At the beginning of February 1937, Lin Guokai of Australia received instructions from Potsdam.

After reading the telegram, Lin Guokai casually stuffed the telegram to Ballmer, and then frowned and began to light a cigarette for himself.

"I'll see," Ballmer picked up the telegram and held it to his eyes, "'The battle queen and the magic armor will be shipped from Germany in the next few days, via the Suez Canal to the Persian Gulf', well, that's good, now we don't have to worry about the enemy's magic armor." 'When the army arrives and besieges Baghdad, your troops should draw up a thorough plan and be fully prepared. To be safe, it is necessary to stock up on the front line at least enough supplies for a month, in case the supply lines are disrupted, and the supply efficiency is reduced. In order to consolidate the supply line, the first batch of modified water patrol aircraft will be completed by the end of February, and your department should be ready to receive the airframe', it's all fine here, why are you frowning? ”

"The question is the last line," Lin Guokai said, Ballmer hurriedly looked at the bottom of the telegram, and Lin Guokai directly read out the line, "'In addition, immediately send someone to the Ming Empire to visit Mr. Mao Yisheng, a bridge expert, and be sure to ask Mr. Mao Yisheng to bring his students to Germany to take up a job', I really don't understand that guy, the front line is still stale, but suddenly let us go to find bridge experts, and Europe is not without these experts, why do we have to go to China to find it?" ”

Ballmer shrugged his shoulders and said he didn't know.

"However, now that the second high-production well in the Persian Gulf is coming out, I am beginning to feel that any order from Mr. Lin has his reasons and will have the desired effect in the future."

Lin Guokai took a hard puff of his cigarette, and then pressed the cigarette roll into the ashtray.

"You're right, so we're going to have to find someone and bring him over, as puzzled as we are puzzled. However, I have heard of this Mao Yisheng, he voluntarily returned to China to serve the country after studying abroad, and it is not easy for him to come out. Saying that, Lin Guokai smacked his lips, "I always feel that these people who are engaged in technology have a stunned energy, if he is really a stubborn guy, even if I learn Liu Bei to play three times, I can't invite him out." ”

"Lin, you're using a Chinese proverb I don't understand again." Ballmer sighed, "In addition, Mr. Lin Youde's reputation in China should be higher than in the world, can't he take advantage of it?" ”

"Ballmer, the boss is right to be surprised around the world, but as long as the domestic people have nothing to do with our Vale or the Chinese branch of NERV, they basically just know that there is a Chinese in Germany who has done four gods, and the boss is basically the same thing as the stories told by Mr. Commentator, which is far away."

"Oh, this is the first time I've heard of it." Ballmer's expression was rather surprised.

Lin Guokai smiled bitterly and shook his head: "You don't know my motherland, although it has been modernized since the middle of the last century to the present century, but the people's concept has not completely changed, the government has no awareness of universal education at all, only people of insight are constantly running schools and promoting education, so in addition to the intellectual class, most of the people simply do not have enough knowledge to accept the modern world, they don't even have an international vision, how can they realize the significance of these things done by the boss?" ”

"Well, I kind of understand the situation in China."

"Like me and Dezi, the family is still rich, so we can get an education, and then go abroad to work and study, Dezi also had a big fight with his father in order to go abroad, and even said the matter of severing the relationship between father and son. His father's idea that anyone who came back from abroad would become a revolutionary party and work against the imperial court was simply stupid. ”

Saying that, Lin Guokai took out a new cigarette, thought about it and stuffed it back into his pocket, and at the same time continued to say to Ballmer: "Even now, the boss's father still thinks that he is a rebel and defects to the **** of foreigners." But it doesn't matter, it's unlikely that either of us will ever return to that small county town in the future. ”

Ballmer shrugged his shoulders, using the gesture to show that he understood.

Lin Guokai sighed again: "Okay, let's not talk about this, since that Mr. Mao Yisheng is a bridge expert, he should not be affected by these concepts." We're going to send someone -- no, this should be left to Huang Xun to handle. ”

"The deaf head of the Chinese branch?"

"That's my best friend with the Boss, Ballmer, you'd better avoid his physical trauma in front of the two of us."

"I'm sorry."

**

Time continued to pass quickly, and as Lin Youde had predicted, the Arabs did not take any further action after the siege of Baghdad by the African Army, and only the nomadic tribes continued to harass the various military farms. However, because the production and construction corps was on increased alert, the damage caused by these attacks was not great, but the Arabs themselves suffered a lot of losses.

At the end of February, the Afrika Army, which had been prepared to complete its preparations, resumed its march towards Baghdad with the support of the Jewish war queens, and more than 100,000 Afrika Army troops, equipped with heavy weapons and armored vehicles converted from agricultural tractors purchased from the United States, reoccupied the Baghdad airfield that had been lost more than a month earlier on 5 March.

The resistance of the Arabs was crushed, and the Jewish girls showed their superb combat skills and defeated the Arab warriors who were not yet skilled in manipulation.

More than 20 Arab warriors were captured by the Afrika Army, and then enraged Afrika Army soldiers followed the Arabs' example and hanged them on the pillars around the airport that had been used a month earlier to display the slain Afrika Army officers.

The officers of the African Army acquiesced to the actions of the soldiers, and that night Lin Youde sent an urgent telegram demanding that these girls be put down, cremated and buried on the spot, and that they should be kept secret, declaring to the public that all the Arab war queens were not afraid of death and fought until the last moment. Some of her mental strength was exhausted and she fainted, and she was forced to flee after being captured, only to be killed by a stray bullet in the chaos.

Then the Afrika Army surrounded Baghdad, this time the Afrika Army was even more abundant than the last time, the number of artillery directly doubled, the city of Baghdad was besieged, and the second batch of magic armor of the British could not be transported into Baghdad at all, but could only be transferred to the Iranian plateau to enrich the defense of that area in case the Persians rebelled.

After two weeks of siege, the Afrika Army's river transport through the Guò Tigris River had accumulated enough artillery shells to begin shelling Baghdad in preparation for the siege.

The continuous shelling lasted three days, several hours a day. The rumbling sound of the cannon reminded some of the Jewish warriors who had fought in the last great war the days of the Great War.

The ancient walls of Babylon shook with the roar of cannons, and collapsed in many places.

At the same time as the artillery bombardment was being fired, the trench excavation operations of the Afrika Army were also being intensified, and many of the officers of the Afrika Army had attended military schools in Europe, so the trenches dug by the command all bore the marks of the last war, and the trenches that stretched forward in the Z-shape looked like cracks caused by the drying of the earth when viewed from a high vantage point.

**

It has been two months since He Laoliu put on the uniform of the African Army, and he is still not used to the golden epaulettes on his shoulders - he has been mixed in the Ming army for so many years, and he has never thought of being promoted.

"I fought for several years, and I wanted to live a peaceful life, but I didn't expect to come to this foreign land and fight." He Laoliu muttered quietly and shook his head.

That's it, at least this African army does not deduct military salaries, and gives as much as it says, in full. Moreover, according to He Laoliu's observation, all the establishments in the army are fully manned, and there is no such phenomenon of eating empty quotas that is common in the Ming army, which alone is enough for He Laoliu to admire this army.

If it was such a force in the northeast at that time, the Yingzhou people would never be so rampant, and the girls of the Ming Empire would not have been buried in vain by the incompetence of the conventional troops - He Laoliu felt that incompetence was really an insult to the Ming soldiers from the outside world, if it was one-on-one, even if the weapons were slightly worse, the Ming soldiers were sure to fight in half, but in fact, many divisions of the Ming army only had the strength of a brigade of the Yingzhou Army, more than 20,000 people in a division, and more than 6,000 people in a division of the Ming army. The command of the Keming Empire thought that these divisions were fully manned, and asked them to go to fight Yingzhou's division!

Can this be undefeated?

Thinking of the past, He Lao Liu couldn't help but think of the Zhan Ji girl they saved from the rotten iron man that afternoon, that girl is estimated to be crippled in her life, and she can only marry a rotten person and hastily end the rest of her life, she is obviously such a beautiful girl.

The girls of the Ming Empire have always been good, but it's a pity that this country is not good.

But here in the African Army, He Laoliu felt a completely different atmosphere, the commanders were confident and self-disciplined, the soldiers were all well fed, holding brand-new weapons, enough bullets, and high morale, it was impossible to believe that the main body of this army was Chinese like the Ming army.

It's a pity that the girls who accompany this army to fight are not Chinese girls, which makes He Lao Liu feel a little lacking.

Thinking like this, He Lao Liu couldn't help but turn his head to look at the iron man who was observing the situation behind the trench.

The girl who led the team opened the lid of the iron man, stood on her arm and observed the situation in the city with a telescope. The girl was blonde and blue-eyed, and her skin was as white as snow, and she looked so tight.

At this time, the living treasure among He Laoliu's new subordinates smacked his lips: "The sixth master is looking at the Yanma again!" I'm about to drop my eyeballs! ”

"Go, go! Don't be cheap, beware of bullets that don't have long eyes. He Lao Liu scolded him.

"What's this, Sixth Master, you have an 'old' in your name, but you're not old, it's the age of begging for a daughter-in-law, this is a little bit of a literal way to put it, uh, what's that, it's the flower season?"

"Come on, it's still the flower season." Zhao Xiucai in the platoon shook his head.

"And what do you call it?"

Zhao Xiucai ignored him.

At this time, another soldier said: "Don't think about it, the sixth master, they won't marry." ”

"Why don't you marry," Huo Bao continued, "that tits have long legs, it's a pity not to marry." ”

There was no logical relationship between Huobao's words at all, but Zhao Xiucai just glanced at him and didn't refute it.

But the one who just said that he would not marry shook his head: "I passed by their residence at night and saw them kneeling in front of the window of the house and chanting, they are nuns!" ”

"That's called a nun." Zhao Xiucai finally spoke again.

"Isn't it a foreign nun," Huobao shook his head, "it's the same, it's a nun, hey, it's a pity." ”

At this time, the non-stop sound of artillery stopped.

The last shells were smoke bombs, and all at once the city of Baghdad in front of the trenches was covered in white smoke.

Immediately after, the flares of the attack rose into the sky.

The company commander began to blow the whistle: "The whole army is forward!" Remember, in the smoke, it's the enemy who runs straight at you, just shoot! If you don't want to be killed by friendly soldiers, let me move forward! ”

"Alright, little ones!" He Lao Liu shouted while jumping out of the trench, "Kill! ”