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Although Zhu Wan and Qin Ling did not go to the battlefield, they saw countless wounded people in the hospital every day, and they could imagine the tragedy of the front-line fighting!

Moreover, this is not a field hospital, except for the civilians who were injured by the bombing, those soldiers who were transported back from the front line have undergone preliminary treatment, so the survival rate is relatively high. Many people were injured on the front lines and could not be treated at all!

Because Zhu Wan is old, the number of times she goes to the operating table has decreased, but in a month, she has to do five or six surgeries in person. She is a Catholic, and every time she stands on the operating table, she prays: "Gracious Father, save these children......"

Doctors are not omnipotent, and many times, they are powerless in the face of the injured.

Qin Ling goes to the operating table more often, and can stay in the operating room for more than ten days a month.

As the honorary president of Tzu Ann Hospital, they are also famous public figures in the country, Nobel Prize winners, honorary directors of the National Research Institute, and vice minister of health, and they personally operated on the wounded, which made all doctors, nurses and patients' families reverent.

Their photographs have been published in newspapers more than once and have won widespread praise.

Qin Hancheng was not idle, because a large number of people migrated to Sichuan, so the Qin grain store played a key role, at least stabilizing the price of grain, so that the army and civilians would not starve to death.

After a while, Qin Di asked Zhang Naijing: "How do you feel about going to the United States?"

Zhang Naijing coughed dryly and replied: "I feel a lot, the United States is worthy of being an industrialized power, and it has crawled out of the economic crisis." ”

Qin Di snorted lightly: "What is this? More than ten years have passed, and it is long overdue to get out of the crisis!"

Zhang Naijing said: "I have met many people in the United States and read many newspapers, and I have found that the attitude of the United States towards Japan is changing. ”

Qin Hancheng was more concerned about international affairs, and when he heard this, he became interested, and said, "Then tell me carefully, what changes have occurred?"

Zhang Naijing sorted out his thoughts and said: "Three or four years ago, when the '77 Incident' first broke out, the United States had an indifferent attitude towards the war between China and Japan, believing that the United States should not meddle in Asian affairs.

At that time, the results of a survey conducted by the Philadelphia Ask Express showed that members of the Senate and House of Representatives opposed US interference in Asian affairs by a ratio of 2:1.

But things slowly changed.

At the end of 1938, President Roosevelt approved the "Tung Oil Loan Program" to lend $25 million to China in the name of commercial loans.

In the spring of 1939, after the Japanese captured Hainan and the Paracel Islands, President Roosevelt announced an embargo on aircraft and spare parts to Japan, and at the same time mobilized warships from the Atlantic coast to deploy them to the Pacific coast. Subsequently, an embargo was announced on Japan, including aluminum, molybdenum, nickel, tungsten and other important strategic materials.

In September 1940, Germany, Italy and Japan concluded a military alliance, and in October, the United States imposed a scrap iron embargo on Japan. It has even been suggested that the next step would be to embargo oil and freeze Japanese assets in the United States. The latter two are terrible, and they may cost the lives of the Japanese......"

Qin Zhan had a lot of information in the secret telegram, but she couldn't say it.

Qin Di will not speak at this time.

In fact, the United States and Japan are still mediating. Japan sent its ambassador to the United States, Kichizaburo Nomura, to negotiate with US Secretary of State Hull, and sent its special representative Kurisusaburo to Washington for negotiations. At one time, the United States' determination to blockade Japan was shaken by Japan's representations. U.S. Secretary of State Hull met with the ambassadors of China, Britain, the Netherlands, and Australia and announced a compromise between the United States and Japan.

Later, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill called Roosevelt in the middle of the night, claiming that if the Chinese battlefield collapsed, the European battlefield would also be in danger.

After many mediations, Hull summoned the Japanese ambassador to the United States and announced that trade with Japan could be resumed and that the most favored nation status would be granted to each other, but on the condition that Japan stop its aggression against China and Vietnam. However, this is something that Japan cannot do.

The economic and trade ties between the United States and Japan are very close. Japan relies on the United States for the vast majority of its strategic resources, including 90 percent of scrap steel and copper, 45 percent of lead, 65 percent of petroleum and petroleum products, and 70 percent of aircraft and tank building machine tools. Once the United States completely blockades Japan, Japan's economy will be in trouble! In desperation, it can only fight hard and attack Pearl Harbor.

Although Qin Di knew what would happen next, it was impossible for him to say it.

Because of World War II, it took the joint efforts of the anti-*** alliance to achieve the final victory.

If the United States had not pushed Japan into a hurry, how could Japan have attacked Pearl Harbor by surprise? If Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor, how could the United States have entered the war? If the United States had not entered the war, it would have been too difficult for China to fight alone!

Incidentally, mention the Flying Tigers of the United States and the Soviet Aviation Volunteers.

On April 15, 1941, China and the United States reached a secret agreement, and Roosevelt signed an executive order allowing U.S. reservists and Army Air Corps, as well as Navy and Marine Corps "retired personnel" to travel to China to fight, and agreed that China would use U.S. Lend-Lease payments to China to purchase U.S. fighter jets.

On August 1, 1941, the American Volunteer Air Corps was established with its headquarters in Kunming, and Chennault was the commander of the American Volunteer Air Corps. Chennault recruited about 100 pilots in the United States, including 40 from the Army Air Corps and 60 from the Navy and Marine Corps. Most of them were reserve officers, but a few were pilots who voluntarily retired from the Air Force to serve with AVG at the behest of the U.S. government. In addition, about 200 ground staff were recruited. The pilot is paid $600 per month, the squad leader is paid $650 per month, and the squadron leader is paid $700 per month. In addition, there is a $500 prize for each Japanese aircraft shot down.

This is the famous American Flying Tigers, which is known to almost everyone in later generations.

However, the Soviet Air Force volunteers, who really made a great contribution, were selectively forgotten.

From 1937 onwards, volunteers from the Soviet Air Force came to China one after another. During its four-year stay in China, the Soviet Union provided China with a total of 1,235 planes of various types and 2.15 million aircraft bombs; a total of 3,665 Soviet aviation volunteers joined the Soviet Air Corps, including 1,091 Soviet volunteer pilots on active duty and more than 2,000 ground mechanics; and more than eighty percent of the pilots were the quintessence of the Soviet Air Force that participated in the Spanish Civil War.

It is said that it is a Soviet volunteer corps, but in fact it is almost integrated, there are 14 Heroes of the Soviet Union, 5 lieutenant generals of the Air Force, 2 generals, 2 deputy commanders, and 1 commander of the Soviet Air Force......

The Soviet Air Force Volunteer Corps, together with the Republic of China Air Force, shot down a total of 1,049 Japanese planes. By the end of 1939, more than 200 people, including heavy bomber group captain Kulishenko and fighter group leader Rakhmanov, died in the battle.