Chapter 210: A Series Of Shocking Front-page Headlines
Tianjin, with the battle in Beiping City, and after the major newspaper offices of foreigners in the foreign public concession, especially there, extensively promoted and reported, such a situation has even spread to the newspapers of those foreign powers abroad, publishing front-page headline reports, allowing even more foreigners to take it as after-meal conversation news to watch and chat about.
“Should we also go to Beiping there to support those German-equipped troops in resisting Japanese invaders? No matter what, we are all students from the Beiping side. Now that there are German-equipped troops holding fast to Beiping and engaging in battle with those damned Japanese army, I feel that we local Beiping people should also go back to participate in the operation!”
“We can’t go back. I heard that the trains here have stopped because more and more Japanese troops are gathering on the Fengtai side, and they are continuously deploying to the Beiping side to conduct support operations. I’m afraid that without reinforcements in Beiping, those German-equipped troops won’t be able to hold out for long! Moreover, if they don’t have sufficient ammunition supplies, they will probably face the difficulty of evacuating! Now we just don’t know if they have any follow-up reinforcements coming to aid!”
“There should be! What about the Taiyuan side? I heard that a Second War Zone has already been established, right? And I heard that quite a few main force troops have begun mobilizing and assembling there? Can’t they dispatch reinforcements to support Beiping’s German-equipped troops? Aren’t they and these German-equipped troops all part of the Central Army? How can they stand by and watch them die?”
“Who knows! If these German-equipped troops could get even more reinforcement troops, then their confidence and combat power in resisting Japanese invaders would also be much more sufficient! It wouldn’t be like now, making us worry about their subsequent battle situation!”
“Yes! Although I don’t know much about the Central Army and don’t have much favorable impression of them, this time these German-equipped troops are much better than those 29th Route Army remnants who abandoned the city and fled in the middle of the night. At least there are German-equipped troops stationed in Beiping, resisting the incoming Japanese army. If it weren’t for them, I’m afraid Beiping would have already been fully occupied by those Japanese invaders who commit arson, killing, looting, plundering, and harming innocent civilians!”
“So what do we do now? I feel we should do something to assist Beiping’s German-equipped troops in resisting those damned Japanese troops! Otherwise, my heart won’t feel right, watching them fight alone without helping at all—it feels very uncomfortable!”
But the most intense discussions in Tianjin were still among those students who had fled from Beiping, and even quite a few students wanted to go back to Beiping to support Zhou Wenhua’s German-equipped clone troops in resisting the incoming Japanese army.
However, just as their discussions were at their most intense and heated,
a series of foreigners’ front-page headline news suddenly took the lead in the foreign public concession, conducting emergency publishing in newspaper for sales.
The content of this series of news was that the German-equipped troops garrisoned in Beiping were evacuating, and moreover, a large number of Japanese troops had already arrived at Yuanping City from Fengtai, ready at any time to support the Japanese 20th Division attacking Beiping City, and after Katsuki Kiyoshi was decapitated, the one taking over command of the Japanese army was Lieutenant General Wanichiro Tashiro, the garrison army commander.
For these front-page headline news messages that were completely beyond everyone’s expectations,
it shocked the entire foreign public concession at once,
as well as the capital Nanjing, including Chairman Chang’s office where these front-page headline newspapers had already been placed,
He was solemnly flipping through them to read.
