Nanning Women's University,

Lin Zixuan, together with his two best friends Zhang Xiaochu and Chen Miaomiao, were discussing the topic that the citizens outside were hotly discussing, which was whether the Japanese army would send a large army to attack Nanning and Guilin after capturing Changsha.

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For the Anti-Japanese War in this period, the strategic significance of the Battle of Nanning was not inferior to that of the early Battle of Taierzhuang.

You must know that after the Battle of Wuhan, the Japanese troops in Central China captured Guangzhou and Wuhan one after another. The Japanese high command was elated, believing that the national army would inevitably be defeated and surrender in a short period of time.

However, the Japanese army never thought that the war would continue for several years and was not completely over yet.

Until now, after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese army went from winning successively to losing battles, especially after the Japanese main fleet suffered heavy losses.

In order to open up land transportation lines and provide the Japanese troops who fought south with the combat needs of supplying weapons, equipment, ammunition, and food,

Therefore, the Japanese army must occupy the Nanning area and open up transportation lines on land.

Of course, the Japanese army also had another consideration, which was to cut off Nanning, the last sea transportation hub for the national army.

As a result, the national army will not receive any foreign aid, weapons, equipment and ammunition donated by foreigners.

However, Nanning had experienced two brutal occupations by the Japanese army in 1939 and 1944.

Nanning not only suffered from large-scale Japanese aircraft groups carrying out carpet-style indiscriminate bombing,

A large number of houses were bombed and turned into ruins. A large number of residents in the city were killed and injured, and corpses were scattered everywhere.

The Japanese army occupied Nanning for nearly a year in 1939.

The second time was in 1944. According to later historical records, it was probably occupied by the Japanese army for half a year.

During these two occupations, those innocent civilians in Nanning who could not escape the cruel clutches of the Japanese troops,

Not only did they have to suffer all kinds of enslavement and all kinds of humiliation by the Japanese troops, but they also had to suffer burning, killing, looting, and all kinds of inhuman torture.

Even those civilians who were lucky enough to escape,

They were similarly displaced, separated from their flesh and blood, separated from their yin and yang, suffered from all kinds of illnesses, and faced starvation.

In short, when Nanning fell again, there were rivers of blood everywhere and dazzling ruins; snakes and rats were infested in the streets, mountains of garbage were piled up, the stench was high, and corpses were everywhere.

Every day, many people were tortured to death by Japanese soldiers, or were brutally killed.

Or they were killed or injured due to illness, starved to death in a foreign land, or on the road to escape.

So when the residents in Nanning City heard that the Japanese army might attack again,

It immediately aroused heated discussions among everyone and made people panic.

So when Lin Zixuan, her two best friends Zhang Xiaochu and Chen Miaomiao, as well as all the teachers and students of the Women's University received such shocking bad news,

They all also triggered panic discussions among everyone, and everyone was thinking of ways to escape from Nanning as soon as possible.

Especially the residents, teachers and students who had experienced the fall of Nanning in 1939 were even more frightened after hearing this.

Although they were very lucky to survive at that time, they were not tortured to death by the Japanese soldiers.

But it doesn't mean that they will be so lucky this time, able to survive and avoid the torture and cruelty of the Japanese.

Therefore, many of these people want to leave Nanning immediately.

As for those citizens, teachers and students who had fled Nanning long ago and had not suffered the cruel and terrifying torture of the Japanese troops, they did not have so much fear.

However, many of them also plan to leave Nanning as soon as possible and seek refuge in a safe place.

Although I have never experienced being tortured by the Japanese troops, I have heard many victims who survived tell the horrors of the Japanese's cruelty and ruthlessness, as well as their evil-minded burning, killing, and looting.

So they were also very afraid. If they stayed and Nanning fell to the Japanese army again, then they would not regret taking the medicine.

However, there are also patriotic students who are not afraid of death, enthusiastic young people, and patriots who still bravely stay and prepare to fight with the defenders in the city against the Japanese troops that may attack at any time.

"The school will start classes tonight. What are your plans? Are you going to stay here in Nanning?"

"Right now, there are a lot of gossips in the periphery, and there are rumors that the Japanese troops will attack our Nanning at any time!"

"Furthermore, Changsha has really fallen, and the battle on the Hengyang side has also begun, so I feel that the Japanese troops are very likely to invade our Nanning area again!"

"Because in the past few days, we in Nanning have been bombed again by a group of Japanese planes, and they are bombing several times a day!"

"Although there are not many Japanese planes coming, I feel it is more confirmed by the rumors outside, that is, Japanese troops will really come to attack us in Nanning at any time!"

"Just like the last time Nanning was attacked by Japanese troops, the Japanese aircraft groups attacked from small to large, and the bombing time and area were also increasing!"

When Lin Zixuan, Zhang Xiaochu, and Chen Miaomiao received the notice that classes would be suspended in the evening, they were chatting in a pavilion on campus with worried faces.

Zhang Xiaochu was the first to show a very worried expression and asked anxiously to Lin Zixuan and Chen Miaomiao.

"My father has already planned to take our family to evacuate Nanning, to the countryside, or to Chongqing to avoid the Japanese attack!"

"We should leave here tonight, what about you?"

After hearing this, Chen Miaomiao responded honestly.

"My father also wants to leave here as soon as possible tonight, but I am reluctant to leave here. Moreover, after leaving Nanning, we can still go there to settle down. I am also very confused!"

"The areas of land that have not fallen to the Japanese army are becoming increasingly scarce and are almost gone!"

"So now I am still hesitating whether I should live or die with Nanning!"

"Stay to assist the troops in the city and resist the Japanese invasion until the last moment!"

Lin Zixuan, on the other hand, shook her hand tightly, took a deep breath, and confessed her hesitant thoughts.

"You and I have similar thoughts. It seems that the families of the three of us have decided to leave here tonight!"

After listening to the responses from his two best friends, Zhang Xiaochu also sighed deeply.
Chapter completed!