Chapter 234: Heading To Shanghai
“Little Bing! Didn’t you follow your father this morning on a steamboat to Shanghai to seek refuge with the distant relative of that Air Force Commander Zhou? Why are you still here?”
“No! Little Ling! The time was delayed, the foreigners’ cruise ship was late because Beiping over there was occupied by Japanese Troops, so it also made the foreigners worry about the situation on this side of Tianjin City, and we can only leave tomorrow, but haven’t you seen it now, the Japanese Troops’ Dongjuzi Airport has suffered night air strike bombing!”
“I saw it! I was scared by the explosion sound produced by this sudden air strike bombing, and so were my family, and the left and right neighbors, even now I see all the citizens in the entire Foreign Public Concession were startled by this sudden air strike explosion sound! I don’t know where the night flying unit came from to carry out air strike bombing!”
“Yeah! Although my family and I were also startled badly, thinking it was the Japanese Troops’ flying troops coming to air strike the Tianjin City Public Concession here! But after coming out to look for a while now, it feels like it’s not a Japanese Aircraft Group coming for air strike bombing, but the Japanese Troops’ airport suffering air strike bombing! So I feel relaxed, and extremely relieved! If it weren’t for these damned Japanese Troops occupying that side of Beiping, my family and I wouldn’t have to move to such a distant place like Shanghai to take refuge!”
“That side of Shanghai is pretty good too! I heard that side is extremely prosperous and bustling, much more modern than our Tianjin City and Beiping City! Skyscrapers stand tall, and all kinds of the latest modern public facilities are there! Like cinemas and amusement parks, all of them! I really want to go too! And now after Beiping has fallen, I also don’t know if Tianjin City can hold out! Once the Japanese Troops kill their way here, I don’t know what the situation will be!”
“That’s hard to say! Our entire Tianjin City seems to have only about 5,000 troops from the 29th Army 38th Division, and even including the foreigners’ troops here in the Foreign Public Concession, there aren’t many! Compared to the Japanese Troops’ large army, the gap is still very big, but the only reassurance is that you and I both live inside the Foreign Concession, not inside Tianjin City! Otherwise, once the Japanese Troops attack and occupy Tianjin City, we’re probably doomed, I heard from those students and refugees who fled from Beiping that the Japanese Troops who broke into the city were everywhere committing arson, killing, looting, plundering, doing all kinds of evil, many civilians suffered their atrocities, especially young and pretty women had even worse fates, very tragic!”
“Don’t talk about those scary things! Actually, I know too, so I’m also very scared, but my father has no intention of leaving here, and I have no choice! Otherwise, I would want to go with you to Shanghai to take refuge and gain some insight!”
“Wanting to leave for Shanghai now isn’t easy either! Because we don’t know if we’ll suffer attacks and blockades from Japanese Troops’ fleets at the port and on the sea!”
“Probably not! What you’re taking is a foreigners’ cruise ship! The Japanese Troops probably still don’t dare to provoke the Foreign Powers yet!”
“I hope so! Otherwise, I’m afraid my family and I won’t be able to reach that side of Shanghai! And even if we reach that side of Shanghai, we’ll be starting from scratch, although our family and that Air Force Commander’s family are distant relatives, they may not give us much help! Because the family background gap between our family and theirs is too big!”
“As long as we can leave here without worrying about the danger of Japanese Troops attacking, that’s already very good! At least much better and safer than for my family and me!”
The Japanese Troops and Japanese Aircraft Group at the Japanese Troops’ Dongjuzi Airport were bombed by a batch of Mosquito NF Mk.II night bomber group, Do 215B night fighter jet group, and “Lancaster” heavy bomber group dispatched by Zhou Wenhua, with firelight rushing to the sky everywhere and turned into ruins, then
Among the citizens of the Foreign Public Concession who were startled awake,
Two female students also gathered together, discussing.
They were Chen Xiaobing and Guo Xiaoling.
They were citizens living in the Foreign Public Concession and also female students attending the foreign school there.
