15 September 1929, Berlin, Germany.

A sunny day with clear skies, a thriving and incomparably prosperous city, where there are delicate flowers, here the noisy drums, here are many citizens dressed in colorful costumes and smiling brightly, the huge airships with huge ribbons dot the sky, and the rumbling salute sets off the festive scene.

All of this exists because of a wedding that is unique in the world.

Located in the downtown area of Berlin. Wilhelm Street is almost covered with colorful flowers, and countless flower petals and ribbons are falling from the rooftops on both sides of the street, and they are fluttering like a colorful snow.

As 100 Prussian cavalrymen on white horses appeared in sight, the atmosphere in the streets gradually entered **, and the crowd of spectators on both sides cheered and jumped, because behind these cavalry were their most admired and admired Emperor Wilhelm III of Germany and his new empress, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands.

Escorted by a large group of infantrymen dressed in Prussian classical uniforms, carrying Prussian Army-style hardbag backpacks, and carrying Mauser 1871 rifles with bayonets on their shoulders (the most meritorious rifles used by the Prussian army during the Franco-Prussian War), our protagonist, Chentian and his new wife, waved to the crowd in a classic carriage. A monarch with a unique personality charm and character, a monarch who sympathizes with the people internally, develops the economy and substantially improves the people's living standards, a monarch who has repeatedly won wars in the south and the north and has built a huge imperial sphere of influence in combination with diplomacy, and let the people get the double glory of spirit and identity, will be supported from the bottom of the heart by the people of the former country like Chentian, will the people of Germany be as fearless of the enemy's terrorist and sabotage actions as they are today, and will make them cheer with such forgetfulness as today. Celebrate.

Of course, in order to ensure the safety of the wedding celebration, Germany mobilized hundreds of thousands of police, gendarmerie and Guards troops, and as early as two months ago, the passage in and out of Berlin was closely monitored, and the police department carried out a deportation inspection of the Berlin city area with the cooperation of the Guard. Anyone suspicious was placed in centralized detention or under house arrest, so now the streets were lined with vetted legal citizens and foreigners, and not only that, but the neighborhoods where the royal motorcade was going to pass were heavily armed on the wedding day, and thousands of snipers selected from the Guards were placed at the nearby vantage points to ensure that any fish that slipped through the net were beaten into a sieve before they could harm the royals.

It is said that women are the most beautiful when they are brides, and Juliana, who is sitting next to Chentian today, is also extraordinarily dazzling and the most beautiful age. The most beautiful moment, "the waist is like a stream, the ears are blocked by the bright moon, the fingers are like peeling the green onion roots, and the mouth is like Zhu Dan", which was originally a word to describe oriental women, but it is also quite suitable for Juliana at this time. A white wedding dress encrusted with 1,929 pearls and a long skirt Mido perfectly sets off her slender body and youthful skin, and the black hair under the "incomparably beautiful" veil is particularly eye-catching.

Both in terms of identity and appearance, the new empress pleased the whole of Germany. As for the connotation, as far as Chentian knows. Historically, Juliana has a very high status in the hearts of the Dutch. Because she loves the people like a son, she is known as the "queen of the people"; Because of her tenacity and perseverance, she went into exile in Britain with the royal family in World War II and led the organization to continue to resist the Nazis; She has a wide range of interests and loves sports. Historically, he did not die at the age of 94 until he was 20 years old.

Chen Tian is wearing a brand new dress today, this dress made of fine materials is made of the same pure white as the German Navy tropical uniform, and is decorated with a navy-style scalloped collar and a long hem, the collar and cuffs are hand-embroidered with the best gold thread of the court, and on the head is a golden hat and helmet that matches the dress, and there are large white feathers on it. - As the saying goes, a sword is a hero, and the Prussian sword that Chen Tian wears today is. Inherited by William I, there are no noble inlays such as diamonds and precious stones, and the scabbard decorated with various patterns looks very ancient, and the style of the hilt is not outstanding. But it witnessed the important battles that preceded the founding of the German Empire, as well as . The historic scene of Wilhelm I being crowned Emperor of the German Empire at Versailles, and what is even more surprising is that its blade still exudes a cold light to this day!

The noble royal convoy roared along. Heading north on Wilhelmstrasse, police and gendarmes dutifully guarded both sides of the street, and although the sidewalks on both sides of the street were crowded with people who had come to catch a glimpse of the German royal family, there was not the slightest confusion. With a view of the Prussian Parliament, the royal motorcade turned east – and they were heading directly to the Deutsches Church, the chapel dedicated to the German royal family's weddings.

Under the watchful eyes of the German and Dutch royal families and military and political leaders, Chen Tian put on a crown for his bride, which symbolized the status of the queen, and this small but very dazzling crown was inlaid with more than 500 pearls and diamonds. The largest one is the "Imperial Glory" produced in South Africa two years ago, although it is not as heavy as the British King's Scepter and the African Star in the crown, the crown is far more weighty than the British King's Scepter and the crown that only deserve to stay in the museum - it is said that Chen Tian's head is the heaviest crown in the world, so the crown worn on Juliana's head is naturally the heaviest crown in the world.

The classical marriage ceremony was long and tedious, and the bishop's chatter of prayers and blessings ended after nearly an hour. After leaving the church, Chen Tian took his bride and boarded the carriage again, and the royal motorcade then turned back. Wilhelmstrasse continues north until it finally stops at the Place de France and the Brandenburg Gate, the site of the grand celebrations, where 100,000 red roses, 100,000 tulips and tens of thousands of other flowers have long been decorated into a kingdom of flowers. With the arrival of the protagonists, 200,000 colorful hydrogen balloons and thousands of white doves were released in the square, and the festive colors quickly filled the sky, and the grand celebration that lasted for a week officially began.

At this time, on the other side of the earth, the night was covering the ancient land of the East.

Since April, the Chinese and Japanese armies have repeatedly fought for more than a dozen times on the Pingjin front, and the Kwantung Army wants to break through the defense of the squadron and break into Jiaozhou Bay, so as to clear the important naval and air bases of the German army in the Far East by land. The barren land is littered with the scars of war, broken vehicles, broken firearms, and the relics of martyrs.

On September 16, "Verdun of the East" turned a new page. The horn of the counterattack sounded at dawn, 10,000 artillery guns roared in unison, thousands of bombers covered the sky and the sun, and the starting position of the squadron gathered 3 armored divisions and 36 infantry divisions of about 050,000 front-line troops, and when the firepower was ready to end, they would be divided into three assault groups to launch an attack on a front stretching for hundreds of kilometers. There were also 35 infantry divisions and 1 armored division in reserve on the second and third lines. On this important frontal front, the number of squadrons exceeded that of the Japanese Kwantung Army north of the battle line by more than twice the number of squadrons, and for the first time, it surpassed the opponent in terms of weapon performance.

"I've never seen so many cannons, and I've never seen so many planes, but the good news is that they're all from our side! Our artillery bombarded for several hours, the plane flew overhead, and the position of the little devil has been covered by artillery fire. ”

A non-commissioned officer belonging to the newly formed 3rd Army of the National Revolutionary Army said this when recalling.

"I thought those little devils must have been blown up stupid. After a while, our regiment will only need to clean up the battlefield and pack up the prisoners. This battle is really cool! ”

A certain regiment commander belonging to the 17th Army of the National Revolutionary Army wrote in his diary.

"At that time, there was a thought in my head: we have a lot of shells, and we will kill its little devils!"

This is the true expression of the true feelings of an ordinary gunner belonging to the 15th Army of the National Revolutionary Army when he recalled.

3473206 Mauser Type 1898 rifles, 94236 Firebird Type 1966 and Type 1914 light machine guns.

31,017 Type 1898 Maxim heavy machine guns, 92,328 Type 1910 60 mm mortars, 5,833 Type 37 mm infantry guns, 5,202 Type 1896 77 mm field guns, 1,401 Type 1902 150 mm heavy howitzers, 2,560 trucks, 852 armored vehicles, 440 Type II and III tanks, 756 aircraft of various types, 3 million M04 grenades. More than 700 million rounds of ammunition of all kinds, this is the official statistics of the aid materials that arrived in China from Germany before the Pingjin counterattack, although these weapons and ammunition have no effect on improving the level of the Chinese workers, but they do raise the equipment level of the squadron to a very high level in the short term.

As a result, their opponent, the Japanese Kwantung Army, which was known for its elite, only needed to face a backward army armed with broadswords, various old rifles, a small number of machine guns and artillery, and a very small number of tanks and armored vehicles not long ago. In front of a squadron armed with a large number of German-style weapons. The Type 38 rifle, which was finalized 24 years ago, the Type 11 light machine gun, which is arguably the worst light machine gun in the contemporary world, the barely usable Taisho 3-Year heavy machine gun, the Type 89 grenadier with limited power, the aging Meiji 41-year 75-mm mountain gun, the older Meiji 38-year 75-mm field gun, and the Meiji 38-year 150-mm howitzer have no advantage at all, and these weapons are far inferior in terms of number and firepower density.

"Before the war with Germany, the Japanese army only had the word offensive on the road of foreign conquest, and in the Japanese soldiers' manuals and training regulations, how to attack was put in the first place, and both defense and retreat were considered degrading to bravery, which was the same as the French army at the beginning of the First World War - on the battlefield, most of the Japanese soldiers were good at attacking, but they were very clumsy when defending!"

A staff officer of the German High Command, who specializes in the study of the Japanese Army, analyzed.

Although their officers had learned that the squadron had obtained a large amount of heavy artillery from the German allies, their fortifications were not built shrewdly, and the trenches that were only one person high obviously could not protect the soldiers from enemy artillery fire, and the unreasonable configuration of air defense weapons made German fighters and light bombers frequently break into the air above the position for accurate bombing and low-altitude strafing, and the lack of thickness of the pillboxes was even in the middle The 37-mm infantry guns of the squadron could not resist, the anti-tank trenches were very poorly dug, except for wheeled vehicles, they could not resist any kind of tracked combat vehicles of the squadron, the minefield was completely destroyed in the shelling, and there were many barbed wires, but in front of the tanks of the squadron were like a low wall made of tofu slag. ”

A German major who was watching the battle from the front wrote about this in his report.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the huge artillery bombardment and bombardment finally came to an end, in the loud sound of the military horn, a large number of squadrons with three armored divisions as the vanguard began to advance to the Japanese positions in depth, although these three armored divisions are in strict accordance with the German Army's first-line armored divisions, but because the Type III tank battalion is still being trained, the armored division at this time only belongs to the category of light tanks "Stone I" and "Stone II" type tanks, but previously guided by German artillery experts The concentrated bombardment carried out by the artillery group showed very good results - the Japanese troops deployed in the forward positions suffered very heavy casualties, and there were gaps in the fortifications in some sections, and the first attack of ** successfully occupied the first line of the Japanese army, and the vanguard even infiltrated the second line of the Japanese army.

With the passage of time, the Japanese second-line positions that were relatively less affected by artillery fire gradually became the focus of contention between the two sides, and in the face of the flood of the squadron's attack, the Japanese officers and soldiers finally showed their crazy side driven by the spirit of bushido. In some places where the Japanese artillery carried out artillery counterattacks and infantry counterattacks carried out countercharges, the squadron's attack was delayed or even retreated for a time.

At this very critical time, the air superiority of the squadron played a role, and the aviation units that went to Shijiazhuang, Jinan, Taiyuan, and Qingdao airports to refuel and hang bombs returned to the battlefield in time, and their air fire support became the last straw that crushed the Japanese army's second-line position.

On September 18, Tianjin was recovered.

On September 21, Peking was recovered.

On September 29, the Kwantung Army withdrew to Kanwai on all fronts.