Time entered 1938, Jiang Dong and his brothers were doing renovations in a small town called Banqiao on the edge of the Anhui section of Jinpu Road.

Because of the instructions from Chairman Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Government, newspapers in January described Jiangdong's feats at great length, restoring everything he did in Nanjing to its original form.

The names of Jiang Dong and his brothers were resounding throughout the north and south of the Yangtze River due to the escape of Nanjing refugees. The newspapers once again made them the focus of publicity, in order to enhance the resistance confidence of the people and the army in the extremely difficult situation of the Anti-Japanese War across the country.

At the same time, newspapers used the same volume to report on the cruel behavior of the Japs using poison gas bombs on ordinary people, showing the many misdeeds of the Japs one by one.

In mid-January 1938, news came one after another from Nanjing, which had long since fallen.

The Japanese army inhumanely massacred thousands of wounded Chinese soldiers in the city of Nanjing. They were all unable to leave in time during the retreat. At the same time, more than 20,000 civilians were brutally murdered. Most of them were elderly people with limited mobility.

They were captured by little devils from the villages and towns around Nanjing.

In the last few months of 1937, the Japs fought one after another. The troops suffered heavy casualties, and because the Nanjing they received was only an empty city full of ruins, the Japs vented their anger on the wounded and civilians in China.

News of the Japanese army's brutal massacre of civilians spread throughout the country through newspapers, and the people across China saw clearly the true face of the little devil.

First, they used poison gas bombs inhumanely, and then massacred the unarmed wounded and civilians, letting the kind and simple Chinese people know that the little devils came to subjugate the country and exterminate the species. If they did not resist, they would be beheaded or become slaves.

The anti-Japanese sentiment in the army is getting stronger and stronger, and civil groups and classes no longer have any illusions about the Japanese.

After entering 1938, the national awareness of the Anti-Japanese War entered a new stage. Whether in the rear or on the front line, people's belief in the Anti-Japanese War became more and more firm, and the national anti-Japanese war trend expected by the National Government had taken shape.

The Jiangdong regiment spent a period of quiet and leisurely life in the small town of Banqiao. The wounded gradually improved, and the core beliefs of the army gradually condensed.

Xiaoshan Ling left Banqiao for Wuhan in early January. Although he knew that a lieutenant general commander would not be able to stay with him, Jiangdong was still a little disappointed when Xiaoshan Ling left. He took hundreds of them with him at the same time.

A former brother of the gendarmerie.

But there is good news. Captain Xie Chengrui of the Teaching Corps chose to stay in the Jiangdong Corps.

In his own words, the members of the teaching corps were all dead in the eyes of the Military Commission. All the direct descendants of the emperor had died in Nanjing, and the designation of the teaching corps was about to be cancelled. There was no point in going back to build it.

At the same time, he was also moved by Jiang Dong's heroic behavior for the country and the people. He did not leave his injured brother behind on the battlefield, and protected the common people without hesitation during the retreat. Xie Chengrui felt that fighting with such a person was the most comfortable state.

Almost all of the hundreds of wounded and surviving brothers under his command chose to stay in the Jiangdong Regiment, giving Jiangdong a sudden increase in hundreds of experienced veterans and several young officers with excellent academic qualifications.

In 1938, it was time to choose a path forward.

Jiang Dong first went to find Ding Beifeng. He wanted to have a good talk with his eldest brother.

Thanks to Sun Bangguo's unremitting efforts, Ding Beifeng's injuries have basically recovered, but one of his eyes has been completely blinded.

"Brother, how do you feel?" The bandage on Ding Beifeng's head has been removed, and only one eye is covered with an eyepatch. The scars on his face look a bit hideous when you look closer, and the gas bombs of the little Japs have caused scars on his forehead.

A piece of skin fell off and the entire wound was dented.

When Ding Beifeng saw his own wound at first, it was difficult to accept it. He was depressed for a long time. Jiang Dong came to enlighten him whenever he had time.

"Dongzi, if you don't do your own thing every day, why do you always come to this loser like me?" Ding Beifeng said angrily.

Jiang Dong smiled and waved the paper on his hand, "I received news about our old man. He is doing well in Wuhan!"

Ding Beifeng took the letter and browsed it quickly, "This old man will no longer be able to dominate the world from now on. At least he can be a rich man in peace."

"Brother, do you think Wuhan is a safe place?" Jiang Dong moved a stool and sat next to Ding Beifeng.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, brother, do you think the Japs can't defeat Wuhan?" Jiang Dong asked calmly.

"Attacking Wuhan?" Ding Beifeng shook his head, "It's unlikely. Nanjing was unprepared, and the Nationalist government must have at least one million troops around Wuhan."

"There were millions of troops during the Battle of Songhu, and the millions at that time were all the elites among the elites. Didn't the little devils eventually march west and capture Nanjing?"

Ding Beifeng now admires Jiang Dong very much and has no doubts about the latter's words. "Dongzi, are you sure Wuhan can't defend it?"

"Yes." Jiang Dong was very sure, "Before the end of this year, Wuhan will also be captured by the Japs!"

Ding Beifeng was speechless for a long time. He couldn't understand how a small Japanese country could have such strong strength. Could it be that the great China could only be passively beaten?

"Then the old man must leave quickly, but where is the safest place?"

"Southwest, Chongqing!" Jiang Dong said firmly.

"Chongqing...Chongqing..." Ding Beifeng muttered.

"Then Dongzi, what do you want me to do?"

Ding Beifeng is getting to know his younger brother better and better, and Jiang Dong will not come over and say these things to him for no reason.

"I want big brother to help me!"

"How can I help?" Ding Beifeng's self-confidence has not yet been completely restored. He subconsciously touched his blind eye and the scar on his forehead.

Jiangdong knew what he was thinking and decided to have a complete showdown with his eldest brother, hoping to revive his eldest brother's fighting spirit.

"Brother, let me tell you clearly. I cannot trust the Nationalist Government and Chairman Chiang Kai-shek. I decided very early on to go it alone. All I did before was just to save the hundreds of thousands of people in Nanjing."

Ding Beifeng was still not used to having only one eye. He looked at Jiang Dong with a strange expression, "Is that why you tried every means to let Xie Chengrui and his brothers stay?"

Jiang Dong's heart was exposed, and his face was not red at all, "Yes."

"What do you want to do?"

Jiang Dong pondered for a while, "My current idea is to stay in Anhui and find a way to create a base behind the little devil. With a territory of my own, I can boldly implement my plan!"

"Have you already had a plan?"

"I figured it out when I was in Germany." Jiang Dong answered truthfully.

Ding Beifeng tilted his head, "You don't want to rebel and become emperor, just like you, Chairman Chiang!"

"Ahem..." Jiang Dong almost spit out a mouthful of old blood, "My big brother, the little devils are not like the warlords from more than ten years ago. They are aliens. They not only want to occupy the land, but also want to destroy us.

The culture of our country will completely destroy our nation. Now that aliens are raging on our land, how can I have the mind to think about those things? Everything I do is to drive out the little devils and save the lives of thousands of people.

Thousands of Chinese take revenge!"

Ding Beifeng accurately grasped the loophole in Jiang Dong's words, "After driving away the Japanese, do you want to dominate the world?"

Jiang Dong was stunned for a moment when he heard this. Why does his eldest brother always think about Wang Tu's hegemony? "I haven't thought that far yet?"

"Yeah." Ding Beifeng didn't know what he was thinking, and his eyes were rolling.

"We are brothers, and we are in troubled times now. As the eldest brother, I will try my best to help you, even if I sacrifice this broken body, I will not be afraid." Ding Beifeng's body once again exuded a cold aura.

Jiang Dong's eyes were full of tears. When Ding Beifeng said this, he put his whole life in Jiang Dong's hands, "Big brother!"

The two hugged each other tightly, sharing weal and woe, life and death from then on.

Brothers fighting the tiger, father and son go into battle!

"What exactly do you want me to do?"

"I need my eldest brother to go to Wuhan in a while. Wuhan is about to be in chaos. After you go to Wuhan, send the old man to Chongqing first, and then stay in Wuhan to collect talents for me!"

"Talent?" Ding Beifeng wondered.

"Yes, they are talents!" Jiang Dong said seriously, "Wuhan is now a mixed bag, with all kinds of people gathered together. Many people in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River left their homes and careers to flee, and many of them are the talents I need in the future. Brother, you

When I go to Wuhan, I will try my best to persuade some of them to come to me. As long as they are skilled, I will need them even if they are masons."

"Do you have such a big appetite?"

"Haha, science and technology are the primary productive forces. Whether they understand science or have skills, I will accept them all!"

"Can you afford to support so many people?"

"In the next year, I will try to build a stable base. With the territory, everything will be easy." Jiangdong smiled, "Brother, don't think about recruiting talents too easily. People who have some skills are basically arrogant.

Ao, I want a lot, but my eldest brother may not be able to find them all!"

"Well, I understand this too, is there anything else you need me to do?"

"Huh? Get more medicines and other military supplies if you can get them." Jiang Dong said with high spirits, "In short, you can do anything that is beneficial to the war, development, and us!"

"hehe!"

Ding Beifeng smiled. There was something in his brother's words. It seemed that he was going back to his old profession.

"Dongzi, the path you chose is not easy to take, isn't it?"

Jiang Dong stood up, "I always feel that God sent me to this world for a purpose, and I can't live in this world for decades in vain. Our country and nation have suffered too much.

The world is about to be in chaos. This is our opportunity, our nation’s opportunity. We want the king to return and let the Chinese nation stand at the top of the world’s nations again!”
Chapter completed!