France, the main battlefield of the First World War, suffered more severe losses than Britain, officers below the rank of lieutenant rarely survived more than three months on the battlefield, and the mortality rate of adult men aged 15-49 was as high as 13.3%.

Not only is there a shortage of front-line personnel, but there is also a war-weariness in the rear, and soldiers passively meet the battle and even flee, which makes the French front combat effectiveness and labor force sharply shortage, and also makes France set its sights on China, which has sufficient labor force for a long time.

Therefore, when the French government heard about Liang Shiyi's plan of "replacing soldiers with work", it accepted his proposal and sent a retired colonel named Tao Lude to China to conceal his identity and come to China as an agricultural technician to recruit Chinese workers in World War I.

The French Chinese workers who are currently getting along with Cheng Nuo are basically recruited through the hands of this retired colonel.

"Big brother, are you saying that you all came to France through a commercial company?"

This time in Europe, Cheng Nuo not only brought pancakes and miso with him, but also a lot of cooking utensils, as well as a small number of light industrial products, such as flour produced in Shanghai.

It is not only to promote the domestic flour industry, but also to make pasta for these Chinese workers.

Roll out the noodles by hand, let them cool in water after cooking, mash the garlic juice and nepeta, add salt and stir well, and pour over the noodles.

Although it looks simple, it is refreshing and heat-dissipating in the mouth.

Squatting with his fellow Chinese workers, Cheng Nuo snorted and snorted and made two big bowls in a row, but he was not satisfied, and he was ready to make up for another bowl of noodle soup.

The Chinese worker next to him wiped his mouth casually, and smiled curiously: "Professor Cheng, as a great professor, you didn't expect to have more food than those of us who do manual work, which is very powerful."

"Would you like a spoonful of white soup too?" Is that enough?" Cheng Nuo took the initiative to scoop a spoonful of noodle soup for Big Brother Huagong, and said with a smile: "Don't look at me as a literati, the strength in my hands is not small, I have to let Big Brother you see it later."

"Enough, enough, I'll just send this point down my throat, I haven't eaten noodles for a long time, and it's still fine noodles, thanks to Professor Cheng, I'll have to take a good look at it in a while." Big Brother hurriedly sent the noodle bowl over, and his smile revealed a little restraint: "When we first came here, we really asked some company to introduce us."

Cheng Nuo was silent, in order to cooperate with the French recruitment and avoid the accusations of the Allies, Liang Shiyi established the "Huimin" commercial company in Beijing to recruit Chinese workers for France all over the country.

At the same time, France was required to strictly abide by three clauses signed in writing in addition to the content of the contract: Chinese workers must not intervene in the war; The Chinese government has the right to appoint officials to France to inspect the living and working conditions of Chinese workers; Chinese workers must enjoy equal treatment, freedom and freedom from abuse by their employers while in France.

[The app that has been running stably for many years is comparable to the old version of the book-chasing artifact, which is used by old bookworms.]

The most important teacher resources are basically served by students who stay in Europe and the United States, which saves Cheng Nuo a lot of effort.

Prior to this, these students had begun to organize regular activities, including writing letters for the Chinese workers of the First World War, explaining world events to the Chinese workers of the First World War, holding various lectures, discussing the future of the motherland, etc., with the aim of developing the wisdom and wisdom of the Chinese workers of the First World War and cultivating their patriotic thoughts.

With the arrival of Cheng Nuo, this power has to continue to push forward, and the direction is more scientific and systematic.

"Cousin Yu, please come over for a while."

Cheng Nuo, who was packing his bags, saw Lin Yutang coming over and hurriedly greeted him:

"I have some books here that I need you to translate for me, can you see if you have time?"

"Book, what book?" Lin Yutang was a little curious, took the book, glanced at the cover, and only felt a little familiar, but he didn't know where he had read it: "DasKapital?"

Cheng Nuo tied up his clothes and explained: "Yes, it is this book, the Chinese name you can call it "Zi * Theory", a macro work written by the German Ma Si, I was very inspired after reading it, but unfortunately, the Chinese translation of this book is not satisfactory, I need someone to read it."

As he spoke, he patted a stack of books on the table and introduced, "These are all "Treatises", but each one is a new language."

"Isn't translating the English version of a new language enough?" Lin Yutang was a little curious, walked over and flipped through it casually, it was really in various languages, including German, French, Spanish, etc., and was shocked: "Do you attach so much importance to it?"

Cheng Nuo smiled and put his clothes into the suitcase: "This thing is a dragon slayer, with it in hand, this piece of heaven has to be pierced, you just wait and see, in order to ensure that there are no mistakes, specially find a few different languages translated into Chinese, and then refine and proofread on this basis to achieve the principle of Xindaya."

Lin Yutang was a little incredulous, looked at the book, and then looked at Cheng Nuo: "Okay, I agreed to this, but how are you going to use such an important book?"

Cheng Nuo stopped what he was doing and said seriously: "Right now, starting from our workers' night school, there was no compulsory course before, and in the future, "Capitalism" will be our only compulsory course, and when the time is ripe, it will be promoted to the whole country, and these Chinese workers at that time will be a spark of hope."

Hearing this, Lin Yutang's heart itched even more, and he immediately wanted to read this book to see what magic it had that made Cheng Nuo look like this.

However, it is obviously not a suitable place at the moment, forcibly holding this thought, Lin Yutang said with concern: "Zhiyuan, where are you going to go? Europe isn't at peace right now, and bullets don't have eyes, so it's better not to go anywhere."

Cheng Nuo shook his head with a smile, buckled the button on the suitcase and said, "It was precisely because I liked its chaos that I chose to go to Europe."

However, Cheng Nuo didn't tell Lin Yutang what to do, and he didn't even tell Liang Qichao and them.

Just because he was going to go to Germany secretly according to the plan to reap the benefits in advance.

In addition to acquiring technology in advance, he was also preparing to borrow the hands of the Germans to try the chemical weapons developed by the Institute of Chemistry on the British veterans.

The amount of the first batch is not large, and the focus is on obtaining experimental data, so that we can know the direction of improvement.

Germany is the main user of chemical weapons, and it makes more sense to drop them as Germany.

It's just that France and Germany are still at war at the moment, and it's really inconvenient to reveal their identities.

Of course, Cheng Nuo's identity cannot be revealed after the war.

"By the way, this month is the 100th anniversary of Mr. Ma Si's birth, and there will be some social * righteous people visiting, you tell Shi Yixuan and them, you should be well entertained." Cheng Nuo suddenly thought of tomorrow's day and hurriedly instructed.

"Good...... Yes? Professor Cheng quickly lay down!" Before Lin Yutang finished speaking, he only heard the sound of "Hugh~" in the sky, and then the sound of violent shelling began to sound around him.

Before Cheng Nuo could react, he was pushed to the ground by Lin Yutang.

Immediately afterwards, a huge bombing sound suddenly sounded nearby, and Cheng Nuo's eyes went dark

Unconscious.

After many years, Cheng Nuo learned that he was attacked by the famous Great Berta Cannon during a special investigation.

It was on this day that the whole of Marseille was shrouded in a barrage of Berta cannons, and more than 800 citizens of Marseille were killed under the huge 420 mm barrels.

In fact, in the middle of World War I, the two warring sides were in a stage of strategic stalemate, and the military and economic strength of the Allied countries, represented by Britain and France, increased by a particularly large margin compared with the beginning of the war.

In the second half of 1917, the air defense strength of Marseille and other key areas in France was greatly enhanced, and in addition to the strict air defense warning system, the dense antiaircraft artillery fire network spread all over the suburbs of Marseille made it possible for German planes to attack Marseille in the broad white sky to bring about their own destruction.

Under these conditions, the number of Luftwaffe aircraft attacking Marseille by night raids gradually increased.

However, the good light control in Marseille City, coupled with the huge anti-aircraft artillery group, made it possible for the German planes attacking at night to fly at high altitudes, and the accuracy of bomb dropping was not at all. The French even did not hesitate to build a fake target of a simulated city on both sides of the Marne ring in order to deceive the German pilots.

In order to bombard Marseille, the capital of France, the German elders quickly thought of the trick of long-range artillery.

At that time, the German army had already occupied Belgium, and the border area of Belgium and France was only 120~130 kilometers away from the capital Marseille.

And the German arms industry has strong research and development strength in the manufacture of artillery. In 1915, Germany was already able to create a long-range gun with a range of 40 kilometers, which could hit Dunkirk from the front line, and even soon after, the Germans directly created a long-range gun with a range of 62 kilometers.

In the back, the "Paris Cannon" with a maximum range of 131K was launched, and the famous "Gustav" train gun was just a junior in front of him.

Although the maximum range of the bombing Cheng Nuo's large Belta gun was less than 15 kilometers, the shell weighed nearly 1 ton and exploded after penetrating the target, making it the heaviest artillery that Germany could transport on land.

And Cheng Nuo here obviously didn't realize the importance of the problem, I don't know how long it took, he finally woke up from the ruins, and the first thing he did after opening his eyes was to look at Lin Yutang to see if he was okay.

Luckily, both of them were at the corner of the house, and the brick and wood structure was relatively stable, and with the support of falling beams, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

It's just that he was shocked by the cannonball, and Lin Yutang fainted and didn't wake up yet.

Feeling that the pulse was still beating, Cheng Nuo suddenly felt relieved.

But then there was a huge stabbing sound next to his ears, followed by a state of deafness, even if he saw someone crying heartbreakingly, Cheng Nuo couldn't hear it.

The surrounding houses collapsed and collapsed, and smoke billowed everywhere.

The citizens of Marseille were terrified, hiding, hiding, and the whole of Marseille was in chaos.

And the situation of artillery attacks is not over, there are explosions every 15~20 minutes.

Although Cheng Nuo couldn't feel the sound, the frequent appearance of that kind of scene also shocked him, and he didn't know where to go with Lin Yutang on his back.

went around and around, and finally returned to the same place, hoping that the principle of the shell crater could bless the two.

At first, Cheng Nuo thought that the enemy's planes had successfully crossed the German-French border from a high altitude and attacked Marseille.

You can look up for a long time, how can there be any trace of an airplane.

At this time, Cheng Nuo finally understood that where there was any aircraft bombing, people directly relied on their unique cannon production technology to bomb them from a distance.

There is no way to deal with it other than to destroy it directly.

However, at this time, Germany was a grasshopper after autumn, and although the Great Berta artillery bombarded for a day, it only caused some civilian casualties, and did not change the situation of the entire World War I much.

In the evening, they were found by French planes.

Because of the huge recoil it generates when it is fired, it is necessary to pour a concrete base several meters deep, and then blow it up when it moves.

It took 6 hours just to place the gun emplacement.

Therefore, when it was discovered, it could be called a live target that stayed still and was destroyed by French planes without much effort.

"The latest news from this station, the criminal German artillery has been destroyed by our heroic air force, and the German army has responded fiercely......

After checking it, Cheng Nuo turned off the radio, walked out of the tent and looked at the messy position, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

Obviously, a few days ago, they were still eating noodles together, but they didn't expect to lose so many lives in an attack.

"How many Chinese brothers have we sacrificed?" Cheng Nuo walked up to Shi Yixuan and said with concern, "How are they settled?"

Shi Yixuan sighed and said slowly: "There are not many Chinese workers in our school during the day, but unfortunately a cannonball fell near the school, and eight compatriots died on the spot.