Anti war ranger

Chapter 68 The outbreak of war
Like Wu Yifang and Vautrin, there are many citizens who were planning to leave but stayed in Nanjing. At the Xiaguan Wharf, the price of the ferry ticket to cross the river has tripled, but even so , but also need to wait in line to cross the river.The national army has blocked the Yijiang Gate at this time, and now only the dignitaries in the city can leave by ferry from the Xiaguan Wharf. Ordinary citizens who want to take a ferry across the river do not have to pay an extra sum of money to the national army guarding the Yijiang Gate. toll fee.

In order to prove to Wu Yifang and Wei Telin that he was powerless, Lu Yuan personally drove them to the Xiaguan Wharf. There was still more than 200 meters away from Yijiang Gate, and the car was caught by the crowd in front of Yijiang Gate. Blocked firmly. "You see, the national army has blocked Yijiangmen. Ordinary people don't even think about going out of Yijiangmen, unless you can be like that big fat man and have enough money to pay the toll for the guards. Jiangmen's national army."

Taking the binoculars handed by Lu Yuan, they looked at the city gate in the direction of Lu Yuan's finger. Wu Yifang and Vautrin saw in the binoculars a big fat man who was nodding and bowing towards the national army guarding the city gate. I saw the big fat man quietly stuffing two gold bars to the national army officer beside him.The national army officer took the gold bar handed over by the big fat man and looked at it carefully. He didn't know what he said to the big fat man. Then he waved his hand and asked the soldiers behind him to pull away the horse and let the big fat man's family of four pass through the Yijiang Gate. .

"You have all seen it. A small yellow croaker can guarantee two people to pass through the Yijiang Gate. This is the current toll for passing through the Yijiang Gate. It is estimated that the price will increase before tomorrow." Take back Wu Yifang and Vautrin With the telescope in his hand, Lu Yuan smiled at the two of them. "There are hundreds of teachers and students in your women's college. I'm afraid you can't afford the toll alone, not to mention that the ferry fee on the Xiaguan pier has also tripled."

Wu Yifang and Vautrin were ashamed. They never expected that the situation in Nanjing would deteriorate to such an extent.The front of Yijiang Gate was crowded with NJ citizens who wanted to go to Xiaguan Wharf to leave by boat. Lu Yuan and his party had to turn around and return to the Women’s College. Along the way, they saw a large number of ordinary citizens with their families eager to leave Nanjing. . "You two, now you know why I have prepared so much food and supplies. Once war breaks out in Nanjing, a large number of residents in the city will become homeless refugees. These food and winter supplies will become their life-saving straw."

Having seen the chaos in front of Yijiang Gate with their own eyes, Wu Yifang and Wei Telin no longer prevented Lu Yuan's people from delivering food and supplies to the Women's College. They took a day off and asked them to go home to inform their family, friends and neighbors to come to the college for a while.At this point in Lu Yuan's plan, it has reached the final juncture, but all of his plans still need time to test.

"Captain Luca, maybe we shouldn't let the guards we recruit wear German uniforms. The number of guards we have recruited has exceeded 300. A German army of 300 people has appeared in Nanjing, whether it is the Japanese army or the national army. We don’t seem to be able to explain it.” Finally, the Women’s Academy stood on the same line with him, and Lu Yuan, who returned to Xiaofenqiao, called another meeting with his staff, and Lieutenant Colonel Helu and Captain Luca naturally also participated in this meeting.

"Lu, I thought you would ignore this issue." Lu Yuan's hesitation is also something that Luka has been thinking about for the past few days. It's okay if it's just the Bunde army commanded by Helu, but the guards hired by Lu Yuan The team has exceeded 300 people, which is already the strength of two companies.Luka has not been able to see Lu Yuan these days, and he is also worried that this matter will provoke protests from the National Government. After all, 300 German troops with live ammunition appearing in Nanjing City, this is a kind of A disguised provocation of force.

Lu Yuan didn't expect that his worries were also embarrassing for Luka, so he smiled at Luka and Lieutenant Colonel Helu, "I was thinking, what if our guards don't wear German uniforms? They don't even equip German standard weapons. A Squad under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Helu can be used as our armed force on the surface, and those guards only wear red cross armbands, women are uniformly distributed with pistols, and men are distributed with shotguns and shotguns. Shut up the mouths of the Japanese army."

Luka and Lieutenant Colonel Helu applauded Lu Yuan's suggestion. In this way, although the force in the refugee camp has been weakened, at least it will prevent the Japanese army from finding loopholes. "Lu, don't worry, my soldiers and I will guarantee the safety of the refugee camp. The Japanese dare not clash with our SS." Lieutenant Colonel Helu gave Lu Yuan the promise he was looking forward to, and Lu Yuan Ka also promised to deploy four machine guns to strengthen the defensive firepower of the refugee camp.

In the two days after the meeting, Lu Yuan took Shu Heman and others to continue searching for Japanese spies and internal agents in Nanjing.Relying on their own full-view map, Lu Yuan and others searched out most of the Japanese spies and internal agents lurking in Nanjing within two days. The Japanese spies and internal agents who came out.

Because of Lu Yuan's meddling, almost all the intelligence personnel and insiders sent into Nanjing by the Japanese army and the Japanese intelligence department were arrested, especially the intelligence team equipped with a radio station was wiped out.Without the intelligence from inside the city, the Japanese army that had already appeared outside Nanjing had no detailed information about the situation inside the city. The Japanese army could only rely on reconnaissance planes to conduct limited on-the-spot reconnaissance against Nanjing's city defenses. This weakness of the army always takes advantage of the night to build the city defense fortifications.

In the early morning of December 12, the ready-to-go Japanese army used fighter planes to drop leaflets of an ultimatum to Nanjing, but the defenders dismissed it. Only the citizens in the city who had not had time to evacuate panicked. "It's finally about to start." Lu Yuan, who received the ultimatum from the Japanese army, looked normal, but after reading the leaflet, Lu Yuan announced that the refugee camp would be open to the public from today.After lunch, about a hundred Nanjing newsboys hired by Lu Yuan rushed to the street, and began to distribute leaflets printed in the refugee camp to the citizens in the city who had not evacuated according to the pre-divided areas.

In just one afternoon, hundreds of thousands of citizens in Nanjing who hadn’t had time to evacuate knew about the refugee camp. Citizens who had the conditions even called the Women’s College and Xiaofenqiao to confirm the address and entry regulations of the refugee camp. "We formulate the entry regulations because we don't want the citizens of NJ to regard us as a charitable place. Everyone who enters the refugee camp should regard himself as a part of this place. And we don't accept everyone here, at least the soldiers. It is not allowed to enter the refugee camp, and the rules are formulated in advance to avoid affecting the entire refugee camp due to emergencies.”

As representatives of the women's college, Wu Yifang and Vautrin also became members of the refugee camp coordination team. Regarding Lu Yuan's explanation, some of the 25 members of the coordination team agreed and some opposed it. "The Japanese army came fiercely. Although the national army has stated that it will live and die with Nanjing, in fact, most of the national army troops stationed in Nanjing suffered heavy casualties in the Shanghai battle. Even the German weapon division, which is called the chairman, also has a large number of soldiers. As for the shortage of personnel, once Nanjing is captured by the Japanese army, our refugee camp will be an isolated island surrounded by the Japanese army.”

"Everyone, if the Japanese army comes to our door at that time and uses our place as an excuse to take in the defeated soldiers of the national army, everyone, how should we deal with it at that time? Should we hand over the soldiers of the national army who were taken in by us or refuse to recognize them? Account? If it was forced by the Japanese army to hand over the national army soldiers, then we might as well not take them in at the beginning. But if the Japanese army is angered by this, the operation of the refugee camp may become difficult due to the Japanese army’s deliberate targeting, so in order To avoid this situation, we must declare in advance that the refugee camp will not accommodate soldiers."

"Yes, the purpose of our establishment of the refugee camp is to help the civilians who are homeless due to the war. Although we also sympathize with the soldiers defending the city, if their existence will implicate the civilians in the refugee camp, I agree. The refugee camp refuses to take in soldiers." Captain Luka, who was dressed in civilian clothes, also made his voice at the right time, and Luka and Lu Yuan were in agreement on whether to accept soldiers in the refugee camp.

After some tense discussions and disputes, Lu Yuan finally convinced the vast majority of the opposition, and after dinner, hung a large notice on the periphery of the refugee camp in the form of words to clarify the attitude of the refugee camp.The coming of the war was beyond everyone's expectations. On December 12, the Japanese army outside Nanjing launched an attack. First, it launched a full-scale attack on Yuhuatai, Tongji Gate, Guanghua Gate, and the third peak of Zijin Mountain. The defenders also launched an attack. Crazy blocking.

On the afternoon of December 12, the situation in the south of Nanjing was particularly severe, because the outer positions outside the city were basically lost in the Japanese tentative attack the day before, and the Japanese army was now able to attack the city wall.The main forces of the 10 divisions of the Japanese army cooperated with infantry, artillery, tanks and aviation to attack and completely destroyed the first-line position on the right wing of the 2th Division of the National Army stationed at Yuhuatai. The remnants of the 88th Division had to retreat to the second-line position. That night, the bad news came again , Wuhu was captured by the 88th Division of the Japanese Army.

The sound of cannons outside the city was rumbling, and Lu Yuan, who had already rushed to the women's college with Schuchman, stood on the roof of the library for a long time. No one knew the direction of the entire Nanjing Battle like Lu Yuan, and it was precisely this The memory of being ahead of others filled Lu Yuan's chest with grief and indignation.From this moment on, China fell into an eight-year brutal war of resistance, because tens of thousands of people were massacred, making Nanjing, a famous historical city, an eternal pain in the hearts of the Chinese people.

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