Youth in the Flames of War 战火中的青春 Episode 2

Bi Baozhong told the students that soldiers serve the country by charging forward on the battlefield, and students serve the country in the classroom, in the laboratory, and on the operating table. What China lacks most now is the talents who can rejuvenate the country and defend the country, and these talents are in the highest institutions of learning in China. They should have high aspirations and apply what they have learned in the future. Everyone should display their ambitions. Their knowledge is the strength of the country. Bi Baozhong's words moved all the students present. At night, a burst of artillery fire woke them up. The Japanese army unloaded 100,000 tons of munitions in Tanggu during the negotiation period. Two regiments of the Kwantung Army had already arrived in Fengtai. Ask to do your part in the rear.

It was a sleepless night, and everyone was shocked by gunfire and blood. Life was so strong, but so fragile and fleeting. The ferocity of the Japanese army, the powerlessness of the people's resistance, countless lives were cut short by the artillery fire, and the students of the service group carried the wounded soldiers away from the battlefield one by one. That night, no matter who it was, death treated everyone equally. Some heavily wounded soldiers took out their suicide notes and handed them to Lin Huajun, and Ye Runming stopped them in time when the ashamed wounded raised their guns to commit suicide. Cheng Jiawen came to the service team to find Cheng Jiashu. From him, Lin Huajun learned that many places in Tianjin had fallen, and that Ye Runming's younger sister, Ye Runqing, was still at Nankai University, but Ye Runming hadn't come back yet. What did Lin Huajun say? Also go to Tianjin.

Japan mobilized a large number of troops to approach Tianjin, and the press officer of the Japanese North China Garrison Headquarters also announced at a press conference that it would bomb Nankai University. Cheng Jialin Huajun took an ambulance to Nankai to rescue Ye Runqing, and after some inquiries, he learned that Ye Runqing was rescuing books and materials with his classmates. While looking for Ye Runqing, Cheng Jiashu and Lin Huajun got separated. Japanese bombers appeared over the school and blatantly bombed Nankai University. Cheng Jiashu found Ye Runqing, but she returned to the library to move books with the teachers. Then Cheng Jiashu and Lin Huajun finally found each other. Under the gunfire, Cheng Jiashu hugged Lin Huajun and hid aside. Under artillery fire, the library was blown up, Cheng Jiashu comforted Lin Huajun, and he went back to rescue Ye Runqing.

Ye Runqing's friend Tangdun'er died in the bombing, and Cheng Jiashu only rescued Ye Runqing. The beautiful campus was turned into ruins under the artillery fire. Everyone who experienced all this grew up overnight. Bi Baozhong gave Bi Yunxiao a watch gift as a present for him when he was twenty, but Bi Yunxiao didn't want it. He wanted to be a soldier, and he didn't want to study anymore, and the father and son had a very unpleasant quarrel. Bi Baozhong didn't know if he would have a chance to give him the watch, so he asked his eldest son Bi Yunfeng to pass it on for him. Under the cover of negotiations, the Japanese army bombed Nankai University and its surrounding areas, and also launched a fierce attack on Beiping Nanyuan. In order to protect the students of the service group, Bi Baozhong forcibly ordered the students to retreat.

The superior had already ordered to withdraw to the south, but Bi Baozhong decided to stay, and countless soldiers followed him, desperately defending the country. The school was destroyed, Zhang Boling, the president of Nankai University, wept bitterly, Mei Yiqi, the president of National Tsinghua University, and Jiang Menglin, the president of National Peking University, left silently. Ye Runming didn't see Lin Huajun, so he asked other students and learned that Cheng Jiashu had taken her away. Bi Baozhong failed to come back, and he and three thousand soldiers lived and died with Nanyuan. Bi Yunxiao never expected that last night was the last time he and his father would see each other. On July 29, 1937, the news that Beiping fell and Nankai was bombed into ruins appeared in the newspapers.