In 1937, Nanjing lifted martial law and the situation gradually settled.

The civil war finally ended. At least on the surface, major domestic forces reached a consensus on "joint anti-Japanese war". The people began to look forward to a stable and peaceful Spring Festival, while those in exile in the Northeast were looking forward to driving away the Japanese as soon as possible and regaining their homes.

However, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Army was under house arrest in Nanjing, leaving nearly 200,000 Northeast Army without a leader. There were serious differences within the Northeast Army on whether to fight or be at peace, and eventually it developed into internal self-killing.

The entire Northeast Army was also divided. This is obviously a good thing for Nanjing. The division of the Northeast Army has reduced Nanjing's great trouble!

Internationally, Spain's civil war was in full swing. Germany and Italy even directly intervened in the Spanish civil war and sent tanks and aircraft to support it. Britain and France once again showed their weakness, especially France, which directly bordered Spain, did not take any action except to verbally whim after Germany sent troops. This greatly encouraged the Germans' arrogance. The weakness of Britain and France made Germany more determined to start a war!

The performance of Britain and France in the Spanish civil war also made some people in the country give up their fantasies.

Originally, some so-called "knowledgeable people" in China still naively thought that they could use the power of Britain and France to put pressure on the Japanese. The Japanese would be afraid of Britain and France and dare not continue to invade the south. In order to protect their interests in China, Britain and France would not allow Japan to continue to invade China. However, Britain and France could not even control Spain, which was close to them, so how could they manage the distant Far East?

More Chinese people realize that Western powers are obviously unreliable, and that if Chinese want to defend their own country, they obviously have to rely on themselves.

The consensus on stopping the civil war and jointly fighting against Japan has been reached. Some sensitive people seemed to have heard the sound of war's footsteps getting closer and closer, and Nanjing has also begun to integrate warlord forces from various factions and local areas.

After the Spring Festival, Chen Qiang took a leave and went to Chongqing. He planned to buy a house in Chongqing so that he could have a place to live in the next eight years.

Chen Qiang knew that during the Anti-Japanese War, Chongqing was bombed by the Japanese army, so Chen Qiang hoped that his residence could be as far away from the bombing area as possible, but Chen Qiang didn't know where to avoid the bombing, so he could only choose the location based on his own judgment.

The houses in Chongqing’s prosperous city were first excluded by Chen Qiang.

If it were later generations, bombing was generally only aimed at military targets, but the Japanese bombing was indiscriminate bombing. They would not care whether they would hurt civilians. Many times, the Japanese even bombed civilians specifically to cause panic and destroy the Chinese will to resist.

Faced with the crazy Japanese army, the prosperous urban area will definitely not be able to live. After five years of bombing, the Japanese will definitely not let go of the Fanhua area of ​​Chongqing.

The places where the factory gathered were also excluded by Chen Qiang. Of course, during the war, the other party's industrial capabilities must be paralyzed and the other party's war potential must be weakened. Therefore, the factory must be the target of the Japanese army's end-point attack. If you live in the factory area, just wait to eat bombs!

In the end, Chen Qiang chose a small house by the river.

Living by the river, although the humidity is relatively high, the safety is much better.

As we all know, Chongqing is a foggy city, and the fog on the river is particularly thick. For bombers, they obviously don’t like foggy days. At that time, there was no satellite positioning. Bombers looked for targets based on their eyes. The thick fog was spreading, and their vision was limited, so they could not find the target. No bomber’s bomber would throw bombs into the fog without any worries. Therefore, where the fog was more dense, it would not be bombed by the Japanese army.

...

In Shanghai, in a Portuguese business, Chen Qiang was wearing authentic coffee and the boss of the Gen Trading Company was talking.

"Mr. Fernando, I'll ask you for my things." Chen Qiang said.

"Mr. Chen, thank you for your trust. It is my honor to be able to keep such important things for you! Don't worry, I will definitely send these things to Macau safely, and then properly preserve them, waiting for you to extract them." The Portuguese named Fernando said.

This Portuguese, named Fernando, is another retreat for Chen Qiang.

During his time at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chen Qiang frequently participated in foreign affairs activities and made friends with many foreigners. This Portuguese named Fernando is one of them. He is the owner of a Portuguese business and has business in Hong Kong, Xiamen, Shanghai and other places, while his base camp is in Macau.

During World War II, even Hong Kong fell, but the war did not affect Macau, which was a colony of Portugal, so for the sake of Portugal, Japan did not invade Macau.

At that time, many immigrants lived in Brazil, and Brazil was the territory of Portugal. At that time, Portugal once warned Japan that if they dared to invade Macau, they would attack the Japanese expatriates in Brazil. The Japanese also felt that it was not worth letting millions of Japanese expatriates be buried with them for a small Macau, so they did not occupy Macau.

Chen Qiang handed over his Olympic gold medals, trophies, certificates, championships, photos with celebrities and other items he won in other competitions to the Portuguese and asked him to take them to Macau for preservation.

The war has caused great damage to China. For example, Liu Changchun has many trophy certificates, which were damaged and lost during the war. Chen Qiang does not want the honor he earned to be destroyed in the war. Even if he brings these things to Chongqing, it is possible if he encounters a bombing. So Chen Qiang made plans early and puts these things in Macau in advance.

The owner of the Portuguese business named Fernando is a declining nobleman. After Chen Qiang came to him to explain his request, he not only did not ask for a storage fee, but instead felt very honored. The "world's No. 1 athlete" was willing to entrust the Olympic gold medal representing honor to himself. This is a great trust. If such a thing is passed back to Portugal, it will be enough to win praise in the aristocratic circle.

...

In March, Yan'an sent people to Hangzhou for talks. In May, the Nanjing delegation went to Hangzhou again. In June, the radio station was finally connected between Yan'an and Nanjing.

Also in June, the Northeast National Rescue Association was established in Peking, which also stimulated the Japanese.

According to the "He Mei Agreement" that treasoned the country reached by Nanjing and Japan, the Kuomintang-controlled areas do not allow the establishment of anti-Japanese anti-Japanese organizations, and even all voluntary activities must be prohibited. Anti-Japanese marches and other matters are illegal. Now the public establishment of the Northeast National Rescue Association has obviously given the Japanese invaders a blow.

Time passed day by day, and it was finally July 7. The gunshots at Lugou Bridge kicked off the full anti-Japanese war.

The Japanese have been preparing for decades to invade China. In December last year, China had just reached a consensus to stop the civil war and resist Japan. The domestic army has not been integrated yet. The result of the war between the two armies can be imagined.

On July 29, Peking fell.

On July 30, Tianjin fell.

After the fall of Peking and Tianjin one after another, Hebei will definitely not be able to be saved, and Shandong is also in danger.

However, Nanjing is still very confident. Even on August 13, the Japanese army had already begun to attack Shanghai, and Nanjing still believed that it would be no problem to defend this thousand-year-old.

Because after the Xi'an Incident, Nanjing also accelerated the political, military and economic preparations of the War of Resistance. One of the key projects was to build three national defense fortifications between Shanghai and Nanjing, and all the Central Army were responsible for guarding these three national defense fortifications. In addition, Nanjing also imported weapons from Germany to equip these Central Army.

Elite troops, elite weapons, and reorganized German Armored Army are not easy to defeat!

Japan has already shouted the slogan of "destroying China in three months". This bull has been bragged about. Wouldn't it be embarrassing if it can't be done? So Japan has launched all three navy, army and air forces. Three army divisions and two heavy artillery brigades have made the Japanese army's troops in Shanghai reach as much as 130,000, while the Japanese army in North China had only 150,000 during the same period.

In addition, Japan also sent the Third and Fourth Fleets, including four aircraft carriers and nearly 400 aircraft.

In China, the first ones to take over were the 87th Division and the 88th Division. These two divisions were originally guard forces of the National Government. German consultants trained a model division with all German equipment, which was elite. They did cause trouble for the Japanese and forced Japan to quickly increase its troops.

Immediately afterwards, Nanjing successively invested 8 armies, 48 ​​divisions, 15 independent brigades, 9 temporary brigades, an artillery regiment, a military police regiment, the Central Military Academy teaching team, plus the security regiment, the police corps, and the tax police, with a total force of more than 600,000 people.

As a result, everyone knows that the war was defeated. On November 8, Nanjing finally ordered a full retreat, so it was not correct to withdraw from Shanghai and return to Nanjing.

The failure of the Battle of Shanghai made Nanjing realize the fact that the Japanese army had stronger combat power. It was also on the day when they ordered their retreat on November 8 that Nanjing finally began to consider moving the capital.

Also on November 8, Japanese bombers appeared over Nanjing, dropped a few bombs and left, which immediately caused panic among the people of Nanjing. Those who were originally full of confidence in defending Nanjing were also shaken.

The Japanese planes have already flown up, so is the Japanese army still far away?

Finally, on November 20, Nanjing finally ordered the capital to be moved to Chongqing!

...

Six years ago, at the end of 1931, Nanjing moved its capital to Luoyang due to Japan's attack on Shanghai.

Although Nanjing was not affected by the war at that time, the government retreated in a panic. Now with the experience of escaping six years ago, the Nanjing government evacuated in a much more orderly manner.

The escape was more orderly and calm, which was obviously not something to be proud of. However, officials from all departments were not ashamed of, but proud, and wrote this into their work summary and showed off their achievements. It seemed to be saying, sir, how well-organized and clear the escape I arranged!

The government departments used this to evacuate westward, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where Chen Qiang was located was evacuated relatively late.

At this time, the government also hoped to use diplomatic efforts to stop the Japanese invasion, so the Ministry of Foreign Affairs also searched for officials in China from Britain, the United States, France, Germany and Italy all day long, hoping that they could put pressure on Japan.

It was not until December 1 that when the Japanese army captured the Jiangyin Fortress and was about to launch a full-scale attack on Nanjing that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs received orders to withdraw from Nanjing. They were almost the last government department to withdraw from Nanjing.

...

The continuous convoy is heading west, the convoy evacuated from Nanjing by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Due to limited vehicles and a large number of evacuated people, ordinary employees can only sit in large trucks and endure the bumps on the road.

Chen Qiang was divided into a car, but the shock absorption function of cars in this era was not very good. In addition, the road conditions were average, Chen Qiang felt comfortable.

On both sides of the road, there were people who were escaping with their families, some were driving cars, and more were walking. Each of them had a cold frustration and confusion about the future written on their faces. These people obviously did not want to leave their hometown.

However, Chen Qiang knew that compared with those who stayed in Nanjing, these people who left their hometowns and fled, perhaps they were lucky, and at least they had a greater chance of surviving.

“Buzz buzz buzz…”

The sound of planes flying in the sky was heard, and Chen Qiang was no longer surprised. For the Japanese army, the sky in Nanjing was completely unprepared, and their planes could come and go freely.

...

Yoshitoko Furukawa is a bomber pilot. At this time, he was flying his own plane and patrolling over Nanjing, looking for targets that could be attacked.

Now the sky of Nanjing is no longer the Chinese Air Force. For the Japanese Air Force, the sky is full of Japanese territory. Japanese planes can come and go freely. Even bombers can fly alone without worrying about being shot down when enemy planes are shot down.

Yoshitoko Furukawa was piloted by a dive bomber. This type of aircraft carried a small bomb load of less than 300 kilograms. However, this type of aircraft was relatively flexible and had a high bomb hit rate, which was mainly used for tactical bombing.

After all, Japan was short of resources and could not equip too many large bombers, so the bombers used by the Japanese invaders at that time were mainly such dive bombers.

Due to the small bomb load capacity, dive bombers often do not take action easily. Pilots will deliberately find some valuable targets to bomb. There are only more than 200 kilograms of bombs, which is the amount that can be blown once. If they explode such useless targets, wouldn’t it be a waste of time!

Yoshitochi Furukawa flew for a long time and couldn't find a suitable bombing target. He thought he would return without success today, but he saw a convoy on the road.

"A such a long convoy is definitely not an ordinary person! It's worth using the bomb! There are also cars, maybe there are important Chinese figures in it."

Yoshitoki Furukawa thought that there was no suitable target anyway, so he couldn't bring the bomb back. Why not just throw the bomb to this convoy!

So Yoshitoko Furukawa aimed at the car in the convoy and dived!

...

“Buzz buzz…”

The sound in the sky was getting louder and louder, and it was obvious that it was the plane approaching.

"No, air strike!" Chen Qiang suddenly realized this and shouted suddenly: "Stop quickly! Find a place to hide!"

The driver also knew that he had encountered an air strike, so he immediately stepped on the brakes, but it was too late at this time. The plane came over the convoy and dropped the bomb.

Chen Qiang pushed open the car door violently and rushed out of the car as fast as possible. He could vaguely feel that the bomb had fallen from the plane.

"Boom!" A huge sound rang out, and the scorching air flow generated by the explosion of the bomb rolled in. Chen Qiang suddenly felt that something seemed to have hit his body.

It was also at the same time that the power generated by the explosion shook Chen Qiang away, and Chen Qiang lost consciousness in an instant.
Chapter completed!