Free City of Hamburg, 38-year-old Germanic von ? Blucher looked at the big ship moored in the river port, and hesitated and sighed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info His daughter asked in a childish voice: "Father, are we really going to leave Europe?" ”

Before Blucher could speak, his wife Caroline said, "Yes, my dear, we will go to a better place." ”

The youngest daughter asked, "Then will we still have sheep and sheepdogs?" ”

Touching his daughter's flaxen hair, Blucher said kindly, "Of course, as long as you wish." ”

Caroline looked at her husband, and Blucher looked at her, and for a long time, Blucher sighed, "Thank you, Caroline." ”

Caroline shook her head and said, "I know what it means to you, the quiet life of the farmstead is not for you, your heart is always on the battlefield, you are born to be great." ”

Blücher was excited, and he said: "I will not let you down, I will take the honor, let Frederick see what a foolish choice he has made!" ”

Caroline nodded calmly, "I believe in you, dear." ”

After a while, a Chinese-looking young man walked over, he was dressed in a decent black suit, and Blücher saw him and hurriedly bowed slightly: "Hello, Your Excellency Chu." ”

The person who came was Chu Bai, the ambassador of the Tang Republic to France, who took off his hat and greeted the Blucher family: "Mr. Blucher, oh no, maybe I should call you Colonel Blucher, we can leave at any time." Although our boat was fast, it would take about a month and a half to get to Nanguvi. Leave early. You and your family can arrive a little earlier. ”

Blucher nodded. "You're right. So let's get on board. ”

Chu Bai looked at this middle-aged German man with a smile, but for a moment he was full of smugness towards himself. This man was officially the later Prussian marshal, who had defeated Napoleon's military generals at Lawne and Waterloo. Although he lost more than he won in his military career, he won the most crucial victories, which Napoleon hated, and he became a legend in German military history.

Goethe once praised, "Expectation." Fighting; There are setbacks, and there are victories; Thus awakening, thus growing; In this way, he freed us from the enemy. ”

But at this time, Blucher was at a low point in his life, Blücher, who was born in Mecklenburg, was not a pure Prussian, he had joined the Swedish army in his early years, and later lost to Prussia in the war, and was absorbed by relatives in the Prussian army and became a Prussian soldier. Since then, he has been on the rise, but because of an old case of protecting Polish priests. His promotion to major was in vain, and Blucher resigned in anger.

Frederick II of Prussia knew about it. Speak directly, Feng? Captain Blucher can fuck off. Blücher then repeatedly asked to return to the army, but Frederick II did not agree. Historically, he lived on the farmstead of Poremo for fifteen years, until Frederick? He was only reinstated after Wilhelm II ascended the throne, and that was in 1787.

The current Blucher has never met a talent, and has always been depressed. Unwilling to be buried, he still tried to return to the army, but there was little hope. Until one day, a man claiming to be a diplomat of the Tang Republic knocked on the door of his house, bringing a shiny military uniform, a command knife inlaid with gems, and the rank of colonel that Blücher was somewhat flattered by.

On the other side of the world, a nation founded by the Easterners, perhaps the most militarily powerful, is building up its own army. Blücher had heard of their fame on his farm, and in North America they had defeated the invincible British, both French and Spanish, using new weapons and new methods of warfare, and they were all trying to learn their techniques and tactics, and they were considered to have led the world's military reform.

Blucher once wanted to know everything about the Tang Army from all kinds of available materials, and he stayed up all night, hoping to learn his beloved military knowledge, but he did not expect that one day the high-ranking officials of the Tang people would come to his home in person and invite him to be the colonel of the German Infantry Brigade of the Tang Foreign Legion.

Not to mention the change from captain to colonel in one step, the attitude of Corporal Tang Lixian alone made Blucher extremely moved. The Tang not only gave him high officials, but also promised his family a manor ten times larger than his existing farm on the island of Nanguwei, where the German infantry brigade was stationed. The Tang people not only wanted him to serve in the Tang Army as a mercenary officer, but also hoped that he would become a Tang officer who was truly loyal to the Tang Republic.

At a time when the German national consciousness had not yet been formed, Blucher was a Germanic who was born in Mecklenburg and had played for Sweden and Prussia. In fact, Germany has been a mercenary region in the Middle Ages since the Holy Roman Empire. The German mercenaries created by Maximilian continued the myth of the Swiss spearmen, although after the decline of the medieval method of warfare, the German princes were still accustomed to renting out their subjects to fight for other countries, such as the Hessian mercenaries who participated in the North American War of Independence.

Therefore, Blucher does not rule out becoming a mercenary, taking it for granted.

Of course, what fascinated Blucher even more was the strong national strength of Datang. Leading military science and technology and military thinking are things that a military obsessive cannot give up. An officer school will be opened on Nanguwei Island to teach German officers and learn various theoretical knowledge of the Tang Army. At the same time, Chu Bai, who had become a guest of honor in various European countries, was not idle during this period, waving a lot of money, and Chu Bai visited almost all the princes in the German lands with only one purpose, that is, to recruit more mercenaries.

The foreign brigade established earlier by the Tang Dynasty was dominated by Hessian mercenaries and Americans who surrendered, but they were not later sent to the battlefields of the Qing Dynasty. Some Hessian mercenaries were less willing to serve and wanted to return to China, so the Datang Ministry of Defense gave them the green light. Fewer than a thousand Germans returned to their homeland with their own commissions, and some remained in the Bahamas and became nationals of the Tang Dynasty. The rest of the Germans were all sent to Nanguvi Island, and the foreign brigade was equivalent to one regiment less.

However, in Yuzhou (Bahamas), with the addition of black fugitive slaves and other Europeans and Native Americans, two infantry regiments have been reorganized, one predominantly black and the other predominantly American.

Chu Bai's actions in the German states were unexpectedly smooth, and he used a modest commission and some Tang Dynasty commodities to obtain permission from some German nobles to recruit soldiers, and even directly sent troops. After half a year of operation, Chu Bai recruited a total of 10,964 mercenaries in Germany, which greatly exceeded the needs of the Tang army. Moreover, among this group of mercenaries, many people heard that Datang was an immigrant country, and they also brought their own families. Germany was constantly in turmoil, and the contradictions between man and land were very sharp, the lords were very harsh in taxes, and religious conflicts were frequent, so many Germans wanted to leave Europe and go to the New World.

This unexpected situation also made it a little difficult for the Tang government, after all, they did not want to get many non-Chinese immigrants in the first place. However, since it came, it was naturally accepted, and Bai Nan proposed to send German immigrants to Nanguwei Island, after all, 500,000 Manchus were far from enough to develop this territory, and the addition of German immigrants could also play a counterweight to the composition of a single ethnic group. Even, Bai Nan vaguely felt that it was a good thing to finally integrate the inhabitants of this island and give birth to a new nation. Or let the Germans move to Japan, and the Japanese in the other plane have not engaged in racial optimization, hoping to break away from Asia and join Europe, and eventually become the Aryan race, maybe this plane is very likely to be realized. At that time, the nation of the He people no longer existed.

In other words, there are some similarities between the Japanese and German peoples, both are more obedient to the rules, and at the same time, they are also more ghostly, and Bai Nan is also curious about what they will become after they merge. Well, that's been a few hundred years ago, but now there's an idea.

Anyway, in the end, more than 10,000 mercenaries and their families were all taken in by the Tang people. The abundance of finances makes it affordable for Datang. In addition, this 10,000-German mercenary will be incorporated into the Far Eastern Theater of Operations, under the command of Bai Nan, and will be organized into two infantry brigades in total, without a brigade commander, and will be directly assigned and commanded by Bai Nan.

In terms of equipment, Bai Nan will directly equip them with the Tang Army's first-line active weapons, such as the S1 rifle, instead of the SC-2 that uses paper shells. However, the mercenaries are not equipped with 105 howitzers, only some 60 mortars, and the number is small, and they are not equipped with heavy machine guns, and the number of light machine guns and submachine guns is also small, and light machine guns are equipped to the company, and submachine guns are only equipped to the platoon. In other words, the Tang army will probably be equipped with semi-automatic rifles in less than a year and a half, so there is no problem in making this decision.

With these 10,000 mercenaries, the first place of application is obviously Japan. Although Japan is not rich in resources, it is also rich in gold and silver, and has a certain market, which is suitable for the dumping of Datang goods; Moreover, Japan also has good human resources, and it can also become a good source of mercenaries for Datang in the future, or a source of labor.

Of course, the affairs of the Qing Dynasty are the center of Bainan's work, Japan is only a little, and the German mercenaries need at least a year to train, and as the base camp for attacking Japan, Nanguwei Island obviously needs to be better managed. (To be continued.) )