The 113th Round: The End of the Great War - Victory
More than 2,000 British troops have become turtles in the urn, facing the sea on three sides, and on one side is the iron wall of the Liberation Army. The commander of the second company ordered the troops to stop firing and began to build fortifications on the spot, intending to capture the British as much as possible. At this point, the British had no chance of turning the tables, and every time they captured an Englishman, they would have an extra bargaining chip in future negotiations. The commander of the second company of Jiao asked the mortars to expel the boats that intended to pick up people, and at the same time looked for soldiers with better English to shout, and as for the British warships at sea, the commander of the second company of Jiao was sure that they would not dare to open fire, unless they wanted to blow up the British people on the beach.
After a while, a former junior who claimed to be a sixth-level English student volunteered to teach the commander of the second company to give him an electric horn and ask him to translate his words to the British in the encirclement. "British soldiers, you have now reached the point of exhaustion. The forces you are holding back have been completely wiped out, your warships can only be the target of our radios, and there is no hope for you to get on board and escape. Do you want to break through? There are Liberation Army in all directions, how can they break out? You've been trying to break through these days, but what are the results? Your foreign guns and artillery are useless, they can only scare the Manchu army in the north, are our planes and tanks ten times more powerful than your foreign guns and artillery? …… In the past few days, under our layers of encirclement and heavy blows, your position has been greatly reduced. Thousands were killed, wounded, and captured...... You only have a little place now, no more than a few hundred meters in width, so many people are huddled together, and we can kill a bunch of you with one shell. Your wounded soldiers and the families of the soldiers who accompanied you have been crying out for days after you. Your soldiers don't want to fight. If you are a commander, a regiment commander, a battalion commander, or a company commander, you should cherish the feelings of your subordinates and their families, cherish their lives, find a way out for them as soon as possible, and stop asking them to make unnecessary sacrifices...... You should immediately order the whole army to lay down their arms and cease resistance, so that the lives of your senior generals and all officers and men can be guaranteed. This is the only way for you to survive. Think about it! If you think that's good, do it. If you still want to fight, then fight again, and you will be solved after all......"
The sound of the horn was so loud that it could be faintly heard even on a warship more than a kilometer away. Hearing that the Chinese "can guarantee the safety of your high-ranking generals and all officers and men," many people have cast their hopeful eyes on the commander, who is now in a Jedi situation, and if they move forward, they will be sent to death, and if they retreat, they can only jump into the sea; under the heavy blows of the planes, ironclad vehicles, and long-range mortars of the Liberation Army, it is completely impossible to get on board. Most soldiers do not have the consciousness of "sacrificing their lives for the country", and they will cling to a glimmer of life. Spintozi felt the hot gaze around him, in fact, he was also in a tormented mood at this time, reason told him that surrender was the right decision, but the honor of the soldier made him unable to make up his mind. At this moment, the sound of cannonballs in the sky was heard again, and then it exploded in the sea near the beach, and several British soldiers who tried to escape by swimming turned into bloody floating corpses, and the crowd caused a commotion. The general looked at the powerless warship that stayed at sea a kilometer away, and had tears in his eyes, so he had to order the adjutant, "Davis, I have decided to surrender to the Liberation Army, and now you are responsible for negotiating with them!" ”
"General! We can also hold on for a while, and when it gets dark, the Chinese's plane will not come out, and then we can let the dinghy pick up people. Davis really didn't want to take the job, so he had to persuade him.
"The Chinese won't give us that much time, and if we don't answer before dark, they won't mind killing us all!" Spintozzi was no longer under any illusions, he looked at the soldiers around him who were on the verge of collapse, "These young men have done their duty, they have deserved the honor of British soldiers, and all I have to do now is to bring them home alive." The general stopped the adjutant who was still about to speak, "I've already decided, you go and carry it out!" ”
Seeing on the beach under the hillside, someone waved a white flag among the British who had gathered together, and taught the commander of the second company to order the troops to stop shooting. After the gunfire stopped, Davis continued to wave a white shirt tied to a wooden stick as he walked up the hill. As they got closer, the two sides could already see each other's faces clearly, and looking at the playful smiles on the faces of the soldiers of the Liberation Army who had already dealt with each other several times, Davis only had bitterness in his heart. He now remembered what the diplomat of the Liberation Army had said to him, and the current situation was unfortunately corrected by the latter, and he was really about to become a prisoner of the Liberation Army. If it weren't for the sake of the general and his comrades, the lieutenant would now have drawn his gun and killed himself rather than suffer this humiliation.
Having dealt with him several times, Davis also knew the rank of the Liberation Army, he walked up to a captain and gave a military salute, "On behalf of the commander of the British forces in Hong Kong, I have come to negotiate the surrender to your army." The captain was the commander of the second company, and he realized at this time that although he seemed to have been in command of the war just now, in fact, everyone was following him, and he had no authority to command these troops. In addition to him, there are four company commanders of the 3rd Infantry Company, the 8th Infantry Company, the 9th Infantry Company, and the 1st Battalion Artillery Company, which means that there are four people who are at the same level as him, so it is not up to him alone to decide whether to accept surrender. So several company commanders got together and briefly discussed, or the commander of the second company was responsible for negotiating with the British, which could be regarded as a reward for him for always rushing to the front.
Jiao Erlian walked up to David with the face of a victor, he knew that the latter had dealt with the Liberation Army several times, so he didn't need to be polite, but his English was so bad that he could only let the soldier just now act as an interpreter. "I am the field commander of the Liberation Army, and we can accept your surrender. I ask that you all lay down your arms and line up on the beach before four o'clock in the afternoon, and then do as we do! We will ensure the safety of your lives and property. ”
Now it is the real me for fish and meat, man-made knife damage, Davis does not agree and can't, when he brought back the Chinese's demands, Spintozi thought about it for a while and agreed, he no longer has the capital to bargain, and making excessive demands is just self-inflicted humiliation. So, the British troops on the beach, led by the officers and supervised by two officers of the Liberation Army, lined up one after another to pile up their weapons together, and after a while, they formed a hill on the beach. After seeing that the British army had laid down their arms, a company of the Liberation Army walked down the hill and commanded the British troops to leave here in formation. The commander of the second company walked up to Spintozzi, who reluctantly handed over his pistol and command knife, which together with the flag became the trophies of the Liberation Army. The commander of the second company drew his saber and raised it high, and the surrounding soldiers immediately thundered with joy, and at this point, the organized resistance of the British army on Hong Kong Island completely collapsed.
Receiving the captives was a long process, and it took almost two hours to count the captives from four o'clock, until the afterglow of the sun was almost gone, and the last group of captives left under the escort of the Liberation Army. The guns piled up like a hill also became a problem, and the 8th and 9th Infantry Companies, as well as the 6th Infantry Company, which arrived at 5 o'clock, and the indigenous soldiers of the three companies worked together to take away nearly 2,000 long and short guns. The prisoners and the Liberation Army's own men and horses, the Stanley military camp could not accommodate it at all, except for leaving 500 Indian prisoners as porters, all the others were kept in 2 This is a large wasteland, which is later known as Stanley Prison. Stanley Prison was established in January 1937 as one of the high-security prisons in Hong Kong and was managed by the Correctional Services Department of Hong Kong. It was formerly known as the Hong Kong Prison. Stanley Prison accommodates adult male inmates and was used as a filming location for Operation ICAC's "Prison Express" and "Prison Behind". During the Japanese occupation, about 3,000 people, including hostile nationals and Hong Kong British officials, were detained by the Japanese army in Stanley Prison and St. Stephen's College, collectively known as the Stanley Internment Camp. Now the British army has become a resident here more than eighty years in advance, and the guards have changed from Japanese to Chinese. At the same time as the British surrendered, the command sent a large number of barbed wire fences and temporarily enclosed a prisoner camp. The captives were given a small amount of food and water, which was not provided in sufficient quantities in order to prevent them from having other thoughts when they were full. However, both the British and the Indians seem to have resigned themselves to their fate, and after eating, they sit on the ground and lie down in their clothes, but fortunately it is the height of summer, and there is no need to worry about catching a cold. However, because the camp was close to the sea, the headquarters stepped up its vigilance, and for this purpose, two tanks were specially sent to Hong Kong Island with the "Xiangmi Lake" and driven to Stanley to serve as a mobile battery. Able to subdue the captives and deter the British warships at sea, the captives saw the arrival of two larger, longer, thicker ironclad cars, but in addition to being amazed, it did not cause greater mood swings, and some people who still had illusions about the Royal Navy could only dismiss their thoughts. As for the British warships, from the time the last two thousand British troops were surrounded to the time they surrendered, they could only watch from the sidelines and could not do anything. When the "Bumblebee" is in the sky again, it will slip away.
After nightfall, the commanders and fighters of the 2nd, 8th, and 9th Infantry Companies set up tents outside the barbed wire, and came to guard the prisoners nearby, and then camped and rested.
For safety reasons, the officers were sent to the Governor's Palace. Spintozzi partially fulfilled his promise, and he returned less than twenty hours after his departure. When he saw the rice-shaped flag on the flagpole in front of the building, replaced by a red flag with a few yellow five-pointed stars, he really realized that the island had changed owners again.
Walking into the familiar office, he saw a Chinese officer sitting in the governor's seat, looking young, but in the eyes of the general, the Chinese were all about the same flat face, and it was difficult to distinguish age. There were also several sitting and standing Chinese officers around, and when the general walked into the office, all eyes were on him, making his face look like it was on fire.
Spintozi was brought in by the commander of the second company, who handed the general's saber to Li Xiangqian and introduced the general's identity. Li Xiangqian casually put the saber aside, and then stared at the highest-ranking prisoner in front of him, seeing that the latter's eyes were full of disbelief and resentment, and a smile appeared on the corner of Lieutenant Colonel Li's mouth. However, he did not intend to humiliate the dutiful soldier, so he said in English: "General, I welcome your choice to surrender!" ”
"You are?" Spintozzi guessed the identity of the Chinese officer, who was more than a decade younger than himself. Because the whole army did not have beards, the general's judgment of age was not very wrong.
"I am Lieutenant Colonel Li Xiangqian, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the Liberation Army's campaign to recover Hong Kong, that is, the person who fought with you in the past two days." Li Xiangqian's words were marked with pride and pride.
"Reclaimed? Hong Kong is already the territory of the United Kingdom, and your actions are aggression! Spintozi shouted loudly, trying to linguistically preserve Britain's last honor.
"Aggression?! It's really robber logic to return your sister! The only civilian present, the "angry youth" Duraly, broke out, "If you can grab it by force, we can take it back by force!" ”
The general couldn't take precautions for a while, and Shen Xingshi hurriedly walked between the two people who were staring at each other, "General, let the politicians solve these political problems, and the soldiers only need to do their part." After separating the two people who were about to quarrel, Shen Xingshi said, "General, we have one thing for you to do now?!" ”