Expedition to Europe

From late September, heavy rains fell in the Somme region, and the war was in a stalemate.

The British once had an advantage on the battlefield with the appearance of tanks. But as Qin Zhiyuan said, the British had too few tanks and used them incorrectly, so they failed to break through the German positions and made very limited progress.

When tanks appeared on the battlefield, the Germans panicked. For the big tanks, the Germans had no choice but to escape or surrender.

The continuous heavy rains gave the Germans a chance to breathe. On the one hand, the Germans began to study their own tanks, and on the other hand, they organized German soldiers to deal with British tanks in various ways.

In early October, when the last tank was destroyed in the Albert region, the British offensive also fell into a quagmire.

At this point, both sides of the war were exhausted by the continuous heavy rain and the hopeless war, and the Somme Battle had come to an end.

In early October, Qin Zhiyuan took Gao Hongshi and Micha to Boulogne-Billancourt to join the tank research and development team of the French military and Renault.

Boulogne-Billancourt is located in the suburbs of Paris. You can take a train from Amiens. Qin Zhiyuan chose to drive there for convenience.

Like the Capitol area, the vicinity of Amiens is full of military camps, temporary hospitals, prisoner-of-war camps, labor camps or other camps.

On the road from Amiens to Paris, there are convoys transporting supplies, soldiers marching in formation, or locals who bring their families to rely on relatives and friends.

When there are too many people, the order is chaotic. Although Qin Zhiyuan and his team drove a car, they could not speed up and could only move slowly with the convoy in front.

This gave Qin Zhiyuan an opportunity to observe the world in the early 20th century through the car window, which fully satisfied Qin Zhiyuan's curiosity.

Because of the participation of the vassal state army, people's clothing, hair and skin colors are very rich. Blond white people wearing helmets and armor, agile African blacks, black-haired Orientals tied to pillars...

Wait...

It seems that something strange has come in.

"Gabriel, slow down." Qin Zhiyuan wanted to see more clearly.

Gabriel was the driver hired by Qin Zhiyuan. He was a Frenchman with thick blond hair, warm and cheerful, and a very nice guy.

"Yes, sir." Gabriel slowed down. The car, which was already slow, was like a snail, causing the cars behind to honk their horns frantically.

Who said that foreigners have high quality? Forgot that for France, Qin Zhiyuan is a foreigner.

The black-haired Orientals tied to the pillars were in front of a British camp. There was not one person tied up, but a long line of more than a dozen people. A British officer was talking in front of the pillars, and it didn't look like he was saying anything good.

Qin Zhiyuan only took a glance and was sure that the person tied up must be Chinese, because there was a person who looked like an interpreter next to the British officer who was begging for mercy, and he was bowing constantly.

"Gabriel, drive over." After discovering that the person tied up was Chinese, Qin Zhiyuan's anger rose in his heart.

"Yes, sir."

...

William, a logistics officer of the 79th Division of the British Royal Army, has been very depressed recently. The 79th Division has made no progress on the Somme River front. William just received a telegram the day before yesterday that his mother was hospitalized, and William's wife was not in good health. His work was messed up because of the weather.

William blamed all this on the Chinese workers who had just arrived half a month ago.

Compared with the Indian laborers who refused to work without being whipped, the Chinese workers were indeed very capable and their enthusiasm for work was satisfactory. The Chinese workers could complete the work assigned to them quickly and well. They were very efficient. If the same number of Indian laborers and laborers were assigned the same task, the Chinese workers would complete it three times faster than the Indian laborers.

The only unsatisfactory thing was that the Chinese workers were not easy to manage. Compared with the submissive Indians, the Chinese had stronger self-esteem, more violent tempers, and more distinct personalities.

This caused a lot of trouble for William.

For example, today, William assigned tasks as usual, and then the Chinese workers finished them quickly, while the Indians who started at the same time had not finished half of their work, so William ordered the Chinese workers to help the Indians so that they could finish the work as soon as possible.

The Chinese did not refuse such an arrangement. Of course, sarcasm and ridicule were inevitable, which could be seen from the way the Chinese looked at the Indians.

William did not care about it. As long as the task could be completed in time, William did not care how it was completed.

Perhaps the continuous rain affected everyone's mood, and the Indians were not in a good mood.

For the high-ranking British, the Indians were submissive. But for the Chinese who were of similar status to themselves, the Indians were still quite proud.

Look, we have the master to protect us, but you don't!

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The Indians, who had a psychological advantage when facing the Chinese, could not bear the mocking and sarcastic eyes of the Chinese. One Indian could not help but curse, and then a group fight broke out.

Indians are not good at work, nor are they good at fighting. More than 300 Indians cannot beat more than 100 Chinese.

Once the fight started, the Indians were beaten to a pulp by the Chinese. More than 300 people attacked together, but only about 20 were knocked down and then they all fled. The Indians, who didn't want to work in the first place, now had an excuse. They said they were injured by the Chinese and then went on strike collectively.

William could tolerate the Chinese's rebelliousness, but could not tolerate the order in the camp being affected. In order to prevent such incidents from happening again, William tied up a dozen Chinese who took the lead at the entrance of the camp, which was a punishment and a warning.

"Poor ghosts, you are all poor ghosts from the East, beggars who beg for food, and rude barbarians who are despicable. The British Empire has given you the opportunity to make money, you should be grateful, and you should know how to cherish it. You must always remember your identity. You are here to work, not to fight. Damn it, can't you be honest and let me save some trouble..."

William originally just wanted to warn, but he didn't realize that his emotions were also on the verge of collapse, and he couldn't help but bring his personal emotions to work.

"Mr. William, this is unfair. If you want to punish, why not punish those Indians? You must know that they started it first, and the Chinese were just defending themselves." A younger Chinese translator demanded fair treatment. Judging from his clothes, he seemed to be a foreign student in France.

"Mr. William, please be kind and just give me a little punishment. It's raining, and I'll get sick if I keep going like this." An older translator who seemed to be from China was begging for mercy.

"I decide who should be punished and who shouldn't be punished, and I also decide the intensity of the punishment." William looked arrogant. At this moment, he felt the pleasure of life and death in his control. This feeling intoxicated him and temporarily forgot the dilemma of reality.

Beep...

Just when William felt good about himself, with two whistles, a French Renault car drove off the road and was heard directly beside him.

"Uh... Damn it!" The wheels of the car stirred up a pit of water on the ground, splashing on William's shiny boots. William cursed in a low voice, not daring to let the people in the car hear.

Now it is wartime, all supplies are managed in a unified way. Those who can still own cars at this time are all big shots, and William can't afford to offend them.