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Chapter 3: Sisterhood and Childhood Infatuation [Act 8] Huayi (11) [Needs to be modified]

I didn't want the retreat order issued by the Nationalist Government to be too hasty, and the rear defense fortifications were constantly mistaken and there were constant mistakes, and with the large-scale bombing of the Japanese bombers, the military retreat that should have been orderly turned into a major rout, although the outbreak of the Jiangyin defense battle on the Xicheng Line (Wuxi to Jiangyin section), one of the defense lines, prevented the Japanese navy from going up the river and trying to attack the interior with the Japanese army, but the rapid fall of Wuxi made the Xicheng defense line basically not play a role, and guided the main force of the Japanese army on the northern road as if it were no one.

On December 1, the Japanese army captured the Jiangyin fortress, and on the same day, the Japanese base camp issued the "Mainland Order No. 8": "The commander of the Central China Front must coordinate with the navy to capture Nanjing, the capital of the enemy";

On December 2, the Jiangyin Defense Line, the only water barrier of the Nanjing Nationalist Government to defend Gyeonggi, was completely lost.

Except for some of the fleets that had been stationed in China's maritime frontier for many years, the main force sank in the rolling water outside Jiangyin City, thus destroying the navy and suffering thousands of casualties, making it the heaviest naval war loss suffered by China since the First Sino-Japanese War.

The victorious Japanese did not bother to taste the good news that they could boast of to their colleagues, and all the way down the Yangtze River to Nanjing, where they were blockaded by warships from the north. On land, the Japanese troops advancing from Wuhu had already copied from the west, cutting off all communication between Nanjing and the rear in one fell swoop, and at the same time, the east and south of Nanjing were also heavily surrounded by Japanese troops. At the rumbling of shelling, Nanjing had become a dead city, completely exposed to the Japanese army's eyelids.

Therefore, in order to protect the capital, Chiang Kai-shek successively mobilized 15 divisions of less than 100,000 people to participate in the defense of Nanjing.

On December 6, the Nationalist Government declared martial law in Nanjing;

On December 7, the people declared Nanjing a combat zone.

has no choice but to kill the thief, and has no power to return to the sky. At this time, the units of the Nationalist Army participating in the Nanjing operation, whether in terms of soldiers or morale, could not be compared with the time of the Battle of Songhu at all, and the combat effectiveness of the troops was severely declining. In particular, the veterans with rich combat experience had already lost most of them in the Battle of Songhu, and those recruits of less than 100,000 seriously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, leading the army to suffer heavy casualties, and the situation became more and more dangerous.

The stalemate of the war situation naturally caused Prince Zaihito Kanin, the uncle of the Japanese Emperor Showa and the then chief of staff of the Japanese army, to be widely controversial in Japan, and also made his nephew, Hatohiko Asakanomiya, the commander of the Japanese army in Nanjing, disgraced. What's worse is that a series of wars of aggression against China launched since the Battle of Songhu are rapidly depleting the Japanese army's remaining military rations, and the news that this should have been tightly sealed has been spread by someone unknown, which greatly shakes morale and puts the Japanese side in a difficult situation, and even considers violating the previous battle orders of the base camp, and once hesitated between retreat and onslaught.

"What happened later...... Yu Wei listened in a daze in the crowd, her voice low and trembling, realizing that she was getting closer and closer to the historical facts that Liu Yan's heart could not look back on, and she was even more forgotten by the textbook. Unexpectedly, Xu Pingjun, Lu Jun and other compatriots were lowering their eyes and hugging their arms, silent.

After all, the incident that shocked China and the rest of the world completely changed the fate of countless people, including this body, and even this great country.

Although the soldiers fought hard day and night with the enemy, and although countless people were moved by the feat of resolute sacrifice, some of the merchants who remained in Nanjing were quite dissatisfied. In particular, Lin Zhengdao, who had made a lot of money in Nanjing in recent years, was deeply afraid that the fierce war would affect the family business, so he actually used the extensive contacts he had painstakingly operated over the years to bribe Tang Shengzhi's adjutant on December 9 with gold, pearls and precious calligraphy and paintings, and persuaded him to promote a small-scale ceasefire and peace.

Who knew that although the adjutant accepted his "smile" as usual, he categorically refused to mention it as above, and bluntly said that the whole army "swore to live and die with Nanjing". Seeing that he had lost his wife and broken his army, Lin Zhengdao was very annoyed but had nothing to do for a while, and he didn't know that his every move had fallen into the Japanese field's field of vision.

On the afternoon of December 10, Lin Zhengdao was kidnapped by a group of unknown people on the way, blindfolded, and secretly taken to a house on the outskirts of Nanjing. Seeing that the garrison was heavily guarded, the short soldiers in khaki military uniforms all spoke fluent Japanese, and Lin Zhengdao, who had been in business for many years, was so sophisticated and shrewd that he guessed the purpose of the Japanese this time.

Sure enough, the receptionist was a senior agent of the special high school in Nanjing, who was responsible for collecting intelligence on the whole territory of Jiangsu. She first won the favor of the Jin merchant Lin Zhengdao with her fluent Jin language, and from time to time she made a lot of references, claiming that the corruption and incompetence of the Chinese authorities and the struggle of the people were the fundamental reasons for the Japanese invasion of Nanjing.

Such absurd and absurd arguments naturally made Lin Zhengdao scoff, but what really moved him was an agreement brought by Noma's laughter from Taiwan -- if Lin Zhengdao could help the Japanese army achieve a complete victory in the war against China, that is, a complete cease-fire was reached, the Japanese side would promise him not only the priority to obtain the opium trade, land sales, waterway transportation, and other management rights in Nanjing and surrounding cities, but also let him have a false position full of oil and water, washing away the smell of copper from the merchants, and they would be rich and expensive.

The merchant will always have the supremacy of naked money, and the appearance and secret conversation of Hatohiko Asakanomiya make him finally make up his mind to reach this secret and criminal deal. In the end, the large number of nude photos of him and Noma Xiaozi after drinking and promiscuity in the possession of the special high school completely made him completely controlled by the Japanese side, and he went further and further down the evil road of betraying the country and seeking glory.

On the evening of December 11, when the Chinese people were still fighting hard against the enemy, Lin Zhengdao hosted a banquet for Tang Shengzhi's adjutant at his house, and obtained important military information about Nanjing's troop organization, firepower position, transportation and supply from his mouth. Taking advantage of the drunken and sleepy aide-de-camp, he went out of the city overnight and revealed all his downline with Noma Akiko and conveyed it to the Japanese high-level.

As a result, the balance of war, which had been barely level, was tilted in favor of the pallet containing the Japanese army's weights.

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