December 24, 1912, Christmas.

The British, French and German teams stationed in the Suez Canal Zone were on holiday, and many officers and soldiers poured into the bars to drink alcohol, which inevitably led to fights and brawls between the two sides.

In a bar called Mondland, British Lieutenant Colonel Charles and German Major Stilwell get into an argument over a bar girl. There were frequent military confrontations between the British and German armies in the Suez Canal Zone, and it had become customary for officers and soldiers on both sides to fight and brawl, so no one stopped them, but soldiers on both sides followed suit.

During the fight, Charles obviously couldn't beat Stilwell, and soon had the upper hand. The Englishman had lost any gentlemanly demeanor, and immediately called his subordinates to go up with him in order to get back on the field. As a result, more than a dozen British soldiers rushed forward together and fought in a group with seven or eight German troops.

Group fights were not uncommon, but it happened to be Christmas, and there were many officers and soldiers on holiday, and hundreds of people soon gathered to fight.

In the middle of the fight, Captain Shao Hua, an executor from the 29th Division of the CIA of the Chinese Empire, appeared in the bar with two plainclothes agents, Lieutenant Zhang Nan and Second Lieutenant Li Kai.

The three of them looked at each other and immediately went into action.

Shao Hua and Zhang Nan came not far behind a German officer and a British officer, respectively, while Li Kai slipped into the motor room.

The lights went out, and the bar was dark.

When everyone was stunned, Shao Hua and Zhang Nan made a move. They quickly covered the mouths of their former officers with one hand, and quickly slashed their daggers across each other's throats with the other, and in the splattering of blood, a British and German officer lost their lives.

The soldiers who were fighting in the group still had no intention of stopping, and even thought about taking advantage of the darkness to beat each other violently, anyway, when the lights were on, they didn't know who hit them.

Shao Hua and Zhang Nan each took out their pistols from the killed officer, and according to the prior agreement, the two shot very tacitly.

"Bang Bang!"

In the darkness, gunshots rang out, and screams rang out in a row.

"The Germans shot!"

"It's Lugar's voice!"

"The British have shot!"

"It's Phelps' voice!"

Shao Hua and Zhang Nan shouted in fluent English London dialect and German Berlin dialect respectively, and no one could tell who shouted it in the dark, only by language. Obviously, the British officers and soldiers understood that it was their London accent, and naturally thought that it was their own people. In the same way, the Germans understood the Berlin dialect and did not have any doubts.

"Bang Bang!"

The gunfire soon rang out again, much more intensely than before, because the British and German officers and soldiers had taken out their weapons to counterattack, and it was impossible to distinguish between friend and foe in the dark. Both sides were shouting and screaming, judging the location of the enemy and their own by the sound of their voices. The British and German officers and soldiers who were entangled in the fight began to make a deadly hand, and they were sure to put each other to death.

When the bullets were flying, Shao Hua, Zhang Nan, and Li Kai had already slipped out of the soles of their feet with oil and stayed away from the scene.

A fierce shootout in the bar at night soon alarmed the nearby British, French, and German garrison headquarters.

Half an hour later, the British Major General Rand, who rushed to hear the news, led his troops to try to stop the exchange of fire between the two sides, but the two sides were already incompatible, and they could not stop it at all. When power was restored, Rand was taken aback, and his men reported that more than 50 British and French officers and soldiers had been killed and more than 100 wounded. On the German side, more than 30 people were killed and nearly 100 wounded.

RAND demanded that the remaining 50 or so German officers and soldiers surrender, but the other side refused. So Rand ordered the British army to prepare to forcibly disarm the weapons of the fifty or so German troops, and a gun battle broke out between the two sides.

Rand originally wanted to capture these fifty or so Germans before a large number of Germans arrived, so as to gain the upper hand in the subsequent negotiations and negotiations, but he never expected that things would change too quickly. Soon Lieutenant General Haines, the commander of the German army in the Suez Canal, arrived with more than 500 German troops, and the two sides fought without even saying a word.

It turned out that after Shao Hua and the three of them successfully provoked the bar conflict, they called the British, French and German headquarters in the Suez Canal respectively, accusing the other party of firing the gun first and detaining the basin on the other party.

In this way, the Germans, who had heard the news, saw that the British were attacking their men, so they went into battle without saying a word.

In an instant, thousands of people fought fiercely on the entire street, with gunshots, bullets, grenade explosions, and a surge in casualties on both sides.

On a high-rise building on another street, Shao Hua, Zhang Nan and Li Kai used binoculars to observe the fierce battle on the street, and everyone had a happy smile on their faces.

Li Kai said: "Now the two major military groups must fight." ”

"Let's fight quickly, let's have peace of mind." Zhang Nan then said.

Shao Hua snorted coldly: "Let them Europeans eat dogs, it's better to fight endlessly!" ”

The three of you and I talked one by one, and they all looked forward to the outbreak of a full-scale war between Britain and France and Germany, which was also their task.

"If we complete the task before the other groups, then a Golden Harvest medal is indispensable!"

As soon as the three of them thought that they would receive a Golden Harvest Medal for completing the task, a wistful expression suddenly appeared on their faces.

For the emperors, it will be their greatest wish to be able to obtain a medal of Jiahe that symbolizes honor. Because the empire began with the Order of the Golden Harvest, the issuer could only be His Majesty the Emperor. As the commander of the three armies, the emperor Wang Chenhao is the most sacred in the eyes of the emperor, they are all for being able to meet the emperor in person, listen to the emperor say a word to them, and be able to shake hands with the emperor, which is simply the greatest honor.

At this moment, the gunfire suddenly stopped, and the three of them immediately looked at it.

It turned out that Britain and Germany had just declared a ceasefire, and neither side seemed to want to expand the conflict, so they were ready to negotiate.

British General Rand and German General Haynes walked up to the two armies, and the two were negotiating to try to control the escalation.

Li Kai suddenly complained: "Damn it! These foreign devils are always so mother-in-law, hurry up and fight! ”

Zhang Nan was also very unhappy and said: "Why is there another ceasefire?" If they don't fight, won't our efforts be in vain? My Golden Harvest Medal! Bodhisattva manifestation! ”

"Don't make a noise!" Shao Hua shouted and said, "Li Kai has seen you!" that German lieutenant general! ”

"Roger!" Li Kai suddenly became excited, and hurriedly picked up his sniper rifle and climbed onto the rooftop.

"Zhang Nan, you go and help him! Be sure to hit it right in one hit! ”

"Understood!"

Li Kai's M12 sniper rifle has a caliber of 12.7 mm, which is a high-power anti-materiel sniper rifle. Designed by Browning, it was originally a lightweight-reduced version of the 12.7 mm M2 heavy machine gun, which was much lighter than the M2 and could therefore be used for man-portable use. The original use was used by the Chinese Imperial Blue Army units to fight the combat vehicles of the Chinese Imperial Red Army units during exercises, as the 12.7mm steel-core armor-piercing projectile could penetrate the Army's M10 combat vehicles as anti-tank equipment guns.

As a professional "fault-finding" unit of the Chinese Empire, the Blue Army unit is composed of special forces, which are specially aimed at the shortcomings of the Imperial Army. During an exercise, Captain Ma Ping, a special forces officer of the Blue Army, used an anti-materiel rifle to attack a Red Army combat vehicle, but the distance was too far to be seen clearly. When the distance was close, the short-barreled artillery and heavy machine guns on the combat vehicle were too threatening, so Ma Ping boldly tied the sniper scope to the anti-materiel rifle for the first time, and the result was a long-range sniper combat example.

Since then, the Reichstag has installed a 10x sight on the M12 anti-materiel rifle, which can be used to attack targets such as combat vehicles, military vehicles, and trucks due to its large weight and high bullet storage rate, which can still have supersonic speed at a distance of 1,200 meters.

Li Kai of the CIA was born as a special forces sniper, and joined the CIA after retiring, and as an executor, his weapon is still a sniper rifle. However, he was tall and strong, and did not like to use traditional 7.92 rifle rounds, especially large-caliber sniper rifles, so the CIA's weapons department equipped him with an M12 anti-materiel rifle for assassination of important targets in cars.

Since it is a special operation, the bullets used in Li Kai's anti-materiel rifle are also specially made. Explodes after hitting the target, does not retain the warhead, and does not give the enemy a chance to make counter-inferences.

Of course, Li Kai's choice of the M12 sniper rifle is related to his surname, he likes bloodthirsty, and ordinary sniper rifle bullets hit the human body after they are just a small blood hole, at most a big hole. However, the bullet of the M12 sniper rifle is a point 50 caliber, and after hitting, it will explode like a shell. In this way, once it hits the human body, the end will be miserable, and the human body will be torn apart.

Li Kai quickly took his position, and with the help of the street lights, he locked onto the German Lieutenant General Haynes from the scope.

The M12 sniper rifle does not need to correct its trajectory within 300 meters. But beyond 300 meters, the environment and gravity must be taken into account.

Zhang Nan, who was next to him, judged the wind speed and direction from the telescope based on the German flag fluttering not far from Haines, and judged the distance according to the buildings near him. In terms of temperature and humidity, Zhang Nan can only rely on hearing the weather forecast during the day and his own feelings to judge.

"The distance is about 900 meters, at 1 o'clock, the wind is half-speed, the temperature is about 82 Fahrenheit, and the humidity is about 39 percent."

After Li Kai heard Zhang Nan's prompt, he quickly opened the booklet beside him, which was a record of his usual school gun and shooting in a different environment.

As the temperature increases, the air becomes thinner, the impact point rises, the humidity decreases, the air stagnant resistance decreases, and the impact point increases. Therefore, the temperature difference needs to be corrected by 0.1 arc minutes for every 10 degrees Fahrenheit, and the elevation angle is corrected by 0.1 arc minutes for every 10% wet difference, so Li Kai compared the recorded values on his booklet, quickly mentally calculated the corrected ballistic results, and reached out on the knob of the scope to correct the elevation knob by 2.2 and the wind deflection knob by 0.75, adjusting a total of 2.95 arc minutes.

"The target is stationary, you can shoot."

As soon as Zhang Nan's words fell, Li Kai took a sharp breath and quickly pulled the trigger.

There was a bang, and at the same time that the huge recoil force was on Li Kai's shoulder, a 50-caliber copper armor and steel core armor-piercing blasting projectile shot out, heading straight for the target.

The bullet accurately hit Haines in the head. Li Kai clearly saw through the telescope that Haines's head had been blown up, turning into a red blood mist several meters in diameter. The British General Rand opposite Haynes was standing dumbfounded, his face full of blood and brains, his face full of confusion.

Due to the supersonic flight of bullets, the British and German troops saw Haines's head bloom first, and then heard the gunshots.

"Who fired the shot?"

The British commander soon asked, but no one answered, and no one saw it, because Li Kai's position was too far away for their naked eyes to see, and no one thought that the bullet would come from 900 meters away.

"They killed the general!"

The Germans immediately bombed the battalion, and watched the body of the headless Haynes slowly fall to the ground, and the Germans immediately opened fire.

In the dense gunfire, Major General Rand of the British Army was suddenly beaten into a hornet's nest, and his body shook involuntarily, like a puppet.

At this moment, there was no possibility of negotiation between the two sides, and they were both red-eyed. Both sides charged at any cost, thinking of rushing to the middle of the position to be snatched back by the corpse of their own general, which also caused greater casualties on both sides.

Soon, the Germans recovered the body of the headless Haines, and the British recovered the General Rand, who had been beaten into a hornet's nest. Due to the superiority of the British troops, the Germans were forced to retreat after an hour of fierce fighting with the British, fearing that they would be surrounded by the British follow-up troops.

The British army pursued the victory and mobilized a large force. At the same time, the Germans also urgently mobilized large forces to rush to reinforcements, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides in the Canal Zone northwest of Ismailia, which paralyzed the canal.

Since neither side was prepared for a major battle, and very suddenly, both armies lost their supreme commanders, and everything became very chaotic.

That night, the British and German high commands learned of the incident and instructed their respective troops to demand a ceasefire in advance to prevent the situation from escalating. So the British and German armies fought until four o'clock in the morning before retreating.

The next day, news of a large-scale military clash between British and German troops over the Suez Canal spread, and the world was in an uproar. A large-scale military conflict broke out between Britain and Germany in the Suez Canal, in which the British lost more than 800 officers and men below Major General Rand and wounded more than 1,000, and the Germans killed more than 600 officers and soldiers below Lieutenant General Haines and wounded more than 900 people. The entire Suez Canal Zone was suspended, and the garrisons of both the Central and Entente powers were all upgraded to a state of first-class combat readiness, and a major war was imminent.

Britain and Germany, as the main countries concerned, immediately engaged in a fierce diplomatic game on the 25th. Britain accused Germany of unjustified provocation and provoking large-scale bloodshed, which must be explained to Britain. Similarly, Germany accused Britain of being rude and provocative, causing a large number of casualties among the German army, and demanded that the British political axe bear all the consequences.

Diplomats from both sides spat in Berlin and London, neither wanting to back down, so much so that relations between the two countries were sharply strained, and orders were issued at home for combat readiness of the second level.

At the same time, both the Entente and the Central Powers were greatly nervous. Although they all expected war, they were also terrified when it did come near. After all, countries do not distinguish between strong and weak, and the chances of winning or losing are equal for both sides. The countries usually shout for joy, but when the real fight starts, they are all bottomless.

(To be continued)