Yan Xishan didn't dare to take the initiative to follow, he looked towards the square with his handrail on his hand, and saw that there seemed to be some commotion in the student phalanx due south and east, but it immediately subsided. His eyes fell on two black convertible cars that had driven from the west, and they had disappeared through the gates. It was the first time Yan Xishan had seen this kind of car without a roof, but he didn't know what it was for.

Li Liguo was in shock and excitement at this time. Just now, not far from him, two men in plain clothes suddenly arrested a man in the student phalanx, that man was no longer young, obviously not a student, let alone a teacher, but wearing a coat with the same style as most teachers, and at some point mixed into the team of Peking University. Two plainclothes men suddenly screwed the man, and before the man could scream, the plainclothes man reached out and touched his chin, but the man was just speechless. Then the man was caught left and right by two big men and quickly left the square.

"Is it an assassin?" Chang Dejun beside him asked, and then replied to himself, "It must be the remnants of the Manchu Dynasty!" ”

"Okay, it's okay, please be quiet." A man in casual clothes said to the disturbing students, "Please be quiet and obey the order. The president is about to raise the first flag with his own hands. ”

"The president is coming...... I'm going to see the president......" Zhang Yuanzhe woke up from his shock and fell into excitement again.

"Quiet, quiet," exclaimed Professor Yu from the Department of Foreign Languages.

Zhang Yuanzhe, a reporter from China Daily, did not see the sudden scene in the square. stained with the light of identity, occupies a fairly good position. It was possible to get a closer look at the power structure of New China. Behind him were reporters, about fifty or sixty people, including more than a dozen foreign reporters.

After Zhang Yuanzhe went up to the city tower, he was reminded again that the president will not accept interviews with reporters today, so please do not disturb the president's activities. For others, including Prime Minister Fang, they are free to interview after the ceremony.

Why doesn't the president give interviews? Zhang Yuanzhe was puzzled.

He didn't need to take pictures, there was someone else in that matter, he was only responsible for the text report of the founding ceremony of the Tiananmen Tower, since Long Qian appeared in the tower. Zhang Yuanzhe's eyes have been following the president. He found that on this unusually special day. However, the president abandoned the military uniform and wore a special style of gray casual clothes, which was different from the suits worn by foreigners, and even different from the robes and short gowns that Chinese people liked, but a style that had never been seen before.

To the east were a large group of civil officials. To the west are soldiers in neat uniforms. It is completely in line with the traditional pattern of Wendong and Wuxi. Zhang Yuanzhe noticed that Long Qian had gone up to the city tower. He greeted everyone casually, and replied casually to the greetings of high-ranking officials, but returned the salute very ceremoniously to ordinary parliamentarians and disabled soldiers. And talking to them, in front of a young soldier in a wheelchair who lost both legs, the president even crouched beside him and talked to him for a while. Zhang Yuanzhe wanted to walk over and hear what they were saying, but a temporary yellow ribbon cut them off, and the reporters were not allowed to cross the line.

Ouyang Zhong, the chief of staff nicknamed "Ouchi Chief", followed closely behind the president and looked at the watch on his wrist from time to time. Zhang Yuanzhe took out his pocket watch and looked at it, the time was already 9:45, the ministers in the east and the commanders of the military region in the west began to form a team, and walked down the city tower from east to west under the leadership of Premier Fang Shengyuan and Defense Minister Wang Mingyuan, while Long Qian also ended his conversation with several soldiers, and walked down the city tower with his chief guard surnamed Kang behind the civilian team. Zhang Yuanzhe quickly ran to the north breast wall and looked down, and saw that the officers were lined up in two lines, and the president was standing at the front of the queue, talking to Premier Fang. Soon, the president turned around and disappeared into the city gate. And the two columns of civil and military followed closely behind.

Li Weiguo saw the group of people coming from Tiananmen Square, walking across the Jinshui Bridge, and the salute soldiers along the way stood up and saluted. His eyes were fixed on the tall man at the head, he was the president! With intuition, Li Weiguo judged that this person was Long Qian! At this time, no one can walk ahead of him! Li Weiguo did not pay attention to the president's dress, but stared at the president's increasingly clear face, his eyes, eyebrows, tightly pursed mouth, and even his shaved iron chin...... This is the president, this is the president who made my father admire him so much!

Long Qian strode through the military band, through the solemn crowd, his gaze straight ahead, the flagpole with the national flag already hung. Immediately, he will personally raise the flag chosen by the parliamentarians, and since it is the choice of the people, he will have to accept it. Let the dreams of the past remain in the bottom of your heart, and let the country you created create your own glory in the days to come.

The military band suddenly played the majestic overture of the national anthem, and the trained student phalanx sang the national anthem in unison, and in the majestic chorus, Long Qian, who held the vermilion rope in his hand, instantly filled his eyes. The singing is so intimate, so beautiful and moving, it becomes his link between the two worlds...... He sang the national anthem loudly, pulled the rope, and slowly raised the flag of the golden dragon on a blue background, and the flag was raised to the top, and the song was just over. Long Qian raised his head, and the national flag was waving in the wind.

Chen Chao, the Minister of Police, stood in the ranks of civilian officials and quietly wiped away the tears that flowed from his eyes. It was a solemnity and sacredness that he had never experienced before, and he never thought he would shed tears, he couldn't help it. He couldn't describe the emotion at the moment, and he felt that something was blocked in his chest, and only tears could wash it away.

In front of him stood Dufang. The former governor of Liangjiang, the secretary of the War Department during the civil war, and the current minister of transportation wore a decent suit, and his braids had long been cut off, so he could not see the shadow of the former dynasty officials at all. I can't see his mood from Duan Fang's back, but Chen Chao understands that Duan Fang must have a completely different mood from himself. Somehow, Long Qian praised this person very much, and Duan Fang accepted the appointment of the Minister of Transportation, which also fully expressed his attitude.

He suddenly saw that there was already a platform covered with purple velvet in the aisle, Long Qian walked over slowly, stepped up the steps, and the surroundings instantly fell silent.

"Compatriots, friends, officers and men of the National Defense Forces, now I declare that the Republic of China has been officially established!"

Suddenly, twenty-four salutes were fired at the base of the southern wall. The huge roar excited all the people present, people counted silently, and the salute resonated ten times, symbolizing the ten-year history of the Mengshan Army. But not everyone understood what it meant, and the foreign journalists who were allowed to enter the square wondered why it was ten.

As soon as the salute stopped, hundreds of pigeons hula-la, dissipating over the square. Immediately after, two huge red balloons slowly rose, and the slogan on the golden ribbon dragged below was clearly visible: Long live the Republic of China! Long live the great unity of the nation!

Loud cheers rang out. The surrounding students cheered heartily. The sound was deafening.

Long Qian walked briskly down the steps, through the cheering crowd, and strode in the direction of Tiananmen Square, where Shi Dashou, the commander-in-chief of the parade and commander of the capital garrison, stepped forward. Attention. Salute. He reported loudly with full of energy, "Report to the president, the parade troops are finished." Please check it out! ”

Long Qian raised his hand, and then waited for the first open-top car, and Shi Dashou got into the second. The military band played a military parade. The two cars slowly drove west at a speed of five kilometers per hour.

The senior officials returned to the Tiananmen Gate Tower under the leadership of Fang Shengyuan and Wang Mingyuan, Chen Chao could not see the scene of Long Qian taking the car to inspect the troops, but soon, Long Qian and Shi Dashou's vehicle returned, Chen Chao saw Long Qian walking quickly up to the city tower, there was a huge cheer in the square, the first phalanx at the beginning, the national defense guard of honor phalanx had already held high the military flag, and walked over with neat steps.

Jiang Yun, director of the State Security Bureau, and Xu Gongzhi, deputy minister of police and director of the Capital Police Department, who were standing on the tower of the city, glanced at each other, and both sides read each other's ease. Now, the most dangerous moment has finally passed. Just today, the two powerful departments also arrested four people, three of whom were caught when they infiltrated the parade ground, and the fourth one had successfully infiltrated the square and was discovered by the State Security Bureau, and two homemade bombs and two pistols were seized at the scene. God knows how many hidden assassins there are! And the president's activities today are often completely exposed, such as ascending to the temporary speech seat in the square to announce the founding of the Republic of China, which is the most dangerous few minutes, although all the commanding heights around the square have been controlled, who dares to say that it is foolproof? The President's parade in an open-top was also an opportune time for the Assassins to attack. Xu Gongzhi, a sharpshooter, strongly opposed both agendas, but to no avail. During the whole process, Jiang and Xu, who were sweating for Long Qian's safety, had no intention of watching the process until Long Qian returned to the city tower, marking that the main danger had been eliminated.

Except for a very small number of people, the people who participated in the National Day ceremony have never seen such a shocking military parade, especially when the phalanx enters the viewing platform area, the steps become positive steps, the horizontal and vertical teams of twelve people are neatly aligned, from which direction to look at the past is an incredible straight line, the guns in the hands of the soldiers flashed with cold light, and the leather boots hit the ground heavily, shaking everyone's hearts, making the audience, especially the students and representatives of the people in the square, fall into a kind of madness.

This is our army!

After the guard of honor, the phalanx came over one by one, and the military flags of the flag bearers were embroidered with the number or honorary title of the troops, "Jinan Military Academy", "Baoding Army Non-commissioned Officer School", "Fuzhou Naval Officer School", "Yuan Xun Regiment", "Dezhou Garrison Hero Regiment", "Tingsi Regiment", "Jinzhou Regiment", "Hussar Regiment", "Linjiaqiao Regiment", ...... The phalanx of young soldiers resembled moving mountains, winning the applause of the audience. Especially the students of major colleges and universities in Beijing are about to slap red.

The generals on the castle tower were more excited than the civilian officials. The vast majority of them are the patriarchs who came out of Mengshan, and have experienced all the processes of the growth and expansion of this army, and their emotions are incomprehensible to ordinary people!

"Yan Bing! There should be more than one heroic regiment in the Sixth Division! It's a pity for the other two brigades. Needless to say, the 16th Brigade of Lao Qu is not under the 17th Brigade. Feng Guozhu, commander of the Central Military Region, pointed to the Dezhou Garrison Heroes Regiment who walked through Tiananmen Square, and said to Ye Yanbing, who was transferred to the Southeast Military Region.

"Yes, yes, I reported three regiments. As a result, only one regiment was approved! Ye Yanbing lowered his voice, "The commander said that there will be many battles in the future, what is the hurry!" Fortunately, a lot of honors have been given at the battalion and company level. The Sixth Division is really good. ”

The Sixth Division is one of the main aces of the National Defense Force, she is soaked in Ye Yanbing's hard work, but now she is under the command of Feng Guozhu.

"Hey! It seems that a division is weak and can't succeed. There is a chance to build yì and let the old 1st Regiment and the 50th Regiment do a confrontation exercise. ”

"The Texas regiment is fierce again. I don't dare to win the Fathers. That's the old foundation of the whole army. If the Fathers lose, not only you, but each of us will not be able to save face. Ye Yanbing smiled.

The Yuanxun Regiment is the old 1st Regiment, which was formerly known as the 2nd Battalion of the Mengshan Army, and was later expanded into the 1st Standard of the Right Wing of the Weisheng Army and the 17th Standard of the 9th Association of the Fifth Town of the Manchu Army. Most of the generals and commanders of the Mengshan Army have served in this unit and are known as the Fathers and Fathers. After the Guangzhou army was raised, the regiment captured Hengyang, Changsha and even later marched to the southeast and northwest. If the anti-Qing campaign ran the most, the regiment probably ranked first. But Ye Yanbing seemed to be unconvinced in his words - the regiment was just stained with the light of a long history.

"I don't think you're convinced. If it's a drill. The Jinzhou regiment should also be added. ”

"If Brother Lushan hears your words. It's time to criticize you for being strict in your thinking. ”

"Haha, just kidding." Feng Guozhu said, "On this occasion today, Lu Shan should be present. It's a pity that the elder brother went to Tangnu and couldn't come back in Wulianghai. ”

After the reorganization of the whole army last year. There is a saying circulating in the military. It is said that the three most elite divisions of the whole army are the 1st, 6th, and 9th divisions. At the beginning, there was exactly one army on each of the three fronts. And the three meritorious teams discussed by Feng and Ye happened to be distributed among the three main divisions. The Jinzhou Regiment was subordinate to the Xiongxun Brigade of the former 9th Division, but the most brilliant main force of the Northern Army was the 10th Division and the Independent Cavalry Brigade. Fortunately, this time the 9th Division had the opportunity to make meritorious contributions. The 10th Division was still in the garrison. Became the Imperial Guards who defended the capital.

There were also several specially invited foreign military attachés on the castle tower. Although the Republic of China has not yet concluded formal diplomatic relations with any country, the ostensible reason is that China has not yet formally established a state, and the twists and turns behind it are much more complicated. However, military attachés from Germany, Japan, the United States, Britain, France, and Austria were still invited to observe the founding ceremony of New China.

Colonel Strauss, the German chief of staff in Qingdao, who had ascended the tower as a military attaché, patted the Austrian military attache Major Franz, who was walking through the viewing platform in a phalanx of the Chinese Wehrmacht parade, and said, "Major, what do you think?" ”

"Oh, their uniforms are beautiful, they are beautiful...... I really can't imagine that the Chinese could design such a beautiful military uniform. ”

"That's all?"

"I must admit that this is the highest level of military parade I have ever seen. I don't know how they trained......"

"I was on the battlefield last year in the Battle of Texas, it was a decisive battle, and they showed something that we didn't have...... It's a great army, and it's not just these things on the surface...... Strauss, noting that the Wehrmacht generals are saluting solemnly, "hoping that we won't be adversaries with them......"

Major Franz smiled, "Colonel, you think highly of them, don't you?" Poor Russians...... They seemed to be frightened. ”

"No, it was not the Russians who hit the hardest, but the Japanese! The Russians' energies were held back in Europe. Otherwise, they will not sit idly by and watch the Chinese flaunt their might at their doorstep! Major, didn't you realize it? The strength of the Chinese is not a bad thing for us. ”

"Of course, but I don't think they have what it takes to be involved in the big war in Europe. How many Russians can they pinn down? Two divisions? Three divisions? The Russians can easily mobilize three hundred divisions or more......" Major Franz glanced at the British military attaché, who was pointing with the French military attaché at the line of troops passing below. Since the alliance between Germany, Austria and Italy, the antagonism between the two sides has become stronger and stronger.

"No, if the Chinese are on our side, it means more than that. They contain at least 20~30 divisions of Russian troops. Also, let's not forget that both the British and the French had military bases in the Far East. The colonel stopped talking, he already knew that the Kaiser had decided to formally establish diplomatic relations with the new Chinese government at the ambassadorial level, at the ambassadorial level and not at the minister level! And it is ready to further strengthen military cooperation with China.

"Oh God!" Major Franz felt that the German counterparts had too high an opinion of the Chinese.

Colonel Strauss suddenly saw an officer he didn't know running up the tower, called the chief of the General Staff, General Situ Jun, who had been watching the salute in an upright posture, and whispered something. Strauss saw Situ Jun's face change drastically.

What happened?

"Do you want to report to the commander?" Tian Shubang, director of the Military Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff, stared nervously at Situ Jun.

"Wait, I'll take care of it." Situ Jun took a few steps and called Defense Minister Wang Mingyuan.

"What? You repeat? Wang Mingyuan was stunned by the news, "Won't you be mistaken?" Not fake news? ”

"Nope. It's true. I've verified. Tian Shubang said in a deep voice.

Wang Mingyuan looked at Long Qian, who was standing in the center and waving his hand downward, the military parade had ended, and the mass parade had begun.

The commander of the Northern Military District, Lu Shan, was killed! Just an hour ago! At this time, at the climax of the founding ceremony of the Republic, the Wehrmacht suddenly lost its weight! Should this bad news be reported to the president?

"No, don't say it yet! You immediately rush back to the General Staff. Wang Mingyuan said to Situ Jun sternly.

"Yes!" Situ Jun stood up and saluted, and left quickly with Tian Shubang. (To be continued......)