Chapter 164: Celebration (2)

Although at this time, the consuls of various countries could not foresee the huge development of automobiles in the future, but they also knew that this was a high-tech thing, and this group of overseas Chinese showed cars at the military parade, of course, indicating that they had enough advanced science and technology.

Therefore, on the viewing platform, many people took out notepads and quickly recorded what they saw, while the few who could draw quickly drew the warrior car in the form of sketches, ready to report to their home countries.

After crossing the rostrum, the three phalanxes formed by the army were followed by the phalanx formed by the new army.

The three battalions of the new army, each with two phalanxes, one is a phalanx of columns, the other is a phalanx of weapons, the phalanx is a 16*16 queue, plus six leading soldiers, a total of 262 people, and the weapons phalanx is composed of 120 people, in a group of four, with 12 Maci machine guns and 12 Haqikes rapid-fire guns, and 36 war horses, dragging 18 cannons, walking in front of the rostrum.

Of course, the way of the new army is much worse than that of the crossing soldiers, whether it is neat or moving, but after all, the soldiers of the new army are all people who have been on the battlefield, and they are victors, so the spirit of the team is quite outstanding, the morale is high, and the momentum is also good. Although the artillery and machine guns are all made in Germany, they are weapons after all, and the thick black holes can still show considerable power.

On the rostrum, everyone watched the phalanx walk in front of the rostrum, Xia Bohai also nodded with great satisfaction, and said to Xiao Jianjun: "Only in these few days, it is really good to be able to achieve such an effect." ”

Xiao Jianjun nodded, but still said with some regret: "It's a pity, I don't have a splitting gun, I always feel a little worse." ”

The action of splitting the gun is a necessary action in the Chinese military parade in the old time and space, with a clean and concise gun-holding action, coupled with a sonorous and powerful step, neat and uniform, murderous, showing the majestic momentum of the army and the spiritual outlook of the soldiers, it is really domineering, making people see the blood boiling,. However, the rifle needs to be of a certain length because the longer the gun, the greater the range of movements, and the more powerful it is in appearance. At present, the Type 95 assault rifle equipped by the army is designed with a supportless structure, and the body of the gun is short, and it does not show the momentum that the splitting gun should have because it does not have enough range of action when doing the splitting action.

At the 9.3 military parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in the old time and space, the 13th phalanx on foot: the reserve phalanx, equipped with Type 81 automatic rifles and general camouflage uniforms, was the only phalanx that made a splitting action.

The Hanyang-made Type 88 rifle or Japanese-made Type 30 rifle equipped by the new army can be used to do splitting guns, but after all, the quality of the recruits is far inferior to the soldiers who have crossed the tunnel, and it is already very good to be able to arrange the phalanx without being out of shape through the rostrum.

Although some people also suggested that it would be better to let the crossing soldiers use Hanyang-made Type 88 rifles, or use the newly captured Mauser 98 rifles to do the splitting action, but it was opposed by most people, because it was really unacceptable to use other people's weapons to do the splitting action, so the Provisional Military Commission later made a final decision, and this time the parade will not do the splitting action.

When the last square array team walked past the rostrum, the military parade to celebrate the victory of the Tianjin Defense War ended, and there was no ceremony to review the troops, first, the number of troops crossing the group is not very large, and there are only 10 phalanxes participating in the parade.

However, despite this, this military parade still showed the spiritual outlook of the army formed by the traversers, and also made the people who came to watch the parade elated, excited, and shouted. And the consuls of various countries have their own gains, and they are also thinking about how to write reports to send back home.

The celebration meeting has just begun, and the next step is to commend the brave and outstanding soldiers who fought bravely and performed well in this battle to defend Tianjin. However, it was only the soldiers of the New Army who received the commendation, and the awards and commendations for crossing the army were not on the agenda of this celebration meeting. On the one hand, this is because the active purpose of this celebration meeting is to boost the morale and confidence of the people in Tianjin, as well as the sense of belonging and honor of the new army to the crossing group, so the commendation is naturally mainly the soldiers of the new army; on the one hand, the soldiers who have crossed do not need these false names, and in the foreseeable future, every soldier who crosses will at least receive the rank of general, so they will not care about these small honors, and they can understand such an arrangement.

Although in this battle of Tianjin, although the new army is not the main force, but also sure that they have participated in the battle, although it is the first time to go into battle, but because the new army has occupied an absolute advantage on the battlefield when it goes into battle, so many recruits are indeed very brave, this time the commended soldiers, a total of 23 people, they will be awarded the title of Tianjin defense battle heroes, and will also receive the Tianjin defense of the commemorative medal.

With the background music sounding, in the warm applause of the people in the audience, these 23 soldiers dressed in a new military uniform made by the garment factory, and with a big red flower made of paper on their chests, they ascended the rostrum in turn, faced the audience on the stage, and stood in a row. At this time, Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng, and Xiao Jianjun also got up from their seats, came to the soldiers, and awarded them commemorative medals for the defense of Tianjin.

Of course, the medals were made in Tianjin, the main body was made of silver, plated with a layer of gold on the front, engraved with the words commemorating the defense of Tianjin, and the back was engraved with the time and number of the production, and this batch of commemorative medals was only made in a total of thirty. The medal is held in a special wooden box, and the lid of the box is also engraved with words, and in addition to the medal, there is also a commemorative certificate, which not only contains a photo of the soldier, but also details the name of the soldier who received the medal, the unit to which he belonged, and the reason for the award, and the words that such a medal can be worn on any occasion. With the certificate, the significance of the commemorative medal is very different, because it is the first battle commemorative medal made by the crossing group, and in a few years, it will be of great cultural relics collection value.

Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng, and Xiao Jianjun awarded medals to each soldier in turn, and first Xia Bohai personally brought them to the award-winning soldiers, and then Qin Zheng issued them certificates. On the rostrum, there were also people who passed on the names of the award-winning fighters and their performance in battle to everyone present through loudspeakers. Under the leadership of the students and police officers in the audience, the applause has not stopped, and the whole atmosphere is very warm.

The military parade just now allowed the people to see the mighty and majestic side of the army, and at this time, they saw the honorary side of the soldiers. Such a scene was rare to see before. Because in the past, only those who passed the examination were qualified to wear red and hang colors, win in front of others, and win honor, but soldiers have never had such a beautiful situation. What's more, the senior officials of overseas Chinese personally awarded them awards.

Although the people of Tianjin did not know the real positions of Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng, Xiao Jianjun and others, they also knew that they must be the big officials in overseas Chinese countries, because they were in Tianjin, they were the highest-ranking officials, and some smart people even guessed that they should be equivalent to the governor-general and other feudal officials, in this era of the Qing court, if the governor personally awarded the award, for the ordinary people, it is unprecedentedly honorable, enough to glorify the ancestors.

The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in China, and the previous feudal dynasty, in order to maintain the ruler's own ruling base, the Qing Dynasty also pursued a policy of emphasizing literature over military force, and the ruler of the Qing Dynasty was a foreign race into the Middle Earth, so and the feudal dynasty before the Qing Dynasty, there was also a heavy Manchu suppression of the Han characteristics, the same army, the status of the Manchu Eight Banners was higher than the Han Eight Banners, and the Han Eight Banners were higher than the Green Battalion.

But after the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty faced a great change that had not been seen in three thousand years, and at this time, the Manchu Eight Banners nobles had already been corrupted and degenerate, and they were no longer brave enough to enter the customs, and the rulers of the Qing Dynasty were forced to use Hanchen, and gave Hanchen the power to build their own army, so Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zhongtang, Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, Liu Kunyi, Yuan Shikai and other Hanchen rose one after another, and at the same time formed the Hunan Army, Huai Army, Beiyang Naval Division, The Beiyang New Army and other armies, and at the beginning of the creation of these armies, they were still able to encourage the governance of the country, and in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the army, the treatment of soldiers was greatly improved.

However, on the one hand, in order to maintain its own rule, the Qing Dynasty reused Hanchen, but on the other hand, it also wanted to maintain its own rule, but it also did everything possible to prevent Hanchen, and naturally imposed more restrictions on the army formed by these Hanchens, so that it was still trying its best to suppress the social status of soldiers. In the past few decades, the Qing Dynasty has almost no victories in foreign battlefields, although the main reason for the defeat is not on the battlefield, but the army has to bear the main responsibility for the defeat, so it also leads to the fact that the status of the military in Chinese society in this era is indeed not high.

However, the victory in the defense of Tianjin can be said to be the biggest victory in China's foreign war since the Opium War, so the army naturally has enough capital to show off to the society. More than a month ago, like the vast majority of the people present, the soldiers with infinite scenery were farmers, and even some people in the audience knew them before, drinking and chatting together, and now they are standing on the stage enjoying all the honors, the scenery is infinite, but they can only look up at the envy curtain under the stage, and involuntarily give birth in their hearts, if they also go with him to sign up for the army that day, then now they can also stand on the stage and enjoy this unsurpassed scenery.

At this time, many people in the audience were active in their hearts, whether they should also sign up for the army.