On December 13, 1937, Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, fell, and the Japanese army adopted the barbaric methods of the Middle Ages after entering the city, indulging the soldiers to massacre the city, and innocent citizens and captured soldiers were massacred, and hundreds of thousands of people died tragically! Nanjing is almost an empty city.

As soon as the news came out, the whole world was shocked and condemned Japan's bestiality, but these condemnations were as useless as scratching the itch in the boots.

From the Lugou Bridge Incident to the fall of Nanjing, in just half a year, half of China has been occupied by Japan, and the compatriots in Northeast China, North China, and Southern Jiangsu have all become slaves of the country.

In Jiangdong Province, the people were panicked, and the rumors of the Nanjing Massacre flew everywhere like wings, and some photos leaked by military reporters showed that the Japanese invaders actually held a killing contest to take pleasure in cutting off the skulls of Chinese, which was so cruel and barbaric that it was outrageous.

Fear, despair, loss, and sadness spread everywhere, and the Jiangdong soldiers were all finished, the Battle of Songhu, the Battle of Nanjing, and the 20,000 young people from Jiangdong Province came out one after another, and none of these people returned.

However, the commanders came back with all their beards and tails, Chen Shou and Xue Bin were both bandits, and they slipped away faster than anyone else when they saw the opportunity, Chen Qilin was a revolutionary soldier who was in full swing, seeing that the position could not be held, and he was going to raise his gun, but just when a cannonball exploded, he was seriously injured, and the guards carried him out of the position, and the soldiers who held the position were all sacrificed.

Chen Qilin was seriously injured and is still lying on the hospital bed, Chen Shou and Xue Bin saw Jiangdong's father and elder without words, drinking and scolding together all day long, scolding Chiang Kai-shek, scolding Tang Shengzhi, the entire Nanjing defense battle deployment and command was a mess, hundreds of thousands of troops, not many of them really died in battle, most of them trampled on each other on the way to rout, or were slaughtered after being captured.

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In the past few months, Chen Zikun has been busy with the transfer of equipment, personnel and materials of the Beitai factory, contacting the Soviet Volunteer Air Force, wearing many hats, and shuttling between Wuhan and Jiangdong.

The construction of China's air force is extremely difficult, Chen Zikun has always suggested the large-scale import of fighter planes to build a strong air force, but he, the chairman of the aviation committee, is just a decoration, and the aviation decisions are made by Mrs. Chiang, who is also the secretary general of the aviation committee, Meiling, she is deeply influenced by her husband and believes that the possibility of a large-scale war between China and Japan in the near future is very small, so she deposited the money for the purchase of aircraft in the Hong Kong bank to eat interest, and the money gave birth to a small amount of money, but the air force's planes were wasted.

After the Lugou Bridge incident, the central government believed that war was inevitable, so it urgently purchased fighter jets from the United States and paid immediately, but the US government proposed not to include transportation and let the Chinese pick them up. China does not have ocean-going freighters at all, and even if they did, they would not be able to pass the blockade of the Japanese navy, so they had no choice but to stop it.

Chen Zikun only has a hateful comment on this: "The girls are in charge, the walls are falling and the houses are collapsing!" ”

After China and the Soviet Union signed the "Non-Aggression Pact" in August last year, the Soviet Air Force came to China one after another to assist in the war and provided China with a large number of planes and aviation equipment; in just a few months, 232 planes were sold, and all fighters and bombers were complete; on the other hand, Europe and the United States ordered more than 300 planes, but only 85 of them arrived, of which 13 were not installed.

Chairman Chiang has always been anti-Soviet and pro-British and pro-American, but at the critical moment, it was the Soviet Union that sent charcoal in the snow, but Britain and the United States had an ambiguous attitude and did not dare to provoke Japan.

The construction of the air force was imminent, Chen Zikun changed the Central Aviation School into the Air Force Officer School, and added the Air Force Staff School, the Infant School, and the Communications and Mechanical Schools to train air force personnel on a large scale.

Fortunately, he can often fly back to his hometown to change his mind, and now the airspace over China has become the territory of Japanese planes, and it is very unsafe to take transport planes, Chen Zikun personally piloted a Soviet-style I-16 fighter plane to and from various places, and when he encountered a Japanese bomber without fighter escort, he could also knock two planes down.

Returning to the provincial capital, I went straight to the provincial government to discuss the defense of Jiangdong with Yan Su, who said that I am now a civil official, and I have to find Chen Shou for the war.

Chen Zikun and Yan Su walked to the door of Chen Shou's house, and heard Chen Shou and Xue Bin scolding Tang Shengzhi for dying, saying that they would fight against the water, and whoever dared to cross the river and escape was shot on the spot, but they secretly prepared a small steamer, and the Japanese army began to attack, and all the officials ran away, and the battle of Nanjing was really a wretch.

Yan Su coughed, the room immediately fell silent, Chen Zikun walked in, and the two stood up: "Director Chen is good." ”

Chen Zikun wore a black cloak and looked the two up and down, looking at them with a creepy look.

"Dashuai, the brothers have done their best......" Chen Shou bowed his head and said.

"I don't blame you, the fault is in the base camp, the fault is in the commission, the fault is Tang Shengzhi, the command is wrong, innocent people have been affected, Nanjing has been lost, Jiangdong is in danger, I want to hear what opinions you two have?" Chen Zikun took off the big hat and sat down at the table.

Chen Shou said: "The soldiers in Jiangdong have been exhausted, and now there are only security regiments and police in various places, as well as the cadets of the army school, and it is too late to recruit temporarily. ”

Xue Bin also shook his head: "The tax police corps is the most elite soldier in the country, and it will be a tie with the Japanese devils, and let the security corps and the police go into battle, isn't that death." ”

Chen Zikun asked Yan Su, "What do you think?" ”

Yan Su smiled bitterly: "Even if you fight, there are no weapons, all the heavy equipment is lost in Nanjing, the battle of Songhu, all the consumption is our family foundation, and now there are only a few thousand old rifles left in the arsenal, the models and calibers are mixed, the bullets are not even, there is no artillery, there is only a small arms army, it is difficult to compete with the Japanese army head-on." ”

Chen Zikun was silent for a long time, and said: "Retreat without a fight, how to explain to the people, Shandong Han Fuyu gave up Jinan, has been commissioned to ask, shot in Hankou, which of you wants to be the next Han Fuyu." ”

Everyone did not speak, but bowed their heads and smoked.

Chen Shou said: "Fighting positional warfare with Little Japan, that's not our strong point, taking eggs and knocking them on stones, that's not called a kind, it's called stupid." ”

Chen Zikun's heart moved, the old foundation of the Jiangdong Army is bandits, good at fighting guerrillas, it is better to use guerrilla warfare to deal with the Japanese army, whether or not to hold Jiangdong is another matter, at least can do the duty of a soldier.

As soon as this idea was said, everyone thought it was good, and it was being discussed, and Liu Youjin, the secretary general of the provincial government, came: "Chairman Yan, the British chargé d'affaires has something to do with you." ”

There was a British diplomatic agency in the provincial capital, and the chargé d'affaires was none other than the second secretary of the Consulate General in Nanjing. Walker, a rookie in the diplomatic arena back then, is now a veteran of diplomacy.

Yan Su said: "Let him wait, we are discussing the strategy against the enemy." ”

Liu Youjin said: "He has already arrived at the door." ”

John. Walker walked in wearing a three-piece navy blue tweed suit with an overcoat on his arm, with a worried face, and was slightly surprised to see Chen Zikun also there, and said: "It's great that General Chen is here, I want to know how your army is prepared to deal with the current situation." ”

Chen Zikun said: "How can our army resist the Japanese army, do we also have to report to the British Empire?" ”

Walker said: "You misunderstood me, I just want to know if your actions will anger the Japanese army and suffer crazy retaliation, I think everyone does not want to see the tragedy of Nanking repeat in Jiangdong, besides, the British still have a lot of industries and expatriates in Jiangdong, I don't want them to be affected." ”

Chen Zikun laughed angrily: "It's ridiculous, the Japanese came to fight us, and we still have to worry about not being able to anger them, is this how you British deal with the invaders, oh, I'm sorry, I forgot that you have always played the role of Japan in Europe." ”

Walker was bored and had to walk away.

Yan Su said: "Britain and the United States are watching the fire from across the strait, aren't they afraid that their interests in China will be damaged? ”

Chen Zikun said: "Britain and the United States are no longer the Britain and the United States of forty years ago, and Japan is not the small root class of Britain at the beginning...... Besides, Britain and the United States, on the one hand, had the idea of instigating the merger of Japan and the Soviet Union, and on the other hand, they were guarding against the re-emergence of Germany, after all, Europe was their foundation, and China was a pot of porridge, as long as they did not tear their faces, they did not ask. ”

Chen Zikun has the deepest understanding of the international situation, Yan Su and others are inferior to him, and when he says this, he can't help but show disappointment: "Britain and the United States do not intervene, what can we do." ”

Chen Zikun said: "If you don't have Butcher Zhang, you will eat hairy pigs?" Yingmei is not a good person who eats fasting and recites Buddha, so why help us? Not to mention them, it's the Soviet Union, which sells planes and sends air fleets, and it's not that it's not that little Japan is afraid that China will free up its hands to deal with them, last month Sun Ke went to Moscow to negotiate, and Stalin pushed back and was unwilling to send troops, just to let us consume it first, drag down the Japanese troops, and they will reap the benefits. ”

Chen Shou hated and said: "These foreigners, none of them really help us, this is called raising tigers, sooner or later Little Japan will sit big, and they will definitely bite them." ”

Chen Zikun said: "In international politics, there is only interests, and China has nothing to do, so it can only consider itself unlucky." ”

Suddenly, the terrible air defense siren sounded, and everyone hurriedly went out of the house to take shelter, and there was a temporarily dug air-raid shelter in the courtyard, and after hiding in it for five minutes, the alarm was lifted, and it turned out that two Japanese reconnaissance planes flew over the provincial capital, and the Ericon anti-aircraft guns of the Jiangdong Army were completely lost, so they could only let the Japanese planes enter a no-man's land.

The plane left, everyone came out of the air-raid shelter, Chen Zikun pondered for a moment, and said: "Immediately convene a military meeting and bring Chen Qilin here, Lao Tzu wants to defend the Huaijiang River and defend the provincial capital!" ”

An hour later, the meeting was held in the provincial government, and the old subordinates gathered, and although Chen Zikun no longer held a local position, he was still the ruler of Jiangdong Province, and he unceremoniously sat in the first place and began to deploy and deploy.

"Yan Su, transport all the gold, silver, foreign exchange and banknotes in the treasury of the provincial capital to Wuhan."

"Zeng Jiao, immediately form a water rangers, don't have bad water quality."

"Chen Shou, organize the security regiments in various places, send guns, bullets, and oceans."

"Xue Bin, you take someone to send everyone's family members to Beitai."

Chen Qilin, who was in a wheelchair, never heard his name, and said eagerly: "What about me, what am I doing?" ”

Chen Zikun walked over, pressed Chen Qilin's shoulder, and said earnestly: "You go to Wuhan and pull up our Jiangdong model division again." ”