"Oh my God! I am so unlucky that I fell into the hands of these Chinese. They are simply a bunch of perverts..."
"Shh... keep your voice down, are you crazy? These Chinese people understand German. Do you want to be punished too?"
"Shut up, shut up, both of you, the squad leader called Big Pao Zhan is looking at you..."
Three young soldiers from Hamburg had just gathered together to complain for a while when they were discovered by Chinese squad leader Tian Da Paobao not far away.
"Steven, Daniel, Grant...it's you three again. Everyone else is practicing civil engineering with peace of mind. You three are the only ones who talk a lot. What I hate most is cliques in the army. Now jump out of the trenches and come to One hundred push-ups by the river...immediately! Immediately!"
Tian Da Paobao was an ordinary soldier in Xiao Letian's officer corps. During this reorganization, he was also joined as a squad leader. Now was the time when he was at his most enthusiastic. He saw that someone actually dared to whisper to each other during the training, and said everything. It was a complaint. I was so angry that I almost burst the eardrums of the people around me with my roar.
The three Stevens did not dare to neglect, jumped out of the trench, and ran to the edge of the river beach to accept the punishment.
"God, we are soldiers, and we have accepted the strictest army discipline in Europe. Although we have never been on the battlefield and killed anyone, we are not rookies... Thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-seven..."
"That's right, we compete in marksmanship, combat, bandaging skills... all the items in the Army Drill Ceremony. When were the three of us not excellent? How come in the hands of these Chinese, we all turned into rats... Forty One, forty-two..."
"Steven, Daniel...you two, please stop talking. Look at the firecracker squad leader, he is not idle either, he is demonstrating with his own hands..."
The three of them looked up and saw that Tian Da Paobao was holding an engineering shovel and giving lessons to the soldiers in the class.
"You guys, you European young men, are not meant for crop work at first glance. With your big fat butts sticking out so high, are you waiting for the enemy's guns to hit you?" The artillery squad leader's teasing made all the soldiers present laugh. Even the three Stevens who were punished couldn't help laughing. At that moment, their dislike of the squad leader was reduced by three points.
"It's all taken care of. The first element of civil engineering work is to protect yourself, and the second is to be fast... I will demonstrate it to you again. If you still can't learn it, I will send you back to the recruit camp and let your files be recorded. Give me a big bad review..."
The words frightened the surrounding soldiers to the point where they didn’t dare to speak. Prussia was at this time when all the people were soldiers. All healthy men were required to join the army and receive military training. If there was a bad military review in the file, it would It was a catastrophic blow to every Prussian man.
Carrying such a scapegoat, they will never gain respect from people throughout their lives, and all promotion opportunities have been denied to them. This is crueler than sentencing them to death.
No one dared to neglect, and stared at the squad leader demonstrating in person without even blinking. Even the three Stevens forgot to do push-ups and stared at squad leader Tian as he demonstrated.
Even though they are a little resistant to civil engineering training, they have to admit that the Chinese squad leader is very skilled in using the engineer shovel.
Large pieces of soil were piled up into bunkers. The engineer's shovel was like a hot wheel. The thick and hard soil was as easy as cutting soft cheese. He could even avoid the stones hidden in the soil with ease.
After a while, a trench that was nearly one meter high per person appeared in front of everyone. Every section of the trench was horizontal and vertical, as flat as if it had been cut by some kind of large engineering equipment.
"Did you see it? This is the passing standard for civil engineering work. I haven't used the wartime speed yet, otherwise I can speed up one-third..."
"I have been a farmer since I was a child. If my mother country had not been defeated in the war and killed all the relatives in our village, I would not have embarked on the road of beheading... Well, you must remember that the foreign goods in your hands are The gun is the most sophisticated Mauser in the world today. You don’t have to stand on the ground to load bullets. You can hide behind the bunker and load the gun..."
Although Tian Da Paobao loved to curse, he was still very patient in leading the troops. In his explanation, these new Prussian troops finally understood the importance of civil engineering work. In future wars, skirmishing and trench fighting will become Gone are the mainstream, queuing-to-shoot scenes of the musket era.
However, it always takes a process for human beings to adapt to new things. It takes time for old ideas to abdicate, and this time difference is the so-called opportunity that countless military experts must seize.
"I don't know if you can understand it. To be honest, I don't know much about it. But one thing is unquestionable, that is, we must unconditionally believe in my Prime Minister... When you say what the future will look like, I am convinced that the future will be how is it like."
"Your Excellency has said that future naval battles will become purely armored ship battles. I am convinced of that. Your Excellency also said that submarine warfare will become the mainstream in the future. I am also convinced. I even believe what Your Excellency said that there will be one in the future. The air force...well, it means people flying in the sky, shooting and fighting at each other..."
"You brat, don't laugh! Anyway, I believe it, because it is a miracle that my master has brought us all the way, and his judgment of the future has never been wrong... My master also said that you, Prussia, will win this Prussian-Austrian war. , do you also want to laugh at this judgment?"
"So, if you say that civil engineering work is important, it means it is important. We are all top soldiers, and obedience is our bounden duty. The responsibility for deciding the future direction is not on us. You must remember..."
Having said this, Tian Da Paoba yelled at the three victims who were lying on the ground and listening to the punishment stupidly by the river, "Steven, Daniel, Grant... come back, I understand, I can't put you three rookies Put it all together, motherfucker, they say you Prussians are rigorous, why did you three dumbfounded people come out..."
"Jiang Lie...Zhao Yidao...you two come here, I will exchange two spear-headed soldiers with you..."
Jiang Lie and Zhao Yidao, like Tian Paojiao, are the most basic squad leaders. As soon as the three met, they separated the three boys who had grown up with each other. Not only that, the three squad leaders also gave them three With the addition of Xiao Zao, these three people completely turned into dirty ground mice in the subsequent training.
The same scene played out in different companies, with countless complaining Prussian soldiers secretly complaining to Paul, the intelligence officer, and translator Jonas. But every time they complained, they were severely punished, and the amount of training continued to increase.
Xiao Letian ignored their complaints. In the daily meetings, Xiao Letian explained his reasons over and over again.
"The war is about to break out. Now the Prussian army has begun to gather on the southern border, and the states close to Austria are ready to go to war. If my analysis is correct, the war will be about to break out in less than ten days..."
"Prime Minister Bismarck gave me a big problem. I could even guess that the old Moltke Chief of Staff and Prince Karl agreed that these 600 Prussian troops would be integrated into my camp. This was a conspiracy... Yes, They just decided that we didn’t have time to integrate these soldiers, so we wasted all our precious time on training and running-in..."
"This is a conspiracy, and it is a conspiracy that is difficult to crack. There are always some people who want to freeze us, and there are always some people who don't want us to become stronger, and the conspiracy is always difficult to crack... "
Xiao Letian took a few deep breaths and calmed down, "But they are wrong. We among us have relied on miracles one after another to get through this journey. I will give you three more days, and you only have three days to adjust." These soldiers, the special train arranged for us by the Prime Minister will leave for the south in three days. Whether you can participate in the war depends on your performance..."
"I have checked the training results of these good guys. The Prime Minister did not lie to us. Although these are all new recruits, everyone's training results are top-notch. Shooting training, formation training, use of weapons, unarmed combat and bayonet fighting... … Various achievements are not inferior to ours.”
"The difference between them and us now may only be in civil engineering. I firmly believe that our training is not in vain. I believe that we will be useful in the upcoming war. Everyone should stop now. If you complain, let me go to the grassroots level and lead them personally..."
"Including Xiao Hexin, Sima Yun, and Luo Huo, all officers, please sink to me, lead your brothers to dig holes, and get familiar with every soldier during training. They will be your life-and-death brothers on the future battlefield. …”
Xiao Letian's order was an irreversible imperial edict of the officer corps. From that moment on, all officers went down to the grassroots level and started more brutal training with this new Hamburg army.
The individual soldier pits were dug and filled in, then a group of people stepped on them and dug them out again, the trenches were repaired and then filled in, and the headquarters for defense artillery were built and then demolished.
The blood blisters on their hands had formed into pieces, and countless soldiers were so tired that they could not even straighten their waists, but no one dared to be lazy. The unique rigor and patience of the Prussian nation came into play, and none of them fell behind.
Yes, even the battalion commander personally went to dig holes in each company, and even Xiao Letian, the Eastern Prime Minister, took time to sweat with everyone, including intelligence officer Paul and liaison officer Jonas. Lotte was forced to grab the engineering shovel. If there was anything to complain about, let's just do it to the death.
Soldiers' thinking is sometimes so simple. Even if they are full of complaints, as long as you, the officer, work with them and do more than them, no one will rebel.
What's more, Xiao Letian met the Prussian nation, which had the best military quality in the world at that time. This was really great luck. You must know that a hundred years ago, in the first half of the 18th century, the Prussian nation finally achieved full-scale militarization.
From that era, Prussia implemented national military service, and all healthy men were required to serve, and the service period was actually a terrifying 25 years. He even turned six-sevenths of the wealth in the national treasury into military expenditures.
This horrific military service law has lasted for more than a hundred years and has not been abolished until now. You can imagine how terrifying it would be for a nation where all the people have received 25 years of military training.
The rigorous character of the Germans in later generations comes from this. Without such strong endurance, they might not be able to survive Xiao Letian's hellish training.
Xiao Letian stood on the high ground by the river, facing the moonlight and looking at the training ground with bright torches, and couldn't help but said, "Well done, you are indeed a nation that can provoke two world wars. I am completely convinced... Okay. Guys, tomorrow is the time when we go to the battlefield, your sweat will not be in vain, the battlefield will eventually prove everything!"
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