Zhao Yanbin, Ma Wenyuan, and Xia Liqiu are all soldiers of the Sixth Division of the Second Army of the Chinese European Expeditionary Force, and at this moment they are getting up from the belly of their respective French mistresses and preparing to return to the army to report, and the three-day vacation is gone in a blink of an eye, which is really unpleasant to think about.

The three of them belong to the sixth division of the 61st regiment, the third battalion, the fifth company, one squad, of which Zhao Yanbin is a native of Xinyang, Henan, an army sergeant, the position is the deputy squad leader, 21 years old this year, tall and thin is the youth army that participated in the five years of the Republic of China from his hometown in Henan to Wuhan, Hubei, and belongs to the kind of wartime supplement, and then was arranged into the new barracks as a veteran as a squad leader. This person is introverted and does not hesitate to say much, but he is very righteous, so everyone respects him very much on weekdays.

Ma Wenyuan is a native of Anqing, Anhui Province, 20 years old this year, bold and careful, likes to nag a lot, is stout, the first French girl in the camp is here, to talk about it, it has been a few months in France, this kid can't speak a word of French, everyone really doesn't know how he overthrew the French girl. This Marven is also cheerful, and he demonstrated it in public, first holding up a piece of bread, and then pointing to his bottom, which made the whole class laugh on the spot.

Xia Liqiu's situation is different from the two, he is only nineteen years old this year, he is a native of Changsha, Hunan, and he looks like a gentleman, but his body is very strong. It is said that before joining the army, he was still a student of Hunan No. 1 Normal School, and he liked to engage in literary and artistic creation, and after becoming a soldier, he wrote a diary every day.

It's just that three people with strange and strange personalities have actually become good friends, and they are also iron buddies who have carried guns together and prostituted together, which is probably unimaginable to many people at the beginning.

"I said, how did this holiday go on so quickly?" Ma Wenyuan yawned and said, it seems that he worked overtime again last night.

Zhao Yanbin shook his head and said, "What's the hurry, as long as we can survive, are we afraid of such a holiday?" ”

Xia Liqiu nodded in approval: "What do you say the Germans on the other side look like, can we fight?" ”

Ma Wenyuan hahadaxiao said: "What else can it look like, isn't it just two arms on top of one head, what are you afraid of?" I'm really afraid that if I can't beat it, I'll hide behind my brother, but I'm not afraid of these Germans. ”

Xia Liqiu was not to be outdone: "Who is afraid, you are optimistic, I will definitely kill a few Germans to show you when the time comes, the political instructor has said, this German is not a good bird, Gengzi Nian is the Beijing where they led the Eight-Nation Coalition Army into Beijing, burning, killing and looting are all evil." Now, if our country is to rise, we must defeat these Germans. ”

Zhao Yanbin interrupted Xia Liqiu in a low voice: "Xiao Xia, just listen to those tricks, don't take it seriously, the first thing to go to the battlefield is self-preservation, and the second is to kill the enemy." This kind of thing is different from training, I participated in two battles in Hubei and Anhui last year, and I didn't feel scared when I didn't experience it, oh, one was when I was shelled, and the other was when I charged, and it became very difficult to breathe, so don't think about everything It's too beautiful, and the two partners who came out of Xinyang with me were killed when they were in Chaohu. ”

Ma Wenyuan excused himself: "Didn't the battalion commander of our battalion come to France more than half a year earlier than us?" I heard that the German's cannon is much more fierce than the Beiyang Army, and I guess this battle is enough to choke, I knew that I didn't wear a condom just now, and maybe the French girl can give birth to a baby for me. ”

The three of them chatted without a stubble and returned to the Sixth Division's station, although in terms of private life, the attitude of the expeditionary force was to turn a blind eye. But military discipline is still very strict, if you dare to overstay the deadline for such a thing as a holiday, no matter who you are, you will be ordered to be shot by Zhang Zizhong, the big devil.

The 25-year-old Zhang Zizhong is undoubtedly a legend in the Youth Army, and this kid was still a prisoner of war in Hengyang this time last year. As a result, relying on the appreciation of Wang Zhenyu's good brother Lu Diping, in just one year, he successively served as the battalion commander and regiment commander, and then because of his excellent performance in the Ma'anshan Resistance Battle. Zhang Zizhong was even appointed division commander with the rank of major general in this expeditionary force, and such a speed of promotion is very rare when the entire youth army system is becoming more and more stable.

is neither from the teaching team, nor is it the old department of the Tiger Brigade, and even the backer is Lu Diping, who joined the gang halfway. The only thing Zhang Zizhong can rely on is his own ability, after the Sixth Division of the Expeditionary Force was handed over to Zhang Zizhong, he was obedient to him, and the military discipline was already strict to the extreme. In training, whether it is live firing or civil engineering operations, it is strictly forbidden to go through the process, if anyone's shooting does not reach the standard number of rings, sorry, what awaits you is the continuous night emergency assembly of the entire unit. The civil work is personally accepted by Zhang Zizhong, if the depth and width are not up to standard, if the fortification is not strong enough. Then I'm sorry, Zhang Zizhong's bad temper will attack, he will whip people with the whip in his hand, and when it's over, he will make you dig again, and you will not be allowed to eat and rest if you don't meet the standards......

From top to bottom, the 6th Division was far more afraid of Zhang Zizhong than the enemy, and they would rather face the enemy's bayonet than the division commander's horsewhip.

On the other hand, Zhang Zizhong was still very concerned about ordinary soldiers, and strictly forbade officers to arbitrarily punish and abuse soldiers, although he himself often punched and kicked the officers under him. Zhang Zizhong also strictly forbade sick soldiers to continue their exercises, and often went to the health department of the division headquarters to visit the wounded and ask for warmth. And after every seven days of high-intensity training, Zhang Zizhong will not hesitate to give the soldiers a three-day holiday, as for whether you sleep or play with women, Zhang Zizhong generally doesn't care. However, before every holiday, Zhang Zizhong would warn his soldiers with a tiger face: "If you grandsons dare not wear condoms when they are zuo-ai, and something goes wrong when they come back, I will cut your ***." The result was naturally a commotion among the soldiers.

In addition, Zhang Zizhong also paid great attention to the diet and nutritional supplements of the soldiers, and he even went out hunting to give the officers and soldiers more meals.

All this, although he was not very old, in the Sixth Division of the Expeditionary Force, Zhang Zizhong's personal prestige was unceremoniously established. This also made Zhang Zizhong later become one of the four tiger generals of the expeditionary force (the so-called four tiger generals refer to Xia Wei, Ye Kaixin, He Yingqin, Zhang Zizhong. Among them, Xia Wei is good at attacking, Zhang Zizhong is good at defending, Ye Kaixin is both offensive and defending, and He Yingqin is good at surprising soldiers).

Ma Wenyuan was beaten by Zhang Zizhong's horse whip because of laziness in training, it felt hot, and the most important thing was the sense of humiliation, Zhang Zizhong has become a father-like existence in everyone's eyes, his son was beaten by Lao Tzu, and it would be a shame to be brave and shameless. So after being braided, don't look at Ma Wenyuan's usual personality, he trains very seriously, and Jishu, who fights with bayonets, can be called the first in the battalion. This kid has a low center of gravity, a stable lower plate, and a stout stature, it is said that when he was in the countryside, he could easily overturn a cow, and the explosive power was not comparable to ordinary people.

Although Xia Liqiu was born as a student soldier, he also practiced a unique skill in training, that is, shooting, general targets, and hitting casually within 100 meters in a straight line.

Zhao Yanbin is not obvious, but this Henan man has two very special skills. One is to run fast, and a distance of 100 meters can be easily passed in only 11 seconds. The second is to throw a grenade, at a distance of 60 meters, the grenade is more accurate than the grenadier, which basically refers to that hitting that.

The excellent individual ability also made the 5th Company the backbone of the 3rd Battalion, and it was always on the front line in the later battles against Germany......

On April 30, the coalition forces issued the first combat mission to the Chinese European Expeditionary Force. In fact, it was a rather task, because in the western sector of the entire front, the French army had to draw troops from the eastern end of the Luxembourg side because of the heavy losses in the Battle of the Somme at the end of last year. But in this way, the eastern end of the front also needs troops to replenish, especially the Verdun area needs troops to defend, so Marshal Fuxi, the chief of the French General Staff, unceremoniously threw Verdun to Bai Chongxi, you kid will stay here.

Bai Chongxi was not polite, and immediately accepted this task, but the premise was how to keep him Bai Chongxi had the final say, so Wang Zhenyu, the big butterfly, finally began to affect the course of the First World War.

It was impossible not to alarm the Germans with such a huge military movement, and the German intelligence agencies were also famous during the First World War. And when the German General Staff learned that the French had transferred 200,000 main forces from the Verdun area to the Western Front, and then replaced them with 200,000 troops from China to guard Verdun. They clearly felt that the opportunity to break the current stalemate on the battlefield was once again in front of them......

"Brother Baili, so do you think the Germans will definitely take advantage of this change of defense to attack us" Bai Chongxi asked Jiang Baili while standing in front of the sand table with his hands behind his back.

Jiang Baili nodded and said: "This is inevitable, after all, we are soft persimmons in the eyes of the Germans, if we don't pinch our soft persimmons, it will not be the character of the Germans, I believe this is also an opportunity for the Germans, the war has been going on for almost three years, and now it is a meter-by-meter battle in the moving position, and they need a breakthrough more than the French to end this long war." ”

Bai Chongxi looked at Zhu Zhixin and the others present: "Then let's adjust the deployment and see how to entertain these uninvited German friends." The General Staff wants to come up with a plan, this time we will focus on defense, not to say that we want to play national prestige and other big words, at least let our so-called allies and the Germans on the other side see if we are soft persimmons? ”