In 1937, martial law was lifted in Nanjing, and the situation gradually stabilized.

The civil war was finally over, and at least on the surface, the major domestic forces reached a consensus on "joint resistance against Japan". The common people began to look forward to a stable and peaceful Spring Festival, while the exiles in the northeast looked forward to driving out the Japanese as soon as possible and recovering their homeland.

However, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Army was placed under house arrest in Nanjing, leaving nearly 200,000 Northeast Army without a leader, and serious disagreements arose within the Northeast Army on the issue of whether to fight the main battle or the main peace, and finally developed into internal cannibalism.

The entire Northeast Army was also divided because of this, which was obviously a good thing for Nanjing, and the division of the Northeast Army made Nanjing have one less big trouble!

Internationally, the Spanish Civil War was also in full swing, and Germany and Italy even directly intervened in the Spanish Civil War, sending tanks and planes to support, while Britain and France once again showed their weak side, especially France, which directly bordered Spain. And this greatly contributed to the arrogance of the Germans. The weakness of Britain and France strengthened Germany's determination to start a war!

The performance of Britain and France in the Spanish Civil War also made some people at home give up their illusions.

Originally, some so-called "people of insight" in China naively thought that they could use the power of Britain and France to put pressure on the Japanese, and the Japanese would be jealous of Britain and France and would not dare to continue the southern invasion. In order to protect their interests in China, Britain and France will not allow Japan to continue its aggression against China. However, Britain and France could not even manage Spain, which was close at hand, so how could they manage the far Far East!

More Chinese realize that the Western powers are obviously unreliable, and that the Chinese still have to rely on themselves if they want to defend their country.

The consensus to stop the civil war and unite against Japan has been reached, and some sensitive people seem to have heard the footsteps of the war getting closer and closer, and the Nanjing side has also begun to integrate the various factions and local warlord forces.

After the Spring Festival, Chen Qiang took a leave of absence and went to Chongqing, where he planned to buy a house so that he could have a place to live for the next eight years.

Chen Qiang knew that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Chongqing had been bombed by the Japanese army, so Chen Qiang hoped that his residence could be as far away from the bombing area as possible, but Chen Qiang did not know where to avoid the bombing, so he could only choose the location according to his own judgment.

The houses in the bustling urban area of Chongqing were first excluded by Chen Qiang.

If it is placed in the future generations, the bombing is generally only aimed at military targets, but the Japanese bombing is indiscriminate bombing, they will not care whether it will hurt civilians, many times the Japanese army even bombs civilians specifically in order to cause panic and destroy the will of the Chinese to resist.

In the face of the frenzied Japanese army, the bustling urban area must not be inhabitable, and after five years of bombing, the Japanese will certainly not let go of the flowering area of Chongqing.

The place where the factory gathers is also excluded by Chen Qiang. Of course, in the war, it is necessary to paralyze the opponent's industrial capacity and weaken the opponent's war potential, so the factory must be the target of the Japanese army's final attack.

In the end, Chen Qiang chose a small house by the river.

Living by the river, although the humidity is relatively high, the safety is much better.

As we all know, Chongqing is a fog capital, and the fog on the river is particularly thick. As for the bombers, they obviously did not like foggy days, there was no satellite positioning at that time, and the bombers were looking for targets by eyesight, and the fog was thick, and the field of vision was limited, so they could not find the target. No bomber bombardier would be idle and throw bombs into the fog. Therefore, places with thicker fog will not be bombed by the Japanese army.

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In Shanghai, in a Portuguese trading house, Chen Qiang was sipping coffee, and the owner of the trading house was talking.

"Mr. Fernando, I'll leave these things to you." Chen Qiang said.

"Mr. Chen, thank you for your trust and it is an honor for me to be able to keep such an important thing for you! Rest assured, I will deliver these items safely to Macau, and then store them properly, waiting for you to pick them up. The Portuguese, Fernando, spoke.

This Portuguese named Fernando is another way for Chen Qiang to retreat.

During his work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chen Qiang frequently participated in foreign affairs activities and made friends with many foreigners, including a Portuguese named Fernando. He is the owner of a Portuguese comptoir with operations in Hong Kong, Xiamen, Shanghai, etc., and his base is in Macau.

During World War II, even Hong Kong fell, but the war did not affect Macau, which was a Portuguese colony, so for the sake of Portugal's face, Japan did not invade Macao.

At that time, there were many immigrants from Japan living in Brazil, which was part of Portugal. At that time, Portugal had warned Japan that if it dared to invade Macao, it would attack the Japanese expatriates in Brazil. The Japanese also felt that for the sake of a small Macao, it was not worth the burial of millions of Japanese expatriates, so they did not occupy Macao.

Chen Qiang handed over his Olympic gold medal, as well as trophies, certificates, championships, and photos with celebrities he had won in other competitions, to the Portuguese and asked him to take to Macao for preservation.

The damage of the war to China is huge, such as Liu Changchun, he has a lot of trophies and certificates, all of which were damaged and lost during the war, Chen Qiang does not want his hard-earned honor to be ruined in the war, even if he brings these things to Chongqing, in case of a bombing, it is possible to blow them up. So Chen Qiang made a plan early and put these things in Macao in advance.

The owner of the Portuguese comptoir named Fernando was a declining aristocrat, and after Chen Qiang approached him and explained his request, instead of asking for a storage fee, he felt very honored. The "No. 1 athlete in the world" is willing to entrust himself with an Olympic gold medal that represents honor, which is a great trust, and if it is passed back to Portugal, it will be enough for him to win praise in the aristocratic circles.

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In March, Yan'an sent people to Hangzhou for talks, in May, the Nanjing delegation went to Hangzhou again, and in June, Yan'an and Nanjing finally connected to the radio station.

Also in June, the Northeast Salvation Association was established in Beiping, which also stimulated the Japanese.

According to the traitorous "He-Mei Agreement" reached between Nanjing and Japan, the establishment of anti-Japanese and anti-Japanese organizations was not allowed in the Kuomintang area, and even all anti-Japanese activities were banned, and anti-Japanese demonstrations and other things were illegal. The open establishment of the Northeast Salvation Association is obviously a blow to the Japanese invaders.

Time passed day by day, and finally it was July 7th. The gunfire at the Lugou Bridge opened the prelude to an all-out anti-Japanese war.

The Japanese have been preparing for decades to invade China, and China has only just reached a consensus in December last year to stop the civil war and unanimously resist Japan, and the domestic army has not yet been integrated. The outcome of the battle between the two armies can be imagined.

On July 29, Beiping fell.

On July 30, Tianjin fell.

After the fall of Beiping and Tianjin, Hebei will definitely not be able to hold on, and Shandong is also in danger.

However, Nanjing was still very confident, and even on August 13, when the Japanese army had begun to attack Shanghai, Nanjing still believed that there was no problem in holding this thousand-year-old capital.

Because after the Xi'an Incident, Nanjing also accelerated the political, military and economic preparations for the War of Resistance, one of the key projects was the construction of three national defense fortifications between Shanghai and Nanjing, and the three national defense fortifications were all the Central Army, and Nanjing also specially imported weapons from Germany to equip these Central Army.

Elite troops, elite weapons, and a reorganized German armament army, resisting the Japanese is not yet hand-to-hand!

Japan has already shouted the slogan of "destroying China in three months", and this bull has been blown out, and if it can't do it, wouldn't it be very embarrassing? As a result, the Japanese army was full of three armies, three army divisions and two heavy artillery brigades, so that the Japanese army in Shanghai had as many as 130,000 troops, while the Japanese army in North China was only 150,000 in the same period.

In addition to this, Japan sent the Third and Fourth Fleets, including four aircraft carriers, in addition to nearly 400 aircraft.

On the Chinese side, the first to go up were the 87th and 88th Divisions, which were originally garrisons of the Nationalist Government, and were trained by German advisers to produce model divisions, all German-style equipment, which could be called elite, and indeed caused problems for the Japanese, forcing Japan to quickly increase its troops.

Immediately after that, Nanjing successively invested 8 group armies, 48 divisions, 15 independent brigades, 9 provisional brigades, an artillery regiment, a military police regiment, the Central Military Academy teaching team, plus the security regiment, the police corps, and the tax police, with a total strength of more than 600,000 troops.

As everyone knows, the battle was lost, and on November 8, Nanjing finally ordered a full retreat, so it was not right to withdraw from Shanghai and return to Nanjing.

The defeat in the Battle of Songhu made Nanjing realize the fact that the Japanese army was stronger, and it was on the day of November 8 that Nanjing finally began to consider moving the capital.

Also on November 8, Japanese bombers appeared in the sky over Nanjing, dropped a few bombs and flew away, which immediately caused panic among the people of Nanjing. Those who were originally full of confidence in holding Nanjing also wavered.

The Japanese planes have already flown overhead, so is the Japanese army still far away?

Finally on November 20, Nanjing finally ordered to move the capital to Chongqing!

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Six years earlier, at the end of 1931, Nanjing had moved its capital to Luoyang due to the Japanese attack on Shanghai.

At that time, although Nanjing was not affected by the war, the government retreated in a panic. Now, with the experience of escaping six years ago, it is clear that the Nanjing government has evacuated in a much more orderly manner.

The escape was more orderly and calm, which is obviously not something to be proud of. However, officials of various departments, big and small, were not ashamed, but proud, and wrote this into their work summaries and showed off as a political achievement. As if to say, sir, look at how orderly and orderly the escape I arranged!

In this way, various government departments evacuated westward, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where Chen Qiang worked, was evacuated relatively late.

At this time, the government also hoped to use diplomatic efforts to stop the Japanese invasion, so the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also spent all day looking for officials in Britain, the United States, France, Germany, and Italy in China, hoping that they could put pressure on Japan.

It was not until December 1, when the Japanese army captured the Jiangyin fortress and was about to launch a full-scale attack on Nanjing, that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received an order to withdraw from Nanjing. They were almost the last to withdraw from the government departments in Nanjing.

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A continuous convoy is heading west, the convoy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to evacuate Nanjing.

Due to the limited number of vehicles and the large number of evacuees, ordinary employees can only sit in large trucks and endure the bumps on the road.

Chen Qiang was divided into a car, but the shock absorption function of the car in this era was not very good, and the road conditions were average, Chen Qiang did not feel comfortable.

On both sides of the road, there were people fleeing with their families, some in cars, many on foot, each with a cold frustration and uncertainty about the future written on their faces. These people clearly don't want to leave their hometowns.

However, Chen Qiang knew that compared with those who remained in Nanjing, these people who fled from their homes may be lucky, and they can at least have a greater chance of survival.

"Buzz Buzz ......"

The sound of airplanes flying in the sky sounded, Chen Qiang was no stranger to this, for the Japanese army, the sky of Nanjing was completely undefended, and their planes could come and go freely.

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Yoshitomo Furukawa was a bomber pilot. At this time, he was piloting his own plane, patrolling the skies over Nanjing, looking for targets that could be attacked.

For the Japanese Air Force, the sky is all Japanese territory, and Japanese planes can come and go freely, even if they are bombers, they can fly alone, and they don't have to worry about being shot down by enemy planes.

Furukawa Yoshitomo flew a dive bomber, which had a small bomb load of less than 300 kilograms, but it was more agile and had a high hit rate, and was mainly used for tactical bombing.

After all, Japan is short of resources and cannot be equipped with too many large bombers, so the bombers used in the Japanese invasion of China at that time were mainly this kind of dive bombers.

Due to the small bomb load, the dive bomber is often easy to miss, and the pilot will deliberately look for some valuable targets to bomb. There are more than 200 kilograms of bombs in total, that is, the amount that can be blown up once, if you blow up that kind of useless target, wouldn't it be a waste of time!

Furukawa Yoshitomo flew for a long time, but did not find a suitable bombing target, and thought that he was going to return in vain today, but he saw a convoy on the road.

"Such a long convoy must not be ordinary people! It's worth my use of the bomb! There are also sedans, and perhaps there are important Chinese figures in them. ”

Furukawa Yoshitomo pondered, there was no suitable target anyway, so he couldn't bring the bomb back, so he might as well throw the bomb at this convoy!

So Furukawa Yoshitomo aimed at the cars in the convoy and swooped down!

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"Buzz ......"

The sound in the sky was getting louder and louder, and it was obvious that it was an airplane approaching.

"Not good, air strike!" Chen Qiang suddenly realized this, and he shouted violently: "Stop!" Find a place to hide! ”

The driver also knew that he had been hit by an air raid, so he immediately applied the brakes, but by this time it was too late, and the plane came over the convoy and dropped the bomb.

Chen Qiang pushed the car door violently and rushed out of the car as fast as he could, and vaguely he could even feel that the bomb had fallen from the plane.

"Boom!" A loud bang sounded, and the scorching air generated by the explosion of the bomb rolled in, and Chen Qiang suddenly felt as if something else had hit his body.

It was also at the same moment that the power generated by the explosion shook Chen Qiang away, and Chen Qiang instantly lost consciousness.

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