Taking off his soaked charcoal-black Praetorian Guard uniform, Li Ruishi shivered in the cool breeze of the Siberian dusk in August, and on the river behind him, most of the floating rafts overturned by the shells had been inserted diagonally into the water, swinging downstream with the waves.

This is the small railway station of Uyar, less than 100 kilometers from Krasnoyarsk, and the river that Li Ruishi has just crossed is a tributary of the Yenisei River, which flows northward and joins the Angara River and other large and small rivers from Lake Baikal to empties into the bitter cold Arctic Ocean.

"Chief Li? Colonel Lee Seo-seok of the 106th Division? ”

Hearing this call of surprise, Li Ruishi noticed that on the top of the turret of a flying wolf light chariot stuck in the mud on the shore, there was a not very unfamiliar figure squatting.

"Now I am the head of the First Regiment of the Praetorian Guard, I said that we would meet again, but I didn't expect it to be so soon, and I didn't expect it to be when I was at my worst."

Li Ruishi smiled, twisted the wet clothes on his hands indiscriminately, draped them on his shoulders, and between his chest and abdomen, pieces of wet muscles shone in the sun.

"Hello, Second Lieutenant Qiu Yipeng, it seems that our luck is not good this time."

Compared with Li Ruishi, who was more than thirty and half, tall and sturdy, Qiu Yipeng, who was much shorter and much more delicate, smiled, used his hands and feet together, jumped down on the side of the turret, saluted with his legs first, and immediately took out the cigarette box and lighter with a smile and handed it to Li Ruishi.

"This is the lighter you gave me last time, so it makes it very good, and beautiful, our secretary asked me several times, but I didn't give it to ......"

Li Ruishi smiled slightly and went straight to the point: "Do you have dry clothes?" ”

"Yes. It's all in this big package, so I'll find it for you. ”

As soon as Qiu Yipeng said this, Li Ruishi saw more clearly, this small chariot more than one person tall was bits and pieces, seven, seven, eight, eight, and a lot of things were tied to it, what kind of canvas wraps, wooden boxes, gasoline and iron drums, it was simply a tracked mobile grocery store. Give a dozen guns, it is difficult to keep the meat barbecue oven unchanged - it's just that the troops are running long distances and fast, and it is difficult to follow up the supplies in time, which is also a helpless way, and their own troops are not using trucks as cargo piles. Stacked high on top of each other. Turn a little faster and you will surely overturn.

Leaving the empress, leaving the court, and leaving the Beijing Division, what touched Li Ruishi the most on the front line was something completely new that was completely different from the previous war: armored blitzkrieg, a large-depth advance, and the integration of air and ground......

If the last war was mainly won by human lives and artillery, it was more than more people and stronger artillery. This time. The empire mainly relied on military technology and operational concepts that were far ahead of other countries.

From Pearl Harbor to Lingayen Bay, from the Battle of Ulan-Ude to the Battle of Alkut, whether it was naval or land warfare, the astonishing advancement of the Empire's military machine cannot be explained by the theory of national advancement alone.

From the first emperor Liu Yun to the current empress. The sudden change in the situation goes far beyond normal logic. From the violent death of the Empress Dowager Cixi in the previous dynasty to the "false report of the earthquake that led to the martial law incident in" during the Asian-Russian War, various suspicions have converged. It can only make the truth hidden under the thick black curtain more confusing.

The official version always could not satisfy Li Ruishi's curiosity, after the tempering of the real guns on the battlefield of Asia and Russia and the tortuous experience of aiding Abyssinia, he had the opportunity to get the empress's trust to be in charge of the palace guards, and he had access to all kinds of confidential information that was difficult to show to the public, and when he was confident that he could almost touch the truth in a few steps, the war broke out, and the empress asked him to leave the palace and go to the front line to "make meritorious contributions to me".

The smarter the person, the more troubles he has, and when he came to the front line, Li Ruishi finally understood that when he was in the palace, he was indeed too smart.

The empress didn't need him at all, no one could see through her heart, and what she really wanted was maybe more than everything she could enjoy as an emperor......

"Sir, the clothes you want—maybe a little smaller, make do with them for now."

Qiu Yipeng, who was holding clothes, interrupted Li Ruishi's thoughts, shook his hand casually, and showed a long-sleeved casual shirt.

"I'll find another pair of pants—you wait."

Enthusiastically, Qiu Yipeng went back to his grocery store, completely ignoring the rumbling of artillery around him, and the turbid water columns rose from the nearby river, and between the water columns were densely packed with paddle rubber boats and motorized floating rafts—the river crossing operation of the advance detachment of the Kewu Group had just begun.

Due to the obstruction of the Irkutsk fortress, the Northern Army was unable to carry out normal rail and water transportation and supply for the troops advancing hundreds of kilometers west of Irkutsk, and mainly relied on automobile transshipment and air transportation, which was not efficient, the transportation volume was low, and it could not supply the activities of large troops, so it could only concentrate on supporting the assault of small troops.

Under the constraints of supply conditions, the Front Army ordered the First Panzer Group Army to transfer units in better condition and with better personnel and equipment to form the Kewu Group, which was led by General Xu Soul, commander of the group army, to attack from Taishet on 2 August, advance more than 200 kilometers in 36 hours, cross three rivers that required the deployment of pontoon rafts and pontoon bridges, and capture Kansk, the gateway to the city of Croatia, by lightning during the march.

The detachment is based on the 1st and 2nd Armored Brigades, and is equipped with the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Janissaries, which is equipped with trucks, as well as an independent mobile artillery battalion and an independent mobile engineer battalion under the group army, and more than 1,000 vehicles of various kinds carrying tens of thousands of officers and soldiers.

As the largest infantry unit in the detachment, Li Ruishi's forbidden 1st regiment was responsible for landing before the main force, clearing the enemy's firepower points at the landing site, establishing a bridgehead, and covering the passage of the main force.

Unexpectedly, the new regiment commander who tried to take the lead and decided to follow the first wave of landing troops ashore, stumbled at the beginning, and the floating raft he was riding was overturned by a cannon, and he swam ashore desperately, only to find that his entourage was gone, and the enemy was nowhere to be seen......

In the Battle of Arkut, which ended more than a month ago, Li Ruishi led the advance detachment of the 106th Division to land and attack from Lake Baikal, and joined Qiu Yipeng's advance detachment of the 2nd Armored Brigade north of Irkutsk, completing the complete encirclement of the Russian East Siberian Front.

After the Battle of Arkut, Li Ruishi was ordered to be transferred to the commander of the First Janissary Regiment, which was known as the "First Regiment in the World"; since the First Sino-Japanese War, he has made outstanding achievements in battle, and has been specially given the title of "Yunlong"; the officers and men have been carefully selected from various departments, and the equipment is also different from him; not only the whole regiment uses trucks, armored vehicles, and motorcycles to travel, but also gives priority to the distribution of new semi-automatic rifles, general-purpose machine guns, and butt-type grenadiers, and the number of heavy firearms at all levels is more than the standard equipment, and the supply is also given priority, so the morale is extremely high, and the officers and men at the grassroots level are full of initiative. Since the beginning of the war, as the "sharp knife" of the First Armored Group Army, it has repeatedly been used in key battlefields to cooperate with armored troops in combat, and has often been able to defeat the strong with the outnumbered. The officers in charge of such a veteran force, which are loved by thousands of people, naturally must have the corresponding ability and prestige, and the officers who have served as the commanders of the regiment will have unlimited prospects in the future, but Li Ruishi's predecessor is an exception......

"Sir, you are developed, the first regiment of the Praetorian Guard, I heard that this is much more blessed than being the commander of an ordinary infantry division......"

Li Ruishi, who was changing clothes, heard Qiu Yipeng's emotion, his face suddenly became gloomy, and he shook his head and sneered: "Blessed, do you know the Tao?" My predecessor was court-martialed. ”

"Military courts? No way? Qiu Yipeng, who turned around with his pants, looked incredulous.

"The arsonists plundered and committed adultery, killed innocents, damaged the honor of the emperor, and also connected in the army, developed members of radical organizations, and used the army to get involved in politics - I'm afraid I don't want to return to the army in this life." Li Ruishi frowned and took the pants handed over by Qiu Yipeng.

Qiu Yipeng touched his head and thought about it, clapped his hands and shouted: "Ah, it's that Li Xiang and Li Regiment Commander, he did a lot of overkill, I heard that once the troops passed through a village, he heard a gunshot, so he ordered the village to be burned, the men cut off their heads and hung them at the entrance of the village, and the women were all ...... However, I heard that Commander Xu of the group army admired him very much. ”

Li Ruishi shook his head, quickly changed into dry clothes, put on his rank epaulettes, and pointed to the river: "Forget it, don't worry about this, my people are coming over soon, do you want to come with us?" ”

"My people are coming, too, my rescuers." Qiu Yipeng pointed to a grass-green chariot that was slowly driving off the floating raft not far away, "They'll drag me out of the raft, and when the carts are all there, I'm going to carry out my mission—look over there, he's also here." ”

"Him?"

"A brother of mine, named Ding Qian, is the deputy company commander of the railway company, and he has a survey team to survey the railway facilities on the march route at any time, and my task is to be his bodyguard."

Li Ruishi nodded and smiled: "That's it, look over there - my bodyguard has also arrived." ”

Following the direction of Li Ruishi's finger, I saw a row of floating rafts set up four chariots, and they poured up.

Qiu Yipeng was stunned for a moment, and raised his fingers and exclaimed: "Good girl, it is worthy of being the first regiment in the world, even the regiment commander's guard squad has been changed to a chariot platoon!" ”

"Joked, that's not my guard squad, it's a support unit attached to the 1st Brigade, and the commander is still a duke

While speaking, the rescue soldiers that Qiu Yipeng said had already driven over, and a young corporal jumped out of the car, ran to Qiu Yipeng's ear and muttered a few words, Qiu Yipeng shook his head regretfully, and turned to Li Ruishi: "Sir, my brother may not be able to come, I don't want to run in vain, there is a place for us, just give orders." ”

Li Ruishi nodded happily: "Welcome, welcome, in fact, I just thought of an idea, and I am using you." "Climb ^ book ^ net, this chapter is first published by "".