just wait for the good news.”

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　please have a chapter today, so I’ll just let the time take its course'

 (End of this chapter)