"Old Covenant, I don't know what you think about the current situation, but you know, I have access to some information that hasn't been disseminated by the outside world or announced by the government." Tang Cheng then deliberately put on a serious expression and looked at Joseph. "I have reliable information that the Japanese will start a war next year, and Shanghai is likely to be a target for them." Tang Cheng's words obviously startled Joseph, and just as the latter's eyes widened in disbelief, Tang Cheng continued.

"If the Japanese start a war in Shanghai, I believe that the government will definitely send troops to Shanghai to fight against it, and I am very sure of this. However, you should also know that the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army will be worse than that of the Japanese army, but if you count the performance and power of weapons and equipment, the strength of the Chinese army is much worse. If nothing else, Shanghai will definitely be lost, after all, Shanghai is on the seashore, and the Japanese army only needs to use the help of naval artillery to fight steadily and steadily, and can force back the Nationalist troops fighting against it. ”

Seeing that Joseph also nodded in support of his assertion, Tang Cheng immediately put a finger into the coffee cup, and then used the coffee liquid on his finger to draw a map on the table. "This is Shanghai, this is Nanjing, and the distance between these two places is not very much. Nanjing is the national capital, in order to force the Nationalist Government to surrender, after the Japanese army takes control of Shanghai, it will definitely mobilize troops to continue to attack Nanjing, do you understand what I mean now? ”

Joseph looked blankly at the map drawn with coffee on the table, and after a while, Joseph finally looked up at Tang City. "Tang, what you just said, after all, has not happened, so I can't agree with your statement. However, I know that the Nationalist Government has more than a million troops, and Japan is only an island country after all, and their standing strength is only about 30 divisions, and the Kwantung Army, the strongest of them, has to be deployed in the Far East to guard against the Soviet army..."

Before Joseph's words were finished, Tang Cheng already understood what the other party meant, after all, there were many people who thought the same way as him in the Ministry of Military Affairs. "Old Covenant, you are thinking too simply, the national government does not have the millions of troops you said at present. If you count the strength of the major military leaders in the country, plus some local militia garrisons, they may be able to have the scale you mentioned, but their combat effectiveness is really worrying. ”

"Old Covenant, you must know that it is not the number of troops that fights in the war, not to mention those local troops, even in the regular troops in the national army sequence, there are a large number of soldiers who have not received systematic training. In the Japanese army, light machine guns have been equipped to the squad-level units, but in the national army, there are still a large number of soldiers who use old-fashioned World War I weapons. ”

Tang Cheng's words sounded a little dejected, but the truth was that except for a few subordinate troops of Chairman Jiang, in other national army units, the weapons and equipment used by many soldiers should have been eliminated. Just like the Sichuan army, which paid a lot of casualties in the War of Resistance Against Japan, many soldiers still used bolt-action rifles in World War I.

"Tang, but this is your motherland, is it because of this reason that you have to take your family south to live in Chongqing?" Joseph suddenly looked at Tang Cheng angrily as if he had been beaten with chicken blood. "Don, if I were you, I would be willing to shed my last drop of blood for my homeland, and not like a coward, just thinking about escapism." Joseph's words were a bit heavy, but he instantly won Tang Cheng's favor.

"Old Covenant, we've known each other for a short time, do you think I'm the kind of person you just mentioned?" Tang Cheng grinned at Joseph, and then said to Joseph. "Old Testament, I appreciate you for saying those words, which shows that you are a good person. You should know that my father died not long ago, and he was shot three times in the operation to capture Japanese spies and left me, so I have a blood feud with the Japanese. ”

"You know I'm a police officer, but you don't know my other identity, in fact, after my father's death, I have been helping the military intelligence department to search for Japanese spies in the city and it has been very effective. Just as you can't send a painter to battle, my specialty is to search for clues to find Japanese agents lurking in the Kokudo, rather than being sent to fight the Japanese army. ”

"So, the police are just your disguised identity, but in fact you are an agent, an agent of the intelligence department specializing in arresting Japanese spies?" Joseph's expression changed instantly, and he was looking at Tang Cheng with a look of surprise at this moment, and a living agent was standing in front of him, how could this not make Joseph feel surprised and excited.

"Old Testament, you didn't pay attention to what I said just now!" Tang Cheng immediately stretched out his hand and rubbed the end of his nose helplessly, and while secretly rolling his eyes at Joseph, he also patiently explained to the other party. "When did I say that I was an agent of the Intelligence Division, I just said that I would help the Intelligence Division find and capture Japanese spies, just like you bounty hunters in the United States, the Intelligence Department will pay for it, and I will contribute it."

"Knowledge part-time... I'm just working part-time, understand? Lease, I'm only working part-time to help the Intelligence Service with these things, and I'm actually a police officer. Tang Cheng took out his sheriff's ID and slapped it on the table, which can be regarded as proof of the explanation he just made. I'm just over 18 years old, and the Military Intelligence Service is a military department, not to mention that I'm too young, it's just my mother's level, and I can't get through. ”

Joseph finally stopped dwelling with Tang Cheng about the identity of the agent, and returned to the previous question, "Tang, you said that the Nationalist army could not stop the Japanese army in Shanghai, but if the Japanese continue to expand the scale of the war, and defeat the Nationalist army again and occupy Nanjing, then wouldn't your motherland have to surrender to the Japanese?" ”

"Old Covenant, it seems that you still don't understand us Chinese!" As he spoke, Tang Cheng took out a cigarette and lit one. "We Chinese look good at bullying, but once we are in a hurry, the Japanese will definitely not be able to go well." Besides, China is a large country with a large population, and there is still a lot of defense depth, and if we lose Shanghai and Nanjing, we can still retreat across the Yangtze River to continue to resist, and even if we lose the Yangtze River again, we can still retreat to the southwest and continue to fight. Even if we lose all the cities, we can still turn our troops into pieces and go to the countryside to continue to resist, and the Japanese want to occupy the whole of China, which is wishful thinking. ”

"In the old testament, China is a country with a history of more than 5,000 years, and since the Han Dynasty, the island country of Japan has been a vassal of China. During the Ming Dynasty, Japan began to seek to develop its influence on the mainland, but was beaten back to the mainland. It was only at the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that the Japanese found an opportunity to control Korea, and then under the pretext of restoring Manchukuo's development of power in the Northeast, it was just a small Northeast region, and the Japanese digested it for decades, and now it is the whole of China, do you think the Japanese are really ready to occupy the whole of China? ”

Joseph is a standard blonde foreigner, and he naturally only knows a little about Chinese history, and for what Tang Cheng just said, Joseph simply listened to it as a book from heaven. However, the meaning of Tang Cheng's last sentence, Joseph understood it, but people with a little common sense would know that it was absolutely impossible for Japan, a small island country, to control the whole of China.

"That's why I will say that you don't have to worry about whether China will surrender at all, because China will definitely not surrender to Japan, and the Chinese will choose to fight to the end." Tang Cheng's voice gradually became louder, and his eyes gradually showed blood, and under the leakage of emotions, Tang Cheng unconsciously exerted force in his hands, and in just one moment, he broke off one of the edges of the table in front of him with his bare hands, which scared Joseph.

"Old Testament, for me, catching Japanese spies is far more important than being a soldier to fight. Only after the fence is tightened and all the pests hidden in your home are eliminated, can you have a chance to concentrate on fighting out. Moreover, intelligence warfare is also a means of warfare, a part of the war as a whole. I can't be a real intelligence agent, because I still have my family to take care of, so I have to settle my family before the real war comes. ”

Tang Cheng said so much to Joseph, the latter only then understood Tang Cheng's intentions, if it was to change himself, he might choose the same decision as Tang Cheng at this moment, and he would also choose to settle his family first. "Tang, will you go back to Nanjing?" Joseph finally asked the question.

"Old Testament, I don't know, if my hunch comes true, maybe I will stay in Chongqing." Tang Cheng didn't tell Joseph the truth, because even if he told Joseph everything he knew at this moment, maybe Joseph wouldn't believe it, after all, it was all things that hadn't happened yet. What's more, even his family doesn't know about those secrets on his body, and Tang Cheng can't tell Joseph to know.

After chatting deeply with Joseph, Tang Cheng suddenly felt that the inexplicable pressure that had been pressing on his heart had dissipated a lot, although there were still many things that he couldn't tell Joseph, but Tang Cheng still felt that he could find someone to vent and have a deep chat for a while, maybe he could effectively regulate his emotions and mood, and after reducing the burden, he might be able to devote himself more fully to his work. Regarding Joseph's identity, Tang Cheng also had a vague inference in his heart, even if Joseph had such and such an identity, Tang Cheng still believed that Joseph was a good person.