While Lin Youde was happy in Paris, He Lao Liu was entering the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon with a large army.

After taking Baghdad, the Afrika Army Command believed that the organized large-scale resistance of the Arabs was over, and the main task of the Afrika Army troops was to fight against bandits for a long time, so they began to implement the principle of anti-bandit operations that Lin Youde had conveyed to them early on: combining points and lines, and maneuvering to clear them.

The navigable Tigris River has become the main artery of the African Army, and many military farms along the route are stepping up to strengthen their defenses and strive to achieve fortressification.

In contrast, the situation in the Euphrates basin is more dire.

The Euphrates River is so shallow that it is almost impossible to run a motorboat. In ancient Arabia, a sheepskin raft was used to transport supplies on the Euphrates River by letting the raft carrying the goods go down the river, unloading them when they reached their destination, and deflating the raft and carrying it upstream on the back of a horse or camel for reuse.

Such a river certainly could not be used as a natural cordon like the Tigris, and although some of the people in the construction corps who had brought from North China could use small boats like Baiyangdian to patrol the river, they were quickly rejected because they were too vulnerable to attack.

Eventually, the Afrika Army Command decided to establish a strong regular army base along the Euphrates, expand the airfield to use aircraft for airlift supplies, and conduct aerial reconnaissance to detect Arab camps before sending regular army units to sweep them.

Among the sites selected by the Afrika Army Command to build a stronghold is the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon.

It stands to reason that this city of Babylon is a cultural relic, and another time and space has also applied for a world culture, but the command of the African Army does not care about these at all, but only takes a fancy to the location of the ancient city of Babylon and the buildings left behind. They didn't even tell Lin Youde that the address they had chosen included the capital of the ancient civilization of the Two Rivers, but only the name of the place where the city of Babylon was located now.

In this way, the ancient city became a military base for the Afrika Army, and a large number of Afrika soldiers appeared in the weather-beaten ruins, who began to strengthen the walls of the ancient city with concrete, clean the drainage system of the ancient city, and dig a nullah to prepare for the introduction of water from the nearby Euphrates River into the city.

He Laoliu looked up at the ancient city wall that was being repaired, and a sense of vicissitudes arose.

"This wall looks like it's been around for a while." He said.

At this time, the living treasure who was walking next to him looked up at the city wall and smacked his lips: "Tsk, I thought that foreigners never built city walls." ”

"Why don't you build it?" He Lao Liu gave a blank look.

Huobao said seriously: "Because they have cannons, isn't the city wall the same as if it didn't have in front of the cannons, so they won't build it." ”

"Hmph, what do you know, the cannon is still passed on by us to the foreigners, and we don't build the city wall differently?"

Huobao grinned, revealing a mouthful of black, yellow, black and yellow teeth, the African Army provides every soldier with tooth powder and toothbrushes for brushing their teeth, but many soldiers do not have the habit of brushing their teeth at all, so in the army, except for the officers and Zhao Xiucai, who are from good families, only those who like to catch up with fashion will learn to brush like the officers.

He Lao Liu also doesn't brush his teeth, but he knows how to rinse his mouth before and after meals, so his teeth are neater and more beautiful than most people.

"Sixth Master," Huobao patted He Lao Liu's shoulder, "Although we don't study, at least we know that this cannon was brought in by foreigners, and you can't blind me." ”

He Lao Liu pursed his lips, determined to ignore Huobao's words.

At this time, an officer in front of the unit shouted: "There is a commander watching from the side of the road, come here for me!" ”

When He Laoliu heard this, he immediately sent a message to the back: "There is a chief watching from the side of the road, come and walk for me!" ”

Immediately afterwards, he straightened his waist, pulled the hem of his military uniform, straightened his hat, and then urged the soldiers under his control: "Hold your chest up and raise your head, a little spirited!" ”

In fact, before He Lao Liu gave the order, most of the soldiers had sorted out their clothes like him.

The procession passed through a room that looked to be some years old, and on the steps in front of the house stood several officers, among them white-skinned foreign officers. And the most conspicuous is the blonde and blue-eyed girl who mixes in with the officers, and the foreign girl is also wearing the uniform of the African Army, but obviously the military uniform designed for men does not fit her figure very well, and in some places it is so tight that it is called a tight.

Huobao smacked his lips and said to He Lao Liu: "Sixth Master, this is your dish." ”

Since the last time he stared at the foreign girl on the iron man on the battlefield, Huobao decided that He Lao Liu liked foreign girls. However, He Lao Liu himself is not rejected, in his opinion, foreign girls are similar to the women who sing in those nightclubs in Shanghai, they are all with long breasts and thighs and white skin, but one has black hair and the other has golden hair.

While He Lao Liu was thinking about this, the troops began to turn, and the officers and foreign girls were out of sight.

**

Colonel Li Yunlong stood on the steps of the ancient temple, his brows furrowed as he watched the troops newly assigned to the fortress under his command cross the road in front of the Guò steps. Although he knew that the troops arriving today were formed from the defeated troops of the Production and Construction Corps, Li Yunlong was still not very satisfied with the appearance of the troops.

When he was still in the Ming Imperial Army, he was known for his strict management of the army, but the result was too strict, preventing his boss from eating empty amounts and deducting military salaries, and as a result, his boss slandered him that he must be a revolutionary party, and was finally driven out of the Ming army, and he didn't even catch up with the war with the Yingzhou people. Li Yunlong was not discouraged, and participated in an armed horse gang to transport supplies to the Ming army fighting outside the pass.

Originally, the governor of the Ming army, who was in Fengtian, was ready to invite Li Yunlong back to the Ming army, but unfortunately, the deputy of the governor turned out to be the culprit who drove Li Yunlong out of the Ming army in the first place. As a result, Li Yunlong arrived in Fengtian City, and was waiting for the official to be reinstated so that he could lead his brothers to rush to kill, but he did not expect to wait for the arrest of the Military Justice Department on the grounds that he was collaborating with the enemy.

Li Yunlong spent several years in prison before being released because of "insufficient evidence of collaborating with the enemy."

After being released from prison, Li Yunlong immediately inquired about what the fight with Yingzhou was like, but learned that Yingzhou had called the Americans to exterminate, and suddenly Li Yunlong felt that his life was running out. He stayed with his old friend for more than a month, and when he was usually fine, he recalled his experience over the years, and the more he thought about it, the more aggrieved he felt, and finally he made up his mind, went home, took his beloved knife, and went to Liangguang, where there are many revolutionary parties.

When he arrived in Liangguang, Li Yunlong heard that he was looking for a revolutionary party, so he followed those who came to recruit workers to Nanyang and look for people in Nanyang who were waving the banner of flowers and leaves, and those were the revolutionary party. Li Yunlong did so, but as soon as he got on the boat, he found that the boat he was sitting on had a flower and leaf flag hidden in it, and it was hung up as soon as it came out of the patrol range of the Ming Navy.

Li Yunlong was so excited, he said that he could finally teach those bastards who were pitting Lao Tzu a good lesson at this time, so he immediately went to the captain and said, "Lao Tzu has fought and is an officer, so he can help you lead the troops." ”

So Li Yunlong naturally put on his current military uniform, but he failed to return to China to do the revolution as he wished, but was sent to the Middle East, where birds don't.

At first, Li Yunlong was so angry that he felt that he had been deceived again, but within a few days of this anger, the Arabs called. At that time, Li Yunlong was ordered to take a boat along the Xiaohuang River River to strengthen the defense of the agricultural reclamation division stationed in Tuntian, which happened to be the division where He Laoliu was located, and it was also the division of the Arab elite key assault.

Just after noon that day, Li Yunlong heard the sound of gunfire on the boat, and when he looked through his binoculars, he saw that the strangely dressed Arabs in white turbans were beating the Chinese.

After the fight, all the inaccessibility in Li Yunlong's mind disappeared, and his idea was very simple: Someone bullied the Chinese here, and Lao Tzu beat you here.

So nearly half a year passed like this, Li Yunlong led his subordinates to kill countless white turbans, and the white turbans shouted "Ahla Huak" when they charged in front of Li Yunlong's troops often became the last words they had ever said in their lives.

Li Yunlong once asked the translator what this Ahla Huak bar means, and the translator said lightly, "It's similar to us asking for the blessing of the Bodhisattva", so Li Yunlong laughed and said, "It seems that the Bodhisattvas of these people are not as effective as my Li Yunlong's big knife."

Li Yunlong was like this, brandishing a broadsword and commanding the troops to become more and more courageous, and as a result, the rank was promoted from the original major to colonel, and the troops under his command gradually increased from a battalion to a division, and everyone said that Li Yunlong would soon become a general.

But what Li Yunlong thought in his heart was to drive those white turbans out of this oasis.

Li Yunlong, who was himself a peasant, soon discovered that although the land was desolate, the land was still fertile, and there must have been a considerable period of agricultural cultivation in the past—and the fact that he was now stationed in this ancient city proved his judgment that it would not be possible to support a country capable of building such an ancient city without a considerable amount of agriculture.

The Chinese peasants' desire for land has been ingrained in their hearts, and how many tenants have worked hard all their lives, not just thinking about having a piece of their own land and then getting rid of the identity of tenants.

Li Yunlong was the same, and when he thought of how many villagers would be able to migrate over to cultivate the land, he was excited, and said that he would completely drive the Arabs away -- in Li Yunlong's view, the land itself was more attractive than the black oil.

Fortunately, now that the troops have received the support of the foreign war ji, the combat effectiveness has increased substantially, and with the assistance of the air force, Li Yunlong is full of confidence, firmly believing that he will soon be able to drive out all the Arabs in the nearby area and firmly control all the land on both sides of the river.