“…… Soldiers from all over the country, hearing the righteousness of going to the difficulty, the day is coming, they are on the front line, they have built trenches with their flesh and blood, there is no retreat, the position is reduced to ashes, the military heart is still as strong as iron and stone, the courage of the battle, and the fierceness of the death, which is enough to show the spirit of national independence and lay the foundation for the rejuvenation of China. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The old newspaper with the "Statement on the Retreat of Shanghai" danced wildly in the wind and snow, and the previous impassioned, bloody smoke seemed to have turned into the first snow of winter in Shanghai, and the snow fell overnight, and the whole world became miserable and white.

Shanghai is still Shanghai, albeit snowy and war-torn. The only difference between this month and the previous month is that the sound of artillery and planes can no longer be heard, and the rice-shaped flags, star-striped flags, and tricolor flags that are planted everywhere have all been put away -- Chinese and Japanese planes will no longer be bombed by mistake, warships of various countries on the Huangpu River will no longer have to hang their headlights at night, and the dance halls that had been closed earlier have finally reopened, and the people who have fled have filled the almshouse soup kitchen.

In the post-war depression market, the sound of car horns ...... 'honks and horns' echoed on the main roads of the British Concession, and now the old drivers have changed their guns, Chevrolet taxis have become Austin private cars, and their identities have changed from employees of Johnson & Johnson Taxi Company to drivers for Navy Colonel Li Kongrong's family. Former friends knew that he had climbed the high branches, and he didn't dare to make any jokes, and the cars on the road heard his horn and let the car - look, Austin! The foreigners in the concession all sit in this kind of car, and the chairman of the Standing Committee also rides in this kind of car, and who knows whether it is a foreigner or a Chinese or a high-ranking official or nobleman.

The wheels pressed against the snow on the road surface, and the snow soaked the tires. Austin hurriedly turned a corner on the road, and Jiang Xiuyu in the back seat almost hit her head, but she couldn't care about it, and now Xu Peipei was giving birth in the hospital. Zhou Yingcong's wife Wang Sixiao had already withdrawn to Nanjing with the navy, and the Li family unexpectedly did not come, and although Mr. Xu, the head of the Xu family, no longer had the plan to be a concubine, he thought that his daughter was ashamed to have a child out of wedlock, so he only let the second daughter come to take care of him. Xu Xiaoxin is only seventeen or eighteen years old, she doesn't understand anything, and she has to support her sister.

"Have you arrived?!" Jiang Xiuyu looked at her watch and asked impatiently, she had just come out of Baidai Company.

"It's here, it's here." The old driver kept pressing the accelerator under his feet, he was now taking a shortcut, the horn kept pressing wildly, and soon, the narrow path passed, and the Victoria Sanatorium was in front of him.

"Raw? Raw? Jiang Xiuyu, who rushed to the mother's seat, saw Xu Xiaoxin outside the door, and she couldn't breathe in a hurry.

"In, in, still in there......" Xu Xiaoxin was also stomping her feet. The doctor said that the fetal position was not correct, and it was not born for more than an hour, and I could still hear Sister A's call just now, but now there is no sound.

"Hey!" Seeing Xu Xiaoxin's anxious look, Jiang Xiuyu threw her bag and rushed directly into the mother, and the nurse inside wanted to drive her out, but she walked quickly to the mother. At this time, Xu Peipei was exhausted, she went up and grabbed Xu Peipei's hand and scolded: "The surname Li is a bastard!" Don't be afraid, I'm here. ”

The lady gave birth without a family member, and seeing that Jiang Xiuyu and Xu Peipei had an extraordinary relationship, she finally stayed with the permission of the foreign doctor. "Miss Lee, you should try again......" The foreign doctor began her teaching again, Xu Peipei's hip bone is not wide, and she has no experience, coupled with the abnormal fetal position, the birth is especially difficult.

"Don't listen to foreigners' nonsense." Jiang Xiuyu's English is not good, but she only thinks that foreigners are not accurate. She said: "When you shrink inside, push harder, and don't work hard when you don't." Know...... Know boating? Didn't you say before that you've rowed a boat, with your hands on the edge of the bed, okay, yes, just pull like that, pull your chest for a while, and then push your feet out, kick out. When you exert yourself, you must be long, remember, when you exert yourself, you must grow ......,

What you shout, scream, or fear, it's not a problem. Pepe, do you understand? Do you understand? ”

The Western-style scientific production method mentioned by the foreign doctor, the rowing method taught by Jiang Xiuyu, she is close to Xu Peipei, even if she is not a doctor, Xu Peipei is listening to her now. In the chatter, Xu Peipei felt the contractions again, she slowly began to exert herself according to Jiang Xiuyu's teaching, as soon as she exerted her force, Jiang Xiuyu and the doctor immediately noticed it, English and Chinese shouted in her ear at the same time, telling her how to give birth.

The delivery room shouted again, and when the old driver who had parked the car came up, he heard Jiang Xiuyu's voice actually in the delivery room, and asked strangely: "Did Miss Jiang go in?" ”

The old driver didn't ask, but when he asked, Xu Xiaoxin cried aggrievedly. "Mr. Wang, Sister Alaa is going to die of pain......"

Xu Xiaoxin came to Shanghai several months ago and knew a lot about the affairs between the Li and Xu families. The eldest wife of the Li family was killed in a death, and Mr. Li was promoted one after another, and the Li family was still good to Sister A at first, but I don't know where to start, the Li family suddenly changed their attitude. Later, she heard Mrs. Zhou tell others by chance that the Li family had found a young lady for Mr. Li, saying that she was going to marry her and make her the main house. After she knew about this, she had been holding it in her heart and no one dared to say it, and now when she saw that Sister A's villain Li family was not alone, she couldn't help crying immediately.

Xu Xiaoxin's worries have long been seen by the old driver, although he called Xu Peipei his wife, but this wife may become the second wife again. It's just that Mr. Li suddenly asked him to buy a car last month, how expensive it is, and he thinks that Xu Peipei's wife is still determined-although Mr. Li seems to be polite, he is very arrogant in handling things.

Outside the delivery room, Xu Xiaoxin was crying, the old driver was gently persuading, and inside the delivery room was a shout, Xu Peipei couldn't shout anymore, but Jiang Xiuyu and Doctor Yang were shouting, 'Hard!' ...... hard'. Finally, half an hour later, there was a 'wow' sound, and the baby's cry came from the delivery room.

Xu Peipei was already in prostration, but the baby's cry made her regain some strength, and she said hard: "I'll take a look at ......."

Before she finished speaking, she let out her strength, but fortunately, Jiang Xiuyu, who saw her stretching out her hand, understood what she meant, and she hugged the baby carefully wrapped by the nurse. "The foreigner weighed it just now, seven catties and one tael, it's really heavy," Jiang Xiuyu said with a smile, but didn't say that it was a girl.

"It's a girl, isn't it?" In Jiang Xiuyu's smile, Xu Peipei vaguely saw some regret, and then looked at the wrinkled child's eyebrows, and she, the mother, felt that this was a girl.

"Well, it's a girl. Grow up to be as handsome as you. Jiang Xiuyu said with a smile.

"Hmm." The child kept crying with his eyes closed, and Xu Peipei looked at Dr. Yang uneasily.

"Miss Lee, she's healthy, except she's too light." The Victorian Sanatorium serves all foreigners, and the foreign doctor has not seen any Chinese babies, and she can only be measured by the standards of white babies.

"Tsk, it's too light," Jiang Xiuyu said at a glance, it was already scary that Xu Peipei's small body could give birth to a seven-pound baby. She didn't look at the foreigner, but said: "Don't pay attention to the foreigner, we are not pigs." The kid's father is going to tell him, right? ”

"Hmm. I'll send a telegram later. Xu Peipei laughed, but saw that the child was taken away by the nurse.

"I didn't come back to get married, and I let you have a child alone, what a bastard!" Jiang Xiuyu scolded. "What's the big deal about him? Isn't he rich, it's just a matter of ten days to fly back, can't he take a month off? also said that buying a foreign car hurts you, is it enough for a woman to coax with money? Really, the next time I see him, I have to scold him......"

Jiang Xiuyu chattered, and Xu Peipei actually fell asleep when she listened. It's not that she doesn't worry about girls, it's just that Li Kongrong wrote early on and said that he wanted a girl, saying that he likes girls.

It's just the first snow in Shanghai, and in Flensburg, northern Germany, the city has been buried in snow by a cold snap from the Baltic Sea. Cars are no longer moving, trains are barely working, and there are brisk horse-drawn carriages carrying large and small Christmas trees slowly passing by on the streets. Li Kongrong and other Chinese naval cadets naturally did not celebrate Christmas, but in this small city with a population of less than 70,000, the New Year's atmosphere before Christmas made each of them feel lively and warm.

Now, forty-eight naval cadets, whether or not they have completed German courses in Berlin, have been transferred here, and most of them will take ordinary naval courses, except for the two appointed captains, Li Kongrong and Lin Zhun, who will take advanced courses. This is a good thing for Lin Zhun, but for Li Kongrong, it is really bad. Because, neither he nor Colonel Li Kongrong have taken a ship driving course.

In fact, according to the tradition of the British Royal Navy, no engineer can become a captain or captain of a ship. A nautical profession is a nautical specialty, and a marine engineering profession is a marine engineering specialty, just as a destroyer captain can only be a destroyer commander at most, and cannot be a battleship captain. It's just that the Republic of China Navy is not the British Navy, and the role of the relationship will break some potentially unnoticed traditions, plus he himself appears as a talent who is familiar with German submarines, and considering his relationship with the German Navy and Kong Xiangxi, this made him change from a marine engineer to a captain.

There is no problem with the program, but the missing courses need to be filled. Astronomy, geology, navigation, compass, physics and chemistry, mathematics, mechanics, marine engineering, ...... are all courses that must be mastered by navigation majors. It took eight years and four months to study these courses in the sea school, but now he has to master them in three months. Although Major Li Kongrong had some things in his memory, the core of the sailing course: pilotage, pilotage, boating, collision avoidance, berthing calculation, signaling, fleet formation, guns, torpedoes, and cruising had to be learned from scratch.

Before leaving the hospital, Li Kongrong didn't know that there was such a crisis, but that day he suddenly heard the students below discussing and proofreading the compass, and then he panicked and realized that he didn't understand anything. If you don't understand, you have to learn, for him, a liberal arts student, except for the navigation calculation, most of the other things are rote memorization, so he had to hold a few books and start memorizing them day and night.

Sitting in the room, he was reciting the distance from the trumpet lamp, and Lin Zhun came over with joy.

"The Electric Thunder School is about to fall!" Lin Zhun said with a smile, he held beer and a few raw sausages in his hand - the best meat in Germany is used as raw sausages, these meats are stuffed in the **** and eaten raw, everyone is not used to eating them at the beginning, and they can eat some fragrance after eating for a few months.

"Yes." Li Kongrong had just finished reciting a section, and his stomach was also hungry, so he grabbed the sausage and chewed it unceremoniously.

"Yes. Ouyang Ge heard that he was going to ......" Lin Zhun's voice lowered a little and said, "It seems that he said that he was sentenced to death." As soon as he dies, won't the lightning school collapse? ”

"He deserves it!" Li Kongrong is not sorry for Ouyang Ge, this is a villain who has no discipline, and he runs the electric thunder school because he sees that Chang Kaishen wants to find someone to replace the Fujian navy. Since he set up the Lightning School, Ouyang Ge's great achievements and greed have caused Chang Kaishen's displeasure, but because of his backers, Chen Lifu and Chen Guofu of the CC department, he has not been removed from the position of principal. That plea saved the position of the principal, but the Baimaokou mine failed - according to history, it should be the failure of the Madang Fortress mine - and Chang Kaishen immediately issued a warrant for arrest.

"I deserve it!" Lin Zhun took a sip of beer, because it was cold, he shivered from the cold. "Don't look at the mines, Brother Gongbei also made several models, and only after eating the lessons did he create the Hai C type and the Hai Geng type. All he did was to get a foreign iron bucket, stuff some explosives, and install a few wires, and report to the Ministry of Military Affairs for 500 yuan each, but in fact I am afraid that it will be less than 100 yuan. ”

"A hundred?" Li Kongrong was also surprised when he heard it. Jin Shanwei's mines are said to be 400 yuan, and Ouyang Ge's is only 100 yuan. "Who did you listen to? Really a hundred dollars, greedy so much? ”

"One hundred dollars is our estimate. This kind of mine is useful for a short time, and it will definitely not be able to fire for a long time. "Lin Zhun suddenly turned into a mine expert, happy that the navy went to a big enemy." That's how the Japanese came up last month. You said that if his mines were useful, and the army heard the movement when he landed, he immediately assembled and opened fire, would the Japanese be able to hit the city of Nanjing so quickly? ”

Somewhat different from history, although the Japanese army landed from Baimaokou, after all, there was only one and a half divisions that came up; At the same time, compared with history, before the arrival of other divisions in Japan, the overall strength of the Japanese army was two divisions less than in history. The army retreated more calmly, and in the end, the Shigeto detachment and the 16th division were in danger of being surrounded and eaten by ****. Now, because the five divisions mobilized in Japan have been put into battle one after another, the Xicheng Line has just been abandoned, and the Japanese army has semi-surrounded Nanjing.

Chang Kaishen will not let Tang Shengzhi, a mediocre man, defend Nanjing according to history, Li Kongrong can no longer care, he just sent back the news that the Japanese army would be slaughtered when the city was broken, not only passed it back, but he also wrote an article under a pseudonym and submitted it to Ta Kung Pao and other major newspapers: mainly discussing the Songhu Battle of the country. In addition, he asserted that after the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, in order to weaken the will of our army and people to resist, they would definitely slaughter and retaliate. At this point, he said goodbye to the war at home, and his main business was the navigation course, the submarine, and the newly registered Swiss (munitions) company.

"It seems that the Electric Thunder School has sent someone to Germany for an internship again." didn't mention domestic affairs, Li Kongrong suddenly thought of the last time he went to the embassy and heard Cheng Tianfang say that there were naval cadets in China coming out for internship, and he expected that this should be sent by the Electric Thunder School.

"Yes. Coming over last month, the electric mine school bought torpedo boats in Germany. They arrived just when we left Berlin. Lin Zhun poured another sip of cold beer, "As soon as Ouyang Ge dies, these people may be under the control of our navy, do you know, those in it are all expelled by us." ”

"Expulsion?" Li Kongrong didn't understand it at first, but then he suddenly thought, "It was the fourth shift of the engine last year, right?" ”

"Yes, it's in four shifts. We were fired, but Ouyang Ge picked it up, and specially accepted those from other provinces, and Fujian people didn't want any. These people hate us, and if we take in the lightning school, these people will ......."

"What about these people? Is it to be expelled again? Li Kongrong asked, "Actually, the electric thunder school doesn't accept it, it's full of people from the Fuxing Society." I don't know about these people, I hate them when I look at them. ”

"Qiu Zhongming's others have also joined the Fuxing Society." Suddenly, Lin Zhun told a secret.

"Qiu Zhongming?" Li Kongrong was surprised, he always thought that Qiu Zhongming was good, but he didn't expect that he was also a member of the Fuxing Society.

"Yes. and those who entered the fourth shift, but later quit the club, so they were not expelled. Lin Zhun said. Be careful. ”

"That's exactly what happened!" Li Kongrong's face was calm, but his heart was suddenly shocked, he still wanted to train Qiu Zhongming and a few into his descendants, he didn't want them to be members of the Fuxing Society, although they had already quit the society, but what if they were really undercover agents who quit the society? (To be continued.) )