April 1, 1917, Reims, a city in northeastern France.

On the edge of the town of Reims, a river flows quietly, not wide. This ordinary river has the once-common name "Marne". After the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914, the river was stained red several times with French and German blood. There have also been countless times when the water has been splashed by whistling shells, and the river mud has flown everywhere.

Now, in this land where shrenchnel can be kicked out with a few kicks, a regiment of French soldiers is about to take on the task of being the vanguard of the attack on the Germans. The "anti-gas" tablets had been taken down by the French army, and the powder to "help breathe" had been inhaled into the nostrils by the French officers and soldiers.

It only took a few minutes for the French soldiers, who had looked suspicious and tired, to change. The suspicious gaze became firm and sharp, and the exhaustion flew away from the French soldiers as if it had wings. The French officers and soldiers, who had not been seriously exercising for a long time, began to spontaneously stretch their waists, do squats, and press their legs. The power that had been dormant for a long time suddenly erupted from their bodies, forcing the French officers and soldiers to release them in a way of movement.

Not only soldiers and junior officers, but even the regimental commander, who had been gloomy for months, showed a long-lost smile. He gave orders in a powerful voice, and the troops began to run, move their bodies, and perform military maneuvers. Even the order to wipe the gun was carried out.

From the Battle of Verdun last year, French troops were generally reluctant to engage in offensive warfare again. The French upper echelons also had to agree to the French soldiers to go on the defensive, and the French army had been fighting the attacking Germans with machine guns and mortars in the fortified pillboxes. Even when the Germans approached the trenches, the French refused to open themselves to German fire. They relied on firing grenades with powerful slingshots against the incoming Germans.

This was already very lucky, and the regiment now appointed to take the lead almost set off a rebellion at that time. And the reason why this regiment, which was regarded as the vanguard, went unpunished was because the entire French army was almost on the verge of a collective rebellion.

The roar of artillery on the battlefield, which seemed to never stop, and the bullets that seemed to be everywhere, drove almost all the French troops crazy. Even with the stigma of rebellion, these soldiers are not willing to stay on the battlefield that is equivalent to hell. However, it was such a force, and now it has miraculously regained its vitality.

Even though they knew that their mission was to attack, they knew very well that the French upper echelons had promised that "the soldiers would never again take part in the harsh battles of the German army", but the rapid flow of blood, and the unusually clear mind, unconsciously built up self-confidence, and banished fear and anxiety from their minds. These French soldiers felt a longing in their breasts, an indescribable real longing. After the movement, the soldiers once again assembled in a neat line, and all eyes were invariably looking at the regimental commander who was standing condescendingly on a stool.

"Fellow Frenchmen! Behind us is the land of France, where our parents and relatives are loved. In front of us is the land of France, and it is not the French who are entrenched there, but the Germans! Today, we're going to take back our French land. If we can't, we'll be on our knees again before the Germans, as we did 46 years ago......"

The regiment commander felt that his thinking today was exceptionally clear, and he could clearly remember that the Franco-Prussian War broke out and ended in 1870-1871, and he even calculated that 1917 minus 1871 was equal to 46 in just a split second. He also found that he had the courage to fight, and that he was able to explain the reasons for the battle to the French officers and men of his regiment, who had not long been languishing.

With just a sweep of his eyes, the regimental commander could see the faces of almost every French officer and soldier, and could feel their increasing agitation. The fierce breathing, the skin that had become vibrant because of the surging blood, the head of the regiment could see and even feel it.

After a long and highly incendiary mobilization, the regimental commander shouted: "Soldiers, although we once did not dare to fight, now the time has come to wash away our shame!" Banzai! France! ”

"Hooray! France! Nearly half of the soldiers shouted in unison.

Human beings are such a kind of creatures full of groups, and as the shouts progressed again and again, all the officers and soldiers shouted together. The blood boiling in their chests, and the indescribable longing, were now gathered in the "Hurray!" in the euphoric mood of the masses. France! under the slogan. Even the head of the regiment himself became intoxicated.

In the end, the regimental commander used his last strength and shouted: "Go!" Come with me to fight! The cry of truth pierced the air, almost echoing in the sky.

Four hours later, the command got the news. Led by this defeatist French infantry regiment, whose vast majority of soldiers were almost equal to traitors, the French army launched a valiant attack on the German positions opposite. The attack failed, but according to the observation of observers and even reconnaissance planes, while the other regiments did not dare to advance under German artillery fire, lying on the ground, hiding motionless in the trenches, the regiment in the vanguard continued to advance even though it suffered heavy losses. Some of the soldiers who stormed the German trenches engaged in a tragic bayonet battle even though they were surrounded by the Germans.

After the personnel of the command summarized the news, it suddenly broke out. Presumably, the process was to first make X X the female relatives of all generations of the traitors in the rear of the front, and then curse the logistics department for sending "anti-gas drugs" to the front line after the war had been going on for several years.

It was not only this unit that was taking "anti-gas drugs", the French General Command collected more results.

The "anti-gas drug" can effectively improve all the abilities of the French army, physical strength, speed, reaction time, and even invisible courage can be magically born out of thin air.

The war has been going on for so long, and Britain and France have long since used a lot of various drugs in the army to treat mental illness on the battlefield. Cigarettes are nothing at all, opium and morphine have long become common therapeutic drugs. Those drugs could only alleviate the heavy stress and great pain of the soldiers after the war. There is no drug that can stimulate the strength and fighting spirit of soldiers before the war like "anti-gas drugs".

Of course, not all experiments have achieved extremely satisfactory results, and those who have been killed by a thousand knives in the logistics department have asked for a large number of soldiers who can speak well to carry out pre-war mobilization, shouting slogans, brainwashing, and so on. And the current fighting will of the French army is difficult to find a sufficient number of guys who can muster the will to fight, so some attacks are inevitably discounted.

There was no shortage of orators in France, and the General Command, after discussion, decided that it would be urgent to recruit orators so that they could take "anti-gas drugs" and give speeches. In short, all kinds of schemes are springing up. This is also an extremely rare thing in the French Commander-in-Chief.

However, when the General Headquarters asked the logistics department to continue to provide "anti-gas drugs" for the next large-scale offensive war, the logistics department said, "The drugs have run out, you have to wait." ”

This delay almost caused the General Headquarters to send the logistics department to a court-martial, and the French telegram immediately flew to China, thousands of miles away.

Wang Bin, a commercial representative of the People's Party, said earnestly to the French minister: "Although we have not conducted sufficient research, this drug will inevitably cause a considerable degree of side effects, and we have included these drugs in the list of controlled drugs attached to our Narcotics Control Regulations." So I hope that your country will be able to do more research on it before considering large-scale use. ”

The French minister politely waited for Wang Bin to finish speaking, his arms were pressed against the table, and his upper body leaned into the table. In a tone of genuine anxiety, the French minister asked: "Say it, please!" What exactly are you going to offer? ”

On April 4, 1917, in front of the heavily guarded Louvre Museum in Paris, the Chinese minister and staff together with the French carefully delivered the "trophies" looted from China by France and then displayed in the Louvre into a car. The long convoy will head to Cherbourg, where Chinese artifacts will be loaded onto ships and sail to China. There is also a lot of silver, which is the price that Wang Bin demanded.

China and France reached a secret agreement on this matter, China did not recognize the sale of any drugs to France, and at the same time, France could not sell these "anti-gas drugs" back to China for any reason or in any way after the war. The day before these looted Chinese cultural relics were loaded, France commissioned British warships to enter the Yangtze River and sail urgently to Wuhu, where they received "anti-gas drugs" and then sailed to Europe. The aim is to get these goods to Europe and France in the shortest possible time.

For France, the last attempt not only organized a real offensive that had not been seen for a long time, but also achieved another effect that was not expected to be achieved, which was to consume a large number of "dangerous soldiers with treasonous intentions". Recruits who are replenished by the defense have a far stronger will to fight than those veterans who have been tortured on the battlefield for three years, and the loyalty of the recruits is more reliable. The French upper echelons were already frightened by the almost collective rebellion of the French army in 1916, and did not dare to attack the veterans just to maintain the army. With a new solution, they felt like a big rock fell to the ground. The desire for the "anti-gas drug" to arrive in France as soon as possible was redoubled.

"Chairman Chen, is this appropriate?" Although Wang Bin, the commercial representative, negotiated a big deal, Wang Bin was very uneasy about France's preparations for the large-scale use of this stimulant.

"The Germans have advanced military skills, and the French rely on divine skills to protect their bodies. That's probably what it is. Chen Ke doesn't have as much sentimentality as Wang Bin. The French's organization of a death charge at the end of World War I was not "news" to Chen Ke. If it weren't for the fact that he knew the urine of the French, Chen Ke would have planned to sell the medicine to the British.

On the battlefields of World War I, doping was already extremely widespread. After the war, Britain added hundreds of thousands of addicts who had joined the army. The French, on the other hand, relied on death charges to consume the French soldiers who were forced to rebel by the battlefields of hell. Originally, Chen Ke didn't know this, but it was thanks to the French that the French female director made a film about the Battle of Stalingrad, called "Soldiers Coming to the City". Chen Ke can remember this movie because of the road, he and several brothers and sisters walked home after watching the movie.

Later, there was news that when the female director visited Russia, she was protested by Soviet veterans, and after discussion in various forums, she finally dug up the matter of France's death charge in the late World War I.

The French themselves are so cruel to their own people, and there is no reason why Chen Ke is more merciful than the French upper echelons. As for the British, methamphetamine addiction is far easier to treat than heroin addiction. Chen Ke has explicitly ordered Wang Bin to stress to the French and British government officials who came to buy the drugs the possible consequences and side effects of the drugs. In the absence of any coercion, the country-to-country narcotics trade is perfectly legal. Having done everything the BJP could do, there was absolutely no reason to refuse the purchase request made by the British and French governments.

Wang Bin has never seen Lin Qingxia's Dongfang Undefeated in the movie and said "You have Western technology, I have divine power to protect the body", so he can't understand Chen Ke's sense of humor. Moreover, Wang Bin cared more about the moral level of the People's Party, so he still persuaded: "Chairman Chen, after this head is opened, I am afraid that there will be endless troubles in the future." ”

"Comrade Wang Bin, you say this because you have not experienced those extreme environments. Have you walked across the steel mill's flyover? Under the feet is thousands of degrees of hot steel, and immediately there is no slag left when a person falls, and it is completely burned into fly ashes. Have you ever driven a car for more than 10 hours in a row? Have you ever experienced a battlefield where shells explode every second in front of you and behind you? We in the BJP don't use these things now because our fighters know what they're fighting for, so they can endure such terrible conditions. But many workers in extreme conditions can't stand it. Not to mention the soldiers of European countries who fought for the capitalists of the Entente. Of course we won't allow these things to become popular in the country, you can rest assured of this. And you don't think about this trade in terms of pan-moralism, because in the face of inescapable reality, people's moral considerations are different. Drink to quench your thirst, and you have to drink poisonous wine even if you are very thirsty. ”

Listening to Chen Ke's words, Wang Bin was silent. He knows very well how firm Chen Ke and the People's Party are in their anti-drug and anti-drug stance, but the world is so cruel. In order to win the war, the French minister begged Wang Bin to agree to provide medicine. With the slightest hesitation on the part of France, the deal will not work. The French did not hesitate, and the French had a strong desire.

At least those looted national treasures will finally be able to return home! Wang Bin could only use this reason to appease himself at this time. It was the only reason he could find to reassure his conscience.