"Principal Wu, why did you refuse us?" Lu Yuan's tone of speech at this time was no longer as relaxed as two days ago, when he followed Hogg to visit this Principal Wu two days ago, the situation in Nanjing had not changed so obviously, but almost overnight, a large number of foreigners in Nanjing City were evacuated, and even among the foreigners recruited by Hogg from Xuzhou, there were also those who wanted to leave. Lu Yuan came to Jinling Women's College today to ask Wu Yifang, the principal here, for a clear answer, but he didn't expect that as soon as the two sides met, Wu Yifang rejected his proposal.

"Principal Wu, you must not know that the Shanghai side has been almost completely controlled by the Japanese army, and the Japanese army occupying Shanghai is now dividing into three routes towards Nanjing. Don't tell me that you believe that the Japanese army is a disciplined army, and from what I know so far, the Japanese have vented all the anger they have accumulated in the Battle of Shanghai on innocent civilians. For the time being, Jinling Women's College should either immediately cross the river and move to a safer place, or accept my advice and be protected by us in wartime. ”

Lu Yuan, who was impatient in his heart, tapped the table with his right index finger, but the principal Wu Yifang, who was sitting opposite her, remained silent, although his words were not as resolute as just now, but the meaning of his words was full of refusal. "Principal Wu, although all the people I hired are foreigners, I am an authentic Chinese, and I just want to do what I can for the civilians in Nanjing City. I don't want to waste any more time here, and I want to trouble you to tell you why you rejected us, and if you can convince me, we'll leave and come back to you. ”

Lu Yuan simply opened his words, and Wei Tling, who was sitting next to Wu Yifang, said to Lu Yuan, "Mr. Lu, we are very grateful for what you have done for the civilians of Nanjing, but we are very good, we have contacted other foreigners in the city, and we have unanimously decided to open an international security zone in the city, and our Jinling Women's College is one of the places dedicated to housing women." For this reason, we have contacted the International Committee of the Red Cross, and I don't think the Japanese will dare to provoke the Red Cross no matter how cruel they are. ”

Wei Tling's confidence made Lu Yuan laugh immediately, and reached out to take out a thick stack of photos from the leather bag he carried at any time and still on the table, Lu Yuan pointed to those photos and said angrily to Wei Tling and Wu Yifang. "Open your eyes and take a good look, these pictures are also unarmed women, but they have been treated inhumane by the Japanese soldiers. Lady Weitling, your intentions are good, but you are dealing with the most vicious Japanese, and your international rules are not at all as true as the weapons in their hands. ”

The photos Lu Yuan brought were very exciting, some of them were from the Shanghai battlefield, and some were from the surrounding areas of Shanghai and the North China battlefield, all of which Hogg bought at a large price from some foreign journalists. After seeing these photos brought by Lu Yuan, Wei Tling's heart was already completely confused, if the Japanese army that entered Nanjing City was as ferocious as in the photos, Jinling Women's College, which had only a dozen male school workers, was undoubtedly a sheepfold surrounded by wolves.

But even though Weitling already thought so in her heart, she never let go of Lu Yuan's suggestion, in her opinion, it was a thing that violated the purpose of the establishment of the school to let a person of unknown origin bring more than 100 foreigners wearing German military uniforms into Jinling Women's College. The change in Weitling's expression did not escape Lu Yuan's eyes, and Lu Yuan immediately turned his head to Wu Yifang, the principal of the College of Arts and Sciences, and said, "President Wu, do you laugh at it and think that you can stop the Japanese army just by relying on the red cross armband you wear on your arm?" If the Japanese army is coming in and searching the rout of the Nationalist army as an excuse, how should you respond? Use your armbands against the bayonets of the Japanese army? ”

"The Japanese are very superficial, they may send female soldiers into your academy to search, and at the same time, they can randomly identify a civilian hiding in your place and say that the national army is defeated, and then they will use this to blackmail you into closing the academy. Of course, you can't hand over the civilians who are hiding here, so you have to negotiate terms with the Japanese army, and if I were the commander of the Japanese army, I wouldn't have taken the opportunity to take a small number of women from you, and pretended to wash clothes or prepare meals for the Japanese soldiers entering the city. ”

"Swapping a few for the safety of more, I don't think you should have a choice." Having said this, Lu Yuan suddenly got up and looked at Wu Yifang and Wei Tling, and his voice became louder. "But you must know that the Japanese troops entering the city belong to different units, and if the first Japanese army takes women from you, there will be a second and third Japanese army to find you trouble, and at that time, the Japanese army will have more means to blackmail you, what should you do? Answer me? ”

Lu Yuan's voice echoed in the office, and Wu Yifang and Wei Tling were already pale and sweaty, if what Lu Yuan said just now became true, Wu Yifang and Wei Tling knew that the women's college definitely had no ability and means to protect those civilian women. In the face of the bayonets and difficulties of the Japanese army, the women's college can only be a lamb to the slaughter, and if what Lu Yuan said becomes true, then the women's college is likely to become a sad place.

Xu was aware of the change in the mentality of Wu Yifang and Wei Tling, and Lu Yuan immediately softened his tone and continued, "I have recruited a large number of foreigners from Shanghai and Xuzhou, and although the Japanese are arrogant, they will not dare to confront and provoke foreigners. In addition, I have the support of the German Consulate, and if you accept my suggestion, I will immediately send some food and medicine to you, and a foreign escort of 120 people will be stationed at the Academy. ”

"Mr. Lu, in fact, the main reason why I want to reject your suggestion is that I am worried that after your escort team enters the academy, it will give the Japanese a chance to take advantage of it. In the unlikely event that the Japanese troops entering the city use this as an excuse to raid or blockade our college, our plan to use the academy to accommodate female refugees in the city may be in vain. By now, the principal Wu Yifang finally told the truth, but the truth she told made Lu Yuan cry and laugh.

"Principal Wu, I don't think you need to worry about this problem." Lu Yuan said this, walked out of the office, and explained a few words to Shuchmann, who was waiting outside the door. The latter immediately returned to the car, opened the car door, took out a neatly folded German Nazi flag from the car, and handed it back to Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan took the flag and returned to the office, opened it in front of Weitling and Wu Yifang, and pointed to the Nazi flag and smiled.

"It's a German Nazi flag, and I suspect some of the foreign teachers at your women's college might not want to see it, but right now, it's the key to keeping your women's college safe from the war. My escort team will come to your academy with a lot of these Nazi flags, and the guards will improvise German uniforms and even issue German-style weapons for defense. In other words, the internal management of the entire women's college is still your school, and all external affairs alone will be handled by foreign guards in German uniforms. ”

"The Japanese have always sought an alliance with Germany, and even if the Japanese troops entering the city would be dissatisfied with my foreign guards, they would never dare to clash head-on with these foreign guards in German uniforms, and even less dare to break through the defense lines of the foreign guards and storm the academy to search. I also hope that you will inform the foreign teachers in the school in advance that these foreign guards are all foreign civilians living in China, and not real Nazi soldiers. ”

Lu Yuan explained like this, Wei Tling and Wu Yifang finally understood Lu Yuan's entire plan, and finally understood that the things they were worried about would not happen at all, and Lu Yuan's plan was completely to suppress the Japanese under the banner of Germany. "Mr. Lu, how sure are you? What if the German consulate can't stand the pressure from the Japanese? Weitling asked one last question.

"Madam Weitling, as early as August I had been consulting with the Germans in Shanghai and drawing up this plan, and now more than three months have passed, and we have not only prepared a large amount of food and medicine, but also stockpiled a lot of supplies necessary for the winter, and my escort has been trained for a month by real German soldiers. This plan has now reached the stage of concrete implementation, and I am very confident in it, and I have a lot of confidence in it. Lu Yuan's answer was not too careful, because there were some parts of it that could not be explained to Wei Tling and Wu Yifang.

It took a whole morning, Lu Yuan finally persuaded Wei Tling and Wu Yifang, and before lunch, Lu Yuan, accompanied by Wei Tling, took Shu Herman and others to conduct a field survey of the entire women's college. "Ms. Weitling, please tell President Wu that before dark, the first batch of food and medicine will be delivered to the Women's College, and 30 female guards will also come with the food, and after dawn tomorrow, the remaining 90 guards will be in place one after another." Before leaving the women's college, Lu Yuan gave Weitling a reassurance.

Solving the troubles of the women's college, Lu Yuan's many perfect plans finally began to unfold step by step, a large amount of food and medicine were transported from Xiaofenqiao to the women's college, and the first batch of 120 foreign escorts were finally able to end the boring military training and rush to the women's college with food to take over the daily defense work of the college. Overnight, there were many unfamiliar faces in the women's college, which surprised the female students of the women's college, but under the explanation and control of the teachers of the college, the students did not panic.