Chapter 241: The Liberation of Nanjing and the Recovery of All Concessions in Shanghai

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Nanjing, with a long history, is a famous city in ancient times. With a history of more than 2,500 years and nearly 500 years of history, it is one of the four ancient capitals in the history of Yanhuang and Huang, and has the reputation of "the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties" and "the capital of the Ten Dynasties".

On January 5, 1943, the city of Nanjing was a scene of war, with black smoke and flames, and many dilapidated buildings and fortifications scattered around the main roads in the south and west of the city.

Looking from the sky, the Ming Dynasty city wall in the north of Nanjing was taken care of by the Yanhuang Red Party, and the troops crossing the river did not directly attack here, but changed to attack the urban area of Nanjing from the south and west, so the ancient city wall of the Ming Dynasty basically did not suffer much actual loss, but a few marginal areas collapsed a little small corners. At this time, the Yangtze River outside the city wall flowed quietly, continuing to record the traces of time without disturbance; On one side of the city wall, there are three sloping thatched-roof bungalows in sequence, with old wooden doors and dirty papier-mâché windows, showing the poor living conditions of the owners, each with two or three small vegetable patches in front of them, where the owners often plant greenery during the busy farming season as a source of food and livelihood for the family.

Although the cannon outside the city rumbled earlier, and the fierce gunfire really frightened the ordinary people a little uneasy, but they who have been accustomed to the troubled times can basically watch the "changing king flag at the head of the city", plus through folk gossip, they generally know that this is north of the Yangtze River, and their country's army is coming, so everyone is relatively calm in their hearts: no matter how they say it, they are all Yanhuang people, and in the future, they will be better than being slaves under the hands of little devils.

The garrison was limited to a limited number of troops, and it was impossible to carry out a bunker-like defense of the entire city of Nanjing, so they only built concrete and masonry fortifications on some strategic heights and important places. The little devils inside are either loyal to the "jade shatter", or they commit suicide by drinking bullets, without any possibility of negotiation and survival.

Since the whole of Nanjing was surrounded by the main forces of the Red Party at this time, Hirohito's edict to send troops from Yanhuang to withdraw from Yanhuang immediately became a useless piece of waste paper here. The Japanese Army, which had a total defensive strength of only more than 20,000 people, suffered more than 10,000 casualties in less than half a day's battle, and finally more than 7,000 desperate people were gathered by the division commander Hengno Saburo and launched a suicidal breakthrough to the east, in a vain attempt to break through the Red Party defense line and flee to the periphery of Shanghai, so that they could escape to Yanhuang Baodao by boat.

However, the world is always like this, the ideal is very full, the reality is very skinny, and on the position east of Nanjing, one after another crooked dead corpses and the Japanese chariots burning with scorched black smoke, all show the brilliant results of the Red Party's blocking troops.

"Hehe, Zijian, it's fun to kill devils this time." Liang Xingchu, the commander of the new 13th Division, looked at the deaths of the devils, and said with an "evil" smile.

"Yes, but I'm very strange, obviously the mountains and rivers are exhausted, how can the top brass of the Japanese army still launch such a hopeless and decisive charge?" Rao Zijian, the political commissar of the new 13th Division, asked suspiciously (they didn't know that Hirohito had promulgated the Imperial Zhao to withdraw from the Yanhuang Continent).

"Whatever! It's better for these devil soldiers to take the initiative to attack, otherwise I won't shoot street battles, but first, the duration of the war will definitely be extended, and second, ordinary people will be mixed in, and civilian casualties will definitely not be avoided, so such a hard-fought decisive battle is more to my liking. Liang Xingchu, the commander of the new 13th Division, shook his head disapprovingly.

"It is true that militarily the result is more important than the process. By the way, Lao Liang, let's go into the city. Don't let Mo Wenhua and them wait, although there is no 'presidential palace' in Nanjing now, but the entrance ceremony is still indispensable, after all, Nanjing was still the capital of the Yan and Huang Republic of China before the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and the symbolism is of great significance! Political Commissar Rao Zijian nodded and suggested.

"I understand, let's go." Division Commander Liang Xingchu also knew what to expect, but he still couldn't help asking: "Calculating the time, shouldn't we also mention the founding of our party itself?" ”

"I guess it should be soon, the south will soon be pacified, and when the time comes, our party, which holds the north and south of the world, will have no reason not to build the country. What's more, the recent chóngqìng who has a military order from one country at a time, and one instruction at a time has announced to the world, and he really continues to be a person. ”

"He's so anxious that he wants to jump off the wall!"

"Hehe, Lao Liang, what you said is not wrong at all!"

Half an hour later, Nanjing Central Square.

This is the most concentrated area of modern architecture in Nanjing, the road zhōngyāng is an urban garden in a circular area, the garden zhōngyāng is built with a humanoid sculpture, surrounded by a small square paved with gravel, and then outside is a flower garden built with stones, inside the evergreen trees, and there are street lighting facilities between the trees.

With the garden as the central origin, there is a wide four-lane road to the east, west, north and south, which is spread out in a shè line, and there are many four- and five-storey buildings on both sides of the road. Normally it is quiet and orderly, but today, as the mighty Red Party tanks drove into the city, both sides of the road were crowded with local residents of Nanjing who came to watch. Most of them were simple Yanhuang workers and peasants, each dressed in simple and shabby clothes, many of them were patched, wearing coarse cloth hats around their heads, and their hands curled up together to expel the winter chill.

Five minutes later, the Red Party tank units entered the city one after another from the city gates, and the infantry field troops also began to line up in a neat queue, marching majestically and uniformly on the main roads in the urban area of Nanjing. Each soldier wears a steel helmet, a winter cotton camouflage uniform, and combat boots in the style of military shoes of later generations. The back straddles the fully automatic liberation machine gun, the iron aluminum pot pinned to the waist, and the long leather bullet box on the chest, like a solemn and solemn parade into the city, a confident, resolute, brave and fierce atmosphere unconsciously exuded, and the invisible atmosphere deterred the residents on both sides of the road, and forgot to speak for a while.

A few seconds later.

"Long live the PLA!"

The troops, armed to the teeth, aroused the national pride in their hearts that had long been extinguished, and the Yanhuang people could no longer suppress their emotions and shouted out unconsciously.

"The military and civilian family, long live the Red Party!"

"Hit the Japanese imperialists!"

"Exorcise the Tartars and recast the Yellow Flame!"

"Welcome to the people's army!"

"Long live the PLA!"

"Long live the Red Party!"

From noon on January 5, the cheers in the city continued to cease as the combat units entered the city one after another, being inspected by the people, and could still be heard occasionally from the windows of a house after nightfall. This rì, Nanjing was recovered; This night is destined to be sleepless!

Shanghai Public Concession.

The Shanghai Public Concession was the first concession to appear in the modern Yanhuang territory, which was formed in 1863 by the merger of the former British Concession and the Stars and Stripes Concession. It is also the earliest, longest-existing, largest, largest and most fully developed concession in the history of the inglorious concession.

The entire concession area is vast, and the northern Huangpu and Jing'an districts and the southern riverside areas of Hongkou and Yangpu districts in later generations are the most important components of the Shanghai Public Concession, corresponding to the central, western, northern and eastern districts of the public concession respectively. AIG, the largest insurance company in the Stars and Stripes Republic, and HSBC, the largest bank in Europe, were founded in the Shanghai Public Concession in 1919 and 1865 respectively.

Since the "World War II" broke out in 1940, when the Battle of Songhu broke out in 1937, the Japanese army only used the northern and eastern areas of the public concession as bases for attacking the Yan and Huang armies, and replaced the concession patrol with marines, resulting in the Shanghai public concession being in fact divided into two parts, and the area north of Suzhou Creek became a sphere of influence controlled by the Japanese army, called the "Japanese Concession". The main part of the Public Concession, the Central Zone, the West Zone, and the Western Cross-Border Road Construction Area, which were defended by British, Stars and Stripes, and Italian troops, respectively, remained neutral in the war for four years. During these four years, their management in the district has been operating as usual.

It was not until the outbreak of war in Europe in 1940, the retreat of the British troops stationed in Shanghai, and the official outbreak of the Pacific War in December 1941, that the Japanese army was fully stationed in the central and western areas of the public concession.

Then, it is very interesting that the British and the Stars and Stripes, who had in fact lost their actual control over these areas at that time, signed an agreement with the bald party of Chóngqìng to hand over the administrative rights of the public concessions of Shanghai and Xiamen (both to Yanhuang), and the British also agreed to return the administrative rights of the British concessions of Tianjin (fallen) and Guangzhou (basically fell) to Yanhuang, and then, Belgium and other countries participating in the anti-fascist camp also signed agreements to agree to return the administrative rights of Shanghai, The administrative management of the Xiamen Public Concession was handed over to Yanhuang, so these concessions were all "legally" taken over by Yanhuang, which is really a group of "lovely and respectable" international allies!

At this time, the Shanghai Public Concession was in shambles. The neat and beautiful streets of the past are gone, and the arrogant and rude devil soldiers are gone. Only one after another dark green painted Red Party armored vehicles drove into the concession, followed by military trucks full of infantry soldiers who were also armed to the teeth. They went to their respective targets, or important buildings, or the crossroads of transportation hubs, in batches according to the pre-planned plan, and after only an hour, the security and jǐng ring of the entire concession were restored, and the high-ranking officials, wealthy merchants, and ordinary people living in the leased area slowly passed through the cracks in the windows to observe the army of the Yanhuanghong Party.

"I am a citizen of the British Empire, and I ask to meet your army commander!" A middle-aged man with a white face and a World Red Cross armband walked out of a church house and said to the Red Party fighters in front of the door.

“stop,no!” Although I couldn't understand what this gringo was saying, before entering, the Red Party fighters who had learned a few words in unison were still able to pronounce notes like "yes, no", and of course most of them recorded it as "Daddy, lotus".

An hour later, the International Red Cross member named Henry met Liu Peishan, commander of the new 27th Division.

"I ask your army to immediately go to the two concentration camps in Pudong and Longhua (the concentration camp of Allied expatriates in Shanghai), where the Japanese army held a large number of Allied expatriates. They have been short of food for many years, and many are in crisis. ”

Through the translator he found, Liu Peishan roughly understood the meaning of this British citizen. He replied, "Okay, I'll arrange for someone to go to those places." ”

"No, you have to go now, now, now!" Billy, the British gentleman who was overflowing with love, raised his voice in confusion and said in an almost commanding tone.

"Enough!" Liu Peishan observed the other party's gestures and tone, and could roughly understand what he meant without a translator, he faced the translator next to him and said: "You tell this gringo that from today onwards, there will be no foreign concessions and extrajudicial privileges in Shanghai, and any foreigner who stays in Shanghai must abide by the laws and guidelines of Yanhuang, what we Yanhuang people want and do first, we don't need him to give orders, from now on, the whole Shanghai, we Yanhuang people have the final say!" ”

After saying that, he strode out of the house, ignoring Billy again.