Dominate the Country

It was already bright, and Hassan Rouhani was shaken out of bed by a "rumbling" sound in a manor owned by the Ottoman Embassy in China, located in the western suburbs of Nanjing. Although he thought he was dreaming at first, he soon realized that this was real. The officers and soldiers of the military parade had arrived at the training ground. The "rumbling" sound was obviously the sound of the horses' hooves of the cavalry troops.

"Pasha! The military parade will start soon. When will we leave? How will you arrange your breakfast?"

The secretary shouted outside the bedroom door.

"Don't be nervous. According to the notice issued by the Chinese cabinet, the military parade will officially start at 10 o'clock. Now it's just that the officers and soldiers have arrived at the training ground in the suburbs." Rouhani said so, but he got up and dressed faster. Because he had to arrive at the viewing platform before 9:30, and before arriving at the viewing platform, he needed to go to the viewing group to find the soldiers of the Ottoman square and visit them.

The number of people in the military parade organized by the Chinese this time is not as large as the one held before the New Year [40th Anniversary Celebration], but this does not mean that the scale is small. On the contrary, because of the special significance of this military parade, Chen Han invited honor guards from other countries to participate in the military parade for the first time. For this military parade, the Chinese invited honor guards from various friendly countries, such as Ottoman and Persian in the Kingdom, Gurkhas and Sikhs in the Indian region, Japan and Siam in the Eastern world, Mongolian and Kazakh phalanxes in Central Asia, and large and small vassal states in America. There are too many countries in the latter, and the military parade cannot allow the honor guards of each country to pass through, so the Americas adopted a mixed formation...

So that there are nearly 20 honor guard phalanxes that appear after Chen Han's army and navy honor guards.

In addition, there are Japanese volunteer troops and Gurkha mercenary phalanxes.

After these parade troops arrive at the training ground, they will hold an entry ceremony the next day after all arrive, which is what the secretary just said. Training will be carried out afterwards!

Chen Han The regulations of this military parade stipulate that the officers and soldiers will rest for half an hour after arriving at the venue before they will officially enter the parade stage.

Therefore, Rouhani and his team have at least half an hour to prepare, enough time to get dressed, take care of their appearance, and arrange transportation. As for eating, are you still in the mood to eat now? The time is half past eight, not eight o'clock. Rouhani should not have been so late for socializing last night.

Hassan Rouhani opened the door himself and glanced at the secretary.

"Pasha, many people in the manor are now running to the roof. They want to see the style of the Chinese National Defense Force there." The secretary glanced at the tired ambassador, and his mind was depressed. This kind of work of waking up sleepy people from their sleep is really easy to get the first place. But he still handed over the binoculars in his hand.

The invention of binoculars and monoculars was almost the same. In 1608, Hans Lippoer, an optician in Middelburg, the Netherlands, built the world's first telescope. In the same year, he applied for a patent for the telescope he made and built a binocular telescope in accordance with the requirements of the authorities. The reason why monoculars have been the mainstream of the telescope world for more than 200 years is entirely due to the low cost of monoculars.

"If Pasha also wants to see the parade troops from the roof, this telescope was taken from the military attaché, and every detail of the drill ground can be seen very clearly."

Rouhani did not take over the telescope, and the secretary felt a little strange about the ambassador's carelessness. In fact, before dawn today, the military attachés of the embassies of various countries in China had already rushed to the drill ground; the envoys of Chen Han's vassal states also got up early and rushed to wait outside the palace. They were ready to watch the parade troops enter the camp with the old emperor of China. Only the Ottoman ambassador to China seemed somewhat careless and had only woken up until now.

"Thank you! I think I don't have to look at the parade troops on the roof. I can sit on the viewing platform and observe the parade troops up close, and even exchange new thoughts on the world situation with the old emperor of China." Since the East and West worlds were completely at war, the presence of the Ottomans has been rapidly weakening. At present, the Ottomans and Austrian double-acts cooperate tacitly, and their paddling movements are world-class. This has affected China's perception of the Ottomans to a certain extent.

To be honest, if Rouhani were Chinese, he would also sneer at Istanbul. What kind of people are they? When they were in trouble, they begged China to help them, and the facts proved that the Chinese were indeed helpful, and they kept their promises. But after the situation was reversed, the nobles in Istanbul wanted to leave them behind, which was too bad.

The role played by the Ottomans in this war is now far behind Persia.

Istanbul also knows that what it did was not fair, so Rouhani has a new task, to try to gain China's understanding.

But how easy is this?

What the Ottoman Empire is doing now is close to being treacherous. Even if they have the Istanbul coup and the unstable situation in the Balkans as an excuse, it is hard to be convincing.

Hassan Rouhani looked at the binoculars expressionlessly, and then told his secretary to prepare a new dress for him. Then he did what he said, changed into a dress, and got on a carriage directly. He didn't even have breakfast, and told the driver to drive straight to the drill ground.

On the way to the drill ground, Rouhani also met the French envoy Viller. The relationship between the Ottoman Empire and France is also recovering rapidly. After all, it is Russia and Austria that are fighting against the Ottoman Empire, and even now, Napoleon is fighting the Chinese in North America. From beginning to end, the Ottoman Empire has never had a real confrontation with the French.

The restoration of relations between France and the Ottoman Empire is much easier than the restoration of friendship between China and France.

After seeing Rouhani, Viller stopped the carriage directly, got off his carriage, and then got on the carriage of the Ottoman Embassy in China, and rushed to the drill ground with Hassan Rouhani.

Rouhani didn't realize it at first, but as the carriage got closer and closer to the drill ground, he finally realized that something was wrong.

How close did the Ottomans have to be to the French before the envoys of the two countries could ride in the same carriage? Does this mean that the Ottomans and France are close enough to wear the same pants? Does it mean that the Ottomans and the Western world have had enough communication? Although this matter is not difficult to find out, this move will always give people a misunderstanding and a negative impression. But Rouhani has no time to regret. He can't force Villers off the carriage at this time? "Dear Pasha, have you seen the troops on parade? Many of them are wounded soldiers retreating from the battlefields of the northwest. To be honest, I am really shocked that the recovery rate of wounded Chinese soldiers is too high." Although China now has five or six finished anti-inflammatory drugs, the best effect is still Yunnan Baiyao, followed by Pian Zai Huang. The formulas of these anti-inflammatory drugs are highly confidential, and the world of the East and Europe still knows nothing about it. Every year, the Western world and the Arab world import a large amount of anti-inflammatory drugs, but unfortunately, this "large amount" of anti-inflammatory drugs becomes extremely scarce in front of hundreds of thousands or millions of troops.

On the Russian battlefield, the price of a bottle of Yunnan Baiyao [per person] has exceeded one pound. And the highest price of this thing is only five shillings, which is more than four times the profit. These drugs are zero tariff in the Western world, any port.

Large numbers of wounded soldiers in Europe are still using opium as a panacea. Many brave soldiers can no longer do without the hateful opium after entering a military hospital. Although France has not officially defined the sale of opium as a crime.

Speaking of this issue, Villers is very sad, and Rouhani is also very sad. The Ottoman Empire also lacks wound medicine.

Although it is impossible to guarantee that 100% of the wounded soldiers in China will not be inflamed, the probability of inflammation and festering of the wound is really much lower than that of foreign countries. This alone is enough to make the morale of Chinese soldiers two points higher than that of European and Arab soldiers.

Villers found a very good topic entry point and immediately reached the same position with Rouhani. Now Rouhani was even less likely to drive him off the carriage.

…

The whistle sounded across the bright sky and came from afar. When the staff of Nanjing Chengnan Railway Station heard the whistle, they immediately went to work, arranged the platform, and waited for the train to arrive.

“Clang-clang-clang”

A domestically produced latest model steam locomotive slowly drove into the railway station. Behind the locomotive were ten dark and heavy tank cars. On the top of each car, there were four soldiers with guns, two in front and two in the back. Because the weather was bright, the soldiers all wore autumn and winter hats, and the earmuffs on both sides covered their faces a little. From a distance, the faces of those soldiers were still unclear.

The train stopped at the railway station soon. The soldiers with guns sitting on the top of the tank cars stood up one after another, holding their bayoneted rifles horizontally, and looked at the platform vigilantly. At this time, it can be seen that these people are quite limited in size. At the same time, a number of neatly dressed soldiers came outside the train station. They were all fully armed and stood at attention in parallel along two rows of carriages in a very dignified manner.

Accompanied by several soldiers, several train station staff walked to the side of the train and handed over the relevant train procedures to the train escort officer. Then, they shouted a few commands, and the doors of the first few sealed carriages were opened, while the doors of the other carriages were still closed. However, standing on the platform, one could hear voices coming from the carriages. However, although the voices were in Chinese, they were a bit stiff and sounded like they were not Chinese. It was very awkward.

"Open the doors of carriages No. 1 and No. 2! Everyone get off!"

The escort officer was a left lieutenant, but the uniform he wore was a little different. At first glance, it was the same as the uniform of the National Defense Army, but there was still a difference when you looked closely. The shoulder badge of the National Defense Army was a five-pointed star, while the shoulder badge on the opposite side was a triangular star. The officer was no taller than 1.6 meters, but he was very strong, like a powerful wild boar, with round limbs and body.

The officer shouted in Chinese, which was relatively familiar to him. Then, many soldiers in uniform jumped out of the carriages whose doors were opened. However, their uniforms were older, although very neat. Moreover, the soldiers were older, and many looked older than the officers. Almost everyone was in their thirties, and the older ones were in their forties or fifties. Some of them didn't even have military caps, and they didn't wear regular military boots, but ordinary cloth shoes, and none of them had epaulettes.

"I'll read a name, and those who hear the name will shout 'here' loudly! Do you understand?"

"I understand."

A Wehrmacht officer walked forward, and the escorting officer immediately stepped back to make way. The Wehrmacht officer held a booklet in his hand, opened the booklet, and began to read in Chinese. Although these people were all Japanese soldiers, they must have spoken Chinese to them here in China.

"Sato Mitaka."

"Here!"

"Yamada Hiroyuki"

"Here!"

...

The veterans stood at attention. In the eyes of these people who had left the Volunteer Corps for more than ten years and for more than five years, this opportunity was extremely rare and the experience would be a glory for their whole lives.

The great emperor was about to abdicate, and the new emperor of the Chen Han Empire ascended the throne. The old emperor's last military parade and the new emperor's first military parade had a place for veterans who had retired for many years. How rare it was.

You have to know that although they came from the Volunteer Corps, they are all Japanese now. Even at this moment, the members of the Volunteer Corps have a one-tenth chance of getting Chen Han's red book, and even more people get the yellow book. Almost half of them will stay in China after the Volunteer Corps career ends.

But none of them are. They are all people who transferred directly from the Volunteer Corps to the Japanese army. In a sense, this can be said to be a betrayal.

The last stunt of the Tokugawa shogunate's regular army was the ability to convert soldiers directly from Chen Han's volunteer team and security team. It was not just their own mercenaries.

Not all soldiers who returned to the Japanese army from the volunteer team lived well. Not to mention those who died and were disabled on the battlefield, even those who were still alive and had intact hands and feet, their lives were a level lower than those of their former compatriots and comrades who stayed in China.

Nakajima Yasuken responded loudly, and then fell silent. He remained silent until all the names were read out, and there was no expression on his face, which was very different from the former volunteer soldiers who were excited on the side.

The main reason why these Japanese were so excited was the military parade. This would be the greatest glory of their lives as ordinary soldiers. But Nakajima Yasuken was different. He was a man who had won the gold medal. If he had chosen to go home, he would now be a fifth-level sergeant major in the volunteer team. That was no worse than the battalion officer regiment in terms of status and income.

But he chose to go home, and now he has to swallow this ending, no matter how bitter it is.

Nakajima Yasuken got into trouble in the shogunate army, and was "discharged" only three years after returning to the Japanese army.

Today, he can still wear a military uniform and stand on Chinese soil with a rifle on his back. Nakajima Yasuken is actually very emotional in his heart. No matter what, he was discharged from the army instead of being sent to die on the battlefield.

Just as Rouhani and Villers were riding in a carriage to the training ground, the last participating troops of this military parade also arrived in Nanjing. The train was delayed for an hour. There was no way, the locomotive broke down halfway. If it hadn't been repaired by the accompanying master, they would not have reached Nanjing now.

This Japanese volunteer soldier landed in Shanghai, and did not take an inland river transport ship to Nanjing, but took a train and crossed the south of the Yangtze River.

At this moment, outside the train station, large public carriages were parked neatly.