The train goes all the way north and does not stop at any station except to add coal and water. Even if it does, the workers on the train are not allowed to get off the train.
Passing through Lyon and Auxerre, the train arrived at the Paris train station in the evening.
At the Paris train station, the workers transferred to trucks and continued heading north. The carriages now have no tables and chairs, and they can only sit on the floor or on various wooden boxes loaded in the carriage. Qin Zhiyuan recognized the words on the wooden boxes.
In French, what he transported in this carriage were artillery shells.
In other words, Qin Zhiyuan and the others were sent to the front line sitting on artillery shells.
Combining the direction of the train and the current time, Qin Zhiyuan has already guessed the workers' destination, Amiens.
In the Somme River area about 50 kilometers east of Amiens, Britain, France and Germany have invested a total of more than 150 divisions, and are engaged in World War I or the largest and most casualty battle in human history. It is known in history.
Battle of the Somme.
After the train arrived at Amiens, the workers were divided into two. One part stayed at the Amiens train station to load and unload supplies, while the other part continued eastward.
Unfortunately, the six people in cabin 106 were assigned to the group heading east, and Qin Zhiyuan was among them.
As the city closest to the front line, Amiens has become the base camp of the British and French armies. The pre-war square of the Amiens train station is full of British and French soldiers in military uniforms. They wear high-top hats or high-top military helmets, and are dressed in blue.
The ones wearing brown or yellow military uniforms are French. The ones wearing wide-brimmed hats or boat-shaped helmets, and the ones wearing khaki or gray military uniforms are British. They are easy to distinguish.
There are also mountains of ammunition boxes piled up in the square, covered with camouflaged canvas. All the houses near the train station have been requisitioned, and they are filled with wounded soldiers who have returned from the front and are waiting to be transported. Even so, the injured
All the soldiers could not be accommodated, and many wounded soldiers had to stay in the open square with poor conditions, wailing all day long, waiting for death or a vacant seat on the train.
These are not things that Qin Zhiyuan is worried about. Qin Zhiyuan and the others have now boarded the car transporting ammunition supplies and rushed to the front line with the convoy.
The road is full of troops rushing to the front line, one by one, like ants, moving forward silently. They have only one direction, east, east, and continue east.
Most of the oncoming troops were wounded soldiers who could walk independently. Some had their heads wrapped, some had their arms wrapped, and some were leaning on crutches made of tree branches. They were walking towards Amiens step by step with difficulty.
Perhaps it was an illusion, Qin Zhiyuan could not see the sadness of losing limbs on the faces of these wounded soldiers, or they were numb, or they were finally relieved. For them, the war was over.
Brother, you said these foreigners are so stupid. They won’t sit in the car for us. They don’t have to walk when they are in the car. Gao Hongshi, who has an out-of-touch personality, curled his lips in contempt and looked down on the dullness of the French.
Come on, they don't take cars, so there are reasons why they don't take cars. Don't think that taking a car is a good thing. Do you know what we are doing under the butt? Qin Zhiyuan looked at Gao Hongshi and shook his head in a cute way, and then gave the answer: Cannonball,
There are artillery shells sitting under our butts. As long as one of the artillery shells flies over, all of us in the car will be finished.
Holy shit, why don’t we go down and walk? Hongshi touched the wooden box under his butt, suddenly jumped up and shouted.
Don't worry, you have time to leave. Qin Zhiyuan looked at the bumpy road and sighed quietly.
After leaving Amiens, the road conditions were extremely poor. There were no roads at all. Even the original roads had been destroyed by the passing cars. There were ruts more than one foot or two feet deep everywhere on the road. Sometimes you even encountered them in the middle of the road.
With a crater that is two to three meters square, the speed of a vehicle, let alone speeding, is not as fast as walking.
The further east we went, the worse the road conditions became. Finally, the convoy stopped in front of a crater made by heavy artillery.
Come down, come down, all come down, guys, your job is here, fill this crater first, and then we can get on the road again. A French soldier with the rank of sergeant came to inform.
Brother, what is this foreign devil talking about? With Gao Hongshi's level of French, he can't communicate with others in spoken English like an aria.
After getting off the car and having some work to do, Qin Zhiyuan took off his backpack, picked up a shovel distributed in Amiens and jumped out of the carriage.
When Qin Zhiyuan and others arrived at the bomb crater, dozens of laborers had already started working. A judge with the rank of second lieutenant was supervising the work beside him with a whip. Although he did not use the whip to hit people, he kept yelling:
Damn it, hurry up, damn the Germans, damn the broken roads, damn the Ministry of Transportation, damn monkeys, hurry up and fill this damn crater for me.
Hey, please pay attention to your attitude, Mr. Lieutenant. Qin Zhiyuan cannot hear the word monkey. Whenever he hears someone calling a Chinese worker a monkey, Qin Zhiyuan wants to grab a handful of dirt from the ground and stuff it into that person's mouth.
Ah ha, another group has come. Very good. This gentleman who can understand human speech, tell your guys to move faster, or I will let them taste my whip. The second lieutenant did not restrain himself at all, but became a little more aggressive.
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Watch your words, Mr. Second Lieutenant, let me remind you again. Qin Zhiyuan came to the Second Lieutenant with a shovel and threw the shovel heavily on the ground.
Qin Zhiyuan's hand was very strong, and the shovel was also very sharp. Most of the shovel was buried in the soil, which fully demonstrated Qin Zhiyuan's anger.
What do you want to do? Do you want to disobey the military order? The second lieutenant took a step back, held the holster on his waist vigilantly, and waved the whip in his hand. A dozen French soldiers holding rifles gathered around him.
We are not soldiers, don't use your damn military orders to order us. Qin Zhiyuan seemed unaware and approached the second lieutenant with firm steps; also, you can order us to do what we should do, and we will not be passive in our work, but
Please correct your attitude and don't use insulting words to insult us. It will not make you more noble, it will only make the military emblem on your hat eclipsed. Do you understand, sir?
Qin Zhiyuan was not afraid at all, not because the surrounding workers also gathered around him, but because he was sure that the French second lieutenant in front of him did not dare to shoot.
Europe needs fresh troops. This is the consensus of all Europeans. The Beiyang government sent workers to Europe, which Britain and France spent a lot of money to achieve. If there were large-scale casualties of Chinese workers at the beginning, a small
The second lieutenant may not be able to bear the consequences.
What do you want to do to incite your companions to go on strike? Have you thought about the consequences of your behavior? This is war time. I have the right to execute you without a court trial. Your country will not hold me accountable for this. You want to challenge me.
Are you patient? The second lieutenant pulled out the revolver from his waist, and then pressed it against Qin Zhiyuan's chest: Go to work, damn monkey, fill up that damn crater for me. If you can't do it, I'll shoot you all.
Then throw it into that crater and fill it up, you know what I mean? Now, immediately, immediately
From the second lieutenant's eyes, Qin Zhiyuan saw the impulse caused by shame and the madness after being provoked. Maybe at the next moment, the second lieutenant would pull the trigger.
According to wartime laws, if Qin Zhiyuan is killed, the second lieutenant is indeed not responsible.
When he first arrived in France, Qin Zhiyuan encountered the biggest crisis since he came to this era.
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