The Mediterranean Sea at night is calm, and the sky is full of stars reflecting in the water, making it difficult to distinguish which ones are starlight and which are lights.

When the Mediterranean Sea became the "inland sea" of the Allies, there was no need for strict lighting control for German ships sailing here, and a powerful fleet of battleships, 4 destroyers, 2 troop transports, and 1 supply ship sailed eastward on the route from Tunisia to Cairo without any scruples.

In the dead of night, the German emperor, who is the supreme German emperor in the eyes of ordinary people, will also have his lonely side.

The moonlight quietly poured from the porthole onto the floor, reminding the person on the bed next to him of a poem from his hometown.

"The bright moonlight in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground. Raise your head to look at the bright moon and bow your head to think of your hometown. ”

Chen Tian recited in Chinese, and he always felt that his Chinese pronunciation had degraded compared to before.

In the past, he could occasionally talk to Lisa or Rennie for a sentence or two, and it was always so hilarious for three "foreigners" to speak Chinese together, but unfortunately there will be no such opportunities anymore!

Chen Tian sighed softly.

Since Lisa's death, her life has been like a table that is missing a corner, and no amount of beautiful tablecloth can make up for it. As a result, a pair of children became the subject of his affection, and work took up most of his time.

It's been almost half a year since Lisa's departure, and gradually, Chentian doesn't think about the past so often, and many times he has been able to sleep peacefully, but that can't hide the deep thoughts in his heart.

Gradually, people began to discuss whether they should find a new empress for their emperor, and on some private occasions, the close ministers knocked on Chentian's opinions from time to time, and some people simply introduced him to some suitable women, including prominent female nobles in the country, daughters of big chaebols, and meritorious queens; Abroad are small and medium-sized princesses or county lords in Europe such as Austria and Hungary, of course, these are not exaggerated. The most outrageous thing is that someone actually proposed a German-Japanese marriage. The person who made this suggestion was almost not beaten by Chentian's stick, and he would rather never marry for life than marry a woman of that nationality.

For these enthusiasts with different goals, Chen Tian politely declined them one by one. First of all, he didn't have to worry about having no successor, and now he was unwilling to accept anyone else, a political marriage was neither necessary nor meaningful to him, and marrying a bad woman would undoubtedly ruin his life. Therefore, Chen Tian is content to live the life of a super king like the fifth super, let's talk about it. His political partner, Mr. Kemal, is still alone, and this guy is said to have changed after the first breakdown.

Thinking about it, Chentian's sleepiness gradually thickened, but just as he was about to fall asleep, he heard soft footsteps outside the door, and then someone spoke in a low voice, it seemed that the officer below had something to report to him but was stopped by the attendant officer at the door.

"Squire officer!" Chen Tian shouted, and it was quiet outside. Immediately afterwards, his attendant, Matthessand, gently pushed the door open.

"Your Majesty, did I wake you up? I'm so sorry. It's your communications officer, Lieutenant Colonel Tosten. He said he had a situation to report to you! ”

"It's okay, I can't sleep in the first place!" Chen Tian said and looked out the door, and the poor lieutenant colonel was standing there a little bewildered.

"Let him in!"

"Yes!" Mattheis then exited the door. When the lieutenant colonel entered the room, he gently closed the door again.

At present, the recovery of Chen Tian's most important attendant officer, Feng Jonalet, is not very good, although the internal injuries have basically healed, but it may take a while to walk as before, as for whether he can regain his position as the emperor's attendant, it is still difficult to say.

Before Lieutenant Colonel Tosten could speak, Tatsuten turned on the bedside lamp and took a pillow to put behind his back.

"Your Majesty, I'm so sorry to disturb your rest!" Lieutenant Colonel Tosten sincerely apologized.

"Don't worry. I've had a bit of insomnia today! Say, what is it? ”

After Chen Tian said that it didn't matter, the lieutenant colonel calmed down, he paused, and then reported:

"Back to Your Majesty, Lieutenant General Ollie has just sent a secret telegram that the expeditionary force will start 'Operation Frog Jump' tonight!"

Chen Tian didn't have a surprised expression, but said, "It's a pity, I still couldn't catch up with that shocking battle after all!" ”

For Chen Tiandi to talk to himself. The lieutenant colonel didn't dare to interject at all, and after a while, he asked carefully: "Then Your Majesty, do you have any other instructions?" Do you need to send a telegram back to Lieutenant General Oli? ”

"yes, yes!" Chen Tian thought for a moment, "Send a secret telegram to General Ollie, wishing him a complete victory!" ”

"Yes!" The lieutenant colonel saluted and then said, "Then Your Majesty, I wish you a good night!" ”

"Well, say hello to the officers on duty on my behalf!" Chen Tian replied happily. Although he could not witness the landing campaign on the Indian Peninsula with his own eyes, Chen Tian was already very satisfied with the significance of this battle and the role it played in promoting the situation after its success.

After Lieutenant Colonel Tosten left, Chentian, who was still a little sleepy, was completely sleepy because of his high spirits, so he simply asked the attendant to get a cup of hot milk, and then read the copy of Capital that he had brought with him. In this era, "Capital" is not a **, but Chen Tian still removed the original cover of his "Capital" and replaced it with the cover of "Faust", because he did not encourage junior officers to spend a lot of time studying such a book of special significance, and as a result, it didn't take long for many officers in the command to begin to study the epic masterpiece "Faust".

While our admirable Kaiser was still fighting at night, the vast majority of the inhabitants of the Indian peninsula, thousands of miles away, had already entered into a dream.

When the humming sound of the engine came from far and near and finally passed over his head, Abdul only yawned lazily, as if he was oblivious to the group of dark shadows flying by in the moonlight, and did not report to his superiors in time.

The reason is simple, he doesn't want to be beaten.

The same situation had occurred just the previous evening, and the sentry on duty at that time reported the situation to the garrison command at the first time, but the grumpy Major Amit, when he found that the Germans had not done anything, hung up the sentry who had disturbed his dreams and beat him severely.

The sentry could not get out of bed now, and as a soldier of his company, Abdul would not have made the same "low-level mistake".

After the buzz fades away. Abdur continued to take a nap more than half a month after German ships began blockading Kochi and several major surrounding ports and shelling some of these military installations. Although the Indian army also sent several torpedo boats to attack the other side at night, the disparity in strength between the two sides was too great, and the Germans easily smashed the coastal defense force of the Indian army in this area, and the only two coastal defense batteries around Cochin were also bombarded into the sky.

Since then, rumors of an imminent German landing in Cochin have been rumored among the army and the population since a week ago. German planes flew around the clock to Cochin and several nearby ports to conduct reconnaissance, and dropped tens of thousands of leaflets with the words in English and Hindi:

"We will land here, but do not be afraid, we will drive out the British and give you freedom!"

"Indian soldiers, the British are not worth your life, hurry up and go home!"

"India is the India of the Indians, it should not be ruled by the British!"

At first, the Port Guard Command was so anxious about this that it sent a series of urgent telegrams to General Haig in the War Department. General Haig replied that it was just a ruse by the Germans to harass the port. The aim was to cause civil strife in these ports, and as long as everyone thought they didn't exist, it wouldn't be long before the Germans would retreat. Just in case. Haig sent a cavalry force from the north to reinforce him, but it would take two weeks to reach here at the earliest.

Just before dawn, at the height of vigilance, 36 German soldiers parachuted behind the port of Cochin and the planes carrying them took off from the aircraft carrier Lisa, less than 50 nautical miles away.

At the same time, an artillery convoy of battleships Oldenburg, Hindenburg, Wilhelm II and the heavy cruiser Thomas was quietly approaching the unsuspecting port city of Cochin, followed by a huge landing fleet of 17 large freighters, 22 medium freighters and 27 small freighters, with 21,000 German and 4,000 Turkish soldiers waiting for the landing to begin.

When Daystar became the only star in the sky, the sky began to lighten. Suddenly, a loud explosion tore through the silence of the night. Leaving the Abduldi sleepy bugs to flee without a trace, the Indian sentry looked for a sound and saw a huge fireball rising from the eastern part of the harbor.

"The Gomez oil depot has exploded!"

The city quickly became chaotic, the sky was red with fires, and Abdul only heard his companions say that the largest oil depot on the other side of the port had exploded, but he did not know what had caused such a terrible situation. While Abdur was wondering if it had something to do with the German planes that had flown before, an order came from the Port Garrison Command, telling them to rush to the Gomez oil depot with all their fire extinguishing tools.

"Fire extinguishing? Oh my God, we're going to be rotisserie chicken! An Indian soldier lamented.

Although he was also very reluctant. Abdur had no choice but to say to him: "Hey, if you don't want to be hit by the major, hurry up!" ”

In the eyes of the Indian soldiers here, the garrison commander Major Amit is simply synonymous with the devil's boss, even if it is because of a small mistake, he often beats his Indian soldiers to half death, and simply does not treat them as human beings, but he is British, as long as he does not cause trouble, no one will interfere with him. Therefore, Abdul, the Indian soldiers, had no choice but to swallow their anger.

After a while, Abdur put down his rifle and picked up brooms, shovels, shovels and other tools and rushed to the oil depot where the explosion occurred. Therefore, open flames are absolutely forbidden around the oil depot.

Being woken up from his sleep, Major Amit was already on fire, and then when he found that the oil depot was on fire, he gritted his teeth and wanted to beat the derelict man with five ships. However, before he could reach the scene, he heard a strange whistle from the western sky, which approached and increased at a very fast speed, and Amit, who had served in the British Navy, was stunned: it was the sound of large-caliber naval artillery shells flying!

Amit fell to his knees and prayed silently, praying that he would be lucky enough to survive the Germans' guns. However, only a dozen seconds later, the earth-shattering explosion shrouded the entire port area in a sea of fire, and the garrison headquarters located in the south of the port was directly hit by a row of 305mm shells, and many officers and soldiers, including Amit, were suddenly gone!

Violent explosions shook the ground one after another, and the shrill whistle came one after another, and after the initial confusion, Abdul and the other Indian soldiers threw away their ridiculous "weapons" and took refuge in the bushes by the river.

Cochin was born in 1340 on a stormy night, when the Peria River flooded and like a giant beast burst out of its embankment and rushed into the Arabian Sea to form what is now the Cochin Peninsula. After hundreds of years of construction, Cochin has become one of the largest port cities in the southwest of the Indian Peninsula, where the wide Cochin River flows into the sea, the estuary is surrounded by flat terrain and sandy beaches, the turquoise Cochin River is full of water floating lotus, and the banks are full of Portuguese, English and Spanish style buildings and churches, where Western civilization and Oriental scenery have achieved a perfect blend.

However, the German Navy was like a group of beasts that knew no pity, and their 305 mm guns fired rows of high-explosive grenades at the helpless ports and port areas at a rate of 2 rounds per minute.

An hour later, the bombardment of the German battlefleet ended, and by this time the first wave of landing ships consisting of 4 destroyers, 7 minesweepers and 27 small freighters had approached the mouth of the Cochin River. According to the air and sea reconnaissance over the past few days, the Indian army's defense in the port was only those two vulnerable batteries, no mines were laid near the mouth of the sea, and the hastily scuttled ships did not completely block the shipping lane, such a poor defense gave the German landing force an opportunity, under the cover of destroyers and minesweepers, some small cargo ships full of landing soldiers sailed directly into the Cochin River, and a large number of soldiers landed on the river bank and flocked directly to the port area, and there was almost no resistance along the way!

At 9 a.m., the landing fleet sent a telegram to the mainland: Frog jump successful!