Chapter 395: Funeral

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With the sound of a long trumpet, a group of soldiers came out of the army barracks, and the two soldiers in front of them were holding a flagpole tightly in their hands, and the flagpole was hung with the North Star flag of the Senate, and the flag was gently unfurled with the breeze blowing in the slow march, and the flag tassel at the top of the flagpole was also jumping. The soldier walking behind, holding the Senate rifle in his arms - this was the advice of the War Department, and among all the weapons equipped by the Senate troops at this time, the Senate rifle was first of all very domineering, which was very fitting to the image of the Senate; Secondly, the Senate rifle has a very long body, and it can almost reach about 1.7 meters with a bayonet, which is very imposing. For the above reasons, the Senate rifle has become the honor guard gun of the army honor guard - after all, it can also provide an advertising effect to the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, and the indigenous forces come to the port of the East, and can see that the honor guard uses this rifle, and there will definitely be more purchases**, and this is also the only rifle that can be offered for sale to the indigenous forces.

That's right, this is the newly formed Senate Army Honor Guard, which is mainly responsible for major state celebrations, visits by foreign guests, the opening of bases, etc., and of course, the funeral that is now underway. These honor guards are all carefully selected soldiers with excellent appearance, who are not only required to behave well and have good manners, but also have a strong sense of responsibility for the ceremony. Naturally, just like the old time and space, the Senate naturally likes those tall and uniform soldiers, but it is really not easy to find such soldiers at the moment, at present, the height of these soldiers is generally about one meter five, and even shorter, and it is already a feeling of winning the jackpot to find someone who is about one meter six, so now it has to be simple and simple to pull the general from the short.

Of course, the vanguard at the front of these honor guards naturally could not use the cold one-meter-five soldiers, so the standard-bearers and gunners who were now at the forefront were now all Medeno people. To say that although the people of Maidno look full of unpleasant eyes, but they are tall and strong, it is not to say, and now they have been trained by the education system of the Senate, and at this time, their spirit and spirit are the same as when they were just captured. Now they are holding their heads high, like proud roosters, at this time they are all walking out of the barracks at a pace of one second at a time, which can be regarded as very slow, you must know that this is a funeral, and it is also a funeral for veterans, which is completely different from the usual military parade, and the emphasis is on slowness.

At this time, there were naturalized people on both sides of the road, and they had just received the news that an elder had died in battle, which made them surprise one by one, it turned out that the patriarch would also die. In fact, speaking of Liu Xulai, few naturalized people know him at all, after all, he is a veteran on the hidden front. However, thanks to the continuous educational brainwashing of the Senate, the naturalized people knew that the senators were working hard for the interests of Oriental Port, the Senate and all naturalized people, and the sacrifice was also for the interests of every Chinese. Therefore, the naturalized people who are now watching are hanging their heads one by one, and some are even sobbing quietly. There were still many students in the direction of the city gate, all wearing school uniforms at this time, holding white painting circles in their hands and waiting quietly in the drizzle.

The next thing that came out of the barracks was the newly formed military band, for the Senate, the military band was a rather tricky problem, there were some guys in the senate who knew how to play musical instruments, but they were familiar with the cello, or violin and other string instruments, and the string instruments were okay to perform in concerts, but how could strings be used in this kind of march? There are still a few who can play the piano, but how does the piano play on the move? Therefore, after the discussion of the founding fathers of the military band, it was finally decided to start with the old three, flutes, snare drums and trumpets became the most common equipment in military bands - in fact, this is no way, to say that most of the things in the wind music are quite difficult to make, and the production of clarinet and oboe is super demanding, and it is relatively difficult to practice. After some discussion, the senators felt that anyway, the British used the transverse flute and snare drum to play the grenadier march to push the old time and space, so the senate started with the transverse flute and snare drum, and anyway, history was written by the victors.

At this time, the military band was playing a song that the naturalized people thought was quite strange in a long and mournful tune, although there were only three ordinary instruments at the moment, and none of the patriarchs were willing to classify things like suona and erhu into military musical instruments, but they played an exhilarating feeling, giving people the feeling of rolling forward and never stopping. The song is majestic and slightly sad, as if using music to write the great achievements of Liu Xu's life, so that the naturalized people on both sides of the road who bowed their heads in silent mourning invariably felt the heroic posture of a hero fighting and killing the enemy on the battlefield and calmly commanding the battle. This piece is modified from the "" in "S3", and the original tune is very powerful, although some string accompaniment is removed, but it is still magnificent.

At this moment, two more horses came out of the barracks, which were quite surprisingly tall. These two horses are horses brought from the old time and space by the people, these are mares used to breed the next generation of horses, you must know that the most important thing about horses is the maternal line, the better the mare, the better the quality of the pony. At this time, as soon as these two tall horses appeared, they directly made the crowd who were still in silent mourning exclaim, there are horses in Annan in this time and space, but they are mainly pack horses such as Yunnan horses, with a thin physique, although the bearing capacity is also limited, and the short horses of Guangxi Debao in the old time and space have brought this characteristic to the extreme. But the two white horses in front of him are snow-white three hippos, at that time, in order to buy these good horses, the procurement department spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy purebred horses, transported to this time and space because the horse was frightened, and finally died, so that He Yue was very angry after knowing, and pulled all the horses to the military horse farm to raise, and it was absolutely impossible to let this group of people who do not know how to ride horses and control horses toss.

The two white horses in front of them were handsome in appearance and sturdy in physique, and they dragged a gun carriage briskly. On this gun carriage was a rifled naval gun of 75 mm calibre, mounted on a gun carriage with large wooden wheels, and fixed to an ammunition cart drawn by horses in the front. There were two heavily armed non-commissioned officers sitting on the ammunition truck, and a non-commissioned officer in charge of driving in front of him was also sitting in the driving position, and he slowly walked out of the gate of the barracks under the control of the non-commissioned officer of the military horse brigade. The coffin was now being placed horizontally on the ammunition cart, which is the highest funeral specification, which is generally equivalent to a state funeral. Of course, Liu Xu, as one of the five hundred veterans, died on the battlefield, so he naturally deserves a state funeral.

The gun carriage was followed by all fifty soldiers of the honor guard, one by one, holding their rifles, and following the gun carriage step by step. The road chosen for the funeral was not in the bustling business district, but on the main transportation route in the middle of the agricultural area, and on both sides of the road was the land of the Orient Port farm, which was now planted with various food crops. The executive committee did not plan to make a big deal about this funeral, but planned to use a gun truck to pull the coffin and send it to the Xishan Martyrs Cemetery for burial.

Who knows that good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, and I don't know how far the news spread out one night, anyway, now Anyun Jiu Village and Eighteen Villages don't know how many natives came, and then many elders in charge of the industrial department will come to attend this funeral, so they simply take a day off, and at this time, I don't know how many people watched from the barracks all the way through Farm Avenue. Some of the onlookers were dressed in coarse cloth robes, some in gray short coats, and many more in naturalized overalls, all of whom looked at the strange-looking but imposing funeral procession.

"It's not the same as the last funeral of those big-headed soldiers." Someone whispered on the side of the road, and someone next to him said, "Of course it's different, the last time they died were all big-headed soldiers, this time I heard that the patriarch died, and the patriarch is a big official!" ”

"Official? How big is the official? Immediately, a curious baby asked, and the person who was asked was stunned, "I don't know either." ”

"I know this!" A slightly ostentatious voice immediately came out, "I heard that it was a military general of the Beard People, who fought three hundred rounds with Annan's anti-thieves on the battlefield, and was exhausted to death by the anti-thieves with wheel battles. ”

"Alas, what a pity! Such a heroic fierce general was actually consumed to death, why didn't he withdraw his troops? Someone on the side sighed.

Now the military band's song is playing to the end, and suddenly the style of the song changes, playing "an", although the original version is a piano piece, but the playing of the transverse flute does not reduce the solemn atmosphere of the original song in the slightest, at this time still makes the people on both sides of the road feel a kind of breathless sadness.

The procession marched to the west gate of the port of Orient, where several elders were waiting for the hearse with the students of the school, each of them pinning a white flower to his chest, and holding in his hands a small flower picked by the roadside, red and yellow, in the hands of hundreds of children, like a river of flowers. When they saw the gun cart pulling the coffin coming, they didn't rush up, but just stood there and waited. After the gun carriage and the honor guard behind them walked over, and under the leadership of the patriarch, the children's team followed the procession, like a river of flowers converging into the river. At this time, the previous piece was played again to the end, and the key changed again, becoming the tune of "Camel Bell".

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Jiang Yan, who was following the team, suddenly sang in a low voice to the rhythm, "Send comrades-in-arms, embark on the journey......" Wu Fang's eyes beside her suddenly couldn't stop bursting out, "This is still a big child...... Although Wu Wenfan behind him didn't know Liu Xu, he had always been grateful to the patriarchs for the life they brought to him and to all the naturalized people, you must know that all the patriarchs almost never spoke ill of him, and when his wife Ruan Thi Fang almost miscarried, it was the patriarch who personally presided over the operation, not only saved Ruan Thi Phuong's life, but also saved the child. Now that he has become a teacher and lived a life without worrying about food and clothing, seeing that Wu Fang was a little unable to stand, he hurriedly took two steps forward and supported Wu Fang, who was unstable on his feet. Wu Fang turned her head and saw that it was Wu Wenfan, tears flowing, "What's going on?" Why do you want to fight? This is only a kid in his twenties! Coming to this new world, nothing has been done, and the good days have only been a few days? And so it goes...... How sad his parents must be......"

Several male elders next to him also couldn't help it, some sobbed in a low voice, but some continued to sing with Jiang Yan's voice in a loud voice, "Silent and silent, two tears, camel bells ringing in my ears." The road is long, the fog is vast, and the revolutionary career sings and breaks up, the same and two loves......"

"Comrades-in-arms, comrades-in-arms! Dear Brethren! Beware of the cold wind in the north in the middle of the night, take care of yourself all the way......" The children behind him had learned this song, and at this time, they saw the teachers in front of them singing, and they all sang loudly with their slightly immature voices.

This song has a high appearance rate in Dongfang Port, and it is often played directly in the tweeter of Dongfang Port without changing a word, and the song has a deep artistic conception, catchy words, and the tearful parting feelings and expectations expressed in it are full of strong comradeship, so it is especially loved by naturalized people. At this time, there were also many naturalized people who were able to sing this song word for word, and at this time, they saw that the children had already begun to sing in unison, and they also unconsciously sang to the tune of the military band.

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The singing of the crowd of onlookers on the roadside drowned out the music of the military band like boiling water, but the soldiers of the military band still played hard, and each soldier had tears in his eyes.

The procession continued to walk forward, and when it was near the train track, a locomotive with black smoke stopped at the side of the turnout, and when it saw the team coming, it sounded its whistle, "Woo-" sounded like the call of the Oriental Port to the sacrificial patriarch. In front of them was a group of monks dressed in five robes, who were originally going to the dry dock construction site to participate in the construction, but because there were no elders present today, the entire Oriental Port was on holiday, and they rarely had a day off. However, Lotus Yizhixu happened to hear that it was because of the death of the patriarch, so he couldn't sit still, so he hurriedly asked the monks in Haichao Temple to quickly get dressed and greet the funeral procession on the side of the road. Yuantong and Huitong stood quietly on the left side of the road with these monks who were bandits a few months ago, clasped their hands together, and bowed their heads and recited, "The supreme and profound subtle method, I have seen and heard it today, and I have to accept it, and I am willing to understand the true righteousness of the Buddha, praise the Bodhisattva of the Earth, and ...... the head with a pure heart."

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