Episode 15 Condor Legion

(It seems that there is a problem with the update again, but fortunately, I found it online in the middle of the night...... Hurry up and resend it)

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The war has been going on for a week.

Despite the danger rendered in Zhu Yourong's speech, the war seems to have quickly entered a stalemate stage. Most people secretly breathed a sigh of relief, hoping that this Ming and Qing wars would be like the previous ones, and they would not be over.

Many people praise the Yangtze River defense line in their hearts. In the past few days, the Qing army has attacked every day, but the fortifications on the defensive line can easily repel them every day.

The train cannon of the Qing army fired for a while every day, but probably because the distance was too far, the drop of bullets was quite inaccurate, and only a small machine gun fort was knocked off in the past few days, and three people were killed.

The officers of the Ming army who inspected the scene were amazed at the power of this train gun. The crater was like a crater, big and deep, filled with water, like a small fishing pond. The small machine gun fort was not directly concentrated on the top, it was still more than a meter away from the bullet point, and this cement box of several hundred tons was lifted aside by the roots. The traffic tunnel below was opened for a long length of skylight, and the broken concrete and earth almost blocked half of the tunnel, and the thick steel bars were turned over.

This was the first time that the Yangtze River defense line was damaged. However, the consequences were not too serious, and everyone was nervous for two days, and nothing similar happened in the next few days, and the hanging heart was put down again. According to the analysis of the generals of the Ming army, because of the consideration of the life of the artillery, the train artillery of the Qing army only fired one or two dozen rounds a day, and in addition, they were afraid of air raids and exposed positions, so they did not dare to drive the artillery closer. It's like an ornament.

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There were long queues at various recruitment points in the city of Nanjing. Registration, review, physical examination...... There is a military card parked next to it, and when you have enough to collect a car, you will drive away and pull it to the recruit training camp in the eastern suburbs.

There is a banner hanging on the military card: Daming is proud of you!

The truck was full of young men waiting to go to the boot camp, and their mothers, wives and sisters hugged them, grabbed their outstretched hands, cried and told them to be careful, to take care, to rely on themselves, and not to catch a cold at night......

The young men wore huge red flowers on their chests, and they all looked proud and excited, and said impatiently: Okay, okay, I know, they are all such big people......

Next to every major recruiting point, there is a newly formed political platoon of the People's Guard. Each platoon has a brass band class and a choir class, both male and female.

This political work platoon, which is mainly female soldiers, is under the command of the squad leader, and sings very emotionally to these young men and their families:

"Goodbye, Mom,

Goodbye, Mom.

The trumpet has sounded,

The steel gun has been polished,

The packing has been carried out,

The troops are going to go,

You don't shed tears quietly,

Don't worry about it,

When I return triumphantly from the battlefield,

Come and visit my dear mother again......"

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In another place, a political platoon composed mainly of male soldiers was singing in chorus to the neat snare drums and bugles:

"If the Motherland is violated

Hot-blooded men should be self-reliant

Drink this bowl of hometown wine

The strong man is gone

The Yellow River is rolling and the Yangtze River is surging

Give me life, give me strength

Let the blood stain the most beautiful flowers

Sprinkled on my chest

The battle flag fluttered and the army horn sounded

The sword was unsheathed, thundering and lightning

It has always been a narrow road where the brave wins

How can there be a mountain of swords and a sea of fire that dare not move forward

Move forward

Move forward

The battle flag fluttered and the army horn sounded

The sword was unsheathed, thundering and lightning

Since ancient times, although Chu and three households can die in Qin

There is no one in China

Move forward

Moving Forward ......"

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After the establishment of the Political Work Corps of the People's Guard, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the People's Guard, it took over the propaganda work of the large-scale conscription in an all-round way.

In the past few days, Xiang Xiaoqiang has "created" some promotional songs. These days, in the barracks, on the recruiting points, and in the fortifications of the Yangtze River defense line, there are echoes such as "The Great Wall Will Never Fall", "A Great River with Wide Waves", "Heroic Hymn", "Defeat the Ambitious Wolf of the Qing Dynasty", "Defend the Yangtze River (Defend the Yellow River)", "Bright Sword" and other bloody songs from decades later. The major factories have long been producing in three shifts, and in the roaring workshop, the workers are in full swing in the majestic song of "We Workers Have Power".

Originally, these songs could be played on the radio speakers, but Xiang Xiaoqiang felt that it was not enough, and his intuition told him that live performances would be better. He arranged for the newly established political work team to take platoons as a unit and bring brass music to the major recruitment points in Nanjing, where they performed live.

The results proved to be so good that these high-spirited military bands sang generously around them, and the number of people who signed up for the army almost immediately doubled. There are many college students who came to join the army, and some time ago they were the main force of the anti-war demonstration, and now these hot-blooded young people are all stirred up with enthusiasm, lining up one by one, their throats rolling, their chests rising and falling, listening to majestic military music and iron-blooded lyrics in their ears, and they are all looking at the front of the team, and they are close to the people in front of them, for fear that others will take their place.

Many young parents did not agree, and they all ran away from their homes, and there were also many boys who were only 15 or 6 years old, and they also secretly ran away to join the army, and they had to persuade them to return every day.

All youth aspire to join the People's Guard. Because the People's Guard, known as His Majesty's guard outside the palace, is the most elite unit of the Ming Dynasty. Many people join the army in the hope of joining the People's Guard. Because when they were recruited, they were told that all recruits would be selected by the People's Guard, and if you were good enough, you would want to join.

By the seventh day of the war, the Ming Empire's army had expanded to 2.2 million men. In seven days, it expanded by nearly 1 million people. It's nothing short of a miracle.

The people around Xiang Xiaoqiang had long been convinced of his talents, and Qiu Laohu showed off his daughter all day long to find an uncle who was capable, powerful, and all-rounder, and couldn't close his mouth when he mentioned it. Although Qiu Yu was busy with Xiang Xiaoqiang all day long, his heart was like soaking in a honey pot. Zheng Gongyin always said to his niece that he had picked up a treasure for the Ming Dynasty. Even Zhu Yourong felt that what to do to Xiaoqiang, how correct his original vision was.

The People's Guard has grown to 10,000 people. During this period, a large number of recruits were absorbed, all of whom were the best in the recruit camp, and in proportion, they were completely one in a hundred. These young men are strong and almost tall, all between 1.78 and 1.8 meters, and they look very good when they are lined up. They are between the ages of 18-22. Xiang Xiaoqiang deliberately set the age relatively low, this age group is generally relatively simple-minded, has no social experience, is very easy to brainwash, and accompanies the formation of loyal fanatical troops.

Because there are fourteen squares at hand, Xiang Xiaoqiang originally thought of building the People's Guard after the structure at the sticky pole. However, the Sticky Pole Division is a nationwide organization, which is very dispersed, and requires high liaison capabilities and central control. And although the sticky pole is an army formation, it is not an independent army after all.

The characteristics of the People's Guard, first, are that it is an independent army, and second, it has not been established for a long time, its expansion is too fast, and once it is dispersed throughout the country, its control is too poor. Although the number of people has greatly exceeded that of the sticky pole and the east factory, they are all soldiers, not agents.

Therefore, referring to the suggestion of the Fourteen Gege, as well as his own personal preferences, Xiang Xiaoqiang prepared to make a preliminary reference to the structure of the SS. He divided the People's Guard into several divisions.

The highest organ is the headquarters, which is personally run by Xiang Xiaoqiang.

The People's Guard Security Corps, which is responsible for investigating and investigating matters, is the equivalent of the Gestapo. Caused by a stomachache responsible. Because the stomach ache used to be from Dongchang, he was a little uneasy, and this kid's personality was not very stable, so Xiang Xiaoqiang sent the cautious and serious snail to him as a deputy and looked at him. The snail is Xiang Xiaoqiang's "hardcore family" and is completely trusted.

The People's Guard Mobile Brigade, which is the combat unit, is the main force, the equivalent of the Waffen-SS. This is in charge of Li Gensheng, and his deputy is Li Changgui. During the operation in the Northern Qing Dynasty, Li Gensheng showed outstanding combat experience and command quality. However, it is a small detachment, and whether or not it is competent to command a large force of several thousand people depends on the test of practice.

The Political Work Team of the People's Guard is responsible for political propaganda work. According to Xiang Xiaoqiang's plan, in the future battle, the political work team should cooperate with the mobile team to act together, and then launch a political and literary propaganda offensive.

In addition, the political work team also has a name, called the Political Work Department of the High Command, which is nominally under the jurisdiction of the Supreme High Command, which ensures that it is above the Cabinet Propaganda Department and can call on the country's propaganda resources at any time. But the supreme commander of the country is the empress herself, so although this department is called the "Political Work Department" in the Command Department and the "Political Work Team" in the People's Guard, they are all the same thing, and they are all under the command of Xiaoqiang.

Xiang Xiaoqiang of the political work team has already thought of a candidate and is ready to let Xiuxiu be in charge. Xiuxiu is smart, calm-minded, and delicate, so she is the best choice. But now that she is still in the hospital, Xiang Xiaoqiang has no choice but to let the adjutant Qiu Yun concurrently serve as a part-time officer.

This arrangement is standard cronyism. However, at the beginning of the establishment of the People's Guard, it was the foundation of Xiang Xiaoqiang's life, the only force in his hands, and the demand for loyalty was overwhelming. In fact, this team is also the only force directly controlled by the royal family, and it is the foundation of survival.

Why let Xiang Xiaoqiang take charge of the People's Guard? In the same way, loyalty prevails. It's not that there are no people who are more capable and able to lead troops than Xiang Xiaoqiang. There are in the regular army. But Xiang Xiaoqiang is a "die-hard element" who has been tested by life and death several times, and his ability has proven to be good. So why not? In the past, the royal family did not have troops in its hands, and everything had to go through the cabinet. The cabinet is obedient, but if the cabinet is disobedient, the emperor is a "hypocrite", and if he wants to do anything, he has to search the underworld from the streets and carry out a coup d'état. Now direct control of an army can ensure that the cabinet is obedient and the regular army is obedient.

Xiang Xiaoqiang firmly remembered a piece of advice given to him by Fourteen Gege:

"Lord Xiang, don't forget that there is also an East Factory over there, as well as Shoufu Shen Rongxuan. Shen Rongxuan knows him very well, although he has a lot of energy, and even a little conceited, his mind is absolutely clear, and he will never tolerate the growth of threatening power all the time. During this time, Lord Xiang must let the mobile team and the political work team show up more, and let the security team show up less. It is necessary to highlight the military attributes of the People's Guard, so that everyone feels that the People's Guard is a hardcore army of His Majesty, not an intelligence agency that shares power with Dongchang. ”

This sentence is very correct, it can be said that Fourteen Gege stood on Xiang Xiaoqiang's side and said it intimately.

Xiang Xiaoqiang sent the mobile team and the political work team to the streets every day, beating military drums, blowing military trumpets, and black leather military boots neatly beating on the streets, singing majestic patriotic songs, waving patriotic slogans and banners, marching on the streets with the most conscription points, inspiring. After each march of the People's Guards, the ranks at the recruiting points grew considerably. Young people want to join the People's Guard.

This, of course, is a good highlight of the "military attributes" of the People's Guard.

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Xiang Xiaoqiang was eating breakfast in the office. McDonald's fried chicken, burgers and fries, and Coca-Cola.

Yes, that's it. Xiang Xiaoqiang bites into the "McSpicy Chicken Leg Burger" made in the kitchen, pinching the fries of different lengths made from local potatoes, drinking a glass bottle of 30s Coca-Cola like a potion, staring at the newspaper and eating with relish.

Mexican chicken wraps and New Orleans wings can't be made in the kitchen, so they have to cut love.

The only thing that can't be tolerated is that the kitchen actually made the ketchup salty, and there is a tomato skin in it, which is too bad. I had to eat French fries.

Qiu Yu stood aside, looking at the pile of things on the table with a strange expression, and couldn't figure out that he was putting soup dumplings, crab roe dumplings, tofu waterlogging, and sugar lotus root porridge...... I didn't eat it, but I threw myself on these strange-tasting things, and I was hungry as if I hadn't eaten for a few days.

"Come on." Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and patted his thigh, and Qiu Yun sat up obediently. Xiang Xiaoqiang pinched a piece of fries and fed her, Qiu Yu snorted and shook his head:

"It's so unpalatable, it doesn't taste at all. Look, this is a summary of today's foreign-language newspaper, which has been translated. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang asked people to buy major newspapers every day, extract news that they thought was valuable, and present it to him. Several foreign-language newspapers in Nanjing City should also be bought, and he will also see them when they are translated as soon as possible.

"Hmm," he put down the domestic newspaper he was reading, flipped up a copy of The Times, and his eyes immediately widened, "Huh? Prince Edward has returned home? ”

The second headline was that the Crown Prince, the Prince of Wales and Prince Edward left Singapore this morning on the Hood and returned to the UK.

threw down the newspaper to Xiaoqiang, and immediately fell into thought, considering the impact of this incident on Daming. In addition, the two hands are also subconsciously dishonest.

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Qiu Yu: "Xiaoqiang, be honest with your hands and feet......"

Prince Edward's return to China was obviously not just as simple as George V being seriously ill. This was a signal that the war between the Ming and the Northern Qing Dynasty was a sign that Britain was ready to stand idly by.

Qiu Yun: "We haven't married yet......"

Of course, counting on Britain to make any actual help, that is not to be thought of for a long time, the Ming has always hoped to sign a military alliance treaty with Britain, similar to the kind widely concluded in Europe before the First World War, that is, mutual guarantees, once one side is attacked by a third country, it is regarded as a simultaneous attack on the two countries, and the other country has the obligation to help the Central States fight the war. But after the First World War, there was war-weariness in the whole West, and it was too difficult to sign such a treaty.

Qiu Yun: "No, it won't work there......"

Xiaoqiang: "Don't run, I'm thinking about the problem, my hands can't be idle." ”

Qiuyun: "This will come to people's ......"

Originally, Daming attached so much importance to Prince Edward's visit on Chinese New Year's Eve, knowing that although a military alliance could not be signed, this was also a signal of political support. But now it seems that even this kind of political support is difficult to get.

Qiuyun: "Huhu ......"

"Report! Commander......"

Stomach ache pushed the door in, witnessed the fragrant scene, immediately turned back a standard, and said loudly at the same time:

"Report, my subordinates didn't see anything......"

Qiu Yu bounced up, his face was as ashamed as a soldering iron, and he quickly buttoned his corset and fled.

My stomach hurt and I broke out in a cold sweat, thinking that this was over, and I saw something I shouldn't have seen.

Xiang Xiaoqiang coughed dryly, and said with a big grin:

"Alas, there is no way, it's so busy in the morning, and no one can be busy...... Oh, what's the matter with you? ”

Seeing that the commander's expression was quite normal, he secretly let out a sigh, wiped the cold sweat, and said carefully:

"Commander, the German you told you to check last time went to the hospital again this morning to find Miss Shang."

Well? Xiang Xiaoqiang has almost forgotten about this stubble these days, but he didn't expect to fight in the past few days, and he was so busy, and he remembered to check this person with a stomachache.

Stomach ache leaned in and said:

"We're following him today, guess what he's doing? …… Oh, you don't have to guess, I'll report to you that he turned out to be a member of the Nazi Party branch in Nanjing, and he was an SS himself! …… You know about the Nazi Party, right? ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang nodded:

"Go on."

At this time, the Nazi Party had branches in some major cities abroad, and it was open and legal. Rabe, who was known as "China's Schindler" at the time, was the head of the Nazi Party in Nanjing.

The stomach ache continued:

"Our people followed them all the way to the outside of their party headquarters, and when the guy went in, our people simply followed, and they pretended to be very interested in the Nazi Party, and asked long and short questions, and the Germans inside enthusiastically introduced how good the Nazi Party was and wanted to recruit us to join. The guy sat on the couch next to him, chatting with his colleague in German. This time, we specially selected people who know German, and they heard everything they said. ”

"What did they say?"

"They seem to be saying that some of their German veterans volunteered to come to our Daming to help us resist the Qing captives, but our Daming side is so close to the British that I don't know if we are willing to accept them. Now their head of state has sent a few people over to make contact with our top brass in a private capacity. ”

Xiang Xiaoqiang bit the fries, squinted his eyes, and carefully analyzed the meaning here.

"Retired soldiers", "volunteer to come to Daming"? Why does it sound so familiar? It's like the Spanish Civil War, and Germany is the same group of people who passed, right?

What is this military organization called? By the way, it's called the "Condor Legion".

Hitler, Hitler, worthy of Lao Xi, his vision is really poisonous, and he will really seize the opportunity. Who called Germany so isolated now?

It seems that the British prince is gone, and the Condor Legion is coming.

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