si-mexico Chapter 199: Surrender is final!
Chapter 199: Surrender is final!
Two days later in the morning, the gate of Peking City slowly opened from the inside, and a group of senior Japanese generals rode out of the gate on horseback with solemn expressions. Their troops were neat and orderly with flags flying, but the atmosphere was extremely heavy.
General Li Delin was standing by the moat at this moment. He was wearing a general's uniform and looked serious and determined.
He waited quietly for Okamura Yasuji and others to come to him, holding high with both hands the general's sword that symbolized his status. The sword was shining with cold light, as if announcing to the world the decline of the Japanese Empire.
At this moment, the reporters around pressed the shutter button one after another, and the flash lights in their hands kept flashing. Their scene was recorded and became a witness to history.
As the Japanese army opened the city gates, the war in North China and other places officially came to an end. This battle that lasted for nearly three months finally came to an end.
This battle was full of blood and fire, and both sides paid a huge price. However, in the end, the victory belonged to the Chinese army.
They defended the dignity of the country and the land with their blood and lives. This is a great victory and a powerful response to the invaders.
The destruction of the Japanese North China Expeditionary Army was like a storm that swept the world, attracting worldwide attention. The reputation of the Chinese 78th Army and General Wang Chun also resounded throughout the world and became the focus of major media.
Wang Chun's portrait was published on the front page cover of the New York Times that day. This legendary Chinese general and his incredible growth process attracted countless people's attention.
For a time, Wang Chun became the object of admiration of young people all over the world, especially when people learned that this young and promising general was still single. Many girls regarded him as their dream lover and fell in love with him.
Major families and forces in the country also made decisions and selected elite women in their families to go to the labor corps with their elders, hoping to establish contact with General Wang Chun in order to seek more benefits and opportunities.
These women all possess outstanding talent and beauty, and they embark on this journey with their own expectations.
The three months and five days of war caused the people's livelihood in the entire North China to decline. Coupled with the continuous drought and locust plagues in recent years, the people here have a very difficult life.
Under such circumstances, it was naturally impossible for Wang Chun to snatch food from these poor people. He not only had to supply food to the army, but also had to continuously distribute relief food.
Therefore, the army also began to enter the rest and recuperation stage, especially the armored forces, who needed a good rest.
After all, this decisive battle in North China was actually mostly the result of their victory with the Air Force. Facts have proved that no matter how powerful the infantry units are, they can never be their opponents when faced with the impact of large-scale armored clusters, especially when they lose air superiority.
However, the situation is very good now. The railway connecting Shanxi, Shaanxi and Hebei has been reopened after emergency repairs. A large number of road construction workers have also begun to build roads. With the influx of large amounts of supplies, the front-line troops have also received adequate supplies.
Under the pressure of life, homeless refugees and migrants flocked to various construction sites in search of job opportunities.
Although the wages are meager, they can at least fill their stomachs. Moreover, these workers can also learn a lot of practical skills and knowledge on the construction site.
Nowadays, the whole country is in a period of reconstruction. As long as you are willing to study hard, you will have the opportunity to achieve better development.
In addition, the road construction team also opened various training night schools in the evening to provide free training courses for these workers. Through these trainings, they can further improve their skills and increase their employment competitiveness.
The biggest achievement of our country in the past few months is the qualitative leap in crude oil production. In the whole month of August, crude oil production was only 2.6 tons.
However, by the end of October and the beginning of November, monthly production had soared to 10 tons. However, it should be noted that since most of the oil wells in Shaanxi Province are relatively poor oil wells, there is still room for improvement in production if production capacity continues to be expanded.
Now Wang Chun has begun to set his sights on the Jiaodong Peninsula, where the future Shengli Oilfield is located, as long as this oilfield can be successfully exploited.
The demand for oil for the growing mechanized army and industrial development can be met, at least at this stage.
"Captain Zhao! Please let go. Let our Lijia Village road construction team build this section of the road. We will definitely complete the task. And I assure you here that we can ensure the quality and complete it three days to a week ahead of schedule!"
Zhao Tieniu was helpless as he looked at the man in front of him whose face was tanned by the sun.
Ever since Zhao Tieniu returned home, everyone in the village knew that he had become rich. Not only did he marry a beautiful wife, but he also brought people including his relatives and two brothers-in-law to his road construction team.
With the help of his shrewd wife, he formed an engineering team with the people who came to his house.
He gritted his teeth and used his newly bought house as collateral to buy two earth-moving trucks and a road roller and started to contract the road repair project.
Because Zhao Tieniu was honest and simple, worked conscientiously and responsibly, and the quality of his projects was also very high, he quickly became famous in the local area.
In just less than a year, Zhao Tieniu made a name for himself because of his hard work and high project quality, and his engineering team grew bigger and bigger.
Naturally, the scale of the project was increasing day by day, and some small engineering teams naturally came to him to make a living.
Now this 110-kilometer-long earth and stone road has been contracted by him again. Now those small contractors under him are racking their brains in the hope of contracting more.
Many people came to him for project contracts, including some big bosses and government departments.
This time, the person who came to him was Li Erhei, the village chief of Lijia Village. He wanted Zhao Tieniu to repair a section of road near their village.
This would not have been a difficult task, but the problem was that this section of road had been targeted by other engineering teams, and the other party was Zhao Tieniu's brother-in-law.
If Zhao Tieniu agreed to Li Erhei, he would definitely offend his brother-in-law, and his life would probably be difficult in the future.
But if he doesn't agree, it will affect his reputation and word of mouth. After all, these people have been following him for food.
Zhao Tieniu was caught in a dilemma, not knowing what to do, and finally his wife stepped forward to resolve the problem.
In fact, Tieniu didn't have the idea of building such an important road for his two brothers-in-law. They should have been following Zhao Tieniu to make money during this period.
The two brothers-in-law started to get a little cocky and began to imitate others in doing some small tricks while working on the project.
The last time they built a not very important section of road, they cut corners, which resulted in the roadbed collapsing due to a heavy rain some time ago.
Fortunately, no casualties were caused, and people also gave face to Zhao Tieniu, so Tieniu finally asked the engineering team of Lijia Village to repair this section of road.
After investigation, it was found that the two brothers-in-law embezzled 20% of the construction funds for the construction of this road, resulting in the foundations of some important sections not being strengthened, which led to collapse after heavy rains.
Although his wife scolded his two brothers, it was of no use as his father-in-law and mother-in-law protected him.
This time, Zhao Tieniu really didn't want to let his two brothers-in-law contract this road. This was a key government project and the quality must be guaranteed.
Fortunately, my wife knows the seriousness of the matter and cannot push her husband into the fire pit because of her brother. My family has benefited a lot because of her husband.
Now, although people in the surrounding area don’t know that their brothers have become rich following their brother-in-law, their family has already arranged a marriage for them.
In the past, the two brothers could not afford to marry because their family was poor. It was only after their younger sister got married that the family’s living conditions improved.
Now that he has suddenly become rich, and with the help of people giving him face because of his brother-in-law and some compliments, this uneducated mountain man suddenly feels like a nouveau riche.
Looking at his wife Li Erya with a big belly, he wiped away his tears and cursed his parents for being ignorant and always protecting their son, which was harming them.