199 Surrender Ceremony
In the distance, on the streets, there were also Ming soldiers loudly announcing the various restrictions and rules and regulations of the new army entering the city with loudspeakers. After all www.biquge.info the Ming army has not recaptured land from the enemy for a long time, and it is still a little rusty about such a process.
The soldiers hid their bodies against the wall to avoid being hit by enemy fire hidden in the corners. The shouts can be heard far away, because the streets are very empty, which is suitable for the transmission of sounds: "All rebel soldiers lay down their arms!" This place is already surrounded by us, there is no way out of resistance, lay down your arms and raise your hands to surrender, is the only way out for you! β
"It is strictly forbidden to rob, kill, ****...... Violators will be arrested, and in serious cases, they may be shot dead on the spot! Please be patient at home, the chaos will be over by tonight! "In these places where shouts echoed far away, gunshots could still be faintly heard, not all of them were willing to accept the end of surrender, and many of the people who grabbed the money were lucky, thinking that they could escape the pursuit of the Ming army and leave Mukden safely with these ill-gotten gains.
While the gunfire in the city continued, a special unit appeared in the streets of Mukden, opened the way with five improved No. 1 tanks, followed by a few rare armored reconnaissance vehicle trial models, followed by five tanks, and finally followed by 10 trucks full of Ming soldiers.
The force rushed along the road to the center of Mukden City, encountering little resistance along the way. Without stragglers to stop such a powerful combat force, even the Jin rebels of hundreds of people would immediately give up the idea of attacking and look for safer targets to attack when they saw the Ming army's tanks.
A full 10 improved versions of the No. 1 tank constituted a combat effectiveness that completely exceeded the Jin rebels who were scattered around the city and plundered. Encountering almost no resistance, this force arrived outside the gate of the Governor's Mansion of the Governor of Fengtian of the Ming Empire, which was originally in Fengtian City.
Next to the main entrance of the outer wall of the building with the plaque of the Governor's Palace removed, behind the sandbag fortifications near the sentry post, the garrison of the Kingdom of Jin, which was responsible for defending the place, did not fall into chaos because it was a direct unit. They are still doing their duty, protecting the magnificent building behind them.
"Stop! This is the headquarters of the garrison! The people in front stop advancing! A Jin State officer led by the leader shouted loudly at the convoy of the new army troops of the Ming Empire, which had slowed down. With his shout, behind the sandbag fortifications, two heavy machine guns and dozens of rifles were aimed at the Ming tank, which was already close at hand.
The convoy of the Ming army did not seem to have come to take the governor's palace directly, the first tank stopped in front of the fortifications, and the tanks that followed behind turned to the other side, and the long snake formation of the entire convoy finally turned into a ring covering each other, and a group of Ming soldiers jumped out of the truck and began to form a team in the position covered by the tanks.
As if the garrison of the Jin Kingdom was not taken into account at all, the Ming soldiers who jumped out of the truck shouted slogans and stood in a neat queue, and the commanders of the infantry stood in front of their own soldiers, shouting all kinds of orders: "Lizheng!" Align with the right! Look forward! Count! β
While the soldiers shouted one, two, three, four, and began to count, and the voices came and went, a Ming officer with white gloves and his adjutant crossed the defensive formation formed by the tanks, walked to the officers of the Jin garrison, and commanded with his chin high: "Let your men move their weapons and the bullets back." Now that you have surrendered, you have the appearance of surrender! β
"I'm so sorry...... Because the situation was chaotic, we had to stay on guard...... You've come just in time, just in time...... I'm going to gather my troops and get out of position. The rebel officer had been frightened by the Ming tanks, and after hearing the words of the Ming officer, he hurriedly ordered his men to withdraw their bullets, drop their weapons and retreat into the open space in the courtyard of the governor's palace.
The soldiers of the Ming army took over the fortifications that belonged to the rebels in an orderly manner, put aside the weapons laid down by the rebels, and the tank troops also tried their best to cover the cars and armored vehicles, and arranged a simple defense system in front of the door.
The officer of the Ming army led by him was the commander of the 1st Armored Division of the Ming Empire's Praetorian Guard, and he was ordered to come to receive the Fengtian garrison of the Jin State, which had sent a telegram to the Ming army announcing its surrender. More than 10,000 soldiers are still confined to the barracks by the Jin commanders, and these troops did not participate in the Mukden Rebellion, and it is better to be accepted as an organization than to let them go into chaos.
And because these troops are restrained by the commander, they have not joined the team of burning, killing and looting, which can be regarded as a blessing for the people. Therefore, Wang Jue's instructions to the front-line troops were very simple, that is, to allow these enemies to lay down their arms with dignity and receive them as prisoners.
In front of the main gate of the main building of the Governor's Palace, several generals of the Jin rebel army saw the commander of the 1st Armored Division of the Praetorian Guards who strode in, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "Jin...... The generals and lieutenants of the garrison of the army greet Your Excellency, and ask your permission to surrender our weapons and surrender with dignity and honor. β
While saying such clichΓ©s, these officers handed over their guns and sabers to the Ming soldiers who came over. Then the disarmed officers bent down en masse, waiting for the other to complete the entire surrender ceremony with the same set of rhetoric.
"All Han Chinese? What a shame on our ancestors...... Follow a group of Jurchen barbarians to scourge their compatriots, and they are not afraid of being poked in the back! The division commander of the Praetorian Guard glanced at these Jin rebels who were bent down and waiting for their fate, and said with cold contempt: "Take the officers of our army who received the surrender, go to the surrendered troop station, and receive the surrendered troops...... Don't make any trouble, or yours will look good, go ahead! β
The rebels of the Jin State who bent down and bowed their heads without braids were dripping with cold sweat on their foreheads, they did not expect that the generals sent by the Ming army to receive the surrender did not speak according to the routine, which made them very embarrassed when they had already surrendered their weapons. I didn't hear the greetings that made them get up, only heard an order to go, so everyone bent down and lowered their heads with the corner of their eyes, you look at me, I look at you, no one dared to get up first.
"What? Wait until I go and help you up? As the victor of this war, the division commander of the Praetorian Guard raised his feet and walked towards the corridor inside the door: "Hurry up and do what you have to do, who has the time to perform that useless surrender ceremony with you." β
Hearing what the senior generals of the Ming army said, several Jin generals quickly straightened up, and then were guarded by the Ming soldiers who stepped forward and left quickly in the direction of the barracks. The soldiers of the Ming army, who had fully occupied the entire Governor's Palace, were curiously looking at this building, which had gone through several wars, but still showed its magnificence in the mess.
From the beginning of May of this year to the end of September now, this governor's palace was first transferred from the hands of the Ming army to the control of the rebels of the Jin State, and then from the hands of the rebels, it returned to the territory of the Ming Empire - who would have thought that in less than five months, such a chaotic war was staged on the battlefield of Liaodong.
First, the rebels seized Fengtian, occupied Tai'an, broke Panjin, and forced Jinzhou. Then the Jin-Ri coalition army won first and then lost, lost Panjin, abandoned Tai'an, the corpses on the Liuhe River were everywhere, and the Liaohe defense line was defeated like a mountain...... Now Fengtian has changed hands, and even Liaoyang Anshan, which has been in operation for decades, is in danger.
In a short period of time before the whole world could see what was happening, the Ming army collapsed in embarrassment and occupied the initiative in the entire Liaodong battlefield. Now as long as the Ming army goes south to Liaoyang, it can tear open the golden defense line and take down the most important resource base in the northeast - the Gongchangling iron mine near Anshan!
Capture the Anshan iron ore production base and occupy the mining area near Gongchangling. The Ming Empire has mastered an important iron ore production base, which can be regarded as raising the resource reserves of the Ming Empire to a new height.
Of course, the strategic significance for the entire Ming Empire and the entire Far East is much more than that. Once the Ming army stabilized the situation in the Liaodong region, hundreds of thousands of troops would become a suddenly extra mobile force in the entire region, and no matter whether this suddenly extra mobile force suppressed Japan to the east or threatened Muscovy to the west, it would change the situation in the local area.
After taking a few steps forward, the division commander of the Praetorian Guard suddenly stopped, turned his head sideways and said to the adjutant who was following him, that is, the major officer who begged for Fan Ming: "Let the soldiers go to the top floor and raise the royal flag of His Majesty the Emperor." We, the Praetorian Guard, must keep the photos clear, and we must also take more photos from different angles...... This is the glory left to us by the commander, understand? β
"Yes, sir!" The Major nodded and summoned his men who followed him, and arranged for the men to go to the roof of the Governor's Palace to raise the national flag. He himself followed behind the chief, and walked all the way to the middle floor of the original Ming Empire's Governor's Palace, and came to the governor's office.
"I left in such a hurry that I didn't even burn the papers." Looking at the iron basin covered with black paper ash on the ground, the major who walked into the room took the division commander's steel helmet and hung it on the hanger, and said sarcastically: "The cups have fallen several times, and they haven't had time to clean them yet, so it seems that this person must not be in a good mood." β
"Clean up! This place is to be used as the commander's headquarters for the time being, and you are personally responsible for it, and the layout is decent. The commander of the Praetorian Guard brushed his hand over the huge desk in the Governor's Palace, and commanded. (To be continued.) )