On 13 August 1925, under the personal supervision of Zhang Shusheng, chairman of the joint political axe of the three southwestern provinces and commander-in-chief of the Southwest People's Army, after nearly 20 days of fierce fighting, the Southwest People's Army concentrated the most elite 1st Guards Division, the 1st Division of the Southwest People's Army, the 3rd Division of the Southwest People's Army, the 1st Division of the Yunnan Garrison Division, and the 2nd Division of the Garrison Division, dispatched air force units and armored troops, and finally captured all the more than 30,000 Britons who had been exhausted with absolutely superior encirclement forces. And a division of the French was also surrounded and annihilated by the first division of the garrison division stationed in Yunnan and the fourth division of the garrison division stationed in Guangxi, and the French army, which lacked artillery, was not familiar with the terrain, and found a few guides on the way and actually got lost, and finally learned that it was an agent sent by the Chinese. The French did not end up better than the British, and they were annihilated halfway before they even got together with the British, and the main force and the baggage troops were all dumplings. The French, with a whole main division, followed in the footsteps of the British.

(Yunnan and Guangxi each have three garrison divisions, and the first, second, and third divisions are stationed in Yunnan.) The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Divisions were stationed in Guangxi, and the remaining two divisions, the Seventh Division and the Eighth Division, were stationed in Guizhou. These eight divisions were garrison divisions formed by recruiting veterans from Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guizhou provinces on the basis of the reserve units of the militia regiment and outstanding officers who graduated from the Huaxia Military Academy, which were all the old belongings of the Southwest Army. The main defensive directions are the Sino-Vietnamese border, the China-Myanmar border, the junction of Guangzhou-Guangzhou, and the Sichuan-Yunnan border, and the rest of the secondary directions are guarded by the reserve militia system inherited from the militia and the local police. The garrison of the garrison division is stationed in separate cities and places in peacetime, and concentrates on operations in wartime. "Crackling...... Crackling ......"

Kunming has been a gathering place of many ethnic groups since ancient times, but today, whether it is the Han nationality, the Zhuang nationality, the Yao nationality, the Tujia nationality, or the Yi nationality, all the sons and daughters of China have been shaken like never before.

More than 10 meters long special firecrackers, from the city gate to the city outside the highway on both sides of the far extended, at this time, there have been Kunming City Police Department of the police to take the lead in lighting the firecrackers, the sound of firecrackers that shook the sky, is the crowd of people together to send out the earth-shattering screams.

On the city wall of Kunming, under the city wall, on both sides of the road, behind the security line set up by the Kunming Police Department, there are people standing in anticipation. Everyone was clapping wildly in the direction of the roar of the firecrackers, and even though there was nothing to see in that direction except the smoke of the firecrackers, everyone still refused to stop the cheers and applause of the mountains.

Whether it is a worker or a political axe employee, whether it is a teacher or a student, whether it is a craftsman or a small trader, whether it is a rickshaw driver or a tram driver, whether it is well-dressed or ragged, whether it is elegant or a poor girl, all people, nothing more than noble, nothing more than humble, nothing more than beauty and ugliness, all gathered together, on both sides of the road and up and down the city gates, the whole world of people, are looking forward to the end of the road.

Not because today is the Zhou Yue holiday stipulated by the Southwest Political Axe, but because the Southwest Army has returned from a winning battle.

Early this morning, people who had been tired for a week were ready to rest for a day, but were disturbed by the students running all over the streets. Then the police officers put up notices everywhere, and then the political axe officials stood in front of the notices, holding loudspeakers, and read aloud the latest political axe announcements on the municipal bulletin board in the most standard voice.

“…… On 13 August, Zhang Shusheng, chairman of the joint political axe of the three provinces and supreme commander-in-chief of the Southwest People's Army, personally went to the front line to supervise the battle, and after 21 days of hard fighting, the Southwest Army defeated the British and French allied forces with absolute superiority and annihilated all the British and French invaders. A total of 38,456 officers and soldiers below the division commander of the British and French armies were captured, and in addition, the number of British and French troops killed was as high as 11,000......

For a time, this important southwest town was instantly detonated with patriotic enthusiasm.

It's no longer the little newspaper boys who sell newspapers, because of the political axe subsidy, they all go to primary schools. The newspaper sales company was set up, and the employees were disabled and sick soldiers who had to retire from the Southwest Army for various reasons over the years. In front of each newsstand, a crowd of people gathered around to listen to the newsman standing on the podium read aloud the detailed news of the big victory in the urgent newspaper.

At each stop, the tram driver would shout out to the passengers who boarded the train, "Hi! The political axe has won the battle! ”

The rickshaw driver, every time he pulled a guest, he ran panting like a cow, and at the same time did not forget to talk to the guests about this earth-shattering joy, "This gentleman, have you heard about the morning?" The political axe won the battle, and the Southwestern People's Army defeated the British and French. ”

“…… The political axe actually won the battle and defeated the foreigners. ”

"I heard it's British."

"No, I heard it looks like a German."

"I guess it's me."

"Whatever, as long as he defeats the foreigners."

…… As soon as the news of the earth-shattering victory came, everyone felt that in addition to raising their eyebrows, they had an urge to boil their blood. Even, many of them, even what is the difference between the British and the French, they only know one thing, since the previous generation, the Chinese have been defeating battles and being bullied to death by all kinds of foreigners. But today, the political axe actually won the battle, and Chairman Zhang actually led the People's Army to defeat so many foreigners.

Tens of thousands, how many must there be!!

"I'll tell you, this chairman is terrible, I'm afraid that the martial arts stars in the sky will descend to earth. You, you still don't believe it? Do you know how powerful tens of thousands of foreigners are? When the Qing Dynasty was released, it would be able to enter the Forbidden City! ”

"According to me, is it that Mr. Sun Yat-sen has appeared in heaven? What is the meaning of his old man? Could it really be the holy decree of heaven to save us Chinese? ”

"Bullshit, I'm still tossing in the Northeast now, what happened in Shanghai in May? Have you forgotten? What did the North and the South say? It's not that our Chairman Zhang sent someone to do a guy and clean up the foreigners. Speaking of which, this time I really sweated, the British and the French, aren't they here to take revenge on the incident in Shanghai...... "This young man seems to be a cultural person, and he is a bit radical, seeing a group of people talking nonsense, he couldn't help but say his opinion loudly, and for a while, everyone listened to him, "I tell you, you really don't believe it, read more newspapers these days, and listen to others read more if you can't read." Chairman Zhang is determined to be our southwest and the hope of China......"

In the afternoon, the three provinces finally issued a political axe announcement, which was broadcast all over the streets and alleys of the city, and an order signed by Zhang Shusheng was read out: Zhou said that a victorious ceremony would be held in the afternoon, and the masses from all walks of life in Kunming were welcome to participate!

Before the time for the event arrived, the whole city began to act, those who were close rushed to stand in a good position, and those who were far away could only stand on both sides of the road, in the fields, on the hills, on the city walls, and on both sides of the streets, waiting for the moment to witness this historical surname. At least 100,000 people participated in the whole scene, and from the police to maintain order at the beginning, they had to change it to the army to maintain order. Originally, there were only more than 200,000 people in Kunming, but because of the cascading effect caused by the relocation of the three provinces to Kunming, the population has skyrocketed to more than 300,000, but it is calculated that it is almost half.

It's really empty!!

Kunming inside and outside the city are crowded with people, outside the city open belt, in addition to the people overseas, there is a large piece of flat land urgently opened up and arranged a very simple but serious rostrum, no one sits on it, there is only one presiding officer, Sun Changqing, the premier of the three provinces of the joint political axe, stands in front of the podium, and the ceremony of entering the city will be presided over by him.

When a staff member walked up to Sun Changqing and said a few words, even if he was as calm as Sun Changqing, his face became more ruddy, coughed lightly, and issued his most standard speech into the microphone: "Salute!" ”

The crowd suddenly boiled, and the salute meant that the People's Army was about to enter the city.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang......"

The cannon salute in the distance, resonating twenty-five times, symbolizes an unforgettable moment in 1925, and it is also a historical moment.

The first thing the jubilant people saw was not the warriors returning triumphantly, but the fighter planes flying in a neat formation from the middle and high altitudes. In Kunming in this era, many people may have heard of airplanes, but there are definitely not many who have actually seen airplanes.

When more than a dozen fighters of the Southwest Army flew back from a distance and flew closer and closer, Sun Changqing once again introduced: "Fathers and fellow villagers, it is our own air force unit of the militia that has flown here. It was they, on the battlefield of Ruili, who brought the enemy killing again and again, and it was they who declared to the great powers for the first time that belonged to us Chinese in their own air power. ”

After more than a dozen fighters flew over, the ground began to shake slightly, and the people who were still cheering for the fighters of the Southwest Army were pleasantly surprised to find that on the road in the distance, one after another behemoth-like strange cars drove over, and when they got closer, it seemed that even the ground began to shake.

The masses on both sides of the road outside the city were already stunned when they saw such a huge vehicle, and they couldn't even imagine that there would be people in such a huge iron lump, and it was our own soldiers of the Southwest Army.

"Salute!!" On the tank, the anti-aircraft machine gunner who stood up on the roof of the car grabbed the anti-aircraft machine gun in front of him with one hand and gave a military salute with the other.

"Whoa!" The applause thundered again.

Seeing this, Sun Changqing hurriedly introduced: "Fathers and fellow villagers, this is our own tank in the southwest. This is an advanced army weaponry, they are like no one on the battlefield, and the machine guns of the British cannot destroy them. The emergence of tanks means that we have the air force and the ace of land warfare. ”

Perhaps, Sun Changqing's simple and amateurish introduction could not make the simple people of Kunming understand what this thing was, but his explanation was direct enough, no matter what weapon he had, as long as it could beat foreigners fiercely, it was a good weapon.

When the tank unit drove to the temporary square, it was followed by a convoy of trucks. Behind each truck was a large or small artillery piece, and the truck was filled with soldiers of the Southwest People's Army.

"Fathers and fellow villagers, let us cheer and applaud to welcome our sons and daughters back." Sun Changqing almost shouted the most sincere words in this paragraph with his loudest voice, how many years, from a poor rural literati, he was able to stand in the crowd one day and witness the victory of the countrymen, and he was actually one of the participants in this victory.

This is the victory of the political axe of the southwest, the victory of the people's army of the southwest, the victory of all the people of the southwest, and even more the victory of the entire nation and the whole of China.

This victory will make all the sons and daughters of China spit out the sullen breath that has been accumulated in the deepest part of their hearts for ten years.

Zhang Shusheng did not take the plane and did not leave early. In this battle, he watched the troops win a great victory with his own eyes. Even after capturing the British, along the way, he personally followed the troops, marching back kilometer by kilometer.

There are too many British, not counting the disabled and sick, not counting those who are starving and fainting and still lying in the temporary prisoner camp in Ruili, except for the follow-up troops escorted back, he personally escorted back more than 3,000 people all the way back this time.

Although it was only one-tenth of the captives, when Zhang Shusheng rode a high-headed horse and followed by the British captives who could not see the end at a glance, the whole scene finally reached the most.

The flowers that the people of Kunming had already prepared were given to the soldiers who escorted the prisoners on both sides of the road, and the soldiers did not want them, so they stuffed the flowers into the arms of the soldiers. Seeing that many of the rubber shoes on their feet were covered with mud, many of them even stuffed pairs of finely packed mille-feuille cloth shoes into the arms of the soldiers...... Of course, the British were equally warmly welcomed.

The rotten eggs, rotten vegetables, rotten melons and fruits that the citizens brought from nowhere were thrown at the British prisoners all over the place.

These strange-looking foreigners, although they are tall and big, have become captives of the southwest, and although each captive has a look of unwillingness, depression, anger, or dejection, they still can't escape these warm welcomes.

The British, who had never seen such a battle, went completely insane. Many people want to jump up on the spot, but the result is very simple, they are simply knocked down by the butt of a gun, and no one even dares to help them when they fall to the ground!!

This was ordered by Zhang Shusheng. Even if the British are defeated, they are still dreaming of all kinds of spring and autumn periods, and they still haven't forgotten what kind of bullshit gentleman they are and say that they are superior to the empire. Therefore, along the way, the policy of the Southwestern Army towards prisoners was harsh.

As long as the captives resist in any way, or make any mischief, or even simply do not cooperate, then they will be shot on the head with the butt of a rifle or shot on the spot.

Zhang Shusheng is not a murderous person, but he is definitely not a pedantic person. Think about the original history, the Chinese treated foreign prisoners well, but their own prisoners were either annihilated or tortured.

The benevolence and righteousness of the Chinese are worthy of praise, but they will never be able to return even a little respect and reward from these foreign devils.

Therefore, Zhang Shusheng knew these filthy things very well, and decided to speak with a bayonet early on, and he couldn't be convinced, who made you prisoners. There's a parade today, and there's all sorts of construction waiting for you gentlemen.

It doesn't matter if you used to be a pianist or a football player, as long as you are an aggressor and become a prisoner of China, then you are a guilty person.

The foreigners began to tremble, everyone was afraid, at this time, they were not afraid of those fierce Chinese people, they were afraid that they would be torn apart by the angry Chinese poor.

They never dreamed that the Chinese would have such a great hatred for themselves, and they could not imagine that when did the Chinese, who were better bullied than sheep, become so fierce?

Zhang Shusheng ordered the captives to be kept in the spot, and the British, who were pointed at rifles and heavy machine guns, did not look like gentlemen at all at this time, and were more obedient than sheep, holding their heads, half-squatting, occasionally turning their heads sideways, trying to avoid the stones or rotten turnips that flew from afar.

Looking at their pitiful appearance, Zhang Shusheng did not regret it at all. These foreign devils, don't look at their current appearance, it's because they defeated them.

If it was themselves who were defeated, at this time, they might have rushed into Kunming. First set a fire, then burn, kill and rob, and destroy everything from silver to plunder. These foreign devils, but they have been good at it since their ancestors.

If you don't fall into the empire, you will be defeated after all. was defeated by Lao Tzu himself. Today will be your first sad memory, and you are fortunate to be a witness to history, to witness as forerunners what will happen to your compatriots in the future.

Zhang Shusheng stepped onto the rostrum and leaned in front of the microphone, he was not ready to make any tirade at all, but just shouted: "My compatriots, we have won!" Damn foreigners, we defeated them, we captured 38456 people, each of them is a prisoner of our southwest, a prisoner of our Chinese! As shameful aggressors, these defeated Britons will all be punished as they deserve.

Maybe you didn't know me before, but that's okay. Today, as the chairman of the joint political axe of the three provinces, and as the commander-in-chief of the Southwest People's Army, I, Zhang Shusheng, stand here, facing hundreds of thousands of villagers, fathers and elders, and take these captured British as a witness to my oath.

I want to tell you, tell the whole of the Southwest, tell the whole of China. As long as Lao Tzu Zhang Shu is born one day, anyone, anyone who opposes our Chinese nation, will become a loser.

As long as I live in Zhang Shu, I will never let the bayonets of foreigners point at you unscrupulously. Those who slaughtered us, I will personally take the bayonet and lead the resistance. Those who invade us, I will personally command, defeat them, and capture them. Persecuting those who oppress us, I will personally subvert them.

We, the sons and daughters of China, have lived on this land for thousands of years and have never been cut off. As an ancient and proud great nation, we, the Chinese people, should live happily ever after.

You may not see it now, but you will see it later. Maybe it's a few years, maybe it's more than a dozen years, maybe it's decades, and I will finally fulfill my promise back then: We, the southwesterners, and we Chinese, will have no shortage of food and clothing, provide for the elderly, and teach the less.

Now I declare, the victory parade begins!! The troops entered the city one after another. British prisoners, held on the spot!! ”

The next day, the news reached the United Kingdom, shocking the United Kingdom, British Prime Minister Stanley, who had just been in power for more than a year. Baldwin announced his resignation later that day.