"The Chinese Imperial Divine Army is no longer the strongest in the world, and it has fallen from the altar!"

The British Times made a headline on the front page of the British newspaper with considerable excitement, reporting on the battle of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army fighting in the southern Balkans. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"The German Imperial Army fought in the northern part of the Balkan Peninsula, winning five battles and five victories, and defeating the Balkan coalition. On the other hand, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, under the cover of the artillery fire of the powerful navy, quickly captured Athens, but it was only short-lived, and then the Chinese Imperial Shence Army made slow progress, and is still fighting in Greece, in the face of the Greek guerrillas, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army fought very hard, a month, an average of 2.5 kilometers a day, is there a slower snail than this? ”

"Compared with the German Imperial Army, the Chinese Imperial Shence Army is no longer the strongest in the world, and it has fallen from the altar, at least so far, the German Imperial Army we have seen is stronger!"

"The Chinese Empire has spent the last 20 years on building up its naval forces, just like the British Empire, whose naval power is too strong to far surpass the army."

In the face of the stinky beauty of the British, the Chinese quickly counterattacked, and the Central Daily immediately published a commentator's article to refute it.

"The British are really frogs at the bottom of the well, and they have no strategic vision at all!"

"Although the performance of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army in the Balkan battlefield is average, it can even be said to be unsatisfactory. But if you go into the barracks, you can see that this time the soldiers who went to the battlefield were all recruits who had been in the army for less than half a year, and most of them were student soldiers. When this group of student soldiers who only know theory but do not know actual combat go through a test of blood and fire, they will grow up rapidly, and the height of growth is far beyond imagination, and the future will be the material of generals. ”

"This is the far-sightedness of the Chinese imperial military, and it is taking advantage of the Balkan War to carry out a large-scale national military training, which is by no means understandable to short-sighted people."

After the Central Daily counterattacked, the British were suddenly silenced, and they were scolded for being short-sighted, and their faces were embarrassed.

After seeing this comment in the Central Daily of the Chinese Empire, the German emperor and military leaders shook their heads and sighed, saying that they should also send new soldiers to the battlefield, and this was a rare opportunity for military training.

Bismarck sighed: "The Chinese Empire still has a strategic vision, and it spends a huge amount of money to mobilize new soldiers from the country and send them to Europe to fight, first, to be familiar with the European battlefield environment and the ways of war of the Europeans, and second, to take the opportunity to train troops, so that the new generation of soldiers can grow up quickly." ”

The Kaiser also sighed: "You must know that the Chinese Empire has now popularized high school education, that is to say, the recruits of the Chinese Empire's generation have the lowest level of education and high school graduates. Especially a few years ago, the Chinese Empire implemented a new compulsory military service system, stipulating that all school students must serve in the military for a period of time, so among the recruits of this generation, there are even a large number of college students or even higher educated recruits to participate in the war. If these highly educated soldiers are allowed to go through the test of blood and fire, then once they grow up, it will be absolutely terrifying! ”

Bismarck nodded and said: "Yes, an army composed of junior high school student culture can easily crush an army composed of primary school student culture, an army composed of high school student culture can crush more army composed of junior high school student culture, if an army is completely composed of college student culture, then it will be invincible, the more literate the army, the more exponential the combat effectiveness, the huge population of the Chinese Empire, huge investment in education, now this advantage has finally been reflected." ”

The Kaiser then decided to follow the example of the Chinese Empire, quickly bringing back the elite German troops at the front, and then mobilizing new troops from home to fight the war.

Previously, the German army only wanted to play the prestige of the German Empire in the Balkans, but now that the limelight has come out, the Balkan Allied forces were terrified when they saw the German army, so they could replace themselves with new soldiers to fight.

Both China and Germany regard the Balkan battlefield as a training ground for training their recruits' combat effectiveness, which has dumbfounded all countries in the world, especially the Balkan Allied Forces, which is simply regarded as a great shame.

"What? Only use recruits against us? ”

"Fack! Don't bully people like this! ”

The commander of the Balkan Allied Forces was furious and called on the Balkan people to unite and drive out the Chinese and German troops.

As a result, the Balkan coalition army, which had fallen into a low ebb, once again burst out with amazing combat effectiveness.

After all, the biggest enemy in the future is the Allied army, and their combat effectiveness will definitely be stronger than that of the Balkan Allied Powers, so the more the Balkan Allied Powers break out in combat effectiveness, the closer they will be to the combat effectiveness standards of the Allied armies, and it will be the best tempering for the recruits of the two countries.

However, the German recruits were faced with a flat terrain, which was very beneficial to the German artillery superiority, and the Balkan Allies suffered heavy losses when a single shell was smashed, and they almost lost the ability to defend their positions.

However, the recruits of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army are fighting mountain warfare, and the mechanization advantage cannot be brought into play at all, and the progress of the battle is very slow, but it is really testing the combat effectiveness of the recruits.

Although Greece is a Mediterranean country, surrounded by mountains and islands, although the Chinese Imperial Army was able to quickly conquer Athens, but it was with the strong support of naval gunfire, the large scale of the Athenian city, the wide and smooth roads, so that the mechanized vehicles proudly played an advantage, these two factors became the key to the rapid capture of Athens.

However, when marching from Athens to other cities, the problem arose, all around the mountains and the road was inaccessible, the mechanized troops of the Chinese Imperial Army could not be deployed on a large scale, and the Greek guerrillas attacked everywhere in the mountains and forests, causing considerable losses and casualties to the Chinese Imperial Army.

Although Athens had a very unfavorable land access to the two surrounding cities, Corinth and Harkis, both of which were in the bay on the other side, the Imperial Chinese Navy was once again dispatched to reload the army infantry and sail to the Gulf of Corinth and the Gulf of Patali respectively, and once again staged a joint naval and army operation.

The Greek troops at Corinth and Harkis fought back, and they learned that this was how Athens had fallen, and all the preparations had been made in advance, and a large number of troops and anti-landing obstacles were deployed along the coastline, and the Imperial Chinese Army was able to resist the heavy shelling of the Imperial Chinese Navy again and again at the cost of blood, and the Imperial Chinese Army failed in three consecutive days of beach-grabbing and landing battles.

However, the Greek army soon made a fatal mistake, and they transferred guerrilla forces in the mountains to supplement the losses of the anti-landing operation, so that the Chinese Imperial Army would focus on the beach-grabbing landing operation.

As a result, three days later, the Imperial Chinese Army broke through the blockade of the Greek partisans from Athens in two ways and suddenly appeared in the rear of the two large cities of Corinth and Harkis.

On the same day, the Imperial Chinese Navy and Army again launched the fourth large-scale beach-grabbing landing operation, pinning down the main force of the Greek defenders.

At the same time, the Chinese Imperial Army, which attacked from the rear, successfully attacked Corinth and Harkis respectively, and hundreds of thousands of Greek defenders were attacked by the enemy on their backs, and finally the whole army was annihilated.

The Chinese Imperial Shence Army did not accept the surrender of the defeated Greek army, which was the bloody nature of training recruits, so the command refused to surrender to the enemy, and let the recruits of the Shence Army attack freely, striving for every soldier to kill and see blood, only in this way can he become a real soldier.

The war was so brutal, with mountains of corpses piling up in the Gulf of Corinth and Patali, rivers of blood, and the beaches all turned red as far as the eye could see.

The Chinese Empire has been peaceful for too long, many recruits have never experienced war since birth, and it is the first time to go to the battlefield to kill, the soldiers with the weakest psychological endurance will be nervous when they see the dead and blood, and the soldiers with slightly better psychological endurance will not help but vomit when they smell the smell of blood and the smell of feces and urineand become a qualified military man.

However, in the entire Greek campaign, the most troublesome for the Chinese Imperial Army was the Spartan Peninsula, which was all mountainous and dangerous, and even the naval guns of the Chinese Imperial Navy could not cross the mountains and bombard the Spartan mountain cities.

A large number of Greek troops and partisans retreated into Sparta for their last resistance.

Historically, there were three hundred Spartan warriors, who were invincible and were worshipped as myths by the Spartans.

Major Ye Zhichao, commander of the 358th Regiment of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, the headquarters of the occupation forces in Corinth City, is holding a military meeting.

This Ye Zhichao was a famous escape marshal during the First Sino-Japanese War in history, leading 300,000 Qing troops into Korea, but was defeated by 10,000 Japanese troops, resulting in the most miserable defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War, and was later beheaded by the Qing court.

Objectively speaking, Ye Zhichao was still very capable when he was young, he participated in the suppression of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, and was the first hero to suppress the Twist Army, and then was vigorously promoted by Li Hongzhang to replace Ding Richang as the commander of the Huai Army.

If you summarize Ye Zhichao in one sentence, you can use success and defeat to Xiao He. Among them, Xiao He is Huaijun.

The peak of Ye Zhichao's life and career was the peak period after the Huai Army suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and twisted the army, but with the overall corruption of the Huaijun Group, Ye Zhichao followed the corruption in the next 20 years, and when the Sino-Japanese War broke out, the Huai Army was already rotten to the roots, even if Ye Zhichao was bullish and fought with a group of big smoke soldiers, not to mention 300,000, even if he was given 1 million troops, he would definitely lose.

But in this life, Ye Zhichao's life trajectory has changed.

At the very least, he doesn't have to be corrupt with the Huaijun group.

Since the end of the Erli War (Li Weiguo and Li Hongzhang), Ye Zhichao, as a general of the Huai Army, accepted a four-year labor reform (advanced study at the Shanghai Army Officer Military Academy), from a general, demoted to a second lieutenant platoon commander, joined the battle sequence of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, started from the grassroots level, participated in three Sino-British wars, made many military exploits, and climbed step by step to the head of today's 358 Regiment.

Normally speaking, as the commander of the first regiment of the Shence Army, he has the rank of lieutenant colonel on one side, but Ye Zhichao leads the post of head of the 358th regiment with the rank of major, which shows that his military quality is quite good.

However, if Ye Zhichao did not have Li Hongzhang's halo on his head, he would probably be the highest governor of a town now, a lieutenant general and division commander.

All the generals who followed Li Hongzhang back then, with the defeat of Li Hongzhang and the reorganization of the Huai Army, these generals were more or less affected by Li Hongzhang, and they were not determined in the Chinese Imperial Army, and many people changed jobs, but people like Ye Zhichao, who knew nothing but fighting, could only continue to stay in the army and suffer from the cold.

But Ye Zhichao seems to have gotten rid of Li Hongzhang's aura recently, because in the past ten years, Ye Zhichao has been following Liu Mingchuan, just like Ye Zhichao in history, it was Liu Mingchuan who was recognized by Li Hongzhang.

Now Liu Mingchuan has won the trust of Li Weiguo, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, because of his conquest of Southeast Asia and Australian natives.

If it was before, Ye Zhichao could only follow Liu Mingchuan to encircle and suppress the natives in Australia, and he would never want to do anything again in his life.

But this time, Liu Ming gave him the opportunity, and the Chinese Imperial War Department mobilized new soldiers across the country to participate in the Balkan War and conduct large-scale military training.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ye Zhichao, nominated by Liu Mingchuan, won a place, took a veteran battalion and three new battalions to form the 358th Regiment and participated in the beach-grabbing landing battle against Corinth.

"Brothers, although we fought very well in yesterday's beach-grabbing landing battle, it is a pity that it was not the main attack. Now our regiment is about to attack Sparta, and this battle is the main attack of our regiment, and we must fight Lao Tzu beautifully. ”

"Captain, are you kidding?" A captain officer with a somewhat bald hair, but a rich and noble face, suddenly said with a wry smile: "The terrain of Sparta is the most dangerous, and it is impossible to open the situation if you are a husband and a husband. The division commander just felt that the regiment commander was so bullying, and handed over Patrick, who was the easiest to beat, to the 357th regiment, but asked our regiment to come to Konsparta. ”

"Yuan Shikai, you shut up Lao Tzu! What does it mean that Lao Tzu is a good bully? Ye Zhichao suddenly said angrily.

"Commander, what Lao Yuan said is right! This shows that it was raised by our stepmother, one day she was a general of the Huai Army, and she was detained as a Huai Army for the rest of her life! Our division commander heard that he was born as a general of the Shanghai Army, and it was clear that he was deliberately targeting us! ”

"Wang Shizhen, you also shut up Lao Tzu! Now we are all officers of the Shence Army of the Chinese Empire, what are the generals of the Shanghai Army and the generals of the Huai Army, we are not allowed to say this kind of thing in the future! Don't you know that evil comes from the mouth? ”

Ye Zhichao glared at Yuan Shikai and Wang Shizhen fiercely, and turned to Cao Kun, the staff officer of the regiment.

"Chief of Staff, tell me about them!"

Cao Kun nodded and said to Yuan Shikai and Wang Shizhen: "The head of the regiment is right, the civil war has been over for more than 20 years, don't mention the things of the year again." Success and defeat are our fate. ”

"But we haven't been in contact with Li Hongzhang for a long time, why does Shangfeng always target us?"

Wang Shizhen couldn't help but retort, Yuan Shikai on the side also had a bad face, and both of them were holding back their bellies.

Cao Kun then explained: "You all stay in the barracks on weekdays, and you don't know the situation outside. Let me tell you, the relationship between Emperor Guanghua and Li Hongzhang is becoming more and more stiff, and there is news that Li Hongzhang secretly colluded with the remnants of the former dynasty with bad intentions. Therefore, at this stage, all Li Hongzhang's old Huai Army troops will be targeted, as long as you are honest and pass a hurdle, you will be fine. ”

"And so it was!" Yuan Shikai suddenly sneered: "In the past few years, the old department of the Huai Army has been contacting me and saying some disrespectful words, I thought they were complaining because of their ambition like me, but now I know that this old Li people are not old-hearted!" Hidden and forbearant for so many years! ”

"Don't talk nonsense, now there is no evidence even for His Majesty the Emperor, you should be careful of the trouble coming out of your mouth!" Cao Kun immediately reprimanded.

Yuan Shikai didn't get angry but laughed: "Perhaps, this is also a good opportunity for us to turn over completely!" ”

"Presumptuous! Yuan Shikai, do you want to rebel? Lao Tzu killed you first, and you will affect Lao Tzu's family in the province! Ye Zhichao was suddenly furious and wanted to pull out his gun.

Yuan Shikai hurriedly said: "Leader, you are wrong, is my old Yuan so stupid?" Now that the Chinese Empire is unprecedentedly strong, and the rule of Emperor Guanghua is extremely stable, let alone a Li Hongzhang, even a hundred and a thousand Li Hongzhang can't kill our emperor! I mean, didn't the emperor and his old man find evidence of Li Hongzhang's rebellion? We have it here, let's go online with Li Hongzhang, the evidence is in hand, and it will be handed over to the emperor, so won't it be a complete turnover? Who the will dare to say that we are Huaijun in the future? Who the would dare to look at us with tinted glasses? ”

Everyone was in a daze. (To be continued.) )