Chapter 226 The Concession Issue
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The sea is called the prosperity and prosperity of the Shili foreign market, and also a place to live built by bamboo. Every day, there are the myths and miracles of getting rich overnight, and there are also a large number of people who die of pennilessness. Here, luxury and hardship are intertwined, and it is called a humanistic scene with complex human intrigues and intrigues and intrigues./Shou.
This is also a gathering place for the world-style buildings. It brings together buildings of different styles from various countries. These buildings are located in concessions that have been drawn out by the shrewd powers to the Qing government since the Opium War. In these concessions, China has no law enforcement powers, and it is controlled and operated by the great powers. When these great powers build their own concessions, these people will naturally bring their local architectural style here. Therefore, in the most prosperous place in Shanghai, various national style buildings make this Chinese land look like an alternative style of all nations.
Today at 12 noon, the last time for China to recover the land in these concessions. After this time, the Chinese government will take it back by force.
Faced with the tough stance put forward by the Chinese government, countries that still have concessions in Shanghai chose to evacuate one after another. Although they were protesting and threatening, many countries no longer had enough confidence because in their hometown, the troops of millions of Germans were threatening or actually occupying their own countries. Therefore, although one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand were reluctant, many countries still chose to announce the evacuation and return of this concession land.
Now in the concession in Shanghai, there is only the stubborn mentality of the concession between Britain and France. The Japanese concession was first to clear out this land, and the Russian concession was also taken back after fighting with China; the Germans were the first to leave, and they left decently; the remaining countries also looked at the wind direction and the regular evacuation periodically. Regarding the countries where the evacuation time was clearly stated that they needed to extend the evacuation time for various explanatory reasons after evacuation, the Chinese government also showed understanding, and reached a memorandum of understanding after communicating with each other. After mutual communication, it was reached to actually take back the concession but not deliberately expel the relevant personnel.
In negotiating this concession recovery process with these small European countries that are no longer glorious, the Chinese new government showed a confident, mutual understanding, reasonable and powerful attitude. It is neither humble nor arrogant, and does not deliberately make things difficult for those who have actual evacuation, but rather a soft adaptation based on actual conditions to solve this kind of soft flexibility in the ultimatum time. People and things can evacuate later, but sovereignty must be returned before the ultimatum time.
Faced with the actions of the new Chinese government, Britain and France chose to resist stubbornly. For these two old powers, it was really unwilling to let go of the interests of the Far East in this way. Therefore, in the local concessions of these two countries, the soldiers stationed here in these two countries are deploying in defense positions at various intersections, preparing for the arrival of the final attack.
However, unlike the politicians who were confident that China would be defeated by their own cannons again and signed more land in the concession, these soldiers now have the same feeling, that is, deep fear and despair. Because in front of them, they were not the Eight Banners Braided Soldiers during the Qing Dynasty, nor were they the double-gun soldiers carrying smoke-breathing rifles during the war in the Republic of China, but all the professional killing gods.
Outside the concessions between the two countries, a large number of Chinese and French teams were surrounded. Unlike in the past, in order to minimize the losses in the economically prosperous area of Shanghai, the Chinese and French team did not hide their heads and shook their feet as before, but instead placed many weapons on the front line, using the most intuitive and visual impact formation to stimulate the vision of all British and French soldiers.
Hundreds of T-3 tanks show their beautiful lines in the early spring sunshine. Although the camouflage coating makes the ground lines a little difficult to distinguish, this does not mean that it cannot reveal its huge body and huge muzzle pointing to the fortifications in the concession against the background of the street outside the concession... If a few sandbags and wooden deer are also considered fortifications...
Behind these tank battlefields, were tens of thousands of soldiers armed to the teeth waiting for their superiors to attack without saying a word or walking forward in an order to advance to this Chinese land.
"Eleventh, fifty, nineteen, thirty seconds. It seems that you chose war..."
Standing on the tank command cockpit, the commander looked at the last time on his wrist. The three hour and minute hands that were about to overlap to the maximum extent indicate what kind of command they were going to issue.
"Boom...load!"
Sergeants at all levels saw the commander's gesture and issued combat instructions to their brothers softly. Within a few seconds, the bolts of the gun became the largest and most common sounds here.
"Open...insurance!"
The professional sergeant's words seemed to have no feelings, but only veterans who had experienced the baptism of gunpowder and blood on the battlefield knew that the index finger that pulled the bolt and opened the insurance and pre-issued it outside the guard ring of the board machine told everyone that this battle was about to begin again...
The powerful and powerful engine of the tank has been running at idle for a long time. When the driver kept stepping on the accelerator pedal, the diesel transported to the fuel injection port by the oil supply pump is ready to expand, burn under the high-pressure and high-temperature air pressure body, and convert it into another form of energy output...
"fire!!"
When the three pointers overlapped in that second, the second hand just entered the next scale, commanders at all levels issued attack orders to the gunners who had been accumulating for a long time; the gunners were also not vague, tanks, self-propelled howitzers and various types of artillery ran away from their chambers in the British and French Concessions.
The first targets of this shelling were mostly fortifications and obstruction objects exposed outside, and were direct artillery firing. The gunners even aimed directly at the target with the barrel. At a distance of less than a thousand meters, the feeling of shooting at the opponent's forehead made the gunners feel very happy.
This method of direct shooting is to protect this as much as possible.
The buildings in the prosperous area are reused to regain their backwards and move back quickly, and the second is that the foreign devils in the barracks are just some infantry equipped with light weapons. This bullying them is also the kind of arrogance they used to be.
"Sharp Knife Company, follow me!" The company commander of the Sharp Knife Company led the troops to rush forward before the smoke and dust after the shelling was dissipated. The artillery just now did not cause any casualties from the other party except for the opening of the road. No one would wait to die under the opponent's artillery fire.
There was no resistance in the concession, and after searching, it was found that there were no ambush forces in these buildings. It seemed that the other party did not intend to fight street battles, which made the ground commander relieved. If street battles were really going to change, casualties would definitely increase, and at the same time, it would also cause inevitable damage to these buildings.
"Company Commander! Look ahead!" A little soldier pulled the company commander to signal the new scenery that appeared in front.
"Damn it, the white flag!" Even without a telescope, the company commander could clearly see the barracks where foreign soldiers lived in the concession area, shaking several white flags.
"Company Commander, what are the ideas of these foreigners fighting the ground? After a while, they surrendered without firing a gun?" The second platoon leader complained dissatisfiedly. He finally grabbed the vanguard's mission from the first platoon, but he ran all the way without encountering a single resistance and rushed outside the barracks and saw the white flag.
"Ghost knows, this battle is really boring." The company commander also complained angrily.
It is indeed boring. This kind of bullying unilateral battle is really boring. At least you have to resist and let the soldiers of the newly formed army have enjoyed the blood training. But after the first round of artillery attacks, these foreigners who clamored to make the Chinese suffer surrender without a single shot? Didn’t they say they wanted to fight to the death? This made the Chinese soldiers who were ready to fight for a full battle like a fist waving their strength to hit a sandbag filled with loose cotton.
The report on the action to revoke the concession in Shanghai was quickly summarized in front of Duan Guoxue, and together they were reported by Britain and France to the local military actions taken by China. In the mouthpieces controlled by these Western powers, there was no report that the new Chinese government would not recognize the unequal treaty. The whole article was full of attacks and slander against the new Chinese government's unilateral military actions. Judging from the limited information sent back by the intelligence agencies, it seemed that the other party was doing well. They had already aroused the domestic sentiment, and the whole country agreed to use military force against China.
"Is this the freedom of the Western press? Are there any more objective and fair reports from some media?" Duan Guoxue threw these mainstream Western media newspapers into the garbage can.
"Yes, but they are all small newspapers, and the things published in these newspapers have been maliciously acquired, and not many of them have been bought by real readers. At the same time, these newspapers that dare to publish these news have been suppressed by large media companies to varying degrees. Some newspapers even fired reporters who wrote these news under pressure." Huang Zhizhong picked up the newspaper from the garbage can, and he still had to keep them in the file.
"Oh? Are there any examples?" Duan Guoxue felt a little interesting.
"Bai Xiude, a reporter from the American Times magazine, performed a performance in Henan in 1939, which was suffering from natural disasters from floods, droughts and locusts. In 11c counties in the Central Plains, 1c million Henan Province, 3 million people starved to death, and another 3 million people went west to Tongguan as refugees, starved to death along the way, died of illness, and countless people died of death. The price of women fell to one tenth of the usual, and the price of strong men was only one-third of the past. Mr. Jiang did not believe that there was a disaster in Henan and scolded it as a "lie cliché". He saw too many of them, and strictly ordered the amount of physical objects collected in Henan to be delayed. In Luoyang, Bai Xiude often saw bloody zombies falling from passing trains."
"On the way from Luoyang to Zhengzhou, most of the villages were deserted. Even in those places where there were people, Bai Xiude heard the cry of the abandoned baby before his death, and saw only wild dogs taking out the bodies from the sand and biting the meat on it. What made him angry was that the army and government officials ignored the famine and still imposed heavy cereal taxes; although there were surplus materials in other parts of China, nothing was transported to Henan in time to stop the disaster."
"Then his report appeared in Times magazine through the telegram from the Luoyang Telegraph Bureau, and European and American public opinion was in an uproar. At that time, Mr. Jiang's wife was conducting a luxury fundraising trip across the United States. When she saw Bai Xiude's report, she asked the publisher of Times magazine to dismiss Bai Xiude and was rejected. After Bai Xiude returned to Guangzhou, the government that fled here said that he lied and made false reports, which led to his persecution by some people after returning to the United States. Oh, and, the sender of the Luoyang Telegraph Bureau at that time was executed for "leaking secrets."
Huang Zhizhong's introduction made Duan Guoxue speechless. Sometimes, wars on the news front are no easier than those on the intelligence front. A confidential document obtained may save many people, but an untrue report can sometimes kill many people.
"Commander-in-chief, do you want to fight back on the news?" Huang Zhizhong gently awakened Duan Guoxue who was thinking.
"Yes! But I guess it will not be of great effect on the outside, after all, what we provide cannot be expanded
But at least the intensity of the claim on the country should be increased, so that the people of the whole country should know the ugly faces under the mask of these so-called fair and fair nationals."
"I understand that we promote the justice and justice of what we do. Since they demonize us, why do we not demonize them in the hearts of the people? For tooth for tooth, for eye for eye!"
Chapter completed!