Seeing the troops of the People's Liberation Army striding into the German concession, singing loud military songs, the people behind the windows on both sides of the street were stunned for a moment, and their voices boiled.
It has been exactly fifty years since 1895. Finally, our Chinese army has entered the German concession.
People's Liberation Army, Liberation Road, Liberation! ! !
The days when the Germans sat on top of us and lorded it over us are gone forever.
A big brother couldn't help but excitedly sat on the window on the fourth floor. He folded his hands into a trumpet and shouted to the People's Liberation Army troops advancing along the Liberation Road towards the German Concession: "Long live the People's Liberation Army, long live Xie Baoqing."
His wife turned pale with fright and hurriedly hugged her eldest brother: "Don't fall."
The eldest brother shouted and suddenly burst into tears: "The People's Liberation Army is coming, Xie Baoqing is coming, good times are coming, dad, open your eyes and look, the People's Liberation Army is coming, Xie Baoqing is here to deal with the German devils, Xie Baoqing, you fucking Why didn’t you come here a few days earlier, wuwuwuwu..."
The elder sister-in-law couldn't help but hugged her elder brother and cried. The two of them had not yet taken off their mourning clothes. Just a few days ago, the elder brother's father, who was pulling a rickshaw in the German Concession, was beaten to death by a German drunkard. How to deal with this? Detective Fang Hua, the patrolman responsible for the incident, threw an ocean to them and said it was the German drunkard who compensated them.
Is a human life only worth an ocean in the German Concession?
Foreigners have extraterritorial rights in the concession, and Chinese laws cannot restrict them at all. They can do whatever they want in the concession.
Concessions are colonies opened by great powers in China.
The Chinese in the colonies were all their slaves.
Now, Xie Tian's People's Liberation Army troops have entered 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 tantamount to declaring war on both Germany and Italy at the same time.
Xie Tian had no problem leading the People's Liberation Army troops into the German concession. Anyway, the two countries were in a superficial state of war.
Why do you say it is superficial?
In fact, before Japan formed an alliance with Germany, the relationship between the Republic of China government and Germany was relatively close. The Germans even helped the National Revolutionary Army train troops and equipped a force with all German weapons.
On the surface, the Republic of China government's declaration of war with Germany was just a forced choice of camp. In fact, China and Germany are not even close to each other, let alone face-to-face confrontation. The Chinese government's current main and only enemy is Japan.
Xie Tian got on the jeep with a dark face and asked Zhao Gang, who was following closely: "After passing the German Concession, which country's concession is it?"
Zhao Gang smiled bitterly: "Go straight along Jiefang Road. After passing the German Concession, you will find the British Concession."
While talking, Zhao Gang simply took out a map of Tianjin city from his briefcase and drew circles on it with a red pen: "We are at this location now. Going forward is the British Concession. There was originally a map before here. An American Concession, which was later merged into the British Concession. Beyond the British Concession is the French Concession, and next to the French Concession is the Japanese Concession. This is to the west of the Haihe River, and to the east of the Haihe River are the Belgian Concession, the Russian Concession, the Italian Concession and the Austro-Hungarian Concession.”
Xie Tian smiled coldly and took the map from Zhao Gang's hand: "The Eight-Nation Allied Forces are all here, not a few of them. Come on, tell me to call Li Yunlong over."
Soon Li Yunlong caught up with the jeep on horseback. The jeep did not stop and Li Yunlong did not dismount.
"Commander-in-Chief, are you calling me?"
Xie Tian directly handed the map in his hand to Li Yunlong and ordered: "Take your division to the east bank of Haihe River, sweep their four concessions one by one, collect all their weapons, and tell them that from today on There are no concessions in Tianjin. If anyone dares to resist, kill them."
Li Yunlong gave Xie Tian a military salute and shouted loudly: "Yes."
After saying that, Li Yunlong turned his horse, holding the map, and shouted to the troops following him: "Zhang Dabiao, take a cavalry regiment and follow me. The teams directly under the second and third regiments will stay to protect the commander-in-chief. The commander-in-chief will drop one." Root hair, I want your heads."
"You're fucking disobeying me on the battlefield again." Xie Tian stood up and cursed angrily. He turned around and wanted to find something to hit Li Yunlong, but Li Yunlong had already galloped away like a gust of wind.
Damn it, I have a tank division, a Langya brigade and a direct team beside me. Do you need to leave two regiments to protect me?
You lazy bitch, I haven't settled the charge with you yet for leading the cavalry regiment to charge. Let's see how I beat you when I turn around.
The tank division led the way through the German Concession to the British Concession. It was the same Jiefang Road, but separated by a block, there was a large iron gate.
Behind the iron gate, fortifications were also built with sandbags. Light and heavy machine guns and rifles were mounted on the fortifications. About a company of British soldiers guarded the fortifications behind the iron gate.
Since the People's Liberation Army troops began to station troops outside Tianjin, various concessions in Tianjin have been in a semi-closed state. The soldiers are on standby for fear that someone will take advantage of the chaos to invade the concessions.
The Eight-Power Allied Forces are not monolithic now. They are also divided into two camps. However, they have maintained a tacit understanding. For example, Britain, France and Germany are fighting to the death on the European battlefield, but in the Tianjin Concession, they are in harmony with each other. Everyone is busy making money.
Their attitudes towards China are basically the same. China is a soft persimmon that can be exploited by others. Whether there is hostility between countries is not important, but making money is important.
There are opium dens and casinos all over the British Concession, which are good businesses that make a lot of money every day.
The British army was also nervous when they saw the People's Liberation Army's tank troops coming out of the German concession. The British deployed more troops in the concession, but they only had one battalion. Apart from a few cannons and heavy machine guns, they had no other heavy firepower. There is no way to compete with the People's Liberation Army's tank troops.
What's more, they were horrified to discover that the Tiger tank in the German Concession was also among the People's Liberation Army's tank troops.
Were the Germans directly disarmed?
Ge Dazhuang stopped the car and informed Xie Tian on the radio that he had arrived at the gate of the British Concession. The British troops were waiting in full formation 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. Any form of concession is illegal and is now banned in accordance with the laws and regulations of the liberated areas. They are ordered to put down their weapons and open the concession within five minutes. , if they don’t disarm within five minutes, your tank division will directly hit them, and if they dare to shoot, they will be killed without mercy.”
"Yes," Ge Dazhuang responded, jumped out of the tank and stepped forward to negotiate with the British army.
Five minutes later, Ge Dazhuang personally drove a tank through the large iron gate set up in the British Concession, destroyed the position, and drove in.
The British army was stunned and did not dare to attack.
