Jinling.

In the middle of November, it has entered the deep autumn season.

The citizens of Jinling City have changed into thick clothes, and the streets have gradually returned to some prosperity.

Although the war is coming, everyone's life still has to go on.

Entering Jinling City, which had not yet been bombed by the Japanese army, you can see street vendors and shouting three, four, or five.

Citizens dressed in thick gray cotton clothes wander the streets or gather together to chat.

Perhaps after the bald man's 50th birthday, the first lady purchased a lot of planes, which made many citizens in Jinling City feel a lot more stable, and they all felt that their air force was enough to compete with the Japanese army, so everyone dared to run into the streets at this time.

Xia Yuan and Wang Sangou had only been in Jinling for three days.

Retreating from Shanghai, taking a small road along the way, I didn't meet the soldiers, but I met the refugees who fled, and the place where I went was Jinling, Xia Yuan asked Wang Ergou to change into the clothes of the people, and then hid the gun, keeping two pistols from the Japanese devil squad leader, and more than 20 bullets, and then followed the refugees and fled in the direction of Jinling.

It has been more than half a month since I arrived in Jinling.

This is the first time Xia Yuan has seen the capital of the Republic of China, the low and low houses are much more prosperous than the villages and towns, the citizens on the streets are dressed plainly, and the color of their clothes is mostly black and gray, and other colors are rare.

Either wearing a small felt hat or a coat, most of them are thin and black.

Looking at the scene in front of you, it feels like you're watching an off-white worn-out videotape.

Although it is not the first time to feel the 20th century, the 37-year-old Jinling is really very rare.

There are a lot of manpower porters, who walk around the streets, sell sugar gourds, and pinch candy people, which can only be seen in some ancient city scenic spots.

The degree of liveliness is not as high as that of a modern city, but Jinling is also a big city today, with a large population, the houses on both sides of the street are of different heights, and some buildings are quite magnificent, with a bit of Western style.

"Where is your sister, it's getting dark, let's find a place to stay first." Xia Yuan took Wang Sangou and walked on the long street.

With a height of more than one meter and eight meters, among the thin citizens of Jinling City, it is somewhat eye-catching, and when he walks by, he will always attract the attention of some people.

Wang Sangou's body is relatively thin, more than one meter tall, holding his hands on his cuffs, walking left and right, like the first time he came to such a big city, with a little excitement on his face.

"I can't believe it, we were still on the battlefield before, but I didn't expect to be in the capital at this time."

Wang Sangou looked a little excited, and turned his head to look at Xia Yuan: "I have to look for it and ask for directions." ”

He seemed to remember where his sister lived and knew what the name of the street was, so he took Xia Yuan to wander around Jinling.

Wang Sangou, who came to the big city for the first time, was full of curiosity about everything here.

The Japanese army has not yet come, and Xia Yuan has obviously nothing to do, so he followed Wang Sangou to take a look at the customs and customs of Jinling.

On the way to wander, I saw a lot of ruins of houses, and there were also many pop-up spots on the road.

Jiading was also bombed by the Japanese army, most of the town was destroyed by the Japanese planes, although Jinling was bombed, but also rebuilt after the bombing, at the same time, there are many air-raid shelters in Jinling, so although Jinling was fiercely bombed by Japanese aircraft, but did not destroy the will of Jinling citizens.

On the contrary, the anti-war sentiment in the country is high.

Wandering around until sunset, Wang Sangou also asked the people on the road and came to his sister's house.

A small two-storey building with a courtyard that looks pretty good.

Wang Sangou asked Xia Yuan to wait here, and he stepped forward to knock on the door, knocked lightly three times, and heard the sound of footsteps in the courtyard, strangely, judging from the footsteps heard, it was not one person, there were many people, and walked towards the house, followed by a woman's voice:

"Who?"

"Sister, it's me, Sangou."

"Three dogs!? How are you! ”

The latch opened, and a woman in a thick cotton jacket opened the door, and when she saw the three dogs outside the door, her eyes were filled with tears.

"Sister!"

When relatives met, the scene was somewhat sadistic.

"How's Daddy's health? How did you come to Jinling? Daddy, why didn't you come with you? ”

When Wang Sangou's sister saw Wang Sangou, it was difficult to keep her composure, her voice was crying, and she asked a little anxiously.

Sangou was just about to speak, when someone in the courtyard followed: "Cuicui, who is it?" ”

"It's my brother." Wang Sangou's sister is named Wang Cui, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, introduced the man behind her, and took Wang Sangou's hand and said, "This is your brother-in-law, Wu Youhua." ”

"Brother-in-law." Wang Sangou wiped the corners of his eyes, and said to Wang Cui: "Sister, this is my friend, Xia Yuan, we came all the way from home to Jinling, and we want to rest here with you for a while." ”

Seeing this, Wang Cui glanced at Wu Youhua with embarrassment.

"Just let them in." Wu Youhua met Wang Cui's family for the first time, and he didn't want to stiffen the relationship, so he stepped out of the way.

"Thank you, sister, thank you, brother-in-law." Wang Sangou thanked him again and again, and shouted, "Brother Yuan, come in." ”

This way, thanks to Xia Yuan's care, he was able to walk to Jinling safely, without Xia Yuan, it is estimated that he would not be able to go to Jinling on his own.

And, along the way, Wang Sangou had a new understanding of the soldier he met on the road.

He has a lot of skills, knows a lot of things, and can be described as well-informed.

Because of this, Wang Sangou has a lot of respect for Xia Yuan.

Wang Sangou introduced Xia Yuan to Wang Cui and Wu Youhua, "Sister, brother-in-law, this is what I met on the road. Belch. ”

Wang Sangou didn't know how to continue, because their accents were different, they said that they were fellow villagers, and they were exposed as soon as they opened their mouths.

"I'm from Yudi, and I've fled from there." Xia Yuan took Wang Sangou's words.

"Hey, you guys come in first." Wang Cui didn't say anything, and led the two into the courtyard, while Wu Youhua closed the door and pulled the latch shut.

Entering the courtyard, the keen Xia Yuan noticed that someone was staring at him and Wang Sangou through the gap in the window on the second floor, but as Xia Yuan looked up, the person hiding behind the gap in the window was quietly hiding.

It seems that Wang Sangou's family is not peaceful.

Xia Yuan pursed his lips and followed behind Wang Sangou without saying a word, he didn't want to know what the situation of Wang Sangou's sister's family was.

At the moment, the most important thing is to prepare for the defense of Jinling.

The Japanese army, full of the fire of revenge, will still carry out another inhumane massacre.

The extreme rhetoric of destroying China in three months brought the Japanese army to an extreme.

In the Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army was strongly blocked by the Chinese, as if stuck in a quagmire, fought for several months, and finally the arrogant remarks were shattered by the Chinese, and the Japanese held a grudge and thought of a more extreme method, that is, to create a massacre and completely crush the will of the Chinese to resist.

The Jinling Massacre did not occur, and there were massacres such as Huimuling and Tuling.

Regarding the mystery of Wang Cui's family, Xia Yuan vaguely guessed something, but did not investigate it carefully, and rested in the room arranged by Wang Cui to relieve his tense spirit.

Wang Sangou ran to Wang Cui's room and heard cries from the room from time to time.

Using the sound to distinguish the position, Xia Yuan also heard the movement upstairs, subtle and somewhat messy footsteps, and vaguely heard their conversation.

"The troops on the front line have been withdrawn, and the Battle of Songhu has failed, what does it mean organizationally?"

"This matter is more troublesome, and the comrades in Shanghai have passed back the news that the Japanese reinforcements have landed in Jinshanwei, opening the door to the southern flank of the Shanghai battlefield."

The voice was a little quieter, and I couldn't hear it very clearly.

Xia Yuan was basically able to guess the identity of the other party.

After the Battle of Songhu, although the Shanghai Dispatch Army successfully took Shanghai, it did not make the Japanese generals happy.

In Shanghai, the Nationalist army fiercely counterattacked, causing many divisions to pay a heavy price, and the Japanese wanted revenge.

November 5, 1937, the third day of the tenth lunar month.

There is a heavy fog and tide in Jinshanwei in Hangzhou Bay, carrying an uneasy atmosphere, stretching on the sea.

At half past five o'clock in the morning, more than 80 warships suddenly appeared on the sea near Jinshanwei, and under the cover of warship gunfire, more than 100,000 people of the Japanese 10th Army landed in Jinshanwei, quickly opening the door to the southern flank of the Chinese army in the Songhu battlefield.

On November 3rd, the birthday of Emperor Meiji of Japan, Matsui Ishine sent an army to Shanghai, hoping to celebrate the day as the 'conqueror of Shanghai', but the protracted war in Shanghai surprised and unpleasant, and even wrote in his diary that the celebration was held under such circumstances, which was doubly humiliating.

After the 77 Incident, the Japanese army roared rampantly and destroyed China in three months, but the Songhu battlefield was fought for nearly three months, and the Japanese army increased its troops many times, but did not achieve the victory they wanted, and the Japanese staff decided to continue to increase its troops, and the north and south flanked the national army stationed on the south bank of Suzhou Creek.

On October 20, the Japanese high command ordered the transfer of troops from North China and Japan to form the 10th Army with the 6th, 118th, and 114th Divisions as the backbone.

The landing site was chosen Jinshanwei.

The terrain of Shanghai is special, protruding to the sea, forming a triangle of sharpness, the upper side is the Yangtze River, the lower side is Hangzhou Bay Jinshanwei, if you want to attack Shanghai, the only way is to land from the top or the bottom, and carry out a north-south attack.

The commander of the landing was Yanagawa Heisuke, who was formerly the commander of the Taiwan garrison, had participated in the Russo-Japanese War, and was known for his habitual use of roundabout tactics.

Before the battle, he admonished his soldiers that the mountains, rivers, grass and trees were all enemies.

At this time, the strength of the Japanese army in Shanghai reached 6 divisions to contain the national army on the south bank of Suzhou Creek, and landed in Hangzhou Bay with three divisions and nearly 100,000 people to outflank the Chinese army in Shanghai.

On the 4th, the Japanese Fourth Fleet entered the Jinshan waters of Hangzhou Bay with 155 ships.

At dawn on the 5th, taking advantage of the high fog and tide, the 10th Army landed on Jinshanwei from a beach stretching for dozens of miles.

The 90-kilometer coastline defending the northern shore of Hangzhou Bay originally had the strength of two divisions of the 8th Army. Zhang Fakui, commander of the Eighth Group Army, knew the history of Qi Jiguang in the era of Fujian, Zhejiang, and the Japanese landed in Jinshan and disturbed Zhejiang.

It is very likely that the Japanese army will use history as a basis and repeat this period of history.

Zhang Fakui once inspected Jinshanwei on the spot, where an artillery company and an infantry battalion were deployed, and repeatedly exhorted to be on guard against the sea.

After the outbreak of the 'August 13' Anti-Japanese War in Shanghai, the bald head deployed three divisions near Hangzhou Bay to resist the Japanese landing, but due to the larger and more intense in Shanghai, the troops continued to move northward, and finally only one was placed in Hangzhou Bay.

With the advancement of time, the fighting on the Songhu front has expanded, the supply of troops has dried up, and the Chinese army has become increasingly difficult.

Zhang Fakui dispatched the main force of the 62nd Division to defend Hangzhou Bay to Pudong on November 3, and on the night of the second day when the main force of the 62nd Division arrived in Pudong, the Japanese army landed at Jinshanwei.

On the coastline of several tens of kilometers long on the north shore of Hangzhou Bay, only two infantry companies of the 62nd Division, the 6th company of the 2nd Regiment of the 2nd Artillery Brigade, and a small number of local armed defenses remained.

The mistake in the defense of Hangzhou Bay completely changed the battlefield trend of the entire Songhu battlefield.

The bald head even recorded in his diary: "The area of Jinshanwei and Zhapu is not responsible for anyone, and does not pay attention to the importance of the flank, only the idea that the troops in Pudong are insufficient, and the transfer of Jinshan and Zhapu to Pudong is to make the enemy army take advantage of the situation and enter the country, and the biggest failure of the rest of the strategy is also." ”

Once the Japanese army forms an encirclement from the north and south of Shanghai, it will not only seriously threaten the more than 60 divisions and hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops who participated in the Songhu War of Resistance, but will also endanger the security of Jiaxing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, and Jinling.

The fangs of the Japanese army after landing at Jinshanwei were also revealed.

They brutally killed 1,015 innocent people, cut off the arms of 1,600 people, and made them stand by the river, waiting for General Chen to see. It is not only creating military difficulties for the Chinese defenders, but also creating difficulties for killing.

After the Japanese landing, they quickly advanced to the line of Jiading, Wujiang, Kunshan, and Taicang, and their strategic intention was very clear, to meet with the Japanese troops who crossed the Suzhou Creek in the north, forming a north-south flank attack, and forming an encirclement of the Chinese defenders guarding Shanghai.

The situation on the battlefield took a sharp turn for the worse, which was unexpected by all Chinese generals, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers were in danger.

Is it retreat, is it guarding?

Zhang Fakui, Chen Cheng and others once again proposed that a strategic retreat should be carried out immediately, and defenses should be deployed along the way to block attacks at all levels.

Chen Cheng's idea was that China was so vast that it was completely possible to let the Japanese army in, and then contain it from all directions, divide the Japanese army, and prevent the Japanese army from concentrating.

But the bald head was slow to make a decision, and what he wanted was that he hoped to be able to call back his troops and stabilize his position.

And he recorded in his diary, 'If our army can stand firm in its current position, there will be no danger in three days.' ’

The bald head is still a talent, he has considered all aspects quite sufficiently, he is well aware of the shortcomings of the Chinese army, and it is extremely difficult to use the Chinese army to complete the independent war of resistance against Japan, judging from the national strength and national conditions at that time.

Therefore, since the Battle of Songhu, the bald head has never stopped thinking of using international interference to mediate and let China survive such a predicament.

Even in such a dangerous situation as it is now.

Therefore, the bald head has always had great expectations for the meeting of the 'Nine-Power Pact'.

Far away in Brussels, the meeting of the 'Nine-Nation Pact' was being held, and all his bald hopes fell on the Nine-Nation Pact, and he hoped that the Chinese army would desperately hold on to Shanghai, which would arouse international attention and put pressure on the Japanese army.

Xia Yuan leaned back in his chair and continued to reminisce about this special era.

"The idea of a bald head is doomed to fail, and the Nine-Power Pact cannot sanction Japan."

Because, the European mustache rose during this period.

The rise of the mustache marks the rise of fascism, and all the eyes of many countries in Europe and China are focused on the mustache, where is there still energy to care about China's affairs

The Europeans will not offend Japan again for the sake of China.

However, these Europeans did not know that Japan's ambitions were not limited to China.

And the United States is pursuing an isolationist policy, and it does not want to offend Japan.

The bald head's hopes for the 'Nine-Power Pact' are completely unrealistic.

This directly affected the war in Shanghai.

After the Battle of Songhu, General Chen Cheng reflected quite well: "Strategy affects strategy, and strategy is originally a means to achieve the goal of political strategy, but once the war has started, it should be based on strategy, and strategy cannot be contained because of political strategy. ”

Such a view was confirmed on the Korean battlefield.

In the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, if the United States wants to force the United States to sign an armistice agreement, it is necessary to use war to break down the US defense line and achieve the goal of completing the political strategy.

Strategy is important, but strategy should not be influenced because of strategy. It should be a strategy to influence strategy.

Truth is punched out with fists.