Chapter 215 Attack (modified)

Author: Zhelei

As the main battlefield of World War I, France suffered more losses than Britain. Officers below the lieutenant level rarely survived for more than three months on the battlefield, and the mortality rate of adult men aged 15-49 is as high as 13.3%.

Not only was there a shortage of personnel on the front line, but there was also a war-weariness in the rear. Soldiers passively faced and even fled, which caused a sharp shortage of combat power and labor in front of France, and also made France have long turned its attention to China with sufficient labor.

Therefore, after hearing Liang Shiyi's plan to "use workers instead of soldiers", the French government accepted his proposal and sent a retired colonel named Tao Lude to China to conceal his identity and came to China as an agronomical technician to recruit Chinese workers in the First World War.

The French Chinese workers who are currently living with Cheng Nuo are basically recruited through the hands of this retired colonel.

"Big brother, do you mean you came to France through a commercial company?"

This time when I came to Europe, Cheng Nuo not only brought pancakes and soy sauce, but also brought a lot of cooking utensils and a small number of light industrial products, such as flour produced in Shanghai.

It is not only to promote the domestic flour industry, but also to make pasta for these Chinese workers to eat.

After the noodles are rolled out by hand, cool them in water after they are cooked, mash the garlic juice and schizonepeta, add salt and stir well, and pour it on the noodles.

Although it looks simple, it is both refreshing and cool when eaten.

Squatting with his Chinese workers, Cheng Nuo squatted two big bowls in a row, but he was still not satisfied and was ready to add another bowl of noodle soup.

The Chinese worker next to him wiped his mouth casually and smiled curiously: "Professor Cheng, you, as a university professor, didn't expect that you have more appetite than those of us who do physical work, and it's very powerful."

"Do you want to give me a spoonful of white soup? Is this enough?" Cheng Nuo took the initiative to scoop a spoonful of noodles soup for the Chinese master and smiled and said, "Don't look at me as a scholar, I have a lot of energy in my hands. I will let you see it later."

"Enough, I'll just send the throat down. I haven't eaten noodles for a long time, and it's also a bit of noodles. Thanks to Professor Cheng, I have to take a good look later." The elder brother hurriedly brought the noodles bowl over, with a little restrained smile: "When we came here, we really asked some company to introduce it."

Cheng Nuomoran, in order to cooperate with France to recruit workers and avoid allegations from the allies, Liang Shiyi established a "Huimin" commercial company in Beijing and recruited Chinese workers for France across the country.

At the same time, France is required to strictly abide by the three clauses signed in writing in addition to the content of the contract: Chinese workers are not allowed to interfere in the war; the Chinese government has the right to appoint officials to France to inspect the living and working conditions of Chinese workers; Chinese workers must enjoy equal treatment during their stay in France, and their right to freedom is not abused by their employers.

France not only agreed to these requirements, but also performed quite well, and its relationship with China's official relations were maintained quite well.

Cheng Nuo wanted to take advantage of this. After the war, he stayed in France to build a factory and resettle some Chinese workers, which could also help students who were studying in France to work and study in France.

However, in the process of continuing to communicate with these Chinese workers, Cheng Nuo also discovered something particularly interesting, that is, Chinese workers believe that authority is not a divinely authorized, but a transitional one. If authority does many unjust practices, it should be overthrown, even in the form of violence.

It is really amazing that these people want to change in this revolutionary/old area.

Before leaving for contact with the European scientific and industrial circles, Cheng Nuo prepared to completely arrange the matter of the Chinese engineering night school.

Not only do literacy, but also conduct moral education, intellectual education and industrial skills education.

During this period, Cheng Nuo did not contribute much, mainly to provide funds for the expansion of night school scale and planning for related courses, spending about 30,000 to 40,000 pounds.

According to the initial plan, there are auditoriums, classrooms, libraries, canteens, letter rooms, entertainment rooms, etc. Although the sparrow is small, it looks like a Tangren City. Some halls can accommodate thousands of people, and the small ones can accommodate nearly a hundred people.

The most important teacher resources are basically all held by students who stayed in Europe and the United States, which saved Cheng Nuo a lot of effort.

Before this, these students had begun to organize activities frequently, including writing letters for Chinese workers in the First World War, explaining world events to Chinese workers in the First World War, holding various speeches, discussing the future of the motherland, etc., with the aim of developing the intelligence and wisdom of Chinese workers in the First World War and cultivating their patriotic ideas.

With Cheng Nuo's arrival, this force has to continue to push forward, and the direction is more scientific and systematic.

"Cousin Yu, please come here."

Cheng Nuo, who was packing his luggage, saw Lin Yutang coming and greeted him quickly:

"I need some books to translate for me. Do you see if you have time?"

"Book, what book?" Lin Yutang was a little curious. He took the book and glanced at the cover and felt familiar. But he didn't know where he read it: "Das Kapital?"

Cheng Nuo tied his clothes and explained: "Yes, it's this book. You can call it "Zi Lun" in Chinese. The grand work written by the German Ma * Si was very inspired after reading it, but unfortunately, the Chinese translation of this book is not satisfactory, and I need someone to translate it carefully."

As he said that, he also patted a stack of books on the table and introduced: "These are all "Zi Lun", but each one is a new language."

"Is it not enough to translate the English version for a new language?" Lin Yutang was a little curious and walked over and flipped it around casually. It was really from various language versions, including German, French, Spanish, etc., and was shocked: "Do you attach so much importance to it?"

Cheng Nuo smiled and put his clothes in his own suit: "This thing is a dragon-slaying party. With it in hand, this sky will be pierced. Just wait and see. In order to ensure that there is no mistake, I specially found a few different languages ​​to translate into Chinese, and on this basis, it will be carefully proofreaded to achieve the principle of faith and elegance."

Lin Yutang was a little unbelievable, so he read the book and then looked at Cheng Nuo: "Okay, I agree to this matter, but how do you plan to use such an important book?"

Cheng Nuo stopped his work and said seriously: "Now it starts with our workers' night school. There were no compulsory courses before. In the future, "Zi Lunar New Year" will be our only compulsory course. When the time is ripe and then promoted to the whole country, these Chinese workers at that time will be the spark of hope."

Hearing this, Lin Yutang's heart became even more itchy. He immediately wanted to read this book to see what magic it had, making Cheng Nuo look like this.

However, it is obviously not a suitable place at the moment. Lin Yutang forced himself to hold this thought down. He cared about: "Zhiyuan, where are you going to pack your luggage? Europe is not peaceful at the moment, and bullets don't have eyes. It's better not to go anywhere."

Cheng Nuo smiled and shook his head, buttoned the button on his suitcase and said, "It was because I was attracted by its chaos that I chose to go to Europe."

However, Cheng Nuo did not tell Lin Yutang what to do, and even Liang Qichao and the others did not tell him.

It was just because he was planning to go to Germany secretly and get benefits in advance.

In addition to obtaining technology in advance, we are also planning to borrow the Germans to try the chemical weapons developed by the Chemistry Academy on the British.

The number of first batches is not large, and the focus is on obtaining experimental data so that we can know the direction of improvement.

Germany is the main use of chemical weapons, and it is more reasonable to throw the weapon as Germany.

But France and Germany are still fighting, so it is really inconvenient to reveal their identities.

Of course, Cheng Nuo's identity after the war cannot be revealed.

"By the way, this month is the 100th anniversary of Mr. Ma *Si's birth. At that time, some social righteous people will come to visit. Tell Shi Yixuan and the others that you should treat it well." Cheng Nuo suddenly thought of tomorrow's day and quickly instructed.

"Okay...? Professor Cheng is lying down quickly!" Before Lin Yutang finished speaking, he heard a "swish~" sound in the sky, and then violent bombardment of artillery shells began to sound around him.

Before Cheng Nuo could react, he was pushed to the ground by Lin Yutang.

Immediately afterwards, with a sudden loud bombing sounding nearby, Cheng Nuo's eyes went dark and he was completely unconscious.

After many years, Cheng Nuo found out that he was attacked by the famous Big Belta cannon during a special investigation.

It was on this day that the entire Marseille was shrouded in the barrage of the Berta cannon. Under the huge 420mm caliber barrel, more than 800 Marseille citizens died in danger.

In fact, in the middle of World War I, the warring sides were in a strategic stalemate stage, and the military and economic strength of the Allies represented by Britain and France increased significantly compared with the beginning of the war.

In the second half of 1917, the air defense strength in key areas such as Marseille France was greatly enhanced. In addition to the strict air defense alarm system, the dense anti-aircraft fire network spread across the suburbs of Marseille made German aircraft attack Marseille in broad daylight and caused self-destruction.

Under this situation, the number of Luftwaffe aircraft attacking Marseille by night attacks gradually increased.

However, the good light control of Marseille City and the huge anti-aircraft gun group made the night-attack German aircraft only able to fly high altitudes, and the accuracy of bomb drops was not at all. The French even built a fake target of simulated cities on both sides of the Marne River ring to deceive German pilots.

In order to bombard the French capital Marseille, the Germans soon thought of the long-range cannon move.

At that time, the German army had occupied Belgium, and the border area between Bihai and France was only 120 to 130 kilometers away from the capital Marseille. Bombing Marseille from here can have a powerful shocking effect of accidentally attacking the enemy and shaking the morale of the army.

Germany's arms industry has strong R&D capabilities in the manufacturing of artillery. In 1915, Germany was able to manufacture long-range guns with a range of 40 kilometers, which could be shot from the front line to Dunkirk. Not long after, the Germans directly manufactured long-range guns with a range of 62 kilometers.

Later, the "Paris Cannon" with a maximum range of 131km was launched. The famous "Gustav" train cannon was just a junior in front of him.

Although the maximum range of Cheng Nuo's large Belt Tower cannon is less than 15 kilometers, the shell weighs nearly 1 ton. After penetrates into the target, it explodes. It is the heaviest cannon that Germany can transport on land.

Cheng Nuo here obviously did not realize the importance of the problem. After a while, he finally woke up from the ruins. The first thing he did after opening his eyes was to look at Lin Yutang and see if he was fine.

Fortunately, both of them were at the corner of the house, with a relatively stable brick and wood structure, and with the support of falling beams, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

But Lin Yutang fainted and had not woken up yet after being shaken by the shells.

When he felt his pulse was still beating, Cheng Nuo felt relieved.

But what followed was a huge thorn sound beside his ears, followed by a deaf state. Even if he saw someone crying heartbrokenly, Cheng Nuo could not hear it at all.

The surrounding houses fell down, collapsed, and thick smoke was rolling everywhere.

The citizens of Marseille were in panic, hiding and hiding, and the whole Marseille was in chaos.

The shell attack has not ended yet, and an explosion occurs every 15 to 20 minutes.

Although Cheng Nuo could not feel the sound, the frequent appearance of that scene also shocked him, and he didn't know where to go with Lin Yutang on his back.

After going around, I finally returned to my original position, hoping to bless the two of them by the principle of shell craters.

At first, Cheng Nuo thought it was the enemy's plane that successfully flew over the German-French border from high altitude and attacked Marseille.

But when I looked up for a long time, there was no trace of the plane.

At this time, Cheng Nuo finally understood where there was an airplane bombing. He directly used his unique cannon production technology to bomb remotely.

There is no way to deal with it except to directly destroy the cannon.

However, at this time, Germany was the grasshopper after autumn. Although the Great Beltar cannon was bombed for a day, it only caused some civilian casualties, which did not change much about the entire situation in World War I.

At night, the French plane found the position.

Because it produces huge recoil when it is fired, it is necessary to pour a concrete base several meters deep and then blow it up when it is moved. It takes 6 hours to place the gun position alone.

Therefore, when discovered, it can be called a living target that stays still. It was destroyed by a French plane without much effort.

"The latest news on this station is that the evil German cannon has been destroyed by our brave air force and has given the German army a fierce counterattack..."

With a click, Cheng Nuo turned off the radio, walked out of the tent and looked at the messy position, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

It was obvious that they were eating noodles together a few days ago, but they didn't expect that an attack would lose so many lives.

"How many Chinese workers have we sacrificed?" Cheng Nuo walked to Shi Yixuan and said with concern: "How are they all placed?"

Shi Yixuan sighed and said slowly: "During the daytime, there are not many Chinese workers in our school, but unfortunately, a shell fell near the school and eight compatriots died on the spot. During the treatment, five more people were not rescued. As for those with serious and minor injuries, they are still counting."
Chapter completed!