All kinds of questions piled up, and Jiang naturally hesitated.

Faced with Mrs. Song's decision to hold a press conference by herself, Jiang was quite embarrassed and said, "Can this work?" The United States and Britain are following the golden mean, how can they stand in the same trench as us? It's a dream. ”

It is indeed dreaming, and only dreaming, will it be like in the dream, the British and the Americans will support their own resistance to the war.

Mrs. Song said: "You have to keep dreaming, you must work hard." The ancients: If you are not afraid that you can't do it, you are afraid that you can't think of it. Since we have thought of it, we must do it seriously, and we must rely on our patience and sincerity to impress them. ”

Jiang was still hesitating, so Mrs. Song urged him: "Why are you hesitating at a critical moment?" Don't miss out on a fighter jet. Something else can be done less or nothing, this thing must be done. Perhaps, after hearing our complaints, the President of the United States immediately turned against the Japanese? I believe that our sincerity will one day move God. We are like Hanako who walks up to the door, we have to give a little bit and send it away, otherwise Hanako will not leave. ”

Chiang felt that what Madame said seemed to have some truth, and accepted her suggestion, and then the two studied the content and method of the reception for a while.

9 a.m.

The press conference was held in the auditorium of the Inspirational Society, No. 307 Zhongshan East Road, Jinling.

Accompanied by Mrs. Song, adviser Duan Na, Commander Tang, and others, Chiang met with Chinese and foreign reporters and delivered a speech. He said: "Ladies and gentlemen, you have all heard that the vanguard of the Japanese army has reached Zhenjiang and the west has reached Wuhu, and is about to form a big encirclement of Jinling, and Jinling is in an emergency. The government has made arrangements for the defense of Jinling. I am glad that there is a loyal General Tang Shengzhi, and General Tang will fight to the death with the Japanese army that invaded Jinling. ”

With that, Jiang looked at Commander Tang.

Commander Tang understood, stood up and smiled at the Chinese and foreign reporters, and then sat down again.

In the crackling applause, Jiang Yanfeng turned around and went straight to the point, "The main content of my speech today is to expose Japan's ambition to invade China, I have studied at Japan's Zhenwu School for three years, and I have read a lot of materials about Japan, Japan's land area is less than 25 times China's, and its population is only one-eighth of China's, so why did such a small island country unscrupulously launch a full-scale war of aggression against China?" ”

After the voice settled, he continued: "As the saying goes, people's hearts are not enough for snakes to swallow elephants, why does this poisonous snake swallow elephants?" As we all know, Japan is very poor in resources, and since the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan has established the policy of enriching the country and strengthening the army, and pursued a policy of expanding and aggressively strengthening the army. As a result, China, which has a vast territory, abundant resources, and a very backward political and economic environment, has become the preferred target of Japan's foreign expansion and aggression. ”

"In order to create public opinion on aggression, the Japanese used a sense of crisis in their living space to instruct the Japanese people, as if the Japanese nation could not survive without external expansion, and openly proposed that Japan's insufficient resources needed to be replenished from China. In 1890, Japanese Prime Minister Aritomo Yamaguchi first proposed a mainland policy of invading China, turning China's Manchuria and Mongolia into Japan's lifeline. ”

"It's coveted, and it's bound to be won."

"In 1927, Japan convened the Oriental Conference and formulated a strategy for invading China, and after the meeting, Prime Minister Tanaka concretized the mainland policy in a compromise to the emperor, proposing: The only way to conquer China is to conquer Manchuria, and if you want to conquer the world, you must first conquer China. If China can be conquered completely, other nations such as Central Asia and the South Seas of India will surrender to me for fear and respect me, so that the world will know that East Asia is the East Asia of our country. ”

"Japan also liberated the Asian peoples from Western colonial rule and established the lie of establishing an East Asian co-prosperity sphere to cover up its ambitions of expansion and aggression."

At this point, everyone was shocked.

Japan's ambitions are known to the rest of the world.

China is also a semi-colonial area, and this ploy of the Japanese can be described as sinister.

During the expeditionary force, the Japanese army used the excuse of saving the Burmese people and liberating them from colonial rule, and received strong support from the Burmese people, but as a result, the British were driven away, and instead of being liberated, they were oppressed by the Japanese.

The Japanese are not like the British, they never treat East Asians as people, but as animals.

"In 1917, a Japanese named Kita Kazuki said that Japan was going to establish a Roman empire of yellow people from North Russia to South Australia." Chiang's voice continued, "In order to free up its hands and feet to invade and expand abroad, Japan diplomatically got rid of the restrictions imposed on Japan's military power by the Washington Agreement after World War I. In 1933, the League of Nations was launched to pursue a foreign policy. In order to carry out foreign expansion and aggression, Japan has made full political, economic, and military preparations. ”

"Politically implement the military fascist dictatorship, strengthen the spirit of bushido, loyal to the emperor and brave warriors, and drive the people to sacrifice themselves in the holy war of foreign aggression; Economically, the national economy has been militarized, the military budget has been rising steadily, and the military industry has developed abnormally. Militarily, the policy of using all soldiers to use the army as a soldier has been practiced, the armed forces have been rapidly expanded, equipment has been greatly improved, and a militaristic constitution has been established. ”

"The Japanese government has become an instrument for pursuing a policy of aggression and war, and the whole of Japan has been brought into the orbit of war and has become the source of world war in Asia."

Jiang's voice was very loud and high, and after saying these words in one breath, his mouth was dry, and his eyes scanned the audience, and everyone listened attentively and was quite satisfied. He suddenly felt that his analysis was very incisive, and that he had exposed the aggressive ambitions of the Japanese aggressors in a thorough manner, and he could not help but show a complacent countenance.

He took a long sip of water, and then continued his topic: "The corruption and incompetence of the Qing government set a precedent for Japan's invasion of China. In 1874, Japan sent a crusading expeditionary force to launch a campaign to conquer Taiwan, and for the first time received an indemnity of 500,000 taels of silver from the Qing government. After the first taste, they began to invade Ryukyu again, turning Ryukyu into their Okinawa Prefecture and adding it to the Japanese territory. ”

In the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing government suffered a crushing defeat, and Japan forced the Qing government to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki, forcibly occupying China's Liaodong Peninsula and its two important military ports, Lushun, Dalian, Baodao, and Penghu Islands, and compensated 230 million taels of silver for military expenses. In the battle of the Eight-Nation Alliance, Japan successively sent 25,000 troops to participate in the battle, and plundered as much as 2 million taels of silver in Tianjin alone. ”

"At the same time, it has obtained the right to garrison troops in important areas between the north, the sky and the north to Shanhaiguan."

"From 1904 to 1905, Japan and Russia fought a war for rights and interests in the four eastern provinces of China, with the result that Japan seized Russia's privileges over the Liaodong Peninsula and the southern northeast of China."

Japan also took advantage of the opportunity of the First World War to declare war on Germany under the pretext of depriving Germany of its colonial rule in Dongshan, China, and seizing the Nanji, Daoqing and Jiaoji railways. On the occasion of Yuan Shikai's proclamation as emperor, he proposed the 21 Articles for the destruction of China, in a vain attempt to turn China into a vassal state of Japan. Japan's invasion of the Qing Dynasty, instead of encountering effective resistance, received rich indemnities and large territories, which made Japan's aggressive courage and ambition even more inflated. ”

When Jiang said this, he was emotional, and he kept waving his fists, and his waist was straight. Commander Tang was afraid that he would be too tired to stand for too long, so he walked lightly to the rostrum and motioned for him to sit down and speak.

Chiang waved his hand and said: "Japan's invasion of China is miserable, and I want to appeal to the whole world here, and everyone should unite to deal with the Japanese bandits." However, the strange thing is that so far, only the United Soviet Union has enthusiastically supported our country's war of resistance, and they have sent planes and men to fight in China. The United States and Britain, on the other hand, are powerful countries, but they do not ask about or interfere with Japan's aggression. ”

On December 1, when the Japanese Matsui Ishine ordered the pursuit of Jinling, the first batch of 25 N-16 fighter units of the United Soviet Volunteer Air Force, led by Prokofiev, a hero of the United Soviet Air Force, landed at Jinling Airport, and then 20 SB bombers, under the command of Kidalinsky, also arrived on the same day. On the same day, these fighters flew five sorties and shot down six Japanese bombers, and the SB light bomber group flew to the Shanghai area to bomb the Japanese fleet anchored on the river and along the coast. One enemy cruiser and two transports were sunk in the bombing, and six were hit and caught fire. ”

Wang Chonghui also said: "The UNSU government has also given China a loan of $250 million to purchase UNSU military equipment and war materials. Subsequently, China sent a military delegation headed by Yang Jie, deputy chief of staff, Zhang Chong, deputy head of the regiment, and Wang Shuming, to Moscow in early September to negotiate with Voroshilov and Bayev of the Soviet side to purchase the first batch of weapons, as well as 350 aircraft, 138 large-caliber artillery pieces, 82 tanks, 36 antiaircraft guns, and other related matters. ”

After that, the United Soviet Union also sent Zhukov and many other military advisers to assist in the formulation of strategic battle plans, military proposals, and teaching how to use new equipment. In addition to being in various theaters, many of these advisers have also been sent to the group army level to guide defensive operations and assist ground troops, so as to solve the problem of coordination with the United Soviet Volunteer Air Force. ”

When Wang Chonghui said this, he was very moved and said: "At the critical juncture of the survival of our nation, these friends of the United Soviet Union did not hesitate to use their lives to help us fight against the Japanese invaders and seek the final independence. On behalf of the Chinese Government, I would like to express my gratitude to the UNSU Government. ”

At the end of Wang Chonghui's speech, Chiang's eyes fell on several yellow-haired reporters and said loudly: "You British and American reporters are fair, why is your government so afraid of the Japanese? A few days ago, Japanese planes bombed two British ships, Dehe and Datong, in Wuhu, and they were sunk along with the refugees. Yesterday, Japanese artillery bombed the British warship Ladybug in Wuhu again, why didn't you condemn Japan and why didn't you return fire? The Japanese kill people and set fires, and if you don't come out to say a word of condemnation, it is tantamount to supporting the arsonists, where is your conscience? ”

Jiang's voice was very high, and his tone was emotional, he said: "Also, the day before yesterday, Zhang Lingfu, the commander of our 74th Army, picked up a piece of shrapnel in a bomb crater at Zhonghua Gate, with the word USA on it, and the shell was made by the United States, what does this mean?" Japan occupied Shanghai, and now it is raising troops to Jinling, but you, the US Government, have remained silent and have not said a word condemning Japan. The most infuriating thing is that the US government vigorously supports the Japanese in terms of funds, weapons and equipment. ”

"The U.S. government's attitude toward Japan is, to put it mildly, a middle way, but in fact it sits on the side of the Japanese."

"Japan launched a war of aggression against China, and there was a shortage of funds and weapons, and your US government provided Japan with a large amount of weapons, accounting for more than half of the weapons they purchased from abroad. The president of the Associated Press also went to Japan to buy stocks and invested a lot of money. Aren't you talking about human rights? Is that what you call human rights? Is it eating human rights and killing human rights? ”

As the words fell, his voice echoed through the conference room with the microphone.

At this time, a foreign female reporter stood up and said, "Please ask Mr. Jiang a question." ”

Jiang nodded, put away his emotions, and said with a smile: "Please speak!" ”

"I think Japan's invasion of China from the Opium War is history, and this account can be credited to the Qing Emperor and the Empress Dowager Cixi. However, when Japan provoked the September 18 Incident in 1931, when the Japanese had very few troops, your government could have defeated them, so why didn't you actively resist the war at that time? ”

The female reporter paused, and asked: "If Mr. Chiang advocated anti-Japanese resistance as he did today, the Japanese would not continue to invade China's Shanghai and Jinling." ”

Jiang was speechless for a while, and muttered for a while, and everyone didn't hear what he said clearly.

The female reporter followed closely and continued to ask: "May I ask Mr. Jiang, it is said that before and after the 'September 18' incident, you had a policy of first securing the inside of the country, and put most of the elite troops in the south to deal with the Red Party, and at that time the Red Party put forward the idea of the United Nations Government to resist Japan. Why are you reluctant to join hands with the Red Party to fight against Japan? I think that if the KMT and the CCP had cooperated to resist Japan a few years earlier, they would not have caused such a big mess, why didn't you think of this at that time? ”

At this time, another foreign female reporter stood up and asked: "Mr. Chiang, as far as I know, the Japanese invasion of China has 200,000 troops, and the Chinese army does not count the Red Party's army, there are 2 million, and the ratio of troops is 10:1, why don't you make up your mind to concentrate the 2 million troops together, fight a large-scale war of annihilation, and drive out 200,000 Japanese within a few days?" ”

Jiang's face was a little unbearable, and his voice changed tone, and he replied: "Please don't change the topic of these two ladies, my theme today is to ask the British and American governments about the fear of Japan, not to investigate the old accounts of history and let history become the past, what we value is the Chinese War of Resistance that people all over the world are concerned about today." ”

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