On December 13, 1937, when the Japanese invaders captured Nanjing, which was the capital of the Nationalist government, some officials abandoned the city and fled. But there are still many officers and soldiers left behind, swearing to defend the city where the building will fall. Song Xilian officer Lu Jianxiongtogether with his comrades-in-arms, launched a fierce street battle with the Japanese army. Their weak and tenacious resistance was eventually suppressed, and tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians became prisoners.
After the resistance finally failed, hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were brutally murdered, and the whole city of Nanjing was reduced to a dead place. The only thing that remains alive is the "safe zone" at Jinling Women's College. A large number of refugees flock here to seek help. Rabe, chairman of the International Committee of the Nanjing Safety Zone, Jiang Shuyun, a returned female teacher, and Ms. Wei Telin from Jinling Women's College, actively rescued Chinese refugees, and used their bravery and perseverance to deal with the Japanese, but the Japanese army was wildly beastly. They have long been eyeing the Chinese women hiding here.
So the dancer Xiao Jiang, although living at the bottom of the society, she stood firm in order to save other women at the moment of national crisis. A cowardly intellectual like Mr. Tangwas careful to deal with the violent Japanese army, betrayed his compatriots in order to protect his family, but after the loss of his beloved daughter and sister-in-law, he couldn't hide his conscience and finally chose to put his life on the line. hope for others. Japanese soldier Kadokawa, in this war, as the occupier, in the killing of the Chinese by the Japanese army, he changed from a soldier to a numb machine, a soulless person is sad, he lives in In emptiness and sin, gradually collapsed. In the end, he turned the gun on himself in agony
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