Chapter 379: City Entry Ceremony (Second update, please subscribe)

December 22, 1869.

According to the 24 solar terms, this day should be the winter solstice. However, in the southern hemisphere, December is summer.

As usual, it was another sunny summer day.

This day may seem no different from any other day, but it is destined to be an extraordinary day.

This day is destined to leave its mark in history!

Today, the citizens of Putrajaya seemed to get up earlier than usual. Whether they were rich or poor, they all got up early. Almost without any prior arrangement, people came to Cinco de Julio Street.

In the early morning, when the first ray of sunlight shone over the city, groups of citizens had already appeared on July 5th Street. They gathered on both sides of the street. People with complicated expressions were chatting and looking into the distance.

From the yawns and dark circles under people's eyes, it was clear that many of them had not slept at all last night. Men and women, everyone was talking about one topic - the South China Army's entry into the city.

The occupying authorities announced this news through a notice yesterday. When the citizens of Putrajaya received this news, they felt complicated and mixed emotions.

What does the entry ceremony mean?

It means real occupation!

Although the Nanhua Army had entered the city more than ten days ago, the entry ceremony marked their control and mastery of the city, and also marked the real military occupation.

From then on, the city was ruled by the South Chinese!

Faced with such a reality, people have mixed feelings. While they cry for Argentina, they also breathe a sigh of relief - after the entry ceremony, their lives will return to normal!

This is of course a kind of prayer and a beautiful expectation of the people. They expect that after the entry into the city, all blockades will be lifted, prices will return to normal, and life will start again.

The feeling of buying expensive food is really unpleasant, especially since they have been unemployed for a long time. During the lockdown, they have no jobs and no income, but are bearing the expensive prices.

Now, these terrible days are finally over.

In fact, for those who stayed in the city, some of them wanted to fight the invading army to the end as patriots. However, as the abandoned party, they didn’t know whether their resistance was worth it?

But one thing is certain: the price of resistance must be death.

And during the blockade, the invaders arrested so many people, they were just former soldiers, but so what?

They were taken as prisoners of war, and only a few lucky ones were released.

The resistance had already failed, the president and the army had fled, why should they continue to resist?

Argentina has perished, but their lives must go on! Besides, many of them are not Argentines.

It is precisely because of this mentality that the people of Putrajaya welcomed this day, and they were full of uncertainty about their future, because in their view, Nanhua’s army was simply a combination of angels and demons.

While they were searching for soldiers in the city, they maintained good military discipline and neither robbed civilians nor raped women.

But how will the South Chinese rule this city in the future?

With uncertainty about the future, people came to July 5th Street early to wait for the arrival of the South Chinese people.

At eight o'clock in the morning, both sides of Cinco de Julio Avenue were already filled with citizens who came to watch the South China Army's entry into the city. The spacious streets were crowded with people, most of whom were women. Sarnto had conscripted their fathers, brothers or husbands, who had either died on the battlefield, drowned in the La Plata River, or fled to Uruguay, leaving behind too many women in this city.

Now when the women here talk about the entry ceremony, their tone is more uncertain about the future. Many of them lost their loved ones in the war. How will they continue to live next?

Women are fragile. They are full of confusion and even fear about the future. Many of them don't even know why they come to watch the invaders' entry into the city.

In fact, in the past ten days or so, many of them have had various opportunities to come into contact with the occupying forces. Some of them even became lovers of a soldier in order to survive or sold their bodies to the soldiers for canned food and bread.

Perhaps their lovers are among the troops entering the city.

Maybe……

"God, I hope the days ahead will be peaceful!"

In order to maintain order, Putrajaya mobilized all the police - but there were only more than 400 policemen. These policemen, wearing blue police uniforms, patrolled the streets with batons in hand. They were the first people to surrender to the occupying authorities. They did it for a living, not to be shabby.

Now, they were trying their best to perform in front of the occupying authorities, and they were all doing their duty to maintain order. They shouted from time to time and hit the lamp posts on the roadside with batons to remind people to pay attention to order. Of course, they also looked at people vigilantly, fearing that someone would take the opportunity to cause trouble.

In fact, the ceremony had been delayed until now in order to wipe out the hidden resistance forces in the city. Officers, congressmen, soldiers, and of course some writers and journalists were also arrested as prisoners of war.

Although the resistance forces have not been completely wiped out, it is certain that there is no large-scale resistance force in Putrajaya at present.

"God bless you and hope everything goes well!"

Fernando pointed at the baton and prayed in his heart. While praying, his eyes kept staring at Mr. Hidalgo in the crowd. He was a poet and a patriot. He even took the initiative to join the army, but why was he not taken away as a prisoner of war?

What is he doing here?

Are you planning to engage in sabotage?

Although Fernando was a little worried, he did not take the initiative to arrest him. In his opinion, a patriot like Hidalgo should not be arrested by him.

He didn't know it. Hidalgo had also been captured as a prisoner of war.

After being arrested, he immediately expressed his willingness to cooperate with the occupying forces. After experiencing the test of life and death on the battlefield, Hidalgo found that he was not very brave at all. He could even be called a coward, but so what?

coward!

At least cowards can survive.

Faced with the fate of being arrested, Hidalgo chose to cooperate with the occupying forces and provided them with some intelligence. Even if he betrayed some friends, so what?

Now he can watch the entry ceremony here like an ordinary citizen.

"Life must go on."

Hidalgo muttered silently to himself.

At this moment, the sound of an engine was heard in the air, and everyone looked up into the sky.

They were not unfamiliar with that sound. In the past period of time, this sound was even their nightmare.

That was the sound of an airship's engine, very clear and rhythmic. Then the source of the sound appeared in everyone's sight in an instant, and a huge airship appeared at the end of the street.

The airship flew so low that people could even see the people in the cabin. This was the first time that the citizens of Buenos Aires saw an airship from such a close distance, and the crowd could not help but stir.

"Oh my God, it's so big. How can such a huge thing fly into the sky?"

A citizen screamed loudly, and the others also looked shocked.

Indeed, the airship is extremely large, even larger than a ship. How does such a huge object rise into the sky?

People had many questions in their minds, but at this moment, looking at the huge monster in the sky, they understood.

I understand why Argentina failed!

And now the victors who have captured Buenos Aires are showing off the weapons that helped them win the war...

(End of this chapter)