May 1 of the year of the Dark Age, Labor Day.

It has been more than a month since the end of the Battle of Qinhuangdao. In this month, Zhuang Yichen was directly promoted to colonel by the military because of his key move of dragging the undead in the Battle of Qinhuangdao.

As soon as he entered the seventh team, he already had the rank of major. However, at that time, apart from a letter of appointment and registration to enter the seventh team, there was no official award ceremony. After all, this rank of major can only be regarded as a compensation for his membership in the presidium of the Guardian Alliance.

And this time the promotion to colonel was different. This is a real battle in exchange for real achievements, since Zhuang Yichen entered the seventh team, first broke through the turmoil, and then made miraculous achievements on the battlefield of Qinhuangdao. This is an achievement that everyone in the military has seen in their eyes, and naturally no one will say anything more.

The award and commendation ceremony was held on the day of Labor Day. For the Republic, it is a very meaningful holiday. In this very meaningful festival, coupled with the joy of the entire Chinese battlefield blooming everywhere and the great victory everywhere, this kind of meaning has become more weighty.

Kyoto Nishiyama Command Post, in a small building on the ground.

The passionate symphony resounded in the small hall on the first floor, and this time the award ceremony was of such high standard that even Zhuang Yichen couldn't help but smack his tongue. Not only the bigwigs of the Military Commission were present, but even the No. 1 chief personally participated in it.

Although the layout and scale of the small auditorium are really shabby, compared with such a high-level award ceremony, it is obviously a little inappropriate. But to be able to put such a major ceremony on the ground is a great success. After all, not long ago, all the top leaders of the military and the central government lived in the deepest shelter of the Xishan command post. At the most critical moment in Kyoto, the heads of the central government even collectively moved to the southwestern hinterland through the secret passage under the Nishiyama command post.

This ceremony is the first large-scale centralized investiture since the end of the world. There were hundreds of people who participated, and there were twenty-one newly promoted generals alone, and a colonel like Zhuang Yichen was just the threshold to be qualified to participate in this award ceremony.

The award ceremony was solemn and brief, and the No. 1 leader only said a few words, and then began to take the lead in conferring titles on the three newly promoted generals in the majestic military music.

The faces of the three generals were all young, and one of them looked to be in his early forties. Their glory was all earned on the battlefield with great feats. Zhuang Yichen looked at the three generals with a solemn face and stepped forward to confer the medal, and on the shoulders of the brand-new generals' dresses, three dazzling gold stars shone under the huge incandescent lamp on the roof of the auditorium.

Looking at them, Zhuang Yichen only had deep respect in his heart. He had been in Kyoto for so long, and he had heard a little about the deeds of those three generals. The one standing in the middle was just a small colonel before the end of the world. After the end of the world, he commanded his army to perform many miraculous feats, step by step, and eventually became the commander of the military district that garrisoned the whole of Kyoto.

The ceremony of awarding the generals was soon over, with a total of three generals, seven lieutenant generals, and eleven major generals. The generals' award ceremony was personally awarded by the No. 1 chief, and the remaining more than 80 brigadier generals and colonels were originally awarded by several bigwigs of the Military Commission one by one, but after the general's award ceremony, a small episode suddenly appeared.

"Zhuang Yichen, out of the ranks!"

Zhuang Yichen was originally waiting in the lower team, just waiting for his own team to come to the stage to confer the title. At this time, he suddenly heard someone shouting to himself, he paused for a moment, and he couldn't think about it, and immediately replied: "Yes!" ”

After speaking, he stepped out of the ranks, then tried to straighten his waist, and strode to the front of the stage to stand still. After he stood still, the number one leader also stepped forward and personally conferred the title on him.

The crowd in the audience whispered softly for a while, but they also figured out the joints in an instant. The importance of Zhuang Yichen to the entire Huaxia military at this time is self-evident. In the battle of Qinhuangdao, Zhuang Yichen's strong strength has completely proved his strength to the military. As a strategic weapon that can truly contain the undead, his position in the military has also become a bit special.

When the rank of colonel is reached, it is naturally the extreme, and it is a little unreasonable to go up. After all, Zhuang Yichen did not have any experience in the army, so it was impossible for him to be promoted to major general. Each of the generals of the republic is an existence with extremely high gold content, and a major general with a false post is no different from a colonel.

The military rank could not be promoted again, and at the award ceremony, the No. 1 chief personally awarded the rank of colonel, which was also another disguised compensation and recognition from the military.

After the ceremony, Zhuang Yichen stepped down again, but happened to see Qi Han secretly giving a thumbs up to him. In this all-army award commendation, she was also promoted to lieutenant colonel, but she was not qualified enough to take the stage to accept the award ceremony, and just sat in the audience below.

After the award ceremony, Zhuang Yichen and Qi Han both walked out of the small hall. The situation in Kyoto has stabilized, and the seven teams have temporarily taken a three-day long vacation.

Zhuang Yichen and Qi Han walked side by side on the streets of Kyoto, and in the Battle of Qinhuangdao, the massive nuclear weapons used one after another created countless nuclear radiation clouds that covered the entire sky. The wind howled and carried countless gray-black snowflakes through the city, and the military radiation isolation facility was carried out at the West Hill command post.

Out of the Xishan command post, Zhuang Yichen first returned to his residence to take Niuniu, and then the three of them walked casually on the open-air streets of Kyoto. At this time, the troops left on the streets of Kyoto were all fourth-order evolutionaries. Only evolutionaries at this stage can resist such intense nuclear radiation.

The streets are deserted, the wind is carrying the snow, such a living environment is a real forbidden place for life before the end of the world, but at this time, it is the safest place in the whole of China.

The dirty snow like a sandstorm blew in front of Zhuang Yichensan, but it quietly parted to both sides. A pale cyan wind magic softly enveloped them.

The two men didn't say anything, just walked quietly on the empty street.

Every building, every building on both sides of the street has been converted into a military installation. Walking through it is like walking into a steel fortress.

It didn't take long for Zhuang Yichen and Qi Han to walk to the center of Kyoto, in front of the world-famous landmark, Tiananmen Square.

On Tiananmen Square, the Monument to the People's Heroes still stands in the wind and snow.