Amid the majestic music, the five members of the Standing Committee of the Provisional Executive Committee and the twelve members of the Executive Committee walked up to the rostrum in front of Gordon Hall in turn, and the audience quickly burst into thunderous applause.

After Xia Bohai sat down at the table, he looked at the crowd of people under the rostrum, and estimated that there were not fifty or sixty thousand people, and he couldn't help but say to Qin Zheng, who was sitting next to him: "Old Qin, this is too grand." Wouldn't it be too wasteful, you must know that we are not rich now. ”

Qin Zheng didn't speak, and Wang Yunpeng on the other side said: "Commander Xia, this is also to inspire people, although the defense of Tianjin has played our military might, but the consciousness of the masses in this era is not high, we need to let them know that foreigners can set up a few cannons on the sea, and the history of China's surrender has come to an end, so even if it is to waste some manpower and material resources, it is worth it." ”

Qin Zheng also smiled and said, "Yes, we haven't been ashore for a long time, so it is necessary to hold a large-scale celebration meeting to enhance our prestige, after all, it is impossible for the masses to go to the battlefield to watch us fight." ”

For this celebration of the conference, the crossing group did spend a lot of manpower and material resources, just the preparation work took nearly ten days, the entire venue with Gordon Hall as the core, including the entire Victoria Garden, not only built the rostrum, but also built a viewing platform on both sides of the rostrum, in addition to removing a set of audio equipment from the passenger ro-ro ship, 20 speakers. In order to maintain order at the scene, not only the armed police force under the newly established Ministry of Public Security, but also the earliest naturalized citizens of the crossing group were all dispatched, and even the female soldiers and students of the Hope School were also dispatched.

At this time, Xu Jichao looked left and right on the rostrum, and there were about 2,000 people sitting on the viewing platform on the left and right sides of the rostrum, most of them coming from Dagu this morning, and there was also a viewing platform for personnel from the consulates of various countries who had been invited; he looked down at the stage again, and on the opposite side of the rostrum were people who were divided into more than 10 large squares, basically all of whom were local residents of Tianjin, and nearly half of them came from the countryside. Only then did he say: "Commander Xia, Political Commissar Qin, you can start." ”

Xia Bohai nodded and said, "Let's start." ”

Xu Jichao immediately got up, took the microphone, and said, "Please rest assured." ”

The loudspeaker immediately spread Xu Jichao's voice to Victoria Garden, and the police, soldiers, and students of Hope School who were maintaining order in the audience all shouted: "Stop talking, stop talking, start immediately." “

The crowd of people who were talking about it gradually quieted down, and then Xu Jichao said: "I announce that the celebration of the victory of the Tianjin Defense War will start now. ”

When the police, soldiers, and students in the audience heard this, they immediately began to applaud, and under their leadership, the onlookers also applauded. After a long while, the applause subsided, and Xu Jichao said again: "Next, please ask Commander Xia to speak." ”

Xia Bohai stood up, first saluted the audience, left and right, and caused a round of warm applause, and then picked up the microphone and said: "Comrades, friends, guests, and fellow villagers, today we are here to celebrate the victory of the defense of Tianjin, and at the same time, it is also a declaration that the era of the Eight-Nation Alliance's rampant hegemony in China has come to an end, and as long as we and our army are there, we will not allow the invaders to run rampant on Chinese soil." Of course, although we won the battle to defend Tianjin, there was still a part of the Eight-Nation Coalition that was still entrenched in the area around Beijing, but the facts tell us that all imperialism is a paper tiger, and as long as we unite and have the courage to fight against them, we will win. I, Xia Bohai, made these solemn promises that I would definitely drive all the Eight-Nation Coalition forces out of China. ”

After Xia Bohai finished speaking, the audience suddenly burst into warm applause, although there were many words that the people could not understand, but Xia Bohai's words "drive all the Eight-Nation Allied Forces out of China" Everyone understood, so this applause was the heartfelt cheers of the people of Tianjin.

At this time, the consuls and other personnel of various countries on the viewing platform all looked embarrassed, and some even fidgeted. Originally, the attack of the Eight-Nation Alliance and the German fleet made the consuls and other personnel of various countries in Tianjin very excited, thinking that the good days were coming back, but the results of the defense of Tianjin greatly disappointed the consuls and commercial personnel of various countries, who were all recovering their own consuls, and could not launch new military operations against China in a short period of time, so they asked the consuls and commercial personnel of various countries to do their best to protect themselves. At the same time, collect as much information as possible about this group of overseas Chinese.

The consuls of various countries are very shrewd people, and they immediately understood that their countries had the intention of negotiating with this group of overseas Chinese, after all, cooperation if they could not fight is also one of the norms of Westerners. Moreover, this group of overseas Chinese is much more civilized than Chinese, and they do not regard all foreigners as enemies, so their personal safety is still guaranteed to a certain extent, but they just have to be people with their tails between their legs. But how dare people not bow down under the low eaves, and the consuls of various countries have also warned their own personnel not to clash with the Chinese during this time.

This time, the group held a meeting to celebrate the victory of the defense of Tianjin, and also issued invitations to the consuls and other personnel of various countries; although the consuls of various countries knew that this was a demonstration by overseas Chinese to various countries, they still pinched their noses to participate in it for the purpose of collecting intelligence. Some people are observing the behavior of this group of overseas Chinese, and some are looking for opportunities to have good relations with overseas Chinese, so more than 100 foreigners were invited to participate in the viewing, and they were all carefully observing everything from the viewing platform.

However, after listening to Xia Bohai's speech, many people's hearts were half cold, and it seemed that this group of overseas Chinese was not ready to stop, but some people with a keen sense of smell heard some ways from their speeches, because Xia Bohai only said that "all the Eight-Nation Allied Forces should be driven out of China" instead of "all foreigners should be driven out of China," which shows that there is still a lot of room for maneuver. Anyway, the Eight-Nation Coalition is almost crippled, so it is better for both sides to take a step back and negotiate on this basis. After all, now that the Eight-Nation Coalition still occupies Beijing, it is not completely without bargaining chips.

At this time, Xia Bohai announced that the parade began.

Even if it is a conference to celebrate the victory of the battle, it is natural that there will be no military parade, and the military parade is also the best way to show their own strength and military prestige, and it is also the best way to enhance the confidence of the people, so the travelers will naturally not let go.

At that time, the military parade was carried out in the form of a phalanx in the style of the old time and space, and the first to enter the field was the flag guarding the phalanx, and the flag was the military flag used to cross the fleet. Because the current crossing group is not yet a country, the flag-raising ceremony cannot be held, but the flag protection phalanx takes the lead, which is a tradition of military parades, which cannot be saved.

After the flag phalanx, there are the navy phalanx and the army phalanx, all three phalanx are composed of crossing soldiers, each phalanx is 13 x 13 in size, plus the three leading officers, a total of 172 soldiers.

The three phalanxes marched in unison from the south, and when they passed in front of the rostrum, they changed from walking in unison to walking in positive steps, trampling on the ground with a sonorous sound, and at the same time shouting the slogan of "defending the homeland and defending the country and bravely killing the enemy."

Although the preparation time for this military parade is insufficient, so it has not reached the level of the big military parade in the old time and space, and it is not yet the absolute standard of the clone corps, but the soldiers who participated in the parade have all experienced the baptism of the battlefield, and naturally exude a murderous aura that shocks people's hearts.

It was the first time for the onlookers in Tianjin to see such a military parade, and they thought it was novel and interesting at first, but when the phalanx was walking and shouting slogans, they were all dumbfounded, and they couldn't help but feel a sense of awe in their hearts.

And the consuls of various countries are well-informed people, and they have also participated in several military parades in their own countries, and several of them are soldiers, so in their hearts they compare the military parades of the traversers with the military parades of their own countries, and come to the conclusion that except for the lack of scale, the others are not under their own countries,

After the three phalanxes, there was an equipment phalanx, and there were 16 warrior vehicles, all of which were open-type models, arranged in three by one, forming four rows, with a Type 89 heavy machine gun mounted on the first two rows of warrior vehicles, and a 100 mm mortar placed on the last two rows of warrior vehicles.

In fact, whether to equip the phalanx to participate in the parade has caused a controversy in the army, and in the old time and space, it is also a fixed tradition to display the latest and most advanced equipment of the troops at the parade. At the same time, it is also a demonstration of the country's military strength, military science and technology. The military parade held by the crossing group did have the intention of shocking foreigners, so some people proposed to pull out the 05 two-gun tanks to participate in the parade to show the strength of the crossing group.

But this plan was vetoed by the Provisional Military Commission, because the 05 two-piece tank is a trump card of the army, can not be easily shown, and is also worried about giving foreigners an inspiration, after all, at this time the car, as well as the crawler tractor have been invented, and from the car, the crawler tractor to the tank, there is no insurmountable obstacle, as long as the power of the engine is reached.

However, at the military parade, it is indeed necessary to display a certain amount of equipment, so the Provisional Military Commission finally decided to let the warrior car of the open type on the military parade, on the one hand, the warrior car of the open type will not give any inspiration to the countries, and the horizontal and vertical is a car, which will not cause much surprise; on the other hand, it has also shown the science and technology of the crossing group to all countries, at least in terms of automobile technology, the crossing group is stronger than all countries, and this is enough.

Sure enough, when the phalanx of warrior cars drove past the rostrum, the foreigners on the viewing platform all stared at the phalanx, some had seen the car, and some had not seen it, but they had heard about it from newspapers or other sources. But there is one thing that everyone admits, that is, the dozen or so cars in front of them, regardless of their performance, are definitely much more pleasing to the eye than the cars made in Europe today.