Song Zheyuan, commander of the 29th Army, seemed to have aged ten years overnight.
On the eve of the battle, luck still prevailed.
He judged that the Japanese were just bluffing as before.
To show his sincerity, he ordered the dismantling of Peking City in preparation for street fighting. sandbag barricades, launched negotiations with the Japanese side, and turned a deaf ear to Lushan's telegram to resolutely resist.
Now everything is too late, both his left and right arms are lost, Tong Linge and Zhao Dengyu died in battle, Nanyuan was lost, one hundred thousand enemy troops pressed on the border, the Kwantung Army came from the north of Rehe, the Korean Kawagan Division came from the south, the Riverside Brigade came from the east, and The Fifth Division and the navy attacked Tianjin.
Although the 29th Army had 100,000 troops, the strength of the entire North China was still stretched thin and beyond its capabilities.
Beijing is an ancient city with tall and generous city walls.
If it could have been defended by the city walls in ancient times and waited for reinforcements, the Eight-Power Allied Forces in the Gengzi War have proven that the city walls are useless in the face of foreign guns and artillery.
There is no danger to defend Pingjin and Tianjin.
If they fight to the death, The only outcome is that the dumplings will be made, and the common people will also suffer.
In extreme pain, he made a decision to abandon Peiping and retreat to Baoding.
In the vast night, Song Zheyuan, chairman of the Hebei-Cha Government Affairs Committee and commander of the 29th Army, left Peiping City by car and looked back at the majestic Qianmen Building under the night.
He burst into tears.
Song Zheyuan left, and a large number of defeated soldiers of the 29th Army retreated into the city one after another.
But what awaited them was the order to gather in Baoding.
Lin Wenlong and his classmates, dressed in military training uniforms, mixed in with the defeated soldiers and moved forward slowly.
Eating watermelon and flatbread, which were donated by the fathers of Peiping for the soldiers to eat.
The starving soldiers ate the flatbread and nibbled the watermelon, and all of them were silent.
Old Luotuo said to Lin Wenlong and others: "Student, there is no such thing as a banquet in the world.
Let's say goodbye and go home quickly.
It's chaotic outside."
The college students who had experienced blood and fire were all disgraced and exhausted, and no one mentioned serving the country anymore.
Lin Wenlong walked away silently.
On the way, he took off his gray cloth military uniform and threw it into the ditch.
The young man from Ziguang Depot left the morning shift today.
He got out of the car early in the morning before dawn.
The foreign car with four carbide lamps was running slowly on the empty street.
Suddenly he felt something strange.
What was it?
I walked over and took a look.
I was shocked.
It turned out to be several broken guns.
He didn't dare to pick it up and continued to move forward uneasily.
There was no one in the ghost market selling used goods that was very popular in the past.
Today, he could vaguely hear the sound of neat footsteps coming from the south.
The little crook pulled his rickshaw and stood in the middle of the deserted street.
The water-moon lanterns on both sides gave off pale light, illuminating his bald head.
A rising sun flag with arrogant claws appeared directly in front of him, followed by a row of rows of lanterns.
The Japanese soldiers formed a column, with the sunshades flickering under their hats and bayonets like a forest.
There was no noise except for the sound of footsteps in such a long queue, and a chilling atmosphere spread everywhere.
The little crook was so frightened that his two sides trembled.
He pulled up the rickshaw and turned around and ran away.
He had never run so fast in the past.
He ran all the way back to Ziguang Depot, broke open the door and stumbled in.
He was out of breath and said: "It's not good." , bad food.”
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Bao Qing got up early and looked at him in confusion: "What's wrong?
It seems like he has lost his soul."
"Little Japan has entered the city.
There are tens of thousands of people coming in from Yongding Gate."
Xiao Waizi panted.
Baoqing was dumbfounded and murmured: "That's impossible, isn't the 29th Army still there?"
In the office of the Hebei-Cha Government Affairs Committee, no one answered the phone, papers were everywhere, and gasoline barrels were filled with the ashes of burned documents.
The Ziguang Depot was closed, and the large water tank prepared by Baoqing finally came into use.
It was filled with bricks and tiles and blocked the door.
The family had food and water in stock, so it would not be a problem for a few months.
The family was hiding in the house and was terrified.
The Eight-Nation Allied Forces did a lot of harm to the people when they entered Beijing.
The Japanese are not good people.
They can't be offended, but we can afford to hide.
After a day like this, no one came to knock on the door.
Baoqing and Xing'er felt a little relieved.
But on the second day, there was a knock on the door of the depot.
They were so frightened that they thought it was Japanese soldiers coming to rob them.
"Baoqing, it's me, your Uncle Wang."
Inspector Wang's voice came from outside.
Baoqing bravely came to the door and asked through the door: "Inspector Wang, what's the matter?"
Inspector Wang said: "What else am I asking you about?
Why did you close the door?
I haven't seen the car for a day, so I thought something happened."
Bao Qing said: "Aren't the Japanese entering the city?
I'm worried."
Inspector Wang said: "Don't worry, the Japanese also eat people's food and have to ride in foreign cars.
Hurry up and open the door and start business."
Bao Qing said: "What, can't I rest for two days?"
Inspector Wang said: "It really won't work.
The higher-ups have issued a message that all paving factories in Peiping must open.
Otherwise, they will be fined and imprisoned.
It's up to you whether to open or pay a fine."
Bao Qing said: "Who is up there?"
Inspector Wang said: "It's the Peking Local Security Council.
The police station is under their control.
The higher-ups have issued a message saying that the shops are closed and there are no vehicles on the street, which affects the harmony between Japan and China."
Baoqing had no choice but to call in the rickshaw drivers and open a business.
In the past few years, the business had become worse and worse.
There were only about a dozen foreign rickshaws left in the factory.
In order to make a living, he had to pull the rickshaws himself.
I drove a foreign car around for a day, but there was no business.
There were very few people on the street.
The sun was shining brightly in the sky.
Dogs lay in the shade of the trees and stuck out their tongues.
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There was a Japanese plaster flag on the Zhengyangmen train station.
This Beiping will no longer be the Chinese Beiping.
Baoqing walked staggeringly, his whole body was like an eggplant beaten by frost, he kept asking himself, would he be a slave of the country from now on?
He didn't even hear the guests calling for a taxi.
"Rubber!"
A man shouted on the roadside.
Bao Qing woke up from his dream and hurriedly pulled the car over.
When he got closer, he saw that it was still his old friend Li Junqing.
Li Junqing is no longer the scrubber in the small bathhouse of Huaqing Pool.
Now he is a celebrity in Beiping City, and his relationship with Baoqing has long been discontinued, but he is still polite when meeting him.
"Hey, Brother Baoqing, it's you."
Li Junqing said with a smile.
He was wearing a jade-white gown, a straw hat and sunglasses, and holding a folding fan.
He looked elegant and spotless.
Bao Qing said: "I haven't seen Mr.
Li for a while.
Where are you going?"
"Went to Xinhua Palace for a meeting.
On this hot day, all the cart pullers were lying on their stomachs, and we didn't see any foreign cars all the way."
Li Junqing looked in good spirits.
Xinhua Palace was the former Presidential Palace and the Zhongnanhai Royal Garden.
I don’t know who lives there now.
Baoqing didn’t care about that.
He asked Li Junqing to get in the car and pulled him there.
The two chatted for a while.
They were all insignificant topics.
When they arrived at the place, Li Junqing took out a big ocean and gave it to him.
Baoqing said nothing and took the empty cart away.
Li Junqing smiled and entered the Xinhua Palace gate.
The police at the door checked his ID and immediately saluted.
This is the seat of the Peking Local Security Council.
Jiang Chaozong, an old Beiyang man, serves as the president.
He happens to be familiar with Li Junqing, so he drags him into the water to work for the Japanese.
In addition to Li Junqing, there were dozens of people who came to the meeting.
They were all social celebrities from the second and third tiers of Peiping.
They were all dressed up in robes and mandarin jackets.
The person presiding over the meeting was a Japanese colonel.
The topic of discussion was how to form the North China Provisional Government as soon as possible.
News of the fall of Pingjin reached Beitai, and the Chen family were all angry and worried.
Yao Yilei's aunt's family was still in Tianjin, and Lin Wenjing's brother was not only stranded in Peiping, but was also training in the army in Nanyuan.
It was heard that many people died in the bloody battle in Nanyuan, so she had a meal Bu Si, worried about his brother's safety.
Chen Zikun was in charge of work in Nanjing, and only women were in charge of the family.
Although Pingjin fell, traffic was not blocked.
Lin Wenjing wanted to go back to Peiping to look for her brother, but Yao Yilei stopped her: "North China is in chaos.
How can you live with a woman?"
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What's the use?
If there is an accident, we are more worried.
If we are caught by the Japanese, won't we cause trouble for the master?
Wenlong is in his twenties and can take care of himself.
Besides, my cousin is also in Peking.
They will definitely know each other.
Take care, don’t worry.”
In Shanghai, the Japanese navy was ready to take action.
They followed the example of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and deployed defenses in Zhabei on the grounds that a Marine Corps soldier was missing.
On August 9, two Japanese Marines were shot dead during a provocation at Hongqiao Airport.
Four days later, on the same day, At 9:50 a.m. on August 13, 1937, the Second Songhu War began.
The day after the war started, the Chinese government issued a statement of self-defense and resistance against the war.
The Military Commission established the Ninth Army, with Zhang Zhizhong as commander-in-chief, responsible for the Songhu War of Resistance.
On the same day, Japanese aircraft bombed Hangzhou and Nanjing, and were shot down by Gao Zhihang and others of the Fourth Battalion of the Air Force.
Eighteen of them were shot down. , with outstanding results, this day has since become the Chinese Air Force Day.
For the first time since September 18, China faced Japan with a tough stance, and the whole country was united as never before.
Yan Xishan of Shanxi, Li Zongren of Guangxi, Liu Xiang of Sichuan, and Long Yun of Yunnan all expressed their firm support for the Central Committee and were not afraid of any sacrifice in the war of resistance to the end. .
At the same time, the Red Army in northern Shaanxi was reorganized into the Eighth Route Army of the National Revolutionary Army, and the Communist guerrillas in southern China were reorganized into the New Fourth Army.
People from all over the world donated money to help the fight, and overseas Chinese were not willing to be left behind.
They donated a huge amount of three million in a short period of time.
Troops across the country were mobilized.
Troops gathered in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangdong, and all over the provinces, wearing straw sandals and carrying luggage, heading towards North China and Shanghai.
At the Jiangdong Provincial Capital Campus, 10,000 elite soldiers are ready to go.
They are the new divisions under the Jiangdong Provincial Security Command.
They are composed of the former 99th Army of the Jiangdong Army and graduates of the Jiangdong Army Officer School in 1937.
They are equipped with German-style equipment. , steel helmet, cowhide leggings, Mauser 24-type rifle, and big leather shoes that were polished brightly.
Jiangdong Provincial Garrison Commander Chen Shou, new division commander Chen Qilin, provincial chairman Yan Su, and Chairman of the Aviation Commission Chen Zikun, who came specially from Nanjing, all stood on the stage to review the troops.
The soldiers lined up and passed the rostrum, one by one.
The young face is full of no hesitation.
Liu Ting's younger brother Liu Xiaoyong was in the queue.
He was a recent graduate of the Jiangdong Branch of the Central Military Academy with the rank of Army Warrant Officer.
He passed the front of the rostrum carrying a box cannon.
The leader shouted: "Look to the right."
Countless pairs of eyes They all turned to the podium.
The officers on the stage raised their white-gloved right hands to return salutes to the soldiers.
Liu Ting, who was standing behind Chen Zikun, saw her younger brother in the queue and felt her heart tighten
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