At the tail of the train were six flatbed cars, firmly wrapped in canvas, and it was impossible to see what was loaded from the outside. Whenever the train stopped on the platform to replenish supplies, a large number of heavily armed soldiers would come down, and the crowd of onlookers would be blocked from a distance, and they could only be suspicious at random.

Chai Dongliang entered Beijing this time with a battalion of guards, as well as six planes. At the same time, he ordered Kuang Haishan and Gu Nanshan, who were stationed in Mongolia and Mukden, to send three divisions into Yanjing, and ordered Air Force Commander Lu Kai to accompany him into Beijing, and at the same time to transfer two regiments of air force to Yanjing.

With such a powerful armed force, it is enough to suppress the ambitions of the Beiyang generals, and if anyone dares to act rashly, the end can be imagined.

Lu Kai was reluctant to sit in the same carriage as Chai Dongliang, so he ran to the pilot's compartment and bragged with them.

"I heard in Anqing that you guys go to the girls' middle school all day long to hook up with female students, is there such a thing?" Lu Kai said with a hippie smile.

"Commander, don't listen to their nonsense, it's all nonsense!"

"It's very similar, I'm on the streets of Anqing, I've heard it for a long time, people say that the army is dirty, the navy is ocean, and the sky is full of hooligans! The school gate of Anqing Girls' High School has been broken by you, right? ”

Hearing that someone was exposed, several pilots grinned, Lu Kai said disapprerovingly: "Man, only girls like it if they have the ability, this is not a shameful thing, the most embarrassing thing is that the girl sees you and doesn't bother to pay attention to it, isn't this the truth?" ”

The pilot suddenly felt like a confidant, and felt that he had a common language with the young commander. Most of the pilots of the Jianghuai Army are members of various flying clubs, they are all children of rich families, and they are all Westernized, and what they hate the most is the marriage arranged by their parents, even if the girl is good, they also feel unhappy, and always want to hook up with one in person with their personal charm to experience the feeling of free love.

It's a pity that it's easy to fly a plane to the sky, but it's even more difficult to marry the girl you like home than to go to the sky, not to mention that your parents won't agree, and the woman's parents won't agree.

"Boys, do a good job, if you are famous, which girl do you like, I will personally help you propose, if my face is not enough, I will go and ask Chai Dudu to come forward, I don't believe that anyone else dares not to give his face!" Lu Kai patted his chest and slapped the package ticket.

The pilots basically already have a good girl, hearing this, they smiled happily, Lu Kai's identity is the commander of the Air Force, and Kuang Haishan and Gu Nanshan are the same famous figures, when they were replaced by the former Qing Dynasty, they were the commanders of the first grade! With him coming forward to help, whatever his parents say will give this face. If Chai Dongliang comes forward in person, then this face will be given to the sky!

The president, that is the emperor, he came forward to propose, which is equivalent to the emperor's marriage, this is a great honor, and he can't keep his mouth shut for three days and three nights when he is unhappy.

Lu Kai has always bragged that he came as soon as he opened his mouth, he never thought about whether Chai Dongliang would come forward to propose marriage for an ordinary pilot, if pilots all over the country asked him for help, Chai Dongliang would not have to do anything else.

A group of pilots were instigated by him, and they couldn't wait to dig out their hearts to him, as long as Lu Kai gave him an order, they would not hesitate to go to the soup.

What a caring commander, where can I find such a boss?

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On the night of June 27, 1914, "Honey, are you really going to Sarajevo?" The plump Duchess Sophie looked nervous and prepared the dress for her husband.

Archduke Ferdinand combed his delicate beard, smiled at the portrait on the wall, and then kissed his wife on the cheek: "Why not go?" I will bring them peace, and they will welcome us! Sophie, you are my wife, my child's mother, my counselor, my personal doctor, my guardian angel??? You are the greatest achievement of my life, my dear Highness! ”

Sophie was a little excited, her eyes were crying tears, in Vienna, she was an undesirable woman, as a Bohemian countess, Sophie because she had no royal blood, the people and nobles considered her unworthy to marry a crown prince. Archduke Ferdinand, on the other hand, regarded her as a treasure and did not hesitate to use the title "Your Highness". At the Viennese court, it was widely believed that Ferdinand had deliberately married a woman of no royal blood, showing contempt for his [***] uncle, Emperor Joseph.

This time Ferdinand took her on a visit to gain respect and honor that she could not get in Vienna. Archduke Ferdinand was not qualified to inherit the throne, he was not the son of Emperor Joseph, but his nephew. But in the first nine years, Crown Prince Rudolph committed suicide, and he was made crown prince. However, he had always disagreed with Emperor Joseph and was very dissatisfied with his conservative uncle.

Archduke Ferdinand was a favorite hunter, and in his lifetime he hunted more than 200,000 prey, each of which is recorded, and not long ago he met with the German Emperor Wilhelm II at the palace where he hunted. Wilhelm II was very annoyed by Serbia's attempt to establish a Greater Yugoslavia, and he suggested sending troops against Serbia, but Archduke Ferdinand firmly refused: "If we attack Serbia, what will we gain?" Pastures full of sheep dung and a few plum trees, and at the cost of countless money and the lives of young people, I think that reform is a better way, so that the Slavs in the empire can fully enjoy their rightful power, and they will not have the idea of division! ”

Sophie said worriedly: "Today the ambassador in Sarajevo met with me, and he hopes that I can convince you not to enter Sarajevo tomorrow, you may encounter a dangerous and despicable assassination. ”

Ferdinand laughed: "No, we will only see welcoming flowers and smiling faces, my dear, what you can't see in Vienna, you can see it here!" You will see how much they love me because I will bring them peace! It was I who prevented the attempts of the Germans to invade Serbia! ”

Sophie was still worried, and the Serbian ambassador in Vienna also sent an urgent telegram, in which he directly said: "Some young Serbs will choose to shoot real guns instead of intimidation with empty guns!" It would be a good thing if the Grand Duke and his wife did not enter Sarajevo! ”

But Archduke Ferdinand laughed at it, and he didn't believe anyone would attack him. After all, it was he who prevented the plans of the German Emperor Wilhelm II to strike at Serbia. In his opinion, he was the benefactor of all Serbs, how could anyone want to assassinate him?

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In a small hotel in Sarajevo, nineteen-year-old Printhia was excited with a pistol, and by his side were six conspirators, who were full of hatred for Austria-Hungary as a member of the "Bosnian YMCA". The eldest of the seven was twenty-three years old, and the youngest was only fifteen.

They had four brand-new Browning pistols by their side, as well as some capsules, which were highly toxic cyanide and were to be swallowed to kill themselves if they were caught. Their weapons and poisons were sent by Tankuhic, an officer of the Serbian army, who was directly under the orders of the head of Serbian intelligence, the de facto Serbian ruler Dimitrievich.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the expansion of European powers in the Balkans provoked Serbia to resist fiercely, and the Serbian national liberation movement was on the rise.

The two Balkan wars of 1912 and 1913 gave impetus to the national liberation movement of the Slavs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, who demanded merger with Serbia to form a Greater Serbian State. Austria-Hungary became a thorn in their side. Organizations such as the Persian YMCA sprang up in the belief that killing the head of the Austro-Hungarian Empire would achieve their goal.

Dimitrievic, for his part, believed that the Austro-Hungarian military exercises in Bosmia were aimed at Serbia, with the aim of getting rid of him and at the same time supporting the Serbian royal family to regain power, which he could not tolerate.

So, a group of hot-headed young men and a paranoid-stricken military madman team up to plot to kill Archduke Ferdinand and his wife the next day.

Printhia and the others carefully marked the route of the grand convoy on the map, and repeatedly checked the weapons such as pistols and bombs. The officers sent by Dimitrievich assured them that there would be a maximum of a few policemen on the streets tomorrow and that the army would not come out to maintain order, reassuring them to strike boldly.

Thinking that tomorrow when the guns rang out, and that Archduke Ferdinand and his wife would fall in a pool of blood, and that they would become the heroes of Serbia and all the Slavs, these young men were eager to tear off their clothes and roar in the streets, as if that was the only way to calm the blood in their hearts for a while.

Prinzia kept pulling the trigger on the portrait of Archduke Ferdinand on the wall, although the gun was not loaded, but if it was not deducted, he would feel comfortable. It seems that the Grand Duke has been killed by him, he has become a hero, and he even imagined how, after the assassination, he shouted slogans to the crowd of onlookers, and then, in the admiring eyes of everyone, ended his young life with a bullet, and then threw himself into the arms of God and the Virgin.

It was just perfect!

Prinzia was almost frantic with the excitement of his own fantasy, his body trembling slightly, and he pulled the trigger again on the portrait.

In the portrait, Archduke Ferdinand wears a white military dress with a ribbon and is decorated with Venus, which only emperors can use.

If it weren't for the visit to Serbia, Ferdinand would have taken over the throne of Austria-Hungary in the Supreme Court of Vienna, with an oath in his hand according to the Constitution!

"Smack!"

The pistol made a soft sound, and Prinzia and the six young conspirators laughed.

However, what they did not expect was that this shot not only ended the lives of the Grand Duke and his wife, but also cost the whole world 55 million lives, and his country was also in a situation from which it could never be recovered. The tragic fate lasted for a hundred years, and until the twenty-first century, the wounds still could not be healed.

Serbia is about to pull the trigger of perdition with its own hands!

(To be continued)