After the 1st Task Force entered the Adriatic Gulf, the Austro-Hungarian Navy immediately dispatched to intercept the Chinese Expeditionary Force. However, in order to be ashamed of the shame, the Japanese navy took the initiative to attack the British navy, and the Austro-Hungarian navy was not strong, so it had no choice but to retreat. The transport ship arrived in Venice without danger, and the squadron finally arrived at Venice, Italy, the destination of the expedition.

After disembarking in the port of Venice, the 20,000 squadrons (18,000 of the 4th Division and 2,000 of the guard regiment) marched in an orderly manner, but to the surprise of the squadron, the city of Venice was soaked in water.

Gong Xiaoqi sighed with emotion: "It's not good to build a house by the sea, you see, it's all flooded......"

Chief of the General Staff of the Italian Army, Armando. Diaz sent Rudolph. As a liaison officer between the Chinese and Italian armies, Laziani is a handsome Italian guy who loves to talk in his thirties, but Wang Maoru doesn't understand Italian, and Laziani doesn't understand Chinese, but fortunately, both sides know English. It's just that Laziani knows British English, and Wang Maoru knows American English better, so the communication between the two parties is only better than talking to chickens and ducks.

But on the whole, Laziani is a qualified liaison officer, and he communicated with the Chinese people with great difficulty, and finally brought many of the 20,000 squadrons to the front line in Udine, and brought Wang Maoru to the Italian front commander Petro. In front of General Badooli, Dooli glanced at Wang Maoru lightly and said, "Just let them carry ammunition in the back, and don't go to the front line to make trouble for us." The other ** officials laughed.

With a bitter face, Laziani said to Wang Maoru what the commander meant. Wang Maoru was expressionless and said: "Okay, but let me warn you, don't provoke my soldiers, don't let my soldiers be baggage soldiers and go to the front line as cannon fodder, our anger may fall on the faces of the provocateurs." The British of East India Singapore and the Governor of Alexandria can testify to this. ”

The Britons present all showed angry expressions. This Chinese people are really too capable of causing trouble, because they have just received the news that the Chinese army was in Singapore to quell the rebellion against the Indian indigenous soldiers. More than 1,600 people were killed, and although the Indians no longer dared to move, the 25th Indian Indigenous Division, which was preparing to go to Europe to participate in the war, was also crippled. The Indians resolutely refused to fight with the Chinese, saying that the Chinese were extremely unfriendly to the Indians and that they might be shot in the back.

The British hated the Chinese, the French looked down on the Chinese, and the Italians' impression of the Chinese was still stuck in the impression of the whip army when the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing, so Wang Maoru was collectively excluded by the Europeans here, and even when he was in the military meeting, as a general of the Chinese army, he was actually ranked below the Italian major general. Wang Maoru attended the meeting every day with a blushing face and did not say a word. Laziani, the liaison officer beside him, also felt this exclusion, but fortunately Wang Maoru did not get angry at him.

At this time, on the Italian-Austrian border, millions of troops were gathered on both sides, and the Entente countries were Italy and Britain. The French, Australian Army, the U.S. Army, and the Chinese Army have a total of 800,000 troops, while the defending side Austria-Hungary has more than 400,000 troops, but Austria-Hungary is in a favorable terrain on the defensive side. The Coalition attempted to launch the Thirteenth Battle of the Zorne, but was quickly vetoed by the Coalition commander-in-chief, Foch.

Foch believed that the important battlefield of the European war was not the battle of Austria, but Germany, as long as Germany was defeated, Austria-Hungary was not afraid, and the presence of millions of soldiers on the Italian-Austrian border attracted the attention and strength of the Austro-Hungarian Empire here, which was more conducive to the battle on the German-French border in the northern battlefield.

It was determined above that we would not fight, we were just a pretense to attract the enemy to increase their troops, so the 1.5 million Entente ** team on the Italian side had nothing to do all day. Wang Maoru, deputy commander-in-chief of the Chinese army participating in the war and commander of the First Route Army, is simply to shave his beard and lower the princess's highness, and then go to the barracks to inspect the army, and then play chess and drink wine with Gong Xiaoqi, and the life is very leisurely. The climate in Italy is also good, it is warm all day long, everyone wakes up late in the morning and sleeps later at night. Many Chinese soldiers also began to lazily do nothing, and when they were young and energetic, they had a lot of money on them, so they began to visit brothels and pursue girls. The Chinese soldiers did not fight, but their families made a lot of them. Wang Maoru's army did not have a military rule that "no wife should be married before the battle", so many single soldiers or officers took advantage of this loophole to find wives.

The coalition forces looked down on the squadron, and even used them as miscellaneous labor, and the Chinese soldiers were naturally full of complaints, Wang Maoru said to the soldiers: "Since they treat us as baggage soldiers, let's not be polite to them, what kind of wine and meat will we transport in the future, is your fucking head in the water?" Can't you just take a little? ”

The soldiers of the Fourth Division suddenly realized, yes, it is a capital crime to intercept their own military supplies, but we are intercepting the materials of the foreign ** battalion, it is not a capital crime, right?

"Understood, Xiushuai!" The soldiers shouted in unison, then looked at each other and smiled tacitly.

Since the Italian-Austrian border is the Alps, if the allied forces want to attack Austria-Hungary, they must cross the highest mountain range in Europe, and they are at a great disadvantage, so the allied forces will not be stupid to die. But the confrontation, this logistics is extremely difficult, all are mountain roads, the European Mediterranean is still humid and rainy, especially in Italy near the mountains, some of the roads are muddy and cannot be transported by machinery at all, so they have to be carried by manpower.

This is also the purpose of the coalition command to let the [Chinese] participating armies be the baggage troops, so that the people of the "Chinese" country will suffer a little from these strict transportation conditions, and let them be rampant, rampant.

Unexpectedly, the Chinese people despicably reduced the materials again and again, and finally came to the hands of the front-line coalition soldiers.

Now that their identities and behaviors have been determined, the Chinese soldiers began to grind foreign workers and then buy and sell military supplies, such as canned meat, pasta, flour, fruits, leather shoes, raincoats, quilts, shovels, and basically one-tenth to one-twentieth less than one-tenth to one-twentieth of the military materials transported by the squadron.

The various coalition forces were very angry when they found out about this phenomenon, and they protested against the misappropriation of military materials by the squadron, hoping that the coalition forces would severely punish the squadron. The lawsuit reached Wang Maoru, and Wang Maoru immediately took out the bill, saying that on a certain day, in a certain year, month, and day, due to the use of manpower by the squadron, the transportation method was backward, and many things fell on the muddy Alpine road. Every loss is recorded in great detail by the people of the Chinese people, although it is recorded in Chinese, but after finding someone to translate, every loss can be reconciled. The ability of the Chinese people to fight a war is unknown, but their ability to do accounts is unmatched, and the coalition forces have to suffer this dumb loss.

In order to allow the squadron to transport supplies to the front line smoothly and effectively, Marshal Badooli asked the squadron to be equipped with 30 trucks, 100 four-wheeled carriages, and 100 motorcycles.

Marshal Badooli is indeed a military genius, but he, a naïve Italian, does not seem to understand the characteristics of the Chinese. After getting so many cars, trucks, carriages, and motorcycles, the Chinese soldiers cheered.

Well, the military supplies hidden now have tools turned upside down, and Wang Maoru is extremely happy.

Wang Maoru pulled Laziani aside and quietly gave him 10,000 pounds, Laziani was startled, but Italians are different from strict and serious Germans, they are lively and enthusiastic, attach importance to family, attach importance to feelings, attach importance to communication, and also pay more attention to interests. Raziani immediately took the money in his arms and said: "Well, friend, I know that you have something to ask me, but what I want to say is that I only do what is beneficial to me except for betraying the Motherland." ”

Wang Maoru patted him on the shoulder and said, "Rudolph, listen to me, this world war is coming to an end, and soldiers like you and me will end our war like this?" ”

"Oh? What do you mean......"

"A soldier is the most respected person only in times of war, and who is the most respected person in times of peace? It's the rich people, those hateful, disgusting Jewish rich businessmen, don't you say? Wang Maoru asked.

"Yes, those abominable Jews, greedy and greedy!" Laziani said hatefully, but all Italians, no one does not hate Jews, compared to the Germans, the Italians are not violent but very thorough, each of them rejects Jews, Jews in Italy are not allowed to build synagogues and attend Italian schools, which leads to the fact that Jews can no longer survive in Italy unless they no longer believe in Judaism.

When Wang Maoru heard Laziani's complaint, he laughed out loud, and said in his heart that you Italians really reject the Jews, so he tempted: "In this way, we have some military supplies that we can sell cheaply to the poor Italians, which are a waste to us, and to the hungry Italians, it is life-saving food." I hope to have you as a contact to sell them this surplus grain that is not used and that is beneficial to the Italian people. ”

When Laziani heard this, his mind spun very quickly and said, "I can do this, but I can't do it alone, I need help." ”

Wang Maoru said: "I don't care how many helpers you hire, but you must be cautious, you must be cautious, you must be cautious, you know?" You can't give Foch this bastard and Orlando and Badooli these people to get a grip. We are three or seven, you are three and I are seven, you don't need to do anything, you just need to collect money and contact the buyer, how? ”

Laziani said: "Deal, my most loyal friend, I wish our friendship a long time." ”

Wang Maoru laughed and said, "Yes, I wish our friendship a long time." ”

Laziani found his buddy, one of the young mafia bosses, Jean. Feyenno. Valdés, it is naturally easier for the mafia to do this kind of business, and the Sicilians have their tentacles all over Italy, cheap flour, cheap boots, cheap canned goods...... Wang Maoru and Laziani and Valdés made a lot of money. (To be continued.)