Chapter 42: The devil is coming

In November 1937, the waning moon was cold, the wind was cold, and the wolf smoke was blowing in the face. The Japanese army surrounded Nanjing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, like an iron barrel. Every day, countless shells tear through the skies over Nanjing, claiming innocent lives.

"The Nationalist army was defeated by Little Japan in Shanghai."

"The little devil is coming to fight Nanjing, the little devil is coming to fight Nanjing." Dozens of beggars in the city of Nanjing shouted while banging on the broken bowl in their hands. The news of the devil's attack on Nanjing spread like a gust of wind to every corner of the city.

The Battle of Lihu was the first large-scale battle between China and Japan in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, and it was also the largest and most tragic battle in the entire Sino-Japanese War.

The Battle of Songhu began on August 13, 1937, after the Lugou Bridge Incident, Chiang Kai-shek took the initiative to counterattack in Shanghai in order to change the direction of the Japanese invasion from north to south to east to west, so as to facilitate long-term combat. A total of about 1 million troops from both China and Japan were engaged in the battle, and the battle itself lasted for three months, with the Japanese army investing more than 200,000 people in 8 divisions and 2 brigades, and more than 40,000 casualties were announced; The Chinese army invested more than 800,000 people in the most elite Central Teaching Corps, the 87th and 88th Divisions, 148 divisions and 62 brigades, and counted 300,000 casualties by itself.

After the Japanese army captured Shanghai, they rushed to Nanjing with 200,000 victorious troops.

The Central China Front, which attacked Nanjing, consisted of two combat units: the Shanghai Dispatch Army under the command of Matsui Ishone, the 9th Division under the command of Yoshizumi Ryosuke, the 13th Division of Ogisu Tatsu, the 16th Division of Nakajima Imago, and the 10th Brigade of Naojiro Amaya; The 10th Army, commanded by Yanagawa Heisuke, had jurisdiction over Toshio Tani's 6th Division, Ushijima's 18th Division, Shigeharu Suematsu's 114th Division, and Noboru Kunisaki's 9th Brigade.

The deployment of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, which was to advance along the south bank of the Yangtze River, was: the 16th Division along the Jurong-Tangshui-Nanjing Highway; The 9th Division advanced along the Tiannoji-Chunhua-Nanjing road. The Tiangu Detachment, which consisted of a heavy artillery brigade, a mortar brigade, and a squadron of reserve artillery and engineers, formed the Tiangu Detachment, which advanced in the direction of Zhenjiang along the Changzhou-Danyang-Zhenjiang road.

The deployment of the 10th Army, which was responsible for the frontal attack on Nanjing and the detour to the south, were: the 114th Division advanced along the Yixing-Liyang-Lishui highway; The 6th Division advanced along the Changxing-Guangde-Honglanbu road; The 18th Division advanced along the Guangde-Shizipu-Langxi-Honglanbu-Taiping Highway, while the Guoqi Detachment crossed the Yangtze River from the Taiping direction and advanced towards Pukou, cutting off the retreat of the Chinese defenders in Nanjing

......Suddenly, a whining sound was like a pack of wolves howling at night, and in the hazy moonlight, they pounced on Nanjing...... After a while, "boom boom boom ......" shook the earth one after another, ruthlessly tearing apart the ancient buildings of the ancient city. A piercing scream pulled people from their deep sleep to the terrifying hell, countless lives were lost in dreams, and a warm family was wiped out in an instant.

"Boom, boom, boom......" explosions came and went.

The deafening sound of bombing woke Meizi from her dream, and in the darkness, Meizi shouted in fright: "Senior brother, I'm afraid!" While involuntarily hugging the pillow to the right with open arms: Ah! It was empty, and her husband, who was sleeping next to her, was gone. She clearly remembered that Long Yu slept with her in her arms last night. said well, in order to give birth to a son, make love no less than twice a night. She will go back to Hunan tomorrow, and she doesn't want to go home. It's so happy to be with a man! She didn't want to leave Long Yu.

Meizi sighed deeply, her mind still stuck in the dream she had just had. The scenes in the dream kept coming to mind, and in the dream, she saw Long Yu surrounded by dozens of devils. "Da ......" Long Yu was beaten by the dense bullets and his flesh was blurred, and he was miserable. She cried and cried, heartbroken. Long Yu is dead, and she doesn't want to live anymore. She cried very sadly, with tears on her face.

"Boom, boom, boom......" The violent explosion once again pulled her back from her dream to reality. She felt like she was dreaming, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The moment Meizi received the letter of resignation sent to her by Long Yu from Nanjing at home, she was angry and angry, and resolutely decided to go to Nanjing. The two have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, although they have never been married, she has lived in Long Yu's house since she was a child. The neighbors all know that she is the daughter-in-law of the Long family. The two families of Longmei are separated by only a small river, and the two grew up together, practiced martial arts together, and were like brothers and sisters. She also fell deeply in love with Long Yu, born as a member of the Long family, and died as a ghost of the Long family. Meizi is the only daughter in the family. Long Mei's family agreed that she gave birth to her first son surnamed Long and her second son surnamed Mei. She left home the day after receiving Long Yu's letter of resignation, and after more than a month of walking, she came to Nanjing, and finally found her husband Long Yu, who was an instructor in Nanjing.

Long Yu is an only son, three generations of single transmission. She wants to give birth to a child for the Long family. This is what her parents-in-law told her before leaving. She came to Nanjing thousands of miles away, but she didn't expect that Nanjing in reality was fundamentally different from the Nanjing in her dreams. Today's Nanjing has become a city of terror, with daily wars and constant guns. The planes in the sky are like chickadees, and they are a flock when they come. One ** down, the heavy one died, and the light one severed limbs and stumpled hands. Here, human life is like a kite in the sky, saying that if it is gone, it will be gone.

"Boom, boom......" The deafening aviation ** exploded not far from the house where she lived.

Umeko felt herself tremble with the house. Instantly, another strong choking smell of gunpowder smoke came through the cracks in the window, and she was choked very uncomfortably.

Outside the window, in the dark and cold air, the rumbling explosion seemed to overturn the entire city of Nanjing.

The whole city of Nanjing is like a slaughterhouse, and a large number of civilians are killed in the bombing every day. The afternoon before yesterday, a high-explosive ** exploded next to the house where Meizi lived. Fortunately, Meizi was not at home, so she escaped. And her neighbor's family of four was not spared, all of them with blurred flesh and blood, their bodies were in different places, and their internal organs were bleeding all over the ground.

The sound of "buzzing ......" was far and near, rushing towards Nanjing, which was sleeping in the waning moon. After a while, dozens of Type 97 bombers flew over Nanjing again, dropping down long and pointed aviation **...... Boom Boom Boom ...... Suddenly, in the city of Nanjing, the mountains shook and the smoke billowed out.

"Wow wow! ......" The deafening sound of bombing frightened the sleeping child to cry loudly.

Houses and ancient buildings were torn apart. The inhabitants of the house were covered with flesh and blood, and people died in their dreams, and there were no corpses left behind. The national army defending the city sounded the alarm, and the city began to become restless: the sound of crying, screaming, and cursing was drowned out by the screams of planes in the silence of the night.

In this explosion one after another, Meizi completed the baptism from a girl to a woman. It was as if she had entered a strange world, in which it was both true and dreamy. Although it was a little painful underneath, she felt a feeling of comfort that she had never experienced before. Long Yu's charge again and again made her enter the realm of selflessness, and finally reached the peak of happiness in life. She hugged him tightly and whispered in his ear, "Senior brother, tomorrow, will you stay here for a day?" I beg you! I don't want to go home, I want to be with you! ”

"No! You have to go tomorrow! Hurry up and get some sleep! "Plum in bed showed that he was intoxicated, how good it would be if there was no war! Tonight, he fully accepted the plum. Like Mi Huizi: beautiful and gentle as water. The Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold, and he knows that the time has reached midnight, the devils are attacking more and more frequently, and Nanjing is like a pot of porridge. The people were panicked, and Meizi stayed in the city for one more day, and there was more than one luck. He wants to send Meizi out of the city as soon as possible, and he can't let Meizi die here. Her parents are old and need her to go home to fulfill her filial piety.

Long Yu hugged Meizi tightly, Meizi was speechless, she knew that he was also thinking about his own safety, this was a terrifying city. He couldn't help but cry, and she fell asleep in the embrace of Long Yu......

"Senior brother, you must not die!" Meizi clutched her hands and screamed loudly. Tears involuntarily overflowed her beautiful face. Plum kept appearing in front of her eyes, and Long Yu was surrounded by dozens of devils. Dada...... He was bloodied and miserable by the dense bullets. Meizi cried sadly like a tearful man. It was as if she had fallen into the abyss of pain all at once, he was dead, and she didn't want to live anymore.

The moon shone through the thin holes in the wooden window on the bed, and she looked at the pillow beside her, which was empty. It was quiet in the room.

"Boom, boom!" The sound of a violent explosion pulled her back from her nightmare. After a while, she gradually realized that she was dreaming, that he was not dead, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He went on a night patrol. This night, the little devils bombed Nanjing again and again, and Nanjing became a city of terror.

Tears rolled in her eyes. Long Yu finally slept on himself and became his own woman. She's so happy! It's worth all the suffering. I hope that this time I can successfully take Ye Tiannan's flesh and blood home and give birth to a fat son. Fulfill the wish of your parents-in-law.

"Boom, boom......" The deafening aviation ** exploded not far from the house where she lived.

Umeko felt herself tremble with the house. In an instant, another strong choking smell of gunpowder smoke came through the cracks of the window, and Meizi was choked very uncomfortably.

Outside the window, in the dark and cold air, the rumbling explosion seemed to overturn the entire city of Nanjing.

The whole city of Nanjing is like a slaughterhouse, and Meizi already feels that there is no safe place in the whole city of Nanjing.

She remembered that after Long Yu made out with herself last night, she was so sleepy that she slept to death.

Today she is leaving Nanjing. She didn't want to leave him!

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Aviation**, High Explosive Intensity**, ***...... Waterfalls resembling mountains cascade down the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties......

Meizi couldn't sleep anymore, looking at the dark night sky full of blood and the smell of nitrate outside the window, she kept praying in her heart: "Senior brother, don't have anything!" ”

Boom, boom, boom, boom......" The explosion became more violent. Meizi was so frightened that she covered her head with the quilt, and after a while, she clearly heard the sound of a fierce gunfight coming from outside the house, and the sound of bullets tearing through the night sky was terrifying.

Suddenly, the door opened, and a dark figure entered the room, "Who are you?" Meizi asked tremblingly.