The secret war is silent

The first stop Luo Yao and Li Fu came to was the Wounded Soldiers Hospital, which was the first place where the fire broke out.

Although there are still some traces of the original burning, apart from the location, there is basically nothing of value.

They just came over to take a look.

Because the Hospital for Wounded Soldiers has always been there, some military doctors, nurses, and hospital caregivers from a year ago are also there.

The point is actually to understand the situation from these people.

Luo Yao used his identity as a staff officer of the theater commander's headquarters. Although it was somewhat unruly to investigate cases with this identity, the dean did not dare not cooperate as long as the chief of staff Wu Xuexin called him.

Of course, confidentiality is still needed. More people cannot know his identity, only the dean needs to know.

Naturally, these people and insiders would not dare not cooperate with the dean's next order. This official level is overwhelming.

To be honest, sometimes it’s hard to tell whether this kind of revisiting is useful. After all, it’s been a year. Although many people are shocked by the fire and still remember it freshly, they can’t remember it in such detail.

After discovering the fire and getting to know several people involved in putting out the fire, I found that it was similar to what was said in the military investigation files.

There is nothing new.

The fire at that time was in the hospital's dressing gauze warehouse. Medical supplies such as gauze are in short supply and need to be reused in many cases. Therefore, old gauze is reluctant to throw away.

After cleaning, disinfecting and drying, it can be used to bandage the wounded.

There is a shortage of supplies, and there is no other solution. Gauze is reused, and medicines are in short supply. It is common for many injured soldiers to be forced to ring or even lose their lives because their wound infections cannot be effectively treated.

At that time, because the storage was not strict, the cleaned and disinfected cotton yarn was directly stored in the warehouse.

I don’t know how the fire started, but the warehouse burned down.

The cotton yarn was flammable and quickly spread throughout the warehouse. It was too late to put out the fire. Those involved in the firefighting at the time said that they could only take blocking measures to separate the warehouse where the cotton yarn was stored from other areas to prevent the fire from burning out and affecting the entire wounded soldiers. Hospital.

Fire cannot be saved at all.

In the end, the warehouse was burned to the ground, and the already scarce medical supplies became even more scarce.

Afterwards, we investigated the cause of the fire. Because the warehouse was burned to the ground, no useful clues could be found. We could only interview the people who participated in the firefighting at the time.

After much searching, we finally came to the conclusion that it was most likely caused by the resurgence of a cigarette butt dropped by a wounded soldier who was recovering in the wounded soldier's hospital.

But when we called the wounded soldiers who had smoked near the warehouse and asked them, no one admitted it.

The military commander was involved in the inquiry at that time, and although several suspects were circled, there was no way to know who the main parties involved were unless the main parties involved were revealed.

Furthermore, there was no clear conclusion at the time whether this was an accident or someone did it deliberately.

The other three fire points are the focus.

The Wounded Soldiers Hospital was not the ignition point of the burning the city plan that was arranged at that time, and the Second Guard Regiment in charge of the plan could not know the location of the wounded soldiers hospital, nor could it be judged based on this that the order to burn the city was advanced.

The key is that the other three fire points were an important reason for the misjudgment of the Second Guard Regiment in the city.

The plan to burn the city is top secret, and it is certainly impossible to let the common people know in advance, but it is difficult to keep the ignition points used to burn the city completely secret.

Because it is necessary to prepare some flammable materials to start a fire. Most people will not be so keen on these actions, but if they are spies, it is difficult to tell. They must already know some situations.

Exploiting and creating chaos is also one of the important tasks of latent agents.

The ignition points used to burn the city are basically very important facilities and factories in the city. These cannot fall into the hands of the enemy, otherwise they will become enemies. To say that the entire city will be burned to ashes, dozens of people will be killed. Thousands of people are homeless, and that may not be the original intention of those who made this plan.

But this matter eventually got out of control, leading to a human tragedy.

There are also several of these facilities and factories outside the south gate, near the cloth shop, oil mill and coffin shop.

This is very unusual.

Of course, none of them are the planned ignition points, but they can easily be misjudged, which is the key point.

Once misjudged, the consequences would be quite serious. In that chaotic situation, the Japanese army was about to attack the city of Xiangcheng. The commander who carried out the mission lacked determination and was fearful in his heart, so he thought about setting fire early and playing with it. It would be better to burn it down earlier and then run out of the city for your life.

Multiple factors came together and tragedy inevitably occurred.

These three ignition points were inducements that successfully ignited the fire of fear in the hearts of the Nationalist officers and soldiers left in the city to carry out the task of burning the city, and then they ignited the fire of reality.

After the cloth village was burned down, the boss went bankrupt. All his property belonged to the cloth village and he owed a foreign debt.

The boss was so angry that he jumped into the river and committed suicide.

The one who left an orphan and a widowed mother behind was said to have bought the house to pay off his debts, and later moved to an unknown place.

As for the guy, no one knew about him. I just heard that he was not a native of Xiangcheng, but a down-and-out young man from out of town. The boss kindly took him in.

People were also burned to death, and it was the boss who finally restrained himself. Otherwise, there wouldn't even be a grave.

Buzhuang is still the same as it was after it was burned down. Because people were burned to death, it is considered an ominous place and no one wants it.

This was a big help to Luo Yao's visit. Under normal circumstances, it would be almost impossible to preserve the scene of a case like this one year after it happened.

However, this is not the original appearance. After all, there was an investigation after the death. The collection and cleanup of the body will inevitably reveal something about the scene.

Luo Yao had seen the photos taken at the scene and matched them one by one with what he saw in reality. He was still able to construct the tragic scene in his mind.

There are naturally some differences in places where people have died. Even psychological factors can make people feel different.

Brother, why do I feel so cold? Li Fu followed Luo Yao all the way in, walking from the front door to the backyard.

Without the popularity, it will naturally feel like this. Is there anything to be surprised about? Luo Yaodao said, a place where people live must be popular and warm, while a place without people must be cold, so barren mountains There must be a cold feeling in an abandoned house in Yeling.

On the one hand, it is psychological factors, and on the other hand, there is the reason why no one has ever lived in such a smokey atmosphere.

When the clerk of the cloth shop heard someone shouting the water is leaking, he picked up the kerosene lamp. In panic, he ran to the warehouse to check, but he tripped over something. The oil lamp ignited the cloth, and the whole cloth shop was burned with him. Lost.

This is recorded in the investigation file.

There is a problem here, that is, the man was burned to death. How do you know that he heard someone shouting water and ran out. What happened next?

Is it Buzhuang that takes advantage of the situation, or is it other places that take advantage of the situation?

This involves the fundamental reason of who lit the fire in Buzhuang.

If there is flooding outside, then the clerk will not rush to his own warehouse. This is a natural thing.

But if the fire breaks out at home, the clerk will naturally run to his own warehouse and try to put out the fire.

Then, because he was not wearing glasses and could not see clearly what was on the ground, the man tripped and dropped the kerosene lamp in his hand...

On the surface, this investigation report has no problems and is very logical, but if you think about it carefully, there are huge problems inside.

There is nothing wrong with the photos taken during the on-site investigation, but this result may be what someone wanted subsequent investigators to see.

But he still kept things close to his heart.

After the clerk heard Water leaked, he hurried to his warehouse and opened the door. Because he didn't wear glasses and didn't pay attention to his steps, he tripped over a small stool. Then he threw the kerosene lamp in his hand, ignited the cloth, and burned the cloth on his forehead. He fainted after hitting the shelf and burned himself to death...

These can all be faked. It is easy to fake such a scene, and it makes sense logically.

However, there is one thing that doesn't make sense, and that is why the man immediately ran to his warehouse when he heard someone shouting water leakage outside?

A normal person's reaction would be to check if something goes wrong. There is nothing wrong with his own warehouse. If water leaks outside, why would he go there?

If water leaked into his own warehouse, how could people outside see it? If outsiders could see it, then if he rushed into the warehouse to put out a fire, how could he leave fragments of the kerosene lamp in the warehouse, and when he died? The body is not in the shape of a normal person burned to death?

If we assume that the cloth store clerk heard someone outside shouting water!, he got up in a hurry, ran out with a kerosene lamp to take a look, no, the normal reaction would be to rush out directly.

If there is a water leak in your own warehouse, your first reaction should be to get water to put out the fire...

Luo Yao stood in the backyard, combing through the clues in his mind, analyzing and inferring, and gradually he felt as if he had found the truth.

If someone outside really shouted Walk away at that time, the cloth shop clerk woke up from his sleep. He immediately grabbed the glasses placed on the pillow, put on a coat, and rushed out.

But when he rushed out, he found that there seemed to be movement in his warehouse, so he immediately went back to the house, took out the kerosene lamp, and went to the warehouse to check.

Then, he stumbled, fell unconscious, and set fire to the cloth in the warehouse...

In fact, since he entered the warehouse, he had been unable to help himself and fell into the complete calculation of his opponent.

Only this is reasonable.

Otherwise, it makes no sense from common sense and human nature.

This may be the truth behind the fire in Buzhuang.

Let's go to the oil workshop. Luo Yao opened his eyes slightly and showed a smile. Sure enough, he came to the scene to experience it. It is different. If you only look at the files, you may never discover this.

Brother, what did you find? Li Fu also looked around, but he found nothing.

I'll tell you when I go back after watching all the scenes, Luo Yao said.

Hmm. Li Fu didn't ask much. He already knew sooner or later why he was so anxious. Then he followed Luo Yao's footsteps and left Buzhuang quickly.

The second source of fire was the oil shop. The owner's surname was Shi. He had been open for twenty years and had a good reputation in the Nanmen area. Many people drank his oil.

After Boss Shi woke up from the fire, he rushed out alone, but his wife and children did not survive and were burned to death by the fire.

This blow was too big for him. After burying his wife and children, Boss Shi went crazy.

A good family just fell apart.

It's a pity.

Although Boss Shi was crazy, he did not leave Xiangcheng. Maybe he still had some nostalgia for him. He wandered near the south gate and became a well-known crazy beggar. The people nearby knew his tragic past and were willing to give him money. I only had one bite to eat, so I relied on the charity and relief from my old neighbors to survive.

Although the oil mill burned down, it was never rebuilt. Although Boss Shi has gone crazy, he doesn't seem to have forgotten his home.

Every night, he would go back to the burned-out oil mill to sleep.

And who was in the bedroom where his wife and children were burned to death.

This is probably his only obsession in this world.

When Luo Yao and Li Fu came to the oil workshop, they did not see Boss Shi himself. He was probably still wandering outside and would only come back at night.

The cause of the fire in the oil mill in the investigation file is also based on Boss Shi's own interview transcript. That night, Boss Shi was invited to dinner by several friends and drank a lot of wine.

Later, he was sent home by his friends. He had to take care of his business, so he usually slept in the private room and did not sleep in the same bedroom as his wife and children.

But according to what he said, although he drank too much, he was still conscious when he came back. After sending his friends away, he came back and closed the door to sleep.

He had the habit of smoking before going to bed, but he remembered that he did not smoke that night, and he did not know that the remaining tobacco in the pot was still burning, because after he woke up, the fire was already very strong, and after the investigation, it was found that He came to the conclusion that it was because he accidentally set the oil mill on fire and burned his wife and children to death!

It was this conclusion that made him feel so guilty and felt that he had failed his wife and children that he became sick with worry and eventually went crazy.

But there was nothing strange about the fire. When he woke up from the fire, the oil shop was already in flames. Did his room burn first and then spread to his wife and children's room, or was it his wife and children's room that burned first? Fire, and then burned over.

This sequence means whether the fire was accidental or man-made.

Of course, the fire was already very big at that time, and even Boss Shi himself could not determine the order in which the fire started, and people outside had no way of knowing what was going on inside the oil mill.

Now that the survivors have gone crazy, they may not be able to restore the scene at that time.

The only ones who could speak were the bodies of Boss Shi's wife and child. The time report showed that they were indeed burned to death. They struggled and evaded when they died, and they inhaled a large amount of black ash in their nasal cavities. It was indeed The situation of being burned alive.

However, when Luo Yao came to the oil mill, he discovered a very strange situation. Boss Shi's wife and children lived in the east and west wing rooms respectively, with a living room in between.

If the fire started in Boss Shi's room first, then Boss Shi who caught fire first could rush out of the fire, but his wife and children who went too far later were burned alive.

Moreover, it is impossible for Boss Shi not to know that his wife and children are in the living room across from him. A normal person would immediately want to rescue his wife and children.

If Boss Shi was not an extremely selfish person, he would not go crazy due to guilt.

There was only one situation: his room caught fire later, and the room where his wife and children were was already completely on fire. Even if he wanted to save, there was no way he could rush in and save others.

He could only rush out alone.

He even said that he should have been, so that there would be no proof.

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