Chapter 49: Surrender
The shouts were in five languages: British, Russian, German, French, and Japanese, and each language was shouted three times, and other soldiers and crews such as Austria-Hungary and Italy could also understand it.
Because the European army did not think that surrendering when it could not be defeated, and the rest were basically transport ships, and some of the crew members were not soldiers, but ordinary citizens, so they naturally did not want to die in battle. The two remaining ships, the Orlando and the Hansa, did not fly the white flag, but they stopped shelling, and the captains of both ships gathered other personnel to discuss whether to surrender to the enemy.
Qin Yuhai also immediately ordered the chariots to stop shelling, and sent soldiers to the ship with the white flag raised, accepted the surrender of the ship's personnel, confiscated their weapons, and sealed off the cabin, escorted the ship's personnel off the ship, and centralized custody. However, the crew was not tied.
And at this time, on the Kunming ship, the trio of the headquarters finally breathed a sigh of relief, Xia Bohai leaned back in his chair, let out a long breath, and said, "Okay, this battle has finally been won." β
Xiao Jianjun also cocked Erlang's legs and said: "Yes, it's not easy, in fact, the difficulty of this battle is not great, but this is the first all-round sea, land and air cooperation war after we crossed, in fact, before the crossing, we have not fought such a large-scale battle, the most lacking is experience, and there are still a lot of places that need to be summarized in this battle, but victory is more important than anything else." β
Although the battle was won, in fact, there were still many flaws in the process, and the biggest problem was that there were many problems in the connection and coordination of the lives of the various arms of the armed forces, such as after the airborne troops occupied the forts, the reinforcements had not yet come up; while the marines occupied the docks and waited for half a day for the armored troops, fortunately, the strength of the Eight-Nation Allied Forces was indeed not strong, and the crossing fleet had all-round superiority, so these problems did not cause any bad consequences, but if these problems occurred again in future operations, it would be difficult to say.
At this time, only Qin Zheng still maintained a upright sitting posture, looked at his watch, and said, "It's almost five o'clock in the morning, do you want to notify the Taihu Ship and let them set sail now and rush to Dagukou." You must know that the speed of the passenger ro-ro ship is not as fast as that of the warship, and it can only run 15 knots at most, and it will take at least four or five hours to reach Dagukou from the berthing point, and by that time, Dagukou should be almost clean. There is also Hejiawan Village, they are still fighting against the Eight-Nation Alliance, so the battle is not completely over yet, and we can't be careless yet. β
Xia Bohai nodded and said, "It's still thoughtful for Lao Qin......
Before he finished his words, he only heard the correspondent Gao Jun say: "Commander, Captain Xie of the Xiangyang ship has a communication, the Orlando and the Hansa have sent people to the Xiangyang ship to negotiate with us about the surrender of the matter, they ask for their personal safety after surrendering, and hope to know our true identity and nationality, Captain Xie asked how to reply to them." β
Xia Bohai was stunned for a moment, and said: "Surrender and surrender, what else to negotiate?"
Qin Zheng said with a smile: "This is the habit of the Europeans, if you lose on the battlefield, it is not a shame to surrender, but the necessary commitment guarantee is still required, and it is also reasonable for others to know who they surrendered to." β
It turned out that after the Xiangyang ship shouted, the Orlando, The captain of the Hansa gathered the officers on the ship to discuss, surrender is certainly not an unacceptable thing for the officers and men of the two ships, after all, the battle has come to this point, the officers and men of the two ships have indeed tried their best, and they are indeed not opponents of the enemy, and this is not a battle to defend the country, although before departure, each country swore when all mobilized that it came to China to fight in order to safeguard its own interests and punish the barbaric Chinese, but this coaxed the army is okay, because most of the people who participated in the army are countrymen, have not seen anything of the world, so foolish, but the navy is a high-tech military technology, even if it is an ordinary soldierWho is lying to this saying that they have to defend the interests of their own country in other countries that are far away from thousands of mountains and rivers? What they want to protect is only the interests of those big conglomerates and big capitalists in China, and participating in this battle, in addition to the professional morality of the soldiers, also has the intention of making a profit in China.
Moreover, it was the other party who took the initiative to persuade him to surrender, and after surrendering in the shouting, he said that he would ensure the personal safety of the soldiers, and he had everything in his face, and he could just borrow the ladder to go down the wall and save his life.
However, the captains of the two ships are still a little confused, because this time the enemy is really too strange, they can fight so accurately in the dark night, and they also used a kind of fire-breathing cannonball when attacking the Russian ship at the beginning, what kind of weapon is this? And the most important thing is, where is the enemy sacred? The captains of the two ships did not believe that the Qing Dynasty had such a powerful navy. It is not impossible to defeat the battle, and surrender is acceptable, but defeat must be clear, not confused, and more importantly, to know who the enemy who defeated you is.
So the captains of the two ships unanimously put down their lifeboats and sent envoys to the Xiangyang ship to negotiate the surrender, ask the crossing fleet to guarantee the promise they had just shouted, and put forward their desire to know the nationality and origin of the crossing fleet.
When the trio of the headquarters heard this, they not only looked at each other, but promised that it was nothing, and that they would not abuse the prisoners at will if they crossed the fleet anyway, but it was a difficult problem to explain their nationality and identity to the prisoners, and they couldn't claim to be the People's Liberation Army.
Xiao Jianjun scratched his head and said, "This is a troublesome matter, how to answer them, we can't say that we are here through time." β
Qin Zheng said: "Yesterday, after Platoon Commander Luo led the troops ashore, he also sent back the same problem, but we all ignored it a little, thinking that we could fool the past by just finding an excuse, but now it seems that this matter can no longer be fooled, because we will definitely encounter such problems in the future, and if we want to gain a foothold in this era, we must come up with a set of statements that can justify ourselves." β
Xiao Jianjun's face was embarrassed, and he said, "Then what should I say?"
Xia Bohai waved his hand and said, " You are all right, but these problems cannot be solved by the three of us alone, or we should brainstorm and mobilize everyone's ingenuity, so I think that after occupying Dagukou, we should immediately convene an enlarged meeting to focus on these issues, as for now, just tell them that this is a military secret, and we can't answer it now, and when the situation stabilizes, we will give them a clear reply, and if they are not satisfied with this answer, then we will not talk nonsense with them, and we will directly sink these two warshipsγ β
Xiao Jianjun nodded, and said: "Lao Xia's method is not counted, you can Tang Plug for a while, and when you encounter questions that we can't answer in the future, you can push it to military secrets first, and then everyone will come to negotiate what to say." β
Xie Fuzhan, the captain of the Xiangyang ship, replied to the envoys sent by the two ships in accordance with the instructions of the headquarters, and when the envoys returned to the Orlando and the Hansea, the officers and men on the ships could only accept this statement, after all, the two ships basically had no resistance now, and as long as the other side wanted to sink them, they had no way at all. So the captains of the two ships personally came to the Xiangyang ship, handed over their sabers, and signaled the surrender to the crossing fleet.
At the same time, he ordered the two ships to immediately dock and anchor, seal the ship's cabins, and cover their guns with gun jackets, and then all the officers and men of the ship disembarked, not to carry weapons, and to gather on the shore to wait for arrangements. After the two captains returned to the ship, they did not play any tricks, docked the warship on the shore, and then led the officers and men of the ship to disembark and concentrate on the shore.
It was not until this time that the battle was officially over, and the headquarters ordered the troops to immediately clean up the battlefield, collect and count the prisoners and surrendered personnel, count the captured materials, and seize the surrendered ships; on the other hand, they informed the Taihu and Hejiawan Village of the news that the crossing fleet had won and successfully occupied Dagukou, and ordered the Taihu ship to immediately lead three other passenger ro-ro ships to Dagukou to join the fleet, and send the Sanya ship. The Huaihua ship went to meet them, and of course they had to bring the Japanese prisoners who were exiled on the desert island, and of course, at this time, they could also officially announce the fact of the fleet's crossing to the crews of the three ro-ro passenger ships; and the landing force in Hejiawan Village asked them to continue to garrison, and after the situation at Dagukou had calmed down a little, they would send reinforcements to Hejiawan Village, and the two sides would join forces to defeat the Eight-Nation Coalition attacking Hejiawan Village.
It was not until about seven o'clock in the morning that the sky began to brighten, and the work of cleaning up the battlefield basically came to an end; first of all, the results of the naval battle were counted, and a total of seven large and medium-sized warships of the eight-nation coalition were sunk in this battle, namely, the Russian ships Sisoy and the Russians, the British ships Alola, the German ships Hertha, the French ships Pascal, the American ships Newark, and the Italian ships Abba; 10 small warships, 14 transport ships, and captured the Russian ships the Koreans, the French ships Lyon, and the British ships Orlando. The German ship Hansa surrendered, and there were twelve other transport ships that surrendered, and the results can be said to be very rich.
The soldiers and crews of the Eight-Nation Coalition forces on the surrendered ships were taken off the ships and collected on the shore of the wharf and sent special personnel to guard and count them. Each ship was guarded by a squad of soldiers, and all kinds of captured materials were collected at the headquarters, but all the materials collected were on the shore, and the materials on the surrendered ships were basically not moved.
At this time, Xia Bohai, Qin Zheng, and Xiao Jianjun also took a lifeboat and landed on land.
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