The end of the Battle of the Sixing Warehouse basically marked the end of the Battle of Songhu.

Xia Yuan boiled a pot of wild vegetable soup, there was a canned food previously seized from the Japanese devil, and the last can was left, he used a branch as chopsticks, mixed the last bit of salty soup in the can, mixed with fish and meat, scraped it into the broken clay pot, and had hot water to wash the jar.

He put down the jar and sat on the threshold with his butt on his butt, and looked into the distance again.

"When are we leaving?" Wang Sangou asked Xia Yuan this question more than once, and Xia Yuan would always say wait, wait.

This time it was still a normal inquiry, he stirred the soup in the pot with chopsticks, and asked again, but he didn't have hope.

"I'll leave later." Xia Yuan sat on the threshold and said without looking back.

"Oh what, I'll leave later?" Wang Sangou thought that he had misheard, put down the stick in his hand, and walked to Xia Yuan's side.

"Well, the war is almost over."

Xia Yuan had already received the news that the task was completed, and he thought he would be able to return, but he didn't expect that this mission was actually a serial task, and after the task prompt was completed, there was an additional task.

[Mission: Jinling Massacre!] 】

[This is an additional task, the host can choose to accept/reject, and after refusing, it will return within 24 hours.] 】

Xia Yuan did not refuse to attach the task, the Jinling Massacre has only been seen in historical documents and records, and if you open a page casually, it may be the life of a group of people, the cold numbers have a bit of texture, but you don't feel any life.

When life becomes a number, then the preciousness of life cannot be truly appreciated.

How many more than 300,000 are there, only a string of zeros are seen, but they are the population of a city.

Xia Yuan wants to experience it himself, to see, to observe with his eyes.

In modern society, Japan is trying its best to erase all evidence of the Jinling Massacre, they deny history, deny the past, and even what is recorded in history textbooks can be tampered with at will.

They are waiting.

Waiting for the wheel of history to run over this bloody history, crush, crush it completely, until in the past 100 years, those who survived the Jinling Massacre no longer exist, and the comfort women who suffered the atrocities of the Japanese army waited all their lives, could not wait for an apology, and finally became a lonely grave.

Wait until all the people in Japan have completed the ideological input of the textbooks after falsifying history.

Maybe at that time, not to mention the Jinling Massacre, maybe the war of aggression against China will no longer exist, or even be recognized.

If all the victims of the Jinling Massacre stood hand in hand, the team could stretch from Nanjing to Hangzhou, a total distance of 322 kilometers, with a total weight of 1,200 tons of blood and their bodies filling 2,500 train cars.

This comparison can be said to be quite scary.

Having personally experienced the war, Xia Yuan could not forgive imperialism, especially the Japanese devils who had caused so much harm and trauma to the Chinese people.

I will never forgive them in this life.

The vegetable soup is mixed with the salty taste of the canned, and the fish in the canned food is boiled and minced, with some fish bones, and when you eat it, the taste is a little salty and salty, and the taste is not bad.

Xia Yuan held the canned food and took a sip of the hot vegetable soup, thinking a lot in his heart.

He had to find a way to save as many lives as possible.

There was a German in Jinling, Rabe, who alone saved the lives of more than 200,000 Chinese, and without him, probably even more would have died.

This period of history cannot be touched, and it is better to let it go on according to the established development trajectory.

Xia Yuan's first thought was to avoid the Jinling Massacre, and it was almost impossible to avoid the Jinling Massacre, whether it was the offensive decision of the Japanese army at that time, or the defense of the national army, and secondly, from the perspective of evacuating the people, it was impossible to avoid the massacre.

Evacuate people? The evacuation of more than 500,000 people, not to mention how difficult the process was, for the time being, Jinling still belongs to the capital of the Nationalist Government, and the evacuation of the people from the capital is a joke in itself.

Even if he came forward as the god of war, the bald head would not agree.

The significance of guarding Jinling is not only to protect the capital, but also to protect the people.

If the people are gone, how can Jinling survive? What is the point of protecting the capital?

Xia Yuan died and thought about it, but he didn't find a good way.

If the citizens of Jinling cannot be evacuated, should they work hard to protect the defenders of Jinling?

This is obviously impossible.

As for the so-called covenant under the city, the Japanese did not want to play the covenant under the city with the Chinese at all, what they wanted was not to say compensation, and they could be satisfied by signing some unequal treaties.

The ambition of the Japanese devil is the whole of China.

"Pack your things and get ready to go." After drinking the vegetable soup in the pot, Xia Yuan pursed his mouth, checked the weapons and equipment on his body, and threw Wang Sangou twenty rifle bullets: "We have to change back into military uniforms." ”

"Why? Changing back into a military uniform can easily be seen as a deserter. ”

Wang Sangou saw the bullet, his face showed joy, and when he heard Xia Yuan's words, his brows furrowed again.

"The battle on the front line is basically over, and all the troops are retreating, so there is no problem for you to retreat in your military uniform." Xia Yuan took off his clothes, pulled off the military uniform hanging on the shelf, and put it on his body, the air was a little cold, as if he didn't notice it, he continued: "Take off the military uniform and wear the clothes of the people, you will be regarded as a deserter, and when the time comes, you will be speechless." ”

Wang Sangou thought about it carefully, felt that what Xia Yuan said made sense, and put on a shabby military uniform.

The uniforms had become scarred, covered with cold weapons and flesh and blood, the glory of war.

The next journey was relatively safe, and there were many defeated troops who retreated from the Songhu battlefield, most of them were scattered by the Japanese devils and lost the trace of the main force, and many of them retreated from Fuzaobang and Dachang.

Wang Sangou and Xia Yuan were not familiar with the road, and they could only find a general direction, and most of the villages they encountered along the way were empty.

What remained in the village were some old people over half a hundred years old, who were as bony as bamboo poles and dressed in rags, who remained in the village sporadically, and other than that, everyone else fled.

Staying in a village to rest, Xia Yuan and Wang Sangou did not disturb these old people, mainly because of the language barrier, the era when Mandarin was not popularized, these old people spoke the local dialect, and they had talked with an old man for a while, chattering for a long time, and did not understand what it meant.

Giving up the idea of communicating with them, Xia Yuan went to the east of the village, and Wang Sangou went to the west of the village, wanting to see if he could find something to eat.

The canned food seized from the devils is basically gone, and they need to prepare some food.

From Dachang to Jinling, there is a journey of 100 kilometers, and it takes at least ten days and half a month to walk on both legs, or even longer.

There is very little food in the village, almost nowhere to be found, think about this special era, no one will leave the food at home when fleeing for their lives.

After searching, Xia Yuan and Wang Sangou came back empty-handed.

"The old people in the village seem to be afraid of us." Wang Sangou said something unclear.

"It's normal to be bullied by warlords and be afraid, not to mention that we have guns and worry about what we do." Xia Yuan sat on the ground with his arms on his knees, his hands stretched out and thinking ahead, his palms hanging down.

"Or us." Wang Sangou seemed to want to say something, but the cold muzzle of the gun was pressed against his head, and his neck seemed to be clamped by iron tongs, and he couldn't move.

"You're a human, not a beast." Xia Yuan let go of Wang Sangou, and his tone was cold: "If you can't keep your bottom line, what's the difference between that and a brute, not to mention that you are wearing a military uniform." ”

Wang Sangou lowered his head, and seemed to realize that he had said the wrong thing.

"Don't insult your military uniform, and those soldiers who sacrificed their lives for the country!"

Nothing was said all night.

Early the next morning, the two set off again.

They collected a lot of wild vegetables along the way, packed them in a dilapidated basket, carried by Wang Sangou, Xia Yuan omitted the guns on his body, buried them on the spot, put a rifle on his shoes, two pistols, and set off, this time he went to Jinling, I don't know what other dangers greeted him.

I don't know what I will see or experience.

At this time, the Japanese army, after occupying Shanghai, temporarily stopped the pace of attack, began to stabilize the rear, fill supplies and so on.

But everyone is quite clear that the Japanese devils are not satisfied with this.

The ambitions of the Japanese devils are not even satisfied with China.

At the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century, Japan, under the notice of the Tokugawa family, implemented a closed country to protect itself from foreign influence, and as a result, like the Qing government, Japanese society was completely disconnected from Europe, where the industrial revolution was taking place, and new technologies could not be introduced, which in turn threatened national security.

For 250 years, Japan's military technology remained at the level of bows and arrows, swords, and muskets.

In 1852, the then President of the United States, Maitreya Delphi, did not hide Japan's refusal to open treaty ports, and he viewed society with a 'white responsibility' mentality, so he sent Commodore Matthew Perry to Japan.

In July 1853, the Japanese first saw steam power.

Subsequently, in the period that followed, Japan signed a series of unequal leaps with the United States, while also opening the door to trade with Japan for countries such as Britain, Russia, France, and Germany.

This humiliation has left a strong resentment in the arrogant national psyche of Japan.

Some advocated an immediate declaration of war on the Western powers, while others advocated caution, with the leadership class pacifying the invaders, mastering the art of revenge, and even drawing up a detailed plan.

"We are not yet able to compete with foreigners in the manufacture of machinery, so we should maintain communication with foreign countries, learn their military training methods and tactics, and when our vassals are united, we can go out and divide the land of foreign countries to soldiers who have made great achievements; In this way, the soldiers will scramble to show their bravery and determination, and it will not be too late for us to declare war. ”

This view, which is not public, foreshadows the strategy that Japan will pursue, and describes another long-held Japanese view that life belongs to the state, not the individual.

In 1868, the Coalition won in the name of the Emperor and began a series of vigorous revolutions. Most notably, the spirit of bushido became the moral code of all citizens, and the threat from abroad further promoted the spiritual purification of the spirit of bushido in the Japanese archipelago.

This is the Meiji Restoration.

After the Meiji Restoration, Japan was strong in national power, especially in the military, and was eager to show its strength, and began to test it on its Asian neighbors.

In 1876, the Meiji government sent a naval fleet of two gunboats and three transports to Korea to force the Korean government to sign a treaty of commerce.

It is the same as when Commodore Perry of the U.S. Navy forced Japan to open a treaty port.

Later, the Sino-Japanese War broke out with the Qing government, forcing the Qing government to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki, and if it were not for the intervention of the Western powers, the Liaodong Peninsula would also become a trophy of war for Japan.

In 1904, Japan doubled in size and achieved self-sufficiency in armament manufacturing.

The spoils of war through the war skyrocketed the confidence of the Japanese, and they even threatened to defeat the Qing government and defeat Russia.

Thus, in 1905, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and he succeeded in seizing Port Arthur on the Liaodong Peninsula, gaining half of Sakhalin Island and commercial advantages in the three eastern provinces.

This is an exciting victory for a country that has been humiliated by the Western powers for the past 50 years, and at the same time has self-esteem and pride.

The beginning of the 20th century was the golden age of Japan.

Modern warfare not only won Japan military prestige, but also brought it unprecedented prosperity, especially in the First World War, when Japan's exports reached its peak, steel, textiles, and supplies were all needed, until the end of the war, the golden age came to an end, and many military factories closed down, causing unemployment among tens of millions of people.

In 1929, the Great Depression in the United States further paralyzed Japan's raw silk export trade.

Equally important, Japan was the victorious side of the Entente, but in the decade that followed, many international merchants and consumers deliberately avoided buying Japanese goods.

The main reason for this is that Westerners have planned Japan's aggression against China in the early decades of the 20th century, so Western financiers have chosen to inject more money into China. Then, the Treaty of Versailles provided for the transfer of German rights and interests in the Shandong Peninsula to Japan, which aroused the feelings of the Chinese people, and a widespread boycott of Japanese goods took place.

This act further undermined Japan's interests and contributed to the widespread belief among the Japanese that they had become victims of an international conspiracy.

For a combination of reasons, Japan has taken an extreme path.

During the Meiji Restoration, Japan's population was only 30 million.

In 1930, it soared to nearly 65 million, coupled with the difference in Japan's domestic system, it was not a large agricultural country, which made it more and more difficult for Japan to feed the entire population, Japanese farmers firmly believed in labor, and worked hard to make food production rise to the limit, but by the 20s of the 20th century, Japan's agricultural production came to a halt, and the increasing population led to Japan's heavy dependence on grain imports every year, and Japan's rice imports tripled.

In the 20s of the 20th century, a large number of radicals appeared in the Japanese army, among which in "To the Youth", Kohashimoto Shingoro wrote in the army:

In order to escape the pressure of overpopulation, Japan has only three paths – emigration, international market development, and territorial expansion. Due to the policies of other countries that discriminate against Japanese immigrants, the first mountain gate, that is, the outward immigration, has been closed to us. The second door is also being closed due to the abolition of tariff barriers and trade jumps. When two of the three doors are closed to us, what is the future for Japan? ’

In addition, some Japanese writers have mentioned that other countries have vast territories, and Japan has only a small amount of land, which is unfair, especially since these countries have not made the best use of the land, and have not even reached the grain yield per mu achieved by Japanese migrant workers.

They not only covet China's vast land resources, but also look at Western countries.

Sadao Araki, a propagandist for the Japanese military, once asked: Why should Japan be satisfied with the status quo of 60 million people who feed 60 million people with 142,270 square miles of land, while countries like Australia and Canada, which have more than 3 million square miles of land and only need to feed 6.5 million people.

Colonial expansion has become inevitable.

Japan's first war was the war of aggression against China.

Japan, which has wolf ambitions, is not satisfied with the war of aggression against China at all, and they have even greater ambitions.

As for China, it is completely a stepping stone, a stepping stone for Japan to the West.

Extreme militarism is also doomed to be quite cruel in the means of Japan's external expansion.

The turmoil and massacres that have been created on the land of China are extremely bloody and cruel, and every time they are indignant.

But the Japanese still didn't think so.

The Jinling Massacre occurred in part because of the Battle of Songhu.

In the thirties of the 20th century, Japanese military leaders made a lot of nonsense and firmly believed that Japan would conquer China within three months.

However, the war dragged on from summer to autumn and from autumn to winter in one city in China, which completely shattered Japan's dream of an easy victory.

China, a country with a simple nation, despite its lack of knowledge of military science and the lack of much military training, stubbornly stifled the powerful Japanese army.

When Shanghai finally fell in November, the embarrassed and angry Japanese mentality became increasingly evil, and it is said that the fire of revenge burned in the hearts of many as they marched towards Jinling.

On the one hand, Jinling is the capital of China, and occupying Jinling may be able to break the will of the Chinese to resist.

On the other hand, the Nationalist Government is the government of China on the surface, and the bond of unity is tied to the Nationalist Government, and there is also the idea of completely dismantling the Nationalist Government after the defeat of Nanjing.

It's just that I didn't expect that the bald head moved the capital directly.

(End of chapter)