Before dawn, the Japanese army did two things.
The first was to post notices throughout the streets and alleys of Beiping saying, "Keep to your work and do not disturb each other." I think Zhang Zizhong did this to maintain order in Beiping and prevent the people from rioting, but I think that was simply unrealistic. The people of Beiping were about to become slaves of a conquered nation, how could they not riot?
However, this task seemed easy for us; all we had to do was carry a stack of notices and stick them on any wall we could find.
The second thing was to build a temporary defensive line with the center of Beiping as the boundary...
Why build a defensive line? To prepare for the Japanese to enter the city, of course. The area north of the defensive line was for the Japanese, and
