Since the beginning of the thirties, the world economic crisis has dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese economy, gradually falling into extreme difficulties, and leading to a political crisis, domestic and foreign difficulties, Japan has attempted to create a second Manchukuo in North China in order to plunder China's resources more.

The Nationalist Government also had a premonition of the seriousness of the situation and stepped up the purchase of military arms to equip the army.

Shen Mengxi had already discussed with Zhang Jiajiao, and decided to let the Zhang family move out of Baoshan, and everyone moved into Zhang Jiazhang's house in the public concession, as well as Shen Mengxi's house in the concession, and sent several young third generations to study in the United States. Looking at the whole country, there is no place to be safe, and I can't help but look up to the sky and sigh, I was born at the wrong time.

Here in Nanjing, Shen Mengxi's communication, telephone and movement were all restricted, and he couldn't get out for a while, and he secretly complained in his heart.

Usually follow Frank for meetings, lectures, or banquets, and at night he is isolated in a Jiangsu hotel, so he has to look through a limited number of history books in the Wuling space. One day after the meeting, I met Zhang Jiaguang again and talked with him for a few minutes, to the effect that Sino-German cooperation is because of strategic materials, once the Spanish Civil War ends, Germany will no longer need Chinese tungsten ore, and there will be no German weapons export, and the War of Resistance will be extremely passive. He was also asked if he knew how to maintain Sino-German cooperation for a long time.

Zhang Jiaxuan glanced at his sister deeply, "I think differently when I follow the meeting, we have already thought of what you are worried about, you protect yourself well, follow the government forces, in the end it is safer than in Shanghai, and the fourth brother will never cheat you." ”

Shen Mengxi saw that the little things he realized after a few nights were useless, and he was a little depressed, "Fourth brother, you say, if Shanghai falls, will the concession be safe?" ”

Zhang Jiaxuan looked around, "I'm afraid it's the safest place in China." Don't think about it, it's really not good, my brother sent you to the United States, if it wasn't for Dad who refused to leave China anyway, he would have sent you away. ”

He handed a paper bag to his sister, "Oh, five-color cake, eat it." Confucius Temple bought. ”

"It won't be leftovers packed for me."

"I have no conscience. I'm leaving, you can rest assured that everything at home will be taken care of, and Ah Huan will also have someone to take care of. Whenever he wanted, he followed Frank. Zhang Jiaxuan gave some advice and left.

With their superb quality and down-to-earth work, the German officers have indeed helped the squadron improve its combat effectiveness and military quality. Even Von Falkenhausen submitted a proposal to Chairman Jiang to analyze the direction of the Japanese army's offensive and strategic deployment after the Sino-Japanese war began. However, Shen Mengxi clearly felt that the national army lacked a sense of faith, perhaps at the beginning of the revolution, but over the years, the Chinese officialdom model of several years has returned, and the Chinese's smoothness, moderation, self-interest, and patience have been fully revealed.

Frank wanted to speak a few times and stopped, he was probably slandering something, Shen Mengxi didn't want to talk to him about this, the so-called family ugliness should not be publicized, the key is that some vices are difficult to change, what can be done if they are raised?

In July, the Japanese army launched the Wanping Incident, and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression began.

At the end of July, Beiping and Tianjin were lost one after another. In order to change the direction of the Japanese invasion from north to south to east to west, so as to facilitate long-term combat, Chairman Jiang ordered to take the initiative to counterattack. In order to ensure the safety of Nanjing, the army prepared to annihilate the Japanese marines stationed in Shanghai.

Shen Mengxi knew that the battle of Shanghai was inevitable, but he was still excited by the rare counterattack of the Nationalist Government, although it would still fail.

The Nationalist Government successively dispatched the most elite 87th and 88th Divisions, 148 divisions, and 62 brigades, totaling 800,000 people, to participate in the Battle of Songhu, while the Japanese side had 8 divisions and 2 brigades of more than 200,000 people.

During this period, the German adviser participated in the whole meeting of the high command, and it can be said that the Battle of Shanghai was completely a German-style war. The British ambassador to Tokyo commented that it was in fact the Germans who were organizing China's war of resistance against Japan.

Shen Mengxi looked in the direction of Shanghai, communication was temporarily interrupted, and she had not contacted her family for a week. Wang Shouqing was sent to Shanghai in the first batch and was the artillery commander of the elite 88th Division.

There wasn't much emotion in her eyes, and at this moment, she finally understood what she was waiting for all these years, she seemed to have done everything she had to do all these years, and she didn't seem to be very attentive to anything, it turned out that she was waiting for this moment.

It seems that a person knows which university he will be admitted to one day, who he will marry one day, how many children he will have, and what day he will die, everything becomes no longer mysterious because of what is known, and Shen Mengxi's knowledge is different from the one in the previous life that is getting better and better, getting richer and stronger, this time it is a war, which makes her always a little anxious, she must let herself admit that her country is vast, but the national strength is weak, which makes Shen Mengxi, who is accustomed to knowing that she was born in a strong country and is proud of it, extremely painful.

She even thought about how good it would be if she had the ability to develop a nuclear bomb in advance and bomb that island nation in advance.

In the past few years, she has begun to believe that the two rebirths are God's pranks and a punishment for what she has done wrong.

Once a person is unable to break free from a thing for a long time, he will automatically summarize it as an act of God. In order to free yourself. Shen Mengxi was no exception, she began to accept all this numbly.

Seeing that Shen Mengxi had been silent for many days, Frank said, "You don't want to go to the front line again, do you?" ”

"If you need it, it's your duty!" In fact, if Shen Mengxi hadn't been unable to get out, she would have thrown herself into the rescue without hesitation.

"It's not the same time now, you're not young anymore, can you run?" Frank half-jokingly said, seeing that Shen Mengxi didn't speak, he said again, "No matter when, follow me, I will protect you!" ”

"Frank, what if your country lets you go home?"

"Then I'll go back." Frank replied naturally, "Of course I obey orders." That's when you come back to Germany with me, and we find Helen again. ”

Shen Mengxi shook his head, "My country has gone around, no matter how good it is, it is not my country, and it is not good to live in a foreign country under the fence." ”

Frank looked at Shen Mengxi deeply, and suddenly touched her face, "I'm here to protect Xiaoyu." A woman's world is her husband, her family, her children, and her home. Work and go to war, women don't have to be involved. ”

Shen Mengxi smiled, knowing that this was their leader's point of view, and said with a smile, "Frank, promise me that no matter when, don't come into contact with doping, even if your leader recommends it to you." ”

Frank looked at Shen Mengxi inexplicably, not understanding what she meant.

"You just have to remember that I won't hurt you." The leader of Frank that Shen Mengxi knew was a manic-depressed patient, injected with methamphetamine, and became addictive, causing some high-level executives around her to follow suit, and she couldn't watch the tall and handsome Frank become an addict.

"I listen to you, little fish." Frank crouched at her feet.

"That's good." Shen Mengxi stroked Frank's hair.

At the end of October, the squadron was in control, although it was in a passive position.

The Japanese army increased its forces in Shanghai.

Due to improper command, on November 5, Hangzhou Bay, which was empty, was landed by the Japanese army.

Despite sending reinforcements, they could not retreat from the enemy, and as a result, the situation changed dramatically.

On 8 November, Chairman Jiang ordered a comprehensive retreat to Nanjing and Suzhou.

On November 11, the mayor of Shanghai issued a letter to the citizens, announcing the fall of Shanghai, the largest metropolis in the Far East.

In this battle, the Japanese lost 40,000 deaths, while the squadron lost 300,000 deaths.

One lieutenant general, more than 10 major generals, 4 division commanders and deputy division commanders, 28 regiment commanders, and 44 battalion commanders were killed in battle. The Central Navy was completely destroyed.

Shen Mengxi saw Wang Shouqing who had retreated, he kept looking away, his throat moved a few times, and finally he didn't say anything. Shen Mengxi didn't speak, the next battle for the defense of Nanjing, morale was insufficient, they still had to continue to retreat, retreat again, and retreat all the way to Chongqing. He'll get used to it.

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