"It's been a long war, a hard war. It is a huge test for both the nation and the national strength.

You are worthy of being the daughters of China, worthy of being the heroes of the empire, you fought for the motherland, you are brave and tenacious, and countless compatriots are proud of you.

You are extraordinary, united, fighting side by side, and this camaraderie can only exist in the midst of war.

Brothers and robes share a bunker and support each other when they need it most. Witness death together, suffer together.

I am proud to have you brave and fearless soldiers, and you alone are the most qualified and entitled to a happy and peaceful life, because peace is made with your blood.

Remembrance is like a rain, warriors, rest in peace! ”

In the drizzle, Chen Shao, dressed in black Hanfu, slowly walked past one tombstone after another, looking at the photos of the inscriptions covered with water droplets, and his heart was very depressed.

They are all young, and the inscription records their lives.

Every time he passed a tombstone, Chen Shao would look at the inscription in detail, look at the photos, salute a solemn military salute, and put a bouquet of flowers praying for the rest of the soul.

Above the martyr's mausoleum, the sorrowful joy slowly reverberates, making everyone's heart extremely heavy.

Today is not the Qingming Festival, nor is it a statutory death day.

Let's take a look at these sacrificed soldiers, it's just a whim of Chen Shao. From the first headstone to the last one stretching to the top of another hill, more than 50,000 headstones have been erected here.

Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the soldiers who died in the battle to unify China. To this day, all the sacrificed soldiers are buried here one by one.

A solemn military salute, a bouquet of flowers, and a eulogy are Chen Shao's best consolation to these soldiers who will rest here forever and to himself.

Those veterans who retired because of injuries and were willing to come to guard the graves of their comrades-in-arms quietly followed Chen Shao, listening to Chen Shao's eulogy one after another, and they all burst into tears.

Only now. It most stirs up their memories. Remembering the comrades-in-arms who blocked each other's bullets in the smoke of gunpowder, I am flooded with memories that will forever be engraved in my heart. Frolic together, train together, support each other. Help each other. They are the best brothers. A non-brother is better than a brother.

Now the brothers and comrades-in-arms are gone, and the only way to remember the past is here.

A sound of brakes broke the sad atmosphere of the moment.

Chen Fuqin, dressed in a marshal's uniform, stepped out of the car door. went straight to Chen Shao and the others. first saluted Chen Shao, then faced the depths of the mausoleum, and also saluted a military salute, and then saluted these veterans guarding the tomb. After that, he said loudly:

"Report to Your Majesty, the latest situation has just come from the Pacific Theater Command, and Japan has officially replied and accepted all of our conditions. The surrender signing ceremony will be held on June 2. (The date is wrong, it's not September, May, it's June.) ）”

"June 2nd, five days later. Well, that's good. Chen Shao nodded.

In fact, Chen Shao also hoped that Japan would reply sooner, because there were still many Japanese troops in Australia who were stubbornly resisting, and the sooner Japan surrendered, the sooner the war in one direction would be peaceful.

"Also, the two Japanese princes have gone to Australia to appease the Japanese army above Australia, and after the formal surrender is signed, the troops will be restrained to surrender to our army." Chen Fuqin didn't find a quiet place to report, everyone here is qualified to know this, maybe they are the most qualified to know this.

Chen Shao didn't care about the current occasion, and the message of peace announced here may also be the best memorial service for these sacrificed soldiers.

"Very good, the Japanese are quite self-conscious." Chen Shao nodded again.

"However, General Xia Mengyu of the Military Intelligence Agency has just sent information from the United States to the Supreme Command." Chen Fuqin said again.

"Humph! Are those members of Congress in the United States not ready to surrender yet? Chen Shao snorted coldly and expressed his dissatisfaction.

"Yes, the U.S. Congress vote still doesn't mean to surrender." Chen Fuqin said.

"A bunch of politicians who don't know the times." Chen Shao was not too surprised by this result, because one of the conditions that Chen Shao gave to the United States was that the United States had to bear an extremely heavy debt.

This is a huge monetary debt, large enough to give the United States no chance of recovering for decades to come.

The amount of compensation given by Chen Shao is also very simple, just multiplying the sum of all the money spent since China entered the war by ten.

Even the United States, which still has some family background, is enough to take on such debts. Therefore, Chen Shao was not too surprised by the refusal of the United States to surrender.

However, Chen Shao never changed the meaning of these conditions. If the United States does not surrender, he Chen Shao will fight until the United States has to surrender, so that the United States feels that if it does not surrender, the losses will be even greater, and then the United States naturally has no reason to refuse the conditions here.

"Let Wang Yunshan begin to prepare for the implementation of the final strike plan, there is no need for us to wait any longer, to defeat the last faith of the United States at one time, and let them know that hope does not exist and surrender is their God. For every day of delay, the troops far away in Alaska will have fighters die. Let's end it early! War. Looking at the tombstone in the depths of the drizzle, Chen Shao calmly gave an order full of boundless killing intent.

Chen Fuqin's heart was shocked, he knew very well what would happen once this order was conveyed to Wang Yunshan, and as long as Chen Shao's box was unlocked, the Americans would truly understand what death was. However, when he saw one tombstone after another, he didn't say anything, but replied sonorously: "Yes." Then he turned and left.

Listening to the sound of the car in the distance, Chen Shao did not hesitate at all. Of course, he knew very well what this order meant, and if it was placed on other occasions, he Chen Shao might have hesitated, but in the martyr's mausoleum, he had put aside all his concerns.

Chen Shao had always lacked the determination to give this order, but when he came here, he found out. It turned out that deep down in his heart, this determination was unusually firm. Even if it is on his back, the first executioner of the ages, he will not waver in the slightest.

When the order was given to strike Japan with nuclear weapons, Chen Shao did not hesitate at all, and this naturally included the factors of Japan's invasion of China in later generations. However, for the United States, Chen Shao really needs a reason to convince himself, and this reason is also very simple, there are countless reasons standing in front of him.

Chen Shao has never been a hero, because he lacks many conditions to be a hero. But it doesn't mean that Chen Shao won't use the means of Xiaoxiong. It's just a lack of timing.

Another point is that when Japan was first attacked by nuclear weapons, Japanese cities were generally not large, and a nuclear bomb with a yield of 200,000 tons was sufficient. And the United States. It's a different story at all.

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in Japan. The spirit of resisting surrender without losing his mind did not die with the death of Kanzhong and Ugaki.

Evening of May 22. Ten young men who called themselves "Honoring the Emperor and the Rebels", with strips of white cloth wrapped around their heads, occupied Atago, which was visible from the Chinese Embassy. The authorities sent police to disperse them. But they threatened the police who surrounded them with pistols and grenades.

In the pouring rain, they held hands, sang the national anthem, and shouted "Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" After that, five grenades exploded almost simultaneously, and ten people fell to the ground, all of whom were killed.

Their leader left a fateful word: "The mountains and rivers have fallen, and the cicadas rain is vain." A few days later, the wives of three rebels who had already died also committed suicide on the summit of Atago. Two people died, and in the wave of self-destruction, eleven transport generals belonging to a certain sect of Buddhism committed suicide in front of the Imperial Palace, and fourteen young students were seppuku at the Yoyogi training ground.

Other rebels continue to attack a number of communications centres sporadically. A young man and sixty-six soldiers from a communications school briefly occupied NHK's radio station in Kawaguchi. About 40 people, including 10 women, seized the Matsui radio station and then attacked the post office, the power plant, the local newspaper and the prefectural government.

The announcement that the Chinese army would soon occupy Japan caused new fears and unrest. Rumors spread everywhere, and the people panicked. Some say that the Chinese army is landing in Osaka, and some say that thousands of Chinese troops have been raped and plundered in Yokohama.

The girls and valuable things were evacuated to the countryside or to the mountains. Newspapers were full of advice on how to get along with the Chinese army. They said to the women: "Do not go out at night." Do not take out valuables such as watches. When you are in danger of rape, show your majesty, do not give in, and call for help. ”

They were warned to be careful not to engage in "provocative behavior," such as smoking or not wearing socks. Some factories also gave poison pills to female workers.

Shortly after dawn on 28 May, 45 Kunpeng transport planes flew over Mt. Fuji to carry China's advance troops, commanded by Major General Wang Xijing, Qian Sihai's intelligence minister. The lead plane landed at Atsugi Airport, and after coming to a stop, the first conqueror to set foot on Japanese soil was Major General Wang Xijing.

At the tarmac end, a group of Japanese shouted and rushed towards him. He thought that these madmen were going to hack him to death. It turned out to be a group of reception staff. A diminutive officer stepped forward and introduced himself as Lieutenant General Yusei III.

Two hours earlier, three blue Chinese fighter jets had flown towards the Atsugi airfield, and one of them threw down a large pipe, and some of them stood dumbfounded, watching it fall. He was afraid that this was done by the Chinese radicals who demanded war. The tube fell on the grass and did not explode. The people carefully lifted it to the end of the heel, and he found a nut at the end. They removed the nut so that it "couldn't explode."

Inside the tube was a roll of cloth, which turned out to be a fifteen-foot-long banner that read: "Welcome to the Chinese Army - Chinese Marine Corps gift." A note was attached asking that the banner be hung on the side of the hangar so that Qian Sihai's officers could see it when they got off the plane. "Fearing that it would cause disgust and trouble," Arisu ordered the banner to be hidden. As Wang Xijing and Youmo walked towards a tent in the reception area, the Japanese photographers and photographers of the Chinese Signal Corps kept taking pictures and recorded almost every step.

In less than 48 hours, the Atsugi airfield was occupied by the 11th Chinese Airborne Division, whose eight-engine Kunpeng transport planes landed every two minutes for several hours. As soon as the airport was occupied, another Kunpeng transport plane appeared in the distant sky. It was the Chinese Navy Admiral Qian Sihai who was carried.

Qian Sihai and his military translator, Colonel Li Yongze, were discussing the fate of Japan on the plane. Li Yongze has been to Japan countless times. "It's very simple," Mr. Qian said. "We will use the Japanese government as a tool to achieve the occupation." Among other things, he wanted to give Japanese women the right to vote.

"Japanese men will be unhappy."

"I don't care. I want to discredit the Japanese military. Women don't want war. ”

The large transport aircraft landed at 2:19 p.m. The first to step out of the cabin was Qian Sihai. He paused at the end of the gangway, and Li Yongze heard him muttering to himself, "This is the end." He lit a cigarette and got off the plane with it in his mouth. General Wang Xijing, who arrived a few hours earlier, stepped forward to shake hands with Qian Sihai, who said, "The journey from the Philippines to Tokyo is really long, but it seems to have reached the end." ”

A row of tattered cars waited at the airport, ready to send Qian Sihai and his party to the Yokohama Temporary Headquarters. The road truck is a red fire truck, and the fire truck makes an amazing popping sound when it travels, and the convoy follows the fire truck. Embark on the fifteen-mile journey to Yokohama. There were almost 30,000 Japanese troops standing guard along the way. All of them have their backs to the money.

They settled down at the Shindai Bright Hotel, a luxurious hotel built after the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. At dinner, Qian Sihai's guards warned his superiors. The steak may have been poisoned. Qian Sihai laughed. Say "Then no one wants to live".

Night. He said to the officers gathered in his room: "Brethren, this is the greatest adventure in military history. We are now sitting on the enemy's territory, and we have only such a small army. Nineteen heavily armed divisions and seventy million madmen must be taken care of. Just one wrong step, the Alamo (Alamo is a historic building in San Antonio, Texas, United States. In 1836 Sant'Anna's 4,000-strong Mexican army surrounded it, and the Texans held out until the end, except for David. Crockett and five others. They promised to surrender if they were not killed. St. Anna agreed, but later killed them. It's like a Sunday school outing! ”

The formal surrender ceremony was held on June 2, three days after Qian Sihai's arrival in Japan, aboard the supercarrier Yanhuang, anchored in Tokyo Bay.

Early in the morning of the 2nd, when the sky was misty and the cool air was blowing, about 7:30 a.m., a destroyer came, and many memories came from the destroyer. In addition to journalists from China itself, there are more journalists from the European Axis Alliance. In the positions where the reporters were allowed to stand, they exchanged heads and talked with each other, but a few Japanese reporters stood by resignedly.

Subsequently, a destroyer drove next to the Yanhuang, and the generals of the Chinese Navy and Army stepped off the destroyer and turned onto the Yanhuang. At 8:05, Li Haijiang and Di Wolf boarded the Yanhuang, followed by Qian Sihai.

At this time, another destroyer arrived with eleven Japanese representatives. There has been a debate in the Japanese about who should be the chief representative. If the royal family and the new prime minister are allowed to suffer this kind of humiliation, it will be intolerable and unimaginable; And Konoe, who had risked his life for two years for peace, did not want to shame himself at this moment.

This onerous responsibility then fell to the new foreign minister, Chongguang. Shigemitsu felt that this was a "painful but rewarding task" and was honored that the emperor had appointed him as the leader of the group. Army Chief of Staff Umezu was forced to attend, which was personally urged by the emperor. Rear Admiral Tomioka, the chief of naval orders, ordered his chief of operations, Rear Admiral Tomioka, to attend the meeting. "You lost the battle," he said, "so it's up to you." Tomioka silently obeyed, but had already made up his mind to seppuku after the surrender ceremony.

When the Japanese representatives got on board, they were not even sure what kind of etiquette to use. Should they salute, bow, shake hands or smile? Their adviser, Mahibir, had told the military to salute and that civilians only had to take off their hats and bow, "I suggest that all of you have a nonchalant look on your face." ”

At 8:55 p.m., Mahibir led a Japanese civil servant wearing a top hat and a tuxedo and a wide tie to board the Yanhuang. The civil servant had a great time getting up the escalator, and he had to groan at every step. He is Shigemitsu Aoi, whose left leg was blown off by the assassin's bomb many years ago. His prosthetic leg made it difficult for him to walk and it was painful. Bird, who was standing on it, had expected the grim-looking general behind his top hat to give him a hand. That general was Umezu, who regarded Shigemitsu as an abominable "Bagdolio" and ignored his suffering. Bird walked down and held out a hand. Chongguang shook his head, but then it was the Chinese who helped.

The painful journey from the aft deck to the escalator on the foredeck where the ceremony took place put Shigemusu at the center of everyone's attention. A Chinese reporter noticed. Those who watched looked at him with "a cruel sense of satisfaction." Shigemitsu climbed the escalator in embarrassment, hiding his expression.

After the Japanese delegation took its position, General Qian Sihai arrived, and he, together with Li Haijiang and Di Wolf, walked through the deck in high spirits and came to a table covered with documents.

"We, the representatives of the belligerents," said Qian Sihai, "gathered here to sign a solemn agreement. Peace was thus restored. Disputes involving diametrically opposed ideals and ideologies. It has been seen on the battlefield, so we do not need to discuss or debate it here. As representatives of the majority of the peoples of the planet, we are not gathered here in a spirit of distrust, malice or hatred. It is the responsibility of both of us to achieve higher dignity. Only that dignity is conducive to the sacred goal for which we are about to fight. Let all our people unreservedly use the understanding that we are about to formally reach here. Faithfully implement this understanding. ”

There was no resentment or revenge in Qian Sihai's words, "my own sincere hope," Qian Sihai continued. "Indeed, it is also the hope of all mankind that, from this solemn moment, a better world will emerge from the bloodshed and massacres of the past, a world based on faith and understanding, a world dedicated to human dignity and capable of realizing the most pressing hopes of humanity."

Almost as if fulfilled, the dark clouds dispersed, and the peaks of Mt. Fuji glistened in the distant sun. Qian Sihai pointed to a chair on the other side of the table. Chongguang limped up and sat down. He fumbled with his hat, gloves and cane, giving the impression of procrastination.

Di Wolf was a quick temper, and really wanted to give him a slap in the face, and said, "Sign quickly!" Damn it! Sign-in! ”

However, Qian Sihai saw that Chongguang was confused, so he turned to his chief of staff and said solemnly, "Tell him where to sign it." Shigemitsu signed. Then Umezu walked up stiffly, and without even sitting down, he hastily signed his name. Qian Sihai signed with another pen in his own identity.

After signing the agreement, Qian Sihai spoke again. "Let us sincerely wish," he said, "that peace has begun to awaken in the world, and that God will bless it forever." This is the end of the ceremony. ”

He walked up to Li Haijiang and put his arm on his shoulder. Qian Sihai said: "Boy, where are those planes?"

Without Liu Haijiang answering, the rumbling sound of an airplane was heard in the distance, which seemed to answer this question. Thousands of carrier-based aircraft and the Global Overlord took off from other aircraft carriers and flew over the Yanhuang, and the formation was majestic and spectacular.

Qian Sihai left the deck where the ceremony was held and went to another microphone to deliver a radio address to China. "Today, the muzzle of the guns is silent," he said, "and a great tragedy has ended." A great victory has been achieved. Death no longer falls on the sky, the ocean serves only business, and people everywhere walk in the sun. The world is on the verge of tranquility and peace. The most important step has been accomplished in the divine task......

A new era has arrived. Even the lessons of victory itself bring with it deep concern for future security and the survival of civilization...... Military alliances, the balance of power, the alliances between nations, all failed, and the only road left was the one to be tested by war......

Now the great devastation of war has eliminated this option. We've had one last chance. If we don't work out some kind of greater, fairer system, then the final great conflict will come to our doorstep......"

Qian Sihai's words truly guaranteed that China would treat the defeated enemy with understanding and sympathy. Across Japan, the people of Japan are also beginning to recover from unbearable suffering. "If we allow pain and shame to grow in our minds dark thoughts of future revenge." The Japan Times exhorted its readers with such words, which were intended to be inspiring and proved to be prophetic. "Then our spirit will be abnormal and we will become despicable...... However, if we use this pain and shame to spur self-reflection and reform, and if we use this self-reflection and reform as the driving force for great construction, then there is no force that can prevent us from rebuilding from the ashes of defeat a glorious new Japan that is free from the dregs of the old, a new Japan that can maintain its pride and win the respect of the world. (To be continued......)