Chapter 9 The Countryman from Königsberg

After Christmas, half a month before the start of the Royal Army Academy, Chen Tian decided to visit the most famous person of the 19th century, the former Prime Minister Bismarck, known as the iron-blooded prime minister. Bismarck had been living in his home in a small town west of Berlin since his fall in 1890. Chen Tian remembered that in about two years, the old man would be hanging. He hasn't had a chance to talk to this legendary strongman!

The Bismarck manor was very large, and under the guidance of the servants, Chentian walked through the long corridor to a remote study. Inside the study, a gray-haired old man sat on a large chair, closing his eyes and contemplating.

"My lord, His Royal Highness Prince William has come down! Lord......"

"Oh, Your Highness! You're here! Bismarck slowly opened his eyes and said slowly: "I haven't seen you for many years, Your Highness, you have grown so big!" Come, sit! ”

"Hello Prime Minister!" Chen Tian stood respectfully to the side.

"Oh, Your Highness, I'm no longer the Prime Minister! Hehe! How could you have remembered to come to see me, an old man! ”

"Prime Minister, I've wanted to ask you some questions for a long time, but I haven't had the chance!"

"Hehe, Your Highness, it's been a long time since I've asked about political affairs, I'm old, and I just want to spend my old age in peace!" But I would like to know what you think about the future of Germany? ”

"Even a black bear is hard to deal with a pack of wolves. Germany now needs to recuperate, develop its economy, and create a long-term stable and peaceful environment! Bismarck closed his eyes quietly again, and finally said: "That's all I can say, and the rest will be left to His Highness to think for himself!" ”

After bidding farewell to Bismarck, Chen Tian has been silently recalling his words. Why did this man who was famous all over the world for advocating the use of force to solve problems become a pacifist in his later years? Could it be that he covets the Nobel ******?

Half a month later, at the gate of the Imperial Royal Army cadets, a group of teenagers stood there in a daze looking up at the statue on the gate.

"I think I've been here in a dream!"

"Wow! Our family will be proud of me! ”

"It's so magnificent!"

"Let's go! We're going to be here for four years! ”

Due to Chentian's relationship, all 24 cadets who graduated from the first phase of the Königsberg Cadet Military Academy were allowed to study at the Royal Army Academy, but the academy said that it would need to look at their performance before deciding whether to admit students who graduated from the Königsberg Cadet Military Academy later. According to what they learned, the entrance exams for the Königsberg Cadet Military Academy were all strange questions, so they were not too comfortable with the graduates there.

"Okay, in order for our future students to come here to study, we must behave well!" Chen Tian seems to have become the leader of this group of teenagers!

"Yes! Matthew, you're always lazy in training, don't be eliminated in the first semester! ”

"Stay cool! How could I be knocked out, look at my pectoral muscles ......"

"Yo, yes, there's really chicken to feed! Hahaha! ”

"Where did the rednecks come from? ...... hum "At this time, a few senior students walked by proudly and sneered at the group of teenagers in gray old military uniforms.

"You ......" Ma Xiu wanted to rush up and say something, but was stopped by Chen Tian.

"The people who come here are all young masters from some aristocratic families, don't pay attention to them! Let's go check in! As soon as Chen Tian said this, everyone really found that the military uniforms and boots on those people were very gorgeous, and most of the other people on the road were like this, only their group was wearing the military uniform of the junior military academy, which looked very gloomy in the crowd.

"Gigi, why don't you get some good clothes for us! We really feel like rednecks! One of them, Rainey, complained. 6 years of life have made them very familiar with each other, so they are also used to calling Chentian by his name.

"We're countrymen! What about the rednecks? We can endure hardship, we can suffer! Let them take a good look at the strength of our countrymen, so that they dare to look down on the countrymen! Chen Tian smiled and patted Rainey.

"But you're a prince! How ......" Rainey puzzled.

"No, I'm just like you, we're countrymen from Königsberg, hehe!" Chen Tian hugged his shoulders and laughed.

"Huh...... Haha......"

In fact, the life of the Royal Army Academy is not much different from the Königsberg Cadet Military Academy, the same boring, the same hardship, but there is more knowledge to be learned here, the training intensity is greater, and the competition is more fierce.

"Ao Fat, can you still hold on?"

"Well, it's okay ......"

"Matthew, keep up and don't fall behind!"

"Rest assured ......"

They were assigned to a company of 100 men, and on that day they and two other freshmen were heading to the training ground 10 kilometers away, where they would face the same number of graduating cadets. Those cadets have already completed exams in other subjects, the last of which is a real combat simulation with the nature of a military parade. This is the easiest test for previous graduates, after all, they are fighting against the freshmen who have just entered the college, and often the freshmen are scared enough by the sound of gunfire at the beginning of the drill, where is there any decent resistance. Of course, the nobles and generals who came to watch the graduation drill were able to appreciate the "might" of the imperial army.

"Hey! Gigi, look! Aren't those guys the ones who despised us the day we entered the academy? Look at their arrogant appearance, they simply don't take us seriously! We'll be sure to fix them in a moment! "Matthew looks ready to spend time with those guys!

"Gotcha! If you look at the other people in our company, it's good to be able to run to the training ground, they can't stop those guys at all! Thomas pointed to the guy behind him, he had only run half the distance, and there were already many people far behind, and it was basically Chentian and his gang who could keep up.

"Alas! Looks like we shouldn't have played a trick on our mustachioed instructor who forced us to run around the playground all day. Remember? Once I put a mouse in his shoe, and we were all caught by him in the middle of the night and ran to the playground, hahaha! ”

"Yes! I shouldn't have secretly changed the wine from his bottle! ”

"Oh...... It turned out to be the two of you who caused us to be punished for running for no reason! ”

"Hahaha......"

"Sample, laugh so happily, you won't be able to cry for a while!" The leader of the other team on this side of the road was a young man named Eureka, who glanced at the team on Chentian's side and said disdainfully. They trotted neatly, quietly only the sound of footsteps, this is a typical German army!

On Chentian's side, there were only about thirty or forty people still trotting in a relatively neat queue, and the others were scattered behind.

"Alright, everyone, pay attention, the attacking side is the graduate troops, and the defending side is the new troops. From now on, the defenders have an hour to build trenches, and an hour later the attackers will attack! After announcing some of the other drill rules to everyone, the drill referee took the freshmen to their defensive positions.

"Referee, where does the opponent attack from?"

"Whoa! They would attack from that side of the hill, and their starting position was on the other side of the hill." The referee pointed to the hillside in the distance, then smiled and said, "Don't be nervous! We don't have any new recruits to hold here, so you don't need any pressure, just have fun with them! ”

"Company commander, what now? They are condescending, and with artillery cover, it will be difficult for us to defend! Chen Tian walked up to their company commander and asked. Their company commander was a very young instructor, who looked to be in his twenties, and he sat down on the ground and said lazily.

"Didn't you hear the referee? Just dig a trench and put a few shots at will! ”

"You...... Can I take us around here? "Chen Tian really wants to flatten this cowardly guy.

"Wouldn't it be nice to wait here to surrender? But whatever you want, remember to come and surrender in an hour! ”

An hour later, Eureka and his company appeared at the top of the hillside, and sure enough, there was only a shallow trench in the defensive position on the opposite side, and the freshmen were half-crouched in the trench, half exposed, staring blankly.

"Haha! Easy grass annihilation! Let's start setting off fireworks! Then we'll go over and clean them up! ”

"Boom...... Boom ......" the attacker's mountain artillery fired.

The generals and nobles sat on the hillside in the distance and watched with binoculars, and the referee of the exercise reported the progress of the exercise.

"According to the position of the defending side, in the face of the attacker's strong firepower, it is determined that 70% of the casualties on the defender's position are killed, and it is estimated that there are less than 100 soldiers left, while the attacking side has no casualties!"

"Oh......" the nobles applauded.

"Your Excellency, General, congratulations!" A noble lady said to the general next to her with a smile.

"Huh! The armies of our empire are the strongest! Now it's up to our warriors to pick up the results! ”

Ten minutes later, Eureka's company and two other companies began to walk towards the defender's position in a neat formation, and at this time, in the bushes on the other side of the hillside, Tatsuten and his platoon were quietly lurking inside.

"Alright, everybody get on the bayonet! Quickly go around to the back of the hill, where there are 5 mountain guns and 6 machine guns, there are only about 30 people left, we quickly get rid of them, then control the machine guns, and shoot from the back of the attacking troops! Departure ......"

A quarter of an hour later......

"Referee, what's going on? Why is the attacker deemed lost? A pot-bellied nobleman asked the drill judge aloud in surprise.

"Didn't you see that? When the attackers marched halfway up the hill, the starting position was captured by the defenders, and then the attacking troops were machine-gunned in the back, and they stood still for five minutes to rearrange their formation, and when they rushed back to the starting position, each of them was killed at least three times according to the rate of machine gun fire, the hit rate of the machine guns at that distance, and the formation of the attacker! Before the referee could reply, another general stood up, put on his military cap, and left angrily.

"Alas...... It looks like they're all going to have to wait until next year to graduate! My God! The other generals sighed helplessly, after all, they also knew that Prince William was on the defensive side, and they had no way to favor the attacking side. Originally, they just wanted Prince William to see the offensive power of their army, but they didn't expect the defender to make such a move, and the rules did not write the defender to fight back at all.

On the position where the attackers set out, Eureka, who had been "killed" more than three times, looked helplessly at the teenagers in front of him, and the group of teenagers who he had mocked as countrymen not long ago walked in front of him with their chests held high.

"If you want to be a qualified commander, you still have to learn a lot!"