Although Huang Xing's words are not heavy, they are very piercing. Sa Zhenbing couldn't help but look up and was silent for a long time.

"Sa Zhen is ashamed of the handsome! The navy is ashamed of paying taxes, old and old, old and confused. With that, Sa Zhenbing raised his hand in the direction of the General Staff and saluted, and the admirals behind him followed silently.

The situation on the Eastern Front changed dramatically, and Britain and France could no longer sit still and launched the spring offensive of 15, that is, the Shambani and Adwa offensives. I don't know if the British and French generals had broken their brains, and the hardships they had already endured in the pursuit of the late part of the First Battle of the Marne were actually staged again.

The monotony of British and French tactics made people desperate, with a long period of artillery preparation, millions of shells, and a bombardment of three days. And then there was the group charge of the infantry. Probably because of too much confidence in the preparation of artillery fire, there was no change in the offensive tactics of the Anglo-French army. This mistake was undoubtedly fatal, and the lives of millions of soldiers were cut short because of this mistake, and the Germans took the power of the new equipment to the extreme, and with their strong fortifications, inflicted a lot of casualties on the British and French forces. After the two offensives, the German army's 75 mountain guns, light and heavy machine guns and mortars made the British and French forces suffer a lot, and the British and French troops suffered one million casualties in the two offensives, and the German casualties were greatly reduced compared with the historical results, less than 250,000. The result of this comparison greatly increased the confidence of the German army in winning the war.

In 1915, the German army on the Eastern Front won a series of brilliant victories, and the German-Austrian army fought fiercely with the Russian army for eight months, destroying 300,000 more Russian troops than the historical 1.7 million, reaching 2.1 million. The question is. The casualties of the Germans were not small.

The Russian government did not surrender because of the defeat on the battlefield, but persisted. The tactics of the Russian army are very simple, that is, to block layer by layer. Fortifications at all levels. Take advantage of enough strategic depth in exchange for time.

1915 was undoubtedly a rather dark year for the Entente. If I had to come up with good news, it would probably be the incident of Italy's perfidy and joining the camp of the Entente. From a military point of view, Italy seems to have followed the glory of the ancient Roman Empire. It's not very good at fighting. Although this is a pig-like teammate, Germany has a pig-like teammate, Austria-Hungary. Forty divisions were dragged by Italy. Objectively speaking, if it weren't for the Austro-Hungarian Empire, it would have been too bad. Even the Russian army could not defeat it, and Germany was in a much better position in the First World War.

The failure of the Shambani and Adwa offensives left the British and French governments a little confused. Some newspapers even exclaimed: Won't the French Army, which claims to be the strongest army in Europe, fight anymore? In fact, in the eyes of the generals of the German army. It is true that the Anglo-French forces are not very good at fighting. Knowing full well that the Germans were armed with a large number of light and heavy machine gun mortars. They also dare to attack in dense formations. Do you really think that the 75 mountain guns with fifteen rounds per minute are decorations? Do you think that a large number of automatic weapons are ornaments?

If this war continues like this, Britain and France can't afford it, and there are not so many people to plug the guns.

It was against this background that the British Minister to China, Zhu Erdian, and the Minister to Japan respectively received a very important new task. Persuade the two military powers in East Asia, China and Japan, to send troops to Europe to help Britain and France plug the Germans' guns.

To be honest, this task is not easy to do, the Germans are powerful. Everyone knows this. Since the Battle of Tsingtao, Japan has always had a lot of grievances. If it weren't for the fact that the Japanese Navy had sunk several warships. Okuma's cabinet was almost knocked down.

In the history of parallel time and space, Japan, in Asia and the Pacific, has been busy receiving the interests of the Germans. The interests of Tsingtao, several islands in the Pacific Ocean. The British urged Japan to send troops to Europe, but Japan did not do it, but sent some people.

At this time, the Japanese suffered a defeat in Qingdao and lost 40,000 elite troops, which was a painful loss. In addition, a series of interests in China have been spit out, and the resentment of the Japanese is not ordinarily heavy. Therefore, the British minister to Japan quickly ran into a gray nose and returned to the country in a gray manner, and the Japanese side could symbolically send 100,000 people under the pretext that the Sino-Japanese war suffered huge losses and could not afford to send troops to Europe.

On the Chinese side, Zhu Erdian couldn't help but lament the moment he received the task. Is the glory of the British Empire coming to an end? What kind of task is it to come forward to persuade the Chinese to send troops to Europe? Now that the order has been issued at home, Zhu Erdian has always given the impression that Whitehall has "great influence over the Chinese government". In desperation, he could only bite the bullet and call the ministers of France and Russia to come to Fang Dashuai's palace together.

The formal channel is to meet Sun Baoqi and pass on the president to convey the meaning of Whitehall. The time was in the golden autumn of October, and the car of the envoys of the Three Kingdoms was driving on the road in Beijing, and when I watched the changes in Beijing after Yuan Shikai stepped down, I found that the city had changed a lot.

The most significant is clean, after the Republic of China government changed the owner, Beijing City carried out a series of municipal projects, focusing on the rectification of dirty, messy, poor areas. The inner city has also undergone some renovations, asking the Americans to redesign the underground drainage system. It's morning, and it's a little better. In the afternoon, you can see countless people, pushing a kind of small cart with one wheel or directly carrying it with a flat pole, constantly transporting garbage to a fixed place, and then loading it out of the city.

The biggest benefit of municipal engineering is that it creates a lot of employment opportunities. Even if you can't read a word, when you get to the construction site, as long as someone is a guarantor, men over the age of 16 and under the age of 50 can find a job. A worker can earn five cents a day, enough for a family of five to eat two meals of mixed noodles. Chinese are so good to feed, no matter what kind of food you are, you can eat two full meals, and countless people rush to do this work.

Sun Wangcai is an ordinary person in the municipal project, and the Sun family of five depends on Sun Wangcai as a coolie to support him. The mother-in-law is a big-footed mother-in-law bought from outside the mouth, with a mouth of yellow plate teeth, a long knock, and the advantage is that it is durable. After the lights go out at night, press it and toss it casually without tossing and breaking. For more than ten years, there are three babies in the family, the eldest is sixteen years old, and he has not yet allowed others to help his mother-in-law with housework at home. The second child is a male baby, ten years old and wild, before every day with other children to pick up cinders, the youngest is seven years old, is a female baby, every day with the second child behind the cinders, go to school or anything to think about.

Since the leader of this Beijing city has changed, it is no longer the living Cao Cao of Yuan Gongbao, and the Qiē in Beijing seems to be getting better. Earlier, the soldiers in the city walked sideways, but now the soldiers are called a peacemaker. Sun Wangcai, a forty-year-old man, once met a soldier on the street and accidentally stepped on someone's foot. At that time, I was scared of my soul, and I didn't pay for it. If Yuan Shikai was the president, the soldier would be able to break his legs. But now Fang Dashuai's soldiers are evil, and they are trampled on and compensated, and they say vigorously, "Uncle can't stand it", "I didn't pay attention to the aisle, it's blocking the way for you to carry the burden." That's it, what did you think about before? Give a butt to be light.

Even if the soldiers have changed, the officials in the alley have also changed their faces. The officials who had been yelling all day long had now become kind. At the end of last year, Hu San, who was a patrol officer, led two bespectacled Mr. Reading into the house and said that it was illegal not to let children study. The school has a lunch at noon, and the tuition fee is nothing, just go alone. So, the two little ones went to the school together, and Sun Wangcai sent it on the first day of going, and when they arrived at the school, they couldn't walk, and they were trembling all the time. Who would have thought that the gentlemen of the school would be kind and soft-spoken. I didn't understand what I was talking about. I know that when the child enters the school, he can study for free for five years, and the school is in charge of a school uniform, a meal, and a pen, ink, paper, inkstone, or something. When the two children came back from school that day, they really changed out of their torn clothes that were full of patches and didn't even have sleeves. The second child is a pair of blue-gray pants and a white short-sleeved gown, wear a set, and bring back a set to change and wash, but the fabric is a little thinner. The small one is a blue-gray skirt with a white long-sleeved gown. The two children were happy, and one said that they had eaten meat at noon. The second child took care of the family and wrapped a piece of braised pork in the canteen at noon, saying that it was for the family to taste some meat at night. The little one was not sensible, and the taste went into the stomach without tasting it, and he complained that he was too anxious to eat at the time, and he didn't eat the taste, and said that the rice was really fragrant.

At that moment, Sun Wangcai really felt that the world had changed, it was no longer the old yellow calendar, and the years when ordinary people were not human seemed to have really passed. Although Sun Wangcai still has to work as a coolie every day, the children's education has given him great hope in life. When I work every day, I am full of energy, and when I go home at night, I toss my mother-in-law's big ass when I have extra energy.

At the beginning of spring, the battle for the boundary of Qingdao was over, and the mayor of Beijing issued a communiqué. The literacy in the alley is full of people who read the five, saying that they recruit people to do rough work on the construction site, and they can earn three catties of miscellaneous noodles every day. Sun Wangcai had the courage to go to an office at the mouth of the alley, and he was greeted by a young girl with a tender face and a kind speech.

After asking Hu San, the patrol officer in the alley, the girl gave him a form, asked him to fill it out, pressed her fingerprint, and then read it to him twice. To the effect that it costs five cents a day. If you don't want to ask for money, you can get three catties of miscellaneous noodles, and you can take care of a meal at noon.

The next day, Sun Wangcai arrived at the mouth of the alley and waited, and as soon as it was dawn, a foreman came and led the big guy to the construction site. It's not tiring to work, it's to clean up the garbage that is piled up randomly, it's dirty, isn't it five cents a day?

At noon, a man brought lunch, each man had three fist-sized miscellaneous noodles and noodles, as well as a sea fish, a bowl of bone broth, and when he was cooking, the man threw a piece of oil residue into the soup, which almost hurt Sun Wangcai. (To be continued) wonderful novel [Net] remember our website: