Chapter 403: Concession III
Seeing the troops of the People's Liberation Army singing loud military songs and striding into the German concession, the people behind the windows on both sides of the street shook their heads and their voices boiled.
From 1895 to the present, it has been a full fifty years, and finally our own Chinese army has entered the German concession.
People's Liberation Army, liberate the road, liberate the !!
Gone are the days when the Germans rode on our heads and made a fortune.
A big brother at the window on the fourth floor couldn't help but sit on the window excitedly, put his hands together into a horn and shouted to the PLA team that was advancing along the liberation road to the German concession: "Long live the PLA, long live Xie Baoqing." ”
His wife was so frightened that her face turned pale and hurriedly hugged her eldest brother: "Don't fall down." ”
The eldest brother shouted and suddenly cried: "The People's Liberation Army is coming, Xie Baoqing is coming, a good day is coming, Dad, you open your eyes and see, the People's Liberation Army is coming, Xie Baoqing is cleaning up the German devils, Xie Baoqing, why don't you come a few days earlier, woo woo woo woo ......"
The sister-in-law couldn't help but hug the eldest brother and cried, the filial piety clothes on the two people had not been taken off, just a few days ago the eldest brother was beaten to death by a German drunk in the German concession The father who pulled the rickshaw was beaten to death by a German drunk, and the patrol Fang Huatan who dealt with the matter threw them a big ocean, saying that the German drunk paid them for it.
Is a human life worth only one ocean in the German Concession?
Foreigners have extraterritoriality in the concessions, and Chinese laws cannot bind them at all, and they can do whatever they want in the concessions.
The concession is the colony opened up by the great powers in China.
The Chinese in the colonies were all their slaves.
Now, Xie Tian's PLA troops have marched into the German Concession, which means that the German Concession in Tianjin no longer exists.
The two major camps in the world, the German-Italian-Japanese alliance, the British-French-American-Soviet-Chinese alliance, and China and Japan are in a state of war, which is equivalent to declaring war on Germany and Italy at the same time.
Xie Tian led the PLA troops into the German concession without any problems, and the two countries were in a superficial state of war anyway.
Why is it superficial?
In fact, before Japan formed an alliance with Germany, the relationship between the government of the Republic of China and Germany was relatively close, and the Germans even helped the National Revolutionary Army train troops and equipped a unit with all-German weapons.
On the surface, the government of the Republic of China declared war on Germany but a forced choice of camp, but in fact China and Germany could not fight, let alone go head-to-head, and the main and only enemy of the Chinese government at present was Japan.
Xie Tian got into the jeep with a dark face, and asked Zhao Gang, who was following closely, "Which country's concession is the German concession?" ”
Zhao Gang smiled bitterly: "I went down the liberation road, and after the German Concession, it was the British Concession." ”
As he spoke, Zhao Gang simply took out a map of Tianjin city from his briefcase, and drew circles on it with a red pen: "We are in this position now, and further forward is the British Concession, where there used to be an American Concession, which was later incorporated into the British Concession. After the British Concession was the French Concession, and next to the French Concession was the Japanese Concession. This is to the west of the Haihe River, and to the east of the Haihe River are the Belgian, Russian, Italian, and Austro-Hungarian concessions. ”
Xie Tian smiled coldly and pulled the map in Zhao Gang's hand: "The Eight-Nation Alliance is complete, there are many of them." Come on, call Li Yunlong to Lao Tzu to come over. ”
Soon Li Yunlong rode a horse to catch up with the jeep, the jeep did not stop, and Li Yunlong did not get off the horse.
"Commander-in-Chief, you call me?"
Xie Tian directly handed the map in his hand to Li Yunlong and ordered: "Take your division to Lao Tzu to the east bank of the Haihe River, sweep their four concessions to Lao Tzu one by one, confiscate all their weapons, and tell them that from today onwards there will be no concession in Tianjin." If anyone dares to resist, kill. ”
Li Yunlong snapped a military salute to Xie Tian and shouted loudly: "Yes." ”
After that, Li Yunlong turned his horse's head and held the map and shouted at the troops following behind: "Zhang Dabiao, take a cavalry regiment and go with Lao Tzu, and the direct teams of the second regiment and the third regiment will stay to protect the commander-in-chief. ”
"You're fucking disobedient again." Xie Tian stood up and scolded angrily, turned his head and wanted to find something to smash Li Yunlong, but Li Yunlong had already run away with a gust of wind.
Damn, Lao Tzu has a tank division by his side, a wolf tooth brigade, and a direct team, do you need to leave two regiments to protect Lao Tzu?
Dog lazy, I haven't settled the account with you for leading the cavalry regiment to charge, see how I turn around and beat you.
The tank division took the lead in passing through the German concession to the British concession, and the same liberation road, but separated by a street corner, with a large iron gate.
Behind the iron gate, the fortifications were also built with sandbags, with light and heavy machine guns and rifles on top of the fortifications, and about a company of British soldiers guarded the fortifications behind the iron gate.
Ever since the People's Liberation Army (PLA) began to garrison the periphery of Tianjin, the concessions in Tianjin have been in a semi-closed state, and the soldiers have been waiting for them to take advantage of the chaos to intrude on the concessions.
The Eight-Nation Coalition is not monolithic now, and it is also divided into two camps, but they all maintain a tacit understanding, for example, Britain, France and Germany fought to the death on the European battlefield, but in the concession of Tianjin, the well water does not interfere with the river water, and each of them makes money.
Their attitude towards China is basically the same, China is just a soft persimmon to be slaughtered by others, and it does not matter whether there is a state of hostility between countries, but it is important to make money.
There are many smoke houses and casinos in the British Concession, which is a good business for daily money.
The British army was also nervous when they saw the PLA's tank units coming out of the German concession, and the British deployed more troops in the concession, but they only had the strength of one battalion, and there was no other heavy firepower except for a few cannons and heavy machine guns, so they could not compete with the PLA tank units at all.
What's more, they were horrified to find that the Tiger tank in the German concession was also in the tank unit of the PLA.
Were the Germans disarmed?
Ge Dazhuang stopped the car and informed Xie Tian on the radio that he had arrived at the gate of the British Concession, and the British army was waiting for him and asked Xie Tian what to do?
Xie Tian ordered: "Get out of the car and announce to them that the People's Liberation Army does not recognize any treaty signed by the Qing government, and any form of concession is illegal, and it is now banned in accordance with the laws and regulations of the liberated areas." They were ordered to lay down their arms within five minutes to open the concession, and if they did not disarm within five minutes, your tank division would directly collide with them, and if they dared to shoot, they would be killed. ”
"Yes", Ge Dazhuang replied, jumped out of the tank and stepped forward to negotiate with the British army.
Five minutes later, Ge Dazhuang personally drove the tank to break through the big iron gate set up in the British Concession, smashed the position, and drove in.
The British were dumbfounded and did not dare to rob.