On June 22, 1997, Ye Chen went to Hong Kong City with the honor guard of the navy, land and air force and the Chinese People's Liberation Army Choir.

On the day Ye Chen arrived in Hong Kong City, Ye Chen and the others familiarized themselves with the surrounding environment and rested for a while, and then went with Cheng Jianqiang to meet Lieutenant Colonel Vince, the commander of the honor guard of the British Empire.

As a result, the competition between the two armies also began secretly, and the contact between them was relatively harmonious, and in Ye Chen's eyes, the atmosphere was much more harmonious than imagined.

But on the second day, Ye Chen found that he was thinking too much.

Because when entering the venue, the Hong Kong City police had to conduct a security check, Ye Chen and the soldiers of the honor guard consciously stood in line, and then walked into the venue in a very standardized manner, that is, the members of the Communist Youth League led by Ye Chen, which were also in good order, and quickly passed the inspection.

But not long after Ye Chen and the others entered the venue, they saw that the soldiers of the honor guard of the British Empire were very lazy, some were eating apples, some were knocking melon seeds, and some were drowsy, and the guns they were holding were also crooked, and they didn't look like soldiers at all?

What's even more infuriating is that they not only refused to inspect but also scolded the police in Hong Kong City in English and awkward Chinese, perhaps because of the relationship between them, the police in Hong Kong City did not fight back much, until their Lieutenant Colonel Vince appeared, they were stopped from accepting the inspection unwillingly, but this scene was filmed by the Hong Kong media.

But the matter did not end like this, just when everyone was rehearsing the way of entering the honor guard, they encountered another problem, that is, the way of walking!

Lieutenant Colonel Vince walked up to Cheng Jianqiang and said: "Cheng, I have now found a problem, that is, the pace of our two teams, through observation I suggest that the pace must be more appropriate to the standard of our British Empire, which is also an inevitable result, what do you think?" ”

Cheng Jianqiang immediately objected when he heard this: "This is absolutely impossible, the pace of our People's Liberation Army is unique to us, on major ceremonial occasions, our People's Liberation Army is based on our own pace, and the graceful and generous pace and momentum of the pace, doesn't Lieutenant Colonel Vince think that the pace of our People's Liberation Army is more suitable for this kind of occasion?" ”

A soldier next to Lieutenant Colonel Vince also stood up and said in English: "The way out of your pace is backwardness, why do we use your pace, the pace of our British Empire is the most noble in the world!" ”

Cheng Jianqiang smiled and said: "The pace of your army is noble, I can't deny it, and even respect it from the bottom of my heart, but the style of your army is very disappointing to me, if I let my army perform such a major task at such a pace without military discipline, I will become a sinner, so, Lieutenant Colonel Vince, I suggest that since the pace is unified, then the pace of our army is actually more appropriate, what do you say?" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Vince naturally paid attention to the pace of the Huaxia honor guard before, and the neat and uniform pace and beautiful and generous rhythm already had a definite idea in his mind.

But in the end, he refused: "Let's discuss this matter later, and then let's start the rehearsal for the handover!" ”

The rehearsal began, and during the rehearsal, the footwork of the honor guard was rhythmically lined up in the venue, and Ye Chen and the others stood at the place of their military band under the guidance of Cheng Jianqiang.

After Ye Chen and the others tried to rehearse once, they then tried to adjust their mentality and adapt to the environment under the arrangement of Dai Tiancheng and Dai Tuan.

And Ye Chen looked at the rehearsal phalanx of the honor guard guided by Cheng Jianqiang, and he was also stupid for a while.

According to the situation at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Cheng Jianqiang's celebrant team consisted of 1 executive captain, 3 flag bearers, and 12 flag guards from the army, navy and air force, a total of 40 people. Cheng Zhiqiang selected these elite soldiers from thousands of honor guards and personally led the team to train.

At this moment, the time to formally review their results was to conduct the handover ceremony at night, so the night training had become indispensable for them.

But then the British soldiers began to look for something, Cheng Jianqiang saw this and directly questioned Lieutenant Colonel Vince, and then Lieutenant Colonel Vince reconciled from the middle to alleviate the contradictions between them, and sent the next year to continue, but between each other was a kind of anger that did not admit defeat, and it was extremely nervous.

Some unpleasant words of the British army also came from there, Cheng Jianqiang in order not to expand the situation and let the soldiers hold back their emotions, those people saw that there was no reaction here, and finally gave up.

After the rehearsal that day, everyone returned to their residence, and Cheng Jianqiang and Vince walked together and didn't know what they were discussing?

Ye Chen walked with Zhang Feng and others, looked at these classmates and said, "Everyone has seen it today!" As long as we were cowardly and incompetent and backward before, what we are waiting for is to be bullied by others, no matter how strong you are, you will be left with a cowardly label, and you can even be bullied anytime and anywhere, our country is strong, those people are naturally not afraid, but they don't know how strong we are, so we must do our part to let them know that in the ceremony of this handover ceremony, we are all soldiers of the People's Liberation Army, with your loud voice, sing the future of New China, Let them and the whole world know that we are not lagging behind, and that China is strong now, you say, can we do it? ”

"Yes!"

It was a lively voice that broke the silence of the night, and was then recorded by the reporter who followed it.

Lieutenant Colonel Vince, who was talking to Cheng Jianqiang, was also attracted by the voices of these children, he looked at Ye Chen and said, "A very energetic group of children!" ”

Cheng Jianqiang said with a smile: "Yes, this is the future of our motherland, and it is also a bridge for diplomatic relations between our two countries, and I hope that we will have more opportunities to communicate with each other in the future." ”

Lieutenant Colonel Vince said with a smile: "Cheng, I think so too, I have already thought about it, the pace of this pace should still be subject to the pace of our army, please think about this matter." ”

After Cheng Jianqiang heard this, he said solemnly: "Lieutenant Colonel Vince, this matter, I also ask you to seriously consider it, our army will never take the pace of your army as the standard, we will never compromise on this matter, in fact, in the eyes of the scene, our pace is more suitable for this kind of great country etiquette, doesn't Lieutenant Colonel Vince think so?" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Wen Si left, and he didn't give Cheng Jianqiang the final answer.

"We have to get used to the night in Port City now, and it looks like we're going to spend the next few days in the night again." Cheng Jianqiang looked at the night sky road.

Dai Tiancheng smiled and said, "Let's practice!" For the sake of the future of the port city, we are tired and there is nothing, these days are important days, we can't fall into the prestige of our PLA, come on! However, you are right, compromise is not our style! ”

No compromise!