 Although Zhou Duo had volunteered to go out to seek the cooperation of the soldiers, he realised that Hou Dejian was the only person that the soldiers might know of.Together, Hou and the others met with a political commissar and said, “We volunteer to take all the students out of the square and ask the PLA not to open fire.Please give us enough time to organise an evacuation.” After the government accepted Hou's request, Hou and Zhou Duo rushed to the monument to announce that the command post had agreed to the evacuation of the square.