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Chapter 860 Baghdad I Take Over

However, Du Yuming didn't care at all, he was still carelessly holding the cigarette, and looked coldly at the silent Mayor of Baghdad.For a moment, the whole venue looked very dull, so dull that even a needle could be heard clearly when it fell on the ground.

Just when everyone felt an invisible pressure, suddenly a person strode in, "Major, the headquarters is calling!" A man with the appearance of a second lieutenant appeared in front of the people, and he gave a military salute to Du Yuming.

"Read!" Du Yuming said blankly, and then he began to fumble for something in his pocket.

"Major Du Yuming, we have arrived at the ferry of the Tigris River and are preparing to cross the river. How is the situation here? If the other side is unwilling to surrender, then we will take immediate action. Commander of the Armored Corps of the Western Expeditionary Army, Lieutenant General Chen Jitang."

As soon as the words fell, the whole venue immediately exploded, and people began to whisper, and the faces of the Iraqis headed by Takila became ugly like pig liver.

"Hehe, okay." Du Yuming stopped his hands, looked at Takila with a smile, and said slowly: "Do you hear clearly now? Your time is running out, I am here to assure you, As long as you surrender, the entire city and Iraqi civilians will not be harmed." Before he finished speaking, there was a sound of motors in the sky, and then a plane marked with a five-clawed golden dragon whizzed past the sky.

"Look, this is our reconnaissance plane." Du Yuming pointed to the plane and said loudly: "They are doing the final reconnaissance, and I solemnly declare here that your time is running out. If you surrender, you will bear the consequences together!"

Takira's face was bloodless, he just nodded slightly, and then said: "Major, please give me a little time, I need to discuss it with my subordinates!"

"No problem!" Du Yuming pointed to his watch and said, "You only have 20 minutes."

At 5 o'clock in the morning on May 27th, the mayor of Baghdad, the Supreme Commander of Baghdad City Defense, Takira announced the following order on the radio, "Hereby order, all soldiers and militia commanders of the main defense area of ​​Baghdad All go to the central square of Baghdad. Before that, all soldiers are not allowed to leave their posts, and everyone must stay where they are and wait for new orders.”

Give an order, and the Iraqi officers and soldiers who were staying in their own defense area began to get confused. They didn't know what happened, but since it was an order issued by the supreme commander, they had no choice but to implement it to the letter.

The officers rushed to the designated place one after another, and only then did they know the reason for coming here, but most of them did not have any dislike for the upcoming surrender ceremony, mainly because of two points.First of all, most of them have lost confidence in their own country and they are unwilling to continue to pay for this hopeless country.Secondly, most of these people are from Baghdad or surrounding areas. They don't want their homes to be destroyed by the Chinese. Therefore, based on the above reasons, most of the Iraqi military officers chose to surrender.

The surrender ceremony was held in the People's Square in the center of Baghdad. The ceremony was very simple. All officers lined up in a single file, and then placed their guns and military flags in front of the sculpture in the center of the square in front of the Chinese special envoy Du Yuming. , The Chinese armed personnel standing there quickly took these things away.The Iraqi officers who lost their weapons were taken to the six largest hotels in the city, where Du Yuming and the others had temporarily opened them up as prisoner-of-war camps.

Then, Du Yuming called several captive representatives, and he asked these captives to rush back to his troops immediately, bring those soldiers who were still defending the outskirts of Baghdad to the city, and ordered them to lay down their weapons.Those Iraqi military officers quickly agreed to Du Yuming's request.

Soon, soldiers stationed on the outskirts of the city appeared near the square one after another, and they lined up neatly.The leading soldiers were still shouting passwords, obviously they didn't know what they were going to do.However, when they received the order to put down their weapons, everyone was stunned for a moment, but quickly followed suit.

Seeing that everything was going smoothly, the Chinese ambassador Guo Taiqi, who was extremely nervous, could finally breathe a sigh of relief, he quietly pulled Du Yuming past him, and whispered: "Major, God opened his eyes, our radio station has been repaired at a critical moment. If it weren't for the telegram sent by General Chen Jitang, God knows what kind of situation we would be facing now."

"Haha" Du Yuming looked at the terrified Ambassador Guo with strange eyes, and suddenly burst into laughter. After a while, the lunatic said to Ambassador Guo: "Actually, I haven't contacted the headquarters at all, and the radio station has not been repaired."

"Ah?" Guo Taiqi was taken aback, and asked palely, "Where did that telegram come from?"

"Hey." Du Yuming smiled evilly and said, "Of course I made this up, because I really can't think of any way to calm the other party. So Ambassador, why did you faint? Wake up!"

In this way, Du Yuming led 10 armored soldiers and captured 3 Iraqi officers and soldiers in just 13 hours, of which 2300 were officers. He also became the master of this city with a population of one million as a matter of course.After the surrender ceremony, Du Yuming and his subordinates swaggered into the most luxurious garden hotel in Iraq.There they enjoyed the luxurious treatment that only the head of state and the royal family can enjoy.

Soldiers who were not married began to dance around wine and food, while soldiers with families made long shopping lists and collected all kinds of daily necessities for free, from clothes, shoes, sheets, pillows to pots and pans Pots, as long as there are things with Iraqi characteristics, they all have to take them home. They don't think this is robbing the property of the Iraqis at all, because the other party is eager to use these things to curry favor with the Chinese.

The other two platoon leaders began to collect all kinds of firearms and weapons. In order to please Du Yuming and his men, the manager of the hotel even recruited dozens of senior officials.Seeing these graceful and charming Persian women, Du Yuming, who hadn't had sex for a long time, and his subordinates stared straight at each other.Although Du Yuming and the others also tasted the taste of Middle Eastern women in India and Afghanistan, they dedicated all the beautiful ones to their chiefs, and they could only get some leftovers.It's different now, although these women say they are, they are all the hottest and best in Baghdad, and they don't have to worry about someone coming to rob him. Du Yuming and his men started to shine brightly, and they rushed up like wolves .

Although his blackmail has achieved unimaginable results, and now he is hugging Wenxiang nephrite and enjoying Jinyi food, but Du Yuming is still very clear about his current situation. He has gained control of Baghdad, and the Iraqis have surrendered. , but the crisis is not over yet.If the main force of the Dragon Army can't arrive here as soon as possible and take over the city, then those Iraqis are likely to see through their lies, and the revenge measures taken by the fooled Iraqis are absolutely unimaginable.

The most important thing right now is how to stabilize the situation in Baghdad.Fortunately, although Baghdad has been damaged to a certain extent, it is generally well preserved. In particular, infrastructure such as power plants and water plants have not been damaged, and key areas such as grain depots have not been looted.Therefore, the daily life of the citizens can still be maintained.It was now up to him to master the rest of the city.

So, while Du Yuming asked the soldiers to send a message for reinforcements to the broken radio station, he ordered his subordinates to collect large-scale accurate maps of the entire city, files and tax records of the police station and archives.Through these, he wants to understand the specific situation of Baghdad, the distribution of population and the management of taxation.Moreover, after the battle was over, he was able to hand over these things to the Chinese administrative agencies so that they could take over the city smoothly.In addition, he also asked the Baghdad police chief to immediately provide a list of detainees in prisons in the city. He requested that the age, race and other relevant information of these criminals should be recorded in detail on this list, as well as the crimes committed and reason for arrest.In short, this list should be comprehensive and detailed.The reason why he did this was to use this list to find political prisoners in custody and allies of the Dragon Army to strengthen his own strength.

As soon as the Baghdad police chief left, Du Yuming called the Baghdad health chief and the heads of several major hospitals.He asked to recruit women with medical experience. All doctors must stay in their own hospitals and perform their duties.All hospitals are ready to receive the wounded.

Then, he also asked to collect all civilian strategic materials such as medicines, gasoline, salt, and cloth, and store them in several warehouses, which were monitored by the Chinese.

In order to appease the people, Du Yuming also announced that the hospital would be a neutral unit, open normally, and provide medical services to citizens 24 hours a day. He also asked all universities, middle schools and primary schools in Baghdad to resume classes normally the next day.At the same time, he has no restrictions on commercial activities during the day, and merchants can set up stalls in markets and other areas.Department stores are also operating normally.Bars can also open, but not 24 hours.At the same time, he also announced that since there are still dangerous resistance forces in the Baghdad area, only citizens with ID cards can take to the streets after 8 o'clock in the evening, and all other people will have a curfew. .

(End of this chapter)