Today, the streets and alleys of Port Orient are almost empty, and almost all the departments under the rule of the Senate have a day off to hold funerals for the soldiers who died in the defense of Port Orient. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

An Yuncheng is a small place, there are not a few lively things throughout the year, even if it is a rush, there are not a few times a year, usually just to see the head cutting can be regarded as a fun, and the people have no entertainment at all. When I heard that the people were going to hold a grand "funeral" today, they all rushed from Anyun County to Dongfang Port along the avenue to see the excitement...... So much so that Shen Bin had to use the anti-riot police detachment that was undergoing basic training and all the traffic police, and the militia had to be temporarily mobilized to stand guard on both sides of the road.

Although it was still winter, and the temperature was only about ten degrees, Du Yande was still sweating profusely. He had a very difficult problem, the funeral convoy couldn't get out.

The funeral convoy consisted of 120 double-seated Rolls-Royces in the back seat, and the coffins of the fallen soldiers were placed in the back seats, covered with the national flag, the national anthem, and the national horn, which were not decided until after the First General Congress, when a piece of cloth dyed dark blue was used instead. The convoy is planned to depart from the military camp in the west, circle the Oriental Port City from the south, and then turn back from the north to the west and enter the martyrs' cemetery for mass burial.

But now don't talk about the road, even the entrance of the barracks is blocked with villagers and naturalized people who come to see the excitement, at this time it is a sea of people, let alone passing through the middle, I am afraid that there is no place for the pins.

"Executive Committee Du," Du Yande heard someone call him, and hurriedly looked at the gate of the barracks, Li Jieqi was running over from the front quickly, "I asked Yuan Zhenli to use a drone to see it, from here to the front of the Xishan Martyrs Cemetery is full of people, and it is impossible to get through at all." ”

"I'll go!" Du Yande stomped his feet in frustration, "There are so many onlookers to hold a funeral, if you sing a big show, you can't trample the garden flat?" ”

"Why don't you let the cavalry disperse the crowd?" Li Jieqi immediately sacrificed the cavalry he had just formed. This cavalry was a new contingent that had only been formed for less than fifteen days, and it was used to capture horses from the Wu Dynasty or from the war against the barbarians, and then purchased them from horse merchants. However, most of the local horses that can be bought are thin and short Dian horses, which are mostly used as traction and storage at this time. The cavalry was mainly given horses that looked quite tall and strong, but these horses were no more than fifteen, so the first cavalry platoon of the first cavalry company of the first cavalry battalion of the first cavalry regiment, the prototype of the first cavalry brigade of the senate, was built on these fifteen tall horses.

"No, no, don't mess around." Du Yande hurriedly interrupted Li Jieqi's suggestion. "Well, we're going to have to find something scary to clear the way and force these people to give way so that the convoy can move safely as planned."

"Scary stuff? Why don't you let the guard of honor fire in front of you? Xiao Mingwei suggested on the side.

"It's unreliable, the local people don't know the difference between gunshots and firecrackers, and people are not afraid at all." Li Jieqi shook his head, "The thing you are looking for must look scary, otherwise it will attract onlookers from the people." ”

Hearing this, Du Yande's eyes lit up, and he took out his mobile phone and dialed it......

Twenty minutes later, the gates of the barracks slowly opened amid the cheers of the crowd, but instead of the soldiers from the Senate, a large "Hitachi" excavator appeared at the forefront.

Many of those present had seen the excavator, and this steel monster could dig a huge pit with a shovel, and the terrifying thing was that this thing seemed to have endless power and could work continuously. And the excavator's tracks are wide and large, slowly moving on the hardened road, the engine roaring, and the vibration also shocks everyone nearby.

At this time, it was Ma Linming who was sitting in the cab of the excavator, this veteran had served in an armored unit of the People's Liberation Army in the old time and space, and he had a lot of experience in driving tracked vehicles.

The long arm of the excavator stretched forward, and in the bucket stood two naturalized soldiers of the honor guard, although these two soldiers swayed slightly in the bucket with the inertia of the excavator, but they stood in such a high place, making them look very tall. The rifles in their hands were wiped clean, and the bayonets on the muzzles of the guns shone brightly, causing the people who saw them to let out a burst of exclamation.

Of course, this exclamation did not come only from the exclamation of the two soldiers of the honor guard, but also from the panic when the huge excavator drove towards him. The crowd of people who were originally crowded at the gate immediately made way for a passage in the chaos.

The army soldiers who followed immediately followed the excavator and set up a goose parade to isolate the crowd and prevent the crowd from re-encirclement.

Before the crowd of onlookers could close together, one hundred and twenty double-seated Rolls-Royces drove out of the barracks gate, and except for a few leading in front, the coffins covered with the national flag were placed horizontally on the back seats of the other cars. Because of today's traffic control, there is no vehicle traffic on the road from the barracks to the five-star square to the port and then to the empty field in the north of the city, and then all the way to the Xishan Martyrs Cemetery, so the army soldiers who followed behind the excavator smoothly separated the crowd.

At the back of the line was a tracked tractor with a field gun towed in front of the vehicle, and a coffin was also covered with a blue cloth. Unlike the other coffins, this one sat an old officer with a lot of bandages on his body.

Since the senator officers had golden stars on their epaulettes and the material of their uniforms was better than that of ordinary soldiers, the crowd of onlookers once again exclaimed.

Li Xijue was in the crowd at this time, since he reached a settlement with the pirates in Dongfang Port, the pirates didn't even have any intention of violating Anyun County, but kept building roads outside, absorbing a large number of homeless people from the outside who were avoided by others, and his eyeliner told him that the Beihaiwei beacon tower in the barren beach and jungle was already full of Xintian workshops and newly built houses at this time. His heart couldn't help but be filled with curiosity about these pirates, so today he put on an ordinary robe and turban, and mixed with these ordinary people who came to see the excitement to come to this eastern port city.

Because he left late, he fell behind the crowd, and at this time he was already blocked at the exit from Dongfang Port to An Yuncheng Avenue.

He was anxious when he suddenly heard an uproar in front of him, and the crowd flashed to both sides as quickly as lard touched by a hot spatula, and he didn't know what was happening in front of him, and he also flashed to both sides with the crowd.

Soon he saw the terrifying iron beast that separated the crowd - the excavator. Behind the excavator, the blue-clothed soldiers who walked with a rhythm of 75 steps a minute with their shoulders and guns, there were no wailings, no gongs and drums, and no chanting of monks and Taoists, they just kept walking forward at a mechanical pace, closely following the iron beast.

The bird's guns on the shoulders of the soldiers and the short swords on them were polished brightly, not at all like the soldiers in the guard station who held the rusty fire guns and short knives and hung their backs like Hanako.

Before he could praise the pirates for their good governance, the so-called "tired to death" drove up, and he didn't know why these cars were called tired to death, and the soldiers who sat on them and stepped on the pedals didn't look tired at all.

Li Xijue was mainly surprised by the number of these exhausted cars, there were one hundred and twenty cars, each of which had two soldiers sitting on it and a coffin lying horizontally, giving people the feeling that it looked very solemn. Even if each of these bicycles only seats four people, these 120 bicycles can transport 480 people at a time, and as long as the road conditions are good, the speed can be quite fast. These pirates have such vehicles, whether they intend to loot or not, they are like tigers.

He suddenly realized that these cars were two-row seats, and he sometimes saw several single-row wooden carts of this kind driving on the avenue when he was patrolling the city walls on behalf of the county commander, so these pirates definitely had more than one hundred and twenty such transports......

Immediately after that, there was a roar of the engine, and at the back of the team drove an iron beast that was different from the previous iron beast, and there was a cannon dragged behind the butt of this iron beast, which was different from the remaining tiger squat cannon at the head of An Yun City, although the muzzle of this cannon was much smaller, but the cannon body was much longer, and the wheels were also very large, which made people feel deterrent. The coffin on the gun carriage and the veteran officer holding the coffin aroused Li Xijue's interest.

"This is the official of the people, right?" Someone on the side put forward the question that Li Xijue wanted to ask.

"No," said a man dressed in a bearded man's "naturalized civilian uniform," "I heard that he was an ordinary soldier, a prisoner who had been captured a few months earlier in the attack on the port of Orient as a townsman, and later joined the army. ”

"Isn't that just an ordinary big-headed soldier?" Some people don't think so.

"An ordinary big-headed soldier can be so magnificent, he didn't live in vain!" Someone sighed on the sidelines.

"That is, a few years ago, when Wen Xinyi from Wu'an Village died and his father was at the funeral, there was half a street of mourners, but they were all called Huazi for money, how could there be such a style?"

"That's right, a big-headed soldier who has only been a few months can be so magnificent when he dies, if the emperor of these people dies, then he can't use a hundred horses to pull the cart?"

"Is it really just a dead soldier?" Li Xijue was a little unconvinced, and stepped forward to ask the person who was wearing a naturalized civilian uniform before.

The man looked back, and although the person who was questioning him was dressed in ordinary clothes, he showed a kind of superiority in his gestures, and knew that he was not an ordinary person, so he replied respectfully: "It's true, my cousin was a soldier in the army, and this soldier was called a dog, and he was killed in a battle with the Medeno a few days ago. ”

"What do you think? They are all big-headed soldiers, and if they die, they will die? ”

"Whoever buys hearts and minds." A man dressed in Confucian costume said on the side, this person had a shrill voice, fair skin, and a petite figure, and at first glance he looked like a woman dressed as a man. "What kind of funeral is this? It's not polite at all. Pirates are pirates. ”

The man in the naturalized people's uniform suddenly blushed and sneered, "As far as you know, what kind of ceremony does the funeral use of monks and Taoists to open the way?" ”