Xu Shengtian refused them all, including the message from the Presidential Palace that he was to be removed from his post.
But soon after Zhou Pingsheng and other intellectuals learned of this news, they publicly condemned Xu Shengtian in the newspapers.
[This whole mess was caused by Bai Yan; she offended the British! Xicheng is the closest place to the front lines. With our current military strength, how can we fight without foreign support?]
[If Britain had still maintained its concession in the West End, the island nation wouldn't have dared to attack us! Bai Yan must be handed over; this is a responsibility she should bear!]
The newspapers in the West City were abuzz with arguments, and with it came the full-scale outbreak of war.
Several northern provinces and cities fell one after another, and all sorts of shocking news came from the occupied cities. The inhuman islanders carried out inhumane massacres of the Chinese in the occupied areas.
This also caused great anxiety among the residents of Xicheng, who were about to be affected by the battlefield.
The island nation's army has been stationed outside Fengyi City and is demanding that Fengyi surrender unconditionally and that its citizens be spared harm, or else it will suffer the same fate as the cities it has captured before.
Xu Shengtian did not choose to start a war, but instead opened the passageway to give the people of Fengyi enough time to migrate.
...
Xu Shengtian stood on the city wall of Xicheng, holding several photos in his hand. These photos were taken by a war correspondent in a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan after he was captured, and they eventually ended up in his hands.
Holding the photo in his hand, he slammed his fist against the wall, his eyes red and sore.
It is said that men do not easily shed tears, but when you see your own country and your own compatriots being treated like this by a group of beasts, who can not feel grief and indignation?
"Don't be sad." A hand gently covered the back of his hand.
Xu Shengtian raised his eyes, and Bai Yan smiled gently: "The war will end. Believe me, peace belongs to us, and victory belongs to us."
Xu Shengtian grasped her hand in return, and Bai Yan's gaze also fell on the photo in his hand.
He then gently exhaled a breath of stale air.
Even if she lived for thousands of years, she would still be a person rooted in this land. Now that she had come to this timeline, she hoped to change some things. There were so many ordinary people suffering in this era...
Bai Yan lowered her gaze slightly, appearing somewhat cold, so she didn't mind using some slightly radical methods.
To stop war with war, to stop violence with violence.
Zhong Rentao, Liao Simin, and others did not want to expend their strength to confront the Japanese, so they all chose to retreat from the West City. A few days later, only Xu Shengtian remained to guard the area.
"Can Xicheng be defended?" Zhong Rentao's confidant asked.
“The island nation’s military strength is three times that of Xu Shengtian’s. How can he defend it?” Zhong Rentao sneered: “Let him defend it. We’ll conserve our strength.”
With the support of the British, he could profit continuously as long as they agreed to lease West City to them. When the islanders were driven out, he would still be a hero.
Zhong Rentao looked in the direction of Xicheng, a shadow gradually rising in his eyes: that was his hometown after all, and who would have thought that his hometown would fall.
...
The entire nation was preparing for a full-scale war, and several warlords reached an agreement to suspend the civil war until the foreign invaders were driven out.
However, to everyone's surprise, the war ended before it even began.
A new type of helicopter flew over the island nation's military. Its design employed advanced technology, making it difficult for modern detection equipment to detect. A shell landed, and its immense power shook the surrounding mountains. When things calmed down again, the area was filled with shattered corpses.
The new type of micro-helicopter is undetectable with current technology and does not require pilot control. It is remotely controlled to drop powerful new bombs. This is a devastating blow, leaving the island nation's military with no chance to resist.
After the loud bang, the surroundings quickly returned to calm, the complete calm brought by death.
This is the territory they have already occupied. The people of China are all afraid of them. Whenever they hear of their presence, people within a radius of hundreds of miles will flee far away.
Bai Yan had already secretly sent people to help relocate the people; this was the best she could do.
"Was that an earthquake yesterday? Or did I hear wrong? There was such a loud explosion!"
"I heard that too. Have we been in bad luck these past two years, with both natural disasters and man-made calamities?"
"What natural disaster or man-made calamity! Those were bombs, bombs that Premier Bai dropped on those beasts, killing them all!"
"What?"
"They're all dead! Blow them all up!"
"It's true, my relatives were from Fengyi, and they were all killed in the bombing!"
"Hahahaha! Go read the newspaper! Premier Bai said that our research institute has developed a new type of bomb and miniature helicopter that can hit its target every time, wiping out all the islanders!"
"No wonder Premier Bai didn't beg the British! This is something we developed ourselves, from our own research institute, you see!"
“He’s my son. One of the researchers at the research institute is my son. My son is a student of Prime Minister Bai!”
"Were they really killed? Were they all killed? Did we win?" Many people were incredulous.
"We won! We won!!! We really won!"
This was a long-awaited victory, and after the initial shock, all the people of West City cheered with joy.
But Bai Yan's task was not yet finished; she knew that the victory in the Battle of Xicheng did not mean the end of the national campaign.
Soon after, a notice was sent to the island nation, demanding that they withdraw from China entirely, or else they would be given a shocking lesson.
The island nation's emperor soon announced their research on new weapons, which would be used in the war against China.
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