Before you know it, time flies.

The week is over, and schools are closed. The remaining 10 days are the revision week, then the three days for exams, and the evening of June 30th, when the holiday begins, and the two-month summer vacation begins.

It was Sunday of the sixteenth week, and it was past eleven o'clock in the evening. On this afternoon last week, it was Xiao Mubai and Xu Ye's game in the gymnasium.

The second mission will also start at 11:41 tonight.

Xiao Mubai is in good shape.

The lights went out and the room was slightly dark. Xiao Mubai lay flat on the bed, his eyes were deep, waiting for the arrival of eleven forty-one.

Time passed minute by minute, and when the last moment passed, the X logo on Xiao Mubai's chest suddenly lit up, emitting a faint blue light, Xiao Mubai's eyes widened, and then he felt that he was being sucked in.

The next moment, it appeared in a meadow.

The ghostly voice of the system sounded in my ears:

The mission is opened. Date: September 6, 1914. Location: Paris, France. Background: After the Battle of the French Frontier in August 1914, the French Fourth and Fifth Armies and the British Expeditionary Force withdrew south of the Marne River in early September and deployed on the line from Paris to Verdun. The Chief of the General Staff of the French Army, General Chauffeur, formed the Sixth and Ninth Armies, which were deployed on the outskirts of Paris and between the Fourth and Fifth Armies, respectively, to prepare for a counteroffensive. In order to pursue and annihilate the French Fifth Army, the German First and Second Armies deviated from the original direction of attack and advanced to the area east of Paris, exposing the right flank of the First Army. Faction: The Third Army of the German First Army. Identity: Soldier William Cole (Cole, William C). Goal: Survive the Battle of the Marne for one day. Mission failure, obliteration! ”

Almost instantly, Xiao Mubai accepted the information from the system.

This is already outside the city of Paris, France, and close to it, you can even see the Eiffel Tower.

After continuous marching and continuous fighting, the soldiers were tired, but excited. Because Paris is at hand, the conquest of Paris means the conquest of France. No one knew that the German army would be defeated, and no one in the world thought that the German army would be defeated, and almost all of them believed that France would soon be defeated, after all, just a month after the start of the war, the German army of one million troops had already arrived in the city.

Except for Xiao Mubai, no one else knows.

The First Army marched and fought from Belgium, from the Netherlands, to Paris, France, for more than a month. Beginning on September 2, the German First Army approached Paris, and then moved eastward to join the German Second Army to encircle and annihilate the French Fifth Army. On 3 September, the German First Army, which had marched 30 miles, was exhausted. On 4 September, it continued to advance, and on 5 September attacked the French Fifth Army. On 6 September, the French launched a counteroffensive on all fronts.

Xiao Mubai's company has more than 200 people, and it has only lost a few people from the full strength at the beginning of the war, including non-combat attrition. The heaviest losses were the German advance on the Western Front, with Emich as the commander, who fought in the fortress of Liège and Belgium, and after ten days of hard fighting, sacrificed 40,000 men to finally conquer the fortress of Liège, which can be described as a crushing victory.

On continuous marches, several thousand people have already crossed this road.

Even after several days of rain and gloom, the city of Paris was shrouded in haze, but even so, she slowly unveiled herself to the German conquistador.

On a muddy dirt road, the soldiers of the German First Army were advancing. The dirt road was winding and long, and the German soldiers on the road could not see the head and tail.

Xiao Mubai walked, and the military boots under his feet were full of mud, and they were a little damp inside. The dirt leaped, and step by step it was thrown onto the back calf trousers, which were covered with mud. The spiked Prussian helmet on top of his head made him uncomfortable, and the shoulder of the G98 Mauser rifle on his shoulder hurt.

William Cole was a private, and after graduating from high school in his home town, he joined the Wehrmacht, a veteran of a year of service, and perhaps promoted to corporal after conquering Paris.

Originally from the northern German port city of Kiel, Wilhelm Kohl joined the Wehrmacht because he did not get into the University of Kiel. William said goodbye to the Church of Nikolai, to the statue of the soul of the warrior, to Lake Silke, to the hundred-year-old oak tree, just to subsidize the family with a monthly salary of nine marks. As the eldest man in the family, he had to come out to earn money when he had to take care of his younger siblings and prepare to marry and have children.

A year of soldiering made Wilhelm Cole very strong, with fanatical militaristic beliefs, and fanatical followers of the German Emperor Wilhelm II. Under the fanaticism is a calm mind, and strong perseverance, rigorous attitude, common German soldiers.

The sky was overcast, and although the rain had stopped, the sky had not yet cleared. It's like Xiao Mubai's mood, with a touch of worry.

He was told that the Battle of the Marne would begin soon and that it would end in a few days with the defeat of the Germans. Moltke Jr., the Chief of the General Staff, did not seriously implement the Schlieffen plan, which, combined with the discord among the German generals on the Western Front, led to the incredible loss of the battle by the Germans.

At the very beginning of the First World War, the defeat at the Battle of the Marne cast a shadow over Germany.

Xiao Mubai was worried, how could he survive a lost war. It is impossible to be a deserter, not to mention how the system will determine the success or failure of the mission if it is successful, just when the deserter is caught, he will be shot directly, and even if he is lucky enough to escape in a strange France, he will be arrested by the French.

And being a deserter is obviously not Xiao Mubai's character.

Xiao Mubai didn't know anything about the next battle, except for knowing the final result, which directly made Xiao Mubai cut off the idea of the unpredictable prophet seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.

How did you survive the Battle of Marne alive as a private? This is what Xiao Mubai thinks. The failure of the last mission made Xiao Mubai angry, and this time he couldn't fail anything.

Xiao Mubai frowned, thinking about one thought after another. The last mission failed, telling Xiao Mubai that he should not let his guard down at any time, unless he died.

Xiao Mubai remembered this sentence deeply, kept vigilant at all times, and carefully observed the terrain and surrounding environment.

This is a suburb of Paris, full of lush trees, wide fields and well-groomed houses.

Xiao Mubai paid attention to the surroundings, his eyes swept over the houses and trees, and it seemed that there were French soldiers hiding there.

The French hid far away. Along the way, passing through countless villages and countless towns, most of them did, with hatred hidden in fear in their eyes.

Hardly any decent resistance was encountered, and with the exception of the fortress of Liège, the Germans reached the French capital, Paris. This seems to come a little too fast that most people are not prepared.

However, this was only a short-lived tactical victory, the French did not lose many men, their forces were still sufficient, and their main forces were already waiting for an opportunity.

Xiao Mubai maintained enough vigilance, which made him react quickly when the French artillery shelled, jumped up and fell on the grass next to him.

"Boom!"

Almost instantly, a continuous number of shells fell in the crowd, and in an instant the soldiers were knocked away by the shells, and the company was in chaos.

Xiao Mubai fell and ate, covered in mud, and his head was knocked out. When I looked back, many of the soldiers were lying in pools of blood.

Although the German soldiers had high tactical literacy and reacted relatively quickly, they fell down at the first time, but under the sudden shelling of the French army, they paid a lot of casualties.

Xiao Mubai looked at all this indifferently, this was not his country, not his national, so he didn't need to feel pain. But even so, Xiao Mubai was still shocked by the tragic death.

This has nothing to do with national positions, only for humanitarian reasons.

As the saying goes, happy families are all the same, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes. Replacing the family with the state, the common law is the same. Germany and China are like cursed countries, Germany's misfortune is because it started a war and was defeated, and China's misfortune is that it was beaten because it was backward.

At this time, Xiao Mubai, who was Chinese, was fighting for the Germans, while in Qingdao, China, the Japanese army was attacking the German fortress of Qingdao.

(To be continued)

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Note: The Battle of the Marne, also known as the Miracle of the Marne, was a battle that took place the second month after the start of World War I. At that time, the German army invaded northern and eastern France, and in this battle, the British and French forces on the Western Front combined to defeat the German army, resulting in the German army losing the battle and falling into a protracted battle. Interested book lovers can look for information to understand.