Since the September 18th Incident six years ago, the Japanese have not only occupied the three northeastern provinces, but have even broken through Shanhaiguan and captured North China. The national government was incompetent and signed many unequal treaties with the Japanese, which led to the expansion of the Japanese ambitions. This surpassed the land of China, which was 25 times larger than the land of Japan, and it was already a Chinese meal in the eyes of the Japanese invaders. Fortunately, after the Xi'an Incident, the Kuomintang and the Communist Party finally formed a united front to fight against the Japanese invaders!
At this moment... the night sky in Shanghai is also full of oppressive black clouds.
People don't know how devastated the land will be after this night. What kind of tragic situation will the people of Shenzhou suffer.
At this time, Japan's so-called "Chinese Garrison Army" in North China has recently been conducting military exercises frequently in front of the Chinese 37th Army. At this moment, the Chinese and Japanese armies are at war with each other, and it has reached the moment of imminent attack.
Suddenly at night, outside Wanping City, a gunshot broke the silence.
The Japanese soldiers who were acting near the Marco Polo Bridge happened to discover that a soldier was missing at this time.
Judging from later historical data, it doesn't matter whether the disappearance of the soldiers was real or whether it was an excuse for the Japanese side to start the war.
Japanese soldiers, they are all aware that an all-out war with "China" is about to begin. The September 18th Incident six years ago made Japanese people feel that the Chinese army was weak and incompetent. Once a war broke out, "China" would be destroyed in a very short period of time! They were educated in militarism since they were young, and they were full of excitement at this moment. They only thought about capturing this country as soon as possible and opening up territories for His Majesty the Emperor!
The smoke of war... is close at hand!
…
next morning.
Zhang Zixiu, as usual, walked towards the pork shop he ran alone.
The majestic giant of the four-fold door is just a butcher who kills pigs at this time. This kind of contrast really makes people laugh.
He originally thought that the death of members of the Qing Gang in Zhabei would become a sensational news, but he did not expect that the people who bought pork in recent days were talking about... a new war broke out in distant Beiping!
"Damn the Japanese! In the early hours of this morning, the 37th Army stationed in Wanping City had already started a war with the Japanese!"
Lao Zhang, who came to buy pork, was a teacher, and he was one of the few literate people in the neighborhood. In the era of the Republic of China, a teacher is as precious as a master student today.
While chopping pork, Zhang Zixiu lowered his head and asked, "Will Beiping... be able to hold it?"
"I don't know!" At this time, the teacher also had a sad face: "Six years ago, the Japanese annexed the entire Northeast so quickly... But that would be Zhang Xueliang as the general of non-resistance. It's just that the weapons of the Japanese are much stronger than those of our Republic of China. It's really... "
After Zhang Zixiu weighed the pork, he wrapped it for Lao Zhang and handed it to him, saying, "Beiping is still so far away...the Japanese wouldn't have come here, would they?"
"Of course not!" Lao Zhang took the pork and said, "Shanghai is an international metropolis! The British Concession and the French Concession are all foreigners' territory, and the Japanese dare not touch foreigners easily!"
"That's good... your pork, take it..."
"Cheng... Zixiu, is your sister's asthma better?"
"It's better. This time I used the medicine of a Western doctor, and the effect is much better than that of traditional Chinese medicine."
"You have worked hard. You have to keep saving money to buy medicine for your sister's treatment. Alas... the common people can't live anymore, and those people from the Qing Gang come to collect protection fees all day long! Your parents are also miserable, because they can't pay the protection. Fee, only... "
After Lao Zhang left, Zhang Zixiu raised his head.
"If the Japanese didn't dare to attack Shanghai, what happened to the 'December 28'?"
Having said that, he fiercely chopped the knife towards the pork in front of him, just like he inserted the knife into the body of a Green Gang thug yesterday.
In this year, whether warlords, gangsters, bandits, or Japanese, there are too many disasters, making it impossible for ordinary people to survive!
Survive... so tough!
Time passed like this, and the battle situation became more and more anxious.
After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, the Japanese military immediately adopted the policy of "expanding the China Incident", and the full-scale Anti-Japanese War broke out. The Lushan speech ten days later made the national government finally determined its determination to resist the war in an all-round way. Then, the two generals Tong Linge and Zhao Dengyu died heroically, and the door of Peiping was completely opened to the Japanese! Immediately afterwards, Beiping and Tianjin fell into the hands of the Japanese one after another!
August 9, 1937.
Shanghai hongqiao airport.
Isao Oyama, Captain of the Western Dispatch of the Japanese Navy Special Marine Corps, and Private First Class Saito and Zang, despite the warnings of the local Chinese army, forcibly drove into Hongqiao Airport, and were shot dead by Chinese soldiers on the spot. This incident... also became the fuse of the "August 13 Songhu War of Resistance"! It now appears that these two are completely "dead soldiers" of the Japanese military!
At this time, the Japanese had already captured Pingjin, and under the intention of the Japanese military to expand the "China Incident", Shanghai, a large city at the mouth of the Yangtze River, finally ushered in the smoke of war. Once Shanghai falls into the hands of the Japanese, they can use Shanghai as a springboard to threaten the Chinese capital Nanjing! The "Songhu Armistice Agreement" signed during the "January 28th Incident" of that year was to prepare for the future attack on Shanghai.
On the night of the Hongqiao Airport incident, the Japanese Navy had already stationed at Wusongkou, and at the same time, the Nationalist Government also dispatched the trump card elite army to Shanghai! At this time, Chairman Jiang's intention was to consider that Shanghai is an international metropolis, and fighting a tough battle here would allow the international community to see China's determination and achievements in fighting Japan. The chairman's intention was the so-called "waiting for change". He always believed that it was impossible for China to defeat Japan alone, and only the intervention of European and American countries could have hope.
On the morning of August 12, as soon as Zhang Zixiu opened the pork shop, he discovered that densely packed Chinese soldiers had already entered Shanghai!
On the morning of the 13th, as soon as he opened the butcher shop, he noticed that someone came to the pork shop, raised his head, and said, "Do you want to buy pork..."
However, when he saw the person coming, he was slightly taken aback.
It's...
A man wearing a mask.
The mask looked very weird, with weird lines painted on it, only the eyes were exposed.
"Excuse me..." Zhang Zixiu clenched the knife tightly, and asked cautiously, "Do you want to buy pork?"
The masked man just looked at Zhang Zixiu, and then said in a low and strange voice, "You have been chosen by me. I will pick you up in a few months and go to Avgomon Castle."
Zhang Zixiu held the knife even tighter, and said coldly: "Brothers... the Japanese are coming soon, if you have the skills, why don't you go and beat the Japanese!"
"You already belong to Castle Avgomon. That... will not change."
Zhang Zixiu suddenly raised the knife and slashed at the masked man! Obviously he has regarded the other party as a killer from the Green Gang! Naturally, it is the first to act first, and the second to suffer!
However, the masked man easily dodged the knife, and then pointed out with one hand, Zhang Zixiu found...his body couldn't move!
"what?"
"From now on, your name will be... T, Baron T. I will pick you up in a few months."
Afterwards, Zhang Zixiu couldn't move at all, looked at the masked man in front of him, and walked away from him slowly...
"what!"
It took about five minutes before he could move again!
Then, he immediately rushed into the house behind the pork shop!
His younger sister Zhang Ziqi was resting in the house, when she saw her brother rushing in, she asked puzzledly, "Brother?"
"Little sister! Quick! Pack up! We have to go!"
"Brother?"
Zhang Zixiu quickly rummaged through the box, took out the clothes and put them in boxes. At the same time, a hidden compartment on the floor under the cabinet opened, and several money bags were taken out from it. These are all found from the gang of youth gang thugs after they were killed yesterday, and there are many oceans in them! Originally, because the Japanese soldiers were approaching the city, he thought about taking his younger sister away, but if his younger sister traveled long distances, her asthma might relapse, and so many Chinese soldiers came to Shanghai this time, which also gave him a little confidence in the war. But now...he has to go!
At the same time... the Japanese Marine Corps suddenly launched a war, and the Songhu Anti-Japanese War began at this time!