On Christmas night, the temperature in Berlin quietly dropped below freezing, but this did not stop the Kaiser's guests from rushing to the Olaf Palace for the annual Christmas dinner.

The lively Olaf Palace has the temperature of spring at this time, diplomats, military attachés, and special envoys from various countries are already bustling, governors from various German colonies, local nobles or representatives of indigenous people wear all kinds of national and regional style clothes, plus the German political and military dignitaries gathered here, there are hundreds of people, and the glory of the former British Empire is reproduced here.

At 6:50 p.m., 10 minutes before the start of the dinner, most of the invited guests had arrived, and Chen Tian himself did not appear in the hall in advance, but in a small lounge not far from the hall with his son, the crown prince of the empire. William. Andres exchanges feelings.

"But you're only 16 years old, and you're a midshipman!" Chen Tian shook his head again and again, "The Far East is not only fierce in war, but also full of dangers!" If you do go there, our enemies will have a chance to take advantage of it! If you really want to get closer to this war, you might as well come to the General Staff! ”

"Father!" Andres took over, "How can there be no danger in a war? In your life, you must have witnessed countless births, deaths, blood, and fire! Although as the crown prince, I should not risk the future of the empire on the battlefield, but personally, it is a good opportunity to train people! In our regiment, almost everyone is applying to be transferred to the front, and everyone is proud to be able to go to the toughest places! ”

After listening to Andres's words, Chen Tian did not feel at all that soldiers with first-class quality and high morale had always been the pride of the German Empire, and it was natural to have that kind of thought. He raised his head and carefully looked at the young man in front of him, the little prince had unconsciously grown into a young man, with a handsome face, a slender body, and a mature aristocratic temperament in his youth, which probably made many young girls obsessed.

"Experience ......" Chen Tian took a deep breath, "Young people should indeed experience more experience, and it is necessary to suffer a little hardship!" However, the Far East is not the right place to be! Except for the Far East. You still have a lot to choose from, and the battles are no less intense than in the Far East! ”

"But sister, she ......," Andres said with a hint of discoloration on his face.

"Ha, are you worried about her?" Chen Tian smiled at the corner of his mouth, and waved his right hand by the way, "She is now traveling in a place where the seasons are like spring, and she is very strictly protected, as long as you are safe and sound, she will not be in danger!" ”

Andres hung his head slightly. Ponder the meaningful words, especially the last one.

"The German-Turkish forces are preparing to open the Indian front, the German, Britannica, and ANZ forces will soon launch an offensive in Oceania, and the fleet and marines preparing to attack the Pacific islands from the United States and Mexico!" Chen Tian pointed out the place where the battle was about to take place, but he still didn't want Andres to charge at the front line like an ordinary soldier, and as a commander, he could also exercise his will and ability in the war.

After a while, Andres spoke again: "Father, can I go to India?" ”

Chen Tian walked up to him and put his right hand on his left arm, "Choose India." So I chose the hot and humid bad weather. Be prepared! ”

"Yes, Father! So you're giving me the go-ahead to the front? Andres naturally showed a hint of joy on his face.

"Oh, according to the rules of the army. You should first apply to your immediate supervisor, and when he approves it, the application will be handed in again and again! Chen Tian said with a smile, "Although you are the crown prince, you can't 'bend the law for personal gain'!" ”

"I see! Father! The young man immediately retracted his happy expression, he had followed Chen Tian since he was a child, of course he knew that his expression could not be easily revealed, this was not just the so-called aristocratic temperament. However, he obviously does not have an intuitive understanding of the weather in Southeast Asia, and when he experiences it. will understand why Chen Tian wants him to think twice.

While...... While...... While...... While...... While...... While...... While......

The grandfather clock struck seven times, reminding the father and son that it was time for the dinner to begin. Just as Chentian and Andres walked to the hall one after the other, an attendant appeared in front of them in a hurry.

"What's going on?" Chen Tian knew that what he brought was not good news.

"Your Majesty, that's the ......," the attendant leaned in and whispered a few words in a low voice.

"Dead?" Chen Tian didn't have any expression on his face, but his pupils widened slightly.

"Yes, the man had a poison in his teeth!"

"Damn!" Chen Tian blinked his eyes, and then ordered: "Don't disturb the guests with this!" Also, call General Matthew for me! ”

Because of this little disgust, Chen Tian and Andres only appeared in the hall of the guest gathering place at ten past seven. The splendid hall of Jinbi is full of festive atmosphere because of the decoration of ribbons and lanterns, and in Europe and the United States, such a large-scale gathering has always been an indispensable program, in order to celebrate Christmas Eve all night is a happy, peaceful, carnival and peaceful reunion night.

With the arrival of the protagonist, the sound that was buzzing just now suddenly dropped to below 20 decibels, and hundreds of pairs of eyes were cast towards Chentian and his son. After the routine greetings, Chen Tian gave up the microphone, and the "adult" Andres spoke for the first time as the German crown prince at such a large gathering, although the words were very short, and the sound quality, tone and other aspects were still slightly green, but in Chen Tian's eyes, this "first time" was already quite good.

The uninspired opening was soon over, and Tatsuten immediately announced the start of the dinner, but he himself quickly left the hall with Matthew, the commander of the Guards.

At the same time, the festive atmosphere is just as strong on the streets of Berlin. Christmas trees are said to have first appeared in Germany, so they can be found here in lanterns, balls and gift boxes. On such a night, most Berliners choose to reunite at home, but there is no shortage of business in the big hotels with clean windows and lavishly decorated windows, where many wealthy people and expatriates in Germany choose to meet. For the majority of Turks, who are mostly Muslims, because Jesus was also a prophet in Islam, there is no reason to be denied to celebrate His birth. Of course, Christmas is a "foreign commodity" to some, while others see it as a pagan holiday and refuse to celebrate it. - As the saying goes, the rich have the life of the rich. The poor have the way of being poor, the rich use silver cutlery to serve fragrant food, and the poor do not have expensive silver cutlery, but roast goose and roast carp are also indispensable – and this is also their most luxurious meal of the year.

Although it was another wartime Christmas, the distant war did not affect the children's mood in the slightest. After dinner, some of them held colorful hydrogen balloons, some held small fireworks with golden sparks, in short. A joyous atmosphere is replacing cold to dominate the kingdom.

In Berlin's main streets and intersections, the soldiers of the Royal German Guards patrolling the streets and intersections with loaded guns may be the only discordant sight of the festival, but their role is precisely to defend the stability of the festival. In fact, a dark force is at work in the corners of the city.

On a hill about 6 kilometers from Olaf Palace, there is a very dense wooded area, which was originally a guard area of the Royal Guard, but it gets dark early in the winter nights, and although the Guards patrol still patrols the neighborhood every three hours, it is not difficult to avoid the patrols and hide in the woods in this era of lack of night vision equipment.

"The direction of the wind...... Coming from the north. Wind velocity...... Medium! "The edge of the woods. A guy in black clothes and pants and wearing a black cloak was talking to himself, and in the darkness behind him, several black shadows were quietly fiddling with something. Soon. One of them touched the former's side and whispered:

"Head! We're ready, how's it, cast from here? ”

"Stupid!" The man slapped the other man's brain, and the sound was quite similar to the sound of slapping a watermelon, muffled, and did not come out of the woods under the cover of the wind.

"Ouch!" The guy who was beaten called out in a low voice, and then asked gloomily, "Head, why did you hit me again?" Am I not right? ”

The man immediately rebuked: "You fool, you will be scattered before you are halfway through the cast here!"

Follow the instructions above. The effective range of this kind of thing is no more than 2 km, and if you want to deal with large targets, it is best to cast it within 1 km of the target distance, understand? ”

"Oooh!" Rubbing his head after being beaten, "But why did we choose the German palace as the target!" Could this thing float into a high wall? ”

"It's better to kill 10,000 German civilians than to kill a German general, and there are ...... gathered in the palace today Ahem, you don't need to know this, just follow my orders! "Boss"

Turning his head to look at the dark shadows behind him, "Carry it with me when you're ready." Be careful on the road, that's damn thing! ”

"Hey!" Several low voices rang out in the darkness.

After about two minutes, a group of dark shadows began to move through the mountains, several of them seemingly carrying a very heavy box, but their pace did not slow down much. Not far ahead, the lights of the German Imperial Palace are already visible, and the Olaf Palace is originally located at the junction of the city and the suburbs, with hills and woods to the north, with only a few individual villas scattered in between, and they are connected to the outside world by dirt and stone roads.

Despite the recent snowfall in Berlin, there is hardly much snow on the ground, so walking here in black is a good option. However, after about twenty minutes of walking, the men in black had to temporarily hide themselves in a small bush, and three or four hundred meters in front of them, a cordon of trenches, barbed wire walls, and sentry boxes cut off their way, which was the fixed cordon on the outermost part of the German Imperial Palace, and the sign on the stake read:

Ahead is the private land property of the German royal family, pedestrians stop!

On the two-meter-high sentry box, a searchlight was scanning beyond the cordon with its bright beam.

The leading man in black motioned for his men to stay still, took out a small crossbow from his backpack, pulled the bow and put a special arrow into the arrow slot, and took advantage of the gap between the searchlight sweeps, he quickly and quickly touched in the direction of the sentry. Less than half a minute later, after a dull sound of a heavy object falling to the ground, the searchlight stopped moving. Seeing this scene, the black-clothed men hiding behind quickly moved towards the sentry box without an order.

As time passed, the atmosphere in the main hall of Olaf Palace was gradually climbing to a peak, Chen Tian, the main character, was not there, Andres became the focus of everyone's stammering and compliments, for the young crown prince who was used to seeing big scenes with his father, it was not a problem to deal with these characters, but the hurried report of the attendant and the departure of his father and Matthew at the beginning of the dinner party made him feel a little uneasy in his heart.

At this time, in Chentian's study, the atmosphere was not as oppressive as Andres imagined. The fire in the fireplace warmed the whole room, and Chen Tian and Matthew sat facing each other, each holding a crystal wine glass, which was bright red and bright red wine.

"Mustard gas, Lewis gas, hum! The Japanese really don't know whether they live or die, and they dare to play poison gas with us! When our gas was put into actual combat, they probably didn't know what the gas tank looked like! Chen Tian gently shook the wine in the glass, his expression was calm, but a fine light flashed in his eyes. Just before the dinner began, the officer in charge of inspecting the guests' belongings found two small steel gas canisters in the compartment of the suitcase of a Chilean colonel suspected of being a Japanese spy.

When it comes to chemical gas, we have to mention the famous German chemist Fritz Haber, some people say that it was his invention of synthetic ammonia that contributed to Wilhelm II to launch the First World War, although not really, but the emergence of synthetic ammonia has greatly improved Germany's war capability, and saved huge amounts of money for the army, but Haber's contribution is not so much, he also served as a German chemical arsenal He has developed a variety of military poison gas weapons, chlorine, phosgene, mustard gas, etc. There is a small-scale use on the American battlefield.

Compared with Chen Tian's calmness, Ma Xiu Meiyu was a little more worried, "I think since the Japanese are trying to bring poison gas into the palace, their means of destruction will not be just this one!" ”

"It's a blessing or a curse, it's a curse that can't be avoided!" Chen Tian raised his wine glass and drank all the red wine in the cup, "Or maybe Sai Weng lost his horse, and he didn't know if it was a blessing!" ”