Rise from eight hundred

Chapter 80 Under China's Sky

According to later official records.

Just two hours after the establishment of the donation point, people in the concession donated 300,000 French currency, 200,000 silver coins, more than [-] copper dollars, [-] pieces of clothing, and more than [-] sheets of bread.

Fiat currency and Yinyang are mainly Chinese chaebols located in the concession voluntarily pledged donations, and some Western embassy officials and family members who sympathize with China like journalist Edward Edward, as well as some businessmen who have been doing business in China for many years.

Although they are not Chinese, they lived on this land for several years and became friends with many local Chinese.

Over the past few months, they have seen many Chinese refugees starved to death on the streets, and they deeply hate the suffering of civilians caused by the war.

But most of the copper coins and clothing that belonged to the change came from the civilians living in the concession, and it was one of the few things they could take out.

After all, this is not the first time that donations have been raised. Hundreds of thousands of refugees who have poured into the concession have no means of living and can't find jobs. Relying on a few charitable organizations to distribute porridge and water relief is only a drop in the bucket.

The more than [-] pieces of noodles were the least valuable in this round of donations, but Tantai Mingyue, who went to interview, burst into tears.

On the streets full of sunset, she wrote in the field diary she carried with her:

"I've been through so much emotion during the day.

I was moved by the tenacious battle of the warehouse guards. They were bathed in Japanese pirates' artillery fire and repelled the enemy's attacks again and again. They created brilliant victories. They were the most heroic group of people in this era.

Their names may not be well known to us, but I know that they are destined to become the light, the light that my Chinese family can still illuminate our way forward in the dark.

I was also moved by the people on the south bank of the Suzhou River, who risked being drawn into the war, stood on the edge of hell, cheered for victory, and they were fighting just as well.

I was also moved by the two ladies who sang for the soldiers of our army. It was their fearlessness in the face of the possibility that the Japanese invaders could shoot at any time, dispelling people's anxiety.

The war is in full swing, the drums are like thunder, the dance is like flowers, and the singing is straight to Xiao Han, which is the most beautiful picture that Mingyue has ever seen in her life.

Mingyue asked Ying to stay in Songhu alone, and she believed that her temperament was still tough, but all of the above made Mingyue tear down her clothes, but they were not the ones who made Mingyue burst into tears and couldn't help herself.

At the donation point, I saw the rich and wealthy who came to donate with money boxes, and Mingyue bowed from afar to thank our soldiers; I also saw citizens carrying large and small bags of clothing, and I also thanked them; Children with pocket money. Please forgive me for not being able to write down their names one by one, because there are too many.

But when I saw an old granny with gray hair and shabby clothes, put a piece of dough cake at the donation point in shame, and then turned around and left, it was really difficult for Mingyue to keep calm.

Her face is haggard, Mingyue can't judge her age at all, but the only thing Mingyue can be sure of is that she is not a person in the concession with no worries about food and clothing, and should be one of the 100,000 people who entered the concession to seek refuge in the past three months.

That noodle cake had long since become cold and hard, and at least it had been a day or two. That should be the ration she refused to eat even when she was hungry.

It is conceivable that in ordinary days, she is a housewife who can run the house. Even in extremely difficult days, she will leave the last hope for herself and her family.

However, at this time, she took out the hope of herself or her family.

I am extremely sad, sad for my people, why it is so miserable, but I am also extremely proud, proud of my people, facing disasters, so side by side.

This is my country, my people, and although it is suffering right now, at this moment I have no doubt that we will win this defense. "

Of course, what Tantai Mingyue saw at this time was just the tip of the iceberg.

There are not only this one, but a thousand pieces of noodles, which means that thousands of refugees have donated their last property. For this reason, they may have to go hungry for two or three days or even fail to insist on the next free food distribution.

But they still chose to do so.

For nothing else, the soldiers didn't even want their lives. They were afraid of starvation. The big deal was that they would accompany them with their lives.

In addition to the actions of charitable organizations with official backgrounds, several organizations with great influence in Songhu are also in action.

It's just that they are more targeted, and the donations they are targeting are the defenders in the warehouse.

Food and medicine are the focus of their preparations. It is not difficult to obtain such materials in wartime by their means. The most difficult thing is how to contact the defenders in the warehouse and send them in.

This is only in the concession on the edge of the battlefield, and the eyes of the outside world have actually begun to focus here.

Major Chinese newspapers frequently reported on the small battlefield of Sixing Warehouse. The Central Daily even published an article titled "An Inch of Mountains and Rivers and an Inch of Blood", calling on enthusiastic young people across the country to join the army. , went to the national disaster together.

In the West, thousands of miles away, the "News Chronicle" of the Empire where the sun never sets also published an article saying: Hua Jun's achievements in resisting the Japanese army in Shanghai are indeed one of the most heroic pages in any country's historical records!

However, the "Asahi Shimbun" on Japan's main island rarely did not exaggerate the battle in Songhu on this day, but introduced the battle of the day with the words that the imperial army had occupied the whole territory of Songhu and was about to direct the army to the southeast of China.

During the daytime battle on October 10, China was excited, Japan was frustrated, and the West was surprised. I don’t know how many pairs of eyes were focused on this battlefield with a radius of less than one square kilometer.

But for the defenders of the Sixing Warehouse, they couldn't think so much, because they needed to deal with the next wave of Japanese attacks.

The Japanese suspend the attack in the afternoon, but it does not mean that they have died down like this, and the night may be more difficult than the day.

As night fell, the people gathered on the south bank of the Suzhou River were reluctant to leave for a long time. It was not until it was completely dark that the crowd of tens of thousands of people who had poured into the place dispersed one after another, leaving only about a thousand people in the corners of the buildings. in the alley.

The only field radio station in the building actually received a message from outside the division headquarters. The content of the telegram made the lieutenant colonel ponder for a long time and finally chose to believe it, because the password was newly set up before coming to the Sixing warehouse, and no one in the non-theater headquarters had access to it. Knowing that, even if the Japanese army wanted to crack it, it could not be done in just one day.

And the reason why the lieutenant colonel of the army chose to believe is not only the high level of confidentiality, but the famous name in Songhu. He is not only capable of doing what he said. In Songhu five years ago, During the war, he did the same.

Of course, the real reason why Lieutenant Colonel of the Army was willing to take the risk to make this choice is that if the Sixing Warehouse wants to hold on for a longer period of time, it can not only rely on the bravery of officers and soldiers and not be afraid of sacrifice, but also needs help from the outside world.

The warehouse needs more medicine, ammunition and food, and two seriously wounded people are in urgent need of medical treatment.

However, the Japanese army outside the warehouse must be eyeing them. It is easy to get in touch, but it is extremely difficult to get substantive contact.

However, the night was very long, and the surface of the Suzhou River was only tens of meters, and it was not very wide.

(End of this chapter)