The decisive battle against the Third Reich

"What are you doing here, madam?" Qin Chuan put away his gun.

The French woman couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Qin Chuan, and asked without answering: "Do you have any cigarettes, Lieutenant?"

Qin Chuan touched his pocket, took out a pack of cigarettes, took out one and handed it over.

The French woman took the cigarette, looked at it, and said with some surprise: "Are you from the battlefield?"

"Yes!" Qin Chuan couldn't help but be stunned: "How did you know?"

The French woman raised the cigarette in her hand, shrugged and said: "They smoke French cigarettes, but you smoke Egyptian cigarettes!"

The French woman was right. Due to supply problems for the German troops on the Alexander Line, a considerable number of soldiers received "Pyramid" cigarettes produced in Egypt.

"You are very observant, madam!" Qin Chuan said.

"No!" The French woman shook her head and replied: "I know this because my father is a tobacconist!"

"Oh!" Qin Chuan lit a cigarette for the French woman and turned around to look at the ballroom and said, "So..."

"Yes!" the French woman replied: "You guessed it right, my father brought me here. He hoped to get to know more German officers... In other words, I was a card in his hand, or you can say It’s a plaything in the hands of you Germans!”

Qin Chuan couldn't help but be stunned: "Madam..."

"Then, why are you here?" The French woman looked at Qin Chuan in confusion.

"You know!" Qin Chuan replied: "I came down from the battlefield, so..."

"So you don't know how to interact with women?" The French woman couldn't help laughing.

Qin Chuan found that she had a beautiful smile, with a slight arc at the corner of her mouth, and the cigarette in her hand, which gave her a noble and wild temperament.

At this time, several figures came out of the ballroom lights. The French woman quickly threw the cigarette to the ground and said, "Sorry, I have to leave..."

"What can I help you with, madam?" Qin Chuan asked.

The French woman looked at Qin Chuan, and unconsciously held Qin Chuan's hand when she passed by him, and gently shook her head with regret: "I really hope you can help me, but you can't, Lieutenant! "

It's obvious that she can recognize military ranks from their uniforms, something her father may have taught her.

The French woman adjusted her hat, wiped her eyes quickly, trying to make herself happy, and then walked to the ballroom, leaving only a few wisps of special perfume around Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan turned around and planned to continue enjoying the quietness along the trail, but suddenly, he found that he could no longer calm down.

At this time, Qin Chuan saw a handkerchief on a chair by the path. There was also a faint smell of perfume near the handkerchief.

"Lieutenant!" At this time Qin Chuan heard Colonel Slaine's cry.

"I'm here!" Qin Chuan replied, and after walking a few steps, he hurriedly turned back and picked up the handkerchief.

"Where have you been?" Colonel Slain asked, "General Oxster is here!"

"Oh!" Qin Chuan replied: "I can just walk around!"

Under the lights of the ballroom, Qin Chuan recognized the French woman without much effort. She was dancing on the dance floor with a very sunny smile on her face. From time to time she was talking to the colonel's dance partner. If it weren't for knowing that she was secretly crying in the park just now, Qin Chuan would have believed that her smile was real. .

The French woman obviously also saw Qin Chuan, and the smile on her face became a little unnatural.

At the end of the song, when the French woman passed by Qin Chuan, Qin Chuan took out his handkerchief and said, "Madam, this is your handkerchief!"

"Oh, yes!" The French woman's eyes were a little flustered. She took the handkerchief and whispered: "Thank you!"

"You don't have to force yourself!" Qin Chuan said, "Can I ask you to dance?"

The French woman couldn't help but be stunned, and then secretly winked at Qin Chuan, as if to say: "Are you crazy? Didn't you see the colonel next to you?"

"What did you say, Lieutenant?" The colonel looked at Qin Chuan with an incredulous expression.

"Don't you see?" Qin Chuan asked without answering: "She doesn't like you!"

The German colonel couldn't help being stunned, and then he laughed. When he stopped smiling, he said to Qin Chuan in a threatening tone: "Get out of here, or I will have you thrown out!"

"Oh, really?" Qin Chuan looked at the colonel without giving an inch and asked, "Are you sure?"

At this time, several crisp cups sounded, and Major General Oxster stood on the stage and shouted loudly: "Ladies and gentlemen, let us welcome Colonel Sline and Lieutenant Frick from the 1st Infantry Regiment!"

Colonel Slaine brought a glass of wine to Qin Chuan, and the two raised their glasses to pay respect to the audience.

Major General Oxter introduced: "Colonel Slaine led the First Infantry Regiment from the sky to capture Algiers for the Empire. Let us drink to his victory and the bravery of the First Infantry Regiment... cheers!"

The officers cheered loudly and raised their glasses to Colonel Slain.

"Lieutenant Frick!" Major General Oxter paused intentionally before saying, "You may be more familiar with his other name...'Legendary Staff Sergeant'!"

With a sound of "coaxing", everyone's eyes turned to Qin Chuan, including the French woman and the colonel.

"Yes!" Major General Oxter continued, "He is the 'legendary sergeant' who repeatedly defeated the British, he is the anti-aircraft gun that frightened the enemy armored division, and he is the one who captured the entire Toulon fleet... Lieutenant Frick! Let us pay high tribute to his achievements and legends!"

With a "wow", thunderous applause suddenly rang out in the ballroom, and officers came forward to shake hands with Qin Chuan from time to time:

"Great achievement, Lieutenant!"

"You are my idol, Lieutenant!"

...

Qin Chuan raised his glass to the colonel and said, "Colonel, where were we talking about just now?"

The colonel couldn't help but feel embarrassed. After thinking about it, he replied, "Sorry, Lieutenant, I didn't know it was you!"

He glanced at the French woman and walked away angrily.

Qin Chuan shrugged at the French woman and said, "Sorry, I scared your dance partner away!"

The French woman laughed: "So, you are the 'legendary sergeant'?"

"That's what they call me!"

"You captured an entire fleet?"

"No!" Qin Chuan replied: "I haven't even been to Toulon!"

"Who cares!" The French woman invited Qin Chuan to the dance floor...

"What are you doing?" Qin Chuan asked.

"Of course I'm dancing!" The French woman replied.

"But I can't dance!"

The French woman stared at Qin Chuan with her eyes wide open: "But you invited me just now!"

"That's just..." Qin Chuan looked at the colonel on the other side and said, "I just want to rescue you!"