Chapter 266 The Eve of the Tunnel Tragedy

"Woo-woo-woo!"

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

This city has been devastated for three years, and all the survivors are very familiar with how to deal with the upcoming bombing.

The moment the alarm sounded, the people who stayed indoors took their hand luggage and jars of dry food and ran straight to the nearest air raid shelter.

No one knew how long the bombing would last, and they would feel more confident if they brought food.

The children also followed the pace of the adults. They all had a sign hanging around their necks with detailed home addresses, and some even had school information.

During the war, it was difficult to avoid parents and children getting separated.

Moreover, after three years of torture, many families summed up an experience. That is, everyone should not hide in one air raid shelter, but 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.

In the process of taking refuge, if there is a special situation or accident. These things, similar to identification cards, are enough to save a fragile family.

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

"Hang the ball!"

"Poison gas bomb! Poison gas!"

"Run! The damn little devils are here to poison again!"

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

The first is the red lanterns hung on various commanding heights in the city. They are similar to the wolf smoke emitted by the ancient fire alarm posts. They are air raid alarms and signal flares for the people to escape.

This is because the Japanese army often bombed in batches, and it is very likely that the power supply system would be destroyed during a certain attack, making the air defense alarm in the city without electricity.

In order to avoid failing to issue timely warnings at critical moments, the air defense headquarters set up wooden frames on commanding heights, traffic arteries and densely populated areas, and hung large lanterns to issue air raid warning signals.

When there is only one red lantern, it means that the devil's bomber will arrive in the mountain city in two hours, and everyone should take valuables and evacuate to the air raid shelter as soon as possible.

At that time, the rescue team will be on standby to support the important places that have been bombed at any time. Medical staff and monks in some temples will also be prepared to treat the wounded.

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

When the enemy planes leave the sky above the city, someone will be responsible for replacing the green lanterns. It means that the alarm has been lifted and the people can leave the air-raid shelter and go home.

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

Among them, the red lanterns represent bombs and incendiary bombs, the white lanterns symbolize that the enemy's paratroopers are about to attack, and the black lanterns mean that the devils will use poison gas bombs in this attack.

For ordinary people who have no ability to resist, poison gas bombs are the most terrifying weapons. After all, no one wants to struggle and die in pain.

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

The streets were in chaos, and the panicked crowds rushed to the air-raid shelters like a tide. Even most of the people who were going to leave the city for refuge changed their minds temporarily and rushed to the nearest cave desperately.

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

"Who is trying to grab my cans? Don't get close to me!"

"Don't squeeze! There are people all over the front! There is no use pushing!"

"Hurry up! The Japanese bombers are coming soon! If you don't get into the cave, you will all die!"

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

However, due to the lack of manpower at the grassroots level, General Pig had withdrawn the original troops a year ago. Now the head of the protection regiment in Shancheng is actually a local gang member.

As a gang leader without ambition, he usually only wants to use his position to make money. He is very irresponsible for his job and his management level is even more catastrophic.

What the people don't know is that the black lantern hanging at the highest point in the city center is not the result of any reliable intelligence received by the air defense command.

It's just a work error.

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"Bang!"

After a loud noise, the gate of the tunnel was locked from the outside. No one could enter or leave without receiving instructions from the superiors.

In places where the sun could not reach, the common people sat on the benches on both sides or on the stones in the aisle, spending every second in agony.

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

In order not to cause panic, the women held their children in their arms and sang the popular doggerel in a low voice.

"Airplane head, two taels of oil, Egongling, hanging red balls."

"Japanese planes dropped bombs, and blood flowed everywhere in the mountain city. There were endless alarms and endless revenges. The chimneys became anti-aircraft guns, and the plaster planes knocked their heads."

"The kids also want to be soldiers, and cut off the devil's heads with a big knife."

The current bad situation is mainly due to the overload of personnel.

The permanent population of Shancheng urban area is 680,000, but the air-raid shelters in the entire city can only accommodate 460,000 people, with a difference of 220,000.

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

According to Guo Preserved’s plan, the air-raid shelter could only accommodate 3,000 citizens. But because the people were frightened, they all swarmed into the tunnel.

Although several times more 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 singing and dancing.

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

The reason for such a polarized scene is that the air raid shelters in the mountain city are divided into public caves and private caves.

Private caves were built by the elite themselves, originally just 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-, monthly, and annual passes.

The emerging business is guaranteed to make a profit, and 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 were tortured by both commodity prices and enemies could not afford the tickets to enter the spacious private caves, so they could 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 a fortune in war 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.

Make money, 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 person sneaks into the office to cause damage while the Japs are bombing, they will definitely cause us huge losses!"

Ideological crusaders and popular figureheads alike nodded their heads after hearing the words of the Army's logistics guru.

The current relationship between myself and the bald head is very delicate, and they 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! Then 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, and 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 those who are interested in plotting.

The second team, led by an army logistics master, led the injured comrades 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.

Ideological crusaders are understandable when faced with comrades who lack confidence. After all, having been bombed by the devils for so long, you will be more or less lacking in confidence.

"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 mountain city's airspace unscrupulously."

"Just wait for the good news."

I’m so sleepy, there’s still one chapter left today, just let the time flow.