One day in August 1881, a Chinese merchant ship sailing from Bombay entered Mogadishu. When the ship landed steadily, a column after column of heroic young men from the boat was in the wind, they were the fresh graduates of the Imperial Land University this year, and Zhang Xun was one of them.

Zhang Xun is 26 years old this year, his original name is Zhang He, and Lin Hong is also called Zhang Xun casually, but others didn't know it at first, and finally Zhang Xun changed his name himself. Zhang Xun is simple-minded, reckless and impatient, which is known to those who have been friends with Zhang Xun, but they also know that he is loyal and generous, frank and straightforward, honest and righteous, cheerful, daring, quite able to repay kindness, never conceal his own opinions, never go back on his word, and never betray his friends for glory. Like many previous historical celebrities, he was hand-picked by the emperor to directly enter the Imperial Lu University to study, which made this stunned boy's loyalty index to Lin Hong rise directly to diehard.

Zhang Xun studied infantry, he knew that his mathematical ability was not enough to learn artillery and navy, so he honestly chose infantry, this time he came to East Africa, Zhang Xun came with the purpose of promotion and wealth, don't think that such a purpose is not good, Lin Hong often repeats Napoleon's "A soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier." "Come and motivate the students to make a great career and fight for a good future. There are about 300 graduated officers who arrived in East Africa today, all of whom are from the infantry section, and because of the topography, there are fewer cavalry officers and artillery officers transferred to East Africa, and some of them have arrived first, plus Zhang Xun, and nearly 1,600 people have arrived in East Africa.

After receiving an order from the East African Colonial Corps Command, Zhang Xun and several classmates of the same level boarded the train to Alaro. [Don't underestimate the Empire's infrastructure construction of the colonies, in order to better control the colonies, the construction of roads is the top priority of the Imperial Colonial Department. 】

They were to rush to the 14th Division, stationed in Araro, to prepare for their duties.

"Little Four, what is your appointment?" Zhang Xun, as the boss, looked at this young man who was four years younger than him who was walking with him, Li Xiaosi, the third young master of the Li family in Nanyang, because he opposed his parents' arranged marriage, he went north and was admitted to the Imperial University, as the emperor valued Zhang Xun did have the demeanor of a big brother among the students of the same class, he was loyal and generous, frank and straightforward, honest and righteous, cheerful temperament, and dared to be, these points made the alumni of the same level very convinced of him, plus Zhang Xun did not commit a traitor in school, and the second did not wantonly attack Li Xiaosi, and he also intended to be a better good-natured big brother.

"Brother Xun, I was transferred to the logistics department of the 14th Division as a staff officer." Li Xiaosi said unexpectedly.

"Okay! I actually went to the logistics department, which is good! Little Four. Zhang Xun was surprised, and hurriedly said hello to Xiao Si. You must know that logistics has always been a priority for the Empire. All students who enter the Imperial Land University and the Sea University must first study logistics for one year, which is the "general practice of the Army and Navy Academy". And the students who graduated from the logistics discipline even if they barely graduated from the military rank are the lowest lieutenants, and the highest ranks in other sections are not lieutenants, and the military rank of the logistics system is promoted much faster than the combat system, which shows that the empire attaches great importance to this, in fact, the fourth junior studied the artillery department, but the chief of staff of the 14th division decided to transfer him to the logistics work after seeing the credits of the logistics examination in the first year of the junior fourth land university.

"Don't talk about me, what about you, Brother Xun?"

"Yes, go to a battalion under the 229th Brigade to be a battalion commander."

"Wow! Brother Xun is actually the battalion commander! I'm just a company commander! Zuo Qiming on the other side looked at Zhang Xun, who was called envy! Zuo Qiming was born in 1857 and is the youngest of the three, don't look at his surname Zuo, in fact, it has nothing to do with Zuo Zongtang.

"Is the company commander bad? You don't know for me! What you kid wants to bring is cavalry, a company of cavalry, I still envy you if you really want to fight! "Infantry is the largest in the army, generally in the ranking of its own students in the army military academy, the first is cavalry, the second is artillery, and finally the infantry, as for the special forces, I'm sorry to be unpopular, the current students basically don't know what the special forces do, resulting in the major military academies The subjects of the special forces can only be read by the army (Note: The deeds of the special forces are not allowed to be in the newspaper or known by the public, and the military refuses to publicize them)——

Araro is a small city, but the small city that can appear on the military map will not be small, Zhang Xun and others came here on horseback, the branch line of the "WN" railway is only as far as Boglermania, in Boglomania they got off the train and then got a few fast horses with the help of the local colonial government, so as not to go to Aararo.

Alola, camp of the XIV Division. In order to protect the logistics line, the 14th Division sent a brigade to protect the supply line (the Colonial Division was a B Division, and there were only two brigades in a division). To deal with guerrilla warfare, the current advice of the General Staff is to fight steadily and steadily, but the pressure on the military department is also very great, and the Ministry of Defense hopes to put down the rebellion completely by the end of the year, because there are already members of the National Assembly who have proposed a distrust and believe that the East African side is raising its own weight and wasting state finances.

Tang Jingsong, commander of the 14th Division, is exactly 40 years old this year, and becoming a major general and division commander at the age of 40 is also the main force in the Shaozhuang faction.

"Zhang Xun, Li Xiaosi, Zuo Qiming" Tang Jingsong looked at the three people in front of him and said by name.

"Here!" The three of them answered one by one.

"Very good, you have a day's housekeeping time, and report to the division staff headquarters at this time tomorrow, and the staff will take someone to lead you to the troops. Rest well tonight! ”

"Yes, sir!" ……

One night, the three of them rested in the barracks of the headquarters, and early the next morning, the three of them hurried to the divisional staff headquarters of the 14th Division, only to receive another order for them to participate in a month-long training in special operations.

"I thought I would be able to do a lot after graduation, but I didn't expect to study here." Zuo Qiming was whining and wailing on the side.

"Yaoguang (Zuo Qiming) don't worry, since it is an order from above, we must obey it as soldiers, I just inquired and heard that this time we are training several troops such as 'Drought Fish' and 'Poisonous Wolf', which are all first-class troops in the domestic army." Zhang Xun continued.

"That 'drought' special soldier who claims to have no grass wherever the soldiers go?" Li Xiaosi asked in surprise.

"That's right! The staff officer just told me that the people of the drought had just come down from the west to recuperate, and that they had time to impart our experience, after all, their experience was very good for me when we first arrived. Zhang Xun carefully analyzed.

Zuo Qiming continued: "Hearing you say this, I remembered that the Imperial * team has always been in strategic passivity in East Africa because of the lack of combat experience and effective maps in this complex terrain, and their experience is indeed important. ”

"He can say that their team can come out and out of 10 individually, and I really want to see it." Li Xiaosi suddenly looked forward to these special forces.