On the east coast of the Americas, Kangguo - Florida Peninsula - north, a garrison camp.

The sky was overcast, the wind was howling from the north, and the helmets hanging under the eaves swayed violently in the wind, making a dull crash when they collided with each other, and although the helmets were of different shapes, there was no doubt that at some point these helmets could save the life of a warrior.

Beside him was a newly made 35-style army helmet made by Chen Han, Zhu Min sat leisurely on a tattered old French sofa, crossed his legs, holding a pinch of French newspaper in his hand, which was a second language he had taken after middle school, and a cup of still steaming cocoa was placed on the wooden bench at his feet.

Because of the topography, there are no large mountain ranges across the North American plains, and the mountains here are more north-south. That's why the winter is windy here, and the snowstorms that roar down from the North Pole can go from the northernmost point of the continent to the southernmost point.

Kangguo is located in the southeasternmost corner of the North American continent, and in winter, snowflakes can be seen falling in the northern mountains. In the former Georgia region in the north of Connecticorn, it snows in the winter throughout the state, whether it is the southern plain near the sea, the Lanling Mountains in the north, and the Petermont foothills in the center.

The sofa is placed under the eaves, and here, as long as you raise your head, you can see the horse farm not far away, and Zhu Min is a cavalryman.

After graduating from high school, he did not go to the technical school for employees under the gold company, but signed up for the army. After several years of hard work, as well as the knowledge he has learned over the years, which allows him not only to write and arithmetic, but also to draw and better conduct reconnaissance, Zhu Min has crossed the most important threshold between soldiers and officers, he is now a glorious cavalry corporal officer, a platoon commander, reconnaissance platoon leader, and there are more than 20 elites under his command.

As well as those neatly arranged horse pens and hay piles, the base's logistics personnel are gathering next to a group of war horses that have just been turned back, doing routine maintenance 'maintenance' work. Check them for injuries, bloody wounds, and wear and tear on the horseshoe and saddle.

The wind was still blowing, the weather was still very bad, and under such meteorological conditions, the cavalry troops suffered a lot when they went out.

Although they had a handful of French-language newspapers in their hands, they had very little to do with France, and more about the Russian, Austrian, and American wars, which took up more than seventy percent of the pages of the newspapers, which had been captured by their battalion in recent operations. You can also learn a little about your enemies through this.

And why are there French newspapers on the lands of the lighthouse country, hehe, then what.

Secondly, the newspapers were devoted to reports and analyses of the rearmament of France.

There is no doubt that during this period, the French and all segments of French society were particularly concerned about the actions of their neighboring countries.

The Russian war situation and the American war situation are a medium for their reintegration into Europe, and although this European system is built on the framework of the European system, there is no way to do it. Isn't Napoleon's attempt to create a greater Europe centered on France already failing?

They should now be glad that they have not completely lost their voice in this framework dominated by the old system.

It's like the old saying, when you can't change the world, you have to choose to fit in.

This is the wisdom of the nation, so in the short term Napoleon will follow in the 'footsteps' of the British government as a sign of respect and silence until he rearms. Visionaries in France have seen their current crisis.

The glory of the Revolution is dead, and the war against Russia can be said to have lost half of France's national fortunes, and a large number of veterans have died in battle. The impact of defeat on Napoleon's personal prestige, the fatigue of the French after years of war, and the emptiness of the revolutionary wave, all kinds of emotions were mixed together, which greatly weakened not only the fighting power of the French army, but also the cohesion of France.

There will never again be a self-defense militia on the soil of a country that is poorly trained and poorly equipped, but whose morale is extremely high.

In the past, the National Guard could sing the Marseillaise song, and under the guidance of the state, people from the east, west, north and south could unite and fight the enemy together. Now, although Napoleon resisted the Sixth Anti-French Alliance, the original plan of the French army has not been completed. This left Napoleon with several revisions to the plan, constantly reducing the size of the French army.

Therefore, France today needs to bow its head. But Napoleon's choice is hardly correct, or whether he was drinking to quench his thirst. Because they have too deep estrangement and hatred on both sides of each other.

France abandoned the Iberian Peninsula, while Ferdinando I [King of Sicily] was still tirelessly pursuing the lands of Naples, and Vittorio Emanuele I [King of Sardinia] was also pursuing large swaths of northwestern Italy, including all of Piedmont, which they had lost in the Napoleonic Wars. And if their wishes are allowed to be realized, four hostile countries with strong ill will soon appear in the southwest and due south directions of France.

Napoleon had broken the Sixth Coalition, but he was not confident of dealing with the Seventh Coalition, and the strength of France was recovering, and the strength of the French enemy was growing rapidly.

Zhu Min's identity determines that he has no possibility of interfering in these international affairs, but he is still happy to read foreign newspapers in his spare time, which will allow him to talk more about everything with his comrades-in-arms.

As a high school student, Zhu Min's education is the highest in the entire company, except for officers from professional classes. High school students still have some value in society, even if they can't get into college, as a high school student, they can find a lot of jobs in society. And this is one of the reasons why Zhu Min quickly rose to prominence in the team.

And Zhu Min, who walked from a soldier to the position of an officer step by step, and did not rely on the way to apply for a military academy to the position of corporal, understands the thoughts of grassroots soldiers very well, and he also summed up some 'methods' for leading soldiers at the grassroots level.

He can put off the shelf, chatting and bragging with his soldiers, which is a good way to connect with feelings. At the same time as Kan Dashan, some new news popped out of his mouth from time to time, he knew French, and could read foreign newspapers, which was also an ability of his, and it could also attract the respect of the soldiers.

In a nutshell, it was an invisibly pretending to be a force, which improved his style and won greater respect from the soldiers.

Knowledge is a valuable asset, and Chinese generally admire people with knowledge.

And it is precisely because Zhu Min is a high school graduate that his father Zhu Yishan never thought about letting his son become a soldier. A high school student, even if he fails the college entrance examination, can easily find a job in society if he is not very particular. What's more, the Americas are a place where there is a greater shortage of 'talent' than the mainland.

But Zhu Min still became a soldier. Because of this, he also had a very unpleasant quarrel with his father.

Of course, Zhu Min also insisted that his father was definitely not unpatriotic and supported the army, but he couldn't deny that the "feudal patriarchal consciousness" in his father's mind was too strong. But this is a Chinese tradition, filial piety comes first, the Manchu Qing Dynasty also advocated filial piety, and parents interfered in their children's affairs, which is natural in traditional Chinese culture. It is only in the last decade or two that the state has gradually begun to promote the 'concept of a new era' – for example, the opposition to arranged marriages, and the independence of children and daughters. But all this is only advocated, not forced.

Now, Zhu Min is already a corporal of a cavalry battalion of the American garrison, and there is a platoon of elite scouts under his command. Thanks to their efforts, the environment around the station is safe, although only temporary. After all, the difference between the strength of the enemy and us is too great - only the battlefield where they are located, the total strength of the garrison army and the vassal army is only three or four thousand, if the enemy really comes to attack, what they have to do is to retreat from the plains to the mountains and contain the first part of the enemy's forces, which is the biggest task of their team.

In the vast plains, because the 'natives' here have been completely expelled by the Wehrmacht, even if the Americans fight back now, their farmers will not be able to come back so quickly.

The empty land seemed to be shrouded in the fog of war, everything was not clear, everything needed to be scouted by cavalry. The latter is in a very dangerous situation.

Scouts, that's equivalent to scouts, how can it be a group of twenty or thirty people when conducting reconnaissance? It's usually a group of three or two, and the most is a group of five, and there must be someone there who is in charge of drawing.

In the vast coastal plain of Georgia, when the reconnaissance cavalry of the enemy and us met each other, brutal fighting was inevitable, and the result was naturally the death of one soldier after another.

This is very dangerous, but Zhu Min feels that he has found the goal of struggle when he joined the army. He signed up for the army in order to realize the value of his life in the war, which was not to protect his family and defend the country. There is no country on this earth that can allow China to defend its homeland. Zhu Min is even more looking forward to using the sword in his hand to open up territory for the great motherland.

Yes, he is a small soldier, and it is impossible for him to dominate the world like those generals who will go down in history. But the army is composed of small soldiers like him, and the rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband!

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There is no doubt that there are Chinese intelligence agents lurking in the government of the lighthouse country, and they may not even be spies of one side, but are likely to be in close contact with Britain and France while reporting to China.

They leaked a lot of secrets to the Chinese side and created some fighters for the garrison. You must know that the Lighthouse Country is a country of immigrants, and the more than 6 million people here can be divided into a dozen groups, large and small, and each group can be divided into countless smaller hills.

There's too much room for outsiders to get into. Because not all of these large and small groups are loyal to the United States.

Especially after the Sino-US war, the prospects of the United States are very not good. In this case, many people in the Lighthouse Country are eagerly looking for their next home. As for the transfer of property or something, that's pediatrics.

Many lighthouse people have chosen to 'move' and move back to the Old Continent.

Europe is inseparable again, London, Paris, Stockholm, etc., there are still some stable places, especially London. What's going on there is better than the United States, which doesn't know when it will be the Chinese.

In such a situation, it is not only the Chinese who come to drill holes, but Europeans are closer to the lighthouse country than China.

So, Congress in Washington has now become a big net, full of holes, countless holes.

Of course, the lighthouse state is also self-aware, but they are powerless to change all this, the problem of state power is still not solved, and the lighthouse state, which cannot achieve complete centralization, has already lost half of this competition.

The battlefield where Zhu Min is located is only a small part of the entire North American battlefield, but as long as he is satisfied with his battle, where is it not a war?

Putting down the newspaper in his hand, Zhu Min got up and walked to the table on the side and picked up the lunch box, it was six o'clock, and it was time for dinner.

Their camp was full of cavalry, and they didn't need to eat as well as the infantry, especially the scout cavalry.

But the food in this place is really good.

If you eat in the Americas, there will be no shortage of bison, and at the same time, Kangguo is close to the sea, all kinds of seafood + plus beef, the food is far more than before.

Although the destructive power of the war is enormous, since the start of the war, the flames of war have mostly burned outside the lighthouse country, and the war has been less than a year ago, and the lighthouse country has the strong support of the Europeans behind it, because although the economy of this immigrant country has become more and more depressed, and the material supply of society has become more and more tight, the whole society has not become full of holes.

But this year is destined to be a sad time for the lighthouse nation.

The Americas have always been a food importer for Europe, but now the grain in the old United States is a little nervous. Hundreds of thousands of troops were thrown into the war in batches, a large number of young and strong people were forcibly conscripted into the army, and there was a shortage of a large number of young and strong men in the United States, which greatly affected both farming and industrial production.

In the future, all kinds of materials in the U.S. market will become scarce. From clothing to food, from butter and cheese to white sugar salt, there is a shortage of everything, and it's obvious that there is a shortage of everything. Even Americans who serve the government of the lighthouse nation will not be adequately rationed. It's all predestined!

Relatively speaking, the material supply on Chen Han's side is heaven.

The big and small countries here, the oldest ones have been many years, like the vassal kingdoms of Chen Ming's little brothers, which one can't be self-sufficient in terms of food?

Although the war will have a great impact on them, just like the United States, it has been less than a year since the war began, and the whole winter is only a small fight, and the vassal states still have more material reserves.

Only those vassal states that had just been feudal were unlucky, because the materials they stored, even the materials stored in the warehouses of the North American vassal states, were theirs to a certain extent, and they were all prepared to build their own feudal states. But now everything is dominated by war.

And the cavalry troops, especially this cavalry, are also responsible for reconnaissance, and in this case, the food situation of Zhu Min's battalion is really not very good. Every day, it is either beef or fish, and all kinds of fruits are put on the side table, and whoever wants to eat can take it.

From apples, oranges, and sugar cane to mangoes, pineapples, coconuts, avocados, and egg fruits from Mexico and Central America, as well as egg fruits.

Zhu Min now only likes to eat potatoes when he eats braised beef, but not much beef.

After returning from a box of lunch in the cafeteria, Zhu Min put the sliced half of the pineapple on the plate on the table, drank the cold cocoa himself, and then swept away half a box of rice and potatoes and beef in the newspaper lunch box.

There was still shredded beef stuffed between his teeth, and after Zhu Min washed the lunch box, he sat back on the rotten sofa again. The leisure time after this mission is leisure, but it is also really monotonous.

After flipping through the French newspaper in his hand again, Zhu Min raised his head, glanced at the horse ring not far away, and finally looked up at the sky, the sky was still gloomy, there was no trace of starlight, the wind was still raging, and the helmets hanging under the eaves were still swaying in the wind, colliding with each other, making a dull 'bang' sound, which was also monotonous and boring.

And war must not only be passionate, but also endure boredom.