Chapter 639: Sigh

"What?"

looked at the officer in front of him in surprise, the officer's reminder made Nightingale stunned, what will happen?

What does he mean?

All kinds of ugly rumors related to the war immediately appeared in her mind, and her face immediately turned pale, and she didn't know what choice she should make for a while. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Just then, she heard a voice beside her.

"Sir, the Chinese are also civilized people, I will stay here with this young lady, take care of our soldiers, and report everything that happens here and tell the world!" I believe that the supervision of public opinion can enable them to maintain the attitude that a civilized country should have! ”

As he spoke, Phyllis walked up to Nightingale's side and expressed his support with his words! After these righteous words, he said to Nightingale.

"Miss, I think you must need help here, is there anything you need my help with?"

Looking at the gentleman who suddenly appeared next to him, Nightingale's eyes were full of joy. It seems that she was moved by the support of the other party, and for her, when her will was shaken, she was extremely touched by the support given to her by such a person, especially when the other party was a personable gentleman.

"Mr. Ferris!"

Apparently the officer also recognized this well-known journalist from London, and no one in the command knew this reporter well. So he hurriedly said to him.

"You also have to leave here as soon as possible, otherwise you won't be in a hurry!"

Maybe those ordinary wounded can be abandoned here because of lack of capacity, but some people can leave here first, Nightingale is, and the same is true of Mr. Phyllis in front of him, if he can't return to London safely, then, then the whole public opinion in London will blame the commander for this, and the current commander is afraid that he would rather offend a duke than a well-known journalist, let alone the entire London public opinion.

"Sir, if we all leave, what about them?"

Philis pointed to the wounded lying on the ground, and Philis said in a heavy tone as if he were a saint, with compassion in his eyes.

"If we leave, who will take care of them? If we all leave here, then the Chinese will definitely laugh at us and laugh at our cowardice! Sir, since you are leaving, you should hurry, after all, who knows where the Chinese are now? ”

Just as Phyris's words fell, a fierce cannon sound suddenly came from the air, it was the navy's fleet firing, but now the navy's fleet was obviously not attacking the Chinese, they were firing at Dublin.

Raze the whole city to the ground!

Even when they evacuated the city, the British did not decide what to leave for the people here, and the shelling continued for several hours, and the continuous shelling blocked the Chinese from entering the city, and likewise, turned the city of Dublin into a sea of fire, the fire reflected the smoke, illuminating the sky red, until the evening, the shelling stopped, and the whole sky was fiery red, fiery red.

At the outbreak of the war, however, the city seemed to be an empty city, and at the time of the war, the people who supported Ireland had withdrawn from the city, and most of the people who remained were Protestants, most of whom were supporters of the British government, and now, it was these people who were under fire from the British fleet!

After several hours of shelling, there were not many intact buildings in all of Dublin, except for a few places, and there were no buildings in good condition, and there were ruins everywhere, some of which even looked intact, and if you looked closely, you could see the traces of war.

In the evening, at the end of several hours of shelling, the British fleet left Dublin with dozens of merchant ships full of soldiers, and behind them, the fire of Dublin burned all night!

It wasn't until the next day, in the wee hours of the morning, after the fire was extinguished, that the Chinese troops besieging the city, with the cooperation of the IRA, began to sweep the whole city, but the sweep inside the city was sad, especially those Irish, who witnessed the destruction of a city, in the streets, there were corpses everywhere, the vast majority of them were the corpses of civilians, those civilians were all Irish without exception, in yesterday's shelling, tens of thousands of Irish died, Although they were mostly Protestant Irish and supporters of the British, they suffered the heaviest casualties under British fire......

In the face of these Irish people who had lost their families and homes in the shelling, although they had supported the British, the Irish soldiers now showed sympathy for them, and gave them as much help as possible, such as providing them with some food or shelter.

The war was brutal, but it was also glorious, and while the Irish were cursing the British there, the troops attacking Dublin held a ceremony to enter the city, and a dozen regimental flags belonging to the Chinese army were lined up in the streets, and cavalry, infantry, artillery, entered the city along the most important roads in Dublin, and they were entitled to this victory, to this glory.

Troops entered Dublin from all directions, and although there were still some remnants of the enemy in the city, such as a large number of British wounded, for most of the soldiers, the long time of leisure had finally arrived, and although the shelling destroyed many of Dublin's buildings, most of them were in fact only somewhat damaged due to the power of the weapons.

In a museum in the city, there is not even a piece of antiquity in it - I don't know who led it, these soldiers from China will always take these Western antiques or paintings with them when they clean up the trophies on the battlefield, after all, for the soldiers, this is a good kind of memorial, of course, to some extent, it is also a kind of plundering in disguise.

However, for this kind of "plunder", most of the commanders in the army turned a blind eye, after all, the soldiers worked very hard, and it is understandable that they obtained some souvenirs on the battlefield, after all, these war memorabilia symbolize the commemoration of their participation in the war.

Like everyone else, Jie Sen and Ma Pingliang will also search the city for all kinds of war memorabilia, of course, not only because of the freezing weather, they will not be able to sleep, so they will want to find a bed eiderdown quilt or blanket, which is also a good souvenir, and can also be sent home, and even want to get an oil painting of a beautiful girl......

In short, for the soldiers, they will always relax and have all kinds of whimsical ideas, but compared to the environment, it is really a whimsy, and all the shops on the street are looted - last night, because the army did not enter at night, the mob in the city took advantage of the chaos to loot many shops, and of course after the army entered the city, this behavior was sanctioned - many of the thugs who took advantage of the fire were executed, and if you see the hanged corpses on the street lamps, they must have been done by the IRA, The Chinese army prefers to shoot rather than the Irish hobby of hanging, and sometimes, a row of corpses can be seen at the intersection, and there are some bullet holes in the wall. Compared to hanging, shooting is undoubtedly more efficient. And this kind of mass shooting of the thugs, even now, has not ended, and the gunfire will always continue to echo in the city, at least in the next two or three days, the city order may not be fully restored.

At this time, the whole city looked desolate, and most of the things of value in Dublin did not exist, they were either robbed, destroyed, or burned to the ground, and reduced to a pile of broken bricks.

Walking on the streets, the bleak scene on the road made Li Jiesen have a very deep feeling, he did not expect that war can completely destroy a city, during dinner, when he and his comrades were drinking together, he said with some sighs.

"Everything in Dublin has been destroyed, a lot of buildings have been shelled, and as a city, it's not a city anymore, and I estimate that the loss of wealth is at least hundreds of millions, maybe more, who knows? Anyway, now the city has been completely destroyed! ”

The victory or defeat of the war is another matter, the war was not fought in China itself, and the destruction of Irish cities also seemed to have nothing to do with China, but even so, when Li Jiesen felt a certain sense of happiness, he also gave birth to a kind of sympathy.

"What would you think if a country lost so much wealth in the war, and tens of thousands of people had no food or clothing, and now that the war is over, their situation will undoubtedly be even more miserable?"

"That's why we're coming to Ireland to fight!"

A comrade-in-arms said that what he said was the truth, and almost everyone knew what they had come to Ireland to fight for, so that the flames of war would not burn at home.

"We help the Irish to fight the war, to help them gain independence, so that we can fight the war to the British, not to let the British fight to China! As it is now, because of our advance, soon we will have the British on the ground in a defensive battle on British soil! And not for us to conduct defensive operations! It is precisely because we are here that we are on the attacking side around the world, leaving the British in passive defense! ”

All right! This is a very good reason, for China, as long as the war is carried out overseas, it will not have any impact on the country, and the country can also plunder more colonies through the war, for China, this is the best option, although for the Irish, it is a disaster! For the people of Dublin, it was a devastating disaster!

"In my own opinion, Dublin is no longer revived. Because two-thirds of it had been blown up by the British, the burned ruins were irretrievable, and it would take at least a few decades to recover them. But Ireland is not China, they are too backward, economically, industrially, even in agriculture, they are also backward, even if they are independent, what can they do? It's still very poor, and if they want to restore the city, I'm afraid there will be a lot of difficulties......"

After Ma Pingliang let out this exclamation, another comrade-in-arms said on the side.

"So, in the war is extremely cruel, fortunately, now the Irish are the victors, they only lose the house, you must know that in the war as the defeated side is probably more miserable, and this is unavoidable, after all, there are winners, there are losers! I think that if you want to fight, you must win the war no matter what, that is, even if the war is fought to the grandchildren's generation, you must win! Just like in the past, after we were defeated, but we were enslaved by Jiannu for more than 200 years, how many of us did Jiannu kill? It has even changed our culture, so that our entire nation has fallen into dark colonial rule, and even been kept and enslaved like pigs, so as soldiers, no matter what, we must win against the British, as long as we win them, we can avoid the fate of being enslaved! ”

For Chinese soldiers, they can never forget the grief of history, in the army, in society, about the massacre of Chinese during the Manchu rule, the destruction of Chinese culture will always be constantly mentioned, and even His Majesty has signed a bill, anyone who tries to cover up the atrocities of the Manchu Qing or justify the Manchu rule will be regarded as traitors, and they will be exiled for at least 20 years, including their families, which is not just at the legal level, There is a well-known scholar who said that compared with the Manchu rule in the late Ming Dynasty, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, although he came up with some so-called evidence, but because of these words, he was exiled to the African colonies, and he would never make any concessions on the issue of nationality, just like in some areas in the west, at a specific time, for some special groups, the army even implemented extremely cruel punishment laws. Sometimes, cruelty is unavoidable.

In this regard, although some people have questioned His Majesty in person, His Majesty's answer is very simple: "Overcorrection must be overdone, but it cannot be overkill!" If the Manchu Qing Dynasty used a butcher's knife and a literary prison to maintain their rule and break the backbone of this nation, then for the current Chinese Dynasty, it is to use the method of "overkill" to change all this and save everything.

Of course, in the eyes of many ordinary soldiers, those people were simply coquettish, and in the Manchu Dynasty, how could they ever complain about their compatriots who suffered from literary prison? Of course, perhaps it is precisely because they have experienced slavery to freedom that they will cherish the present even more, and they also subconsciously have a thought in their hearts - to defeat the enemy no matter what! Win this war!

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