Chapter 35: White Dew
"Lao Liu, take your people and start transporting the wounded soldiers, and send these wounded soldiers to Kapi. Explain our situation to Falcao, whether he has it or not, we need reinforcements, or we will not hold out until the British arrive. After Qin Zhiyuan understood the situation, he issued the first order.
In just 10 minutes, 4 armed Chinese workers were killed and 13 were wounded. This is the inevitable price of joining the war, and Qin Zhiyuan has been prepared for a long time.
"Yes!" Liu Zizheng responded to the order and immediately began to execute.
"Big brother, take an inventory of all our weapons, machine guns, machine gun bullets, and grenades are the most important, we must figure it out." This was Qin Zhiyuan's second order.
"Okay, but what if the French don't let it be sorted out? What should I say to them? "Qin Zhisheng's French is still at the stage of words, and he does not have the ability to communicate with people normally.
"I'm trying to figure it out." Qin Zhiyuan also thought of this question, and then found the military doctor who was treating the wounded soldiers.
"Mr. Second Lieutenant, who is the highest-ranking soldier on the battlefield now?" The military doctor had a collar badge on his uniform, and Qin Zhiyuan recognized it as the sign of a second lieutenant.
"Major Bastian, but he's wounded, and if there is no wounded, then it's me. But I won't command the battle, I'll just stitch up the wound, and now there is no medicine. The second lieutenant's face was gloomy, and he was clearly not very optimistic about the prospects of this unit.
"Well, now is not the time to discuss this, I need to sort out the supplies we have, machine guns, bullets, grenades or whatever, can you help?" After Qin Zhiyuan finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to introduce himself: "Zhiyuan Qin, I am very happy to know you." ”
"Ah...... Are you the hegemon of the Far East from China? Bastian has been talking about you. My name is Henry, Henry Brad Daniel, and it's a pleasure to meet you. "Finally meeting the legendary overlord of the Far East, Henry seems to be in good spirits.
"Yes, thanks for the compliment, now can we get to work?" Qin Zhiyuan didn't have time to be polite, he knew that in an hour at most, the Germans would complete the preparations for the next attack.
"It's not good, several heavy machine guns are broken, damn Shaosha is useless at all, there are not many bullets, it was only enough to fight for ten minutes before the last attack, and now it is estimated that it has been exhausted." The second lieutenant was also clearly aware of the material reserves on the position.
Qin Zhiyuan nodded to show that he understood, it was precisely because Haqikis ran out of bullets that the Germans could easily rush up. Otherwise, it will not be so easy to attack a position with sufficient weapons and ammunition.
"There are also very few grenades, only one or two boxes left, since yesterday we have only received one supply, and now there are very few left." As Henry spoke, he led Qin Zhiyuan to a hall.
This hall is the hall where Qin Zhiyuan and the others found gold.
"It's all here, it's left by the Germans, and it doesn't match our caliber, so it can't be used, and that's all we can use." Henry pointed to the dozen or so boxes stacked on the side of the hall and introduced, these were sent by Qin Zhiyuan and them yesterday.
On the other side of the hall, there were hundreds of empty boxes scattered and piled up, and there were dozens of unopened ones, these boxes blocked the passage to the gold room, and Qin Zhiyuan estimated that the room had not yet been discovered.
"Sort this out." Qin Zhiyuan decided to "discover" the secret room in person, so that he could clear his suspicion under the witness of Henry.
"Okay." Chen Kangjian led more than a dozen people to work together, and soon the boxes were sorted out, empty in a pile, and unopened in a pile.
"What's in those rooms? Open it. Qin Zhiyuan picked up a crowbar and began to pry the box, and then ordered Chen Kangjian in passing.
"Okay." Chen Kangjian rolled his eyes, walked to the door, raised his foot and kicked open the iron door.
"Holy!" Even though it was not the first time he met, Chen Kangjian was still dazzled by Jin Guanghuang.
"My ...... Oh, God! Henry was also stunned, and was stunned as he looked at the gold all over the ground.
"Report it...... We're going to escalate...... Yes...... It's incredible. Qin Zhiyuan also pretended to be stunned and muttered to himself, feeling a kind of disappointment that he couldn't take it for himself.
"Sergeant, sergeant! Please come over for a moment. "Ever since the discovery of the gold, Henry has barricaded at the door, preferring to shout at the top of his lungs rather than take a step.
"Yes, Mr. Henry." A soldier hurried over, and he was nearby.
"Now, you go back to Kapi at once, report what you find here, come here, you can take a look, but you are not allowed to tell anyone." Henry was very secretive and turned sideways to greet the sergeant.
"My ...... Oh, God! The sergeant's reaction was the same as Henry's, and he was immediately stunned.
"Go, right away." Henry only let him look at it, then closed the door and stood in front of it like a door god.
"I said it would be better for Major Bastian to report." Qin Zhiyuan saw the defensive consciousness in Henry's eyes, and felt a little uncomfortable, he knew that this was the case, how good it would be to keep himself and move slowly.
"The major has been wounded." Henry's expression was calm, and he couldn't tell what was going on in his heart, but the violently heaving chest betrayed him, and he must have been at war with the heavens.
"I've taken care of his wounds, as long as he wakes up, it's not a problem." Qin Zhiyuan saw that Henry had the intention of stealing credit, so he was no longer polite.
"Sir, this is the property of France, and only the French are qualified to decide what to do with it." As long as I see it is mine, or as long as I know it is mine, standard Western logic, bandit logic.
"I don't mean to be offended, sir, but before that, here is a tunnel dug by the Germans." Qin Zhiyuan thought about it, decided not to talk nonsense anymore, turned around and left: "Gather our people, let's leave immediately, this is the war of the French, and it has nothing to do with our work." ”
In order to make Henry understand, Qin Zhiyuan deliberately used French.
"Wait...... Please wait a moment. Seeing that Qin Zhiyuan was leaving, Henry was dumbfounded.
Only now did Henry remember that if it weren't for Qin Zhiyuan, they came to their aid just now, the position would have fallen, and gold or something would have been floating clouds......
"Please wait a minute, Qin, you can't leave like this." Henry took three steps and made two steps to Qin Zhiyuan and stretched out his hands, his tone full of panic and uneasiness.
"Why? Ensign Henry, I'm afraid you haven't figured it out, we're just a bunch of laborers, we're on a labor contract, and we're not responsible for the war. "Qin Zhiyuan is right, just last night, not long after the report of Falcao was handed in, there was an instruction that it was okay to set up a Chinese battalion to join the Foreign Legion, but it would be half a year later, so the current Chinese workers are not soldiers, and they still have the "Labor Contract".
"My God, no, no, no, there must be a way, there must be a way, please give me a little time, I need a little time." Henry was a little incoherent and refused to get out of the way.
"Hi...... Guys, I've got the line straightened, the phone is connected, and where is Major Bastian? The commander of the engineer company, who had a hard life, shouted and rushed into the hall, his excitement overflowing.
"Wait, Charles, you stay here, I'm going to talk to General Mishelai, I have something very important to report." Henry flew over, leaving Charles in the hall and going to make a phone call.
Ten minutes later, Qin Zhiyuan received a notice that the Chinese Regiment of the Sixth Infantry Regiment of the Foreign Legion was established on September 8, 1916, with Qin Zhiyuan as the colonel and responsible for recruiting members.
On September 8, 1916, this day was the eleventh day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, which coincided with the "white dew" in the 24 solar terms...... The yin qi gradually became heavier, and the dew was condensed and white. ”