Frank jumped up irritably, how could he lose 800,000 against 200,000, and he lost so badly, and retreated so embarrassed. Shen Mengxi thought to herself, no matter how she explained, the Germans on this side would not understand the round Chinese, understand the egoism of the Chinese for thousands of years, as long as there is a little living space, they will not really resist, the dull ruling class is used to fighting steadily, and the gentle and humble people are used to surviving.

It is difficult to change a person's life, it is even more difficult to change a person's thinking habits, and it is unimaginable to change a group of people. Shen Mengxi remembered that in Beiping, Jin Yuelong told her that when the Eight-Nation Coalition attacked Beijing, it was the people outside the city who pushed carts to help, not to help the Qing army, but to help those coalition troops who gave a little money, and some people took the initiative to come up with ideas and flatteringly told foreigners which moat had loopholes, which is simply ignorant that cannot be looked at directly, but this is our former citizens.

It is not easy for a thinking people to rule, but an ignorant people are even more intolerant.

It's like in a herd of bison in Africa, if a lion eats a bison, the other bison immediately relax, eat the weeds, and silently ignore the fact that their own kind are gnawed, and as for who the lion will eat next time when he is hungry, that is something to consider next time.

Shen Mengxi almost never showed the traces of edification too clearly in her articles, because she knew that in another fifty or sixty years, there would still be many people who were illiterate, and most of them were still in chaos, and they were easily misled and brainwashed.

The human brain is closed, it often runs in circles, and without a flash of inspiration or enlightenment, it may go around in circles forever. The differences between races and cultures are jaw-dropping, just like wearing a mask, what does it have to do with freedom? But the differences produced by the lack of culture are even more painful.

Frank would not understand what kind of mess China that the Nationalist Government took over from the Qing government, with the division of the countries, the division of warlords, the many places to make money, and the few places to make money, plus the inevitable government, the government without money, plus the rich officials, can win the war, it is strange.

At this time, the total number of Japanese soldiers was more than 4 million, and there were more than 1 million puppet troops, while China only had 2.2 million troops, most of which were still strong men. The government's temporary conscription, the quality of the soldiers is low, the sense of patriotism is poor, most of them are to pull Zhuang Ding, when the charge horn sounds, hesitate, when Ming Jin collects the troops, he escapes faster than anyone else, which is also the reason for the loss of 100,000 soldiers during the retreat of the Battle of Shanghai.

However, unlike the invincibility of the Japanese army in the past, the Japanese army was stubbornly resisted in the two Shanghai battles, and there was no shortage of people in the national army and citizens who performed well, bravely and fearlessly, paid a heavy price, and dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese army.

Although the counterattack in the Battle of Shanghai ended in failure, it also gave the people hope that the Japanese army was not invincible.

Frank finished beating his chest and looked at the calm Shen Mengxi, "Xiaoyu, I can see that your heart is crying." ”

Shen Mengxi looked at Frank with a wry smile,——My heart is bleeding. - I'd rather not know anything than to know that in the years to come, there will be even more tragic events

In the middle of the year, the general headquarters began to discuss whether to keep Nanjing or abandon it, Chairman Jiang wanted to save face and preserve the strength of the Central Army, and the generals from all walks of life also had different opinions, and finally decided to defend Nanjing to the death, but most of the troops deployed were the remnants of the Shanghai Campaign, a total of 80,000 people, 30,000 recruits, and 10,000 cadets, and only two divisions were mobilized from Wuhan.

Shen Mengxi was chilled for a while, she once again deeply realized what it means to be the general trend, and there were already well-informed people in the city who began to flee Nanjing with their families, and by the end of the month, nearly half of the citizens had left Nanjing.

Wang Shouqing's 88th Division is still the main force left behind.

He thought about it again and again, and still went to the Jiangsu Hotel to see Shen Mengxi, Shen Mengxi opened the door and saw Wang Shouqing, and he was not too surprised.

"I'm glad I didn't promise me." Wang Shouqing was extremely aware of the current situation, and he tried to squeeze out a smile and said to Shen Mengxi.

Shen Mengxi's originally calm expression was broken by this sentence, tears couldn't help but fall, and he simply stepped forward and put his head against his chest, "You must live!" ”

"Good! You follow Frank and are ready to evacuate at any time, women must not stay in Nanjing! ”

Shen Mengxi raised his head and nodded, "You must suggest to the garrison commander that you quickly evacuate the citizens in the city and evacuate them all!" ”

Turning around, he took out a backpack from the suite, took out the body armor he wore in Germany, "You put it on, you can't take it off until the battle is over!" ”

Wang Shouqing obediently took off his military uniform, put on his body armor, and put on his military uniform again.

"This body armor, I hope you don't need it, but you can't take it off!"

"I don't take it off. If you don't let me take it off, I won't take it off. Wang Shouqing said with a smile.

There was also a thermal imager in the backpack, a high-powered telescope, and a drone, in short, the limited few things that could be used in the Wuling space were given to him, and regardless of his suspicious eyes, he was taught how to use them.

"The control range of this drone is only within a radius of one kilometer, and it is uncontrollable if it is far away. You can survey from a distance, but if you can't do it, you can tie up a bomb and attack. ”

Wang Shouqing has a natural sensitivity to this, and he figured it out in a few clicks, "I'll find an open space to try when I go back." ”

"You have to keep my secrets."

Wang Shouqing hugged Shen Mengxi fiercely, her face was on his rank and nameplate, and her cheeks hurt.

At the beginning of the month, the Japanese army raised 100,000 elites to attack Nanjing, and the defenders of Nanjing resisted vigorously.

Most of the rich citizens in the city fled early, and the small citizens who had no money were reluctant to give up the few pieces of family business, crying and refusing to leave, and the defenders soon began to retreat the civilians in a planned way.

Every day, the gate of the city is full of civilians dragging their families and mouths, either complaining, or numbly walking out of the city, Shen Mengxi doesn't know how many people are left in the city, he just hopes that their movements will be faster, faster.

Most of the members of the German advisory group flew out of Nanjing, and Shen Mengxi followed Frank to Wuhan on the same plane. After the plane took off, Shen Mengxi watched the people at several city gates move like ants, and watched the city buildings gradually become smaller and gradually thrown away, and his heart was sour.

There is a kind of displacement, which is to be expelled from one's own country by the invaders and go into hiding.

Although Nanjing had not fallen at this time, most of the surrounding cities had gradually been captured by the Japanese army, forming a situation of encirclement.

On 7 December, Chairman Jiang also arrived in Wuhan on a special plane, and Shen Mengxi understood that it was the last moment.

Frank sandwiched the dish into her bowl, "Little fish, you've lost a lot of weight, you need to eat more!" ”

Shen Mengxi ate the food mechanically, returned to the room, suddenly couldn't control it, spit out all the food, some rice grains even squirted out from her nose, she sat on the ground, crying.

On the 11th, Chairman Jiang ordered the defenders to retreat.

On the 12th, the defenders were ordered to continue to hold out for half a month.

The defenders of Nanjing suffered heavy casualties, and their personnel, ammunition, logistics, and medical personnel could not keep up, and the repeated orders caused great confusion in the army's mind. The defending generals voted to take the first order and retreat at the right time.

The order was given too hastily, causing a congestion at the city gate during the retreat, and the chariots, horses, soldiers, and civilians blocked the city gate, unable to move.

The Japanese army quickly occupied Nanjing and slaughtered it.

The city fell, and Frank hugged Shen Mengxi and patted him on the back.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have involved you, women should stay away from war." Frank regrets very much that he brought Shen Mengxi to Nanjing for his own selfishness, so that she could experience all this firsthand.

"At this time, where is there a safe piece of land? The women of Nanjing are at a time when life is worse than death. ”

Frank was speechless, as a military adviser, he was very annoyed by the successive defeats of the campaign, "The country must be strong, not to invade, but also to deter other countries!" ”

Shen Mengxi agreed with this sentence.

"Frank, Wang Shouqing has a thermal imager in his hand, which is very advanced, he should have it with him, you have to try to find him, whether you are dead or alive, you have to find him! Then you take the camera back to Germany and study it. The penicillin pharmaceutical factory in Nanjing has also been moved, you know the role of penicillin better than me, you can discuss this and continue Sino-German cooperation, please don't suddenly interrupt the support to China, please help us! ”

After the Wanping incident, the Soviet Union provided China with a loan of 1.7 billion US dollars for the purchase of military supplies, with an annual interest rate of only 3, you must know that the prevailing interest rate between countries is 65, and the weapons purchased are discounted by 8%. China, on the other hand, needs to repay the loan every year with the amount of tea, tung oil, and mineral metal raw materials.

At this time, the Soviet-German aid was a relief to China, and it survived the most difficult months in the early days.

However, the end of the Spanish Civil War made it unnecessary for Germany to go far to obtain tungsten ore from China, and with the agreement between Japan and Germany, Germany would decisively overturn the ship of friendship and order the recall of the advisory group.

Frank pondered for a moment and nodded solemnly, "I promise you that I will do my best!" ”

Ten days later, the news came back that in the Battle of Nanjing, 47 middle and senior officers were killed, including 8 major generals, and the corpses were not transported out after they died. The squadron, which had only more than 30,000 men, evacuated Nanjing, and the rest were killed in battle, or captured and slaughtered. The Japanese killed more than 3,000 people and wounded more than 9,000. From this, we can also see the contrast between strength and military spirit.

I didn't see Wang Shouqing's name, but there was no news from him, Shen Mengxi read silently, no news is good news.

Frank told her that Wang Shouqing was in Chuzhou, with a broken leg and a shell that caused bleeding in the abdomen, and was being resuscitated in the hospital. Shen Mengxi heard this and immediately decided to go to Chuzhou.

Frank grabbed her, "Little fish, you love him, don't you?" ”

Shen Mengxi looked into Frank's eyes, "I don't want him to die." ”

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