While preparing for the defense of Nanjing, Jiang Zhongzheng kept begging everywhere to try to "rule the land with raze" and let the foreign adults stop the Japanese invasion.

Unfortunately, it seems to have had little effect. In early September, at the 99th Standing Committee of the League of Nations, Gu Weijun, a representative of Nanjing, filed a complaint with the League of Nations against China in accordance with Articles 10, 11, and 17 of the "International Covenant" in Geneva.

Six days later, the League of Nations discussed the so-called "appeal" in Nanjing, but in fact, Japan has fully launched the League of Nations, what else can the League of Nations do?! Sending troops?! That is simply not possible, and Britain and France are now wary of a rising Germany.

It's too late to guard against Germany, who will send troops to Chapter 720 of Ten Thousand Miles to fight a war with Japan without interest?! Therefore, after tossing for a long time, the League of Nations just condemned Japan for bombing Chinese civilians without pain, and did not even intend to sanction Japan.

In fact, Jiang Zhongzheng himself should have known that this approach was ineffective. In a telegram to Jiang Tinghuang, the historical ambassador to Russia and now director of the Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China, he said:

"With the Nine-Nation Conference imminent, what should be urgently considered now is that our country is fighting for self-defense this time, and it is also a matter of concern for the security of the Far East as a whole. …… However, for the sake of peace and war, Britain and the United States are very worried about whether they will excessively accommodate Japan. Japan is running amok and is becoming more and more willing to take the lead if it does not participate in meetings or refuses all mediation. ”

Sure enough! On November 3, at the Nine-Power Treaty Conference in Brussels, Belgium, Japan and Germany sent representatives directly to the meeting in response to their strong refusal, which brought the League of Nations a big disgrace.

The Japanese government, Tongshi City, claimed that it was no longer a member of the League of Nations, and secondly, it declared that the "dispute" between China and Japan was "an issue in Asia and even between China and Japan, and other countries have no right to interfere!" Otherwise, it will be regarded as a declaration of war and the concession will be completely destroyed! ”

On the one hand, Japan's crazy threat made Britain and France and other countries angry, and on the other hand, it also made the hearts of the people in Chapter 720 Jinling feel palpitated. Germany is expanding at a speed that Britain and France can't control, and they have raw materials from all over the country, and they are producing a large number of fighters and tanks, which look overwhelming!

For their own security considerations, Britain and France had to join forces and set up a large number of troops on the border as defense. In this case. The Nanjing government's request to follow the Washington Conference in resolving the Shandong issue and the hope that all countries would assist China in its negotiations with Japan did not receive much response.

Italy reiterated the proposal of China and Japan to make direct representations on their own, the British representative expressed neutrality, the United States stated at the meeting that it would not intervene in the war, and France could not avoid it after a few haha. It is very simple to say that there is nothing to be done.

Germany was very positive, but they did not show up at the meeting. But their other identity has given them convenience, and Germany has long had a large number of Japanese Army students. Relations between Germany and Japan have not been bad.

There is also a lot of interaction between the two sides, and it is very easy to communicate privately with various departments. The Foreign Office led by Ribbentrop achieved the results of negotiations with Trotsky and others, much to Hitler's delight!

Ribbentrop intuitively believed that the war between Nanking and Japan would be a good opportunity for Germany to show its "peaceful" face on the international stage, and at the same time to paralyze Britain and France. Ribbentrop's proposal was supported by Hitler, who began to contact Japan in an attempt to contain the war.

Minister of the German Government to China, Oskar. Paul. Dr. Todman traveled to Wuhan with this mission. Germany's face is not good, and Japan does not give it away. As a result, Japan made a so-called "Outline for Handling the China Incident" and handed it to Dixon, the German ambassador to Japan.

Japan's demands came out, but Jiang Zhongzheng also saw the statements of the three eastern provinces and Stalin's side, and his face turned blue on the spot! The request made by the Japanese is simple:

Guangdong Province Autonomy; 2. To establish a demilitarized zone along the border of Guangdong in South China; 3. Expand the demilitarized zone of Shanghai, with patrols and catchers in the public concession under Japanese control; Fourth, it is necessary to stop all anti-Japanese policies; 5. Jointly oppose red; 6. Reducing tariffs on Japan; 7. Respect for foreign rights and interests.

If the three eastern provinces do not get back the more than one million square kilometers of land, Jiang Zhongzheng may still be able to consider this agreement. But the three eastern provinces won more than one million square kilometers of land before and after the "Beijing Treaty" and the "Aihui Treaty" in one go!

He Jiang Zhongzheng wants to think that he is "orthodox"! Orthodoxy is signing cession treaties, but local forces are recovering the lost territory?! How can you let Jiang Zhong testify?!

Therefore, Jiang Zhongzheng told Tao Deman with a blushing face that if he returned to the front before the July 7 Incident, he would consider negotiating with Japan. Otherwise, he will not accept any conditions! Meantime. He also absolutely did not admit that he had received the content of the negotiations from Japan.

Jiang Zhongzheng knew from the bottom of his heart that in fact, his rule was in jeopardy. Students, scholars, officers, and pilots who defected from Nanjing continued to rush to the three eastern provinces!

Without him, the contrast is too obvious! Under the command of Nanjing. Nothing but defeat and humiliation will be gained. But the victories of the three eastern provinces one after another continue to make people feel jubilant!

Not to mention people of insight, even ordinary people are constantly flocking to the three eastern provinces! There, at least there is no need to worry about war and all kinds of "expropriation" and "conscription".

At the same time, several leaders of the Sichuan army, including Liu Xiang and others, were also ready to move. Originally, they also thought that Nanjing was orthodox, and if they wanted to resist Japan, they had to be under the leadership of Nanjing, right?!

But as a result, Nanjing was defeated. On the contrary, the three eastern provinces actually suppressed the Japanese attack! In contrast, a fool knows how to choose.

If the matter of Jiang Zhongzheng's peace with Japan breaks out again at this time, there is no doubt that the entire Nanjing government will completely lose the support of the people. This government will undoubtedly be abandoned by the whole country. Jiang Zhongzheng did not dare to take this risk.

On November 11, the Imperial Council was held at the headquarters of Japan. Under the leadership of Prince Xianyuan Gong and others, through the "Fundamental Policy for Handling the Shina Incident", they proposed: "The empire seeks to eliminate the current central government of China, or try to contain it under the banner of the new central power."

Subsequently, Japan issued a Konoe statement:

After the Japanese government captured Shanghai, it still gave the Chinese Nationalist Government the last chance to reflect on it. However, the Nationalist Government did not understand the true meaning of the empire and actually instigated the War of Resistance...... In the future, the Japanese government will not regard the Nationalist Government as ......an adversary.

So far. Jiang Zhongzheng also knows that people are going to completely support themselves! He gritted his teeth and announced the "Declaration on Safeguarding Territorial Sovereignty and Administrative Integrity" and recalled Ambassador to Japan Xu Shiying!

In November 1937, after a period of silence, the Japanese army made adjustments and launched a full-scale attack again!

The first section of Fujian and Guangdong attacked Jiangxi while squeezing Yu Hanmou's living space. Jiangsu and Zhejiang landed and occupied Shanghai, and one of them went to Nanjing!

Historically, in order to purchase arms from the Soviet Union, Chiang Zhongzheng chose to sign the Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact with Stalin. Therefore, he also completely disappointed Germany in Nanjing, and Germany's later withdrawal of its ambassador to Nanjing and its withdrawal of military advisers were not unrelated.

And now the Soviet Union itself is in a mess, not to mention selling arms to Nanjing, and its own lack of arms is forced to buy from the three eastern provinces. There was no Sino-Soviet non-aggression pact at all, and Germany was still selling some weapons to Nanjing.

On the one hand, the conservative forces in the political and industrial circles of Germany do not want Japan to completely occupy China and monopolize the Chinese market and strategic raw materials. On the other hand, Japan could not guarantee Germany's trade advantage in China.

And most importantly, if Japan annihilates Nanjing, it will form a big encirclement of the three eastern provinces with the Japanese army in Korea! If the three eastern provinces fail, Germany will have to face the danger of losing most of its raw material supply.

With the support of Jiang Zhongzheng, Tang Shengzhi began to organize his own Nanjing garrison.

The entire Nanjing garrison consisted of thirteen divisions. These included the 36th, 87th, and 88th Divisions, which had just retreated from the Shanghai front, plus 10 divisions drawn from other places, for a total of 13 divisions.

At the same time, there is also a teaching corps composed of students of the military academy (a total of more than 12,000 people), a military police unit, and a Jiangning fortress unit, ideally these troops will have a full strength of about 180,000 people.

According to Tang Shengzhi's statistics, his garrison force was about 80,000 people, and the worst thing was that 30,000 of them were recruits!

The composition of the main commanders is: Commander Tang Shengzhi, Deputy Commanders Luo Zhuoying and Liu Xing. Jiang Zhongzheng also understood Tang Shengzhi's hardships in defending the city, and a total of 17 German No. 1 tanks of the Third Company of the Army Armored Corps were delivered to Tang Shengzhi's command.

At the same time, all ten No. 2 tanks secretly sold to him by Germany were handed over to Tang Shengzhi. What I hope is to be able to play a brilliant role in the defense of Nanjing!

The rest of the relatively powerful units include: 8 tank defense guns under the jurisdiction of 1 battalion of the 8th Artillery Regiment, and 27 large and small antiaircraft guns under the jurisdiction of the antiaircraft artillery teams under the Air Defense Command.

At the same time, Japan established the Central China Front. On the part of the commanders: Commander, Army General Matsui Ishone, Chief of Staff, Tsukada Tsukasa, Deputy Staff Officer, Muto Akira. At the same time, Lieutenant General Asakanomiya Hatohiko was appointed commander of the Shanghai Dispatch Army.

On December 1, Emperor Hirohito of Japan approved the "Continental Mandate No. 8" and officially ordered the capture of Nanjing!

At the same time, the Nanjing government mobilized Xu Yuanquan of the 10th Army, Deng Longguang of the 83rd Army, and the ...... who withdrew from the Battle of Songhu Army, teaching corps, garrison, military police infantry, etc. to participate in the defense of Nanjing.

The tragic battle kicked off...... rq！！！