"Lao Yue, I don't know how you view the current situation, but you know, I have the opportunity to get access to some information that has not been spread by the outside world or announced by the government." Tang Cheng then deliberately put on a serious look. He looked at Joseph with an expression on his face. "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. Just when the latter's eyes widened in disbelief, Tang Cheng Then he spoke.
"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 and 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 Nationalist Government 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 Chinatown. "Tang, what you just said has not happened yet, so I can't agree with your statement. But I know that the Nationalist Government has millions of troops, and Japan is only an island country after all, and their permanent military strength is There are only more than thirty divisions, and the Kwantung Army, the strongest among them, still has to deploy defenses in the Far East to guard against the Soviet army..."
Before Joseph had finished speaking, Tang Cheng had already understood what the other party meant. After all, there were many people in the Military and Political Department who thought the same as him. "Lao Yue, you are oversimplifying things. The Nationalist Government currently does not have the millions of troops you mentioned. If you include the forces in the hands of major military leaders in the country, plus some local militia-type garrison troops, , may be able to have the scale you mentioned, but their combat effectiveness is really worrying."
"Lao Yue, you have to know that fighting 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, 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 Eliminated. Just like the Sichuan Army, which suffered a large number of casualties during 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.
"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 would be willing to shed the last drop of my blood for my motherland, instead of acting like a coward who only wants to escape reality." Joseph's words were a bit harsh, but he instantly won Tang Cheng's favor.
"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, I'm 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 agents and left without treatment. Mine, so I have a blood feud with the Japanese.”
"You know that 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 the 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 in front of him, how could this not make Joseph feel surprised and excited.
"Old 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. He secretly rolled his eyes at Joseph and patiently explained to him. "When did I say that I was an agent of the Intelligence Agency? I just said that I would help the Intelligence Agency find and capture Japanese spies, just like your American bounty hunters. The Intelligence Agency pays and I contribute."
"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, and the Military Intelligence Office is also considered 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 national 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 not be left behind. Moreover, China is a country with a large population and a large defense depth. If we lose Shanghai and Nanjing, we can still retreat across the Yangtze River. If we continue to resist, even if we lose the Yangtze River, we can retreat to the southwest and continue fighting. Even if we lose all the cities, we can still 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 nation 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's development power in the Northeast. It was just a small Northeast region, and the Japanese had to digest it for decades. Now it is the whole of 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. Regarding what Tang Cheng just said, Joseph simply listened to it as a book from heaven. However, Joseph understood the meaning of Tang Cheng's last sentence. Anyone with a little common sense would 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 move, 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 in the war. 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 intentions. If it were him, he might have chosen the same decision as Tang Cheng did at this moment, and he would have chosen to settle his family first. "Tang, 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 I don’t believe it either, after all, those are things that haven’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 about them.
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 with someone for a while. , may be able to effectively regulate one's emotions and mood, and after reducing the burden, one may be able to devote himself more fully to work. Regarding Joseph's identity, Tang Cheng also had a vague inference in his mind. Even if Joseph had such an identity, Tang Cheng still believed that Joseph was a good person.
