Chapter 026, Funeral

The international community was in an uproar, and three U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups gathered in the Persian Gulf to demand that the government in southern Iraq release the U.S. prisoners and return all the weapons of the 1st Armored Division.

However, there was no reply from the Government of South Iraq, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not even issue a single statement in the face of heavy pressure from the Americans.

This directly prompted the United States to submit an application to the United Nations Security Council asking the United Nations to authorize the United States the right to take full-scale military action against southern Iraq.

However, this application was directly vetoed by China and Russia, and in addition to Britain, France, another permanent member of the Security Council, directly abstained, two to two, and the United States certainly could not obtain the legal right to send troops to southern Iraq, but the US president began to visit NATO allies.

From Britain to France, to Germany, Italy, and finally Japan and Australia, it is clear that they are preparing to send troops directly without going through the UN Security Council.

But this time it is not more than 10 years ago, and the current Iraq is not the original Iraq, the Prophet Army can defeat the 1st Armored Division of the US Army, he has his strength, not to mention that Russia and China still do not agree, not many countries are willing to take risks and the Americans to start this war that does not outweigh the losses.

In addition to France, Great Britain, Italy, and Germany agreed to air support, but would never send a single soldier into Iraq, Australia and Japan were very strong, and they were willing to send troops into Iraq, but both countries only sent five hundred men.

After returning from his visit, the US president immediately signed a plan to increase troops, but another incident occurred that caused an uproar in the United States and even the whole world.

Despite no response from the government in southern Iraq, Al Jazeera shocked the world with a video broadcast by Al Jazeera reporters in Basra of images of soldiers of the 1st Armored Division in US uniforms being held in a desert.

Tens of thousands of people eat and drink in this desert, and they have to endure the scorching sun during the day, the cold of the temperature difference between day and night at night, and most importantly, the Prophet Army only provides them with water and no food, and these American troops can be described as miserable.

As soon as this news was broadcast, everyone knew the attitude of the Prophet Army, and they didn't talk to you at all, and you had to go to people's homes to show off their strength, and then they would just send you a video of your soldiers being abused, and this was the answer they gave you.

After the broadcast, the U.S. Foreign Ministry was furious, condemning the South Iraqi government for not abiding by the Geneva Conventions and mistreating prisoners of war, and submitted it to the United Nations Security Council at this time, once again asking for troops.

After a week of uproar, the United States also became clear about the attitude of China and Russia, especially when it thought that its allies were not firm in their positions, and the US military began to soften, first withdrawing two of the three aircraft carrier battle groups out of the Persian Gulf, and then sending a special envoy to Basra to ask for peace talks, and at the same time sending a note to the Chinese and Russian ambassadors, hoping that the two countries could make a contribution in the peace talks.

This made China and Russia very happy, now the Prophet Army has besieged Baghdad, as long as the capital of the northern government is captured, the Iraq strategy will be completely successful, but after all, the United States will not give up, there will be a lot of trouble in the future, now the Americans have relented, they are finally relieved, the big countries have only seen the talks, and this land can rightfully enter the rule of the Prophet Army in the future.

The Russian Defense Minister and the Chinese envoy visited Basra one after another, but no one expected that Canglong would not see them at all, and even Prime Minister Vivian had an indifferent attitude and sent them to the Basra International Hotel without any negotiations with them.

This made Russia and China very aggrieved, but they came to be peacemakers, and they had to endure the grievances, until two weeks later, Canglong finally appeared, and this prophet who played the Americans' game around issued a eulogy as soon as he appeared, and this eulogy was to pay tribute to all the soldiers and civilians who died in the cause of Iraq's reunification.

But no one expected that in the next unexpected event, from the Russian ambassador to the Minister of Defense, to the commander of the United Fleet, Alexander, to the Chinese ambassador and the Iranian ambassador, all of them were invited, and the content of this invitation was to hope that they would attend the next memorial service.

They also finally knew what the entire southern government was up to these days, and on a hill in Basra, a heroic tombstone had been erected, and on the sign at the door, the name of the person carved in Arabic, the National Hero's Cemetery.

When they were invited to the parliament building, they saw a column of prophetic soldiers walking in from outside Basra, wearing white silk on their heads in addition to their military uniforms, and four soldiers of the Prophet's army carrying a coffin before they were led by a guard of honor under the parliament building.

Countless people poured into the streets of Basra, people wept and saw off the heroes, and the number of coffins reached tens of thousands, and not a single coffin was lifted, and a name was recited on the radio of the National Assembly, albeit a simple sentence, but it represented the importance that the country valued them.

When tens of thousands of coffins were carried across the square and into the newly built National Heroes Cemetery, the whole Basra was in mourning, and the honor guard that had already been prepared raised their guns to the sky and fired at the sky, I don't know how many bullets they fired before stopping, and the Russians standing beside them at that moment were also infected by this emotion.

Only then did they know what Canglong was doing these days, just making these tens of thousands of coffins, just preserving these corpses, it was enough to consume countless manpower and material resources, although for the owner of each coffin, the time they passed through the square was brief, but this was the highest honor bestowed on them by the country.

At this moment, many people thought of the US military locked up in the desert, completely different treatment, but Canglong seems to want to use this incident to tell the world and tell everyone the fact that any invader will not end well, even the US military!

The funeral took about a day and a night, from the ceremony to the burial, to the lighting of candles in Basra.

It wasn't until the next day that this heavy funeral ended, but Canglong still didn't prepare to meet the envoys of several countries, just asked Vivian to entertain them, in his heart, there was a more important person waiting for him, and there was a more important funeral that needed his participation.

As a leader, he has done his duty, now he is a husband, a father of a child, when he rushed to the mosque, the funeral ceremony had already begun, the imam of the mosque had already begun to recite the scriptures, Canglong walked quietly and saw that the emir was crying, and several mosque *** were comforting him.

When they saw him coming, the imams and the *** all bowed and saluted: "Prophet! ”

"Continue the funeral!" Canglong calmly looked at Amir, who was wrapped in a white cloth, "Today, I am just a husband and a father!" ”

The imam and the *** were all surprised, and then nodded, their expressions were very respectful, compared to the state funeral of tens of thousands of people, the funeral of Amira, who is the holy wife, is really simple, with the contribution made by Amira, it is appropriate to use the state funeral, but no one in Basra will object.

However, Canglong is the only one who opposes it, although he has not had much contact with Amira, but he knows very well that Amira does not want to be extravagant and wasteful, in Canglong's heart, she will always be just a girl, until the moment he learns of his death, Canglong is really defined as a wife, this is what he owes Amira, and he must give her an explanation.

When the funeral was over, the emir cried very sadly, and although he was still too young to know why his mother was put in a big box and buried in the ground, he seemed to know that he might not see his mother again, and that the woman who was usually very fierce to her, but who would be by his side every night and comfort him in sleeping, he would not see either.

The imam finished reading all the eulogies and then began to seal the soil, and when carrying the tombstone, everyone was surprised to find that there was only a small sentence on the tombstone, which was depicted in two languages at the same time, one in Arabic and the other in Chinese, which roughly translated, the tomb of his deceased wife Amira.

Then two names were written below, Fulong Haotian and Zi Emir, which Canglong spent a few days carving by hand.

"Dad, am I not going to see my mother anymore?" Emir asked, crying, raising his head.

Those innocent and flawless eyes made Canglong not know how to answer, because he didn't want to deceive his son, but when he saw the smile in Amira's photo on the tombstone, Canglong suddenly smiled and said: "No, Mom will come to see you every night, but she went to a far away, far, far away"

"Really?" Emir wiped away her tears and asked with a puzzled expression.

"Yes, as long as you think about your mother, your mother will come." Canglong said.

Emir nodded vigorously, and then Canglong took him in his arms and left the cemetery, and at the door, Vivien was waiting for the two, seeing them coming, Vivien took Emir and smiled hard: "Is Emile crying?" ”

"Yes, Mom went far, far away, and Dad said she would only come to see me every night." Emir was naΓ―ve.

Vivien glared at Canglong, and then said, "Shall we go home?" ”

"Well, I hope the night will come soon, so I can see my mother." The emir himself ran down and then got into the car.

Vivien closed the door, looked at Canglong and said coldly, "Are you going to deceive him like this all the time?" ”

"No, I just don't want to give him a childhood without a mother, even if he has it in his fantasy, he will never forget it." Canglong said calmly, and then got into the car.

Vivian was about to say something, but found that Canglong got into the car, she followed closely, but was surprised to find that Canglong was gently holding Emir, actually asleep, and he closed his eyes as if he had left this world