The 28th year of the Republic of China (1939), March 28.

It has been half a month since Zhou Tao left home, and when Zhou Min looks out the window when he is bored, he will still think of his brother who ran a horse in the early morning.

After Zhou Tao arrived in Chongqing, he called home. He currently serves under General Zhang Zhizhong (Zi Wenbai).

In 1924, after the end of the Guangxi Guijun Military Academy with Zhang Zhizhong as the principal, Chiang Kai-shek transferred Zhang Zhizhong to the Whampoa Military Academy as the chief of education, and in February 1939, he went to Chongqing to serve as the director of the first division of the Waiting Office of the Chairman of the Military Commission, responsible for military secrets, and became an important assistant to Chiang Kai-shek. And Zhou Tao is now an ordinary captain and staff officer under him.

"Sister, wake up, wake up. Seeing that Zhou Min was bedridden, Xiaoxue pushed her helplessly.

Zhou Min got up in a daze, just about to get up and fall down again, and repeated it three times before he reluctantly got up and washed. For Zhou Min, it feels good to go back to school now and look at her young classmates, but she really doesn't want to be early.

School starts at 8 o'clock and morning exercises start at 7:20. I had to leave home around seven o'clock. I had to have breakfast at half past six. Zhou Min rubbed his eyes and looked at his watch, and found that it was only six o'clock, and he suddenly felt a sense of collapse. In her four years of college, she hardly ever woke up at six o'clock in the morning. It's really killing her to get up so early now.

Under Xiaoxue's constant urging, Zhou Min still left the house at seven o'clock, and the two were driven to school by the driver.

When the car was about to arrive at the school, Zhou Min found that the people on the road were surrounding something, and asked the driver to stop. She and Xiaoxue got out of the car and found that everyone was buying newspapers. A newsboy shouted loudly while selling newspapers: "Outside, outside, Nanchang is lost."

Zhou Min and Xiaoxue glanced at each other, and their eyes showed horror.

After the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression entered 1939, the Japanese army stopped its overall strategic offensive and turned to defending and consolidating the occupied areas, in an attempt to eliminate the Chinese guerrillas behind enemy lines in the occupied areas. The Japanese 11th Army, entrenched in Wuhan, became the opponent of China's 5th and 9th theaters of operations. For the squadron in the frontal battlefield, Japan adopted an offensive defense and only carried out a local offensive. And Nanchang was the focus of the Japanese offensive. The aim is to occupy strategic points and change their own situation.

But no one thought that Nanchang would be lost.

"Miss, let's get in the car and go to school first, it's too late" The driver, Ada, saw that the two young ladies got out of the car and didn't come back for a long time, so he couldn't help but get out of the car and called.

Zhou Min hurriedly bought two newspapers and returned to the car with Xiaoxue. When I arrived at school, I was almost late.

When the two of them walked into the classroom, they found that everyone had arrived, but everyone had a heavy face. Obviously, they all know the news of the loss of Nanchang.

Li Chao came to the podium and said heavily to the students below: "Students, there is an important city in China that has been lost, and today's newspaper has published it, the defenders of Wuchang were ordered to evacuate at 2 o'clock on the 28th, and Nanchang was lost. "There was silence in the classroom, and everyone was silent. China's successive defeats on the battlefield of resistance against Japan have constantly undermined the determination of the Chinese people to resist the war.

After saying this, Li Chao picked up a newspaper on the podium and read it aloud: "In order to cut off the Zhejiang-Jiangxi railway, the Japanese Central China Dispatch Army mobilized the 6th, 101st, 106th, and 116th divisions, with the cooperation of the Navy and the Air Force (a total of 120,000 troops), under the command of the commander of the 11th Army, Okamura Ninji, to contain the troops of southern Hunan, southern Hunan and northern Hunan in China, and the main force attacked Nanchang in March.

Xue Yue, acting commander of China's 9th Theater of Operations, commanded 10 armies and 33 divisions with a total of 200,000 people to defend his troops.

On the 17th, under the cover of its navy and air force, the Japanese launched an attack on Nanchang on both sides of the Nanxun Road (Nanchang to Jiujiang). The 116th Division of the Japanese Army crossed Poyang Lake with 50 boats from Hukou and attacked Wucheng at the eastern end of the position on the south bank of Xiushui. The 721st Regiment of the 141st Division of the 32nd Army of the Squadron and the 5th Reserve Division resisted bravely, and after hand-to-hand combat in the streets, they abandoned Wucheng on the night of the 23rd and retreated to the second-line position of Chi'an Mountain.

On the 20th, the 1st Division of the Japanese Army attacked Tujiabu, and the 1st Division and the 106th Division attacked Yongxiu and Qiujin City. Under the cover of 200 artillery fire, the Japanese army forcibly crossed the Xiushui River and broke through the defenders' positions in one fell swoop. The 142nd Division of the 32nd Army, the 76th Division of the 79th Army and the 105th Division of the 49th Army of the Squadron fought fiercely with the invading Japanese troops, suffered heavy casualties, and were forced to retreat.

On the 21st, the 19th Group Army of the ** squadron urgently transferred the 98th Division, the 118th Division, and the 9th Reserve Division to aid the defenders on the right flank of Nanchang, but they were blocked by the surge of the river after the rain.

On the 24th, the 101st and 106th divisions of the Japanese army captured Wanjiabu and Fengxin, and advanced to Gao'an and Anyi, approaching Nanchang.

On the 25th, the 19th Group Army of the ** Squadron ordered the 32nd Army to quickly return to Nanchang from the south bank of Xiushui, and ordered the 79th Army and the 74th Army to assemble in the northwest and northeast areas of Gao'an.

On the 27th, after the Japanese army crossed the Ganjiang River, it attacked Nanchang from the north, west and south, and the 141st Division of the 32nd Army of the defending army and the Japanese army suffered heavy casualties after fierce street fighting, and was ordered to evacuate at 2 o'clock on the 28th, and Nanchang was lost. ”

Zhou Min listened carefully to what Li Chao read, and couldn't help but feel a little emotional about this battle, from March 17 to 27, the Chinese defenders lost Nanchang within 10 days, and the defenders also suffered heavy losses. It seems that in addition to Japan's well-equipped and strong combat effectiveness, the combat coordination ability of the squadron is really poor.

"Students, we have lost the Northeast, North China, Nanjing, Xuzhou, Wuhan, and now Nanchang, an important city in the southeast, have also fallen under the iron heel of people. Front-line fighters suffered heavy casualties. Every day, because there is no medicine, doctors treat them. So I decided to go to the front. I want to devote my meager strength to the great cause of the War of Resistance. Students, the country has reached the moment of life and death, what are you still hesitating about, come with me to the front line to support the war of resistance!" Li Chaoyue said in a passionate voice, and his voice echoed in every classroom. His blood boiled and ignited many people. Everyone shouted to support the front.

There were only a few people who didn't speak, including Zhou Xilong and others who left a deep impression on Zhou Min. Zhou Min had to admit that Li Chao's words were very infectious, and her heart was also very hot. I can't wait to go to the front right away. But when I calmed down, I felt unrealistic.

In the midst of everyone's passionate shouts, Zhang Jing stood up and walked to the podium step by step. She walked slowly and vigorously, and the moment she turned to face everyone, everyone fell silent and stopped talking, all looking at her, everyone wondering what she was going to do. Zhou Min was also surprised by her aura. It was so quick to calm down the class.

"Which of you can get out of Shanghai under the noses of the Japanese?"

"Which of you can get to Nanchang, and who of you knows where the front line is?"

"Which of you will have surgery?"

Zhang Jing asked three times in a row, and the people below were speechless. Zhou Min couldn't help but admire her calmness, as a student under the age of 20, it was not easy to realize this.

"Then according to what you say, let's just wait here, until the Japanese occupy all of China?" Li Jiaojiao said suddenly, full of gunpowder.

Zhang Jing just glanced at her indifferently and didn't say anything.

The atmosphere was a little stiff for a while.

Li Chao said: "I was radical just now, and I didn't think about it, now everyone can talk about what they think." ”

"Since Zhang Jing has such an idea, let her say it. Li Jiaojiao said in a weird manner.

Zhou Min frowned when he heard this, feeling that this Li Jiaojiao was really a bit excessive, as if she was deliberately finding fault, it seemed that there was a contradiction between the two people.

Zhang Jing showed a mocking smile on her indifferent face, and said to Li Jiaojiao: "I naturally have ideas, I have experienced more than you have seen, you don't have to choke me with words every time." In my eyes, you are just a young lady who has not grown up. I didn't want to meet you in general before, but now I've changed my attention. lest thou shalt gain an inch. ”

As soon as Zhang Jing said this, the class was in an uproar, and Li Jiaojiao's fingers trembled even more angrily, and her face turned blue.

Zhou Min smacked his tongue secretly, thinking: This Zhang Jing really either doesn't open her mouth, and she is angry when she opens her mouth.

Li Chao saw that the two of them were getting stiffer and stiffer the more they talked, and hurriedly played a round.

"It's all classmates, don't be like this. Other students are also persuading. Zhou Min and Xiaoxue were not familiar with everyone, so they were still sitting in place.

However, in Li Chao's eyes, this has become immobile and calm.

Li Chao suddenly walked up to Zhou Min and asked, "Classmate Zhou Min, do you sisters have any ideas? Do you think we should go to the front line?"

Zhou Min was taken aback by his question, she didn't expect that everyone's eyes would shift to her so soon.

Seeing everyone looking at him, Zhou Min secretly encouraged himself and told himself: "Zhou Min, you are a college student in the 21st century, and you have never seen anything in the world." Even the time and space travel has been experienced, and I can't mention going out to build a yì. ”