After five days of rest in Trood, the German forces at Gairyan finally broke through the enemy's lines, the balance of war began to tilt, and the main German army was finally able to reach Tripoli, an important city in North Africa. But compared with the previous Aziziyeh urban battle, the battle in Tripoli seems to be easier, and the British army, which knows that the general trend has gone, does not want to put too much manpower and material resources on this city, and the rest is only symbolic defense and counter-advance to buy time for their retreat

"Whew"

Vincent spat out a large smoke ring, leaned against the wall, and said to Leona on the side: "The battle below is estimated to be easier, the enemy's mind is no longer here, and they have long been running back to their Egyptian hometown as soon as possible." ”

"That's really good, there's only a tug-of-war all day long, and I'm really fed up." Leona sighed as a wisp of white smoke burst out of her nose and mouth.

Although there are not a few smokers in Trode's team, Vincent and Leona are the only ones who actually smoke in this group of commanders, and the two of them hardly hold cigarettes in their mouths during group discussions, and only smoke them out of their pockets when they communicate in private.

At first, everyone was shocked that Leona would smoke from such a strict family, but her answer was very indifferent, just saying that she smoked one when she was in a bad mood, and she had been doing it since she was a child. Because she accepted many of the family's strict requirements almost unconditionally, her father, who loved to smoke, made an exception to allow her to do so. Over time, she also became her father's smoker.

One thing that impressed her father the most. It also comes from smoke. Instead of following her father's wishes to become a navy, she chose to serve in the armored forces on the ground, which made his father furious—due to the Battle of Jutland between Germany and Britain during World War I, Germany was able to expand the battle loss ratio to 2:1 under unfavorable conditions. It can be said that it was not a prestige of the German Navy, and Leona's father was quite proud of it as a seaman at that time, and this became an important reason for him to join the navy.

However, there are always accidents, and Leona also wanted to follow her family's advice at first and devote herself to the sea of stars. However, an old friend of her father's specially approached her to talk to her shortly before she joined the army. It was these conversations. Completely changed the trajectory of Leona's fate

This father's old friend, during the First World War, also joined the army, but he joined the army, in the middle and late wars, he was unfortunately captured, and then released after the war to return home. Although he had long had an opinion about Leona's enlistment in the army, it was because of his experience of being captured. has always been looked down upon by Leona's father, and his opinion is because of this. As soon as he spoke, he was interrupted.

Now, when Leona is about to enter the military career, he feels that this matter is really not to be said, and he is forced to find Leona to talk to him privately. First of all, he directly criticized her father's concept of blind victory in front of Leona. In his opinion, the Battle of Jutland, Germany lost completely, and even lost the whole future, and this battle was like a prisoner defeating the guards guarding him. But there was no escape from prison, the vast Atlantic Ocean was still British territorial waters, and the small fights of the German navy, blinded by the victory in front of them, could not be a crucial factor in victory in the future.

And for Leona to join the army, and it is an armored unit, it naturally has his considerations. He also deeply remembers his last battle on the battlefield, the Battle of the Somme. At that time, Britain had dispatched the originator of the tank - "MARK" type I tank, he and his comrades in the trench at that time, when they saw this steel monster with two barrels and four machine guns slowly advancing over, they only trembled in the trench and had no room to fight back, so that in the end, more than 300 soldiers in one of their trenches were completely captured by 8 people who operated this monster, such incredible strength and achievements, so that he was deeply attracted by this weapon at that time.

(PS: The "MARK" I tank is divided into two types: the "female" version is equipped with 5 machine guns, and the "male" type is equipped with 2 57mm guns and 4 machine guns.) ）

During his time in prison, he thought that if his own country also had this kind of weapon, then their army could be invincible and unstoppable. It wasn't until many years after the war that he learned that German armored forces had also begun to develop, which made him feel great about Leona's whereabouts.

Hearing this, Leona immediately decided to follow her uncle's advice and join the army instead, but she didn't consult his stubborn father, so in the early days of her enlistment, her father even had to break off the father-daughter relationship with her. But it changed from a few boxes of cigarettes and a letter, and after the Battle of Walder, Leona, who was on the way, sent a little to her family, which was nothing more than the two things she had just mentioned.

The letter records her from joining the army to the present, and the cigarettes are also high-end goods that she has exchanged from others. This time, just after Trode and the others got out of Aziziya, Leona received something from home, which was very simple, two packs of cigarettes and a letter.

The content of the letter is very concise, which probably means that although he is still angry about what happened at that time, Leona can have today's results, which he did not expect from him, and he is proud of her. A third of the packs of cigarettes she sent back were given by him to the uncle who had guided her on this path, a third by himself, and the last third, he decided to send them back to Leona, so that she could carry on the unfinished ambition of the two of them and carry it forward.

Unlike the letter sent back by Leona, the words were crooked because of the excitement, this letter sent back was quite neat, although it was not much, but every sentence in it exuded real feelings. Leona was crying when she looked at the letter, and the originally neat piece of paper was wrinkled because of it, but it was still treasured by Leona in the innermost layer of her package, and it was forever burned in the innermost layer of her heart (to be continued). )