Xu Jun walked gently towards the soldiers.

A soldier who was sitting against the wall writing a letter sensed someone approaching, and when he looked up, he saw Xu Jun. The soldier was startled, quickly put the things in his hand into his clothes, jumped up, and shouted.

"Stand up!"

This sound was particularly loud in the silent night, not only startling the German soldiers present, but also waking up many people who were sleeping in the nearby trenches.

Xu Jun regretted that he didn't have time to stop the soldier's reaction, which caused the current commotion. He stood there a little awkwardly, a little unsure of what to do.

A young ensign on duty ran over and was also startled when he saw Xu Jun. The second lieutenant was nervously speechless, and had to try to stand as straight as a javelin.

Xu Jun finally freed himself from embarrassment. He smiled and said to the ensign, "Relax, ensign, I'm just coming out to breathe, you now order the others to continue to rest, leave my presence alone." Do you understand? ”

The second lieutenant hurriedly replied: "Yes, general!" Don't you need me to accompany you to inspect the position? ”

"No, I just want to take a casual look, I think it's good here, I'm here to chat with these soldiers. Go and carry out my orders. ”

Xu Jun raised his hand and saluted. The second lieutenant hurriedly returned the salute and turned to drive the soldiers who had been standing there back to their positions, shouting, "Don't look, don't look!" The general ordered you to sleep. Why don't you hurry up and get me back to where you came from, hurry! It's you again, Tesile! It's not enough to go to the kitchen and peel potatoes for a week, right? Don't lie down honestly for me, or I'll make you peel potatoes for the rest of your life. Don't ask me what's going on, go ahead and sleep you. And you, put the gun down for me......" The second lieutenant's voice faded away. Silence returned.

Xu Jun found an empty iron box of grenades in the corner of the trench. He walked to the fire with the tin box, and the soldiers who were watching him blankly hurriedly made a vacant seat for him. Xu Jun sat on the tin box and waved his hand to the straight soldiers standing next to him, and said with a smile: "Sit down, don't be restrained, I just want to chat with everyone casually." The soldiers looked at each other at a loss, and immediately sat down beside Xu Jun.

Everyone looked at Xu Jun respectfully, their eyes full of admiration and awe. But Xu Jun felt very uncomfortable when he saw everyone looking at him like this. He hurriedly smiled and said, "Everyone relax, let's just talk casually, don't talk at all, aren't you listening to this sergeant's story before." ”

Xu Jun looked at the old sergeant, "Hey? Why don't you say it. What were you talking about? Go ahead, I'd like to hear about it too. ”

The old sergeant hurriedly stood up: "Report to the general......"

"Stop, stop, don't be so restrained. Now I order you, all give me whatever you want, there are no generals, no superiors, only comrades-in-arms in one trench, friends. And I said, Whoever gives me such restraints, I will send him to accompany that Tersile to peel potatoes for a month. ”

The soldiers all laughed when they heard this, and the atmosphere was relaxed. The old sergeant was left standing there scratching his head, standing or sitting, not knowing what to do. The soldiers looked at him embarrassed and burst into laughter.

"Shhhh Light, light, you're going to wake up the British on the other side! Xu Jun pretended to be very nervous and scared at the soldiers. As a result, the soldiers burst into laughter again.

"Okay, okay, don't make trouble, if you make any more trouble, it will really wake everyone else." Xu Jun smiled and shook his hand at the soldiers. The soldiers immediately covered their mouths, but some of them kept chuckling into laughter.

Xu Jun then said to the old sergeant, "Okay, you can sit down and tell me what you are talking about in front of you?" Let them listen so attentively. Oh, I haven't asked your name yet. ”

The old sergeant hurriedly replied, "My name is Sterling. Shackwell, von. Your Excellency General Stadger, you can call me Old Tuck, everyone calls me that. ”

"Don't call me a general, old Thack, I remember saying that there are no generals and superiors here, only comrades in a trench, friends. Don't call me Feng either. Stadler. You must know that we are all German fighters. I once issued an order in the name of the Minister of the Third Reich that everyone should call me by my name, Reinhardt. This proves that I am an equal comrade with all of you. No one among the officers called me Feng. General Stadger, everyone called me General Reinhardt. That's why you should call me Reinhardt, too, because we're friends now. Xu Jun smiled at the old sergeant, oh, now it should be called Old Sark.

"That Jack really gave such a ridiculous order, but at the time he just wanted to make himself approachable, and that guy was such a hypocrite." Xu Jun secretly cursed Jack in his mind.

Old Sax barely believed his ears? An officer, a high-ranking officer, a general, a minister of the Reich, the deputy head of the Nazi Party, this big man sitting high in the clouds, allowed his little sergeant to call him by his name directly, and to call himself a friend. Old Shack was so excited that he couldn't control himself, his blood pressure increased, his face turned red, and he stammered and couldn't speak.

The rigidity and rigidity of the Germans created their absolute obedience and fear of authority, and they were strictly hierarchical, and they would never allow the slightest transgression to happen. Since Xu Jun has inherited all of Jack's memories, of course he knows this kind of hierarchy very well. But Xu Jun is still a Chinese in his bones, and the influence of ancient Chinese culture since childhood has made the traditional moral concepts of Chinese deeply rooted in his mind. So he was a little accustomed to the feudal hierarchy in Germany, which still bears the imprint of feudalism. He always felt that being approachable, respecting the elderly, rewarding and punishing clearly, being strict with himself and treating talents leniently was a character that a leader should have.

Xu Jun looked at the excited old Sax and asked strangely: "Old Sax, you are talking, you haven't said what you were talking about before?" ”

"He was telling us about the battle he fought here in 1917." A soldier on the side said to Xu Jun.

"Oh, old Thack, you've been here before?"

"It was a long time ago, and it will ...... Rai ...... Mr. Old Sark finally recovered a little, he originally wanted to call General Xu Jun but remembered Xu Jun's order, and he really didn't dare to call him Xu Jun's name directly, so he gave him the title of Mr.

Xu Jun didn't pay attention to what he called himself, he was now interested in that period of history. Although I have read through the documents of that period of history, I must not compare it with the dictation of a veteran who participated in that war. Xu Jun's interest was aroused.

"Then did you take part in the Battle of the Marne? And the Battle of Ypres and the Battle of Athos, did you participate in the Battle of Verdun, what about the Somme? ”

Xu Jun and Lao Sark began to talk passionately about the bloody battle of the Western Front in World War I. And the vivid story of Old Sark also made the other soldiers gradually let go of their awe of Xu Jun, and began to ask questions and comments on the sidelines. Sometimes they exclaimed at the tragedy of the battle, and sometimes they mourned at the sacrifice of a large number of heroic soldiers at that time. Sometimes I was amused by some anecdotes on the battlefield at that time.

"What a German soldier is a simple soldier. Hopefully, I can lead them to victory and not to perdition. Xu Jun looked at the young faces and sighed secretly.

It was already late at night, and Xu Jun interrupted the conversation with Lao Zack, after all, there was still a battle tomorrow, and the soldiers needed to rest well. You can't let yourself affect everyone's sleep. Although the other soldiers still wanted to continue listening, they all lay down and slept one by one under Xu Jun's order.

Xu Jun looked at the black position of the British army on the opposite side. The Britons must still be licking their wounds in the darkness now. Xu Jun was not ready to return to the headquarters, he sat down next to the soldiers by the fire by the trench, closed his eyes, and fell asleep deeply.

At this time, Hans walked out of the dark shadow on the side, he sighed slightly, shook his head, squatted down and gently covered a military blanket on Xu Jun's body. Hans stared at Xu Jun's sleeping childlike face for a moment, and a smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Then Hans stood up, stretched his arms, and then turned and walked into the darkness from which he had come.

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