It wasn't until just over one o'clock in the afternoon that the team returned to the base, attracting a large number of onlookers along the way. It is not uncommon for foreigners to be in the Pearl River Delta region, but there are so many at a time, or a captured captive, this kind of diorama is rare. When they arrived near the base, the crowd of onlookers was already exhausted, and a large number of residents in the county town were moved. Since yesterday's recruitment of people, the news of the great defeat of the Guangfu army has spread in the city. The news of the war with the British was blocked by the Management Committee for fear of causing panic, and only a small number of natives such as Master Fang and Xiong Dianshi knew the news. Now that the battle has been won, of course, we must publicize it well.

The crowd of onlookers was three floors inside and three layers outside, and the management committee had to dispatch security teams to maintain order and clear a passage. Seeing a group of British people passing in front of them, the crowd pointed and talked about the fate of the captives. Some people say that the Guangfu army will behead all the captives and build a Jingguan to shock Yingyi; Some people say that the Guangfu Army will sacrifice prisoners to the imperial court in exchange for the opportunity to recruit An, in order to advance to the throne and seal his wife and son.

Huang Guangzhou also stood in the crowd, silently watching all this. Since the Guangfu Army occupied Xin'an County, he has been living under house arrest, staying in his room every day to read and practice calligraphy. Although the Guangfu Army did not prohibit him from going out, he never asked for this, at most he took a walk in the garden in the backyard, looking like "picking chrysanthemums in the east and seeing Nanshan leisurely".

Seven days after the "human head" was borrowed to Liwei, Zhao Wuyan "came to life" again. Seeing the resurrection of Zhao, Huang Xianling had a good impression of the Guangfu Army for the first time, and this gang of thieves was not a person who killed indiscriminately.

In this way, Zhao Jiaoyu became neighbors with him, and the two loyal ministers of the Qing Dynasty who were not free often lamented their bad luck together. However, one daughter is still young, and the other has just escaped death, but no one plans to repay the court with death.

When he heard the news from Master Fang that the Guangfu Army and the foreigners were meeting, Huang Guangzhou was always skeptical. Isn't this gang of thieves clinging to foreigners and acting for the tiger? Is it because of the uneven distribution of spoils? As for Fang Congze's statement that he clashed with Yingyi in order to protect the people, he didn't believe this reason at all. How is it possible that a group of traitors will stand up for the people and defend against foreign insults?

It wasn't until last night that Master Fang came to tell him that all the 1,000 Yingyi who came to attack were destroyed except for a small part of the army, which surprised him even more. Early this morning, he proposed to Chen Jianhua, who usually communicates with him the most, that he wanted to come and see it with his own eyes, and the other party happily agreed and accompanied him in person.

Seeing the groups of British prisoners walking in front of him, Huang Guangzhou felt that he was becoming more and more incomprehensible about the gang of thieves. "Mr. Chen, is it true that your ministry met with the Yingyi soldiers because of the protection of the people?" Huang Guangzhou asked Chen Jianhua beside him. Chen Jianhua spoke politely, was erudite and well-informed, and was a rare intellectual in the Guangfu Army, and he would usually exchange a few words with him.

"Yes!" Chen Jianhua replied affirmatively, "It was the commander-in-chief of our Guangfu Army who saw that Yingyi was hurting my compatriots, and immediately stepped forward to save his compatriots from danger, and led his subordinates to fight fiercely against Yingyi, which made the compatriots who were poisoned by Yingyi turn danger into disaster." ”

Huang Guangzhou nodded, no longer delving into this issue. In his mind, whether the Liberation Army loves the people or harms the people, it is always a gang of anti-thieves. This posture is only to buy people's hearts and minds so that they may confuse the ignorant people into their use. Hearing the shouts of "Long live the Liberation Army" from the crowd, he was suddenly shocked in his heart, this Liberation Army really has an extraordinary ambition to be a thief, and it has some means to sell people's hearts. Just look at the leaders who do not show their deeds, do not show their names, and only raise the banner of the Guangfu Army, you can see the difference between them and the anti-thieves such as Long Hair, Twist, and Heaven and Earth Society.

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After a week's stay in the prisoner camp of the Liberation Army, Lieutenant Michael Winters and more than 30 of his men welcomed a large number of comrades. When he heard that Admiral Ramsay, Lieutenant Commander Harrington, Lieutenant Colonel Hall, and four hundred and sixty-three Army officers and one hundred and eighty-seven Navy officers and men had become prisoners, the lieutenant thought that the Chinese also had April Fool's Day, and even today (in fact, the survivors had the habit of April Fool's Day, but the lieutenant did not know). The Chinese asked him to lead his men to build thatched huts for the new captives, and although he did not believe it, he complied. When he saw the vast army of prisoners, he learned that God was Chinese and that he was in the middle of the Liberation Army.

Lieutenant Lotsy stood at the door of the prisoner camp with his dog-legged Emoti to welcome the arrival of new residents. In order to provide a comfortable living environment for the new residents, Lieutenant Law and the prisoner camp management office came up with a number of solutions. More than 600 prisoners of war came at one time, and the original prisoner camp could no longer be inhabited, so they had to open up new places. Right next to the original prisoner camp, a piece of land was re-fenced with barbed wire, and building materials such as wood, iron nails, adhesives, plastic sheeting, and asbestos tiles were brought in, waiting for the British to come and build the house by themselves.

After the British prisoners entered the camp, which was still an open field, they lined up in front of a wooden platform to the accompaniment of the March of Colonel Pokey, and the prisoners were officially handed over to the Loxi River during the Shen Xing. After the music had stopped, and the captives had finished standing in line under the command of the officer, Luo Xihe walked up to the wooden platform and prepared to begin the lecture, where he was the boss and held the power of life and death of the captives. Walking to the microphone in the center of the wooden platform, as if he was incarnated as Saito Daisa, he first glanced at the crowd of black crows and crows in the audience, and then said in English at an unhurried pace: "Gentlemen, on behalf of the Liberation Army, I welcome you here, I am the commander of this prisoner camp, Lieutenant Luo Xihe, this is the second prisoner camp, I believe you can live happily here until the end of the war." ”

Seeing that the British troops in the audience were silent and showed good military qualities, Luo Xihe nodded with satisfaction. He pointed to Lieutenant Winters and the others who were standing next to him, and said, "There are more than thirty of your compatriots here, who came a week before you and have fully experienced the comfort of a peaceful life. Of course, the prisoner camp also has the rules of the prisoner camp, and you must abide by the rules here when you come here, as for the specific content, I can let your compatriots who came first explain it to you later, and I will only focus on two points here. First of all, as prisoners, the war is over for you, and I hope that you will live here for a while and refrain from behaving in a way that is incompatible with your status as prisoners of war. All actions are subject to the command of the prisoner camp guards, and activities are strictly in accordance with the schedule arranged by the prisoners; The second point is that as a prisoner, you should not try to escape, the defense here is very tight, and it can be said that without my permission, not even a fly can fly. Look around," the British prisoners pointed to the Lothy River and saw several twenty-foot watchtowers around the camp with sentries walking back and forth. "These sentinels are sharpshooters. If someone is going to run away, they can send the fleeing person to God a thousand feet away, and I hope you will remember that. Alright, now I'm done with that, and now I'm going to ask you to build your own house. ”

The captives, led by the officers, divided into basic squads, received various tools from the guards, and then began to build houses in the open field. The first captives were assigned to various squads to communicate with the guards, and they had been here for a week and could understand some simple Chinese orders. The squares are drawn with lime on the open space as the foundation area of the house. Some captives with construction skills were singled out and took up the work of construction workers. The captives first dug pits at the corners and buried the pillars, then built purlins on them, then spread rafters, then covered them with plastic sheeting, then nailed asbestos tiles to the rafters, and finally nailed wooden planks to the pillars as walls. The curiosity of the captives was aroused by the coloured plastic sheeting, which was produced from a substance extracted from petroleum, and made the captives marvel at the wonder of creation. Before dinner, dozens of wooden houses were built. The Liberation Army also planted several street lamps in the camp, and the new prisoners were surprised by the Chinese erecting telegraph lines in the camp.

The senior officers enjoyed their privileges and did not need to work with the soldiers. Colonel Ramsay and Lieutenant Colonel Harrington called Lieutenant Winters over and asked him about the situation in the prisoner camp. Although Lieutenant Winters is not a direct subordinate of the two, he is still familiar with the two of them, and naturally knows everything and says everything.

"Lieutenant, you've been here for a week, how do you feel about these Chinese?" Ramsay asked.

The question was broad, and Winters thought about it and organized the language. "These Chinese are a group of Chinese who have mastered modern civilization, and their level of science and technology is very high, probably higher than that of our entire Western world."

"It can't be." Lieutenant Colonel Hall shouted.

"It's possible." Winters retorted. To strengthen his persuasion, he pointed to the telephone pole and said, "Look at that! "There stood a fifteen-foot wooden pole with an iron branch sticking out of it, and at one end of the iron pole dangled in the air was a white lid the size of a roast turkey plate, and under the lid was a glass ball the size of a mango, and on top of the pole were two porcelain bottles, and two things that appeared to be wires were joined together with another wooden pole that led into the distance." Lieutenant, although the Chinese telegraph lines are strange, I don't see anything advanced that deserves such a high evaluation from you. Hall teased.

"That's not a telegraph line, that's an electric light."

"What is this electric light?" A word he hadn't heard before confused Hall, and the others were confused.

"It's a luminaire that uses electricity to illuminate." Winters began to do science propaganda. In this time and space, poor Mr. Edison lost forever the right to invent the electric light, and of course, he would lose the right to invent a series of inventions such as the phonograph and the movie, and many more scientists would lose their honor. "I've observed that there is a wire in that glass ball that glows when it is energized, and it is brighter than a candle."

"It doesn't mean anything, it's just a small aspect." Hall was somewhat unimpressed.

"They also have a method of communication that doesn't require wires." Winters exploded another "big bomb", and when he saw the surprised expressions of the people around him, a trace of pride swelled up in his heart.

"Tell me more!" This time even Colonel Ramsay was interested.

"I saw a lot of real Liberation Army ......"

"The real Liberation Army?"

Winters had to stop to explain another of his findings, "The real Liberation Army refers to the Chinese who have accepted modern civilization in the Liberation Army, although there are many Chinese with short hair and Western clothes, in fact, they are all local natives, and their spiritual outlook is similar to that of those Chinese with braids, these people only serve as some auxiliary work." And the soldiers of the regular combat units are Chinese who have truly received the baptism of modern civilization, they are brave in battle, flexible in tactics, and powerful in firepower...... "These comments of Winters have been recognized by everyone, because they have a deep understanding. In order not to evoke painful memories for everyone, Ramsay brought the topic back on track. "Lieutenant, let's talk about the kind of communication of the Chinese without lines!"

"Yes, sir." Winters also felt that he had praised the Chinese and quickly turned back to the original topic. "I found that a lot of real Liberation Army belts have a black, brick-sized box hanging from their belts, and this box sometimes has the sound of people talking, and sometimes they will hold it in their hands and talk to it, I think it should be a communication tool."

"Who knows if it's the magic of the Chinese!" Hall still didn't want to believe Lieutenant Winters's assertions, it was already a matter of face.

Lieutenant Colonel Harrington was lost in thought, and waited for a moment before saying, "It's very likely. If you think about it, the place where we landed was chosen at random, but the Liberation Army quickly set up defensive positions. It is impossible to fortify such a large bay everywhere without tens of thousands of people, but with wireless communication it makes sense. They can send many small detachments to monitor the entire bay and notify the troops to assemble as soon as they find the place where we have landed. "Looking back and thinking about the battle, everyone around me, including Lieutenant Colonel Hall, was impressed by Lieutenant Colonel Harrington's analysis.

The conversation could not continue, when there was a sound of a bell ringing, and Winters told everyone that it was the bell for dinner, and led everyone to the place where they were eating, for the officer needed to go first in order to supervise the delivery of food.