Europe's gaze on China has always been very complicated, as far back as the ancient Roman period, Chinese silk has been obsessed with the aristocracy, not to mention porcelain like jade, at that time China was completely a country of gold, an ideal country.

Marco Polo's travels, the legends that came from the mouths of the Arabs, and the various notes brought back by the precursors of Christianity, presented a fantastic China to Europeans.

This is a country that even kings yearn for, and the royal families of various countries have a large collection of precious porcelain and silk from the East, and even France has built a palace in the style of China, which shows the scorching heat of the Chinese trend.

Even in the research of many scholars, the reason why Europe opened the Age of Discovery was because the Arabs cut off the trade routes between Europe and China, so they had to choose to take the sea to open up a new golden trade route to China.

At that time, the word "China" represented the Europeans' yearning for wealth and civilization, and was the source of their courage to rush to the ocean.

Time is a very fair referee, and while Europe is trying to change and improve itself for the sake of ideals, China has chosen to rest on its laurels. Year after year, the footsteps of Europeans began to slowly expand on the earth, and the strength of various countries began to accumulate little by little, while the old country in the East still repeated the life of the past day after day.

The warm wind of the Renaissance blew away the religious haze in the hearts of Europeans, and the light of reason began to shine in Europa, followed by the vigorous development of natural science, and then the pace of European colonization of the world.

When European civilization completely stood up from the darkness of the Middle Ages, and when the British fleet could already begin to bombard Guangzhou, the Europeans finally understood that where there was a gold country in the world, only their own ideals were where the hope lies.

It was from that moment that China's image collapsed, and the once dream suddenly became everyone's joke, and the long pig's tail became the protagonist of all satirical cartoons, obscene, timid, and incompetent.

The collapse of the image is not a matter of a day or two, and the huge China can fully afford to withstand one or two defeats, after all, it is only a few artillery battles at the coastal ports, and the huge inland of the Qing Empire has never been open to these foreigners. The face of the Chinese has not been completely torn apart.

But when the Anglo-French forces entered the interior from Dagukou and captured the city of Beijing, when all European scholars were stunned by the fire of the Old Summer Palace, the whole of Europe realized that that the ancient country was on the verge of death, and they did not deserve respect at all.

Six years have passed since the fire in the Old Summer Palace, and the Qing Empire only knew about the civil war for six years, but did not have the slightest plan for revenge, and such a cowardly country was not worthy of the respect of Europeans, and gradually even those weak countries in Central Europe began to look down on the Chinese, including the rising Prussian nation.

Born into a family of landowners who did not fall into the Junkers, Léo Liberty received a good education, and during his years at The Times, he was exposed to a lot of news from the East, and he knew more about the decline of that legendary country. To be honest, he also looked down on these Chinese in his heart.

"If it weren't for the monthly salary of thirty silver coins, I wouldn't have worked for these Chinese, but there is no way, and I haven't paid the rent for next month......"

These are Leo's exact words, he complained with friends in the bar more than once, of course, this does not involve the problem of leaks, now all the people of Hamburg know that Jonah Secret paid to get a group of mercenaries from China, but why hire weak Chinese?

Leo couldn't figure it out either, but he couldn't go against the silver coin, and since he took over this specialty, he had to live with the Chinese in the barracks every day, watching them eat, train, and have fun until they went to bed. Leo used his pen and camera to record the bits and pieces of these Chinese.

In the thick diary, Leo left a record not only of the life of the New Army, but also of his own mental journey.

"Strange Orientals, their eating habits are incomprehensible, and a tenth of the three hundred men are also cooks? Oh, no, no, no, they don't have the position of cooks, they just wear many hats, doesn't that distract them? This is a problem that only God can know......"

"The first time I ate steamed food, these Chinese made a very strange pot, they called it a steam pot, and all kinds of pasta were actually processed using the heat of steam. I have to admit that these Chinese are really smart, but it's the same as the rumors, Chinese are all pleasure-seeking......"

"Oh, I have to say, the food they steamed out called 'buns' was so delicious, it added a little bit to my heart. Still, I think that these people should cook for the Prussian army, and this is the most suitable position for them......"

"As I deepened my topic, as time went on, these Chinese became more and more curious. They always fold the blanket into a standard square shape every morning, and from a distance it looks like some kind of standardized part, and the soft blanket actually reveals a metallic temperament, I really can't understand why they do it......"

"In addition, the obsession of these soldiers with the queue is incomprehensible to me, and the queue of our Prussian soldiers is already the most serious in Europe, but from my observation, these Chinese are even better. In their daily training, the queue drill is the most numerous, and even they walk around the camp with strict standards......"

"Two people must be in a row, and three people must be in a row, what is the effect of this kind of almost harsh discipline? Is it really as the leading officer said, this kind of discipline is a shortcut to enable the peasants to quickly evolve into soldiers? Perhaps, maybe the cultivation of discipline is cultivated little by little from the blanket like a square and the harsh queue training......

Leo's record is getting thicker and thicker, and perhaps he himself doesn't know that a few days after he was still calling an Oriental and a Chinese at the beginning, the word "soldier" appeared more and more frequently between the lines.

Sure enough, it takes time to change one's preconceived notions, and Leo's records have clearly revealed that his views were wavering, until an incident occurred that made him completely change his views on these Chinese.

"I never expected that I would be so shocked by the evening of that day, these young soldiers from the East made me completely understand what a soldier is, what their vocation is, and this qiē has happened since the end of the dinner that night......"

That morning, Jonas served as the first interpreter for the Forces nouvelles, accompanying the officers of the Army Staff to train the Chinese in army tactical language, including simple tactical gestures.

Even the European armies do not dare to guarantee a 100 percent literacy rate, but these 300 new troops are all well educated, and even the senior army officials nod their heads in neat notes.

In the afternoon, there was shooting training in the woods, and a friendly fighting match with representatives of the Prussian Army, and to Leo's surprise, these Chinese's marksmanship and hand-to-hand fighting skills were actually strong against the sky.

Especially in hand-to-hand combat, he actually won nine games in a row, and in the end, Xiao Hexin deliberately let his subordinates release water in order to give the Prussians a little face, which allowed the Germans to win back a game.

This kind of competition is somewhat bullying, Xiao Letian's new army is originally a carefully selected officer corps, and more than seventy percent of the soldiers in it have a green forest background, and playing hand-to-hand combat is a talent.

In addition, Xiao Letian had secretly ordered Xiang Shaolong and the top masters of the torture hall to specially design a set of ruthless hand-to-hand fighting techniques, discarding all the fancy things in Chinese kung fu, and retaining those deadly tricks as the standard boxing method of the new army.

Since its birth, this improved Chinese fighting technique has been a product of the times, and it is not easy to bully and bully the current Prussian soldiers.

In the evening, the day's training was officially over, and the new troops, who were in a good mood, actually paid out of their own pockets for the quartermaster to buy large barrels of beer and wine from hamburgers, as well as German pork knuckles, large sausages and other dishes.

Leo and Jonas were naturally invited, and a lively dinner lasted until nine o'clock, and at this time Leo and Jonas were already a little drunk, and finally did not go home at all, and found a marching bed to live with the new army.

"I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect this group of Chinese to be so perverted, they actually invented this kind of perverted training method in the early hours of the morning, and there was a ...... who blew a copper whistle in the early hours of the morning" Leo was still indignant when he remembered the scene of that day.

Doodoo ...... The sharp whistle broke the silence of the night, and Xiao Hexin, Sima Yun, and Luo Huo rushed in with their whistles fully armed.

"Emergency Gathering...... Late-night training...... It's all up ......."

"Three minutes, three minutes, three minutes...... In just three minutes, everyone got dressed and packed their backpacks......"

"Don't forget your weapons, that's your life, do you want to fight with your bare hands......"

"Yiqiē is all for actual combat, the enemy on the battlefield doesn't care if you sleep or not, and soldiers who can't fight at night are not good soldiers......"

The shrill whistle, the crackling of big leather boots against the ground, and the creaking of wooden beds, the whole camp was noisy.

Leo was almost scared out of the heart attack, as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw such a chaotic battle scene, and he said fiercely, "No wonder other military camps have to keep a separation zone with these Chinese, just rush at the madness of this group of people, no one wants to sleep......"

Complaining is complaining, Leo got a high salary after all, his professionalism is very good, and he didn't say anything about putting on his clothes and carrying the camera and ran out.

"The first company is assembled...... The second company is assembled...... Please instruct..."

"Heading due north, enter the woods for night infiltration training, and set off immediately......"

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