Restarting life in Siheyuan

"What did you say? They are Americans. That's impossible. How could they get together with the Han pigs?" The person who spoke was also an officer. He was looking at the major who came back to report with confusion. This was his adjutant.

"General, it is true. We have brought back all those people from the port and are interrogating them."

The general patted his forehead. He really didn't understand what was going on, so he had to order, "I'll report to the leader right away. Find some people to keep an eye on this group of people. There are only two or three hundred of them. Keep an eye on them and make sure nothing happens. Don't offend them before the leader gives the order."

Chen Dong at the port was watching the endless stream of people coming in. It seemed that the broadcast was very effective. In just a few hours, nearly ten thousand more people came and lined up in an orderly manner to enter the port.

"Master, my soldiers report that two ships are approaching and are expected to arrive at the port in forty minutes."

In the temporary command room, Zhu Xuefeng was communicating with Li Xiaojun via radio when the lieutenant colonel hurried in to report.

Zhu Xuefeng frowned. They came quite quickly. Li Xiaojun's fleet is still on the high seas. "How big is it?"

"It's definitely no more than 200 tons. They're just two little guys, but we don't have heavy weapons. If they launch an artillery attack, we won't be able to fight back."

Zhu Xuefeng thought for a moment and said, "Lieutenant Colonel Wayne, stay calm. They don't dare to do that. Tell everyone not to panic and keep everything as normal."

"Yes." Lieutenant Colonel Wayne turned and left, and Zhu Xuefeng smiled.

"It seems that this group of people is not giving up. Qiu Hong, what's going on outside now? Are there many people coming?"

"Husband, I just took a look and estimated that there are about 10,000 more."

Zhu Xuefeng sighed, "Some people still have illusions and are reluctant to leave their hometowns. They can only bear the consequences of their own choices."

According to his conservative estimate, there should be no less than one million Han people in this city, but now there are only about 20,000 of them, which is too low.

"Let the radio add a message that we will set sail tomorrow morning, asking everyone to cherish life, give up illusions, and stay away from danger."

Qiu Hong heard this and asked, "Can't you give me some details? For example, how to place them?"

Zhu Xuefeng shook his head. "If they don't believe it, they will doubt it even if you say it in a grandiose way. So let it be."

The rebel headquarters in the city was also in chaos. "What did you say? A fleet is approaching?"

"Yes, Admiral, the radar shows that there is a large aircraft carrier in the fleet. We suspect it is an aircraft carrier. This should be a medium-sized aircraft carrier formation, Admiral."

The general had a headache. There were only a few aircraft carriers in the world, and only a few countries had them. None of them could be provoked by the general. So why would an aircraft carrier fleet appear here? This was very unreasonable.

"Contact them and find out their purpose?"

After a while, the adjutant who had left in a hurry ran back. The general could see that the adjutant was a little panicked.

"Have you made contact? Remind them not to enter our territorial waters. This is a serious provocation!"

"General, we contacted them and they said that our territorial waters are three nautical miles and they did not enter our territorial waters. They are now exercising their right to free navigation and warned us not to affect their normal navigation."

The general sighed and leaned back weakly in his chair. He had already determined that these people were in cahoots with the fleet. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that a group of inexplicable soldiers appeared first and then an aircraft carrier formation appeared right after. It seemed that yesterday's news had caused trouble.

An urgent message was sent from Hong Kong yesterday. The incident here was exposed simultaneously in the Hong Kong Evening News and several Hong Kong TV stations. It is said that it caused great public indignation in Hong Kong. Now the Bald Eagle should have found an excuse to intervene and interfere under the guise of humanitarian rescue.

"These damn white guys are always so rude and arrogant. Tell them to keep the two patrol ships away. Let's follow them and see what they do next."

After arranging all these troubles, the general lowered his head and rubbed his temples. He was still a little uneasy and called his adjutant again.

"Have you contacted the leader? Do you have any instructions?"

The adjutant opened the folder and pulled out a record. "General, the leader has received the news and is returning from the front line. He is expected to arrive in an hour. The leader has instructed that the port incident will be handled when he returns."

The general waved his hand helplessly. "Aren't those Han pigs fleeing to the port? Send people from the police station to maintain order. Maintain the status quo before the leader returns. Don't cause any trouble."

"Yes, General." The adjutant knew what the general meant, which was not to clash with the white armed forces in the port, nor to give them an excuse to clash, otherwise it would be difficult to explain to the leader.

The general had a headache again. In the past few months, ever since he followed the leader and chose to betray, the country has been in complete chaos since he took that step. But now there is no way out and he can only follow the leader to the end.

The army loyal to the original leader actually began to counterattack, the damn reporter leaked the situation here, and now even the bald eagle began to intervene. The general felt something was wrong.

Not to mention that Li Xiaojun's fleet has been staying on the high seas, neither too close nor too far, leaving the two patrol ships helpless. The size of the fleeing crowd here is showing a trend of increasing, and it seems that the broadcast still brings some sense of urgency.

"Sir, according to the current trend, we may exceed 50,000 by this evening, and may exceed 100,000 before we set sail tomorrow morning. Our fleet is a bit tight on space."

Chen Dong came over and reported in a low voice that now only the specially designed isolation cabin of the 10,000-ton freighter had not been opened, and the deck was already full of people. Although tens of thousands of people were nothing to a 10,000-ton ocean-going freighter and other cargo ships, people were not cargo after all, and they took up a lot of space.

"Aren't there still a lot of cargo ships at the port? Just requisition them with both the people and the ships."

There are about five or six cargo ships of 1,500 to 2,000 tons in the port. After all, this is the largest port in Coconut City. Zhu Xuefeng's idea made Chen Dong stunned. He also wanted to pack up the cargo ship and take it away? Is this appropriate? There are only 200 armed men on his side. If the other party gets angry and a patrol boat attacks, the freighter fleet will not be able to cope with it.

"Go and make arrangements. They have killed so many of our compatriots, and it's merciful not to bombard them with artillery shells. What's the point of requisitioning a few broken freighters? Let them help send them to the transit point and release them back."

"Okay, sir, there is something else going on here that I just learned about..."

It turned out that the rescued compatriots took the initiative to provide some information. In several nearby cities, such riots were also frequent. There were tragic incidents against compatriots everywhere. Many compatriots were tortured and arrested. Many schools were destroyed, institutions were smashed, and even foreign affairs agencies in the city were searched unreasonably many times...

Zhu Xuefeng's eyes were blazing with anger. There were too many reasons why he didn't want to have a major armed conflict. After all, this was the enemy's hinterland. If he started fighting, he might suffer. The most urgent thing was to take these compatriots away, but these tragic incidents made him angry. After a while, reason overcame impulse and he calmed down to think about solutions. After thinking for a long time, he looked up and said, "Go and invite the colonel and lieutenant colonel over, let's discuss it together."

A small meeting of several people was still going on. At the command center in the city, a man with a gloomy face got out of the car and entered the command center accompanied by several officers.

"General Su, this is the situation. The other side only has two or three hundred armed men, and no heavy weapons, but they are very arrogant and ask us to..."

General Su listened carefully to the previous part, but was obviously not interested in the latter part and interrupted it impatiently.

"These white guys are always unreasonable. It doesn't matter if we don't listen to these bullshit requests. If they are really the American troops, we can only tolerate it. But I just listened to your report, and there are many problems here. General Armand, didn't you find anything?"

General Armand's forehead was sweating. The leader's questions put him under great pressure. This leader was a ruthless man. He knew that six generals had disappeared not long ago.

"General Su, I am ignorant and have not discovered anything yet."

The corners of General Su's mouth moved inexplicably, revealing a strange smile.

"Let me ask you, did they tell me which unit of the Bald Eagle they belonged to? Is the fleet at sea related to them? There are also questions about their uniforms. Have you figured these out?"

Without waiting for General Armand to reply, General Su continued, "Just now I heard that the flagship of this aircraft carrier formation is called the Hummingbird. The Bald Eagle definitely does not have this aircraft carrier. I am sure of this!"

As a leader, he knew exactly how many aircraft carriers the Americans had, unlike General Armand who was born as a guard commander and did not know.

General Armand was a little confused. General Su meant that these were all fake? These people were not from the Bald Eagle at all?

Seeing General Armand's shocked face, General Su smiled and continued, "There is a detail you didn't notice. Just now I asked the other party how to reply to us. There is a big loophole here."

Looking at General Su's mysterious smile, General Armand was so happy that he also thought, "You mean, the other party didn't reply to us in English, but in our language?"

"Yes, they did not reveal their identities either. This is not in line with the usual style of those arrogant white guys. Also, the American aircraft carrier fleet will never be less than 20 ships."

General Su paused, looked around at his men, and emphasized, "They didn't even say it was an American aircraft carrier. This is all just your imagination, right, General Armand?"

General Armand was already fidgeting. "Yes, General, we have indeed made a mistake."

General Su sat up straight and knocked on the conference table. "So I can confirm that this inexplicable aircraft carrier formation is definitely not from the United States. This is a scam, it must be a scam."

General Su's words surprised everyone present. Who was it? Who had the guts to make such a joke?

General Armand secretly wiped his sweat and said, "General, in this case, should we transfer the fleet here?"

General Su thought about it and hesitated. "The fleet is now carrying out a blockade mission in the North California waters to prevent Tocard's troops from escaping to other islands. If we withdraw now, there will be endless troubles if these people escape. Let me think about it."

It took him a while to make up his mind, "It's useless to send back two ships."

All the officers present understood the implication of General Su's words. The other side had an aircraft carrier, and even if the entire fleet came back, they would be unable to do anything to them.

"Okay, I'll make the arrangements. General Armand, you must find out the details of this armed force in the port as soon as possible."

"Yes, General." General Armand was overjoyed. General Su gave him a chance to make amends, and he must seize it no matter what.

The port unexpectedly welcomed a high-level visit from General Armand and his entourage. In order to show their friendship to the United States, they sent a lot of steaming hot food.

Colonel Alejandro and Lieutenant Colonel Wayne looked at each other, not understanding what the general meant. The general did not stay for long, but just expressed his condolences warmly and left in a hurry.

The two men did not dare to let the soldiers enjoy the delicious food they sent. After many attempts to prove that the food was non-toxic, the soldiers began to enjoy the other party's gift in batches.

Zhu Xuefeng also couldn't figure out what was going on. Since he didn't understand, he didn't want to think about it. He just asked them to speed up boarding. Now the flow of people fleeing from the city to the port was visibly increasing. A long queue had formed outside the port. It was visible to the naked eye that the crowd gathered outside the port was once again becoming denser.

We just went to the port to check and saw that several requisitioned cargo ships were busy unloading, so we returned to the port gate again.

"We need to speed up the unloading of these cargo ships. We need to finish unloading tonight. With these ships, we may be able to transport 100,000 people at once."

"Report."

The soldier on duty at the port gate came hurriedly to report. It turned out that for some unknown reason, the number of refugees coming to the port had stopped increasing ten minutes ago, not even a single one. This was very abnormal. The team leader on duty quickly took people to check, only to find that dozens of policemen had set up a roadblock on the road 500 meters away, cutting off communication between the city and the port. Countless people gathered outside the roadblock but could not pass through. The refugees continued to gather outside the checkpoint, and the number increased.

"Go and have a look."

Zhu Xuefeng led a group of people directly to the scene. They saw the temporary checkpoint from a distance. It was a roadblock formed by trucks and police cars. On the other side of the roadblock was a dark crowd of people who were cursing loudly. Every curse was met with a beating from a police baton.

"Send a hundred people here, detain all these policemen, and guard this place." Zhu Xuefeng gave the order harshly.

Soon, a hundred soldiers came running in a line from the port area and rudely confiscated the police's weapons without saying a word. Facing the black muzzles of guns, the police who had been showing off their might just now were completely wilted. They never expected that these white soldiers would dare to rush out of the port area to target them.

The blocked crowd cheered and swarmed towards the port.

"What did you say? They disarmed the police. These white pigs really think they are the Marines. What a bunch of liars who came out of nowhere."

General Armand was very angry. It has been confirmed that these people are definitely not from the United States. Their uniforms are obviously not American. There is no familiar American flag. These white people are liars. If the identity of the fleet had not been confirmed, the garrison troops would have been dispatched to clear them out. How dare they rush out to cause trouble? (End of this chapter)