The policeman next to him used his body to resist his companion who was about to fall, helping him to stand firm, and the horizontal formation of square shields was not immediately dispersed by the angry crowd, but despite this, under the continuous impact of the protesting crowd, the police gradually became powerless, and the formation of intercepting the crowd may collapse at any time.

Suddenly, a man's hoarse cry rang out, overwhelming the noise of the people around him.

"dog! Kill my whole family in Nanyang! I'm alone in my house now! The state does not take revenge on them yet! I'm not alive anymore! ”

Yang Yuhan was startled, she turned her head to follow the voice, only to see a burst of exclamations from the crowd close to the police phalanx not far away, and suddenly scattered backwards.

Yang Yuhan jumped upwards with all her might, and she immediately saw a middle-aged man crying and shouting, holding a glass bottle, and kept pouring something on herself.

"Quick! Hold him on! Fast! ”

Several young students and police officers found out what he was going to do, shouted and rushed up to grab him, but it was too late, Yang Yuhan only saw the flames rise violently, and the man instantly turned into a burning man.

Seeing the man hissing and rolling on the ground, and the people around him rushed up to beat the flames on his body with their clothes, Yang Yuhan's heart was full of heart-wrenching pain.

She thought of her classmates who were still fighting in the Philippines, and she couldn't help but shed tears.

Due to this sudden change, the surging flow of people stopped for a moment, and Yang Yuhan took the opportunity to squeeze out of the crowd and rushed to the Capitol building.

Her father is now sitting in Congress.

She had already decided that the first thing she would do when she saw her father was to tell him everything she had seen.

She also told him about her decision to join the Air Force.

At this time, at the Capitol, the debate between the two sides also tended to heat up.

"Councilor May! Could you please hand over your right to speak? ”

"Nope! I know what you're trying to do! All you are planning is to take part in this criminal imperialist war! Let thousands of Chinese die! As long as I have a breath of air, I will not allow you to do this! ”

Mei Siping, who had a dry mouth, wiped the sweat on her forehead with a towel, and was about to say more, when she saw a female congresswoman suddenly leave the seat, rushed to the podium in a few steps, raised her arm, and slapped Mei Siping hard.

Mei Siping was caught off guard, and he was slapped firmly, he covered his face and screamed "ouch", the congresswoman seemed to be still resentful, and stepped forward to kick Mei Siping again, kicking him off the podium.

Yang Shuoming recognized the congresswoman as Jiang Xueying, and when he saw Jiang Xueying's eyes splitting for the first time, he knew that at this moment, she should have been extremely angry.

Seeing that Mei Siping was kicked off the podium by Jiang Xueying, the Liberal Party parliamentarians immediately howled and rushed up, trying to regain the podium, but Jiang Xueying knocked them to the ground with three punches and two kicks, and at this time, the National Socialist Party parliamentarians also got up one after another and joined the battle group. The conference hall was in chaos for a while, and it was useless to let the speaker slap the shocked wood and shout vigorously.

"This is the first time Congress has ever suffered a loss." Gu Weijun smiled bitterly and said to Yang Shuoming, "If this is reported in the newspaper, our China will become a joke all over the world." ”

"It's nothing, as a Mingzhu country, it's normal for such a thing to happen." Yang Shuoming said calmly, "This is much better than reading [***]." ”

"That's what Hanzhi said." Gu Weijun looked at the scene of "full martial arts" staged in front of him and sighed: "This shows that our China has made a lot of progress." ”

Yang Shuoming watched this unique battle with a blank face, and at this time, more and more parliamentarians joined the battle for the podium.

At 12:20 p.m. on June 22, 1942, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the Chinese National Assembly passed a resolution declaring war on the Chinese parliament by an absolute majority. In the afternoon of the same day, President Wu Peifu issued an announcement in Zhongnanhai Jurentang, officially announcing: "From now on, the Chinese Federation will also say that the empire is in a state of war. Wu Peifu then issued a series of orders in the name of the supreme commander of the Chinese armed forces: a general mobilization order was issued throughout the country, and all citizens born between 1905 and 1918 who were obligated to serve in the military would be mobilized. Military control is exercised throughout the country, all functions of national defense, national security, and social order are transferred to military organs, and military authorities have the right to transfer workers and means of transportation.

Across China, more people learned about China's entry into the war through Wu Peifu's "Letter to the Chinese People," which was published on the radio that afternoon. Due to excessive nervousness, the Chinese leader, who had participated in World War I and two wars of resistance against the Japanese and was known for his uncompromising steadfastness, stammered a little during the broadcast, but his words touched the hearts of all the Chinese people, including those Nanyang Chinese people who listened to the indiscriminate bombardment of the Yue army: "The cause of our generation is where justice lies, Yukou will be defeated, and victory belongs to the Chinese people!" ”

China's entry into the Pacific War caused great shocks and repercussions around the world. This incident did not happen suddenly for Britain and the United States. They had obtained information about this beforehand, and they expected this to be the outcome. The British welcomed the war very well, because from then on the main pressure of the war would be borne by the Chinese, which undoubtedly sent a lifeline to the British Empire. Because of this, there was British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's speech at 9 o'clock that night, and the lady of London began to call the lady "Xianggong" when soliciting customers!

On the other side of the ocean, in the United States, the situation is much calmer. Roosevelt had a good night's sleep in the middle of the day, and most of his staff went swimming. He learned of China's declaration of war on him at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. The US president was so happy that he ordered the musicians in the White House to play the famous Chinese song "Mountains and Flowing Water" and said to Hopkins: "The Chinese are now our allies again!" Roosevelt then spoke with Wu on the phone, suggesting that the two sides work together, and Wu agreed, telling Roosevelt that the Chinese Navy had begun operations to relieve American troops in the Philippines and British forces in Malaya.

It was a very painful week in the Second World War for Britain. Four days earlier, two German battleships, the Bismarck and Tirpitz, had attacked the British coast, causing numerous civilian casualties. The British now face what Churchill called "the greatest catastrophe in British history and the danger of capitulation." China's entry into the war and Roosevelt's telegram of understanding softened the fierce criticism he encountered again, reminding: "We must look forward, constantly watching the next move that we have to take in order to strike at the enemy." ”

Previously, the Japanese army had already landed in Sumatra and Bali. With only one Dutch division to defend, the 500-mile-long coast of northern Java was effectively completely open to the Tak himself. The combined air force of the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, and Australia is now weakened to only 75 fighters and 95 bombers, and the naval force has 8 cruisers, 22 destroyers, and several submarine columns. Australia faces a growing threat; In Burma, the army is approaching the Siddang River. Wavell sent a telegram assessing the bleak prospects for the Far East, which concluded: "The loss of Java, though a serious blow from every point of view, is not a fatal blow. Efforts should therefore not be made to reinforce Java, which could jeopardize the defences of Myanmar and Australia. ”

The gloomy estimates made the day after the fall of Singapore made Churchill wonder whether there was still a way to control the "chain of catastrophes" that now threatened not only the Australian subcontinent, but also India. Churchill and Prime Minister Curtin were at odds, and Curtin, upon hearing the news of the loss of Singapore, recalled the convoy that was carrying the Australian 1st Division across the Indian Ocean. "Nothing can save Myanmar anymore." The British Prime Minister sent a telegram ordering the convoy to be diverted to Rangoon, and told Curtin that "the United States will provide you with the greatest support in this dangerous time." Despite President Roosevelt's pledge to send more troops, the Australian Prime Minister and his cabinet remained indifferent, insisting on the return of the troop convoy on June 23: "We consider it our first duty to save Australia; Not only for its own sake, but also for the purpose of carrying out future wars against the invasion of Japan. ”

The Australian prime minister's refusal to "change our deliberate decision" will play a pivotal role in determining the fate of Myanmar. Rangoon was doomed to fall because General Hutton refused to give the field commander a week's time, which he needed to retreat 40 miles to the other side of the railway bridge over the Siddang River. On the contrary, he insisted that General Smith resist by virtue of the Billing; On the Command's map, this was clearly a line of defense, but, as Smith had discovered, the river during the dry season was "just a wet gully in the dense forest that anyone could jump over." Sure enough, the army jumped over the ditch and "hooked" two of the British instead of one flank. On June 19, when Smith was finally allowed to retreat, it was no longer possible to guarantee an orderly retreat. "We retreated too late and on a very dirty road," one of his brigade commanders recorded, adding even more outrage that they were "blown to pieces by their own planes" because the RAF command in Rangoon made a big mistake by ordering pilots to attack the Allied column on the road leading to the bridge over the Siddang River on the afternoon of June 21.

Exhausted, the British [***] officer urged the convoy carrying Indian and Gurkha soldiers to cross the narrow iron bridge that night. Smith's few vanguards reached the opposite bank at dawn the next day, but just then, a powerful vanguard of the Japanese army came through the forest and cut off most of the Indian division. The Gurkha brigade, guarding the bridgehead junction, tried to break through from the rear of the army blocking the road. The Indian army struggled to break through, and the unseen rumble of battle echoed over the riverbank. General Smith postponed the decision on when to blow up the bridge. At 3 a.m. the next day, the army narrowed the encirclement and opened fire on the iron bridge with machine guns. The time has come to make a decision. The history of the Gurkha Brigade records the events of the operation on the Siddang River: "The first factor was not to allow the bridge to fall into the hands of the Japanese army intact, and it became more and more obvious that, due to the heavy fire of the enemy, the bridge could not be blown up in the daytime, and it was even doubtful that the bridge could be held until dawn, and blowing it up would mean sacrificing the Indian division, but all indications indicated that the division could not reach the bridge in any case." The situation became more and more urgent, the decision was made, and the bridge was blown up. ”

At 5:30 a.m. on June 23, the bridge of the Siddang River Bridge "blew up in a series of deafening explosions, followed by a dazzling flash of light and a wave of blazing air." "The Indian division, on which to defend Rangoon, has been cut off by the Japanese army and the fast-flowing river. However, it took only 10 days for the army's sappers to build a makeshift bridge 10 miles north of the river. This gave the British time to destroy the port facilities in Rangoon and withdraw from the city. This delay saved the lives of almost 3,000 Indian troops, who broke through to the banks of the Tin River to row to the opposite bank on makeshift rafts. The soldiers of the Gurkha Brigade were brave but could not swim, and most of them almost drowned while swimming.

When Wavell heard the news of the fiasco at the Siddang River, he lost his usual composure. Obviously, this important port had been lost, as it was now impossible for the British 7th Panzer Brigade and a new Indian division to rush to Rangoon in time to save the city. This was just one of a series of serious blows that caused a massive attrition of his troops. The invasion thwarted the Allied plans to send reinforcements to the island of Timor on 18 June; The next morning, Darwin Harbor, the main supply base of the U.S., British, Dutch, and Australian fleets on the northern coast of Australia, 300 miles to the south, was attacked by Nagumo Tadaichi's carrier-based aircraft, and it almost became the second Pearl Harbor. This striking force of six aircraft carriers was only part of the increasingly concentrated fleet of the Japanese army, which formed a wave of attack southward against the Dutch East Indies.

Admiral Hart wanted the US-British-Dutch-Australian assault fleet to be more offensive and take the initiative to disrupt the enemy's landing, but he found that Dutch Admiral Herfrich was often hindering him, and Herfrich swore that he would not allow his ships to sail without adequate air cover. The command quarrel was finally resolved, and Washington's Joint Chiefs of Staff preferred to let the Netherlands take responsibility for the impending catastrophe by ordering Hart to hand over operational command to Helfrisch. The Dutch admiral took command with a strong determination to take action to save his compatriots on the island of Java. On 18 June he had ordered Rear Admiral Dorman to attack the invading forces bound for Bali, and not to wait for the heavy cruiser HMS Houston to return with the destroyer after the aborted attack on the island of Timor, or for the British and Australian cruisers escorting the troop carrier through the Sunda Strait, 600 miles to the west.

In the evening of the same day, "De? The destroyer Ruyt and the light cruiser Java left Ciraza and disappeared into the tropical twilight. When one of the two Dutch destroyers sank on a reef off the coast, Dorman's U.S. escort ship was ordered to rendezvous with four other destroyers in the Bandung Strait, which separates the picturesque mountainous island of Bali at the eastern tip of Java from Lombok. Eight Dutch torpedo boats were to form another assault team, and the next morning, when the Chinese troops braved sporadic bombardment by American "B-17" bombers and landed on Sanur Beach, the fleet of the US-British-Dutch-Australian forces was still more than 200 miles away from the beach. At about 10:30 p.m. that night, when Dorman's fleet entered the anchorage, a large-scale attack on the troop carrier could have been thwarted. Clever through the T-shaped line of the Allied battleships, the four destroyers of the Sayben won a tactical advantage, and in a fierce exchange of artillery fire and torpedoes, sank the "Peter? Later, more destroyers took part in the battle, firing at their own ships, and the battlefield was in chaos. The chaos intensified when the light cruiser "Tromp" and four American destroyers rushed out of the Bandung Strait to the battlefield. Flashes of artillery fire, tracer shells, and competing torpedoes lit up the dark night sky, and a destroyer and the USS Tromp were torpedoed, and Dorman managed to withdraw his fleet. Not a single enemy ship was sunk, and somehow, the Dutch torpedo boats, rushing from the Bandung Strait, did not find either friendly troops nor the enemy.

The ineffective fighting of the US-British-Dutch-Australian naval forces in the Bandung Strait was seen by Wavell's command as a bad omen: their naval forces were too loose to repel the expected invasion of Java. With only 25,000 Dutch troops and 7,000 British and Australian troops, and fewer than 40 aircraft available for combat use, there was no hope of holding the 500-mile coastline. "I can't bear to leave these brave Dutch soldiers, and I will hold on to this place and fight the enemy with them to the end as much as I can." Wavell said submissively to Churchill on June 21. Three days later, aerial reconnaissance reported that two large groups of invading forces had sailed to Java, and Wavell concluded that the time had come for his command to withdraw by plane to Ceylon, while General Britton was on his way to Australia on the last "B-17" bomber. "I'm sure you're going to do your best to keep fighting." Churchill said in a farewell telegram to the British Army and sailors who remained on the island of Java to put up their last stand with Dutch and Australian troops.

(To be continued)