Dunkirk.
The Duke of Wellington stood on the slope with a serious face and observed the battle line.
After a long time, his old face turned red and he said to Qin Yuan beside him.
"Today, Sunday, the soldiers have rest, so there is no need to attack."
"Oh I got it."
Qin Yuan looked at him sideways. Although he expressed understanding, his expression said: Do you think I am stupid?
Things started a week ago.
The Ming Dynasty mission fleet arrived at Dunkirk.
At this time, the European War was at a stalemate. The anti-French alliance was unable to invade the core area of France, and Napoleon did not have more troops to fight out.
Both sides dug trenches on the battlefields of the Rhine and Dunkirk.
Whoever criticizes will suffer.
In the past few months, there has been basically no major fighting between the two sides.
The soldiers dug trenches during the day and lay in the trenches at night.
With the humid sea breeze and occasional rainfall, the trenches were wet and muddy, and many soldiers suffered from trench beriberi.
Coupled with the infestation of rats, swarms of rats were rampant in the trenches.
These rats contaminate clean water, eat soldiers' supplies, and even eat soldiers' exposed skin while they are sleeping.
The health threat to soldiers is great.
In order to eliminate the rat infestation, catching rats was recorded as military merit and became a form of entertainment here.
Originally, both sides continued to dig trenches and catch mice without incident.
It was not until the arrival of the Ming Dynasty mission fleet that the situation changed.
Especially after Qin Yuan submitted an application for battlefield observation to both parties, both Wellington and Napoleon were confused.
We Western countries are catching mice...ah, no, they are at war. Why are you coming to join in the fun?
But Ming's mission fleet was too large.
The huge hull of the Fortress-class ship and the black smoke column that covered the sky and sun made the British Royal Navy tremble in the calves.
When the Ming Dynasty mission fleet entered Dunkirk, the British Royal Navy at sea retreated far away for the sake of unnecessary diplomatic accidents.
Nelson strictly ordered the battleship's artillery to return to the gun cabin and close the gun doors.
Even soldiers' muskets were prohibited from being loaded outside of war.
At the same time, in order to demonstrate the authority of the British Empire, George III directly ordered the Duke of Wellington to launch an attack on Berthier's French army.
A good demonstration of the strength of the British Empire.
Of course, Qin Yuan was not willing to let go of the good show, so he led the officials from the Ministry of Rites to set up cameras and started filming the battlefield.
Then, Qin Yuan took a picture of an extremely tragic scene on this small slope.
The Duke of Wellington ordered the British army to attack on all fronts.
In order to make the attack smooth, Wellington concentrated all the artillery of the entire army group and began to break through the small slope.
More than 300 16-pound field guns roared, and the battlefield was filled with smoke.
The military band beat the drums, and the British Army lined up in a dense formation, launching an attack on the French position opposite with a serious face.
After that, they were lined up to be shot.
Limited by the erratic trajectories of flintlock guns, if you want to take advantage of firepower, you must have a dense formation.
Whoever forms a dense formation and whose soldiers have more courage will win.
But the spread of Ming Dynasty's trench tactics to the European continent brought another headache.
That is, for soldiers in the trench, only one head is exposed, and the area affected by the attack is very small.
The smaller the hit area, the lower the probability of being hit.
Therefore, whoever attacks will suffer the consequences has become the iron law of trench warfare.
The European War had been going on for several months, and both sides understood this.
However, George III has to micromanage.
The Duke of Wellington had no choice but to concentrate his artillery and provide early fire cover for the soldiers as much as possible.
Unfortunately, these solid projectile artillery were difficult to cause damage to the French troops in the trenches.
Therefore, in the camera lens of the Ministry of Ming Dynasty, these British lobster soldiers were lining up to die.
Die neatly.
There is also a military band playing music.
In just one day, the Duke of Wellington sent away 20,000 British troops.
Wellington was stunned.
Berthier was stunned.
Qin Yuan was also stunned.
Although Qin Yuan was just a minister of the Ministry of Rites and didn't know much about military operations.
In addition, the weapons and combat concepts of the Ming Dynasty's standing divisions are indeed not available in this era.
Qin Yuan had a preconceived notion that this Duke was a fool.
It’s okay to let the army die. How can they line up like this?
"The courage of the British Army is indeed admirable!"
As the Minister of Rites, Qin Yuan could no longer change his habit of burying people.
These few short sentences seemed to be praising the British army, but there was a thorn in the lines.
Shrimp and pig heart too!
That night, Qin Yuan lay in the tent, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.
All I could think about was the scene during the day.
Finally, Qin Yuan had a smile on his face and fell asleep peacefully.
I want to realize Zhu Zaiming's script and let Napoleon land on the British mainland.
It seemed that the breaking point was Wellington.
Therefore, there is a scene of Wellington blushing.
Qin Yuan got up early and took the officials from the Ministry of Rites to set up a camera on the slope again.
He also distributed yesterday's photos to various British generals as a souvenir for them.
Wellington is on a slope. It doesn't matter if you walk or not.
Leaving would make Ming look down on the British Empire and make him lose face.
If you don't leave, the British army will continue to die.
He was very confused.
Qin Yuan looked at Wellington's troubled face, took out a small notebook, and wrote down what he said.
“Alas, it is a pity that the courage of the British army only has a shelf life of one day.
It seems that this battlefield observation is over.
When I return to Ming Dynasty, this article will be published in the Ming Dynasty Newspaper. "
Wellington's brows jumped.
Should we continue to attack or continue to catch mice?
In the end, reason triumphed over emotion, and the Duke of Wellington chose to catch the mouse.
If the British troops were really sent off here, he, the Duke, would be guillotined by George III!
It's better to silently take the blame.
It was George III who micro-managed the situation, and the Duke of Wellington who took the blame.
As long as George III wanted to show his face, he would not convict Wellington directly.
Qin Yuan was bored, shook his head and removed the camera.
Although the British Army playing music to death cannot be filmed, the British Army catching mice is quite explosive.
Countless soldiers held sticks or a piece of rag and began to sweep through Mao'er Cave and Hidden Soldier Cave.
A large number of rats were soon caught.
The bored soldiers made specimens of these rats from small to large sizes and sold them to the Ming Dynasty envoys.
These specimens are valuable for biological research.
Even more valuable is trench beriberi.
When this condition occurs, the feet become cold, swollen, and have a waxy appearance.
It is difficult to walk, the feet are heavy and numb, and the nerves and muscles are the main affected areas.
Gangrene can develop, and in severe cases the entire foot or leg may have to be amputated.
Regarding this disease caused by the trenches, the accompanying doctor Daming said that it was of great research value.
As a result, doctors from the Ming Dynasty were dressed in white clothes and shuttled through the trenches holding wooden staffs with medicine gourds hanging on them.
They were very popular with soldiers on both sides. Everyone treated the doctor like a real father, and all kinds of compliments came out of their mouths.
"They are angels!"
"This is civilization!"
"Human Beacon!"
