Tick tick... the bugle sounded on the city wall. This familiar and harsh bugle sound immediately woke up the Chinese soldiers scattered in the small town from their sleep!
Gathering late at night is a unique skill developed by the Chinese army through long-term and intensive training!
When Emperor Tongzhi was receiving recruit training in the military camp, he was not afraid of any hardship or fatigue, but he was afraid of gathering late at night because the requirements of this kind of training were too perverted.
Sleeping soldiers must develop a conditioned reflex to wake up quickly after hearing the call for emergency assembly. The company, including the following troops, are only given five minutes from being asleep to fully armed assembly.
The emergency assembly time for units from company level to regiment level cannot exceed ten minutes, while the emergency assembly time for units above regiment level cannot exceed a quarter of an hour.
This kind of efficiency is certainly very easy compared with the regulations on liberation funds in later generations, but in this era, this kind of request is definitely considered abnormal.
No army in the world can achieve such efficiency. If other countries had such perverted regulations, the soldiers would have rebelled long ago.
But only the Chinese, only the Chinese founded by Xiao Letian, can create this miracle!
The reason is very simple, because the Chinese are the nation with the strongest ability to withstand stress in the world, bar none!
And Xiao Letian is the founder of the Chinese nation and the leader of the founding of the country. His personal charm and influence are extremely powerful. There are no constraints on all his orders!
The execution power of the orders issued by such a person is unimaginable. Even if it is such a perverted regulation, as long as Xiao Letian announces it, the soldiers below who admire him extremely will vomit blood and execute it!
The development training in the Chinese recruit camp is not three months, but between half a year and a year. If the standards are not met, the time may even be extended.
Late night training is the most difficult of all subjects!
Perverted instructors often sound the assembly call at three or four o'clock in the middle of the night when they are most asleep. There are even more perverted instructors who will conduct an emergency assembly after the troops have a big banquet and all the soldiers have drunk!
No one is an exception. The entire Chinese army...including Xiao Letian himself has been punished!
Yes, even Xiao Letian, the author of the regulations, must abide by this regulation. When he is resting in the military camp, as long as he hears the emergency assembly call, he must complete the assembly within the specified time.
Many veterans from that time remembered and even saw it with their own eyes. Xiao Letian was a minute and a half late. As a result, Luo Huo, as the chief instructor, directly issued an order asking Xiao Letian to do a hundred push-ups in a row!
No one expected that the head of state of the Chinese ethnic group ran to the edge of the playground without saying a word and began to do push-ups conscientiously!
One hundred times in a row. Many veterans cannot meet this standard. Isn't it embarrassing for a head of state who is a civilian to do the same?
People can't forget the scene at that time. Xiao Letian was almost exhausted when he was halfway through. The ground was covered with sweat dripping down, and his face turned pale.
No matter how many people plead for mercy, it is useless. Regulations are regulations, and no one can do it unless they complete it!
It took Xiao Letian four hours to complete one hundred push-ups. He even collapsed on the ground several times, but he persisted.
Finally, I heard that Dr. Huang prepared ointment for the head of state for more than half a month to heal the strained muscles!
From then on, no one in the army dared to question the regulations, not even the emperor of the Qing Dynasty!
The assembly call has become a conditioned reflex for all soldiers. Those soldiers living in tents and officers staying in civilian houses jumped up as soon as they heard the sound of the assembly call, as if there were springs pressed under their bodies.
Dong-dong-dong, the sound of big leather boots could be heard in various houses. The townspeople of Xuni looked at these Chinese officers who had just laid down in disbelief. Why were they dressing like crazy?
"Assemble! Emergency assembly! The three companies must assemble... The second team must assemble immediately! Everyone must assemble..."
Officers at all levels opened their necks and roared. The citizens of Syuni nearby had never seen such a scene. They saw drunken soldiers jumping up to get dressed, and some soldiers even slapped each other to wake each other up.
Some soldiers directly submerged their heads in cold buckets of water, and some soldiers even grabbed hot peppers from the kitchen and stuffed them into their mouths!
Everyone woke up quickly in their own way. Although the hangover from last night was still there, no matter how powerful the hangover was, they could not resist their awe of the military order!
The doors were opened one by one, and the soldiers began to assemble according to each unit. There were no instructions or orders. All the troops received an order.
"The French cavalry sneak attack from the south... counterattack immediately... rely on the city wall to counterattack..."
At this time, Xiao Letian also rushed out. He was holding the remaining ice in the barrel when the red wine had just been chilled, shaking his head to drive away the hangover.
In the end, there was nothing he could do, so he stuffed all the ice cubes into his shirt!
"Ah...ah...exciting...where is the enemy!" The ice cubes all over his body suddenly woke him up. He took out his pocket watch and saw that the time was exactly eleven o'clock in the night!
"What's going on? Where did the enemy come from..."
"Cough cough cough... cough cough cough... coming from the south... there are a large number of defeated Belgian troops outside the city wall..." Wang Huaiyuan ran over, bending over and coughing desperately.
Xiao Letian's eyes stood up. "The Belgian military camp is only more than one kilometer away from us. If a war breaks out, we can't miss it. Why did the Belgian army retreat when the alarm sounded?"
"Didn't they resist?"
Sima Yun also rushed over, "There is only one possibility, and that is that the enemy succeeded in the sneak attack and their strength far exceeds that of the Bi army... There was no sound of cannons, and there were not many gunshots..."
"There is only one answer... it is a large-scale cavalry raid... Listen... the sound of horse hooves has already appeared!"
Xiao Letian's face was as cold as the Arctic ice. He gritted his teeth and buttoned his military uniform and said coldly, "Are you talking about a sneak attack by a cavalry team that is several times the size of the Bi army?"
"That's more than 3,000 Belgian troops! Could it be that the enemy's cavalry exceeds 9,000?"
"Let me ask you, is it really the French cavalry? If so, then why did the French Emperor go to war with Belgium? Send so many cavalry to attack Belgium?"
"There is only one purpose. My position has been exposed...the French are coming for me!"
Listening to Xiao Letian's roar, Wang Huaiyuan quickly lowered his head and confessed, "The CIA's work is not good, I admit it! This is a mistake in intelligence work..."
"Now is not the time to hold people responsible... Prepare to resist immediately. No matter how many enemies there are, I can't just surrender!"
"Get ready to fight! The whole army is ready to fight!" Xiao Letian's face turned green with anger. This unexpected incident was completely unexpected!
It’s such a terrible feeling to lose control of the situation!
In the dark night, the Chinese soldiers climbed onto the low city wall and began to quickly set up a defense line, while Xiao Letian gritted his teeth and whispered in the dark night.
