Chapter 177: The Church

"Even though the next battle will be extremely difficult for us, even if there are many of us who have to die, and many of us will not see the day of victory."

Xia Yuan's voice suddenly became powerful from heavy.

"However, as long as there is an area where we are, the Japanese devils will not dare to be presumptuous, we will turn into ghosts in the night and avenge those dead citizens of Jinling."

A seed of revenge was quietly planted in the thick soil of their hearts.

"Chief Xia, we're following you!"

The officers and soldiers of the teaching team were all persuaded by Xia Yuan, and in the chat, they also learned that the chief Xia in front of them was the once smash hit Songhu God of War.

He is very strong in combat.

How tough.

It has been estimated that if he is given enough ammunition, he will be able to withstand the attack of a Japanese squadron alone.

This is not boasting, once he led a squad of soldiers to defeat the attack of two squadrons of the Japanese army and eliminate a large number of Japanese devils.

In every battle since then, as long as this Songhu god of war participates, the results are very rich.

Instructor Li was also deeply impressed by Xia Yuan's words, and a look of approval appeared on his dark cheeks.

He told the brothers in the teaching team: "The Japanese devils have blocked the route out of the city, and it will be difficult for us to break through wherever we go from. As for surrender, swear not to be a slave to the country, no matter what is death, you will also die on the battlefield. ”

"Die on the battlefield!"

The remaining soldiers of the teaching team raised their fists in battle.

They retreated from the Purple Mountain and encountered a large number of streets that had been swept away by Japanese devils.

Houses were burned down by the Japanese army, unarmed ordinary citizens were brutally killed by the Japanese army, and the Japanese devils did not spare women and girls, no matter how old they were, they were first raped and then killed by these brutes, and their bodies were left naked on the streets or placed in their homes.

is so heartbroken that the vast majority of those who serve as soldiers carry a flame of anger and revenge in their hearts.

In addition, Xia Yuan said before that the so-called preferential treatment for surrender preached by the Japanese army, and even released out of the city, was completely to deceive them and make them disarm and surrender, but they were actually sent somewhere to be slaughtered.

In this way, the big guys are holding back a lot of energy in their hearts.

This momentum will support them in a bloody battle with the Japanese devils to the end.

Xia Yuan's ideological mobilization has been quite skillful, and he knows very well what these soldiers need and don't need.

At present, the Japanese army has completely broken through the city of Jinling, and as time goes by, a large number of Japanese troops have completely entered Jinling and carried out bloody massacres.

They are the last resistance in this city.

If this last power also disappears, then Jinling will be completely abandoned.

Xia Yuan's thoughts gradually coincided with Jiang, the fate of Jinling being attacked could not be changed, and the only thing that could be changed was the world's opinion of Jinling after the Datu lied about it.

He found Instructor Li and told him his plan.

"Now that the Japanese army has entered Jinling and launched a bloody massacre, they expected that the national army had completely abandoned Jinling and moved the capital to Chuansi, but as everyone knows, there are still us in Jinling City, and we must bring out the news of our existence and report it back to the outside world, so that the outside world can expand the news of the lone army's resistance."

Instructor Li didn't understand Xia Yuan's idea of doing this.

What if they are known to the outside world?

And the most critical question is that they can't break through themselves, and how to bring this news out.

Instructor Li smoked a cigarette. Quite puzzled by this.

Their strength was less than a company, and the only heavy firepower was the capture of the three crooked handles of the Japanese devils, and the 92 type also had them, but they were discarded because they were not convenient to move.

With such an uneven team, even if they bring their news out, what can they do? It's a lot thankless.

The most critical point is that the Japanese devils have more than 50,000 troops, and they have more than 60 people, which can barely be regarded as a company.

Jinling, surrounded on all sides, once their existence is discovered, they will soon be surrounded and suppressed by the Japanese army, in comparison, Instructor Li believes that they hide in the shadows, sneak attack the Japanese army, and destroy the Japanese army, which is far more cost-effective than others.

In the ruins, the smell of burning wood was very pungent, and Xia Yuan used the sparks left of the fallen beams to light the cigarette that he groped for from the corpse of the Japanese devil.

In the midst of the smoke.

He said, "We can't get out, we're all going to die here." “

Instructor Li nodded, and he couldn't see any expression on his dark cheeks.

Xia Yuan was also not sure that he would be able to survive in Jinling, where corpses could easily be piled up dozens of stories high.

He has participated in countless wars, large and small, killed countless people, and has been with death many times, without truly experiencing death.

Jinling is an indelible pain in the hearts of all Chinese.

He did not have a good way to solve the Jinling crisis, which was inevitably experienced by the Japanese army after the beginning of the Battle of Songhu.

Xia Yuan sometimes thinks, what if he really changes history? The wings of the butterfly flapped, and no one could predict the direction of the next anti-Japanese war situation.

After all, Chiang has always adopted an attitude of passive resistance to the war, and even after learning of the Jinling Massacre, he only said that he would not share the sky with Japan, but he did not make any moves, and still pinned his hopes on international mediation.

Xia Yuan's strategy was to publicize the real situation in Jinling, and then reveal the news that the national army also had a lone army resisting in the city, and the international attitude towards the Sino-Japanese war would change significantly.

It's just like the original battle for the defense of the Sixing warehouse.

"Death, there is value in dying, this is what I think, at present, the Japanese army is blockading Jinling, their crimes are not known to the outside world, and the people in Jinling City are in dire straits, no matter what, we must send the news out."

Xia Yuan snuffed out the cigarette butt.

Instructor Li was silent for a long time holding the gun, and then said, "How to do it?" Let's try to break through? ”

Xia Yuan shook his head, he already had a plan in his heart.

Since Instructor Li is here, then the Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling are also there, and the group of female students are also there.

If they can be sent out and tell what happened in Jinling in their voices, it will be far more convincing than the words of these soldiers.

Winchester Church.

John, an American, packed a lot of flour with strips of cloth and came to the church in the dust.

His demeanor was a little funny, his body was covered with a layer of white flour, and he carried two bags of flour noodles on his shoulders, and he was looking at the bombs dropped by the Japanese planes on the ground, and the impact points of the bombs.

"Father Ingman, fly." George Chen's face showed a hint of sadness.

"Flying?"

John looked surprised, as if he didn't understand what George Chen was talking about.

George Chen explained to him: "The Japanese plane dropped a bomb and blew Father Ingman away. ”

George explained simply, John touched the bridge of his nose and groaned, "Even if there is no body, you have to pay me." ”

George Chen shook his head: "No." ”

John looked at him, "No, no, no, you have to pay me, it's the rules, I can't help it, you can't break the rules." ”

"I'm coming from so far away, and I'm going to have to raise the price."

He turned to look at the dilapidated church, thinking about finding something valuable from the church, and said to George Chen, "Is there any money in the church?" ”

George Chen shook his head vigorously: "No, there is no money." ”

"Come on, there's money in the church, it's a Catholic church."

Apparently, John didn't believe George's nonsense, and he picked up the bag of flour on the ground: "There must be money, you have to find it." ”

"Nope."

"None? What would you say besides saying 'no'. John was not in a very good mood, and he risked his life to come here to collect the body of Father Ingman, but there was no body, and the money had not been given to him.

George Chen followed behind John, passing by a scrapped truck in the courtyard, and asked John hopefully, "Will you fix the truck?" ”

"Huh!?" John was stunned for a moment, stopped at the door, and looked back at the truck lying in the courtyard.

"Help us, fix the truck, and leave Jinling." George Chen stands in front of a scrapped truck.

"Repair trucks? Is it free? As if hearing something incredible, John stepped forward and asked.

George Chen shook his head embarrassedly, he was shy now, and he hadn't even paid the money for asking the other party to collect the body.

John looked at the truck lying on his stomach, the parts on it were still there, and it didn't seem that the damage was serious, so he said, "I can dismantle some parts and sell them, do you have tools?" ”

George Chen lowered his head, "No." ”

"Huh?" John shrugged, rather disappointed: "Then let's go." ”

Without tools, let alone repairing a car, you can't even disassemble tools.

He decided to search for something valuable in the Catholic church and left the place.

However, it is getting late, and if the conditions in the Catholic church are allowed, it may be possible to stay here for one night.

Inside the Catholic Church.

More than a dozen female students wearing blue and gray cotton jackets and short hair were pushing and arguing, because Meng Shujuan's father said that he could take them on a steamboat to leave Jinling, so Meng Shujuan led them to stay and wait for her father, but her father did not wait, but waited for the Japanese devils.

The Japanese devils killed people and killed Wang Xiaozhen.

When George Chen saw it, he hurriedly ran over: "What are you doing?" Don't hit. ”

His body was also thin and weak, and he couldn't pull it at all, but it was John who came and barely pulled them apart, and helped Meng Shujuan on the ground up.

Looking at the group of female students with gray faces in front of him, he said, "Hey, my name is John, and I'm from the United States." ”

George Chen looked at the crowd, afraid that they would not understand, so he said, "His name is John, and he has come to make a funeral for the priest." ”

John felt sympathy for this group of schoolgirls who lost their homes and the country was in war, "I know it's not easy, but you don't fight, you've seen enough tragedy today." ”

He threw the only flour of his value on the ground and said, "Leave this flour for you, and make some bread for the girl." ”

George Chen reminded on the side: "Steamed buns." ”

"Yes, face." He waved to George Chen: "Let's go find the donation box." ”

George Chen has lived in the Catholic Church since he was a child, and he knows that there is no money in the donation box, but he does not say where the donation box is, and allows John to rummage through the boxes and cabinets in the Catholic Church.

He searched all the corners of the first floor, but could not find the donation box, so he asked George Chen, "Where is it?" ”

George Chen still shook his head, "No." ”

"That must be on the second floor."

John came upstairs and found that the environment was much better than the outside, and the decoration of the house was quite good, "Nice, I won't go back to the safe zone, I'll stay here tonight." ”

John was so pleased with the environment that he lit a cigarette and began to search the room.

Nicely decorated room, money must be hidden here.

John was not in a hurry and wandered around the room.

At this time, a procession was silently approaching the church.

This team was the last resistance led by Xia Yuan, consisting of only more than seventy people.

The core backbones are Xia Yuan and Instructor Li, and their official positions are the largest among everyone.

Even if Xia Yuan didn't have any official position, with his excellent military strength and individual skills, it was enough to impress this group of soldiers.

"This is, the church?"

The group of them hid in the rubble, and Instructor Li observed with the scope on the gun.

From a distance, I saw a group of warblers and swallows running out of the ruins on the other side of the street, wearing gorgeous coats, dressing up, and a smell of wind and dust on their bodies, they carried suitcases and ran to the front door of the church, and a woman wearing gloves knocked on the heavy door.

"Lao Gu, hurry up and open the door for me, I'm Hongling, did you hear it, Lao Gu, Lao Gu, I'm Hongling."

After beating for a long time, there was no movement in the church.

The people around him were a little skeptical and asked, "Did you really tell him?" ”

Hongling turned her head: "Nonsense, I don't speak, will I bring you over?" Old Gu, old Gu, open the door. ”

George Chen heard the noisy noise outside, opened the doorway on the door, and saw a group of Qinhuai River women with warblers and swallows, so he said, "You guys go to the west safety zone, go to the safety zone." ”

Hongling did not follow: "Who goes to the safe zone, let's look for Lao Gu." ”

George Chen: "Lao Gu is not here, you go to the safe zone." ”

"Why aren't you there, you go away!" Hongling gritted her teeth and said: "Lao Gu said, your church, with the protection of foreigners, Little Japan can't enter at all, dead ghosts, coax the old lady to serve him for one night, talk about taking in our sisters, and call out this dog day to me." ”

"Lao Gu is really not here, he has already run away."

"Why are you there when you coax the old lady?"

"He's gone early in the morning, so let's go to the west safe zone." George Chen didn't want to entangle too much with this group of women, he had lived in Jinling for so long, but he knew where this group of women came from.

Instructor Li put down his gun and turned his head to look at Xia Yuan.

Xia Yuan used his eagle eyes to see quite clearly, as if he was aware of Instructor Li's gaze, turned his head to look at Instructor Li, and a smile appeared on his dark face: "Look at what I'm doing, I didn't bring you here to be happy, the female students you rescued, where can they run, right here, let's rescue them, take everyone's suicide note out, and also take out the bad things that the Japanese devils did in Jinling City." ”

"The little Japanese devil will be damned."