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Standing at the stern of the boat, looking at the Tianjin Port in the distance, Cai Ye sighed softly.

It's not his first time abroad, it's just that the pressure on his shoulders is significantly greater than the last time. Because when he was leaving, Yan Shao had already told him many things very clearly, so that he understood that although the expeditionary force did not need to enter the war immediately after arriving in Europe, as long as it participated in the war, it must display the combat effectiveness that would impress Britain and France.

Only in this way can the expeditionary force gain a firm foothold in Europe, and they can be regarded as opening the way for the subsequent expeditionary force.

"Commander..."Walking over from the side, Liu Guangyuan patted Cai Ye on the shoulder and said. It's windy on deck, so let's go inside the cabin first..."

In this expeditionary force, Cai Yi is the commander, and Liu Guangyuan is the deputy commander, and he also serves as the commander of the First Army and the division commander of the A division.

In other words, Liu Guangyuan is Cai Yi's deputy.

Because he had worked with Cai Ye in Shandong in the past, Liu Guangyuan and Cai Ye were relatively familiar, and they also knew that although Cai Ye's body had almost recovered, he was still a little weaker.

Now that the weather is relatively cold, and the sea breeze on the sea surface is very strong, Cai Ye is standing here, in case he has any illness...

That's why Liu Guangyuan came over to persuade Cai Yi, after all, no matter what, he couldn't let the commander of the expeditionary force just come out, and he contracted wind chills and other diseases...

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Turning his head and glancing at Liu Guangyuan's concerned look, Cai Yi smiled slightly. "Let me stay here a little longer, I still have some things to think through, and when I think about it, I'll go back to the cabin..."

"Like...", they worked together for a while. Liu Guangyuan also knew that Cai Ye was the kind of person who would not change his decision lightly as long as he thought it through, so he didn't continue to persuade him, but said softly on the side. "In that case, let's let someone else get something hot..."After speaking, Liu Guangyuan looked at the many guards on the side. Go get some hot tea and bring it to the commander. Let the commander warm up, and I'm getting a coat..."

"Yes!"

Hearing Liu Guangyuan's words, those guards nodded hurriedly, and after a while, several people had already run out to find the things that Liu Guangyuan had just said.

And looked at Liu Guangyuan's actions. Cai Yi opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything.

Although he didn't think it was necessary to be so troublesome, he also knew that his body was indeed relatively weak, and the expeditionary force had just come out, and if he fell ill, it would indeed be a big deal for the expeditionary force.

So after a sigh. Cai Ye didn't say anything more...

Continue to look outside, let the sea breeze blow, under the cold sea breeze, Cai Yi's thinking is obviously much clearer.

Thinking about it, it didn't take long for the guards to come running over with their coats and hot tea.

The coat and hot tea are naturally Cai Yi's, and Liu Guangyuan's. But it was a bottle of wine that had already been scalded.

For Liu Guangyuan, it is obvious that this thing is the most cold...

Looking at Liu Guangyuan's appearance, Cai Yi shook his head. "It's okay now, but when it comes to the battlefield, it's still..."

"Don't worry, Commander..."Although he is Yan Shao's descendant, he has a high status even in the National Defense Army, but Liu Guangyuan still respects Cai Ye very much. There is no other reason, because he knows Cai Ye's ability very well. He has always admired people who have the ability. "It's just that I'm drinking some now, and when I get to Europe, I'm really busy, and I will never touch this―――――― of course, provided that those Europeans are better than hooking up with me. Having said that, if you drink at some banquets, it shouldn't be considered a violation of military discipline..."

The military regulations of the Wehrmacht have always been very strict, and it is absolutely forbidden to drink alcohol during combat, in order to avoid delaying things. But...

"Of course this is no problem..."Cai Ye chuckled. The military regulations only stipulate that alcohol is not allowed during combat, but if it is not a state of war, or a state of recuperation, naturally there is no need, and if the French really invite us, naturally there will be no problem..."

Even if it is a military regulation, it is impossible to stipulate this strictness.

What's more, although wine is a mistake, it also boosts morale, and at the same time, in war, for soldiers who are between life and death, alcohol is also the best, a thing that can numb themselves.

Therefore, the ban on alcohol is only limited to the time of war, as long as there is no war, even people like Cai Yi don't mind his subordinates drinking some.

After talking and laughing with Liu Guangyuan for a while, Cai Ye looked at the sea.

On the sea, dozens of transport ships, escorted by more than a dozen warships, are sailing above the sea.

For many officers and men of the 6th Army, this was definitely a novelty, so many officers and men ran out of the cabin and walked out to the deck to look at the scenery outside. And for them, every qiē in front of them is so fresh.

However, Cai Ye is different from them, Cai Ye is more concerned about...

"Navy..."After thinking about it, Cai Ye said in a low voice. Hopefully they will be able to make sure we arrive in France safely..."

"It should be fine," Liu Guangyuan said with a smile. This time, the navy is still working very hard, discharging ten new destroyers at a time, and three new cruisers, except for the Japanese ships that have just been fished from Longkou Bay, and the three dreadnoughts bought from the Americas, the number of these warships is already equivalent to one-third of the number of new ships in the navy at present, and I heard that the ones sent this time are also elite..."

In fact, the navy also attaches great importance to this expeditionary force.

Although it is normal for there to be contradictions between the arms of the armed forces in various countries, and there are also some contradictions between the Sixth Army and the Navy of the Wehrmacht, these are only some minor contradictions in peacetime, and they are not just some verbal disputes when competing for military spending.

In fact, compared with the arms of other countries, China's Sixth Army still has a relatively good relationship with its navy. At least it's definitely much better than the relationship in Japan―――――― and it's rare to see something like Japan.

As Liu Guangyuan said, in order to ensure the safe arrival of the 6th Army in Europe, the navy this time can be regarded as a desperate effort. Those ships that have just been salvaged from Longkou Bay, and the three dreadnoughts are not mentioned for the time being. Although there have been quite a few new warships launched in recent years, they are not many, and this time the navy has dispatched one-third of the number at a time, and they are all the first batch, and the officers and men on the ships are all veterans. It is definitely not comparable to the officers and men on those ships in the later batch.

Whoever can say that the Navy is indeed selling its life...

"The problem is that the Germans' submarine force seems to be very powerful, in case it really happens..."Speaking of this, Cai Yi shook his head with some concern...

In fact, he was more worried that the Germans would be after learning that they had sailed. Will they go out of their way to ambush them once? After all, their expedition was really a bit of fanfare, and almost the whole world knew that they were out, and it is difficult to say whether the Germans would ambush them in this case.

After all, this is a whole army, fifty or sixty thousand people.

If it can be solved at sea...

That was undoubtedly a big subsidy for the pressure on the Germans on the Western Front...

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The fleet sails very quickly, unlike other countries. Most of the ships equipped by the Wehrmacht have just been launched in the past two years, and a large number of new technologies have been adopted, and on paper they will definitely not be inferior to the ships of the same class of any country in this era.

It can be said that if it is in terms of naval strength, perhaps China does have a large gap with many countries, but if it is in technology. As long as the Wehrmacht has it, it will definitely not be much worse than the ships of the same type in other countries ...

In addition, the transport ships that transported troops this time have just been launched in recent years, and although the voyage is not as good as the warships, it is also good in the transport ships, so...

After leaving Tientsin, the fleet soon moved south to Singapore, where it was resupplied and then resupplied to Indian cities.

After the replenishment of Singapore, of course. To be honest, the fleet doesn't really need much. The main purpose of this time was to round the fleet with the British.

Although the main naval forces of the British were almost always concentrated on the European side, which was used to suppress the German high sea fleet, the British colonized in Europe and around the world. There are still more ships, but the main ships have reached Europe.

Just like the British in India, although the main force of the fleet is no longer there, the remaining fleet...

Seriously, it's not necessarily worse than the naval fleet escorting the expeditionary force, but even much better...

Similarly, compared to the Chinese Navy, the British Navy is much stronger in all respects. After all, the navy is a technical branch, and compared with the 6th Army, which only needs to train for a few months and can be put into the battlefield, the navy needs more time to train a suitable naval soldier...

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According to the agreement between China and the British, when the fleet arrived in India, the British would send a navy to escort the expeditionary force with the Chinese fleet to ensure that they could safely reach Marseille, the city where Yan Shao had served as a starting point――――――

The British clearly did not intend to break the contract, and they also knew what the consequences would be if something happened to this navy on the way.

In China, war weariness is not small, and many people feel that this is a war for Europeans, and there is no need for China to get involved. It was only because of Yan Shao's great prestige, and because the Chinese people did not want to express their thoughts to the government, that the declaration of war on Germany and other Allied countries, as well as the dispatch of expeditionary forces, was in the past.

Even after the expeditionary force was dispatched, there were still many people in the country who didn't know about it at all...

But if the expeditionary force sent out this time is solved by the German submarine on the way, as Yan Shao once said, then the domestic enthusiasm for participating in the war will be extinguished, and the anti-war faction will gain the upper hand, even if China will not withdraw from the Entente, it will become impossible to continue to send the expeditionary force.

At the moment, Britain and France are in dire need of help from other countries, and naturally they will not want to see such a thing happen, which is why Britain will send a fleet.

As for the French―――――― although the French also wanted to help, it was a pity that the French forces on this side were too weak.

Although he has a certain strength in French Indochina, that is, Vietnam, this strength is not to protect the expeditionary force, it is better to protect himself first, which is also one of the reasons why the French bought it this time...

And wait until the escort fleet of the Chinese Navy. When it converged with the ships sent out by the British Navy. The size of the entire fleet has expanded from the original three cruisers plus 10 destroyers to the scale of eight cruisers and 24 destroyers, which is obviously much larger than the original.

If not the British fleet in India, many of them are old ships built many years ago. Some of these ships have even been in place for more than a decade, and perhaps the strength of these ships is even stronger than that of China's escort fleet, but now...

Although there is a gap in the number of each other, but with superior performance, the two are comparable―――――― if the naval officers and sailors of the two sides are also equal...

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The French port of Marseille is the second largest city in France. Marseille has always been one of the busiest cities in the Mediterranean, with countless boats coming and going every day.

During the war years, Marseille, as the largest port in France, played a huge role.

Colonial troops from various colonies, from Africa, from Asia. White, black, yellow, almost all of them can be seen here...

Here, too, almost all races gather.

The British expeditionary force was mainly equal to the other direction, so there were hardly any Englishmen to be seen in Marseille. But here, it was the place where the French mainland and the various colonial forces converged, so there was no British presence in it. But the number of troops here is by no means less than that of the northern ports.

And even more...

Although, that is in the not-too-distant future ...

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On the docks of the port of Marseille, some generals wearing gold stars on their shoulders were standing and chatting with each other.

Between the words, these generals were talking about what was happening on the front line.

Judging from their expressions, the situation of France on the Western Front does not seem to be very good―――――― perhaps not only for these reasons, but also for the annoyance that France needs the help of a yellow country.

"The Chinese Expeditionary Force, how long will it take to arrive..."

Stand at the front of everyone. Bertrand, who wore the rank of lieutenant general, asked a lieutenant colonel.

As the Frenchman with whom Yan Shao had the closest relationship and was also a lieutenant general of the French Sixth Army, Paris unanimously agreed that Bertrand was the most suitable candidate to meet the Chinese expeditionary force. So Bertrand, who was already wandering around Paris, was sent to Marseille under the orders of the Parisian side, and his mission. In addition to welcoming the expeditionary force, it is to deal with the relationship between each other―――――― perhaps because of Yan Shao's relationship, in recent years, Bertrand has also been studying Chinese, although not very fluent, but it is already rare among the French...

"It shouldn't be long," replied the lieutenant colonel, who had heard Bertrand's reply. At least some time ago, we were in contact with the fleet of the Chinese, who, according to them, had just passed through Genoa at that time ...

"That's it—" nodded, and Bertrand didn't say anything more...

Unlike those who are annoyed by the need for Chinese power, Bertrand has been to China and is well aware of the power that China possesses. So it is clear that if France wants to win this war, then China, which is rising, is definitely one of the forces that France must rely on.

"Even......... If France wants to maintain its global interests and its position in Europe after the end of this war, it must cooperate with China at a deeper level, otherwise..."

Bertrand knew exactly how much France had lost in this war, so he also knew very well that if France wanted to maintain its position in Europe and its interests in the world, it had to have some cards...

True, France and England are now allies, but this does not mean that Britain and France will always be allies, they will only mix together because of their German relations, nothing more...

And let's not forget that before the German threat, Britain and France were the biggest rivals in Europe.

In this war, France lost too much, and even if the war was won, it would definitely be greatly damaged. On the contrary, the British, although they also lost a lot of things, but after all, the war was not really born in England, unlike France, even Paris was once threatened by the German army...

By the end of the war, will the British fall into the ground?

Bertram didn't want to think about it, but he had to...

And if at this time, France can have a strong foreign aid, the situation will undoubtedly be much better.

And China is obviously the most suitable role...

After all, there is not much conflict of interests between China and France, even if there is a French Indochina...

"It's a big deal, just give it to China..."

Just when Bertrand was thinking this, the lieutenant colonel suddenly ran over and said to Bertrand and the other generals. "They've arrived..."

Hearing his words, everyone immediately cheered up and looked intently at the sea.

First, countless columns of black smoke appeared on the surface of the sea, and gradually, a huge fleet slowly appeared in front of everyone.

Looking at this huge fleet, the people who were originally on the dock suddenly made an uproar.

Seeing that the people in the harbor had already focused all their attention, standing on the flagship of the fleet, Cai Ye turned his head sideways and said something to the captain, and not long after, under the captain's order, a train of naval signals that were common to the whole world appeared in front of everyone.

"From Asia to Europe..."