"Lao Yue, I don't know how you view the current situation, but you know, I have the opportunity to get in touch with some news that has not been disseminated by the outside world or officially announced." Tang Cheng then deliberately put on a show.
He looked at Joseph with a serious expression. "I have reliable news that the Japanese will launch a war next year, and Shanghai is likely to be one of their targets." Tang Cheng's words obviously shocked Joseph, who widened his eyes and expressed his dismay.
When he believed it, Tang Cheng continued.
"If the Japanese launch a war in Shanghai, I believe that the national government will dispatch troops to Shanghai to fight against them. I am very sure of this. But you should also know that the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army will be worse than that of the Japanese army. But if you include
The performance and power of weapons and equipment are much lower than the strength of the Chinese army. If nothing unexpected happens, Shanghai will definitely be lost. After all, Shanghai is on the seaside. The Japanese army only needs to rely on the help of naval guns to fight steadily and force them back.
National Army troops.”
Seeing that Joseph nodded repeatedly to support his conclusion, Tang Cheng immediately put a finger into the coffee cup, and then used the coffee liquid on his finger to draw a map on the table. "This is Shanghai, this is Nanjing,
The actual distance between the two places is not very big. Nanjing is the capital of the country. In order to force the people to surrender, after the Japanese army takes control of Shanghai, they will definitely mobilize troops to continue attacking Nanjing. Do you understand what I mean now?"
Joseph looked blankly at the map drawn with coffee on the table. After a while, Joseph finally raised his head and looked at Tang City. "Tang, what you just said has not happened yet, so I can't
I agree with your statement. However, I know that the Nationalist Army has millions of troops, and Japan is only an island country after all. Their permanent military strength is only more than thirty divisions, and the Kwantung Army, the strongest among them, has to be deployed.
Be wary of Soviet troops in the Far East…”
Before Joseph even finished speaking, Tang Cheng had already understood what the other party meant. After all, there were many people in the Military and Administrative Department who thought the same as him. "Old Yue, you think about things too simply. National People's Congress
**Currently, we don’t have the millions of troops you mentioned. If you include the troops held by major military leaders in the country, plus some local militia-type garrison troops, we may be able to reach the scale you mentioned, but their combat effectiveness
It’s really worrying.”
"Lao Yue, you have to know that fighting a war is not about numbers. Not to mention those local troops, even in the regular troops in the national army, there are a large number of soldiers who have not received systematic training. In the Japanese army, all light machine guns have been
The equipment has been distributed to squad-level units, but in the national army, there are still a large number of soldiers using outdated World War I weapons. With such a comparison of weapons and equipment, do you think the national army will have a chance of winning once a war breaks out?"
Tang Cheng's words sounded a little depressing, but the truth is indeed the case. Except for the few direct troops of Chairman Chiang Kai-shek, the weapons and equipment used by many soldiers in other national army units should already be
Those who were eliminated were like the Sichuan Army, which suffered a large number of casualties in the Anti-Japanese War. Many soldiers still used bolt-action rifles from World War I. Even these old-fashioned rifles had to have their rifling smoothed out.
"Tang, but this is your motherland. Is it because of this reason that you want to take your family south to live in Chongqing?" Joseph suddenly looked at Tang Cheng angrily as if he had been given blood. "Tang, if I were you
, I am willing to shed the last drop of my blood for my motherland, instead of acting like a coward and just thinking about escaping from reality." Joseph's words were a bit harsh, but he instantly won the favor of Tang Cheng.
"Old Yue, we have known each other for a long time. Do you think I am the kind of person you just said?" Tang Cheng grinned at Joseph, and then said sternly to Joseph. "Old Yue, you
I am very grateful to you for saying what you just said. It shows that you are a good person. You should know that my father died not long ago. He was shot three times during an operation to capture Japanese spies and left me without treatment. Therefore,
I have a blood feud with the Japanese."
"You know I am a policeman, but you don't know my other identity. In fact, after my father passed away, I have been helping the military intelligence agency to hunt down Japanese spies in the city and it has been very effective. Just like you can't send a painter to the battlefield to fight.
, my specialty is searching for clues to find Japanese spies lurking in Kuomintang-controlled areas, rather than being sent to the battlefield to fight the Japanese army."
"So, the police are just your disguise, but you are actually an agent, an intelligence agent who specializes in arresting Japanese spies?" Joseph's expression changed instantly. At this moment, he was looking at Tangcheng in surprise, a living
The agent was standing right in front of him. How could this not make Joseph feel surprised and excited?
"Lao Yue, you didn't pay attention to what I said just now!" Tang Cheng then stretched out his hand to rub the end of his nose with a helpless expression, while secretly rolling his eyes at Joseph, he also patiently explained to him. "
When did I say that I was an agent of the Intelligence Agency? I just said that I helped the Intelligence Agency find and capture Japanese spies, just like your American bounty hunters. The Intelligence Agency paid for it and I contributed my efforts."
"Part-time job with knowledge... I'm just part-time, understand? Lao Yue, I'm just part-time helping the Intelligence Division to do these things. In fact, I'm still a policeman." Tang Cheng took out his police chief's ID and slapped it on the table to prove what he just said.
That explanation. "I have just turned 18 years old. The Military Intelligence Office is also a military department. Not to mention that I am too young, but it is just my mother's test. There is no way I can pass it."
Joseph finally stopped arguing with Tang Cheng about the identity of the agent, and returned to the previous issue, "Tang, you said that the Chinese army could not stop the Japanese army in Shanghai, but if the Japanese really continue to expand the scale of the war,
And if you defeat the Chinese army again and occupy Nanjing, won't your motherland be about to surrender to the Japanese?"
"Lao Yue, it seems you still don't understand us Chinese!" As he spoke, Tang Cheng took out a cigarette and lit one. "We Chinese seem easy to bully, but once we get anxious, the Japanese will definitely fall behind.
It's not easy to go. Besides, China is a country with a large population and a lot of defense depth. If we lose Shanghai and Nanjing, we can still retreat across the Yangtze River and continue to resist. Even if we lose the Yangtze River again, we can still retreat to the southwest and continue fighting. Even if we lose it, we can still retreat to the southwest.
In all cities, we can also break up our troops and transfer them to the countryside to continue resisting. The Japanese want to occupy the entire China, which is a wishful thinking."
"Old covenant, China is a country with a history of more than 5,000 years. Since the Han Dynasty, the island country of Japan has been a vassal of China. In the Ming Dynasty, Japan began to seek to develop its power on the mainland, but was beaten back to the mainland. It's just that
At the end of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Japanese found the opportunity to control North Korea, and then used the excuse to restore Manchukuo to develop its power in the Northeast. It was just a small Northeastern region, and the Japanese digested it for decades. Now it is the entire China. Do you think the Japanese really
Are you ready to occupy the whole of China?"
Joseph is a standard blond and blue-eyed foreigner. Naturally, he only has a partial understanding of Chinese history. As for what Tang Cheng just said, Joseph simply listens to it as a book from heaven. But the meaning of Tang Cheng's last sentence, Joseph does.
I understand. Anyone with a little common sense will know that it is absolutely impossible for Japan, a small island country, to control the entire China.
"That's why I say, you don't have to worry about whether China will surrender at all, because China will never surrender to Japan, and the Chinese will choose to fight to the end." Tang Cheng's voice gradually became louder, and his eyes gradually became clear.
With blood flowing and emotions leaking out, Tang Cheng unconsciously exerted force in his hands, and with just one blow, he forcefully tore off an edge of the table in front of him with his bare hands, which actually scared Joseph.
"Old Yue, for me, catching Japanese spies is far more important than serving as a soldier. Only after tightening the fence and eradicating all the pests hiding in your home can you concentrate on fighting them out. What's more,
Intelligence warfare is also a means of war and is part of the overall war. I cannot be a real intelligence agent because I still have my family to take care of, so before the real war comes, I must first settle my family."
After Tang Cheng said so much to Joseph, the latter finally understood Tang Cheng's intention. If it were him, he would probably make the same decision as Tang Cheng did at this moment, and he would also choose to settle his family first. "Tang Cheng
, will you return to Nanjing?" Joseph finally asked this question.
"Old Yue, I don't know. If my hunch turns out to be true, maybe I will stay in Chongqing." Tang Cheng did not tell Joseph the truth, because even if he told Joseph everything he knew at this moment, Joseph might
He wouldn't believe it, after all, those were things that hadn't happened yet. What's more, not even his family knew about the secrets he had, and it was impossible for Tang Cheng to tell Joseph.
After having an in-depth chat with Joseph, Tang Cheng suddenly felt that the inexplicable pressure that had been weighing on his heart had dissipated a lot. Although there were still many things that he couldn't tell Joseph, Tang Cheng still felt like finding someone to vent to and have a deep chat for a while.
, may be able to effectively regulate his emotions and mood, and after reducing his burden, he may be able to devote himself more fully to his work. As for Joseph's identity, Tang Cheng also had a vague inference in his mind, even if Joseph has such and such
identity, but Tang Cheng still believes that Joseph is a good person. (To be continued)