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One after another, on the sea, more than fifty merchant ships formed a huge fleet. The flotilla, escorted by several escort ships, sailed the sea, the bow cut the waves, the waves crashing on the side of the ship, and occasionally some of the waves even hit the side of the gunwale, provoking a burst of laughter.

On the side of the board, there were warriors standing here and there, most of whom were chatting in a relaxed manner. They stood there casually, the warriors with cigarettes in their mouths looking extremely relaxed.

It's no wonder they seem so relaxed, their mission is very simple - to enter Dongying!

Although the war had long since ended, the work of stationing in Dongying had only just begun, and the reason why the mission was postponed was very simple -- on the shipping lanes of the four islands in Dongying, the Admiralty had set up millions of mines, which had successfully blocked the departure of the Russian Pacific Fleet and turned it into a presence fleet, and now these mines have also become the biggest obstacle to the stationing of Chinese troops.

Almost from the day the armistice was signed, after the two sides reached a cease-fire, a large-scale mine-sweeping operation began, and after a long period of mine-clearing operations, now with the opening of the main shipping lane, the army can finally be stationed in Dongying. Enter this land that will soon be included in China.

The war is over!

Li Ziyuan, who was on the side, looked at the sea with strange eyes, as the commander of the 1st Marine Division, he once thought that in this war, the Marine Corps would be reused, but the military often needs to give way to politics - in order to avoid being pressured by Britain or other countries after the liberation of Dongying and the Philippines, and then had to agree to their independence, the General Staff canceled all landing battle plans, of course, the reason is very simple - there is no fleet escort, in fact, as the commander of the Marine Corps, Li Ziyuan knows very well, It's just for the sake of face, for the sake of the country.

Perhaps, no one will ever know that the reason why they did not directly capture the two places was due to British pressure. But Li Ziyuan knows very well that, at least for now, there is no need to take into account British pressure anymore.

Because China is now the winner, not only the winner, but the Zhenyang Fleet, which shocked the world, has sailed, and, more importantly, the war is over, which means that China no longer needs help from the British.

Li Ziyuan, who was standing on the side of the ship, breathed in the familiar smell of the sea, he silently closed his eyes, just closed his eyes, feeling the sea breeze, thousands of tons of huge ships sailing under the morning sun, and the sound of the propeller was like music. In the thin morning light, the giant ship sailed towards Dongying.

Suddenly, he heard an excited shout around him, and it was the warriors who were shouting there.

"Look, it's time to Dongying, it's time to Dongying!"

It's no wonder they are so excited, after leaving the homeland, these soldiers' rooms are under the deck, in the cabins below the deck, these troop carriers are converted from cargo ships, the soldiers' cabins are low and narrow, not to mention, and they are poorly ventilated, these cabins can't even be called cabins, a bunk bed is crammed into that narrow space, a place the size of a person lies a person, and some equipment, it is difficult to even turn around, you can only move your head back and forth, left and right.

The tireary monotony of huddle together, wheezing, the pungent body odor, the sweaty dirty clothes, the dirty straw mats on the planks, the smoky smell under the ceiling made of rough planks, etc., exhausted almost everyone, and almost every minute these warriors were staring wide-eyed, greedily reading scraps of paper cut from magazines, or playing cards there, waiting for the moment to reach their destination, and now, after a long voyage, They finally arrived at their destination, arriving at Dongying.

How can this not make them excited, at this time, they have forgotten the ordeal they have suffered along the way, the military uniform is worn on their bodies, and it is time for them to fulfill their duties and play the honor of being a soldier.

As the horizon turned white and red, large and small islands began to appear in view. The boat drove for a while, and what I saw on the right was probably an island in Kyushu, but it was more of a large land mass than an island. After driving for a while, I saw land on the left again. The soldiers shouted loudly in unison.

"It's Dongying! It's Dongying, we're here! ”

The boatswain, who was looking out of the distance with a telescope in the captain's room, looked a little excited, and he exclaimed excitedly:

"Hey! Tell the soldiers! What you see over there is Kyushu. You go tell them! ”

At the same time he muttered "Mom, I'm back!" I'm finally back!

In fact, it wasn't just the boatswain on the ship who thought so, for Matsu Keiichi, a corporal of the Marine Corps, looking at the land of Dongying, tears couldn't help but flow, perhaps, for his comrades, it was just a mission, but for him, it meant a lot.

Eleven years ago, at the age of nine, he left Japan with his father, who was unwilling to become a slave, and eleven years later, he returned, albeit as a Chinese, and although Japan no longer existed, for him he could finally set foot on this land - because he had been freed.

"I heard that it was Kyushu!"

Matsumoto told his comrades-in-arms that perhaps, Japan only existed in his memory, but he had already remembered everything here in his heart.

During the voyage of the fleet, he saw some ships along the coast, which were Japanese, no, Toei's fishing boats, and when the fleet approached, he could see that the fishermen on the fishing boats were all standing there and bowing to the soldiers on board.

But no one seemed to notice the fishermen, and everyone was immersed in the excitement of arriving at their destination.

That night, the warriors saw a city, possibly Yaman, which was Toei's steel base, and the iron ore it needed used to come entirely from the seaside, and despite the war's cut off routes, it was not completely discontinued, and it continued to produce on the inferior iron ore produced by Toei, where there were many lights. Like a fiery beacon fire, it burns along with the lights, reflecting the night sky red.

The fiery red is red, and it has the potential to swallow the sky. It was probably a fire from a steel mill.

Could it really be Hachiman?

Matsumoto thought so, perhaps, he hadn't been back here for eleven years, but he knew about Toei through various channels, he knew about this land, and he knew that this was a steel mill invested by the Russians and the bankers of Toei, the largest steel mill in Japan, and the largest steel mill in the Far East.

Let's think of it as Hachiman for a moment, because Hachiman once caught the attention of his father, who was a metallurgical engineer, and his father, who worked at the Hanyang Iron Works, mentioned again and again that if Japan had not fallen and had not perished, maybe he would have worked here - but my father apparently overlooked the fact that if Japan had not fallen, when would such a steel plant be built?

Waking up at five o'clock in the morning, he went on the deck, washed his face and smoked a cigarette, the cigarette always makes people feel comfortable, Li Ziyuan silently walked to the front of the deck, the morning breeze of the Seto Inland Sea was refreshing, making people feel that it was purifying his blood. At this time, the sun had not yet risen, but he closed his eyes to feel the sea breeze, feel the air of Dongying, and feel the new frontier of this ancestral car.

The next day, after sailing for more than ten hours, the ship finally reached the Gulf of Tonkin, at this time in the Gulf of Tonkin, there are still many Russian warships, more than 20 warships moored there, but all of them are flying the Chinese flag, but these warships are not warships, according to the treaty between China and Russia, the First Pacific Fleet will not be considered a surrender - they will temporarily be stationed in the port of Constantine and return to Russia in the future, compared to the remaining main force of the First Pacific Fleet, The escort fleet consisted only of two of our 1,000-ton ships.

It doesn't look like a victor at all, but it's also a winner enough to make anyone proud, because it's enough to make everyone proud - hundreds of thousands of tons of warships, surrendering in front of the fluttering flag.

In contrast to the turbid yellow waters of Bohai Bay, the waters of Tokyo Bay are blue and transparent. It's so blue that it makes you feel like you want to jump down and swim.

Now we have finally reached our destination.

Dongying! Dongying!

The long-awaited Dongying!

The land stretches low on the horizon like so many ships floating on the water, on the far shore.

Sparrow-sized birds flew around, and they were not afraid of people, and almost rested on the shoulders and hands of the warriors.

Looking out into the bay from the boat, there are mountains everywhere, and almost the entire Dongying looks like a mountain floating on the sea, which is completely different from the vast continent.

There were also a number of fishing boats in Tokyo Bay, and the fishermen on those boats had apparently noticed the strange fleet, and as they gazed with reverence at the soldiers of the same color as them, some of the fishermen raised their hands and shouted in strange Chinese

"Hooray! China - Hooray! ”

Although their pronunciation was not standard, the soldiers on the ship still heard this Dongying style "long live" shout, and at this time, they did not know that this actually marked the birth of another "Chinese dialect", let alone that they were fortunate enough to hear such a dialect for the first time.

Looking at the Japanese fishermen who raised their arms and shouted "Long live China", suddenly Li Ziyuan simply thought at this moment: Yes! There it is! Our mission is here!

It is not that China wants to colonize Dongying, to occupy Dongying, but to liberate these Dongying, yes, they are liberators, they are the liberators of the Dongying nation, in the future, China will be as in history, shouldering the responsibility of protecting the East Asian race, which is also their responsibility, so that the Dongying people can be protected in the big family of China, and will never again become the slaves of Westerners.

Even if there are some people in the upper echelons who resist all this for their own interests, they have to join hands with the lower classes, and this is their mission.

In fact, Li Ziyuan really thinks too much, he really thinks too much, for the people of the Dongying Islands, they have been waiting for this day, after ten years of colonial rule, although the Russian rule is far from cruel, but there is still a kind of subconscious rejection psychologically, and, especially before and after the outbreak of the war, large-scale public security control, repression, and hunger have made the people of the Dongying Islands full of expectations for China and this new ruler.

Just as they expected, as early as half a month ago, after the first channel was opened, the Chinese Navy sent the relief grain to Dongying, although the quantity was not large, but at that moment, all the Dongying people deeply realized what the emperor's grace is - tens of thousands of tons of rice, so that those hungry Dongying people finally saw hope again after a long period of hunger, and more importantly, this is the moment when the Spring Festival is coming.

This is a new hope in the new year, and subsequently, a steady stream of Nanyang rice was transported into Dongying, of course, this is no longer relief, but sold at a low price, but it fundamentally alleviates the famine here, so I don't know how many Dongying people have been saved. Now, when the Chinese army arrived, they were rightfully welcomed like never before.

In fact, the first troops to land in Toei were not the 1st Marine Division bound for Tokyo Bay, but the 37th Division of the Army, which landed in Nagasaki and entered the port, a unit transferred from the Coast, and they were also greeted with unprecedented enthusiasm in Nagasaki, and the air in Uezaki began to fill the air with an unprecedented excitement almost a dozen hours before the ships sailed into the port, and the people of Nagasaki City walked out of their houses and came to the pier one after another. Here the losers showed more enthusiasm than they had ever been.

And for this boiling enthusiasm, the soldiers all took it calmly, watched calmly and calmly, and only smiled gently. The heads, breasts, and arms that protrude from the guardrails of the pier are dense like forests, undulating like waves. As if they were being blown by the wind, their hands kept waving up and down, drawing circles one after another. They are like butterflies, some dance fast, some dance slowly, and some stop there. Their mouths spat out a passion as fierce as an angry wave.

Wanzai, Wanzai, Wanzai, Wanzai......, Wanzai

People standing on both sides of the street kept cheering, waving, and shouting to the soldiers who had just arrived, and more people knelt at the door of their homes, and kept kneeling at these Chinese soldiers, which was the etiquette they remembered to greet the samurai. Now, in their eyes, these Chinese soldiers who defeated the Russians were the most respected warriors, and when they greeted each other, several Russian officers saw this scene, and they couldn't help but laugh in Russian.

"Could it be that these Japanese have forgotten that less than twenty years ago, they welcomed the Beiyang sailors with their katanas? And now they are on their knees before them! ”

"Hey, Defeated Nation!"

Suddenly, a Dongying man beside them immediately said excitedly.

"You don't understand at all, the Qing Kingdom is different from China, Fusang has been educated by China for thousands of years, how can you understand, tell you these Lu people, we Dongying people, would rather be Chinese dogs than Lu people! What's more, when did the country of Lulu regard me as a human being? (To be continued.) )