Since Han Zheng last met Heinz Wilhelm Guderian in his library, Han Zheng has gradually visited the library more and more, and they have become more and more familiar with each other.

In the strange country of Germany, Guderian was the first foreign friend Han Zheng really made.

Not long ago, after Han Zheng found an opportunity, Han Zheng introduced Wang Xian and others to Guderian again, but obviously Guderian was not too keen on this matter, although he had changed his concept and did not discriminate against them, but the pride of the Germans in his mind for a long time could not be eliminated for a while.

Guderian was able to make friends with Han Zheng because Guderian felt that there was a common language between him and Han Zheng, and treated Han Zheng as a confidant, so he naturally did not want to have too much intersection with Wang Xian and others, who had no common language, so for him, even if he was acquainted with a few people, he did not have too much conversation with Wang Xian and the others.

It is estimated that if it weren't for the relationship with Han Zheng, it is estimated that Guderian would not even be able to call a nodding friend with Wang Xian and others.

And because of this, there was something that Han Zheng didn't expect, and it was precisely because of Guderian's incident that some international students such as Wang Xian and others admired Han Zheng more and more.

For Wang Xian and others, a person who can make friends with the old-fashioned Germans, and can make the other party treat them as confidants, they think they can't do it, and they never even thought of such a thing before.

Because of this, Han Zheng gradually became the core figure among these international students.

Although Han Zheng can speak some basic common phrases in German, when communicating and learning with Guderian, once it involves some professional terms and some special terms, there will inevitably be more or less problems in the communication between the two sides, so the two can only use English as an intermediary at the beginning, stumbling and learning each other's language, Guderian also took on the responsibility of teaching Han Zheng German, and at the same time, Han Zheng also took on the responsibility of Guderian's Chinese and Xi Jinping.

In this way, the friendship between them became deeper through mutual learning and exchanges, and whenever he talked about his motherland, China, Han Zheng felt both pride and sadness.

For this kind of thing, Guderian can only express sympathy in his heart, in the international community is such a reality, whoever has a big fist, who says the truth, and now the two of them are just small people who can no longer be small.

Time is like flowing water, and time is like a shuttle.

Half a year has passed, and all the international students, including Han Zheng, have gained a lot, and life here is both fulfilling and meaningful for them.

With half a year of study, Han Zheng can now communicate more fluently with Guderian in German, the language barrier is becoming less and less, and the communication is becoming smoother and smoother.

However, it is still more difficult for Guderian to communicate in Chinese, not that Guderian's Chinese is so good because he does not study Chinese attentively, but that Chinese is too difficult for foreigners to learn, both ancient and modern.

After half a year, Guderian usually could only use some of the most commonly used Chinese to greet Han Zheng, for which he complained many times that Chinese was difficult to learn, but he knew more and more about Chinese history, and began to like the country that he had only heard of.

"Although I like China's splendid culture and long and mysterious history, and I admit the beauty of the Chinese language, for me, the Chinese language is really a terrible thing."

Guderian didn't think about this time until many years later, and he still thought so about learning Chinese.

At the same time, with the help of Guderian's best efforts, Han Zheng came into contact with more and more Western culture, and read more and more widely, including not only the military, economic and cultural development history of Germany, but also the related works of France, Britain, Italy and other countries, and his understanding of these countries is no longer as superficial and crude as his own in his previous life.

Throughout the learning process, Guderian was also more and more surprised by Han Zheng's learning ability.

He found that the more he came into contact with Han Zheng, the more he could understand the thirst for knowledge of this oriental friend.

This Oriental friend gave him more and more surprises, in his body, there was no sign that he was a character who came out of that country that had fallen and sunk, and the Chinese in other people's mouths was not the same at all, and even the international students who came from the far east and Han Zheng were not the same as the other party, Han Zheng's body was full of vitality and confidence, as strong and shocking as the new sun that was about to erupt......

As the days passed, all the cadets who studied in Germany from China slowly adapted to the life of the Army Military Academy in Berlin, and their life in Berlin gradually got on the right track.

And this group of students who studied in Germany is due to the insistence of President Jiang, and each of them can come here is not an ordinary person and a mediocre person, but they all rely on real strength to come here, coupled with the initial discrimination by foreigners, so this has prompted them to be active in learning.

They can bear hardships and stand hard work in their usual training, and each person has new changes every day, giving full play to the excellent qualities of the Oriental people, and it is the quality of these Oriental students that also makes all the German students and instructors more and more impressive, so that they gradually change their contempt for the Chinese students, and their hearts slowly despise them from the beginning to gradually accept them later, until now they have a secret respect from the bottom of their hearts.

After all, Han Zheng and others used their actions to win the respect they wanted, although this respect has nothing to do with the country and only about individuals.

Among all the students except Han Zheng, especially Wang Xian's progress is the greatest, whenever he sees and thinks of his old rival, his current friend Han Zheng is so good, it makes him admire and respect, and at the same time, it makes him full of motivation.

Han Zheng's excellence did not make him depressed and decadent, even if he could never catch up with the height of the other party in his heart, but he had to stand firmly behind him, and he persevered and worked hard.

What all the other international students, excluding Han Zheng, didn't know at this time was that there was already a turmoil in China, and the situation was becoming more and more tense......

In this era when it is difficult to hear from the country, for young students who are far away from their home country, with the widening of the distance, although they try to collect all the information about the country, this distance still makes them seem so far away from their motherland.

The year 1910 was the traditional Chinese year of Gengxu (Year of the Dog) and the second year of the Qing Emperor's proclamation, when China was already in a real dire situation, and the great powers spent all their time in the leased land of China's bright lights and wine, bullying the Chinese, and the Chinese people lived a very difficult and painful life.

At the same time, the Qing government, which was sitting on a powder keg, was forced to gradually put the constitution on the agenda under the pressure of domestic domination.

In domestic politics, in January 1910, representatives of 16 provinces of China rushed to Beijing to petition for the establishment of a constitutional system and the establishment of a parliament, but the Qing government sternly refused, and uprisings began in some parts of the south.

First, there was an uprising in Jiading in southern Sichuan in February, but soon after the defeat, there was another uprising of the new army in Guangzhou in the same month, and in July of the same year, tens of thousands of peasants broke out in the country.

More and more people with lofty ideals began to become more and more dissatisfied with the Qing court, and revolutionary ideas began to spread widely, creating better conditions for the uprising in the coming year.

In March 1910, on 27 February, on his way to inspect the navy, Zaixun, the minister of the navy of the Qing court, was assassinated by revolutionaries, but it was not successful, Xiong Chengji and others were arrested and killed, and in April, Wang Jingwei and others were arrested for the attempted assassination of Zaifeng.

In the whole year from January to December at the end of the year, the petitioning representatives of the constitutionalist provinces launched a total of three large-scale petitions, all of which were oppressed by the Qing court, but they continued and intensified, and people became more and more disappointed and hated by the Qing court.

Internationally, the contradictions between China and Japan and Russia intensified at this time.

On 8 May 1910, the Japanese military police in Liudaogou, Yanji, openly shot and wounded several Chinese firefighters, and on 4 July, Japan and Russia left China and signed the Second "Russo-Japanese Agreement" on their own, further joining forces to encroach on and carve up the interests of "Manchuria." With the acquiescence of other powers, the Qing court was powerless to intervene in the two countries and was forced to acquiesce in the illegal interests it plundered in China.

At this time, in order to calm the domestic voice, the suppression of the domestic people was once again intensified.

At the same time, on the economic front, in November 1911, the United States, Britain, Germany, and France formed a banking syndicate and twice provided loans of 16 million pounds to the Qing court.

China's economic exploitation intensified, and the Qing government's taxes on traditional agriculture and national industry and commerce in order to repay its loans became heavier and heavier.

The Qing government was in jeopardy, and the Qing rule was on the verge of bankruptcy.

And for the current Han Zheng, everything in the country is far away and looking forward to, he is studying seriously while quietly waiting for the opportunity to return to China, in the deepest part of his heart that no one else can see, and under the ordinary face, his eyes are always open, across the ocean and thousands of mountains and rivers to look at the direction of his motherland, he, a student living abroad and wandering, has never forgotten his motherland, never forgetting to remind himself to wait patiently, waiting for 1911, The advent of the era of the Great Revolution.

He himself did not know whether this was a mad ambition or a plot of his own heart, he only knew that he would seize every opportunity he could to control his own destiny in the tide of the coming great era, and realize his deepest ambition or ideal opportunity, even if it was to dedicate everything to that troubled nation - then when he died, he should end up smiling.