"What's wrong?" Cheng Qianfan came to the investigation and investigation office of the Political Department on the third floor. Seeing Peter's expression serious, he couldn't help asking.
"The war has begun," said Pitt.
"Are you declaring war?" Cheng Qianfan took out the cigarette clip from his pocket and kept his movements of picking up the cigarette roll, "Is that correct?"
Pete didn't say anything, he picked up a piece of paper from the desk and handed it to Cheng Qianfan.
Cheng Qianfan took it and found that this was a photo fax from the Paris Evening News on September 4:
The front page of the Evening News is titled "Declaration of War"!
Reported the news that Britain and France declared war on Germany.
"Britain began to war with Germany since 11:00 this morning, and France began to enter a state of war with Germany at 5:00 this afternoon."
"The fax picture is really good." Cheng Qianfan put down the fax file in his hand, stuffed the cigarette roll into his mouth, pulled the kerosene lighter to light the cigarette roll, and said.
Although this is not the first time I have seen a fax picture, Cheng Qianfan still couldn't help but be amazed and sighed that technology changes people's lives.
It was three years ago that fax pictures really entered the lives of Chinese people.
From August 1 to 16, 2016, Berlin, Germany hosted the Olympic Games.
China has sent a sports delegation of more than 200 people in total, including more than 140 athletes and coaches, which is the largest dispatch since China participated in the Olympics.
The Chinese people have high hopes for this competition and hope to achieve something.
This incident has become a popular topic for international news reports in domestic newspaper competitions. Major newspapers across the country, including Shenbao, Ta Kung Pao, Yi Shibao, and Zhongyi, among others, are competing to publish Olympic special issues, and the picture reports are competing for beauty.
At that time, the national newspapers Ta Kung Pao and Shen Bao did not send reporters to interview, but the full-time photographer Luo Gusun took a large number of pictures, providing a large amount of picture information for the Pictorial of the Eleventh World Games and the Special Collection of the Eleventh World Games published in the daily painting column of the "Shen Bao" "Pictures of the Eleventh World Games" and the "Special Collection of the Eleventh World Games" published in the daily painting column of the "Ta Kung Pao".
The most important thing is to make full use of fax photos to make up for shortcomings.
In this Olympic reporting competition, Ta Kung Pao won with its rich and detailed background introduction, and the photos were quickly used to win.
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Pete was a little silent, his face was serious, and he reached out to ask for a cigarette.
"Aren't you looking forward to this day?" Cheng Qianfan handed a cigarette to Pete and asked in confusion, "Now that you have officially declared war on the Germans, you don't seem that happy?"
"It's too fast." Pi Te's cigarette curl, took a few deep breaths and said.
"What?" Cheng Qianfan didn't understand.
"It's too fast, the Germans are advancing too fast." Pete's expression was serious. He looked at his friend, "Qianfan, I don't understand the way the Germans fight in Poland, but I feel very scared."
He bit the cigarette in his mouth and took Cheng Qianfan to the office, picked up the map stick, pointed to the Europa map on the wall and said, "Armored vehicles, motorcycles, and Germans are advancing wildly in the Polish corridor."
The war has reached its fourth day, and intelligence about the Polish battlefield was captured by more "observers", including French police officer Pete, a police officer in the French Concession Police Room far away in Shanghai, and even the former lieutenant of the French mercenary regiment is more concerned about the war than many military personnel in France.
The German army showed all followers a different war from the beginning of the war.
The Germans have 2,800 tanks, and in addition, they are equipped with 7 armored divisions, 4 light armored divisions, and 4 motorized divisions.
Now, the Germans have also taken advantage of this advantage well.
"From the moment when the war began, the Germans advanced toward the hinterland of Poland at a rate of one hundred to one hundred and twenty miles a day." Pete used a map stick to point a spot on the map.
"According to the latest information, the Germans have advanced to the Vistula line. Do you know what this means?" He looked at Cheng Qianfan, but did not wait for his friend to answer, but asked and answered himself. "This means that the Germans have completed the encirclement of the Pomeri Army in the 'Polish Corridor' area."
"Wait a minute, as far as I know, this Polish..." Cheng Qianfan thought.
"Pomery Army." Pete reminded.
"Yes, this Pomeri Army actually has a lot of troops. Not to mention whether they can defeat the Germans, at least they can slow down the German attack speed." Cheng Qianfan said.
"Massacre, a massacre." Pete shook his head.
The German army had already fought with the Pomeri Army, and at the cost of only more than a hundred people died or less than a thousand, they annihilated three infantry divisions and one cavalry brigade of the Pomeri Army.
"This is a complete massacre." Pete said with a heavy face, looking at Cheng Qianfan, "My friend, the Germans are engaging in a brand new war."
"Armored vehicles, armored vehicles." He said to Cheng Qianfan, "The Germans are desperately equipping armored vehicles, and what about us, how many armored vehicles do France have? Do you know?"
"I don't know." Cheng Qianfan shook his head decisively.
"I don't know, but, I'm going to say, maybe there are a lot, maybe not much, it doesn't matter, what matters is human thinking." Pete said, "Compared to not having it, it's more unacceptable to have it but not paying attention to it."
His expression was so serious.
Cheng Qianfan had never seen such a serious expression on the face of his friend.
"Did you know? Those old generals even think that new weapons are alien." Pete smiled bitterly.
As a prodigal son who has always been proud of being an officer, Peter has actually maintained contact with his former comrades who were still serving in the French army. Therefore, he has even better understanding and insight into some of the situations within the French Defense Forces than many military insiders.
Now the French army still pursues the strategic thinking of defensiveness during the European War.
Based on this thinking, the veteran generals of the military completely ignored and even rejected, condemning the aliens who began to study new weapons and tactics.
Pete picked up a military book on his desk and handed it to Cheng Qianfan.
Cheng Qianfan took it and flipped it around casually, and found that it was a book from the 25th year of the Republic of China, with the words "internal textbooks of the French Defense Forces".
"I'm too lazy to read, just talk about it, what are you talking about?" he said.
Pete lit another cigarette, "The war horse is more useful and reliable than an armored vehicle, because the war horse does not need to drink expensive gasoline, it only needs to eat grass, and it will not break on the road and does not require maintenance."
He looked at Cheng Qianfan, "And that's right, the Air Force is just a vassal of the Army."
"There is no air combat in the future, only land combat." Cheng Qianfan thought for a while and said.
"Do you know this sentence too?" Peter glanced at Cheng Qianfan, then smiled bitterly.
This sentence was said by the French commander-in-chief when inspecting the army. It was regarded as a standard by the French army and even reported it extensively in newspapers, which shows the importance of the army.
Cheng Qianfan nodded. He heard this from Hitotaro Imamura. The Japanese even used this sentence from the commander-in-chief of the French army as a joke and often made fun of it.
Pete held his forehead and felt that being the commander-in-chief of Europa's strongest army was really embarrassing to China.
"Peter, my friend." Cheng Qianfan looked at Pit who was frowning, patted his shoulder, and asked in an exaggerated tone, "You have lost your confidence in war, right?"
"Of course not." Pete shook his head decisively, emphasizing that he was just worried that the French army would be more difficult in the early stages of the war.
But he firmly believed that "victory will belong to the powerful France."
"Isn't that all." Cheng Qianfan chuckled. He walked to the window and looked out. He saw a newspaper boy waving the newspaper in his hand and shouting the newspaper. Then many passers-by rushed up and grabbed the newspaper.
He knew that this was the news that Britain and France declared war on Germany and had officially spread all over the world.
"The war broke out." Cheng Qianfan murmured, and suddenly, he turned his head and looked at Pitt, "Pitt, the supplies we have to adjust and increase the price by 50%.
As he said that, he shook his head first, "No, no, at least double the price, twice the price..."
"I think you'll still keep it in your hand with a clip to calculate." Pete sneered.
Cheng Qianfan pointed to Pete and said, "Do you know what I hate the most? I am more happy than me every time I collect money. I don't want to take less than a franc, but I still despise my dedicated work."
He snorted coldly, then his eyes rolled and he said happily, "Good idea, you're right, wait for the price!"
What he thought was that there was a batch of medicines in the warehouse that must be transferred immediately. As the war in Europe broke out in full swing, medicines will inevitably become increasingly scarce.
At this moment, Cheng Qianfan's eyes narrowed slightly, as if they were stabbed by the sun.
He put a pavilion with his hands and went to see:
He saw a familiar man passing by the door of the police room through the window.
Cheng Qianfan's heart skipped a beat.
"Since the war has been officially declared on the Germans." Cheng Qianfan turned his head and looked at Pete. The morning sun shone through the window and projected on him. The whole body of this greedy man seemed to be shining with gold, especially his eyes seemed to be shining with gold. "What are the masters planning for the Germans in the French Concession?"
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