I don't know when it started, but the atmosphere on the Great Bitter Lake has become a little delicate, and the novelty of the combined fleet when it first entered the lake area has gradually dissipated, and watching the lively merchant ships also have their own things to do, and it is impossible to stare at the net all day

The merchant ships waiting in line nervously replenished their sailing supplies, tinkered with their ship's cargo, and some merchant ships that queued for too long would give sailors a holiday in turn, allowing them to go ashore to relax. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Wine and prostitutes were always much more attractive than battleships, and no one was watching the Combined Fleet when they came and went.

Without spectators, there was no need for soldiers to stand on the deck, and both the Chinese and British soldiers were relieved to disband and return to the cabins.

But no one knew that Xiao Lotian had already begun to give orders to the entire fleet, and all officers and soldiers secretly entered the third level of combat readiness.

On the surface, there was no major movement of the Chinese army, but the units in the cabin had begun to assemble members, and they were organized on the basis of company platoons, and began to count the number of people under the gathering of their respective commanders, and to understand the physical condition of each person.

Rifles have been issued to everyone, but the ammunition has not been fully distributed, according to the rules of the Chinese army, each soldier in the third level of combat readiness can only be allocated a minimum of five bullets, and the commander can be reloaded according to the quota in wartime.

The wooden doors of the munitions compartment were opened, and the logistics chief began to distribute weapons and ammunition according to the list, and the ammunition and equipment under the third level of combat readiness were to be sent to the company-based units.

The second level of combat readiness distributes ammunition to units at the platoon level, and the first level of combat readiness is directly distributed to individual soldiers, which is a very systematic and scientific management system.

It not only ensures that it can cope with sudden wars, but also reduces the waste of equipment and ammunition, and also improves the safety level.

Feeling the cold and heavy bullets, the soldiers in the cabin were all excited: "Platoon commander, are you going to fight?"

"What are you asking nonsense? Have you forgotten all the military discipline? You can do whatever the order tells you to do, and you can't guess the military order at will!"

"Maybe it's a war, maybe it's a drill...... Anyway, you've all remembered for me that the closer we get to Europe, the more dangerous we are! Now everybody is counting the ...... of their individual equipment."

The platoon commander and the soldiers sat on the ground, and each squad counted and counted the materials "rifle status...... The squad leader roared, and there was a sound of pulling the bolt below, and each soldier began to check the Mauser in his hand.

"No anomalous ...... No anomalous ...... There is no anomaly...... "Each soldier reports to the squad leader about the rifle."

"Five bullets...... Check ......"

"Full...... Full...... Full ......"

"Disposable First Aid Kit...... Sapper shovel ...... Kettle...... Smoke grenade type 2...... Melon Grenade Type 3 ......"

"Full...... No anomalous ...... Full...... No unusual ......"

Almost all the cabins were carrying out the work of the third level of combat readiness, and a tense atmosphere of imminent battle began to permeate in the silent roar.

This is the strong army of the Chinese nationality, there is no laziness and no disorder, the kind of soldier oil atmosphere of the Manchu Eight Banners Green Battalion does not exist here at all, and the whole army is linked together by all kinds of strict discipline, and an army is a sophisticated machine.

This is what the Iron Army looks like, no matter at any time, soldiers and officers will not mess up, because the harsh training has long allowed them to have a plan to deal with all kinds of unexpected situations, and repeated drills have become a habit for them.

Xiao Letian once did acting, when the Chinese army was raised from a peaceful state to a first-class combat readiness, a thousand soldiers could be pulled out in just five minutes.

It takes 20 minutes for a 5,000-strong army to assemble and go into battle, compared to about 40 minutes for a corps of 10,000 men.

The navy is a little slower, after all, it needs the cooperation of various machinery, but it can also put 10,000 marines in an hour and a half and provide effective fire support.

This kind of efficiency is purely improved little by little by non-stop acting, non-stop training, and constant running-in between officers and soldiers.

This kind of terrifying efficiency even the Prussian Army can't do, this is the elite soldier that Xiao Letian wants, completely beyond the entire era of this world.

The veterans and experienced officers on the British battleship faintly smelled this dangerous atmosphere, and the veterans who had fought all their lives in the sea of corpses and blood had a very subtle intuition.

They don't need to look at it with the naked eye to feel the presence of murderous energy, and the Chinese are secretly preparing in the cabin, but the surrounding British battleships are very unnatural.

The veterans immediately noticed that the Chinese army was a little different, and they said one after another, "Chinese something is wrong!" The soldiers on the deck had a strange expression...... And I got a smell from the cabin!"

"You feel it too, I'm a little aware of it, and I also feel that those French people on the sea are not normal, it seems that this trip to Suez should not be peaceful!"

In the end, even the British commander, Major General Jason, received a report from his subordinates, and the nervous Jason asked the standard-bearer to send a message to the Zhiyuan, and in the end he got nothing more than the daily training of the Chinese army.

"Training? Don't train early, don't train late, train now?" looked at his pocket watch, it was already half past five in the afternoon, the sun had sunk in the west, and the northern entrance and exit of the Great Bitter Lake could be faintly seen in front of him, that is, the fifth station town and the entrance to the canal.

"Don't have a problem! My mission is almost over, as long as I get Chinese through the last stretch of the canal, as long as I enter the Mediterranean, their safety will be taken care of by the Atlantic Fleet......"

"Don't go wrong at the end of my mission, God forbid!"

"Come, continue to coordinate the order in which the battleships cross the canal......"

On his visit to Europe this time, Xiao Letian also brought seven sail warships in addition to the Zhiyuan, and in addition to transporting 2,000 marines, the rest of the cabins were all filled with supplies as supply ships.

There were a total of eight warships, and according to Jason's arrangement, the British fleet was to be divided into two parts here in the Great Bitter Lake, because after the northern section of the canal was the Mediterranean, and there was already a British fleet waiting there, so there was no need for all British warships to enter the river.

Send nine warships to escort the Chinese fleet, one escort is enough, and the rest of the warships can go home to India.

But now the sudden tense atmosphere made Jason uncertain, and he couldn't pay attention: "Do the French really dare to do it? Do you want to add three or four more warships......?"

At this moment, suddenly the voice of the herald came from outside the cabin: "Report to the general, a small boat has suddenly appeared on the Great Bitter Lake, which is heading towards our fleet, and has now entered our formation...... That little boat is heading for the Zhiyuan!"

"Huh, stop him and ask what they want to do......"